(a)

The nights are long, and for those who have trouble sleeping, the nights are not only long, but also slow, but for some, the nights are short and fast.

The night had passed, and the sun was still nowhere to be seen, but it was already dawn, and a few wisps of smoke rose from the distance, heralding the beginning of a new day.

Fluttershy is used to waking up early, and she gets up early every morning, boils hot water, and waits for Tianxiang to get up and serve Tianxiang to wash and put on makeup. Although she was already very tired last night, she still woke up.

She was sold to Tianxiang Pavilion at the age of fourteen to serve the Tianxiang family. Tianxiang everyone treats her very well, and her food and clothing are better than those of other servants. Fluttershy uses a box of Rouge and often gets some jewelry from Tenka, which is not new to the year, but is made of real money.

She is very grateful to Tianxiang everyone, she comes from a poor family, her mother died early, her father is just a woodcutter, she has been wearing shabby clothes since she was a child, she is the daughter of the neighbor Aunt Li wears, she can't eat enough, she can only eat a little meat after the New Year, she still remembers the taste of pork and cabbage stuffed dumplings when she was a child during the New Year, although there is not much meat, it was also very delicious at that time.

Since his father bought Tianxiang Pavilion and began to serve Tianxiang everyone, she finally knew that the original clothes could be so good-looking, so comfortable to wear, and also knew that the original delicious dumplings were not only dumplings filled with pork and cabbage, but also pastries made of glutinous rice, and white lotus fish from Tianma Lake.

Maybe she was hungry when she was a child, but now she eats two bowls each time three times a day, and often steals some pastries and fruits from her sisters in the pavilion. The sisters in the pavilion have very little food, and they don't dare to eat more, in order to maintain a simple figure, and if they eat a little more, they will get fat, and they are afraid that the guests will not order themselves after they are fat. However, Fluttershy is different, although she eats a lot every day, she is not fat, and the meat grows where it should be, and she is already very full at the age of sixteen, which is much more attractive than Huan'er, who came to Tianxiang Pavilion in the same year as him, and some sisters often make fun of her, saying that she is a little cow and attracts men. Every time she heard these words, she blushed.

Now she finally knows what her sisters said, she does attract men, and last night Wentian was very fond of her body and indulged in it.

As soon as she thought of last night, her face warmed up, Wen Tian was from Kanto, tall, and he was very strong. He lingered with her twice last night, and she finally knew what happiness was, and that kind of happiness was even more comfortable than eating Linglongzhai's glutinous rice cakes.

Thinking of this, she unconsciously clamped her legs exposed to the quilt a little and put them into the quilt. She looked at Wen Tian next to her, the skin on his face was very rough, there was some stubble on his chin, and there was a slender scar on the back of his cheek to the back of his neck, which was not handsome, but also a little heroic.

She put her head on Wen Tian's chest, and gently stroked Wen Tian's chest with her right hand, feeling an unprecedented sense of security.

It's actually quite happy to be with him, and she suddenly has the idea of following Wentian for the rest of her life, at least she won't have to pick up customers in the future, and she won't have to be sick like some of her sisters, and she will be kicked out of Tianxiang Pavilion and live on the streets. Fluttershy thinks to herself, and she decides to please him, using her body to please him, and let him take her away.

She began to caress her face, slowly increasing her strength, she wanted to wake up Wen Tian, linger with him, let Wen Tian know how good she was, and take her away. But no matter how much she touched Wentian, Wentian still closed her eyes, she gradually shook Wentian harder, still no response, she put her hand under Wentian's nose, didn't breathe, suddenly realized something, Fluttershy screamed, fell from the bed to the ground.

The helpers in the Celestial Pavilion have already started cleaning up the yard and hear the screams and run to Fluttershy's room. When they kick the door open, Fluttershy curls up in the corner of the bed with tears in her eyes.

"He... He's dead," Fluttershy says, trembling.

The helpers went to shake Wentian, no matter how he shook it, Wentian didn't have any reaction, and then checked his pulse and breathing, but there was nothing, Wentian was indeed dead.

With more people, Fluttershy is less scared and knows that she doesn't have any clothes now, so she goes to the table and starts putting on the clothes on the table. But when she put on all the clothes, she found that there was a neatly folded dress on the table, it was not hers, nor Wentian, the clothes were red, she unconsciously touched it, it was a fine satin material, she opened the clothes, and found that there were three names written on the clothes - Wentian.

(b)

Cold nights, moonlit nights, three watch days.

Silent night, lonely night, silent place.

Dongxue has already put Yanzhou City into her arms, just like a mother hugging her child into her arms, wanting to make the originally noisy Yanzhou quieter. At this time, Yanzhou City was also as satisfied as a child getting nourishment from his mother's arms, no longer noisy, and completely quiet.

The man surnamed Xu also quieted down, lying on the "bed" set up by two tables side by side, the "bed" was hard, and the bed without a quilt was even colder.

But now, even if he was given a soft bed, a soft bed with a mink mattress, a soft bed with a mink mattress with a twenty-eight girl, he would never get into it.

Tianxiang Pavilion is used to place items in the warehouse, and there is wine in the items in the warehouse, and the bed where the man surnamed Xu sleeps is in this warehouse. If possible, he really wants to sleep on this "bed" all the time, and if there is a cellar in Luzhou for eight years, he would like to live here forever.

Luzhou Daqu has been inherited for a hundred years, famous for its strong fragrance and intensity, and the Luzhou region that has been stored for eight years is even stronger, and his lips and teeth are fragrant, and he was a little drunk when he drank the first sip, just like the feeling when he drank for the first time, and found the most important thing in his life.

He was a little intoxicated, but still conscious.

He thought of the girl who smiled and had eyes like the moon, and the first wine he drank was given to him by the girl, and a jar of muddy fruit wine she brewed herself, not fragrant, not strong, not pure, and a little bitter in his mouth, and he drank a whole jar in less than a stick of incense, which made him sleep for a whole day.

The feeling of forgetting all his worries fascinated him, and he fell in love with drinking, and he fell in love with that feeling even more. As he drank more and more wine, so did he get drunk, and a whole jar of fruit wine could no longer make him drunk, so he began to look for wine to drink, and where there was good wine and strong wine, he went to drink.

In fact, she can't be considered a girl anymore, she is nearly ten years older than him, an old girl in her 30s, he doesn't know how old she is, but he knows that the corners of her eyes seem to have fine lines, not beautiful, but her delicate face is not as smooth as a few years ago, but she is still the most beautiful person in the world in his eyes, just like he is the best man in the world in her eyes.

She likes to wear red clothes very much, from tops to skirts, from socks to shoes, and she likes the style of clothes worn by little girls even more, with red headbands and buns like little girls.

She was very fond of silver jewelry, and wore all the jewelry he owned every day, sometimes to bed. Eight silver bracelets on the left and right hands, she said that one bracelet represents their ten years of good luck, two longevity locks hanging around their waists, she said longevity locks can make them live a long life, and two three-inch-long silver earrings on their ears, which are given to her by her sister and say three is an auspicious number that can bring good luck.

She likes to walk with her feet on her feet, and her arms should swing wider, so that the bracelet on her hand will make a crisp sound, so that when he can't find her, he can hear the sound of the bracelet clashing to find her.

She also loves to make up like ordinary women, and her hair is messy and she has to tidy it up as soon as she has it, and she has to keep rouge on her body.

She loves cleanliness and has two handkerchiefs with her, one for herself and one for him.

She loves to laugh, and she can't help but laugh when she looks at him.

She hopes that in his eyes, she is clean and beautiful at all times, and she is the appearance he likes.

She behaves like a girl who has not yet been married, she is indeed not married, a girl of her age should have children, but he refuses to get married, so she waits for him.

She has been with him since she was a child, she has no friends, she only has him in her eyes, he is the only one in the whole world in her heart, and there is no room for anyone else in her eyes except him, just like her heart.

She has been with him since he was a baby, and began to take care of him, accompany him to grow up, cook for him, bathe him, make toys for him, play with him in the bamboo forest, practice martial arts with him, and watch the sun rise in the east and set in the west.

He was her brother at the time, and she took it for granted.

Gradually, she became a child, although she was in her 30s. She began to be coquettish with him, angry with him, and her sister told her that a woman would only be coquettish and angry with his man, and that men would always like him, and that the one who could tolerate her inexplicable little temper was a qualified husband.

When she grew up, she still cooked for her, washed his dishes, and kept him company.

At this time, he was her man, and she thought it was even more natural to accompany him to do these things.

She regarded him as her man, and even if the two were not married, he was still her man, and he should be her man alone.

But he didn't say goodbye, and it's been two years.

Two years ago he wanted to leave her, reluctantly, but he knew that he should leave, so he left, and he complained every day why she didn't come to him, if she wanted to, no matter where he was, no matter what he became, she would definitely find it, because they were not only in each other's eyes, but also in each other's hearts.

After he left, he thought about her every day, except for drinking and drinking and not waking up to the world, he was thinking about her. In his opinion, she should not come to her, and he couldn't help but hope that she would come to her.

A few tears were left in his closed eyes at this time, dripping down his cheeks onto the table.

The tears were hot, but as those few tears fell, the room became colder.

Although he was in tears, his face was still smiling, she said that no matter what happened, he would face it with a smile, and when his father died and his mother disappeared, he also laughed and shed tears.

He picked up the gourd in his hand and took a big sip of wine, now he hoped that this Luzhou Daqu would be stronger and stronger, so that he could fall asleep immediately, so that he would not think of her, nor would he think of those sad things.

He had drunk enough, he couldn't hold a drop of wine in his stomach anymore, and he was still sober, still thinking about her, thinking about her appearance, thinking about her cute appearance when she was coquettish.

He was also thinking about how much he missed and how painful she was without him by his side.

He drank a few more sips of wine, and finally his stomach couldn't bear it, and he threw it out, and it was very uncomfortable to vomit out of his stomach, but he enjoyed the pain very much, so that it could weaken a little bit of longing, a little bit of pain in his heart.

Finally, the power of the liquor overwhelmed him, and he gradually fell asleep.

He dreamed, dreamed of her, dreamed of those days when the two of them were together.

(c)

Maybe it was because he drank too much wine and didn't eat much, and his stomach was very hungry, and after only two hours of sleep, the man surnamed Xu woke up. After waking up, his hunger grew stronger and his head hurt, so he went out of the storeroom to find something to eat.

But as soon as he walked out of the storeroom, he saw a figure flashing from the top of the small building not far ahead, due to the heavy snow just yesterday, the roof of the attic was clearly imprinted with a few footprints, the footprints were very small, the same size as the horse's hooves, the front was deep and the front was in front, and the width was roughly the same as the horse's hooves, it was really hard to imagine that this was an adult's footprints.

"This Tianxiang Pavilion seems to be a place of right and wrong", the man surnamed Xu said in his heart.

The kitchen of Tianxiang Pavilion is in the backyard, opposite the warehouse, is a not too small room, the house is relatively simple, although it is a blue brick house, but the wooden windows have been exposed to the wind and sun for many years, has been cracked, and the same is true of the wooden door.

The man surnamed Xu gently pushed open the wooden door, and the wooden door made a "squeak" sound, which was particularly abrupt in the quiet night. The man surnamed Xu entered the kitchen and found a person sitting on a "bed", which was the same as the one he slept in tonight, which was also made from two tables, but the difference was that this "bed" had a quilt and a mattress. "Are you the cook here?" asked the man surnamed Xu.

The person sitting on the bed was woken up by the sound of the door opening, and was rubbing his eyes with his hands, his hands were very fat, and his face was full of meat, and he was generally not in a good mood when he was woken up when he fell asleep, but this person did not, "Yes" He was still laughing while talking, and the flesh on his face was piled together, looking very honest. The man surnamed Xu was also polite, sat on the "bed", and asked, "What's your name?"

"My name is Xiao Hei", and laughed again.

"I'm not asking for your nickname, I'm asking for your name. ”

Xiao Hei was stunned for a moment, rolled his eyes, and said, "My name is Sun Yong, hehehe, what's your name."

The man surnamed Xu was a little surprised, this person spoke and acted like a child, and he would laugh every time he said a word, although the smile was very abrupt, but it unexpectedly made people feel very comfortable. "My name is Xu Xiao, I like to laugh hahaha, you can call me Xiaoha. After saying that, he laughed twice.

It has been two years since Xu Xiao came out of the bamboo forest, two years in the rivers and lakes, he has been deceived, he has also seen others deceived, and he has seen the dirtiness in the hearts of countless people, today he finally saw a person with a clean heart, a person who loves to laugh, and a person who laughs very cutely, and unconsciously wants to get close.

"Goo-" sounded, Xu Xiao's stomach screamed, his stomach was really hungry, Xu Xiao's hahaha smile turned into a wry smile, "Xiao Hei, do you have anything to eat here? I didn't eat last night, and now I'm too hungry." Xu Xiao asked.

"Well, there is food, but I can't move around, Mother Liu will beat me with a small stick when she finds out, and the beating is so painful. Blackie frowned as he spoke, trying to show that it was in pain. "Well, it seems that Xiao Ha can only go hungry today."

"Xiao Ha is fine, you wait for me. With that, he jumped off the "bed" with a twist, walked to the cabinet behind the "bed" and began to turn up.

Xu Xiao looked at Xiao Hei's back, looking a little surprised, Xiao Hei's body was relatively fat, but there was no sound when he jumped off the "bed" just now, obviously he had profound light skills.

After a while, Xiao Hei took a small cloth bag and put it on the "bed", slowly opened it, there were seven or eight sweet potatoes inside, Xiao Hei picked up two sweet potatoes, and said to Xu Xiao: "This is given to me by my mother, I secretly hid it, and I will eat it for you today." After speaking, he squatted down, put the two sweet potatoes into the charcoal basin, took the burning stick on the side and began to fiddle with it, and said while fiddling, "I love sweet potatoes the most, I will bring some sweet potatoes when I go home to see my mother every month, I hide them and roast them myself at night, I have never eaten them for others, and today I made an exception to roast two for you." After speaking, he laughed out loud again.

Xu Xiao also squatted down, stretched out his hand to the charcoal basin to keep warm, and said to this Xiao Hei: "Xiao Hei, how old are you." ”

"I am thirty-one years old Chinese New Year's Eve."

"Then I should call you Brother Xiaohei, you are a few years older than me. Xu Xiao said. "Brother Xiaohei, this is the first time someone has called me brother, hehe." Xiao Heixiao's face trembled, and it seemed that he was very happy to be called "brother" by others.

The charcoal in the charcoal pot is not vigorous, and it takes a while to cook.

Xu Xiao chatted with Xiao Hei while eating, "Brother Xiao Hei, you are the cook here, the cooking must be delicious." He was very close to Xiao Hei, and he unconsciously wanted to chat with Xiao Hei.

"Hehe, of course I'm good at cooking, even Liu's mother, who always beats me, praises me for being a good cook, my mother taught me to cook, my mother can cook everything, I opened a small restaurant in our village, and I learned it for a while. Xiao Hei scratched the back of his head with his hand, and his boasting of himself obviously made him a little embarrassed. "Then why don't you help your mother in your restaurant, and come to this place. Xu Xiao asked. "Alas", Xiao Hei sighed and said: " It's not that I don't want to, when I was a child, no one wanted to play with me, saying that I was a fool, and sometimes beat me, my mother taught me a set of bouncing kung fu, they couldn't beat me, when I grew up, the people in the village still called me stupid, said that I had no ability, said that after I left my mother, I was a waste, and my mother knew, my mother always cried secretly behind my back, I didn't want my mother to continue to cry, and I didn't want to be said to be a waste anymore, so I came to the city and started to work as a cook here, and now I get more money a month than the village head Li blacksmith earns, every time I give money to my mother, my mother laughs happily, hehe。 As he spoke, Hei laughed again.

"Your mother is so good, I really envy you. A figure appeared in Xu Xiao's mind, and the figure was very vague, only remembering that there was a small red butterfly in his hand holding him.

"Of course, my mother is good, she is the best person in the world, I will be able to rest for two days in a few days, I will take you to see my mother, let you taste the dishes made by my mother, my home is in Sunjia Village outside the south city, and it will be an hour's walk. ”

"I will definitely go to your house with you and try your mother's cooking. ”

The more the two chatted, the happier they became, from childhood to now, from eating to playing, before they knew it, the sky was already slightly bright.

(iv)

Xu Xiao and Hei also hear Fluttershy's scream, but they don't pay attention to it, and are still chatting in the kitchen. But after a while, the footsteps in the yard and the noisy sound became more and more, so the two stopped talking and walked out of the kitchen.

The room on the first floor of the small building is Fluttershy's room, which contains seven or eight courtyards in the Tianxiang Pavilion, and Xu Xiao and Xiao Hei also enter the room to see what is going on.

Wen Tian was lying on the bed, the quilt on his body had been lifted, and a gray-haired old man was examining his body, showing that he had taken out a silver needle and measured it, and gently pressed it with his hand at the beginning of Wen Tian's main organ.

After a while, Lang Zhong shook his head and said to the head of the Tianxiang Pavilion Nursing Hospital: "I have practiced medicine for many years, and I have never seen such a bizarre way of death, there are no scars on my body, and the silver needle cannot detect any toxins in the blood, it is really bizarre, if you want to find out the cause of death, I am afraid that you can only wait for the official government to dissect the corpse." ”

The head of the nursing home nodded and said, "Thank you Lao Langzhong, I will go to the people of the Qingguan Mansion now." ”

Fluttershy sits on a round stool at the table, holding the red dress in her hand, her eyes glazed over.

The head of the nursery walks up to Fluttershy and asks, "Fluttershy, do you know how Wentian died, Wentian was so different when you were together last night?" ”

Fluttershy looks up, her eyes frightened, and hands the red garment to the head of the nursery, trembling, "This is not mine." ”

When the head of the nursery hears Fluttershy's words, he wonders what it has to do with whose clothes it is. Suddenly I was shocked, and hurriedly took the clothes and opened them, the clothes were all red, including the collar, the style at the collar was a little weird, and there were two big characters written in ink in the middle of the clothes - Wentian.

"Blood ... Bloody Building", his voice suddenly became very strange, as if he had encountered a ghost.

Everyone was also shocked when they heard it, only Xiao Hei didn't know why.

The red clothes are the bloody clothes, which represents the bloody clothes building, and also represents death, and the name on the bloody clothes is the person who is about to die. Every time the bloody clothes are killed, a red coat is given, or before, or after, the name of the person who was killed will be written on the red clothes, and the person whose name is written on the bloody clothes will inevitably die within three days, and no one will doubt this matter.

There are not many people killed in the Bloody Clothes Building, but the people killed are all powerful and famous heroes, no matter who blocks the way of the Bloody Clothes Building, they are bound to die.

Last year, the rudder of the Bloody Clothes Building in Mingzhou was found out by the Imperial Court Zhao Wangye, and he was wiped out in one fell swoop, killing all the gangs of the Bloody Clothes Building in Mingzhou.

Zhao Wang Ye received a bloody clothes, after Zhao Wang Ye received the blood clothes, he invited Shaolin's empty moon master to protect himself, the empty moon master is the second generation of Shaolin disciples, famous for his Dharma stick method in the rivers and lakes, there are few opponents, invited the imperial doctor Sun Daoren of the previous dynasty to check his daily food, Sun Daoren is known as the name of the dead, flesh and bones, the Ming Wu Emperor of the previous dynasty has been terminally ill, there is a prescription of Sun Daoren to let the Ming Wu Emperor have ten more years of life, whether it is disease or poison can not escape the eyes of Sun Daoren. Zhao Wangye himself is also a lay disciple of Shaolin, and his internal and external kung fu can also be regarded as first-class masters in the rivers and lakes.

On the third day after receiving the bloody clothes, Zhao Wangye was still dead, and when he was discussing the Tao with Master Kongyue and Sun Daoren, he died of poison and died in front of Sun Daoren, and Sun Daoren did not see how Zhao Wangye was poisoned, and what kind of capital was in it, so Sun Daoren also retired to the apricot forest and did not ask about the world.

Since then, the bloody clothes building is really famous in the world, and the practice of the bloody clothes appearing, someone must die, has become a major fact in the rivers and lakes, even the noble Zhao Wangye can be killed, and no one doubts the means of killing people in the bloody clothes building.

Although the imperial court also sent a large number of people to thoroughly investigate the Bloody Clothes Building, they still had no clue, and more than a dozen spies were inexplicably damaged, and the matter was no longer investigated.

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The news of the bloody clothes received in the Tianxiang Pavilion spread throughout Yanzhou City in less than an hour, and Wen Tian's death also became a topic of conversation after tea and dinner in Yanzhou City.

In the past, the Tianxian Pavilion during the day was not as lively as the night version, only some handymen did some cleaning work, and they were a little angry, but at this time, the Tianxiang Pavilion was closed, and the shops next to the Tianxiang Pavilion were also closed for fear of being affected. The girl in the building. Yahuan let Liu's mother take it away, went to other green buildings, and the nursing home put Wen Tian's body in the utility room and left, the owner of Tianxiang Pavilion did not come forward to stop it, and there were only a few people left in Tianxiang Pavilion, which was once a city.

Since it is a case made by the Bloody Clothes Building, it belongs to the affairs of the rivers and lakes, and the government is inconvenient to deal with it, even if it wants to deal with it, there is nothing to do, after all, no one knows where the Bloody Clothes Building is, who is the person from the Bloody Clothes Building, and they don't know who to arrest if they want to, and even the corpse is too lazy to take it back to the house for inspection and left.

Xiao Hei and Xu Xiao have returned to the kitchen. Xu Xiao's expression was a little complicated, and the corners of his smiling mouth were frowning.

In Xu Xiao's memory, he remembered a vague figure wearing a red dress, and the red dress received in Fluttershy's room today, the style of the collar, and the shade of the red dyed cloth were the same as the red clothes he remembered, but he couldn't remember who was wearing the red clothes. He closed his eyes, trying to remember the man's appearance, but the man's face was still blurry.

"Xiao Ha, are you uncomfortable?" Xiao Hei asked when he saw Xu Xiao's expression.

"No, I'm just thinking about something", Xu Xiao shook his senses and said, "The people in Tianxiang Pavilion are gone, why don't you leave?"

"Everyone here is gone, aren't there still people, I'm a cook, as long as there are people I can't leave, I have to cook for them. ”

"Aren't you afraid of the Bloody Clothes Building, the person we saw today died in the hands of the Bloody Clothes Building, everyone is afraid of the Bloody Clothes Building, they are all gone, and now there is no Mother Liu to control you, you can also go." ”

"My mother said, don't sit on bad things, don't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door, and I haven't done anything bad, I'm not afraid. Xiao Hei said, and laughed twice, "Oh yes, it's already noon, I'm going to cook, I'll make a little more in a while, so you can taste my craft." With that, he began to prepare lunch.

Don't sit on bad things, don't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door, but how many people in the world can do it without doing bad things at all, I'm afraid only a simple and kind person like Xiao Hei can do it.