Xun Yuzhan has been dreaming a dream repeatedly lately.

He dreamed of a burning fire, and the flames were raging, and the flames were dancing as if someone were dancing in them, and the brilliant colors were as terrifying as blood.

The fire burned all the mountains and forests, steamed up the Heze Lake, and no one was spared under the billowing smoke.

They are no exception.

He dreamed that all the people in Xunmen were covered in flames, waving their arms and running around, struggling, howling, and the sound of heart-rending was endless; the high-ranking head Xun had no intention of inserting countless blades into his body, falling in a pool of blood, and being swallowed by the fire; the invincible second son Xun Yuning was cut by a man in black from behind, and he grunted twice, and then he was silent; and his little sister Xun Wushuang was also trapped in the boundless flame vortex and closed her eyes in despair......

And he himself, disheveled, disheveled, and bleeding from his eyes, walked barefoot in the midst of the fire.

He shouted loudly, but no one paid attention to it, he wanted to carry water to put out the fire, but he couldn't touch anything, he looked at this miserable situation in the world, listened to the people's hoarse voices begging for help, his heart seemed to be filled with some kind of emotion, he wanted to vent, but there was nowhere to go; he ran around, trying to carry those Xunmen disciples who couldn't be named out of this sea of fire, but he couldn't touch anyone.

When he leaps, he soars lightly into the air, and when he looks, his eyes pierce, and when he lifts his head, he sees the stars shining on him.

At that time, he finally understood that the original dream self was already dead.

When Xun Yuzhan was young, he often sneaked out of the door on the starry night, pillowed the back of his head with his hands, and lay on his back on the lawn in the courtyard, counting the stars in the sky one by one.

Because among those stars, there is the most envied chant in the world and the most widely circulated in the world.

It was a legend, a legend that made people feel excited, yearning for it.

The legend of the thirteen star monarchs of the North and South Dipper, headed by Ziweixing.

They are the stars in the sky, and they are also the gods in the sky.

Although people have never seen immortals, they can always hear and see the host who has fallen to the mortal earth, and they are the spokesmen of the immortals, and they can control the power of the stars with the body of a mortal.

He also heard that if there is a god in this world, then there are ghosts.

Just like the yin and yang of Taiji, there must always be something that is against God. But people have never seen ghosts, and they have never even heard of anyone seeing ghosts.

But Xun Yuzhan knows that those who are called gods often see ghosts.

So what is a ghost?

The young Xun Yuzhan couldn't help but think about this question, a question that even the old man who claimed to know everything couldn't answer.

As he got older, Xun Yuzhan found that he had gradually become different from others.

He thought that maybe he had seen a ghost, or maybe he already knew what a ghost was.

Maybe it's the human soul, maybe it's ......

It's a dream.

People can dream, but ...... Do people have souls?

At that time, Xun Yuzhan couldn't help but fall into deep thought, he felt that this was a question that others would never be able to answer. Because no one in this world has ever seen a soul. If there really is a soul, it should also be incarnated after death, and at that time, that soul can only see and hear, and cannot touch anything or communicate anything to people.

It was like painting the ground as a prison, and it was like being cocooned and bound, lonely souls, wild ghosts, pitiful, pathetic and ridiculous.

Just like Xun Yuzhan saw in his dream at the moment, he seemed helpless and confused.

Perhaps, he thought...... Ghosts need God's guidance.

"The eldest prince?"

Xun Yuzhan trembled violently and came back to his senses.

"What's wrong with you?" Wei Dingshan held a delicate ceramic cup in his hands, frowned and looked at the eldest prince of Xunmen in front of him, who seemed to be wandering out of the world, and said strangely: "We are chatting and chatting, you suddenly stared ahead as if you were stunned, and the old man didn't react for a long time." ”

Xun Yuzhan still looked frightened, he rolled up his sleeves and gently wiped the sweat on his forehead and sideburns, stretched out his tongue and licked his pale and dry lips, and said with a forced smile: "It's okay, it's just that a picture suddenly appeared in my mind just now, and I was indulged in it for a while, and I was a little distracted." ”

Wei Dingshan glanced at this handsome son, and while he was surprised, he thought about it, but he still didn't continue to ask.

After all, the eldest prince is in Xunmen like a sheep in a wolf's den, as if someone wants to take his life all the time, so it is normal to be timid and nervous, Wei Dingshan is powerless, just looking at the eldest prince not to fall into any problems.

After hesitating for a moment, Wei Dingshan decided to confess some things frankly, so that the eldest prince could relax a little.

So he lowered his head slightly, and the hand holding the teacup was even harder, and then slowly placed the teacup on the table, and said softly: "Eldest prince, when you returned to Yingzhou before, did you always feel like you were being followed? Do you think that someone in my Xunmen does not want to see you come back?"

Xun Yuzhan was stunned by Wei Dingshan's question, and for a while he didn't understand why this old man, who had always been low-key and didn't talk much, suddenly brought up such a sensitive topic, so he had to laugh awkwardly and cope: "That's not true, Wei Bo is too worried." ”

Wei Dingshan sighed: "Eldest son, the old man won't hide it from you, the one who sent someone to track you that day is the old man." ”

Xun Yuzhan shook violently and stared at him in disbelief.

"But the original intention of the old man is also for the sake of the eldest prince. Wei Dingshan raised his head to meet Xun Yuzhan's gaze, his eyes were extremely firm, and he even hid a little old stubbornness: "The old man is a person from the past, and he can think that this Great Autumn Meeting is by no means so simple, so he doesn't want to let the eldest prince wade into this troubled water again, so he made this decision." ”

Wei Dingshan paused, and then said: "When the head of the old decay knew that Song Anshi sent Song Anshi to Shangzhou to inquire about the news of the Lu family, he entrusted him to find the traces of the eldest son, if he found it, he would find an opportunity to kidnap and place him in a peaceful place, and after the end of the Great Autumn Meeting, where to go, and then you will decide by yourself. ”

When Xun Yuzhan heard this, he looked like he couldn't cry or laugh, and he didn't know what to say.

A look of doubt appeared on Wei Dingshan's face, and he said in a low voice: "It's just that there is one thing that is very strange. ”

Xun Yuzhan sighed in his heart.

"Song Anshi found a group of bandits to ambush in Bishan on the border of Shangying and Yingzhou, and took you away after the eldest prince and others passed by, but this plan was ruined by the general's sword. When Wei Dingshan said this, he suddenly laughed, and then his expression returned to the same as before: "Song Anshi saw that the situation was not right, and hurriedly sent Jiang Ling back to report to the old man, and after thinking for a while, he decided to personally take the eldest prince away, pretending to be done by bandits along the road, so that the head of the family could rest easy." ”

Speaking of this, Wei Dingshan was stunned again, he stared straight into Xun Yuzhan's eyes, and asked seriously: "Eldest prince, what the old man wants to ask is, what happened that night?"

"Which night?"

Although Xun Yuzhan is forced to be calm, he is really not very good at concealing it, and people can see through it at a glance.

Wei Dingshan said with a smile: "That Huang'ai Ancient Road, when the old man rushed over, he learned that the eldest prince and his party were gone. It's just that it was a shortcut road, and there were a lot of bandits along the way, and it was never very peaceful, so passers-by were extremely rare, and there were no other passers-by that night except for the eldest prince and his party, and the old man really couldn't figure out what was going on?"

"Today, I saw that the eldest prince was worried, so I confided the truth, so that the eldest prince could relax a little. Although the head of the family wants to drive you away in every possible way, but now it should not reach the point of incompatibility, and the old man thinks that although the eldest prince is imprisoned, he will not lose his life. Therefore, the eldest prince does not have to worry about this all day long, maybe ......"

"Maybe this autumn meeting will be the turning point for everything, right?" Xun Yuzhan calmed down and said with a deep face.

Wei Dingshan was stunned for a moment, but still nodded.

It turned out that it was really as he thought, and the eldest prince knew better than anyone else.

Well, he can rest assured.

Xun Yuzhan suddenly laughed: "Uncle Wei, you may not believe it. That night...... I only remember that our dart car did enter the ancient road, but I can't remember anything about what happened after that. When I came back to my senses, it was already dawn, and I was sitting in the carriage, and when I lifted the curtain and looked outside, I realized that the dart carriage was on the official road. ”

"This thing is really strange, even I can't figure it out, at first I thought it was a dazzle, a dream, but now I heard Weber's words, and then I realized that this thing was unusual. ”

Wei Dingshan's cloudy eyes flashed with a hint of excitement, and he seemed to become excited, and a bright smile appeared on his wrinkled face like an old tree: "That's really interesting, maybe the general will know something." ”

Xun Yuzhan smiled bitterly: "Uncle Wei, I won't tell you, I'm not very confident about that night, I want to ask others, but after thinking about it for a long time, I feel that I may really be in a daze, and I won't be ashamed to ask." Alas, when I saw the general at that time, I felt that something was not right, and there was always a feeling of familiarity, but I didn't think much about it, how could I expect that Tan Hu was really a general! ”

Wei Dingshan laughed, and the originally depressed atmosphere suddenly became warm.

After laughing, Wei Dingshan opened his mouth and asked, "Then I don't know what happened to you, eldest prince?"

Hearing this, the ease on Xun Yuzhan's face suddenly disappeared, he frowned, and said with a depressed gaze: "It was a dream." ”

"Dreams?"

Wei Dingshan was stunned, he remembered that he seemed to have heard the eldest prince mention it not long ago.

"And in this dream, it's a catastrophe!"