Cao Nan gritted his teeth and said, "I have indeed been looking for Cao Liang and his daughter, but I have been looking for so many years and have not found it, and they have found it so quickly-"

Granny Xie stared at Cao Nan viciously, full of resentment: "Who told you to find us?!" What if you are really Cao Jia? Our two families have never been related, and it's normal for you to recognize me when I look like this now, but you have passed in front of my house several times, and I still haven't recognized you, since I was born until now, I have never seen your nominal uncle, what kind of kinship is I pretending to be now?! …… If people know that Cao Yan is living so hard, it is better to treat her as if she is dead! Who made you nosy! Who told you to pretend to be this good person! Disgusting! Bah! ”

Granny Xie not only did not have the joy of reuniting her relatives, but spoke ill of Cao Nan, but this is really in line with her style, and her heart has no gratitude from the inside.

"It's also your father's own determination not to associate with me, he didn't call me the full moon wine you were born in, can I still be cheeky and uninvited? If he hadn't suddenly repaired the book to me, I would have spent more than 20 years digging holes to find your father and daughter? It's weird. ”

Cao Nan rolled his eyes, not to be outdone at all, if Cao Yan in front of him at the moment was a pitiful weak woman, he might have a much gentler attitude, but it was such a vicious and arrogant eccentric old woman, although I don't know what happened to her, but it really makes people feel unsympathetic-

Granny Xie rolled her eyes and looked at Cao Nan, trembling her lips and said: "I thought that the second uncle who provoked my father and mother to be enemies all day long was so handsome, but a black-faced man in the village, if it wasn't for avoiding you, Cao Liang wouldn't have to take me around, my mother still misses you, it's really blind to her dog eyes!" ”

Cao Nan glared and said, "Cao Liang is your father, you keep saying Cao Liang, what kind of ghost do you look like?" No matter how bad your mother is, she will conceive and give birth to you in October, what nonsense are you talking about! ”

The two just recognized each other, and instead of tears, they were like old women in the vegetable market, chattering endlessly.

"Twenty-three years...... Twenty-three years...... I'm not a human being anymore, I'm a ghost! Cao Yan has already entered the grave, and she shouldn't live in this world anymore......" Granny Xie cried loudly, and the wrinkles that had been clamped because of anger suddenly fell in full force, like an old spring.

Twenty-three years ago? I haven't been born yet, and my dad and they may not have been to the town yet, so it seems that Shangguan Yantui's timeline is right, they had an accident before my dad came.

Zheng Jewel cautiously leaned out and handed a towel to Granny Xie, she took it easily, and the sound of blowing her nose was disgusting.

Cao Nan raised his eyebrows when he looked at her like this, he should have sympathized, but he couldn't help but dislike it: "What happened to you twenty-three years ago?" How did you separate from Cao Liang? Where did the Kong family go? ”

"The third son didn't tell you?"

"I didn't have time. Even if he tells me, I'll ask you myself to see if there's any clue. ”

Granny Xie howled again: "What clues can there be, I have been looking for them for so many years...... In the past, I didn't see people in life or dead bodies, but I can still have a thought. Now--the death bracelet pendant, what can I hope for-Brother Xie...... My brother Xie, ......"

It turns out -

It turned out that Brother Xie, whom Granny Xie had been reading, was actually the name of Kong Defang's only son, Kong Xie, Yan'er - Cao Yan, Yan'er......

I always thought that her name was Xie Yan'er or something, she always called Xie Lang Xie Lang, it turned out to be just Kong Xie's last name, others called her Xie Lang, so they called her Xie Granny, and she never refuted anything, of course we all thought that her surname was Xie - or her husband's surname was Xie.

"Why do you look like this? If it weren't for the fact that the husband guaranteed his personality and life, although he had no personality to speak of, I would never have believed that I was Cao Yan, and it would have been impossible for me to come to this ghost place to verify it. Cao Nan spoke very bluntly, and he was not worried about hurting her at all.

Granny Xie touched her dry hair blankly, her cloudy eyes full of resentment: "Is it just because I am still alive that I must know the ins and outs of everything back then?" I do not know! I don't know anything! All I knew was that in one day, they were all gone! And then overnight, I was like this...... I don't know why I'm still alive, why I'm so stupid, and I think any of them will come back......"

Cao Nan rolled his eyes and looked at the pile of mess that was still smoking in the courtyard, and it was estimated that the smell was also unpleasant, and this Granny Xie was always at the wrong point, so she was starting to be a little impatient.

Zheng Zhuzhu had already noticed Cao Nan's face, maybe they were all women, she had more sympathy for this Granny Xie who shouldn't be so old, and said gently: "Okay, how could it be all gone in one day?" How much do you remember that day? ”

Granny Xie didn't have a good impression of the only uncle she had never met, so she glared at him gloomily, turned to Zheng Zhuzhu and said:

"I don't know, I really don't know what's going on, and I still don't have a clue. All I know is that I've come here with them, and I've never been involved in their official business. Cao Liang and I have always had a bad relationship, so I usually don't have anything to say even if we meet. Cao Liang is good at tracking, he seems to have discovered something here, and began to secretly discuss something with Kong Defang. At that time, I was obsessed with bone art, and I often went to the wilderness to find its strange-shaped bones to study, and basically went out for a day. When I came back from outside, I smelled the smell of human blood in my house, but it was all neat and tidy, there were no signs of fighting, no blood, and no one else. I felt that something was wrong, so I hurriedly ran to the yamen to see, the yamen was the same, neat and clean, but there was an indescribable smell of blood, as if there were many people, a lot of blood was shed, but the corpse was gone. I panicked. ”

Zheng Zhuzhu glanced at Cao Nan, although she was smart and careful, but after all, she was not deeply involved in the world, and these things were still a little scary to her.

"Cao Liang has taught me some techniques of tracking before, and if something happens to him, he will definitely leave me with some clues. Indeed, he left me a signal in some places that was difficult to detect, very few, and very chaotic, and the situation must have been very critical at that time, and I traced it to a place in front of the mountain, and saw that there were many corpses hanging densely in the middle of the dense forest—" She stared straight in the eyes, as if telling a terrible story.

Densely packed corpses...... The sense of picture is too strong, and I made up that scene in my head, weird and gloomy!

"The corpses were entangled in a blood-red rob, all without a left arm, and they all looked at me with their heads hanging and staring, and the blood-red rob strangled their necks so tightly that their eyes burst out—they were all people I knew, helpers of my family, and servants of the yamen...... There were twenty-nine people in total. ”

"Tianluo Hongyan - this is Tianluozhuang's murder method." Cao Nan squinted his eyes and said viciously.

Like Zhao Mingfu, Cao Liang and Kong Defang's family were also chased and killed by Zhao Rei's Tianluozhuang, but Zhao Rei said that he promised my father that he would give them a decent way to die.

"I searched for a long time, and among those corpses, only Kong Defang, Kong Xie, and Cao Liang were missing. They are still alive somewhere, maybe they haven't been caught, Cao Liang is good at hiding and counter-investigating, he must have found a safe place to hide. But perhaps the pursuers were too strong, and he didn't leave me any clues about his escape, so I didn't know where to find them, so I could only hide in this town. I made some guesses, it was very likely that Kong Defang was the murderer of his political enemies at the time, Cao Liang must have fled with them to a place where no one else could find me, and when he was stable, he would definitely come back to pick me up, so I hid on the edge of this damp and strange foggy slope, waiting for him to come to me. ”

"And when did you become like this? I came here as soon as I received the letter from Cao Liang, and in order to find you conveniently, I also entered the government register, and searched through the files, and searched the whole town, but I never found you—you can't be born like this—if I'm right, you're only thirty-six years old this year, but it's polite for you to say sixty-three now. ”

I'm really in a cold sweat, this Cao Nan-

Granny Xie really looked like she was being attacked, and glared at Cao Nan viciously: "I can only blame you for your poor detection skills, and you can't even find me, a person who has learned a little fur—it was me who had no way to pick up bones, and I actually stumbled and went to that evil place!" ”

"The land of the devil?" Cao Nan frowned.

"I've been hiding here for more than a year, and suddenly people are coming in and out of the foggy slope, but they don't look like troublesome people, and I don't have to worry about being disturbed. Sixteen years ago, the legend of the Ghost Flower Plain suddenly came out in the main town, and it was rumored that there were evil ghosts there that sucked people's spirits, and those who went in died strangely and violently after coming out, and the death was terrifying. I was young and vigorous at the time, and I didn't believe in that evil spirit, so I went into the ghost flower plain, and wanted to find some unclaimed bones that had died unexpectedly and were unclaimed to study......"

Granny Xie frowned, compared to her memories, or her expression was more terrifying, "I only remember that I walked in with a bone bag on my back, the more I walked towards the center, the more disgusting and biting stench came from, there were many scattered bones along the way, but they were not fragmentary, I carefully touched a few pairs, and found that these bones were scattered in a straight line—it was a ghost plain, no one dared to come in to collect the bodies of these people, so why did these people's bones fall apart like that?" Could it be that they themselves walked outward, and their joints broke to death? I've never seen a skeleton like this, so I'm more and more curious......"

"Their bones were brittle and dark, as if they had been sucked up by some force. Although I have been in countless cemeteries and touched countless skeletons, I am indeed frightened by such strange sights. Just when I wanted to leave, I suddenly felt a strange wind blowing behind me, and there was a low sound of laughter but not crying in the distance, I was so frightened that I couldn't escape, I didn't know how to fall, I felt a pain under my feet, as if I was stabbed by something, I didn't care what it was, I pulled out the things under my feet in a panic, and ran out desperately. ”

"The more I ran, the more tired I became, and I managed to get home, and finally I couldn't support it anymore and collapsed on the bed. - I- when I woke up, I realized that I had become this ghost - I kept piercing myself, beating myself, thinking it was a dream - but no, it wasn't a dream, it was real—"

Granny Xie stared at her eyes in horror, squeezing her wrinkled face vigorously, how did a girl like a flower find herself growing old, how did she slowly accept this reality, how she was in pain...... It is completely vividly reflected in this vicious face.