You are a demon

It was late at night, but no one fell asleep.

"It's all just gossip after dinner, do you really want to listen to it?"

If it weren't for the incident during the day, Xie Ziju wouldn't have remembered it. Lou Junqing only said that he brought Gu Sheng to Wulian, but didn't say where it was in Wulian. He searched all over the town, but he ignored it. The mountain forest with steep peaks and dense jungle, the mountain forest that seems to be uninhabited.

If he's really there...

"Brother Zhao has been taking care of you for the past few days, and I am very grateful."

Zhao Mu just wanted to interrupt when he heard the words, but unexpectedly Xie Ziju continued: "It's just that the person who came to look for this time is really important to Pindao."

The elder sent a message a few days ago that the broken North Star had fallen, the thousand-year-old demon was born, and the world was about to be in chaos. He was ordered to return to the top of Kongtong as soon as possible. If Gu Sheng cannot be found before that, then he I don't know if I can see him again.

This encounter in the human world was originally to investigate the matter of the Demon Locking Tower, but I didn't expect it to be too late.

It was windy outside, Zhao Mu closed the window, turned around and lit two more candles to brighten the room.

As if to suit the occasion, Zhao Mu changed to a lower voice and said slowly: "Actually, Wulian was not called Wulian before, this place with beautiful mountains and rivers was originally called Qingfengzhai."

Xie Ziju was sitting upright, with a serious expression, Zhao Mu suddenly laughed, "Don't be too nervous, Taoist priest."

Realizing his gaffe, Xie Ziju was a little at a loss, and adjusted his sitting posture again, but after changing several postures, they were all the same as before, and he didn't know what to do.

Zhao Mu shook his head with a smile, and continued: "The Taoist priest must have personally felt it for a few days here. The people in Qingfengzhai are more casual and friendly, but after staying in this simple and unremarkable place for a long time, there will always be a The two fledgling eaglets want to go out to see the outside world, and Xuanjing's story of luxury and wealth was once sought after by others." Pause,

"Such a prosperous life is really desirable",

No matter how beautiful and simple a place is, it can't trap the heart of a young and frivolous boy who wants to go out and make a living.

"Qingfengzhai used to have a well-known scholarly family. The master had two sons under his knees. The master was kind and nosy. He accidentally rescued a man of unknown origin covered in blood. After several treatments, the man finally woke up. , but the injury was too serious and he had to stay to recuperate. After the young man woke up, he was very grateful to the master, and he also served as the teacher of his two sons in his spare time."

As if his mouth was a little dry, Zhao Mu saved a glass of water for himself, and then drank it down: "His great insight and profound knowledge moved the master, and also buried a deep feeling in the hearts of the two children." a seed".

An old man who has studied poetry and books for half his life said all the flattery he would say all his life to the person from the capital the night before he left. He didn't want his children to be like him in a hurry and grow old , but the only visible place is this piece of sky above the head, this piece of sky with nothing but clarity.

"The young man bid farewell to the family and took away the youngest son",

When Zhao Mu said this, he didn't continue.

"and after?"

The wind is really strong tonight, and there are wisps of coolness coming through the gaps in the windows, but this does not bring a little coolness to the summer night in July, but it is a bit cold.

Zhao Mu didn't speak for a long time, his eyes were hidden in the shadows, and the corners of his mouth were slightly raised: "There are different opinions about what happened later, and I don't know much about it. Some people say that the youngest son became a high-ranking official in Xuanjing, and some people said that the young man was born The blood debt dragged down the youngest son who was hunted down together, and eventually died in a foreign land. In short, the young man and the youngest son never came back after that.”

Xie Ziju was a little puzzled: "Has no one sent someone to look for both the master and the eldest son?"

Zhao Mu's expression seemed annoyed: "I forgot to say, the night the young man left, the master and the eldest son disappeared. I heard that two corpses were seen in that forest a long time later, but it was too long ago. I can't tell if it's them or not."

He knew what Xie Ziju wanted to ask, so he didn't hold back.

"After Qingfengzhai, there was a flood. The Taoist priest also saw the terrain here. Most of the survivors hid on the opposite mountain. In the face of natural disasters, survival is the problem. Nothing, for food, they even poured their hands full of blood, once the ugly soul sleeping in their hearts erupts, it will be more violent than ever, the heaven on earth will suddenly turn into purgatory, and it must be the same.”

Even though what he said was calm, even though he didn't describe the scene at that time, those pictures did indeed float in Xie Ziju's mind.

Zhao Mu changed his tone with a relaxed tone, as if trying to ease the oppressive atmosphere at the moment: "But that was a long time ago, I just heard some old people mention it occasionally, and you can see that the current Wulian is not what it used to be. Qingfengzhai is as simple and beautiful as ever.”

How can something that has already happened be as beautiful as before.

After hearing this, Xie Ziju fell into deep thought, while Zhao Mu sat aside and sipped tea quietly without disturbing him.

"Brother Zhao, it's getting late, I've been disturbed by the poor for a long time, so I'll go back and rest first."

The tea in Zhao Mu's hand was already cold, he nodded slightly, and watched Xie Ziju go out.

"got windy",

Zhao Mu got up and opened the window, with one hand behind his back and the other hand holding the cup, letting his robe flip up in the wind.