The sunlight stumbled into the alley, stretched forward a foot or so, and was swallowed up by the darkness, leaving shadows that spread along the mossy corners, and on the side, dug a gutter, in which there was no water, and a lot of filth remained, and it gave off a foul smell.

Xu Xinyan carried the medicine box and walked into the alley.

After shaking off the sunlight from his body, he stepped into the shade.

On his pale face, his eyes seemed to hide a gloomy fire, and when he was alone, he was like that.

As he walked forward, under the high courtyard walls, he walked through a few small wooden doors.

Behind the courtyard wall of the alley is the people's house, this wooden door is the back door opened by those people, and when it is opened, there are not too many, and only when the person who pours the night incense appears, the wooden door will be opened and the filth will be transported out.

Xu Xinyan came to the end of the alley, which was also a small wooden door, most of those wooden doors were painted with various colors of lacquer, but this wooden door had nothing and remained original.

Taking a deep breath, Xu Xinyan stood in front of the door.

Then, a smile bloomed on his face, and the gloomy fire in his eyes suddenly dissipated, replaced by a warm spring light.

"Knock Knock Knock ......"

The knock on the door reverberated rhythmically through the alley, three times in a row, pausing for a moment, and continuing three times.

After a while, there was the sound of hurried footsteps coming from the back of the courtyard, and soon, the wooden door was opened with a bang, revealing a small bald head behind the door, and a ray of sunlight fell on his round light head, and a golden halo appeared.

"Brother Xu, you're finally here......"

Scar Six saw Xu Xinyan, and the panic on his face decreased slightly.

"Brother Xu, help!"

He couldn't help but raise his voice.

There were a few birds parked on the courtyard wall, and the sound of the door opening before startled a few of them, and with the shout of Scar Six, the last bird with beautiful feathers that had been parked at the head of the wall also rose into the air, and disappeared behind a high wall with its previous companions.

"Scar, don't panic, after entering the house, talk slowly......"

Xu Xinyan had a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, and he looked light.

Seeing Xu Xinyan smiling like this, Scar Six's hesitant heart suddenly settled down, he raised his right hand and touched his bald head, rubbing it back and forth, tilting his head, and smiling embarrassedly.

After entering the house, Scar Six closes the door.

When he closed the door, Xu Xinyan looked around and asked softly.

"What about Yang Erlang?"

"He's sharpening his knives ......"

Scar Six smiled bitterly and whispered.

"Sharpening knives?"

Xu Xinyan replied casually.

"He wants to kill the little marquis......"

Scar's voice was lowered.

"Oh......"

Xu Xinyan responded, smiled, and looked around.

This is the backyard of a house, a deserted backyard, the courtyard is full of fallen leaves, even at this time, there are some dead trees, bare trunks, not at all life.

It's an abandoned house.

Chang'an City is not easy to live in, why is there an abandoned house?

This originally belonged to the official residence, the house of the government, some foreign officials came to Chang'an City to take up their posts, dragged their children and daughters, and their pockets were empty, not only could not afford to buy a house, but even rented a house was difficult. At this time, their welfare will also come, and the yamen will issue them with a residence, that is, a small courtyard like this, if the level is very high, the mansion will also be arranged in the imperial city, and the large courtyard with several entrances in front and back, if the level is not high, they will also live in a small courtyard like this.

There is also a difference.

Some officials can move in without spending a penny; Some need to pay a symbolic amount of rent, which will be deducted from the squad, and there is also a special housing fund in the slu.

During the tenure of the officials, the houses were used by them, and once they left the capital to serve in other places, the official residence had to be returned to the yamen.

Of course, there are so many officials, many of them do not have houses, and it is impossible for them all to live in the imperial city, and even Chang'an City does not have such an official residence allocated to them, so some of them are also arranged outside the city.

Yamen also has a number of residences in Wannian County.

After all, they can't live in the city, they can only live outside the city, and they have to wait for the Chang'an city gate to open before they can go in, and after that, they must go out of the city before the city gate is closed, if there is an emergency, they can't go out of the city before the city gate is closed, and they can only find a place to live temporarily in the city.

In short, extremely inconvenient.

Even so, to have a house like this is still the desire of many low-level officials.

Why is this house empty?

It's a long story.

Since the time of the Queen of Heaven, there has been no good ending for the officials who live here.

The first unlucky was an official surnamed Wu, who may have read the scriptures and read stupidly, full of loyalty, filial piety, and righteousness, and pushed his son off the dragon chair after the day, and sat on it in a grand manner.

Familiarizing oneself with the books of the sages is nothing more than righteousness.

For the sake of righteousness in your heart, what's the harm in throwing your head and spilling your blood!

The official surnamed Wu is usually inarticulate and taciturn, only likes the righteousness of scriptures and indulges in the sea of books.

He rushed to the main hall, but he couldn't say many words, just scolded the queen of heaven for being ashamed of the emperor, Si Chen.

At that time, the power of the Du royal family was still very strong, and the rule of the Queen of Heaven was not stable, and in the face of this situation, there was only one thing the Queen of Heaven could do, and that was to kill! Kill a chicken and dog without staying, kill one and destroy all the doors!

The official surnamed Wu was wiped out, and it is said that the small courtyard was full of blood at that time, and the atmosphere was gloomy.

It was a long time before officials moved in.

The official moved in and everything did not go well, no matter how trembling, but always made mistakes, promotion and salary increase without him, back to the blame was scolded but caught up, after three or four years, on the way to work, when on the bridge in Tianjin, there was a frightened war horse galloping, the frightened war horse was quickly stopped by its owner, but in order to avoid the frightened horse, panicked fell into the Wei River, since then, life and death do not know.

Since then, none of the officials who lived in this compound have either died in accidents or have been beheaded if they make mistakes.

Over time, some people said that the official surnamed Wu died too unjustly, after all, there was still an infant baby who died in the courtyard, and the family was too angry, so they had to ask the master to do it.

Well, it was true that I invited a master later.

However, it was useless, the officials who moved in were just as unlucky, three years, and no one could survive three years.

In this way, ten years ago, no official dared to move into this small courtyard, even if the Wannian County Government rented out this house at a low price, no one dared to come, here, it is also the legendary Chang'an City Ten Horror Places, although, in fact, it is located in Wannian County.

Yang Nan Yang Erlang, the son of Bo, the owner of Jingzhao Yin's household, has a younger brother's father who is a clerk of the county government of Wannian County, and happens to manage the real estate affairs, so he has the key to this abandoned house.

This famous haunted mansion, even if the door is open, no one dares to enter.

Only young and vigorous guys like Yang Erlang and Scar Six don't care about this.

The haunted mansion has become their secret base, and any secret things are decided here.

Xu Xinyan walked into the house, the roof had already broken a big hole, the sunlight fell, forming a pillar of light, and the dust flew in the pillar of light like a small insect.

Yang Nan tied his long hair behind his head and tied a ponytail, at this moment, he was naked, vigorously touching a short knife on the whetstone, his eyes were bloodshot, his face was angry, he gritted his teeth, and sharpened the blade back and forth.

Xu Xinyan put down the medicine box and gently patted the shoulder of the scar next to him.

Then, he took out a Go game from his bosom, clasped it in the palm of his hand, and popped it violently.

"Whew......"

A soft whistling.

Go broke through the air and flew towards Yang Nan, who was sharpening his knife.

Yang Nan snorted coldly, suddenly turned sideways, waved the hand holding the knife, and with a flash of cold light, he split the oncoming wooden stick in half, and then, in such a pose, he shook the ponytail behind his head.

"Yang Erlang, not bad......"

Xu Xinyan said with a smile.

Yang Nan also smiled, a little shy.

After a while, the three of them sat down beside a stone platform, on which were placed several dishes, on which were some cooked food, and a jar of wine, which was now open, and the smell of wine was fragrant.

Yang Nan and Scar Six are both good drinkers, but Xu Xinyan doesn't drink at all.

"Bang!"

Scar Six drank all the wine in his hand, dropped the wine bowl, wiped the wine from the corner of his mouth, and said angrily.

"Little Hou Ye is too much this time! This is obviously for me and Yang Er to die, and for our brothers to die......"

The surname of the little Hou Ye in Scar Liu's words is Fan Wuji, not the real Xiao Hou Ye, Xiao Hou Ye is his nickname, but his background is not worse than those Hou Ye.

His uncle was the commander of the Divine Guard.

The Shence Army is the Tang Dynasty Forbidden Army stationed in Chang'an and Ba, divided into twelve guards, each guard has 5,000 people, is the central army of the Tang Empire, now, seven of them are in the hands of eunuchs, two guards are in the hands of the Guo family, and the commanders of the remaining three guards have other factions.

At the beginning, Guo Linggong was relieved and returned to the field.

The Du royal family was still at ease with him, after all, the Guo family's power in the army had not disappeared, and in order to suppress the Guo family, Xuanzong at that time also vigorously promoted the eunuchs around him, and the eunuchs would control the military power. After all, for the emperor, eunuchs are domestic slaves, and they have no children and grandchildren, so it is impossible to inherit the family business.

As for what the history books say, the inner servants are causing trouble in the court, and Tai'a is upside down, which is a history book written by literati.

There has never been a eunuch usurping the throne, and there are many rebellious ministers and thieves.

Therefore, from the Xuanzong Dynasty and the current Yingzong, in the past twenty or thirty years, the power of eunuchs has become stronger and stronger, especially after the appearance of that one, the power of eunuchs has reached its peak.

Fan Wuji's uncle Fan Tong is a eunuch, and the chief eunuch of the same level as the Beacon City, his power is not much compared with the Beacon City.

Fan Wuji is Fan Tong's nephew, after Fan Tong made his career, he passed to Fan Tong at the age of ten, which is his son.

With such a backer, Fan Wuji naturally acts like his name, rampant.