"Alan, why did you show up this time, and why, did you bring us here?"

Hearing me ask her this, Alan raised her hand, covered her mouth and chuckled.

Her laughter is always the same as her people, coquettish and seductive, but on such a night, in the face of such a charred ruin, such a gorgeous beauty, and such a coquettish laughter, it does not make people feel comforted at all, but has an inexplicable sense of hideousness.

I set myself up.

"What are you laughing at?"

"I laugh at you. ”

"Laughing at me?" I became more and more puzzled, looking at her crooked smiling eyes: "What are you laughing at me?"

Ah Lan laughed a few more times, and then slowly lowered his hand and raised his eyes to look at me: "Have you even forgotten what you yourself once said to me?"

"What did I say?"

"At that time, you were in Jixiang Village, and asked me to do something for you. ”

"......" a light flashed through my mind.

She hugged her arms for a long time: "Why, I still remember what I do, and you told me, and I forgot about it as soon as I finished speaking." ”

“……”

I didn't forget.

It's just that time has passed so long that I thought there was no way to pursue some things anymore.

For example, the whereabouts of Yue Qingying.

At that time in Jixiang Village, I entrusted her to find Yue Qingying's whereabouts, and then she left, and when we met again, I had already decided to marry Pei Yuanxiu, and she didn't say a word, so she left coldly, so after so many years, this matter has become an unsolved case in my heart.

I didn't expect that now she would bring it up again.

Since she mentioned it, that is-

I stepped forward and looked at her in surprise, "Have you found that bhikshuni, and where is she?"

At this moment, the smile on Ah Lan's face had completely converged, and her eyes once again revealed coldness, she looked at me and said word by word: "She is dead." ”

“……”

I froze.

After a while, he couldn't believe his ears and looked at her: "What did you say?"

"She's dead. ”

“……”

"Killed. ”

“……”

"It's been many years. ”

“……”

The night wind, once again swept the chill from the depths of the mountains and forests, blew through my thin clothes, and kept flying in the air, like a meditation, which would leave my body at any time, drift away, and go away.

At that moment, I thought about it a lot, and when I came back to my senses, I couldn't remember anything, just listened to Alan's voice echoing over and over again in my head—she was dead!

Killed!

Many years!

……

An indescribable tingling pain began to spread from my chest, and I slowly became a little out of breath, and even about to hold back tears, and after a long while, I barely looked at her, and my voice was already stained with a trace of dampness: "Yes, is it true?"

Ah Lan looked at me with raised eyebrows: "I thought that no one would be able to doubt my ability. ”

My eyes widened, but my vision went blank at her: "Who is it, kill her." ”

Her eyebrows were raised a little higher: "Who do you think it will be?" ”

“……”

"Who is it, who has this opportunity and this necessity, to kill her?"

“…… I do not know. ”

"You know. ”

She looked at me coldly, and the sarcastic smile on the corner of her mouth became so dazzling in the night: "It's just that it's hard for you to face, your friend was killed by him, and in a year's time, fortunately, the bones are cold, but you have already decided to marry him." ”

“……”

"Now, do you still want to ask who I am?"

I couldn't ask, I even lost all my reaction and perception at this moment, she continued to speak, I just watched the two cherry red lips move up and down, but what she was saying, I couldn't hear a word, there was a surge in my ears, as if the blood all over my body was pouring to the top of my head at this moment.

Almost suffocated, almost fainted.

I don't know how long it took for Ah Lan to seem to feel my strangeness, she frowned slightly and looked at my pale face, godless eyes, stretched out her hand and grabbed my shoulder and shook it: "Hey, are you okay?"

She flickered, as if the tide had receded all at once.

My ears could hear her again, but every word was so harsh.

"People are dead, and they have been dead for many years, and if you are sad at this time, it will be too late. ”

“……”

"All you have to do is be aware of this fact. ”

“……”

"That good friend of yours, dead!"

This sentence was like a heavy hammer hitting the back of my head, and finally shook my whole person back from a trance, I suddenly became excited, looked up at her, and gasped slightly: "You say, yes-it's Pei Yuanxiu, it's him, kill her?"

"That's right. ”

"You say, it was many years ago?"

"Yes. ”

"How many years ago?"

"Four years ago," she looked at me calmly, and saw that tears welled up in my eyes almost immediately, and her eyes were full, but she still said the sharp words word by word, and stabbed them into my chest: "That is, you said, not long after you crossed the river and met her." ”

“……”

"If I'm right, she would have been killed a day or two. ”

“……”

I couldn't say anything anymore, and when the tears dripped from my eyes, they were like a hot flame, leaving a mark of pain on my skin.

The pain also made me more sober and remembered the past more clearly.

I remembered it all.

At that time, after I woke up, I asked Pei Yuanxiu about Yue Qingying's whereabouts, and I asked him where the bhikshunis on the ship had gone, but he told me that he had not seen that person, and after that, he said that he would go and find it, and then ......

Then, there is no result.

I never doubted him, although there were too many things in him that I doubted at that time, but because of his life-saving grace to Miaoyan, the grace of nurturing, and even his tenderness to me, I couldn't and didn't dare to think deeply, he said that he would look for it, and I really believed that he would find it.

But I didn't expect-

When he promised that I would go to find it, he had already classified that person into hell in his heart, and even, maybe at that time, Yue Qingying had already died at his hands!

I couldn't cry sound, only tears flowed silently, and the whole person kept trembling and trembling under the interweaving of hot tears and cold wind.

Ah Lan looked at me like this, frowned, and said for a while: "I said, so many years have passed, her bones have turned to dust, and no matter how sad it is now, it is too late." ”

“……”

Her words are right, but at this moment, even if I convince myself like this, I can't control my heartache.

Seeing me like this, Alan sighed.

I don't know how long it took for me to finally withdraw a little from that sad and sad feeling, and looked up at her: "Then you, how do you know?"

She looked at me with her arms crossed, and said calmly: "At that time, you asked me to investigate, in fact, I was suspicious of that Pei Yuanxiu from the beginning. ”

"Why?"

"According to what you said, that boatload of people was controlled by his people after arriving at the ferry port in Jinling, he had enough manpower, and in that situation, it was generally impossible for anyone to run away; ”

“……”

"But it's hard to be unaware. ”

“……”

"And I asked you, that friend of yours can do kung fu, it seems that she can't, that is to say, the chance of her being able to escape is very small, and it is very likely that she was caught by that Pei Yuanxiu. ”

“……”

"I was caught by him, and you are looking for this person, if Pei Yuanxiu is normal, he should give the person to you directly, but he didn't, that is to say, there is a secret behind this matter, and his actions are abnormal. ”

“……”

"So, I managed to inquire about the entry and exit of the dungeon in Jinling Mansion for a while. ”

“……”

"Fortunately, although their people are usually very strict, the jailer, after three glasses of wine, said everything. ”

“……”

"So I also know that shortly after you arrived in Jinling, a corpse was brought out of prison, a young woman, hairless, who had been stabbed to death, and died a simple death. They transported her to the mass grave and buried her casually, there was no coffin, no inscription, so even if someone wanted to investigate, there would be nothing to find out from the mass grave. ”

“……”

I clenched my fists and squeezed the corners of my clothes firmly in my palms.

But I don't know what else I can do.

Yue Qingying......

Yue Qingying......

My friend, the woman who was abandoned by her parents, forgotten by her lover, and even the last hiding place, Huangze Temple, can no longer stay, her life is not miserable, maybe in the eyes of many people, it is not even a story, because there is no sighing vigor, and there is no lingering happiness, in the vast sea of people, she is the most ordinary wanderer, staying and passing, no one cares.

But she didn't deserve to die like this!

She shouldn't!

I grabbed the corners of my clothes so hard that my fingertips almost hurt, and tears welled up again and again, blocking my throat.

I choked up: "Why...... Why would he do that?"

“……”

"Why kill her?"

Ah Lan looked at my painful crying, only lowered her eyelashes, it seemed that such grief had become commonplace for her, and she would not be moved anymore, she said slowly: "This is also something I am very interested in. ”

“……”

"So, after knowing that the bhikshuni was dead, I didn't immediately come to sue you, but continued to investigate. ”

I looked up at her, "You, what did you find?"

She calmly turned her gaze away from me to the other side, the charred ruins.