The sunset surrounds the lively Shioi Castle. "On the seventh day of the fourth month, when the willows and flowers in Yanjing City were tender, a piece of news came, and everyone must have heard about it! That's exactly that...... I heard that the sword is the saber of the former famous general Yan Er...... "Su Qing is the storyteller of the overpass in the capital." Since he was a child, he has no father or mother, just like the wild dog on the roadside, struggling for food, begging for food with God, and wandering around like a rootless duckweed. Once, while begging for food, he met her master, who took pity on her and took her back to teach her to sing songs and tell stories. Now with a mouth, you can barely eat.

The words of Su Qing are all taught by the master, and most of the books are passed down from the streets and alleys, and then roughly processed by themselves. A few days ago, there was news from the capital, saying that a divine sword would appear in Yanjing City in the near future. It may be a great thing for those who are strong in martial arts, but for people like Shuqing, who don't even have a job, there are only a few waves in their hearts. However, I am still happy, there are more people who come to Yanjing City to look for swords, and there are more people who come to the teahouse to drink tea, so there are naturally more people who drink tea and come to listen to books.

One day in mid-April, Su Qing picked up the folding fan as usual and was about to give a lecture. "Ho! Look at it! What about fights? "Ouch! Hit Hit Punch! Good guys, ruthless! Following the prestige, I saw an old man on the street dressed in a blue cloth robe, thin but imposing, and another man wearing a black robe, which was wide enough to cover his figure, and most of his face was also covered by the hood of the robe. Su Qing couldn't help but sigh secretly, this hood is covered like this, and he can even see the road clearly!

The man in the black robe slashed at the old man in green clothes with one palm, the old man was not an ordinary junior, after taking a trick stiffly, his hands were folded and then spread out, bursting out with a strong light, and slammed into the chest of the black-robed man, only to hear a "bang", the man in black fell to the ground and died. The old man's expression did not change, and with a slight wave of his sleeves, he disappeared in an instant.

The book can't be said, this person went outside the teahouse to watch the excitement, and Shuqing wandered aimlessly on the street for a while, depressed to the extreme. Alas, this damn old man robbed all the guests in vain. Looking at the food sellers on the street, although Su Qing was hungry, but when he thought that he had five children left, he could only swallow his saliva, planning to swallow the few pastries left over from yesterday with tea to fill his stomach.

Turning around and walking into a dark alley where he could take a shortcut, Shu Qing couldn't help but sing: "The world is vast, how ~ go ~ what ~ from ~ ah ~".

"Girl!" An old and hoarse voice interrupted Su Qing's strange scream, and when he looked back, it was the old man in the green shirt who had fought before, "You said a good story." ”

Su Qing was stunned, "Thank you...... Thanks, I know. ”

The old man's eyes stared at Su Qing with a pair of Gu Jing Wubo, and Shu Qing's scalp was numb for a while.

"The old man's name is Gu Ku, I want to inquire, do you know anything else about General Yan?"

Shu Qing thought for a while and replied: "He betrayed the royal family and was ordered to be killed by the emperor, and the Yan family was also beheaded. That's how everybody spreads. ”

Gu Ku narrowed his eyes and flicked his sleeves, "Yes, it's not right." General Yan did not betray him, and the Yan family did not leave no one behind. ”

Su Qing couldn't raise the slightest interest, to put it bluntly, the Yan family, General Yan, and the Imperial City, these are just some words for her, and there is no emotion in them, these are too far away from her.

Yanjing City is close to the border, far away from the imperial city in the center of the mainland, as for those famous families who are now popular or have fallen lonely, she can only hear it from the merchants who come here to do business in the imperial city, and then make up nonsense to tell the guests who come to drink tea, and make a lot of hard money, whether it is true or not, I don't know if it's true or not.

Su Qing saw how powerful this old man was outside the teahouse, and he didn't dare to say "I'm tired, I want to rest", so he could only carve "impatience" on his face.

Gu Ku glanced at Shu Qing deeply, and said meaningfully: "He is your father." ”

Su Qing pursed his lips, pondered for a moment, and said uncertainly: "That...... Are you my grandfather? ”

“？”

"Of course not! If you want to know the truth, then ......"

Su Qing looked at the old man in front of him speechlessly, and turned around to leave before he finished his words, where did this charlatan come from.

Gu Ku didn't chase after him, and when he stood in place and watched Shuqing walk into the corner of the alley, he slowly spit out three words: "Ling." Three days. ”

Su Qing paused, and suddenly turned around, with a look of defensiveness in his eyes.

Gu Ku still didn't react much, only smiled slightly: "Three days later, I will tell you about the Li Family Restaurant in the north of the city." After saying that, a burst of white light appeared, and only Shuqing, who was still stunned, was left on the remote alleyway.

Cold, cold that goes deep into the bone marrow.

Shu Qing opened his closed eyes and arrived at this place again.

It was pitch black all around, and she could faintly see that there was an abyss a few meters away from her, and she was one step closer to this abyss than yesterday.

Su Qing didn't want to go near the place that seemed to be a bad omen. She didn't know what was below the abyss, or even if she would survive to the bottom of the abyss, and the unknown was always scary. But Su Qing couldn't control her body, she could only be manipulated like a marionette, controlled by a pair of invisible hands hidden in the darkness - mechanically lifting her legs, and then stepping forward.

It's not that she hasn't struggled, but nothing has changed except for the tearing pain. She also had no doubt that if she struggled more violently, her soul would be directly separated from her body.

Since the beginning of April, Su Qing has been trapped in this depressing dream every two days.

In order to break this cursed nightmare, Su Qing didn't sleep for three consecutive days, exhausting himself, and couldn't stop talking about the story, even the young man in the teahouse couldn't stand it, and he came over to ask Su Qing if there was anything to worry about recently, he was in a trance all day long, was he out of love or something.

On the fourth day of the all-nighter, Su Qing couldn't stay up, so he went home and fell asleep, only to find in his dream that his routine of moving towards the abyss would not be "absent" because he fell asleep.

Su Qing couldn't help but have an idea: when the dream self moves to the edge of the abyss, it won't be the time of ....... death.

After thinking about it for a while, he suddenly discovered something. Ever since I fell into the nightmare, I have been worrying about the "unknown" in front of me, and I have never looked back at what is behind me.

Thinking of this, Su Qing silently applauded himself in his heart, and tried his best to restrain the sharp pain caused by the activities of his own consciousness, which wanted Shu Qing to cry, turned his head away, and glanced at the darkness behind him. Immediately afterward, she escaped her dreams and fell into a deep sleep.

Su Qing trembled and walked in a deep alley in Yanjing City, looking around and finding that no one was following, and breathed a long sigh of relief. After finding a bluestone slab and sitting down, he looked at the wooden sign he was holding in his hand and pondered.

The wooden plaque had been kept in a wooden box in her small dilapidated house for as long as she could remember, with the word "Ling" engraved on it, and her adopted master had told her to keep it before she died, saying that it was related to her biological parents.

Shu Qing rested her head on her knees, closed her eyes, and sighed softly. Since her father's death in an accident, she has been alone and has no close friends. I didn't take that wooden sign with me on weekdays, and I didn't show it to anyone but Master. That's why when the old man said "Ling", she was so surprised.

Three days later...... It's today......

Shu Qing did not go to the Li family restaurant, but hid.

In the memory of the past nineteen years, there is no shadow of his parents, and naturally he has no deep feelings for them, and he only suddenly thinks of it in the middle of the night, or when he sees other parents taking their children out to play on the street, there is a trace of sourness. But this does not drive her, she will go to the old man's appointment without her own power, and leave the truth of the matter to others to investigate, and she will be safe for the rest of her life. What's more, what the old man said may not be true, but if it is not true, what is he trying to do? Figure yourself with a breeze on your sleeves and no half a dime?

Shuqing looked up at the inky sky, there was not a single star in the sky, and it seemed that it was going to rain tomorrow. Her head slammed against the wall behind her.

But that dream of oneself ......

Last night, before she fell asleep and out of her dreams, she saw a pair of red eyes, eyes that contained hatred, coldness, like some beast......

Whose eyes are that? Su Qing searched carefully in his memory, but found nothing. And the memory before the age of nine may be because he was too young at the time, he can't remember things, and whenever he recalls carefully, there will always be a feeling of touching a cloud of mist.

Is it really before the age of nine? That's even more outrageous.

Shu Qing touched the wooden plaque that was already a little broken in the corner around him, and his fingers lightly swiped the word "Ling".

Does this have anything to do with him?

If something happened before, there is still Master and Sister A to discuss, if not...... A memory popped up unconsciously in his mind—moans of pain, screams, blood, tearing......

Now he is alone, like a lonely ghost wandering in the hustle and bustle of the world. She closed her eyes a little tiredly.

"Girl, so you're here!"

Shu Qing's body stiffened slightly.

Gu Ku didn't know which horn he came out of, and he seemed to be smiling but not smiling.

"It's to get lost on the way to the restaurant, the old man will take you there, go!"

Su Qing didn't react for a while, and was still thinking about that weird dream in her head. But looking at the silver dangling knife pinned to the old man's waist, the storyteller Sun and Yue's tongue skills were revealed, and the words that came out of his mouth were one step faster than his mind: "Ah, yes, yes, yes, that's right, I don't know how to turn it, so I turned it here." Hey, lo and behold, that's bad luck! ”

Gu Ku didn't break it, and he smiled, "Then let's go, our people are waiting." ”