moonlit night

The master of Xuanhu Peak intervened, and the imperial capital moved ahead of schedule.

The night in Xiaoxiang is as cool as water, Jing Li is standing in the quiet courtyard of Ningbi Palace, with the ancient banyan forest covering the sky and the moon above his head, and the branches around him are crooked, stretching randomly and irregularly, Like the hand of an evil spirit stretched out from hell.

He read the message carefully again, and then lightly twisted his fingers, destroying the white silk he had just obtained.

Luo Mingchuan has delivered the news to Xiaoxiang, and he must have arrived in Xizhou long ago. If Shaluo, who is far away in Xizhou, knows the news, he will probably say through gritted teeth, "I underestimated that woman on Xuanhu Peak. It's really an eyesore. Go and get her Take out your heart and give it to me" or something like that.

I hope she can successfully trap Hengwu to death in the swaying lotus pond in Xizhou. If not, no matter how smooth the progress of the imperial capital and Xiaoxiang are, there is really nothing to sing about in this series of rounds.

Jing Li knew Luo Mingchuan, he was capable enough, and he was still utterly devoted to that brat Sha Luo.Even if you tell him to die, there is no other reason. If used well, it can be regarded as a chess piece that can decide the outcome of the game.

It's a pity, his role for him is only to pretend to be a humongous and hold back the demon king.As for how to develop in the future, and whether he can get out of the imperial capital alive, it is beyond the scope of his consideration.

Jing Li sneered slightly, and thought to himself, if he gets on this thief ship, if he doesn't put his life on the line, how can he feel at ease if he is manipulating everything behind it?

"Hey, are you annoying? I told you not to follow me!"

At this moment, Luo Qingluan's sullen voice came from not far away, Jing Li's expression was normal, and he walked out of the banyan forest that made people feel uneasy, and smiled at the woman who seemed to be fleeing in front of him. He said: "Qingluan, Mu Xiong, how did you two get together?"

"Little uncle," as soon as Luo Qingluan saw him, he rushed over and called out as if he had seen a savior: "After I had dinner with my little aunt, I went out for a walk. Shameless Mu Gouxiong. I don't want to talk to him, but he insists on following, do you think he's annoying?"

The monkey-like young man next to her answered with a smile and said: "Obviously I saw you alone, so I deliberately followed you because I was afraid that you would be lonely. Why don't you pay me back?"

Luo Qingluan glanced at him in disgust, as if she felt uncomfortable even being close to this person, and was about to refute, but saw "Jing Zhao" pressed his hands down, smiled and made a gesture of stopping the fight.He first took out something from his arms and handed it to Luo Qingluan: "Qingluan, this is the score based on the song left by Mr. Hengwu last time, take it back and put it away. It's getting late, you Let's go back quickly."

Then he turned his head and smiled at the young man, saying:

"Mu Xiong, I got a new fire-type high-grade spiritual weapon, which complements the skills you cultivated. If you're okay, let's take a look together?"

"Hey, okay," Mu Xiong responded with a nod, followed him, and turned his head to wink at Luo Qingluan, "Mei Luo, see you."

Luo Qingluan rolled his eyes, turned his head quickly, and ran away in the opposite direction from the two.

She pretended to run for a while, and when she reached the corner, she dodged and hid behind a huge banyan tree next to her.Seeing that the two people in the other direction disappeared, Luo Qingluan came out of the hiding place. After hesitating for a moment, he raised his legs and walked quickly to the place where Jingli had just come out.

In front of him was the shadowy banyan forest, as if there were countless evil spirits lurking, but even if there were ghosts, it could not dispel the suspicion that had already arisen in Luo Qingluan's heart.

Ever since I came to Ningbi Palace, I haven't even met my aunt a few times, but I have been invited to drink tea many times by this uncle.The latter asked her about his little uncle's whereabouts, and then asked him in detail what he said and did before he left, and whether there was anything unusual. This level of concern makes people suspect that he is empathizing with someone else .

Isn't it... Could it be that the little uncle has never touched the little aunt for so many years, is it because he loves someone else?

Luo Mingjia seems to be very ill, and has been bedridden recently. Even when she is awake, she is not as close to Luo Qingluan as before. She is always alone in a daze, sometimes unable to speak a word for a day, even with Jing Zhao by her side On the other hand, things didn't get any better.Luo Qingluan was very worried about her, but she couldn't ask anything from Luo Mingjia, so she could only find a way to find out.

Luo Qingluan had never thought about Jing Zhao's eccentricity before, and only thought that he had a hidden disease of not wanting to talk to others, but once he started thinking about it, it was out of control.In the past few days in Ningbi Palace, she pieced together the clues that she had neglected before, but finally found that the key to everything seemed to point to the tomb made of white jade deep in the courtyard of Ningbi Palace.

She had sneaked here more than once, and saw Jing Zhao's figure appearing nearby.

Although it was expressly forbidden to approach, Luo Qingluan knew that the more restricted the area, the more likely it was to hide some secrets.Then, is there any ulterior secret hidden under the tomb of the second son of Ningbi Palace?

Luo Qingluan summoned Shui Yuan and held it in his hand, feeling more at ease.She couldn't see her fingers in the woods. Although she knew that Jing Zhao had left, she still didn't dare to light a fire just in case, so she could only grope forward in the dark. Devil May Cry, even though he was as bold as Luo Qingluan, he couldn't help but shudder when he traveled through this place alone.

Compared with the ferocious monsters that really exist, she is more afraid of facing the unknown fear in the dark.

But the arrow was on the string and had to be fired. After all, Luo Qingluan closed his eyes, held the water kite in front of his eyes, and ran through this haunted and eerie banyan forest.

She didn't get lost, she wasn't trapped in the formation, and everything she had worried about never happened after all.The tomb that could only be seen from a distance appeared so easily in front of my eyes. The moonlight streamed down, and every piece of jade brick exuded a glistening white light. Fireflies floated from not far away, embellishing this quiet courtyard with tranquility. And peaceful.

It's like there's no danger whatsoever.

But even so, Luo Qingluan still didn't rush forward. She checked all possible positions in the courtyard and made sure that there were no traps. Then she finally made up her mind and walked towards the cemetery made of white jade. open pace.

One step, two steps, she finally walked to the front of the tomb step by step. As expected, she first saw a tombstone standing in the front, but there was no word written on it.Luo Qingluan felt strange, so she moved closer to take a closer look, but saw that there were old knife marks on the stele, as if there were words there, but the person who carved the stele was not sure what to write on it, or what to write on it. He was dissatisfied, so he took a knife and destroyed all the original handwriting.

Now the only thing that can be vaguely seen on the entire tablet is the word "Li".

Aunt Jia once mentioned that my uncle once had a younger brother who died suddenly on the night of their wedding. If I remember correctly, his name was Jing Li.But since this is his resting place, the person who carved the tombstone should be his only surviving relative—brother Jing Zhao.

But since it was engraved, why was it destroyed?

Luo Qingluan was thinking about it, but she didn't have a clue at all. She walked around the place in a daze, but found that the surrounding jade bricks were neatly piled up, and there was no place to go in at all.

This was expected. After all, the dead were the most important. Once the tomb was sealed, there was no plan to reopen it. Except for tomb robbers, no one would want to go to the tomb to dig the coffin.What's more, this tomb is still in Ningbi Palace, and most people can't get in if they want to.

Could it be that this trip is doomed to nothing?

Luo Qingluan was a little disappointed, but unwilling to just go back home like this, he couldn't help squatting down regardless of his image, and poked a few holes in the soil beside him with a water kite.But poking and poking, she suddenly felt her hands loosen, and the tip of the sword seemed to have pierced into a gap.

How is this going?

Luo Qingluan was stunned for a moment, but then he regained his spirits and hurriedly stretched out his sword into the gap, only to feel that the more he probed down, the less the initial blocking feeling from the soil there.In the end, she was almost completely lying on the ground, stretching her arms downwards with great effort, until almost halfway, the tip of the sword that had been hanging in the air for a long time finally touched the hard stone wall, and there was an empty echo.

That's it!

Luo Qingluan licked her lips that were starting to dry out from nervousness and excitement, and keenly felt that this trip would not be in vain.

She drew the sword back, turned her wrist, aimed at that position and lowered the sword again, quickly pushed aside the loose layers of floating soil on the surface, then jumped down from the pit that barely accommodated a person.At the same time, she didn't stop, and continued to force downwards, and soon, a dilapidated hole appeared at the end of her sight, surrounded by broken jade bricks.

Luo Qingluan was overjoyed, and thought that the location of the hole was very hidden. It was definitely not intentionally left out at the beginning of construction, nor was it formed naturally. Someone must have tried to enter the tomb from the side like himself. went, and succeeded.

Excited, Luo Qingluan glanced upwards, seeing that the night was still dark, and it would be around midnight before dawn, so she made up her mind to go in and take a look.Just in case, she took out the water spirit whip from the spirit ring and wrapped it around her waist, and condensed air on her fingertips to make it bright. Then, with a cat waist, she slipped into the narrow hole.

At the beginning, she could still feel the light and breath of the outside world, but the more she walked in, what lingered on the tip of her nose was only the decaying breath of the underground world.The temperature is gradually dropping, Luo Qingluan feels that he has been going downhill, but he doesn't know where the end is, let alone what is waiting for him ahead.

But now, she can only bite the bullet and continue to move forward.

There was a dead silence around, Luo Qingluan could only hear the sound of his own footsteps and the faster and faster heartbeat, like drumming, making people feel more and more irritable.In order to prevent getting lost, every time she passed a fork in the road, she would carve a sword mark on the stone wall.When he leaned forward to carve the tenth mark, he suddenly kicked something under his feet, which seemed to be quite big. After being kicked, he jumped forward a few meters and made a few ugly screams, which scared Luo Qing Luan took a few steps back, thinking that he had encountered some evildoer.

But when I looked closely, I found that it was an exceptionally large toad.

In such an environment, people's hearts will become extremely sensitive and fragile. Luo Qingluan stared at the ugly toad in front of him, complaining that he made a fuss, but at the same time, for some reason, he suddenly remembered that person who always looked down on people with a haughty face. , but unexpectedly a guy who is very reliable in everything.

If Feng Manlou was by his side, wouldn't it be so scary no matter what scary things were waiting in front of him?

The little junior whom the girl had liked when she first started her love affair seemed to have completely died in her heart following that decisive farewell.Before that, Luo Qingluan was not sure what kind of feelings he had for Fengmanlou, but now that he was in danger, the first thing he thought of was actually him.

Does this mean that he has really occupied a place in his heart since he didn't know when?

Missing quietly spread in his heart, Luo Qingluan began to imagine that Feng Manlou was standing beside him at this moment, the seven arrows were ready to shoot, and he was ready to shoot the imaginary enemy who was about to appear at any time, and turned his head affectionately The authentic way: "Luan'er, don't be afraid, I'm here."

Ahem, she was about to die laughing at the scene she imagined. Since there was no one else in the tomb, she simply laughed out loud, and the laughter echoed around. Although it was a bit weird, it effectively relieved her pain. of fear.

The ugly toad looked at the human being who had disturbed his sleep and suddenly went crazy in front of him very speechlessly, he simply couldn't see it, and kicked his legs forward.It was rare for Luo Qingluan to see a living creature, so she naturally followed, who knew that this stalking really made her see a glimmer of light in the underground, and hear the sound of another person's breathing.

There are actually living people in this place.

Luo Qingluan held her breath, and walked lightly towards the bright spot in front of her, but when she saw the scene inside, she almost screamed out, and hurriedly covered her mouth.

A man with disheveled hair was nailed deep into the wall behind him. His head was drooping. Except for a slight ups and downs of his chest, there was no life at all. There were blood-sucking vines wrapped around his wrists and ankles, which seemed to be sucking him. There is not much energy left in the body.

Who is this?How long has he been locked here silently?

Luo Qingluan was still in shock, but the man moved a bit, then seemed to sense movement, and raised his head towards where Luo Qingluan was.

As soon as he raised his head, Luo Qingluan felt the blood all over his body rush to the top of his head in an instant, and he froze in place, not even knowing where to put his hands and feet.

That face is clearly... clearly exactly the same as Jing Zhao.

"Mingjia...is that you?" The man's voice was hoarse, as if he hadn't spoken for a long time, but his tone was full of anxiety and joy, "Are you... all right? He hasn't...had made things difficult for you recently, right?"

He actually knew Aunt Jia.

Luo Qingluan didn't reply for a long time, and after a while, she came out from the shadow of hiding, and said with difficulty: "No, I'm not. Who are you? Why are you trapped here?"