Chapter 16 Step by step

Xiao Lianshan was speechless to subconsciously avoid my gaze, the hand held high in front of me trembled, licking his dry lips, he was not a person with a lot of words, not to mention that as I said, his biggest advantage is also his biggest shortcoming, he will not lie at all, let alone justify what he has done wrong, and even cover up what he has done so clumsily in front of me.

The door inside was opened, I didn't expect that there would be someone in this room, and it was Gu Anqi who came out.

"Who told you to come out!" Xiao Lianshan glared at her, frowned, and sat down in a chair.

I looked at Gu Anqi dumbfounded, feeling that everything had become complicated and unacceptable, Gu Anqi, who had been kind to us since childhood, was wearing clothes stained with blood, and the soles of her shoes were stained with the mud of the dry stone mountain.

She also went to the mausoleum...... Maybe she was involved in something I didn't dare to think about, and she didn't even have time to change her clothes and shoes.

I covered my mouth and rubbed it a few times and didn't know what to say, Gu Anqi walked up to me and still looked at me with loving eyes, reaching out and caressing my cheek.

"Everything your dad does is for you, yes, maybe in your heart, he and I have always been very strict with you, unlike Xiaoxiao who lets her mess around, but what kind of person is your dad, don't you know it in your heart after so many years?"

Her nose was sore, and she hadn't touched me so lovingly in a long time, and I touched the back of her hand and sighed.

"Mom, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have you off that day."

"You and my mother and son, what's right and wrong, it's not good for my mother, my mother shouldn't beat you, you are my single-handedly pulled, my mother beats you, in fact, my heart hurts more." Gu Anqi smiled kindly and said lightly.

"Mom, what happened to you and Dad, since you said that we are mother and son, why can't you tell me?" I took Gu Anqi's hand and asked pleadingly.

"Rong Yan, it's much better not to know some things than to know." Gu Anqi pursed her lips and replied in a low voice.

"Didn't he want to know what happened to me and you before, tell him, you tell him, let him know how many shady things we have and be afraid that he will know." Xiao Lianshan sat next to him and said coldly.

"Lianshan ......"

"Let you say it, so that he will not think every day that I have done something unspeakably with you." Xiao Lianshan said indignantly and loudly.

Gu Anqi withdrew her gaze from Xiao Lianshan, pulled me aside and sat down and said earnestly.

"Your dad and I didn't mean to hide it from you, we have gone through some things that I don't want you to know, but also for you and Xiaoxiao, when I met your dad, he was a person with no identity, he and Jiang Shan were comrades-in-arms on the battlefield Your dad saved his life, your dad didn't tell you this because he knew that you had to be strong and independent, and he didn't want you to know that he was taken care of."

"What about the Fourteenth Tomb of the Ming Dynasty?" I asked.

"......," Gu Anqi looked at Xiao Lianshan for a moment, hesitated, took a deep breath and said. It was a past that your father and I experienced when we were young, at that time you and your father had many friends around us, and we came together by chance, and by chance we came into contact with the rumored Ming Tombs. ”

"Mom, did you and Dad finally find the Ming Tomb?"

Gu Anqi nodded silently, Xiao Lianshan stood up from the chair with a sad expression and walked to the window without saying a word, standing there for a long time as if he had fallen into the memories of the past.

"In this way, the reason why Dad can become rich in the world is because of the treasures in the 14th Tombs of the Ming Dynasty."

"It's not a treasure, if you and I would rather never touch it, yes, we finally found the legendary treasure of the rich country, but...... The real treasure in the 14th Tombs of the Ming Dynasty is not a treasure, it is just a beginning, the beginning of a reincarnation of fate. Gu Anqi slowly buried her head, her expression very sad. Eventually, my friends and I left your dad......"

"They...... Why did they leave? ”

"Destiny is hard to disobey!" Xiao Lianshan turned his back to me and said these four words helplessly.

In my heart, he and Gu Anqi are very strong people, no matter how you look at it, they don't look like people who believe in fatalism, but I can't see through the almost helpless regret and melancholy on their faces, it should be a very nostalgic past, at least until now, it has been deeply engraved in their hearts.

"Mom, seven people have died now, and lives are at stake! You taught me to be kind to others, and now there are people who are reckless in their methods of human life, do you want me to sit idly by? I frowned, took Gu Anqi's hand, and said earnestly. Mom, if I turn a blind eye, what is the reason of heaven. ”

"Rong Yan, a lot of right and wrong in this world are not a sentence of right and wrong can be clearly stated, and after you have experienced a lot, you will understand what your mother said today, people are like duckweed in the world, you have to learn to be at peace with your heart, your father and I don't ask you how beautiful you will be in the future, as long as you have a clear conscience and peace of mind." Gu Anqi smiled faintly and said to me amiably. "Sometimes take a step back and open the sky, maybe you listen to your dad, it's never a good thing to go back with us."

I closed my eyes weakly, what she said was exactly the same as Xiao Lianshan, they were clearly determined to hide something from me, and I knew that it would be useless for me to ask any more.

"If you don't want to say it, I'll check it myself, I don't have as much experience as you, but I just want to know what the truth is, at least I can get justice for those who died in vain."

"The truth is sometimes not meant to be known, why don't you understand that some things are destined not to be made public." Gu Anqi sighed and said when she saw me so resolute. "The case you encountered is not as simple as you think, and someone has been taking advantage of your ......"

"Take advantage of me? What do I have to be taken advantage of, Mom, since you say that someone is using me, then you tell me who is using me? "I don't want to listen to their explanations over and over again, as if in their eyes I'll never grow up." You really don't have to worry about me, Du Ruo and I have other friends, we have experienced a lot of unbelievable things, and we know how to face and deal with them. ”

"Faced? What do you want to face? What can you handle? I'm not worried, huh! You're still useless now, how can I not worry. Xiao Lianshan was even more angry when he heard me say this. Then tell me what you know and what you have done to make you so confident. ”

"None of the cases we have solved can be made public, and we don't stop ......"

"Stop what? Kill a few imps, kill a woman who can lower your head, or do you work together to kill Zong Ling Qifei? Xiao Lianshan coughed so badly that he clutched his chest and shook off my hand and asked.

"......" I looked at Xiao Lianshan and Gu Anqi in surprise, these are unknown secrets, I don't know how he knows. You...... How do you know this? ”

"You asked me how I knew this, of course, thanks to you, and still ...... Still...... Ahem...... Still self-righteous, do you think you ...... anything" The more excited Xiao Lianshan was, the more he coughed violently, still holding his chest and pointing at me in a hurry. "You think you know everything, but you actually ...... You...... You don't know anything! ”

I was worried that Xiao Lianshan's body would not dare to say any more, Gu Anqi helped Xiao Lianshan to rest on the chair, and when he gradually calmed down, Gu Anqi sighed heavily and said to me seriously.

"Rong Yan, things are not as simple as you think, you were attacked by little ghosts and corpses, that is someone who wants to deliberately borrow these to stimulate your abilities, and the purpose is to let you get rid of the Zong Ling Qifei, everything has been manipulated, you are being used, and until now we don't understand why anyone would use you to do these things, but your father and I believe that this is just the beginning!"

I thought that no one would know these unknown secrets except us, but Xiao Lianshan and Gu Anqi clearly knew more than me, and I found that the more things I came into contact with, the more I didn't know about them.

"Mom, you...... How did you come to know this? I asked, surprised.

"How do we know it's important? What you should know by now is the consequences of killing the Seven Evils of the Sect Spirit. Xiao Lianshan clutched his chest and said hard.

"Yes...... What are the consequences? I asked, surprised.

"Zong Ling Qifei is Luo Yu for six days, he is the god king of the six days outside the netherworld, he is ordered by the Emperor of the Underworld to control the outside six days, hunting and patrolling all the dead souls who refuse to enter the netherworld, Zong Ling Qifei is specifically responsible for sucking the dead souls and evil ghosts to clean up the outer six days, if you kill him, it will be like no one has jurisdiction for the six days outside, and then the evil spirits and evil ghosts wandering in the two worlds of yin and yang will unscrupulously invade the yang world." Gu Anqi sighed and said worriedly.

"Mom...... So, what will be the consequences? ”

"Consequences ......"

"Don't tell him, it's useful to say so much, he will still go his own way." Xiao Lianshan interrupted Gu Anqi's words angrily, stared at me and asked seriously. "It's useless to say more, there are three paths for you to choose now, the first one is that you and we are happy to go back, the second is that since you think that your mother and I have killed someone, if the evidence is conclusive, you can arrest us now, and the third ...... Let's go. ”

I rubbed my forehead weakly, no matter how I decided, I sighed silently and looked up at Xiao Lianshan.

"Dad, let me ask you the last sentence, Xie Tong and Liu Weiming and the five people who died in the mausoleum...... You killed? ”

"It's not!" Xiao Lianshan replied with a decisive answer.

There was a knock on the door outside the door, Xiao Lianshan glanced at Gu Anqi should have signaled her to go back to the room so as not to be seen in a bloody dress, Xiao Lianshan and I looked at the pen holder on the table at the same time, I thought I could be strict with myself and distinguish between public and private, but in the end I was just an ordinary person, from the moment I secretly helped Xiao Lianshan clean up his footprints and retrieve the pen holder in the mausoleum, I was bending the law to protect him for personal gain.

I picked up the pen holder on the table, squirmed, and handed it to Xiao Lianshan.

"Dad, I believe in you."

Xiao Lianshan was stunned for a moment, and a trace of relief flashed in his eyes, he put away the pen holder and let the people outside the door come in, Gu Xiaoxiao came back happily and was surprised to see me in the room.

"Brother, why are you back, Brother Du Heng, they are looking for you everywhere."

"Find me, what's the matter?" I calmed myself down and asked.

"It seems to say that there has been a murder."