The dark shadow stood in the doorway, facing the door, motionless.

Wen Wen still held Qin Yan's hand tightly, nervously and a little frightened looking at the back under the black curtain.

"Is it just to see the door of your house?"

In the silent night, Qin Yan's voice sounded suddenly, causing the black shadow that was not too far away from them to straighten his back suddenly. Then, the shadow slowly stretched out his hands and pushed open the two seemingly heavy doors.

Although it is the end of September, which is the beginning of autumn, the weather still retains the residual heat of summer, and thin and cool dresses can be seen everywhere during the day.

However, in such a climate, when the two mysterious doors in front of them opened, Wen Wen and Qin Yan felt a chill rushing to their faces at the same time. Involuntarily, the warm body got closer to Qin Yan.

Qin Yan squinted his eyes slightly, and looked at the dark and secluded courtyard behind the gate with a complicated expression.

The black shadow stepped over the high threshold, and then, standing still in the door, and then looked back at Qin Yan and Wen Wen very unnaturally, looking at the meaning, it seemed to be waiting for them to enter.

Qin Yan looked down at Wen Wen and gave her a reassuring smile, then took her hand and raised his feet to walk towards the door.

When he crossed the threshold and walked in front of the black shadow, Qin Yan saw that in addition to being dressed in black, this person was also wearing a black hat, and he also seemed to have a black mask on his face.

Sensing that Qin Yan was looking at him, the man in black lowered his head slightly, and then his eyes and entire face were covered by the brim of his hat.

When Qin Yan and Wen Wen walked into the courtyard, the man in black closed the door again with a "clang".

If what I just felt at the door was a chill, now in the courtyard, it is a cold that goes deep into the bone marrow.

Sensing that Wen Wen was trembling, Qin Yan took off his coat and put it on her, and then clenched her hand again. Despite this, Wen Wen still feels that the cold here makes people panic. Although she knew that this should be the old house of their ancestors, where her grandmother grew up when she was a child, she always had an intuition to go to the grave.

But now, Wen Wen couldn't care about her instincts, she was even more curious, and even frightened, who was the man in black who brought them over? Why is he in the Li family's ancestral house? And what's even more amazing is how did he know that she and Qin Yan would come tonight? Could it be that his mother's mobile phone is in his hand? Or maybe he lives here with his mother?

The questions in her mind came to Wen Wen like a sea of questions, and then, at this time, no one could give her an accurate answer. If you want to know the truth, you have to go down yourself.

The man in black dragged a slope foot, limping in front to lead the way, and Qin Yan and Wen Wen followed behind.

After a round arch and a long path paved with smooth cobblestones, we came to a locked door.

The man in black took out the key and opened the door with a "click".

watched the man in black enter the room, then took out a candle out of nowhere, lit it, and limped into the room behind the screen alone.

Qin Yan and Wen Wen glanced at each other, and at the same time raised their feet and walked in.

Behind the screen, there is a large room like an exhibition hall, and the room full of antiques and treasures that have been stored for hundreds of years or thousands of years is not hung or placed. Qin Yan swept through them one by one and found that except for the books on the two shelves, everything else was women's clothing and supplies, and even puppets such as little girls' dolls.

Wen Wen let go of Qin Yan's hand and slowly walked to a cabinet in the middle, where there were all kinds of white gauze skirts worn by girls from childhood to adulthood, and the most dazzling of them was a gorgeous wedding dress.

The warm hand touched each dress one by one, from the youngest seemed to be worn by a two- or three-year-old girl, to the oldest should be ten years old, and then to the last wedding dress. For each dress in front of her, her expression was still surprised, and her mood was quite stable, but when it came to the last wedding dress, her right hand went from the initial caress to the corner of the wedding dress in her hand, and the eyes that had always been indifferent also showed cold hatred.

Suddenly, Wen Wen pulled off the wedding dress violently, then turned around and threw it to the ground, and then, she raised her eyes to look at the man in black not far away, and asked in a roaring voice, "Who are you?" Why do you want this dress? What exactly do you want to do? ”

Under the light of the candle, the man in black finally raised his head, and the only eyes on his body that were exposed were with a kind of painful heartache.

"Don't pretend to be a fool and say, 'Who are you?' Why did you live in the Li family's old house? ”

The warm anger seemed to be directed at the wedding dress from beginning to end, and when I stepped on it, I felt a deep sadness from the bottom of my heart.

At this moment, she was in tears.

When she turned her head and saw a yellow cheongsam on her right, Wen Wen threw herself over and buried her face in it, crying and sniffing the smell of the cheongsam, as if this would make her feel safe.

While Wen Wen was crying, Qin Yan noticed that the man in black took out a pen and a notebook, he lowered his head and wrote a line on it, and then, he walked to Wen Wen and handed her the notebook to read.

Clear water and blue sky, Yaochi jade liquid.

With tears on his face, he looked at that sentence warmly and stunned.

"Who are you? Why do you know this phrase? What do you have to do with my mother? ”

As expected, the man in black still didn't speak.

This person is either mute, or his throat has been hurt, Qin Yan thought. But who is he?

Inadvertently, Qin Yan's hand touched the mobile phone in his trouser pocket, and then, he quietly pressed a button.

"Dingdingding........ding"

The sudden ringing of the mobile phone startled Wen Wen and the man in black, and then Qin Yan walked over with his mobile phone.

"You used Tong Baguio's mother's mobile phone number, and you were the one who replied to our text messages?"

Although what he said was a question, Qin Yan was almost certain that he was the one who replied to the song "Poppy Beauty" to the warmth.

"You texted back and led us here, there's no reason not to let us know who you are, right?"

The man in black took a few steps back, the foot of the slope trembling enough to support his body. He looked at Qin Yan, then at Wen Wen, and then slowly stretched out his hand to the mask on his face.

"Huh?"

Looking at the face opposite, Wen Wen covered his mouth and exclaimed briefly.

Qin Yan frowned, he didn't expect that this was actually the face of an old man who was too old, no, it should be said that it was the yin and yang face of an old man artificially promoted. Half of his face was fair and delicate, looking like a young man in his twenties from the side, but the other half was shrunken with only a small piece of black and wrinkled dough.

After walking for so long at night, he was sloping his feet, and he saw that he had no trace of respite, so Qin Yan originally guessed that this was a strong man in his forties. But seeing his face now, Qin Yan knew that this person was at least seventy years old.

"Yaoyao, do you still recognize me?"

The man in black wrote another line of words, holding the notebook in front of him and looking warm.

"Dad......"

Hearing the "Dad" shouted from the warm mouth, the eyes of the man in black suddenly turned to the flood that burst the embankment, and the old tears were full of tears.

Oh my God, what's going on?

Qin Yan's eyes widened, he looked at the man in black, and then at the warmth, Rao was that he had lived for so many years, and he was also confused by the situation in front of him.

Wen Wen walked up to the man she called "Dad" and wiped his tears with her sleeve over and over again, but her own tears were allowed to flow completely.

Half an hour later, the father and daughter, who had not seen each other for many years, finally stabilized their mood.

"Dad, why did you become like this? What about Mom? ”

Hearing Wen Wen's question, Tong's father, who had just stopped his tears, sighed heavily, and then pulled Wen Wen to sit down at the table next to him, picked up the pen, and wrote a line on the original notebook: Tell Dad, how have you lived all these years, and how did you become the little girl you are today?

Alas, the night is destined to be very long!

Qin Yan sighed, bored and listened to her father about how she was born in the Wen family and how she was raised by Wen Hong and Liu Yuehui.

And when the warmth was finished, Qin Yan looked at the time, it was already three o'clock in the night. He glanced at the still dark courtyard outside with complicated eyes, felt the inexplicable swishing coolness, and his legs unconsciously stepped out.

Inside the house, Father Tong lowered his head and brushed something, outside the house, Qin Yan frowned and stood on a smooth stone slab in the courtyard, and then looked down, after a while, he raised his foot and tapped lightly with his toes a few times, and the sound of emptiness came, but before he could make the next thought and action, Father Tong in the house suddenly put down his pen and rushed out.

Father Tong stared at Qin Yan and then at the stone slab under his feet, his expression obviously filled with surprise and panic.

"Dad, what's wrong?"

Wen Wen also walked out, she looked at Father Tong in wonder, and then looked at Qin Yan, not understanding what happened between the two.

Qin Yan shrugged his shoulders innocently, "Seeing that the two of you are chatting, I will go to the courtyard for a casual stroll, but ......" As he spoke, he looked at Father Tong, the meaning was obvious, I just walked a few steps and didn't do anything, I don't know why Father Tong was staring at him.

"Dad, Qin Yan is my friend, you can say anything directly."

Father Tong looked at Qin Yan, then at his feet, and then turned his head to look at Wen Wen.

Knock, knock, knock

The abrupt sound of tapping on the floor sounded again, and Father Tong looked up at Qin Yan in surprise, his white and black face was so terrifying and terrifying in the dim light.

"Huh? There seems to be something wrong with this slate, how can it be knocked like a hollow? Pretending to have discovered it by accident, after tapping it again with his toes, Qin Yan squatted down and wanted to touch this strange piece of floor.

But before he could stretch out his hand, Father Tong rushed over in stride, and his body crashed into Qin Yan as soon as he was sideways.

Fortunately, Qin Yan had been prepared and dodged with an easy dodge, but as he dodged, Father Tong fell heavily to the ground.

"Dad," Wen Wen shouted, but instead of going over to help, he looked at his father in surprise.

"Dad, what's wrong with this floor? Why can't you let Qin Yan touch it? ”