On August 18, she had been away from home for three days, and in these three days, Lu Youling's anxiety from the beginning finally became silent, and at night she dared to fall asleep without the company of her parents, but after all, she was just a mortal in the flesh, and she couldn't keep going to sleep, lying on the bed tossing and turning a few times, Guo Qingquan began to scold: Sleep and toss blindly, close your eyes quickly!

Lu Youling stuck out his tongue, he was so frightened that he didn't turn over anymore, he held his mother's washed clothes in his arms, and there was still a familiar smell on the clothes, so he was no longer afraid of the unfamiliar environment, and his heart was actually peaceful, and the daunting dream really didn't bother him anymore.

After two consecutive days of clear dreams, Lu Youling herself also felt incredible, could it be that with her departure, the nightmare of asking for her life also stayed in Yundu City.

Guo Qingquan saw that he no longer recognized his life, and began to call him during the day: "Go, cut the wheat stalks in the field." ”

Lu Youling had never done farming, so he knew how to harvest wheat stalks, so he raised the sickle in his hand and walked towards the field, only to fall halfway through.

Guo Qingquan didn't catch up angrily, and the melon seeds in his little head collapsed.

"Stupid boy, you won't be able to cut a wheat stalk, look at the mud you fell, I think it's your robe that caused the trouble, let Uncle Guo change it for you. With that, he tore the hem of Lu Youling's robe in half and tied it on his two thin legs.

Lu Youling touched her head and said with tears in her eyes: "This is what my mother sewed for me, why did you tear it for me." ”

"Since you live here, you have to do farm work, and you can't eat and drink for nothing for the rest of your life. ”

"Who said I was going to stay here for the rest of my life, my father and mother said they would come to pick me up. ”

"Your father, I'm afraid I won't come to pick you up. ”

"Nonsense, I'll go to them now. ”

"You come back for me!" Guo Qingquan saw that Lu Youling was about to run, so he hurriedly chased after him, and brought him back after a few steps, "You listen to me, from now on, you are not allowed to say that your name is Lu Youling, let alone mention your father, otherwise your little legs will be discounted! Also, from now on, you will be surnamed Guo with me." ”

"Why do you have a surname, my father and mother only have a child like me, and you don't have a son yourself. Lu Youling narrowed her eyes, not afraid of Guo Qingquan at all, Guo Qingquan stretched out his withered hand and was ready to greet him on the face, but after thinking about it, he was just a child, why bother with him, so he slowly lowered his arm.

"I want to go back to Yundu, I don't want to stay here!" Lu Youling still didn't give up.

"Okay, it's okay to send you back to Yundu, but you have to do a few things before you can let you go. ”

Guo Qingquan didn't have the patience to talk to the kid in front of him anymore, he decided to change his path, anyway, he was just a child, even coaxing and deceiving could at least make this little ghost honest for a few days, if he really started to beat him, he would be a little bit unable to do it, in the end it was his benefactor's child.

"Say something. ”

Lu Youling approached with a longing expression, Guo Qingquan smiled and pointed to the wheat field in front of him, the dry land showed jagged cracks, leaving only half-foot-tall withered yellow wheat stalks crisscrossing the field.

"Can I go back to Yundu after cutting the wheat stalks?"

"It's just one of the things, and I have other orders after the cut. ”

"Uncle Guo, then you can see. ”

Lu Youling took the trouble to pick up the warehouse pipe and walked towards the field, the bloody yellow soil spread along his shoes to the calves, and the flesh on the legs began to itch faintly, Lu Youling felt that it was extremely inconvenient to do things in the field with shoes, so he stepped aside and took off his shoes, and stepped into the field barefoot.

The sickle waved up and down, and Guo Qingquan did not forget to instruct: "Be careful to cut your hands, you stupid boy." As the saying goes, dragons give birth to dragons and phoenixes give birth to phoenixes, this child grows up in the captain's house and does not worry about food and clothing on weekdays, but he still has to go to the field to farm when he grows up in the farmhouse, and it depends on whether he has the patience.

At ten o'clock in the afternoon, Lu Youling fell to the ground with her hands full of mud, she couldn't tell whether it was mud or sweat stains on her robe, and her hem and trouser legs were cut by sharp wheat stalks, revealing scratches inside. However, a pair of clear and bright eyes did not close their eyes much from beginning to end, lying on the ground and squinting at Guo Qingquan who was smiling on the side.

"Uncle Guo, I've finished what you told me, let's say, what's next?"

"What's the hurry, look at your current appearance, where do you still have the strength to help me do things, go to the well in the backyard to carry water, clean yourself up first, and come over to eat when you clean up." ”

"Eat...... Eat?"

As soon as Lu Youling heard about eating, her stomach began to turn over, if the problem of falling asleep was over, then the problem of eating was quite tricky. Although Lu Youling did not grow up in a wealthy family, his father also served as a lieutenant, and he was given a perennial gift by Situ Hongyuan, the general of Pingxi. Now when I arrived at Guo Qingquan's house, I didn't treat myself as a guest at all, what Guo Qingquan eats every day, Lu Youling can only eat with it, the huge enamel bowl is full of vegetable leaves, there is no oil at all, people have no appetite at all, and they can only taste a fishy smell in their mouths, and they are often bloated and indigestible in the stomach.

"Uncle Guo, I'm probably not very hungry, or I'll sleep for a while after taking a bath, I'm tired today. ”

"Go, go, it's really strange, today I saw that you worked so hard and deliberately took out a bird's nest for you to cook egg soup to drink, since you are not feeling well, I will drink the soup by myself." ”

"Egg soup?"

Lu Youling's eyes lit up, this was the first time in three days to see meat, Lu Youling remembered that when he was a child, Mrs. Lu gave him a puppet, he liked it very much, but then he inadvertently lost it, for this puppet he was even heartbroken and willing to go on a hunger strike for several days, now I think about myself really a little stupid, what can be more important than eating?

Lu Youling rushed to the backyard, and put down the words behind him: "Uncle Guo, I don't feel tired all of a sudden, you wait for me, I'll come over as soon as I'm cleaned!"

"This kid!"

Guo Qingquan shook his head while laughing, and returned to his bedroom, the thatch on the roof had fallen into disrepair, and the straw on it had become thin and sparse in some places, the dazzling sunlight sprinkled in the house, and the fine dust had nowhere to hide and float in the air, and finally fell on the spiritual seat on the desk, Guo Qingquan spread out his cuffs and gently brushed away the contaminated dust.

"The child is his mother, this child is the incarnation of Ruolin, I will treat him well......"

In Yundu City, the dense sky began to fall sparsely with raindrops after a few thunders, and the branches and leaves in Anlin were wet with rain, and the low leaves were connected to each other, taking away the last bit of light in the already gloomy weather.

Four people in brocade satin robes stood in a circle, they wore the same scarf on their heads, the brim of the hat was pressed very low, so that the facial features could not be seen very clearly, and they could only feel the aura of murder surrounded by the four people, blocking from the outside, and the raindrops falling but not touching their bodies.

In the circle lay a man, a dead man, to be exact. He was dressed in a plain bowl brocade robe, wearing a gilded crown on his head, but the hair inside had long been scattered, and there were dozens of knife wounds on his neck and limbs, of different depths, blood stains were splashed everywhere, and fine blood stains were all over his body. The placket reveals a blush from the inside out, revealing a large neckline.

The leader turned his hands behind his back, his face was as pale as iron, his eyes stared at the sword marks of different shades on the trunks of the surrounding trees and asked, "How long have you been dead?" A person holding a folding fan replied with a caress on the fan, this person's face was like a jade plate hanging in the middle of the night, his face was clean, and his hat and scarf could not hide the elegance revealed.

"I'm afraid that in three hours, my body has become stiff, but my limbs can still bend. ”

"The fatal wound is in the chest, right?"

"Well, the cuts are neat, and there's clumps of frozen blood, maybe an ice blade or something. ”

"Are the other wounds also lacerations from the Ice Blade?"

"Not quite like it, especially the fracture of the humerus in the left hand, which could have been caused by a sledgehammer blow. ”

"Wanzhong, you are a master of using a hammer, you might as well come and have a look. ”

The man known as 'Wan Chong' lay on the ground, his tall and large man, his arms were powerful, and he turned the body over with only one hand.

"That's right, it's caused by a hammer-shaped weapon, but this strength is not pure, otherwise the third brother's arm wouldn't be as simple as a bone crack. ”

A woman spoke from behind her, and she heard a voice, sounding like a warbler's voice.

"Third brother won't be killed by you, right?" Although the woman's words were sharp, she was silent.

"Sister Pei, you see you're making fun of me again, I'm just curious about how this kind of cultivator killed the third brother. ”

"I think the third brother has been obsessed with accumulating money recently, and I'm afraid that his cultivation has long been much worse than before. ”

"Pei Mei, the third brother's cultivation has reached the realm of 'no vain', in this Yundu City, except for the King's Mansion and Jiali Temple, I am afraid that few people can kill him. ”

"Then how he died, you can tell me and listen. ”

"I ...... I guess it was done by a man with a hammer in one hand and a blade in one hand. ”

"Hehe, it's true to say that you are a piece of wood. ”

"Pei Mei, could it be that what I said is not right?"

"You refine the qi and transform the shape, conjure a hammer and ice blade for me to see, hehehe......"

At this time, the person holding the fan stepped forward and interrupted: "Chong Wanzhong, He Pei, don't mess around anymore, the third brother is dead, you are still laughing so happily! I have carefully examined his body just now, and these wounds on his body should be injuries caused by different weapons, it can be seen that the third brother was besieged by many people, and the cultivation of these people should be in the 'Void Valley' realm, as for the last fatal knife wound, it is likely to be a master of the 'Wugu' realm." ”

"A master of the 'Wufu' realm, and he is good at using ice blades to transform into gas, big brother, do you know who it is?"

The one who is called the big brother is the one who stood up with his hands in the past.

"To be able to gather many 'Void Valley' masters, and dare to go toe-to-toe with our Jiali Temple, this person should have great money and power, and he must have been appointed by the monarch. ”

"Big brother, your analysis is reasonable, on the day of the sacrifice ceremony, the deacon was not there, I observed that the monarch's displeasure had already secretly started to kill, but the situation at that time was not caused by him, and he must ask questions about our Jiali Temple afterwards, but it was really unexpected to send a master to secretly ambush the third brother in Anlin, with his identity, he could summon the third brother into the palace to try to kill, and it was ....... ”

"And what...... You go on. ”

"And the third brother is greedy and wealthy, and he has always been a person who sees the wind and rudder, and if the monarch really wants to take the Jiali Temple, he should also send someone to kill the eldest brother first. ”

"In any case, we must be careful in the future, and do not leave the temple when we are fine, and the forty-three new children who have recently entered the temple must be dedicated* and must be put to our advantage. As for the cause of the third brother's death, I will try to investigate it slowly. ”

"Yes, big brother. ”

The leader slowly bent down, removed the flame mark from the cuff of the corpse, and held it in the palm of his hand......