Mu Yuanjing didn't say anything.

Qiao Wang didn't care if he got a response, he just said to himself: "My younger brother Qiao Chunsheng, in addition to Amu and Xiaohua, there is also a child. That child's name is Qiao Lin, he is the eldest son of Chunsheng, he was born good-looking since he was a child, and he has become more and more clever when he grows up, and he is very popular. ”

"My daughter-in-law is not in good health, and it is difficult for the two of us to have children, so after Amu was born, I had an idea, I wanted to pass Qiao Lin to my knees, so that I also have a queen, but Chunsheng's daughter-in-law..."

Speaking of this, he had a faint resentment on his face, "She coaxed Chunsheng, and the two of them entered Beijing with three children without saying hello, and wanted to live in my house, I didn't agree at the time, so she pulled her neck and shouted to me, saying that even if Qiao Lin was killed, she would not pass it on to me, and at that time, the process and paperwork of the inheritance had already gone halfway, I didn't take her words to heart, and only gave her and Chunsheng a sum of money and sent them away." ”

"Who knew that she really could do it, on the way back to Qingshui Town from the capital, she actually killed Qiao Lin, Qiao Lin was buried on the spot after she was killed, and after the succession paperwork was completed, she told me that Qiao Lin was seriously ill and died unexpectedly, and they only had Qiao Mu a son, so it was not good to pass on to me."

Qiao Wang finished his words in one breath.

Mu Yuanjing's eyebrows furrowed slightly, "How did you know about such a secret thing as Qiao Lin's killing of his son?" ”

Qiao Wang sneered, "My stupid brother, you can get anything out of it with a little drink." ”

Mu Yuanjing asked Qiao Tian's body to be carried away, and Qiao Wang was taken into custody.

After the unrelated people in the hall retreated, Mu Yuanjing rubbed his temples that were a little swollen and painful.

Wei Xu asked beside him, "Lord Wang, are you arraigning Qiao Chunsheng and his wife today?" ”

Mu Yuanjing shook his head, closed his eyes and leaned back on the back of the chair and said tiredly: "Let's try it again tomorrow." ”

After feeling better, Mu Yuanjing opened his eyes and instructed everyone: "Go back to the inn first." ”

——

That night, due to a busy day during the day, Mu Yuanjing and Su Qingmo rested early.

When she slept in the middle of the night, Su Qingmo woke up in a compelling sight, she opened her eyes quite sleepily, and the sleepiness disappeared instantly when she saw a figure standing next to the bed.

The black figure stood motionless not far from the bed, looking at Su Qingmo through Mu Yuanjing.

Su Qingmo stabilized his breathing, and the hand under the futon held Mu Yuanjing's hand without a trace, and exerted force in his hand.

Mu Yuanjing seemed to realize something, turned over and pulled the person into his arms, and said angrily: "Don't be afraid. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he took out a dagger glowing with cold light from under his pillow, and quickly jumped off the bed and attacked the dark shadow.

The black shadow did not dodge, the dagger in Mu Yuanjing's hand approached the black shadow's neck, and surprisingly Mu Yuanjing did not hurt the black shadow, but the whole person passed through the black shadow's body.

Realizing that things were a little weird, Mu Yuanjing didn't make any more rash moves, he looked at the other party vigilantly, while Su Qingmo took advantage of this gap to neatly light the candles in the room.

The moment the candle was lit, the shadow disappeared.

Su Qingmo walked to the place where the black shadow was standing and picked up a white humanoid rag doll from the ground.

The rag doll is no more than the size of a palm, and its facial features are painted with red fuel.

Mu Yuanjing walked up to her and asked, "What is this?" ”

"Lord Wang, lend me the dagger."

Mu Yuanjing handed the dagger to Su Qingmo, saw her scratch the belly of the rag doll, and then took out the cotton wool inside, and took out a strand of hair in the middle of the cotton wool.

She took her hair in her hand and removed the sting from her backpack at the head of the bed, then lit it on fire, with a 'crackling' sound that emanated from the burning hair.

After her hair burned out, Su Qingmo breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, and she held up the white rag doll and explained to Mu Yuanjing: "This thing is called a ghost doll. ”

"Someone detains the soul of a dead person, takes the person's hair, stuffs the hair into this doll, and then pours the soul into it, so that the ghost doll can be sent by that person, but this trapped ghost can only do simple things, there is no aggression, and after dawn, not only can it not enter reincarnation, but it will also be scattered."

Such a wicked method harms that person's present life and misleads that person's future life.

Su Qingmo suddenly thought, "Someone must have done something to manipulate the ghosts in the ghost doll, otherwise they wouldn't have appeared here for nothing." ”

Her words made Mu Yuanjing subconsciously search for it in the room, and stopped when his gaze turned to the table.

A letter was sitting quietly on the table.

He let go of Su Qingmo and walked to the table, and took out a piece of paper from the envelope, which only had a short sentence on it, 'If you want to know the secret of the man in black and Chen Xuan, go to Changshou Village'.

There is no payment, and a map of how to get to Changshou Village is drawn below the word.

Su Qingmo also saw the content on the note, and she asked Mu Yuanjing with some hesitation, "Do you want to go?" ”

Mu Yuanjing had already made a decision in his heart, but this time he didn't plan to take Su Qingmo with him.

——

After dawn, Wei Xu and Wei Cheng took Qiao Chunsheng and Qiao Wang to the inn respectively, and with Qiao Wang's evidence, Qiao Chunsheng and his wife confessed not long after.

It turned out that the little boy in the broken temple was really Qiao Lin, Qiao Lin's family resented Qiao Wang and didn't want Qiao Wang to succeed Qiao Lin, so he strangled Qiao Lin to death on the way back to Qingshui Town and buried him in the woods behind the broken temple, and Qiao Chunsheng was afraid of Qiao Lin's and didn't dare to resist, even if his eldest son was strangled to death, he didn't dare to report to the official.

At that time, Xiaohua's age was not very old, and he couldn't remember things, but Amu, who was already six or seven years old, had this matter deeply imprinted in his mind, and since then his relationship with Qiao Lin's family has become rusty, and Qiao Lin's tyrannical factor in his body seems to have been awakened after strangling his eldest son, and he scolded Amu and Xiaohua, the two brothers and sisters, even her husband Qiao Chunsheng was sometimes not spared.

Qiao Lin was sentenced to behead for abusing and killing his parents, and when Mu Yuanjing was convicted on the spot, Qiao Lin was still a little unconvinced, she tore off her usual gentle mask, and asked fiercely, "Qiao Lin is my son, I gave birth to him, his life was given to him, why can't I beat and scold him, I am sad when he dies, but I didn't mean to." ”

Qiao Lin's brazenness and hatred made Wei Xu's teeth itch, he thought of the boy who was waiting for his family in the broken temple, and stepped forward and slapped Qiao Lin's two mouths fiercely.

The corners of Qiao Lin's mouth were broken, and she whimpered in pain, and when she was about to speak, Wei Xu glared at her coldly, making her swallow back what she was about to say.

Mu Yuanjing ignored Qiao Lin's sprinkling, and only added lightly, "Expose the body for three days after death to set an example." ”

The three members of the Qiao family were taken down, and Mu Yuanjing only sentenced Qiao Lin's guilt, leaving Qiao Chunsheng and Qiao Wang brothers to make a decision for Kang Sihai.

Before leaving Qingshui Town, the group buried the bones of the three dead children of the Qiao family in one place, and after Pei Lin simply did a ritual, he was able to let the souls of the three brothers and sisters leave the soul jade and enter the reincarnation.

The time was just past noon, and the carriages and horses of Mu Yuanjing and several people were already some distance away from Qingshui Town.

Mu Yuanjing did not choose to ride in the carriage but rode the horse, he took out the note he found the night before from his sleeve and handed it to Wei Xu beside him.

Wei Xu looked at it, and when he looked up again, his expression was obviously hesitant, "Does the prince really want to go to Changshou Village in person as mentioned in this note?" ”

"Send the princess back to the palace first."

Wei Xu understood that the prince meant not to bring the princess.

Su Qingmo sat in the carriage, paying attention to Mu Yuanjing urgently, and after seeing Mu Yuanjing take out the note and hand it to Wei Xu, he hurriedly poked his head out of the window, "Lord Wang, if you leave me and go to Changshou Village by yourself, I will secretly follow you." ”

Seeing that she knew, Mu Yuanjing simply stopped hiding it, "The danger on the way to Changshou Village is unknown, you go back to the palace and wait for news, okay?" ”

Su Qingmo was silent, and looked at Mu Yuanjing fixedly.

Mu Yuanjing sighed in his heart, "Do you really want to go?" ”

Su Qingmo nodded, "Not only will I go, but my cousin will also go with me, one more person and more strength, isn't it?" ”

Mu Yuanjing couldn't refute these words, so he had to ask Pei Lin, "Can you go along?" ”

Pei Lin, who was riding on a horse not far away, had already heard it, and he was not reserved at the moment, so he said happily: "Naturally, I am willing to go." ”

Now that the matter was decided, the group reversed course and followed the map on the note in the direction of Changshou Village.

The group walked and found that the place where Changshou Village was located was not far from the capital, and even in the depths of the dense forest behind the broken temple, as for why few people found it, maybe the location was too remote.

Changshou Village was built in a large canyon, and when the carriage reached the edge of the cliff, it could not move forward, after Su Qingmo got down from the carriage, Mu Yuanjing ordered the hidden guards to guard the horses and carriages, and then several people went down to the canyon according to a hidden path indicated on the map.

The lower you go down the canyon, the more humid and warm the air becomes, and when your feet touch the canyon floor, you find that the surrounding environment is green, which is the opposite of the weather above the canyon.

Unknown flowers bloomed nearby, and a thick white mist floated above.

Su Qingmo wiped the fine sweat on his forehead, made a fan with his hand, and fanned it vigorously a few times, "How can it be so hot down there?" ”

The other people were not much different from her.

Mu Yuanjing glanced at the surrounding environment, approached a flowing stream, stretched out his hand to try it, and said: "This water should flow from the spring of the hot spring, the whole canyon seems to be surrounded by hot springs, and it is not surprising that the temperature is higher." ”

In order to confirm Mu Yuanjing's words, several people walked deep along the stream, and after walking for a long time, they saw a small village that was not large.

Wei Xu counted, a full twenty-two households.

A few people walked into the village and knocked on the door of the largest house in the entire village.

The door was opened by an old man with a white beard, the old man looked at several strangers in front of him with vigilance in his eyes, "Who are you?" ”

Wei Xu was about to speak, but Mu Yuanjing said quietly before him: "We got lost in the deep forest and came here by mistake. ”

The vigilance in the old man's eyes did not decrease in the slightest, "Why did you enter the deep forest? ”

Mu Yuanjing pulled Su Qingmo over, with doting in his eyes, "I took my wife out of the city to play today, and when I returned to the city, she was hungry, so I wanted to hunt some game for her to eat, but I didn't think about it and got lost." ”

The old man's vigilance was slightly reduced, "You entered the village to spend the night?" ”

Mu Yuanjing smiled: "If it's convenient." ”

The old man looked at a few people carefully for a moment, as if he really saw that they didn't mean anything harmful, so he smiled, "I'm Chang Bo, the village chief of this village, there are a lot of people, I can only live four people here, can the others live elsewhere?" ”

Mu Yuanjing divided the Acropolis, Pei Lin, Yong'an and Fang Mubei, and the village chief's family left himself and Su Qingmo, as well as Wei Xu and Qingzhu.

Chang Bo was very hospitable, and after the salutes of a few people were properly placed, he asked the whole village to gather in the open space in the village, and then introduced Mu Yuanjing and others to the villagers.

After the people of the entire Changshou Village came into contact, Su Qingmo found a place that made people feel a little creepy after thinking about it.

She and Mu Yuanjing took Wei Xu and Qingzhu back to the village chief's house, and after carefully closing the doors and windows, Su Qingmo lowered his voice and asked, "Have you noticed anything unusual from the people in the village?" ”

Qingzhu was silent for a moment and said, "The smile on their faces has never disappeared. ”

Su Qingmo nodded, "Their laughter is different from ordinary people, it seems that they only have their mouths laughing, but there is no smile in their eyes, and I have a gloomy feeling after watching it for a long time." ”

Mu Yuanjing that Su Qingmo said naturally noticed it, but the people in Changshou Village did not have any changes at present, so it was not easy for them to do it.

He remembered what the note said, after coming to Changshou Village, the secrets of the black-clothed man and Chen Xuan would naturally surface.

Seeing that the sky was dark, and the four of them returned to the room to rest, Su Qingmo always felt that someone was staring at them in the dark, and there was more than one person.

Mu Yuanjing patted her, "Sleep, I'm here." ”

She forced herself to close her eyes and fall asleep, but Mu Yuanjing remained awake until the sense of surveillance on his body disappeared, and he fell asleep with him, and the last thought in his mind before going to bed was how to stay in Changshou Village for a few more days.

What he didn't expect was that he didn't have to think about staying in Changshou Village at all.

On the second day, at the morning dinner table, Chang Bo proposed that a few people stay in Changshou Village for a longer time. "The best thing in our village is the hot springs, and the longevity of the people in the village is all soaked in the hot spring water."

Mu Yuanjing responded and followed his words and said, "Can you let us try it too?" ”

Chang Bo replied with a smile: "Of course you can, you are a guest from afar, and I will let Xiaohu take you there later." ”

Xiaohu is Chang Bo's grandson, just ten years old this year, Chang Bo's son fell ill when Xiaohu was four years old, and died of illness not long after, so Xiaohu, who had no mother, and Chang Bo, who had died of his wife, have been living together for all these years.

Xiaohu and Chang Bo had a very good relationship, and when they heard the words, they asked, "Brother, when are you going?" ”

Mu Yuanjing said: "After eating, just take a look at the scenery in the valley." ”

Xiaohu nodded obediently, and after a few people finished eating, he led a few people out of the village and walked deeper into the valley.

Mu Yuanjing and the others were led by Xiaohu, and after passing through a narrow cave with only one road, they came to a relatively large hot spring pool.

Xiaohu pointed in the other direction and said to Mu Yuanjing: "Brother, there is a hot spring pool over there. ”

Mu Yuanjing walked in the direction he pointed, and sure enough, he saw a slightly smaller hot spring pool.

Xiaohu brought a few people to the ground, so they turned around and left.

After his figure disappeared completely, Mu Yuanjing put away the smile on his face, "Let's go back to the cave before." ”

Wei Xu asked, "Childe has found an abnormality?" ”

Since entering Changshou Village, in order not to reveal their identities, Wei Xu and others have changed their names to Mu Yuanjing.

Mu Yuanjing was not sure of his guess, "Just now in the cave, I seemed to feel the wind blowing from somewhere else. ”

"Childe means there are other exits in the cave?"

A few people walked back along the way they came, and soon entered the cave, and Mu Yuanjing walked to a stone wall according to the vague memory in his mind.

He pressed against the stone wall to feel it carefully, and finally stopped at a point, and his finger bones kept tapping on it, making a noticeable hollow sound.

Wei Xu slowly groped around the stone wall in front of him, and when he touched a strange place, he pressed lightly, the protrusion was pressed, and the stone wall in front of him moved slowly, and a larger space appeared behind the stone wall.

What shocked people was not the secret room behind the stone wall, but the scene of people seeping into the secret room.

Dozens of human bones, white flowers and flowers were densely stacked on the ground.

In the entire secret room, there was nothing but bones.

Mu Yuanjing and Wei Xu's faces became solemn, Su Qingmo was shocked, she took a small step back and exited the secret room, and her body was pressed against the wall on the other side of the cave.

She gasped quietly to calm down the disordered heartbeat, but she didn't notice that someone was slowly approaching around her, and when she noticed it, Su Qingmo subconsciously turned her head to look over.

In the dark cave, a pair of black and white eyes were looking at her motionlessly.