"Hmm"

I blushed and stood outside the door.

"You're not impressed at all? They came here for you this time. ”

The woman's voice is very good, don't blame me for thinking too much, I thought Gu Xuanwu was not close to women earlier, but now I hear this sound that makes people squirt nosebleeds.

"When will Mrs. Xiao learn to flatter people?" Gu Xuanwu's voice was still cold, but it seemed to be farther away.

I was a little closer to the door when suddenly a gust of wind blew through and the door was blown open.

I stood awkwardly outside the door, looking at the graceful woman, the white robe half dropped, revealing a white and beautiful back, and a plum blossom tattooed on the back.

The woman's black hair was hanging down, her shoulders were slightly dewed, and she measured her body slightly, and I could see clearly that her makeup was very exquisite, with heavy makeup and patches on her sideburns, which looked like she was singing.

I bumped into Gu Xuanwu's eyes, and I was as secretive as I was.

The woman got up and pulled the white robe slightly, but most of her fragrant shoulders were still exposed.

"What are you going to do?" Gu Xuanwu said in a deep voice, at this moment, I can't wait to find a hole to drill into, and meet the woman's resentful eyes, I'm afraid that I have disturbed her good deeds, maybe she will bully her and eat Gu Xuanwu.

Frustrated, I held up the life lamp in my hand. He said lightly: "The lotus petals of the life lamp seem to have been bitten by something." ”

"I'll do it again for you later." Gu Xuanwu sighed, but in exchange for the woman's silver bell-like laughter, she stood up and walked towards me, with a hint of surprise in her eyes.

The woman walked up to me, but without saying anything, she reached out and grabbed my chin.

"This time, it's done vividly, and it looks like a person." The woman's nails were very long, and I felt a little uncomfortable holding the ground, and when I turned my head, she smiled deeply, "Yo, and temper." ”

She seemed to know that I was a paper man's body, and she was very familiar with Gu Xuanwu in her words.

"You still can't forget her, what's so good about Gu Xiaolou, but you remember it in your heart?" The woman turned, her tone cold.

Gu Xuanwu didn't answer her words, and said in a deep voice: "It's nothing, you better prepare earlier, since you have taken this scene, then sing it well." ”

"Hehehe." The woman smiled, she suddenly stared at me, and the corners of her mouth hooked up a smile, "Little sister, remember my name, Xiao Yue, the people in the line are polite, respect me, Mrs. Xiao." ”

She looked at me with a strange look in her eyes, a hint of sympathy in her resentment, and I could smell the faint scent of her as she passed by.

Xiao Niangzi didn't take a few steps, and suddenly paused: "Little sister, in the ancestral hall of the village, the scene at twelve o'clock at midnight was sung by me, and you are welcome to listen." ”

It turned out to be really a singer, no wonder the makeup on his face was so weirdly drawn.

Gu Xuanwu didn't say anything, he took the life lamp from my hand, and he said that he would give me a new one later.

I was just about to leave, but he suddenly stopped me: "Nothing you want to ask? ”

I was stunned in place, in Xiao Yue's words, the person mentioned was Gu Xiaolou, not me, maybe Xiao Yue just thought that I was a paper figure made by Gu Xuanwu according to Gu Xiaolou's appearance.

I shook my head, Gu Xuanwu waved his hand, and said that he would leave if he was fine, looking unhappy to see me.

It's just a good thing for him and Mei Jiaoniang, as for the face that has been calm.

I went back to the room in the backyard and heard a low voice coming from inside, Lu Jinshen gritted his teeth and endured the torture of illness.

When I got closer, I saw that Lu Jinshen's arms were full of bite marks.

"Ah Shen, let go!"

I hurriedly pulled his hand out of his mouth, he was in pain, rolling on the bed, Gu Xuanwu asked him to go to another room earlier, but he was stubborn, and he wanted to be with my body.

He swallowed the pain, stared at me, his eyes were full of tears, and suddenly laughed sneeringly: "You look anxious, very similar to Xiaochuan." ”

I was stunned and took a deep breath: "Xiaochuan is long gone. ”

"No, she's alive."

Lu Jinshen stared at me, looking at each other, as if he could penetrate my heart.

"She just lay there. You say she's alive? My body trembled slightly, Lu Jinshen stubbornly believed that I was still alive, and he said that after this change, it was impossible to leave him alone.

Lu Jinshen looked at me: "Don't look at Xiaochuan, she usually has a hot temperament, but she is actually a little woman in her heart." If she sees me marrying another woman, but the bride is not her, she can be angry all night. ”

Lu Jin was thinking about the past, I couldn't help it, and roared: "Enough!" ”

"I'm sorry."

He looked down, he said that he shouldn't tell me these things, Lu Jinshen suddenly raised his head: "You saved me, I still don't know what your name is?" ”

"Gu Xiaolou." I said coldly, helped him put the medicine on the table, and turned to leave, the room was too oppressive to linger.

"It's a nice name."

Lu Jinshen's voice exploded in my ears, and I fled to the courtyard in a hurry, bumping into Gu Xuanwu, he frowned slightly, and held the intact lotus lamp in his hand.

Gu Xuanwu handed me the lamp, but his eyebrows softened: "What are you doing, what are you doing?" ”

"Nothing, nothing"

"The lights are ready." Gu Xuanwu's surprised eyes fell on me, saying that I was inexplicable, he naturally understood why I was like this, "I calculated a hexagram for Lu Jinshen, and started a hexagram with your life, you and him, the fate of each other, it is not the fate of marriage, but the fate of mutual restraint." ”

Gu Xuanwu said that if I continue to entangle with Lu Jinshen, if I don't know how to let go, Lu Jinshen's end will be miserable.

Gu Xuanwu took a pipe in his hand, a very retro pipe, and poured a lot of tobacco into it, I said why these days, he has a faint smell of tobacco.

He sat down in front of me, twitching uncontrollably, and finally closing his eyes in enjoyment.

I ignored him, guarded the lamp and left.

After nightfall, I heard the sound of people walking outside the window, stepping on the fallen leaves, rustling, I poked my head out of the bed, searched around, and a black shadow flashed.

I was shocked to see that the shadow was heading for the backyard.

I was worried that something would happen, so I followed the black shadow, and when I saw that it was a black cat, I breathed a sigh of relief, but the cat was very alert, and when it ran to the window, it turned and swept around.

The green eyes in the darkness were particularly seeping, and it seemed to be staring in my direction for a long time. I shrank back, and it pulled open the window and swooped in.

I didn't dare to step forward, this cat seems to have spirituality, and it looks very weird.

I leaned there, and when the shadow reappeared, the glimmer of light in the backyard was gone.

I chuckled, knew that something had happened to the lamp, and hurried over.

Sure enough, the house was in a mess, the black cat pushed the lotus lantern to the ground, and I was anxious, but Gu Xuanwu was not at home, he went to the ancestral hall to listen to the singing, and he would be good with his old friend. I'm afraid I won't come back for a while.

I didn't care about anything else, so I lit the fallen lamp first, knowing that it wouldn't be useful, so I hung it first.

I followed behind the black cat, and the direction it went was the same as me, the ancestral hall of Yangjia Village.

The ancestral hall was very lively, there were a lot of people watching the play, the black cat flexibly grabbed into the backstage, someone stopped me, it was Yang Kun, he said hello to me, and said that young lady, you also came to see the play.

"Did you see a cat just now?" I asked Yang Kun. Although he was a little stunned, he was still very good, and he liked to call me little sister.

Yang Kun smiled: "Little sister, don't laugh, cats and dogs are not allowed to come in the ancestral hall, this place is sacred." ”

No way, the black cat just now did disappear here.

Behind the curtain, suddenly a head poked out, the cat looked at me provocatively, I pointed to the place, but Yang Kun said where the cat came from, he said I was dazzled.

I was not reconciled and left that group of people to go backstage.

The place where the troupe made up make-up temporarily, and then the mortuary, I didn't dare to look at the two skeletons.

I thought I had lost it, but the black cat seemed to be deliberate, and suddenly a head poked out, it was very flexible, and I went backstage, but I didn't see anyone, it was empty, except for some costumes.

Suddenly, there was a commotion, and the cat stood on the cabinet, its eyes shining fiercely, glaring at me fiercely, and I took a few steps back.

The cat jumped off the cupboard, turned around and disappeared.

Further back, through a red curtain. Someone inside was practicing their voices, listening to the melodious and tactful singing, I opened the curtain suddenly, but saw Xiao Yue wearing a red robe and heavy makeup on her face, sitting in the dark room.

The black cat took the initiative to run into Xiao Yue's arms, and I froze in place.

"Gu Xiaolou"

Xiao Yue called my name in a singing tone, and my heart was very depressed, and I was inexplicably stained with a trace of sadness.

"Who are you?"

The black cat is Xiao Yue's, why did she bring down the life lamp, she wanted to kill me, right?

I have no grievances with her, why should I do this?

Xiao Yue and Gu Xuanwu are old friends, and they know Gu Xiaolou, the amount of information in this is too much, it is difficult to be an entangled love.

"I said I wanted to invite you to the play, but you got into the bed early." Xiao Yue stroked the black cat in her arms, with a ghostly smile on the corner of her mouth, the room was too dim, the light only shone on her body, and everything around her could not be seen.

Xiao Yue hooked her lips and chuckled, she said that she had told me a long time ago, she was Xiao Yue, and people on the road gave face, and often called her "Xiao Niangzi".

"I sang Tsing Yi and traveled all over the Yin and Yang worlds, earning enough tears of people and ghosts, but I couldn't pry Gu Xuanwu's heart alone." Xiao Yue walked over slowly, her fingers with armor, and lifted my chin.

Scarlet nails. It was particularly dazzling, Xiao Yue hooked her lips, saying that she thought I was just a paper person, and when she saw the corpse parked in the room in the backyard, she knew that I was not alone.

"Are you willing to be Gu Xiaolou's stand-in? Stay by Gu Xuanwu's side? Xiao Yue's cold eyes turned slightly, and his gaze fell on me.

I jerked and shook my head.

"You're here for Gu Xuanwu, but why are you touching my life lamp?" I looked at the woman in front of me with cold eyes.

"Little sister, you're not mistaken, are you? Shall I move your lamp? Xiao Yue stared at me, her face with heavy makeup didn't show any waves, she said that she was just here for Gu Xuanwu, and I was a paper man, so I didn't pose a threat to her.

Xiao Yue said that if she did it, it would be impossible for her to do it against the substitute.

"If I deal with it, it will be directly against Gu Xiaolou."

But it was obviously her black cat who went into the backyard to extinguish the life lamp, and all that remained on the lotus lamp were bite marks.

Xiao Yue's eyes were full of disdain, and she said that she was not so vicious as to this extent.

"I took a look, your life lamp, there are still three missing, if I want to cut your life and pinch the core of the life lamp, you will not survive, not just extinguish it." Xiao Yue hooked her lips and said that she and Gu Xuanwu were from the same school, and they both learned the same secret arts.

It's just that Xiao Yue's experience over the years is a little embarrassing, she was expelled from the school, displaced all her life, and was picked up by the old master who sang and went home.

I stared at the clock on the wall, and when the current affairs pointed to twelve o'clock, Xiao Yue gathered the costume on his body and said in a deep voice: "Go to the front and listen to me sing a song." ”

As if I was bewitched by her, I left with Xiao Yue.

I sat under the stage, watched the red curtain lift, and watched Xiao Yue come out of it, the light was shining on the stage, particularly dazzling, and her gestures were full of tenderness.

The singing began to slam into my heart. Even his body trembled.

It was a voice that went straight to the soul, just a sentence, I couldn't understand what I was singing, but my eyes were moist from the infection.

The person sitting next to him was full of tears on his face, crying like a tearful person.

I clasped my hands and looked again, the only person who didn't shed tears was Gu Xuanwu.

Xiao Yue said that she couldn't shake the man in her life, how many people she sang and cried, but she couldn't move Gu Xuanwu alone.

My hair stood on end, and if I listened to it any longer, I was afraid that I was going to fall.

After Xiao Yue's one-man show, several children wearing masks appeared. The sound slowly became noisy.

Gu Xuanwu got up and went backstage, and I followed him closely.

Xiao Yue didn't remove her makeup, just sat on that chair like that, as if she was being hung there, leaning on silk threads to move, which inexplicably reminded me of a puppet.

"After singing for so many years, I still can't move you." Xiao Yue's voice, her body stiffened there, not moving, Gu Xuanwu sneered, saying that he was hard-hearted and couldn't be moved so easily.

After a long while, Xiao Yue's body showed a slight sign of movement, and she reached out and lifted her long hair that had fallen down.

"You have that woman hidden in your heart, how can you mourn for me." Xiao Yue said softly, "I went back to Yangjia Village this time, but I just wanted to see you." ”

Gu Xuanwu stepped forward, pressing step by step, only a centimeter difference with Xiao Yue, and the dislocation looked like the two of them were stuck together, Gu Xuanwu hooked the corners of his lips: "To see me?" ”

Xiao Yue stood up suddenly, she was in my impression that she should be a bold woman, but she showed timidity and retreated step by step.

She staggered her position with Gu Xuanwu, afraid of sticking to his face. That's weird.

Gu Xuanwu stretched out his hand, grabbed Xiao Yue's chin, and sneered: "Do you know how to be reserved at this time?" ”

"Gu Xuanwu, let go!" Xiao Yue said in a deep voice, this person's temperament is weird, and he has a 180-degree reversal from the one he came earlier.

The black shadow suddenly jumped out, and the black cat pounced violently, grabbing Gu Xuanwu's hand, leaving a mark on the back of his hand.

Gu Xuanwu grabbed the black cat's tail, he pinched the black cat, and his voice trembled: "I said, Xiaolou is my last bottom line, you can mess around as much as you want, but if you do it to Xiaolou." ”

Meow

The black cat let out a mournful roar. Struggling there, but he couldn't break free of Gu Xuanwu's hand, he actually knew that the black cat had entered his yard.

Xiao Yue's face changed, but the makeup on her face was too heavy, and she could only see the loss in her eyes: "Gu Xiaolou? You ask yourself, is that paper man Gu Xiaolou? ”

"It's not your turn to tell me." Gu Xuanwu said coldly.

Xiao Yue smiled, she raised her head and laughed: "Who personally cut off Gu Xiaolou's life at the beginning, but now he is here, pretending to be affectionate?" Would you do something like that if you really loved her? ”

"Xiao Yue!" Gu Xuanwu said in a deep voice, and the black cat just seized the opportunity, broke free of his palm, and slammed into Xiao Yue's arms.

Gu Xuanwu was angry, and reached out to grab Xiao Yue's neck. He gritted his teeth: "You better understand that I don't have that kind of patience!" ”

When Gu Xuanwu left, Xiao Yue slumped in the chair, as if he was relieved.

The black cat wanted her arms, but was thrown aside by Xiao Yue, and her resentful eyes fell on the black cat: "Get out." ”

As if it could understand what Xiao Yue was saying, the black cat jumped on the cabinet and disappeared quickly.

Tears flowed from the corners of Xiao Yue's eyes, she looked at the mirror, trembling hands, but unwrapped the film on her sideburns, she choked up, trembling all over, when she took off the heavy makeup on her face little by little.

I covered my mouth in fright. There was a huge scar on that pale face, not even an eyebrow, like a giant centipede crawling on her face.

Xiao Yue looked at herself in the mirror, her trembling hands, and put her hand on the mirror.

"Why? Why is this happening? She squatted on the ground, put her hand on her face, hugged her head and cried, "What the hell does it take for you to look at me, even if it's just for a glance?" ”

Xiao Yue cried hoarsely, she suddenly turned her head, and her eyes were locked on me.

I didn't leave, standing in front of her.

Her sharp paws pointed at me and said that even I, a substitute, came to see her jokes.

"His love for you is just based on Gu Xiaolou, you have your own soul hidden in your body, why are you willing to be a substitute?" Xiao Yue asked me.

I shook my head, I wasn't willing to be a substitute, I was forced to do so.

Xiao Yue raised her eyes, but at this moment, I didn't think that half of her face was ugly, but felt that her eyes seemed to be full of thoughts.

"Sit down." Xiao Yue said in a deep voice, she slowly restrained the sadness in her eyes, and sat opposite me, she said that she had been practicing secret techniques in the Gu family since she was a child. It is very similar to Gu Xuanwu's fate.

"I am not from Yangjia Village, but I have the blessing of the master, and I don't have to be the child daughter-in-law of Yang Blind, I thought I jumped out of that deep pit, but I didn't expect that in the Gu family, it was much more terrifying than I imagined."

Xiao Yue said softly: "If you enter my Gu family, you can't leave it for the rest of your life." ”

Xiao Yue said that Master Gu taught her, practiced secret arts, and taught her how to kill.

"The first person I killed was Blind Yang, and Master asked me to imagine my hatred for Blind Yang, and he gave me a knife." The horror in Xiao Yue's eyes was revealed.

But I think. Every word she said corresponds to Gu Xuanwu's body, and he also taught me how to kill.

"The white knife goes in, and the red knife comes out." Xiao Yue tilted her head and said that she was only eight years old at that time, "I studied with Gu Xuanwu, but he couldn't be ruthless, and I broke it off for him several times." ”

Xiao Yue said that she did not hesitate to stain her hands with blood, just so that Gu Xuanwu could see her, even at a glance, but Gu Xuanwu was cold by nature, but he did not give Xiao Yue any love.

"I was expelled from the master by my own hands. It's just that because I went to the forbidden place of the Gu Mansion and broke through Master's bad deeds, he locked me in that firewood room. ”

Xiao Yue said, the tears in her eyes spread little by little, she said that she asked Gu Xuanwu for help, but the man turned around and left, leaving her alone in the firewood room.

"You don't know how ruthless he is."

The flames burst out, Xiao Yue was imprisoned in that firewood room, she was burned by the flames, but unfortunately no one came to save her.

She pointed to half of her face and said that it was the fire that took away the face she should have, the scar on her face. It was given by her master.

"I fled from the Gu Mansion overnight, knowing that I couldn't stay in this ghost place anymore."

Xiao Yue said that at that time, she didn't understand at all, and when she entered the ghost place of Yangjia Village, she wanted to go out, and she had to pay a price.

Her body was burned by the fire, leaving no good skin, and when she fled, she strayed into the underworld, thinking that she would be eaten by a powerful ghost, but she didn't want that body to even dislike a powerful ghost.

Xiao Yue said that she had been running for a long, long time, and she thought she was going to die, but she didn't want to be discovered by the singers who walked yin and yang. He pretended to be kind-hearted and took Xiao Yue back.

"My scorched body and broken throat, he can give me a good look, but this face can never go back to its original appearance."

Xiao Yue stood up tremblingly, but she was not as enchanting as she had seen during the day.

She leaned back and laughed, saying what was the use of telling me this.

I can see through the sadness in her eyes, but I don't understand, is Gu Xuanwu such a person? Is it so ruthless that you can watch a girl being locked in a firewood room and burned alive?

Gu Xuanwu in my impression is cold by nature. But it will also save people, if it weren't for him, I'm afraid I would have died at this moment.

"What? You don't believe that Gu Xuanwu can do such a thing? Xiao Yue stared at me and said that Gu Xuanwu was not as good as I imagined.

I smiled: "Since he is so bad, why did you say that you came back for Gu Xuanwu?" ”

"You know what?" Xiao Yue's eyes showed a hint of coldness, and she said that since I stayed to listen to her story, it was better to stay and listen to her sing again.

She pulled me out of the ancestral hall, and I just glanced at the stage and was speechless.

The men didn't know how, and a bunch of headless youkai were jumping there, holding the head that should have been on their heads.

I froze, a chill on my neck, and turned my head. Just on Xiao Yue's slightly pale face!