Under his feet are constantly changing mountains and rivers, surrounded by long clouds and mist, and the husband has been walking on the sword of the soul painting sword for almost an hour and a half, but the direction is not to go straight to the capital Lai'an, but to go straight to the Wu tribe.

When she was in Taihang Mountain, she thought that she must go to the Wu Clan before returning to the capital to find the rabbit master and Kong Cui. Eight years ago, they were wrongfully deported and weighed down like a stone on her mind. At that time, she was useless, she couldn't dance the divine dance, and she had to be deported for life by Master Rabbit and Kong Cui along with herself. But now everything is different, this time she is going to take Master Rabbit and Kong Cui home, this is their roots.

After flying for a while, she finally saw the silhouette of the Wu tribe in the distance. Reality overlapped with the images in her memory, yes, even though eight years had passed and the place had changed a lot, she could still recognize it as the big locust tree she had played, and the little pond where she frolicked...... Feel the soft wind of the hometown.

Suddenly, her brow furrowed, and in her memory there had always been a strong smell of grass in the wind in her hometown, but now, in this season when spring should have bloomed, it was full of barrenness. Is this cracked and parched land, a few people-sparsely populated places, still the lush hometown she remembers?

What has happened in eight years?

The sword landed outside the Wu Clan's arched gatehouse, turning the Soul Painting Sword back into a silver hairpin and sticking it on his head. Now that she has been expelled from the Wu Clan, she has not returned for eight years, and her appearance has changed a lot, so no one should remember her, not to mention that she is now dressed as a man, and it is estimated that it will not be in the way to borrow the name of the fourth senior brother Gu Yu casually.

The soldiers who had been tightly guarded at the gate of the city were gone, and only a little old man who was sitting in the shade and fanning his fan slowly.

"Old man, I came all the way to the city to beg for water, do you think it's convenient?"

The old man still fanned his fan slowly, looking down at his swarthy toes standing in the dirt, and did not raise his head.

"Old man!" said the man with his head bowed and his hands on his cheeks in the shape of a trumpet.

The old man still bowed his head and ignored it.

The husband gave up on him, and since he didn't stop himself, he decided to go in and have a look. She lowered the bamboo hat on her head and returned to her homeland where she had left eight years earlier.

There were only two or three people scattered on the streets, and only one or two vendors were selling biscuits and daily utensils, and the windows were closed from house to house. She felt the sight, and when she looked back, she saw that there were two or three children in the attic diagonally above her, timidly watching her through the half-open window, and when she saw that she noticed it, she hurriedly closed the window again.

She looked back and saw a small two-story building not far ahead with the flag of the inn hanging in front of her, and before going directly to the Witch Sanctuary to find the elders, she wanted to see more and learn more about her fellow villagers, what happened to the Wu clan during her absence that made the once prosperous place as Kyoto so desolate and desolate.

Yuelai Inn, looking up at the old inn plaque, she still remembers that the sweet cakes made by her mother-in-law here taste very good, and when she was a child, she often ran out with Kong Cui secretly to eat, and then went back to be scolded by Kong Lao......

"Anyone?"

The wooden door creaked open, and the dust scattered in the sunlight flew in the air, and the man reached out to whisk the dust, and the room was empty, and there was no one.

The husband stepped into the high threshold, with four square tables and a few long wooden chairs, and on the left was the mother-in-law's flat diary and the waist-high wooden platform where the wine was stored, and the room was as quiet as the outside, and there was no popularity at all.

"Excuse me......"

"Guest officer, do you want to stay in the hotel?"

An old woman dressed in simple clothes slowly stood up from under the wooden platform, and the silver thread on her head was meticulously tied up by a sackcloth, and although the old man was old, she looked very capable.

"Is there a spare room now?"

The old woman looked at her up and down, frowned, and asked very suspiciously, "Young man, you shouldn't be from the Wu clan by listening to the accent, right?"

"Yes, I'm from the capital, I've just passed through here, and I'm going to stay for one night and rest before leaving. Mother-in-law, I heard that the Wu Clan was originally a prosperous place, but why is it so desolate now?"

The old woman sighed, poured her water for the night, and said, "I have to blame the useless witch daughter." ”

"What's wrong with the witch daughter?"

The husband sneered twice, this useless witch clan concubine is not herself.

She tried to take off her hat, but she didn't know that the silver hairpin was stuck in the gap between the hat, and she tugged at it and scattered her hair. Qingsi slid down her shoulder, and she picked up the silver hairpin that had fallen to the ground, and laughed awkwardly twice.

As a result, as soon as he looked up, he happened to meet the surprised eyes of the old woman. No, she thought to herself, it wouldn't be her mother-in-law who recognized her as a woman dressed as a man, right? But fortunately, it should be that her mother-in-law is not very good when she is old, and there is only a fleeting surprise in those cloudy eyes, she should not recognize her as a woman dressed as a man, so she will not recognize her as a little girl who always came to her to beg for sweet cakes.

The old woman had not had any guests come to her door for a long time, and now someone was finally willing to listen to her and chat, and the two talked from cool to dark. The husband listened to his mother-in-law's story, and finally understood what was going on.

How she was stupid and crazy before she left the Wu Clan, and how she went to Wushan to pray for blessings, and then returned to normal but was stupid and never practiced the witch dance for nine days, which was similar to what she knew, but what happened after she left really surprised her.

Eight years ago, after the vigorous incident of the true and false concubines, the elders of the Wu clan actually asked the so-called real concubine brought by Zou Hu to change the name to the husband, blocking the news from outsiders, and preventing the demon clan from hyping it up after knowing the Tao, I am afraid that it will have a bad impact on the Wu clan.

However, although this so-called real witch girl learned dance quickly, she only stayed in the first paragraph. Two years later, the news of the feast held in the palace came, and everyone was looking forward to the witch concubine to show off her style at the state banquet, but unexpectedly, she has been ill and isolated from the world since then. The outstanding performance of the demon clan's concubines at that state banquet hit the Wu clan greatly, and they planned to write to the elders, requesting to increase the practice intensity of the witch clan's concubines.

But not long after the state banquet, before the elders had made a plan for cultivating the daughters of the Wu clan, the Wu clan was attacked by a group of masked men at night, suffering heavy casualties, and almost all of the elite troops had been killed.

It is rumored that the blood has flowed from the witch temple to the city gate without breaking, everyone speculates that this is a killer sent by the demon clan, gritting their teeth and wanting to avenge the dead relatives, but the elder Zou Hu at that time closed the city gate and did not allow anyone to enter or leave, and said that if someone tried to leave to take revenge on the demon clan, he would not be allowed to step into the territory of the witch clan again. At that time, the crying in the city shook the sky, and the funeral was held for a month.

Since then, Zou Hu, the most respected elder of the Wu clan at that time, has increased the guard of the city gate and the Wu Holy Hall, and cut off all trade with the outside world.

The decline of the Wu clan began at that time.

Just a few days after the tragedy, another group of unknown people sneaked into the Wusheng Hall at midnight, not only killed Zou Hu, his head was missing, his body was hung on the city gate, and the people who followed Zou Hu were also killed.

Since then, everyone has speculated that the witch daughter is afraid that she has died, but it is too late to tell the elders the reincarnation of the next generation of the witch daughter, but the elders are silent, pretending that she is still sick. The people of Zou Hu's faction were killed, and the elders of the Witch Church re-invited Elder Kong Dekong Yi, who had been detained for many years, and now they are the abbot of the Witch Church.

The two attacks had already crushed the Wu Clan, but not long after the man-made disaster, it was a three-year drought. Because there was no Wu Clan's daughter to protect and pray for rain, farming was deserted, commerce and trade were cut off, and more and more people starved to death on the streets, and as a result, more and more people left the Wu Clan to make a living in other places. Although there has been some improvement in the past two years, the Wu people are still living in fear. Without the protection of the witch daughters, and without the protection of elite soldiers, there is really no hope for their lives.

"Mother-in-law, I just passed under the city gate and saw an old man guarding the gate, why is he guarding there?"

"Alas, the son of the old king's head was a guard at the gate, and what a good young man, always eager to help me carry some heavy loads. Those demon clansmen who killed a thousand knives were really cruel, and they stabbed him more than once...... Five years ago, his son was killed by a killer sent by the demon clan, and after he tried his best to avenge his son, but he couldn't go out of the city under Zou Hu's ban at that time, and his mother-in-law and daughter-in-law did not agree with him to leave to die. Since then he has not heard a sound, and he has been stupid and stupid, and he squatted at the gate every day, not knowing whether he was waiting for his son, who had gone, or guarding the gate for his son, alas, pitiful......"

The husband lowered his head and listened to his mother-in-law's narration, his hands on his knees and his fists trembling, and his heart was very uncomfortable. Although he left his homeland, although he has worked hard in the past few years, he has not been in such a miserable shape. What the mother-in-law said is right, if all this is investigated to the end, it is indeed her useless fault, and she is a witch daughter in vain.

"Ah, you see that the old slave has been talking to you for so long, you are afraid that you are hungry and tired when you come from afar, right?

"Sweet cake ......" The husband was stunned by the sudden question, and blurted out.

"Sweet cake, start preparing now, if you want to make it, you will have to do it tomorrow. The old woman looked at the dark sky outside and said.

After the husband finished speaking, he regretted it a little, and quickly changed his words and said, "No, don't bother. Take me directly to the room, this is a deposit, and tomorrow I will refund more and make up for less. ”

She put a silver ingot on the wooden table, and followed her mother-in-law up to the attic on the second floor, where there was a sleeping couch, a wooden table for writing, and some necessary toiletries.

"What's your name, young man?"

"My name is Gu Yu, mother-in-law, you can call me Xiao Yu. ”

"Okay, Xiao Yu, I'm tired of the day, let's rest early!"

Seeing that the old woman closed the door, the footsteps gradually faded away, and the husband opened the window, and sure enough, behind the window was a small garden of his own house, and an old poplar tree. Directly opposite the window is the Wu Clan's Hall, the Wu Holy Hall and the Wu Lan Pavilion.

"I don't like meat. ”

With a whisper, Edgeworth rose.