Hearing this, Ziwei raised his eyes to look at me, didn't know what to think, and nodded.

I smiled at him slightly, relieved by the relaxation of the relationship, and when I turned my eyes, I saw that Lan Ruo on the side had also been looking at him, with a curious and appreciative gaze, and the corners of his mouth always had a happy smile.

After coming back to her senses, Lan Ruo seemed to have asked me a few words before, and her mind moved, and she seemed to understand something deeper from her gaze, and she couldn't guess it really.

The wedding in Muzhang County was just an absurd joke, but before Kezi reached this age, it was also the time to be emotional.

That day I looked at him with a man's eyes, not a boy's eyes, and for the first time in so many years, I also noticed the attraction that belonged to adults in him, and the face full of thoughts was a little indifferent because of a little depression, and in the glance with him, there was a sense of wanting to hear him say many, many words, and participate in the first half of his life in a firm bond.

If he was born in an ordinary family, he should be a little sunnier and liked by many girls.

But now......

I still couldn't help it, and after Lan Ruo left, I raised my hand and rubbed his hair like I did when I was a child. Ziwei didn't say anything, but in the evening, I took the prepared things and explained to Tang Jiao, and asked him to continue to stay in the room, and when I was about to go alone to pick up Jiang Xun's broken arm, I just left the door and saw that Ziwei was already waiting outside.

"Master." When he stopped talking, I smiled and didn't want to think about anything, and said to him, "Let's go." ”

I gave him some of the charms I had drawn before going out and the glutinous rice that I had put in the bag, and a few small pieces of peach wood that I had taken from Bai Zhong in the afternoon, and after drawing the runes, I asked him to put a piece in the pocket of his jacket.

The night of Dongchuan is so quiet that even insects and birds will not scream, the door is closed and locked early, and the breathing of people who fall asleep is also slow, and the autumn night is lonely, walking outside, chewing out a blind cold, soaking through clothes, and the pores of the whole body are shrinking.

"Lan Ruo said that both sides of the ravine have their own defense nets, so we may encounter some hidden weapons, we must be careful, no matter what happens, protect ourselves first."

Ziwei hummed, and after approaching, we found a place to hide, and by the moonlight, we could see the wide ravine in the distance, the light was too dim, and we couldn't see what was lying in front of us.

"I'll go over and explore the way first." Zi did not say.

I shook my head, picked up a stone from the ground and threw it over, the stone fell into the grass, without the slightest reaction, and replaced it with a larger and more volumetric one, the moment the stone landed, it really caused a movement, and the short arrows shot out of nowhere were shot in unison, and if there was a person standing there, the position where he was shot should be his inner shoulders and lower abdomen.

I picked up the second stone and threw it over, different from the nature of the thousand ice ropes on the opposite side, which could only be used once, in the same position, the same short arrow shot out again and nailed to the ground.

I tried several times, and in different places, without exception, all of them had hidden weapons, and I couldn't tell the direction. Their defensive net is densely weaved, and we should be glad that we didn't cross that ravine and come directly to this side at that time, otherwise we wouldn't even know how we died under the attack from both sides of the strait.

"It seems that we can't hide by dodging, and we can only break through if we want to go over." I said to Ziwei: "I'll go first in a while, you follow behind me, remember to follow closely and protect each other's backs." ”

Zi didn't hesitate and nodded, but when he really got up and walked over there, he grabbed my arm and walked in front of me.

"Ziwei."

He didn't say anything, but walked forward first, and I had to follow, and as soon as I got close to the edge, a short arrow appeared as soon as I took a step. We were all on guard, following each other's movements, while hiding in the same direction, at the moment of standing, I used the tart whip to block a few, the sound of metal clashing was crisp, and the short arrow behind me also hit the dagger in Ziwei's hand and fell to the ground.

We stopped in two steps, protecting each other step by step, and just as we were about to reach the ravine, I noticed something strange around me, and said carefully, before the words fell, a figure rushed from the other side.

The speed of the other party was very fast, and I didn't see anything clearly in the middle of the night, so the quilt didn't pull back, helping me block a blow, and the two of them were forced to retreat while touching more mechanisms.

I tried my best to stop more short arrows and steel needles for Ziwei, and after seeing the two of them exchange a few moves with each other, Ziwei's movements suddenly stopped, and the next second he was knocked back to the edge of the ravine, his body staggered, and he almost fell, and was caught by the man in the void, and was thrown in my direction.

I was confused in my mind, the distance was too close, I didn't choose to hide, I reached out to help him, and the two of them fell to the ground together, and the short arrow that was triggered looked like it was right in front of me, and it was about to pierce the center of the eyebrows a second later, but it stopped at a dangerous distance, and after hanging in the air for a second, it changed direction in the air, and stabbed into the grass with my ears.

The two of us were in the same situation, both mud bodhisattvas crossed the river, and before they could breathe a sigh of relief, an unsheathed sword stopped in front of us.

I raised my head and saw Situ Yao standing in front of us, frowned, and asked, "It's so late, what are you two doing here?" ”

I finished talking for a while, the sword in Situ Yao's hand was slightly off the sheath, a little cold light revealed in the moonlight, and his brows tightened, "Who are you?" ”

"Say!" He brought his scabbard closer to us, his eyes cold, and he looked like he could cut us down here at any moment.

"We just wanted to find out what was going on and give ourselves a little bit of confidence to fight them."

"Inquire about them, or about us?" Situ Yao became suspicious and said, "You don't have any ghosts in your hearts, why don't you come during the day, but choose this time?" ”

My heart hung in the air, and my mind turned for I don't know how many times before I looked at him, and said half-truthfully: "Because I want to avoid you." You know in your heart that we don't have any reason to trust you right now. ”

Situ Yao was speechless, his brows tightened, and I took the opportunity to say again: "Whether it is the puppet control technique, or those puppets, this is the secret technique of your Situ family, and it is your housekeeping ability, we have experienced so many things from Dongyan Town to come here, in order to find an answer, before you can give us a clear explanation, a demon path alone can't dispel our doubts, and how do we know that this is not a play you play to achieve your goals?" ”

I said, "If you doubt us, we will not be able to prove ourselves, and this is a good thing for us, at least it adds a truth to what you are saying." ”

The cold light in front of him disappeared, the sword body was sheathed, Situ Yao took the sword back, Ziwei and I still didn't dare to move, seeing that he was shaken, he continued: "You can't fight alone, no one doesn't want a partner, it's just that human life is at stake, we don't dare, and we can't easily trust others." ”

"Sneaking is a villain's act." Situ Yao said: "The Dongchuan border is full of organs, and there are hidden weapons everywhere, and your suspicion will only provoke unnecessary sacrifices." ”

The two of us had a hard time riding a tiger, Situ Yao stretched out his hand and grabbed it, and his five fingers were separated and quickly closed and closed, as if he was holding something and pulling it down, and said to us, "You can get up." ”

Zi and I didn't try to move, and sure enough, when we saw that no more short arrows were fired, we stood up in embarrassment, completely in a state of embarrassment.

"Thank you, Second Young Master." I said to him.

Situ Yao hugged his sword and said: "Let me remind you one last time, in Dongchuan, you don't have so much freedom, if you want to find out anything, you can only go through the Situ family, and the matter involving that evil way must be approved by my eldest brother, if there is the same thing next time, no one can protect you." ”

"I see."

"Master." The son didn't say anything, and gestured to me to silence me.

I listened with bated breath as there was a strange sound of music from Puxian Village across the ravine, accompanied by the laughter of children, and the sound grew louder, and I could vaguely hear that a certain song was being read again, but the words came here, like a broken old tape, and became indistinct, and I didn't know what was being said.

Situ Yao's gaze was on the darkness opposite, and I tried to get close to the ravine and asked him, "Is there such a sound every day?" ”

"In the beginning, it was more serious than that." He said: "At that time, I could hear the shrill cries of children in Dongchuan every night, and we sent some people, but all of them went and never returned. ”

"Can you tell what the ballads are singing from the puppets?"

"I don't know." Situ Yao said: "Although we are of the same origin, but the two sides use two completely different forces, good and evil are contrary to each other, the two breaths will collide with each other, we stand in Dongchuan, we can only hear the current vague syllables." ”

I asked, "Have you never left Dongchuan?" ”

Situ Yao didn't answer, and after a long time, he gently spit out a sentence: "The people of Dongchuan are still being forced here, how can I go?" ”

He blinked his eyes and asked, "You came from Puxian, have you heard those songs?" ”

I nodded, not knowing how to describe it, and said, "It's just that I don't quite understand the meaning, like some kind of narrative, and at one point, it was a prophecy." ”

Ziwei retold him the last time we heard the ballad, Situ Yao's face was grim, and his hand holding the sword was clenched tightly, so jealous and vicious, not like he was pretending.

I recalled the ballad and added to him: "There is another song that we have heard repeatedly, and there is a sentence in it that is, 'Ah Cang is gone, and the doll opens its eyes quickly', the second young master knows ......"

"Ah Cang?"

Before I could say anything, Situ Yao's face changed, his teeth clenched, and two words were squeezed out of his throat with obvious hatred.

I nodded and asked him guessingly: "Ah Cang, is it from Dongchuan?" ”