"What does twenty-five mean?" Mu Yun muttered as he walked into Li Shuci's room with his hair twisted in his hand.

Qingge's face was full of reproach, and he said dissatisfied: "What twenty-five, twenty-six? Let you go out with the girl, why did you put the girl outside to freeze?

Mu Yun suddenly shrank his head: "How can I manage her......"

"Hmph, next time there is such a thing, see if I don't hit your legs!" the green pigeon roared, and gave Mu Yun a bowl of ginger soup in his hand.

"Hey, good sister, I see. Mu Yun put on a flattering smile, and the green pigeon gave up. Mu Yun couldn't help but slander in his heart, my Qingge sister, who can manage our girl!

Li Shuci came out of the room, the flush on her cheeks that was steamed out by the hot water had not yet receded, and she let Xue Xin help dry her hair, while saying: "She said that it must be done before the twenty-fifth day, this twenty-fifth must be the date, and the thing she wants to do must be related to what is going to happen on the twenty-fifth day of the lunar calendar." ”

"Is there anything special about the 25th day of the lunar calendar? Mu Yun said.

"Recently, in the news from He Quan, there are no big or small things, and there is no mention of any difference on this day, let's go to Banbianlou tomorrow to have a look. Since the Lian clan has made a move, we have to stir up this troubled water. Li Shuci muttered.

Li Shuci looked at Mu Yun and asked with some inquiry, "What else...... That little girl, how could she bring the same jade as your brother and sister?"

However, Mu Yun's eyes dimmed for a moment, because Mu Yun had never taken the initiative to mention it before, Li Shuci had never taken the initiative to ask about Mu Yun's escape from Great Xia, but now, a lead suddenly jumped out of a thousand threads, maybe it was a good time to find out the reason.

There were only three Qingge left in the room, and Li Shuci didn't ask, just sat there silently. Mu Yun bit her lower lip, red bloodshot oozed from her black and white eyes, and it took a long time before she picked out the half piece of jade tied with a red rope from her clothes around her neck, and hesitated to say: "This piece of jade is something I have brought on my body since I was a child, it should be my mother's thing, my eldest brother and I once pestered my mother to ask, but my mother only said that this piece of jade is very important, and told us not to appear in front of people at will." ”

"It's ...... After that incident, when my mother was dying, she couldn't speak clearly, and said to me with difficulty: If you meet that person in the future, take out this piece of jade, maybe you can save your life!"

"Who is that person?" Li Shuci frowned slightly.

"I don't know. My mother didn't say it, only the man. Mu Yun muttered as he gently rubbed his fingers against the half-piece of jade that was of high quality but ordinary carving.

"But even if the jade is put together, it is not a complete piece. Did your mother say that apart from you and your eldest brother, who will give the rest of this jade bib?"

Mu Yun shook his head, "No, she never mentioned it, and I only thought that the rest of it was lost, and I didn't ask about it in my heart." ”

"What your mother specially told you when she was dying must be ...... The crux of this bloodbath, or the cause. But she doesn't tell you who this person is, which means that she doesn't want you to find out what happened. Li Shuci habitually tapped the corner of the table with her index finger, "Moreover, she seems to know that there will be such a day." I want to use this jade to save the lives of your two brothers and sisters!"

"But I can't...... You can't just ignore the whole family and live in vain. Mu Yun's expression was low, and his knuckles turned white.

Qingge didn't expect Mu Yun to have such a blood feud, and he didn't know how to comfort her at this time, so he could only pat her on the shoulder to comfort her. "Isn't there any foreshadowing at all?"

"No, no warning. At least, in my eyes, it was calm and unremarkable before the accident. Mu Yun's eyes seemed to be a little confused, and his face was also pale: "My father Yi Fang used to be a traveling doctor many years ago, and after meeting my mother, the two of them found a small valley, and the peach blossoms around the valley are blooming, and there are many herbs, like a paradise. My father and mother were overjoyed, so they settled there and became their own son. My father was kind-hearted and often went to the surrounding villages to treat people's diseases, and gradually, people knew that there were famous traveling doctors in the valley and their skills were superb, so they all came to my father for treatment. ”

Mu Yun's face was full of nostalgia and memories for his hometown, "I clearly remember that day, the weather was fine, and the peach blossoms on the mountain were already blooming, which was a rare and beautiful spring day." My father was finally free, my mother and eldest brother, and I originally planned to go to the mountains to go to the mountains to pick spring together, but someone suddenly came to visit, so I had to reschedule the trip. My father ordered me and my eldest brother to copy medical books at home, but my eldest brother and I were already dissatisfied with the change plan, so we didn't listen to my father's words, but secretly ran out. ”

"Who is visiting?" asked Li Shuci, looking at the dim light and shadow under the lamp.

"Yes...... My dad had rescued a man from outside the valley, and he was badly wounded. I have been cultivating in my family for a while, so I am very familiar with him, he calls himself the fourth uncle, so my eldest brother and I call him the fourth uncle. Later, after the fourth uncle recovered from his injury, he stayed in Daxia for a long time. I went back and forth a few times, and my dad was also a good friend. ”

"On weekdays, my father is very strict with me and my eldest brother, but that day, knowing that my father didn't have time to care about us, he played outside until late, and only went back after climbing half the mountain......" Mu Yun's eyes reflected the bright candle flame, as if it was the same as the sky-high fire she saw that day, reflecting the sunset on the horizon, burning the entire valley red. "When my eldest brother and I went down the mountain, we walked halfway up the mountain, and saw the direction of the valley from a distance, and we felt that something was wrong, so we ran all the way down the mountain, and when we reached the mouth of the valley, my eldest brother and I were stunned...... The entire entrance was in flames, and the surrounding trees were charred black, and the road into the valley was completely blocked, and it was impossible to enter......"

Tears rolled down Mu Yun's eyes, and Qingge couldn't help but wipe them with a handkerchief frequently. Mu Yun looked ahead in a daze, his gaze passed through the finely decorated silver silk beast pattern tulle curtain in the room, and said, "My eldest brother and I were born here since we were children, and we often rack our brains in order to run out to play. So there is a very remote path that only my eldest brother and I know. We got into it from the side of the valley that the road detoured. Most of the houses in the valley have not yet been burned, but ...... All I could see was bloodied corpses all over the ground......"

"My eldest brother and I frantically rummaged through the corpses for traces of my father's mother, stained with blood all over our faces...... Finally, I saw my dad lying on the ground in the back garden, no longer breathing. My mother, on the other hand, was lying not far away, with several swords stabbed on her body and spitting blood from her mouth. I ran over and cried, and my mother breathed a sigh of relief, but only a faint breath remained...... Then, she said to me the words that saved my life......"

"The whole family, as well as the senior brothers, and the servants and women...... A total of thirty-five lives...... In one day, all of them died......" Mu Yun sat on a soft and warm brocade cushion, and the room was burning with Canaan incense that could relax and soothe people's spirits, but in such a warm and relaxing environment, her voice couldn't stop trembling, as if she was reliving the experience of that day, and her lips were like white flowers trembling in the wind, and the blood color faded.

At this time, it was already ten minutes, and outside the window, the heavy night was silent in the cold of winter. Li Shuci sighed: "The matter has come to this, if you have the heart to find out the truth, I will not stand idly by." ”

Mu Yun's gaze turned to Li Shuci, and his voice was still trembling: "Girl, I must find out the truth, I can't let my father and mother, I can't let these people ...... They all died in vain. ”

Li Shuci's gaze stayed on her sad face, and he asked with a condensed brow: "According to what you said, when you and Mu Shan went back, the murderer was no longer at the scene, and the corpses and sky-high flames were left all over the ground, but why was he hunted down and killed later?"

Mu Yun thought about it, and Shen Si floated back to that day, "At that time, when my mother finished saying that sentence to me, she was silent, and I was in great pain for a while, so I cried out ......"

"Was it the cry that alarmed the murderer?"

"It's not...... Just when I was holding my mother and crying bitterly, there was a sudden sharp laughter next to me, I jumped down, looked around, and didn't see anyone. Mu Yun subconsciously stroked his arm, as if the cold hairs that were startled by the laughter were still standing on root. Then I heard wings fluttering, and there was a laughing owl standing in the tree in the distance. ”

"Laughing owl?" asked the green pigeon, puzzled, "What is that?"

Li Shuci explained: "The laughing owl is what we usually call an owl. ”

"Ahh "Is it a mourning bird that can foresee the end of people's lives?"

The laughing owl is called the laughing owl by the common people because of its peculiar call, and it is like showing off and laughing loudly, so it is called the laughing owl by the common people, and it is also called the mourning bird. Legend has it that if someone in the family is terminally ill, the cry of the laughing owl will be heard in the dark at night, as eerie as a ghost, like a seduction judge. When you hear the cry of the laughing owl, you die.

"But I didn't know about this kind of bird at the time, and I had never seen it in Great Xia, so I was frightened and stunned, and at this time, my eldest brother came running and said that someone was coming. My feet were so weak that my eldest brother had to carry me on his back and run out of the path. But when they fled, they were still found, and those people chased them all the way to the Chongnan border. ”

"At that time, my eldest brother and I were so exhausted that we couldn't walk. They saw that I was a woman and beat my eldest brother half to death, and took me on a cargo ship to go overseas. Later, I met the girl in the Dabaoci Temple......"