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Iron Horn Castle is the northernmost city of the Divine Horse Empire, and in winter, heavy snow is always mixed with cold winds, making the castle seem to be covered in silver overnight.

On such a cold winter morning, ordinary people are always willing to sleep a little longer in the bed, and do not want to face the biting cold too early. But only in a huge mansion in the city, the lights are always lit before dawn, and the servants are busy shuttling through the mansion, with serious and indifferent expressions on their faces.

This mansion is also a household name in Iron Horn City.

The first master of Iron Horn City, the mansion of Douhuang Lin Wentian. Lin House.

This Lin Mansion alone covers an area of thousands of acres, with 300 houses and 100 slaves. It is even rumored that strange stones and precious flowers are everywhere in the Lin Mansion, and the elixir is inexhaustible. In the eyes of outsiders, this Lin family can be described as infinitely beautiful.

But just three years ago, Lin Wentian suddenly went out, and when he returned to the Lin family after three days, he was seriously injured, and all the doctors in the city were invited to the Lin Mansion, but there was still no way. He could only rely on the magic released by a great magister to save his life for the time being, but after that, Lin Wentian fell into a coma and did not wake up again until today.

After Lin Wentian's accident, Lin Wentian's eldest son, Lin Zhendong, became the new head of the Lin family.

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Most of the buildings in the Lin Mansion are built magnificently, and even the places where the people live are exquisite and elegant. But only in the southeast corner of the Lin Mansion, there was a small courtyard, but it seemed out of place with everything around it.

This small courtyard is surrounded by high walls on all sides, and the only way to enter the courtyard is a circular arch under the high wall due north. However, this round arch is too small, only one person can pass through, and there are only columns when there are many people.

Walking through the archway, there is a gloomy courtyard, and the only peach tree in the courtyard is crooked because it cannot absorb sunlight. Perhaps it was because the yard was so closed that the rainwater could not be drained out on rainy days, resulting in moss growing under the corners of the courtyard walls on all sides, and the smell of dampness and mildew permeating the whole yard.

And the place opposite the peach tree is a dilapidated wooden door, in short, the whole courtyard gives people a very depressing feeling, I really don't know which weird person wants to live in it.

It was another overnight snowfall.

Early in the morning, the servants of the Lin Mansion got up early as usual and began to bust their affairs in the mansion. At this time, the Lin family was basically still asleep.

"Huh...... Who......"

In the gloomy high-walled courtyard in the southeast corner of the Lin Mansion, there was the sound of brooms brushing across the ground.

A boy who looked to be only thirteen or fourteen years old was holding a bamboo broom in both hands at this time, unhurriedly sweeping the snow in the courtyard.

The young man looked a little thin, but at this time he was wearing a wide light gray robe, with long hair tied up in a man's bun on the top of his head, and the black hair on his temples hanging straight down, looking like a young man from a distance. However, when he looked closer, the young man's face showed a bit of sickly paleness, and on top of this paleness, the young man's handsome facial features also showed a bit of coldness at this time. The most beautiful of the young man's facial features is his eyes, which are shaped like apricot kernels, with long eyelashes that are naturally upturned, and those arch-like eyebrows, which are really good-looking.

It's a pity that for some reason the young man's eyes are full of cold and indifferent.

In this way, the young man swept the snow quietly, and I don't know how long it took, the sky lit up with a touch of fish belly white, and there was a faint golden halo in it.

At this time.

Outside the small courtyard, there was a sudden "creaking" sound from far and near, which was the sound of human footsteps walking in the snow.

The boy also realized that someone was coming this way. But his brow furrowed slightly, and a hint of displeasure flashed in his eyes, but he still stopped the snow sweeping in his hand, looked up at the round arch, and waited for someone to appear.

After a short moment, a figure came in through the circular arch, and the person who had never been dressed could recognize this as the servant of the Lin Mansion at a glance.

As soon as the manservant entered the archway, he saw the young man standing in the courtyard looking at him indifferently, only to see that the manservant was slightly stunned, but he didn't feel that he had walked in without permission and bumped into the young man, but grinned and greeted the young man with a hippie smile: "Yo! Looking for young master, you got up so early? ”

The young man's brows furrowed a little, and his eyes were suddenly full of disgust, but he didn't speak, and still stood there quietly.

The manservant did not feel embarrassed when he saw that the young man ignored him, and put his hands in his sleeves and folded them around his chest, and paced lazily in the courtyard, looking up at the east and west, and his appearance was no different from that of the ruffians in the street.

Then the manservant spoke, "I have come to inform you that the carriage outside the gate has been waiting for a long time, and if you have nothing else to do, you should almost be on the road." Hey. ”

As soon as the manservant's voice fell, he turned around and was about to walk out, but he had just taken two steps, but his footsteps suddenly paused, and he suddenly turned around and said, "Oh! That's right! I almost forgot to tell you. The master asked me to bring you a message, so that you don't have to go over to say hello when you leave, just go directly. ”

When the young man heard this, he still didn't talk, and the expression on his face seemed to be calm, but his eyes became a little hollow.

It wasn't until the manservant left that the boy finally made another move, only to see him pick up the broom in his hand again, and continue to sweep the snow in the yard, unhurried, as if nothing had happened just now.

But with such a big yard, there is always a time when the snow is swept up.

The boy gently leaned the broom against the corner of the wall, pushed open the old wooden door with a "creak", and slowly walked in. Less than two minutes later, the boy walked out again, only now he had an extra package on his shoulder.

In this way, the young man walked out of the small courtyard without looking back, stepping on the snow step by step, and gradually moving away. Behind the lonely back is the dazzling halo of the rising sun.

At the entrance of the Lin Mansion, on the deserted street, a carriage waited quietly, and the old coachman curled up as much as possible to keep warm.

When the boy boarded the carriage, the coachman stretched out his hand, swung the whip in his hand, and then slammed it on the horse's buttocks, making a "snap" sound.

"Drive!"

The carriage started slowly and finally disappeared at the end of the cold street.

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Shortly after the carriage left.

In a wing room in the Lin Mansion, a sturdy middle-aged man, dressed in obscene clothes at this time, looked like he had just gotten up. At this time, the middle-aged man was standing in front of an incense table, and there was a painting hanging on the wall behind the incense case, and the man's eyes were lingering on this painting.

Not far behind the middle-aged man, an old man dressed in servant clothes was standing there with his head bowed respectfully.

"It's all arranged?" After a long time, the middle-aged man spoke without looking back.

When the old man heard this, he immediately bent down a little more, bowed down and replied, "Yes! Master, it's all arranged. Don't worry, only destroy the Dou Palace, and don't hurt your life. ”

"Alas......" I saw the middle-aged man sigh, then slowly turned his head, turned his face sideways and asked the old man, "Fu Bo, you said I did this...... Is that really right? ”

The old man's body trembled when he heard this, and he didn't know how to answer for a while, and after a while, a trace of determination flashed in the old man's eyes, and he squeezed out four words from between his teeth, "The matter has come to this ......"

"Alas!"

The middle-aged man sighed again, then turned his head and continued to look at the scroll, and the room was silent for a while.

"Third brother, I hope you are in the spirit of heaven, don't blame me......"