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The two bearers brought Yingshi down the sand dune, and the two horses also slid down slowly sideways, leaving only a small sedan poking high on the top of the sand dune, looking at everyone.

"Move down?" Feng Pingping asked.

"No, if someone passes by, you will know it if you see it from a distance." Ye Weiliao said.

Ye Weiliao told the three to stand first, and he followed Feng Pingping to the shed.It sounded like there was no sound of people, but when I approached, there was no one. I pushed open a small door tied with dry branches, and I could see the whole inside of the shed. The wooden table, the tabletop is also bundled with dry branches, there is a tree stump next to it as a chair, and there are two clay pots in the corner, and a pile of grasses that have been dried for an unknown period of time, and one of the grass stems is full of spikes.

In the sand, it is hard to tell if anyone has been walking around recently.

Ye Weiliao and Feng Pingping exchanged glances, he shook his head, but he didn't have a clue.

Ye Weiliao then asked the three people outside to come in and rest for a while, and gave Yingshi the only stump to sit on, and gave her some dried meat and water to coax her to eat.The two bearers also took out the bread and ate it each, and Yingshi also shared a piece of dried meat with them, which was probably hard to swallow, so he asked someone to share it.

After eating and drinking, the two porters discussed in low voices, and one of them asked: "You two heroes, the money..." "Who are you asking?" Ye Weiliao laughed.

"Ask... you?" The bearer looked back and forth hesitantly at the two Yings who were sitting between him, and said, "The man has also arrived. Aren't you sent by that woman? Since she's not here, how about you?" Give me the silver... Our trip is not easy..."

"We were not sent by that woman, I lied to you." Ye Weiliao put his hand on the handle of the knife intentionally or unintentionally, and said with a smile: "If we hadn't met us, there would be no such woman here, who are you going to ask for money?"

The bearer looked back and forth anxiously, finally staring at Yingshi's face, his voice trembling with anxiety, said: "They don't recognize, then you..."

Ye Weiliao looked down at Yingshi, Yingshi blinked her round eyes, and Feng Pingping, who had been staring out of the shed through the gaps between dry branches, also turned his head to take a look.The three of them quietly waited for the bearer to continue, but before he could finish, there was a series of neighing horses outside the shed, which was very miserable.

Feng Pingping stepped outside the door, only to see the two horses foaming at the mouth, twitching and falling down.

The two bearers were lying at the door watching, their faces were ashen with fright.Ye Weiliao was still standing in front of Yingshi, still looking down at her without moving, and said with a sneer, "You poisoned me, right?"

Yingshi looked up at him and smiled like a flower soaked in poisonous juice.

"The sixth day! See if the two of them are poisoned!" Ye Weiliao fixed his eyes on her and shouted out the door.

Feng Pingping retreated to the door, put his hand on the wrists of the two bearers to check their pulse, and looked at their faces left and right.The two looked at each other in dismay, so Feng Pingping took two pills from the bag and stuffed them into their mouths.The one on the left suddenly fell to his knees, pressed his hand on his chest, opened his mouth wide in pain and couldn't make a sound, then vomited violently, retched a few times, and then vomited up large groups of blood clots.The one on the right was still standing upright, calling out to his companion, and while he was calling, lines of blood slowly flowed from his mouth, nose, ears and eyes.

Feng Pingping held two pills and stood between them, helpless.

"The sixth day..." Ye Weiliao's voice gradually dropped.

"It's hopeless." Feng Pingping said.

He grabbed the knife and stepped forward to stand in front of Yingshi. The two people behind him fell down one after another kneeling and fighting.

"I thought they might be your followers, maybe they weren't. Since you can control them, you might not kill them." When Ye Weiliao looked back at Yingying, he said in a deep voice, "It's my fault, I didn't expect your tricks Being so ruthless, she has the demeanor of Tan Zhonglu... How long have you been with her?"

"One year." She smiled sweetly and spoke sweetly, she was no longer crying like she was before. "Did you doubt me as soon as we met? I'm still a little girl, but you actually doubt me. Your heart is so dark."

"Hmph," Ye Weiliao laughed dryly, and said, "'...Find someone, tall, with a hunting knife and a machete.' Did you say that? Tan Zhonglu is not Such a tone. I thought it was Mr. Xiong who was dying, but I understood when I saw you, Tan Zhonglu took you to the Xiong's Villa, and she killed people when you asked me."

"You are so smart, you speak as if you saw it with your own eyes." Ying Shi clapped her hands and praised him.

"In Qiping, your sedan chair passed by Chu Liu, and Tan Zhonglu was also there. He saw Chu Liu from a distance and left. Chu Liu was in a daze and didn't notice it." Ye Weiliao ignored her flattery, and went on Said.

"Hmm! Master doesn't want to see him, annoying!" Yingshi said, looking up at Feng Pingping, and said, "You are really tall, and you really carry two knives, you are so stupid."

"Hmph!" Feng Pingping raised his hand and was about to draw his knife.

"The sixth day, I'm asking questions!" Ye Weiliao stopped him, and spoke to Yingshi in a soft tone: "There are also things I can't think of, can I ask you?"

"I've already sat in front of you, why are you still pretending to be polite? I won't answer, are you still going to politely say goodbye to me and leave?" Ying Shi rolled Ye Weiliao's eyes and said, "You This person, stupid or not, even if you don’t say something straight, it’s annoying! But you are very kind to me, and you have a good smile, so ask.”

"Where's Tan Zhonglu?" Feng Pingping hurriedly asked.

"I said she doesn't want to see you, so stop looking for her like a follower!" Ying Shi said angrily.

"Then don't ask her, but you, is one of the origins you said before true? How did you become Tan Zhonglu's apprentice? Where did you live this year? Tan Zhonglu has left, why did you come alone? Did you come here? Didn’t it just to lure us here? You can’t tell if we can find this place and when we will find it.” Ye Weiliao asked a series of questions.

"My real surname is Wang. My name is Wang Yingshi. I am 11 years old this year." Yingshi tilted her head and smiled.

"What else?" Ye Weiliao also tilted his head with her and laughed together.

"I am my master's apprentice, a serious apprentice. My master said that she also has a nephew, but that has nothing to do with her. She didn't want to accept him. Her senior brother asked her to bring him up. Her senior brother died. Before she died Said, well, the child is still young, and my master will protect him until he grows up. When he grows up, he doesn’t need to worry about it. The man will go out and make a name for himself. During the Chinese New Year this year, my master has the final say, and the nephew is not young Now, you can go wandering." Yingshi raised her head and stared at Feng Pingping again, and said, "Why don't you go wandering, you know that you will look for my master everywhere, and you will be useless!"

"Cough!" Ye Weiliao almost laughed out loud, held back his strength, and asked, "But your master didn't tell him to let him go wandering, he just pretended to be dead."

"Master saves him trouble, so he doesn't have to go to the rivers and lakes, so that he doesn't know how to go, and drags the rivers and lakes to him directly. Who knows that I heard people saying that he died within two days, wasting my master's hard work, looking for him. He's not dead, so annoying!" Yingshi thought for a while, and then said: "Master said it must be the idea of ​​the little bastard on the fifth day of the fifth day, and he is the only one who has trouble!"

"Cough!" Ye Weiliao couldn't laugh this time.

"Have you finished asking?" Feng Pingping put a bright scimitar on Yingshi's neck, and said coldly, "Take us to find Tan Zhonglu."

"Ah!" Yingshi screamed.

"I haven't asked who the woman who died in the snake room is..." Ye Weiliao put his hand on the back of Feng Pingping's hand, Yingshi screamed and scrambled back, until he hid by the dry branch wall, his arms fluttered. He touched a clay pot with a wave, reached in and grabbed it tightly.

"Wang Yingshi?" Ye Weiliao turned to look at her, and suddenly felt that she had a strange expression, and she had a sly smile.

"Master said, you were quite funny when you were young, but the older you get, the less fun you are. She doesn't want to look at you anymore." Yingshi stared at Feng Pingping, imitating Tan Zhonglu's tone of dry speaking, which sounded very strange. "Master also said, didn't you always want to leave? I'm not happy to let you go, how annoying! Master also said, you can't kill her, you can't avenge her, so just bear the grudge forever!"

Feng Pingping took a step forward, Ye Weiliao dragged his hand, and said: "On the sixth day of the lunar new year, she was also captured by Tan Zhonglu, she was taught badly..."

Feng Pingping glanced at him. He also knew that the little girl was cruel, so he still had a troubled expression on his face and didn't want to kill her.He didn't know whether his feeling of pity was for Ying Shi in front of him, or for Chu Liu who was taken away by Tan Zhonglu many years ago, his heart softened, and the hand holding the knife slowly let go.

"Hmph! No prospect." Ying Shi curled her lips.

The hand she reached into the clay pot turned to the left, and the hand grasping the edge of the pot turned to the right with all her strength, only to hear a rattling mechanism, Feng Pingping took a step forward but couldn't reach her, the soles of her feet suddenly emptied, Under a thick layer of sand, a cover plate was opened, and the two fell into the air.

In the crisis, Feng Pingping only cared to hold Ye Weiliao, the two of them fell together with the quicksand sprinkled from their pockets, and fell face to face in the sand pile, shaking the sand and looking up, the two covers had been flipped back and closed , there are always tens of feet high, even if you use lightness kung fu to the fullest, you can't reach it, and there is nowhere to focus your strength in mid-air.Looking back, the two fell into a deep and damp cellar, which was also a snake room.

It is much larger than the huts on the ground, and the walls are made of rocks. The layout is similar to the snake house in Yishan Valley. Many wooden cages are erected along the four walls of the cellar. In the cages, various poisonous snakes are entangled and swimming. People startled, hissing one after another.

Ye Weiliao looked a little unhappy, and smiled wryly, "The sixth day? Do you know how to get out of this cellar?"

Feng Pingping carefully looked around and found that the stone wall was slippery, and he could not reach the two covers even if he climbed up, so he replied: "I don't know."

"You have been to this place more than once, and you don't know that there is a cellar here, and you don't know that Tan Zhonglu has a snake room outside behind your back, and there is an apprentice? Do you two masters, uncles and nephews usually talk to each other? Not talking?" Ye Weiliao wondered.

"I haven't been here since Black Snake grew up. Some of these things were built in the past two years." Feng Pingping said.

"The mechanism of the clay pot is very delicate. The mouth of the pot is so thin that you can't stuff it with your hand. If you break the pot, you won't be able to open the mechanism. Even if you don't come again, she will guard against you." Ye Wei Liao shook her head and smiled, said: "This crazy woman has found a crazy apprentice, they really complement each other."

Ye Weiliao pulled his legs out from the sand, but he had nowhere to go.The sand pile is the center of the snake house, and one step forward, back, left, and right will bring you closer to the snake.I had to sit down where I was, and sighed.Feng Pingping also pulled out his legs and sat down next to him.

"It's okay, when it's time to feed the snake, someone has to come down." Ye Weiliao said.

"Snakes should be fed for at least seven days at a time, and up to a month." Feng Pingping said.

"Hey, I'm going to starve to death."

"eat snake."

"Don't!" Ye Weiliao suddenly remembered something, and said in surprise: "The sixth day! The jerky you fed me all the way can't be snake meat..."