The two walked into an alley more than one person wide one after the other. The alley is flanked by courtyard walls made of stucco and masonry. The middle-aged man with the cart stopped in front of a black wooden door that was somewhat peeling paint. He used his hand to pick out a brick under the fence and took out a key from inside. The door creaked open. The middle-aged man pushed the car into the yard. The yard is not large, and some unfinished firewood is piled up in the center. The middle-aged man parked the car in the corner, and immediately turned to the young man and knelt down on one knee to salute: "Bingliu greets the young owner." ”

The young man stepped forward and helped the middle-aged man up, and then said, "Uncle Sixth is polite, just call me son." ”

The middle-aged man was flattered, "Childe doesn't want to kill the villain, the villain is named Ma Yan, if the son doesn't dislike it, just call the little Ma Yan." ”

"Uncle Ma, how long have you been in Sanhuai Town?"

"Back to Gongzi's words, the villain has been in Sanhuai Town for seventeen years. The villain was ordered to run a pancake stall here, and at the same time secretly recorded the movements of the major forces coming and going to Sanhuai Town, and reported to Mr. Zhongli regularly. A few days ago, Mr. Zhongli's people came to spread the word, Son, you will come to Sanhuai City in the next two days. Let the villain make arrangements early. The middle-aged man seemed to see that the young owner didn't have much of an official frame, and the whole person was not as nervous as before, and he became more talkative. Suddenly, as if he remembered something, he slapped his head and screamed "oops". Seeing that Yun Xuelan was shocked by herself, the man named Ma Yan hurriedly smiled apologetically and said: "Son, don't blame, look at my brain, the young master has been here for so long, and I haven't invited the young master into the house for a cup of tea." It's time for dinner, why don't you go into the house first, young master, and I'll go up to the ninth floor of the town to buy wine and a good dish to bring back?"

The young man shook his head and said, "Don't worry, are things ready?"

"The things have been prepared, and according to the young master's orders, I rushed to make them for several nights in a row. ”

"There's Uncle Rauma, take me to see things first. ”

"Young Master, please come with me into the house. As he spoke, he led Yun Xuelan into the house, and the man dragged out a wooden box from under a wooden bed. After opening the box, he first took out a few old clothes from inside, and then took out a cyan wooden box from the bottom of the box. The middle-aged man carefully held the wooden box to the table, and the man took out a pair of tweezers from the cabinet in the corner. Open the wooden box, and there are four kinds of human skins inside. Seeing such lifelike, it was like a face directly removed from a person's face, even Yun Xuelan, who had seen a lot of bloody scenes, was a little numb.

Seeing this, the middle-aged man couldn't help but smile a little proudly. He picked up a piece of dough with tweezers and gently unfolded it, revealing an old face. Ma Yan explained: "Don't be afraid, Childe, this is not a real human skin, but I did it myself." "There are five doughs, one for the elderly, two for the middle-aged, one for the young and one for the woman. Later, the middle-aged man explained how to wear and pick the dough. According to Ma Yan, what he made for Yun Xuelan was the best human face mask in the disguise technique. The expression of the wearer and the change in skin color will not be affected in any way, and naturally no one will notice the clues. Each dough can be used forever if it has not been damaged by external forces. Seeing that Yun Xuelan was basically proficient in the use of dough, the man named Ma Yan sighed with some regret: "It's a pity that your stay here this time is too short, otherwise the villain can teach the young master the disguise technique and the method of making dough." ”

"Do you have a successor to this skill?"

"Five years ago, the villain took in an apprentice, and the person was investigated by Mr. Zhongli, and it was very clean, and Mr. Zhongli also nodded his head about it. ”

"Isn't he in Sanhuai Town now?" Hearing Yun Xuelan's question, the middle-aged man shuddered, knelt directly on the ground with weak legs, and pleaded with some fear in his voice: "After the villain received Mr. Zhongli's message, the villain asked the villain's apprentice to return to his hometown and let him come back in a month." He didn't know that Childe was coming, he didn't know anything, and asked Childe's subordinates to be merciful and let him live. As he spoke, he kowtowed his head with a bang.

Yun Xuelan was stunned at first, and then suddenly, he stepped forward to help the trembling man, gently patted the latter's shoulder and said: "Uncle Ma, don't panic, I don't mean that, your craft works very well, you need to leave a successor, not to mention, I don't really agree with this rule of the villa." ”

The middle-aged man breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and then said solemnly: "Thank you for your kindness, but this is not the rules of the villa, this is the rules of our Xia Yunwei, and the rules are the rules." ”

Yunyin Mountain Villa's Teng, Liu, Wu, and Chasing Four Guards are the organizations on the bright side of the Villa. And there are still a few people in the villa who hold the real core power of the villa, in addition to the Yun family's troops, there is also a more powerful spy organization and assassination organization hidden in the secret. The people of the two organizations are almost all over Bactria and even have their infiltration in Southern Liang. They are either street vendors, or private school gentlemen, or singers of green houses, or dock laborers, and even some of them are in high positions in the mansions and courts. And this spy organization is called Xiayun, and it is in the hands of the one-armed old man, Mr. Zhongli. There are only three people who know the name of Xiayun and Zhongli's identity, except for Zhongli himself, the remaining two are the Yun father and son. When he was attacked on a rainy night that day, Yun Jinhe used the secret method of martial arts to transmit the sound to Yun Xuelan, asking the latter to find Mr. Zhongli after returning to the villa. And the boy only found out about it by talking with Mr. Zhongli at night before leaving. And Mr. Zhongli only told him the location and joint secret words of Xia Yunwei that Yun Xue Lan could use during this trip. lan

After kneeling down to Yun Xuelan, Ma Yan once again proposed to go to the best restaurant in town to buy a few dishes and come back. Yun Xuelan didn't stop it anymore, but asked Ma Yan to buy a few more jars of wine and come back.

After Ma Yan left, Yun Xuelan sat in the room and flipped through the information that Ma Yan had left him about the major forces around Sanhuai Town.

Sanhuai Town, because it is located at the junction of the pipelines of several important cities in Yinxun Prefecture, such as Yunyin City, Luoshi City, Qingyu City, Jixing City, etc., there are many cars and horses coming and going every day. In addition, around Sanhuai Town, there are also several forces that occupy a pivotal position in the rivers and lakes of Yin Xunzhou.

Among them, the Swallowing Yang Palace, the Heaven-Shaking Gate, and the Divine Guild are the three major forces in the first-class position. Among them, the Swallowing Yang Palace is the branch of the Swallowing Yang Sect of Zhongyao Prefecture in Yin Xun Prefecture, and there is an elder from the General Sect who serves as the palace master in the Swallowing Yang Palace, and is a real master of the Soul Realm. Heaven-shattering Gate is a chamber of commerce that started by selling and transporting antiques. It is said that there are many ancient tombs and relics left by the ancestors in the mountains around Sanhuai Town, and the people of the Heaven-Shaking Gate originally made their fortune by exploring and stealing the tombs and relics of these warriors. Later, when the people of the Heaven-shaking Gate excavated some caves and ruins that they were not able to explore alone, they would first control the caves, and then publicize them widely, so that the warriors and even civilians who rushed to the scene could pay a certain amount of money according to the size of the tombs and caves, so as to enter the caves and tombs to explore. And all the opportunities harvested in the tomb include treasures, wealth, and even the inheritance of the tomb owner, etc., those who are destined to get it can choose to sell it to the Shaking Heaven Gate to obtain the equivalent reward of the treasure, or they can choose to take it away themselves, and the Shaking Heaven Gate will not stop it, and there is almost no hearing of it, because the Shaking Heaven Gate did not get what he liked and killed people and seized treasures behind the scenes. First, because the Heaven-Shaking Gate is indeed not a short-sighted force, and it will not lose its reputation because of a certain treasure. If the world knows about it, anyone who gains something in the treasure hunt and does not trade with the Heaven Shaking Gate will eventually die, I am afraid that I will think with my heels, and I will know who did it. Second, the three major forces have formed a three-legged trend, and the Shaking Heaven Gate almost holds the whole piece of fat from the tombs in this area in their mouths, although the other two major forces are red-eyed, but the Swallowing Yang Palace and the Divine Guild are restraining each other, and they are afraid that if they rashly attack the Shaking Heaven Gate, they will let their backs be hit by the opponent's dark arrow. Therefore, in the Heaven-shaking Gate, it can be regarded as cautious in this matter, walking on thin ice, and does not dare to leave the two opponents with a handle that can openly join forces against themselves. In order to prevent other forces from hollowing out their minds to deal with themselves, every time a large tomb or cave is opened, the Heaven-Shaking Gate will send people to escort these people when they leave Sanhuai Town with the treasure, if they are from the Yin Xun Prefecture, they will be escorted to their sect forces, and if they are from other states, they will be escorted to the border of the Yin Xun Prefecture. Compared with the first two, the scale of the Divine Guild is even larger. The essence of the Divine Guild is a force spontaneously organized by warriors who are unwilling to join other forces, but are worried that they have no backers, are isolated, and cannot support themselves, and are oppressed by the big forces. Those who join the power do not need to pay money, there are no gang rules, there is only one obligation to fulfill, if a member of the Divine Guild is oppressed by outsiders, other people in the guild must help. Therefore, compared with the Swallowing Yang Palace and the Heaven-Shaking Gate, the Divine Guild is not as profound as the former, and it is far less wealthy than the latter. But in recent years, it has grown to a force that can compete with the other two.

In addition to this, there are a number of other forces of various sizes in Sanhuai Town. It's just that it's hard to match the three major forces. And in the bottom newspaper left by Ma Yan, there is a news that Yun Xuelan is most concerned about. Three months ago, the people of the Heaven Shaking Gate discovered a new Immortal Cave Mansion in the Eagle Ridge Mountain, two hundred miles south of Sanhuai Town. But only four of the thirty dead soldiers who entered the exploration were seriously injured. Therefore, the Heaven-Shaking Gate rated the level of this cave as red armor, which refers to the danger level of the cave tomb that was discovered. There are four grades of red, yellow, blue and white, with white being the lowest and red being the highest. A is the evaluation of the Heaven Shaking Gate's chance in the secret vault. It is also divided into four levels: A, B, C, D, and grade A, with grade A being the first and grade D being the last. The last time a Class A tomb appeared was thirty-two years ago, and the Red Realm Tomb had not appeared for more than ten years, and the Chijia Cave Mansion had only appeared once since the establishment of the Shaking Heaven Gate. It was the place where a Xuanwu Realm powerhouse was discovered when the Heaven-Shaking Gate was first established, and since then, the Heaven-Shaking Gate has had the tradition and rules for grading tombs, and the Heaven-Shaking Gate has really risen because of this. It is conceivable that the appearance of the Chijia Cave Mansion this time will shake Sanhuai Town and even the entire Yinxunzhou rivers and lakes. Even many forces from other states heard the rumors and sent a large number of masters to come. Among the major forces that heard the wind, there were even those who released bold words who claimed that they would directly destroy the Gate of Heaven and swallow this tomb alone, but of course, the world just laughed at it after hearing it.

When everyone was rushing to Sanhuai Town in full swing, news came out from the Heaven-Shaking Gate that the prohibition in the secret vault was heavy and extremely weird, and the powerhouses of the Shangwu Realm could not enter it at all, even if they used the secret method to suppress the cultivation, they would be severely hit by the prohibition outside the tomb, because the cultivation was suppressed, so the Shangwu Realm masters who tried to enter the Heaven Shaking Gate in this way were not lightly injured. And although the middle martial realm and the lower martial artists can enter without hindrance, their cultivation will directly fall into a mud embryo realm that first glimpses the path of the martial artists in the secret realm. This is also why many experienced people who shake the heavens entered, but only the dead survived.

Yunyin Mountain Villa actually learned about this from different sources more than a month ago, and someone in the village also proposed to send a team to explore the treasure. At that time, after Yun Jinhe discussed with everyone, he decided to let Song Jichen and Yun Xuelan lead a team and bring a team of sixteen people. However, due to the two secret letters, Song Jichen and Yun Xuelan left the village one after another. At that time, Song Jichen was going to Nanliang, and the return date was undecided, so he was replaced from the team, but was led by the son of a half-brother of Yun Jinhe. Yun Jinhe had five brothers and sisters in his generation. The eldest daughter and Yun Jinhe were both born to his wife, but the eldest daughter died of illness when she was three years old. Yun Jinhe also has two younger brothers and a younger sister. The second brother is mainly in charge of the operation of Yunyin City and the industries in Yunyin City. The third brother served as a state minister in Luoshi City, where the capital of Yinxun Prefecture was located, and was a member of the court from the second grade. Yun Jinhe's little sister is a female general who does not let her eyebrows, but she is the guard of the Tiger Leaping Pass, and the official is up to the fourth grade. And the one who came in place of Song Jichen was Yun Xuexiao, the son of Yun Jinhe's second brother.

At that time, although Yun Xuelan returned to the villa as scheduled, he was seriously injured. After everyone's deliberation, they found one of the young children of the mountain village to replace him. Although Song Jichen can also come with the team, everything in the villa has not been decided, and it is naturally difficult for him to get out. Therefore, there are eighteen people participating in the Yunyin Mountain Villa this time, and six of them are the future mainstays of the Mountain Villa and Cloud Hidden City, and they need to be honed and cultivated through this trip. Among the remaining twelve people, six are people carefully cultivated by Wuyunwei, and six people can protect the core six people of the villa in the tomb, and they can also experience themselves. Among the other six, there are three each of Liuyunwei and Chasing Yunwei, and their purpose is no different from that of Wuyunwei.

Everyone set off two days before Yun Xuelan, and now they have camped outside Sanhuai Town, waiting for the opening of the tomb cave in three days. And Yun Xuelan is naturally unwilling to give up such a great opportunity, although he is already a real mud embryo, but anyway, after entering the cave, everyone is in the mud embryo realm, and naturally there is no disparity in cultivation, what he fights is to see who is more ruthless, who is more stable, and who has a harder life. Regardless of the first two points, just talking about the hard life, Yun Xuelan thinks that there are few people who can compare with him. And he naturally didn't want to reveal his identity when he came, so before leaving, Mr. Zhongli instructed him to come to Sanhuai Town to find Ma Yan. What Ma Yan is best at happens to be the ability to change people's shapes and bones, and the faces he makes are fake and real, and almost no one can distinguish the authenticity.

Half an hour later, the middle-aged man actually drove back with a mule cart. said that he bought too much wine and food, and it was useless to keep the money for himself anyway, so he simply asked the guy on the ninth floor to hire a car for him to pull it back.

The middle-aged man put the wine and food on the table one by one, the table was too small, and the man moved the bookcase that he usually reads and writes to piece together, and the height is almost the same. The man cleaned up the house again, took out a brand new pink dress and changed it into. Yun Xuelan heard Mr. Zhongli mention that this is Xia Yunwei's standard clothing. Yun Xuelan saw that the man was busy and didn't make a sound, nor did he come forward to help, just stood in the courtyard, quietly, and couldn't see any emotion. After the man was busy, he saw that Yun Xuelan's eyes had turned to the trolley used to get out of the stall, so he put a pink wooden box at the head of the bed and took out a white porcelain vase from it. He closed the wooden box again. When he came to the table, there were four jars of wine on the table, and the man pulled out the stopper of one of the jars, introduced the medicinal powder in the porcelain bottle into it, shook the wine jar again, and closed the stopper again. Then he smiled and said to Yun Xuelan outside the door: "Childe can eat." ”

Yun Xuelan walked into the room and sat down opposite the man. The man handed over a jar of wine and poured a bowl for Yun Xuelan. He opened another jar and poured himself a bowl. Then he smiled innocently, raised the wine bowl and said: "Childe, please allow the villain to support the big, respect the son, it is a villain's luck to be able to serve the son." Yun Xuelan raised the wine bowl, touched the man, and drank the wine in one fell swoop.

The young man wiped a handful of wine stains on his chin with his sleeve, picked up chopsticks, and said "Uncle Ma, please" On the table, a dog jumped over the wall, a rouge chicken, a Sixi red and white swallow silk, a delicate osmanthus fish, a tender marinated sweet tofu and a glutinous rice osmanthus pigeon egg. According to the man, they are all the signature dishes of Liuxian Building in Sanhuai Town, and it is the first time in his life that he eats them.

While eating vegetables, the two of them are homely, occasionally pushing cups and changing lamps. After three rounds of wine, Yun Xuelan filled the wine bowl, and suddenly stood up and said: "I salute Uncle Ma with a bowl of wine, and thank Uncle Ma for my plan this time." "Say it all and drink it all, and the men drink it together.

The young man's movements did not stop, and he poured another bowl and said, "Second bowl, thank you Uncle Ma for serving Xia Yunwei and my Yunyin Villa all these years." After speaking, he still drank it all. The man from it.

At this time, the wine jars of the two had bottomed out, and the man took off the corks of the remaining two jars of wine and handed one of them to the young man. After the young man took it, he didn't pour any more wine, but directly raised the jar and said to the man: "Finally, Uncle Xie Ma went out of the mountain for me." After saying that, he held the jar and poured it into his mouth, and when the man saw this, he hesitated, but finally did not stop it. Picked up his own jar and took a big sip.

Yun Xuelan drank half a jar of wine in one go, her cheeks were already crimson, and her eyes were a little confused. After he sat down, he supported his forehead with his left hand, and after a moment he lay motionless on the table.

About a moment later, the young man raised his head, and he was already in tears. He stood up with his hands on the table and staggered to the man opposite. The man's head rested on the table and fell into a deep sleep. Yun Xuelan bowed deeply to the man, turned around and walked out of the room.

Every member of Xia Yunwei, in addition to sending the information of his hiding place back to Mr. Zhongli of Yunyin Mountain Villa on a daily basis, can live like ordinary people. But they only have to do one thing for their masters and Xia Yunwei in their lives. When the people they ask for allegiance come to their hidden realm and find them, they need to complete the mission that requires allegiance, either to help the person who came hide their identity, or to help the person who came to escape from the place, or to help the person who came to solve a life-or-death crisis. The person who came to them could be the trustee of Xia Yunwei, or the person at the helm who told the street whisperers. And being found by the person who came to it is called "out of the mountain", which means that it no longer needs to hide its identity, but to complete the work entrusted by the person who came. In order to ensure the concealment of Xia Yunwei and the safety of those who come, after the mission is completed, the people of Xia Yunwei and the people who live with them must die. This is what Ma Yan said about Xia Yunwei's rules, and it is also the rules that Yun Xuelan said, the rules that he has always refused to agree with.

Outside Sanhuai Town, a lonely figure walked in the moon, and the moon sprinkled on his face, which was the face of a middle-aged man. The man was full of alcohol and tears on his face.