Aoki Prefecture in the moonlight looks a little hazy, and after the hustle and bustle of the day passes, the night becomes silent. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Brother Lei, it's here ahead"

Hong Yi jumped in front to lead the way, looked back at Bai Yang and said.

Under the leadership of Hongyi, Baiyang and the others came all the way to the north of the city, which has the smallest population compared to the rest of Aoki County.

The north of the city belongs to the place where the rich live, most of them are deep mansions, and the doors are closed at night, and some light can only be seen far away, which is the lantern at the door of the house.

Under those lanterns, there stood one or a few silent guards.

The farther north the city, the silence becomes more and more abrupt, and the occasional barking of dogs in the distance gives the area a hint of life.

"Go slower, I'm not in a hurry"

Bai Yang said expectantly, he was observing the surrounding deep mansion compound, although the top of the White Stone Pagoda had overlooked the whole of Aoki County during the day, but being in it was a different feeling.

In the silence of the night, there was only the sound of their footsteps on the stone pavement, and when they passed a house, the guards at the door would look at them indifferently until they were far away.

Gradually, there were few deep mansion compounds, and both sides of the road became wasteland.

"Brother Lei, this is it"

Hong Yi stopped, pointed to the front and said.

Poplar looked up, his eyebrows raised slightly.

In front of them, a large courtyard appeared, and the wall was five meters high, extending far from both sides, and in the hazy night, the end of the wall could not be seen at all.

However, I don't know how long this courtyard has been abandoned, most of the tall courtyard walls have collapsed, and the occasional standing wall is also overgrown with lush vines.

Standing at the door of this deserted courtyard, the surroundings were silent, and there was no sound of insects and birds chirping, which seemed a little gloomy.

"Are you sure it's here?"

Poplar asked Hong Yi.

The other children were resting in the small courtyard, and only Hong Yi came here with Poplar.

"Brother Lei, I'm sure it's here, I forgot when I and Hong Er and they came here, no one lived here, we originally wanted to live here, but it was too remote, and I always felt uncomfortable living in my heart, so we left, the portrait that was a thousand times worse than Brother Lei's painting was also what we saw on a wall in this deserted courtyard"

Hong Yi said with certainty.

Poplar nodded, then looked at him and said:

"Are you afraid? If you're not afraid, take Brother Lei in to see where you saw the portrait, and if you're afraid, tell me the approximate location, I'll go in and find it myself, and you can go back first."

"Brother Lei, with you, I'm not afraid of anything"

Hong Yi looked at Poplar and grinned.

"Silly boy, lead the way"

Poplar said, rubbing his head.

"Hmm"

Hong Yi nodded happily and walked towards the door of the abandoned courtyard with Poplar.

The gate has collapsed, the masonry is scattered among the grass, and the wooden structure has rotted, and I don't know how many years it has been abandoned.

Walking through the rubble, there was a soft click under his feet, and the aspen crushed a rotten plank.

By the moonlight, he found the words on the board, and crouched down to make them carefully.

It was supposed to be a plaque on the gate, rotten, with vague and mutilated words that made it impossible to tell what was written.

The four sisters of Bingqing Yujie protected the poplar in the center, they did not speak, and watched the surroundings vigilantly.

Nowhere was anything found on the plank beneath his feet, Poplar got up and clapped his hands to signal Hongyi to continue leading the way.

When you come to the courtyard, you can vaguely tell from the ruins and broken walls that this was once a very gorgeous courtyard, but now it has collapsed and is deserted, and the barren grass and vines are intertwined, and it is no longer the grand scene it once was.

Following Hong Yi's footsteps all the way, they advanced through the ruins, and after more than half an hour, they came to their true destination.

Bang......! Boom la la ......!

At this moment, not far away, a half-decayed building collapsed again, and the sound was extremely abrupt in the night.

The four sisters of Bingqing Yujie looked in that direction vigilantly for the first time, but there was no danger in any situation.

Nima, startled, and Poplar patted his chest.

"Brother Lei, look, this is the portrait"

Hong Yi pointed to a wall a few meters away.

Following the position of Hong's point, Poplar really saw a portrait on the wall.

I don't know how long this portrait has been there, it has been blurry due to wind and rain, and some places are even missing because the walls are falling off.

By the moonlight, Poplar imprinted the portrait on the wall into his mind, and carried out 'restoration processing' in his mind, his eyes glared slightly, because the person on the portrait was indeed the old man he saw!

It's just that, relatively speaking, the old man painted on the wall is much younger than what he sees, he sees sixty or seventy years old, and the one painted on the wall is at most forty or fifty years old!

"Why is the portrait of the old man when he was young here?"

Poplar muttered to himself, but he couldn't get any clues.

Looking around, he saw that the broken wall with the portrait was once supposed to belong to a large building, and the rest of the wall had collapsed, but this one was still standing.

"Young master, there used to be words here!"

At this time, Lin Qing'er stood on the side of the portrait, pointed to a place, turned to look at Bai Yang, and said.

Where she pointed, the skin of the wall was so peeling off that there were no complete words, only a faint trace to tell that there had been a word written there.

"Don't move!"

Poplar spoke.

In the incomprehensible gaze of the others, his eyes narrowed slightly, and invisible thoughts emanated, imprinting all the ruins around the wall into his mind.

He mainly observed the peeling skin around the walls, and on some of the fragments, he saw some mutilated strokes in his mind.

However, because many of the wall skins have been weathered into powder, the mutilated strokes are incomplete.

Piecing together the mutilated strokes in his mind, he only got two words:

Wait...... Return'

These two words, which should be two of a complete sentence, may describe the scene of waiting for the other party's return, but there are no more fonts to compare, and Poplar cannot be sure, nor can he get the old man's information from these things that are not related.

However, the fact that the portrait appears in this deserted courtyard is a huge clue in itself!

After getting those two words, Poplar thought in his heart, as long as he checked the information of this courtyard, he should find something.

"Let's go, there's nothing to see"

Poplar shook his head and said.

Rumble......

Poplar and they had just turned around, and there was a roar behind them, and when they looked back, the wall that had existed for an unknown number of years had collapsed at this time.

Is this a coincidence or an accident?

Poplar's heart is furious, it's too fucking weird.

"Young master, let's go quickly, I always feel uncomfortable staying here"

Lin Yu'er approached Poplar a little and said.

"Will Xiao Yu'er still be afraid? I'm the happiest to see you when you beat people during the day."

Poplar pinched her face and smiled.

"Oh, that's different, young master"

Lin Yuer squirmed.

The group left the deserted courtyard and came outside, and as soon as they could, Bai Yang pulled Hong Yi behind him, and looked at a place in the dark at the same time as Bing Qing Yujie.

There, there was a large tree growing thickly, and at this time, in the wild grass behind the big tree, there was a strange sound.

The voice was very muffled, very low, like crying, which made the poplars and others who had just come out of the abandoned courtyard furious.

"Something, get out of here"

Lin Bing'er blocked the poplar behind him, pulled out the sharp sword he carried with him, looked in that direction, and said in a deep voice.

In an instant, the voice was gone!

Bai Yang frowned slightly, then his expression became very strange, patted Lin Bing'er's shoulder, and ran over quickly.

"Young Master be careful"

Lin Bing'er reminded that she moved forward quickly, and took a step to the place where the sound came from.

"Bing'er Don't Go Over"

Poplar immediately opened his mouth to warn, but it was too late.

"Phew, shameless"

Lin Bing'er, who had just rushed behind the big tree, instantly turned back and snorted in his mouth.

"They all said to let you not go"

Poplar said speechlessly.

"Get out of here, or I'll kill you!"

Lin Bing'er turned her back to the big tree, and said with her silver teeth clenched, with an expression that she was about to kill at any time.

"Don't, let's come out"

A frightened voice sounded, and then in the sound of squirming, two middle-aged men and women in disheveled clothes cowered and walked out from behind the tree, and the woman hid behind the man, not daring to see anyone.

Well, this is a pair of hard-working mandarin ducks who came out in the middle of the night to fight, and they were accidentally bumped into a good thing by poplars......

"The two of them are so interested, the sky is the bed, the breeze and the moon are accompanied, and the world is happy."

Bai Yang pulled Lin Bing'er, who had become a little annoyed and angry because she almost saw a picture that she shouldn't have seen, behind him, looked at the two people and smiled.

Puff ......

However, as soon as Poplar spoke, the dog man and woman knelt down.

"Please, let us go, don't talk about it, please......"

The man kept kowtowing and said, and the woman behind him didn't dare to squeak, but she also kowtowed vigorously.

Bai Yang understood in seconds, this is probably the story of Brother Wang next door, I was not interested in knowing this, I looked at the two of them and pouted and said:

"Hello Lao Wang, it's okay if you want us not to spread your good deeds, but if I ask you something, you have to answer honestly"

"Uncle, please ask, as long as you don't tell us about it, I'll say whatever you ask, and besides, I don't have the surname Wang ......."

The man was a little relieved and spoke.

This kind of stealing that love, no matter where it is, is not a good thing to spread out, and these two people are middle-aged, I'm afraid they both have families, so they can't be passed on.

At this time, the man's heart was broken, he meowed, who provoked whom, there were still people in such a remote place in the middle of the night, it was really a dog...... Well, Cuihua is not a dog...... (To be continued.) )