Mingyue followed Wei Zhi closely into the dilapidated temple, because the windows were nailed with horizontal and vertical boards, the temple was very dark, and Mingyue's eyes suddenly darkened.

When he opened his eyes again, the man was already standing in the center of the temple, looking at himself quietly, as if he were the same as other things in this temple, the same silence, the same indifference, the same darkness, as if he had merged into this temple in the first place, without disobedience.

Mingyue was only stunned for a moment, then stubbornly walked into the temple, stood in front of the man stubbornly, looked straight into the man's eyes, and said nothing.

The man sighed, he didn't know what the girl meant, but he couldn't think of the best words for what he wanted to say, how to say it, even he, who had always been clever and wise.

The two looked at each other like this, thinking about it inwardly, the cold wind outside the temple drove along the open temple gate, and Mingyue couldn't help but shudder.

The man sighed, wrapped his hands around the girl's arms, and turned around, his back was facing outward, blocking most of the cool breeze, and the girl turned inward, leaning against a large rectangular desk behind her.

Mingyue frowned and pouted, wanting not to accept the man's kindness, but the man was tall, and the long black shadow completely enveloped him, and the momentum overwhelmed him.

Mingyue, who was already resentful in her heart, supported the desk behind her with both hands, stepped on the ground with the soles of her feet, and sat on the desk with her strength, her height increased a lot, barely at eye level with the man, and just like that, she continued to stare at the man's eyes with her big flickering eyes, silently complaining about her dissatisfaction.

The man felt funny, and couldn't help but get closer again, the good smell of sad bamboo flowers on his body soaked into Mingyue's nose and invaded Mingyue's heart without hindrance, and his heartstrings seemed to be broken, and he stopped beating several times.

Mingyue pushed the man away in annoyance, and said coldly, "Can you tell me the truth?" Don't fool me with any mustache dogs! You know, I don't believe it at all! Did you do it? Or, who do you want to cover? ”

Wei Zhixing was silent, but took a step forward, approached Mingyue again, raised his hand, picked up his long fingers with distinct bones, and tucked Mingyue's broken hair behind his ear, and the corners of his mouth pulled a beautiful arc, remembering the picture of the past.

These broken hair is still the last time the man painted, the girl cut out the sea of tricks, now although it is longer, but it is still half a length and not short, I want to comb it, always naughty hanging down, so that the girl always blinks unconsciously, but increases the playful appearance.

Mingyue tilted her head stubbornly, the man didn't think it was a pestle, and pointed to the dilapidated temple and said, "Do you know what kind of place this is?" ”

Mingyue looked through the afterglow of the temple door, and above the right side of herself, there was a huge, black, and unrecognizable mud fetal statue, she was in front of it, sitting, was a long case, different from the long incense case of the ordinary temple, this table was particularly wide, and she was rich and rich lying on it. The wood is also of the highest quality, but no one has come to worship for a long time, so it is covered with dust.

In the corner of the temple, there is a world-large ding, although it is also covered with dust, but you can vaguely see that its primer is dark red, and the copper tire is bright and bright.

Mingyue thought that Wei Zhixing was changing the topic, so she lowered her head angrily and blew the dust on the table, but she blew it hard, and the dust squinted her eyes all of a sudden, and tears flowed instantly.

The man hurriedly pulled away Mingyue's hand and said angrily: "What are you doing by blowing it?" Blinded? ”

The girl shook her head and said coquettishly, "Who squinted?" I'm crying! Crying!! Do you understand? Huanxi died, I don't know who the murderer is, you tell me, don't say something that doesn't change the topic, get to the point. ”

Wei Zhixing looked at the girl with a stubborn straight back, and said helplessly: "I didn't change the topic, I just want you to recognize the reality and let you crawl out of your unrealistic shell to face it." ”

Mingyue raised her eyebrows, she is not a snail, let alone a turtle, why is it unrealistic, why can't she come out of her shell?

Wei Zhixing no longer looked at Mingyue, but looked at the mud statue in the temple that couldn't see clearly: "This is like the god of the land, this temple is called the Land Temple, also known as the Pichang Temple, no matter which county you go to in the Great Qi Kingdom, only when you find the county office, its left side must be this Pichang Temple." ”

Mingyue was silent, obviously listening to it, curious why the temple and the county government were next to each other, such an inexplicable combination.

Wei Zhixing still looked at Mingyue and continued: "The reason why the Land Temple is also called the Leather Field Temple is because in addition to worshiping the Land Lord, he also has a role, that is, after the person who has committed a serious crime, after being dragged out of the county office, he will be directly brought here to be tortured to show the public, and there are two main punishments here, one is called 'peeling the skin and grass', and the other is called 'refining oil and boiling the corpse'. ”

Just hearing the name was terrifying, Mingyue couldn't help but give a cold war, but she straightened her back strongly, and stared at Wei Zhixing to continue.

"The so-called 'peeling the skin' is very simple, that is, the person is stripped naked, and then a hole is opened on the top of the head, peeled down the body, the peeled skin is intact and undamaged, and then the inside is stuffed with straw, re-stitched, hung on the lamppost outside, the grass corpse dances with the wind, like a living person, especially at night, even passers-by dare not walk......; ”

"Wei Zhixing !!" Mingyue's anger couldn't bear it, and her face was already pale with fright.

Wei Zhixing pulled the corners of his mouth indifferently, but he smiled bitterly, and continued without stopping: "I didn't lie at all. My uncle, because he privately raised a 'Hulu beauty', was accused of being sentenced to the country, and his uncle was beheaded all over the house, and my uncle was punished by 'peeling the skin and grass', when I was not yet ten years old, I watched the torture with my own eyes, and I couldn't sleep for many months, always thinking of my uncle's empty eye holes floating on the lamppost. ”

Mingyue was suddenly stunned, and her eyes turned red, how could this be? How can it be so cruel?

Wei Zhixing's voice was a little choked, but his eyes were dry and tearless, but he seemed to be lifeless: "My cousin-in-law, who is in charge of the compilation of geographical chronicles in the Hanlin Academy, has traveled all over Daqi, and when he was drawing a geographical map in Leyang County, he accidentally entered Taihu Lake and saw King Lu bathing with his concubine. ”

Mingyue's throat seemed to be blocked by something, extremely suffocating and sad.

"In the past 20 years, I have bid farewell to countless relatives, some of whom deserve it, and some of whom have been maliciously framed; I also personally sent many people on Huangquan Road, some of them deserved it, and some of them were also maliciously framed, just because, if I don't kill him, he will kill me one day, In this world, no one's hand is pure and flawless. ”

The girl was silent, didn't her hand also stick to Zhao Ergou's blood?

From Wei Zhixing's words, Mingyue heard a coldness, a kind of rationality, this coldness was forged by the blood of relatives; This kind of rationality is cultivated by experiencing life and death; How much injustice, how much forbearance, and how much helplessness should he have experienced?

The man continued: "I am afraid of saying the wrong thing, I am afraid of doing the wrong thing, I am afraid of being affected by others, I am afraid of affecting others, and in the end, I have no relatives around me except my sister; Except for Hong Feng, there is not a single friend. I was like an outcast from the world. ”

The man gently took the girl's hand, his eyes couldn't help but turn red, and he smiled bitterly: "Now, I am more afraid than in the past, I am afraid that in front of you, I will say the wrong thing, and you will blame me; I'm afraid that if I do something wrong, you ignore me; I'm even more afraid that it will affect you, and I will never see you again. ”

Mingyue's heart softened, she clasped the man's big hand, and said slowly: "You're not afraid that I'll affect you now?" ”

The man sneered, scraped the tip of the girl's nose and said, "If I am affected by you, it means that I still have the value of living in this world." So that I can truly feel like a flesh-and-blood person, not a walking corpse. ”

The man smiled and sighed but said, "I'm afraid that before you can burden me, you will be burdened by me and lose your life, and this joy will die like this." ”

Mingyue's eyes widened in astonishment, waiting for the following.

Wei Zhixing smiled bitterly: "Princess Luo thought that I was desperately looking for Song'er because of Huanxi, so I killed Huanxi, not far from the place where Huanxi died, Hong Feng found a carriage rut marks and blood stains, judging from the rut marks, it is an eight-inch pleiades hub print, this kind of carriage is suitable for long-distance travel, and the people who sit are either rich or expensive, among the few possible people, Hong Feng found the post house, and soon found the carriage in the stable, which still has a few candied fruits left. ”

Mingyue asked suspiciously: "Isn't this princess a princess, why doesn't she let you go?" Why do you miss you? ”

Mingyue finally asked the question that had been accumulated for a long time, you know, she was hurt by this question for a long time.

Wei Zhixing's eyes flickered, embarrassed, and seeing that Mingyue insisted on asking, he told Liu Jiayi about the matter from beginning to end, including going to the palace to sue the emperor for snatching relatives, and after talking about the past eighteen years, the sky outside had already darkened.

Listening to it, Mingyue's eyes became more and more narrow, longer and longer, and the atmosphere became more and more unharmonious.

The man obviously sensed the danger, and unconsciously took two steps back, and was dragged back by the girl's sleeve at once, and because of the excessive force, the two faces almost collided in one place.

The girl's tone was quite unkind: "Wei Zhixing, not only are you unclean, sticky to flowers and grass, but you also make trouble in the palace!" The most infuriating thing is that you actually lost to a sixty-year-old old man!! ”

Wei Zhixing's face changed, and after Mingyue realized that he had said the wrong thing, he stuck out his tongue and said: "Lu Yao knows the horsepower, and he has seen people's hearts for a long time, you lost in the hall, but now you have won, this princess has already regarded you as a personal item, and others can't stick it if they want to." ”

Wei Zhixing sneered and said: "If I said that before Huanxi, I still remembered the affection of my childhood sweetheart, and Huanxi died, which also made me completely see her vicious heart, so I should plan carefully, you and I, you must also be careful in the future, and we can't meet openly." ”

Mingyue said sourly: "When a beautiful woman enters her arms, she can't refuse it, just meet it." Your beautiful man's plan will definitely succeed immediately. You let her go east, but she didn't dare go west. You asked her to betray the king, she will definitely lift the king's nest and go to the end of the world with you! ”

Wei Zhixing's face turned bright, this beautiful man's plan, he had already used it once for Huanxi, but Mingyue didn't know it, looking at the little girl's sour face, Wei Zhixing decided to rot this matter forever in his stomach, and those who knew it would definitely be killed, such as Wei Yan and others.