This seat is a villain

Shopkeeper Sun of the Qilin Academy of Painting stood in front of the counter with his hands clasped, every wrinkle on his face faintly showing his impatience.

A young girl had been in the store for half an hour, and she was picking and choosing among the paintings of famous masters, as if she was picking Chinese cabbage.

Shopkeeper Sun saw the little girl put down Huang Kewu's "Moving a Boat on a Snowy Night" and was casually opening the next scroll. His forehead couldn't help but twitched, and he stopped him, "Hey...I said..."

Before Shopkeeper Sun had time to attack, the little girl suddenly looked at him, and that look made Shopkeeper Sun subconsciously shut his mouth.The girl put the scroll in her hand aside casually, and asked, "Old man, do you have Lin Muyuan's paintings here?"

Look, look, what a tone.

Shopkeeper Sun was secretly annoyed that he had been fascinated by a ghost just now, but he was almost fooled by a little girl.So he shook his head, lowered his head and fiddled with the abacus a few times, and then said: "Lin Muyuan has been famous for a long time, but suddenly disappeared more than ten years ago. A must. We are fortunate to have a few pieces in our collection, but at this price..."

As he spoke, shopkeeper Sun looked the little girl up and down, and the corners of his mouth unconsciously curved into a sneer.

The implication is - you can't afford it even if you ask.

"You just need to tell me whether you have it or not." The little girl came to the counter in the blink of an eye and said, "Where are there so many nonsense."

While speaking, an ingot of gold appeared in front of Shopkeeper Sun's abacus.

Shopkeeper Sun was so dazzled by the golden ingot that he couldn't move his eyes away, and he didn't have time to think about how the gold appeared out of thin air.He swallowed hard, and then stammered, "You...you come with me."

However, the accident happened at this very moment. Shopkeeper Sun's head was not calmed down by the gold ingot, and a famille rose glass bottle suddenly fell from a high shelf, and he was about to open his little God of Wealth on the spot.

Shopkeeper Sun didn't have time to think about it, so he quickly turned around and rushed forward, trying to use his huge body to block the little girl's disaster.But the bottle changed the direction of its fall just at the nick of time, and hit the ground not far away with a crash.

Shopkeeper Sun struggled to stand up, and before he could take a look at the broken bottle, he saw a man appearing at the door of the store.

The man stood against the light, making it difficult to see his face, but there was a faint aura of unkindness around him.

"You, who are you?" Shopkeeper Sun felt a little guilty, and couldn't help but turn up the volume.

Xue Yao walked sideways into the store, and the sunlight outside the door immediately illuminated his face.The moment Zhizhi saw Xue Yao clearly, her face turned livid.

Xue Yao stopped Zhizhi who was about to escape, and asked nonchalantly, "Why are you here alone, did you sneak out behind your parents' backs?"

Xue Yao's voice frightened Zhizhi into a fright, and she trembled as if remembering something terrible.

It's really not a good memory to be choked by someone's neck to refine the true essence alive. Xue Yao didn't want to meet Zhizhi before because of this consideration.Thinking of this, Xue Yao bent down and looked Zhizhi straight in the eyes, and said, "He's not here, I'm alone today."

Zhizhi looked up at Xue Yao, then quietly looked behind him, seeing that Lin Jinhuan was indeed not there, she gradually calmed down.

After Zhizhi no longer resisted so much, Xue Yao continued to ask, "Why are you here?"

Zhizhi opened her mouth to answer, but out of the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of the bewildered shopkeeper.She winked at Xue Yao and led him out of the painting academy together.

As soon as she walked out of the Qilin Painting Academy, Zhizhi's mind became active again.The little girl avoided answering Xue Yao's question, instead crying hungry and tired for a while, and refused to stop for a while.

This time Xue Yao had rare patience, and he responded to Zhizhi's unreasonable troubles.He first took Zhizhi to the largest inn in the town and opened two upper rooms, and ordered a table of wine and food.After Xiao Er finally brought a plate full of wooden fish roe into the house, he closed the door behind his back.

Xue Yao came to the table and sat down, picked up the water in front of him calmly, and asked, "Any more questions? Do you want to invite two more Legies to play the music?"

Zhizhi didn't dare to speak, she lowered her head and silently put rice into her mouth.

Xue Yao didn't move his chopsticks, looked down at Zhizhi and said, "If there's no problem, just talk about it yourself."

Zhizhi swallowed the sauced elbow in her mouth and said, "I want to go to Mount Jialou."

"Oh?" Xue Yao snapped his fingers, put the cup on the table, and asked, "Do you know where that is?"

"I know! That's the old lair of the Demon Cult." Zhizhi pushed her rice bowl onto the table, suddenly became excited, and her eyes turned red instantly.

"But they took both parents up the mountain!" Zhizhi said, with a tear in her voice.

In Zhizhi's chattering narration, Xue Yao learned that not long after he and Lin Jinhuan left Zhizhi's house, a group of men in black suddenly came one day.The man in black smashed up their house involuntarily, and then took Zhizhi's parents away.

Fortunately, Zhizhi's mother hid her in the woodpile, and she escaped unharmed.During these days, Zhizhi searched all the way and inquired all the way, and found the foot of Jialou Mountain after a lot of hardships.

"Are you sure it was done by someone from the Devil's Cult?" Xue Yao wasn't sure how much Zhizhi knew about Mount Jialou, so he asked vaguely, "That's good, what are they arresting you for?"

Zhizhi wiped her tears and said: "Who knows, could it be him...he...he failed to kill us last time, so I feel unwilling..."

Xue Yao knew that Zhizhi was referring to Lin Jinhuan, but he still pretended to be puzzled and asked, "He? Who is he?"

Zhizhi didn't answer Xue Yao's question, but continued in frustration: "I've stayed in this town for several days, and I really don't know how to go up the mountain." She raised her head and looked at Xue Yao eagerly with her big eyes. Said: "Brother Xue, do you think my parents are still alive?"

Zhizhi's words were full of loopholes, and Xue Yao witnessed Zhizhi's performance in front of Tu Luo's formation today, so his suspicion of her increased instead of diminished.

Xue Yao pretended to think seriously for a moment, and then said: "The formation at the entrance of Jialou Mountain is so exquisite that it is difficult for idlers to break through it, but I have heard of a method, maybe I can give it a try."

Zhizhi heard this, and knelt down at Xue Yao's feet with a plop.She grabbed Xue Yao's wrist and begged, "Brother Xue, you have to help me."

Xue Yao intentionally continued to test Zhizhi, so he pretended to refuse and agreed.The two agreed to take a rest at this inn and head to the foot of Mount Jialou together tomorrow.

***

There was no sound in the hall at the moment, and everyone in the hall held their breath, as if they were waiting for the final judgment.

Zhao Dahai stood in the crowd, and all kinds of bloody rumors on Jialou Mountain kept popping up in his mind at this moment.

Rumor has it that Lin Jinhuan, the master of the Nine Heavens Sect, was cruel and heartless. He once ordered a team of 56 people to death on the spot because of his subordinates' incompetence.He also once killed all the palace servants in Liuxiang Palace because of a bad mood for a while.

Zhao Dahai's eyes fell on the corpse in the middle of the hall with his erratic thoughts, and his whole body felt chilled for no reason.

Wei Ziyao carefully looked at the unrecognizable corpse for a moment, but didn't make a sound, but looked up at Lin Jinhuan worriedly.This corpse was found by Zhao Dahai and others in the river area downstream of Lin'an.His belongings have been left behind, but they are very similar to Xue Yao in terms of stature and clothing.

This corpse had been soaked in the river water for too long, and it was already rotten. Even if Wei Ziyao and Xue Yao had been together for many days, they couldn't tell each other apart at this moment.

Lin Jinhuan stood up from the corpse, went to the seat and sat down.He twisted a formula to clean his hands, and then said: "It's not him, keep looking."

For some reason, when Zhao Dahai heard these words, the huge rock in his heart finally fell down.

In order to take a look at the corpse for himself, Lin Jinhuan found a small courtyard in Xili City to settle down. After several days, he finally waited for Zhao Dahai and his party to transport the rotting corpse from Lin'an to him.

This time, Zhao Dahai's oolong delayed the door master's schedule, and let the door owner personally inspect the stinky corpse, but right now he was not worried that the door owner would blame him for his ineffectiveness, instead he breathed a sigh of relief.He unconsciously raised his hand to touch his cold stamina, secretly glad that he finally saved his life.

Zhao Dahai thought of another incident when he was rejoicing, he thought for a while, and then he stepped forward and said: "There is news from the Longevity Palace that now there is a plan in the Immortal Gate to appoint Master Jingming's eldest disciple, Monk Shanren, as the abbot of the Little Chang'an Temple." .”

Lin Jinhuan didn't say a word when he heard the words, Jing Lan subconsciously looked at Wei Ziyao at the side.I saw that Wei Ziyao seemed to be wandering in the sky, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Seeing this, Zhao Dahai didn't dare to stay for long.After he briefly reported his official duties, he led his people to leave quickly.

After Zhao Dahai left, Wei Ziyao also left without saying a word.Seeing that Jing Lan was absent-minded, Lin Jinhuan screened Jing Lan away and went back to the room alone.

That night he remembered some old things again.

In the third year after Xue Yao's body disappeared, one night it snowed heavily, and Lin Jinhuan could no longer fall asleep after waking up from a dream.On this snowy night with no desire to sleep, he suddenly wanted to drink with others and admire the plum blossoms. The long-term lack of rest made Lin Jinhuan's consciousness a little confused.

It wasn't until he had asked the invitation that he suddenly realized that there had been no one left in the Qingxin Hall for a long time.

This cognition made Lin Jinhuan at a loss for a moment. Some people have already broken the embankment in their hearts, but there is no trace of happiness or anger on their faces.Lin Jinhuan got up calmly, approved a large cloak, went to the porch, and personally lit a plain gauze lantern with the four characters "Peace in Four Seasons".

The original lamp had been burned in the fire of Qingxin Hall three years ago. Lin Jinhuan rebuilt Qingxin Hall next to the Liuxiang Palace and remade a lamp.

That night, Lin Jinhuan walked down Jialou Mountain alone with a lantern. In the snow, he personally put a trace of Xue Yao's breath left in the dream-eating tapir jade pendant into the Tuluo formation.