Day and night tour

Chapter 75 White Paper Play

Zhou Lingyi sat in the pavilion in front of her second senior brother Zheng Jiujiang's house and released the invisible red line.

"I wish my perception could be as sharp as my brother's."

Zhou Xuan has a strong sense of perception. Although he has not yet reached the level of two incense sticks, he has already achieved the ability to listen to all directions and see yin and yang. When he is inquiring about the surrounding situation, he can do it without any trace.

Unlike her, she needs to use the red thread as a medium to inquire about the situation. Although ordinary people cannot see the thread, if she meets someone who knows the rope very well, especially an expert whose level of incense is not much different from hers,
Not only could he sense her red thread, he could even use it as a vine, entangle it with his Taoist skills, and climb all the way over, but he was robbed of the opportunity by others...

Fortunately, the skills of the senior brothers do not pose a threat to Zhou Lingyi.

The red line slowly climbed to the window of Zheng Jiujiang's house.

Zhou Lingyi had heard Yu Zhengyuan talk about the hidden pain of his second senior brother, so while finding out the truth, she also knew how to strike a balance. The end of the red thread just stuck to the window glass and did not go in through the gap in the wooden window frame.

The scene in the second senior brother's room was not visible to the red line. Only the conversation between Zheng Jiujiang and Song Jie fell clearly into Zhou Lingyi's ears along the red line.

"Old Zheng, stop struggling. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. It's no big deal." Song Jie persuaded Zheng Jiujiang.

Zheng Jiujiang's tone was obviously a little frustrated, and he also had a hint of a lucky struggle. He said, "My thing used to work two or three days a week, but now it doesn't work even one day a week. I can't even hold my head up. I'm too embarrassed to see anyone. I don't look like a man anymore... My beard is even falling off..."

"You're unlucky to have to deal with that beastly young boss Zhou Xuan. If he hadn't hit you on the knee three years ago, how could you not be as strong and vigorous as a dragon and a tiger at your age now..." Song Jie's angry words were mixed with tears.

"Don't try, don't try. I haven't been attending class properly this week because I wanted to accompany you to test the thing. Xiaohua is already over five years old. At least we have a successor. If your thing is really going to break, it's not a big deal. Don't cry and try to commit suicide..."

Zhou Lingyi collected the red thread. It turned out that the second senior brother hardly went out recently because his hidden illness was getting worse.

"It's all my brother's fault!"

Zhou Lingyi thought of her former brother, cursed in her heart, then stood up and walked towards Yu Zhengyuan's room.

This time Zhou Lingyi did not hold back, and the red line swam in through the gap in the window wood.

The ends of the red thread became her ears and eyes, and Zhou Lingyi could sense all the sounds and images in the house.

The furnishings in the house were extremely simple, with a radio placed on a wooden table, and the rest being common furnishings such as a wardrobe and a bed.

There was no record player, no fashionable flowered curtains, and no cotton tablecloths with beautiful patterns. The interior decoration was not as sophisticated as that of the percussion instrument master in the opera troupe.

As a senior brother with a high enough salary, such an empty and desolate room does not quite match his status.

At this time, Yu Zhengyuan was not at home. Xu Li was standing in front of the wooden table wearing an outdated cheongsam. Behind her stood a group of half-grown children with unfamiliar faces.

The children lined up.
Xu Li gently grabbed the child who was at the front of the team, cut his middle finger with a fruit knife, and squeezed the blood into an empty porcelain bowl. After a while, the blood covered the bottom of the porcelain bowl...

"It's almost done, young man, it's your turn." Xu Li brought out the second child, cut his middle finger, and squeezed out the blood.

After all the children in the house dripped their blood into the bowl one by one, the porcelain bowl was now half full of blood.

Xu Li picked up a thermos, placed a funnel on the mouth of the pot, and carefully poured the blood in the bowl into the bottle through the funnel. After pouring it out, he took the water cup and flushed the blood stuck on the funnel into the bottle.
She was afraid of wasting a drop of the child's blood. To her, this blood was not blood, but Lao Yu's medicine...

Zhou Lingyi took back the red thread and felt a little relieved.

She had known since she was a child that the eldest brother had a hidden illness. A few years ago, when Zhou Xuan and her parents were in charge of the Zhou family, the operation of the team depended entirely on Yu Zhengyuan, which caused the eldest brother to be overworked and the hidden illness became more and more serious.

Since Zhou Lingyi took over the Zhou Clan, the eldest brother has not been so busy, and his hidden illness has also improved.
Seeing that the amount of blood of the boys collected by Xu Li now is far less than before, it is enough to show that the trend of recovery of the eldest brother's hidden illness has become clearer.

"It's a good thing."

Zhou Lingyi moved to the outside of Li Shuangyi's house.

Even without releasing the red line, Zhou Lingyi could hear the opera singing. The tune was sad. If a passerby stopped and listened to a few words, he would feel sad. If the passerby was in a bad mood, he would probably resonate with the tune and tears would flow from his eyes.

"Third Senior Brother, you will never get over the grudge in your heart in your entire life."

Zhou Lingyi released the red thread and slipped into the crack of the window...

Li Shuangyi's room was decorated in a very unique way. Two of the four walls were hung with costumes, and another wall was covered with posters - posters posted on the big red opera information board when the major opera actors in Pingshui Prefecture performed operas. On the last wall, there were some black and white photos scattered around, some of which were photos of Li Shuangyi when she was learning the art, and some of which were photos of her first performance on stage.

When Li Shuangyi was a child, he was chosen by the Zhou family as a future star. His master loved him very much. When he encountered important events in his life, he would pay for a photographer to take photos for him.

However, in the photo frames hanging on the wall, the one who appears most often is Liu Jiaotian.

Liu Jiaotian and Li Shuangyi were taught by the same master and were fellow brothers and sisters. But now, things have changed. Li Shuangyi has become a master opera teacher, while Liu Jiaotian has become the mainstay of the Zhou family troupe. He often calls his friends over and enjoys great glory.

At this time, Li Shuangyi was wearing a white dress with wide sleeves and a wide collar. She was walking on the carpet in the house and spinning around, waving her hands and singing with great concentration.

"Third Senior Brother doesn't seem to be abnormal, and none of the senior brothers are abnormal either. Could it be true as Shadow said, or am I overthinking?"

Zhou Lingyi was a little doubtful about herself, but after looking at Li Shuangyi three or two more times, she vaguely realized that something was wrong.

The steps of Li Shuangyi, who was singing opera, seemed a little stiff. Every time she raised her foot and bent her knee, she paused very slightly.

Zhou Lingyi grew up in the Zhou family troupe. Although she is not a veteran opera fan, she also understands opera. She knows that Li Shuangyi only has a broken voice, but her posture and footwork are first-class, and the details of her singing are polished to be smooth, and there will definitely not be any slight pauses.

"This person is not the Third Senior Brother."

When Zhou Lingyi thought of this, she quickly walked to the window, waved her hand towards the window gap, and fanned out a gust of wind.

The wind blew through the wooden frame of the window and lifted the curtains. Although the wind had weakened, when it fell on Li Shuangyi, it blew him up half a meter high.

"Li Shuangyi's" body flew up as light as a fallen leaf, and then slowly fell down. Once she landed, she turned around and sang again, as if nothing had happened.

"White Paper Play?! So he has joined the Opera Hall! He has been hiding for so long without revealing any flaws. Third Brother is really cautious."

Actors are good at hiding their auras. Zhu Tingsheng, the stalking dog raised by the Dog King, is also an actor. He sneaked into the Zhou family troupe, and even with Zhou Xuan's perception and appearance, he couldn't detect his flaws. In the end, it was Zhu Tingsheng's three barks that gave him away.

"Why is it Third Brother?"

Zhou Lingyi has gotten closer to the truth about her brother's lost soul, but she feels extremely heavy...

...In a sense, Zhou Lingyi felt that the person she felt most sorry for was Li Shuangyi.

She was a little flustered, and only after she gathered herself together did she re-enact the incident of her brother's lost soul.

"Actors are good at hiding, changing faces, and seducing souls... But it's just that Third Senior Brother couldn't have seduced my brother's soul that day."

For the actors, one stick of incense is for the white paper play, two sticks of incense is for the face-changing play, and three sticks of incense is for the ghost play.

The higher the level of the means, the higher the level of incense required, the greater the noise made when the means are used, and the easier it is to be perceived.

When playing with white paper, make very little noise and be careful. It is not difficult to avoid the shadow's detection.

But using ghost tricks to seduce souls, especially in a courtyard banquet, in public, with no obstructions in the courtyard, the noise would definitely be sensed by the patrolling shadows.

Therefore, there is more than one traitor in the Zhou family. In addition to Li Shuangyi, there is at least one other person!

Zhou Lingyi guessed that this person was also an expert at concealing his movements and aura, and his methods were even better than Li Shuangyi's.

This person concealed the movements of Li Shuangyi when she was seducing the soul. One person took action and the other provided cover, so Shadow didn't sense anything unusual.
"The plan was so thorough, and a master with hidden auras was planted in the Zhou family. Did the third brother seduce the soul of the younger brother just to avenge his past..."

"Since I took over the Zhou Clan, my relationship with my younger brother has been like an enemy. He likes to go out to brothels and drinking parties. I only make sure he stays safe in the Zhou Clan. I never send anyone to protect him when he goes out.

If Third Brother only wanted to avenge his broken voice, he had plenty of opportunities, so why did he have to take the risk and fight in the Zhou Clan's courtyard?"

Zhou Lingyi looked up at the sky and felt that a fine fishing net seemed to be spread out in the clear blue sky.

What kind of fish does the person who casts the net want to catch?
My former brother? Or someone else...

Zhou Lingyi couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

(End of this chapter)