Ningzhou, Xinggu County.

The second half of the night.

I vaguely heard the cry, the sound was like a child, depressed and sad, reluctant, hesitant, I don't know if it was in a dream or real.

Mei Shuying was lying on the couch and suddenly opened her eyes.

Leaning on the openwork bedpost, he sat down and stood in front of the teapot at the table.

The tea is warm, poured into the jade porcelain cup, reflecting the cool moonlight outside the house, thick and cold.

With her long hair hanging down, Mei Shuying stood holding the cup for a while...... Walk out the door.

The broken porcelain on the floor has been cleaned up. Mei Shuying's dry and pale lips pursed slightly, and the long dark coat covered his dusty snow-colored tunic top. The flick of the swaying room is more lined with the long figure...... The green silk is scattered, and the face is cold and pale.

Habitually holding the green jade fan in her hand, Mei Shuying pushed the door open and saw Jiuli leaning against the wall with her sword and her head down, falling asleep shallowly.

Moving silently, the long hand on her body was like a stroke of ink in the night, Mei Shuying looked at the bright yellow lights in the mourning hall in the distance, and walked over in a trance.

The two white candles in the lobby with white flags are burning brightly, and the words "first test the spiritual position of the North Gongtang Hall" on the spirit card are clear.

On the side of the wooden coffin full of paper flowers, the fire in the treasure pot continued to jump, reflecting the light and shadow in front of Mei Shuying, like a flickering lamp.

He stood in the dark with a fan and watched for a long time, and saw the young man on the side of the coffin helping the frail woman out of the mourning hall.

The night is as cool as water.

The long hair that hangs down is carried up by the night breeze and is a few strands, deep jade fans, and tassels are like snow.

Mei Shuying looked down for a long time and slowly walked into the mourning hall.

Kneeling on the futon in front of the treasure basin, Mei Shuying put down the green jade fan in her hand, reached out and took the silver money paper foil in the bamboo basket on one side, slowly spread it out, and sprinkled it into the dancing flames one by one.

"Before the next year's festival...... Xiao Yingding personally killed the shadow network and the blood of the shadow network to pay tribute to you. The man who looked up looked at the wooden coffin in front of him, stretched out his hand to hold it, and said in a hoarse voice: "Uncle Bei, you are good to go." ”

……

Return to the cloud valley, on the path of a thousand trees outside the rain.

The morning fog fills the mountains, the light snow is clear, and the forest wind is cold.

The young man in Tsing Yi didn't go far, and Lan Suwan hurriedly chased after him: "Yun Xiao!

Yun Xiao stopped and looked back at the person who came: "Second Senior Sister?"

Lan Suwan swept closer, stopped in front of the young man, glanced down at the thing in his hand, raised his head and said softly: "In this baggage is a new dress I made for you, and a sword tassel...... I intend to make a New Year's dress for you, Master, Senior Sister, and Ah Zi, and I originally wanted to give it to you on Chinese New Year's Eve, but now that Senior Brother wants to go back to Qingfeng Village, I will drive you out in advance. With that, he stretched out his hand and handed it to the young man.

The blue coat was heavy and smiled. "Senior brother and take it, it should be a good fit. ”

Yun Xiao was stunned for a moment, his heart couldn't help but warm, he lowered his head and took the burden, his eyes were soft and warm.

"Second Senior Sister Yun Xiao Xie. ”

"Thank you, I'm your senior sister, and I should take care of you. Lan Suwan stood in place, pursed her lips and smiled again: "Master, have you come to peace?"

Yun Xiao nodded: "Yes." ”

Lan Suwan folded her hands and hung lightly on her waist, nodded after hearing this, and then looked at him and said, "Go quickly, it will take several days to go here, junior brother be careful on the road." ”

Yun Xiao had a shallow smile on his face, solemn and gentle, and said with his head bowed: "Senior sister, go back too, the forest is wet and cold, don't suffer from the wind and cold." ”

Lan Suwan nodded lightly and watched him turn around and leave. "Junior brother be careful......"

The pale green figure faded into the fog of the deep forest path.

Lan Suwan's eyes showed a deepening reluctance, and she stood quietly in the wind for a long time, until she couldn't see the green clothes, and then turned around and slowly returned.

……

The wind is cold and the snow is lingering.

From Jingzhou to Badong via Xiangyang, but three days, the journey has been nearly halfway.

Yun Xiao saw that the time limit was imminent, and he was afraid that the body of the Taishi Ancestor that the ghost grandfather had read would be lost after the time limit of March, so he did not dare to delay too much, so even if the internal injuries had not healed, he still tried his best to perform light skills and quickly defeat Pegasus.

On the fourth day, the internal injuries recovered, and I had no choice but to find an inn in a village in Patong County to buy a horse to travel.

"The horses in the inn have been led by the shopkeeper to transport the New Year's goods, and they are sold, and they will not be brought back until the second half of the night. ”

The man in Tsing Yi was dressed in lotus and green bucket patterns, and he stood in front of the inn and hesitated for a moment, then wanted to turn to another house to see. The shopkeeper shouted to him: "There is only one store near here, the hour is not early, you might as well have some hot food in our store and rest for a night......

Yun Xiao turned back to him and said, "I'm in a bit of a hurry, so it's inconvenient to delay." "I'm going to leave again.

The shopkeeper shouted again: "There is really no store nearby, otherwise in the second half of the night, the shopkeeper will come back and immediately notify you, prepare a horse for you to go on the road immediately, do you think this is good?"

Seeing that the young man was a little hesitant, the shopkeeper immediately led the way: "Look at you, on such a cold day, take a rest to recuperate...... You take care of your spirits and wait until the horses come back to make sure that it is much faster than in this hour and a half, and the little one will let you know as soon as the shopkeeper returns. I will be back in the middle of the night, and I will be able to ...... when I am ugly at the latest."

Feeling the numbness and stinging pain in his knees and his chest for several days, the man in Tsing Yi did not hesitate any longer, nodded and walked into the inn: "I want an upper room on the second floor, and the food will be brought to the room." ”

The shopkeeper paused, scratched his head and said with a wry smile: "There is an upper room, but can it be done downstairs?" This morning, a generous lord came to the second floor, and ordered us not to go up, and his temper was a little strange...... Shall I light more braziers in the room downstairs facing the street on the south side of the street, and clean it up?"

The man in Tsing Yi had already followed him into the inn, and when he heard this, he glanced up at the second floor, and then nodded: "Okay, I'm tired." ”

The shopkeeper immediately smiled: "You're polite!

The man in Tsing Yi who had eaten dinner in the evening asked for water to bathe it, and carefully pasted the thin and delicate skin on his face back to his face.

There is a mirror table for women's dressing in the room, which should be for female tenants. Yun Xiao sat in front of the mirror and looked at the dreamlike face in the glasses, which felt unreal.

The slender and cold eyebrows of the person in the mirror are slightly frowned, the thin lips are slightly pursed, and the eyes are like a clear moon. A beautiful face is faintly arrogant, and it is difficult to hide the elegance of the world.

The glass-like hair of black jade fell down the shoulders, reflecting the candle flame, spreading the soft clear light.

Yun Xiao looked up and saw that the eyelashes of the person in the mirror were particularly slender, as fine as a fan, long but not curled, as if covered with a thin layer of snow and light frost......

The complexion is pale, handsome and flawless, and the magnificent and cold three-petal cherry blossoms on the forehead are revealed, and they are immediately not very beautiful, as in the painting.

The man in Tsing Yi couldn't help but stretch out his fingers and touch the blood-colored pattern on his forehead.

"Ru Yan...... Owl?"

The wind blows and the candles shine.

Its quiet is like that, the pine is born in the empty valley, its beauty is like it, the sun reflects the Chengtang, and its god is like it, and the moon shoots the cold river.

"Guest, have you washed up? ”

Yun Xiao came back to his senses when he heard this, and picked up the washed skin and covered the strange and familiar face in the mirror little by little. "Alright, come in. ”

"This pot is a freshly brewed hot tea, and I will bring it to you by the way...... "The shopkeeper pushed the door into the room and saw the young man in Tsing Yi sitting in front of the mirror, so he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.

Yun Xiao looked at the solemn and dignified face in the mirror, Fang Jue was himself, and when he caught a glimpse of Xiao Er looking at him during the cleaning up, he glanced at him from the mirror: "Is there something wrong with the little second brother?"

"No, no, no......" The shopkeeper hurriedly retracted his gaze and said a little sneeringly: "I have never seen a young man sitting in front of the mirror and looking at his face in such detail, so...... Bah, the little one said the wrong thing, the current girls like to be born like you, so you should value your appearance!"

Yun Xiao couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed when he heard the words, and got up from the mirror and left.

"Childe, don't mind, your eyes are so good-looking, you can't even take your eyes off the small ones, the girls must like ......"

"What if she can't see?" asked the person in Tsing Yi for a moment.

"Can't see it?" shopkeeper paused, and then sighed: "If you can't see it, it's a pity...... What's the matter? Is Childe's sweetheart sick with his eyes?"

Yun Xiao stood stiffly in the room, his back was straight, and he said indifferently: "No." ”

"Oooh. As if he noticed that the expression and voice of the person in Tsing Yi were different, the shopkeeper didn't ask any more, and quickly exited the room after cleaning up the water stains on the ground: "That son, you rest, don't disturb the little one!"

Yun Xiao watched him walk out, gently closed the door, and his jerky gaze slowly drooped.

Tsing Yi is pale and quiet.

The shopkeeper walked a few steps and muttered in his heart: This morning, I praised the boy upstairs for his handsome appearance, and the man also asked what if she couldn't see it? Why are there so many blind girls these days?

Nighttime.

Yun Xiao had been asleep for a long time, Huo Ran felt a shock in his heart, and vaguely heard a flute sound wafting into his ears from all directions.

The brain was heavy, the breathing was chaotic, and the blood was hot uncontrollably.

This flute!

His eyes opened, and there was a trace of blood.

This flute!

Instinctively, subconsciously, subconsciously, disgust, anger, hatred.

The man in Tsing Yi grabbed the frost sword and jumped out of the window with a "bang".

……

The snow under the moon is sparkling, reflecting the long clothes that are flying and drumming on the shore.

The flute is horizontal to the side of the lips, the ten fingers rise and fall gently, the expression is soft, and the flute sound is treacherous.

A man dressed in plain clothes walked unhurriedly behind him.

"You're a little late. The man on the shore stopped playing the flute in his hand.

The plain-clothed man glanced at the jade flute in his hand, although his expression was respectful, his tone was unhurried: "The master is waiting, it seems that Xiao Yu is not alone." ”

The people on the shore blew the flute a few more times, and then said without hurrying: "Let me ask you, if there is any remnant of your family, how to deal with it." ”

"And?" Guo Xiaoyu glanced at the person on the shore, and saw that his expression was the same, so he replied lightly: "Chop the grass and eradicate the roots, and raise the tiger to leave trouble." Naturally it is to kill. ”

The man on the shore gently lowered the jade flute in his hand. "Yun Xiao is an orphan of Ru Yan's family, and his memories before entering the valley were sealed by his junior sister. ”

Guo Xiaoyu stood behind the man on the shore, watching the intricate cloud patterns on his body sway and sway gently with the black clothes in the night wind. was quiet for a moment, and then said: "This son is still young, he is already careful, and he is good at Qihuang, and his light skills are excellent, and his martial arts can be tied with Ah Yue, who is the tenth on the martial arts list, and Duanmu Xiaoxian gave him a little water acupuncture method, but also passed on that he has no swordsmanship." ”

The tone of the person on the shore was a little numb: "Is there no swordsmanship...... " raised his head slightly, looking at the water in the lake, he asked softly: "So what do you ......mean?"

"After the strange blood, it is not an ordinary person, and this son will become a big disaster in the future. ”

"Kill?"

Guo Xiaoyu said lightly: "It's up to the master." ”

The man on the shore nodded: "He is now in the inn where you and I are." ”

"So the master waited for me to be fake, and waited for him to be real, and the strange stone corpse array that I ordered me to lay was also against him?"

The eyes of the people on the shore were contemplative: "If you kill him, my sister's temperament will be quiet for a while, but it will be traced to the end, and in the end, I will know that I did it." ”

"The master doesn't want to have such a day with Mr. Duanmu, does he? ”

The man on the shore looked down at the jade flute in his hand, and played a few more times on the side of his lips.

After a while, he looked back at Guo Xiaoyu and said: "I will take the 'corpse dance flute' as a guide to see if he can still remember the scene of the bloody city back then, if he hears the flute tonight, even if his memory is sealed in his mind, he will also feel the sound of this flute......"

Guo Xiaoyu smiled and continued unhurriedly: "If you feel it, you will find this place, and you will pass through the strange stone corpse array I have laid down, and you will not die or be disabled; ”

The man on the shore nodded. "That's right...... That's it, that's the right thing. ”

Guo Xiaoyu smiled slightly and said, "After the incident with the tomb flower, Mei Shuying is bound to guess who the real owner of the shadow network is. ”

Mo Ran nodded, stroked the jade flute in his hand and said, "Hmm." Therefore, he and Jingyun Pavilion can no longer stay. ”