no one knows better than me

"I'm sorry, but I don't seem to miss you?"

"..." The boy stood up by himself: "It's okay, my name is Duan Bin, you named me..."

He just said this, and Mei Hualan, who entered the cabin and changed into clean clothes, came out. Mei Siji turned her head to see her expression, twitched her eyes, and spoke for her: "This is our family's fairy. Boat, should you go down, Mr. Duan?"

Duan Bin stared at Zhuang Qingliu, without hesitation: "Where is she, I'll be—"

Without looking at it, Mei Hualan suddenly called out the floating lamp, and then grabbed Zhuang Qingliu and rose from Jiangxin Yujian.

Zhuang Qingliu: "?"

The plum blossom circle is very simple: "The boat has sunk."

Mei Siji looked away with a very sour face, and also rose from the side with her sword. Zhuang Qingliu turned her head and saw that she was holding Duan Bin's saber in her hand.

And the boat below... indeed suddenly began to sink. Duan Bin stood at the bow of the boat, looking at the three people going away expressionlessly.

Zhuang Qingliu turned his gaze back to Meihualan, and found that this man could obviously control the sky, but when he was in front of people, he was different everywhere, and he started pretending to control the sword again.

Of course, it's the same at all times except for being narrow-minded, who would rather sink a ship for this.

Zhuang Qingliu turned to look at Duan Bin: "What should he do?"

"Swim to the shore." Mei Hualan seemed to turn her head to look at her before saying, "He sank the boat and wanted to take you away. Do you still care about him?"

Although Zhuang Qingliu was very unclear and couldn't explain it, he still corrected him: "I didn't, why should I care about him."

Mei Hualan thought for a while, then nodded: "Yeah."

"..." Zhuang Qingliu could see a bit of satisfaction and obedience on her face. She finally turned her head and took a look from a distance, and saw that Duan Bin had already soaked in the river, only his head was showing, paddling towards the bank, like A tough guy.

Mei Siji, who was behind him, passed a confused gaze at this moment: "When I was just teleported out, I also fell into the water."

Seeing that the people next to him showed no signs of shame, Zhuang Qingliu could only praise her: "You are so strong."

"..." Mei Siji rolled her eyes ten times at her.

The three of Yujian quickly landed, and not far in front of them was the long white jade steps of the Pei Family Immortal Mansion. From here on, most people would avoid and would not directly Yujian.

Zhuang Qingliu quickly forgot about Tie Hanhan who appeared out of nowhere, walked to Mei Siji by detour, and talked to her: "Do you have no house rules?"

Mei Siji: "How is it possible? Then what is Siyu who is often thrown into the void to die or live?"

She pushed aside the weeds with her sword, and looked at Zhuang Qingliu suspiciously: "Why did you suddenly talk to me?"

Zhuang Qingliu peeled an orange for her: "Don't you see that I'm coaxing you?"

"Coax me with my oranges up my sleeve?"

Zhuang Qingliu nodded brazenly: "Yes."

Mei Siji: "...then why are you coaxing me?"

Zhuang Qingliu: "I'm holding candles for your family to coax you."

How can this kind of thing be replaced?

Mei Siji quietly glanced at the side face of Meihualan, which was as stable as Mount Tai, and suddenly chopped the weeds flying with a sword, and left in two steps: "Hmph! Goodbye!"

Zhuang Qingliu had no choice but to move back to Mei Hualan, and tossed the unsold oranges to her again: "Mr. Duanzhu, your child has such a temper, you really shouldn't be too used to it."

Mei Hualan just turned to look at her silently.

"Okay... I don't know how to coax children either." Zhuang Qingliu admitted generously, then broke off an orange petal and waved it in front of Mei Hualan's eyes, "Don't you want to eat it? Then I'll taste it for you first... ...Well, it's so sweet."

After Meihualan walked a few more steps, her palms turned slightly, and Chongzhuang Qingliu quietly stretched out her hand.

As expected, this man regained his serious mask in front of Mei Siji, Zhuang Qingliu couldn't help smiling, pretending not to see it from the corner of his eyes, and "dropped" half of the peeled orange into the elder child's palm.

After half an hour, they finally reached the mountain gate of the Pei Family's Immortal Mansion. Zhuang Qingliu raised his hand and put his forehead to see - the Pei Family's Gui Palace was indeed more resplendent during the daytime, the roof of the hall was full of brilliant lights, and the hundreds of butterflies in the garden Passing through the flowers, the square is so big that people's feet hurt at a glance.

The butler of the Pei family and the second son Pei Yi, whom I saw last night, were already waiting in front of the mountain gate. Pei Yi looked calm and silent, wearing a spirit sword with faint patterns and flowing gold on his waist, and his eyes swept across the plum blossoms. Finally, it settled on Zhuang Qingliu's face.

Zhuang Qingliu was inexplicably looked at by him, so he had no choice but to look back - Shangzi Pei's family is located on a plain, and the climate has always been mild and fertile. If the Mei family is expensive, they are worthy of wealth.Whether it's Pei Huang or Pei Yi, the swords in their hands are all golden, and they look like a bird like their masters, and they all have the temperament of a nouveau riche.

But the housekeeper quickly greeted him politely, with a very respectful tone: "Mr. Duanzhu, Young Master Zhuang, I haven't seen you for a long time, and the two of you are finally here."

Zhuang Qingliu thought that you were not like this last night. He stepped across the white jade threshold without any notice on his face, and said straight to the point: "Butler Pei, you don't have to be polite. If it's urgent, just take us to the secret room where Sect Master Pei disappeared. .”

The butler put away the faction as good as he could, and quickly asked tactfully, "Young master Zhuang, what have you found?"

Zhuang Qingliu turned her head directly and told him seriously: "Yes."

The expressions of all the disciples of the Pei family around him changed immediately, and the steward led the three of them on a quick walk without delay, and finally entered a spiritual cave at a peak.

The peak is shrouded in clouds and mist, full of aura, this spiritual cave is indeed a good place for retreat.The interior layout is also like an ordinary quiet room, with all the tables, futons and other things. It must be because Pei Qi stayed here a lot after he became obsessed in his early years, so he almost packed this place into a resting place.

Zhuang Qingliu went back and forth in the cave a few times, and confirmed to the butler: "Sect Master Pei must have disappeared out of the cave, are you sure?"

"Every time the suzerain retreats, there must be someone who protects the Dharma every step of the way. I am in the outer spiritual cave separated by a wall, and I haven't left in the blink of an eye." I kept watch, but I didn't see anyone coming out or coming in."

"Well," Zhuang Qingliu nodded and asked again, "You must have searched the corners of the cave here over and over again, is there anything unusual?"

"Yes, there is no such thing as a secret passage."

Zhuang Qingliu wandered around the table and walls thoughtfully: "Have the furnishings in the spiritual cave been touched?"

The housekeeper still said quickly: "No, this matter is strange, so all the arrangements in the cave have not been changed at all, and even the half cup of tea used that day was left on the corner of the table."

"Okay." Zhuang Qingliu narrowed his eyes word by word and said, "Then Sect Master Pei must have disappeared in this cave."

"..." Pei Yi, who had listened patiently for a while, frowned, and after sweeping across Zhuang Qingliu's face, turned around and left without saying a word.

"Young Master Zhuang, don't blame me. Our Second Young Master has been involved in many things recently, so it is inevitable that he is a little anxious." Although the housekeeper also had a difficult expression, his tone was well concealed.

Zhuang Qingliu waved at him indifferently, still groping carefully for every object in the house, asking the butler a few questions from time to time, and the furniture manager answered patiently.

Seeing that the time for two incense sticks had passed, and Mei Siji couldn't help rolling her eyes, Zhuang Qingliu suddenly touched the wall where a bunch of paintings hung, and called out, "Mei Pan?"

Mei Hualan, who was watching a nine lotus branch incense burner, quickly turned around and walked over: "Yeah."

Zhuang Qingliu fumbled back and forth on the wall next to the painting at the edge with both hands: "I always feel... something is missing here."

Mei Hualan looked at it carefully for a while, then suddenly walked away, looked at it for a moment and said: "Yes—"

"Painting." Zhuang Qingliu said in unison with her.

The two looked at each other, Zhuang Qingliu turned around and asked the housekeeper as usual: "Is there a painting missing here?"

The housekeeper frowned slightly, but thought about it: "The suzerain likes calligraphy and paintings, and there are many people who give them away on weekdays. The place here is small, and you can't hang too many at a time, so the paintings on the wall are often changed according to your preferences, and the number of paintings is not constant. Not sure if one is missing, and which one is missing.”

Zhuang Qingliu shook her head and groped to help the housekeeper recall: "But the size of this painting is different from the size of the scroll that I usually use." After measuring the size of the hole with her hand, she looked at it from a distance, "The ability of silk to block light It's not as good as ordinary silk cloth, it should... be an ancient painting."

"Right, and..."

Zhuang Qingliu gently pulled out the silk thread of this painting, and compared the length with the one next to it: "Your suzerain should like this painting very much. When it was just delivered, I took down the original hanging here and replaced it with a new one. go up."

When Zhuang Qingliu said this, the housekeeper seemed to think of something suddenly: "I remembered! That painting is..."

At this moment, a violent gust of wind suddenly blew in from the entrance, the lights in the cave were extinguished, and it suddenly became dark!

Without a sound, Mei Hualan drew out the lighted floating lamp at the tip of the sword, stabbed out with the wind in an instant, and pierced the sword in the direction of the housekeeper!

Mei Siji was stunned by this sudden change, but heard a "clank" in the darkness, and there was the sound of weapons colliding

A fifth person broke in quietly and wanted to kill the butler to silence him!

Mei Siji was terrified, and a chill was felt on his back, and he raised his hand and lit the fire talisman: "Who is it?!"

However, the spiritual power in the cave seemed to be restricted, and the fire talisman and palm flame couldn't even be ignited!

"——Dodge." Mei Hualan fought against the fifth person with a sword in one hand in the darkness, and with the other hand free, she swung Zhuang Qingliu and Mei Siji behind her.

The floating lamp flashed sword light from time to time, but it was not enough to illuminate the face in the darkness during the fight.

Zhuang Qingliu leaned his back against the wall and listened to the sound of sharp blades piercing the wind for a while, then suddenly said: "Stop hitting, I know who you are."

In the darkness, the sound of weapons colliding was incessant.

"You are not my...my Duanzhu-jun's opponent."

Zhuang Qingliu raised his eyelids, and suddenly pulled out Mei Siji's sword with his backhand, and rushed towards it like lightning: "So stop, little Sect Master Pei! Or Pei Xuan... Mr. Pei!"