Mu Linjiang said, "Speak."
"I'll think about the marriage contract after I get back Chang Xijian." Ye Yunzhou took a step back, "Yin Mushi is in Huangdu, I don't want to push away the available people in advance, you just make a little change for the sake of Mo Ying, the others Let’s try to find common ground while reserving differences.”
Mu Linjiang's complexion gradually sank, exhausted his patience, he pointed at the door with his sleeves and shouted: "Get out."
Ye Yunzhou pursed his lips and turned his face away, nodded, and looked at Mu Linjiang restrainedly: "Good night."
The room in the inn was not too warm. The formation in the bathroom hadn’t been maintained for a long time, and there was no water. Ye Yunzhou thought that the house was leaking and it was raining all night, so he applied two dust-cleaning formulas to make do with it. The sheets in the guest room were washed The color faded and stubborn stains remained. Ye Yunzhou didn't even want to sit, so he had to put together four chairs and shrank all night. He was half asleep and half awake the whole night.
In the morning of the next day, Shi Xiaomei went out vigorously to go shopping. In order to avoid meeting Mu Linjiang, Ye Yunzhou didn't go out until noon, and Mu Linjiang was also bored all morning.
Shi Xiaomei talked about the donkey cart going up the mountain, and the cart stopped at the intersection with half a box of goods in it. She went back to the inn wearing a long coat and carrying a hand stove, and knocked three times in front of Ye Yunzhou's and Mu Linjiang's doors.
"Little brother, Master Mu, it's time for us to set off." Shi Xiaomei said, "Let's go now, we can arrive at night."
Ye Yunzhou opened the door after a while, wearing a light gray long gown with silver trim, like a handsome and gentle young man who is studying, he thanked shyly: "Thanks to my sister for contacting me, otherwise I really don't know how to go up the mountain."
"It's okay, let's drop by." Shi Xiaomei said and looked to the next door, "Master Mu hasn't cleaned up yet?"
Ye Yunzhou felt a little uncomfortable on his face, and said, "Get well soon."
When he was free, he talked nonsense with Shi Xiaomei, but when he really fell out with Mu Linjiang, he didn't want to slander him anymore.
As soon as Ye Yunzhou finished speaking, Mu Linjiang came out with both hands lightly dressed, nodded to Shi Xiaomei, turned and went downstairs.
Shi Xiaomei hurried two steps to help him, Ye Yunzhou followed silently, watching him accompany Xiaoer to give Xiao Er the door panel and floor money that was accidentally injured in the fight last night, Shi Xiaomei hesitated, and whispered: "What's wrong with Master Mu? happy."
"He has a steady temper and has always been like this." Ye Yunzhou explained casually.
"Where's your luggage? Let me carry it for you." Shi Xiaomei said.
"He studied for two years when he was young, and he has a Qiankun bag." Ye Yunzhou said.
"Oh." Shi Xiaomei nodded, went downstairs and said, "Are you in a bad mood too? Did you quarrel?"
Ye Yunzhou showed a bright smile: "No, how dare I quarrel with the old man."
Shi Xiaomei understood, it really was a quarrel.
Shi Xiaomei persuaded: "Oh, the old man, sometimes he loses his temper, but he still likes children, so we can't be as fussy as he is."
Ye Yunzhou sneered: "Sister is right."
Mu Linjiang in front: Hmph.
The back compartment of the donkey cart was covered with tarpaulin. The donkey in front lifted its hooves twice, and the cart shook. Shi Xiaomei skillfully stepped on the board. Ye Yunzhou hesitated for a moment. He had never been in such a primitive mode of transportation. Looking at the dung bag hanging under the donkey's buttocks, I became horrified.
Mu Linjiang got into the car as soon as he lifted the curtain, Ye Yunzhou didn't want to show timidity in front of Mu Linjiang no matter how hesitant, so he gritted his teeth and followed.
The coachman shouted "Sit tight and go", Ye Yunzhou leaned on the wall to find a place in the dark carriage, Shi Xiaomei sat in the innermost, next to her were wooden boxes and fruits and vegetables, the next person was already tight, Ye Yunzhou could only frowned and squeezed beside Mu Linjiang opposite, leaning on the box as far away as possible.
"Little brother, don't get too close to the goods. That box is full of chili powder. If it gets in the eyes of your clothes, it will be bad." Shi Xiaomei sighed, looked around, pulled out a piece of rag, got up and barely covered the box halfway.
"Thank you." Ye Yunzhou had no choice but to turn sideways. The driver yelled a password, and the car gradually jolted.
Ye Yunzhou straightened his body as much as possible, Shi Xiaomei was counting his salutes, looked up from time to time, saw Ye Yunzhou sitting stiffly, and said concernedly: "Little brother, it's the first time to sit, don't be so nervous, get used to it by shaking, if you feel dizzy, you can close the curtain Open up the air."
"I'm fine." Ye Yunzhou forced a smile. At this time, the coachman raised his whip. Ye Yunzhou cared too much about Mu Linjiang, but the car stopped suddenly. He lost his balance and knocked his head on the wooden box with a bang.
"Excuse me!" the coachman shouted, "There is a roadblock in front of us, so we have to wait for a while."
Ye Yunzhou rubbed his head resentfully, when he heard a helpless sigh from beside him.
"Let me see." Mu Linjiang said softly.
"What are you looking at?" Ye Yunzhou stabbed him, "You are blind."
Mu Linjiang didn't allow him to refuse, and stretched out his arms directly behind Ye Yunzhou, and took his side: "Come here, if you like boxes, go back and buy you a carload of bedrooms."
Shi Xiaomei snorted, covering her mouth to hold back her laughter.
Ye Yunzhou struggled for a while, trying to lift Mu Linjiang's arm back, the car started running again, Mu Linjiang tilted his head and whispered in his ear, "It hurts."
Ye Yunzhou: "..."
Mu Linjiang's voice scratched his tympanic membrane like a group of exploding feathers. Ye Yunzhou took a deep breath and stared at him with restrained anger: "The old injury has spread? Has it reached the cerebellum?"
Mu Linjiang slowly took back his arms and put them around his body: "Be respectful to the elders."
Ye Yunzhou rolled his eyes, touched his hair, and actually touched some chili noodles, he squeezed wildly towards Mu Linjiang, and said impatiently: "Move to the side!"
"It's leaning against the wall." Mu Linjiang couldn't help it, "Sit on my lap?"
"...What are the legs to show off? Who doesn't?" Ye Yunzhou gave him a gouging look, stopped admiring Linjiang, and closed his eyes to catch up on sleep.
Mu Linjiang raised the corners of his mouth and smiled silently.
Shi Xiaomei kept looking at these two people, Ye Yunzhou nodded more and more frequently, Mu Linjiang gently blocked him before he fell down, let him rest on his shoulder.
She couldn't suppress her curiosity, and asked in a low voice, "Master Mu, what is your relationship?"
"A disobedient junior." Mu Linjiang snorted out a mixture of love and hatred, "I will kick him out when I go back."
"You just say that, so you still pamper him." Shi Xiaomei saw through it at a glance, "Little brother, he is also very filial to you. He asked me yesterday that it is not convenient to heat hot water in an empty house. You like to be clean. If you are not in good health, you still need to drink hot water." Take the medicine."
Mu Linjiang was stunned for a moment, then glanced at Ye Yunzhou. Fortunately, he was still asleep and did not hear the word filial piety.
The donkey cart left the town and drove up the mountain road, and the two exchanged a few words from time to time, and it wasn't awkward to chat with each other.
"Master Mu, actually I have another question, I don't know if I will be rude." Shi Xiaomei looked at Mu Linjiang with her chin in her hand.
"Ask." Mu Linjiang said generously in a good mood.
"You live a long life this year?" Shi Xiaomei blinked.
Mu Linjiang's brows trembled slightly, he was silent for a while, and said, "What do you think?"
Shi Xiaomei guessed for a moment: "You look really young, but I always feel that you are not simple, you should be... more than 100 years old?"
She worked hard to say a big number, Mu Linjiang lowered his head and laughed sullenly, Shi Xiaomei also scratched his head, laughed, and rubbed his eyes after laughing: "My grandfather just passed away this year, and he is also a hundred years old. He has been a teacher in the Xianjia sect, but unfortunately he doesn't have any talent, so he has the right to strengthen his body."
"Birth, old age, sickness and death are human nature." Mu Linjiang comforted.
Shi Xiaomei quickly adjusted, pulled out something from her neck, held the lower part in her palm, and sighed: "I only regret that I didn't make it in time to see Grandpa for the last time, he left me such a precious gift. I don't know what the meaning of the necklace is."
Mu Linjiang slowly put away her smile, and stared intently at Shi Xiaomei's palm. Her eyes were full of regret, but her palm was empty. She pulled out the non-existent chain rope as if she was acting in a play, her movements were solemn and real, and the atmosphere in the car was momentarily Get weird.
"Master Mu, do you know what material this is?" Shi Xiaomei looked up at Mu Linjiang and spread her palms forward.
Mu Linjiang: "..."
Mu Linjiang thought to himself, if you said you didn't have anything in your hand, would you unscrew your head and put it on, and then ask me if I have anything this time.
Mu Linjiang replied conservatively: "Forgive my blindness."
Shi Xiaomei suddenly blushed: "I'm sorry, you are so sharp, I even forgot your eyes... I'm so sorry."
"It's okay." Mu Linjiang pinched Ye Yunzhou fiercely calmly, Ye Yunzhou opened his eyes and instinctively hit back, but Mu Linjiang held down his wrist and raised his jaw to signal him to look at Shi Xiaomei.
Ye Yunzhou sat up and took a look, and asked, "What are you looking at, is your hand hurt?"
Mu Linjiang: "..."
Shi Xiaomei was taken aback, then tucked the air into her collar, shook her head and said, "It's okay, I woke you up."
Mu Linjiang quietly told him the scene just now, Ye Yunzhou thought for a moment, and replied: "Now you believe me."
"I never doubted you." Mu Linjiang pointedly.
With Shi Xiaomei around, Mu Linjiang caressed the ring on his right finger. Not wanting to call out Yuntu, he closed his eyes and let out a ray of consciousness to penetrate into the ring. The same picture as Yuntu spread out in the sea of consciousness. Contact information at the higher level, and finally found Wucheng Law Enforcement Hall.
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The donkey cart unloaded the goods from the village, and Mu Linjiang paid more money for the driver to send the three of them to the entrance of Shijiadian Village deep in the mountains. When they arrived, it was dusk and the night was quiet. Looking from the winding path at the entrance of the village, the houses were small. The courtyards are all hidden in the dark, and none of them are lit.
Shi Xiaomei's home was in the middle of the village, and the vacant house lent them was separated by three families. The two helped Shi Xiaomei carry her luggage, walked her to the door, and took the key to the borrowed yard.
Ye Yunzhou walked in front, the wind poured into his clothes along his neck, he had to use his spiritual energy to keep warm as much as possible.
"You don't wear too much. Young people should not always try to look good. Your body is more important." Mu Linjiang reminded him, "Given your cultivation level, add a cotton coat."
Ye Yunzhou was upset, he didn't open his mouth to reconcile, Mu Linjiang pretended to be a good person.
He went to open the lock with the key, and when he entered, he closed it with his backhand. Mu Linjiang was almost slapped on the nose, so he had to push the door by himself.
This is an empty house that has been abandoned for a long time. There is no smell of living things. Thin snow foam is floating in the wind. It seems that there will be another light snowfall. There should be some soil piled up in the courtyard, and the snow has accumulated unevenly on it. , like a few scattered tombs.
Ye Yunzhou coughed from the house, and Mu Linjiang entered the house. The three-room house is spacious enough, but the pungent musty smell and the muddy ground make it impossible for a respectable man from the city, Young Master Ye, to set foot.
Mu Linjiang laughed leisurely, Ye Yunzhou turned around and glared: "What are you laughing at?"
"Let's make a fire." Mu Linjiang walked in naturally. There are two bedrooms on the left and right, and the kitchen is directly opposite the door in the middle. There is a stove and a small storage room at the back.
Ye Yunzhou folded his arms and looked at him: "Palace Master Mu has the common sense of living among the masses. It seems that I don't need to hold you back."
Mu Linjiang glanced at him, and took a bench over: "Young master, please sit down."
Ye Yunzhou was also polite, and sat down after using a cleansing technique. Mu Linjiang was busy in the courtyard, and brought back a few dead branches and firewood, which meant to show his skills.
He rolled up his sleeves and squatted down, stuffed the firewood into the stove, took out a fire pocket from his dry bag, and burned it on the branches for a long time, and then he also coughed.
Ye Yunzhou looked at the smoking stove and Mu Linjiang who hurriedly backed away to cover his face, and taunted shamelessly: "This firewood is so courageous, it dares to disobey Palace Master Mu."
Mu Linjiang stood up and pulled off the blindfolded headband, wiped his hands, turned into anger from embarrassment, took out his umbrella and threw it at the stove, a clump of flames burst out, and burned the dead branches in a short while. The flames brightened and fell into darkness again.
Ye Yunzhou suppressed a gleeful smile, and Mu Linjiang gave him a cold look: "Now there are no bones left of it."
Ye Yunzhou: "..."
The two stared at the blackened stove and calmed down for a while, then opened the door to smoke, and breathed the fresh air in the yard.
Ye Yunzhou looked up at the sky, the moon was like a tarnished bead, floating gray behind the clouds, the mountains were wrapped in thicker snow and fog, like a sleeping monster, pressing the silent mountain village under the paws.
"Unfortunately, I can't see the stars anymore." Ye Yunzhou said with emotion.
Mu Linjiang's eyes slanted away quietly, then turned back, took off his coat and put it on Ye Yunzhou.
Ye Yunzhou was stunned, the hem of his clothes reached the ground, he was not used to it, so he was about to lift it.
"Wear it." Mu Linjiang said forcefully, pulled two sleeves and tied them directly in front of Ye Yunzhou.
Ye Yunzhou didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and thought that you are too naive, old man. Mu Linjiang picked up the umbrella inserted on the ground, jumped up to the roof, swung the umbrella to sweep the snow off to reveal the thatch, sat down slowly, and pointed at Ye Yunzhou.
"It's not sunny, what to see on the roof." Ye Yunzhou jumped up and stood beside him.
"Sit down." Mu Linjiang gestured to his side while holding an umbrella.
Ye Yunzhou clicked his tongue, wanted to see what he was up to, so he stretched out his hand to lift his clothes and sat down, looking at him questioningly.
"Look carefully, I will send you a starry sky." Mu Linjiang lowered his voice and smiled slightly.
The umbrella hovered between the two of them, and the surface of the umbrella expanded little by little until the two of them were enveloped like a tent.
"...Wow." Ye Yunzhou uttered a blunt particle, and was speechless for a moment.
Those staggered dark golden umbrella ribs gradually fade away, scattered fluorescent lights flicker under the umbrella surface, there are flowing thin clouds, clear cold moon and the Milky Way across the north and south, the night sky is blue and purple and vast, Ye Yunzhou raised his hand To the touch, it is soft and strong.
In this absurd visual and tactile difference, Ye Yunzhou came up with a romantic thought. They were sitting at the end of the dome, holding the entire sea of stars in their hands.
"Is this an apology?" Ye Yunzhou touched Mu Linjiang with his arm.
"I won't apologize to you." Mu Linjiang hummed.
Ye Yunzhou raised his eyebrows, and said impulsively for some reason: "Forget it, anyway, Silent Shadow City and Lone Night Palace are not mine, so why should I be thankless? When Chi Shuyu brings things over, I'll be a favor and dump the scum Send her off."
"Decided to change your mind and turn over a new leaf?" Mu Linjiang raised the corner of his lips, "Your senior brother is not someone who can be entrusted to you for life. Miss Chi used her schemes on him, and the gain outweighs the loss."
"It's fine if you nag me, and you don't care what men other women like, why don't you become a matchmaker." Ye Yunzhou snorted, thinking that the umbrella had some kind of mind-controlling technique, and he actually agreed to Mu Linjiang's obsession. .
Mu Linjiang sighed: "I don't want to see you all trapped by love at such a young age."
Ye Yunzhou didn't bother to talk about him, so he poked the umbrella with his hand, and the umbrella ribs reappeared. He turned around and saw a few small characters on the top of the umbrella handle.
"... Chun Jiang Tingyue?" Ye Yunzhou read softly, and when the words came out, they were inexplicably familiar.
"The name of this umbrella." Mu Linjiang continued, "It's a pity that people can't always see it like a sword."
Ye Yunzhou said in his heart that you are quite narcissistic, and wanted others to see you engraved your name, so he patted his butt and returned the umbrella to Mu Linjiang.
Mu Linjiang stared at Chunjiang Tingyue for a while, then retracted his gaze and closed the umbrella.
Ye Yunzhou stood up and wanted to jump, but as soon as he exerted his strength, his feet suddenly emptied, and he fell down unexpectedly. Fortunately, the roof was not high, so he stood firmly, looking at the collapsed thatch around him, and the direct sunlight above his head. I can't help but fall into contemplation.
Mu Linjiang couldn't help but look into the room through the hole, and shouted to the depressed Ye Yunzhou: "You are too heavy."
Ye Yunzhou looked around, picked up a dead branch and wanted to tie down Mu Linjiang, Mu Linjiang quickly got off the roof and went back to the house, the cold wind poured in from the transparent roof, and the snowflakes fell on the ground. In the circular beam of light, it looks like some kind of mysterious formation.
"What should I do?" Mu Linjiang tapped the tip of his umbrella on the ground, "I don't have the skills to repair the roof."
Ye Yunzhou seemed to have got some inspiration from the circle of light on the ground. He walked out quickly, and after a long time, he also brought some chopped firewood back, closed the door, threw it on the snow that was gradually thickening, and pinched a firewood in a half-baked manner. tactic.
"The atmosphere is good." Ye Yunzhou sat on the bench and wiped his hands with a handkerchief. Two sparks popped out of the woodpile. Amidst the subtle crackling sound and the smell of wood smoke, the orange-red flame finally jumped out. The movement of the check threw the handkerchief into the dancing flames, and the cotton cloth curled up to shoot up flames two feet high, scattering and falling snow.
Mu Linjiang volleyed out a rocking chair and placed it by the campfire. Ye Yunzhou looked at him from the corner of his eye and saw him bring out another basin.
Ye Yunzhou had a weird expression: "What exactly did you bring?"
"There's room, why don't you take it with you?" Mu Linjiang showed off his high-grade Qiankun bag, took an umbrella and lit the wooden basin, a vortex appeared at the bottom of the basin, a puddle of clear water quickly filled half of the basin, and steam came out, "These They are all basic techniques, and when you get a little higher, you can use them without using tricks after you are proficient."
"I won't call you master." Ye Yunzhou was vigilant.
Mu Linjiang sprinkled some unknown herbs into the basin: "I heard these two words."
Ye Yunzhou: "..."
Ye Yunzhou asked: "What are you doing?"
Mu Linjiang sat on the rocking chair, took off his shoes and socks, rolled up his trousers, hooked the water basin on his toes and moved to his legs, and generously began to soak his feet.
Ye Yunzhou:? ?
Ye Yunzhou was incredulous: "You don't want to lose face?"
"The sycamore tree in this basin has lived in Phoenixes, isn't it not enough face?" Mu Linjiang lazily closed his eyes and rested his mind.
Ye Yunzhou turned his head blankly, thinking that it would be too embarrassing.
Ye Yunzhou thought that he was the type to maintain a graceful image at all times. It might be okay to take off his shirt, but it probably wouldn't affect a person's sense of mystery and prestige without his shirt, but not necessarily by taking off his shoes.
The warm and warm light reflected on Mu Linjiang's body. He closed his eyes, relaxed his expression, and smiled slightly. Ye Yunzhou observed him secretly. The heat and the sound of dry firewood mixed together, peaceful and peaceful.
"You soak your feet like this in front of others?" Ye Yunzhou couldn't help asking him, Mu Linjiang showed a piece of calf, his ankle was immersed in the water, and his white toes gradually showed a little light red, every inch of his skin seemed to be written She looks dignified, yet she is at ease in the windy and snowy hut.
Mu Linjiang raised his eyelids: "Who is the other person?"
"Yin Si, Ying Xuanyang, etc." Ye Yunzhou thought for a while.
Mu Linjiang seemed speechless about this example: "I let them wait and add water at any time?"
"...ha." Ye Yunzhou touched his nose.
Mu Linjiang leaned on the rocking chair and teased: "You've seen it all, you are responsible."
"Responsible for cutting the legs?" Ye Yunzhou was indifferent, afraid that the hem of his clothes would slip into the basin, so he stretched out his hand to lift it up and licked his thigh.
Mu Linjiang rolled up the hem of his clothes: "In the wilderness, I advise you to abide by the etiquette and don't use your hands and feet to have any inappropriate thoughts."
Ye Yunzhou: "...you are addicted to acting, right?"
Mu Linjiang smiled without saying a word, put a low table beside the rocking chair, took out a bowl and shook half a bottle of medicine powder into it.
Ye Yunzhou got up and wanted to go out to get some more logs. Mu Linjiang choked on the soup and said, "Have you noticed the weirdness of this village?"
"Too dark?" Ye Yunzhou pondered, "There are no lights in every yard."
"It seems that you really don't understand the lives of ordinary people." Mu Linjiang shook his head, "Young master, not everyone is as extravagant as you, there is no formation connection, no crystal lamps here, all candles and lamp oil are used , Why do you light the lanterns all night, burn money?"
Ye Yunzhou stared at him annoyedly, brought a pile of firewood back and threw it beside his rocking chair.
"From the moment I stepped into the village, I noticed that there was no life here." Mu Linjiang continued, "There was a light snowfall in the afternoon, and a thin and smooth layer was accumulated on the road, but there was nothing under this layer of floating snow. Footprints, this is suspicious, don't the villagers go out during the day?"
Ye Yunzhou frowned, and gradually felt strange.
"Most of the villagers' coal, firewood and straw for the winter will be piled up in the yard and covered with cloth. The straw will not be easily ignited if it falls in the snow and gets damp. However, judging from the thickness of the snow on the firewood pile, the owner's house has not been touched for a long time. The moisture-proof cloth Even if it was blown away by the wind, it is so abnormal, there must be a ghost." Mu Linjiang said firmly.
Ye Yunzhou thought of Shi Xiaomei, and said: "Maybe there are ghosts, this village has become a ghost village, and Shi Xiaomei is the fellow ghosts who came back to join her."
Mu Linjiang was taking his last sip of medicine, and it took him a while to swallow it with difficulty.
"I've never seen a serious ghost. Can the sword hit it? Can it be taken out of the village?" Ye Yunzhou diverted his thinking, "If ghosts are used to commit crimes, will the Law Enforcement Hall catch ghosts?"
"Don't think too much." Mu Linjiang said with a sullen face, "A ghost is just a spirit body formed by the soul and obsession that survived the world by chance. Without a physical body, without a clear mind, it will dissipate sooner or later."
"What about Ghost Cultivator?" Ye Yunzhou asked.
"Just like Qi Ling and shape-changing spirit beasts, they all depend on chance. In layman's terms, most of them depend on luck." Mu Linjiang waved his hand, "You can't become a ghost cultivator just by dying, so you choose a few families, Sneak in to see the situation, and report back to me."
"Why don't you go." Ye Yunzhou sized him up, "You're not really afraid of ghosts, are you?"
"I want to watch the fire." Mu Linjiang turned over the firewood with the tip of his umbrella, without any intention of moving.
Ye Yunzhou felt that his words were insincere, so he simply poured a basin of water on the campfire.
"Don't worry about it now, go with me." Ye Yunzhou smiled.
Mu Linjiang: "..."
A quarter of an hour later, the two sneaked into a courtyard at the same time. Mu Linjiang made a gesture of left and right. Ye Yunzhou nodded, and quickly rushed to the window, turning his head sideways to peek through the window paper.
Mu Linjiang was carrying an umbrella, walking lightly and stepping on the snow without a trace, walked to the other side to observe, there was a middle-aged couple lying in the bedroom, his eyes were slightly lit up, and he could clearly see that the two were still there through the gap between the curtains. Heartbeat ups and downs.
Mu Linjiang sent a voice transmission to Ye Yunzhou: "Don't open the door, use shapeshifting to enter, remember to watch the location, don't get stuck in the wall."
Ye Yunzhou sighed sadly, and appeared in the main hall the next moment.
Mu Linjiang appeared gorgeously out of the fog beside him holding an umbrella, and touched the door latch with his hand back, leaving a thin layer of dust.
"Palace Master, come and have a look." Ye Yunzhou stood in front of the kitchen door with a serious expression and an ugly face.
Mu Linjiang walked over lightly, and saw a water basin on the stove, the water had already frozen with thin ice, and the unwashed dishes and chopsticks were piled up in the water, and the top one had grown a layer of black and yellow oil stains. green hair.
He scanned the kitchen, and there was an apple that was rotten and wrinkled, with sticky yellow-brown mucus stuck to the cutting board. Mu Linjiang felt disgusted, turned around with his hands on his forehead, but met someone who was standing in front of the door at an unknown time. , a couple with straight eyes.
"Who are you, why did you break into my house?" The middle-aged man said flatly.
"Who are you, why did you break into my house?" The woman stepped forward and stepped over the threshold.
"Who are you, why did you break into my house?" The man also took a step closer, repeating this sentence mechanically.
Mu Linjiang took several steps back and clenched his umbrella tightly. Just about to attack, Ye Yunzhou pressed his shoulders and walked in front of him as if nothing had happened.
The woman turned her head stiffly: "Who are you, why..."
"Borrow a fire." Ye Yunzhou nodded with a smile on his face, "We live in Guicun, and we don't have a fire book, so we are here to borrow it."
"Fire pockets." The woman looked at the man, "His father, entertain the guests, I'll get the fire pockets."
"This way, please." The man swayed and turned to make way, "Wait a moment."
"Big brother is really enthusiastic, so it's troublesome." Ye Yunzhou said politely to the two without any ups and downs, pulled up Mu Linjiang's sleeves to follow the man, and at the same time said via voice transmission, "I can tell at a glance that they are not human, They all have a knife wound in their throat, and you don't have to be polite with this ghostly look, just use Dark Eyes or spells casually."
Mu Linjiang loosened his tense hands, raised a little bit of spiritual power, and took the initiative to use his dark pupils. A cold light flashed in his purple eyes, and a knife wound that almost severed his head appeared on the neck of the man in front of him.
"It's hopeless." Mu Linjiang closed his eyes and said, "They are living corpses. There is a special kind of spiritual power controlling their movements, making them act according to their instincts in life."
"Can you see who controlled it?" Ye Yunzhou asked.
"The manipulator is not far away." Mu Linjiang frowned, "Within twenty miles, if I track it with spiritual power, I can determine the location."
"That's easy, don't bother you." Ye Yunzhou showed a touch of excitement, and took a jar of wine before leaving the kitchen, "Mr. Mu, you won't stop me."
"Sigh." Mu Linjiang agreed with a dejected back, "It's up to you, if you draw out a manipulator, I won't help you."
Ye Yunzhou licked the corner of his lower lip: "Let me see such disgusting dirty things in the kitchen. My 40-meter long sword is already hungry and thirsty. I'm glad you didn't take my head."
The man led them to the main hall, the woman took out a fire pocket from the drawer, Ye Yunzhou took it, leaned over and said softly: "Thank you, I hope you rest in peace."
Mu Linjiang left first with his hands behind his back. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Ye Yunzhou throwing up the wine jar and at the same time turning into a Rushui sword. The three-foot green sharp edge flashed coldly, and the moment it was unsheathed, it had already chopped off the heads of two living corpses. The sword kept moving , cut through the half-empty wine jar, and the spicy wine poured down like a shower.
Ye Yunzhou lifted the tablecloth and swung it into the air, turned around to catch up with Mu Linjiang, blew on the fire, and threw it behind him.
Blazing flames shot up into the sky behind the two of them, Mu Linjiang opened his umbrella and turned half of it towards Ye Yunzhou to block the flying sparks for him.
"How do you calculate the loss?" Ye Yunzhou clapped his hands and stood in the courtyard, turning his head to ask Mu Linjiang.
"Find out the manipulator and seize their property. If there are still relatives alive in these living corpses, pay the victims according to the law after counting them." Mu Linjiang comforted, "You will not be held accountable for arson."
"That's good." Ye Yunzhou put his sword back into its sheath and let out a sigh of relief. Thick smoke and light split the night, the snow under the eaves melted into a trickle, and the whole village was still silent.
The two walked towards the gate of the courtyard side by side. Mu Linjiang snorted and said sarcastically, "He is more skilled in murder and arson than I am. It's really scary for young people."
"Palace Master, you have been washing your hands in the golden basin for so many years, I will give you the next chance, and you will review it too?" Ye Yunzhou raised his eyebrows in return.
"Sharp teeth." Mu Linjiang laughed, and stood at the door to stare at Ye Yunzhou. The flames made his eyes bright purple, "Come to Lone Night Palace?"
Ye Yunzhou was slightly taken aback: "A formal invitation to join me?"
"Yes." Mu Linjiang affirmed.
"How formal?" Ye Yunzhou asked with a smile.
"Kneel down, and I will give you a seal and ribbon." Mu Linjiang was half joking.
Ye Yunzhou said decisively: "It's wishful thinking."
Mu Linjiang pursed his lips, swiped his fingertips on the Qiankun bag at his waist, pinched a small and exquisite jade token in his hand, and shook it in front of Ye Yunzhou's eyes: "After taking back the Chang Xi sword, if I return If you have your life, you can exit the Jingwei Gate, and then this token will be yours."
"What position?" Ye Yunzhou was curious.
"We'll talk about it later." Mu Linjiang pretended to be mysterious, and a hidden stream of light flashed in the distance. He put away his token and said solemnly, "Someone is coming."
"Hide first." Ye Yunzhou didn't care about pursuing it, quickly restrained his breath, looked around, and locked the several baskets buckled together upside down under the corner wall of the courtyard.
He dragged Mu Linjiang over, opened the basket and urged Mu Linjiang to hide inside, and he himself followed into the basket.
Dust and dead leaves rustled down on the top of the two of them. Ye Yunzhou endured the discomfort and kept quiet, but it was still difficult to weave a basket to accommodate two men. Leaning against the inner wall of the woven basket, Ye Yunzhou straddled his lap, curled up his upper body and almost lay in Mu Linjiang's arms, his hair was still hurting from being scratched by the branches at the bottom of the basket, he quickly pulled Mu Linjiang's clothes back into the basket, Gritting his teeth in a low voice: "Put your legs down!"
"Do you see if there is still a place? You are looking for a good place." Mu Linjiang reached out to untie a strand of Ye Yunzhou's hair, protected his head with the palm of his hand and pressed it to his shoulder to warn, "Don't move around, Where are you sitting and don’t know?”
Ye Yunzhou's legs tensed up, and he said angrily, "Pay attention to whoever comes, what nonsense you say at a time like this."
Mu Linjiang looked out through the gaps in the basket weaving, and the figure flying from a distance landed in the yard, wrapped in a loose black robe with red trim, stretching out his withered hands facing the raging fire, the flames seemed to be caught by the flames. Forcibly compressed and pulled away, leaving only a scorched black frame.
The man scanned his surroundings vigilantly, not understanding why the fire suddenly caught fire. Mu Linjiang was thoughtful, and after a while, he had a flash of inspiration.
"I know who he is now." Mu Linjiang said in a deep voice, "Old Corpse Vulture's junior brother, Corpse Owl."
At the same time when Mu Linjiang recognized his identity, Corpse Owl also noticed the hiding place of the two of them. Without hesitation, he stepped back and jumped into the air. The snow whirled, and the sound of the wind horn was as fierce as a roar, directly blowing away the broken walls and ruins of the courtyard.
Ye Yunzhou dodges out, the sword shadow is attached to Ruoshui, and the spiritual body protector forcibly passes through the formation barrier to chase the corpse owl. The Chunjiangting moon umbrella opens at high altitude against the wind and snow. When he descended, he held the umbrella and stepped steadily in the air, and made a circle with his hands. Countless sharp ice cones shot from the circle to the ground, piercing into the formation pattern left by the corpse owl, and the crystal cold light refracted back and forth between the ice cones. In an instant, the unformed formation was suppressed and smashed into a cloud of clear ice.
"Who are you, report your name! I have no grievances or enmity with you, why do you meddle in this business?" Seeing that the dark wind formation behind him was destroyed in an instant, he turned his head and shouted angrily, and at the same time turned his hands behind his back and sacrificed quietly. command flag.
"Ask Hades!" Ye Yunzhou sneered, without explaining, he raised his sword and quickly made a deadly move.
Mu Linjiang floated to the ground and brushed his chest. The corpse owl's cultivation was not as good as the corpse owl's old man. Back then, the corpse owl was so frightened that he fled overnight before he blasted the mountain. He was just a stern and bullying rat. Ye Yunzhou had no problem dealing with the corpse owl.
He sat on the top of the frame, closed his eyes and adjusted his breath, silently counted the time, when he opened his eyes, Ye Yunzhou threw the bloody Corpse Owl in front of him with a bang.
"Same as you, melee combat is totally useless." Ye Yunzhou wiped his hands with a handkerchief in disappointment.
"Young master Ye, the report should be concise and to the point, your first half sentence is redundant." Mu Linjiang said displeased.
Corpse Owl coughed up blood, and smiled vaguely twice: "I found out... You are here to protect that girl, right?"
Mu Linjiang and Ye Yunzhou looked at each other, thinking of Shi Xiaomei.
"Let me go!" Corpse Owl suddenly shouted loudly, Ye Yunzhou removed his limbs and joints, he could only turn his face to Ye Yunzhou with difficulty, "Look around, let me go immediately, or I will kill her!"
Ye Yunzhou squinted his eyes and looked around, the sound of small footsteps getting closer and closer, the villagers of Shijiadian followed the same order, walked out of the house and gathered from all directions, no matter men, women, old or young, all looked blank, they were like ants surrounding sugar cane The crowd surrounded the courtyard layer by layer. In the middle of those people, Shi Xiaomei was brought over with her hands pressed down on her shoulders. Her face was full of horror and her eye circles were red, but she never cried, and she couldn't stop struggling and screaming.
"Did you see! It's easy for them to tear up a girl!" Corpse Owl threatened with a hoarse voice.
"Tear it up, she is also a dead person." Ye Yunzhou was unmoved, and raised his foot to kick his face to the other side, "I've finished reading what you asked me to see, now you take a closer look at him, do you know him?"
Mu Linjiang raised one leg, closed the umbrella and leaned on it in his hand, and met the corpse owl's eyes with a half-smile.
The corpse owl froze for a moment, then let out a howl, and the black robe suddenly inflated, Ye Yunzhou frowned, feeling uneasy.
He stood in front of Mu Linjiang with a horizontal sword, and cast a barrier of sword light. The corpse owl's body swelled to the limit and burst suddenly, turning into dark and muddy raindrops and pouring on the gathered living corpses. The sword light barrier kept moving, and Ye Yunzhou's throat was filled with fishy sweetness. After the black rain fell, he put away the barrier and bent over to vomit blood.
"He didn't take the initiative to blew himself up, what's the matter?" Ye Yunzhou turned around and asked Mu Linjiang anxiously, this body is too fragile,
"I'll think about the marriage contract after I get back Chang Xijian." Ye Yunzhou took a step back, "Yin Mushi is in Huangdu, I don't want to push away the available people in advance, you just make a little change for the sake of Mo Ying, the others Let’s try to find common ground while reserving differences.”
Mu Linjiang's complexion gradually sank, exhausted his patience, he pointed at the door with his sleeves and shouted: "Get out."
Ye Yunzhou pursed his lips and turned his face away, nodded, and looked at Mu Linjiang restrainedly: "Good night."
The room in the inn was not too warm. The formation in the bathroom hadn’t been maintained for a long time, and there was no water. Ye Yunzhou thought that the house was leaking and it was raining all night, so he applied two dust-cleaning formulas to make do with it. The sheets in the guest room were washed The color faded and stubborn stains remained. Ye Yunzhou didn't even want to sit, so he had to put together four chairs and shrank all night. He was half asleep and half awake the whole night.
In the morning of the next day, Shi Xiaomei went out vigorously to go shopping. In order to avoid meeting Mu Linjiang, Ye Yunzhou didn't go out until noon, and Mu Linjiang was also bored all morning.
Shi Xiaomei talked about the donkey cart going up the mountain, and the cart stopped at the intersection with half a box of goods in it. She went back to the inn wearing a long coat and carrying a hand stove, and knocked three times in front of Ye Yunzhou's and Mu Linjiang's doors.
"Little brother, Master Mu, it's time for us to set off." Shi Xiaomei said, "Let's go now, we can arrive at night."
Ye Yunzhou opened the door after a while, wearing a light gray long gown with silver trim, like a handsome and gentle young man who is studying, he thanked shyly: "Thanks to my sister for contacting me, otherwise I really don't know how to go up the mountain."
"It's okay, let's drop by." Shi Xiaomei said and looked to the next door, "Master Mu hasn't cleaned up yet?"
Ye Yunzhou felt a little uncomfortable on his face, and said, "Get well soon."
When he was free, he talked nonsense with Shi Xiaomei, but when he really fell out with Mu Linjiang, he didn't want to slander him anymore.
As soon as Ye Yunzhou finished speaking, Mu Linjiang came out with both hands lightly dressed, nodded to Shi Xiaomei, turned and went downstairs.
Shi Xiaomei hurried two steps to help him, Ye Yunzhou followed silently, watching him accompany Xiaoer to give Xiao Er the door panel and floor money that was accidentally injured in the fight last night, Shi Xiaomei hesitated, and whispered: "What's wrong with Master Mu? happy."
"He has a steady temper and has always been like this." Ye Yunzhou explained casually.
"Where's your luggage? Let me carry it for you." Shi Xiaomei said.
"He studied for two years when he was young, and he has a Qiankun bag." Ye Yunzhou said.
"Oh." Shi Xiaomei nodded, went downstairs and said, "Are you in a bad mood too? Did you quarrel?"
Ye Yunzhou showed a bright smile: "No, how dare I quarrel with the old man."
Shi Xiaomei understood, it really was a quarrel.
Shi Xiaomei persuaded: "Oh, the old man, sometimes he loses his temper, but he still likes children, so we can't be as fussy as he is."
Ye Yunzhou sneered: "Sister is right."
Mu Linjiang in front: Hmph.
The back compartment of the donkey cart was covered with tarpaulin. The donkey in front lifted its hooves twice, and the cart shook. Shi Xiaomei skillfully stepped on the board. Ye Yunzhou hesitated for a moment. He had never been in such a primitive mode of transportation. Looking at the dung bag hanging under the donkey's buttocks, I became horrified.
Mu Linjiang got into the car as soon as he lifted the curtain, Ye Yunzhou didn't want to show timidity in front of Mu Linjiang no matter how hesitant, so he gritted his teeth and followed.
The coachman shouted "Sit tight and go", Ye Yunzhou leaned on the wall to find a place in the dark carriage, Shi Xiaomei sat in the innermost, next to her were wooden boxes and fruits and vegetables, the next person was already tight, Ye Yunzhou could only frowned and squeezed beside Mu Linjiang opposite, leaning on the box as far away as possible.
"Little brother, don't get too close to the goods. That box is full of chili powder. If it gets in the eyes of your clothes, it will be bad." Shi Xiaomei sighed, looked around, pulled out a piece of rag, got up and barely covered the box halfway.
"Thank you." Ye Yunzhou had no choice but to turn sideways. The driver yelled a password, and the car gradually jolted.
Ye Yunzhou straightened his body as much as possible, Shi Xiaomei was counting his salutes, looked up from time to time, saw Ye Yunzhou sitting stiffly, and said concernedly: "Little brother, it's the first time to sit, don't be so nervous, get used to it by shaking, if you feel dizzy, you can close the curtain Open up the air."
"I'm fine." Ye Yunzhou forced a smile. At this time, the coachman raised his whip. Ye Yunzhou cared too much about Mu Linjiang, but the car stopped suddenly. He lost his balance and knocked his head on the wooden box with a bang.
"Excuse me!" the coachman shouted, "There is a roadblock in front of us, so we have to wait for a while."
Ye Yunzhou rubbed his head resentfully, when he heard a helpless sigh from beside him.
"Let me see." Mu Linjiang said softly.
"What are you looking at?" Ye Yunzhou stabbed him, "You are blind."
Mu Linjiang didn't allow him to refuse, and stretched out his arms directly behind Ye Yunzhou, and took his side: "Come here, if you like boxes, go back and buy you a carload of bedrooms."
Shi Xiaomei snorted, covering her mouth to hold back her laughter.
Ye Yunzhou struggled for a while, trying to lift Mu Linjiang's arm back, the car started running again, Mu Linjiang tilted his head and whispered in his ear, "It hurts."
Ye Yunzhou: "..."
Mu Linjiang's voice scratched his tympanic membrane like a group of exploding feathers. Ye Yunzhou took a deep breath and stared at him with restrained anger: "The old injury has spread? Has it reached the cerebellum?"
Mu Linjiang slowly took back his arms and put them around his body: "Be respectful to the elders."
Ye Yunzhou rolled his eyes, touched his hair, and actually touched some chili noodles, he squeezed wildly towards Mu Linjiang, and said impatiently: "Move to the side!"
"It's leaning against the wall." Mu Linjiang couldn't help it, "Sit on my lap?"
"...What are the legs to show off? Who doesn't?" Ye Yunzhou gave him a gouging look, stopped admiring Linjiang, and closed his eyes to catch up on sleep.
Mu Linjiang raised the corners of his mouth and smiled silently.
Shi Xiaomei kept looking at these two people, Ye Yunzhou nodded more and more frequently, Mu Linjiang gently blocked him before he fell down, let him rest on his shoulder.
She couldn't suppress her curiosity, and asked in a low voice, "Master Mu, what is your relationship?"
"A disobedient junior." Mu Linjiang snorted out a mixture of love and hatred, "I will kick him out when I go back."
"You just say that, so you still pamper him." Shi Xiaomei saw through it at a glance, "Little brother, he is also very filial to you. He asked me yesterday that it is not convenient to heat hot water in an empty house. You like to be clean. If you are not in good health, you still need to drink hot water." Take the medicine."
Mu Linjiang was stunned for a moment, then glanced at Ye Yunzhou. Fortunately, he was still asleep and did not hear the word filial piety.
The donkey cart left the town and drove up the mountain road, and the two exchanged a few words from time to time, and it wasn't awkward to chat with each other.
"Master Mu, actually I have another question, I don't know if I will be rude." Shi Xiaomei looked at Mu Linjiang with her chin in her hand.
"Ask." Mu Linjiang said generously in a good mood.
"You live a long life this year?" Shi Xiaomei blinked.
Mu Linjiang's brows trembled slightly, he was silent for a while, and said, "What do you think?"
Shi Xiaomei guessed for a moment: "You look really young, but I always feel that you are not simple, you should be... more than 100 years old?"
She worked hard to say a big number, Mu Linjiang lowered his head and laughed sullenly, Shi Xiaomei also scratched his head, laughed, and rubbed his eyes after laughing: "My grandfather just passed away this year, and he is also a hundred years old. He has been a teacher in the Xianjia sect, but unfortunately he doesn't have any talent, so he has the right to strengthen his body."
"Birth, old age, sickness and death are human nature." Mu Linjiang comforted.
Shi Xiaomei quickly adjusted, pulled out something from her neck, held the lower part in her palm, and sighed: "I only regret that I didn't make it in time to see Grandpa for the last time, he left me such a precious gift. I don't know what the meaning of the necklace is."
Mu Linjiang slowly put away her smile, and stared intently at Shi Xiaomei's palm. Her eyes were full of regret, but her palm was empty. She pulled out the non-existent chain rope as if she was acting in a play, her movements were solemn and real, and the atmosphere in the car was momentarily Get weird.
"Master Mu, do you know what material this is?" Shi Xiaomei looked up at Mu Linjiang and spread her palms forward.
Mu Linjiang: "..."
Mu Linjiang thought to himself, if you said you didn't have anything in your hand, would you unscrew your head and put it on, and then ask me if I have anything this time.
Mu Linjiang replied conservatively: "Forgive my blindness."
Shi Xiaomei suddenly blushed: "I'm sorry, you are so sharp, I even forgot your eyes... I'm so sorry."
"It's okay." Mu Linjiang pinched Ye Yunzhou fiercely calmly, Ye Yunzhou opened his eyes and instinctively hit back, but Mu Linjiang held down his wrist and raised his jaw to signal him to look at Shi Xiaomei.
Ye Yunzhou sat up and took a look, and asked, "What are you looking at, is your hand hurt?"
Mu Linjiang: "..."
Shi Xiaomei was taken aback, then tucked the air into her collar, shook her head and said, "It's okay, I woke you up."
Mu Linjiang quietly told him the scene just now, Ye Yunzhou thought for a moment, and replied: "Now you believe me."
"I never doubted you." Mu Linjiang pointedly.
With Shi Xiaomei around, Mu Linjiang caressed the ring on his right finger. Not wanting to call out Yuntu, he closed his eyes and let out a ray of consciousness to penetrate into the ring. The same picture as Yuntu spread out in the sea of consciousness. Contact information at the higher level, and finally found Wucheng Law Enforcement Hall.
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The donkey cart unloaded the goods from the village, and Mu Linjiang paid more money for the driver to send the three of them to the entrance of Shijiadian Village deep in the mountains. When they arrived, it was dusk and the night was quiet. Looking from the winding path at the entrance of the village, the houses were small. The courtyards are all hidden in the dark, and none of them are lit.
Shi Xiaomei's home was in the middle of the village, and the vacant house lent them was separated by three families. The two helped Shi Xiaomei carry her luggage, walked her to the door, and took the key to the borrowed yard.
Ye Yunzhou walked in front, the wind poured into his clothes along his neck, he had to use his spiritual energy to keep warm as much as possible.
"You don't wear too much. Young people should not always try to look good. Your body is more important." Mu Linjiang reminded him, "Given your cultivation level, add a cotton coat."
Ye Yunzhou was upset, he didn't open his mouth to reconcile, Mu Linjiang pretended to be a good person.
He went to open the lock with the key, and when he entered, he closed it with his backhand. Mu Linjiang was almost slapped on the nose, so he had to push the door by himself.
This is an empty house that has been abandoned for a long time. There is no smell of living things. Thin snow foam is floating in the wind. It seems that there will be another light snowfall. There should be some soil piled up in the courtyard, and the snow has accumulated unevenly on it. , like a few scattered tombs.
Ye Yunzhou coughed from the house, and Mu Linjiang entered the house. The three-room house is spacious enough, but the pungent musty smell and the muddy ground make it impossible for a respectable man from the city, Young Master Ye, to set foot.
Mu Linjiang laughed leisurely, Ye Yunzhou turned around and glared: "What are you laughing at?"
"Let's make a fire." Mu Linjiang walked in naturally. There are two bedrooms on the left and right, and the kitchen is directly opposite the door in the middle. There is a stove and a small storage room at the back.
Ye Yunzhou folded his arms and looked at him: "Palace Master Mu has the common sense of living among the masses. It seems that I don't need to hold you back."
Mu Linjiang glanced at him, and took a bench over: "Young master, please sit down."
Ye Yunzhou was also polite, and sat down after using a cleansing technique. Mu Linjiang was busy in the courtyard, and brought back a few dead branches and firewood, which meant to show his skills.
He rolled up his sleeves and squatted down, stuffed the firewood into the stove, took out a fire pocket from his dry bag, and burned it on the branches for a long time, and then he also coughed.
Ye Yunzhou looked at the smoking stove and Mu Linjiang who hurriedly backed away to cover his face, and taunted shamelessly: "This firewood is so courageous, it dares to disobey Palace Master Mu."
Mu Linjiang stood up and pulled off the blindfolded headband, wiped his hands, turned into anger from embarrassment, took out his umbrella and threw it at the stove, a clump of flames burst out, and burned the dead branches in a short while. The flames brightened and fell into darkness again.
Ye Yunzhou suppressed a gleeful smile, and Mu Linjiang gave him a cold look: "Now there are no bones left of it."
Ye Yunzhou: "..."
The two stared at the blackened stove and calmed down for a while, then opened the door to smoke, and breathed the fresh air in the yard.
Ye Yunzhou looked up at the sky, the moon was like a tarnished bead, floating gray behind the clouds, the mountains were wrapped in thicker snow and fog, like a sleeping monster, pressing the silent mountain village under the paws.
"Unfortunately, I can't see the stars anymore." Ye Yunzhou said with emotion.
Mu Linjiang's eyes slanted away quietly, then turned back, took off his coat and put it on Ye Yunzhou.
Ye Yunzhou was stunned, the hem of his clothes reached the ground, he was not used to it, so he was about to lift it.
"Wear it." Mu Linjiang said forcefully, pulled two sleeves and tied them directly in front of Ye Yunzhou.
Ye Yunzhou didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and thought that you are too naive, old man. Mu Linjiang picked up the umbrella inserted on the ground, jumped up to the roof, swung the umbrella to sweep the snow off to reveal the thatch, sat down slowly, and pointed at Ye Yunzhou.
"It's not sunny, what to see on the roof." Ye Yunzhou jumped up and stood beside him.
"Sit down." Mu Linjiang gestured to his side while holding an umbrella.
Ye Yunzhou clicked his tongue, wanted to see what he was up to, so he stretched out his hand to lift his clothes and sat down, looking at him questioningly.
"Look carefully, I will send you a starry sky." Mu Linjiang lowered his voice and smiled slightly.
The umbrella hovered between the two of them, and the surface of the umbrella expanded little by little until the two of them were enveloped like a tent.
"...Wow." Ye Yunzhou uttered a blunt particle, and was speechless for a moment.
Those staggered dark golden umbrella ribs gradually fade away, scattered fluorescent lights flicker under the umbrella surface, there are flowing thin clouds, clear cold moon and the Milky Way across the north and south, the night sky is blue and purple and vast, Ye Yunzhou raised his hand To the touch, it is soft and strong.
In this absurd visual and tactile difference, Ye Yunzhou came up with a romantic thought. They were sitting at the end of the dome, holding the entire sea of stars in their hands.
"Is this an apology?" Ye Yunzhou touched Mu Linjiang with his arm.
"I won't apologize to you." Mu Linjiang hummed.
Ye Yunzhou raised his eyebrows, and said impulsively for some reason: "Forget it, anyway, Silent Shadow City and Lone Night Palace are not mine, so why should I be thankless? When Chi Shuyu brings things over, I'll be a favor and dump the scum Send her off."
"Decided to change your mind and turn over a new leaf?" Mu Linjiang raised the corner of his lips, "Your senior brother is not someone who can be entrusted to you for life. Miss Chi used her schemes on him, and the gain outweighs the loss."
"It's fine if you nag me, and you don't care what men other women like, why don't you become a matchmaker." Ye Yunzhou snorted, thinking that the umbrella had some kind of mind-controlling technique, and he actually agreed to Mu Linjiang's obsession. .
Mu Linjiang sighed: "I don't want to see you all trapped by love at such a young age."
Ye Yunzhou didn't bother to talk about him, so he poked the umbrella with his hand, and the umbrella ribs reappeared. He turned around and saw a few small characters on the top of the umbrella handle.
"... Chun Jiang Tingyue?" Ye Yunzhou read softly, and when the words came out, they were inexplicably familiar.
"The name of this umbrella." Mu Linjiang continued, "It's a pity that people can't always see it like a sword."
Ye Yunzhou said in his heart that you are quite narcissistic, and wanted others to see you engraved your name, so he patted his butt and returned the umbrella to Mu Linjiang.
Mu Linjiang stared at Chunjiang Tingyue for a while, then retracted his gaze and closed the umbrella.
Ye Yunzhou stood up and wanted to jump, but as soon as he exerted his strength, his feet suddenly emptied, and he fell down unexpectedly. Fortunately, the roof was not high, so he stood firmly, looking at the collapsed thatch around him, and the direct sunlight above his head. I can't help but fall into contemplation.
Mu Linjiang couldn't help but look into the room through the hole, and shouted to the depressed Ye Yunzhou: "You are too heavy."
Ye Yunzhou looked around, picked up a dead branch and wanted to tie down Mu Linjiang, Mu Linjiang quickly got off the roof and went back to the house, the cold wind poured in from the transparent roof, and the snowflakes fell on the ground. In the circular beam of light, it looks like some kind of mysterious formation.
"What should I do?" Mu Linjiang tapped the tip of his umbrella on the ground, "I don't have the skills to repair the roof."
Ye Yunzhou seemed to have got some inspiration from the circle of light on the ground. He walked out quickly, and after a long time, he also brought some chopped firewood back, closed the door, threw it on the snow that was gradually thickening, and pinched a firewood in a half-baked manner. tactic.
"The atmosphere is good." Ye Yunzhou sat on the bench and wiped his hands with a handkerchief. Two sparks popped out of the woodpile. Amidst the subtle crackling sound and the smell of wood smoke, the orange-red flame finally jumped out. The movement of the check threw the handkerchief into the dancing flames, and the cotton cloth curled up to shoot up flames two feet high, scattering and falling snow.
Mu Linjiang volleyed out a rocking chair and placed it by the campfire. Ye Yunzhou looked at him from the corner of his eye and saw him bring out another basin.
Ye Yunzhou had a weird expression: "What exactly did you bring?"
"There's room, why don't you take it with you?" Mu Linjiang showed off his high-grade Qiankun bag, took an umbrella and lit the wooden basin, a vortex appeared at the bottom of the basin, a puddle of clear water quickly filled half of the basin, and steam came out, "These They are all basic techniques, and when you get a little higher, you can use them without using tricks after you are proficient."
"I won't call you master." Ye Yunzhou was vigilant.
Mu Linjiang sprinkled some unknown herbs into the basin: "I heard these two words."
Ye Yunzhou: "..."
Ye Yunzhou asked: "What are you doing?"
Mu Linjiang sat on the rocking chair, took off his shoes and socks, rolled up his trousers, hooked the water basin on his toes and moved to his legs, and generously began to soak his feet.
Ye Yunzhou:? ?
Ye Yunzhou was incredulous: "You don't want to lose face?"
"The sycamore tree in this basin has lived in Phoenixes, isn't it not enough face?" Mu Linjiang lazily closed his eyes and rested his mind.
Ye Yunzhou turned his head blankly, thinking that it would be too embarrassing.
Ye Yunzhou thought that he was the type to maintain a graceful image at all times. It might be okay to take off his shirt, but it probably wouldn't affect a person's sense of mystery and prestige without his shirt, but not necessarily by taking off his shoes.
The warm and warm light reflected on Mu Linjiang's body. He closed his eyes, relaxed his expression, and smiled slightly. Ye Yunzhou observed him secretly. The heat and the sound of dry firewood mixed together, peaceful and peaceful.
"You soak your feet like this in front of others?" Ye Yunzhou couldn't help asking him, Mu Linjiang showed a piece of calf, his ankle was immersed in the water, and his white toes gradually showed a little light red, every inch of his skin seemed to be written She looks dignified, yet she is at ease in the windy and snowy hut.
Mu Linjiang raised his eyelids: "Who is the other person?"
"Yin Si, Ying Xuanyang, etc." Ye Yunzhou thought for a while.
Mu Linjiang seemed speechless about this example: "I let them wait and add water at any time?"
"...ha." Ye Yunzhou touched his nose.
Mu Linjiang leaned on the rocking chair and teased: "You've seen it all, you are responsible."
"Responsible for cutting the legs?" Ye Yunzhou was indifferent, afraid that the hem of his clothes would slip into the basin, so he stretched out his hand to lift it up and licked his thigh.
Mu Linjiang rolled up the hem of his clothes: "In the wilderness, I advise you to abide by the etiquette and don't use your hands and feet to have any inappropriate thoughts."
Ye Yunzhou: "...you are addicted to acting, right?"
Mu Linjiang smiled without saying a word, put a low table beside the rocking chair, took out a bowl and shook half a bottle of medicine powder into it.
Ye Yunzhou got up and wanted to go out to get some more logs. Mu Linjiang choked on the soup and said, "Have you noticed the weirdness of this village?"
"Too dark?" Ye Yunzhou pondered, "There are no lights in every yard."
"It seems that you really don't understand the lives of ordinary people." Mu Linjiang shook his head, "Young master, not everyone is as extravagant as you, there is no formation connection, no crystal lamps here, all candles and lamp oil are used , Why do you light the lanterns all night, burn money?"
Ye Yunzhou stared at him annoyedly, brought a pile of firewood back and threw it beside his rocking chair.
"From the moment I stepped into the village, I noticed that there was no life here." Mu Linjiang continued, "There was a light snowfall in the afternoon, and a thin and smooth layer was accumulated on the road, but there was nothing under this layer of floating snow. Footprints, this is suspicious, don't the villagers go out during the day?"
Ye Yunzhou frowned, and gradually felt strange.
"Most of the villagers' coal, firewood and straw for the winter will be piled up in the yard and covered with cloth. The straw will not be easily ignited if it falls in the snow and gets damp. However, judging from the thickness of the snow on the firewood pile, the owner's house has not been touched for a long time. The moisture-proof cloth Even if it was blown away by the wind, it is so abnormal, there must be a ghost." Mu Linjiang said firmly.
Ye Yunzhou thought of Shi Xiaomei, and said: "Maybe there are ghosts, this village has become a ghost village, and Shi Xiaomei is the fellow ghosts who came back to join her."
Mu Linjiang was taking his last sip of medicine, and it took him a while to swallow it with difficulty.
"I've never seen a serious ghost. Can the sword hit it? Can it be taken out of the village?" Ye Yunzhou diverted his thinking, "If ghosts are used to commit crimes, will the Law Enforcement Hall catch ghosts?"
"Don't think too much." Mu Linjiang said with a sullen face, "A ghost is just a spirit body formed by the soul and obsession that survived the world by chance. Without a physical body, without a clear mind, it will dissipate sooner or later."
"What about Ghost Cultivator?" Ye Yunzhou asked.
"Just like Qi Ling and shape-changing spirit beasts, they all depend on chance. In layman's terms, most of them depend on luck." Mu Linjiang waved his hand, "You can't become a ghost cultivator just by dying, so you choose a few families, Sneak in to see the situation, and report back to me."
"Why don't you go." Ye Yunzhou sized him up, "You're not really afraid of ghosts, are you?"
"I want to watch the fire." Mu Linjiang turned over the firewood with the tip of his umbrella, without any intention of moving.
Ye Yunzhou felt that his words were insincere, so he simply poured a basin of water on the campfire.
"Don't worry about it now, go with me." Ye Yunzhou smiled.
Mu Linjiang: "..."
A quarter of an hour later, the two sneaked into a courtyard at the same time. Mu Linjiang made a gesture of left and right. Ye Yunzhou nodded, and quickly rushed to the window, turning his head sideways to peek through the window paper.
Mu Linjiang was carrying an umbrella, walking lightly and stepping on the snow without a trace, walked to the other side to observe, there was a middle-aged couple lying in the bedroom, his eyes were slightly lit up, and he could clearly see that the two were still there through the gap between the curtains. Heartbeat ups and downs.
Mu Linjiang sent a voice transmission to Ye Yunzhou: "Don't open the door, use shapeshifting to enter, remember to watch the location, don't get stuck in the wall."
Ye Yunzhou sighed sadly, and appeared in the main hall the next moment.
Mu Linjiang appeared gorgeously out of the fog beside him holding an umbrella, and touched the door latch with his hand back, leaving a thin layer of dust.
"Palace Master, come and have a look." Ye Yunzhou stood in front of the kitchen door with a serious expression and an ugly face.
Mu Linjiang walked over lightly, and saw a water basin on the stove, the water had already frozen with thin ice, and the unwashed dishes and chopsticks were piled up in the water, and the top one had grown a layer of black and yellow oil stains. green hair.
He scanned the kitchen, and there was an apple that was rotten and wrinkled, with sticky yellow-brown mucus stuck to the cutting board. Mu Linjiang felt disgusted, turned around with his hands on his forehead, but met someone who was standing in front of the door at an unknown time. , a couple with straight eyes.
"Who are you, why did you break into my house?" The middle-aged man said flatly.
"Who are you, why did you break into my house?" The woman stepped forward and stepped over the threshold.
"Who are you, why did you break into my house?" The man also took a step closer, repeating this sentence mechanically.
Mu Linjiang took several steps back and clenched his umbrella tightly. Just about to attack, Ye Yunzhou pressed his shoulders and walked in front of him as if nothing had happened.
The woman turned her head stiffly: "Who are you, why..."
"Borrow a fire." Ye Yunzhou nodded with a smile on his face, "We live in Guicun, and we don't have a fire book, so we are here to borrow it."
"Fire pockets." The woman looked at the man, "His father, entertain the guests, I'll get the fire pockets."
"This way, please." The man swayed and turned to make way, "Wait a moment."
"Big brother is really enthusiastic, so it's troublesome." Ye Yunzhou said politely to the two without any ups and downs, pulled up Mu Linjiang's sleeves to follow the man, and at the same time said via voice transmission, "I can tell at a glance that they are not human, They all have a knife wound in their throat, and you don't have to be polite with this ghostly look, just use Dark Eyes or spells casually."
Mu Linjiang loosened his tense hands, raised a little bit of spiritual power, and took the initiative to use his dark pupils. A cold light flashed in his purple eyes, and a knife wound that almost severed his head appeared on the neck of the man in front of him.
"It's hopeless." Mu Linjiang closed his eyes and said, "They are living corpses. There is a special kind of spiritual power controlling their movements, making them act according to their instincts in life."
"Can you see who controlled it?" Ye Yunzhou asked.
"The manipulator is not far away." Mu Linjiang frowned, "Within twenty miles, if I track it with spiritual power, I can determine the location."
"That's easy, don't bother you." Ye Yunzhou showed a touch of excitement, and took a jar of wine before leaving the kitchen, "Mr. Mu, you won't stop me."
"Sigh." Mu Linjiang agreed with a dejected back, "It's up to you, if you draw out a manipulator, I won't help you."
Ye Yunzhou licked the corner of his lower lip: "Let me see such disgusting dirty things in the kitchen. My 40-meter long sword is already hungry and thirsty. I'm glad you didn't take my head."
The man led them to the main hall, the woman took out a fire pocket from the drawer, Ye Yunzhou took it, leaned over and said softly: "Thank you, I hope you rest in peace."
Mu Linjiang left first with his hands behind his back. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Ye Yunzhou throwing up the wine jar and at the same time turning into a Rushui sword. The three-foot green sharp edge flashed coldly, and the moment it was unsheathed, it had already chopped off the heads of two living corpses. The sword kept moving , cut through the half-empty wine jar, and the spicy wine poured down like a shower.
Ye Yunzhou lifted the tablecloth and swung it into the air, turned around to catch up with Mu Linjiang, blew on the fire, and threw it behind him.
Blazing flames shot up into the sky behind the two of them, Mu Linjiang opened his umbrella and turned half of it towards Ye Yunzhou to block the flying sparks for him.
"How do you calculate the loss?" Ye Yunzhou clapped his hands and stood in the courtyard, turning his head to ask Mu Linjiang.
"Find out the manipulator and seize their property. If there are still relatives alive in these living corpses, pay the victims according to the law after counting them." Mu Linjiang comforted, "You will not be held accountable for arson."
"That's good." Ye Yunzhou put his sword back into its sheath and let out a sigh of relief. Thick smoke and light split the night, the snow under the eaves melted into a trickle, and the whole village was still silent.
The two walked towards the gate of the courtyard side by side. Mu Linjiang snorted and said sarcastically, "He is more skilled in murder and arson than I am. It's really scary for young people."
"Palace Master, you have been washing your hands in the golden basin for so many years, I will give you the next chance, and you will review it too?" Ye Yunzhou raised his eyebrows in return.
"Sharp teeth." Mu Linjiang laughed, and stood at the door to stare at Ye Yunzhou. The flames made his eyes bright purple, "Come to Lone Night Palace?"
Ye Yunzhou was slightly taken aback: "A formal invitation to join me?"
"Yes." Mu Linjiang affirmed.
"How formal?" Ye Yunzhou asked with a smile.
"Kneel down, and I will give you a seal and ribbon." Mu Linjiang was half joking.
Ye Yunzhou said decisively: "It's wishful thinking."
Mu Linjiang pursed his lips, swiped his fingertips on the Qiankun bag at his waist, pinched a small and exquisite jade token in his hand, and shook it in front of Ye Yunzhou's eyes: "After taking back the Chang Xi sword, if I return If you have your life, you can exit the Jingwei Gate, and then this token will be yours."
"What position?" Ye Yunzhou was curious.
"We'll talk about it later." Mu Linjiang pretended to be mysterious, and a hidden stream of light flashed in the distance. He put away his token and said solemnly, "Someone is coming."
"Hide first." Ye Yunzhou didn't care about pursuing it, quickly restrained his breath, looked around, and locked the several baskets buckled together upside down under the corner wall of the courtyard.
He dragged Mu Linjiang over, opened the basket and urged Mu Linjiang to hide inside, and he himself followed into the basket.
Dust and dead leaves rustled down on the top of the two of them. Ye Yunzhou endured the discomfort and kept quiet, but it was still difficult to weave a basket to accommodate two men. Leaning against the inner wall of the woven basket, Ye Yunzhou straddled his lap, curled up his upper body and almost lay in Mu Linjiang's arms, his hair was still hurting from being scratched by the branches at the bottom of the basket, he quickly pulled Mu Linjiang's clothes back into the basket, Gritting his teeth in a low voice: "Put your legs down!"
"Do you see if there is still a place? You are looking for a good place." Mu Linjiang reached out to untie a strand of Ye Yunzhou's hair, protected his head with the palm of his hand and pressed it to his shoulder to warn, "Don't move around, Where are you sitting and don’t know?”
Ye Yunzhou's legs tensed up, and he said angrily, "Pay attention to whoever comes, what nonsense you say at a time like this."
Mu Linjiang looked out through the gaps in the basket weaving, and the figure flying from a distance landed in the yard, wrapped in a loose black robe with red trim, stretching out his withered hands facing the raging fire, the flames seemed to be caught by the flames. Forcibly compressed and pulled away, leaving only a scorched black frame.
The man scanned his surroundings vigilantly, not understanding why the fire suddenly caught fire. Mu Linjiang was thoughtful, and after a while, he had a flash of inspiration.
"I know who he is now." Mu Linjiang said in a deep voice, "Old Corpse Vulture's junior brother, Corpse Owl."
At the same time when Mu Linjiang recognized his identity, Corpse Owl also noticed the hiding place of the two of them. Without hesitation, he stepped back and jumped into the air. The snow whirled, and the sound of the wind horn was as fierce as a roar, directly blowing away the broken walls and ruins of the courtyard.
Ye Yunzhou dodges out, the sword shadow is attached to Ruoshui, and the spiritual body protector forcibly passes through the formation barrier to chase the corpse owl. The Chunjiangting moon umbrella opens at high altitude against the wind and snow. When he descended, he held the umbrella and stepped steadily in the air, and made a circle with his hands. Countless sharp ice cones shot from the circle to the ground, piercing into the formation pattern left by the corpse owl, and the crystal cold light refracted back and forth between the ice cones. In an instant, the unformed formation was suppressed and smashed into a cloud of clear ice.
"Who are you, report your name! I have no grievances or enmity with you, why do you meddle in this business?" Seeing that the dark wind formation behind him was destroyed in an instant, he turned his head and shouted angrily, and at the same time turned his hands behind his back and sacrificed quietly. command flag.
"Ask Hades!" Ye Yunzhou sneered, without explaining, he raised his sword and quickly made a deadly move.
Mu Linjiang floated to the ground and brushed his chest. The corpse owl's cultivation was not as good as the corpse owl's old man. Back then, the corpse owl was so frightened that he fled overnight before he blasted the mountain. He was just a stern and bullying rat. Ye Yunzhou had no problem dealing with the corpse owl.
He sat on the top of the frame, closed his eyes and adjusted his breath, silently counted the time, when he opened his eyes, Ye Yunzhou threw the bloody Corpse Owl in front of him with a bang.
"Same as you, melee combat is totally useless." Ye Yunzhou wiped his hands with a handkerchief in disappointment.
"Young master Ye, the report should be concise and to the point, your first half sentence is redundant." Mu Linjiang said displeased.
Corpse Owl coughed up blood, and smiled vaguely twice: "I found out... You are here to protect that girl, right?"
Mu Linjiang and Ye Yunzhou looked at each other, thinking of Shi Xiaomei.
"Let me go!" Corpse Owl suddenly shouted loudly, Ye Yunzhou removed his limbs and joints, he could only turn his face to Ye Yunzhou with difficulty, "Look around, let me go immediately, or I will kill her!"
Ye Yunzhou squinted his eyes and looked around, the sound of small footsteps getting closer and closer, the villagers of Shijiadian followed the same order, walked out of the house and gathered from all directions, no matter men, women, old or young, all looked blank, they were like ants surrounding sugar cane The crowd surrounded the courtyard layer by layer. In the middle of those people, Shi Xiaomei was brought over with her hands pressed down on her shoulders. Her face was full of horror and her eye circles were red, but she never cried, and she couldn't stop struggling and screaming.
"Did you see! It's easy for them to tear up a girl!" Corpse Owl threatened with a hoarse voice.
"Tear it up, she is also a dead person." Ye Yunzhou was unmoved, and raised his foot to kick his face to the other side, "I've finished reading what you asked me to see, now you take a closer look at him, do you know him?"
Mu Linjiang raised one leg, closed the umbrella and leaned on it in his hand, and met the corpse owl's eyes with a half-smile.
The corpse owl froze for a moment, then let out a howl, and the black robe suddenly inflated, Ye Yunzhou frowned, feeling uneasy.
He stood in front of Mu Linjiang with a horizontal sword, and cast a barrier of sword light. The corpse owl's body swelled to the limit and burst suddenly, turning into dark and muddy raindrops and pouring on the gathered living corpses. The sword light barrier kept moving, and Ye Yunzhou's throat was filled with fishy sweetness. After the black rain fell, he put away the barrier and bent over to vomit blood.
"He didn't take the initiative to blew himself up, what's the matter?" Ye Yunzhou turned around and asked Mu Linjiang anxiously, this body is too fragile,
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