After the song was played, Wang Yuan applauded and praised: "This is Lan Xinhui, I actually let her pull grass and cut trees in the house, it's really a sin." ”

Lan Xinhui covered her mouth and chuckled: "Childe is too famous, but it is Childe's talent that makes the slave amazing, I heard that there are songs like this, Childe has composed a lot, if you have time, can Childe allow slaves to record and sort them out one by one." ”

Wang Yuan nodded and said, "Of course you can, if you have time in the future, I will come to you to talk to you, you just don't refuse me to leave the door." ”

Lan Xinhui's face turned red, and she couldn't hide the excitement in her eyes and said, "I can't ask for it." ”

Wang Yuan got up with a smile and said, "That's good, it's late, I won't disturb your rest, and I'll leave." ”

A trace of disappointment flashed in Lan Xinhui's eyes, and she blurted out, "Is the son leaving?" After saying that, he was shocked that something was wrong, and hurriedly lowered his head.

Wang Yuan knew it in his heart, and he could see that Lan Xinhui did have a love for him, but it was difficult to say whether it was the kind of love between men and women. However, Wang Yuan also felt very good about her, and wanted to find some reason to stay. Thinking about something, he took out a piece of paper from his bosom and spoke.

"I have a puzzle here, and I can't figure it out. Miss Lan is very smart, can you help me take a look. ”

Lan Xinhui raised her head, took the piece of paper handed over by Wang Yuan, looked at it carefully, and thought for a while: "What kind of puzzle is this?" ”

Wang Yuan didn't hide it, he told the origin of this puzzle and the origin of this house, and finally said with a smile: "Maybe Miss Lan will laugh at me like my cousin and Twelve Niang, and I don't have much hope, but I feel that if I don't solve this problem, it will be like a stalk in the throat and very unhappy." I can't go to irrelevant idlers to solve problems. Otherwise, if this secret leaks out, whether it's true or not, we won't have a peaceful life. ”

Lan Xinhui's eyes widened, and she said in surprise: "It turns out that those people who work are all descendants of your five families?" I think I was a servant bought by my son, and I wonder why you tied their hands and feet with chains. ”

Wang Yuan smiled and said, "Do you still blame me for being cruel?" You don't know how many innocent people these people killed in order to keep secrets, and when they cleaned up the surrounding barren grassland, they cleaned up dozens of bones, all of which were caused by them. ”

Lan Xinhui nodded and said, "These people deserve it. Childe did the right thing, these people should be punished, Childe didn't kill them, it's already very gracious. ”

Wang Yuan pointed to the paper and said: "Don't talk about these people, this secret word is the clue that the five guards and even their descendants have been looking for here, but you also know that they almost turned the house upside down, and they didn't find it." I have some suspicions that Liu Wenjing is making a mistake. ”

Lan Xinhui frowned slightly, stared at the few words on the paper for a long time, and said, "I don't have a clue either." But these words are all from the Book of Songs, which is a bit strange. ”

Wang Yuan's mind flashed and said, "Is it all from the Book of Songs?" I only remember that the last sentence is a sentence in the opening chapter of the Book of Songs, "Guan Ju", but I don't remember the other sentences. I have read the Book of Psalms, but who will remember the whole book? ”

Lan Xinhui nodded and said: "Yes, there are not classics in the Book of Poetry, if I am not in the ...... When you are in the Autumn Moon Pavilion, you must memorize these words in case the customer sings the tune, and you will not know that these are all sentences from the Book of Songs. ”

Wang Yuan understands that in the Qingguan, color art is the two major costs of eating. Selling one's body is naturally a means of flattery, and a Qing hall like Lan Xinhui relies on skills, and the voice of the instrument is familiar with ancient and modern tunes and lyrics, and the guests need to listen to what they can come immediately, and they must have a standard. It can be seen that in the industry of Qingguan, if you want to become a popular top brand, you have to pay extraordinary efforts behind it. It is not comparable to the coarse meat sellers of later generations who have a thigh and a lot of money. Thinking that Lan Xinhui became the chief prostitute of the Qiuyue Pavilion, and even ranked number one in Pingkangfang, it must have taken a lot of hard work.

"Tell me about the sources of these sentences, and I'll see if I can get some inspiration."

"Okay." Lan Xinhui picked up the pen, took a piece of paper, dipped it in ink to write, and explained softly in her mouth: "'The son of Zizhong, the son of the son, the son of the son, the son of the east gate, the title of the poem. 'The moon rises brightly, the best people are shining' is also a song by Chen Feng, called "Moonrise". 'The spiritual rain is zero, and the other is the one who lives. It is a poem in the wind, called "The Prescription of Determination". 'Go down to the spring, soak the bud. It is a sentence from "The Lower Spring". And the last two sentences: 'Guan Guan Ju Dove, in the River Island. As Gongzi said, it is a famous sentence in the opening chapter of the Book of Poetry. ”

Lan Xinhui wrote the source of the poem word by word on the paper, and some even wrote a few lines of poetry in the back, Wang Yuan frowned intently and looked at the handwriting on the paper, his brain was churning, and he was thinking quickly.

"The Hammer of the East Gate...... What is a fig? ”

"That's a kind of tree, a kind of tree that my people in the Tang Dynasty call white elm."

Wang Yuan suddenly shouted: "I seem to have found some clues, the East Gate Hammer, isn't this pointing to the direction and location?" Does the east gate point to the east side of this house, and isn't there a hill on the east side? There are many trees growing on them, and if there is a white elm there, isn't that the place to which this sentence refers? ”

Lan Xinhui looked at Wang Yuan in surprise and nodded, "It seems to be ...... What Childe said seems to have some sense. ”

Wang Yuan pulled Lan Xinhui up and said, "Let's go, let's go and see if there is a white elm tree on the east side of the house." ”

Lan Xinhui was stunned and said, "Now? ”

Wang Yuan said excitedly: "Even now, now that I have a clue, I don't want to see how to sleep peacefully, but it's a pity that I don't know the white elm tree, otherwise I wouldn't work for you." Put on our jackets, let's go quietly, don't alarm them. ”

Lan Xinhui nodded and said, "Okay, the slave will accompany the son to take a look." ”

The two quietly went out of the back house, and when it was nearly two watches, everyone in the family was already asleep, and there was silence in all directions. The two men went out through the gate and came to the wasteland on the east side of the house.

Although the long grass around the house has been removed, the hard grass piles still make a sound when stepped on. The sound of an unknown animal chewing something in the darkness was small, but the creaking was still creepy.

Lan Xinhui's body trembled a little, and her breathing was a little short. Wang Yuan knew that she was afraid, reached out to hold her little hand, and said in a low voice: "Don't be afraid, that's the sound of gophers chewing grass roots." In a few days, let Saburo catch a few cats and keep them here, and drive them all away. ”

Lan Xinhui nodded nervously, held Wang Yuan's warm palm tightly, and followed Wang Yuan along the path to the small hill to the east.

The longer you stay in the dark, the more your eyes adjust to the gloomy sky, and on the night of the first month, there is no new moon, but the sky is full of stars. With the help of the light of the stars, you can see the outline of the surrounding terrain almost clearly.

There is a large mound hundreds of steps to the east of the house, and after buying this house, Wang Yuan planned to cut down all the trees on the mound, because when the wind blows through the mound at night, it will always make the groves on the mound whine, which sounds a little uncomfortable.

But later, Wang Yuan gave up this idea, because there were many lonely graves standing in the forest of this mound, and once the trees were cut down, these lonely graves were exposed, which made them even more terrifying. Wang Yuan thought that one day in the future, he would find a way to enclose this mound with a wall, or remove all the graves above, and then he would have a good time tidying up. However, there is no time for the current financial resources and energy to take care of it.

But Wang Yuan remembered that most of the trees on the hill were pine trees, and as for what kind of white elm tree it was, Wang Yuan didn't know anything about it, so he had to take Lan Xinhui with him to identify it, otherwise, Wang Yuan would never let Lan Xinhui follow and be afraid.

Wang Yuan naturally wanted to go over and ask Gongsun Lan to accompany him, or wait for Li Xin'er to come back and explore together, but when he thought of the two of them sneering at their attitude towards studying this treasure and ridiculing their attitude of being obsessed with money, Wang Yuan was not in the mood to let them accompany him.

The two of them came to the bottom of the hill with one foot deep and one foot shallow. Naturally, the wild grass and thorns here have not been removed. Because this place is nearly two hundred steps away from his house, it no longer belongs to the scope of the homestead he bought. On the other side of the mound is hundreds of steps away is the east wall of Jing'an Fang. In a square, if the corner of the place is uninhabited, it is often an abandoned place, and it is inaccessible. What's more, there is a mound of mass graves here, and it is adjacent to Liu's house, which has been haunting ghosts for more than a hundred years.

"Ahh Lan Xinhui suddenly whispered in surprise, her fingers pinched into Wang Yuan's palm, and the whole person began to tremble.

Wang Yuan hurriedly whispered: "What's wrong?" ”

Lan Xinhui whispered with a crying voice: "Ahead...... In the woods...... It seems to be ...... Ghost fire. ”

Wang Yuan turned his head to look, and this look was not only terrifying. In the dark woods on the hill, there are indeed a few blue flames flickering and flickering, which is indeed the legendary ghost fire.

Wang Yuan calmed down, he couldn't explain to Lan Xinhui that the ghost fire was actually burning phosphorus or something, the only thing he could do was to prove that it was not a ghost with his actions. So he chuckled and said, "Those are just flying insects, if you don't believe it, stay here and watch me go and drive them away." ”

Lan Xinhui hugged Wang Yuan's arm tightly and said, "Don't go, if you want to go, go together." ”

Wang Yuan comforted her softly, bent down to pick up a dead branch from the ground and threw it far below the hill, but listening to the sound of the branch falling to the ground, those ghostly blue flames did not move.

Wang Yuan smiled: "Look, if it's a ghost, don't you come to arrest us at this moment?" They were all little insects that were not afraid of people, and as soon as we went, they flew away. ”

Although she was still frightened, Lan Xinhui also knew that there was no choice, Wang Yuan was not afraid, and she had no reason to be afraid, so she nodded and said, "Slave is not afraid, let's go up and take a look." Wang Yuan nodded, lit the lantern he brought with a fire fold, and pulled Lan Xinhui into the waist-deep grass, following the trail of a slightly slower slope path to the mound.