The chatter in the forest rang for a long time, and finally five ghosts floated up and stood quietly behind me.

Li Mingmin waved at me and said with a smile, "Go early and come back early." ”

She looked in a good mood, but Zhu Yan stood in the forest, her expression was a little complicated, she frowned and looked at me, and she didn't know what she was thinking.

I walked to the bow of the boat, drove the boat, and as I walked down, I asked the ghost behind me, "You have been waiting in the forest for so many years just to take my boat down?" ”

It took a long time before the ghost whispered back, "Yes." ”

"Why?" I asked, puzzled.

I've always been curious about this question, thousands of years ago I spent as long as I can remember spending time on the Santu River, and I don't know why I'm here, let alone why these ghosts are on my boat.

At that time, I only thought of it as a livelihood, once a day, as a pastime.

"Only by going down on your boat, Hades will accept us, if we go down by ourselves, Hades will send us to the hands of the Five Ghost Emperors, and there is almost no hope of re-entering reincarnation." The ghost who had just spoken whispered.

It dawned on me that it was because of this.

"Here we are." The ghost whispered.

I looked to the side, and I saw the ancient city gate building slowly appearing in front of me, and the city gate was opened, and there was a fierce ghost with iron chains being beaten by the ghost and walking into the door.

Seeing this scene, I was overwhelmed with emotion, I never dreamed that I would be able to see the underworld one day.

Now when I think of the time I spent in Nantaizi Village, I just feel like a world away.

As soon as my ship arrived, a ghost messenger came up to meet me and took them away very diligently.

I wanted to say a few words to them, but they all bent down and didn't dare to look at me, so they took the five ghosts and dragged them away.

It seems that I am afraid that I will eat it if I run late.

I sighed, and it seemed like I couldn't ask.

I drove the Yin boat, and as soon as I turned around, a black-faced judge appeared in front of me.

He just stared at me with his hands behind his back, and he didn't speak.

I touched my nose, a little embarrassed, when I first returned to the position, he asked me to send the ghost down, I didn't hesitate to refuse him at the time, now think about that scene, what a slap in the face.

I was thinking about how to resolve this embarrassment when I heard him say, "Do you know that you are not here for a thousand years, and how many powerful ghosts are missing?" ”

I was stunned when I said this, and after a while, I said, "You said that I was not there for a thousand years, so how do I know?" ”

He glared at me and said, "There are tens of thousands, to say the least." ”

As he spoke, he jumped out of the boat, "These powerful ghosts have not entered the underworld, and there is no trace of the ghost emperor of the five directions, and they have disappeared out of thin air. ”

As the words fell, he had entered the city gate and disappeared without a trace.

Thinking about what he said, I was inexplicably panicked.

Ten thousand ghosts have lost their traces, this is not a trivial matter, why is there no movement at all in the underworld?

And, now he's coming to tell me, is he trying to get me involved?

I drove the Yin boat back, remembering the time he said, and suddenly my back was cold.

What he's saying is, the thousand years I've been away!

The timing seems to be a coincidence.

My heart was a little heavy, and I thought that the Underworld and the Five Directions Ghost Emperor couldn't find these powerful ghosts, except for the scattered souls, there was only one place to hide.

Dragon Cave!

When I passed Li Mingmin, I didn't stop and went to the Dragon Cave again.

"What are you doing?" Li Mingmin called me in the woods.

I didn't say anything.

This time I entered the Dragon Cave, I specially used means to hide the breath of the Yin Dragon, and climbed the stone wall of the Dragon Cave along the path I stumbled upon back then.

To be honest, a large part of the reason I am where I am today is because of the Dragon Grotto.

Because when the Yin Dragon is there, in the entire Hades, only I can freely enter and exit the Dragon Cave.

The Dragon Cave was a sinkhole, the size of a small town in the real world outside, and I climbed down the rock wall to the middle, lying in the crevice of the rock.

These gaps were inadvertently bumped out by the Yin Dragon swinging its tail back then, and almost no one knew about it.

I cautiously moved through the gaps, and suddenly I saw a ghost moving at the bottom of the pit, and I crept closer, hiding directly above the ghost.

At first, it was just one, but after a few minutes, countless ghosts gathered at the bottom of the pit.

Finally, the two walked in from outside the Dragon Cave, one of them was Xiao Yu, and next to him was a woman in a pale yellow dress, looking young and gorgeous.

At first, I suspected that Xiao Yu had a woman outside, but as soon as she spoke, I was completely shocked.

This person turned out to be Xiao Yuniang.

I looked at her carefully, her eyebrows and eyes were indeed very similar to Xiao Yu, and she was very young, standing next to Xiao Yu, she was more like a sister and brother.

Presumably, she was younger when she died?

I kind of can't figure it out.

Xiao Yu was just about to speak, but she suddenly raised her hand to stop Xiao Yu's words and looked at me sharply.

I was shocked, how did she find me?

Now I didn't want to clash with Xiao Yu head-on, so I was busy retreating, but I noticed a black shadow flashing in front of me.

I left along the stone wall, jumped on the boat and drove away.

On the road, I was afraid that they would chase after me, but when I returned to the forest where Li Mingmin was, I didn't see them.

I lay directly in the woods, looking at the foggy sky of Hades, which never saw the sun, and felt more and more that this was not easy.

If I'm not mistaken, the demons that the judge said are in the Dragon Cave.

Xiao Yu's mother and son first took me away from the Santu River, and then released the Yin Dragon, just to get rid of the Yin people on the Santu River and get those powerful ghosts to the Dragon Cave.

It's just that those powerful ghosts enter the Dragon Cave, normally they can't even survive for an hour, and they will be scattered, what is the reason why those who have stayed in the Dragon Cave for thousands of years?

I reached out to cover my eyes, and felt that what I was supposed to understand seemed to be messed up again.

Tuzi ...... "I heard Zhu Yan calling me.

I rubbed my face, sat up, and saw him waving at me in the woods.

"What's wrong?" I got out of the boat and went into the woods.

He grabbed me and whispered, "I know where Xiao Yu and the others are from. ”

I was shocked and looked at him carefully, "How do you know?" ”

He said: "You also know that the smell on my body can pass through yin, when you returned to the yin boat that day, I happened to be urging the magic circle to pass through yin, when Xiao Yu walked past me, I wrote down the smell on his body, these days carefully distinguished, I recognized that it was the smell of Weidi ghosts." ”

I took two steps back and looked at him closely, "Seriously? ”

He nodded affirmatively.

"Why don't I believe it so much, it's okay to smell people, but you smell ghosts? A dog's nose doesn't have your spirit. I said with a frown.

He said anxiously: "What I said is true. ”

"Wood, is what he said true?" I asked aloud.

Li Mingmin calmed his face, came out from behind the tree, and said in a muffled voice: "It's true." ”

Looking at the expressions of the two of them, I understood Zhu Yan's subtext.

"You want to rely on this and let me take you out?" I said with a frown.

Zhu Yan glanced at Li Mingmin, and after a while, he said affirmatively: "Yes, my parents' revenge has not been avenged, Zhu beheaded him, I don't know what the situation of the Zhu family is now, I don't worry." ”

Li Mingmin said angrily: "I told you a long time ago, you don't belong to the outside, you are originally inside." ”

"I know." Zhu Yan patiently explained: "But after all, the Zhu family raised me now, and I can't ignore it." ”

Li Mingmin was still angry, glared at him fiercely, and said to me with red eyes: "You take him out, I don't want to see him again." ”

I'm not going to persuade anyone, but I'm going to give them a chance.

I took Zhu Yan out, and said as I walked, "Then are we going to Weidi?" ”

He nodded and said with a calm face: "I'll go with you first, investigate clearly, and then go back to Zhu's house." ”

I looked behind me and found that Li Mingmin was really standing in front of a tree, looking at me and Zhu Yan in a daze.

When I got out of the yin gate and was really about to leave, Zhu Yan hesitated, turned his head to look at the forest, and said later: "Minmin, I'll be back soon,"

After saying that, he walked out of the Yin Gate.

I followed him, and when I went out, I said, "You can bring a piece of wood." ”

He smiled wryly and said, "I thought the same way, but she didn't listen to my explanation at all, and rudely thought that I was just trying to escape from her." ”

I looked at him seriously, "Do you have such a thought?" ”

He was stunned by my question, and then said with a wry smile: "To be honest, I had it when I first went in, but I also thought later that even if I was free, I wouldn't be happy if I didn't have Min Min by my side." “

I looked over at the gate and said, "Okay, then take me to the place where you smelled it." ”

He answered.

The two of us left the vegetable field, bought tickets to go to Weidi, and after several twists and turns, we finally came to the source of the Wei River, Weiyuan County.

Zhu Yan said: "Whether it is a human or a ghost, there is a unique taste on the body, which cannot be changed by eternal life." ”

I was intrigued by him, "Have you ever smelled me?" ”

"Smelled." He glanced at me and said, "The smell of your body is the same as the smell wafting from the dragon cave." ”

I patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile, "It's really good, I'm really from the Dragon Cave." ”

Even though I found the place, it was still very difficult to find information about the ghosts from thousands of years ago.

We ran almost all over Weiyuan County, but we still found nothing.

Finally, when we were at a loss, a young woman came to the door.

She said that her surname was Xiao and she knew who the ghost we were looking for was.

After meeting, she went straight to the point and said, "I know who Xiao Yu you are looking for." ”

Zhu Yan and I glanced at each other, and there was surprise in our eyes.

"Who is it?" I asked.

She took out a thread-bound book, turned a page and handed it to me, saying, "He is the devil of our Xiao family." ”

That's when I realized that she was holding a family tree.

She pointed to a name called Xiao An's in the book, and said slowly: "At that time, it was the Sui Dynasty, Xiao An's was the daughter-in-law of the Xiao family, her husband died early, and she didn't give birth to a child, who knew that she was bizarrely pregnant when she was thirty years old, and the patriarch was very angry when he found out, so he soaked her in a pig cage." ”

She put away the genealogy and said: "When Xiao An's was drowned, she was already three months pregnant, and five months later, during the Cold Food Festival, someone saw Xiao An's return to Xiao's house with a big belly, and gave birth to a child in the bed she slept in before, and that child is Xiao Yu you are looking for." ”

"Who is the father of the child?" I asked,

She shook her head, "I don't know, but at that time, someone privately said that the child was a devil, because when Xiao Anshi was alive, there was a night watchman who heard the sound of men and women in her room having sex, but when she looked inside, she only saw Xiao Anshi rolling on the bed." ”

I raised an eyebrow, "How do you know so clearly?" ”

She explained: "It's not that I know, but this story is handed down from my ancestors, and I have been forced to memorize it since I was sensible. ”

I thought about it and asked curiously: "Then when your Xiao family was in the Song Dynasty, someone died in Xiaoyin Mountain, do you know about this?" ”

She nodded, "It was the Xiao family's descendants who died in Xiaoyin Mountain at that time, and after that incident, the Xiao family collapsed. ”

After saying these words, she handed me the genealogy and said, "The ancestors have an explanation, if someone comes to ask Xiao Yu, they will hand over this genealogy." ”

I laughed and said, "You tell me everything and don't worry about me being a bad person?" ”

She shook her head and said lightly: "It has nothing to do with me if you are a bad person or a good person, I just tell you the story and give you the things according to the explanation of my ancestors, as for what you want to do with it, I don't care about me." ”

When she went out, I stopped her and asked, "Xiao Yu grew up in Xiao's family later?" Or was it directly ......"

I didn't go on until I was halfway through.

"Strangulation?" She said: "I don't know, the ancestors didn't say it, but if you think about the social situation at that time, you can know that this child was strangled or drowned nine times out of ten." ”

With that, she waved her sleeves and turned to leave.

Zhu Yan took the genealogy and asked me, "Do you believe this story?" ”

I hooked my lips and sneered, "What's the use of not believing it?" If you think about it, is this girl to the point? ”

"What do you mean?" Zhu Yan looked at me suspiciously.

I said: "You came with me, saying that you were looking for Xiao Yu's identity, but in fact, you were looking for his father, it doesn't matter if he is a Xiao family or not, it doesn't matter if he is a devil, but the girl just now talked for a long time, and she didn't mention his father in half a sentence." ”

Zhu Yan slapped the table and said, "It's true." ”

"There are two possibilities, one is that this girl was sent by someone else to test you and me, and the other is that what she said is true, the reason why Xiao Yu's father was not mentioned was because no one knew who his father was at that time." I concluded.

Zhu Yan frowned and thought for a long time, and said, "Tuzi, I don't understand why you think that what Xiao Yu is planning now is related to his father?" Maybe he was doing it for his own selfish desires? ”

I shook my head and said firmly: "I know Xiao Yu, he is not bad." ”

Moreover, when Xiao Yu looked at me, the pain and struggle in his eyes were very strong, but there was no greed.

"It's easy to say." Zhu Yan muttered.

I patted him on the head, "He's my pillow person, good or bad, I can see clearly." ”

Zhu Yan was silent for a long time, then suddenly slapped the table and said in shock: "So, now half of the possibility is that Xiao Yu's father is not human." ”