A glance at the spring breeze

After an unknown amount of time, Ruan Lan opened her eyes.

The overhead light is bright and blinding.It may be because of staying in the dark and dark house for too long, the eyes couldn't adapt for a while, and the eyelids closed quickly as soon as they opened.

"Hey, don't pretend to be asleep, I've seen it all."

It took a while for Ruan Lan's eyes to relax, she sat up and said, "Why are you?"

I saw Qi Mo squatting on the stone in front of him holding a bamboo pole, with a weed picked up somewhere in his mouth.

"Why can't it be me? I brought you this bamboo forest."

Ruan Lan said: "...Where did the person who saved me just now go?"

Qi Mo let out an "oh" and said in a muffled voice, "He fell to his death."

Hearing this, Ruan Lan's hairs stood on end.

A country cannot live without an owner.If it is known that the Ninth Five-Year Lord fell to his death in the bamboo forest in southern Anhui, it will be a big trouble.

How is this good?

Ruan Lan couldn't help becoming anxious.

"Pfft hahaha, I was just kidding you." Qi Mo burst into laughter as soon as he slapped his thigh, "Look at you, you were so rigid before, but I didn't expect you to be scared like that casually, and your soul disappeared hahahaha... "

Qi Mo smiled and glanced at Ruan Lan while wiping away his tears.

With a quick glance, Ruan Lan, who was sitting in front of her, was exuding a chill all over her body, her whole face was as cold as ice, and she was staring at him with a straight face.

"Hahaha...ha...ha...cough cough..." Under the gaze of two piercing eyes, Qi Mo's laughter suddenly became awkward, he cleared his throat, and said seriously, "I just came here When I was in a coma, I saw you lying unconscious on the man's lap. After seeing me coming, the man said he was going to find water and asked me to take care of you for a while. But who is he? How did he know you're here?"

Ruan Lan felt uncomfortable when she mentioned this matter.He managed to escape from the palace, not to mention being deceived, planted and framed, and he was hunted down one after another along the way.He escaped from the palace at such a high price, thinking that he was hiding well, but he was found by Yin Xian within ten days.

It's really deceptive.

Qi Mo saw that his right hand was clenched into a fist, and his fair face was suddenly covered with a layer of reddish anger, so he persuaded: "Hey, if you don't want to say it, then don't say it, why are you gnashing your teeth like this?" look."

At this moment, Ruan Lan turned her eyes and saw a figure approaching not far behind Qi Mo.

In Yin Jian's hand, he was holding a dark object, like a moldy steamed bun.

Ruan Lan stood up and patted the ashes off her body.Seeing this, Yin Jian quickened his pace, stabilized his shoulder with one hand, and asked, "When did you wake up? Do you feel better?"

"...Well, it's better."

"Eat this." Yin Jian handed him the thing in his hand, "It can dispel the corpse's breath, but the taste is not very good."

As expected, it was a bitter smell.Ruan Lan reached out to take the dark "steamed bun".

The surface is glowing black and bright, and it is very tough when pinched.

After going through such a journey, it is not surprising that Yin Jian would make such strange things as steamed buns to dispel "corpse gas".The emperor Yin Jian seemed to be serious, and he had a habit of breaking his sleeves, but he didn't expect to secretly practice this kind of yin and yang ghost art.

Really unbelievable.

"Moisture? What moisture?" Qi Mo was a little puzzled, and looked at the two of them, "I don't think you are wet, where have you been?"

Seeing Ruan Lan chewing the bitter, smelly and disgusting bun, Yin turned his head and said, "We went to the south of this bamboo forest."

Qi Mo's eyes widened: "Nanmian...you mean...you really went to that haunted house?"

"good."

"Then how did you get out? There were two people in our clan who accidentally fell in, one failed to get out, and the other went crazy after it came out!"

Ruan Lan chewed on the bitter steamed buns, thinking: The one that didn't come out must have been swallowed by the black poisonous miasma, and the one that came out probably saw something that shouldn't be seen, and was frightened into madness.

Yin Xian said: "We also accidentally found a mechanism to get out. However, I still want to ask brother, when did this ghost house appear? How did it become like this?"

Qi Mo shook his head: "To be honest, I don't know about these things. When our family first moved here, the ghost house already existed, but if it weren't for this house, we would have nowhere to stay."

"So, none of the Xiongtai clan are from southern Anhui?"

Yin Jian looked at the face of the person in front of him, and after careful observation, he found that his facial features were indeed deeper than those of the people from the Central Plains, his eyelashes were longer and curved, and the color of his eyes was similar to that of the people from the Western Regions.

Qi Mo nodded and said: "Our family was originally from Liuchi in the Western Regions. Due to the grievances of our fathers, King Liuchi wanted to drive our family to extinction. We had no choice but to escape from our hometown and finally came here by chance. As foreigners , it is really difficult to integrate into the life of the Han people, not to mention that many Han people reject us. It just so happens that there are few people around this ghost house, so we came here to settle down."

This reason is also reasonable.Yin Jian said: "So that's the case. Then how many years have you settled here?"

Qi Mo snapped his fingers and said, "We came here in the first year of Zhenming. After calculation...it has been more than eight years. In these eight years, except for those two people who broke in by mistake, we have never experienced anything. It’s a strange thing, but it can be considered a comfortable life.”

Zhenming is exactly the reign name that Yin Jian has used since he ascended the throne.

Yin Xian turned his head and looked at Ruan Lan.

Feng Bizhi was beheaded 11 years ago, and this house existed eight years ago.In terms of time, there is no contradiction.If you ask the old people who have lived at the foot of the mountain for many years after you go down the mountain, you may be able to find out the exact time when the ghost house was formed.

These days Ruan Lan did hear about some ghosts and ghosts near Qijia Village, but he didn't take it seriously, he just took it as some ghostly rumors.

It's his fault too, if he hadn't been so anxious to spend all day in the bamboo forest learning light kungfu when he first came here a few days ago, but had gotten familiar with the village and its surroundings first, he wouldn't have panicked and flew to that gloomy mansion today went.

Seeing that Ruan Lan had finished eating the black thing, Qi Mo began to bow his head in thought, and asked him, "Did you see anything unusual in it?"

Just as Ruan Lan was about to speak, she saw Yin Jian making a "don't talk too much" gesture to him.Yin Jian jumped ahead of Ruan Lan and said, "There is nothing else but the black mist."

Ruan Lan knew in her heart that if this private house was really related to Yin Cheng, it would be a royal secret and it was better for outsiders not to know about it.

Ruan Lan looked around: "Speaking of which, where are we now?"

"The northernmost part of the bamboo forest."

A look of doubt suddenly appeared on Ruan Lan's face: "But isn't that house at the southernmost point of the bamboo forest? Why did we end up at the northernmost point?"

Qi Mo replied: "That's not known. The old man who escaped from the haunted house last time was also found near here. At that time, I had no time to stop you, and you flew away without a trace, and found a mountain top I couldn’t find it, so I took a gamble in the end, thinking that you would appear here like that old man, thanks to God Apusu, I finally found you.”

Apusu in Qimo's words is a god believed in by the Liuchi Kingdom. According to legend, it was transformed from a sparrow eagle. It is a heavenly goddess who combines beauty and wisdom.Although the Qi family has moved to Central China for more than eight years, they still retain the customs of the Liuchi Kingdom in their way of life. For example, they have established a temple dedicated to the goddess Apsu, and they will go there regularly to worship.There is a temple next to Qi Mo's house. Ruan Lan passed by in the past few days and even looked into it.

Qi Mo then asked Ruan Lan: "Then someone is looking for you now, do you still live here?

Ruan Lan glanced at Yin Jian: "I..."

Seeing this, Qi Mo guessed that Ruan Lan's decision to stay or stay was up to the newcomer.Looking at Ruan Lan's face, Qi Mo could see that he didn't want to leave for the time being.So he looked up at the sky, turned around and said to Yin Jian: "It's getting late, why don't you stay in the village tonight, brother. If you want to leave, can you talk about it tomorrow?"

"Okay." Yin Jian agreed very readily, "I will follow your orders. I don't know how to address you, Your Excellency?"

"My surname is Qi and my name is Mo, so call me Qi Mo."

"Under Ruan Lin, he is Ruan Lan's elder brother."

Qi Mo suddenly realized: "It turns out that you are his elder brother. It seems that Ruan Lan made some mistakes and escaped from home. No wonder he ran away when he saw you."

Yin Jian glanced at Ruan Lan's slightly embarrassed face from the corner of his eye, and said with a smile: "Ah Lan and my father had a little trouble before, and ran out in a fit of anger. I just want to take him back this time."

Ruan Lan just stood aside and listened quietly to Yin Xian's nonsense.

Qi Mo patted his shoulder: "Brother, discipline children is the most annoying thing, I understand you, haha. Speaking of which, did your brother offend some high-ranking official? When I saw him before, he was being chased by a group of people." Kill, without me, he might have died long ago."

Yin Jian raised his eyebrows, his face suddenly darkened, he looked at Ruan Lan and said, "Is this really the case?" Ruan Lan nodded, and said calmly, "Maybe it was my sister-in-law and his father who did it."

Qi Mo was as confused as if he was listening to a scripture: "Why did your sister-in-law and her father come to kill you when you quarreled with your father?"

Ruan Lan looked into the distance and said: "It's a long story... why don't we go back first and talk about it later."

On the way back, the three of them said to Yin Jian, "Your brother is very dishonest when he sleeps, and always has to turn over."

"Yes. That's true." Yin Jian knew about this from a long time ago, so when Ruan Lan slept next to him, he would hug Ruan Lan's waist or shoulders, so that Ruan Lan would not turned over.

Suddenly, Yin Jian seemed to have thought of something, and his face darkened immediately: "You mean...you have been sleeping with him these days?"

Qi Mo replied: "Yes. Before I came back, I was afraid of being chased by soldiers, and your brother doesn't know martial arts, so I can only sleep in one room, in case the killer sneaks up on us while we are asleep. After returning to the village, there was too much dust accumulated in another empty room of our house, and we couldn’t clean it for a while, so we simply let your brother sleep in my room. Anyway, it’s okay for two big men to sleep together. What's more, we have a good relationship, and we have seen the Spring Palace together..."

"What?!" Yin Jian's face turned green, "You guys also watched the Spring Palace together?!"