The valley is filled with mulberry trees and other fruit trees, and the woods are full of rich and pleasant fruity aromas, and the further you go inside, the sweeter aromas become more and more intense, as if you are in a hundred fruit orchards.

"It smells so good. Yun Luochen was a little intoxicated, "Senior sister, I believe what you said now, I really bought some extra baked cakes." ”

Luan Yeqiu walked quickly, Yun Luochen followed behind, and shouted: "Senior sister, what are you doing so fast, you have just entered the valley, and you are in a hurry to go back to see your little lover?"

Luan Yeqiu turned his head and glared at him, "What nonsense are you talking about? I have nothing to do with Senior Brother Jiang Yu, it is his own wishful thinking, I have clearly rejected him a long time ago." ”

Yun Luochen smiled: "I'm not talking about him, I'm talking about the son who saved the beauty at noon." ”

Luan Yeqiu's face turned red all of a sudden, but fortunately, she was walking in front, and there was night cover, and Yun Luochen couldn't see her face at all.

"Senior sister, why don't you speak?"

Luan Yeqiu didn't look back, "I don't want to pay attention to you." ”

"Senior sister, I know you don't like to hear this, but I still have to remind you," Yun Luochen chased after Luan Yeqiu and said solemnly, "I heard that person is the son of the Meng family, right? ”

Luan Yeqiu still didn't answer, she didn't really think about whether the other party was deliberately approaching her, but the other party did really save her life, and the most important thing is that when she thought of that perfect face, Luan Yeqiu heard her heart pounding: "He's really handsome!"

The fallen leaves under your feet are covered with a thick layer, and there is a "rustling" sound when you step on it, and a few nightingales can be heard in the distance, which is particularly clear and pleasant in this quiet night.

Luan Yeqiu picked up a branch and fiddled around in front of him, almost hitting Yun Luochen several times, Yun Luochen grabbed the branch a little irritably, "What are you doing?"

Luan Yeqiu said: "There are a lot of spider webs. ”

Yun Luochen pulled the branch and threw it away, "Can't you use your hands to pull it away?"

"Okay, okay. Luan Yeqiu pursed his lips and said angrily.

After that, every time she opened the cobwebs, she had to reach over Yun Luochen's clothes and wipe them clean.

Yun Luochen didn't mind, I don't know how long it took to walk, Luan Yeqiu lost his patience a little, and said in frustration: "If you go on like this, you can't see anything clearly, when will you find the clues, it would be good if you came during the day." ”

Yun Luochen said: "During the day, the Sannons go into the valley to work, if the Demon Sect really builds a magic circle in the valley, it will definitely make movements, and it is easy to be discovered, so they can only choose to work at night, only when they come at night, it will be easier for us to find clues." ”

Luan Yeqiu said: "But there is no abnormal movement now." ”

Yun Luochen said: "Maybe we haven't gone deep enough. ”

Luan Yeqiu said disapprerovingly: "It's also possible that we are going in the wrong direction." ”

Yun Luochen smiled and turned around, "You haven't wiped your hands on my clothes for a while." ”

Luan Yeqiu had a slightly embarrassed look on his face, but he still said stiffly: "What's wrong with wiping it, didn't your clothes be washed by my family together?" I don't like the feeling of spider webs sticking to my hands, sticky." ”

Yun Luochen asked, "Then why don't you continue to wipe it now?"

Luan Yeqiu said without thinking: "Because there are no cobwebs on your hands." ”

She suddenly understood something, and said in surprise: "It seems that we are going in the right direction, there are no cobwebs around here, which means that other people have been active here before!"

Yun Luochen smiled but did not speak.

"You already knew?" Luan Yeqiu couldn't help but praise: "You're very smart." ”

Yun Luochen said modestly: "It's not necessarily right, maybe it's because in the depths of the valley, there are more wild beasts." ”

Luan Yeqiu shook his head, "No, it must be a person." ”

"Oh?"

"In the place I passed just now, a lot of cobwebs accidentally got entangled around my head, but now there is none, if it is a beast, then it is at least as tall as my human, I have the impression that there is absolutely no such a large beast in Pingqiu Valley. ”

Yun Luochen looked at her with a strange smile, "There is indeed no beast bigger than you. ”

Luan Yeqiu's face darkened, and she was about to run away, when Yun Luochen suddenly made a silent gesture towards her, "Shhh

The scolding that had just been prepared was suddenly stillborn, and Luan Yeqiu's lungs were about to explode, but he couldn't attack yet, so he could only stare at Yun Luochen viciously. She tried her best to restrain her anger and listened carefully, and sure enough, she heard a "click" sound in the distance, although it was not loud, but it was still heard clearly in this quiet environment.

"Someone is cutting down trees. Luan Yeqiu said.

Yun Luochen nodded, "Go over and take a look." ”

The two of them walked slowly in the direction from which the sound came, and it didn't take long to find that many trees in front of them had been cut down, leaving only a large bare wooden stake, and at the same time, the sound of logging became clearer and clearer.

Yun Luochen and Luan Yeqiu took a few more steps closer, and they could already see a few figures wielding axes, at this time, Yun Luochen suddenly quickened his pace, and walked straight towards those people, not at all worried about being discovered.

Luan Yeqiu felt a little confused at first, and almost wanted to hold him, but after thinking about it, he gave up, and followed Yun Luochen over.

The lumberjacks quickly noticed the two uninvited guests.

"Who are you?" asked a lean young man.

"We are the people of the City Lord's Mansion. Yun Luochen said with a stern face: "As far as I know, the city lord has ordered the valley to be closed tomorrow, and those who are still in the valley today will be driven out, how did you get in?"

Everyone looked at each other blankly, and the young man replied, "We are outsiders, and no one has told us about it." ”

"Outlander?" Yun Luochen frowned, "How did you get here?"

The young man suddenly closed his mouth and said nothing.

"Don't you say?" Yun Luochen showed a fierce expression, "Then I may have to trouble you to go with me, violate the ban on sealing the valley, destroy the forest without permission, and hide the situation in the face of the government's interrogation, how many years do you think you will stay in prison?"

The young man's face changed, and he fell to his knees all of a sudden, "Sir, forgive me, we are all short-term workers who work hard in other places, this time someone paid us to work, we really don't know about the closure of the valley!"

Luan Yeqiu asked, "Haven't you met the locals who came in from outside the valley?"

The young man shook his head, "No, we usually work at night, and the foreman is not allowed to come out during the day, so I have never met anyone else." ”

Luan Yeqiu hurriedly asked, "Who is your foreman?"

The young man immediately looked embarrassed and stopped talking.

"Say!" Yun Luochen shouted, and even the fallen leaves around him were shaken and floated.

The young man was also shocked by this roar and fell to the ground, his face turned pale with fright, and he hurriedly kowtowed: "Yes, yes, sir, spare your life, I say, I say!"

"We don't know him, but judging by his clothes, he must be a rich man, and two months ago he came to us and told us to go to work in a place and give us thirty denins a day, twice as much as we had done before, and we decided to go with him. However, he told us not to tell anyone about him......"

Yun Luochen asked, "What will happen after you say it?"

The young man trembled and said, "He said that he has a lot of money, and he can buy us for work, and he can also buy our lives......"

Luan Yeqiu said: "Now that you have told us about him, just say a little more, this is not a big loss." ”

Yun Luochen was tired enough to pretend to be fierce and vicious, and after hearing this, he almost couldn't hold back his laughter, so he quickly turned his head and pretended to have an itchy face, and took the opportunity to rub his face to stabilize his expression.

"You haven't answered the question I asked you at the beginning," Yun Luochen stabilized his state, turned his face and forced him to look at him with a sinister look, "How did you get here?"

The young man plucked up his courage as if he had made up his mind and said, "We...... We came in from the outside, through a long tunnel. ”

Yun Luochen's brows tightened, he seemed to have thought of some clues, but he couldn't connect them for a while.

"Rich landlords...... The long tunnel ......" Yun Luochen unconsciously fell into deep thought, and muttered to himself.

Luan Yeqiu took out the money bag he was carrying, took out a handful of silver coins and handed it to the young man, and then said to the others in a gentle voice: "Your foreman is not a good person, as long as you tell everything you know, the government will not only not punish you for your crimes, but will also reward you and protect your safety, understand?"

Seeing that the young man had just been rewarded, the others immediately became enthusiastic, as if they had forgotten the foreman's threat at once, and all of them rushed to Luan Yeqiu to get a confession.

At this moment, Yun Luochen inadvertently glanced at Luan Yeqiu's money bag, and suddenly, a spiritual light flashed in his mind.

Late at night, Luanfu.

Lisheng, who had been asleep, was suddenly woken up by the maid outside the door.

Lisheng got up sleepily and opened the door, "Ying'er, what's wrong?"

The maid Ying'er said anxiously: "Miss Lisheng, it's not good, the Meng Gongzi that Miss brought back this afternoon, he, he ......"

Lisheng stroked her shoulder and said softly, "Don't worry, speak slowly." ”

Ying'er took a deep breath and continued: "Miss Lisheng, go and take a look, he's dying!"

"What?" Li Sheng was startled and immediately ran in the direction of Meng Yuan'an's room.

When I arrived at the door, I saw that the lights were on in the room, the two maids were guarding the bed, and Meng Yu'an was lying upright on the bed, her face was dead.

Li Sheng hurriedly came to the bedside, frowning, "What's the matter?"

Ying'er also followed, and replied: "We don't know what's going on, just now it was my turn to be on duty, and suddenly I heard a scream from the room, and then there was no sound, when I went in, Meng Gongzi was already like this, I probed his snort at the time, and found that he was out of breath......"

Li Sheng didn't know what to do, so he could only take out the jade pendant, slowly urging the vitality in his body, attracting the energy inside, and when the purple mist gushed out again, Li Sheng clearly felt that the patient's life breath was active again.

"Miss Lisheng, I'm really sorry to bother you so late...... Ying'er said apologetically on the side.

"It's okay, I told you to come to me as long as he has any abnormalities, let alone such a critical situation?" Li Sheng turned around and smiled comfortingly at a few maids, "He doesn't have to worry about his life for the time being, you all go out." ”

"Yes. Ying'er led the other two maids out and closed the door.

The moment the door closed, Li Sheng's expression gradually became solemn, "I have already cleared the poison once during the day, and it doesn't seem to be a sign of poison just now, what is going on?"

Suddenly, Meng Yuan, who was originally lying on the bed, sat up in shock, staring straight ahead with wide eyes.

At this time, there were only two people left in the room, Lisheng and Meng Yuan, and the scene in front of him startled Lisheng and almost screamed loudly.

But Meng Yu'an didn't make a move on her, his face kept changing, and his handsome facial features were violently distorted, as if he was fighting to the death with something.

After a long time, he finally calmed down, and muttered to himself with a confused expression: "Where is this ......?"

The corner of his eye seemed to catch a glimpse of Lisheng, who was standing on the side and didn't dare to come out, suddenly turned around with wide eyes, his face was full of shock, and suddenly turned into ecstasy, he rushed to Lisheng and shouted: "Sister, sister, you are actually here! You are still alive!"

Li Sheng felt inexplicable for a while, and she asked in surprise, "You call me sister?"

"Yes, you're my sister Lisheng, don't you remember?"

However, at this moment, his expression suddenly became hideous again, his face distorted in pain, and this time, Li Sheng could only see one expression on his face, and that was fear.

He yelled hysterically: "Sister, they are coming, you run! Run......"

The voice stopped abruptly, and without warning, he fell again.

Li Sheng hurriedly rushed over to check, and strangely, his expression was serene, his breath was steady, and it seemed that he had just had a nightmare, and he had fallen asleep at this moment.

Outside the door, the panicked cries of the maids sounded: "Miss Lisheng, are you okay inside?" Apparently they had heard the movement just now.

"It's fine. Li Sheng had already opened the door and walked out, she looked in a trance, as if she had something on her mind, "He's already fine, I'll go back to the room first, in case something happens again, you come to me again." ”