Ling Ning arrived at Su's house for four days.

These days, the rune paper is in a hurry, and she has nothing to do when it is not finished. By the way, she has almost visited the Su family's garden, and some places with unique scenery have left her footprints.

In her spare time, she will also go to Su You's place to sit.

Tell her stories and play games with her...... That's just one day.

It was nearly noon, and the sun was shining high in the southern sky.

Ling Ning left Su You's residence and walked up to a six-story attic.

This loft is on the shore of Dongyue Lake, just across from that library.

The sixth floor of the attic is an observation deck with nothing special on it, just a few tables and chairs.

When Ling Ning stood by the guardrail and looked out, most of the garden would come into view.

The whole garden takes Dongyue Lake as the core, and there are buildings everywhere in Dongyue Lake, small buildings in the center of the lake, pavilions on the shore of the lake, and exquisite courtyards a little farther away. Among the dozens of buildings, there are two types of roads: criss-crossing waterways that connect each attic to each pavilion. However, the sky corridor connects the attic pavilions not far from each other from mid-air, forming an intoxicating scenery everywhere.

The windows and doors were not closed, and in this position, Ling Ning could still see the scenery in the book pavilion.

The eldest lady hadn't gotten up yet, and was lazily resting at the low table.

Ling Ning concentrated for a moment, and she found a trace of dry tears in the corner of the eldest lady's eye.

It's also a strange thing to say!

She had been living here for days, and she hadn't seen this guy leave this kind of library.

Whether it's resting or eating, washing or sleeping. This eldest lady of the Su family will be completed in that small attic, just like ...... It was like she wasn't going to leave this little attic.

......

Just as Ling Ning was immersed in her thoughts, there was a gentle footstep behind her.

"Xiao Ning, the rune paper has entered the final stage, are you interested in taking a look together?" It was Xun Niang who came, she was wearing a brown and yellow classical Hanfu today, but the cuffs were deliberately cut, and the chest was embroidered with a few weird symbols with black threads. She has a dignified posture, like a glamorous lady who is about to attend an important banquet.

"Is it really okay to let me visit as an outsider? Aunt Xun, I mean these things don't need to be kept secret from outsiders?"

"It's fine. Didn't I tell you before, the Su family has no secrets. After our ancestors withdrew from the demon slaying family, they did not sever ties with those friends. At first, I chose to make rune paper, but I also wanted to provide convenience for those who made good friends with demon slayers. Later, because the rune paper we made was favored by many people, the number of demon slayers gradually increased, and this became a rune paper family. ”

"As long as the guest is willing, we will take him to see the process of making rune paper in the Su family. Xun Niang smiled slightly and asked her, "Xiao Ning, are you interested in coming with me to have a look?"

"Of course, I'm bored. ”

"Come with me. Xun Niang led the way in front and made a gesture of please.

Ling Ning followed behind Xun Niang, and the two went down to the attic one after another.

......

The yard where the rune paper was made was some distance away, and Xun Niang held a small boat and paddled along the shore of Dongyue Lake for more than ten minutes. Entering the ferry, there is a cobblestone path. At the end of this path, there is a peach grove with a small courtyard inside.

As the so-called:

The world is full of fragrant flowers in April, and the peach blossoms in the mountain temple are in full bloom.

There is nowhere to find the spring of long-hate, and I don't know how to turn into this.

It's June in the outside world, but this peach forest is prosperous and gorgeous.

There was a unique fragrance of peach trees lingering among the peach trees, Ling Ning raised her head, and a peach blossom fell on the tip of her nose.

Take a gentle sniff and it's full of fragrance.

"Well, it's beautiful here. ”

Shunniang opened her hand and bathed in the rain of petals. The tiredness on her face faded slightly, revealing a hint of heartfelt joy.

At this moment, she is like a pheasant girl......

At this moment, she seems to have returned to her girlhood.

is no longer Su Yi's aunt, nor is she their guardian.

Simple, just Xun Niang, just her sister's sister.

However, the past is gone.

However, this situation only has a moment's aftertaste.

Seeing Xun Niang make such a girlish move, Ling Ning covered her mouth and chuckled lightly.

It wasn't until she saw Xun Niang's reproachful eyes that she restrained herself slightly.

She hugged the pretty aunt from behind: "Aunt Xun, you looked so beautiful just now!"

"I'm old, and I'm not beautiful. ”

"Nonsense, Aunt Xun is not old at all, she is eighteen years old~"

"Xiao Ning's little mouth is so sweet. ”

"Hmph, I'm serious!"

"Okay, eighteen years old, it's really good...... I also wish Xiao Ning to be eighteen years old. ”

"Hehe, maybe I'm already there. Ling Ning grinned and whispered.

"Xiao Ning, what did you say?"

"No ......" Ling Ning let go of his hand and looked at the scene in front of him:

"Xunniang, it's June now, hasn't this peach forest fallen yet?"

"Ah, this peach forest will not be grateful. This peach forest was planted when the ancestor quit the demon slayer family and chose to live in seclusion here. At first, the ancestor just loved peach blossoms and wanted to plant a piece in the Su Garden. But slowly, after a dozen or so decades, he felt bored. He is good at wine, so he picks peach blossoms to make wine. In order to have peach blossoms all year round, he thought of many ways, and finally he transformed all these peach trees, one day at a time, and one at a night. ”

"That senior is really ......" Ling Ning was embarrassed, for the sake of peach blossom wine, this senior is really hard.

Rewriting these peach wood's life information, I think that senior is also quite powerful.

"Haha, of course the head of the Su family at that time wouldn't let him mess around. After the Su family began to make rune paper, this peach forest became the raw material of rune paper...... I've heard people mention that the senior still remembered the peach blossom wine he buried before he died. ”

Walking to the peach blossom path, they entered the small courtyard.

At the main entrance is a meeting room, no one.

Ling Ning followed Xun Niang into a door next to the hall.

It is a corridor lined with neatly lined scarlet lanterns.

After entering the corridor, Ling Ning instinctively frowned.

It didn't feel good, and she felt a clearer sense of peeping here.

Every time she walked past the red lantern, she felt like someone was watching her from behind.

And when she lifted her spirit and stared at the lantern, the sense of peeping disappeared again.

Lanterns - more like the eyes of something than lights!

In Ning's eyes, the lantern is the source of this sense of peeping.

"Aunt Xun, did you put these lanterns, they don't look good. ”

"You said lanterns...... I don't know. By the way, my sister told me that these lanterns were there a long, long time ago. Probably before we came here. ”

"Before you came here?"

“...... That's the secret. ”

When Ling Ning left the corridor, the lantern returned to normal again.

......

Walking out of the corridor, in front of Ling Ning was a room with four doors.

The room was open on all sides, and Xun Niang led her into the east one. This room is about seven or eight meters long and wide, with two huge stone mills on either side of the room, and a round pool of more than three meters in the center.

The inside of the pool is half full of an unknown liquid.

The color is brownish yellow and crystal clear.

There was no one in this room either...... No, the stone edging is moving!

Ling Ning walked over and wanted to say hello.

And then......

"Aunt Xun, what are these things?"

Underneath the two stone mills, several figures were pushing.

It's not a man, it's a puppet!

These puppets are not very delicately made, and they have human shapes, but they have a human look.

The wooden dolls are dressed in black costumes, as if they have not changed for hundreds of thousands of years.

From some details of the body and cheeks, Ling Ning saw their essence.

In the corner of the room, a ray of sunlight streams in through a vacant window. The light diffuses, leaving patches of light in the slightly dim room. In the midst of the light and shadow, there is an ancient corona. As time passes, the shadow of the corona moves slowly.

When the time comes, eight wooden dolls are slowly grinding the raw materials for making paper into a stone mill.

More than a dozen paper-making puppets took the pulp and began to boil the raw materials.

They pour the ground ingredients into the pot, and the liquid that looks like it has already boiled does not change at all.

It's just that the color is a little darker, and it seems to be much thicker.

"There's only one last step left. Xiao Ning, look at it. ”

A wooden puppet took a copper plate from the wooden frame and walked over and placed it in the light.

Ling Ning approached to take a closer look, and on the copper plate were more than a dozen notebooks that Su Yi had read.

The brilliance is condensed, and a piece of sky light is condensed.

After a while, hot air came out of the copper plate.

A spark leaped out of the light and ignited the note.

It didn't take long for the notes to appear blackened.

The corona reaches noon

After a burst of brilliant light, the notes on the copper plate turned into black charcoal.

The wooden puppet scatters that small cluster of black ash into the sky.

Detached from the condensed light, the air suddenly became dull.

Dignified, eerie, eerie, resentful

All kinds of negative emotions emerge from people's hearts......

Countless demons and monsters were born in the black ashes, including hideous life-seeking ghosts, headless old corpses, and murderous demon foxes...... They raised their heads to the sky and roared, roaring towards Ling Ning.

Then, thirteen strong and strong wills came out of the demons and monsters.

The roar that emanated from the depths of the soul rose to the sky, and the thoughts that slashed the demons and cleared the aliens broke through the sky and rose into the high heavenly clouds. Faintly, Ling Ning saw the embodiment of thirteen wills: a page of rune paper, a pitch-black sword, a complicated and cumbersome incantation, and a fist with gray bones......

At the moment when these wills emerged, the remnants of the demonic alien breath in the world were completely slashed and killed!

The sky is warm and the sun is warm, and the thirteen wills are condensed and stagnant on the copper plate.

"What is this?"

Reaching out to the pitch-black Dao sword in the copper plate, on the body of that Dao sword, Ling Ning faintly felt an aura of repulsion.

Xun Niang walked over and picked up the copper plate:

"This is the power of demon subjugation. The reason why the rune paper made by the Su family is favored by many demon slayers is precisely because these rune papers themselves have a demon-subduing power far beyond ordinary rune paper. ”

As she spoke, she poured the will condensation on the copper plate into the pool.

The brownish-yellow liquid suddenly boiled, evolving into an infinite vision.

Demon Dao, Soul Dao, Hungry Ghost Dao, Evil Spirit Dao...... Infinite phantoms emerge, and they are finally extinct under humane killing!

When the brown liquid cleared, a paper-making puppet walked over.

It scooped up the liquid from the pool and filled it into two empty boxes with hundreds of layers.

"In another quarter of an hour, the rune paper will be finished. ”

Xun Niang took the two cartons handed over by the paper puppet and weighed them: "This time, because of the rush of work, we divided the rune paper we made into three batches, and the batch that was just completed was only two boxes. This carton will produce 2,300 pieces of rune paper, and if you take one box back, it should be enough for you to use it for a while. ”

"That should be enough. ”

Two thousand three hundred rune papers......

Ling Ning nodded and took the carton.

Then she looked at the working doll in the room with great interest, and poked at the paper doll.

Turning around, Ling Ning asked curiously, "Are these puppets also made by you?" It's really amazing, I also want a few puppets...... Help me clean my room, and you can also help me farm copies!"

"Xiao Ning, you are really ...... They've all grown up, but they can't be too playful. Xun Niang smiled: "Strictly speaking, these dolls are not the Su family's things, but a gift that my sister exchanged with a friend before her death." ”

Reaching out and stroking the puppet holding the copper plate, Xun Niang fell into memory: "As you can see, in the past hundred years, I don't know why, there are fewer and fewer people in our Su family. Once upon a time, these runes were made by the family themselves. But since more than 100 years ago, the Su family has not had this manpower...... Alas, don't mention it. ”

"We say that the doll sister's friend is a master of making dolls, and the sister got thirty dolls that can keep Su Yuan running at the price of two plates of apples. ”

"By the way, that guy also comes with a hundred paper golems. ”

"Your sister is really amazing. ”

"I think so too. ”

............

Sending Ling Ning away, Xun Niang put the remaining cartons into a cabinet dedicated to storing rune paper. She looked at the dolls that had been stagnant with a sigh, if it weren't for the existence of these dolls, the Su family might not be making paper.

Walking out of the room and out of the small courtyard, Xun Niang walked towards the attic water pavilion of Xiaoyou's residence.

Halfway through the road, she stopped and thought for a moment. It's always bad to be empty-handed, and Xiao You wants to say that she is biased again.

She went to the town again and bought some ingredients and fruits.

"Xiaoyou, are you better?"

In the afternoon, Xun Niang pushed the door into this quaint room.

She took out the things hidden behind her: "Qiang Qiang Qiang! Xiao You, look at it, what is this!"

"Pomegranate!" Lying on the bed, the little girl who looked listless suddenly smiled.

She walked over and took the pomegranate in her arms.

She rubbed her cheek together.

After a long while, she thought that the time was wrong: "Aunt Xun, is there a pomegranate at this time?"

"Of course, seeing that Xiao Yu was unhappy, this little thing ran in front of me by itself. "Aunt Xun looked like, 'I'm so surprised'. She pointed to the pomegranate in Su You's hand: "This may be a reward for a good child~"

"Hmm~!"

Nodding, Xiao Yu couldn't wait to break the skin of the pomegranate.

Crystal full, each with a flush.

Xiao You's smile was even brighter, and she happily took a fruit into her mouth.

"Is it delicious?"

"Mm-hmm, my favorite pomegranate is my favorite. Nodding, the little girl took a few more fruits and handed them to Xun Niang's hand: "Aunt Xun also eats it, it's delicious." ”

"I won't eat it, this is a reward for Xiao You~"

Xunniang touched her little head: "Xiaoyou eat slowly, your cousin is about to get up, I have to make her lunch." ”

“...... Aunt Xun always spoils her sister like this?"

Stuffing a few fruits in her hand into her mouth, the girl tasted a little: "...... What about eccentricity. ”

There was no response, Xun Niang just smiled in a low voice, revealing a slightly sad expression: "Xiaoyou is still young, you will know when you grow up." And the eldest lady is not as capable as Xiao You, if no one takes care of her, she will become a sloppy ghost. ”

She reached out to the girl's neck again and untied the layer of gauze: "Let Aunt Xun see if the dirty things have fallen." ”

"No. The girl reluctantly tugged at her collar.

As Xun Niang untied the gauze, the blue stain did not dissipate at all. If you look closely, you can see what seems to be inside. Xun Niang wiped the traces out of that piece.

She frowned slightly, puzzled.

"Aunt Xun, it's so ugly, when will it disappear?"

Like all girls her age, Yu doesn't like the ugly mark on her neck.

"Soon, soon, soon......"