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"The sixth day! You can't always do it without saying a word! You make it clear that when you enter the room, I will jump in by myself!"

Ye Weiliao crashed into the snake room, knocked apart a wooden frame and overturned several wooden cages, and several snakes of different thicknesses slipped out of the cages and swam around the fur coils. He was entangled by these snakes just after he recovered his breath. Terrified from shock, he lacked momentum when he asked, but just stared at Feng Pingping angrily.

Feng Pingping slammed the door, ignored him, went to the side of the wooden table and squatted down, stretched out his hand to remove a large stone on the wall behind the table, and took out a bag and a hunting knife from behind the stone. He inspected the blade and blew Blowing the dust, the broken knife at the waist was drawn out, and the same ordinary hunting knife was put back into the sheath, and then the bag was checked slightly.

"And my neck, there are a few marks, if you stick the knife a few more times, it will really be cut off!" Ye Weiliao reached out and touched the neck, and took a breath with his teeth bared. Out of the corner of his eyes, he saw a piebald snake crawling up On his shoulder, he was spitting out a letter towards his neck, as if he wanted to grab it in one bite, so he ignored Feng Pingping's settlement, and whispered: "The sixth day! Snake! Snake bit me..."

When Feng Pingping heard him shout, he turned his head and glanced to turn back.

"The sixth day..." Ye Weiliao said.

Feng Pingping fastened his bag tightly again, walked up to him and knelt down, stretched out his hand to lead the piebald snake around his arm, grabbed it seven inches but refused to take it away, and held it in front of Ye Weiliao, The snake's head stretched and retracted, and its mouth widened to his face.

"Are you afraid of snakes?" Feng Pingping asked.

"You don't remember either?" Ye Weiliao asked back, staring at the snake head who was close at hand.

"What's going on in the Marquis of Weibei?" Feng Pingping held the piebald snake steadily with one hand, and even kindly drove away the other snakes around him with the other hand.

"You are really obedient, you used a snake instead of a knife to extract a confession. Can't you just ask me if you want to know? If you ask me, I will tell you!" Ye Weiliao said angrily: " This is a living thing, you hold on to it!"

"Say." Feng Pingping said.

"Is that black snake in Tan Zhonglu still there?" Ye Weiliao twitched the corners of his mouth, wanting to smile, and said, "It's a small snake less than two feet long, it's thin, and it's all black. Give it a bite and you'll never die again." No help."

"Why ask this?" Feng Pingping asked.

"Based on Tan Zhonglu's kung fu and her poison, the person who killed her couldn't retreat without leaving any traces. I can't think of anyone who can kill her so cleanly. Do you think so?" Ye Weiliao looked up at Feng Pingping, and before he could answer, he asked again: "Have you ever wondered why the person who killed her took away her head and her right hand? On the sixth day, you have been with Tan Zhonglu for so many years. , have you seen other places on her body?"

Feng Pingping shook his hand and hit him with the snake's head. Ye Weiliao turned his head in surprise, and still rubbed against the cool and slippery snake skin. Feng Pingping flipped his wrist and swung it back. This time, he hit his face firmly, "Pa With the sound, Ye Weiliao and the piebald snake were both terrified. The snake opened its mouth and twisted wildly, almost biting his nose.

"Sixth day! Why are you beating people with snakes if you speak well!" Ye Weiliao said angrily.

"No nonsense." Feng Pingping said.

"I'm not talking nonsense, you can't recognize other parts of her body except her face and her hands, right! So you can't be sure if the dead one is Tan Zhonglu, maybe it's just a similar figure with a broken left half. The woman with the arm! Maybe Tan Zhonglu didn't die at all, she cheated her death!" Ye Weiliao said.

Feng Pingping turned his head to look at the corpse at the other end of the snake room, it looked vague and specious in the shadows.

"Also, why so many people just happened to come here in the past few days, who is so aware of this ghostly place where you live in seclusion, and why do you want to cover up and inform so many people in the world? Who thinks so Let so many people know that Tan Zhonglu is dead?" Ye Weiliao asked again.

"You want to say that this is all set up by the uncle? Why?" Feng Pingping asked.

"Perhaps some powerful enemy came to her and she had to feign death; perhaps she found out that someone had set up a trap to attract everyone to seek revenge on her, fearing that she would be outnumbered; perhaps Tan Zhonglu had an epiphany and escaped from the world... I don't understand how she Thinking about it, it's probably more crazy." Ye Weiliao tried his best to smile at him, knowing that it was not reasonable.

Feng Pingping snorted coldly, and said: "Maybe you, maybe your people from the Marquis of Weibei set up a trick to kill her, and you are still trying your best to convince me that she is not dead."

"Then how are you sure she's dead? How do you know her?" Ye Weiliao said.

"I walked out of the mountain for three days. I didn't take a shortcut. I took you back and walked for a day and a night. Before I left, my uncle was still alive. Now his body is stiff and the blood is dry. She was killed not long after I left. Outside These people are not familiar with the roads in the mountains. They have been in the mountains for more than three or five days, and some of them have come from afar. You said that you rushed to find me, and your shoes were worn out, but how did you rush behind all of them? What's the delay?" Feng Pingping didn't answer him, but just asked.

"I've been looking for you everywhere... If you don't believe me, I'll say nothing." Ye Weiliao said.

"You go around and don't want to talk about what's going on between you and the Marquis of Weibei. It's better to let the snake bite you to death." Feng Pingping said.

"The sixth day!" Ye Weiliao stared at the snake, sighed, and finally explained to him: "I don't know if you still remember, when Tan Zhonglu took you away, he beat me half to death. Open it again. I have already arrived at Weibei Marquis Mansion, and I was picked up by the steward of the Marquis Mansion, so I have saved my life..."

"That's it?" Feng Pingping asked.

"The Weibei Hou's Mansion did indeed lead the crowd to encircle and suppress the Three Corpses Gate back then... I didn't intend to have anything to do with the Hou's Mansion... It's just that life needs to be clear about grievances and grievances, and the housekeeper of the Hou's Mansion has to repay the life of the housekeeper... I also want to borrow People from the Hou Mansion came to see you, so they stayed." Ye Weiliao looked at him, his speech was a bit broken. "I've been running errands with the butler all these years, doing some chores, and asking for news about you. If you don't like me working for the Hou Mansion, then I won't go back."

"The Hou Mansion has no grudges against you. What happened back then has nothing to do with you. You just said whether you were ordered to kill people." Feng Pingping said.

"I'm your brother, I shouldn't ignore you, and I shouldn't let you hear it from others." Ye Weiliao said.

"Humph."

"My trip this time has nothing to do with the Marquis' Mansion. I just inquired about Tan Zhonglu's whereabouts by chance. I followed Master Dou's three brothers all the way to the border of Yishan Mountain. I lost track of them a few times. I didn't know they entered before. The Three Corpses Gate, let alone the ghosts of the Three Corpses Gate. Lu Yunan and I moved out of the name of the Hou Mansion, but we wanted to coax him to help, at least not to embarrass us. On the sixth day, you just need to remember, how can I They won't harm you. Don't talk about a Hou's mansion, even if everyone in the world wants to put you to death, I won't, I'm still your elder brother Chu Wu." Ye Weiliao spoke very sincerely. One hand stretched out the fur roll and wanted to pat him on the shoulder.

"That's your business, I don't care about you." Feng Pingping stepped aside and threw the snake away.

"You can't leave me alone. Now there are many enemies around, and we are the only ones who depend on each other." Ye Weiliao laughed.

"You will make the Hou Mansion your enemy?"

"What about you?"

"If people don't come to kill me, I won't kill people. If people come to kill me, I will kill people." Feng Pingping said.

"So, your uncle didn't teach you to take revenge and wash Jiangnan's martial arts with blood?" Ye Weiliao asked cautiously, still smiling.

Feng Pingping glanced at him, stood up and walked to a corner, took out a basin of charcoal, a bag of firewood, and a can of lamp oil, and piled them next to Tan Zhonglu's body.

"If you burn her, those outside who come to seek revenge will not be able to explain it anymore." Ye Weiliao said again.

"I didn't intend to explain to them." Feng Pingping said.

"Not buried?"

"Bury it here, and bring back the head and hands and burn them together." Feng Pingping stacked the firewood in front of the corpse, paused, and said in a low voice: "It smells like Uncle Shi, it's her smell, The smell of medicine, the smell of snakes. I recognize this."

"Oh." Ye Weiliao held back his words and didn't provoke him again.

"Uncle Master didn't teach me to take revenge, Uncle Master only taught me to survive. Uncle Master said that Feng Buwen was too deep into the world and asked for it. She promised him to take care of me. It's the best of humanity. It's hard to calculate the grievances and grievances in the world. No one has any wrongs. It really deserves to be rehabilitated, if someone kills you, kill him back, it’s best if you don’t die, if you die, you die." Feng Pingping said it normally, without joy or sorrow, as if he was talking about other people’s affairs.

"This crazy woman is crazy, she didn't teach you too bad." Ye Weiliao muttered to himself.

"Huh?" Feng Pingping didn't hear clearly.

"It's nothing, your uncle can take it easy." Ye Weiliao said.

"You said that my uncle cheated on me, but some enemies really came to the door, so she can't keep this." Feng Pingping reached out and pulled a thin bamboo tube from the waist of the corpse, held it to his ear and listened, then opened one end of the cover and took a look at it through a gap. glance.

"The black snake is still there?" Ye Weiliao asked.

"Still." Feng Pingping said.

"Or that one?"

"Which one?"

"Probably not, after all these years... After all, you know more about Tan Zhonglu, I'm guessing randomly." Ye Weiliao nodded, admitting his mistake, watching Feng Pingping hang the thin bamboo tube on his waist Suddenly, he hurriedly said: "On the sixth day of the lunar new year, it's better to put the black snake back and let it accompany your uncle! Let's burn it together."

"Keep it, maybe it knows who killed the uncle."

"With me helping you, isn't it more useful than a snake?"

"Master Uncle has killed many people. When she died, someone came to her for revenge. I don't want her to be killed like this. The body is not complete. I will help her get it back. You don't need to get involved, you still treat her as your own." Go back to your Marquis Mansion." Feng Pingping said.

"No, I finally found you, don't try to drive me away." Ye Weiliao said.

Feng Pingping looked at him and blinked, didn't say any more, turned to kneel and put his palms together to pay respects to Bai Tan Zhonglu's body.The snake room fell silent for a while, Ye Weiliao didn't make a sound, and let him say goodbye to his uncle.The yelling and fighting around the snake room actually stopped for a moment, Feng Pingping turned his head and exchanged glances with Ye Weiliao, then moved to the door and looked out from the gap in the door.

"They stopped fighting?" Ye Weiliao asked softly.

"Aren't you going to come and see yourself?" Feng Pingping asked rhetorically.

"I'm tied up by you!"

"you……"

Feng Pingping stared at him, a torn fur roll wrapped around him barely, and he couldn't get out even though he could get out at any time.

A female voice sounded outside the door, Ji Yuanfang had already stood nearby, and asked softly: "Young Master Feng, everyone recommends me to come and talk to you, don't you want to hurt that Young Master Ye. Everything is negotiable, please open the door and let me see How about leaving room for each other? I can't do anything as a woman, and it's over if you let me recognize Tan Zhonglu, so you can let Ye Shaoxia go. If you really kill someone and get revenge, you What are the benefits? Mr. Feng, don't be stubborn."

That group of Jianghu Zhengdao fought and quarreled with the Sanshimen several times, and now the two sides finally negotiated, each backed down, and let Ji Yuanfang come over.

Seen through the gap, the gravel in front of the door reflected the silver light of the moon, and there were two groups of people surrounded by shadows in the distance, and many weapons shone with icy light.A woman stood alone nearby, without a weapon, and her sadness could not be concealed in her gentle expression.

"Young Master Feng, you should answer anyway, you didn't kill him, did you?" Ji Yuanfang asked more eagerly.

Feng Pingping didn't answer her, Ji Yuanfang ignored many people behind him, took two steps forward, leaned over to the crack of the door and looked into the room.

Feng Pingping drew out the scimitar silently, pointed the tip of the knife at the crack of the door, and only waited for her to get close before threatening everyone with the sentence - "Whoever enters will die".