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The inn is divided into two floors, and at first glance, you can see that the first floor is used to pick up guests for dinner, and the second floor is for accommodation. But the samurai doesn't seem to have any plans to go up to the second floor. He put together the long benches in the lobby.

The samurai said, "We're on top of it tonight." Don't go up to the second floor. The warrior said, suddenly looked at Ye Wujian very seriously, and repeated again: "Don't go up to the second floor." ”

Hearing the samurai say this, Ye Wujian felt even more uneasy in his heart, and he always felt that there was a pair of eyes looking at Ye Wujian in the dark on the second floor. Ye Wujian obediently stayed on the stool, watching the warrior close the door of the inn and seal the last way for a few people to escape.

Outside the window, the forest at night rustled, like the low cry of some kind of monster. Ye Wujian suddenly remembered a past incident a long time ago: "A lonely woman died in Peach Blossom Village before. The woman's surname is Wang, and when she was alive, she often sat alone at the entrance of the village and silently watched the sun set. She is a withdrawn person, rarely talks to people, and has few expressions on her face. Lao Li said that she was waiting for her husband, who was gone. Ye Wujian asked Lao Li why she didn't go out to look for him when she liked her husband so much? Lao Li said that she knew that she couldn't find him when she went out, and she wouldn't wait here. Her husband had died outside. ”

Ye Wujian didn't understand her behavior at the time, even if she couldn't wait for someone she wanted to wait, she would keep waiting. Once Ye Wujian and Ling'er played at the head of the village, and several people were attracted by the woman's lonely and focused back.

Ling'er suddenly said: "If you go out one day, I will wait for you here forever." ”

As the sun sets, the woman and Ling'er reflected in the brilliant sunset look particularly mysterious and beautiful. I don't know if the woman heard Ye Wuqian and them talking, the woman suddenly turned her head and showed an unusually gentle smile to a few people. Ye Wujian will never be able to forget that smile, the kind of tenderness that only the eyes of lonely people contain.

The woman no longer sat at the head of the village waiting for her husband. It was a few days before everyone found her body, dead on the beams of the house, with a serene smile on her face. Ye Wujian remembered that Lao Li was a little surprised when he saw the corpse. He said: "What a great happiness it must be for a hanged person to resist the pain and smile like this in the end."

"There are people who are alive, but as important people die, then these people are already dead, and they are just a corpse," he said. This woman has finally gone where she is supposed to go. Maybe her husband had been waiting for him over there for a long time. ”

Ye Wuqian remembered it clearly, Ye Wujian saw that Lao Li's eyes had a strong yearning at that time, as if, as if he also wanted to go to that place.

Ye Wuqian asked Lao Li, do you want to go to that place too? Lao Li looked at Ye Wujian with a smile. That was Lao Li's rare gentle expression. Lao Li didn't answer my question, but from his eyes, Ye Wujian seemed to know that Lao Li was actually yearning for the place where the ghost was, and the reason why he hadn't gone there now was Ye Wuji.

But in fact, Lao Li was wrong, she hadn't left yet, she still stayed in the village. After the woman's death, Ye Wujian often saw her sitting on the back of the village in a trance, as well as the moment when she turned around and smiled at Ye Wuji. The gentle eyes seemed to be able to contain everything, Ye Wujian saw her but Ye Wujian was not afraid at all, Ye Wujian said to Ling'er, but Ling'er said that she didn't see it.

Do people become ghosts after they die? Maybe Ye Wujian thinks too much about himself, or maybe it's just Ye Wuji's hallucination.

The samurai turned off the oil lamp and sat at the counter with his back against the wall and his eyes closed. Ye Wujian lay on the bench set up by the samurai. The moonlight outside the window spilled into the room, everything was dim but clear, and Ye Wujian could even see the serious expression of the samurai. and a string of Buddhist beads on his wrist.

The surroundings were quiet and terrifying, Ye Wujian really didn't feel sleepy, and asked in a low voice, "Are you asleep?"

The samurai said, "No." ”

Ye Wujian said, "Then can I ask you something?"

Samurai: "Ask." ”

Ye Wujian said, "How did you know that the people in this inn are dead?"

Samurai: "Everyone on the dragon scales has sharp facial features. I stood outside the door and smelled the smell of rotting corpses in the air. ”

Ye Wujian said, "Then they have been dead for a long time?"

Samurai: "Dead for four days." ”

Ye Wujian suddenly remembered that the three soldiers before seemed to mean that they had accompanied the warrior to find the village for four days. Ye Wujian said, "Did you live here four days ago?"

The samurai said, "Yes." ”

Ye Wujian said: "Then they all died because of you?"

Samurai: "Sort of. ”

Ye Wujian said: "That...... Do people really become ghosts when they die? Do they often appear in the places where they lived? Will the three officers and soldiers who had their throats cut before turn into ghosts and come to you?"

As soon as Ye Wuqian finished asking, a long wolf howl came from afar. In the moonlight, Ye Wujian clearly saw that the warrior's face was a little moved and a little confused. He suddenly opened his eyes and looked at Ye Wujian and said, "You want to ask if there are any ghosts in the inn, right?"

Ye Wujian nodded silently, and he continued: "There are no ghosts after death, if you can still see the dead person, it is only because a certain obsession before that person's life is too deep, what you see is just his obsession." ”

Ye Wujian couldn't understand. But the samurai didn't continue to answer for Ye Wuji, he walked up to me, took off the Buddha bead in his hand and put it on Ye Wuji's hand, and said with a smile on his face: "Don't think too much, rest early, we will hurry as soon as it dawns tomorrow." ”

Ye Wujian had been having a hard time falling asleep, and his mind kept thinking about the obsession that the samurai said, thinking of the lonely woman, and thinking of the three samurai who ran for their lives with their bloody throats in their hands. Thinking about the original owner of this inn. It's a pity that Ye Wujian hasn't seen them, maybe they are short uncles who often wear polite smiles, or maybe they are coquettish proprietresses who often flatter...... Slowly thinking about getting tired, sleepiness hit, and Ye Wuqian fell asleep.

When the samurai shook Ye Wujian awake, the sky was not yet fully bright, the sun had just climbed to the top of the mountain, and the top of the mountain was dazzling by the sunrise.

The samurai changed into an ordinary civilian uniform, but he still couldn't stop the majestic momentum that emanated from his whole body. He said that in order to be less noticeable, he dressed casually. The clothes were found on the second floor.

He simply packed up a baggage, and then took Ye Wuqian out of the inn. After leaving the inn, the samurai set fire to the inn. Ye Wujian silently watched him finish everything, and the inn was soon surrounded by a raging fire.

The two stared at the fire for a moment. The samurai said, "Let's go." ”

Ye Wujian followed him and restarted, Ye Wujian said, "Actually...... You killed the people in the inn, right?"

The samurai didn't look surprised on his face, and he didn't even look at Ye Wuji, as if he knew that Ye Wuqian would say this.

Ye Wujian continued: "You lived here four days ago, and when you left, you were afraid that they would reveal your whereabouts, so you killed them, just like you killed those three officers and soldiers, because you were afraid that people passing by would find out, so you hid their bodies on the second floor." In order to make it easier for us to rest here when we come back, so they have burned down their house now. After talking about leaves