Wu Zhiyuan was stunned and sighed when he heard the words of Qingxu Daoist, thinking that Sun Xiangu had died the day before yesterday, if he had come to this silkworm immortal temple for a few days earlier, Dong Qian might still be hopeful, but now it seems that everything is deliberately arranged in the dark.

The three of them fell silent, and Dong Qian's heart was more sad.

After a long time, Zhang Zefang suddenly spoke out to break the silence, he seemed to recall something, and asked Wu Zhiyuan suspiciously: "By the way, Zhiyuan, when you saw the coffin in Sun Xiangu's house, did you step forward to open the coffin and take a look?" ”

Wu Zhiyuan thought about it for a while and replied: "I originally wanted to open the lid of the coffin, but I thought that the deceased was the greatest, and it was disrespectful to the old grandmother to open the coffin without permission, so I never opened it." ”

"In this way, it is very likely that Sun Xiangu is still alive." Zhang Zefang clapped his fists together, stood up from the Taishi chair at the same time, and asked eagerly, "Can you still find Sun Xiangu's residence?" ”

"Yes!" Wu Zhiyuan replied without thinking, "As long as I can return to Qixia County, I will definitely be able to find that alley again." ”

"Okay, we'll check it out right away." Zhang Ze waved his hand to Wu Zhiyuan, and at the same time turned to Dong Qian and said, "The sun is shining outside, you better go back to the brocade box you said." ”

Dong Qian said "yes" when she heard this, and as soon as her figure turned, she disappeared from the three of them.

"Brother Zhang, I just came out of the customs, and I still have affairs to deal with in the door, so I won't accompany you to go, just let my apprentice Qingyuan send you down the mountain." Qingxu got up and saluted Zhang Zefang.

"Brother Yu doesn't have to be polite, let's leave." Zhang Zefang returned the salute, turned around and walked out the door.

Wu Zhiyuan followed behind Zhang Zefang, and suddenly remembered that there was still the situation of the Qingyuan Dao Gu and did not have time to inquire about Qingxu, but Zhang Zefang was in a hurry, so he had to follow out of the palace gate. As soon as he got out of the palace, Wu Zhiyuan saw Qing Yuan standing at the door, the two looked at each other inadvertently, Wu Zhiyuan saw Qing Yuan's eyes a little flustered, although she was deliberately covering up, she was still captured by Wu Zhiyuan.

"Brother Zhang." Qingxu chased out of the hall and called out to Zhang Zefang, who turned around and looked back when he heard the words, Qingxu walked a few steps quickly, walked to Zhang Zefang, and said with a ashamed face, "The foolish brother is ignorant, and he has brought a lot of trouble to the Maoshan faction, and I hope to forgive me, if I meet him one day, I must discipline him well." I can't pay first. As he spoke, he bowed.

"What Brother Yu said, you and I are both cultivators, Yisu is my junior brother, we are also a family, now he has escaped from the master and deceived everywhere, our Maoshan faction is also responsible, let's discuss this matter well in the future." Zhang Ze returned the courtesy to Qingxu.

After the two of them were polite, Zhang Zeyi took Wu Zhiyuan down the mountain, and Qingyuan led the way in front.

There is a road under the mountain, and you can walk to the east of the road to Qixia County, and when you get to the bottom of the mountain, Qingyuan salutes the two of them slightly, and turns around and goes to the mountain.

"Zhiyuan, what are you looking at?" Zhang Zefang saw Wu Zhiyuan staring at Qing Yuan's back, patted him on the shoulder and asked.

"Ah, no...... It's nothing. Wu Zhiyuan suddenly came back to his senses, and his face turned red with a slight embarrassment.

"Where's the evening girl?" Zhang Zefang asked Wu Zhiyuan as he walked.

"She's at home, I'll go back to her when I'm done." Wu Zhiyuan replied.

"Well, although your master made an exception to accept you and allowed you to get married, but you kid don't eat the bowl and think about the pot, you can see that Miss Sheng is sincere to you, don't let others down." Zhang Zefang Zhengse warned Wu Zhiyuan.

Wu Zhiyuan nodded when he heard this, but his heart was extremely complicated, emotional matters are not as simple as a sentence, many things Zhang Zefang only saw the surface, and he didn't know anything about the unforgettable things at all.

Zhang Zefang walks very fast, he has both vitality cultivation and Maoshan Shenxing footwork, and he will not lose tea time when he wants to go to Qixia County, but Wu Zhiyuan has always hidden his vitality cultivation, so he walked relatively slowly, dragging Zhang Zefang's hind legs.

"That's right, Master." Wu Zhiyuan caught up with Zhang Zefang and asked, "I heard the conversation you had with that Qingxu Daoist when you went down the mountain just now, listen to the meaning of your words, that Uncle Yu Yisu is the younger brother of the Qingxu Daoist?" ”

"Yes, you still remember your uncle, no wonder, he also went to your house and cheated your parents out of their savings." Zhang Zefang held his forehead and smiled bitterly.

Wu Zhiyuan suddenly realized, thinking that it was no wonder that the appearance of this Qingxu Daoist was very similar to Yu Yisu, and it turned out to be his own brother.

"Senior Uncle Yu and Qingxu Daoist are twin brothers?" Wu Zhiyuan suddenly remembered something and asked.

"Well, it's a twin brother." Zhang Zefang nodded and said, "However, the conduct of these twin brothers is completely different, one is swaggering and deceiving, spending all day and drinking, and the other is carefully cultivating for the benefit of the common people." As he spoke, Zhang Zefang sighed and shook his head.

"Do you think they look exactly the same?" Wu Zhiyuan pondered for a moment and continued to ask.

"It's not exactly the same, and it can't be exactly the same, there are no two people in this world who look exactly the same, just as there are no two leaves in this world that are exactly the same." Zhang Zefang reached out and plucked a dead leaf from a poplar tree on the side of the road as a metaphor.

Wu Zhiyuan nodded lightly, in fact, what he thought in his heart was Qingyuan and Moon Shadow Fuxian, the two of them looked exactly the same, could it be that they were the same person at all? And Na Qingxu once mentioned that Qingyuan was his newly accepted apprentice, which coincided with the time of the disappearance of Moon Shadow Fuxian, which had to make Wu Zhiyuan wonder.

The two did not delay on the road, and when it was close to dusk, they rushed to Qixia County, and Wu Zhiyuan took Zhang Zefang directly to the alley where Sun Xiangu lived.

"This is it." Wu Zhiyuan stood at the head of the alley and said to Zhang Zefang.

"Let's go, go in and have a look." Zhang Zefang took the lead in walking towards the alley, followed by Wu Zhiyuan.

The two walked to the gate of the fence, Wu Zhiyuan found that the door was closed, exactly the same as when he left yesterday, it can be seen that no one has entered or exited, could it be that Sun Xiangu is really dead?

Zhang Zefang pushed open the fence gate and walked into the courtyard, the yard was still the same as yesterday, very clean, without a single leaf or weed.

Wu Zhiyuan walked to the front door of the house, deliberately paid attention to it, and found that the door was also closed, thinking that it was closed when he left yesterday, and no one opened it again. After a moment's hesitation, he reached out and gently pushed the door open.

The light in the room was dim, and Wu Zhiyuan and Zhang Zefang did not walk in directly, but stood at the door for a while, and only walked into the house slowly after their eyes adjusted to the light in the room.

The coffin is located in the north of the house, placed in an east-west direction, there is a paper person on each side, a boy on the left, a virgin girl on the right, the position is exactly the same as what Wu Zhiyuan saw yesterday, the two paper people did not seal their eyes as usual, and their round pupils stared directly at Wu Zhiyuan and Zhang Zefang, there was an indescribable weirdness.

"The paper piercing man did not seal his eyes, which means that he already has a master, it seems that this Sun Xiangu is lying in the coffin and is really dead." Zhang Zefang naturally saw the clues of the paper tie man, and said with disappointment.

"Master, since you're here, do you want to open the coffin and take a look?" Wu Zhiyuan looked at Zhang Zefang, revealing a gaze asking for opinions.

Zhang Zefang bowed his head and was silent, silent for a long time, raised his head and said: "The person has passed away, he should be buried in the earth, Sun Xiangu has been lonely all her life, presumably there is no descendant to take care of the afterlife, so he let the coffin be parked here." Let's open the coffin and take a look, and after confirming it, we will bury the coffin. ”

Wu Zhiyuan nodded yes, then walked to the coffin, bowed to the coffin and said, "Grandma, I'm sorry, today we opened the coffin to verify the body, if it is really you, we will let you rest in peace as soon as possible." ”

After speaking, Wu Zhiyuan reached out and went to lift the coffin lid. Generally, the coffin buried will use coffin nails to nail the coffin lid to the coffin, but the lid of this coffin is only covered with the top, and there is no nail, so it can also be guessed that Sun Xiangu just lay down in the coffin when she felt that her life was about to dry up, and covered the coffin lid, and no one nailed her coffin.

"Hulong!" With a sound, the coffin lid was lifted to the side, and Wu Zhiyuan looked at the coffin at the same time, and was dumbfounded when he saw it.

"What's wrong?" Zhang Zefang saw Wu Zhiyuan standing in front of the coffin in a daze without saying a word, so he quickly stepped forward and looked inside the coffin, and thousands of doubts suddenly rose in his heart.

This coffin is empty!

"How is it empty?" Wu Zhiyuan and Zhang Zefang looked at each other, not knowing how to explain, the two turned their heads at the same time to look at the paper boy and girl on both sides of the coffin, the pair of paper eyes were originally looking directly at the door, but they didn't know when they turned around, and their eyes stared directly at Wu Zhiyuan and Zhang Zefang.

Wu Zhiyuan looked at the paper virgin on his right, only to see that her face was painted with red circles, her mouth was also smeared with bright red lips, and her eyes were flushed with dead fish white, and she had turned around at this time and stared at Wu Zhiyuan without blinking. Wu Zhiyuan suddenly felt a chill on his back, and his heart was hairy.

"Master, there are ghosts." Wu Zhiyuan barely stabilized his mind, and said to Zhang Zefang in a deep voice that his master was a Taoist priest of the Maoshan faction, and the Maoshan faction was the best at catching ghosts, so he didn't have to be afraid.

"It's okay, don't panic, this pair of paper people have already opened the light, that's why you will see them react like this." Zhang Ze waved his hand lightly to Wu Zhiyuan, he pondered for a moment and continued, "The coffin is empty, which means that someone is making ghosts, and it is very likely that Sun Xiangu is not dead at all." ”

"You said that Sun Xiangu is playing ghosts?" Wu Zhiyuan didn't understand what Zhang Zefang meant, so he asked.

"It's not certain yet, you close the lid of the coffin first." Zhang Zefang looked around the room and instructed Wu Zhiyuan.

The room was very simple, with only one room, and there was a stove on the east side of the entrance, on which simple pots and pans were placed, and they were very neatly arranged. On the west side, there is a bed thatched up, and there are traces of lying on the thatch, which is expected to be the place where Sun Xiangu slept. Other than that, there was nothing else in the house, let alone a place to hide.

Zhang Zefang watched Wu Zhiyuan close the lid of the coffin, staring at the empty coffin and falling into deep thought.

At this moment, the two suddenly felt that the light in the room was dim, and they immediately looked back at the door vigilantly, only to see a figure standing at the door at some point, looking like a ghost.