The fiery red thing got closer and closer, and I saw clearly that it was a row of fiery foxes, about twenty or so, all of them shiny and slippery, and they were not easy to mess with.

Hu Yunyi stuffed me into the carriage, the curtain was lowered, I couldn't see the situation outside, but I heard Hu Yunzhi say: "Sister Huilan, this patrol in the middle of the night? ”

"Just now, my subordinates reported that there were suspicious humans who had gone up the mountain, sneaky, so I took my sisters out for a walk." A sonorous voice sounded, "What, did Yunzhi just come out of the old mansion?" ”

"Well, come back and get some things, we're going to rush back." Hu Yunzhi replied.

Then I heard a footstep slowly approaching, and soon I was standing next to the carriage, and I could see my presence as soon as the curtain was lifted.

No, even if they don't lift the curtain, they should have already smelled my scent, whether they will demolish me depends on whether Hu Yunzhi's face is big enough.

"This carriage...... You weren't allowed to do it, did you? Hui Lan suddenly asked.

Hu Yunzhi was obviously nervous: "No, there is something wrong with my carriage, so I borrowed a friend's to use it." ”

"Okay." Hui Lan said earnestly, "Speaking of which, you have been with your third brother for many years, and you have suffered a lot of grievances between the Hu Mansion and the old mansion, so you really haven't thought about returning to the old mansion and helping the family with peace of mind?" ”

"Sister Huilan, there is a grandfather and a second brother in the old house, a child like me will only make trouble, let me experience outside." Hu Yunzhi said.

"The patriarch and grandfather are old, and in recent years, many things have been let go and the eldest brother and second brother have presided over it." Hui Lan sighed and said, "The eldest brother and the second brother are so good, whoever takes the lead can do it alone, Yunzhi, aren't you afraid of ......"

Hui Lan wanted to say something, but I understood something from her words.

The elder of the fox clan needs to choose an heir, but the ability of the eldest and second is comparable, whoever chooses will definitely provoke a battle for the throne, this critical period, if Hu Yunzhi does not go back, I am afraid that he will want to go back in the future, and there will be no place for him.

This Sister Huilan seems to be very good to Hu Yunzhi, and the heart I have been carrying has been slightly lowered.

Hu Yunzhi smiled bitterly and said: "I have no objection to the eldest brother and second brother who will take over the old house, anyway, I can't afford to bear this burden, so I won't go back and mix blindly, Sister Huilan, it's not too early, go back and resume your life." ”

Hui Lan didn't say anything more, Hu Yunyi pulled the reins, drove a sound, and the carriage moved slowly.

At this time, another voice hurriedly said, "Sister Huilan, don't you search the inside of the carriage?" Maybe ......"

"What do you mean by that?" Hui Lan instead questioned the other party, "The fifth master is his own family, can his own family still harm his own family?" ”

"But, just now it was clear that ......"

"What was it just now? Xiaogui, I warn you, you can eat more, you can't talk nonsense, be careful with your tongue! ”

Hui Lan lowered her voice and drank this, the one called Xiao Gui immediately fell silent, at that time, Hu Yunzhi had already driven the carriage for a while, I lifted the curtain and stretched out my head to look back, only to see a mist lingering in the mountains and forests, and there was nothing else.

"Don't look at it, it's fortunate that it's Sister Huilan who met this time, if we were someone else, we would be miserable." Hu Yunzhi said.

I quickly retracted my head, grabbed the curtain with one hand, revealed the small half of my face, and said: "Hu Yunzhi, this Sister Huilan is really good to you, she knows that I am in the carriage, but she still protects you." ”

"There are a lot of people in the old mansion who are very nice." Hu Yunzhi turned around and smiled at me and said, "When we were young, our brothers and sisters were so happy to live together, if it weren't for the third brother ...... that year."

"Now that grandpa is old and is retiring, the whole atmosphere in the old mansion has changed."

I can somewhat understand his feelings, and said, "Your eldest brother and second brother are all very good, and it is very unpleasant to compete for the position of the next patriarch, isn't it?" ”

"The eldest brother and the second brother are indeed excellent, but in my opinion, they are far inferior to the third brother, in my mind, the next patriarch should be my third brother." Hu Yunyi drove the carriage and said, "If my third brother can go back one day, I think everything will return to the best moment in the past." ”

"But he can't go back, can he?" I speculated.

"Huh~" Hu Yunzhi suddenly stopped the carriage, looked back at me very seriously and said, "Whether the third brother can return to the old mansion depends on Miss Meng." ”

I frowned, puzzled, "What does it have to do with me?" ”

"Miss Meng, you won't break into the old mansion tonight just because you're curious, but you have to know that you can't get in." Hu Yunzhi said, "I can't take you in, but if my third brother can go back, he will definitely take you." ”

I was stepped on by Hu Yunzhi all of a sudden, yes, I really want to go to the old mansion of the fox clan to find out my life experience, but tonight I went up the mountain and has been discovered, if it wasn't for Hu Yunzhi appearing in time and helping me cover up, I'm afraid I'm going to be in trouble tonight.

If you think about it later, it is estimated that it will be more dangerous.

Hu Yunzhi is telling me that helping Hu Dingtang is helping myself.

"What can I do to help him, you tell me?" I asked.

Hu Yunzhi opened his mouth, but finally held back: "The time has not come." ”

The carriage moved again, and on the way back, I had no other conversation with Hu Yunzhi, until I returned to the shroud shop, Hu Yun got out of the carriage and said: "Miss Meng, the third brother even took you to see the old house, it can be seen that he really treats you as his own person, and I hope Miss Meng can treat him sincerely like the third brother." ”

……

In the middle of the night, I lay in bed, thinking about everything that had happened these days, and I could actually sort out some clues.

Hu Dingtang every fifteen, the body will have a condition, and this situation is also the reason why he became independent from the fox clan and was rejected by the fox clan, my yin and yang needle made him see the hope of reversing the situation, and the so-called time has not come, that is, my ability has not arrived.

A few things happened before, Hu Dingtang threw me out, in fact, to test whether the people over there were ghosts, and after getting the results he wanted, he wanted to accept me as a younger brother, because he wanted to help me accumulate merit and become strong as soon as possible, so that he could help him.

But no one thought that I couldn't be his younger brother, and he didn't want to give up, so he turned to Mrs. Wu and asked me to help him do things in disguise.

And I couldn't do his brother's thing, which made him suspicious, and finally he found out that there was a fox Neidan hidden in my body, which I didn't even notice to myself, with this Neidan, in a sense, I am not a normal human being, and of course I can't be Hu Dingtang's younger brother.

He also knew that it was not enough to subdue me by using Mrs. Wu to pull a relationship with me, so he offended me again and again, wanting to completely turn me into his woman, so as to completely control me, but so far to no avail.

He has always been a wolf to me, and he allowed me to jump in the palm of his hand, but he did not allow me to betray anything, otherwise, I would have died without a place to be buried.

And, from my own point of view, I really need to use Hu Dingtang to strengthen myself, so many years in the Yin Si Bureau, let me understand a truth, only my own strength, can have the right to speak.

Therefore, in the end of the analysis, I have no reason to go against Hu Dingtang, I have to help him get out of the predicament and go back to the old house, and at that time, I will really have the opportunity to investigate my life experience, and it will be at that time, even if my identity is really exposed, I don't have to worry about being hunted down again.

Hu Dingtang...... Looks like we're really going to tie it up.

I turned over and glanced at the time, tomorrow is fifteen again, this day is Hu Dingtang's Good Friday, where will he take refuge?

Hu Yunzhi said before that over the years, every fifteenth year, Hu Dingtang would go to the ancient tomb of the mass grave to retreat, but now that the ancient tomb has collapsed, where will he go?

I thought about it all day the next day, and when night fell, when I washed up and wanted to go to bed, I still didn't come up with a reason.

The environment of Mingyang Mountain is not suitable for Hu Dingtang's retreat on this day, otherwise he would not have to go to the ancient tomb for so many years before, Lin'an Town is so big, what other place can he go?

I didn't think about it, and I didn't give up, and suddenly I thought, will he still go to the ancient tomb?

When the ancient tomb collapsed, the main reason was that the tomb where Zhen Ji was located was destroyed, and the other tombs should still be broken, right?

It is said that someone has already come over for a special investigation during this time, maybe the tomb where Hu Dingtang has been retreating and cultivating has not collapsed?

I wanted so much to figure out what kind of predicament Hu Dingtang was facing, so as soon as this idea came to my mind, I couldn't wait.

packed up his things, locked the door of the store, and hurriedly ran in the direction of Zhen Ji's ancient tomb.

This is the third time I have walked this road, and I am familiar with it, but after all, I am alone, and when I pass through those two empty villages, my heart is still hairy.

After Zhen Ji disappeared, I never understood why these two villages became empty villages, but I understood that this matter may have a relatively small relationship with Zhen Ji, and it may have more to do with the hungry ghost.

Zhen Ji is gone, but the hungry ghost that I have encountered many times has been hidden, and it has never appeared again.

How many innocent lives do it need to fill from the cultivation and growth of that thing, and on the night of July 15, it was lying on my grandmother's back, wasn't it just sucking my grandmother's essence?

But what I didn't expect was that in the middle of the mass grave and near the ancient tomb, I actually saw a bright light!

It was a makeshift dwelling, small enough to accommodate five or six people lying flat, but I was amazed by the light bulbs hanging outside.

There are not many people in Lin'an Town who can use light bulbs, and those people in front of them should be people who came in from the outside for archaeology, right?

I cautiously approached, and soon they spotted me too, and a man in his fifties asked me, "Are you a human or a ghost?" ”

"People." I said, "Didn't the ancient tomb collapse?" ”

As I spoke, I had already walked in front of him, and the man reached out and pinched my shoulder, which was a little heavy, and I couldn't help but hiss, and the man said, "It's alive, don't worry, everyone." ”

Then he said to me: "Girl, don't mind, the main thing is that there are many things encountered, and the suspicion is heavier than that of ordinary people, and I am offended." ”

"It's okay, it's better to be careful." As I spoke, I pointed in the direction of the tomb and asked again, "The tomb has been destroyed, is there any point in researching it?" ”

"It's just a small burial chamber that collapsed more severely, and the remnants of a large burial chamber are still very valuable for research." The man said.

I nodded, raised my feet and walked forward again, but the man quickly stopped me and said, "Girl, what are you doing?" You can't just go near the tomb. ”

"It's okay, I've been down, I'm not afraid." I confess.

The man was stunned for a moment, then trotted after me, grabbed me by the arm and asked, "Girl, have you ever gone down?" I heard that almost all the people who went down to this ancient tomb at the beginning died, and only one girl came out of the ancient tomb alive, so, are you Meng Jiusheng? ”

How did the news get out?

Then I thought that among the survivors, in addition to me, my grandmother and the people in the Hu Mansion, only Wu Yong was left, and Wu Yong became the godgrandson of Wu Pozi, and no matter how many words there were, Wu Pozi could be tricked away, and Wu Pozi's mouth was without a door.

Now that I was recognized, I didn't hide it, and nodded, "It's me." ”

"Is it really you?" As soon as the man grabbed my hand, he introduced himself, "I'm Professor Jin from Kyoto, and this time I brought five students over to archaeology Zhen Ji's tomb together, but I didn't expect to meet you, it's really a blessing for three lives." ”

I was so uncomfortable with him that I withdrew my hand and said, "I was also rescued at the time, so I don't know much." ”

"Miss Meng, it's weird cold outside, let's go inside and talk, shall we?" Professor Kim said as he led me into the improvised room, and one of his students immediately poured me a glass of water, which was cold.

And when I looked around, I felt that something was wrong.

Professor Jin just said that he had brought five students here, but only four of them appeared in front of me.

In the corner of the simple room, there is a pile of things, wrapped in a white cloth, which looks a little chilling down the spine.

Professor Jin looked at me and his eyes were glued to the white cloth package, and then he said sadly: "That is one of my proud protégés, the first time we went to the grave, he disappeared, and his body was not found until noon today, and we were planning to discuss when to send him home." ”

"Disappeared in the tomb and then found it again?" I asked.

"Yes, we were separated from us in the ancient tomb a few days ago, and we didn't find it for a long time, but today, the body was found in a mass grave not far away, which made us a little confused." Professor Kim replied.

This is wrong, if you get lost in the ancient tomb, you should die in the ancient tomb, how can you come out? Even if they come out, they should come to Professor Jin and them as soon as possible, right?

"Have you found out how he died?" I asked, maybe the cause of death would reveal something strange about this.

"You must have been burned to death by the fire, right?" Professor Kim is not confident.

At the beginning, it was indeed the Hu Mansion's practice that ignited the ground fire, but the ground fire was extinguished that night, how could it be possible to quietly burn a person to death after such a long time?

I paced to the corpse and stretched out my hand to lift the white cloth to take a look, but Professor Jin stepped forward and held me down, shaking his head: "Don't look at it, the death is a little terrifying." ”

"It's okay, I'm not afraid of that." As he spoke, he had already lifted the corner of the white cloth and just stared at the deceased's round eyes.

The boy was in his early twenties, with a Chinese face, an inch head, a hideous face, two fruity arms, and still maintained an undressing posture, and he was wearing only a pair of middle pants that had only half cut down from top to bottom, and I could see that there were many dark lines on the skin.

"Professor Kim, you're saying that your students were burned to death by the fire?" I asked, looking at the dark lines.

Professor Jin nodded: "Because the detection requires a certain amount of time and instruments, I can only judge according to these dark lines on the corpse and his state." ”

I squatted down, carefully studied the dark lines on the corpse, and shook my head: "No, your students don't look like they were burned to death." ”

"Did Miss Meng see something?" Professor Jin said modestly, "I just came to Lin'an and heard that Miss Meng is a person with great knowledge, and I once came to visit, but Miss Meng was not there, I didn't expect to meet you here, it's really good, I haven't seen earth fire, so when I can't explain this phenomenon, I can only infer from the situation at that time." ”

"If the inference is wrong, please don't laugh at me, an old man, and ask Miss Meng to give me some advice."

I was a little embarrassed: "I don't know much, but I just read a lot of miscellaneous books with my grandmother that record strange things. ”

Of course, I can't tell him what happened when I was in the Yin Division, so I can only talk about things with books again.

"How did this dark pattern come about? Miss Meng, please give me some advice. Professor Jin clasped his hands into fists and waved at me.

I quickly returned the salute and said, "If I'm not mistaken, this student should have frozen to death." ”

"Frozen to death? How can it be? On the other side, a female classmate immediately denied me and said, "How can there be a reason to take off your clothes when you are frozen, this Meng girl, we are researchers, and anyone with a discerning eye can see the facts, you still want to come to blind us?" ”

Professor Jin immediately reprimanded: "What do you know, if you have the ability, you can tell me how Li Gang died?" ”

The girl immediately shut up, and Professor Jin asked me with a smile on her face: "Miss Meng, you must have a reason for saying this, I believe in the result of your judgment, but how it was determined, Miss Meng must tell us." ”

"It's an anomaly of stripping." I asked, "When you found him, was he curled up in a ball, like a piece of stuffed into a tiny space?" ”

"Yes, it's curled up." Professor Jin immediately nodded, "He just leaned against a tombstone, but it shrunk into a ball, and after we got him back, he stretched out a little." ”