It was destined to be a sleepless night.

The first day is approaching, the sound of firecrackers has finally stopped a lot after several hours, and the figures on the street have already dissipated, and every household has closed its doors and windows, and there is only one man in a horse coat left in the alley, holding a lantern and a gong in the other hand, one slow and two fast. He tightened his neck, his eyes were flustered, and he shouted in a trembling voice, "All right." ”

Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of a black shadow passing through the roof beside him, he was frightened, he felt that the goosebumps all over his body stood up, his legs trembled a little difficult to move, he turned his head mechanically, to see the roof where the black shadow passed, and then breathed a sigh of relief: "I really scared myself, where will there be anyone this night, probably where is the little wild cat passing by." ”

The general's mansion was already quiet, only the little maid who occasionally got up at night, yawned and rubbed her eyes and walked out of the door, and when she turned around, she saw a person squatting on the roof of her house, but after a closer look, there was no one else.

The moment she twisted her head back, she felt a chill against her neck, and a sense of fear surged into her heart for a moment, and she reflexively wanted to scream, but someone covered her mouth.

A man's deep voice sounded in her ears: "If you dare to speak, the dagger below will not be long-sighted." ”

The little girl's cold sweat had penetrated the placket of her back, and tears kept flowing out of her frightened eyes, dripping down the man's hands.

"Tsk." The man took his hand away in disgust, shook it in the air, and then, as if he didn't think it was enough, wiped it on her clothes again.

"Where is your eldest lady?"

"Big ...... Miss? ”

"Don't pretend to be garlic, hurry up."

"Lying ...... Bedrooms, no ...... No, the study, the big ...... The eldest lady is still ...... at night I haven't been back to the bedroom yet. The little girl's whole body was trembling, her mind was blank, and she didn't know how to think.

"Tsk, it's not good to talk, you don't have the point to continue living."

I saw the dagger against the little girl's neck flashing coldly, and blood instantly spurted out like a spring. Before the blood could reach the man's hands, he hurriedly threw the little maid into the dry well beside him, wiped the blood from the dagger with the handkerchief that had just been brought out of her pocket, and then threw it into the dry well as well. The handkerchief swayed onto the little maid's face, covering her eternally frozen expression, and before she could close her big frightened eyes, she had swallowed her last breath.

The man had only taken a few steps before coming to a halt.

"Tsk, I forgot to ask her how to go to the study......"

……

The light in the study was a little dim, and the light and shadow reflected on the wall trembled slightly. The food on the table was already cold, and the books that had been neatly placed on the shelves fell to the ground for some reason.

The mandarin duck finally decided to come out of the small cubicle, but because he had been squatting for too long, his legs had already become numb to the point of losing consciousness, and before he could stand up, he had already fallen heavily into the pile of books.

The book made the mandarin duck's arm hurt, but she didn't think about getting up again, she simply turned over, and lay directly on the book, slowly closing her eyes.

The man in black went around in the general's mansion for a long time, and finally found the only room that was still light, he quietly turned over the window of the study, deliberately slowed down, and walked to the side of the mandarin duck, he looked at the mandarin duck with his eyes closed, as if he had fallen asleep for a long time, and he didn't seem to notice himself. So he crouched down, picked up a book from the ground, and flipped through it casually.

"Western Regions Literature, Seven Lives Gu."

The mandarin duck who heard the sound opened his eyes suddenly, and what caught his eyes was a pair of black shoes, a night coat, and a black mask.

"Who are you?" The mandarin duck became vigilant, and there was no sound when this person came in, and he didn't even feel his breath when he was so close to his side. When did he come, and for how long?

"How is it that the girl is studying such an unrighteous thing at such a young age?" The man did not answer the mandarin duck's words, and played with the book in his hand by himself.

For several days, Mandarin Duck has been reading this book, especially on the pages with the Seven Lives Gu, which is almost ruined by her, and she is also full of dense annotations, which she can't get people to pay attention to.

"Give it back to me." The mandarin duck's face was slightly red, why did he just turn to this page of the book.

She reached out and wanted to snatch the book from the man's hand, but the mandarin duck sitting helplessly couldn't reach the man's raised hand.

"Let me see, let the person you like fall in love with yourself." The man tilted his head, flipped through the book that he had lifted above his head, looked like a hanger, jumped slightly, and sat on the desk.

"Give it back to me." The mandarin duck, whose legs were still a little numb, could only sit on the ground and stare fiercely at the shameless man in front of him who was holding a book and reading the content of the book.

"You want it, don't you?" This time, the man did not continue, but jumped off the table very obediently and stuffed the book directly into the mandarin duck's hand.

The mandarin duck's heart was beating a little fast, and the man's voice came from close to his ear, and his breathing was slightly wet.

She didn't even see how the hell this man had come to her.

"How...... Why, how could I want such a thing. The mandarin duck moved back and hid the book behind him.

"But your eyes are telling me you want it." The man looked at the mandarin duck's somewhat erratic eyes, and the corners of his mouth under the mask rose slightly, making him more sure of his thoughts.

"That'...... So what. ”

"I can help you find it, if you want."

"Do you know where to find it?" The mandarin duck was a little moved, but this man, can he believe it.

"Nature."

The mandarin duck suddenly smelled a clear fragrance of flowers, and subconsciously wanted to find the source of the fragrance, but saw that the man took out a small white ceramic bottle out of nowhere, the cap of the bottle had been opened, and the fragrance of flowers came from this place.

Her consciousness gradually began to be chaotic, and her slightly squinted eyes could clearly see the man in front of her, but her brain had no way to think.

The man stuffed the bottle cap into the small bottle with satisfaction, took off the mask on his face, gently picked up the mandarin duck's chin, looked at her eyes that had begun to be cloudy, and said with a smile: "Chu Huai is my name, remember this face?" Little girl. ”

"As long as you obediently listen to me, I will give you everything you want."

The sky was slightly bright, and the sound of alarm arose, the blood stained the tile wall, the corpse was in the dry well, and the woman was nowhere to be found.

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