Ning Huan was startled, raised his head in doubt, and asked, "What seven-player game? Why is it too late?"

"Seven people make a game, and life and death make a contract." Su Xian glanced at Ning Huan who was stunned, and explained, "If you sign a life and death contract, you will enter a life and death game. This is the rule."

"But, when did I sign the life-and-death contract?" Ning Huan suddenly got up from the bed, and looked at Su Xian with a face full of shock.

Su Xian curled his lips, looked at Ning Huan angrily and replied: "Ask me how I would know, the contract of life and death, the game of seven, in the end only one person can survive. Now you might as well think about how to get out of this life alive bureau."

"Still dying?" Ning Huan took a deep breath, stared blankly at the carved bed curtain on the top, and fell back on the bed with a half-sound. He turned over and lay on the bed like a salted fish. On the bed: "If I die, remember to burn a stick of incense for me every year during the Qingming and Winter Solstice." Then he sighed again, "Oh, it's a pity for those precious scripts in my room. Forget it, I will put them in Leave it to you."

"I don't want your storybooks, they are all messy things, they are simply burned, maybe you can read them a few times when you go down." Su Xian poured himself a cup of hot tea, perfunctory Ying Ying said, "But don't worry, I will never miss the matter of going to the grave to burn incense on the death day of Qingming, Winter Solstice and Ghost Festival."

Ning Huan raised his head when he heard the words, and muttered loudly with a mournful face: "You, you really plan to send me to die!"

Su Xian put down the cup in his hand, pursed his lips and raised his eyes: "Didn't you ask me to burn incense at your grave?"

Ning Huan snorted heavily, he turned sideways and buried his head under the quilt, as if angry, he didn't look at the person who was drinking tea slowly.

Suddenly there was a soft low laugh from the side, the quilt was lifted halfway from the back, and the visitor smiled and got into Ning Huan's warm quilt: "I didn't say I don't care about you, why are you angry? .It’s not certain which of the two of us will burn incense at the other’s grave.”

"Really." Ning Huan turned around, blinked his eyes and stared at Su Xian and said seriously.

Su Xian raised one corner of his mouth slightly, put his hands behind his head, and took up half of the bed alone. He leaned on Ning Huan's bed carelessly, nodded and said, "When did I ever lie to you?"

Ning Huan snorted softly, "Then what is going on with the seven-player game you mentioned? I don't have the slightest impression of the life-and-death deed." Ning Huan stood up and dragged his jaw, recalling with a distressed face "The yellow talisman was given to me by Wang Sheng's father, but it really saved my life. Besides, I don't think he wants to kill me."

"Did the classmate you mentioned, Wang Sheng, die suddenly not long ago?" Ning Huan nodded.

Su Xian was silent for a while, then turned to look at Ning Huan: "Then you may be taking his place in the seven-player game."

"I replaced him?" Ning Huan frowned.

Suxian replied: "Just now you said that your yellow talisman changed after the ghost market came out, so I guess it should be the ghost bride's hands and feet. But these are not important anymore. Survive the game. I'm going back to prepare something now, and you'll come find me later." After speaking, he turned over and got out of bed.

Yinchuan raised his head from the bronze mirror slowly, glanced at Ning Huan, who was still holding the quilt on the bed in a daze, and Su Xian, who was arranging his clothes, just got off the bed, and there were some slight wrinkles on his coat.Yinchuan hissed: "I haven't seen you for a month now, are you two already so fast?"

"Why so fast?" Ning Huan asked blankly, Yin Chuan clicked his tongue twice, shook his head, muttering "I can't say it, I can't say it" and drifted out after Su Xian .

Even though he didn't know what Suxian was going to go back to prepare, Ning Huan still got up as soon as he went out.After washing up, Ning Huan greeted the housekeeper, said that he was going on a long trip, and hurried out.

This was Ning Huan's return to the Su's house, the whole house looked old from the outside, most of the vermilion paint on the plaque had peeled off, revealing a bare white inner core.The crevices of the cracked rocks on the surrounding walls are covered with slippery moss, and the old pagoda tree at the door grows lush, almost covering most of the daytime, and most of the dense branches stretch into the mansion without pruning. .Because Su's house is located in a deep alley, there are no people around.

Ning Huan thought it strange that Su Xian could be regarded as a fourth-rank official of the imperial court after all, and a close minister of the emperor, so he shouldn't live in such a dilapidated house.But before Ning Huan could think about it, the door opened, and the person who opened the door was an old man, with his body bowed and his sleeves rolled up, but he had a kind and friendly expression on his face: "It's Young Master Ning, sir, please come with me."

He turned half of his body sideways, motioning for Ning Huan to follow in.Ning Huan nodded, and stepped into the gate of Su Zhai.The furnishings inside are not much different from the outside, the same old-fashioned and outdated, but the layout is quite clean and tidy, without the gloomy feeling outside.There were hardly any servants in the mansion, except for the old man who looked like a housekeeper in front of him, Ning Huan only saw a dark-skinned young man working in a stable in the distance.

Ning Huan followed behind the old man, looking around curiously: "This mansion must be quite old, right?"

The old man's footsteps slowed down, he turned around and nodded towards Ning Huan and said: "Yes, this old house has been here since before your lord was born. After your lord returned to Beijing, Lord Long Live rewarded the mansion, but Your Excellency thinks that the old mansion has feelings for you, so you declined it." The old man pointed to the dark-skinned boy, "That's a little mute, since your Excellency went to Sanqing Mountain to practice Taoism, an old man and a little mute have been left here. Keep it."

"What about Master Su and Master Su?" Ning Huan asked.

"Master and Madam have been gone since your lord was seven years old." He bowed his body and sighed, "but I'll leave these things for my lord to tell you."

Ning Huan was slightly taken aback, did Su Xian lose his parents at such a young age?Ning Huan nodded, and stopped asking questions.

As he approached the main hall, he happened to see Yinchuan hanging upside down from the roof beam, swinging on a swing, holding a bronze mirror in his left hand. Seeing Ning Huan coming, she called out: "Here we come, my lord is inside." Waiting." Ning Huan raised his head, and saw a red-faced paper man tilting his head and grinning towards him, looking a little scary.

Ning Huan suddenly thought of a question. He glanced at the surrounding walls and asked, "Will the people from Dongchang really monitor here?"

Yinchuan sneered: "The group of dead eunuchs dare to come here in broad daylight to report and check in. Usually, no one is there."

The old man beside Ning Huan also laughed cheerfully: "Speaking of ordinary people who dare to enter the Su Mansion, Mr. Ning is the first one."

Ning Huan twitched the corner of his mouth and went directly into the main hall.In the middle of the main hall, there is a memorial tablet, with three sticks of incense burning just below it, and at the bottom there is a paper doll with birthday characters written on it.Ning Huan took a closer look, and suddenly found that the name of Su Xian was written on it.

Ning Huan's heart trembled, and he heard a lazy voice from behind: "Are you here?"

"What, what's going on here?" Ning Huan turned around and pointed at the tablet with Su Xian's name written on it, speechless for a long time.

Su Xian glanced at his tablet disapprovingly, and explained: "One person can go alone with a life-death deed."

Ning Huan's eyes widened slightly, and he saw Su Xian picked up the paper doll on the table, took out a talisman and stuck it on it, the fire of the talisman was burning with a faint blue light, and soon the paper doll burned to the ground. A handful of ashes remained on the table.Su Xian put the ashes into a bowl filled with water, and drew a bloodstain on his hand with a knife. The blood beads dripped in, and a bright red blood flower bloomed.Su Xian took the bowl and handed it to Ning Huan: "Drink it."

"This is..." Ning Huan stared at Wan Li's hand in doubt.

"Drink first." Su Xian said.

So Ning Huan drank the water in the bowl quickly with his head on his back, only to feel that his body suddenly became heavy. He turned around to look at Su Xian, and saw Su Xian sat down on the table with a pale face: "Deed of Life and Death." One can go alone, but now my Seven Souls are on you. When it gets dark, once the seven-player game starts, I can go in with you at that time."

Ning Huan stared at Su Xian, and nodded nana.Seeing Ning Huan's serious face, Su Xian smiled lowly and said, "Would you like to offer me a stick of incense while my memorial tablet is still standing here?"

Ning Huan rolled his eyes silently.

The two waited at the table for the night to fall, and the atmosphere gradually became quiet.The butler came in and lit the lamp. Under the dim light, Ning Huan rested his chin on his hand, dozing off bit by bit.Suddenly he heard someone calling his name one by one beside him: "Ning Huan, Ning Huan, wake up!" Ning Huan opened his eyes sleepily, and heard Su Xian softly say, "Get ready to go!" .”

Only then did Ning Huan fully wake up, and Su Zhai had completely disappeared. At this time, the two of them were in a wilderness, surrounded by fog, and could not see clearly into the distance.And there is only a small path under the feet, which winds and does not know where it leads...

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