Go Home

It was getting brighter, A Liu crouched in the corner of the carriage, looking at Tao Yu'er on the other side, feeling very unlucky. Such a bizarre disappearance, 80% of Xiao Lan would not care. After all, he wished he would disappear soon, but Dad and Lin Wei thought that they were still in Li Mansion, and they would not have noticed the abnormality. I am helpless and hopeless, so I can only run out on my own.

But it's not easy to run by yourself. Thinking of the palm of Tao Yu'er Shan who whizzed to the tsunami, Ah Liu couldn't help but shrank his neck again. Don't run away and get shot half-dead, it's not worth it.

After thinking about it all the time, the more I thought about it, the more frustrated he became. In the end, he fell asleep with his head tilted, snoring loudly.

Tao Yuer: "..."

Li Mansion in Huashuang City.

"This young man." Niu Dading smiled and looked at the roof with his hands, "Is there a righteous brother who is there?"

Xiao Lan was expressionless: "No."

"Here... where did you go?" Niu Dading suddenly felt distressed when he heard this. A group of friends from the Chamber of Commerce in the front hall were still waiting to see him, and disappeared if they said.

Xiao Lan said, "Why don't you go look for it in the city?"

"I've found it, I haven't found it." Niu Da stomped his feet. "There was a lot of questions on the street. There was only one old guard guarding the city gate. He said that there was indeed someone who came out of the city with a big knife in the middle of the night last night. He looks like my righteous brother. But you said that in the middle of the night, what did he go out of town for?"

Xiao Lan sat up: "Out of the city?"

"Yes." Niu Dading said, "the wilderness in the north is haunted, but there must be something wrong."

Xiao Lan jumped off the roof and strode out of Li Mansion.

In another place, Lin Wei also said righteously: "A Liu seems to be missing."

"Missing?" Lu Chai frowned.

Lin Wei nodded: "Li Mansion sent people to look around. I heard that I left the North City Gate in the middle of the night last night and never went back."

"He went to the deserted Xiao family house?" Lu Zhui picked up the Breeze Sword on the table, "Let's go, go and take a look."

Perhaps because the disappearance of the Xiao family many years ago was too weird, the people in Wushuang City have always regarded the north of the city as an ominous place. Even at noon, there is still no half of a person around. Lu Zhui and Lin Wei searched around the house, and nothing was gained. Everything was the same as the previous night, it was not like someone else had come.

"Will it..." Lin Wei hesitated.

"What?" Lu Zhui looked at him.

"Will Ah Liu be trapped in the abandoned house of bones under this illusion?" Lin Wei asked.

"This is the worst possibility." Lu Chai squatted down and knocked on the ground with his hands. "You can't find the person who is in the formation. It's difficult for you and I to break in and rescue him."

While they were speaking, there was a horse hissing sound from a distance, and the two of them temporarily exited Xiao's house and concealed themselves in the dark.

A black horse stepped on the wind and walked closer. Xiao Lan tightened the rein of the horse and turned over and landed steadily. The dwarf who came here with him was the same day.

"Wait!" The dwarf stopped him.

Xiao Lan gave him a cold look.

The dwarf reminded: "The young master calmed down, but my aunt gave orders that day. It's best not to enter this Xiao family's old house lightly."

"Then you can go back and tell her." Xiao Lan swept him aside, a little impatient in his words.

The dwarf got up from the ground, his wit retreated to the side and stopped talking.

Xiao Lan stepped up the steps a few steps, reaching out and pushing open the creaking broken door.

Everything in the courtyard was as old as before, as if the sound of Ye Luo could be heard.

Xiao Lan has very few memories of this old house, almost negligible. But even so, he still noticed a slight strangeness, a slight strangeness that could not be cleared up.

"Young Master?" Seeing him standing still in the courtyard for a long time, the dwarf had to whisper.

Xiao Lan closed his eyes to calm down, but heard a groan that seemed like nothing in his ears, as if it were far away and near. An inexplicable and familiar feeling came to my mind, and the scene in my mind changed rapidly. At the end of the day, when she was eight years old, when she was under the locust tree with her mother, she smiled and taught herself the formulas and mental techniques.

"Young Master, wake up!" Seeing that he seemed to be in a state of something wrong, the dwarf's complexion changed. He grabbed his arm and tried to drag the person back, but instead was pushed away by the backhand vigorously, standing unsteadily and rolled out the door.

Looking at all of this from a distance, Lu Zhui was a little confused about what was going on.

The dead tree in the yard swayed, as if there was something to faintly appear. Xiao Lan threw the black gold whip from his waist, leaped up and whizzed it in the air. The iron whip viper entangled the tree trunk, biting the path like blood red marks, and the force of his hand was to uproot the hundred-year-old tree. .

Suddenly, the earth moved and the mountains shook, and even the sunlight dimmed a bit.

Xiao Lan took a step back and flew out of the abandoned house.

The big tree fell heavily to the ground, raising a piece of chaotic dust, and in this yellow smog, the old abandoned house was peeling off in pieces and turning into dust.

"Young Master." The dwarf crawled and hid beside Xiao Lan, in shock.

Lu Zhui and Lin Wei were also a little surprised at the beginning, but think about it carefully, since it is the ancestral home of the Xiao family, it is not surprising that Xiao Lan can break through this mechanism.

The dust blurred his vision, and a dull sound came from his ears, and when everything calmed down, a house that was somewhat similar to the previous abandoned house but was completely different appeared in front of everyone. Cobwebs spread all over the walls, as if they had just risen from the bottom of the ground, exuding a gloomy and corrupt atmosphere, and the moss bloomed, as if the sun had never been seen before. Countless bones overlapped in the courtyard and corridors, and the wooden pillars could no longer distinguish the original color. Only the soil brought out by the roots of the dead tree in the yard was still fresh and moist.

The dwarf murmured: "This..."

Xiao Lan clenched his right hand and walked towards the bone house step by step.

"Young master." The dwarf limped, caught up to him and caught him, "Don't go in."

"What are you afraid of? This is my home." Xiao Lan said.

"But it's been so many years, and it looks so wicked." The dwarf palpitated, "I better go back."

Xiao Lan shook his head and walked to the courtyard alone, leaning over to put those bones together. Although I don't know if he has his own father among them, they are all from the Xiao family.

The dwarf followed him, not knowing what to say. In the silence, there was another moan in the room, as if someone was suffering from extreme pain.

"Who!" The dwarf drew out his dagger, exclaiming in horror.

Xiao Lan also stood up, frowning and staring at a dilapidated house.

There was a rustle, like someone crawling on the ground. Then, a pair of dark and dry hands suddenly stretched out, firmly holding the threshold.

Rao grew up in a tomb, and seeing this scene, the dwarf almost screamed out in fright.

Xiao Lan secretly squeezed the whip handle.

After the sound of "squeaky yeah", a petite figure crawled out strenuously, with dark blood hanging on the corners of his lips, and his eyes were filled with unwillingness and hatred, and it was so vague that it was almost invisible. The red clothes were in the dust. A heavy blood stain was drawn inside.

"Girl!" After seeing her face, the dwarf took a breath and hurriedly stepped forward to help the person up, "How could it be you?"

Xiao Lan said, "Do you know her?"

In the dark, Lu Zhui and Lin Wei looked at each other, and they all saw the same question in each other's eyes—according to A Liu’s skill, Fei Ling should not be seriously injured, so last night, more than one person should have broken in. The bone house?

"She's Miss Feiling." The dwarf said anxiously.

"Feiling?" Xiao Lan crouched beside her, "Is the daughter of my aunt who has been missing for many years?"

"It's her." The dwarf wanted to carry the person out first, but was held down by Xiao Lan. "The bones are all broken, don't toss."

"You are Yuntao." Feiling grabbed her skirt, as if exhausting all of her energy, almost screaming dumbly.

"Xiao Yuntao?" Xiao Lan said, "He is my father."

"It turns out that Yuntao is your father." The brilliance in Feiling's eyes dimmed, and he stared at him for a while, but it seemed to remember something. A layer of black haze instantly drenched his pupils, "You are Tao Yuer's. son!"

Xiao Lan leaned away from her dry hands: "You calm down, I will take you to find aunt."

"I won't return to Mingyue Tomb!" Fei Ling wanted to rush forward when he was crazy, "I want to kill you! Kill your snake-hearted mother!"

"Girl, girl!" The dwarf hugged her quickly.

As the two struggled, Feiling's shattered bones shifted violently, piercing through the internal organs. Dark blood kept pouring out of his mouth, and soon dyed the ground under him thoroughly, and the last trace of vitality disappeared without a trace. The black pupils stared at the sky and dispersed, as if unwilling to this life full of regrets.

The dwarf sighed deeply and placed her limp body on the ground.

"Do you want to take it home?" Xiao Lan asked, "My aunt has been looking for her for so many years."

"It's better to keep looking for this result," the dwarf murmured.

"Do you want to keep your aunt?" Xiao Lan looked at him.

Hearing this question, the dwarf seemed to regain his senses suddenly, and hurriedly lowered his head and said, "Subordinates dare not."

"Talk about it." Xiao Lan squatted down, took a handkerchief from her arms, and lightly covered the loose eyes, "What kind of person is she?"

"Girl Feiling is the only daughter of my aunt. She rarely goes out of the tomb. Later, she slipped out to play and never came back. She just turned eighteen years old." said the dwarf, "My aunt sent people to look around. After a few years, the whereabouts finally occurred, but when the aunt heard that she was not only upset, but furious. Later, news came out that the girl used the medicine in the grave to transform herself back to nine years old for a man. "

Xiao Lan guessed: "For my father?"

The dwarf nodded.

Xiao Lan said, "No wonder she hates my mother so much."

"What are we going to do now?" the dwarf stood up and asked.

"Burn it, together with this house." Xiao Lan said, "As for the aunt, I will explain it to her."

The dwarf nodded and agreed, gathering the dead trees in the courtyard together.

"Hey!" Lin Wei said in a hurry, "Don't light the fire, in case Ah Liu is still inside!" Wouldn't it be a loss if he was burned alive.

"Remember to find someone later." Lu Chai slapped him, covered his face with a face towel, and slammed into the air three feet Qingfeng out of her sheath, crying loudly.

"Who!" The dwarf was shocked.

Lu Chai didn't say a word, his sword pointed directly at Xiao Lan's heart, his body was elegant and light as a fish.

The dwarf drew his dagger and rushed forward, but was beaten back without three moves. The iron whip in Xiao Lan's hand swept through the dust, his inverted teeth entangled the blade, and the string was cremated.

Lu chased and retreated, deliberately taking him all the way to the dense forest. The dwarf got up from the ground, trying to chase it, but hit the back of his head again, and fell to the ground again.

"Offended." Lin Wei put aside the stone in his hand and rushed into the house to find someone.

The two in the dense forest fought more and more fiercely. After hundreds of moves, Xiao Lan stuck his neck with one hand and pushed the person back to the river, gritted his teeth and said: "Really I can't tell who you are."

Lu Zhui said, "So your Excellency is so familiar with my appearance."

Xiao Lan raised his hand and threw him into the river.

Lu Zhui: "..."

The next moment, an iron whip flew in the air again, wrapped around his shoulder in a circle, and threw the person out of the river to the muddy ground aside.

Lu Chai clutched his chest and coughed twice, panting and sitting leaning against the tree, bleeding faintly from the wound.

"Why run?" Xiao Lan crouched in front of him, pinching his chin with his right hand.

Lu Zhui reluctantly said vaguely: "I thought it was because of your negligence that people would steal me."

Xiao Lan sneered: "That day you almost hugged that person and let it go, when I was blind?"

Lu Zhui: "..."

Lu Zhui said, "But I also came to Wushuang City by myself."

Xiao Lan pulled his collar, trying to pull the person up, but accidentally tore a large piece of fabric to reveal most of his chest.

"Hey, what are you doing!" As soon as Lin Wei found him, he saw Lu Chai sitting wet under the tree, one person tearing his clothes, was shocked, and hurried over with his knife.

Lu Chai covered his chest, and looked at him suspiciously: "What are you doing taking off my clothes?"

Xiao Lan: "..."

Deng disciple, this is. Lin Wei may have been working as a man in the middle of the mountains and seas for a long time. He always felt that everyone was coveting his second master, so he hurriedly took off his robe and wrapped them tightly so as not to be seen.

"Help me up." Lu Chai patted him.

Lin Wei picked him up and wanted to go out, but was stopped by Xiao Lan: "It's all here, do you still want to run?"

Lin Wei drew his sword out of its sheath: "Get out of the way!"

Lu Zhui signaled that he was okay, and looked at Xiao Lan and said, "Since I hit him, I just made it clear. The purpose of this trip for you and me is mostly for the red lotus lantern, so since I have come to this Frost City, Don't worry about who will leave first. And the reason I will leave first in Dinghai City is because I know that Aunt Gui will definitely send someone to follow you. It is inconvenient to do things, so I will act more quickly by myself."

"Where do you live?" Xiao Lan asked.

"In the small courtyard of Sanfu Street in the west of the city, there is a big willow tree at the door." Lu Chai replied.

"Why did you rush out just now?" Xiao Lan asked again.

Lu Zhui confessed: "To find someone."

"A Liu?" Xiao Lan guessed the answer and sneered. "You are quite capable. You can find someone to stare at me."

"Not found in the house." Lin Wei whispered.

"Do you know where he went?" Lu asked.

Xiao Lan shook his head, "I came to the north of the city to find him."

"It seems that in addition to the red lotus cup, we have another same purpose." Lu Chai sighed, "On the first night you sent Ah Liu to the north of the city, he actually broke through the illusion and stepped into the real boneless waste. Zhai, this disappearance may also be related to this. I will send someone out of the city to find it. If you have any news, please let me know."

Xiao Lan said, "Since it's yours, then I won't look for it."

"Finding him can still be used to threaten me." Lu Zhui was supported by Lin Wei and slowly walked out of the forest. "This kind of good thing is not common. After all, in this world, there are not many people and things I value. He is one of them."

Xiao Lan stared at his back, but did not catch up, until the surrounding silence fell again, before returning to the abandoned house of the Xiao family, lit up a soaring fire.

In the sound of the burning wood, the dwarf finally woke up, got up and shook his head, remembering the attack, and said anxiously: "Just now—"

"Run." Xiao Lan interrupted him.

"Who is it?" the dwarf asked.

Xiao Lan shook his head: "I don't know."

The dwarf wanted to say more, but seeing that his face was gloomy and the bones of his relatives were being cremated in the house, he did not dare to speak again.

The fire gradually weakened, and in the end even the blue smoke was blown away. Xiao Lan knelt on the ground and knocked three heads before riding his horse back to Wushuang City. He didn't turn around and took another look.

In the afternoon of the next day, a woodcutter found the burnt house and sent the news back to the city. So when the people chatted, they would mention that the abandoned house had been empty for so many years, and God finally took it back, fearing that the host’s grievances had been cleared away, otherwise it would not be burned as clean.

Xiao Lan sat alone in the courtyard, raised his head and drank a glass of wine.

Niu Dading came in again and saw that he was still alone. It was unavoidable to regret: "Is my righteous brother not back yet?"

Xiao Lan said, "He may have gone on a long journey alone."

Niu Dading asked: "Where did you go?"

Xiao Lan replied: "The arena."

This conversation is really exactly the same as the story of the storyteller. Niu Dading felt that this might be the only time in his life that he was so close to the rivers and lakes. For a while, he felt a little sad and a little bit sad.

Xiao Lan said, "Are you leaving?"

Niu Dadingfeng said: "Uncle's birthday is over, I should go back too."

Xiao Lan asked, "When will we leave?"

Niu Dading said: "Five days later."

Xiao Lan shook his head, "You are leaving tonight."

Niu Dading was inexplicable: "Why?"

Xiao Lan said, "Your righteous brother said before he left that today is a good day. People in the rivers and lakes have to choose a good and auspicious day when they travel far."

"Really?" Niu Dading rubbed his thigh and patted his thigh when he heard the words. "Then I will listen to my brother, and go tonight!"

It was night, Niu Dading really packed up his cart and salute, and went all the way out of the city.

The stars on the horizon were dim, Xiao Lan got up and left the Li Mansion, and went to the west of the city alone.

In front of a small house yard, there really is an old willow tree with a crooked neck. It grows very luxuriantly, and it should be full of young shoots in spring. But the people in the city don't dislike it very much, because it is said that decades ago, a scholar stepped on a tree to meet the young lady in the house every night, which was quite insulting.

Xiao Lan stepped on the tree over the courtyard wall.

In the room, Lin Wei was changing Lu Zhui's dressing. Xiao Lan's iron whip was covered with black gold barbs. After being entangled, it was like being bitten by sharp teeth. After receiving a whip that day, Lu Chai's shoulders were full of blood holes of various depths, and he looked a little crippled.

Lin Wei carefully blew up the powder.

Lu Zhui's forehead was covered with cold sweat: "With your technique, you actually thought about going to be a doctor?"

"Didn't I fail to do this?" Lin Wei coaxed him, "Well, I will be slower."

"You'd better hurry up." Lu Chai had a headache, "Otherwise, the pain is one thing, and 80% of them will suffer from the wind and cold."

Lin Wei was ruthless and applied the powdered medicine.

Lu Chai screamed.

Xiao Lan leaned at the door and said, "Are you going to give birth?"

"What to look at!" Before Lu Chai said aloud, Lin Wei scolded first, "Turn around!" Taking advantage of my second master without clothes, he took a look at him. You look like a rogue.

"I'm not a big girl, I'm afraid that people won't see it." Xiao Lan took a bottle of medicine from his arms and threw it over, "Use this."

Lin Wei received it and threw it back to him.

Lu Zhui: "..."

The injured person is me.

Xiao Lan didn't speak any more, and kept leaning at the door waiting for him to change the medicine before saying: "Have you ever thought, maybe my mother kidnapped A Liu?"

"Mrs. Tao?" Lu Chai was puzzled, "but she doesn't know Ah Liu."

"You should know Feiling." Xiao Lan said.

Lu Chai nodded.

"The palm of her hand is my mother's soul-removing palm." Xiao Lan said, "So at least that night, my mother had been to the White Bone House, and A Liuruo was also there and she would be taken by her. It’s not strange to walk."

"If it were really taken away by Mrs. Tao, that would be a good thing." Lu Zhui stood up and moved his muscles a bit, "At least there will be no risk of life."

Xiao Lan raised his eyebrows: "It's hard to tell."

"My people have gone out of the city to find them." Lu Zhui said, "There is another thing that you should also want to hear. It is related to the Red Lotus Flower."

Xiao Lan said, "What's the matter?"

"On the first night A Liu broke into the White Bone House, I saw Feiling." Lu Zhui said, "At that time, she should be calling for the souls of Senior Xiao, and it was the Red Lotus Cup in her hand."

"Impossible." Xiao Lan shook his head. "The Feiling has disappeared for more than 20 years, but the red lotus cup has disappeared, nothing more than five or six years ago."

"I lied to you." Lu chased down a cup of tea. "Perhaps she has stepped out of the illusion, or for other reasons, she will always find an answer in the future. And since Mrs. Tao has been to the Bone House, If you have a chance, you might as well ask, maybe you will gain."

Xiao Lan was noncommittal, and could not tell whether he believed it or not.

"You are looking for me tonight, should something be happening?" Lu Zhui handed him a cup of tea.

Xiao Lan raised his hand and swept away, saying, "Follow me to Zhenfeng Temple tomorrow."

Lu asked: "What do you do?"

Xiao Lan replied: "Pretend to be a husband and wife."

"Ahem!" Lin Wei sprayed all the tea on the ground, thinking that he might be deaf, "What did you say?"