Chapter 024: Xue Chen is missing
The colorful fruit in front of me is crystal clear and very beautiful.
Before Su Cheng could finish, he gave the divine fruit to Xue Chen in front of everyone.
The people present were surprised, because this divine fruit was originally the wedding fruit of the fire phoenix of the god clan, and on the day of the phoenix's wedding, the man gave the woman this fruit to express the unchanging sincerity of this life.
Su Cheng had never been interested in these boring anecdotes, so he didn't know anything about them.
She didn't know that the other people present did know, even Xue Chen was a little embarrassed, but fortunately, he was also eager to save his mother, and he didn't stick to these false courtesies, so he thanked him and accepted it.
If his eyes could kill, Shen Yu would have killed Su Cheng and Xue Chen thousands of times.
She begged him three times and twice to deliberately lose to her, and she didn't even believe him, poisoned him before the game, and the divine fruit that came like this was actually to give it to Xue Chen?
Shen Yu flicked his sleeves away, Su Cheng noticed his departing figure, and a voice in her heart told her that she should catch up.
But when she saw Meng Yue behind Shen Yu, she suppressed the restlessness in her heart.
After the Tiangong Sword Contest ended, the Shen Sect Master arranged for the children of the family to leave one after another.
Xue Chen left early with the Divine Fruit because he missed his mother, and Su Cheng still wanted to say goodbye to Shen Yu, so he ran to 'Youfeng Laiyi' alone despite Xiao Lan's objections, but Shen Yu was not there.
Sure enough, she still couldn't see him for the last time, she still wanted to say something to him, she didn't know what to say, she just thought about looking at him and listening to him.
Su Cheng remembered that she still owed Shen Yu three hundred taels of silver, and for the first time, she gave birth to the first time that if she had money one day, she would go to Tanglin Water Champs to repay him, at least she could look at him again.
It has been a month since Su Cheng and Xiao Lan returned to Piaoxue Pavilion, and in this month, Su Cheng was still lazy to sleep as before, occasionally following Xiao Lan down the mountain to the teahouse to listen to the story, and the days passed day by day.
On this day, Su Cheng went down the mountain again to listen to Lao Zhangtou tell stories, and when there were few people, she always liked to lie on the table and close her eyes to recuperate.
Suddenly, hearing that the two tea guests at the table next to him were muttering something in a low voice, Su Cheng only felt annoyed, so he turned over and continued to listen to the book.
But the voices of the two of them became louder and louder, and Su Cheng opened his eyes impatiently, about to have a seizure.
But when he heard it, one of them said, "What, those people are not here to visit the master of Xiaomen, they are here to find people." ”
Another said: "The people of their Nanling Xue family, who are they looking for in our Drifting Snow Pavilion in Dongling?"
"I also heard that the second son of the Xue family, who was not welcomed, was missing. ”
Su Cheng almost jumped off the table, grabbed the man's collar, and shouted, "Say it again, who is missing?"
The storyteller Zhang was used to seeing Su Cheng messing around, and when he saw her arguing, he threw the Xing Wood in his hand at Su Cheng.
Su Cheng grabbed the striking piece and crushed it, and everyone present was so frightened by her that they didn't dare to move.
Su Cheng shouted: "Don't tell me to say the third time, who is missing?"
The man's legs were already shaking a little, and he said tremblingly: "It's the Nanling Xue family, the second son of Xue, and Xue Chen." ”
"How do you know?"
The man panicked and said: "Today, the villain saw a few monks of the Xue family in Nanling, heading towards the Imperial Sword in the direction of the Drifting Snow Pavilion, and at noon, those people were eating with the villain in an inn, and the villain overheard them mentioning. ”
Xue Chen is missing?How could this be, when did it happen?
Since those people had gone to the Drifting Snow Pavilion, she went to ask.
Su Cheng threw the man under him aside, and said angrily: "In the future, don't talk about people's rights and wrongs." ”
The man hurriedly knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, saying yes again and again.
Su Cheng came out of the teahouse, hurriedly went up the mountain, and as soon as he arrived at the Drifting Snow Pavilion, he saw several yellow-clothed monks about to go down the mountain.
Su Cheng stepped forward and grabbed the clothes of one of the monks and said, "You are a monk of the Nanling Xue family?"
The monk nodded and said, "Immortal friends have something to say, don't do it." ”
Only then did Su Cheng calm down and said, "I heard that Xue Chen, the second son of Xue, is missing, what is going on?"
The monk said lightly: "But there is such a thing, don't hide it from the immortal friends, this time a few of us came to the Drifting Snow Pavilion for this matter." Since the end of the Tiangong Sword Competition, the second son has not returned to Yuehuatai, so the master sent a few of us down the mountain to look for it.
This month, we have followed the path of Childe's return, and we have not found Childe back and forth several times. Now I can only ask the sons of other families if they have seen my sons. ”
Disappeared since the sword tournament?
How could this be? Xue Chen, a gentle young man like him, had never made an enmity with anyone, and he was thinking in his heart about treating his mother's illness, and it was impossible for him to delay outside.
There must be something strange at this time.
When the monk saw her pondering, he took his leave.
Xue Chen, he must have had an accident, what should I do?
Although these people were ostensibly looking for Xue Chen, they didn't even see the people who had gone to the sword competition and left in a hurry, which showed that they were not sincere in looking for Xue Chen at all, but just ordered to make a show.
Su Cheng walked in in in a trance, and suddenly heard someone calling her, she came back to her senses slightly, and when she looked back, it was Xiao Lan.
Xiao Lan glared at her and said, "What are you doing? If I don't stop you, are you going to hit that pillar?"
Only then did Su Cheng realize that he had almost hit the pillar in front of him.
"What do you think, like this?"
"Xiao Lan, Xue Chen is missing, do you know about this?"
Xiao Lan had been practicing swords all afternoon, and she hadn't heard of it, but she had seen a few monks from the Xue family in Nanling go in to meet her father, did they come here for this?
"Tell me, what's going on?"
Su Cheng shook his head and said, "It is said that he has disappeared since the sword competition, but Xue Chen often says that he is an unobtrusive person, and his temperament really won't offend anyone, I really can't think of why he disappeared." ”
Xiao Lan thought for a moment and said, "Could it be related to the Divine Fruit?"
Su Cheng touched his nose and said, "It shouldn't be, the divine fruit can only help people get rid of poison and disease, and the disease-free people who practice eating it are just improving their skills, and it doesn't have much effect." Who's going to kidnap a monk for something like this?"
Xiao Lan couldn't think of a reason, so she had to comfort her and said, "Xue Chenji has his own natural appearance, you still don't have to worry too much, maybe he will come back by himself in a while." ”
Su Cheng didn't speak, but went back to the house by himself.
She vaguely felt that Xue Chen was in some danger, and he must be very scared now.
Su Cheng didn't fall asleep all night, and as soon as she closed her eyes, the possibility of Xue Chen's murder appeared in her mind.
In the early morning of the second day, Su Cheng went to tell his master Xiao He about it and asked to go down the mountain to find Xue Chen.
The Xiao family cultivates the Tao, and in the middle of the avenue, there is no way to rule.
Therefore, Xiao He naturally did not stop Su Cheng, but asked the servant to take some plates and wrap them for Su Cheng to bring.
Su Cheng didn't tell Xiao Lan when she left, she was afraid that Xiao Lan would also follow her, and if something happened, it would be difficult for her to explain to the Xiao family.
This matter is too strange, maybe she will be more than lucky, she wrote a letter and hid it under her mattress, in case she died, Xiao Lan could also find the letter she wrote.
Su Cheng Yujian flew to the phoenix homecoming, and then traveled along the road back to Nanling Yuehuatai, and when he reached Jiangdu City, it was dark.
Su Cheng had no choice but to stay in an inn first, "One room." ”
The little second hurriedly led Su Cheng into a room, and Su Cheng took off the burden on his body and lay on the bed.
She had never walked so many roads in her life, and this time because Xue Chen was really tired.
When she finds Xue Chen, she must ask him to invite her to a good meal, otherwise she will not be able to get over it.
After a while, Su Cheng was really a little hungry, so he went out and ordered a few side dishes.
During the meal, Su Cheng inquired about the shopkeeper and said, "Dare to ask the shopkeeper, what strange things have happened here recently?"
The shopkeeper was a chubby man in his fifties, dressed in coarse cloth clothes, very simple, and judging from his clothes, the business in the shop was not very good.
"There is a strange thing, but it is not recent, do you want to hear it?"
Su Cheng was also sick and rushed to the doctor, so he said casually: "Let's hear it." ”
The shopkeeper said, "If I say it, don't be afraid." ”
Su Cheng said again: "The shopkeeper, please speak." ”
The shopkeeper said slowly: "There is a Guanyin temple in the south of Jiangdu City, about sixteen years ago, the monks in that Guanyin temple all disappeared overnight. Since then, the temple has been haunted, and every night there are terrible shouts, which are very scary.
Later, the Shen family sent disciples to check, and those disciples searched the Guanyin Temple inside and out, but found nothing. ”
Su Cheng interrupted him and said, "This Jiangdu City is the boundary of the Shen family in Tangling?"
The shopkeeper said: "No, Jiangdu City is located at the junction of Dongling and Nanling, and the son will go south to the boundary of the Nanling Xue family." ”
Su Cheng has never been very clear about the location of the other party, and he has never paid attention to it.
In fact, except for this Tiangong sword competition, she has never even been out of Beiling.
Su Cheng retracted his thoughts and said, "Shopkeeper, please continue." ”
"Oh, by the way, I didn't find anything just now. This thing is also strange, the shouts in the Guanyin Temple in the days when the Shen family came to the temple were gone, and those evil people were afraid that they would not dare to show their faces in front of the disciples of the Xianmen. But a few days after the Shen family left, the shouting began again. ”
Su Cheng was shocked, although she had heard of ghosts haunting, she had never heard of ghosts that had avoided the disciples of the Immortal Sect still haunting the same place.
She asked, "Did the Shen family come after that?"
The shopkeeper replied, "Naturally, I have come several times a year, and the result is the same every time." ”
This is strange, if there is really an evil cult, how can he still know to avoid the disciples of the Immortal Sect? And he likes to stay in the same place all the time, and he can last for sixteen years?
The shopkeeper remembered something and said, "By the way, there is one more thing, but it has nothing to do with ghosts." A few days ago, the Xue family in Nanling seemed to have come to look for someone, saying that the second son of the Xue family was missing. ”
Su Cheng immediately asked, "Did you find any clues?"