The night lights of Xiaoyong City are scarce, not every day is a lantern festival, most of the people in this city are the middle and lower classes, and there are not many people who can have leisure and good material conditions, even if there is no curfew and other old rules and customs in the small city, but there are only a few people playing on the street, and there are only a handful of corresponding trading stalls and open shops.

Shen Yiwu walked alone on the street, feeling depressed, and there was occasionally a wisp of wind blowing at night, which made her image extremely cold, and she was indeed very pitiful in the eyes of outsiders. But she didn't feel any of this, and her eyes scanned the surroundings blankly, looking for something that was so familiar though she had only traveled once, and her heart seemed to be wrapped in a layer of decay, filled with a sad atmosphere.

At this time, two young men dressed quite luxuriously appeared, the two walked with laughter, and when they saw Shen Yiwu alone, they suddenly had the idea of flirting in their hearts, and the two of them came close to their ears to discuss something, and after a while, the two of them stopped in front of the distracted woman, and one said: "Miss, why are you playing here alone?" Our brother is very familiar in Xiaoyong City, if Miss gets lost, we can send you home?"

Shen Yi frowned, and naturally took two steps back, she looked back, and a few people on the street avoided from afar, only there were people selling bean cakes at a nearby stall, but no one seemed to notice this. Shen Yi swept the two people in front of her with cold eyes, although she was weak in force, she barely knew how to use fists and feet, the two people in front of her were just ordinary gentlemen, she was not afraid, but she recalled that in the past, in the face of the dangerous encounters in the Xu family, Xu Fanshi, and Sui City, Jiang Ming always stood in front of him for the first time, and he was now alone, and he was a little unaccustomed to it.

The two young sons saw that Shen Yiwu did not answer, so they said again: "Miss, if Miss really forgets where to go, the mansion is not far away, I am the eldest son of the master of Xiaoyong City, this is the son of the grain and horse officials in the city, and they are all famous in this area, we can meet Miss is also fateful, how about letting the two of us enjoy the friendship of landlords?"

Before one of them finished speaking, the other's hand grabbed Shen Yiwu's arm, Shen Yiwu slapped it open, and said coldly: "I don't care what kind of official's son you are, I don't have time to deal with you, I advise you not to look for trouble." ”

"Yo! is still a fiery temperament, but today the two of us invite each other, you can go if you want to, you have to go if you don't want to go!" The two of them had a sinister smile in their eyes, and they grabbed Shen Yi again.

Shen Yi was worried about the anger in his heart, thinking that he could be bullied by two unarmed gentlemen, if Jiang Ming was here, he was afraid that he would have smashed the Fang Yuan halberd a long time ago, but the more he thought about it, the more he felt that his heart was empty, and he lost his mind again for a while.

Just when the two young men thought they were about to capture their prey, a stick suddenly appeared in front of Shen Yiwu, and with a quick swing, it was only two or three sticks, and the two of them were beaten back a few meters. At this time, Shen Yi only reacted, standing in front of her was an old man in a hemp sweatshirt, and the color of his hair was half pale, but it was still difficult to hide the fierceness in his eyes.

The old man coughed twice, glared at the two angrily, and said: "You are blatantly bullying a girl's family in this way, in vain you are still the descendants of the officials in the city, you don't know the etiquette law, you don't know the national law, if you were in the army, you would have been divided by five horses a long time ago." ”

Hearing this, both men were shocked, and one of his eyes widened and said, "Who are you? ”

The old man said, "I'm just a craftsman selling bean cakes now, but in your eyes I don't have any weight, but if I want to do evil under my nose, even if you call your elders, I have this attitude." ”

The old man's attitude was quite tough, which made the faces of the two men quite unbearable, they whispered, they all said that they had never seen this person, and one of them puffed up his breath and scolded: "Okay, you are not a long-eyed old man, if it weren't for the current military emergency in the city, the family members in our house were all transferred to the city gate to be on duty, we didn't have a few people around us, otherwise we would definitely smash your stall and beat you to a cripple to cure this unknown disease!"

Shen Yi was worried that the words were extremely vicious, so he didn't want to involve the old man, and just took a step forward, but was stopped by the old man waving his hand, and said: "Girl, don't worry about it, I will take care of this matter, don't say that they are the descendants of grain and horses, and the master book, even if it is the Ling Cheng of this Xiaoyongcheng, I am not afraid of him." I have only one life, and there is no wife or child involved in the family, even if I send city soldiers to besiege and kill me, they don't want to take away my Yang Xiong's head easily!"

The two young men were all in a trance when they heard this name, and one said: "Could it be that he is a veteran under the command of the Lord of Yangta Feng who retired from Jiaozhi City a few days ago?" I saw it on my father's copy, there are more than ten people on that list, and they are the first to follow Yangta Feng to do things. When the three overlord families were at their peak, they were ordered to saddle the horse before and after the Yangta Feng, and now the three major families have disappeared, and the Yangta Feng specially released this group of surviving veterans to return to the old, I remember that there was this Yang Xiongyan among the few people who fell into Xiaoyong. ”

Another said: "If this old guy is really the old department of Yangtafeng, how dare we provoke it? Now that Yangtafeng has implemented a new policy in Jiaozhi City, he has forcibly purged a group of gentry and bureaucrats, and the people love him very much, and the main city is no longer divided by great family forces as in the past, and now Yangtafeng is the soil emperor of Jiaozhi City." He put the veterans of the old department back, not only to entrap other subordinates, but also to leave a good impression on the people, but where can we easily dispose of these veterans who have returned to their hometowns

Yes, even if they really committed something, my father and they would have to give Yang Tafeng some face, not to mention that he was caught by him today, if we continue to make trouble, it will not be pleasing to us. ”

The former said: "It's all your fault, seeing that the young lady is beautiful, you have to instigate me to do some old tricks, and now you are in trouble, right? We have to give up our face to bow our heads to this old fellow, it is really a shame for my master's son!" The other person retorted: "Why do you blame me? If you didn't have this idea, how could I have agreed to it casually, your ability to get rid of sin is amazing!"

The man said again: "That's enough, let's deal with the matter in front of us first, bow your head and endure it for a while, before Xu Fanshi came here, we were angry, and we didn't follow the flattery? After a few years, the sheep tower wind forgot about these veterans, and I asked my father to accuse this old guy and give us a bad breath!"

The old man saw that the two were hiding from the quarrel and discussing, and he was impatient, so he scolded: "Hey, two stinky boys, if you want to challenge my old man, come here, don't hide, what kind of man is it?"

Although this veteran has gray hair, his temper is as hot as when he was young, and the two young men laughed and said: "Elder Yang said that he was laughing, how dare the kid be so self-conscious? ”

The old man rolled his eyes and said, "Oh~ It seems that you have guessed, but you can be soft because of the face of the Lord of the Sheep Tower Wind City, but it has nothing to do with Lao Er, what I want is for the two of you to apologize to this girl, if not, I still have to teach you a lesson!"

A man said: "Miss is offended, and I hope to plead with Elder Yang to avoid our rudeness." ”

Shen Yi didn't have the heart to talk to the two guts who had no courage, so he whispered to the old man: "Old gentleman, thank you for rescuing me, don't be like these people, I really provoked them, I'm nothing, I will leave Xiaoyongcheng the next day, if the old gentleman is plotted by them, it will be too bad!"

The old man thought secretly for a moment, and said, "Girl, you have thought it through, then this time you will wronged the girl, let them go!"

Seeing Yang Xiongrui, the two young men waved their hands, thanked them again and again, as if they had been released, and left quickly to the other side.

The old man said: "Little girl, it is not very safe to be alone at night, although the number of soldiers in Xiaoyongcheng has increased now, but the security of this residential street cannot be improved, you go home as soon as possible! Come, I will bring you a few pieces of bean cake back to eat, today's business is also depressed, and it may be bad tomorrow." ”

Shen Yiwu rejected the old man's kindness, so he put away his previous trance-like expression, reluctantly said goodbye to the old man with a smile, and walked towards the street on the other side.

She has no purpose. But thinking about it, I was tired of walking, and I wanted to be tired, so I found an inn to rest.

As she walked, the street behind her suddenly disappeared, a cold wind blew, and the gray mist shrouded Shen Yi's steps, Shen Yiwu secretly felt that the atmosphere was weird, so he quickened his pace, but as she walked, the streets in front of her disappeared, and only one step stretched straight forward.

"It's ...... What's going on?"

Shen Yi turned her head worriedly, and suddenly her back was cold, and the huge mist was about to completely cover her body, she subconsciously fell backwards, and her steps slowly climbed the steps, and after a few steps, she bumped into a crimson door. But I saw that the gate was four or five meters high, and in the middle of the two doors was a huge pig's head, and a huge iron ring was tied to the pig's nose.

Shen Yi was frightened, and hurriedly took seven or eight steps back, feeling that something was wrong, so he wanted to leave the rear, even if he looked at the fog in the sky, he felt that it was much better to run in this direction than to face the vermilion pig's head gate. At this moment, a low cough suddenly came from the mist, and the sound seemed to be the voice of a giant, which made Shen Yi stagnate here.

"Mistakenly entered the road of death, and the road was foggy. In front of this door, you can fade the way of memory, and you can go to the door of the past. ”

Shen Yi's eyes were stunned, she looked around, except for the vermilion pig's head gate in front of her and the continuous sea of fog behind her, she had no other way to go. She began to be convinced that she had walked into an extraordinary place, at least this place, far from being accessible to ordinary mortals.

Just when Shen Yi hesitated, the deep voice said: "If you don't enter for half a moment, you will enter the sea of fog and fade your memories, wash away your lifelong experience, and return to the world!"

Shen Yi's eyes were solemn, and she suddenly smiled slightly bitterly: "If even those memories have faded, what is the point of continuing to walk?" Shen Yiwu seemed to have Jiang Ming's figure in front of her eyes again, she slowly approached the door, avoiding the pig's head, and pushed hard, the pig's head was split in half, and the door slowly opened.

Shen Yi looked around vigilantly, the continuous sea of fog frightened her, she tried to walk in the middle of the road, and after walking for a few minutes, she saw a front hall in front of her, in which there were dozens of cats of various colors, and a figure in a red robe had his back to her.

Shen Yiwu slowly approached, and the dozen or so cats approached Shen Yiwei's side, Shen Yiwu subconsciously retreated, and the red-robed figure waved lightly, and all the cats walked towards the man. Shen Yi asked tentatively, "What kind of place is this?"

The red-robed man said: "The Blood Spirit Hall on the way to death, a place dedicated to collecting the memories and blood of living beings?"

Shen Yi said worriedly: "

What's the use of collecting blood, and how do you collect memories?"

The red-robed humane: "The blood is collected with a thousand bucket spirit capsules, and the memories are carried with the misty sea phantom dust, both of which are the transformers in your wilderness, and they have extremely magical abilities." ”

Shen Yiwu frowned slightly, and said, "What's the use of collecting blood and memories?"

The red-robed human: "Collecting the blood of thousands of spirits can resurrect a person." Collecting the memories of countless living beings can save a person. ”

Shen Yi worried: "Isn't resurrection and salvation the same meaning?"

The red-robed man said: "The resurrection is that the person is dead, but the saved person is alive." The former will succeed, and the latter will fail. ”

Shen Yi said worriedly: "Then who are you?"

The red-robed humane: "The spirit woman of this generation in the spiritual gate." As for the name, it can also be said that there is no name. ”

Shen Yi worriedly asked, "What kind of person are you, how can I return to Xiaoyong City?"

With a move from the red-robed man, more than a dozen cats followed his footsteps, he slowly walked up the stairs, Shen Yiwu also followed closely, and he said as he walked: "I'm not a complete person, but since I am in charge of this Blood Spirit Hall, I am a human." As for you wanting to go back, theoretically you can't go back completely, this is the rule of my Blood Spirit Hall. ”

Shen Yiwu looked a little flustered, and asked eagerly: "What is the completeness of what you say? Is it that you have to charge a fee? You won't take my precious things like the legend, right?" But I must be voluntary, if not, you can't force it?"

The red-robed man stopped and said, "You're scared of me?"

Shen Yi said worriedly: "I'm not afraid, but I can feel it, if you want to kill me, I don't have the strength to fight back, you seem to be a strong person?"

The red-robed man continued to walk forward and said, "Status? This is the measure of strength in the outside world? Maybe, that person seems to have told me about this level hundreds of years ago, and he can't defeat me. Of course, I won't kill you, no one will force you, no matter if you step into the mist of a thousand autumns and fade into memory, or walk into the path of death, no one will force you. I'm the only one in this Blood Spirit Hall, and by the way, these cats who don't know how long they've lived. ”

This is an orange cat walking beside the red-robed man, turning around, and actually making a girlish voice: "He's right, we really don't know how long we've lived, at least tens of thousands of years older than your little girl." Shen Yi saw the cat's voice and took a few steps back in horror.

The red-robed man said: "Since I became the spirit woman of this term, not everything in this world can be exchanged. All living beings, no matter what their fate, are trying their best to live one more day, but what is the use of living for so long if they are unhappy?"

The cat said quite unconvinced: "You have said this many times, but the people you have met, the mistakes you have made, still cannot be paid off and cannot be remedied." ”

The red-robed man stared at the orange cat and said coldly, "You don't understand!" He waved his robe, and after a burst of white mist, more than a dozen cats disappeared.

The red-robed man walked forward with Shen Yiwu again, at this time Shen Yiwu didn't say anything, and went up another staircase, and she finally saw that there were large urns with painted patterns in the corridors, and red brocades were placed in the middle of the Weng.

With a wave of the red-robed man's palm, all the brocades in the seventh big urn flew out, suspended in front of the red-robed man one by one, and the palms of the red-robed man emitted a faint golden light, controlling the brocade sacs to float in front of Shen Yiwu one by one, and said, "Pick a thousand bucket spirit sac and use it to hold your blood." ”

Shen Yi asked, "Can I leave with my blood?"

The red-robed man said: "That's the case, I will send it to you personally." ”

Shen Yiwu took a bag casually, and wanted to bite her finger, but the red-robed man stopped her and said, "It's not like this to take blood." I saw the red-robed man touch his fingers towards Shen Yi's forehead, and a golden thread was pulled out, and Shen Yiwu fell into a trance as soon as there was a muffled sound in his mind. I saw that the red-robed man led the gossamer to the other palm, rubbed it a few times at will, and turned into a red liquid bead.

The red-robed man looked at the liquid beads stupidly, and was a little stunned, looking at Shen Yiwei, who had already lost his mind, and said softly: "Pure yin blood, and it also carries the poison of calamity, interesting, the next Lingpo has been chosen, and I can get out and do my own thing." ”

Shen Yiwu slowly woke up from his trance, and saw that the red liquid bead floated into the Qiandou spirit sac he had chosen, and with the wave of the red-robed man, all the brocade bags flew into the previous big urn, which was the seventh big urn.

The red-robed man said, "You are the one hundred thousand and one." ”

Shen Yi's spirit was a little dazed, and he didn't understand the meaning of the words clearly, and asked, "What is the first?"

The red-robed man said: "If one day, you don't want to stay in the outside world, you can come to me and be my heir." ”

Shen Yiwu felt very strange when he heard this, and wanted to ask what he meant, but he was stopped by the red-robed man, and he said, "You go, follow these big urns all the way, and you can get out." I hope you don't remember being here, and I hope you don't come here again. ”

Shen Yi's eyes were confused, and she fell asleep without warning in an instant, and her body slowly floated down this corridor, thinking that she would indeed leave this Blood Spirit Hall according to the words of the red-robed man.

The red-robed man stared at Shen Yi's distant figure, sighed lightly, and said, "You shouldn't have come......"

The echo in the hall is like a wave, and the fog in front of the corridor continues.

(Qu 13 specially pays tribute, the story "Big Fish and Begonia", spring goes to autumn...... ）