Yunyin Villa, the banana building, the maid Ling Qiao is cleaning up the food on the table, and the meal is almost never the same as when it is served. She looked up at the woman sitting at the table, who was in deep thought and did not seem to notice that the maid was watching her. The maid couldn't help but still persuade, "Miss, don't worry, the young owner of the village will not be clever and clever since he was a child, but he has always only burned and bullied others, when has he ever suffered a loss? ”

"You don't have to wait for Lan'er to come back, I won't let you go. A voice came from outside the house, and Song Jichen walked into the room in a dusty manner. The maid hurriedly saluted, and went down with the cleaned dishes and chopsticks. Song Jichen looked at the food in the maid's hand, frowned, and said, "Zhi'er, why did you eat so little, you have lost a lot of weight in just a few days." ”

Yun Tianzhi, who was in the fugue, saw someone coming, and squeezed out a gentle smile on his face, "Brother Chen, you are back, is there any news from Lan'er?" Yun Tianzhi asked.

Song Jichen sat next to the woman, holding his fiancée's slender jade hand, gently caressing it with some pity, he looked at the beauty in front of him, his eyes were full of spring-like gentleness. At this moment, he does not have the pride of being the first person of the younger generation of Yunyin Villa, nor does he have the edge of the entire Yin Xunzhou and Nanliang rivers and lakes. He is like a scholar who sees himself and misses a beautiful girl. "The people we sent to protect Lan'er secretly lost Lan'er after getting off the pipeline and entering Luminous City, compared to Lan'er who had already noticed it, so he used the golden cicada to get out of his shell in Luminous City and avoid our secret guards. ”

The woman was a little angry when she heard this, "He's really messing around, what's the difference between him and an ordinary person who hasn't cultivated now, he doesn't know, how many pairs of eyes are staring at him, how many knives are pointing at the back of his heart, why is he still so obstinate and reckless/"

"All the people we sent to protect Lan'er are experienced people with extraordinary skills, so they can be avoided by Lan'er, first, it shows that Lan'er has not taken it lightly along the way, and has made complete preparations for everything. If he really disguises himself again, none of our people will be able to find him, and those people will not be able to find him. Others probably thought he was just a traveling scholar. ”

The woman didn't say anything, obviously not really taking Song Jichen's consolation to heart. Song Jichen seemed to remember something and said, "By the way, Zhi'er, someone reported that Aunt Hui was dead, and she was used to use chopsticks in the store to pass through her heart, and it looks like the technique of using the cloud shuttle in the villa." And Lan'er had been there before she left the city. ”

In an elegant room in the outer house of the villa, green sandalwood cakes are burning on the incense burner, and there are several authentic paintings of the former dynasty on the walls of the house, a picture of a lonely pine in a green cliff, a picture of a young cowherd, and a picture with the words "Taste and stop". The furnishings in the house are also extremely delicate and attentive, with ornaments and screens, tables and tea seas, pens and paperweights all complement each other. The owner of the house must have been an elegant scholar.

On the Taishi chair of Nanyang pineapple wood, a fat man is there, he is holding tea in one hand, and the index and middle fingers of the other hand are rhythmically tapping on the armrest of the chair. On the table next to him were the various newspapers that had just been delivered. The middle-aged fat man muttered to himself, "I didn't expect the young master to be so cautious, even the person sent by his sister to protect him can't be trusted, and he has to get rid of it." Isn't this a chance for others to start? What a bait to lure the snake out of the hole, young master, young master, aren't you afraid of being swallowed by the snake in one bite?"

In the other stone room of the villa, the light in the room was a little dim, except for the illuminated glowstone in the groove dug out of the stone wall, although this expensive glowstone was brighter than the light of candles and oil lamps, but there was only one, and there was no way to illuminate the room as much as day.

In the center of the stone room sat an old man with gray hair, one of the old man's eyes was empty and empty. The other eye is also a little cloudy. Opposite the old man sat a middle-aged man who looked like a Confucian student, and the middle-aged man did not hold a folding fan to guide the country on weekdays, but became very restrained. The person sitting in front of him was the real person in charge of the Cloud Hidden Mountain Villa, the person who had already touched the threshold of the Xuanwu Realm with one hand.

"Old Chu, the people sent by Basho Xiaozhu were thrown away by the young owner. The middle-aged man didn't dare to say a word more, waiting for the command of the old man opposite.

"You didn't send someone with you?" The old man's voice was not hoarse, it was full of energy, but the cold and oppressive air around him was about to condense.

"The young owner won't let it. ”

The old man didn't seem surprised by this answer, he nodded lightly, and snorted again, "The self-righteous appearance is exactly the same as Dad, but he is more courageous and promising than his Dad." His father's waste has been suffocated for so many years. ”

"Old Chu, should we send someone too?"

The old man waved his hand, "No, naturally someone will take care of it for us." The man was already waiting for him in front. ”

"There is one more thing, Gao Shan, she wants to resign, saying that she will go to Nanliang to find the murderer of Yang Zhi to take revenge. ”

The old man sighed softly, and the coldness in his words was somewhat restrained, "She is also a hard-working girl, she originally came back with Yang Zhi at that time, and she is not a person who Wuyunwei really cultivated, so let her go." ”

"Yes, if Elder Chu has no other instructions, I will go down first. Seeing that the old man did not respond in the slightest, the middle-aged man withdrew from the stone room.

In Liuyunwei's steward's hall, the long-haired man was throwing the note in his hand into the brazier on the side. He looked at the person standing below with his hands down and asked, "Are you sure it was Yun Xuelan who did it?"

The person standing below nodded in response: "It should be the young owner, no doubt that no one has entered that shop since he left." ”

Geng Youfang nodded, shook his head again, and seemed to be talking to himself, "No, even if Jiang Hui has not cultivated at all, with that kid's current cultivation, he shouldn't be killed with chopsticks with one blow." So he confirmed again and asked, "Has the body been examined?" Did he go in alone and come out alone?"

"Yes. The person below replied: "We have examined the body, and there is no poisoning, no Chinese medicine, and no other wounds, only a wound on the chest." Our men followed him after he entered the city, and we made sure that he was alone from beginning to end. ”

"Send someone to check, people who have been in and out of that store in the past six months, not only check the customers, but also check the supply of the food. In addition, didn't you say that there were carrier pigeons in the backyard? ”

"This, I'm afraid it's a little difficult, those carrier pigeons are dominated by Shaozhuang. ”

When the middle-aged man heard this, he almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood, and he scolded: "I'm afraid that you were discovered by that kid at the beginning, he deliberately didn't get rid of you, deliberately let you follow, and deliberately let you see the clues, and then cut off all the clues." Damn it. has a bad stomach, I don't know who he looks like, he doesn't have so many ghost eyes. ”

In a bamboo forest in the inner house of Yunyin Villa, red, white, blue and purple bamboos enclosed a clearing in the center of the forest, and a two-story small building was erected with green bamboo in the clearing. In the study on the first floor of the building, a maid was wiping the table with a silk handkerchief. The owner of Xiaolou has been gone for a long time, but she still has to clean her son-in-law's study and bedroom on time every day, meticulously.

At this moment, a bird with blue feathers and the size of a sparrow flew into the window and landed on the table in front of the girl. This bird's name is Biji, and it is an extremely precious bird. Despite its small size, this bird has remarkable endurance and does not seem to be afraid of long-distance flights, and its dexterity makes it extremely difficult to spot by predators or humans. Therefore, many forces breed and train this bird to pass on confidential information. The information conveyed by this bird is more secure and reliable than that of carrier pigeons, but because the cultivation and training words are extremely complicated and cumbersome, it will only be used by important spy agencies of large forces.

The maid Angelica picked up the biscuit paper in front of her, took a projectile from the bird's claws, and gently crushed it with her hand, and a paper ball fell out of it. The girl opened the paper ball, read the words on it, and put the paper directly in her mouth to chew. An inexplicable smile appeared on her face, and she whispered to herself: "Childe, Childe, you are really powerful, you have to live well." ”

On an official road thousands of miles away, an ox cart was moving slowly with firewood and grass. On the stack of wood of the bullock cart lay a thin young man dressed in coarse linen. The boy was lazily basking in the sun with a straw hat over his face, when suddenly the boy sneezed several times in a row. He removed the straw hat that covered his face and wiped a handful of oozing snot.

The old man who was driving the car turned around and asked, "Childe, but you have a cold?" Now that it is autumn, it is not as good as summer, Childe, your body is so thin, don't hurt the wind." ”

Yun Xuelan on the ox cart sat up, looked around and asked, "Uncle, how long will it take to get to Sanhuai Town?"

"Hurry, hurry, it's five miles away. ”

The boy stopped talking, lay back on the pyre, and continued to cover his face with a straw hat. The ox cart swayed on the road for more than half an hour, and a memorial arch appeared in front, and the words in the middle of the memorial arch were somewhat blurred by weathering. There are three locust trees at the intersection, and the trunks of the three trees are long and connected together. Each tree is stout with two or three adults hugging each other. The town is named Sanhuai, hence the name of the tree. It is said that originally this was a village, and there was only one locust tree, which was planted in the yard of a single house. There is a poor scholar in the courtyard, the scholar and the old mother at home depend on each other, and the scholar is afraid of being talented and intelligent since he was a child, and has the ability to never forget the ten lines at a glance. Although his family was poor, he studied hard and was determined to gain fame. One day, when the scholar was reading at night, just as his eyelids were beating each other and he was drowsy, he suddenly smelled a scent of acacia incense, and the scholar was completely tired. At this time, it was just the beginning of autumn, and the acacia flowers should have withered, and the scholar was surprised, and a girl in a white dress walked into the room barefoot. The scholar was shocked and then fell for the girl's beauty, and stared at the girl for a while, not realizing that he was already red-faced.

The girl didn't seem ashamed to be stared at so naked by a man, and she walked lightly towards the scholar, bringing a burst of acacia incense as she walked. The girl told the scholar that she was transformed by the spirit of the locust tree, and because she was grateful for the scholar's hard work in studying night and night, she came to help him. Sure enough, when the girl was there, although the scholar's heart occasionally rippled, he no longer felt tired of reading until late at night.

In this way, the girl came late at night every day, and always appeared when the scholar was tired, and used Huaixiang to refresh the scholar. The two get along every day and can't help but have secret feelings for each other. But the two of them still kept their own self-denial and did not cross the thunder pool by half a step. One day, the scholar needs to leave home and go to the county town to catch the exam, and before leaving, the two complain to each other, and promise to marry the girl when they are named on the gold list.

It took five years for the scholar to leave, and by the time the scholar returned to his hometown, he was already among the top three in the palace gold list. He was even appointed by the official department of the court as the fast son-in-law of Chenglong. The scholar returned to his hometown in fine clothes and set up a banquet in the village for three days. He wanted to expand the ancestral house of his family, and when building the house, the craftsmen cut down the locust tree in the courtyard to make the beams of the middle house, and the scholar forgot all about the ear and sideburns of the girl and the vows of the mountain alliance and the sea.

On this day, the scholar suddenly heard a stream of blood rushing to his face in his dream, and sat up in the dream, and saw a woman covered in blood standing in front of his window, and the white dress on the woman's body was also stained red with blood. The scholar was shocked and was about to shout for help, when the girl suddenly spoke: "I have been with you for several years, not only did you not fulfill your promise that day, but you directly slashed me to make the beam of your ancestral house." You're so ruthless. ”

The scholar suddenly realized that the girl in front of him was transformed by the Huai Spirit in the courtyard, and his fame was in his body, and the beauty was behind him, so he left his oath with the woman behind. The scholar was speechless with fright, and his back was already soaked in cold sweat.

On the second day, someone came to the scholar's house to pay a visit, but found that the scholar had committed suicide on the beam of the locust wood in the main house of his house.

The people felt bad luck and set the house on fire. A few years later, two locust trees grew on the scorched earth ruins, but they were connected branches, and the trunks of the trees were surrounded by each other. Trees grow very fast and are shaded over the years. After a few more years, another small tree grew next to the two trees. Live like a family of three.

Yun Xuelan jumped off the ox cart, and gave the old man some broken silver under the old man's repeated excuses. The old man thanked him repeatedly, and then drove into the town first.

The boy looked around, put on his straw hat, and pressed it hard, looking like a farmer who had just returned from the field. The boy walked into the town and walked towards a pancake stall. The stall owner was a dark-faced man who looked to be in his forties or fifties. Because Yinxunzhou is located in the south, and most of the locals eat rice as their staple food, the business of pancake stalls is not sluggish. The middle-aged man was squatting there smoking a Chinese cigarette. Seeing someone coming, he quickly got up and enthusiastically Zhang Luo.

"Oh, this man, how many cakes do you want?"

Yun Xuelan said: "This stall should be Lao Liu's, right?"

The man was stunned when he heard this, and said, "Lao Liu's face was burned when he was selling pancakes the day before yesterday. ”

"Which side of the face is hurting? Do you want to change your face?"

The middle-aged man lowered his voice and said, "Childe comes with me." With that, he cleaned up his stall and headed for the town. Yun Xuelan followed.