Suddenly, everything was silent, even the grinding flute disappeared, and the entire red maple forest fell into a dead silence, as if waiting for someone to appear.

Gu Changfeng glanced at Su Yong, who was lying on the ground, and formed a back-to-back posture with Murong. Just as they held their breath and wanted to walk deeper into the red maple forest, they heard laughter. A chuckle, with three points of wantonness and seven points of mockery.

The sword was held tightly by Gu Changfeng, but his eyes fell on an orange-red shadow through the maple trees in the red maple forest. When the shadow was near, I saw that it was a young man of about twenty-three or fourteen years old, with beautiful eyebrows but a pale face. In his hand, he also held a jade flute, from which the ugly flute sounds seemed to be played.

"Tang Boyong?"

"It's been a long time since anyone called that." The young man lowered his eyebrows: "That's right, I'm the murderer Tang Boyong you are looking for." ”

"How can you be Tang Boyong?" Murong looked at the face that was almost as young as himself: "According to those legends, this Tang Boyong is more than forty years old." ”

"Am I that old?" Tang Boyong raised his eyebrows and glanced at Murong, holding the jade flute and sitting directly on the ground: "How old do you think I was when I was kicked out by the Tang family?" Eighteen or nineteen years old, still twenty-eighty-nine years old. ”

"You have to be about twenty years old." Murong looked at Tang Boyong who was sitting on the ground.

"Twelve years old, to be precise, I Tang Boyong was not yet twelve years old when I was driven out of the Tang family by those bastards of the Tang family who sold their reputation and fame, and were hypocritical."

"How is that possible? Those rumors say...... said that the reason why Tang Boyong was expelled from the Tang family was because he had a bad character and liked to study evil arts. ”

"Huh." Tang Boyong chuckled: "What is bad conduct, what is like to study evil arts, have you seen these with your own eyes?" It doesn't come out of their mouths yet. Yes, they are the Tang family, the Tang family that is famous in the rivers and lakes, and whatever they say, those people outside will naturally believe it. What can I do, I'm just a twelve-year-old child, what I say, will anyone believe me? ”

"What about the puppet? Puppet killers are always made by yourself. Murong pointed to Su Yong, who was lying on the ground: "Isn't this an evil art?" ”

"What if it's sorcery?" Tang Boyong asked rhetorically: "These puppet killers were only thought of after I left the Tang family. Why? Because I need to protect myself. Do you think the Tang family just kicked me out? No, they want me to die, they want me to die like a wild dog. Unfortunately, my life was too great for me to die, so they sent men to hunt me down. Although I am smart, but after all, I am only a child, my martial arts are scarce, and my strength is limited, if I don't take some shortcuts, can you still see me now? ”

"Good and dignified, why did the people of the Tang family chase and kill you? Don't you have the last name Don? Aren't you from their Tang family? ”

"Why are you chasing me?" Tang Boyong played with the jade flute in his hand: "That's a good question, I asked myself the same question at that time, but it wasn't until I was forced to found the Psychic Sect and found the truth through those sects that I didn't know why they wanted to kill me." Because, in their eyes, I am a Tang family that should not exist in this world at all. ”

Tang Boyong tilted his head, rested his elbows on his legs, and looked at Murong and Gu Changfeng like that.

"You are all the eldest sons of your respective families, and you were born to be favored, so you don't know how people like us live every day. It is rumored that I, Tang Boyong, am just a child born to a side branch of the Tang family, but this is not the case. I am not a side branch, but a concubine, my mother is Tang Huaizheng's concubine, the kind with a particularly bad background. If I was born reckless, maybe the Tang family would still be able to tolerate me, but I am so talented and intelligent that I don't know how many times more than the idiot who came out. Tang Huaizheng's wife couldn't tolerate our mother and son, and the Tang family couldn't afford to offend that in-law, so they could only let our mother and son have a knife. How do you think my mother died? was forced to death by the Tang family. Poison, broken blade, white silk, my mother can only choose one of them, there is no way to live at all. ”

Tang Boyong looked up at the sky: "My mother thinks that as long as she is dead, I will be able to live well in the Tang family." My mother thought that as long as she died, Tang Huaizheng, that bastard, would be able to take care of me, a motherless child, in the face of the husband and wife relationship with her in the past. But in fact, he couldn't wait for my mother's body to be thrown into a mass grave outside the city and couldn't wait to go out and have fun. I knew that my mother wanted me to live, so I turned myself into a deaf, dumb, stupid, humble begging for food in the deep mansion compound of the Tang Mansion, but even so, they still couldn't tolerate me, and regarded me as a thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh. Is it my fault? If I can choose, I believe that my mother does not want to be someone's concubine at all, and I don't want to be their Tang family's concubine. But I didn't have the opportunity to choose my own birth, and I had no way to choose whose son I was. ”

"That's why you let those puppet killers destroy the Tang family?"

"Of course not, if it were, I would have destroyed the Tang family a long time ago. I just want to live quietly. But I didn't expect that the people of the Tang family would fan those people who didn't know anything to let them go to the government to petition, and let the court send troops to encircle and suppress me. Gu Yanqing, Gu Xiangye, right? If I remember correctly, you are the one who led the troops to encircle and suppress my Cult. I want to ask you, before sending out the army, have you investigated in detail whether my Theosophism is really doing evil as they say? ”

Gu Changfeng looked at Tang Boyong and did not answer.

He didn't investigate, he just acted on orders.

"No, right? I don't blame you for this, after all, so many ordinary people have petitioned, and if the court does not send troops, it will be scolded by those ordinary people like something. But do you really think that the Tang family wants to kill me through the hands of the government? No, it's not, even if the people of the Tang family wanted to kill me at first, they changed their minds after learning that I was able to drive the puppet killer. I became a gift from the Tang family to curry favor with the court and invite merit to the new emperor.

I have been a member of the Tang family for 12 years, how can I not know what they have in their hearts. I got angry and felt the need to keep such a family anymore. So, I asked my puppet killer to kill them all. ”

"Has our Murong family offended you?"

"Why did Murong Gongzi ask like this?" Tang Boyong yawned.

"Bride? Didn't you kill Murong Yi's bride? ”

"Murong Yi's bride ......" Tang Boyong knocked on his head: "Oh, I remember, is it the girl who always likes to wear an emerald green shirt." ”

"Yes, that's her." Murong nodded: "Her husband's name is Murong Yi, and he is a member of my Murong family." On the day of her wedding, her head was cut off. That person, isn't it you? ”

"Yes!" Tang Boyong nodded: "But I'm not a murderer, I'm helping her, and she came up with the idea herself." ”

"You talk nonsense!" Murong lifted his sword all of a sudden.

"Why should Murong Gongzi be angry? I haven't finished saying this yet, how can Murong Gongzi be sure that what I said must be a lie, it must be nonsense. Tang Boyong stroked his hair: "After this destroyed the Tang family, I wandered around, and when I passed through this forest, I felt that the abandoned village was not bad, so I stayed temporarily." One night, when the moonlight was so white that it shone the whole village like the Shura Hell, I was sitting on the roof drinking and admiring the moon, when the girl suddenly burst in and shouted like a madman. I felt noisy, so I went down to stop her, but she mistook me for someone called a tyrant. ”

"Ying Tianba."

"Yes, that's the name. As for me, I don't have the heart to explain, anyway, it doesn't matter what I call it. I just wondered why she was crying and crying into the woods, and why she was crying out for a ghost. ”

"Why?" Murong asked.

"Because she doesn't want to marry the person called Murong Yi from your Murong family. She had her own sweetheart, but that sweetheart was killed by Murong Yi. She knew that she was not capable of revenge, and she did not dare to take revenge, lest she anger Murong Yi and involve her parents and brothers again. She just wanted to die, in a way that even Murong Yi wouldn't be aware of. She wants to find someone she likes, even if it's to go to the Netherworld, she just wants to marry that person. Ying Tianba's killing of the bride is known to many people in the vicinity, and she also knows. She thought it was a good way, and it shouldn't hurt to cut off her neck with a knife. She fell on her knees and begged me, begging me to fulfill her. I saw that she was so pitiful, so I agreed. ”

"So, you killed her, and let your puppet killer kill her when she passed through the Red Maple Forest when she got married?"

"No, I didn't kill her, I just made the scene as she wanted, as if she was killed by Ying Tianba." Tang Boyong touched the tip of his nose: "I originally wanted to help her, but not halfway, but before she married that Murong Yi." But what I didn't expect was that she was killed by someone else, in that shabby house in the cottage. ”

"Who is it? Who killed her? ”

"Your sister Murong Wan'er." Tang Boyong raised his hand and pointed at Murong: "Surprised?" Accidental? Didn't you expect me to give you such an answer? ”

"! It's nonsense, it's so decent, why did my sister kill her? ”

"Because your sister doesn't want her to marry Murong Yi." Tang Boyong stood up slowly: "You don't know your sister at all, if you do, you won't ask the stupid things you just asked." ”

"Tang Boyong, you made it clear to me." Murong rushed to Tang Boyong with his sword: "I, I will never allow you to slander my sister." ”