Without further ado, the three of them entered the royal mansion before the sun set, carrying a huge gift of six copper plates. Yan Yueming walked in the second, protected by the teacher and seniors, although a little scared, but quite calm.

Li Heping still took the lead, and the two copper plates in his hand were thrown up and down in his hand, throwing out the momentum of two gold ingots. Looking at his pot-bellied and amiable appearance, he seems to be a squire who has come here to eat and drink.

The moment she entered the door, Yan Yueming could feel the familiar feeling of a thorn in her back, but it was only for a moment. He quickly learned Li Heping to throw the copper plate behind the door, and the feeling receded like a tide.

Yan Yueming breathed a long sigh of relief, and looked around carefully, everywhere she looked, there were red lanterns and red silk, and there was a red carpet on the ground.

Because after Li Heping entered the palace last time, he went out directly through the exit of the palace, so he didn't have time to leave the "Entry and Exit Instructions" at the door, he could only give verbal advice.

"In this kind of big house, it is most taboo to run around, so you must be clear about where you are. This is the outer courtyard, and through the weeping flower gate, it is the inner courtyard. The inner courtyard is the back house, where the female dependents live, but all three of us are men, so we have to be careful not to be found when we go in later. ”

"But how can it be considered to be discovered? There is no one, I can't see each other, how do I know if the other party can't see me? Yan Yueming asked in a low voice.

Although there are teachers and seniors, he is a little bolder, but it is not very big, and he has already entered the alert mode, and the volume is automatically reduced.

"Although you can't see each other, the other party's setting is the person in the house, right? Since you are human, you will have a blind spot in your vision, so you have to walk in the blind spot. As he spoke, Li Heping stretched out his hand and pointed to the shadow under the base of the wall in front of him.

"Where the lights can't shine? Can't see a shadow? Yan Yueming was cheerful.

Li Heping nodded teachably. Although this little apprentice doesn't seem to have a very high IQ, he has a good memory and a good understanding, and although he has a lot of questions, after explaining it to him once, he is not very good at asking a second time.

For Li Heping, when people are old, if a question is explained a second time, it will be a long life.

"There are some other rules, such as—"

"One, don't walk near the water, or you may fall into it. And once you go to change your clothes, something bad can happen. I've tried this myself. ”

"Second, don't eat any tea or food here, be careful of poisoning."

"Three, if you smell incense after entering the house, immediately hold your breath and snuff out the incense."

Yan Yueming was stunned when she heard it, "Isn't this a house fighting text?" ”

As soon as he said it, he realized that he had said everything in his heart. Li Heping teased him, "Xiao Ming seems to understand very well, do you usually see a lot?" ”

Yan Yueming shook her head solemnly, "It's not me who watched it, it's all my aunt's watch." ”

Auntie, I'm sorry.

If Li Zheng hadn't seen Yan Yueming combing the hair of the ugly grass doll on Huayuan Road while watching a bloody TV series, he would have believed it. It's just that it's rare for this junior brother to lie, and it's not bad for him to fool the teacher.

The teacher was kept in the dark and continued, "The rules of the outer courtyard are relatively simple, but one thing to keep in mind is that whatever you hear, don't answer. Especially near the outer study, even if you hear me and your senior calling you, don't answer, you know? Even if there is a footstep approaching behind you, don't run away, ignore it, make sure you're — what, what, all, no, there, hear, hear. ”

Yan Yueming, who is familiar with the plots of various house fights and palace fights, immediately thought of a sentence in her mind: Anyone who leaks secrets must die.

At this time, night fell.

The last rays of the setting sun were swallowed up by the distant mountains, all the red lanterns were lit up, the wind swayed the candles, and if you listened carefully, there was a little more beeping and burning wicks in the wind, but the birds and insects were gone.

Yan Yueming looked up again and found that a blood moon had risen in the sky. The blood moon in the sky and the red lanterns on the ground complemented each other, covering the entire heaven and earth with a faint layer of blood.

"Puff, puff......" Yan Yueming clearly heard her heartbeat, and at this time, Li Zheng's calm voice came from behind her, "I'll go to the study." ”

Li Heping turned around and gestured to Li Zheng, and the two reached a tacit understanding in silence, and then acted separately.

Yan Yueming continued to follow Li Heping, and they went straight to the Weeping Flower Gate and went to the inner courtyard. On the way, Li Heping whispered to Yan Yueming that the piece of paper with the message was found in the rockery pavilion in the inner courtyard.

Even if Li Heping came once, he didn't dare to say that he was familiar with the road, so he walked cautiously every step, with a solemn face and no more smirk.

Sure enough, they soon encountered their first hurdle - they couldn't see the hanging flowers.

Where it should have been a door, the door was gone, and only a large expanse of the moon hung down from the courtyard wall.

Yan Yueming recognized this flower, it was called a butterfly. There are many colors and ancient varieties, which he saw when he looked at flowers on the Internet after knowing that Li Zheng had opened a flower shop.

Flowers of different colors are clustered and open, just like butterflies wearing flowers, beautiful and beautiful, but unusual. Yan Yueming subconsciously looked away, not allowing herself to look more, and at the same time, Li Heping's voice came into her ears again.

"Do you see the door? The door is there. He said.

But the door isn't there? Yan Yueming was puzzled in her heart, and quickly thought that this was in the gap, the so-called looking at the mountain is not a mountain, looking at the water is not who it is, everything may produce cognitive errors, color, shape, everything you see with the naked eye can be dressed in a coat of confusion.

So the correct answer should be - I see the mountain, and I see the water.

The crux of the matter is that Xiao Ming is just Xiao Ming, and he doesn't have that strong sense of self yet. So what should he do? He had an idea and took off his glasses.

The world became blurry in an instant, and all the flowers and butterflies became blurry colors under the night. It could be a flower, or of course some inconsequential carved embellishment on a hanging flower door. In addition, the candle flame of the lantern has its own hazy effect, and the evening breeze is swaying, and it also has a ghost.

"I'm all right." Yan Yueming looked at Li Heping, and Li Heping gave him a big comparison

Thumb, followed by a positive color, "Go." ”

Two people in one piece

Walking towards the Hanging Flower Gate, Li Heping passed through the wall without hindrance, and Yan Yueming let her eyes empty and her brain as she walked.

He didn't want anything, only gave himself a psychological hint: there was a door in front of him, and he was going to go through it.

As he stepped through the door, he felt a hint of sluggishness. It was as if a force was hindering him, and the cold breath was like the thorns of the flower, forcing him to retreat due to difficulties.

But he admits death, the door is the door, how can he not let Xiao Ming pass?

He's on his right foot today!

Thinking about it like this, he was still a little angry, this breath, his foot stepped forward hard, and the sluggish feeling seemed to be broken. He was free, and in an instant he was inside the door.

Looking back again, the pendulum gate stood behind him in a good manner, such a big door, and there was nothing more than half a word, everything just now seemed to be an illusion.

"Don't look back." Li Heping called him and continued to walk forward, "In the gap, the probability of going forward and surviving is higher than looking back." ”

Yan Yueming put away her distracting thoughts and continued to move forward.

Passing through the Hanging Flower Gate and into the verandah, they went around a small courtyard and came to the large garden. There is a pond here, and there is a rockery next to the pond, and there is a pavilion on the rockery.

Yan Yueming remembered what the teacher said, stay away from the water's edge, and hide in the shadows. But the teacher said that the piece of paper with the message was found in the pavilion, and that to get to the pavilion you had to walk from the water's edge, and that there would be a stretch of road exposed to the moonlight and candles.

The time has come to test Xiao Ming.

Li Heping glanced at Yan Yueming, as if asking him if he was ready. Yan Yueming took a deep breath, took out a black fisherman's hat and a black mask, dressed them up, and nodded again.

It was at this time that Li Heping found out that Yan Yueming was wearing black today, and only the T-shirt inside the jacket was white. At this moment, the jacket is zipped to the top, and then a hat is put on, and the whole person almost blends in with the night.

This little apprentice is well prepared.

Li Heping immediately made a "go" gesture, and the two of them headed towards the rockery pavilion. After walking a few steps, the shadows were gone, and the black Xiao Ming was forced to be exposed to the blood-colored moonlight, the back of his neck was cold, and his scalp was numb.

He didn't dare to stop, and ran forward.

This time and again, cold sweat soaked the roots of his hair, especially when he passed by the water's edge, and the soles of his feet were obviously very stable, but they suddenly slipped. Fortunately, Li Heping pulled him and ran quickly with him, and finally arrived at the rockery pavilion.

Although the rockery pavilion is ventilated on all sides, there are tree shadows and railings that cast a shadow, which is convenient for shelter.

There is a stone table in the pavilion, on which there is a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, as if someone is sitting there writing. Yan Yue looked at the table and saw that on the top piece of rice paper, it was the message that Li Heping had said.

[If I'm really the protagonist, then I'll curse it, possessed by bad luck, and the chain will fall forever at the critical moment.] 】

This line of characters is written with a brush, and the font is crooked, thinking that the person who writes is not used to using a brush. The characters are simplified, and there are punctuation, which is undoubtedly a modern person like them.

At this time, Li Heping removed the paper again, revealing the paper underneath.

On the paper below is a painting, which depicts the scenery by the pond, but this person's painting is average, and it is unremarkable. In the lower right corner, there is a drop, and the name of the drop is a single word: Lan.

"This person can put this pile of things in the rockery pavilion in the backyard and sit here to paint the scenery, he is definitely not a subordinate. Look at the style of these things, and the ...... on this paper. Is it rouge? Is it a female dependent? Yan Yueming analyzed.

"It should be a concubine, I saw Mrs.'s tablet last time, and there is no sign of a new lady moving in in the master bedroom, but there are a bunch of concubines. The back cover room should be where the lady lives, but it is also empty, and there is indeed only one son in this family. Li Heping said.

Yan Yueming nodded, indicating that she understood. Why did the concubine come to this pavilion with air leaks on all sides to paint? Without him, it's just the routine operation of the house fight.

"Then this wanderer, who is suspected to be the protagonist, happened to walk here and found that there was a pen and paper, so he left such a line of words?" Yan Yueming said.

"It should be. So we have to look around to see if this person is somewhere else and leave anything else so that we can confirm his or her identity. Li Heping said.

Of course, Yan Yueming would not forget the purpose of this trip, and he raised his eyes to look around at the rest of the house.

This rockery pavilion is not high, but it is high enough in a small mountain village that is generally a one-story building. Standing here, he could not only see the other courtyards in the house, but also see a little outside through the courtyard wall. The mountain village in the night is quiet, and the distant mountains are like monsters crawling, with a craggy back.

Above the monster, there is a blood moon.

On the other side, the blood-colored moonlight shines through the paper window into the outer study.

There was an oil lamp on the desk, and Li Zheng stood in front of the desk, flipping through the scrolls by the light. Suddenly, there was a "squeak" sound behind him, the door seemed to open, and a slight wind blew through the back of his neck.

How small is the wind?

It's just enough to blow a hair.

"Senior?"

"Senior?"

Yan Yueming's voice came, timid, and with a little breath.

Li Zheng turned a deaf ear, and his expression did not change at all.

The shadow of the lamp flickered, and the voice came again, implying grievances and pitiful. If Li Zheng looked down, he would find that the shadows on the ground were also swaying, and if he listened carefully, there seemed to be the sound of rustling footsteps in the wind blowing from behind him.

Can't look at it.

Can't listen.

Can't respond.

So he picked up the pen on the table and wrote two big characters on the spread out rice paper: ugly.

Well, he just wrote two words casually to practice calligraphy, which is not a response.