Mao Lian turned around, looked around, and showed the gloomy darkness after the rain, Mao Lian still ran to find the person who Xiu Yuan called out just now, "Lingxiao, you come out!" Xiu Yuan covered his chest, the swastika on his hot chest was still looming, and he got up and looked at Xiu Yuan in surprise, and the room also lit up.

Xiu Yuan helped him up, "Are you okay?"

Unswerving shook her head, she wasn't sure if she had let Lingxiao pop out or cultivate her fate.

The two men then ran out, and Maolian stood in the middle of the yard in despair, her trouser legs wet from the soaked weeds.

"Uncle, are you okay?" Xiu Yuan asked with concern.

"Did you all see her?" said Maolian, looking back at the two people in front of her.

Xiu Yuan and Unswerving nodded, and at that moment just now, he clearly saw Luo Lingxiao standing beside Mao Lian, with a snow-white face, blood-colored red lips, and a faint smile.

"She's back," Mao Lian first muttered to herself, and then actually smiled, Xiu Yuan looked at her uncle's smile, moved and relieved.

"Uncle, are you alright? Xiu Yuan really couldn't tell the meaning behind Mao Lian's smile, Mao Lian waved her hand and shook her head, "Let's go home." ”

On the second day, Mao Lian returned to Yongning Village, Tiantai Town, with the cultivation of fate and unswerving, the moment Mao Lian stepped into the house, Mao Chun stood in front of the hall and was stunned, the two looked at each other for a while, Steward Li pushed Mao Chun, signaling to welcome Mao Lian.

Mao Chun realized that he stepped forward and stretched out his hands to touch Mao Lian's already gray temples, "You're back." ”

Mao Lian smiled faintly, "Yes, I'm back." ”

Mao Chun hugged his younger brother, "It's good to come back, it's good to come back." ”

Mao Lian let her brother hold her, turned her head and saw Steward Li, Steward Li's eyes were moist, Mao Lian nodded at Steward Li, with a smile in her eyebrows.

"I want to go back to my room, I'm a little tired. Mao Lian looked at her brother, Mao Chun was stunned for a moment, "You go to live somewhere else first, that room has not been cleaned up." ”

Mao Lian shook her head, "I'm just going back and looking, I don't live there." ”

"Oh well. Mao Chun asked someone to take Mao Lian with the key to open the door that had been locked for twenty years.

In the end, when Mao Lian returned to his room, Xiu Yuan also came, this room has been locked since he was a child, it is a house locked by a strong and rusty lock, the door panel is broken, no one comes in and no one thinks to come in here to find out, passing by here everyone agrees when he does not exist, as if the meaning of the building itself has been lost and is no longer a place for people to stay, and at the moment when the key struggles to open the big lock, Mao Lian pushed the door open, and the old and old door panel came out"Squeak" sound.

Two men entered, and the furniture in the room was covered with white sheets and covered with dust.

Mao Lian looked at Xiu Yuan, "I haven't been back for twenty years, and the furnishings here haven't changed. ”

"You will be more accustomed to staying back in the future. Xiu Yuan smiled, Mao Lian slowly turned her head, did not speak, Xiu Yuan always felt that he had something in his eyes, or something to say.

"Xiuyuan," Mao Lian called him for a long time, "Although this family used to be so unkind, you have to protect everyone here and here." ”

"What my uncle said is that Xiu Yuan remembers. At that moment, Xiu Yuan didn't think much about it, and then he suddenly remembered something, "This, you better keep it for yourself." Then he handed the burden of Lingxiao, which he had been carrying, to Mao Lian.

After seeing the familiar yellowed paper, as well as the phoenix cloak that only Lingxiao could embroider, Mao Lian looked at Xiu Yuan unexpectedly calmly, "Thank you." ”

"Uncle," Xiu Yuan finally decided to ask the answer he had always wanted to know after a day of silence, "Why didn't you go to the stone bridge for the appointment?"

Mao Lian turned her back to Xiu Yuan, "Because there are some things that you can never decide." ”

"But can you accept Lingxiao marrying someone else?"

Mao Lian curled the corners of her mouth and smiled wryly, "We can't afford to offend the powerful Guan Daren." ”

Sure enough, Xiu Yuan still heard the answer he didn't want to hear, he looked at his uncle calmly, Mao Lian's side face was very deep, her eyelids drooped, and her lonely eyes, Xiu Yuan sighed, "Yes, although I don't know the power of Lord Guan at that time, I can imagine it." ”

Mao Lian turned his head, his slender hand resting on Xiu Yuan's shoulder, "So for this family, I have never fulfilled my responsibilities, but no matter what, you have to help maintain it." ”

"I know," Xiu Yuan nodded heavily again, and Mao Lian's eyes seemed to be comforted to the greatest extent.

"Dinner, young master, second master. Steward Li walked in, and Mao Lian patted Xiu Yuan's shoulder, "Let's go, don't let people wait for us." ”

The people of the Li family have not gathered together for such a grand meal for a long time, there is a sumptuous meal on the table, there is wine, Mao Chun poured a glass of wine for his younger brother, "You have touched the bar many years outside, and the good wine specially prepared for you today does not have to worry about getting drunk, after all, it is at home." ”

Mao Lian picked up the cup and raised her head to take a sip, and let out a satisfied voice, "Sure enough, it's good wine, I used to drink until I was drunk because I couldn't sleep if I wasn't drunk, I had to be drunk, but I often couldn't get drunk." ”

Mao Chun then poured another glass for his younger brother, but Mao Lian stopped him, "Today is different, I don't need to drink to get drunk, I can also fall asleep." ”

Xiu Yuan looked at his father who froze for a while, "Yes, what my uncle said is right, let's stop drinking, look at this sumptuous delicacies, let's eat vegetables." "Saying that, add vegetables for Maolian.

Mao Lian smiled, Steward Li also shared the table with them, Mao Lian was next to him, "Steward Li, over the years, I have missed you very much." ”

"Second master, it's good for you to come back, I miss you too. Steward Li kept putting vegetables on Maolian, and his eyes never left Maolian's body during the banquet.

"For so many years, you have taken care of this family. ”

"What the second master said, this is not what I should do. Steward Li felt ashamed, Mao Lian smiled, bowed her head and ate the vegetables.

"Has my brother married a wife and had children outside all these years?" As soon as Wang's words came out, the whole table was stunned for a moment, and then Wang also realized that he had lost his words, Mao Lian still lowered his head to eat and shook his head.

"Now that I'm back, one day I'll talk about your family, and you can't always live alone when you're such an adult. Mao Chun stopped his chopsticks, since the Wang family had already said this, Mao Chun simply broke the matter, and he could only be down-to-earth when his younger brother became a family.

Mao Lian's silence didn't seem to make Mao Chun realize anything, he put down his chopsticks, "I'm full, I'll go back to the room first, maybe I'm still a little tired when I just came back." With that, he got up and left.

The rest of the people didn't say anything, Xiu Yuan looked at the lonely back of his uncle when he left, and also put down his chopsticks.

When Mao Lian stood on the stone bridge, he touched the line of words on the stone corridor, which he had engraved here after Lingxiao committed suicide, and the handwriting was still clear after twenty years of rain and wind.

"Uncle," Mao Lian turned around, and Xiu Yuan was standing under the bridge, walking towards him.

"Why are you here?"

"I see you're not in the room, guess you must be here. Xiu Yuan accurately grasped Mao Lian's thoughts, Mao Lian looked down from the bridge, the river was terrifyingly quiet, and the moonlight was quiet black.

Both of them were silent for a while, "Uncle, if you were given a choice, would you still abandon Lingxiao?" Xiu Yuan finally couldn't help but speak.

Mao Lian continued to look at the river, "Sometimes regret is in vain, because there is no going back, and I am sorry for Lingxiao." ”

There were a few faint ripples on the dark surface of the river, as if something small had fallen into it, Xiu Yuan frowned and tilted his head, and inadvertently saw Mao Lian's eyes closed, and there were crystal tears on her eyelashes.

It's a rainy night again, Xiu Yuan closed the window and sat back on the bed, there was a thunderstorm outside the window, Xiu Yuan had a strong feeling that today was Lingxiao's death day, and she would definitely come back.

Just thinking about it, he heard someone calling him outside the window, Xiu Yuan was stunned, opened the window, and was under the window, his clothes were already wet.

"Unswerving," Xiu Yuan hurriedly opened the window, "Come in." ”

When Forever came in, Xiu Yuan noticed that her body was all wet, her white clothes were wrapped in a graceful jade body, and Immortal wrapped her chest around her chest and looked at herself in embarrassment.

Xiu Yuan didn't say a word, took out a big robe and wrapped her around, "Why are you here, it's raining so heavily." ”

"Today is Lingxiao's death day, I'm afraid something will happen to you. ”

It turned out that the two of them thought of it together, the thunder outside the window, Xiu Yuan looked at it unswervingly, her simple and beautiful eyes had the beautiful and bright gaze of a fox, but in the final analysis, this fox demon is blooming under the human skin like the most simple and beautiful side of human beings.

"Then you can't brave the rain, how dangerous this thunder and rain are. ”

Unswerving shook his head and smiled slightly, that smile looked in Xiu Yuan's eyes, he suddenly felt a pinch, and then immediately turned his head in order to escape this unnatural feeling.

Unswerving noticing Xiuyuan's evasion, she bit her lip in embarrassment.

Suddenly, Xiu Yuan felt a burning sensation in his chest again, he avoided it and lowered his head to open the shirt in front of his chest, only to see that the sign appeared again in front of his snow-white chest, and the golden swastika was impressive, Xiu Yuan was not good, "Unswerving, I don't worry, I want to go to my uncle's room to take a look." ”

Unswerving also stood up, "I'll go with you." ”

Xiu Yuan nodded, and the two of them held up umbrellas and walked towards Mao Lian's room, just outside the door, they saw that the door was empty, Xiu Yuan stepped forward and knocked on the door, "Uncle, are you there? I'm Xiu Yuan." ”

It was almost late at night, and if Maolian had already fallen asleep, the lights in the room should have been turned off, but the faint yellow light could still be seen from the door.

Seeing that there was no answer, Xiu Yuan pushed the door and went in, there was no one in the room, only the candle flame dancing on the table, and Bu Shi also followed, "Why is there no one? Your uncle went out?"

Xiu Yuan was surprised, and suddenly saw a letter hidden by his uncle's bedside, Xiu Yuan subconsciously walked over and picked it up, and found three words on the envelope: Xiu Yuan Qi.

It turned out that the uncle had already left a letter, and Xiu Yuan had a strong feeling that things were not good, "Shiqiao." Xiu Yuan suddenly said to Bu Shao, "Let's go to the stone bridge immediately." ”

Mao Lian stood on the stone bridge with an umbrella, and he touched the line of words on the corridor of the stone bridge, "Lingxiao, if you are here, please come out." ”

The heavy rain fell in the pitch-black water, and it exploded with a beep, and the rain wet his clothes, Mao Lian still touched the handwriting, he closed his eyes, "Lingxiao, I'm back, you come out." ”

Mao Lian's deep voice was hoarse due to alcoholism, and he couldn't recite melodious verses like before, "The light stone steps are slanted at sunset, and the clouds and cliffs are windy and moonlight. ”

Finally, the voice of his thoughts day and night sounded behind him, "The blue snow day, the slanting sun is green, the lonely bridge reflects the willows and the corridor, day after day, at the end of the year, who will see the old man return?"

Mao Lian turned her head suddenly, Ling Xiao was standing behind her, dressed in red, her long black hair went straight down to cover her snow-white face, and Ling Xiao's dark and empty eyes looked at Mao Lian on her delicate face, and her red lips were lightly opened under her eyes, "Mao Lian, you are back." ”

Mao Lian stood there straight and nodded, "I'm back." ”

"Are you still leaving?" Lingxiao approached him, his snow-white and cold hand caressing his face.

"I'm never leaving. Maolian shook her head sadly.

Suddenly, she began to laugh miserably, the laughter broke the silence of the night sky, drowned out the sound of rain, and Mao Lian still looked straight at Lingxiao.

Lingxiao stopped laughing and began to turn into a miserable voice, "Never leave again, you lied to me, you lied to me twenty years ago." ”

Mao Lian nodded, "I lied to you, I lost you." ”

Lingxiao strangled Mao Lian's neck, it was a cold and bone-chilling feeling, Mao Lian didn't struggle, he looked at the hands under his head, which had turned into white bones, and Ling Xiao's face began to distort and hide.