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When the night is on. Li Qiao's residence.

Zuo Di and Li Qiao had both changed into masked night clothes, and the two stared at Wen Xiuwen, who was holding a fan in his hand and flowing in a green shirt.

Wen Xiuwen's scalp was numb when they saw it, and he lowered his head and looked at himself for a long time, and said, "What's wrong with being here?" ”

"Young Master Wen, could it be that you are strong in martial arts?" Zuo Di asked.

Wen Xiuwen was stunned for a moment and shook his head: "In the next literati, he doesn't know martial arts." ”

…… Zuo Di was angry: "I still have to come and go without a trace of your light work, that's why I hold it up like this." Are you dressed like this, are you afraid that someone won't recognize you? ”

Wen Xiuwenjun's face turned red, and he said weakly: "In the next time, I have shallow experience in doing such things, which makes the two of you laugh." This—how is this to be good......"

Zuo Di said in his heart, this is a teammate like a pig, right?

Li Qiaoxinshan came to relieve the siege: "If Gongzi Wen doesn't dislike it, then use my clothes first." ”

Wen Xiuwen hurriedly thanked him, and he didn't dislike it. After he changed his clothes, the three of them immediately went out.

There is no curfew in Changping, but the nightlife is lacking, except for Flower Street and Willow Lane, the rest of the streets and alleys are dark and quiet.

Li Qiao hired a carriage, did not use a coachman, but drove himself, avoided the patrol guards along the road, and hurried to the outskirts of Beijing. When they arrived at the city gate, the three of them got out of the car. Li Qiao used light skills to carry the two of them across the city wall one after another. There were already three horses waiting outside the wall.

Zuo Di was dumbfounded - is it swollen? She can't ride a horse!

What hurt her self-esteem even more was that Wen Xiuwen, who was stunned, turned over lightly on the horse.

Zuo Di stood in place in a daze, thinking seriously or would he stun Wen Xiuwen and step on the "Hot Wheels" by himself? Certainly not slower than a horse!

After Li Qiao got on the horse, he found that Zuo Di was still standing in place, and his heart moved slightly: "Second Miss, come with me?" ”

Zuo Di was unwary of Li Qiao, and he didn't hesitate at all when he heard this, and immediately agreed.

Wen Xiuwen's eyes froze, and he stopped talking, and finally watched silently as Li Qiao pulled Zuo Di onto the horse.

Sitting on the horse, Zuo Di felt awkward, and immediately narrowed, she and Li Qiao had to cling closely. The man's body temperature was already high, and she only felt that she was shrouded in a masculine aura through the thin tights, and she realized it later-although the two Li Qiao looked the same, the one behind them was an out-and-out man.

Now that the matter has come to this, wouldn't it be more embarrassing to turn over and dismount again? Zuo Di secretly made up his mind that when the matter was settled, he would learn to ride a horse.

She cleared her throat in disguise and whispered, "Let's go!" ”

Li Qiaohuan hugged the little man in his arms, his face was a little hot, and his heart was beating like a drum. His second lady is already a girl, no longer the child she used to be.

Li Qiao was secretly annoyed that he was reckless, and when he heard this, he immediately retracted his distracting thoughts and galloped wildly.

Wen Xiuwen followed with a strange expression. The three of them and the two horses gradually disappeared into the night.

Xu is atmosphere was a little weird, and Li Qiao had nothing to say: "That abandoned village is called Lingmen Village, not far from the suburbs of Beijing. In the past, it was also prosperous, and according to legend, there was a god who guarded the village. It was originally to defuse the atmosphere, but Zuo Di was moved when he heard it.

"Be careful," she asked. ”

Li Qiao was surprised, this kind of strange statement did not expect to arouse her interest. Pondering:

"It's just a rumor, it can't be true, it is said that there were warlocks passing by in Lingmen Village, saying that there are spirits in the village, and they need to be suppressed to protect the safety of the whole village. The villagers believed it, so they listened to the warlock and rearranged the houses in the village to form a suppression array. It is also rumored that only the gods can understand the mysteries of the array. ”

Zuo Di interjected: "Have you ever said what kind of spirit? ”

Li Qiao shook his head, and suddenly thought that Zuo Di couldn't see him at this time, so he said, "That's not what I said." However, it must be a lie, there was a fire in Lingmen Village as early as the previous dynasty. The whole village was burned to the ground, and not even a single dog escaped. If that warlock really has the ability, how can there be such a disaster to destroy the village? ”

Zuo Di was noncommittal, and muttered: "Then isn't this Lingmen Village a ruin now?" ”

Li Qiao said: "It's strange to say, but I don't know who renovated the houses in the village later. Although it is still tattered, it can barely hold people. I thought it was the remnants of the Zheng family who hid and repaired it for convenience, but I asked someone to inquire, and I learned that repairing the house was also a matter of the previous dynasty. ”

Wen Xiuwen, who was silent next to him, suddenly spoke: "I have heard about this matter. ”

Zuo Dirao has an interesting taste: "Let's hear it." ”

Wen Xiuwen was a little embarrassed: "There are rumors in the market, a gentleman shouldn't have passed on ......"

Zuo Di rolled his eyes: "If you say it, just say it, mother-in-law." ”

This Wen Xiuwen is good anywhere, but he is stupid to read too much!

Wen Xiuwen was dumbfounded: "Lingmen Village suffered a fire and extinguished the village, some people say that no one survives, and some people say that there are actually survivors. It was the survivor who returned to the village to find that the whole village had been burned to the ground, and was so grief-stricken that he rebuilt Lingmen Village in memory of his family. ”

Li Qiao's head: "It's all hearsay, don't say it's now, even when this happened, few people knew what happened." Decades have passed, and it has been difficult to verify. ”

Zuo Di was silent, but he had another plan in his heart, did the remnants of the Zheng family happen to settle here, or was it related to this rumor?

She thought that Hong Guo'er had once said that there were strangers in this world, although they were not as good as in his heyday, but they were more than enough to deal with ordinary people.

The spirit in Li Qiao's words, she didn't think it was completely groundless, she still had to go and see for herself what was strange in it.

Running all the way, the three of them finally arrived at Lingmen Village.

The village is not large, it is estimated that there are about thirty or forty houses, and there is a wall outside the village, but it seems that it has never been repaired, and it is still dilapidated and charred after the fire.

The three of them dismounted and walked to the entrance of the village, and saw a crooked stone tablet on the ground, which was engraved with the three big characters of "Lingmen Village"!

Zuo Di stepped forward and found that the stele had fallen a thick layer of ash, exuding a long breath of years of precipitation, and no one had touched it for a long time.

She was the first to enter the village, and Li and Wen followed closely after tying up their horses.

The layout of the village is a bit strange, and the ordinary villages of this era are cut into flat structures with streets and alleys due north and south, but this is not the case in Lingmen Village - some of the houses are very close to each other. Some of the doors were empty, and it was a long way to see the next room.

Zuo Di walked back and forth several times before he barely found the pattern, it turned out that the houses were still arranged in straight lines, but not parallel straight lines, but diagonals!

Li Qiao and Wen Xiuwen are not good at arithmetic, they only look strange but can't say why. Zuo Di didn't know how to explain it to them, so he didn't mention it.

As the three of them walked all the way, they saw that the houses were all dilapidated, dusty and cobwebs, and they did not look like they had lived in them at all. Until you walk to the middle of the village.

In the center of the village sits a two-entry house, which is particularly eye-catching compared to the other detached houses, because it has houses on the front and back, left and right, as if the house is a gathering point, extending in four directions to form four lines of houses......

The appearance of this house is also dilapidated, but after the three of them walked in, they found that this should be the place where the remnants of the Zheng family stayed.

The house only uses the outer courtyard, which is very clean, and the inner courtyard is disorganized and untouched. They knew that the house must have been carefully searched, so they stopped paying attention to what was on the surface, and only concentrated on looking for any secret doors.

Zuo Di walked into the main hall slowly, the furniture was very simple, the Eight Immortals Table Taishi Chair, and nothing else. The table had been overturned to the floor, and half-severed candles were glued to it.

She frowned, always feeling weird but couldn't say why.

Wen Xiuwen and Li Qiao, who went to investigate elsewhere, also came to the main hall. Except for Li Qiao, who found a dark room in the courtyard that had been dug up but was empty, the two of them found nothing.

Li Qiao saw Zuo Di's frowning and asked, "But what did you find?" ”

Zuo Di bit his lip and shook his head gently: "I haven't found it, but I just think it's unspeakably weird...... This Zheng family is a royal family, and the person in charge should be a noble son even if he is not a member of the royal family......"

Li Qiao's heart was sharp: "You mean, even if you act in a hurry, this place is too simple?" ”

Zuo Di nodded heavily and said, "They have been hiding here for a long time, that person would really criticize himself so harshly?" Look at this candle, it doesn't even have a candlestick, it doesn't look like a place to stay, but it looks like a place to choose in a hurry......"

Wen Xiuwen said: "The same is true of the bedroom, except for some dried blood stains in the ear room, there are no ornaments and furniture in the rest of the place. ”

Li Qiao frowned: "But the houses in the entire village have been explored, and no one has ever been there." Could it be that they actually live somewhere else, or is it in Beijing? This is just for business discussions? ”

Zuo Di denied: "No, if there is a place to stay in the capital, you can negotiate at the place where you stay, why do you risk being discovered here?" ”

Several people repeatedly thought about what was missing, but to no avail for a long time.

Li Qiaojian never had a clue, and said, "Why don't you explore the terrain of the village again?" The houses are in strange locations, and there may be dark rooms hidden in those open spaces. ”

Zuo Di heard that the head was big, no matter how small the village was, with the strength of only three people, it was a fool's dream to dig up all the open space to find it.

Wen Xiuwen agreed, nodded and said, "Isn't it rumored that this village has formed a formation?" If it's really a formation, there must be an array eye, and if you find out that the array eye is broken, maybe you will reveal your hiding place! ”

A flash of light flashed in Zuodi's mind! She hurried, "What did you just say?" ”

Wen Xiuwen was stunned for a moment: "I broke my eyes ...... below."

Zuo Di shook his head: "No, it's not this sentence." Previous sentence. ”

“…… The village is in formation? Li Qiao said tentatively, "You don't really believe it, do you?" After breaking the formation, there is another cave or something, isn't it all bluffing? ”

Zuo Di suddenly brightened: "Yes, it's the formation!" You said earlier that the villagers of Lingmen Village listened to the warlocks and rearranged their houses. Along the way, you've seen that the layout of the house is indeed strange. ”

Li Qiao said: "But after looking back and forth so many times, if there was really a circle, I should have found it a long time ago." ”

Zuo Di smiled slightly, and said to Li Qiao: "Do you remember that you said that only the gods can understand the mysteries in the formation?" ”

Li Qiao nodded: "I've heard someone say this, could it be that you can find the gods?" He laughed dumbly.

"Of course I can't find the gods, and I don't need them at all, I just need to look at them from the perspective of the gods." Zuo Di said brightly,

"We are in the village but we don't have any clue, but because we used the wrong way to look at it, the gods are naturally in the sky, so if we want to understand the strangeness, we have to look down from the sky, this is the so-called mystery that the gods can see."

Li Qiao and Wen Xiuwen looked at each other. Aren't these two young ladies crazy? How can a man go to heaven?

Besides, it was late at night, and I couldn't see my fingers. Mo said that when you look down from the sky, you have to rely on the firelight to stand in the village......

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