It's night, quiet.

The moonlight was shining, and the sparse leaf shadows fell to the ground, unusually cold.

The stove in the house was blazing, and Li Mingyun put on a black cloak and wrapped himself tightly.

Chunyu came in from outside and whispered, "Miss, the maid has been seeing that the lights over there have been out for a long time. ”

Tonight is the spring rain vigil, so she is the only maid in the house.

This also made it convenient for Li Mingyun to sneak out of the house.

"Okay, thank you for your hard work." Li Mingyun said with a smile.

She walked lightly and slowly, and her feet did not make a sound when she stepped on the ground.

Chunyu also wanted to go with him, but was stopped by Li Mingyun.

"You stay here, and you can handle the unexpected accident." "I'm relieved, too." ”

Chunyu has a bright brain, and she usually understands everything, and sometimes she even draws inferences from one case to another, thinking better and longer-term.

If you want to say who Li Mingyun is the most reassuring person, it must be Chunyu.

Chunyu had no choice but to nod and reluctantly watch her leave.

As soon as Li Mingyun came out of the hospital, he saw Xue Yan, dressed in black, blending into the night.

With Xue Yan's assistance, she left the house very smoothly, and came to the street after a while.

The deserted streets, with only two glimmering corners, are night stalls lit with lanterns serving cooked food to passers-by.

It was late at night at Chengwang's Mansion, there were no stars in the sky, and a thin layer of frost was hazy, and the fog was like a mist all around.

Although the gate of the Chengwang Mansion is not broken, there are many layers of thick cobwebs on the door beams, which have been broken due to the winter.

It's a lifeless mansion.

Li Mingyun raised his head and saw that the plaque of Chengwangfu had not yet been removed, but things were wrong, and Chengwangfu was no longer the original Chengwangfu.

The door was locked, so she didn't push the door in, but asked Xue Yan to take her over Gao Qiang and go in directly.

It may be because of the night, Li Mingyun felt a burst of coldness, the wind was blowing, and the broken branches and leaves swayed slightly,

"Miss, over there." Xue Yan pointed to a courtyard in the distance and said.

Li Mingyun looked along the line of sight, only to see a high attic standing in the middle, and there were several big lanterns hanging on the attic, which were hung irregularly, there should have been more lanterns, but due to the traces of time, the lanterns fell miserably to nowhere.

"Let's go, let's see." She whispered.

The steps are light, and the bluestone ground that is stepped on has a cold moonlight, and the entire Chengwang Mansion seems to be paved with glass.

Chengwang's mansion is big, and the attic is far away, and they walked for a while to arrive.

Li Mingyun looked at the dusty door in the attic.

"This is the residence." "My mother used to say that my aunt likes high places, and she always climbs trees. ”

She curled her lips and smiled.

Her guesses are sometimes so unreasonable. I like high places, and I don't have to live in high places.

Li Mingyun stepped up the steps, pushed open the door and walked in.

I only heard a "squeak", and the dark building was empty.

Spacious, shady, cold...... In an instant, these words popped up from Li Mingyun's mind.

She sighed and shook her head and sighed.

"It's true, it's changing in a flash." She said.

In just thirteen years, it was like a hundred years, and the place became dark and cold.

Xue Yan took the fire fold and lit the lamp, and the building slowly lit up.

Li Mingyun glanced around.

The empty lobby, the gray walls, and the railing in the corridor stand straight, glowing with bright light, and the vermilion lacquer is moist, and the material is of the highest quality.

Li Mingyun walked upstairs, gurgling one after another, she couldn't hear whether it was her footsteps or her heartbeat.

There was nothing special upstairs, and all the valuable things that I wanted to come to the house had been emptied, leaving only very common things such as tables and chairs.

A row of railings leads from the corridor to the high platform on the second floor, and when you look at the railing, you can see the lights flickering in the distance.

She looked at it a few times, and her eyes were full of depression.

The cold wind continued to blow, blowing on people's faces and freezing painfully.

"Let's go." Li Mingyun said, looking at Xue Yan, "I don't want to stay here anymore." ”

She stayed here, with nothing but emotion and sorrow.

Turning, she walked out.

Xue Yanyan glanced around, and also followed Li Mingyun.

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Li Mingyun walked around the Chengwang Mansion for a long time, but still didn't find the exit.

She paused.

"Xue Yan, don't you know how to get out?" She asked, frustrated, tightening her cloak.

Wouldn't they have to look for an exit for a long time?

It's pitch black, and there's no lantern to light it on, so what if you can't get out tonight?

Chengwang's Mansion was so big that it surprised her, and it was inconvenient to even go out.

If there is an urgent matter and you need to leave as soon as possible, don't you still need a carriage?

She suddenly felt that it was good for the mansion to be smaller.

Xue Yan nodded without thinking: "The subordinates know." ”

Seriously, solemnly.

“……”

Li Mingyun looked at him almost plaintively.

"You know, don't remind me yet? And let me go around for so long? She aired.

"......" Xue Yan was stunned.

"The subordinates thought that the young lady was going to go shopping somewhere else." He explained, with some innocence in his eyes.

Li Mingyun twitched the corners of his mouth.

Forget it, she didn't clearly say that she wanted to go back, and Xue Yan should have misunderstood for a while.

Blame herself, she shouldn't have walked around silently.

"Then let's go back now." She said.

Xue Yan responded and took her to another place.

Only then did Li Mingyun know that she was making circles in several courtyards, which had front doors and back doors, and they were connected together, so she walked one place and another, and it felt like she would never finish.

They walked some more distance, and at last they came out of the courtyard and came to a decaying garden, which she knew was because it was full of trees and weeds, dejected and lifeless in the moonlight.

"Before, it was supposed to be nice here." Li Mingyun said and stepped forward.

Xue Yan didn't answer, he felt that the young lady was probably talking to herself.

The voice came out in a wide air, along with the night that hung over the scene in front of them.

Li Mingyun pursed his lips.

"Let's go." She said.

Xue Yan should be.

"Miss, walk a quarter of an hour and you'll be at the back door." He said.

Li Mingyun said hello.

She was just about to leave, when suddenly, a gust of wind blew, bringing a hint of fragrance.

The fragrance is absent, scattered with the wind, and appears with the wind.

What does it smell like?

"In the garden." Xue Yan said, frowning suspiciously.

The fragrance seems to be ...... What kind of meat is being grilled......

Li Mingyun walked towards the garden.

"What's going on? Could it be that there are still people in the palace? She said.

It can't be like this for no reason, either someone is roasting something to eat, or somewhere is on fire, rather than a lone bird or something.

Otherwise, it can't be explained.

Li Mingyun wanted to go over and take a look.

"Can you go?" She looked up and asked Xue Yan, "Could there be any danger?" ”

"I'll take Miss over." Xue Yan only said this.

But Li Mingyun knew what he meant, which was saying that there was no danger with him.

Xue Yan's light skills were very good, and after a while, he reached the end of the garden, and Li Mingyun saw a fire in the corner of the wall, and the flames were burning, like a flying dragon churning in the night.

There were several wooden sticks on the fire, and two oily roast chickens were stuck in the sticks, and the fragrance was overflowing.

"Why is there no one?" Li Mingyun asked quietly.

Now she was sure that someone was really in Chengwangfu, but now it was gone.

Xue Yan closed his eyes and didn't know what he was doing.

After a moment of silence, he opened his eyes and stabbed his sword out of its sheath into a dark corner.

I only heard "oops", and a figure rolled out of the darkness, dodging the attack of the sword.

Xue Yan immediately flew over and grabbed the person. On the other side, another figure flashed by, grabbed Li Mingyun's back collar and pulled her over.

Li Mingyun was startled, struggled to break free, and reached out to grab the man's face.

By the moonlight, a faint silver light shone on the faces of the two.

Li Mingyun turned his head and looked at this person, his hand was already on his face, and he didn't move, he didn't move.

"Is that you?"

"It's you!"

Two voices appeared at the same time.

The cold hand froze the man's body trembling, and he immediately screamed.

"Take your claws off my face!"

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