Imperial City Investigative Department

Chapter 401 Birthmark (Part [-])
Wu Chen returned to his room with a heavy heart, and Xing Yun was already waiting in the room.

"How did you know I would look for you?" Wu Chen sat down at the table and asked.

"Did you order someone to light the lamp first?"

"I don't have anyone to serve me here. I'm fine. If you're not used to ordering by yourself."

"Why are you looking for me? Ask me why I came?" Xing Yun didn't move.

At this moment, Gu You knocked on the door, and Wu Chen said, "Come in."

Gu You pushed open the door startled, said: "I thought you fell asleep, but I thought it couldn't be so fast, why didn't you two light the lamp?"

"He said no need, how about you order?"

Gu You ignored Xing Yun, in his opinion, Wu Chen had his own reason for not lighting the lamp.

"Then you two talk, I just came to see, I have nothing to do, I went to rest." After Gu You said, he was about to close the door and leave.

Wu Chen stopped him and said, "Come in and sit down, I have something to say to you two."

Gu You closed the door and sat down at the table.

Both Gu You and Xing Yun thought that Wu Chen would tell him how to guard the house, but what Wu Chen asked was: "Don't you all remember leaving your homeland?"

Both were stunned.

Wu Chen asked again: "No memory at all?"

Xing Yun asked puzzledly: "As long as I can remember, I practiced martial arts in the mountains, and after I finished my studies, I went to the palace. How can I talk about my homeland?"

Wu Chen asked: "Have no memory of what happened before going up the mountain?"

Xing Yun shook his head, Gu You hurriedly said: "After you left today, my brother also said, I'm afraid it's because the two of us came here when we were young. Didn't you find out about our backgrounds?"

Wu Chen then told about Shuangxi Village and his own deduction.

Gu You didn't know that Xing Yun was also a twin, but now that he heard it and thought about his past, he believed it unconsciously, and said: "To be honest, after you asked me today, I thought about it seriously, and I always felt something was wrong. When our two brothers came to Chen Zhong's side, they must have been quite old. How could we have such a vague impression? Many things are fragmented. I practiced martial arts, and my brother studied literature. It is just one trick and one style, and they are all incomplete memories. If it is like you said, we are people from Shuangxi Village, and we have already established a foundation. We only came to Chen Zhong after taking the unique medicinal materials of Shuangxi Village. Makes sense."

Gu You didn't know about the relationship between Shuangxi Village and the Empress Dowager, but Xing Yun knew it. Seeing that Wu Chen didn't tell the truth, he didn't mention it. He just asked, "Even if we were once related to Shuangxi Village, we are not involved now. Are you worry about what?"

Wu Chen pondered for a moment and said, "Shuangxi Village is very weird. I'm worried that they will let you out, and they will be able to take you back."

After Gu You heard that it was okay, Xing Yun suddenly broke into a cold sweat. He leaned forward and asked, "Have you told the officials about this?"

Wu Chen snorted and said, "Do you think the officials are like you, how do you think the past has nothing to do with the present?"

"My brother is still in the palace!" Xing Yun said anxiously.

Wu Chen waved his hand and said:
"The officials don't want to take action now. They will order to send troops to Shuangxi Village tonight. I don't know where the troops will be mobilized, but... I always feel that Shuangxi Village is not so easy to capture. If something strange happens, It’s also a troublesome thing if it gets out.”

"You mean... you want to go?" Xing Yun asked.

Gu You thought about Wu Chen's previous entrustment, and hurriedly asked, "Do you want to go by yourself?"

"I did have some ideas at first, but now I need to ask you, the easiest way for the officials is to directly kill people related to Shuangxi Village, including you, in case Shuangxi Village leaves anything on you, the key It will be a great trouble if you turn against each other at any time..."

"What can I keep? Can I change my soul at a critical moment? They think, I have to let it go!" Xing Yun straightened his waist and said.

Wu Chen nodded and said: "I know who you are, but I have also seen how powerful they are. It may not be possible to change the soul, but will there be a way to wake up or a mark among your clansmen, at a critical moment? What they do will change your temperament greatly..."

Both Xing Yun and Gu You were stunned.

Wu Chen paused for a moment and suddenly asked, "Do you all have birthmarks on your body?"

The two nodded.

Xing Yun said: "I thought it was an ordinary birthmark. I asked other people, but they all had blue or black birthmarks. My brother and I had red birthmarks."

Gu You hurriedly said, "My brother and I are also red."

Wu Chen sighed, shook his head again and said, "That's what I'm afraid of. Other people's birthmarks may not be yours."

Gu You nervously asked: "Then what should I do?"

Xing Yun also looked at Wu Chen nervously and said, "If the officials find out, we will die."

"Did you never think that this red thing will change your temperament drastically, make you no longer who you are, and even do things that you can't even imagine now?"

"Then how do you say that this red mark can be eliminated? Dig it?"

Wu Chen didn't speak, and the room suddenly became quiet.

This quietness made Xing Yun calm down. There were some things that Gu You didn't know, but Xing Yun knew that the more he thought about it, the more afraid he became, and the more afraid he became, the more he couldn't sit still.

Wu Chen looked at Xing Yun and said:

"Don't worry, since I told you two about this matter, we still have time to think about a solution. If it's really not possible, before we take down Shuangxi Village, we should find a place to lock you up. Don't worry, listen to me, it's not you who are afraid now, but you after the transformation of the red mark, of course I hope this is all my guesswork, but you know that the people in Shuangxi Village can do it."

Xing Yun sat on the chair slumped and said: "Although I can't think of any way they can control us, you are right, they can do it."

Wu Chen thought for a while and said, "You two wait for me for a while."

After finishing speaking, Wu Chen quickly left the room without waiting for Xing Yun to ask.

Xing Yun and Gu You sat quietly in the room, neither of them spoke.

Soon, Wu Chen came back with two bowls of water.

He put the two bowls on the table and said, "Where is the red mark, show it to me."

"How can you watch without holding a lamp?" Xing Yun asked as he took off his boots.

Gu You was also taking off his boots.

"On the bottom of the feet?" Wu Chen covered his nose and asked, "Haven't you two washed your feet for a few days?"

Xing Yun said with a smile: "I want to wash it every day, but I don't have time."

Gu You said embarrassingly, "I've really been lazy these two days."

Xing Yun took off his shoes and socks and exposed the soles of his feet to Wu Chen, and asked, "Can you wash them off with your bowl of water?"

Wu Chen covered his nose and carefully looked at Xing Yun's, then at Gu You's, then took two steps back and asked, "Is your own brother's similar to yours?"

Gu You and Xing Yun nodded.

　happy weekend!
　　It seems that just blinking a few times, August has passed, is it still far from the Chinese New Year?Year after year goes by so fast!

　　The temperature difference between morning and evening is large, so don't catch a cold.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)