old grace

In the secluded small courtyard, Xie Qinghe and Fu Chuan Xuxu talked and waited until dark.

Xie Qinghe was extremely patient, but Fu Chuan looked at the gradually darkening sky but felt a little impetuous, and said, "Do we have to sit here and wait for rabbits? This place doesn't seem to be inhabited."

"The yard has been cleaned spotlessly inside and out. Even if no one lives there, someone must come to clean it up every day." Xie Qinghe said.

"Gao's family has many servants who are obsessed and sold themselves. The city of Xun is not big, so the news may have spread. If this person gets wind of it, maybe he won't come to clean it today. Or maybe he has come to clean it before we come. Passed." Fu Chuan was circling in the yard boredly, "Then shall we build a tent here to sleep tonight?"

This is obvious displeasure.Junior Brother doesn't want to rest here.

This made Xie Qinghe feel a little weird.Little Junior Brother has always had everything he can do, and he can rest anywhere.What's more, tonight is not going out to play, and the cause of Ah Shou's mother's death is being investigated, so it is normal to stay up all night.Why is the little junior so irritable and coquettish all of a sudden?

"Come." Xie Qinghe called Fu Chuan to approach him, and took his hand, "Let me in."

The two practiced together all the year round, and they were very close to each other. Xie Qinghe could easily enter Fu Chuan's body to spy inside, and Fu Chuan was never on guard.

At this moment Xie Qinghe also deliberately reminded, Fu Chuan nodded, calmly, tacitly let Xie Qinghe's ray of true spirit enter the body along the clasped palms, and skillfully made way for Xie Qinghe to lead the way.

"Don't move." Xie Qinghe didn't want to follow Fu Chuan's guidance.

The indistinct thought in Fu Chuan's body disappeared, and he lazily opened his body and mind, allowing Xie Qinghe to examine him.

The whole process seems long but short.

Xie Qinghe didn't notice anything wrong, let go of his hand, and looked back at the closed door.

"Go and open the door." Xie Qinghe ordered.

There was no padlock in front of the door, and because there was no movement in the house, it was naturally impossible for someone to latch the door inside. Fu Chuan stretched out his hand and pushed, but the door didn't open.He let out a light gasp, and the originally closed door opened, and he saw the latch behind the door.

"Brother, there are people in the house." Fu Chuan did not say that there was something strange in the house, but his eyes were very direct.

The two of them were digging the ground, drinking tea and chatting in the yard, making such a big commotion, if there were people living in the house, how could they not be alarmed?

Xie Qinghe nodded.

With skillful force from Fu Chuan's fingertips, the latch flicked open through the crack of the door, and the door creaked open.

The house was quiet.

The bleak moonlight penetrated into the house through the doors and windows, tracing the dark and shallow outlines of the furniture in the house, giving it a sense of gloom.

Fu Chuan curled up his tongue and blew on the igniter, looked left and right, found the oil lamp on the table and lit it, and replied: "Brother, the lamp has just been filled with oil, and the wick is quite black. It should have been used yesterday."

Xie Qinghe has excellent eyesight, he can see in the dark, and with moonlight and oil lamp lighting, he swept every nook and cranny in the house.

The house has the same eerie feeling as the yard.Fully furnished, properly furnished and clean.It's just that, except for the lamp in front of Fu Chuan, there are no signs of use in the whole room. There is no tea in the teacup, no water in the kettle, the box is empty, and even the seat is flat without a single wrinkle.

Fu Chuan had already swept around the nearby kitchen, and when he came back, he opened the curtain leading to the bedroom, and cursed suddenly.

Xie Qinghe came following the sound.

Only then did Fu Chuan realize that he had swear words in front of the senior brother, and said uncomfortably: "There is a puppet sitting on the bed, and the black paint is quite scary." He is used to using the five senses to judge the breathing and heartbeat of living people. It has been confirmed that there is no living person in the bedroom, who knows that when the curtain is lifted and a figure sitting on the bed is suddenly seen, it is of course a big surprise.

Xie Qinghe walked into the bedroom, the place was very small, there was a couch against the wall, and an unremarkable thin man was sitting on the couch.

The man was not breathing, had no heartbeat, and sat motionless.

Fu Chuan looked around the bed for a while holding the oil lamp, and said, "There is no puppet string." But this thing is definitely not a living person.Fu Chuan refused to let it go, looked at the puppet up and down for a long time, then suddenly took off the puppet's clothes, and tore a piece of skin from the back of his neck.

Unexpectedly, the skin hadn't been completely torn off, a red mark flickered under the skin, and the seemingly fleshy body collapsed in an instant.

Fu Chuan quickly grasped the puppet's shoulders, but unexpectedly, the thick touch quickly disappeared in his hands, and the sitting "person" disappeared, leaving only an empty suit of clothes and a piece of wood on the bed.

"Brother, is this the same as Ah Shou's puppet?" Fu Chuan held the clothes in his left hand and the wood in his right.

Xie Qinghe chopped off the wood with bare hands, and blood gushed out from the cut immediately.There is no need for Xie Qinghe to cast a spell to judge, such fresh blood carries a pure aura, Fu Chuan immediately felt it: "Is this A Shou's blood?"

Fu Chuan turned around and rushed out.

Xie Qinghe was not in a hurry to go out, walked around the narrow bedroom, and suddenly lifted the thin mattress on the couch, revealing the bed board.

"Eldest brother, the corpses of Ah Shou and her mother are gone. I put a soul mark on the corpse..."

Fu Chuan went and returned, and hurriedly reported to Xie Qinghe.

Xie Qinghe had already lifted the bed board, and there was a simple talisman array underneath. He glanced at it, and added two strokes to the complex talisman array with his fingertips. A foot deep pit, with sharp spikes standing on the bottom of the pit.

Before Fu Chuan finished speaking, he took a closer look: "This is about throwing people to death. It's so cruel."

Xie Qinghe moved the couch out a few feet, knocked on the earth wall opposite: "Here."

Fu Chuan originally wanted to say that he wanted to chase Ah Shou who had run away without a trace, but he couldn't help but habitually serve Xie Qinghe first. Xie Qinghe knocked on the wall, and he took out the Muhe gun and stabbed him. go up.

Behind this wall is the courtyard, and there is absolutely no possibility of any secret room space.

However, the world of practice is extremely mysterious.

Fu Chuan pierced the earthen wall with a single shot, and there was a rush of mud and sand, and a cluster of consonances flickered, opening up a wonderful space.

Fu Chuan just found out that Ah Shou was lost, he felt depressed, his left hand admired the crane gun, and his right hand clenched his fist, smashing the earthen wall in two or three times to make a passage.He still remembered sweeping away the earthen walls and bamboo strips on the ground, and stepped forward to clear the way: "Brother, this place is not big."

The space behind the earthen wall is no more than eight feet square, and there are deep cabinets nailed on all sides. The cabinets are divided into large and small squares, and puppets of all sizes are placed inside.There are children of three or five years old, young girls of sixteen or seventeen, thin and elegant scholars, traffickers and pawns dressed up in the country... The place is not big, there are too many puppets hanging all over the walls, and it feels very weird and terrifying to be in it.

Fu Chuan pierced the puppet's throat with a shot, and the lifelike puppet immediately turned into clothes and a half-broken piece of wood, with blood slowly dripping from the wood's wound.Obviously, what dripped from the puppet wood was Ah Shou's blood.

Fu Chuan stabbed another one.

Ah Shou's blood.

Another poke.

It's still Ah Shou's blood.

……

Fu Chuan slumped his head and puffed out his gun, the movement was so fast that he stabbed puppets all over the room.

"The spirit-giving blood on these puppets all comes from Ah Shou." Fu Chuan began to doubt his IQ, and the little beast who couldn't even speak human words coaxed him around.

Xie Qinghe shook his head and said, "The blood is hers, but the puppet may not be hers."

There are two doors in this secret room.One door came from an earthen wall that had been pierced by Fu Chuan, and the other door opened on an adjacent wall.

Xie Qinghe walked to another door and tried to push it open.The ban on the door immediately released a cold arrow, Xie Qinghe easily took it into his hands, even Fu Chuan could see that the cold arrow was weak - it wasn't that Xie Qinghe's cultivation base was too high, but that the ban lost its strength and became weak.

The door was pushed open.

It was pitch black outside, and Fu Chuan brought a lamp to illuminate it.

I saw a long dark passage ahead, with no windows and no view, only a wall made of blue bricks.

Xie Qinghe walked all the way forward, he encountered a lot of restraints, and the cold arrows flew, but each cold arrow was not very powerful, and shot out crookedly, before Xie Qinghe stretched out his hand, he fell to the ground.It can be seen that the monk who arranged the restriction is no longer alive, and the formation left behind has also lost its defensive ability.

Not long after the two walked along the secret passage, the flat secret passage suddenly turned into a slope. After climbing about two floors, there was a narrow dark room with walls on three sides, no doors and windows, and no way out.

Xie Qinghe raised his head, and Fu Chuan stabbed the gun into the ceiling.

"..." This child is very angry.Xie Qinghe pointed to the corner, "There is a small door."

Only then did Fu Chuan drag the gun to prop up the ceiling at the corner, but the height of the two was only four feet, and the two of them flew out easily.

After climbing out, Fu Chuan discovered that this place was a cave in a rockery. He walked out first, and saw a pool of stagnant water with a fishy smell in front of him. The scenery was very familiar: "Brother, this is the backyard of the Gao family— — where the foxes are."

"That makes sense." Xie Qinghe followed and came out, organizing his thoughts, "With the cultivation of the fox or Ah Shou, it is absolutely impossible to create a space in the big world. This secret room for storing puppets must be real. , connected to the bedroom of that private house through the magic circle."

Fu Chuan also gradually came to his senses: "Ah Shou and Fox don't seem to be working together."

"The fox once fought with Ah Shou's mother. Judging from this, it was Ah Shou's mother who was defeated and turned into evil to escape, and the fox won a big victory. At that time, Ah Shou was still young and ignorant. If the fox took blood to make a puppet, Not necessarily impossible." Speaking of this, Xie Qinghe comforted, "She just took away her mother's body, and she never hurt you, so don't be so angry."

Xie Qinghe didn't believe in Ah Shou at first, but now that Ah Shou ran away with her mother's body, Xie Qinghe didn't care.

Fu Chuan was much more sincere. He personally delivered the baby for Ah Shou, saw Ah Shou eat the stillborn baby with his own eyes, and heard Ah Shou's pitiful experience with his own ears. Flesh and Flesh tried to save him—he liked Ah Shou so much, he had already thought of eight plans to quickly feed Ah Shou in the afternoon, and even thought about hugging Ah Shou to An An to play with... As a result, Ah Shou ran away!

If Ah Shou was an individual, Fu Chuan might not be so upset.

It is precisely because she is not a human being, and always maintains a baby-like animal shape, and eagerly licks Fu Chuan's palms while eating, just like the small animals Fu Chuan once raised, that Fu Chuan can let go of her heart He took her in easily.

Now that he wanted to understand the cause and effect, Fu Chuan also calmed down, and he suddenly turned around: "Brother, there is something weird about that place."

"Huh?" Xie Qinghe has checked very carefully and found nothing wrong.

But Fu Chuan lifted the floor again, jumped down, and walked into the secret room: "I don't know what's wrong, but it's definitely wrong. As long as I'm too close to this place, I feel annoyed and impatient. I sit in the yard in the afternoon The same thing. Especially after dark. But when I go far, I wake up..."

He hurried all the way back to the secret room, and began to search inch by inch on the wall and floor.

The puppet stabbed by Fu Chuan was thrown all over the room, and Xie Qinghe was beside him helping to clean it up to make room for him.However, Fu Chuanzai touched all four walls carefully, but found nothing.

"Strange, what is wrong...?" Fu Chuan hugged Mu Heqiang in his arms, frowning and looking around.

Xie Qinghe thought for a while, put the puppets neatly arranged by the wall into his personal space, and quickly cleaned up the secret room.

"Now?" Xie Qinghe asked.

Looking at the empty secret room, Fu Chuan's original irritability disappeared inexplicably.

He nodded in confusion: "Okay. But why do I hate puppet?"

"It's not that I hate puppets, it's that I hate blood spells." Xie Qinghe saw that his face was so cute and confused, he couldn't help pinching his younger brother's cheeks, "This kind of spells originated from the ancient witchcraft. There are too many people who use this method to end well. Are you going to break through? It is the time when Chunyang is wandering around endlessly, seeing this sorcery is like splashing water from a frying pan."

"Really? I'm going to break through?" Fu Rumors was surprised and happy, and patted his chest again, "But I've been short of breath recently, and I always feel that there is something wrong, how could it be a breakthrough? "

Xie Qinghe comforted: "Don't worry, let nature take its course."

He knew where Fu Chuan's troubles were.

In the past, when Fu Chuan hadn't established the foundation, the enemy was unable to defend against the enemy and forced the gun marks in haste. At that time, hidden dangers of hidden injuries were planted.

In the past few years, the symptoms of lack of cultivation were not obvious, but now that the profound pool is growing stronger, and the inner energy is surging, the old troubles from the early years have slowly returned.If I want to break through to the next level this time, I'm afraid it will be a bit of a grind.

Xie Qinghe has been slowly repairing Fu Chuan these days, but how can the old wounds from his youth be healed so easily?

Seeing Fu Chuan's face full of surprise, Xie Qinghe couldn't bear to be disappointed.

——This matter can't be dealt with by the little brother's cultivation base and knowledge, so why tell him to make him depressed?

"That's right. It's useless to be anxious." Fu Chuan had great trust in Xie Qinghe, and immediately put the matter aside, "Brother, I put a soul mark on A Shou's mother's body, and I will go find her. "

Xie Qinghe nodded: "OK."

In his hand was the blood talisman left by Ah Shou's mother. He could find Ah Shou's mother even if she was buried eight feet underground.However, the junior brother was careful in handling things, and he put a soul mark to follow him beforehand, so Xie Qinghe had to let the junior brother show off.

Otherwise, how embarrassing would my junior brother be if he was cheated twice by a fox and a tiger in one day?