10. Abandoned garden dreams

When Xiang Youer woke up from his confusion, he saw that he was lying on a wooden bed, where he was in a small thatched hut, and there was a red clay stove next to the wooden bed, and the charcoal fire in the furnace was burning. There was a dim oil lamp lit above the wooden table, and the wick burned so that it seemed to be night. Next to the lamplight, there is also a wilting plum blossom bonsai, which is quite inconspicuous.

Xiang You'er sat up, patted her head, and remembered that she was knocked unconscious by the masked woman, but she didn't expect to be sent to such a place! He looked down and saw several silver needles stuck in his body, and there was a faint bitter taste of medicinal herbs in his mouth, so he knew that the masked fierce woman should still have a kind heart and found a doctor for himself.

Wait a minute...... I was knocked out by her, and I would have been woken up with a basin of cold water, but why did I have to find a doctor? Xiang You'er couldn't figure it out, so she didn't think about it anymore, reached out and pulled out the silver needle on her body, put it on the wooden table, and turned over to get out of bed. At this time, a sudden heart-piercing pain surged in his heart, and suddenly the pain made him sweat coldly, and his body involuntarily fell on the wooden bed, and then shrank into a ball.

At this time, the wooden door of the thatched hut suddenly opened with a babble, and a thin old man came in, and the old man saw Xiang Youer's situation, sighed, and came up to knead Xiang You'er a few times, and Xiang Youer gradually calmed down his pain and opened his eyes.

I only heard the old man say slowly: "You'er, why did you make it like this? ”

When Xiang You'er looked at it, she saw that the old man in front of her was Huang Laohan, a doctor in a small hospital in Nanshi's territory, and he would come to him to see if he had any bruises and traumas. This old man Huang rarely speaks on weekdays, so although Xiang Youer is familiar with him, he does not have a deep relationship. However, when he was in trouble at this moment, he inevitably sighed when he saw the old people he knew, and his heart ached, so he shed tears again.

Seeing this, Huang Laohan patted Xiang You'er on the shoulder and said, "Take a break here, the outside is now plastered with sea fishing documents, saying that you are a group of bold people, not only killing the conscription officials and impersonating, but also wanting to assassinate the prince of the dynasty?" Isn't it my old man, his eyes are dizzy, and he has seen the wrong ......," he said and handed a wanted notice to Xiang You'er to see.

Xiang You'er's pain had been slightly reduced at this time, and when she took it to look at it, she saw that the order was issued by the Criminal Department, and what was written on the order was indeed as Huang Laohan said that he and his companions were wanted, with a total of six major crimes, this "marrying" and "harboring the murderer" are good to say, "confiscating officials", "cults" and "assassination" are all serious crimes of destroying the door, he didn't feel that he only had a wry smile in his heart, and he knew that he couldn't wash it away even if he jumped into the Yellow River at this time. Now it seems that the left and right are capital crimes, and I am afraid that not only is it hopeless to join the army, but I am afraid that I will have to flee for a living in the future, and I don't know where my brothers are at the moment, and I can't help but feel uncomfortable when I think of this...... But he didn't want what happened in the evening, and at this time he issued a wanted warrant, and suddenly a thought flashed in his heart, he grabbed Huang Laohan's clothes, shook Huang Laohan, and asked repeatedly: "Uncle Huang, tell me, how long have I been fainting?" ”

Old man Huang was shaken unevenly by him, and it was easy to stabilize his body, so he shook his hand, squinted at Xiang Youer, and sighed with a breath...... Don't shake the old man, don't shake it, you've been here for five days, and you haven't woken up, the old man saw the sea fishing notice this morning, but I, Huang Laohan, see you on weekdays...... You're not bad, but it's not good to throw you out, look at ......" was about to babble and say that he would go down, but saw that Xiang You'er had already helped the bed to get off the ground, and staggered towards the door of the hut. Huang Laohan hurriedly shouted: "Eh, slow down, if you are caught by the night patrol this night, you will be in trouble." ”

Xiang You'er didn't look back and said, "I'm going to find my brother." As he spoke, he pushed open the wooden door of the hut and walked out.

As soon as he went out, the cold wind in the night came through his body, and he carried the "innate fire qi" of his own cultivation according to the "hidden dragon qi" method, but suddenly felt a feeling of emptiness in his heart, followed by a violent heartache, Xiang Youer was busy enduring the pain and stopped running the "hidden dragon qi". He didn't understand why, but he didn't dare to be lucky, so he could only endure the cold, raised his eyes and looked at the surrounding situation, but saw that this originally lonely little medical hall had not come for half a year, and there was actually a neighbor, it seemed that the neighbor was a blacksmith shop, and the situation in the furnace had been closed for a long time.

Xiang You'er thought of her own situation at this time, and couldn't help but feel a chill from her liver. I don't know what to do, I cleaned up my mood a little, and I knew that I couldn't be depressed at the moment, if I was really in a coma for five days, then I was afraid that my brothers would be arrested in these five days, thinking of Wei Qi's pursuit of the Shence Mansion that he blocked, Xiang Youer felt ashamed of Wei Qi in his heart. Now if his brother is arrested at this time, I am afraid that the punishment of "beheading" and "Ling Chi" is in front of him, and how can he save his brother when he is alone, and he doesn't know what to do in his heart.

He knew that the assassin finally gave him a sword as if he had brought this disaster to him, but in his heart he felt that the man was heroic and could be friended, and he didn't know any trace at this time, but he didn't really hate the man at all, and even if there was no "assassination crime", the other three crimes were enough to bear, so he didn't think about it anymore. Just kept thinking about how to get together with his companions and rescue his companions, he knew that it would be difficult for him to fight against the yamen alone at this time, so his mind flew around, and he knew that the school field could not go anymore at this time, so he decided to go back to the Xie family's abandoned garden first, to find out if there would be any brothers who were not arrested, if one or two brothers were found, maybe there would be more hope.

He had already made up his mind, so he didn't think much about it, looked left and right, looked for the dark shadow on the street corner, and ran towards the Xie family's abandoned garden in the dark. At this time, he couldn't use his "innate firepower", and his physical strength seemed to be quite inferior to that of the past, but fortunately, it was already the time of day, and the patrol of the guards on the street had gradually relaxed, so he looked for dodging on the street, and picked up some sharp bricks and stones on the way to defend himself, and in about two quarters of an hour, he finally slipped to the Xie family's abandoned garden.

At this time, he saw that there was already a seal at the door of the Xie family's abandoned garden, and Xiang You'er took advantage of the moonlight to see that the seal was sealed by the Criminal Department, and the seal was very new, obviously it was only sealed in the past few days. At this time, his heart was already half cold, he originally thought that he was lucky, thinking that the situation of their group of people in the Xie family's abandoned garden The official family may not know, and his brother may be able to escape a few people, but now that the Xie family's abandoned garden has been sealed, it seems that most of his brothers are not lucky. At this time, the sharp pain in his heart came again, Xiang Youer held back the pain and the cold sweat on his head, avoided the patrols around the abandoned garden, found a gap in the collapsed wall of the abandoned garden, and used the sharp stone in his hand to open a gap that could be climbed into the broken wall, and turned over and climbed into the Xie family's abandoned garden.

Although he knew that his brother should not be in the garden at this time, he still had some delusions in his heart, always thinking that maybe this was just a big dream, maybe the brothers were still waiting for him to go back to brag in the garden, so he involuntarily entered the courtyard. At this time, I saw that in the abandoned garden under the moonlight, the shadows of the grass and trees were staggered, the houses were dilapidated and miserable, and a gust of wind came to blow all kinds of noises in the garden. Xiang You'er is also bold on weekdays, and the brothers are also lively on weekdays, although there are rumors that the Xie family's abandoned garden is haunted, they don't care about it on weekdays. At this time, Xiang You'er saw the dark shadows under the moon in the garden, like a heavy ghost, and they were about to pounce on her, and she didn't feel a little worried in her heart, so she stepped up her steps and came to the big willow tree in the front courtyard where they usually gathered the most.

He took a closer look through the moonlight, but saw some new traces of a fight next to the big willow tree, and it seemed that his brother had indeed been caught, and there was some resistance before being captured. He was helpless, sitting on the big stone next to the willow tree, thinking in his heart that he had been here half a month ago to speak generously to his brothers and say goodbye, but he didn't expect that at this time he was already a wanted criminal in the imperial court, and his brothers were also unknown in life and death, even his newly acquired A Bai didn't know if he could escape, thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel sad and sighed greatly.

At this time, I suddenly heard a faint sigh coming from the willow tree beside me, but it didn't sound like a human voice, although the sigh was not loud, but when it was heard in this dark night abandoned garden, it seemed to be particularly ghostly.

When Xiang You'er heard this, she immediately jumped up from the boulder, held the sharp stone in her hand, and looked around vigilantly. He also thought that he was suspicious of ghosts, and was about to sit down, but then he saw that there seemed to be words on the stone, he took a closer look, but it seemed to be three words carved out with a knife "General's Mansion", Xiang Youer looked at the handwriting quite good-looking, but I don't know who wrote it, when he was out of his mind, he suddenly heard the big willow tree suddenly babbling and making a few strange sounds, Xiang Youer was waiting to react, and suddenly felt that the willow hanging down his head suddenly stretched out, and the willow branches were entangled, and Xiang Youer was tied up and hung upside down on the tree with a few clicks.

Xiang You'er was feeling frightened and inexplicable, but she heard the strange sound of the willow tree gradually becoming clear, and it seemed to be the hoarse voice of a dying old man, although it was mixed with the noisy sound of many leaves, but it could vaguely make up an adult speech, only listening to the old willow tree's direct words, Xiang Youer's body was hanging in the air at this time, and she couldn't use her strength, but she only seemed to hear "Summons...... The voice of the ......". Xiang You'er had heard that this mansion was haunted, and he also knew that the willow tree was the wood of extreme yin, and when he heard the ghost words, he was scared for a while, but he didn't dare to shout, for fear of attracting the surrounding guards to arrest him, so he had to kick and struggle for a while, and at the same time reversed the sharp stone in his hand and cut the entangled wicker for a while. But when I saw that the wicker was cut, it was bleeding red juice, just like human blood, and the wicker was continuous, and the more Xiang Youer cut and struggled, the tighter the wicker was entangled. Xiang You'er was squeezed out of the breath in his chest, his eyes were black, and he thought that his grandfather was afraid that he would be entangled by this ghost willow today. The lungs gradually breathed more and less in, and the consciousness in the brain gradually blurred, at this time, Xiang You'er suddenly felt a warm innate fire qi coming out of the dantian, and it instantly spread all over the body.

Those ghost willows were smoked by this fire, and they all withered and loosened, Xiang You'er's pressure decreased, and he struggled with his intuition, and then broke away. He was entangled by the ghost willow just now, but he forgot that he was tied up on the ground under his head and feet, and at this moment he broke free, but his head and shoulders fell to the ground first, and he only felt a sharp pain on the top of his head, so he couldn't help rolling on the ground and rolled into the weeds. Unexpectedly, at this time, I felt that I was in a deep hole!