On the night after autumn, the candles on Ming Street are still bright.

When I came down from the lake, I saw that the streets of Nancheng were full of vendors, and such a gathering would last for another seven or eight days before it gradually dispersed.

Pei Ye and the two were pacing side by side, if there was no detailed introduction by the girl one by one, Pei Ye might never be able to guess the play of these various little things.

Whenever he showed a novel look at something, Li Yiqing immediately bought it for him very angrily, ignoring the boy's refusal, and even walked to the back, and had to buy a small basket to hold it.

When passing through the Xianrentai Yamen, he was finally clear, but Pei Ye suddenly paused, but he saw the figure of Shi Hairpin Xue coming out of the door.

"Huh? Stone Girl. Pei Ye raised his hand and beckoned, "Why did you come out so late?" ”

Shi Hairpin Xue turned her head to see the two of them, and nodded slightly: "The case is very busy." ”

Pei Ye thought of what the two of them had just done, and he was a little weak-hearted, and went straight to the point: "Miss Shi, I heard that your faction wants to accept Yang Yan as a beginner?" ”

"Yes, I said. Yang Gongzi is young and homeless, very talented, sensitive and tenacious, but a little extreme, Senior Brother Gu loves talents, and is afraid that he will go on the wrong path, because of this invitation. The woman smiled lightly, "Is Pei Shaoxia willing to be a companion?" ”

"This. Again. Pei Ye was embarrassed, and said, "Yang Yan is young and ignorant, and he has a deep hatred, and he is reckless, I don't know what rules your faction has, can you explain one or two first?" ”

Shi Hairpin Xue smiled and said directly: "Tianshan has been allowed to stay since ancient times, and there will be no restrictions on Yang Gongzi, whenever he wants to take revenge, he can leave." ”

"Ah, that's really" Pei Li paused.

"High Wind and Bright Festival." Li Yiqing said.

"High Wind and Bright Festival!" Pei Ye gave up.

Shi Hairpin Xuewaner: "If it's okay, I won't bother the two of you?" ”

"Slow and slow, ask more. Miss Shi, how is the investigation progressing now? ”

"Well, it's all water milling, and there's nothing to come up with, but here in Tianshan, Uncle An just chatted with me about catching the wind and shadows."

"Oh? I would like to hear about it. ”

"About the Soul Reaver." The woman didn't sell Guanzi, "Uncle Shi loves to read the ancient classics of the Tianshan Mountains, and just now he suddenly saw one, so he told me that this soul snatching bead is somewhat similar to the prison weapon of our legendary 'King Zhou Mu' in the Tianshan Mountains." ”

Pei Ye raised his eyebrows, and there was a lot of unfamiliar information in this article: "What do you say?" ”

"According to legend, the Eastern Zhou Dynasty prison guard vessel is called [Zhaoyou], and the god ordered to inspect the outside candle and guard the place, and there is no gap to take advantage of." Shi Hairpin Snow Road, "Among them, the 'candle' is said to be placed in the human body, recording its mind, all hidden evil thoughts can be perceived, and there is no reason to escape." ”

"You're saying that this thing can also 'record its mind'?"

Shi Hairpin Xue glanced approvingly: "Pei Shaoxia looks like he doesn't understand it, it turns out that he is very good at extracting essence from the middle." ”

Pei Ye smiled, he really didn't understand these four words, but after all, he knew that they were praise.

"It's just a small talk." The woman smiled lightly and added, "It's a legend, and thousands of years have passed at this time, and it is impossible to distinguish between truth and falsehood, even if this thing survives in the world, I am afraid it has long been destroyed, just because it is somewhat similar, or it can give some inspiration." ”

Pei Ye nodded slowly: "Thank you Miss Shi for your kindness." ”

"You're welcome." Shi Hairpin Xue smiled at the two.

Separate from each other.

"King Mu of Zhou was a king of the Zhou Dynasty, legend has it that he went to the Tianshan Mountains to meet the Queen Mother of the West, the Queen Mother of the West hosted a banquet for him, and the two gave each other songs when they parted, and then he drove back to the east." Looking at the woman's back, Li Yiqing explained, "But since there is 'history', there are no immortals in the world, and there must be no 'Queen Mother of the West', and later people also said that King Mu is the lord of the Tianshan Mountains, in short, this story is a perfunctory myth that has undergone changes, and the true appearance is unknown." ”

"Tien Shan. The capital of Zhou seems to be in Luoyi, and this road is really far enough. Pei Ye thought, "King Zhou Mu must also be a great monk, otherwise the country has been without a king for so many days, I'm afraid it won't work." ”

Li Yiqing smiled: "How can you think about this kind of thing?" 'Qi Jing loves the platform, Zhou Mu is tired of the Purple Palace', not every emperor thinks about the country every day, if people want to go out for a walk, who can stop them? ”

"I'll think about it." Pei Ye also smiled, and turned his head to see the girl squinting at him.

"What's wrong?"

"Can you stay away from people? Don't just get up and chat as soon as you meet. ”

"I'll ask about Yang Yan."

"Stay away from her!"

"Oh!"

"Hee-hee!"

The two continued to pace through the fairy platform, and there was a bright candle stall in front of them, under Pei Li's hard persuasion, the girl finally stopped buying things for him, but as she walked, Pei Ye himself stopped in front of a mask stall.

The first eye-catching red face was Guan Yu, and then Liu, Zhang, and Cao were all available, but Pei Ye's eyes were not on these few, and he remembered the joke with the girl on the heron platform at this time.

"Isn't that all around Cao Bing?"

"That's right, but apart from me, I'm Zhuge Liang who is strategizing."

"How could there be Zhuge Liang at that time - what about me, what am I?"

"What's so special about you, you are the nameless young general who was just beheaded by Zhao Yun!"

At this time, there is Zhuge on the stall, and this corner does not outline the face, which is light and hazy, but it also has a unique charm.

And next to it is a scene of an ordinary soldier, with a light white background, and two simple blue lines, which are the same color as the clothes, and there is a funny look on the girl's face.

I think it's because of the novelty.,There are still leftovers in the other corners.,But there's only one left on this side.。

Pei Ye held back his laughter, first took Zhuge 's mask and put it on his face, and called at the girl's back: "Li Yiqing!" ”

The girl turned her head and saw his appearance, and suddenly said: "You really think of yourself as Zhuge Liang!" ”

He walked over and said, "What about mine?" I want Zhao Yun's! ”

Pei Li laughed, he looked at the girl in front of him, and reached back to probe the position just now: "Yours is this-"

The words that followed choked violently in his throat.

Pei Ye's body froze, and the place where he fell was empty.

Of course, it was impossible for the young man in the four-life clumsy realm to find the wrong position, he turned around suddenly, and there was no one around, but next to [Zhuge ], there was no trace of the scene.

The second time, the chill born from the spinal cord clenched his heart and lungs, and the girl next to him was still chuckling and walked over: "What about mine?" ”

Pei Ye slammed her behind her, drew his sword and took a step, and the sound of "Zheng" was already hanging in front of him.

The noise around him stopped.

Li Yiqing immediately held the hilt of the sword, but his face was still dazed, everyone around him stopped in shock, the peddler froze in place, and many pairs of eyes looked at this young man who had tensed all his posture in amazement.

The candle was quiet, and nothing happened.

Pei Ye put away his posture, but still held his sword and tightened his body, staring at the vendor in front of him: "You were here just now, is there still a mask that hasn't been sold?" ”

The peddler was also stiff, as if frozen in place by the scene in front of him, and he looked at the empty space that the young man had ordered: "I am, yes, you."

Pei Ye was unintentionally entangled, handed him four copper coins, the vendor paused, stretched out his hand to take it steadily, and then lowered his head and began to close the stall.

Pei Ye was stunned for a moment, looked at him, and his eyebrows suddenly wrinkled: "You-"

Before the words fell, the vendor's body tensed suddenly, and a "choking" sounded under the stall. Pei Ye raised his hand and crossed the sword, and in the next moment, a purple shadow in the oblique stab had already collided with it. The eyes of the people who came were open, the sword was cold, the purple robe rose like a cloud, and a sword went straight to the throat of the peddler.

But the next moment, the long knife was drawn from the bottom of the stall, and the cold light met the sword, and it was crushed with a single sword. The long sword of the person who came suddenly took off his hand, and he was about to plunge it into his chest.

Tsing Yi swept by, and the soft strength stood firmly in Ziyi from behind, his hand was already holding the out-of-control long sword in front of him, and when Pei Li blinked again, the long knife that the peddler had cut his throat with back had also been firmly pinched in his hand.

As if pressed with one hand, the wind and waves stopped, and all the dangerous and chaotic parties returned to where they should go.

But among the hawkers' seven orifices, black blood had flowed out.

The corpse stiffened to the ground.

These few turns turned into elbows and armpits, and it wasn't until the sword light and sword shadow settled that the faces of the two were clear in front of the boy and girl.

[Qinghuang] Xu Yanhe, [Zihuang] Xu Jianzheng.

"What are you doing in a hurry to rush up, and now you are startling the grass and snakes, and there is no way to live."

"Did I startle the snake? Didn't you see that his expression was wrong? Holding the knife is just to buy time for yourself to swallow poison! If I don't rush up, you won't even look this way! ”

"You can talk to me first"

"It's too late!" Zihuang rolled his eyes, turned around and hugged his fists at the two, "Pei Shaoxia, Li Shaozhang, my brother is a little stupid, don't be surprised." ”

Qinghuang is still steady and serious, and says hello one by one.

Pei Lili returned to the sheath and looked at the terrifyingly shaped corpse on the ground: "Two seniors, what's going on?" ”

Zihuang also looked at it, shaking his numb wrist and frowning: "I'm also confused, report to the official." ”

——

Bowang City North, Inn, three floors.

Now the various places in the state city are still full, but the autumn is over, after all, there are occasional vacant seats, and this guest has just been filled in two days ago.

The man sits upright, holding a thin pen with his eyes closed, and in front of him is a large picture scroll that covers the table.

It is the map of Bowang City.

There is only one file of "Soul Snatching and Sword Stealing", but the map is not alone, and the missing one was taken from the lake worker.

Qiu Qi stirred up the window sash, and the man in the old shirt and hat suddenly opened his eyes and put pen to paper, and hooked it on the south street.

The young man next to him turned his head and moved: "There is a new movement?" ”

saw the man frowning slightly: "Why did you suddenly go here." ”

He added: "But the autumn air here is very unfamiliar to him, but it means that he has not come here in the past two days, so-"

The man lightly hooked in the southeast: "-It should be this way." ”

The young man said, "He hasn't been to Xianrentai again?" ”

"On the autumn map, it is indeed colder over there, either I haven't been there at all, or I've only been there once."

"No, I haven't been." The young man shook his head, "I definitely felt the pulse of the connection that day. ”

He frowned, and said, "Could this method have been found out by Huan Death Lou?" Beware of intentional misleading. ”

The man shook his head: "The imperial court may have some filings, but it is really the first time to fight with Huan Death Building." You better go to South Street to have a look, let's check the southeast in the past two days. ”

"Okay." The young man rolled up, placed it on top of the four rolls next to him, and walked to the window.

Outside the building, the coachman who fed the horses in the courtyard just raised his head and stretched, looking at the third floor of the inn.

The closed window remained motionless.

——————

It's late at night.

Bowang southeast, a secluded garden.

Pavilion landscape, covers a large area, is the largest manor of Qijiao Cave in Bowang, not far from the city is Lushui, boating and fishing in leisure time, are all beautiful things.

Such a manor, which was full of traffic in its heyday, is now deserted and silent.

The seal is prominently affixed to the main entrance.

Deep courtyard, back room.

The night is cold, but there is no fire and candle here, the whole courtyard seems to die of cold in late autumn, only the cold water on the rockery gurgles down.

It was so silent that it seemed that there should be no life, but if you looked closely, you could hear the faint hiss of the room, like a coveted old wolf, or like a withered demon.

The closer I got to the house, the clearer the sound became, and it became clearer that it was actually human breathing.

The house is darker than the courtyard.

Only one or two pitiful rays of star-moon light leaked in, and the man in the room avoided them, leaning motionless in his wheelchair, breathing like a dying man.

He had one sleeve empty and the other hand on his lap.

With this face, it is difficult for people to recognize the man who once strode wide.

Compared with the scar of appearance, what is more different is the decay of the spirit, for a few days, Shang Huaitong will tremble from the bottom of his heart to his whole body every time he recalls that scene, "sword" such a thing as he used to be proud, now he is scalded and curled up when he touches it.

It wasn't until the eve that something changed.

The man had a sword under his hand, but he still didn't dare to pull it out, he closed his eyes, trying to find that state of mind.

Suddenly, there was a silent darkness in front of the window, and even the faint stars and moon were blocked.

Shang Huaitong opened his eyes suddenly, looking at the quiet black canopy that appeared in the room, and his wind-like breathing was held for a while.

"You're more of a 'ghost' now." The joking voice under the hood was as light as the wind, and it accurately reached Shang Huaitong's ears without the slightest overflow.

Shang Huaitong raised his remaining hand, made a broken salute, and bowed his head deeply: "Thank you. Sir taught me. ”

His voice was also firmly restrained by an invisible force, and the lips of the two opened and closed, but there was still only a hissing breath in the courtyard.

"How can I teach you?" "I haven't seen the Book of Immortals, I'm just helping you mend your state of mind." ”

He sighed softly again: "The meridian tree is injured, but it can still grow well; The arm is broken, and Yangyi Lou has such a deal; It's just that if the state of mind is wasted, there is no way out at all. ”

Shang Huaitong trembled and bowed again: "If it weren't for Mr.'s teachings in the past few nights, I would have been in a dead end." ”

The visitor nodded indifferently, flickered a few times in the small courtyard, and continued to sketch things on the ground, but left no traces.

Shang Huaitong said cautiously: "Sir. What are you drawing? ”

"Lost River, Juelu."

“.” Shang Huaitong was silent for a while, and finally lifted his heart and said in a low voice, "Dare to take the liberty of asking. What is the identity of the gentleman? ”

"Oh? You don't know? Or pretend not to know? ”

Shang Huaitong immediately shook his head in a cold sweat: "Junior. There are speculations. ”

"Then you guessed it." The man said, "You have a high sword endowment, you have no worries, and you have a deep hatred. Therefore, I will give you a chance, if you can draw your sword and use your immortal sword again, even if it is wrong, I will take you away. ”

He shook his robe lightly and raised a hand, on which he pinched a simple and novel scene.

He clasped it on his face, and the pattern of blue lines on a white background was unpredictable under the dark moon, and said softly: "Happy play, a dead hero." I am the master of Shaolong opera. ”

Although these two days are a little earlier, our official update time is still 10 o'clock in the evening, don't get me wrong!

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