On the night of September 6, the 19th year of Yongle.

The shadows of the trees are waving, the cool breeze is bleak, and on a path in a newly built house in recent months, two teenagers who look to be eleven or twelve years old are on patrol with glowing wind cages in their hands. One of the teenagers was a little scared, so he reluctantly found the topic and said to the other teenager: "Senior brother, I heard that a lot of bones have been dug up from the ground in the newly built houses on our island these days, have you heard, senior brother?" ”

I only heard another teenager reply: "Hey junior brother, don't talk about these gods and ghosts in the middle of the night, this night is just the two of us patrolling the night, looking at those dark houses, there are really some people." ”

"What Senior Brother said is that in the past few days, Senior Brother Ma's kitchen has always thrown some roast chicken and other food, and I don't know who stole it, some people say that those who eat are eaten by the dead souls on this island and take it to their own memorial service, well, there is no wonder, there is no blame." The timid boy frightened himself when he said this, and bowed to the darkness in front of him again and again.

I only heard that the older boy smiled when he saw this: "Look at you, I scared myself first when I talked about the topic I raised, I don't do anything wrong, naturally I am not afraid of a ghost knocking on the door, but do you have something wrong?" I'll tell you about it. ”

"Cut, what can I do to ...... wrong"

The two night watchmen talked, and walked farther and farther up the path, but only the flickering lantern could be seen in the distance under the darkness of the night. Not long after the two night patrolmen left, a slender figure dressed in black crossed over a low tree beside the path, and saw the figure looking around left and right, as if to identify the road conditions, and after careful observation left and right, he turned around and ran north.

When a familiar building finally appeared in front of him, the black shadow finally stopped running, hid his body in a dark place that could not be illuminated by the moonlight, thought for a moment, and slowly moved forward sideways, and when the body was about to emerge from the shadows, the black shadow took a sharp breath, jumped up in the direction of the courtyard wall, and the sound of his body touching the tiles on the courtyard wall sounded in the dark night. The black-clothed figure shook violently when he heard the sound, turned around and drilled towards the low grass in the courtyard, but this time he didn't make any sound.

The tranquility lasted for nearly a stick of incense, until the call of an unknown bird in the sky broke the silence again, and at the same time as the bird's call sounded, an almost inaudible squirming sound sounded again in the low grass, and the man in black who had just burrowed into the grass changed his position again.

Another stick of incense, two sticks of incense time passed, and a foot slowly poked out in the shadow under the courtyard wall that made a noise not long ago, and after listening to it for a long time without making a sound, then the whole body was exposed to the moonlight. I only heard the man in black muttering in a barely audible voice: "It turns out that there is no one in this courtyard, but I am nervous and scare myself." "This black shadow is Zhining.

Since a few months ago and hid back in the cave, Zhi Ning has been in the cave for nearly two months, during this period in addition to the night to get some water, Zhi Ning almost never out of the cave, as for the food, Zhi Ning found a lot of jerky in Qiao'er's relics, and Zhi Ning, who has already made long-term plans, asked for a lot of bamboo shoots and wild vegetables in the confrontation with Shi Lu, taking advantage of the full sunshine at noon in the cave, and made a lot of sea salt, and simply pickled the bamboo shoots and wild vegetables together. The only fly in the ointment is that there is no fire in the cave, so you can only make do with some raw food, but this is the safest way at the moment. It's strange to say, I don't know that Li Yunlan, Hongdou and others have wiped out the Ming army, and since that day, there has been no Qing Ren near the cave where Ning was staying. The red bean came again "fakely", but after shouting and not moving, he left in a hurry.

And Zhi Ning's coming this time is not all to steal ingredients, a few days ago Zhi Ning thought about March Zhi Ning has made up his mind: the enemy on the island Li Yunlan turned out to be with several people around him on weekdays, if you fight to the death and I live the big feud of the Han King of the Imperial Court, no one can mention himself to revenge, plus there is the red bean who is most familiar with him, I am afraid that he is not their opponent at this time, if he wants to revenge himself, he can only go out of the island to find another opportunity. This time he secretly came back to Ning Yi to retrieve the weapon that Mushan gave him, and the second was to see if there was a way to get out of the island.

"I didn't expect that the fire didn't affect Mushan's house that day, and the display in this courtyard is the same as the original, but I don't know if my belongings have been turned over by Li Yunlan and others." Zhi Ning, who had sneaked into the house, thought to himself.

In fact, Zhining's doubts are superfluous, it was an accident that Mushan was captured that day, and after returning to the island, Lanyi strictly forbade everyone to enter Mushan's relict residence, and only sent servants to clean up the dust every half month, just to keep a thought. Therefore, Li Yunlan and the others had the heart to throw away her belongings, but they were helpless to dispel them.

At this time, the Xinglan Sword was restored and placed on the roof beam that Zhining was hastily hidden when he left, although the servants often cleaned it, but the roof beam was not a place where the servants often cleaned. Although there was a thick layer of earth ash on the scabbard at this time, Zhi Ning, who saw the Xinglan Sword, was still excited, this was the only most precious thing he had left.

I packed a few more clothes, and there were still a lot of books left by Mu Shan on the shelves in the room that Mu Shan had left for him to study, which were also packed up by Zhi Ning. Zhining, who had packed a lot of things, was about to leave the house when suddenly. The lights were lit up in the wooden mountain house, and Zhi Ning suddenly thought of what the two night guards had said about today's lost things, and he couldn't help but have a hairy chestnut on his body.

After closing the door for a while, Zhi Ning relaxed slightly, and suddenly remembered the scene of hearing about the storyteller on the dock that day, and came to her mind: ghosts are born of people's resentment, and they will only linger in the place where they used to stay before they lived. Could it be that the person in the house is Mushan? Alas, one day as a teacher, that day he was beheaded outside the house, I could not save him, if nothing else I will leave here tomorrow, and I will see him one last time. Thinking of this thought in his heart, Zhi Ning shook the Xinglan Sword in his hand again, pushed open the door and walked towards the light of Mushan.

Walking to the door, Zhi Ning was about to push the door, and suddenly heard a voice from a person in the house: "Mushan, you went alone, leaving me don't know whether to inherit your will to restore the secret hall or use this secret hall for my use to restore my Chen Dynasty, you went without leaving the slightest letter, but I still have to guard this group of teenagers alone." Alas, Uncle Shi, I have hardly called you a master before, and I left without thinking of you, and I beg you to teach me what to do at this moment. There was a whine in his voice.

This voice was so familiar, and when Zhi Ning was about to listen carefully, the side window in the room opened, and a white shadow shook his body as if he was drunk, and followed the moonlight over the wall of the house. The man was Lanyi.

Isn't that what his relationship with Kiyama is?

In the past, Lan Yi was like a cold face, and although Zhi Ning was nominally a junior sister, it was the first time he had seen him like this, but when the person had left, Zhi Ning hurriedly searched from the house. Sure enough, it didn't take long to find a booklet in a set of ninja clothes that Mushan used to wear. She quickly opened it and looked at it, and suddenly felt a light in the night, and immediately put the book in her arms.

No wonder Li Yunlan and the two were able to lead these young ninjas that day, thinking that Lan Yi as the young master at the node of this sudden loss of the master's backbone, in the end, there were still more words with these active young people who were about the same age, and those taciturn young people must have been what Lan Yi ordered on weekdays. Lanyi, who has always had a good face, will never show himself in front of his subordinates, and there will definitely be no Qingren outside the house at this time.

When the door was closed, I turned around and took a look at the room where I had only lived for a few months, but I could feel the warmth from time to time.

Don't. The time of goodbye is probably years.