The candlelight in the restaurant was too dim to illuminate Zhao Yin's eyes, and the gloom sank into people's hearts, like a steel knife piercing into the flesh, the noodle restaurant owner couldn't help but cover his chest, as if his heart was hurting, he inhaled and inhaled heavily, and was two steps away from him, only then did he hold on to the edge of the square table, and barely fell down.

"I'm not, I'm not."

This denial, weakened and vulnerable.

Zhao Yin frowned slightly, looking at his pale face.

"After all these years, if your child is still alive, how can he not let you see him?"

The boss's pale face turned blue in the candlelight.

Even Shi Yong, who was sitting next to Zhao Yin, was shocked.

thought that he just chose a random place to fill his stomach, but how did he know that he made the past of his boss clear?

Shi Yong also suspected that there was something wrong with Qingshan Town, but she hadn't talked to Zhao Yin about her suspicions.

She originally thought it was her own illusion, but now looking at Zhao Yin's cold expression and the boss's disgraced face, her heart gradually sank.

The situation in Qingshan Town may be more serious than imagined?

"I don't know, I don't know anything. Don't push me. ”

The boss's fingers almost buckled the wooden table out of a long trace, and in the next moment, his feet suddenly became weak, and the whole person fell, his body trembled, as if he had been greatly stimulated, his eyes were scattered, his eyes were not focused, only fear.

Shi Yong glanced at Zhao Yin and walked over to help him.

"Since your Excellency has come to Qingshan, you will make decisions for you, and if there is anything, you can tell your Excellency."

The boss's mouth trembled, and he muttered: "If you can't be the master, no one can be the master." Qingshan Town, it's over, Qingshan Town, it's long gone. ”

He choked in his throat and his eyes were like a pool of stagnant water.

Zhao Yin sat on the bench, motionless, "I'm not Pei Fu." But Pei Fu can't be the master, I can. ”

The boss looked up at him.

For a long time, he smiled distractedly.

"No one can."

Zhao Yin said: "A few years ago, I returned to Beijing from Lulongsai and passed through Qingshan Town. It was March, and there was a cherry tree in front of the restaurant, with branches reaching to the roof and green leaves. There was a little boy sitting in the tree, hitting me with a cherry and laughing loudly. ”

The tone of his speech has always been plain, but when the boss heard this, his body suddenly trembled even more, as if he remembered something, and a pair of wide-eyed eyes showed a moment of hope.

Soon, fear returned.

"No, it can't be. Dead, he's dead. ”

He whined in his throat, low and almost hollow.

"The Evil King is the god who controls this world, and the creatures of the Three Realms are all in his hands. Even though my child's body is gone, his soul is still in the palm of his hand...... The princess's daughter can't defeat the evil king, and you can't either. ”

The boss shuddered.

"Hurry up, hurry up. Before the evil king wants to kill you, hurry up and leave Qingshan Town. ”

He struggled to get up and pushed Zhao Yin hard, looking flustered and incoherent.

"They don't know that you're not Pei Fu, and they don't want to kill you yet, you will leave tomorrow at dawn."

Zhao Yin looked at him, "Where is the evil monarch?" Where is the princess? ”

"I, I don't know."

After the boss finished speaking, he sat down again in despair.

"I am a dying person, I only hope that the evil king will be gracious, release the ghosts of my wife and children, and when we go to the underworld, we can be reunited as a family."

His mouth was full of strange words.

Zhao Yin and Shi Yong glanced at each other, put the silver on the table, and walked out of the restaurant.

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At night, the town of Aoyama was so quiet that there was not a single human voice.

In the wee hours of the morning, the fog was thick and thick like a ghost town that had long since died.

Walking on the stone bridge leading to Pei's mansion, a cold air and water mist hit, Shi Yong sneezed, Zhao Yin reached out and pulled her robe in, looking very serious.

Shi Yong looked sideways and looked at his face at night.

"It's just me here, you can answer me."

Zhao Yin held a bamboo lantern in his hand, and his white robe turned slightly in the cold wind.

"Already answered."

Shi Yong was slightly stunned.

What she asked was, "How do you know that his house doesn't close at night?" ”

Later, when Zhao Yin talked to the boss, he said that he passed through Qingshan many years ago and remembered the cherry tree in front of his house, that is, he had come to the restaurant earlier, so he knew that his house was not closed, which could be regarded as an answer.

"But you said you didn't know the boss."

"The man who sold noodles back then was his son."

It's true that I don't know each other.

When Shi Yong heard this, he laughed.

"Adults speak, and they don't leak. The little woman admired it very much. So dare to ask, what you mean in your conversation with the boss, does it mean that this Qingshan Town has been controlled? That so-called evil king, by controlling the boss's family, and even using the theory of gods and ghosts to control his mind? ”

Zhao Yin looked at it lightly, his eyes were cold, "Maybe." ”

"A former old pavilion chief is still like this. What about the rest of Castle Peak? And how? ”

Shi Yong thought of Miya, who sold melon seeds, the big man who sold medicinal materials, Pei Sanbo, who was a god, and the gossiping relatives of the Pei family, as well as the old lady Qian who invited the Wujia class to sing and celebrate his 70th birthday......

"With the plucked tongue of the pro-messenger, the man-eating beast, all this should not be so simple. However, who has such great ability to control so many people? It even makes people believe that he is an evil monarch and a god who controls the Three Realms? ”

Zhao Yin groaned and looked at him, "What do you think?" ”

Shi Yong looked at the big green mountain behind the town that was like a beast lurking in the dark night, and said solemnly: "Since he wants to attribute the murder to the beast for evil." So why do you need to pull out people's tongues, and make people suspicious? I thought it was unreasonable and flawed. Tonight, after listening to the old pavilion chief's words, he suddenly opened his mouth. ”

Zhao Yin raised the lantern high.

At the restaurant, she ate some wine on beef, and her cheeks were stained with a thin red.

The long bridge is slightly foggy, the waves are shining, and the beauty is beautiful under the lamp.

"How?"

Zhao Yin looked at it seriously, and it took a long time to ask these two words.

Shi Yong was speechless and curled his lips.

"I think maybe the tongue is a ritual, or some kind of evil sacrifice. In short, it is a means used by this 'evil king' to intimidate people. The tongue is the organ of human speech, and by extension, speech. To pluck out the tongue is to forbid speech. ”

She suddenly narrowed her eyes and approached his face, and said mysteriously in a low, cold voice.

"Shhhh I want this Qingshan Town to be silent. ”

Zhao Yin looked at her coldly.

Shi Yong retracted his gaze and looked at the dark Daqing Mountain in the distance again.

"On the night we stayed in Pei's Mansion, the tongue in the noodle bowl was a warning, and they also wanted to find out the truth of General Pei. After all, it was a coincidence that General Pei suddenly returned to his hometown and relatives, and at the juncture of the princess's disappearance. General Pei's arrival has attracted the attention of the other party, if the general leaves after worshipping his parents, the matter will be stopped, if the general refuses to believe that the tragic death of the envoy and his relatives is the work of wild beasts, and insists on investigating the matter, the wolf pack attack is probably just the beginning——"