Although she felt that the low apology was a little familiar, because of Sister Yu'er's jokes, Qinglian never dared to look back. It wasn't until he walked far away that he pretended to inadvertently glance back at the official road, but he never found a figure in a blue jacket in the bustling crowd again.

I don't know why, next, Qinglian always had a feeling of loss in her heart, so that there was always a trace of trance between her demeanor.

"Is Lian'er really thinking of spring?"

Qinglian had a somewhat depressed expression, and naturally couldn't hide Yu'er's eyes.

"Sister?!"

used a rage to cover up his gaffe, although Qiu Zheng's name popped up in his mind, Qinglian didn't believe that Qiu Zheng, who disappeared on August 15 a year ago, would appear in Shuntian Mansion, more than 2,000 miles away.

"Lian'er, I heard my uncle mention it to my father, and I'm telling my sister about my mother-in-law's family. ”

Yu'er's words caused Qinglian to feel melancholy in her heart.

As the saying goes, a man should marry a woman, and her mother's words are not wrong, as a girl is thirteen or fourteen years old, it is not too early to marry. For example, the seventeen-year-old sister Yu'er in front of her was also set at the age of thirteen, and the marriage date has also been set, just on August 18 after the autumn of this year.

Although there is already a faint shadow of Qiu Zheng in her heart, how can Qinglian disobey the words of her parents' orders? What's more, even if she tells her heart, even if her parents agree, where can she find the missing Qiu Zheng's brother?

Originally, March 3 happily went out of the city to go out for spring, but because of an unexpected pass, coupled with Yu'er's deliberate teasing, it caused the sadness in the sensitive mind of the Qinglian girl, so that for most of the day, she just forced her face to be happy, and reluctantly insisted until the end of the time, and then urged Yu'er to say:

"Sister Yu'er, let's go back. ”

"Sister Lian'er, everyone is still playing. ”

After staring carefully at Qinglian in front of her for a while, Yu'er asked half-jokingly:

"Lian'er doesn't seem to be happy, is she dissatisfied with the family affairs mentioned by the uncle?

"If my sister says something like this again, I'll ignore you. ”

Qinglian, who was told the central thing by Yu'er, turned around with a pretty face, lowered her head and kneaded the Jinpa in her hand, leaving only a silhouette of Yu'er.

"Okay, sister don't say. Since my sister doesn't want to continue playing, let's go back. I'm also a little tired. ”

On the way back, Qinglian always kept an eye on the passers-by, hoping to see the figure in the blue jacket again. However, to Qinglian's disappointment, she didn't find anything until she returned to the second uncle's mansion in Silk Lane behind Rising Sun Street.

At this time, Wu Zheng, who was dressed in a long robe, had already traveled westward along Rising Sun Street, and slowly slipped in front of the Yamen of Shuntian Mansion again. In his consciousness, Wu Zheng really wanted to find the prison of Shuntianfu, although he understood that he was not capable of breaking into the cell by himself, let alone rescuing Aunt Tie Niang who was locked up on death row, but he still had expectations. As the iron thread mother mentioned in his father Wu Lipeng's last letter, she has become Wu Zheng's subconscious, the only relative in this world that can be relied on.

Just after the spring equinox, the day and night of the third day of the new year are almost the same length, so by the beginning of the year, the sky is gradually getting dark. Wu Zheng, who had been wandering around Shuntian City all day, first found an inn and opened the cheapest room to live in.

If you want to explore Liufu at night, you must be in the best condition, so after having dinner in the noodle restaurant in front of the inn, Wu Zheng returned to the room, took off his long shirt, put on the original blue jacket again, and lay on the bed with his clothes closed.

When there was a drumbeat of the second watch on the street, Wu Zheng got up, repacked the blue cloth jacket on his body, and touched the small pebbles that had been prepared in his pocket.

For Wu Zheng, who has learned the first two styles of "Lingxiao Nine Styles" and memorized the first three footprints of "Lingyun Footwork", although he can't say that he can fly the eaves and walk the wall, the wall of one or two feet tall has long been unable to stop him.

In order to prevent being discovered by patrolling officials or arresters, Wu Zheng has been walking in the shadows of the street. On the night of the third day of the third month of March, even if the night sky is clear, it is almost pitch black, so the journey is uneventful.

Soon came to the northwest corner of Liufu, outside a section of the courtyard wall that he had been optimistic about during the day, he quietly climbed up the courtyard wall with his hands and feet, and jumped without hesitation, just hugging the trunk of a tall elm tree close to the courtyard wall in the hospital. He looked into the courtyard for a while, pricked up his ears and listened carefully, and when he felt that there was no danger, he slowly slipped down the trunk of the tree to the ground.

The reason why this courtyard wall was chosen was because of the elm tree. It was only when Wu Zheng landed on the ground that he found that although he had indeed entered the mansion of Liufu, the place he was in turned out to be a deserted courtyard. Except for a few houses that have been uninhabited for a long time, and even the roofs are somewhat collapsed, and the doors and windows are somewhat rotten, there are dead grass and trees that are scattered all over the ground.

And there is a courtyard wall between this courtyard that has been abandoned for many years and the inner house of Liufu, and there is only a small door left in the southeast corner where the two courtyard walls meet. However, the small door was locked from the inside, and Wu Zheng secretly pushed it twice, but it didn't move at all.

As a last resort, he climbed the courtyard wall in front of him again, but Wu Zheng didn't dare to jump down. There was a large pool of water underneath, and there was no road behind the locked gate. Looking at the scene in front of him, Wu Zheng understood that this should be the back garden of Liufu.

Carefully bypassing the pond below along the high courtyard wall, it was not until he came to a canopy of arrows and bamboos that Wu Zheng jumped down from the courtyard wall, temporarily hid in the arrows and bamboos, and quietly observed for a while. After confirming that no one had been found, Wu Zheng tiptoed through the flower bed and went straight to the hand-copying verandah leading to the front yard. Kankan turned to the front yard, and suddenly there was a soft sound of footsteps in the dark courtyard.

Wu Zheng, who was terrified, hurriedly pressed his thin body to the back of a verandah pillar, and vaguely saw a dark shadow dancing in the open space in the middle of the courtyard. Judging by the appearance of the black shadow, it should be an adult man. And the constantly dancing body gave Wu Zheng a sense of déjà vu.

After looking at it secretly for a while, Wu Zheng suddenly quickly raised his hand to cover his mouth.

Because he saw that the black shadow in the middle of the courtyard was dancing according to a certain trajectory, and he suddenly found the trajectory engraved in his mind from the first three footprints in "Lingyun Footwork".

If Wu Zheng hadn't quickly covered his mouth, I'm afraid he would have already exclaimed. Even so, a trace of rapid breath leaked from the corners of his mouth, so that the dancing black shadow stopped for a moment. Fortunately, the other party did not notice Wu Zheng hiding behind the verandah, and the figure that had stopped a little continued to swing.

At this time, the more Wu Zheng looked at it, the more frightened he became, copied from the "Sui Family Motto" on the Sui Xing bookshelf, the footprints on the four pages of weird paper full of messy footprints, many of which he couldn't understand how he looked at it and how he thought about it, it would make him feel suffocated, and the footprints that he couldn't even remember in his mind suddenly melted through. Moreover, whether it is in the chest or in the eyes, there is no longer a feeling of dizziness and suffocation.

For a while, Wu Zheng even forgot where he was, and concentrated on hiding behind the pillars of the verandah, watching intently.

The fourth footprint, the fifth footprint, the sixth footprint,...... , until Wu Zheng identified the trajectory of the fifty-eighth footprint from the dancing figure in the courtyard, an accident happened.

"Hmph, the old man has been waiting for you for a long time. ”

Suddenly, a slightly hoarse voice came from the figure in the courtyard that was dancing according to the "Lingyun Footwork", and then the black shadow suddenly jumped up.

This sudden change frightened Wu Zheng, who was hiding behind the pillar, was about to retreat, but he tried to stop his body. For he had already discovered that the direction of the black shadow that suddenly burst into the air in the courtyard was not his hiding place, but the top of the verandah.