The night is deep, and the candlelight of the small building is not extinguished. In front of the wooden bed, the residual candle swayed slightly, and the iron bull who was facing the candle flame hurriedly got up and closed the window, and when he came back, he still sat down, holding his crying face with both hands, and looked at the person on the bed silently. On the moon on the green building, thousands of homes are silent, I heard someone sighing lightly outside the door, but it is the golden old man who is facing the moon at the railing, the mountains in the distance are dark, and a few tired birds are faint. On the stone steps at the entrance downstairs, Zhou Xueke sat alone, hugged her knees, buried half of her face, and the sadness on her face did not disappear. The quiet bluestone long street has been unmanned for a long time, and the silence is a little too much, only the backyard stable, and a few neighing horses are heard from time to time.

"I don't know where Brother Zhou went." Zhou Xueke hugged her knees and said to herself, a bird flew by in the sky, and she raised her eyes to look. "I don't know if Miss Muxin will wake up." Thinking like this, the eye lost its focus, and lost the shadow of the bird.

The bird swept past the green building and flew straight out of the city, but the darkness that was the same color was suddenly cut off by a light in the forest outside the city. It was a lit torch. The bird stirred its wings twice, and when it fell, one of them reached out and took it, and went up from the bird's leg to a small wooden tube and let the bird go down again. Holding the small wooden tube in both hands, he squeezed through the crowd, came to the middle, and handed it to a young man.

"It's from the last place." The man opened the mud, but it was Pei Guangyi's voice. I saw Pei Guangyi take the small note in it, read it silently, and then reached out and threw it into the brazier on the side and burned it. "I'll ask you." Pei Guangyi's eyes were like lightning, and he looked at a middle-aged man on the side: "Has Youjike been active in the Jiangnan area recently?" ”

"Not really." The man said: "The ghost is haunted, we haven't seen him a few times throughout the year, and we haven't received any news from him. After a pause, he said, "Why did you suddenly ask him?" ”

"You don't have to ask about that." Pei Guangyi said: "Then let me ask you again, can our killers kill people here today?" ”

"Not yet." The man said, "Our brothers have been preparing for food and grass lately. Didn't get an order to kill someone? How? Could it be that someone around Brother Pei has suffered a disaster? ”

"You don't have to ask." Pei Guangyi shook his head and said, "Is there any news about Qianmo recently?" ”

"Nope." The man shook his head again and said, "Since Brother Pei came here, I have been sending people to find news of Qianmo. Our Chengjian Gate has a lot of eyeliner here, and if Miss Qianmo really comes here, I will definitely receive the news here. Now that I've been looking for so long, I haven't seen it, I'm afraid that the news from Brother Pei is not very accurate, right? Or maybe it was a temporary idea of the Qianmo girl, and it is unknown if she went to other places? ”

"I've thought about this too." Pei Guangyi said: "We came to Jiangnan, one is to look for Miss Qianmo, and then we are to urge you, the big thing is about to start, at this time, you must not be careless, you must know that although we have our eyes in the court, no one can guarantee that there will be no one among our brothers." In short, you must be extremely cautious at all times. ”

"We know that." The man nodded and said: "When the time comes, the beacon fire in Chang'an will be together, and our brothers from all over the country will hear the wind, and when the time comes, the inside and the outside will join forces and turn him upside down." ”

"Exactly." Pei Guangyi nodded, and said to the dozens of brothers below: "Brothers, bear the burden of humiliation, and if you know how to build the prince's underground, you will definitely be moved by you." ”

Everyone cheered with their hands and poured wine one after another, Pei Guangyi saw the crowd jubilant, and quietly pulled the person to the side and asked, "I have something to ask you." How much do you know about that ghostly guest? ”

"Brother Pei, you're joking." The man said: "The ghost hero was introduced to us by Uncle Luo. If we do, how do we know more than you do? The so-called knowing is just listening to what Uncle Luo said. It is said that Uncle Luo, who took the initiative to find the prince back then, said that he was an old friend of Prince Jiancheng, and he couldn't bear to see Prince Jiancheng die in Xuanwumen, so he wanted to join us and avenge Prince Jiancheng. Uncle Luo didn't want to believe him, but when he told him to kill someone, he did exactly that. Although he wears black clothes and hats all year round, and his behavior and speech are a little strange, there are no other problems. After a long time, they accepted him. And then because he helped get rid of some of our hot enemies, everyone trusted him even more. That's all we know, nothing else."

"I see." Pei Guangyi frowned slightly and fell into deep thought. When the man saw that he was no longer silent, he said no more, and withdrew alone.

"It's not a secluded guest..."Pei Guangyi muttered to himself, "Then who could it be?" ”

Chang'an Dou Mansion. A group of workers were sitting around on the bed in the next room, whispering.

"What's going on?" A worker frowned and said: "I came to Dou Mansion with my eldest brother in my township, and there were a total of five people who came with me at that time, why are there only two people left now?" When I asked the steward what was going on, the steward always said that someone in their family was sick and wanted to come home to visit. How could it be so coincidental? How many people have patients at home? Is this a plague? Or is it a pre-appointment? ”

"I'm wondering, too." Another worker shook his head and said: "Brother Shi and I followed Brother Zhuang into the Dou Mansion at that time, and suddenly the stone disappeared half a month ago, and asked Miss Ying, saying that the old mother of the family was sick and asked him to go home to take care of it." I didn't care at the time. Who doesn't get sick? But a few days ago, my mother-in-law came to see me, and I casually asked how his old lady was sick. Guess what my mother-in-law said? What did my mother-in-law say? When my mother-in-law came, she asked my mother-in-law to ask me about the news of the stone. Didn't you say that Miss Ying said that the stone came home? What's going on here? I haven't figured this out yet, and Big Brother is gone. You say that a big living person, where can he go? ”

"When you say that, I suddenly remember a strange thing." A thin old man on the side leaned over and said, "A few days ago, I got up in the middle of the night to relieve my hands, and I don't know if I was in a daze or what's wrong, but I walked out of the yard by feeling the way." I found a wall to solve it, and was about to get up, but I saw a long-haired woman, holding an object, munching on it. How I see that as a person. At that time, I was so scared that I didn't dare to move when I squatted in the grass. As a result, I fell asleep on the ground until dawn. ”

"I said I woke up that morning to see why I couldn't see you, you were the last one before." Hearing this thin man say this, a person on the side interjected: "You said that this Dou Mansion can't be haunted, right?" Didn't you notice? The overseers all looked nervous as we worked. Could it be that there is a cemetery under our garden? ”

"Don't scare people!" A timid person on the side listened to him say this: "Think blindly all day long, work hard, and leave quickly when the money is settled at the end of the month." Slept and slept. So saying, he blew out the lamp, and fell asleep under the covers.

"You coward." The crowd laughed and laughed, and when they saw that the oil lamps had been extinguished, they all dispersed.

There was a miserable cry in the inner house, and the maid outside the door had long been accustomed to it, and she smelled nothing. In the room, the struggling limbs gradually stopped weakly, and on the neck, two rows of blood-stained teeth suddenly lifted up, and two ghostly lights were seen shining out.