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In the bamboo forest, the sound of their footsteps was covered by the sound of rain.

"What do you want to say?" Luo Xingyun stopped suddenly, frowned and looked at the man who had been walking in front without saying a word.

Li Wanshu turned around and smiled lightly: "What are you doing in such a hurry, Brother Yun, those who are concerned about major events must hold their breath."

Luo Xingyun rolled his eyes at him, thinking that he would lose his temper after talking to you and still feel like a ghost.

Li Wanshu pondered for a while, and seemed to think for a while before saying to him: "Come here." He reached out his hand to signal the other party to enter under his oil-paper umbrella. However, no matter what Luo Xingyun thought about it, he felt that the two rough guys were sharing the umbrella. I can't bear to look directly at the umbrella or something, it's awkward no matter how you look at it.So this guy held an umbrella and walked up to Li Wanshu, but he didn't have the slightest intention of going in when he got close.

Li Wanshu was not annoyed when he saw that the other party didn't move, he just smiled and got under Luo Xingyun's umbrella to put away his own umbrella, standing there as if it was a matter of course.

"..." Luo Xingyun sighed, although he knew that his martial arts might not be as good as this guy who hid his sword in his smile, but the desire to beat this person was growing like mushrooms after rain.

Li Wanshu held his broken bone fan and said quietly: "Why don't we lure the snake out of the hole, some things get worse the longer they are delayed. Especially now that the situation is not clear, and we don't know who that ghost brother is."

Luo Xingyun glanced at him, and raised the corners of his lips: "Why does Brother Li sound like you know everything, my brain is not very good."

"Oh? But Brother Yun clearly looks like he knows everything, why doesn't Brother Yun think this is a game?" Li Wanshu put his hands behind his back, and the two of them were very close under the same umbrella, with only a palm and a half between their faces. You can almost feel the other person's shallow breathing.

Li Wanshu uttered words slowly and ambiguously, those dark eyes were dimly radiant, Luo Xingyun faced those eyes without any trace of fear, instead he raised his eyebrows and said: "Are you suspicious of your attendant?"

"Since we are going to the capital together, I will be uneasy if I don't get rid of these uneasy factors on the way."

"So you are... asking me for help?" Luo Xingyun smiled.

"you can say it this way."

"Well, I can help you if I'm busy." Luo Xingyun rolled his eyes and showed a sly expression, "But you owe me a favor."

Li Wanshu looked at Luo Xingyun's villainous look, and the smile on his face deepened, and he wanted to see how this man's appearance was under the skin: "It's not a problem. But can you tell me, Brother Yun?" Next, what did you find next to the corpse?"

Luo Xingyun was startled secretly, he didn't expect this idiot to discover his little trick, but he didn't intend to hide it, he just didn't want the owner to see it, so he took out a crystal jade pendant from his bosom and waved it in front of Li Wanshu Liao Huang: "Here, the beauty's things you fancy."

Li Wanshu looked at the jade pendant and frowned: "Is this... picked up at that time?"

"There are bloodstains on it. I guess we don't know what happened there last night. Do you want to think about asking Mr. Chen?"

Li Wanshu smiled, always like a spring breeze: "I am willing to accompany you."

Soybean-sized raindrops fell quickly, and in the bamboo forest, two beasts in costumes looked at each other silently under the same umbrella, and a strange and ambiguous atmosphere gradually rose. The two seemed to be sticking together, but they were actually competing in secret.

"Young Master Li, Young Master Luo? I'm still wondering why you haven't come back yet." Chen Liao's crisp voice interrupted the enigmatic gaze between the two, "Both of you, it's time for breakfast..." However, watching When he arrived at the two, his voice and footsteps stopped suddenly, and he looked at the two people who were holding the same umbrella and were very close together with some doubts.

"Cough." Luo Xingyun glanced at Li Wanshu and let out a light cough, then took a small step back and opened the distance between the two of them. He was obviously still discussing some secret plan just now, and now he acted like nothing happened. "Brother Li's umbrella is broken, we're here right now."

When the three of them went to the village chief's house for breakfast, they met A Li who just came back, so the four of them came together.The village head's house was relatively quiet at this time, because the village head and the village head's wife hurriedly went to the government to deal with it after discovering the corpse today. The village head's daughter stayed in her boudoir, and there were only four of them in the living room.

After the meal, the matter of the blood-clothed female ghost was naturally regarded as a pastime.

"My subordinates went down to the back mountain to check, but they didn't find any living places. Could it be that the back mountain is just a place they passed by?" Ali said.

"Well... this is possible." Li Wanshu pondered, "It's just that the blood-clothed female ghost has already killed one person, and the government's interference should not show up easily. If the government investigates carefully, there will be no clues. Let alone us passers-by."

Luo Xingyun glanced at Li Wanshu very impolitely, and then said with a smile: "Brother Li, if you don't want to interfere, just say so, Mr. Chen won't blame you."

Chen Liao was dumbfounded when he heard this, thinking how he was pushed out so well.

"A person as generous as Mr. Chen will definitely not mind these things." Li Wanshu didn't seem to have heard the contempt in Luo Xingyun's words at all, it should be said that he was used to that person's way of speaking that didn't know how to beat around the bush.

Chen Liao didn't understand why he was pushed out again, but since Li Wanshu praised him, he was bound to return the gift, so he said solemnly, "Mr. Li's absurd praise."

Suddenly, there was a noise outside the window.

"Village Chief, what are you talking about...that blood-clothed female ghost committed the crime?" A rough and vigorous voice said.

Chen Liao immediately knew that it was his father who brought the government officials back, so he stood up and said, "Father brought back the yamen servants, we can go and have a look."

The group of serious government servants wandered around the corpse in a regular manner and then began to search for other people's homes. After doing enough superficial work, they left quickly, for fear that they would encounter some strange things if they stayed here for a long time.

Li Wanshu planned to visit the mansion of the deceased, of course without anyone's permission, but he obviously didn't want to be the only one with the infamy of trespassing, so he forced Luo Xingyun to go with him Go, and even deliberately shook off A Li.

It rained heavily all day, and it was precisely because of this weather that no one wandered around the village day and night, only restless people like Li Wanshu and the others went out for a walk.Although the mansion of the deceased was sealed with a seal after being inspected by the government, Luo Xingyun never paid attention to the seal, because there is a kind of martial arts called lightness kung fu in this world, and there is also a kind of trespassing. The method is called overturning the wall.

So these two guys flitted into the yard with oiled paper umbrellas, and there was no one around, so their behavior became even more dissolute.Li Wanshu walked ahead, put away the umbrella when he entered the eaves, calmly tore off the seal on the door, and then opened the door and stepped in as if entering his own home, which is simply not taken for granted.Luo Xingyun carefully felt the atmosphere around him, and then followed into the door after confirming that there was no one there.

The lights in the house could not be noticed, and they could only see things against the gray sky, but their eyes quickly adapted to the darkness.The two searched the house extensively but couldn't find anything useful. In the end, Luo Xingyun could only focus on the bed that could be seen at a glance, and stretched out his hand to touch the quilt bit by bit.

Li Wanshu found nothing, saw Luo Xingyun touching the bed and came over: "Is this bed comfortable?"

"Uncomfortable, but there is something." Luo Xingyun gave Li Wanshu a blank look, then twisted his left hand and took out a cylindrical object from under the bed.

"What's this?"

Luo Xingyun fumbled for a while, then found a cover-like thing and pulled it out, and there was a roll of smaller things inside: "I'm afraid it's a painting, light a lamp."

After the dim candlelight filled the entire room, Luo Xingyun carefully unfolded the roll of paper.What caught the eyes of the two was a woman with a graceful figure and a smile on her face. The goose-yellow dress added a bit of liveliness to it.In the upper left corner of the painting, Liu Mu's wife, Liu Shi, was written, and a seal was printed on the bottom.

"This... is that Liu family? But why is it in this person's room?" Luo Xingyun murmured.

"According to the people in the village, the blood-clothed female ghost is actually the soul of the Liu family, but why did you kill people so well? You and I both know that this person's death is definitely not because of any ghosts and gods, but because someone wants him to die." Li Wanshuhuang Starting to break the bone fan in his hand, he looked thoughtfully at the portraits spread out on the table, "Could it be murder to silence?"

"Oh! Old Li! You... ah!! There are ghosts!! There are ghosts!!!" There was a sudden cry from outside, Luo Xingyun's face changed, and he reached out and extinguished the candle on the table with a wave.

"What the hell is there?! Haha, you are finished! Let's see if you will be scolded when you go home drunk!" another old man laughed.

"Could it be that my eyesight is blurred? Hey! Isn't this the house where the person died today? It's strange! Let's not stop here!" said the previous man with some anxiety.

After the two left cursing, Luo Xingyun turned his head and said to Li Wanshu: "Take this portrait away." Li Wanshu had the same idea as him, stuffed the scroll into his arms and walked out the door.

The outside of the house was as quiet as when they came. Luo Xingyun went first, followed closely by Li Wanshu. The two leaped onto the wall with light kung fu, and the scenery outside the street came into view. However, Luo Xingyun in front suddenly froze Suddenly, the pupils of both eyes shrank suddenly.

"What's the matter..." Li Wanshu was quite calm at first, and he couldn't help but pause when he came to him.

I saw a person standing on the empty street at some time, that person was dressed in light blue, with a pair of peach blossom eyes looking at the two thieves who broke into the house at night with a hint of a smile.

"Uh, Mr. Chen?" Li Wanshu jumped down from the wall, "Why are you still here in the middle of the night?"

Luo Xingyun thought, it is probably extremely rare in this world for someone who can trespass into a private house like this nerd, be caught straight and still ask others why he appeared with a naive and puzzled face.

"Because I saw two people coming here who seemed to have business to do, so I followed them out of curiosity." Chen Liao smiled slightly, "Why, have you two found any clues?"

Luo Xingyun and Li Wanshu looked at each other secretly, the former was more puzzled and cautious.

In the wing room, there is a bright lamp, three people around the table, and three cups of tea on the table.

The three of them were quiet for a while, and Chen Liao was the first to break the silence: "This time, I came here after looking for some clues. Regarding the matter of the blood-clothed female ghost Liu, I think I can only start from the root cause of the matter." .”

"What a coincidence." Li Wanshu took a sip of tea, "I'm afraid I can't do without tracing the source. Brother Yun and I found this thing in the room of the deceased." Luo Xingyun shook his hand, and the scroll unfolded .

Chen Liao frowned and leaned over to look, but after just one glance, his eyes showed disbelief: "How could this be the Liu family?!" As soon as he said this, he subconsciously closed his mouth, his eyes flickered, realizing that he was A slip of the tongue.

"Mr. Chen... how do you know that this woman is not from the Liu family?" Luo Xingyun raised his eyebrows and asked softly.

"Hey, I heard from people in the village that although the Liu family is a woman of the world, she looks like a lady of the family, gentle and virtuous... Naturally, she will not have the lively posture of such a young daughter." Chen Liao He laughed dryly.

Li Wanshu is different from Luo Xingyun, he doesn't mean to be aggressive in his words, after all, Mr. Chen is a young man who has not reached the top, let alone his handsome appearance, he thinks he has never He has the demeanor of a scholar, and he can't do such a thing as extorting a confession.So this guy smiled and changed the topic for Chen Liao: "I wonder what Mr. Chen said he heard?"

When Chen Liao saw someone giving him a step down, he naturally hurried on. He paused and said, "I heard that the young master of the Liu family died of depression a few days after Mrs. Liu's death. Nian Nian saw Liu’s portrait crying. But it’s strange to say that when Young Master Liu and Liu were carried to the back mountain for burial, they suddenly met Zou Longjiao, and their family was trapped on the mountain for one night. Later, my father I planned to take people up the mountain to look for it, but I didn't expect the Liu family to go down the mountain without incident."

"Suddenly met Zoulongjiao but spent the night on the mountain without incident? Where did he hide?" Li Wanshu asked.

"They said that the whole family hid in the cave, but my father is very clear about the terrain of the back mountain. There is no cave that can hide such a large number of people. Then they returned to the Liu family, and the dog that the Liu family had previously kept barked all night. , everyone said that it must be the ghost of Liu's lingering haunting our village."

"My dog ​​barked at my family all night... This is obviously something wrong." Luo Xingyun hesitated, "Did they bring something back to Liu's house?"

Chen Liao thought for a while and was about to say something, but Luo Xingyun waved his hand suddenly: "There is someone."

"Ka——" The door was gently pushed open, and A Li, who was holding an oil-paper umbrella, walked in. He was taken aback when he saw three people sitting in the room, and then said, "Young Master, Young Master Luo and Young Master Chen."

"A Li, have you found clues somewhere after you have been out for so long today?" Li Wanshu asked solemnly.

"I didn't find much. I went to the small bamboo forest alone today, but there was no trace of human activity."

What A Li said was actually within Li Wanshu's expectations, but the conversation between the three of them must not go on tonight. Chen Liao resolutely got up to leave, Li Wanshu closed the door, and started talking about other things. matter.

But as a subordinate, A Li is obviously very worried about his son's temperament. After all, if people like Li Wanshu don't come to him, he can't help but want to make others feel bad, so he persuaded him loyally: "My lord, since you have received the bloody clothes, those pretenders will not let you go, so please be careful tonight, lord!"

Li Wanshu has obviously never been a reassuring master, and now he smiled disapprovingly: "It's okay, your son and I are very lucky, and there will always be noble people to help you in critical moments. Let's go to bed early tonight , maybe you will open your eyes tomorrow morning."

So A Li and Li Wanshu fell asleep first, Luo Xingyun couldn't sleep with his eyes closed on the bed, his eyes were staring at the beams but he was inexplicably energetic, his mind was full of portraits of Mrs. Liu for some reason.

If what Chen Liao said is true and the woman in the painting is not from the Liu family, why is Liu's name written on it?Putting nothing else aside, what Chen Liao did was very suspicious.The jade pendant was left next to the corpse last night, and now that Liu's portrait is believed to be fake, I'm afraid Chen Liao himself has some inextricable connection with Liu's...

Luo Xingyun couldn't figure it out, so he got up quietly and walked to the tea table in the room, gently poured a cup of cold tea and took a sip.

He was facing the half-open window, and outside the window was a half-round cold crescent moon, accompanied by the dark blue sky, highlighting the silence of thousands of houses with lights off, and there were a few unknown trees swaying with the breeze in front of the window.

Luo Xingyun looked out of the window, his agitated heart suddenly calmed down, and all thoughts in his mind were emptied. It is rare for him to be in such a state on weekdays. To be precise, he was in a daze. He didn't think much about such things.

At this moment everything is quiet, Luo Xingyun just opened his eyes like this, barely breathing, like a corpse.Then at the next moment, he basically instinctively moved suddenly, his fingers twitched quickly and instantly pulled out the Moon Reflecting Sword by his side.As if waking up from a big dream, his pupils shrank violently, and with a swipe of his right hand to the left, he threw out a piercing sword intent.

"Click!" The sword energy that flew out patted the curtain beside the bed lightly, making a slight sound.

Luo Xingyun held his breath, and subconsciously narrowed his eyes.However, after being silent for a while, there was nothing strange around him. He couldn't help but frown in shock. He just lost his consciousness for some reason. If it wasn't for the vigilance he had been accustomed to for many years, he might have to be stabbed to wake up.

...illusion?Or is someone pretending to be a ghost?

Unwillingly, Luo Xingyun stood up and listened around, but only heard the sound of someone getting up from Li Wanshu's side.

"What happened?" Li Wanshu asked while sitting by the bed, looking at Luo Xingyun who was in a bit of a bad state.

Luo Xingyun didn't speak, just flicked his hand to light the candle lamp on the table, then reached out to pick it up and walked slowly in one direction.The eyes of Li Wanshu and A Li also followed the candlelight, and the lively and dancing flame seemed to tell them something.

The dim candlelight gradually approached the wall, and the portrait hanging on it gradually became clearer. It was still the same red lips and the gentle figure, but the three people who saw the portrait all gasped.

On that beautiful and bewildering face, two lines of blood-colored liquid slowly flowed down from the pair of autumn eyes of the person in the painting, as if the woman suddenly came to life in the portrait...