Chapter 25 Deciphering
On Anxi Street outside the Taiping Clinic, Yunyang and Jiaotu, both dressed in black, squatted side by side in front of Mengji, propping up their chins: "He looks like he's in pain... Is it like this every time he dreams?"

Yun Yang shook his head: "I don't know, maybe I paid more this time, so I was more attentive when creating the dream?"

The two men faced each other and saw that Meng Ji's expression was hideous and distorted, and his body was twitching, as if a witch doctor was possessed.

Yun Yang always felt that this scene was familiar. He frowned and said, "Why does Meng Ji look like he was stabbed by me? No wonder he charges such a high price every time he creates a dream. The price is really high."

Jiaotu nodded quickly, indicating his complete agreement: "Yeah, the money is worth it, he deserves it!"

In the dream, Meng Ji, who transformed into Zhou Chengyi, was being stabbed by Jiaotu and Yunyang, who were created by Chen Ji. They changed the position every three seconds and almost stabbed all over his body.

Chen Ji stood in the distance thinking. He already knew that this was a dream, but how did this dream come about?

Cloud sheep!

He remembered that Yun Yang had inexplicably cut off a strand of his hair outside Liu Shiyu's house!
Only this strange behavior can explain his current strange situation!
Thinking of this, Chen Ji decided to leave the dream.

In an instant, the Zhou Mansion courtyard in front of him became transparent, and behind the transparent Zhou Mansion there was another blurry picture... the main hall of the clinic.

The two images overlapped. Chen Ji wanted to return to reality, but he seemed to be stuck in a huge spider web and could not break through this dream.

Meng Ji sneered and said, "Want to leave? Come and have some fun in the hell!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhou Mansion suddenly collapsed into an abyss, the sky and the earth changed color, and Yunyang and Jiaotu also turned into a wisp of green smoke and disappeared. The original dream was only a small courtyard, but now it is extremely vast.

In a trance, Chen Ji couldn't tell which was reality and which was a dream, and fell into confusion again.

Meng Ji returned to his original appearance. He stood in the abyss, shook his collar, combed his messy hair with both hands, and whispered in a sharp voice: "I almost fell into trouble with a little apprentice like you. It really made me angry... I didn't expect that you are actually a material for being an 'official'. I have to create a first-class dream!"

As Meng Ji spoke, Chen Ji felt as if he was split apart, unable to tell left from right or up from down, as if the world was turned upside down.

Suddenly, the ground of the abyss collapsed, and Chen Ji's body fell into the darkness. When he opened his eyes again, he was already in the lava, and there were tens of thousands of people around him struggling in the magma, suffering from the pain of burning.

The next moment, the lava world disappeared, and Chen Ji fell down again, falling into the cold pool, being suffocated and squeezed by the cold.

He wanted to keep his sanity, but every time he tried to keep his sanity, he would fall into another world.

Every time he fell into a new world, he would lose a bit of his knowledge of the real world, and he would no longer be able to see the blurry images of the main hall of the clinic.

At this moment, molten streams from the four furnace fires poured out and poured into his whole body, and Chen Ji found that he could move his hands!
Those molten flows carried him from the cold pond world back to the lava world, then from the lava world back to the abyss world, and finally back to Zhou Mansion!
Then slowly stop.

But what's the point of only being able to move my hands? I'm still one step away from escaping this dream...

No, it works!
Chen Ji stretched out his arm to feel for the counter. He touched the "General Principles of Medical Skills" and flipped through the pages of the book with a rustling sound.

After a while.

"Chen Ji?" Liu Quxing's voice appeared, tearing the dream apart and instantly pulling Chen Ji back to reality.

wake up!
Chen Ji stood behind the counter, panting slightly. He turned to look at Liu Quxing: "Senior Brother Liu, why are you here?"

Liu Quxing was wearing a coat and standing beside the counter, looking at the messy Medical Outline in front of Chen Ji, feeling distressed: "The sound of you flipping through the book in the middle of the night is deafening, it's hard for me to fall asleep... Junior Brother Chen, please stop reading in the middle of the night, I'm scared..."

Chen Ji smiled and said, "Okay, I won't watch it anymore."

Liu Quxing smiled and said, "That's right, Master always said that we should sleep well at midnight to nourish ourselves!"

Chen Ji said sincerely: "Thank you for the reminder, Senior Brother."

This time, he was really grateful to Liu Quxing. If it weren’t for him, he would probably still be trapped in the dream.

Liu Quxing pulled Chen Ji's arm and said, "Go to bed early. We brothers share the joys and sorrows. When Master beats us, we will bear it together!"

On the other side, Mengji also woke up from his cross-legged sitting position, with his pupils rolling up.

He looked at Yunyang and Jiaotu, and his body suddenly trembled. Then he angrily shouted, "Didn't you say he was just an ordinary man? Next time you need me to create dreams for someone with the talent of an official, you must tell me in advance. That's a different price!"

Yunyang and Jiaotu looked at each other in confusion and asked, "We don't know either. Does he have the talent to become an official?"

Meng Ji said angrily, "How can it be false? A dream of grade C would only trap him for an incense stick of time before he woke up, and a dream of grade B would only trap him for half an hour."

But he also had some doubts in his mind: How did Chen Ji finally escape from the dream?
Yun Yang waved his hand: "Let's not talk about this matter first. Let me ask you, is Chen Ji a spy of Jing Dynasty?"

Mengji said unhappily, "Are you sure he's not."

As he said that, he stood up and patted his buttocks: "What about the reward? Double it, and I only accept Buddhist Tongbao."

Yun Yang thought about it, and finally took off a string of Buddhist beads from his wrist. Each black and purple bead was engraved with strange patterns and densely packed numbers.

He said distressedly: "Five hundred taels of silver, any temple can take it." Mengji saw the Buddhist Tongbao, and then patted the dust on his body with satisfaction: "Deal, remember to find me next time you need interrogation work."

Jiaotu said, "With so much money, I can buy so many new clothes and jade bracelets. Baohou's reward is lower than yours. We will look for him next time."

Mengji stroked his hair and said slowly, "Then you can go find him. He's a big mouth and can't keep secrets."

Jiaotu curled her lips and said, "We are all colleagues. All you do every day is collect money, collect money, and collect money."

Meng Ji said disdainfully: "Go and help me kill Wu Xiu for free."

Jiaotu rolled her eyes at him and said, "I'm not going."

Mengji put the string of Buddhist beads on his wrist, turned around and waved: "Let's go, the errand in Kaifeng Prefecture has been completed, I will leave for Jinling tomorrow."

Watching his departing figure, Yun Yang whispered, "Chen Ji actually has the talent to become an official, so we must not let the Minister know of his existence... Otherwise, he might really ride on our necks."

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Late at night, Chen Ji lay on his bunk bed, unable to fall asleep, with every event that had happened recently surging through his mind.

Suddenly, there was a rustling sound from the bed next to him. He opened his eyes slightly and saw Liu Quxing, wearing a coat and holding a book between his arms, tiptoeing out of bed and going out.

Chen Ji looked through the crack in the door in confusion, and saw Liu Quxing go into the kitchen, and then lit an oil lamp in the kitchen...

You fucking...

Chen Ji also sat up, first lifted the mattress to check the five small silver ingots hidden in the gaps between the wooden boards, and then took out a book from under the mattress: "Jinsi Lu".

This is the book that Wuyun helped him retrieve from Liu Shiyu's residence.

At that time, everyone's attention was drawn to Chen Ji's "Four Books and Commentaries", and there was no time to look for any abnormalities in other books.

But Chen Ji only took two glances at it and determined that the book contained a secret letter technique: the Fanqie method.

The so-called fanqie method is to combine the initial consonant of the previous word with the final vowel of the next word to form a new word. For example, the initial consonants and final vowels of the eight words "时掌", "苗大", "宗洛", and "依然" correspond to the four sounds of "上", "下", "左", and "右" respectively.

Chen Ji sat on the bunk bed in the dim light from the window, reading Jinsi Lu word by word, arranging every combination that could form a new word.

When he had read half of it, he suddenly put those words together in his mind: "Jing Chao doesn't believe me in conveying the message on behalf of the palace, and needs to confirm it with you in person."

Chen Ji's pupils shrank slightly. The information that this book wanted to convey was even more explosive than that in the Four Books and Commentaries. It actually directly involved the internal affairs of Prince Jing's Mansion.

Zhou Chengyi was a spy of Jing Dynasty. He delivered messages to Liu Shiyu on behalf of Jing Dynasty.

The book in Liu Shiyu's home was to be sent to a certain important person in the palace. Liu Shiyu was the intelligence hub between Jing Dynasty and a certain important person in Jingwang Palace!

Originally, when Yun Yang asked Chen Ji to incriminate Prince Jing's Mansion, Chen Ji thought that the other party was trying to frame him, but he didn't expect that Yun Yang's words would come true, and Prince Jing's Mansion was really connected with Jing Dynasty!

Chen Ji's eyes were bright. He had no sense of belonging to either Ning Dynasty or Jing Dynasty, so no matter what happened, it didn't matter. What mattered was that he could seize the initiative.

He continued to decipher the second half of the book until dawn, when he finally got the following message: The spy in the palace will find an opportunity to meet with you.

Chen Ji was stunned.

There is a spy from the Military Intelligence Department in the palace, who is it? !
Wait, could the spy in the palace be someone from Taiping Medical Clinic?
Previously, the master used the hexagram of the six yao to tell fortunes, and the hexagram said that going out for a visit was a bad omen, so the master left with the Liu family that morning...

Judging from this, Master seems to have a good relationship with the Liu family. Could it be that Master is not going there to diagnose a disease, but to exchange information?
Could it be that Master is a spy of Jing Dynasty? !
Wait a minute, Liu Quxing's behavior of not washing dirty clothes and taking them back to his mother may be that he is hiding information in his clothes...

Chen Ji was confused by his own inference. He had been so nervous these days that everyone looked like a spy to him now.

Thinking of this, he leaned out half of his body on the bunk bed, quietly opened the door and looked towards the kitchen opposite.

At this time, Liu Quxing was holding a book in his hand, leaning out of the kitchen, quietly looking around the apprentice dormitory to see if anyone had noticed that he was secretly studying...

Eyes facing each other.

Liu Quxing: “…”

Chen Ji: "..."

The two of them shrank back silently, only She Dengke lay on the bed and slept soundly, without any worries.

(End of this chapter)