Qi Feng complied with the previous agreement, and led five guards to the Qi family's old mansion at dusk, there were many houses in the old mansion, and the accommodation of a few people was naturally not a problem. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Yang Ning originally planned to let Qi Feng go to Jingzhou City, directly find Jiangling Taishou, and directly inquire about escorting the tax silver in the name of the prince of Jinyi, to see if Jingzhou City really sent soldiers to escort the tax silver, but it was getting late, so Qi Feng left early the next morning.

Although Qi Feng arrived on time, Qi Cheng did not return on time.

Gu Qinghan stayed in the account room until dusk, extremely tired, she looked through the taxes in the past three years, carefully checked, but did not find the slightest flaw.

Gu Qinghan knew that such a huge account could be done so meticulously, and it would never be completed in three or two months, otherwise it would never be flawless and without a trace of error, if these accounts were false, it would mean that since three years ago, the old mansion has begun to record two accounts, one true and one false.

She originally thought that Jiangling was the backyard of the Qi family, the place of foundation, and the old mansion was the most important thing, and there would never be any mistakes, but this time she found that the old mansion was much more complicated than she imagined.

If these accounts are true, then the tax silver has really been sent to the capital a month ago, but why didn't the Hou Mansion even see a tael of silver? The tax silver sent to the capital will not disappear out of thin air with wings, she wants to ask clearly, where the silver was sent, but Qi Cheng has been missing for a long time, and Xiao Cui, who is responsible for escorting the tax silver, also followed Qi Cheng to Jingzhou City, and if she can't see them, she naturally can't trace the source.

This time, I have been traveling day and night, and I haven't slept well last night, and I have been busy all day today, I am really tired, under the persuasion of Yang Ning, I will go back to the house first, and there are maids in the old house to serve and bathe, and Qi Cheng also brought the luggage over, and changed his own clothes.

Yang Ning was not in a hurry to rest, he was also full of doubts about what happened in the old mansion, and wanted to see how Qi Cheng would explain it after he came back.

After waiting for the middle of the night, I never saw Qi Cheng come back, and I vaguely felt that things were not simple.

The night is quiet, the autumn moon is like water, walking in the courtyard of the old house, unconsciously, I don't know if I did it subconsciously, when I looked up, I came to the path not far from the ghost courtyard, looked up, under the moonlight, the ghost courtyard was quiet and silent, but it was quite gloomy.

Yang Ning thought that it was not a good place either, turned around and walked for a short distance, stopped, and looked back again.

Wei Tong said that this courtyard was haunted before, Yang Ning naturally didn't believe it in his heart, but he was also strange, two people entered the courtyard one after another, and finally died inexplicably, was it really because they were scared to death by ghosts?

He was originally a very curious person, if Wei Dong and Gu Qinghan hadn't said that the ghost courtyard was as mysterious, he might not have cared, but both of them said that the courtyard was weird, don't get close, but this made him full of curiosity about the ghost courtyard.

He was originally a bold person, although he was a little furious when he looked at the gloomy ghost courtyard, but he vaguely felt that the courtyard that had forbidden anyone to enter since the old marquis began must be hiding a lot of secrets.

Wei Tong talked about the two people who died, it seems that they all sneaked into the courtyard after the sound of the flute, if the sound of the flute is really played by a lonely ghost, but there is no sound of the flute now, does it mean that the lonely ghost is not in the courtyard?

He pondered, but he had already turned around, and with a slight groan, he slowly approached the courtyard.

The autumn leaves are cold, the trees are shady, and the dead vines wrapped around the walls are like thousands of poisonous snakes entangled, Yang Ning walked to the door, swept a few glances by the moonlight, and then listened attentively, the courtyard was as silent as death, silent.

The courtyard wall is actually not very high, Yang Ning wants to climb over the courtyard wall, it is really a simple thing, only a slight hesitation, Yang Ning walked to the wall, looked around, and made sure that there was no one, so he grabbed the dead vines, climbed the wall very easily, squatted on the wall and looked down inside, only to see that the courtyard was not big, a lonely house in the middle, and the courtyard was full of vines.

Under the cold moon, the house looked unusually secluded, just like that, standing in the courtyard, a gust of wind blew, and Yang Ning also felt a little chill down his back.

He hesitated slightly, but finally gritted his teeth, pulled out the cold blade in his hand, jumped off the courtyard wall, and landed in the courtyard.

Walking slowly closer, I saw that the house had collapsed in many places, but the door was empty and in disrepair, and the door was already somewhat rotten.

He held the cold blade in his right hand, and gently pushed open the door with his left hand, the door made a "quack" sound, listening to the seepage, after pushing the door open, there was an old smell of mold and rot inside, rushing into the nostrils, it was very unpleasant, Yang Ning raised his hand and fanned the tip of his nose, and walked into the house lightly, only to see that there were three rooms in this room, two rooms on the left and right, and a fairly spacious hall in the middle.

In the hall, the furnishings are very simple, there is a table in the middle, there are two chairs on the side, and there is a screen shelf in the corner, but the screen has long been rotten, only the screen frame is still standing, and I don't know if the material of this table and chair is very good, and it is not rotten, but it has been covered with a layer of dust.

Yang Ning looked around, and walked lightly to the room on the left, the door was closed, but it was not locked, Yang Ning pushed it gently, and the door was pushed open.

The moonlight is projected in from the window, although it is night, the house is dim, but by the afterglow, you can vaguely see clearly, only to see that the wall of the house is facing the door, there is a small case, there seems to be something on the case, Yang Ning entered the house, looked inside, and saw that there was a wooden couch in the corner of the room, there was naturally no bedding on it, but the whole wooden couch was also very intact, and there was no decay.

Yang Ning's heart was very strange at this time.

According to Wei Dong, as early as a few decades ago, this courtyard has been closed, since then no one has come in, if what Wei Dong said is true, then decades, the objects in this house will never remain so intact, even if it is really the wood of the furniture is durable, but after entering the house, there is no cobweb.

He knew very well that Mo said that for decades, even if there was no one in the house for a few years, there must be cobwebs everywhere in a house like this, but whether it was in the hall or in this room, there was not a single cobweb, which was very abnormal.

I thought of the table I had just touched outside, and the desktop was indeed covered with a layer of dust, but according to Yang Ning's experience, if no one entered to clean it for decades, the dust on the desktop would definitely be a thick layer, but I only touched a layer of light ash, and according to the time estimate, it was only a few months since I cleaned it.

Could it be that there really is a ghost in this house? And the ghosts in the house clean the room themselves?

Or maybe Wei Dong is lying, there are actually people in this yard who come over occasionally to clean the dust?

The furnishings were simple, Yang Ning took a few steps forward, approached the table facing the door, only to find that it was a dresser, and immediately thought that Gu Qinghan had said that there seemed to be a woman dead in this courtyard before, and when he saw the dresser at this time, he knew that this house must have lived in this house before, the woman Gu Qinghan said.

He couldn't help but think of the image of a female ghost with long hair covering his face, his back was cold, he looked around, took a deep breath, looked carefully, and found that there was a dresser on the dresser, the box was covered, and it was not locked, he held the cold blade in his right hand, stretched out his left hand, and opened the dressing box.

I saw that the box was not empty, there was a rouge gouache box inside, a pair of earrings, and a bracelet, whether it was a bracelet or earrings, the style was quite exquisite, but at first glance it was made of copper, not valuable, Yang Ning thought to himself that the Qi family was a wealthy family in Jiangling, and could live in a separate yard, of course, this woman was not an ordinary maid and servant, and she still had some identity in the house, it stands to reason that even if there is no gold bracelet, at least there is a silver bracelet, but there is only a copper bracelet in the dressing box, It is very inconsistent with the status of the Qi family.

The rouge gouache had dried up and condensed into lumps, and there was nothing else.

Yang Ning gently covered the dressing box, and found that there was a drawer in the middle of the dresser, which was opened gently, and there were only two things in it, one was a copper mirror that could be held in his hand, and the other was wrapped in black silk, slender and long.

He picked up the thing wrapped in silk, looked very carefully at the package, it should be a very precious thing, and untied the silk, and the thing inside was revealed.

Yang Ning's face immediately showed surprise.

Xiao!

The black silk wrapped it was actually a long flute.

In an instant, Yang Ning thought of Wei Tong saying that there would be a flute sound in this courtyard every year, could it be that the sound of the flute was made by this long flute?

This flute is beautifully made, and although it looks very old, it is clean and not stained with a trace of dust.

"It's a human ......!" Yang Ning whispered to himself, at this moment he seemed to understand something, in his opinion, the so-called haunting is nothing more than because this courtyard has died before, and then it has been forbidden to enter, for a long time, no one will inevitably look cold and gloomy, once everything becomes mysterious, it will naturally cause a lot of conjectures.

He believed that it was not possible for a ghost to play the flute, but that someone would come here every year to not only play the flute, but also to clean the house.

A yard that is deserted all year round, and the sound of the flute rings from time to time, it is no wonder that people will mistake it for a ghost.

After all, when the two people climbed over the wall and stole in, they all ran into the sound of the flute, and the person who played the flute happened to be here at that time.

Yang Ning frowned, if his guess was not wrong, and what appeared in this house was a person and not a ghost, then a person who came to this yard for decades without stopping, cleaned the house, and gave for several nights in a row, and even someone broke in and killed him, where is this person sacred?

What kind of relationship does he have with the Jinyi Hou Qi family?