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Chapter 169

Wen Rentan was surprised: "Why?"

"If you take your things, Yechen will be angry." He was very careful.

"Shengsheng, he didn't care much about your thoughts before, so why should you care about his thoughts?" Wen Rentan sat down on the stone bench in front of me carelessly, "Open it and have a look, you will definitely like."

"No..." I knew I was a money fan, and after I opened the box and saw the good things inside, I was even more reluctant to refuse.

I want to kill this possibility in the cradle!

Wen Rentan was helpless, so he told me the truth: "Just open it, what's inside is your own."

"Huh?" I don't remember anything of value that I have that deserves to be in such a precious box.

"It belonged to you when you were Luyao. I searched for a long time before I found it for you on the black market."

Now I don't have any psychological pressure. Even when I took it over and opened it, I saw a long black and white whip lying quietly inside, and I froze in place.

This is my weapon, the seven-aperture glazed bone whip that accompanied me for thousands of years in the last life.

The touch of the whip in the palm of my hand is still as cold as ever, but it seems that a warm current has warmed into my heart.

This was given to me by my father after my mother died.He said, if someone bullies me in the future, he can give them a lesson with a whip!
The bone whip was broken once, and Yechen helped me repair it section by section, and strengthened it again.

On this whip, there are the hard work of two male ghosts who have treated me best in the underworld.

"Thank you..." Holding the whip, I don't know what else to say to Wen Rentan except for these two words.

He smiled slightly: "Silly girl."

I wiped away the tears that I accidentally poured out because of being moved, stood up and tried to wave the whip in my hand.

The sound of breaking wind came in bursts, and it brought me back to the time when I was still Luyao in an instant.If Chang Xiao Iron Guards hadn't noticed the change and thought I was in danger, I would have almost wiped out a rockery in Yechen's courtyard.

Wen Rentan saw that I was happy, and he couldn't help being happy too.

"How did my whip end up in the black market?" My joyful heart calmed down, and I sat opposite Wen Rentan again and asked.

A look of sadness flashed in his eyes, and he said slowly: "There was an accident at Lu's house. When I arrived, there was nothing left. I have been searching for your whereabouts, but I first found out that the glazed bone whip was auctioned on the black market, so I bought it." come down."

"Who sold it?"

"I didn't find it at first, but now that I think about it, it should be the maid Bilian who died that day." He said with a flash of remorse in his eyes, "I wish I had stopped Ye Chen."

Thinking of Bilian's temperament, I also sighed: "It's useless. Back then she refused to say anything in Yejia's dungeon. After we found out that she was pretending to be me, with her high-minded temperament, she just Will hate us even more and won't tell us."

Although he didn't want to admit it, it was indeed a good thing that Ye Chen killed her.Although she is not a big shot, a fly can spoil a pot of porridge.

It's just that I seldom leave the whip, Bilian would never have the guts to steal it and sell it.Unless, she got the whip after I died.

So when the entire Lu family was wiped out, how did she escape and get my weapon?
She is meticulous!

The thought flashed through my mind, and I shook my head again.My father checked Bilian's identity and background clearly, she is just an ordinary ghost.She should have been bought by ghosts later, and became an insider.

It's just that she was lucky not to be silenced by those ghosts.

"Ye Chen left the mansion today, you wanted to say something to me alone that day, so do it now." I said to Wen Rentan.

Wen Rentan set up a sound-proof barrier around us, his always cynical face was full of solemnity, and asked me in a deep voice: "Shengsheng, how much trust do you have in Yechen?"

100% trust of course.

I stared at him puzzled: "He is my husband, we have a marriage contract." I raised the ring on my hand in front of him, and he patted my hand off again full of jealousy.

"What if your marriage contract was designed by him?" Wen Rentan asked me.

I remembered how I looked when I accepted the marriage contract, and curled my lips happily: "It was originally designed by him."

I have never seen him say the words "promise with your body" to other ghosts.

"You are so stupid to say you are stupid!" Wen Rentan looked at me with hatred, "Have you ever thought about how many ghosts see Youcheng as fat!"

"Probably the kind fatter than meat in sauce, I know. I'm the eldest lady of Youcheng Lu's family!" I don't understand why Wen Rentan told me this, "If you say Yechen is If you marry me for the power of the Lu family, then you can rest assured."

"Don't say that Lu's family was hanged and beaten by the Changxiao Mansion in the military before. Look at me, I am the only one who is poor now. What does Ye Chen have to covet?"

"He is greedy for your people!"

I giggled: "He still covets my heart!"

Wen Rentan spit out blood.

I continued to play with the whip in my hand, and said to Wen Rentan: "How much Ming coins did you spend to take the glass bone whip? Later, I will ask Ye Chen to give you the money."

A hurt look flashed in Wen Rentan's eyes: "Shengsheng, you don't need to figure it out so clearly with me. This glazed bone whip belongs to you, including me and Youcheng, everything is yours!"

I hurriedly refused: "You and I don't want it, Yechen will be jealous! As for Youcheng," I couldn't help laughing when I thought of the two bone-corroded koi, "Youcheng used to belong to our Lu family, but now the city owner It's you, it's yours."

"Sheng Sheng..."

"I know that you took the position of city lord through your own hard work. I won't be so shameless to snatch it from you. What I said before to ask you to return it to me was just to see you. Don't worry. , I just want to be with Ye Chen. All your efforts should be for yourself."

"All my efforts are for you!" Wen Rentan suddenly interrupted me loudly.

I was taken aback: "I'm not Wen Renyu's mother..."

Wen Rentan suddenly fell silent.

After being silent for a while, he turned his head away and said, "That was an accident."

"What accident?"

He struggled, but still said: "Xiao Yu, it was an accident."

"I know, it's not easy for Yin spirits to raise children, and all the children are accidents. Look, there are two accidents in Mo Han's family." I was happy when I thought of those little buns.

Wen Rentan's complexion turned even worse: "I mean... Shengsheng... I..." He was always at a loss for words, "I never thought there would be Xiaoyu. His mother... That was an accident too... I was drunk that day..."

He lowered his head guiltily, like a child who made a mistake.

Is it because of Wen Renyu's promiscuous sex after drinking?

Who is Wen Renyu's mother?

Although I was curious in my heart, this is the privacy of others after all, and I didn't ask.Seeing his painful expression, I changed the subject: "By the way, why do you know my family so well? The City Lord's Mansion is exactly the same as Lu's!"

"You...haven't remembered yet?"

I nodded and said truthfully: "I only have a little soul left from my last life, so the connection between the two lives is not deep, and I don't remember many things. Some may be remembered after a while, and some may never be remembered. gone."

A look of loneliness flashed across Wen Rentan's eyes, and he muttered to himself: "It's okay if I don't remember..."

Do I have any bad memories?

Just as I was thinking, Wen Rentan took out another jade seal and presented it to me.

"Youcheng City Lord Seal?" I recognized what it was at a glance, and was extremely surprised.

Wen Rentan nodded: "You City was taken back by me. I have kept the Lord Seal of the City for 2000 years, so I should give it back to you."

I quickly waved my hand: "I really don't need it! Wen Rentan, listen to me. Now I am a living person, even if they know that I am the reincarnation of Luyao, those old ghosts in Youcheng will not accept me."

"If they don't accept me, I'll beat them up for you!"

"That's not all! I haven't found out about the extermination of Lu's family. It's inappropriate for me to reveal my identity now."

Wen Rentan frowned and thought for a while, and said, "Just keep the seal of the city lord first. You can announce your identity after you find out about Lu's family."

I still shook my head: "I'm going to marry Yechen, if I take over the seal of the city lord, will you let Youcheng marry me into the Changxiao Mansion in the future?"

Speaking of this, the firmness in Wen Rentan's eyes finally wavered a bit: "No...You City is You City, and it must not be annexed by any aristocratic family!"

"So, you are now the lord of the city, and Youcheng is yours." I am not the kind of unreasonable person. I feel that Youcheng's surname was Lu in the past, and it should be Lu in the future.

If the current city lord is a cruel ghost, or a ghost who participated in the destruction of Lu's family, then I will not let him go.

But the city lord is Wen Rentan.

There should always be a city owner in You City. My father is dead, and I am not the one to manage the city.Rather than nesting in the city lord's mansion to intrigue every day, I still prefer to enjoy the happiness.

I believe that Wen Rentan will not be the one who participated in Lu's family's extermination. He can become the new Lord of Youcheng because of his own efforts.Therefore, You City should be his now.

"Shengsheng..." Wen Rentan was extremely apologetic.

I smiled: "If you really want to give me something, give me the original land of Lu's house, and let me build a villa there in the future, or restore Lu's house or something."

"Everything in Youcheng belongs to you!" Wen Rentan emphasized again, "I originally wanted to restore Lu's house, but there were many ghosts who coveted Lu's house back then. All the ghosts are lingering there, it's just a chance."

"I was afraid that when the house was reopened there, people would think that I discovered some shocking secret treasure, which would affect you, so I deliberately abandoned it and rebuilt the original appearance of Lu's house in the City Lord's Mansion."

Wen Rentan explained that every word represents his friendship.

I was a little moved, but at the same time I was a little puzzled: "Why did you do this for the Lu family?"

He opened his mouth, looked at me for a long time, hesitated for a long time, and finally told me: "I... used to be the ghost of Lu's family..."

His voice was very soft, with a bit of imperceptible self-mockery and loneliness in his tone, and he even avoided my eyes.

But I remember Ye Chen said that Wen Rentan didn't join the Lu family's army, so why is he the ghost of my Lu family?

"Are you my father's illegitimate child?" I blurted out, and Wen Rentan's face suddenly turned blue.

"What nonsense! How is it possible!" He immediately denied, "Shengsheng, what are you thinking in your little head?"

I curled my lips: "It's you who said you belonged to Lu's family... Lu's family is just me and my father..."

He sighed a long time, and said: "Shengsheng, you can't tell anyone what I tell you next, including Yechen!"

"Why?" I don't really want to hide anything from Ye Chen.

"There is no reason. Anyway, we can't let him know yet!"

After thinking about it for a long time, I still want to know that Lu's rationality in family affairs has overcome my sensibility, so I nodded: "I can promise not to tell him for the time being, just tell me."

Wen Rentan hesitated for a while on the word "temporary", but said: "Shengsheng, how much do you remember about Lu's army?"

"I just remember that the purpose of recruiting troops was to deal with the land of Chang Xiao, and return all the rights and humiliation treaties signed in those years to Lao Yejun!" Speaking of this, I was also a little angry.

"Then do you remember what the Lu Family Army is?" Wen Rentan asked again.

"Isn't it the army?"

Seeing my confused face, Wen Rentan's eyes were full of helplessness: "That is the secret weapon of the Lu family, a war machine that absolutely obeys the master of the Lu family."

What he said was very serious, but I still didn't understand: "Once there is a war, isn't the army a war machine?"

"A war machine that is absolutely obedient." Wen Rentan emphasized.

"The bounden duty of a soldier is to obey orders. The instructor taught me that during my military training. You can't scare me."

Wen Rentan was even more helpless, and could only start to give examples: "Shengsheng, have you seen the terracotta warriors and slaves who were buried?"

I nodded, Yufei and Du Youwei both exist.These terracotta warriors and buried slaves have no self-awareness, and will only obey the orders of the tomb owner unconditionally.

After Wen Rentan strengthened the sound barrier for several layers, he said to me in a calm voice: "The Lu family army is similar to this army."

I was stunned for a moment, and then thought it was impossible: "But such unconscious terracotta warriors and buried slaves can only deal with the living and ghosts with low mana. Let alone Shang Yechen, even I am not afraid of them. They just If you can win by numbers, and you don’t know any spells, you’re just going to give someone a head on the battlefield of the underworld.”

The Lu family army was formed by my father with great painstaking efforts, and it will never be such a useless army.

"What if they all have high levels of cultivation but no consciousness?" Wen Rentan asked me in a low voice.

I was taken aback.

An army composed of living people or high-ranking spirits, soldiers are all self-aware.With self-awareness comes the possibility of rebellion.

But if it is like what Wen Rentan said, the Lu family army that will never betray is simply a magic weapon!

"But how to control the unconscious army?" I wondered again.

Wen Rentan stared straight at me, and uttered three words: "Black Fox Ling."

Even though it was an unfamiliar word, when I heard it, I felt a tingle in the meridians all over my body.

"Inject mana into the Black Fox Ling, and the Lu family's army will follow the consciousness of the caster." Wen Rentan said.

"Where's the black fox?" I subconsciously asked, seeing Wen Rentan shaking his head.

"I don't know. I have been searching for the whereabouts of the black fox since the accident at Lu's house, but there is no news at all." He was a little discouraged.

"Then when the Lu family had an accident, did my father use the Lu family army?"

"I don't know." Wen Rentan was thoughtful, "But I think it should be useless. Otherwise, the Lu family wouldn't fall so quickly."

Every time I hear the last sentence, I feel more uncomfortable in my heart.

"Wen Rentan..." I took a deep breath to adjust my emotions, "How much do you know about the destruction of Lu's family?"

"Would you believe what I said?" He asked, with determination in his eyes.

I was afraid that he would say something that I couldn't accept, so I hesitated to agree, which made him urge: "Shengsheng..."

"Go ahead." I said.No matter how cruel the truth is, I have to accept the revenge of destroying the family.

"I found out that it's related to the Ye family." Wen Rentan said.

A sudden dull pain in the left chest.When Wen Rentan asked me if I would believe it, I guessed it.However, I still held a sliver of hope and prayed that Wen Rentan would say something else.

"How could it be related to the Ye family..." My voice trembled unconsciously, and I believed in my heart that it would not be related to Ye Chen.

Wen Rentan took out a wooden box with several layers of seals, and inside were some scraps of Yin locust wood.

"I found these at the ruins of Lu's house later. Shengsheng, are these things familiar to you?" He asked.

I picked up the small wood inside and found that these are the same material as Yejia's night cards.

"I heard that after Ye Ran was in charge of the Chang Xiao Mansion, he gave some pieces of Yin locust wood to some ghosts who helped him. The reason given was that the number of night cards was not enough, and the status of those ghosts was not high. But Shengsheng, what if there is something hidden about this matter?"

"Can there be any hidden secrets... Huakai explained this matter to me. The ghosts of the Ye family used the night cards to do a lot of bad things in the past, and the blame was finally blamed on the Changxiao Mansion. Therefore, after Ye Chen succeeded They destroyed a lot of night cards, and strictly controlled the number of night cards." I tried my best to defend the Ye family.

I know that this matter has something to do with my great hatred, so I shouldn't be biased.However, Ye Chen and I have gone through so much to come to the present, I don't want to have doubts about him just because of one or two words from others.

Wen Rentan sighed: "Shengsheng, the Ye family is the No. [-] family in the underworld. Even if the night card representing the identity of the Changxiao Mansion is destroyed, can you take some scraps of wood and go out without losing ghosts? Why does the family need strength? Yes. It’s just that I can live a good life in the underworld! Just to not lose points!”

I never thought about this question.It's just that if you need to reveal that you are a night ghost, you will have a complete night card.Those who hold the splinters are just to enhance their own mana.

I told Wen Rentan like this, but he laughed mockingly: "Shengsheng, that's just an excuse. Yechen disappeared 2000 years ago, so there is no new night card issued in the entire Changxiao Mansion." .”

"I know this."

"Then why did he disappear? And why are there pieces of wood from Yepai on the ruins of Lu's house where the accident happened?" Wen Rentan couldn't help asking a bit of a tone because of the atmosphere.

"He disappeared because he was ambushed while helping me gather mana, and he entered reincarnation by mistake. As for Yepai... I don't know... Maybe someone deliberately framed him!"

Wen Rentan looked at my hopeless appearance, full of resentment: "Do you think he is saving you?"

"if not?"

"Stupid girl! It's the primordial spirit who saves ghosts, who gathers magic power?" Wen Rentan questioned me.

"Yechen said that my remnant soul was gone at that time, only the mana was left, and he gathered the mana." I still believed Yechen.

Wen Rentan was full of disdain: "He obviously wants to use your magic power to drive the black fox!"

"Impossible!" I defended Ye Chen without thinking, "If he intends to use my mana, now I have absorbed my own mana, how can he not move at all?"

"How do you know that he didn't move? Shengsheng, you were inseparable when you were in the world. Now that you have returned to the underworld, why does he leave you every now and then to go out alone?"

"He has business to attend to."

"Ye Ran is in charge now, why do you want Ye Chen everywhere? Besides, what can make him so busy that he doesn't have time to accompany you?"

I'm at a loss for words.

I don't ask much about official affairs in the Land of Long Howling, so I don't know how to refute.

Seeing that my complexion was not good, Wen Rentan sighed, and instead of asking those sharp questions, he said, "Shengsheng, don't be blinded by love. I haven't found anything about Lu's family for 2000 years." A result."

"I heard that there is Ni Gaoxuan." I reminded.

Wen Rentan nodded: "I know there is him, and I also asked the Hades to issue the arrest warrant. But it's not just him. There are many ghosts with higher identities than him."

Ni Gaoxuan was also the head of the family at that time, and he was also a member of the upper-class family.But not long after the fall of Lu's family, he was wanted by Duojue.

After Yechen came back, he has been helping me find out about the extermination of Lu's family. He found out that Ni Gaoxuan was the initiator of the incident.But more, those old ghosts are not willing to say a word.

what exactly happened...

My head hurts from thinking about it, and my brain is still blank.I pressed my temples with both hands. Seeing this, Wen Rentan stretched out his hand to me involuntarily.

Before his hand touched me, a fierce wind blowing from the side directly broke Wen Rentan's sound-proof barrier, preventing Wen Rentan from moving.

Yechen strode towards us with a displeased face, three steps forward and two steps forward, and hugged me in his arms, blocking Wen Rentan and me, gouging out Wen Rentan's eyes.

Wen Rentan's outstretched hand was beaten back by Ye Chen, and he leaned on the table unwillingly, pretending to say: "Ye Chen, you really don't understand the style, didn't you see that I was having a love affair with Sheng Sheng?"

"Get out!" Ye Chen scolded with a cold face, his brows were tightly frowned, and his face was full of hostility.

I defended weakly in his arms: "He's talking nonsense... I just asked him about You City..."

The corners of Ye Chen's tightly pursed lips softened, and he glanced at Wen Ren Tan triumphantly, and carried me directly from the stone bench beside him to sit on his lap: "I know. Sheng Sheng has such good eyesight." , I won’t look at that kind of ghost.”

Come on, do you think I didn't see how jealous he was when he came in?
(End of this chapter)