The two had a good night's sleep, and after getting up in the morning, Wei Xu went into the inner courtyard to ask Mu Yuanjing if he wanted to make some preparations for the night, Mu Yuanjing only told Yong'an to tell Wei Xu that he didn't have to prepare anything, and he could gather in the palace at that time, Yong'an was ordered to reply, and Mu Yuanjing also went out of the house after breakfast.

Just after the beginning of the day, Mu Yuanjing walked into Moxiangju from outside, and Su Qingmo had already put the utensils that might be used into his backpack.

"All ready?"

Su Qingmo nodded, "I'm afraid that the three of us are not enough, so I plan to bring Qingzhu." ”

Mu Yuanjing didn't object, "Okay, Wei Xu is already waiting outside, let's go." ”

Before going out, Su Qingmo instructed Qinghe and Qingrui who were guarding in Moxiang's residence: "If Mama Lin comes, say that I am resting, and don't let her find out that I am not in the house, remember?" ”

Qingrui nodded vigorously, and Qinghe said worriedly: "Is it really not necessary for us to go with the princess?" ”

Su Qingmo smiled: "What can you do when you go, it's enough to have Qingzhu with me, don't worry, it'll be fine." ”

After listening to the master's assurance, Qinghe was slightly relieved, and after seeing Su Qingmo and Qingzhu out of the Moxiang Residence, Qinghe blew out the candle, and then pretended that Su Qingmo had stopped guarding the door with Qingrui and Qingrui outside the bedroom door.

Outside the Linchuan Palace, Su Qingmo and Mu Yuanjing rode together and took Wei Xu and Qingzhu to the direction of Suyong Theater, and the four of them walked to the courtyard behind the theater after a stick of incense, and the courtyard still maintained the appearance of last night.

Su Qingmo stood in the open space in the courtyard, took out the rune paper from his bag and laid the rune boundary around a clearing, Wei Xu saw this kind of battle for the first time, and his eyes followed Su Qingmo's hands curiously.

After the rune realm was arranged, Su Qingmo took a deep breath and pointed to his feet, "Dig up here." ”

Wei Xu took the tools brought out of the palace and shook his shoulders to do it, the soil was a little hard, so Wei Xu didn't dig well, after spending some time, when he felt something strange under his hand, Wei Xu stopped, threw the tools aside casually, he jumped into the pit and swept it with his hand, and a piece of white bone appeared in front of him.

Su Qingmo jumped down and began to rummage in the pit.

Qingzhu said at the right time: "The slave maid will help the princess find it together." ”

Su Qingmo didn't respond, but just ordered: "Wei Xu, you go up first, let Qingzhu come down to help me." ”

When Wei Xu heard this, he turned over the pit with great skill, and Qingzhu then jumped down and asked, "The princess is looking for a skull?" ”

Qingzhu's idea of understanding Su Qingmo is due to the fact that when he was a child, after the age of six, Su Qingmo would follow his master to travel outside the mansion for a period of time every year, and his father Su Wang was worried that she was still young and could not protect herself, so he let Qingzhu go out of the mansion with Su Qingmo every time.

No one knows about this except Su Qingmo's parents and the rest of Erqing, so strictly speaking, Su Qingmo and Qingzhu have been together longer than Qinghe and Qingrui, and when they know how Qingzhu's skills are learned, they feel more sorry for her.

Qingzhu turned out a white Sensen's skull from the corner and handed it to Su Qingmo, Su Qingmo walked to the location where the skull was found and squatted down, and after carefully rummaging for a while, he finally found the neck bone, which had obvious knife marks on the neck bone, which allowed Su Qingmo to confirm the owner of the bone, she took the skull in her hand and said to Qingzhu: "Go up." ”

Qingzhu picked her up without difficulty and jumped out.

After being put down by Qingzhu and standing firmly, Su Qingmo held the skull in her right hand, and the index finger and middle finger of her left hand took out a yellow rune paper from the bag, her lips moved slightly, and the rune paper on her fingertips stood upright, she stood in the courtyard and said in a dark voice: "An Lan, I know you are here." ”

Wei Xu looked around and didn't find anyone.

Su Qingmo thought of the picture he saw in the illusion, and his mood was unconsciously a little low, "Do you remember all the things in the past?" ”

There was still no change in the surroundings, Su Qingmo finally couldn't help the sourness that suddenly appeared on the tip of his nose, and asked softly with wetness in his eyes: "An Lan, do you remember Ning Xi?" ”

Mu Yuanjing didn't know why her mood was so fluctuating, so she could only stay by her side silently.

Just when Su Qingmo thought that he still couldn't get a response, a touch of white gradually appeared in front of the rune realm, and soon An Lan stood in place, as if she knew that she couldn't get close to Su Qingmo and his party, so she just stood far away.

"You remember, don't you?"

An Lan still didn't speak, but his eyes were fixed on the skull in Su Qingmo's hand.

Yes, the moment Su Qingmo dug up her bones, all the memories of the past came flooding back, she remembered how she died, how she was resentful after death, and even more remembered Ning Xi, who was still unwilling to give up under the resentment.

Su Qingmo was not afraid that An Lan would suddenly burst out, and An Lan would not be able to get close to them when there was a rune realm, and besides, she held An Lan's skull in her hand.

The Soul Talisman has also taken effect, if An Lan really wants to fight her to the death, she only needs to stick the Soul Talisman on An Lan's skull, and there will be a way to make her soul fly away immediately.

An Lan's gaze finally moved from Su Qingmo's hand to her face, and she had a look on her face that couldn't tell whether it was despair or resentment, "How did you know?" ”

"Maybe it's because you're too angry, and when you tried to get on me, I entered a fantasy about your past."

An Lan didn't speak again, and after being silent for a long time, he asked as if sighing, "He, is he doing well?" ”

The light tremor in her words made Su Qingmo's heart sore a little, "I don't know, I didn't see his ending." ”

"Did he really marry Wen Chu?"

Su Qingmo knew that the Wen Chu in An Lan's mouth was the daughter of Su Yong's class leader at that time, and she was also the one who killed An Lan.

Without waiting for Su Qingmo's answer, An Lan recalled: "It's been a long time, and no one has mentioned Brother Ning Xi to me for a long time. ”

An Lan's voice was like a sigh of affection, and when she said the four words of Brother Ning Xi, the corners of her mouth flashed with a soft smile that Su Qingmo had never seen, as if anything about that person was the warmth that she properly treasured in her heart.

She slowly walked towards Su Qingmo and his party, and stopped when she couldn't continue to get closer, she looked at the location where the skull was found in the pit and asked Su Qingmo softly, "Have you ever found a hairpin here?" ”

Su Qingmo shook his head, and then she said softly: "That was the first gift that Brother Ning Xi gave me, it was a peach wood hairpin, when he gave it to me, he said it was not worth anything, but he carved it out at once, and the heart is the most important." ”

A soft smile spread across her face as she remembered the good old days.

Speaking of this, An Lan paused and looked up at the four of them, "Do you want to see the past between me and Brother Ning Xi?" ”

Without waiting for a few people to react, a large area of dense fog began to disperse from the place where An Lan stood, I don't know if it was a dream or reality, in short, the pictures of An Lan and Ning Xi's past were spread out in front of several people one by one.

They were in a thick fog, and there was no obvious emotion on Qingzhu's face, but Wei Xu's expression became stiff, and he often walked in the inner courtyard of the palace, so the relationship between Wei Xu and Qingzhu was quite familiar, and he shook Qingzhu's arm, "What does that female ghost mean?" ”

Qingzhu glanced at it, and her voice was cold, "She wants to show us what she has experienced." ”

"What do you think?"

Qingzhu's voice was impatient, "Shut up." ”

Wei Xu touched his nose and snorted, snorted and didn't make another sound.

Two figures gradually appeared in the thick fog, and after a while, the figures in the thick fog became clear.

Su Qingmo gently put the skull in her hand on the ground, put away the soul transformation talisman again, she looked at the two people in the dense fog in front of her and said softly: "They are An Lan and Ning Xi before their deaths. ”

An Lan used illusions to present the past getting along bit by bit in front of several people's eyes, and as time flowed, the memories would eventually end, and the thick fog would slowly fade until it finally dissipated.

After the fog cleared, An Lan appeared where he had stood at the beginning.

Su Qingmo subconsciously took a small step forward, "Why are you still clinging to this place?" ”

An Lan hung his head and didn't make a sound.

"If you enter reincarnation early, maybe you can meet Ning Xi in the next life."

An Lan raised his head, with pain and resentment in his eyes, "It was he who abandoned me." ”

"After so many years, have you really seen him and Wen Chu get married?"

Su Qingmo's words seemed to make An Lan's mind a little confused, and she was a little dazed on her face, "So many years? Isn't it four years of Chengde? ”

Mu Yuanjing looked at An Lan quietly and said, "It is now the first year of Wu'an, and it has been thirty-six years since the fourth year of Chengde. ”

"Impossible, impossible, I just woke up." An Lan's expression was a little flustered, and his pupils shook uneasily.

Su Qingmo finally noticed the discord he had seen at the beginning of An Lan.

The clothes on An Lan's body are all old-fashioned, and the disappearance incident only started more than a month ago, if she was really killed in Chengde for four years, then what happened in the middle of many years will make her soul be bound in this small courtyard.

"You just said you woke up shortly ago?" Mu Yuanjing frowned and asked suspiciously.

An Lan was still immersed in confused memories, and Mu Yuanjing's voice raised slightly, "Tell everything you know, maybe you can figure out what is going on." ”

Mu Yuanjing's words interrupted An Lan's thoughts, she looked at Mu Yuanjing with some empty eyes, and muttered softly: "About eight or nine months ago, I was woken up from the underground, I don't remember the past, I don't know where to go, I can only be trapped here, but sometimes I can follow the people in the theater out of here." ”

Mu Yuanjing's brows furrowed even tighter, "You said someone woke you up?" ”

An Lan nodded, and Su Qingmo looked at the corpse in the pit a little farther away, "Why did you kill so many people?" ”

"I don't know, but there's a voice in my head telling me not to stop, I, I can't control myself."

Su Qingmo wrinkled his eyebrows and fell into deep thought, and it didn't take long for a sound to come from the direction of the main gate of the courtyard, and Qingzhu lowered his voice and said, "Lord, princess, someone is here." ”

Before the four of them could react in time, the main door opened, and two old men walked in, they looked to be in their fifties, their steps were quite neat, the old man held the chain used to lock the door in one hand, and supported the old woman in the other.

Who knew that the old woman on crutches was shocked when she entered the door and saw An Lan, her eyes widened, her wrinkled face began to tremble unconsciously, and even her voice trembled, "You are... Anlan? ”

An Lan had doubts between his eyebrows, as if asking who you are and why you know me.

Su Qingmo and Mu Yuanjing glanced at each other, remembering a face they had seen before, and had a guess in their hearts, "You are Wen Chu." ”

Su Qingmo's tone was firm.

Wen Chu was so shocked by his name that her body swayed, but the old man supported her in time to prevent her from falling to the ground.

The next moment when Su Qingmo said Wen Chu's name, An Lan disappeared in place, and then appeared in front of Wen Chu, she looked directly at the person in front of her, and her voice squeezed out word by word from her throat, "You, yes, Wen, Chu?" ”

The old man beside her finally couldn't support Wen Chu, who was falling, she sat on the ground, the blood on her face faded, and even her lips became pale, she avoided An Lan's gaze in a panic, shaking her head and denying it, "I'm not, I'm not her." ”

An Lan had already recognized that the person in front of her was the one who killed her back then, regardless of her denial, An Lan stretched out her slender hands and bypassed the neck of the old man who Wen Chu was pinching behind her, looking from a distance as if An Lan was hugging Wen Chu.

"Senior Brother Song, it was you who tied me up and dragged me to the yard" After speaking, he looked at Wen Chu in front of him, "And then you." ”

Wen Chu and Senior Brother Song were already frozen in fright.

"You killed me, and then you buried me here."

With An Lan's words, the flesh and clothes on her body slowly decayed, and it didn't take long for the white bones to be revealed.

As if the person who was choked by the neck was herself, Wen Chu opened her mouth widely, but she never felt that her breathing became easier, and in front of her, An Lan had completely turned into a skeleton.

The clothes hung loosely on the white bones, and the fat white insect repellent slowly wriggled out of the eye sockets.

"See, that's how I rotted little by little, gave birth to maggots, and then turned into white bones,"

An Lan's finger bones gently swept over Senior Brother Song's neck, "It's so cold down there, no one is with me, Senior Sister Wen Chu, Senior Brother Song, are you willing to come down to accompany me?" ”

The hand that turned into dry bones gradually became stronger, and Senior Brother Song felt that it was difficult to breathe.

"Anlan, you can't kill them." Su Qingmo saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly stopped it.

An Lan, who had turned into a skeleton, slowly turned his head to look at Su Qingmo.

Su Qingmo glanced at the two old men who were spread on the ground, and then shifted his gaze to An Lan, "If you kill them now, you won't have a chance to know the truth of the past." ”

An Lan let go of the person in his hand, stood up and faced in the direction of Su Qingmo, and his body returned to the appearance of an ordinary person, "What truth?" ”

Su Qingmo looked at Wen Chu, "Ning Xi didn't marry you, right?" ”

With Su Qingmo's words, An Lan turned his head.

The beautiful woman who looked beautiful back then has become the mean old woman she is now after the baptism of time, Wen Chu sat on the ground sluggishly, after a while, she seemed to have guessed her end, she simply sat up straight, the fear in her eyes replaced with mockery, she looked at An Lan with a smile, her voice was old and low, "You want to know?" ”

"If you don't say I'll kill you right now."

Wen Chu snorted lightly, picked up the crutches that he had left beside him, and stood up slowly with difficulty, "I didn't expect that after so many years, you still think about him." ”

An Lan looked straight at her, still silent.

Wen Chu patted the dust on his body and sneered: "Why, you didn't see him down there?" ”

"What do you mean by that?" The expression on An Lan's face became grim.

Wen Chu glanced at it, and the provocation on his face became more and more obvious, "Do you really think that I will marry a man who is not in me?" I will tell you plainly today, not long before you died, your brother Ning Xi was killed by me. ”