Five days later, dawn.

More than a dozen fast horses galloped wildly, breaking through the silence of the night, along the north bank of Huaishui, all the way to the Yingchuan city gate.

"Phew!"

On the high slope a hundred meters away, Pan Yun hurriedly grabbed the reins, and turned to Liu Xunyi and said, "Brother Liu, there is Yingchuan City ahead." However, it was still early in the morning, and the city gate had not yet been opened, so we had to abandon our horses and enter the city through the small gate on the south side. ”

Liu Xunyi raised his eyes and looked over, and saw that the city gate was closed in the distance, so he nodded and responded: "Please ask Mr. Pan to lead the way." With that, he urged them to pack their bags and prepare to abandon their horses.

"Except for the small gate on the south side, is there any other place to enter the city?" Xun Qin looked around, his tone quite hesitant.

"There is a side gate next to the north gate, and you can also enter the city. Pan Yun replied without thinking.

"That's good!" Xun Qin stretched out his hand and pointed at Abaolu, Xu Heng and the others, and said quickly, "Lord Liumen and I will enter the city from the south gate with Gongzi Pan, and a few of you will enter the city from the north gate." After entering the city, you don't have to rush to Pan's mansion, find an inn to stay in first, and remember not to let people know your identity, so as not to startle the snake. ”

Xu Heng looked at Liu Xunyi suspiciously, as if asking what he meant. Abaoru objected without hesitation: "No! No, we are leaving, who will protect you? Let's go into the city together!"

Xun Qin shook his head and said: "There are many people in the city, and if we enter the city together, it will inevitably attract people's attention." On this trip, the lord of Luofu hopes that we can find out who is behind the scenes, if the murderer sees that we are outnumbered, if he has concerns, how can he easily show up? Let you hide, one is to hide people's eyes and ears, and the other is to take us by surprise. Not to mention ......"

As for this, Xun Qin's beautiful eyes suddenly turned, and he looked at the thoughtful Liu Xunyi with a smile, and said jokingly: "With the master of the Liu Sect by my side, I believe that no one can hurt a single hair of me." Lord Liumen, did you say?"

The muscles on Liu Xunyi's face twitched slightly, and he barely showed a wry smile. Then he turned his eyes and said to Xu Heng and the others: "Miss Xun Qin is reasonable, everything is according to what she said. There's a high ascension inn in the city, you go there first, and then I'll go to you, and be careful with yourself!"

"Yes!"

Seeing Liu Xunyi agree, Xun Qin couldn't help but show a touch of pride, and then waved lightly at Abaolu and the others who wanted to speak, signaling that they didn't have to say much, and then turned over and dismounted, and followed Liu Xunyi and Pan Yun towards the south gate.

Today, the clouds are thick, the sun and the moon are dark, and the heavens and the earth are gloomy. Just like the situation of the Pan family, the haze gathers and lingers.

The wind was gusting in the streets, and the flags of the shops on both sides were fluttering and fluttering.

Occasionally, three or two pedestrians pop up, who are also depressed and have dishes on their faces. The sky above Yingchuan City was shrouded in a huge cloud, as if a thunderstorm that had not been seen in ten years was brewing.

An hour later, Liu Xunyi and the three of them came to the door of Pan's mansion, which was hung everywhere.

Only this scene, Liu Xunyi's heart instantly became gloomy, looking at the strips of white cloth hanging on the left and right of the courtyard, flying up and down in the cold wind, an inexplicable sadness arose.

I once remembered that when Liu Xunyi first visited Pan's Mansion, how magnificent was the courtyard of Pan's Mansion? Pan Chuba, who was old and strong and high-spirited, led dozens of people from all over the Pan family to gather at the gate of Pan's house and greeted Liu Xunyi and others with a spring breeze on his face.

To this day, Pan Chuba's words and deeds at that time are vividly remembered. The voice is smiling, and the voice is in the ears.

In Liu Xunyi's life, there are not many people who admire him, and Pan Chuba is definitely one.

In Liu Xunyi's heart, Pan Chuba is a big hero and a true hero. He knows that mistakes can be corrected, abides by morality, and is full of righteousness. Even if you spend your whole life, you have to forgive your sins for the mistakes of the year, and this courage alone is worthy of the admiration of the world.

Liu Xunyi still clearly remembers that Pan Chuba once said a sentence in person, "Life and death are not enough to worry about, morality is as great as the sky!"

It was this sentence that made Liu Xunyi gradually find his foundation in the confusion, half-human and half-ghost identity change.

Thinking of this, Liu Xunyi suddenly felt sad, and couldn't help but have a sour nose, and his eyes were quietly red.

"Grandpa!"

Walking into the door of the mansion, looking at the dilapidated courtyard and the messy hall, Pan Yun couldn't hold back the sourness in his heart anymore, and fell to the ground with a "poof", lying on the ground, crying bitterly: "Grandpa...... In accordance with your last wishes, your grandson invited the people from the Xian Wang's Mansion...... You know that you can rest in peace......"

Today's Pan Mansion has long lost its former style, bleak in all directions, and desolate on all sides.

All the wings and courtyards in the house were almost all looted. All the valuable things in the house were also looted, and even the doors and windows of some rooms were demolished.

Liu Xunyi stood in the courtyard, looking around, today's Pan Mansion is like a deserted house, full of sorrow and devastation.

In the lobby, only one coffin has not been carried away. On the north wall, there is a huge word "lay", which makes people sigh.

In front of the hall, Pan Wen and Pan Yuyin, who were dressed in linen and filial piety, knelt on both sides, silently guarding the spirit with a sad face.

Due to the fact that Pan Chuba had passed away for many days, there was a faint smell of corpse decay in the hall, but for Pan Wen's family, these had long been indifferent.

When Pan Yun's cry sounded in the courtyard, Pan Wen's eyes suddenly flashed with indescribable excitement, and he hurriedly got up and staggered outside the court.

"How...... Will it become like this?" Liu Xunyi looked around in disbelief, with an indescribable depression in his chest.

"Bang dang!"

Before the words fell, there was a sudden noise in the west room, and then, three or five beggars in ragged clothes and shaped like withered beggars, each holding some clothes and bedding, ran to the courtyard in a hurry.

When these beggars saw Liu Xunyi and the others, they were first taken aback, then looked at each other left and right a few times, and then quickly hugged the clothes in their arms and rushed towards the door of the mansion without looking back.

This scene made Liu Xunyi and Xun Qin stunned at the same time, but before they could figure out the situation, Pan Yun had already got up suddenly, angrily pointed at the fleeing beggar, and scolded: "You bastards!

"Yun'er, don't chase it!"

Without waiting for Pan Yun to catch up, Pan Wen stepped forward first, grabbed his arm, and slowly shook his head with a bitter face, and said, "There are no valuable things at home for a long time, and there are some tatters left, so let them take them!"

"Uncle Pan, they were ...... just now"

"The beggars in the city are just poor people!" Pan Wen explained casually, and then bowed to Liu Xunyi, "There is the master of Lao Liumen who has come from afar, and it has been hard!" and then arched his hand towards Xun Qin.

Xun Qin looked around and hesitated: "Forgive me for daring to ask here...... Pan House?"

"Yes, it made the girl smile. ”

Today's Pan Wen seems to be dozens of years old all of a sudden, almost sighing when he speaks, his voice is hoarse, and his tone is sad, and he has long been unable to find the refreshed and gentle shopkeeper of the Pan family. In his place was a poor old man with a dirty face and scars.

As the saying goes, "the wall falls down, everyone pushes, and the drum is beaten by 10,000 people". Today's Pan family interprets this proverb to the fullest. In the past, when the Pan family was at its peak, the door was magnificent, the family was calm, the hall was called, and the steps were Bainuo. Now that the Pan family is declining, it is a flock of cranes trapped in chickens, tigers fall in Pingyang, everything is not going well, and everyone can be bullied.

"Alas, the Pan family would not have fallen to this point, although the Qin clan in Hexi sent people to steal things, they finally did not do anything excessive. It's just that my father was suddenly murdered, and then a group of lawless bandits appeared out of nowhere, and they broke into the mansion and looted it on a large scale. Only later did we learn that these thieves were all remnants of the East Lake Gang, and they had long held a grudge against the Pan family and had been thinking about revenge. Now, they took advantage of the momentum of the Qin family to take advantage of the situation, and the Pan family ...... Alas!"

"Why doesn't the local government care?" Xun Qindai frowned slightly and asked rhetorically.

"The government is hindered by the deterrence of the Qin clan in Hexi, so it doesn't want to wade into this troubled water. Pan Wen smiled bitterly, "And these remnants of the East Lake Gang seem to be colluding with them in everything, robbing the gold and silver treasures obtained by the Pan Mansion, and I expect that eighty percent of them will be indispensable to the benefits of the government." ”

"Sure enough, the world is as black as a crow. Xun Qin chuckled and said, "You are all Han Chinese, how can the Mongol government make decisions for you? They take the opportunity to take advantage of it, and they may still be watching the jokes of your Han people's infighting with great interest." ”

"I suspect that Dad was not killed by the Qin family, but these remnants of the East Lake Gang's dog thieves......" Pan Wen said through gritted teeth, "There was a 'Li Laohu' who died, and now another 'Dragon Four' has emerged." ”

"Who is Ryusi?"

"He was originally a subordinate of Li Laohu, and he used to be the fourth in the East Lake Gang, known as the 'Fourth Master of Long'. The last time the Lord of Liumen cleared the East Lake Gang, he narrowly escaped. Pan Wen explained, "Long Si once left Yingchuan to avoid the limelight, but soon turned back and re-erected the banner of the East Lake Gang, wanting to replace Li Laohu and become the new tyrant of Yingchuan." It's just that this person is extremely brutal, even worse than Li Laohu, and he dares to openly rob my Pan family. This matter ......"

"Before coming, Pan Gongzi had told us everything that happened in Yingchuan. Liu Xunyi suddenly interrupted, "Now I just want to give Pan Baye a pillar of incense, as for other things, we will discuss it later." ”

For Liu Xunyi's insistence, Pan Wen was disrespectful.

Liu Xunyi endured the bitterness in his heart and walked towards the mourning hall step by step.

Walking to the front of the steps, Liu Xunyi suddenly knelt on the ground, under the complicated gaze of the Pan family and Xun Qin, Liu Xunyi bowed in three steps, knocked in nine steps, and knelt into the mourning hall.

"Brother Liu, there is no incense at home...... Pan Yuyin slowly handed a finger-thick broken wood to Liu Xunyi. Now she is much thinner than before, unkempt, weak, her eyes are red and swollen from crying, where does she look like a young lady? More like a little beggar.

Seeing the broken wood in Pan Yuyin's hand, the tears in Liu Xunyi's eyes finally couldn't be suppressed and rolled down quietly.

Pan Chuba was a wise man, and he lived a lifetime, but after his death, he didn't even have a single incense, which is really sad and lamentable, pitiful and ridiculous.

Liu Xunyi took the broken wood tremblingly, and a trace of resentment appeared in his eyes. He poked the broken wood on the ground and slammed it hard, and with a soft "snort", the broken wood slowly burned.

Liu Xunyi held the broken wood and bowed repeatedly, then inserted it into the broken bowl in front of the coffin, which served as an incense burner, bowed his head again, and kowtowed four times.

"Eighth Master Pan, I promised you. After you leave, you will definitely protect the Pan family and never break your word! If you have a spirit in the sky, please bless the descendants of the Pan family to be safe and sound. Liu Xunyi stared at the coffin, a cold light flashed in his eyes, and said word by word, "From now on, I will avenge your revenge! What the Pan family lost, I will take it back for you!"

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