Sendo takeaway

The pool under the Xiao Family Ancestral House is connected to the underground waterway in Liuren City. The bottom of the water is silted up with silt and water plants are dense, and many small gray and black fish shuttle through it.Although the ray can jump out of the water, it is also at the bottom when resting.

Lu Ye took Su Qingya's hand, and under the guidance of Ye Mingzhu, he walked on the bottom of the water like walking on flat ground.

Su Qingya's palm is not too wide, but the palm is soft, and there are some fine calluses on the root of the finger, which makes people want to rub it one or two.

The temperature of that hand is not high, but it is not cold either.Just now when Chu Chu went down to the bottom of the water, in the dark and gloomy environment, a little bit of sweat oozed from the soft palm, and then it was relieved a little after the night pearl hung high.

Glancing quietly at the little boss who was holding hands with him, Lu Ye saw the man's tight shoulders and sharp jawline.The brilliance of the night pearl is not very bright, but the lines on Su Qingya's face are very clear.

The corner of his mouth slightly raised, Lu Ye led Su Qingya forward together.

The road under the water is muddy, and a lot of rubbish in Liuren City has accumulated. If it weren't for the surrounding air isolated by the barrier, it would be like the moldy and rotten stench in the sewers of modern cities.

The waterway twists and turns, leading from the Xiao family's ancestral house from south to north to a certain place in the north of the city.

The terrain of Liuren City is high in the north and low in the south. The water in the city flows from north to south, and then flows out of the city into the Heding River and then flows east into the Yinghai.

Now Su Qingya and the others are going up against the current, and the water is gurgling towards them. Because of the enchantment, those things floating in the water flow down the water, and when they reach the enchantment, they diverge to the two sides, forming a formation in the water. A wonderland like rolled up bead curtains.

After walking for an unknown distance, a bright light appeared on the top of the head not far away, the light was faintly visible, and the silt at the bottom of the water became thicker and thicker.There are many lotus rhizomes on the bottom of the water in front of it. From a distance, it looks like an underwater forest. There are beautiful red and white koi shuttles among the rhizomes.

Seeing the koi, Su Qingya was slightly relieved, and the cold sweat on his palms stopped.

Lu Ye hid his figure, and quickly led Su Qingya out of the water.The lotus pond is located in the center of a light white mansion. In the center of the pond is a statue similar to the Xiao family's ancestral house just now, except that the bottom of the statue is not a gossip but a Liuren plate.

The lotus pond is silent, but the sky above the lotus pond is not very peaceful.

The stars in the sky are revolving around a huge astrolabe, and the sky under the changes of the stars looks more mysterious and blue.

From the statue in the center of the lotus pond, there are square and octagonal pavilions surrounding it. Extending from the pavilion, there are four nine-curved corridors. At the end of the corridors, there are different courtyards. The whole lotus pond looks like a layout. It's like a large array of gathering spirits, surrounded by stars.

Because of the concealed figure, no one could see Su Qingya and Lu Ye.

But at the same time, there was no one in the house, and the surroundings were as deserted as a deserted house.Lanterns hung high on the nine-curved corridor, and the white lights swayed and reflected on the pool.

"Is this the Xiao family's inner house in Liuren City?" Su Qingya asked Lu Ye.

Lu Ye nodded, looked at the surrounding layout, and then pulled Su Qingya closer to him: "The Xiao family is proficient in formation and calculation, this lotus pond is weird, we should be careful."

Su Qingya looked at their folded hands, the corners of his mouth slightly curled up, and he didn't say anything.

Walking from the lotus pond along one of the pavilions, and passing through the nine winding corridors, you will arrive at the inner house of the Xiao family. Looking at it, it looks like a small city, with pavilions, towers, pavilions and beautiful trees everywhere.

Compared with the gentleness of the Qingyun School, the Xiao family's inner house looks solemn and solemn, with only black and white colors everywhere.

The two walked and looked all the way, and finally found a little clue in the third courtyard.That courtyard was different from other courtyards. There were two tall archways erected at the entrance. On the archways were engraved the four characters Zhongxiao and Chengzheng in seal script. The four large white characters on the black lacquered wood made people feel very creepy in the middle of the night.

Behind the archway is a large courtyard. Nineteen staggered Go squares are criss-crossed on the ground in the courtyard, and there are also made Go pieces on the ground. It looks like an endgame. , it is a tall room, and on the plaque in the middle of the room, the word "ancestral hall" is written.

Su Qingya and Lu Ye looked at each other, and they walked straight towards the ancestral hall.

Black prayer flags hang down in the ancestral hall, and the memorial tablets of the Xiao family's past dynasties are neatly placed on the front hall.On the middle position closest to the door, there are two newly established tablets, one is Xiao Jingzhi, and the other is Xiao Xiezhi.

On the table in front of the tablet, there were incense and fruit offerings. Looking at the newly written words on the tablet, and thinking of the person who was still alive, Lu Ye curled his lips and said, "It's really ironic."

Before Su Qingya said anything, he heard a rustling sound, which came from the dark corner, like a mouse and louder than a mouse, the two turned their heads together, and Su Qingya said: "Who is it? !"

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"

Suddenly a human voice came from the corner. The voice of this person was sharp as if something terrible had happened. Su Qingya and Lu Ye rushed over and saw a seven or eight-year-old boy curled up in the corner in pain, his face pale. Pale and dazed.

Seeing Su Qingya and Lu Ye, the child was even more frightened. He shrank further into the corner of the wall, put his hands on his knees, buried his head in his knees and kept shaking: "No, don't kill me, I, I will still kill you!" don't want to die."

"...Don't be afraid," Su Qingya smiled lowly, stretched out his hand and gently brushed the broken hair on the child's forehead: "We are not from the Xiao family."

This sentence seemed to make the child feel a little relieved, he quietly raised his head to look at Su Qingya, after a moment of stupefaction, he blushed, blinked his eyes, and quickly wiped his face with his sleeve: " Immortal—”

Lu Ye: ==|||

Su Qingya choked for a moment, then laughed and rubbed the child's head: "I'm not a fairy, can you get up first?"

The child nodded and stood up obediently. He wanted to stretch out his hand to hold Su Qingya, but seeing that his hands were dirty, he carefully hid behind him and rubbed them with his clothes, grabbed a little bit of Su Qingya's sleeves, and seriously really say:

"Beautiful brother, can you, can you take, take me home?"

"Go home? Aren't you a child of the Xiao family?"

For some reason, Su Qingya felt that the child trembled after hearing the word "Xiao family", then he shook his head and said palely: "I... no, I was arrested by them, and they still Many, many people were arrested... many, many people..."

"Arrests?"

Su Qingya wanted to ask again, but seeing the child's face gradually pale, as if remembering something terrible, so he didn't speak again, but changed the topic, he squatted down and looked at the child: "How can you tell brother?" , what's your name?"

"Doudou," the child's eyes lit up, and he said loudly, "my grandma and the uncles and aunts nearby call me that."

"What about your parents?"

"I haven't seen it..." Doudou seemed a little discouraged: "Grandma said they were bad people, and never told me where they were, but grandma treated me the best, and I like grandma the most!"

Sighing, Su Qingya patted his head, and then said: "Where is Doudou's house? Didn't you want us to take you back?"

"It's outside the city, Jiahe Village outside the city, very close."

Su Qingya turned his head and glanced at Lu Ye. They came in to investigate the Xiao family's affairs, but they met this child by chance and were interrupted. Su Qingya couldn't get out of Liuren City by himself, and he needed Lu Ye's help.

Lu Ye smiled and nodded, and when Doudou was not paying attention, he leaned over and whispered to Su Qingya, "Boss, does this count as overtime?"

work overtime?

Su Qingya looked at Lu Ye with a headache. He just mentioned it once or twice, and Lu Ye learned these new vocabulary, and he couldn't suffer at all. If he was told to work overtime in some places Counting three times the salary, I'm afraid this person is going to intensify his efforts to beg for warmth overnight.

Shrinking his neck, Su Qingya forced himself to stare at Lu Ye: "What do you want to plot against me?"

Lu Ye smiled lowly, then stole some incense from the back of Su Qingya's neck, and then whispered: "Let the boss owe you first, and I will tell the boss when I think about it."

After the two settled down, they took Doudou to Jiahe Village outside the city.

Jiahe Village is an ordinary small fishing village that Lu Ye remembers.But when the three of them arrived, they found that the place where the village used to be was now a wasteland: the ground was full of weeds, and there were only one or two collapsed houses left in the village.

Doudou was taken aback for a moment, as if he hadn't expected the current situation, he ran two steps in a certain direction in a panic, but couldn't find anything, he yelled "Grandma" blankly, then suddenly plopped down on his knees down, shoulders trembling slightly.

This place has been deserted for a long time, and it doesn't look like it has suddenly suffered a catastrophe.

After a little exploration, Lu Ye knew that Jiahe Village was a natural change. Although it was a fishing village, the fishing industry was mostly affected by the amount of water upstream, and the nearby land was barren and not suitable for farming.In this way, in a hundred years, the villagers moved out of the village more or less, and the village became dilapidated.

Doudou is in Liuren City, unaware of the changes in the outside world, but Tiangan City has the effect of gathering spirits, and the Xiao family's house is full of spiritual power. The child does not know the changes in his body. In fact, it has been a hundred years, but he still thinks The outside is still the same as before.

There are monks everywhere in mainland Jinzhou, and even ordinary people know about monks.

Doudou is crying now, probably because she realized that after she was arrested, she still missed the news of the death of her only relative.

Quietly probed with the divine sense, although the child wasted a long time in refining Qi, but his spiritual roots are mellow, and with a little polishing and experience, he can become a cultivation base of the third rank. Wizards.

But Lu Ye didn't point it out, he just stood behind Doudou with Su Qingya.

The child was in a daze for a while, and suddenly kowtowed three times in the direction where he was kneeling. After muttering a few words, he wiped away his tears and stood up, never turning his head towards Su Qingya and Lu Ye When he came, there was firmness in his eyes, and his gaze was decisive:

"Beautiful brother, thank you for sending me back."

Su Qingya was taken aback, and subconsciously said: "You..."

"I'm fine," Doudou sniffed, she was obviously a radish, but now she showed a grown-up tone: "The Xiao family has done a lot of evil, causing me to part with my grandma, I will record this account. Now I can go to the mainland of Jinzhou to practice Taoism, which is also my chance."

Human growth, sometimes only in an instant.

Seeing that the child has made up his mind, Su Qingya is inconvenient to say anything more.

"What did the Xiao family arrest you for?" Lu Ye asked. Now that he returns to the Xiao family, he will definitely find nothing to investigate, but this child can be regarded as a witness of the Xiao family's evil for a hundred years. Ask him what clues he might get.

The child seemed to be a little scared, but he gritted his teeth and said softly: "The Xiao family arrested us originally to feed a monster in the family, and the monster looked like a human being. Later, because it ate too many people, it also I gradually lost my mind and became fatter and fatter, like a huge bug."

This is Lin Sanshi, both Su Qingya and Lu Ye know.

"We were still children, we were terrified every day, and then the monster disappeared. We thought our life was getting better day by day, but the Xiao family still didn't want to let us go. We were imprisoned in the ancestral hall, and every day there were people Came in and took someone away and never came back."

Doudou thought for a while, her body trembling slightly:

"Later, one day, Xiao Xiezhi came in. He seemed to be drunk, and he said a lot of crazy things, saying that Xiao Jingzhi wanted him to die, that Xiao Jingzhi was crazy, and that Liuren City would be destroyed sooner or later. Jingzhi's hands, and then he turned his head and stared at us, saying let us die, only after we die, the monsters in the city will not come out, and his brother, his gentle brother will come back."

"Then that day, he brought a lot of people over and tied us all up to the lotus pond outside." Doudou closed his eyes, "then he hacked everyone to death like crazy and threw them into the pond. I can still dream of the screams of my uncle and brothers..."

"Then Xiao Jingzhi came, he reprimanded Xiao Xiezhi severely, and then ordered people to shut us back to the ancestral hall. Not long after that, those, those people began to be shot out of the well where we usually eat The... body pieces come..."

"Enough," Su Qingya touched the child's head: "Enough Doudou, don't think about it, it's all over, it's all over."

The child seemed to have been in such a highly tense state for a long time, and suddenly received Su Qingya's comfort, he suddenly flattened his mouth, fell into Su Qingya's arms, cried loudly, and his shoulders finally relaxed.

And Su Qingya finally understood where the human flesh and human bones eaten by the ray came from.

As for what is under Liuren City, which can make Xiao Jingzhi and the Xiao family look like this, that is what he and Lu Ye will investigate later.

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Su Qingya: What do you want to do? !

Lu Ye: I think so.

Su Qingya: ……………

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