After the first snow, Su Xiaohong, who was usually the most low-key and ordinary, died tragically in her room, leaving all the clues pointing to Wan Yutang, but Wan Yutang left Wanfu again and didn't know where to go.

Su Quan left here with his daughter's body, and there has been no news since.

The weather suddenly became cold after the snow, but after all, it was just winter, and after a few days, the temperature rose again.

So, the snow finally melted one afternoon.

However, what has already happened has no chance to start over, and those who have left will not come back.

The initial redundant Wanjia compound began to become monotonous.

Wen Qingqing hadn't seen her since she was injured that day, and the Feng couple who used to walk and chat on the road in front of the gate before Xue didn't appear again.

Everyone seems to be deliberately maintaining some kind of tacit understanding.

No one spoke of the dead anymore, and no one ever asked the truth of the matter, and everything seemed to evaporate with the melting of the snow outside.

These days, the fourth uncle found a craftsman to clean up the house that was burned in the fire, saying that he planned to rebuild it after the spring of next year.

Luobei also heard that all the nearby important towns have posted graphic portraits of Wan Yutang, and the government has launched a wanted notice for him, but strange people, this person seems to have suddenly evaporated from the world.

The deaths of the Kang brothers and sisters have not yet been concluded, and Su Xiaohong's death seems to have become an unsolved case.

However, these are not what Luobei needs to care about.

Because he believes in a saying, good will be rewarded with good, and evil will be rewarded with evil, which is an eternal and unchanging truth in the world.

Recently, he discovered that the daylight in Zhuxian Town was getting shorter and shorter, and before he could enjoy the sunset in the western sky, the sunset had already set on the horizon.

Under the dim afterglow, Luo Bei sat quietly in the small courtyard, looking at the horizon where there was only one red line left, and he was out of his mind.

The bamboo forests on both sides of the courtyard are shivering in the wind, and the green bamboo is also actively facing this difficult winter.

When night fell, even though the temperature during the day was not low, at this moment, without the protection of the sun, it was soon cold again outside.

Luo Bei was about to get up and go back to the house, but he saw a figure on the path walking towards here step by step.

The footsteps were light, light as if they were coming with the wind.

The wind still lifted up her purple clothes, and her long warm green hair blocked her lips.

She stood not far from Luobei and smiled faintly.

Since she was injured that night, Luo Bei has never seen her again, but now she walks in the wind by herself, looking at her appearance, the injury should be completely healed.

Luo Bei turned around and finally saw someone he was slightly familiar with, so he still felt happy, and at the same time happy for her, because he knew that she was seriously injured that night.

"You...... It's all right, right?"

Wen Qingqing nodded and said, "I promised to tell you everything that night, so ...... I'm coming......"

Luo Bei looked at Wen Qingqing, she didn't expect that she still remembered what she said under the serious injury, if she hadn't suddenly appeared today, she might have forgotten what she said that night a long time ago.

Wen Qingqing walked to the front of the steps, didn't care about Luobei, but sat down by himself, Luobei had no choice, so he had to sit next to him.

"You must have wondered how I got hurt that night?"

Luo Bei didn't say anything, he did suspect that if it wasn't for the urgency of the injury at the time, he might really ask the reason before deciding whether to save her.

"I'm here today to tell you the answer!"

Wen Qingqing looked at the sky that had completely entered the darkness, and there was loneliness in her eyes that she had never felt before.

"I came here to find someone...... That person was my mother, and she abandoned me thirteen years ago, when I was just over three years old...... Only this ...... left me."

As he spoke, Wen Qingqing spread out his palm in front of Luo Bei, and a tiger-shaped pendant the size of half a palm appeared in front of Luo Bei's eyes.

"The person who raised me later said that this was the only thing my mother left me...... Her whereabouts are also likely to have something to do with this......"

"So, I was looking for clues about her all these years until a year ago...... I found it here."

As she spoke, she looked at Wanfu, which was gradually darkening, as if she was thinking about something.

"What does it have to do with this?" asked Luobei.

Wen Qingqing nodded and said, "I have checked many times and found some clues, and these clues all point to one place......

"It's inside the iron gate in the back garden......"

Luo Bei suddenly understood a little why when she met Wen Qingqing twice, she was in the Ethereal Pavilion, which was the closest to the iron gate, it turned out that she did not appear there unintentionally, but there was news about her mother hidden there.

"And then?"

"I tried many times to see inside, but later I learned that it was the extremely secret place of the entire Wanfu, so every attempt ended up failing...... Until ......"

"It wasn't until after that snowfall that I really went deep into it and found that it was nothing more than a deserted medicine garden, now overgrown with weeds......"

Wen Qingqing lowered her head, looked at a group of ants crawling at her feet in the dark, moved her feet blocking their way, and looked at the dark clouds that were gradually pressing down in the long sky.

Luo Bei watched her every move, thinking that although this girl was mysterious and secretive on weekdays, and her mouth was always very cold, she didn't expect to have such a kind side.

"Is there really nothing in there?"

Wen Qingqing was silent, turning her face sideways and looking at Luo Bei seriously, as if she could see something from his surprised expression.

Luo Bei subconsciously wanted to avoid her gaze, because he felt that it was a little embarrassing to be looked at like this by the other party, and as for what was embarrassing, he couldn't tell it himself.

Fortunately, Wen Qingqing quickly took his eyes off him, smiled faintly, and said, "If there is nothing inside, how can I be so seriously injured?"

It was then that Luo Bei realized how stupid his question was.

"In addition to the barren weeds, there are several lonely graves, and there are no stone monuments in front of the graves, so I can't see who they are, but the graves are very strange......"

"Because the tomb is very large, even larger than the ancestral grave of the average rich and noble......

Luo Bei didn't interrupt her, he knew that something must have happened, so she was hurt, and now he could only listen and listen to her finish speaking.

"I guess there must be some secret there, maybe it has something to do with my mother, so I was about to check closer, who knows how to change at this time......"

"It turned out that there were all kinds of traps around there, and I didn't know what I had encountered, but I heard the sound of breaking wind, and then countless short arrows came at me, because I was caught off guard, and a short arrow shot into my left shoulder, and I had to barely escape, if it wasn't for you...... Probably dried up a long time ago......"

Wen Qingqing said as she looked at Luo Bei, although she didn't say words of gratitude, but being able to tell Luo Bei the secret in her heart at this moment meant that she didn't treat Luo Bei as an outsider.

Luo Bei knew that Wen Qingqing's eyes were no longer as repulsive as before, so he thought about it and asked, "Then why don't you go to the Ten Thousand Divine Doctors?"

Wen Qingqing shook his head with a wry smile and said, "Didn't you think that this was his place, but behind that iron door there was a secret that no one knew, in addition to flying arrows, maybe there were many other mechanisms, you think he didn't know all this? If he knew, then how could he easily tell others, let alone take outsiders like you and me to check there?"

She looked down and saw the ants crawling down the steps in swarms, knowing that rain or snow would soon fall.

"Once a man has a secret, it is impossible to let others know it easily, and if you must test his secret, maybe you have become his enemy invisibly......"

Luo Bei knew that what she said made sense, but to be honest, he didn't believe that Wan Ruhai was that kind of person, because he saw with his own eyes that Wan Ruhai suddenly had a sudden attack of pain when he was treating Zhuo Xiaochan, it was impossible to fake, if he was really as thoughtful as Wen Qingqing said, and secretly hid some unknown secrets, then how could he treat people with kindness and repay people with virtue?

"Maybe it's just ...... there"

Luo Bei didn't say what "it was" because even he couldn't figure out what to say next.

Wen Qingqing stood up, her purple clothes fluttering in the wind.

She raised her head and stared at the vast sky, and the wind and clouds in the sky gathered and dispersed for a long time before she said softly: "Mother, do you know that I am looking for you?"

"It's been more than ten years, haven't you ever thought about me?"

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Sure enough, it rained that night, although it was not very heavy, but it could still rain since the beginning of winter, which is a rare situation.

As soon as the rain fell, before it could evaporate or seep into the ground, it was already frozen by the cold air in the middle of the night.

So, the next morning, everything outside the window had condensed into a layer of crystal clear ice crystals, which looked particularly novel and beautiful.

Wen Qingqing's words, Luo Bei thought about it all night, he believed that Wen Qingqing would not lie to him, but he didn't believe that Wan Ruhai would hide something unspeakable in that iron gate, as for whether it was related to Wen Qingqing's disappeared mother, it was difficult for him to say.

Thinking that in the end, there is no result, and if you want to know the truth, then there is only one way.

If you enter the iron gate and take a look, everything will be clear.

Thinking of this, he made up his mind that he wanted to go to the back garden alone to see what secrets were there, and if he could, he would give Wen Qingqing an answer and Wan Ruhai an innocence.

It's just that he didn't think about it, is there still a danger like Wen Qingqing said? If he encounters danger, what should he do?

Luo Bei saw that Dabai hadn't woken up yet, so he walked out of the door alone and closed the door gently.

At this time, the sky was not yet fully lit, but everything outside was covered with a layer of bright and smooth ice crystals, so Luo Bei walked very carefully, because the ground with a thin layer of ice was the easiest to slip, but fortunately, he often played on the ice when he was a child.

All the room lights are not on, indicating that everyone has not gotten up yet, which is also the living habits of people in the north who will change once they enter the cold winter, but this does not mean that people in the north are not industrious enough, but the climate is like this, and people's habits have to change accordingly.

Walking through the small gate separating the front and back yards, walking through the long corridor, and then Luo Bei came to the Ethereal Pavilion, and even the couplet on the pavilion formed thin ice.

"The power is ethereal, the clouds and the moon are free......"

Every time I see this couplet, Luo Bei can always imagine a great hermit in history that his father talked about, there are roughly two kinds of hermits, as the saying goes, the small is hidden in the wild and the big is hidden in the city.

Zhuang Zhou Mengdie, he has been pursuing freedom all his life, but his father didn't say in the end whether this big hermit finally found his own leisure?

Finally, Luo Bei came to the iron gate, and the big lock on the iron door had been covered with rust, and it seemed that it had not been opened for many years.

He looked at the walls on either side, and there was no way to see anything inside without going through them.

Fortunately, the master once taught him some light exercises and other body techniques, but he never used them after learning them, and this is the right time to test how well he has learned.

Thinking of this, he rolled up his sleeves, but just as he was about to climb over the wall to enter, he was stopped by a voice that suddenly appeared behind him.

"If you want to go in and have a look, just say it, so why bother to climb over the wall?"

Luo Bei turned his head suddenly, only to see the fourth uncle standing not far behind him with his hands behind him, at this moment, his back was still stiff, but in Luo Bei's eyes, he was so tall for a while.

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