The first dying man in Gu Shenwei's care, now known as "Huan Nu", was a young man, in his twenties, with three deep scars on his chest, but he lay quietly on the kang as if he didn't feel anything, neither groaning nor making demands, except for a faint breath, as if he were dead.

said that it was to take care of, but in fact, it was to watch his life disappear little by little, at most pour a bowl of water.

He was not buried alive, which was the only gift of Jinpeng Castle to the wounded.

The boys had only spent the night in the fort, and before they even knew their names, they were sent to stand by the dying and begin their lives in their new "home" with the heavy smell of blood.

It only takes one person to take care of a dying person, but these days are the "off-season", and there is only one injured person in the hospital, so Han Jinu asked everyone to come over, "get used to it", he explained, but he stood far away at the door, covering his nose.

"That's what happens when you want to be a killer. ”

Han Jinu's tone seemed gloating, and the dying man on the kang did not react to this.

"His name is Xie Nu, and he goes into the fort with me, and lo and behold, he is lying there waiting to die, and I am standing here watching him die. Hehe, if you want to be a killer, work hard in your next life. ”

The young man who called Xie Nu did not refute, maybe he didn't hear Han Jinu's words at all, but Yao Nu (Lin Yang) raised his head boldly and said:

"But if you become a real killer, you can get ahead, don't you?"

This sentence annoyed Han Jinu, "Yes, get ahead, you all go and be killers, whoever can live longer than me in Dongbao, I will kowtow to him." I don't look at my own appearance, I want to be a killer, huh. ”

Han Jinu raised the mahogany stick in his hand, but he didn't want to get close to the dead man, so he brushed his sleeves away again, and in his eyes, the slave on the kang was already a dead man.

The young men were reluctant to die in the evening of the same day, but under the threat of the mahogany sticks, they could only carry the body one by one, walk out of the west gate, and throw it off the cliff.

"This is the final destination of all the servants of Jinpeng Castle, called 'Ghost Cliff', you listen, is there a strange sound under the cliff? It's like a dead man groaning. ”

Yao Nu was scaring everyone again, the teenagers turned around and ran, scrambling, Han Jinu, who was guarding the gate of the West Courtyard, snorted, I don't know whether he thought it was ridiculous or disdainful.

Gu Shenwei also ran with everyone, he had been here last night and had really heard the screams coming from under the cliff.

Soon after, the teenagers learned from Han Jinu that the cliff outside the West Gate was really called "Ghost Cliff", and Haruku didn't make up the story, as for how he knew, he didn't say it, and others couldn't guess.

Ghost Cliff is a triangular platform, there is a stone platform in the middle, it is said that the dead in the past are cremated on the stone platform, this is the origin of the name of the Salary Courtyard, since Jinpeng Fort changed the customs, the stone platform gradually collapsed, and now there are only a few pieces of broken stone left, and there are still burn marks on it.

For the next few days, the teenagers watched someone die and then threw the body off the cliff, and most of the dead were young people who dreamed of becoming killers and entered the East Fort as apprentices, only to be eliminated.

Jinpeng Fort is divided into a number of relatively independent areas, with the Middle Fort being a place where killers are trained, and the West Fort being a place where various miscellaneous courtyards are concentrated, such as the Salary Yard, which specializes in treating the dead.

Knowing that there are more deaths and fewer lives, but there are still people who want to enter the East Fort one after another, it is difficult for the teenagers to understand, most of them have the same idea as Han Jinu: stay in the West Courtyard honestly, and would rather be a living slave than a dead killer.

The ambitious Haruku seems to have other ideas, he hints several times that he has the potential to be a killer, but he doesn't know martial arts, and his physique is not better than others, so no one takes his words seriously.

Gu Shenwei also seriously thought about whether to work hard to enter Dongbao, the killer of Jinpeng Fort destroyed the Gu family, he learned to become a killer here and then take revenge, this is a very attractive idea, it is the most perfect plan in his mind, but it is not easy to achieve:

First, time is pressing, the little master of the Gu family may be recognized at any time, and he has to hurry up to take revenge.

Second, Dongbao's training was cruel and bloody, and there were very few people who could survive and pass the level, and he was afraid that he would die there before he could take revenge.

Thirdly, and most realistically, no one recommended that a low-level servant like him was not qualified to enter the East Fort at all.

Gu Shenwei once again sought the revelation of God's will, but found nothing.

Since he entered Jinpeng Castle, the divine will seems to have been blocked out, he is helpless now, there is no way to find his sister, and there is no way to take revenge, now he, not to mention destroying Shangguan's entire family, even Shangguan's anger can't be seen in a corner of his clothes.

He was really afraid that he would be trapped in the salary yard and carry the dead for the rest of his life.

Not only him, but the teenagers all have a sense of forgetfulness, and Jinpeng Castle does not seem to have any intention of taking these ten married children seriously, and they, like the groups of dying, will consume their lives in this ominous courtyard until death comes.

On the fifth day of entering the fort, the teenagers finally waited for a turning point.

Xue Niang, the servant woman next to Miss Luo Ningcha, came.

Although the teenagers have never received a pleasant smile from Xue Niang, although everyone has suffered from her "iron fingers", at this time they all have a feeling of seeing relatives, and only she can rescue everyone from the sea of suffering.

Xue Niang pushed the door in that afternoon, and spoke as concisely as ever, "Follow me." ”

The teenagers who were cleaning the deceased's house were almost about to cheer, but Han Jinu stood at the door, they didn't dare to show their joy, his mahogany stick was not a vegetarian.

"Who are you?"

Han Jinu looked at the middle-aged woman he didn't know in surprise, this woman walked softly, he didn't hear any footsteps, and he was very unhappy.

"I'm Miss Ningcha's nurse. ”

Han Jinu frowned, he had never heard of "Miss Ningcha" in the castle, and this woman was as flat as a coffin, and she didn't look like anyone's nurse.

"What Miss?"

Xue Niang poked out a finger, Han Jinu's face turned red, he snorted in his mouth, and sat down on the threshold.

"Let's go. ”

Xue Niang turned around and walked towards the courtyard gate, and the teenagers hurriedly followed, only Yao Nu had many eyes, helped Han Jinu up, and whispered to him who was coming.

Out of the east gate, walking the alley, twisting and turning, Xue Niang took ten people to the courtyard of the eighth young lord Shangguan Nu, the residences of the owners of Jinpeng Fort are concentrated in the north fort, far away from the salary institute, there are many forks in the road along the way, Gu Shenwei carefully observed, and only remembered that six or seven out of ten, Xue Niang, who had not been in the fort for a long time, could find them, which was also rare.

The residence of the eight young masters sits in the north and faces south, divided into two entrances, although it is not very large, but it is extremely quiet and elegant, it is difficult to imagine that the owner here is a killer.

Xue Niang pointed to the open space in front of the main hall and ordered, "Kneel." ”

Everyone did so, and Gu Shenwei hesitated.

He had long made up his mind to take revenge by all means, as long as he could take revenge, there was nothing unbearable, thinking like this, he quickly bent his knees and landed on the ground at the same time as the others.

Xue Niang still glanced at him, not seeing the young man's momentary hesitation, but the straight waist that caught her attention.

Beside the boys, ten virgins who had been married and a number of personal maids were already kneeling there, their faces were melancholy, as if something big had happened.

The door of the hall was open, and a translucent screen was placed in the doorway, reflecting a slender figure.

"All here?"

"Yes, miss. ”

The daughter of the big-headed god did not like the name of the young grandmother, and the personal servants still called her Miss, and from then on, everyone who married her was only called Miss.

"Let them swear one by one. ”

This is indeed the voice of the daughter of the big-headed god in memory, and there is no shyness and happiness in the tone of the bride, but there is an uncontrollable anger.

"I, Xue Niang, swear to the heavens that in this life I will only be loyal to Miss Luo Shi Ningcha, the daughter of the big head god of the Iron Mountain, with the lord's surname Luo, and never change my surname, if I violate this oath, the sky will thunder and split, and I will fall into the eighteenth layer of hell after death, and there will be no time to be reincarnated. ”

Yao Nu was the first to follow the oath, and his words were sincere, if he didn't know his details, Gu Shenwei would have thought that he had been following the young lady for many years.

Haruku had a way to get the news, such as knowing that the ghost was called the cliff, which showed that his way of dealing with people was useful in Jinpeng Castle.

Gu Shenwei needed to understand the enemy's nest, so he learned from Yao Nu to speak secondly, just had a new name, and now he was going to change his surname, swearing on his lips, but he said over and over again in his heart: I am Gu Shenwei.

Those teenagers who don't speak Zhongyuan dialect are more difficult, and Haruku volunteers to be a translator, and the teenagers stammered and followed sentence by sentence, and even made a full oath.

No one understands why the daughter of the big-headed god suddenly made such a play.

After taking the oath, the young lady behind the screen asked:

"Xue Niang, who do you think is suitable?"

"Everything else is secondary, the key to this person is to be smart, I think he is suitable. ”

The person she was referring to was Yao Nu, who reacted very quickly, immediately kneeled two steps, kowtowed and said:

"The little slave is willing to go to the soup for the young lady. ”

The lady didn't mention what it was appropriate to do, she just said "It's him", and an inexplicable allegiance activity was over.

Afterwards, the teenagers were sent back to the Salary Yard by another maid, and Haruku was left alone and did not return until the evening.

Han Jinu locked the courtyard door while whispering complaints, he had already inquired about the origin of Xue Niang, and did not dare to challenge her directly, he could only refer to Sang scolding Huai, in his eyes, these ten teenagers "belonged" to his sphere of influence, and Xue Niang and the eighth young grandmother were breaking the rules and robbing him of his interests.

Yao Nu ate the melon, but he didn't care, returned to the bedroom where the ten teenagers lived, kicked off his shoes, jumped on the earthen kang, sighed easily, lay on his back, and didn't speak for a long time.

Everyone knew his temper, and sooner or later he would brag about the special treatment he had received from the young lady.

"From tomorrow onwards, I will not accompany you to take care of the dead. Finally, Haruku said casually, as if suddenly remembering something unimportant.

"Why? are you leaving here?" someone asked curiously, in Jinpeng Castle, the Central Plains dialect is the lingua franca, and several Hu teenagers have learned some of it these days, and they can barely talk.

"Xue Niang wants to teach me martial arts, and after a while, I will be a killer. ”

This surprised everyone, Haruku had already shown interest in the killer, but no one could have imagined that good luck would fall on him so quickly.

"Are you okay?" Qi Nu said in a stiff Central Plains dialect on the side, although he and his younger brother Xie Nu participated in the worship, they never forgot the betrayal of Yao Nu.

In fact, everyone has this question, the first dead person they sent away was the killer apprentice who was eliminated from the East Castle, and the thin body of Haruku probably didn't last a day before he had to be carried back to the Salary Yard.

"You know what. Yao Nu was very disdainful, "The killer is also a human being, there are the same three, six, nine, etc., the same human accident, ordinary people go in and there is death and no life, I am recommended by the eighth young master and the eighth young grandmother, who dares to touch me?"

No one could contradict him, they didn't know anything about Jinpeng Castle and didn't understand what was really going on inside.

Gu Shenwei was moved by these words.

He didn't want to waste time learning to be a killer, but if he could also get the favor and recommendation of his master, wouldn't he have a chance to get close to Shangguan Fu?