At noon, the rain was heavy, and the greystone path began to wind its way from the foot of the mountain, through the dense woods, along the large lake like a full moon, until it came to an abrupt end at the edge of this small pavilion.

Outside the pavilion suddenly lit up, the silver snake-like lightning pierced the sky, the thunder followed the explosion, the torrential rain became more and more raging, Ding Xiaolan, who was sitting next to Qi Lu, shivered a few times in a row, and began to regret coming to this ghost place with him a little. And Qi Lu's eyebrows furrowed slightly, and he was still sitting on the stone bench playing with his mobile phone casually, as if everything around him had nothing to do with him.

"I wonder what happened to Professor Jiang?" Ding Xiaolan looked at the sky in a daze.

"What, I don't want people to go?"

Looking at Qi Lu's grinning expression, Ding Xiaolan knew that he wanted to play tricks on himself, so he quickly rolled his eyes at him and ignored him.

Jiang Wenhao has returned to Beijing to reunite with his family since the archaeological work of the ancient tombs of the Western Zhou Dynasty was completed. In fact, like the professor, who is about to retire at this age, he can live here for a few more days, Ding Xiaolan also wants to make up some historical knowledge with him, but it is a pity that the professor is a dutiful person, although Qi Lu has been retained many times, he still returned to work on time.

Suddenly, a strange sound came from the air, the voice was low and dull, and it sounded like a heavy drumstick was beating Qi Lu's eardrums. Qi Lu closed the page of his mobile phone and began to look for the source of the sound, and found a young man in white in the distance walking towards the pavilion.

When the strange sound disappeared, the young man also came to the pavilion, and he stopped, looking coldly at the newly drawn talisman array on the floor of the pavilion.

Ding Xiaolan blushed, this is the talisman array she drew to drive away evil spirits. Ever since Qi Lu lost her mana, she had temporarily crammed and learned some spells from Lao Wu.

So far, she has no actual combat experience, so she is also worried in her heart, for fear that the young man who suddenly appeared is dressed as a monster, and her magic circle will not have any effect on him.

After just a moment of hesitation, the young man stepped over the talisman array, walked in with his head held high, sat opposite Qi Lu, and looked at him with sharp eyes, Qi Lu suddenly felt a pressure that was not angry but threatening to the depths of his heart.

Ding Xiaolan noticed that there was an ominous smell in the air, because it was raining heavily, but the young man did not have the slightest place on his body that was wet by the rain, and not only that, but his shoes were not stained with the slightest mud, as if he had come to this small pavilion on a sunny day.

"Xiaoding, our guest has arrived, why don't we serve him tea soon."

Hearing Qi Lu greeting him, Ding Xiaolan hurriedly put away her surprised gaze, picked up the teapot and poured tea for the two of them.

Qi Lu smiled and said, "This is the best hair tip that I have treasured for many years, I don't know if it suits your appetite?" ”

"It's good tea, indeed." The young man put down the teacup and said, "It's just that I didn't expect that the person who asked me to meet would be you." ”

Qi Lu replied: "I thought it was a monster, but I didn't expect the person who came to be the third son." ”

The two looked at each other like this, and they didn't speak for a long time, and the atmosphere in the pavilion became a little tense.

After a long time, Qi Lu turned his gaze to the big lake outside the pavilion, and said with a sigh: "If this rain rains for a few more days, the lake will rise sharply, and then the surrounding villages will become the land of Yuze, and no one will be able to escape." ”

"Of course." A trace of hatred flashed in the eyes of the third prince, "Do you want to know the reason?" ”

"I want to hear about it."

"A week ago, it was raining as heavily as today, and I happened to pass by this place and found a woman walking on a mountain path. When I saw that she was thinly dressed and did not have an umbrella, I felt pity for her and went up to cover her from the rain. ”

Qi Lu said with a smile: "It seems that this is a good show for a talented man to meet a beautiful woman." ”

"Are you laughing at me?" The young man sighed and said, "I was curious and asked her why she was walking alone in the rain, and the woman said that she was the daughter of a family surnamed Zhang in a nearby village, and that her father had rashly accepted a dowry because her father was drunk and gambling and owed usury, and was going to marry her to a bachelor surnamed Wang in the same village. ”

In China's rural areas, there is a patriarchal mentality, and in this remote and poor mountain village, the law is beyond the reach of the law, and it is difficult to abolish this bad habit.

Qi Lu smiled again: "Is this man surnamed Wang very old and has a bad character?" ”

"Yes, I heard from the woman that he was nearly forty years old, and that he was idle all day, and that he was as drunk and gambling as her father."

Ding Xiaolan secretly guessed: Could it be that this is an old-fashioned story, the third son acted bravely, and the woman was grateful, and after going back and forth, she fell in love and made a private engagement for life?

The fact is just as Ding Xiaolan thought, only to hear the third prince sigh: "I was angry after hearing this, so I gave her a sum of money and asked her to withdraw from this marriage." The woman was grateful and invited me to her home. ”

"So you agreed?"

"Yes, unfortunately it was a bad decision." The third prince said: "Naturally, his father refused to let go of the opportunity to make friends with me, and hurriedly arranged a banquet to entertain me diligently. She also offered to marry her daughter to me. I wanted to refuse, but I saw that the woman was pitiful and unbearable, and I agreed to this family affair in a moment of confusion before I got married, and made an appointment to come to his house the next day for a dowry. ”

"What happened?" Ding Xiaolan interjected and asked, it could be seen that she had become interested in the story, and at the same time hoped that the story would have a happy ending.

"The next day, because I had business to attend to and couldn't come in person, I entrusted my clerk to come to the door to give the dowry. The scholar came back and told me that the woman had married another offspring! As he spoke, there was another loud thunderstorm in the rain, and the sound shook the sky.

"Huh?!" Ding Xiaolan was speechless in surprise, she really didn't expect this kind of result, this family is really shameless, they actually did such a chilling thing!

The third prince said hatefully: "I have never been so insulted in my life, since they treat me like this, then don't blame me for being unkind to them!" If I don't lower some punishments, what face will I have in the future! ”

Qi Lu took a sip of tea and said lightly: "Even so, you can't use hundreds of lives to accompany the funeral." ”

"Hmph, you think I'm a little ruthless, but in my opinion, this can't get rid of the hatred in my heart!"

Ding Xiaolan was so frightened that she stood up from the stool, and at this moment she realized that the person in front of her was not an ordinary person, and the continuous rainstorm turned out to be caused by him!

Whether he was a demon or something else, Ding Xiaolan didn't know, she was more worried that Qi Lu was facing a terrible enemy.

After all, the past and the present are different from the past, and after Qi Lu lost his mana, people were also depressed a lot. If the young man in front of him was a monster, Qi Lu would have no way to deal with him, and he was also half a bucket of water, I am afraid that it would not be easy to solve even a weak ghost, let alone eliminate the demon.

It seems that whether you can get out of it today depends on Qi Lu's creation. Thinking of this, the cold sweat behind Ding Xiaolan came out.

Qi Lu stood up disappreciatively, poured a cup of tea for the third prince and said, "I'm not here to persuade you today, but I want to explain something to you."

"What's the matter, but it doesn't hurt to say it!"

"There is a saying that you must have heard, that is, one day in the mountains, a thousand years in the world!"

As soon as Qi Lu's words fell, the face of the third prince changed suddenly.

With a "dang" sound, Qi Lu saw that the teacup in his hand fell to the ground and shattered. Then the third prince laughed, but his laughter was so low and desolate that people couldn't believe that it was human laughter.

"One day in the mountains, a thousand years in the world! It turned out that I was wrong to blame her. The third prince's face turned pale, he got up and saluted Qi Lu, and then turned into a long rainbow and disappeared in front of everyone.

With the departure of the third prince, the torrential rain suddenly stopped, the dark clouds dispersed, and the sky was clear.

"Alas!" Qi Lu let out a long breath, and the person also relaxed, and he said to Ding Xiaolan in an encouraging tone: "The rune array is well drawn, you have made progress recently." ”

"Don't praise me, the third prince just now didn't take my talisman array in his eyes at all." Ding Xiaolan was a little frustrated, but she remembered that the third prince stepped on her circle as if he were nothing.

"Don't be discouraged, you must know that the rune array is used to deal with demons and monsters, and it can't deal with gods."

"God?"

Ding Xiaolan wanted to know the identity of this mysterious young man, but Qi Lu no longer followed the topic, but looked at the grove outside the pavilion and said with a smile: "Old woman, please come out." ”

An old woman with a clumsy body and gray hair slowly walked into the pavilion on crutches, she bent down and knelt down and said to Qi Lu: "On behalf of the whole village, I thank Mr. Qi for saving his life..."

"Oh, you're making me lose my life!" Qi Lu hurriedly helped her sit on the stool, and then said with a smile: "I said a long time ago that the third prince is a reasonable person, but now that the misunderstanding has been eliminated, you have a matter of concern." ”

"After all these years, he is still so young and as handsome as he was back then!" The old man's eyes looked at the blue sky, and his thoughts had already flown into the dusty memories.

The old man thanked him again and finally left with his cane. Looking at the old man's back, Ding Xiaolan asked in a low voice, "Who is she?" ”

"Who else could it be, of course, the heroine in the story of the Three Princes."

Ding Xiaolan was stunned, and couldn't believe the fact in front of her.

"The third prince has not been in the world for a long time, so much so that he forgot where he lives, one day is equal to fifty years in the world." Qi Lu continued: "The old woman has been waiting for the third son for seven years, and finally she was forced to marry an honest young man from a neighboring village by her father's order. ”

"I see!" Ding Xiaolan was full of emotion, she didn't expect the story to end like this. She paused and asked, "Who is this mysterious third son?" ”

Qi Lu lit a cigarette and whispered, "He is the third son of the Dragon King." ”

Ding Xiaolan grinned, "Is it the third prince of the Dragon King who was killed by Nezha?" ”

"Shhhh Qi Lu grimaced, "There are many kinds of people, and there are also many dragon kings, so he is not."

While he was talking, the sound of a car horn came from a distance, and Qi Lu turned his mouth and said, "Let's talk about this later, Lao Wu is urging us." ”