It was already evening when Qiao Er opened his eyes, and the afterglow of the day hit him in the face through the crack in the window. Looking around, he escaped from the green building full of flowers and willows, and in front of him was an ordinary farmhouse, and what he smelled was no longer the disgusting smell of flowers and wine, but the smell of cooking smoke and rice. Qiao Erliang tried to sit up, but as soon as he used this force, the sharp pain of tearing the flesh and skin behind his back instantly spread throughout his entire body, making him can't help but scream.

"Second Brother Qiao, are you awake?"

The girl in front of her walked quickly to Qiao Erliang's bed with a bowl of medicinal soup and sat down, "You're finally awake, it's really good, drink this medicine quickly, your wound will heal quickly"

"Ying'er, you're fine, you... How did you get to that place? ”

"After you and Brother Hammer left that day, I changed into men's clothes and found a pharmacy to be a buddy, but I didn't think that the boss saw through it and tied me up and sent me to the Qinglou", she looked at Qiao Erliang, "But now it's okay Second Brother Qiao, isn't it that we all came out?"

"I haven't been able to hit those guys, so we... How did it come out? ”

"That's thanks to Brother Shen."

"Brother Shen?"

"Well, Brother Shen brought us out of the Afterlife Pavilion and found this farmer."

Qiao Er swallowed the bitter medicinal soup, and the doubts in his heart kept coming up, could it be that the "Brother Shen" in Xiao Feiying's mouth was the one who helped him fight? Subconsciously touched the gold talisman on his neck, and it was still there. It's not the gold talisman on his body, and he doesn't have a few taels of silver on his body, is it difficult to make a picture? Wrong wrong...... This for no reason, why did he risk his life to save him from being a nobody?

"The king hammers him..."

"Brother Hammer... I didn't meet him" Xiao Feiying turned her head away from Qiao Erliang, put down the bowl in her hand, and dodged Qiao Erliang's gaze.

The doubts in Qiao Er's heart became more, could it be that Wang Tiezhu was really angry? Could it be that something happened to him, and Xiao Feiying didn't want to say it? The little flying warbler, who has always been outspoken, has become so fragmented now?

Qiao Erliang nodded and didn't say anything more, he felt that the little flying warbler was different from usual, but he couldn't tell what was different. It was slowly getting dark outside, and Qiao Erliang said that he wanted to go outside to take a look and breathe, so Xiao Feiying carried him out. The wind in late autumn is no worse than in winter, and it seems that this is a suburb of Nanzheng, surrounded by barren mountains, and there are few households.

Qiao Erliang sat on the stone platform in the courtyard and looked at the mountain not far away, and suddenly a green light appeared behind the tree. Maybe it's a ghost fire? Qiao Er thought to himself, this glowing green moved again, he rubbed his eyes, maybe it was a fierce beast, there were so many mountains, it was not necessarily a coyote, but it looked bigger, more like a black panther. Just pondering, Xiao Feiying walked up to Qiao Er with a plate of vegetables and shook it.

"Let's go, Second Brother Qiao, I'm hungry."

Qiao Erliang turned his head to look behind the tree, but the animal was gone, and he had to follow the little warbler into the house. I saw three pairs of bowls and chopsticks in this room.

"..... this?" Qiao Erliang pointed to the third bowl.

"Leave it for Brother Shen," Xiao Feiying said, putting the chopsticks aside.

Qiao Erliang was full of doubts about this big brother Shen, and swallowed a glass of wine as soon as he raised his hand. Somehow, I've never encountered this feeling in the past few years, as if I was in a dream and hadn't woken up, as if I was wandering between the two worlds. I don't know if it's because Wang Tiehammer is suddenly not around, Qiao Erliang feels as if he has become a lonely ghost in this wilderness, and there is no one to talk to. The little warbler in front of him was the appearance of the little warbler, but the strangeness made him shudder.

Until the fence outside the door rang, the little flying warbler stood up keenly, and as soon as the footsteps entered the door, the little flying warbler shouted, "Brother Shen~ You're back" She looked a little excited, and her slightly trembling voice was mixed with a bit of awe.

Qiao Erliang turned his back to the door, and when he heard her call like this, he was a little jealous in his heart, and hurriedly turned around to look at the man, this man was dressed in black, his placket and cuffs were delicately decorated with purple satin, a pair of sharp peach blossom eyes, and his eyebrows were raised, probably in his early thirties. Qiao Er immediately remembered that when he went to Cao Ying to ask for guilt that day, wasn't this person the one who sent an urgent report to the prime minister, this Brother Shen glanced at Qiao Er, patted his clothes and knelt on the ground with a puff.

"The captain is above, please bow to Shen Yan"

"Don't don't, get up quickly, you're tormenting me, you can afford to worship like this" After saying that, Qiao Erliang hurriedly pulled Shen Yi up and said, "Have I ever seen you?" ”

"It turns out that the captain still remembers, that day I heard that you are a great master of touching gold, and the prime minister has to look at him differently."

"It's too outward, you are older than me, call me Qiao Er. Yesterday, Brother Shen rescued me? I want to thank you a lot."

"Alas, it's not enough to worry about" Shen Yan poured Qiao Er a glass of wine, "Why did you enter the Afterlife Pavilion, do you know what kind of place it is?" If you don't do it, you're going to die. ”

Qiao Er drank the wine, frowned and recalled, sure enough, that place was not an ordinary green building, Shen Yan saw Qiao Er's state, so he continued,

"The Afterlife Pavilion is a famous longevity shop in the city, and it is also the weirdest longevity store, which does not buy coffins during the day, but sells small things that can be played with. At night, when the moon is full, the door is opened, or when someone burns paper on the road, and the door is opened by itself. The proprietor is also very eccentric, and likes to collect some strange ornaments to display in the store, not to buy them, but to give them to him when he sees someone who is destined, and it is estimated that most of them are items worn by the deceased when they are sent to the burial. Somehow, a lot of treasures have been added to the boss's showcase recently. In just one year, dozens of men disappeared... Including my brother."

"Why are you in Cao Ying that day, you are the prime minister's person?" Qiao Erliang asked.

"Of course not, three years ago, I came here with my younger brother to make a living, and I usually came to the mountains to hunt some game and get it to the barracks to exchange for some broken silver, but who knew that one day he went out by himself, but never came back..." The little warbler quickly lowered her head.

"I searched for him everywhere to no avail, and I heard that Cao Cao was going to exterminate Zhang Lu, who had always been the authority in the city, so I pretended to be a messenger to inquire about the news of all parties, to see if he had offended someone who was taken to the barracks to fill the army, but I met you." Shen Yan took another sip of wine and said:

"I came to see you drinking alone that day, but after a while, I entered the Pavilion of the Dead! Don't you know, there is no return to the Pavilion of the Afterlife! ”

"Second brother Qiao, I'll tell you the truth, I was knocked unconscious that day, and I woke up in a flower room. The laughter was really frightening, and after a while, an old man came and said that he wanted to ..... Said you want me..."Xiao Feiying blushed with anger, and the word couldn't be spit out in her mouth for a long time.

"Suddenly, a few people came in and said where they saw the captain, and then they gave me the name of Xueying and wanted to sell me. But I'm glad I met you and Brother Shen Yan, otherwise I wouldn't have seen you alive."

Shen Yan said again, "Until I entered that place one day, I found that there was a passage in the Shou Shop that led to a green building, and the most terrifying thing was that the walls of the passage were actually made of dead people smeared with wax, and the feet were full of blood and corpses."

"Sure enough, it's unusually cold in that store."

"I'm afraid that the people who have disappeared these days are ......" Shen Yan didn't say any more, he looked at Qiao Erliang who was frowning, and sighed, "It's not early, the captain should rest early."

"Brother Shen?" Qiao Erliang stopped him, "I'll leave tomorrow, I'm going to save Wang Tiehammer." Ying'er will take care of you."

"What did the captain say this! How can you save Brother Wang alone, I, Shen Yan, am willing to follow the captain and die for the captain. I saw Shen Yan kneeling on one knee. Xiao Feiying didn't give up, "Second Brother Qiao, you can't leave me anymore, I'm going too!" ”

"Okay" Qiao Erliang helped Shen Yi up, turned around and walked out of the room. Outside, there was only one bright light left in the room, and the faint candlelight stretched his shadow very long, and the scenes of the underground couldn't help but float in front of him.

A soak of urine woke up Qiao Er, he scratched his head, it was still night, and the moonlight hit the ground through the window paper. I'm afraid that when it comes to ugliness, the beasts outside occasionally chirp a few times, which makes people get goosebumps.

Qiao Er hurriedly went outside to solve the problem, but when he came back, he heard movement behind the house. So he picked up a long stick and followed the sound, and a smell of blood came to his face, and he saw a few leopards around the back of the house biting something, and it looked like a fawn. His injuries have not healed yet, and I am afraid that he will not be able to fight these fierce beasts. Just as he was about to turn away, a panther jumped in front of him, its eyes glowing a faint green glow in the moonlight. The grunt in his throat approached Qiao Erliang step by step, forcing him to step back.

Qiao Er waved the long stick in his hand, but the leopard seemed to tease him, deliberately leading him to a puddle of muddy water, his feet slipped, and Qiao Er and two rolled and climbed into the middle of these leopards. Surrounded by these leopards, he groped on the ground and found a human hand! Looking at the mutilated corpse, that face turned out to be a little flying warbler!

"Ying'er!" He held the corpse in one hand and picked up the creature in the other hand and headed towards the nearest wheel, the leopard circling around him. The only black panther standing still in front of him stared intently at Qiao Erliang, as if it was the leader of the leopard herd, Qiao Er looked at the black panther intently, and always felt as if he had seen this eye somewhere, he saw that the black panther was not moving, so he hit it with a stick.

The black panther pounced on him, and Qiao Er's eyes turned black and he lost consciousness.