Chapter 7: The Mysterious Palace

It was pitch black all around, and it was hard to see the path. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Yin Tiancheng subconsciously touched into his arms, but did not find the candle given to him by the woman in white. Just as he was anxious, a light lit up in the distance. If there is light, there will be a home, and Yin Tiancheng feels that he is not alone.

The light moved slowly forward in the distance, and it seemed to be the light of a lantern in the hand of a nocturnal walker.

"Hey, wait!" Yin Tiancheng shouted loudly towards the light, thinking that as long as there is a light, it means that this is not a wilderness, and if I find him, I will not get lost in the night, so he quickly ran towards the place of light.

The light grew closer and closer to him, and it didn't stop moving until it was beside him. At this time, Yin Tiancheng saw the source of the light clearly, and couldn't help but smile bitterly. It turned out that this was the light emitted by the body of an animal, and it was not at all the light that I had guessed before.

The little animal deftly climbed onto his body, Yin Tiancheng gently held it in his hand, and under the moonlight, Yin Tiancheng saw its appearance clearly. It is an animal the size of a cat, the body is shaped like a horse, but the patterns on its body are like tabby, and the golden fur exudes a warm light, Yin Tiancheng holds it in his arms, like holding a warm pot.

It licked Yin Tiancheng's face repeatedly with its tongue, giving him an indescribable sense of comfort. After a while, it easily broke free from Yin Tiancheng's arms and ran forward, ran a foot away, and then stopped and looked back at Yin Tiancheng.

"Do you want me to come with you?" The critter nodded.

It turns out that there are only spiritual animals! Yin Tiancheng was secretly happy and hurriedly followed it. The little animal jumped up and down to lead the way in front, and after walking less than half a pillar of incense, it turned a big bend, and a bluestone paved road appeared in front of Yin Tiancheng's eyes. Judging from the texture and wear of the stone slabs, it should be an ancient road with a long history.

There was a sound of frogs not far away, Yin Tiancheng walked along the road for dozens of feet, turned another corner, and saw a piece of light suddenly flashing in front of him, and the light came from a magnificent mansion. Although this mansion is far away and cannot be seen really, it does not give people the feeling that it is an ordinary family's village.

"Look at this style, it should be a prince's mansion." Yin Tiancheng thought to himself and slowed down. The little animal turned around and bit his hakama with its mouth, urging him to go.

With a "crunch", Yin Tiancheng saw that the door of the mansion was opened, but no one came out to greet him, and the little animal got in with it and never appeared again.

Did someone already know that I was going to be here, and that you were a little creature to guide me? Yin Tiancheng thought to himself: I can't care so much, it's getting late, I'd better go in and ask for a convenient place to spend the night, and then return to the yamen tomorrow morning. Maybe the owner of the house is still an acquaintance of mine, and he just happened to talk about wine.

Yin Tiancheng came to the door and looked up at the plaque above, but there was no inscription on it, he had traveled south and north for several years, and it was the first time he met a mansion without a name.

"Anyone? In the lower capital, Yin Tiancheng asked to see the lord of the mansion, and reported the trouble. No one came out to meet him for a long time, only the sound of the howling wind accompanied him.

Yin Tiancheng had no choice but to walk into the door alone, there was another "crunch", the door was immediately closed, the courtyard was silent, terrifyingly quiet, the frog chirping that he heard just now also disappeared, the air was as heavy as ice, he couldn't detect the flow of the wind, and he couldn't even hear his own heartbeat. At this time, Yin Tiancheng found that the light came from the wing room in the north of the courtyard, so he asked again: "Is there anyone in the courtyard?" ”

"Bang!" An unknown object fell from the sky and smashed straight towards Yin Tiancheng, Yin Tiancheng hurriedly jumped away, and the long sword was quickly held in his hand. When he came back to his senses to check the direction of the attack, he couldn't help but laugh at his panic, which was nothing more than a brick falling from the roof.

"Yin Gongzi, you're finally here." A coquettish female voice suddenly sounded behind Yin Tiancheng, startling him.

Yin Tiancheng looked back when he heard the sound, but he almost crashed into a woman's arms.

"Did the concubine scare you?"

"No, I rushed into the door in the lower Tang Dynasty, and I hope the girl will forgive me." Yin Tiancheng made a salute while peeking at the woman who suddenly appeared in front of him.

This look is not tight, a few more glances, Yin Tiancheng's gaze can no longer be taken off her face. Yin Tian has traveled the rivers and lakes and read countless people for many years, but in front of this woman, he also feels that it is difficult to resist her beauty like a shy flower in the closed moon.

I saw that she was dressed in a long-sleeved red dress, her face was like condensation, her eyes were like paint, and although her long black hair covered half of her jade face, she could still feel her amazing and peerless face. Every inadvertent move made Yin Tiancheng feel his heart beat faster.

The woman in red smiled when she saw Yin Tiancheng's daze and said, "What, am I a monster?" Presumably, she was very confident in her beauty, and she was used to seeing this kind of scene for a long time.

"Girl, you look like a fairy, how can you be a monster, Yin's gaffe makes you laugh." Yin Tiancheng lowered his head and didn't dare to look directly, feeling a fever in his cheeks.

A strange fragrance wafted over the woman, and Yin Tiancheng was in good spirits and immediately regained his senses.

"Girl, I don't know you, how do you know my name?" Yin Tiancheng pretended to ask as if nothing had happened, but his hand secretly posed a sword pose, and he didn't dare to be negligent in the slightest.

Because this fragrance is exactly the same as the aroma of the red powder sprinkled by the murderer of Liaodong's own soldiers, and this red powder has also been found on the bodies of many victims in Yin Tiancheng's unsolved case some time ago. When he smelled the fragrance again, he had to be wary.

"Actually, it's the first time I've seen Gongzi, but the emperor admires you very much and often praises you in front of me. I also painted a portrait of you, and asked me to be here today to welcome you, so I learned your name. The woman in red's voice was beautiful.

What the? Who would have known that I was coming here, and that he could not be a prophet? Before Yin Tiancheng could ask a question, he saw the breeze blowing away the woman's hair, and her whole pretty face completely appeared in front of Yin Tiancheng.

But Yin Tiancheng will no longer be fooled by her beauty, because he is aware of a terrible fact, that is, there is no wind in the courtyard at all! How can her long hair flutter in the wind? This is so abnormal, Yin Tiancheng felt as if he had come to a closed morgue, and there was a mysterious aura everywhere.

"Excuse me, girl, what is this place?" Yin Tiancheng asked, although his expression was calm, he felt that there was an unknown danger in the darkness gradually approaching him.

"The concubine knows that the son has a lot of questions in his heart, but tonight is too late, and the son must be tired, so it is better to rest in the house for a night, and I will come again tomorrow to solve the confusion in your heart, I don't know what the son wants?" The woman in red still looked nonchalant.

Whether it's a blessing or a curse or a curse, I can't avoid it, and now I have to listen to her arrangement. Yin Tiancheng said: "Then there is Miss Lao." ”

As soon as Yin Tiancheng finished speaking, the door of one of the wings in the long room in the row on the left opened, and candlelight lit up in the room.

"Young Master Yin, please come into the room and rest." She gently held Yin Tiancheng's hand, and there was no suspicion of men and women at all.

The hands were as soft as cotton, as if they had no bones. Yin Tiancheng felt her jade hand slowly sliding upward, turning into a dark green rattan that wrapped around his arm, and a huge pain followed followed by a huge pain that penetrated into the depths of his heart along the palm of his hand.

"Ahh Yin Tiancheng screamed in pain, and the sword in his right hand was also instinctively swung up, ready to cut off this demonic rattan.

"Childe, what's wrong with you?"

In an instant, the hallucination in Yin Tiancheng's eyes had disappeared, and the woman's hand was just gently holding his left finger.

"It's fine." Yin Tiancheng was shocked into a cold sweat.

Walking into the room, the room is full of expensive furnishings, the bookcase in the right corner is full of books, and the walls are full of calligraphy and paintings.

After the woman in red made the quilt for him, she withdrew. I didn't see her close the door with both hands, and the door closed automatically.

The quilt pillow was obviously brand new, and the fragrance emanating from it was almost exactly the same as that emanating from the woman in red. Yin Tiancheng sat at the table, looking at everything in the room and fell into deep thought.

At this time, he heard the singing voice of the woman in red outside the door: "Flowers have no leaves, and the soul of a thousand years dreams is crying." Love and hate, three lives are reckless. The melody is bleak and a little confused, like a piece of music from the Netherworld. Yin Tiancheng hurriedly walked to the door, looked out through the crack in the door, and saw the woman in red stretching her long skirt in the middle of the courtyard and dancing a strange dance that Yin Tiancheng had never seen before. I saw her move her steps lightly, her long sleeves wrapped around her body, and her dancing posture looked extremely graceful against the cold moonlight.

At the end of the song, the aftermath lingered, and just when Yin Tiancheng hesitated in his heart, the woman in red had quietly disappeared.

The pottery lamp in front of the table went out silently, and there was a dead silence in the room, just as he felt when he first entered the palace. Yin Tiancheng estimated that there would be no more ghosts, so he slept on the bed.

The little animal that guided Yin Tiancheng quietly jumped down from the eaves, curled up at the head of the bed, and fell asleep.