Probably because of the summer, as soon as the sky was bright, a wave of heat came from all directions, Yue Yue really couldn't sleep, touched the lamp next to the bed, and then went out directly in pajamas to ventilate, and turned left and walked a dozen steps to her brother Yue Ling's room.

She looked over there, it was pitch black, but every morning at this time, Yue Ling should get up and go to practice, "strange" Yue Yue thought to herself, "Didn't you get up?" Or is it already out? She didn't walk over again, but went straight out of the yard where she was, wanting to turn around and blow the wind in the back of the Xianhu Garden.

As soon as she walked in, she caught a glimpse of the courtyard door that was connected to Xianhu Garden but closed all year round, and there was still light inside!

This courtyard is also strange to say, although Yue Yue is the eldest lady, she can go anywhere in this extremely wide range of mansions, but this courtyard, if it doesn't open the door, it doesn't matter, and it doesn't let people approach.

Yue Yue had a deep obsession with this courtyard when he was a child, and tried to enter it many times.

Either he was stopped at the door, or he was scolded angrily by the father who came when he heard the sound on the way over the wall.

But this obsession was completely broken when she was nine years old, not because she figured it out, but because the door of the courtyard she had dreamed of going in was opened!

However, after opening the door, her father and Yue Ling carried out a corpse from inside!

And this corpse is none other than Yue Yue's playmate since childhood: Yue Yue's uncle's youngest son, that is, her cousin Yue Yulei.

Speaking of his death, Yue Yue is also responsible.

That day, while her father was going out, she and Yue Ronglei took the kite that she secretly asked her subordinates to buy, and put it in Xianhu Park.

Because of the house rules, the two children had never played with such a thing, and when they were put away, the kite floated to that yard with the wind.

Although they all knew that this courtyard could not be entered, Yue Yue felt that the adults were hiding something for fear that others would find out and not let them in, so she asked this cousin to climb in and get it.

Yue Yulei, like other brothers of the same generation, especially doted on this only sister, and couldn't stand her soft grinding and hard bubbles, so he agreed.

He has practiced good martial arts since he was a child, and it is naturally not a problem to climb over the wall.

Immediately, Yue Yue heard the sound of landing.

I thought it wouldn't be long before he came out, but when it was almost dark, he still didn't wait.

During this period, Yue Yue called through the wall countless times, but none of them received a response.

She was in a hurry, but she couldn't tell anyone else, she thought that Yue Ling might help her, after all, she usually came to see her brother and favored her.

Thinking about it, she went to Yue Ling and told him the ins and outs of the matter, but before she could finish speaking, she saw Yue Ling's face become very ugly, "I can't help you this time" As she said, she stood up and walked out without looking back, leaving Yue Yue alone in a daze.

About an hour later, Yue Yue heard a commotion outside, and when he went out, he saw many uncles and uncles walking towards Xianhu Garden, in a hurry, Yue Yue also saw his uncle Yue Zhonghua, who was Yue Yulei's father, he frowned, and walked along the crowd with his head down.

Yue Yue was curious, but felt a little uneasy.

"Could it be that something happened to Brother Xiaoyu" she thought, and followed the flow of people in a daze, but when she arrived, she found that the Xianhu Garden was full of people, and people who were not usually the Yue family's own couldn't even enter the backyard, let alone come here.

Doubts and panic occupied Yue Yue's mind, although she was young, she could still realize that something was definitely wrong.

She found a stone mountain to hide, and after a while, the crowd was restless, she poked her head out, but saw a scene that she would never forget in her life: the door of the courtyard opened, and Yue Ling and her father walked out one after the other and carried a person!

She didn't see who it was at first, but she knew that she saw her uncle Yue Zhonghua step forward, take the shelf carrying the man, and lift it up one after the other with another unfamiliar face.

When passing by the stone mountain where Yue Yue was hiding, she poked her head out to take a look! I felt that it was Yue Ronglei who overturned the river and the sea for a while!

His face was as if he had been knifed countless times, his flesh and blood were blurred and disgusting, if it weren't for the kite still holding their kite in his hand and wearing his clothes, Yue Yue would never be able to see it.

Yue Yue was so frightened that she cried and staggered back to her room.

Since then, Yue Yue has never been near that courtyard, and she even thinks that there must be monsters living in it that can eat people.

Even now, I still have a chill in my back when I think about it.

But now that the door is open, and there is still light inside, maybe her brother and father are inside, and even if there is something terrible, I believe it will not do anything to her.

Thinking of this, she had the confidence to walk towards the door with a crack open. After walking a few steps, she seemed to be able to see that there was probably a kerosene lamp in the crack of the door, and she could vaguely see that the lamp seemed to be moving.

She swallowed her saliva, and her hand touched the door directly, and now with a push, she would see this mysterious courtyard clearly, and whether it was hell or the execution ground could be determined.

Yue Yue thought about it, but her hand on the door did not move, her already nervous hands began to tremble, and her forehead began to sweat because of the hot weather or fear.

Just when Yue Yue hesitated, the light in the crack went out!

Yue Yue was startled, trembled, and pressed his hand on the door, and the door was actually pushed open!

Yue Yue didn't stand firmly, she stumbled, and fell on the ground in the door, she could feel that her body was stiff, as the only daughter of dozens of peers in the Yue family, in addition to not violating those strange family rules, she didn't want to be windy or rainy, how could she be so frightened.

But she still got up in a strange posture, and after standing firmly, it was already dawn at this time, and she looked at it, thinking that she would see some extremely terrifying scene, but this courtyard was obviously similar to the style of other courtyards outside!

However, Yue Yue was still taken aback: she originally thought that this courtyard was just a room or an ordinary courtyard, but when she came in, she saw that there was another door not far ahead, and this door was actually open!

Inside the gate is no longer a yard, but a forest!

And in this courtyard, there is a canal around the wall, and there are piles of stone rockeries around the canal, and in the grooves of the rockery, there are some plants with blue leaves and red fruits that Yue Yue has never seen before, and then there is only a goose warm stone road extending from the door inside, and other than that, there is nothing else in this courtyard.

"Strange, what is the lamp just now......" Yue Yue felt strange, there was no one in this courtyard, so there was only the door that was facing her now, she thought about it and walked towards the door.

Halfway through, suddenly, I heard a deep shout, "Yue Yue!" You give me back! ”

"Daddy!" Yue Yue was thinking about it, and she was really startled when she heard her father's deafening voice.

She looked behind her, only to see her father and brother Yue Ling striding towards this side, Yue Yue hadn't come back to her senses, her father had quickly arrived in front of her, and pulled her elbow out of the door.

"Daddy......" Yue Yue knew that he had made a mistake this time and was caught, and his confidence in speaking was a lot weaker, "It's not a small courage, let's go!" Her father's voice was strong and powerful, just like Yue Yue said "unique momentum".

She was dragged back like this, but fortunately, it was still early, and there was no one on the road in the yard, otherwise her face would have been lost.

However, Yue Yue was puzzled, she thought that his father would take her to the ring hall to be punished, but she was taken to the ancestral hall for countless ancestors of their Yue family, this ancestral hall is generally not allowed to outsiders to enter, but there are no restrictions on her own family.

After Yue Yue was brought into the door, his father threw her to the ground with a wave of his big hand, "Kneel" This time his tone seemed to be much calmer, Yue Yue turned his head to look at her father, under the half-black and half-hundred hair was a kind but majestic face, I thought he would be very angry, but there was no trace of anger on that face, but mixed with an uncertain look that Yue Yue had never seen, which made her even more confused.

Yue Yue knelt on the ground and didn't speak, only to see her father lighting all the candles in the ancestral hall one by one, illuminating the dim ancestral hall.

"Have you seen these spirit cards? Yue'er," his father asked.

"No......" Yue Yue didn't know why his father asked her this question.

But it seemed that Yue Yue's answer did not affect what Yue Zhongyuan wanted to say, and he opened his mouth again, "Our Yue family has been here for thousands of years, and the family rules have been revised so many times, but there is one family rule that will always remain the same, and it is also the most important...... Do you know which one? ”

"No one is allowed to enter that courtyard," Yue Yue replied, "but why?" This question has been buried in Yue Yue's heart for more than ten years, but every time he asked before, Yue Zhongyuan kept his mouth shut, but he didn't expect that this time, he actually spoke.

"There is a person living there, a person who controls the life and death of mortals, a person who our Yue family has guarded and served for generations. If you are not the head of the family, you will not be able to enter, and you will not be able to see it if you are not the head of the family. I am also old, and when I return to the West, I have to let my children take over the mission of this inheritance, and you, Yue'er, you will become the next patriarch of the Yue family, giving up freedom and emotion, but you can be respected and admired by thousands of people. Then you can go to that courtyard and you'll know everything you want to know......"

"Patriarch?" Yue Yue knew that the Yue family was different from other families, their patriarchs were all directly granted by the previous patriarch and did not need to ask anyone, but the strange thing was that after so many generations of ancestors of the Yue family were ordained, no one had disagreed, and no one would rebel for the sake of this huge family business.

It can be said that the Yue family has never been separated from ancient times.

Moreover, since he was a child, Yue Yue saw that everyone in the Yue family treated his father with respect and humility.

But what's even more strange is that in Yue Yue's impression, the children of the Yue family for generations are all men, and they have never heard of a woman, and from now on, every uncle and uncle is the same as their father, all of them have only two children, and unlike their father, their children are all men.

"Why am I the patriarch, brother, my brother must be better than me, besides, I am a female ......" Before she finished speaking, she saw Yue Zhongyuan pick up the incense ash burner on the ancestral hall, and pressed the table under the incense ash burner with her other hand.

I listened to the sound of a few mechanical rotations, and then I saw that the wall on the right where the platoon was placed had a crack in the middle, and slowly grew larger and larger, enough to pass two people side by side, and then the wall stopped moving.

Wonderful! Punching a hole in the ancestral nest, Yue Yue thought to herself.

"Follow me" Yue Zhongyuan walked over there, Yue Yue stood up and trotted over.

Entering from the door just opened, it was a path about twenty steps wide with the door, and what shocked Yue Yue was that the top and bottom of this road and the left and right walls were carved white marble with reliefs.

Yue Yue didn't care about what was carved, thinking that it was nothing more than an ordinary decoration, and there was a finger-thick gold edge embedded in the corners between the walls, which extended to the room at the end.

The fire outside didn't shine that far, and she couldn't see what the inside of the room looked like. But just the aisle outside can shock her so much, it can be seen that the room inside is luxurious, Yue Yue knows that the Yue family has a big business, but she didn't expect it to be like this.

While thinking, Yue Zhongyuan had already reached the end of the aisle, "keeping up" with his penetrating voice, which reverberated in this enclosed place.

Yue Yue heard this echo coming from behind the room at the end, and it seemed that there was still a lot of space behind it.

Yue Yue trotted to follow, and after a while, he entered the end of the road, where there were two large semicircular rooms in the ancestral hall outside, and in the middle was a carved stone platform that was also white marble, and on the stone platform was placed an incense burner inlaid with gold wire, and then looked back, only to see that the entire wall behind the stone platform was densely packed with golden spirit cards.

As Yue Zhongyuan lit all the lights in this group room, the entire layout was also presented in front of Yue Yue.

This is different from the outside walkway, the walls here are all kinds of crystal gems inlaid on the golden wall!

She also looked at it for a long time before she realized that the shape of these inlaid gems was actually a monster with eight legs, three heads and six arms!

"Daddy...... This is? ”

"Chi You" Yue Zhongyuan said without the slightest hesitation, "But the key is not this wall, you look at these spirit cards" said and pointed to the tablets in the middle, "You look carefully."

At first, Yue Yue only saw these spirit cards there, and didn't look at them carefully, but it didn't matter if she didn't look at it, at first glance, Yue Yue felt that her legs were weak, and there was even a burst of dizziness, and she clearly saw that the spirit cards on this wall were written with the same name: Yue Ling!

"Brother? Dad, what are you doing, my brother is not dead, and he has set up so many tablets......"

Before he finished speaking, Yue Zhongyuan continued to speak, "I'll let you take a closer look, do you see that these are your brothers?" ”

Yue Yue looked over there again suspiciously, and this time he saw that there were still small characters on the seats of Yue tokens, which were connected: Yue Ling, the son of Yue Honglin, Yue Ling, the son of Yue Haifeng, and Yue Ling, the son of Yue Shuhua......

Yue Yue is not stupid, looking at the wall full of Yue tokens, he suddenly thought of his brother again, what must the name Yue Ling represent, "What about that brother?" Brother is also Yue Ling, Dad, why are so many people called Yue Ling. ”

"The reason why you are the head of the family, not your brother, is because he is Yue Ling, and Yue Ling is ordered by the head of the family, alas, ......" He sighed, he thought he was choked.

"Your brother! He is...... He is the one who can never have a name on the family tree! Although they were born and raised in the Yue family, they are just tools after all......"

Yue Yue was shocked at first when he heard Yue Zhongyuan say this, but he thought that his father had treated his brother like he was not his own since he was a child, and he was forced to practice every day, could it be that his brother was not born to his father?

Yue Yue thought about looking at his father, Yue Zhongyuan seemed to be able to see what Yue Yue was thinking, and replied directly to her, "Your brother is my own child, but there are some things that we can't decide, as the head of the Yue family, there are too many things to carry, and giving up the care and love for your children is just the most basic process."

People, for this world, it is too small, there are some things that we can not understand, let alone control us, and some things are not necessarily good to understand. In the future, if I am not by your side, remember to be cautious in everything you say and do, and don't be curious. ”

Yue Zhongyuan paused, looked at Yue Yue and continued: "Yue'er, I know that it is really embarrassing for you to let you be this patriarch, but the will of heaven must be obeyed!" As he spoke, he patted Yue Yue's shoulder, "Let's go, go back." ”

"But Daddy......" Yue Yue still had a lot of questions, how could he let it go so easily, but at this time, Yue Zhongyuan had already strode towards the place where they had just come.

Yue Yue knew what his father didn't want to say, no matter how much she asked, it was useless for her to ask, so she simply didn't ask, thinking that she would find a suitable opportunity to ask her father in detail in the future, so she followed and went out.

After leaving the ancestral hall, Yue Yue saw his brother Yue Ling waiting at the door, thinking of what she had just seen and heard, she couldn't help but find a place for his brother on that wall.

"Ahhhh Yue Yue immediately realized that no, didn't he curse Yue Ling to death? Came back to his senses immediately.

"What's wrong?" Yue Ling asked.

"It's okay, it's nothing, it's nothing." Yue Yue looked at this brother who grew up with her, and couldn't help but be a little frustrated, obviously they are all a family, why should there be such a rule?

Thinking about it, he said to Yue Ling, "I have to go back to string strings, goodbye, brother!" ”

When Yue Yue said "brother", her voice was obviously a lot heavier.

Yue Ling thought about it, and probably knew about himself, so he didn't ask any more.

Yue Ling began to be personally supervised by his father when he was young, and such a young child was subjected to high-intensity training, and he also complained and shed tears, but he always remembered what his father said, "If you don't become strong, you will die now."

He also knew very well the intention of his family's rules, and knew what was in that forest that the Yue family had guarded for generations.

After all, he must be clear in order to know what he should do and what kind of way he should do it.

At the beginning, he kept silently hinting to himself that he had to hold on, he couldn't be attached to this world, after so many years, he was numb, he only knew that all he had to do was to be obedient, just wait, wait for that "order" to be given, and then, hand over his life.

As for everything in the outside world, it has nothing to do with him, maybe his only thought is his sister who is not yet sensible.

He also thought about letting go of his sister, after all, his sister was just a person who had nothing to do with his mission, but every time he saw his sister's smiling face, he didn't know how to face the doomed ending in the future.