"I, I." I hesitated twice, but I didn't speak.

"Uncle Shi, that's the ......" Then, Hu San told us about what happened to us entering the mountain this time. Of course, some places were still omitted, such as the old monster I beat to vomit blood, and the wooden sword I took in the tomb. As for the jade pendant, I didn't even tell Hu San, I didn't want to hide it from him, I just felt that the jade pendant was very inconspicuous, not much better than the stone, so I didn't say it.

I saw that Xuanqing Daoist's face became extremely ugly after hearing this, and his cough became more and more severe, and his body trembled uncontrollably.

"Could it be that he did everything that happened when someone disappeared in the scenic spot?" Xuanqing Daoist said in a trembling voice.

"What's missing?" I asked.

The Xuanqing Daoist didn't answer me, just stared straight at the side and muttered, "Xiaolian, Xiaolian must be in danger of following that old witch!" It must be ......," he said, coughing twice.

After a while, he calmed down a little and said to us: "Our Tianqingshan Scenic Area, there were some tourists before, but later there were often people missing in the scenic area, and then there was a legend that there were monsters eating people on the mountain, so there were fewer and fewer people who came here to play, and now basically no one came." The management department of the scenic spot is also scattered, and basically no one manages it except me. His expression was worried, "Has she become a monster?" Little Lotus! He muttered Xiaolian's name twice, and it was obvious that he was very worried about his daughter's safety.

"Uncle Shi, don't worry, we will definitely get Xiaolian back." I promise to the Xuanqing Daoist. At the same time, Hu San also nodded.

"Then it's going to trouble the two virtuous nephews, I'll thank you in advance," he said, getting up and about to give us a look. Hu San and I hurriedly stopped, and I said, "Uncle Shi, aren't you giving us a chance to lose our life, we are all a family, you don't have to be polite." ”

The expression on Xuanqing Daoren's face was slightly better, and he said to me: "Qingming, your master mentioned you in the letter, oh yes," Xuanqing Daoist turned around and took down a wooden box from the cabinet next to him and put it on the coffee table, "This is your master's letter to me, you can take a look." ”

This wooden box is exactly the same as the box that Master sent us to express the letter in. When I opened it, it was also a yellow linen cloth with a few lines of small print on it.

"Xuanqing, I haven't seen you for a few years, I don't know if it's always good? I know you will definitely ask me why I disappeared suddenly, Brother Xuanqingxian, you know the character of my brother, I have some hardships that I can't talk about to others. I am writing to you this time because I have something to do recently, and it may take a few years or more to come back. I really don't worry about the two apprentices, so I hope that the virtuous brother can take them in for the sake of the thin face of decay.

One of the two apprentices is Hu San, whom you recognize, and the other is Li Qingming, who is my new apprentice.

Hu San has a lively and cheerful personality and has some cleverness, but because he has been spoiled by me since he was a child, he is a little willful, and he hopes that his brother can discipline him strictly.

Qing Ming is a bit special, it is inconvenient to talk about it in the letter, I hope you don't be surprised when you see him dressed strangely, if you have any questions, you can ask him face to face.

I've already sent a sum of money to your bank card, so let's take it as a donation for repairing the Azure Temple. ”

After Hu San and I finished reading the letter, we looked at each other. It seems that the master did not explain my situation in the letter, but asked me to tell him in person after meeting the Xuanqing Daoist, what does this mean?

Anyway, since the master has something to say, then I have nothing to hide, I told the Xuanqing Daoist about how I came out of the tomb, of course, I didn't say anything about killing the two tomb robbers, after all, human life is at stake.

Xuanqing Daoist was stunned when he heard this, and exclaimed, "Is there such a thing? After speaking, he looked at me carefully for a while, "It seems that Qingming, you are not an extraordinary person, and you will definitely make great achievements in the future." ”

I smiled slightly and asked, "Uncle, what did you just say about that old ......" At this moment, I don't know what to call that old Taoist aunt, I paused, "The Taoist temple where Xiaolian's mother lives is Tianqing Temple?" ”

"That's right, since I came to work in this scenic spot, the Taoist temple has been empty, and it is said that it was built before liberation. It is rumored that there was an old Taoist who lived in it, but then I don't know if he died or left, anyway, the Taoist temple has been vacant like this. Xuanqing Daoist said and picked up the dry tobacco box on the coffee table and rolled up the dry tobacco.

"Is there a door to Qingguan that day? Is there a plaque? ”

Xuanqing Daoist was stunned for a moment and said, "Of course there is, how can there be no Taoist temple?" ”

"But when Hu San and I went, we didn't see the door, and there was no plaque."

After hearing this, Xuanqing Daoist took a breath and said, "It must have been done by that old demon woman, she must have fallen into evil, evil spirit." Xuanqing Daoist lowered his head and repeated several times, and his expression looked extremely worried.

I'm certainly not satisfied with this answer, but it seems that he doesn't know the auspicious feelings.

I asked again, "Have you been to the mansion under the cliff of Tianqingguan Mountain?" ”

At the mention of this question, Xuanqing Daoren's body trembled slightly, and he took a hard puff of dry smoke and said, "I was also thinking about this when you talked about it just now, I went to that mansion, and that was a few years ago.

I am a forest ranger in this scenic spot, but not all the forests are under my control, I only manage the dozens of acres of poplar forest in front of this house. It is said that there were forest guards on the mountain before, but after no one came to the scenic spot, he was dismissed, because the scenic spot had no income, and the woods on the mountain were of little value.

I seldom go anywhere else, but only in the places under my jurisdiction. And when I went to the Azure Temple, I found that there was a mansion at the bottom of the mountain, and when I saw the strange architecture of the mansion, I wanted to see what it was doing inside. When I walked in, the room was basically the same as you said, as soon as I entered the house, it was a basement, and I was also curious to go down and take a look, but there was no ancient tomb you said. Below is a space as large as a room, directly connected to the top, and the whole room seems to be very large. After talking for a while, he took a few more puffs of cigarette, and then said: "I heard you say that that strange-looking old woman is very similar to Xiaolian's mother, I don't think it looks like it, they are just a person." ”

At this time, Hu San asked, "Why are you so sure." ”

"Because once Xiaolian came to see me and told me, she said that one day in the middle of the night she heard a sound outside, thinking that a thief was stealing, she looked through the crack in the door, and found that a person jumped in from the courtyard wall, and the appearance of the demon woman you described, lying on her back, her eyes were red, although the appearance of the person was so strange at this time, but Xiaolian still recognized it at a glance, she was her mother. At that time, Xiaolian was very scared, thinking to herself, how could her mother become like this? She didn't dare to go out, but secretly observed through the crack in the door, only to see that the person walked straight into the room next to Xiaolian, which was the room where her mother lived. ”