The snow covered the whole mountain village, and a flag fluttered in the wind and snow.

It's a magnificent mountain village, but it looks so pale and desolate in this winter, and this flag seems to represent everything in the mountain village, and everything in the mountain village is like this flag, fluttering in the wind and snow.

The villa is like being in a forgotten corner of the world, so quiet, as quiet as death. You rarely see people in and out of the lodge, and if you stand here for a day, you won't see anyone, and you even wonder if there are any people in the lodge? Are they all dead?

Ling Quanfei and Wei Sizhang were still walking in front, followed by Qi Ying'er and Sun Qiao'er.

Qi Ying'er had already put the sword into the scabbard, and her right hand was still holding the sword tightly, the pitch-black hilt, the pale scabbard.

Sun Qiao'er gently held Qi Ying'er's hand, her face was full of peace and happiness, for her, as long as she held these hands, she could feel safe, she was not the kind of woman who was born insecure, but since she saw Qi Ying'er, she really felt a sense of finding a home.

Qi Ying'er held her hand as if she was holding her own life.

The four of them had been walking for a quarter of an hour or so, and they were now standing under that flag. Qi Ying'er raised her head and showed a strange expression, no one could explain what kind of expression it was, and no one noticed his expression. Because under this flag, all people will have a feeling of desolation, a feeling that is colder than winter snow, a feeling of death.

In front of this flag is the gate of Jingyun Villa, which cannot be regarded as a gate at all, because there is no wall, only two pillars, the top of the pillar is pressed with snow, and a column of words is written on the two pillars - the sky is vast and the road is far away, and the good people and the evil will eventually return to the earth.

These two columns are like the flag, overwhelming. "Good people and evil people will eventually return to the earth?"

Qi Ying'er said: "This is Jingyun Villa?"

Ling Quanfei smiled and said, "You have already entered Jingyun Villa since you saw that flag. ”

Not only Qi Ying'er, but even Wei Sizhang and Sun Qiao'er were amazed, is there a margin in this mountain villa? Of course, there is a margin, the whole world has a margin, and this is just a mountain villa, but no one has ever walked to the edge of the mountain villa. I'm afraid that except for the old owner of Jingyun, no one will know how big this villa is.

There was no one next to the pillar, but Ling Quanfei took two steps forward, bowed and said: "In Xia Ling Quanfei, I came to visit the owner of Jingzhuang this time, I hope you will forgive me!"

Wei Sizhang said, "Brother, what are you shouting at a pillar?"

Ling Quanfei turned around and whispered, but his voice could be heard by the other three people present. "My brother doesn't know, the owner of Jingzhuang has been famous in the rivers and lakes for a long time. ”

Wei Sizhang said: "I know this, they all say that Jingzhuang is Bo Yuntian, he is a man, and I Wei Sizhang has not admired a few people in my life, but the owner of Jingzhuang is one!"

I'm afraid that Qi Ying'er was the only one present who didn't know about Jingyun Villa and the owner of Jingzhuang, and these words were also what Ling Quanfei wanted Qi Ying'er to know. Ling Quanfei knew that Qi Ying'er and Jing Linqun had a holiday, and he also knew that Jing Linqun was indeed a personal scum, but Ling Quanfei wanted Qi Ying'er to understand, "The lower beam is not correct and the upper beam may not be crooked."

Qi Ying'er also listened, he also understood that Ling Quanfei said these words to himself, who was Jing Yun? He didn't know, and he didn't want to know, the only reason he came to this villa was to find news of his master Mu Wuya.

Ling Quanfei glanced at Qi Ying'er, Qi Ying'er didn't look at him, his gaze always stayed on the pillar.

Ling Quanfei said again: "Brother, do you know why this Jingyun Villa has no door?"

Wei Sizhang said: "I just can't figure it out, such a big villa, why is there no door?"

Ling Quanfei smiled: "That's the reason!"

Qi Ying'er listened silently.

Sun Qiao'er smiled: "It's because it's big!"

Ling Quanfei said: "I didn't expect you to be not only beautiful, but also smart. ”

Sun Qiao'er smiled, but she was not happy because of Ling Quanfei's praise, she laughed because a pair of eyes were looking at her at this time, Qi Ying'er's eyes, dark eyes, had secrets, but also gentleness.

Ling Quanfei said: "Yes, such a big villa, if you really want to make a door, how big a door will you have to make?"

Wei Sizhang said: "I see. But why did my brother ask questions about the pillar?"

Ling Quanfei smiled: "I wasn't talking to the pillar just now, I was talking to the old man on the pillar. ”

I heard the pillar say, "Good eyesight! Young man! Good eyesight!"

At this time, as soon as everyone looked up, there sat an old man on the top of the pillar where "the sky and the earth are far away", the old man had silver gray hair scattered, his beard was very short, and his face was serene, sitting cross-legged on the pillar.

I saw that the old man jumped down, his body was as light as a swallow, and he stepped on the snow, but there were no footprints. It turned out that the old man was only six feet tall and about sixty years old, but he was vigorous and did not look old at all.

Ling Quanfei bowed to the old man and said, "The old man's light skills are really extraordinary. ”

The old man smiled: "Your Excellency has won the prize, with your light skills of 'floating son', I am also a small skill of carving insects." ”

The old man said again: "This is 'Huo*yun', Wei Sizhang, Wei Ye." ”

Wei Sizhang patted his head and said with a smile: "The old man is serious, he is serious. ”

The old man's gaze turned to Sun Qiao'er again, and said, "Even if there are thousands of cups of incense, it is not as good as a beautiful girl." ”

Sun Qiao'er blushed and nodded.

The old man's gaze finally stopped on Qi Ying'er, the old man frowned suddenly, and Ying'er didn't look at him. In fact, he had already observed the old man carefully when he was talking to the other people just now. The old man was not very tall, but he had an extraordinary spirit, and the terrible thing was that he had been sitting on the pillar, because he found that the old man's shoulders were wet, but his shoes and legs were dry, and how long had the old man fallen to the ground and worked on the pillar?

Ling Quanfei said: "Old man, we took the liberty to visit the owner of Jingzhuang this time, and I would like you to inform you. ”

The old man said, "The old farmer already knew. ”

Wei Sizhang said: "What? I already knew? The owner of the village knew that we were coming?"

The old man said unhurriedly: "From the time you saw the flag, the old owner knew it. ”

Ling Quanfei and Wei Sizhang secretly wondered in their hearts, who is the owner of Jingzhuang?

Qi Ying'er was still staring at the pillar, "Good people and evil people will eventually return to the earth", this column seems to have some magic power, tightly grabbing Ying'er's attention.

The old man said, "Wait, the carriage will be here in a while." ”

Wei Sizhang said: "The carriage?

The old man said with a smile: "Since the owner of the village has never gone out since he built the village, but the welcome hall of the villa is too far away from here, if you only use two feet to walk, I am afraid that it will take a long time, but if you use Ling Gongzi's light skills, you can walk in less than a moment, but this is a loss of hospitality." ”

After a while, the sound of horses' hooves was heard in the distance, and the sound of horses' hooves and wheels colliding with the earth. The two horses were out of breath, and the horses were sweating on such a cold day. The carriage was large enough to seat six people, and several people got into the carriage one after another, and the old man was the last to get up.

Sun Qiao'er sat next to Qi Ying'er, opposite Ling Quanfei and Wei Sizhang, and the old man sat aside.

Along the way, the car was very silent, except for the sound of the wheels and horses' hooves, and the sound of the driver waving the whip, and no one talked to each other. The old man closed his eyes and recuperated, Qi Ying'er looked at the sword in his hand, thinking about everything that had happened in the past few days, how much blood had been stained with this sword, and he remembered every drop of blood clearly. Sun Qiao'er looked at Qi Ying'er affectionately, she really wanted to lean on Qi Ying'er's shoulder like this, but it wasn't just the two of them in the car.

Ling Quanfei looked out the window, as if he was enjoying the scenery leisurely, the snow stopped, but it was still white outside, the woods were also white, the color of heaven and earth was pale, Ling Quanfei also had secrets in his heart, everyone had secrets in their hearts, so few people were happy.

Only Wei Sizhang looked left and right in the car, either scratching his head or rubbing his hands, so stuffy that the atmosphere was extremely tormenting for him.

Suddenly there was a long neighing of the horse, and the car came to a sudden stop.

Wei Sizhang said: "Ha, it's finally here!"

The old man also opened his eyes suddenly, and Ling Quanfei said, "That's not right!"

I saw that the old man turned over, turned out of the car, and disappeared, Qi Ying'er also clenched the sword, the black hilt, the pale scabbard, and also clenched Sun Qiao'er's hand.

Wei Sizhang saw that the car door couldn't be opened, and he glanced at Ling Quanfei, and the two of them suddenly broke through the roof of the car and jumped out of the car.

Qi Ying'er also drew her sword, slashed through the car door, and walked out.

The driver was gone, leaving only a line of footprints, and the old man was gone, without a trace.

Between heaven and earth, there is only the breath of the horse.

Wei Sizhang clenched his fists and said, "Which hell is this?"

Ling Quanfei looked around vigilantly and said, "This is still Jingyun Villa!"

It's still Jingyun Villa, but it's more desolate, without any buildings, just woods on both sides, woods pressed by pale snow.

Qi Ying'er's sword was clenched in his hand, the sword light shone with snow, and his people became vigilant, and the ice wall in his eyes was rebuilt. Sun Qiao'er gently held his sleeve and hid behind him.

Qi Ying'er asked in a deep voice, "What's the matter?"

Wei Sizhang shouted, "What's going on? We need to know, will we still be here?"

Qi Ying'er stopped talking, and all his attention should be on Ling Quanfei.

Ling Quanfei said: "That old man is very strange. ”

Wei Sizhang said, "Strange?"

Ling Quanfei said: "This mountain villa is also very strange. ”

Qi Ying'er said: "I think you are the strangest. Did you try to kill us by fooling us?"

Wei Sizhang said angrily: "You stinky boy, just a few times you, do you still need to pick a place to kill you?"

Qi Ying'er was roaring, and his sword was also groaning.

This is Sun Qiao'er said: "It's not them, you see!"

Everyone looked in the direction of Sun Qiao'er's interest, and saw that there was a line of snow dyed red, stained red with blood, and there was a person lying at the end of the red snow, a dead man.

Everyone walked over and saw that it was the old man!

Qi Ying'er looked at the old man, and her stomach couldn't help churning again. The old man's throat had been pierced, the blood had frozen, his eyes were protruding, and he was clenched tightly in his hands. Ling Quanfei broke his hand open, only to find that there was nothing.

Wei Sizhang said: "The person who killed him must be a master, a supreme master." This old man's martial arts are definitely not below the two of us, but he was pierced through the throat with a sword, and he looked like he didn't react at all, which shows that this person is definitely a master of using a sword, and the speed of the sword is also one of the best in the world. ”

Ling Quanfei remained silent and looked at the corpse with a frown, as if thinking about something. Qi Ying'er kept looking at Ling Quanfei, wanting to see something in his eyes, while Sun Qiao'er turned her back to the corpse, unwilling to look directly, she had seen too many corpses in the past few days.

Wei Sizhang said: "As far as I know, the only person in the world who is so fast with a sword is 'Quick Sword' Ming Kaiyue. Could it be that this old man was killed by Ming Kaiyue?"

When Qi Ying'er heard the name of Ming Kaiyue, there seemed to be a fire in her eyes, and she shouted, "Impossible!"

Everyone was stunned and looked at Qi Ying'er, why did he react so much!

Qi Ying'er said again: "Senior Brother Ming will never kill people casually. ”

Ling Quanfei then remembered that Ming Kaiyue was the eldest disciple of the Ten Swords Sect back then, and since Qi Ying'er worshiped under Mu Wuya's sect, he naturally knew Ming Kaiyue.

Ling Quanfei said: "Of course not, it was definitely not killed by Ming Kaiyue." ”

Qi Ying'er was surprised, why would Ling Quanfei help her speak?

Ling Quanfei said to Qi Ying'er: "Why did Ming Kaiyue kill him? I don't know where he is, but he must be with your master, this old man is not a bad person, your senior brother and master are also heroes in the martial arts, they will never use such obscene means!"

Qi Ying'er didn't speak, but he felt that he had a good impression of the person in front of him.

Wei Sizhang said: "Obscene means?"

Ling Quanfei nodded and said, "He wasn't killed by the sword, but he was poisoned. ”

"Poisoning?" everyone wondered.

Sun Qiao'er said: "How do you know that he died of poisoning." ”

Ling Quanfei smiled: "He told me himself." ”

Wei Sizhang said: "Oh, brother, don't be joking, how can this dead man speak?"

Ling Quanfei said solemnly: "Of course the dead man can speak, but the words of the dead can't be heard with your ears, you have to see with your eyes." ”

Everyone looked at this corpse, Qi Ying'er's eyes were stunned, and the palm of the old man's hand, which was originally clenched, had a faint wound, and the wound was also a little purple.

Wei Sizhang said: "You mean that when he fought with that man, he was poisoned?"

Ling Quanfei said: "Not bad. ”

Sun Qiao'er said, "Who is that person?"

Ling Quanfei shook his head.

Wei Sizhang was a little anxious, and said, "Oh, brother, you don't know, so what should I do?"

I could only hear Qi Ying'er say word for word: "He doesn't know, but someone knows." ”

"Who is it?"

Qi Ying'er said: "It's the person who drove the car." ”

Ling Quanfei looked at Qi Ying'er with a smile, Qi Ying'er's eyes were firm and cold, he didn't know why he was involved in this matter, but all this had happened, and he couldn't get rid of it.

Qi Ying'er looked at the line of footprints left by the carriage, slowly moving away, becoming lighter, and extending to the woods.

Ling Quanfei said: "If he doesn't know who the murderer is, then he is the murderer." ”