Between mountains and seas

Chapter 68 Little Curse

Huo Qing took Shao Jingxing to Zhou Shu's school very quickly.

Because it was still during the holiday, there were not many people in the school, so Zhou Shu took them directly to the restaurant and sat down to talk.

This is the place to open a small stove, although the taste is good but the price is high, so there are very few people at this time, and they can talk freely.

Zhou Wen returned to school with his younger sister.As soon as the two siblings sat down, they couldn't help looking at Huo Qing.They both still remember that Huo Qing is Qiu Yizhu's "little wolf dog/nurtured" character design, why is he walking with Shao Jing again?

Only then did Shao Jingxing remember how he slandered Qiu Yizhu behind his back the last time, and felt guilty for a while, fearing that Zhou Shu would slip up and say something, he coughed heavily and introduced them solemnly: "This is Huo Qing, my friend , is very capable in our industry. I specially asked him to come over to see the situation."

In fact, he was overthinking it.The Zhou family brothers and sisters are not brainless idiots, even if they have any doubts in their hearts, they will never speak out in person.And the last time I spoke ill of Qiu Yizhu behind his back, it was just Zhou Shu's little girl's heart, a little jealous.

In fact, the Qiu family had a great reputation. Even if the Zhou family didn't believe in this before, they wouldn't really think that they could get such a big family fortune and reputation just by deceiving people.What's more, Shao Jingxing had already opened the door to a new world for them, so they had to believe no matter how much they didn't believe in the people he solemnly introduced.

Zhou Wen quickly reached out to shake hands with Huo Qing, and expressed his sincere thanks again, before he got to the point: "Today I accompanied Xiao Shu back to school, and the only person in her dormitory who was not here was Yuan Yan. The next day she came back early to complete the formalities and went to study in Germany."

Shao Jingxing was so confused in college that he couldn't help but ask, "Does this mean that if you drop out of school, you can drop out?"

"University." Zhou Wen explained, "There are also many people who do this. Some subjects that have been completed in some schools can be recognized abroad. If you go to school, you can take a few less subjects. Not to mention that Yuan Yan only studied as a freshman. , Some people who study in junior year go abroad and start from the beginning.”

In short, going to study abroad is free. Basically, you can have money and time. Of course, the university must agree to accept you.For the school side, there is no reason for restrictions.

So Yuan Yan suddenly decided to study abroad.In fact, no one would have paid special attention to this matter if there had been no green scorpion blood incident, but it is different now.

"I heard that her family's conditions are not too rich?" Huo Qing had already heard some information from Shao Jingxing.

"She's pretty good at covering up herself." Zhou Shu curled her lips and scratched her face casually, "There are a few clothes that can be worn out, and the skin care products are also okay. But those clothes are all The last orders for foreign trade, or else they are high-quality imitations, I can tell at a glance. There are also skin care products, which are only bought during group purchases or discounts." And Zhou Qingshan has already asked someone to investigate, her father does not have a fixed job, The income can also be imagined.

Zhou Wen added: "Xiao Shu inquired about it, and Yuan Yan didn't directly apply for a scholarship from any university. After she went, she had to go to a language school for a year to learn languages—the cost of this year alone is quite a lot. If the Yuan family really had this condition, why didn't they go abroad directly and take the college entrance examination? So we are a little suspicious..." The main reason is that they suddenly disappeared at this time, which is too coincidental.

Huo Qing pondered for a while: "If that's the case, it seems that he felt guilty afterwards, so he ran away?"

"Hey, don't you need to worry?" Shao Jingxing said casually.

When he said this, the brothers and sisters of the Zhou family couldn't help but look at each other. After a long while, Zhou Wen said hesitantly, "This, this is also..."

If Shao Jingxing didn't say this, he really didn't think about it. He only thought that Yuan Yan's escape would cause endless troubles, but he didn't think that she probably ran away because she was afraid of being held accountable. There is nothing to worry about.

"Actually, I think..." Shao Jingxing considered what he wanted to say, "Although you must have been terrified Zhou Shu at the time, the blood of the green clam was actually harmless, this——is more like a prank... "It's not a means to kill someone.

"But what if you really scared me to death?" Zhou Shu hummed unhappily, "If I really died, she, Yuan Yan, would scare people to death, right?" At the birthday party, she was frightened and lost her composure in front of so many guests, which made her feel ashamed, this is the most important thing, okay?

Thinking of the way she almost fell that day, Zhou Shu felt annoyed for a while, and her face was still a little hot-after all, her performance after seeing that puppet that day can only be described as ugly. Those who are jealous of her are laughing at her in private.

Unconsciously raising her hand and scratching her cheek again, Zhou Shu said unhappily: "Anyway, I don't want to let Yuan Yan go! Even if it's a prank, she has bad intentions. Could it be that she did something bad and just ran away? Let's talk , even if she ran away, there are still her family members! Where did Yuan Yan's father get the money to let her go abroad? Is it through an improper channel? Brother, find someone to investigate!"

"Okay." Zhou Wen nodded helplessly, "What's wrong with your face? You were bitten by a mosquito? Don't scratch it, it's all red." Actually, personally, he was more inclined to Shao Jingxing's statement, but he was frightened It's Zhou Shu, and he can't make decisions for Zhou Shu.Besides, Yuan Yan's thinking was too simple, did she think that the Zhou family would have nothing to do with her when she went abroad?

"Probably so." Zhou Shu really felt that her face was itching badly, and she couldn't help scratching a few more times, "There are a lot of mosquitoes in the school."

"No." Huo Qing suddenly said, reaching out to grab Zhou Shu's hand, "This is not a mosquito."

Zhou Wen was taken aback by his sudden action: "Mr. Huo!" Isn't this action a bit too abrupt?

"There is no swollen bump from mosquito bites!" Shao Jingxing immediately followed the post to observe, "Is it itchy?"

If he didn't say anything, Zhou Shu might not feel much about it yet, but now that Huo Qing grabbed her hand, the itching on her face intensified instead: "Itchy, very itchy!" Worse than being bitten by that black and white striped mosquito. Itches!

It was only then that Zhou Wen discovered that a red spot the size of an apricot pit had appeared on his sister's face, and she had scratched a few radial red marks on the side.But the erythema is smooth, and it is indeed not the kind of lump that will appear after a mosquito bite.And while he was observing, the thin red marks scratched out by his sister were still widening—this red spot was growing!

"It's very itchy!" Zhou Shu was so uncomfortable that she wanted to scratch it.Zhou Wen quickly grabbed her other hand: "Don't grab it, let's go to the hospital!"

Huo Qing shook his head slightly, then turned to Shao Jingxing and said, "Find some ice cubes and apply a cold compress."

There were no ice cubes, but there was ice cream in the restaurant. Shao Jingxing immediately bought two and put them on Zhou Shu's face together with the packaging bag. They rushed to the nearest affiliated hospital next to the school.

It took only 10 minutes to rush to the hospital. Zhou Shu finally relieved a little bit of itching under the cold compress, but the red spots on her face continued to expand, covering half of her cheeks, and tentacles-like red threads spontaneously protruded from the surrounding area. , obviously will continue to expand.

"Hey, is this an allergy?" The doctor who received the treatment looked shocked at first glance, "What did you eat? Or what did you come into contact with?"

Didn't eat anything at all.The meals they ordered were left untouched in the dining room.As for what she came into contact with, even Zhou Shu couldn't think of it herself: "It's nothing..." She was inquiring about Yuan Yan when she arrived at school, and then she went to find Shao Jingxing. During this time, Zhou Shu neither ate nor turned her face What has been smeared on the face, or what strange places have been to...

"Ah!" Only halfway through her words, Zhou Shu cried out, "It's more, it's more itchy!" The itching that had finally subsided a little suddenly surged up like a sea tide, drowning her in an instant.

"Xiaoshu!" Zhou Wen hugged his sister tightly, not letting her reach out to scratch, "Don't scratch, it will be scratched! If it festers, it will leave a scar, which will be ugly! It will be disfigured if it is too large!"

The threat of disfigurement made Zhou Shu mobilize all her reason and perseverance to control her hand, but she couldn't help but shed tears: "Brother, think of a way, I'm so itchy, it's so itchy!"

The doctor was also a little panicked: "Otherwise, I'll prescribe you some anti-allergic medicine first? It really can't be caught, it's easy to fester."

"No need." Huo Qing said suddenly, motioning everyone to stand up, "Let's go to another hospital to see."

The young doctor was not displeased: "That's fine. There are ice cubes in the canteen. Go and buy some for her to use as an ice compress. It might be better."

"Thank you." Huo Qing nodded, and directly pulled Zhou Shu out of the consultation room.

"Hey——" Zhou Wen hurriedly followed, "Or else——" Go to the private hospital that Zhou's family often goes to.

But before he finished speaking, Huo Qing had already pulled Zhou Shu straight into the stairwell, and turned his head to signal Shao Jingxing, "You burn it for her."

"Burn?" Zhou Wen suspected that he heard it wrong, "What to burn? What kind of burn?" Is it the kind of burn he thought?

Shao Jingxing was also stunned for a moment: "You mean..." This is not an allergy, but being eroded by the power of mountains and seas?No, they just sat in the dining room, and Zhou Wen was fine!

Huo Qing didn't explain much: "Don't burn her face, just burn it close to the skin, can it be done?"

"I—" Shao Jingxing couldn't help swallowing, "I'll try." He understood Huo Qing's meaning, after all, this is a girl's face, and he couldn't let him burn like Mr. Chen's ears, but he had to try his best It may be close, but it cannot really touch the skin.

"Wait!" Zhou Wen finally confirmed that the burning they were talking about was the kind of burning he understood, "What is this for!"

"Do you feel less itchy now?" Huo Qing suddenly asked Zhou Shu.

Zhou Shu has been imprisoned by him with both hands.Huo Qing grabbed her both wrists with one hand, and it didn't seem to be too tight, but she couldn't get away no matter how hard she struggled.But maybe too much attention was paid to the struggle, and now she really felt that her face didn't seem to be so itchy.It seems that this itching is wave-shaped, the sharp itching just now was a crest, and now it seems to be descending again, and it seems to be barely bearable.

"Okay." Huo Qing nodded and said to Shao Jingxing, "Let's try burning it."

Shao Jingxing nodded nervously. Originally he wanted to snap his fingers handsomely, but now he rubbed his fingers obediently, and a small ball of flame was rubbed out from his fingertips, and he cautiously approached Zhou Shu's face.

"Hey——" Zhou Wen wanted to come up and hold Shao Jingxing back, but seeing Shao Jingxing light a ball of fire out of thin air with his own eyes, he was so shocked that he didn't know how to react.Even Zhou Shu was stunned—although Zhou Qingshan had told about Shao Jingxing's glorious deeds in Mr. Chen's house before, but there was still a gap between what he heard and what he saw with his own eyes—he actually forgot to dodge and let Shao Jingxing's fingers reached out to her face, and it took a few seconds for her to feel a scorching pain on her cheek, and she couldn't help but let out a scream and threw her head back.

"It's hot, is it hot?" Shao Jingxing quickly withdrew his hands and asked nervously.He has never tried such precise control before, carefully confining the flames, trying to get close but not really touch...

"It's a little hot..." After Zhou Shu finished speaking, she said hesitantly, "But it seems—it's not as itchy as before..."

Only then did Zhou Wen wake up from the shock, and quickly leaned over to look at his sister's face.The skin on Zhou Shu's face was a little reddened by the flames just now, but the redness faded quickly, and even the original red spot seemed to have shrunk.That's right, Zhou Wen took a closer look to make sure that he was not mistaken. The protruding tentacles around the red spot were all retracted, and the red area was also smaller.This burn really works!

Only Huo Qing didn't seem surprised at all, but nodded instead: "Sure enough."

"What?" Zhou Wen turned to look at him, "What really? Don't you know what's going on, Mr. Huo?"

"This should be a curse." Huo Qing let go of Zhou Shu's hand, and the latter no longer struggled to grab his face, "Jing Xing, burn it a few more times like this, and it should be almost done. It will subside naturally in a few days."

After he finished speaking, he paused and added: "It's just a small curse."

Twenty minutes later, the group left the affiliated hospital, and Zhou Shu's face had returned to normal, with only an inconspicuous red line remaining, which reached the corner of her lips and was still gradually fading away.

And the itching has completely disappeared, but the heat of being burned by the flames is still there.Huo Qing glanced at it: "Go back and apply some safflower oil or aloe vera cream. It's almost like sunburn. Ordinary medicines are effective."

"Well, is this all right?" Thinking of the inexplicable itch just now, Zhou Shu still had lingering fears.

"There should be no problem." Huo Qing pondered for a while, "It's okay, Jing Xing and I will stay in the capital for a few days, if there is any relapse, you can contact us at any time."

"Mr. Huo—" Zhou Wen had already calmed down, "You just said it was a curse, then—who do you think it is, can you find him?"

Huo Qing asked him back: "Who do you think it will be?"

"This——" Zhou Wen was stopped by the question, and he said after a while, "I really can't think of it. But you see, now that Yuan Yan has left, and Xiao Shu has something wrong again, then the previous green clam blood may also It may not be her who did it. But Xiaoshu came into contact with another roommate of hers today..." He was referring to another suspect, Liu Siyun.

But Huo Qing shook his head unexpectedly: "I don't think so, maybe you should expand the scope to see if anyone is targeting Mr. Zhou..."

The four of them broke up outside the affiliated hospital. Huo Qing rejected the Zhou brothers and sisters' suggestion to send them back, and walked slowly back to the university with Shao Jingxing to pick up their motorcycles.

"Did you see something?" Shao Jingxing couldn't help asking Huo Qing after he broke up with the Zhou brothers and sisters.

The corners of Huo Qing's lips twitched slightly: "Tell me your opinion?"

"I, I don't have any opinions..." Shao Jingxing suddenly became nervous, and he felt like a primary school student couldn't answer the questions in class, "I just think that your suggestion later is not quite right..." He didn't even go to meet him Liu Siyun, this doesn't quite resemble Huo Qing's style.

"Have you found out why Miss Zhou said itching several times?"

"Ah?" Shao Jingxing had to try his best to recall, "She kept saying it was itchy... Oh, did you say that she was a little... a little intermittent..." There were a few times when Zhou Shu seemed to be itching very badly suddenly. It will ease up a little more.But, but is there any specific condition for this?

"I really can't remember..." Shao Jingxing looked at Huo Qing with a bitter face, "Ah Qing, tell me, don't test me." I'm going to miss the test.

The corner of Huo Qing's mouth twitched because of his address: "Just call me Huo Qing."

"Ah Qing is more friendly." Shao Jingxing only regretted why he didn't think of such an affectionate title earlier, so he wouldn't change it. "Tell me quickly, what's going on?"

Huo Qing glanced at him helplessly: "If I remember correctly, it started when she mentioned the name 'Yuan Yan' to us." And every time the word Yuan Yan was mentioned, she would greet her. There will be explosive waves of itching, which will increase until they are unbearable.

"Also, is it still Yuan Yan?" Shao Jingxing was dumbfounded, "But it counts, what kind of curse is this?"

Huo Qing thought about it for a while: "This is a kind of curse. When the cursed person utters a certain word, it will flare up. If she doesn't mention it any more, the curse will gradually fade away." He added, "It will disappear completely after being lit by your flame a few times, which shows that the curse is not vicious. In other words, the person who cast the curse did not intend to put Zhou Shu to death, but—"

"A prank?" Shao Jingxing blurted out.The same as the blood of the green clam, a prank?