At night, the moon shines brightly outside the window, and the continuous mountains in the distance are white, like the waves on the sea, pure and beautiful.And who would have imagined that in such a peaceful and peaceful place, there are so many ugliness of human nature hidden.

I lay on the small bed tossing and turning and couldn't fall asleep. The third son on the big bed opposite was already snoring slightly. He had a handsome face and the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, as if he was having a good dream. , pure and clean, reminiscent of him as a 12-year-old kid.

Xiao Hei curled up beside his pillow, snoring up and down, which was surprisingly consistent with Xiao San'er's snoring.

Ah Fei is still sitting against the head of the bed, with his long legs bent, holding the strange iron sword in his hand, his eyes are slightly closed, and his breathing is steady and long. Kick your legs, as if you are fighting someone.

I sat up and looked at the scene of peace and love opposite me. The grief, anxiety and anxiety in my heart gradually dissipated over the past few days. Although the rivers and lakes are big, why not be afraid that there will be no place for us?

I gently took out the brocade pouch in my arms and poured the contents on the bed, a token engraved with the word "Ecstasy", an exquisite hairpin of crabapple flowers, a string of soft pearl bracelets, Even in a dimly lit room, you can see their undisguised brilliance.

"What are your plans?" Ah Fei's deep voice came from the darkness.

"How do you know what I'm thinking?" I leaned back, looking at his resolute silhouette through the snoring of a person, a cat, and a dog.

"Although you have been laughing and cursing these past few days, I know that you must be sad." He said slowly, his deep and magnetic young voice seemed to be soothing: "You grew up in the Palace of Ecstasy, and the Palace of Ecstasy is Your home, the people in the Palace of Ecstasy are your family... Your senior brother, although I don't like him, he grew up with you. Presumably, he is both your elder brother and your lover. Your maid, although delicate Disrespectful, but it shows that you are so close to her that she often forgets who she is."

My mouth was bitter, and I felt two lines of hot liquid slipping down my cheeks: "If I tell you, my senior brother is probably the insider who betrayed the Palace of Ecstasy, and my maid actually has a crush on my senior brother?"

Ah Fei was silent for a while in the darkness: "The world is impermanent, people are unpredictable, and the world is dangerous. This is what you used to tell me." He paused, and continued: "But, if your senior brother is a traitor, why not?" To save you, even at the expense of my own life?"

"I don't know." I said unconsciously and blankly: "All doubts point to him, and I can't think of anyone else besides him."

"But I don't even understand, if it's really him, why would he destroy the Palace of Ecstasy, and why would he desperately save me?" I hugged my head and inserted my hands deeply into my hair, trying to sort out the confusion thoughts.

"Everything must have a cause before it has an effect." Ah Fei's voice seemed to have a strange magic power in the darkness: "You went back this time and didn't see their bodies. Have you ever thought that maybe Are they still alive?"

A Fei's bold assumption raised a glimmer of hope in my heart, but I quickly disillusioned myself: "If you saw him with a sharp sword pierced through his chest and nailed to the stone wall, you would not say that." The cruel scene flashed before his eyes again: "No one can survive a sword like that."

"Where's your maid?"

"I saw Xiaohua stab the pearl hairpin I gave her into her left chest with my own eyes." I said slowly, my heart ached as if being slowly cut by a blunt knife: "Regardless of whether senior brother is a traitor or not, he is dead, Xiaohua Even if he is alive, if he falls into the hands of those people, he might as well be dead."

The wretched and lewd faces of Dongfang Daming and the others flashed in front of my eyes, and I remembered what he and Grandma Hu said to the gloomy man outside the door: "It's a pity to kill this girl, it's better to let the brothers be happy."

"Then what are your plans?" After another silence, Ah Fei asked.

"Rebuild the Ecstasy Palace." I said word by word, as if I wanted to engrave these words into my bones and blood.

"I'll help you."

"it is good!"

Xiao San'er rubbed her eyes and sat up: "What are you talking about?"

"We are talking, you are so beautiful, tomorrow I will dress you up as a little girl and perform face-changing performances. I think I can earn a lot of money." I laughed.

"You...I'm going to fight with you!" Xiao San'er was ashamed and annoyed, and jumped out of bed to fight with me, but saw a few things I put on the bed, and cried out: "So you still have these good things Dismantling any one of these beads is enough for us to spend for a year, and you actually hid them and tricked us into performing arts..."

I jumped up and covered his mouth: "Little ancestor! Keep your voice down!"

Little San'er struggled with a "woo hoo", I looked straight into his eyes in the dark, and said softly: "These things are the only thing we have left now, I have other uses, do you understand?"

Under the palm of his hand, his small face was hot, as if on fire, and he let out an inaudible "hmm".

"Hurry up and go to bed! We have to go on the road tomorrow!" I put away my purse, jumped on the bed and pulled up the quilt, and said in a muffled voice.

I didn't hear him respond for a long time, and when I was about to look back, I heard Xiao San'er asking calmly: "You want to rebuild the Palace of Ecstasy, to avenge the elder brother and the others?"

"……Yes."

"I'll help you."

"...Okay." Xiao San'er, you are so caring all of a sudden, I'm really not used to it!

He breathed a long sigh of relief, and crawled onto the bed again, suddenly screaming: "Are you sitting here without saying a word, are you trying to scare me to death?!"

"If you are like this, you will be scared to death, and you don't have to argue every day to join us in the rivers and lakes." A Fei said lightly.

I lay on the bed with my back to them, covering my mouth and snickering: Xiao San'er was used to being free and unrestrained in the Palace of Ecstasy since she was a child, and she only had a little awe of Wang Lianhua in the past, but now there is another A Fei, who can control him to death dead.

Only Xiao San'er groaned angrily: "Sleep!"

The bed board squeaked a few times, and finally quieted down.

"Sleep, I'll watch." Ah Fei said softly, not knowing who he was telling.

I unconsciously raised the corners of my mouth and closed my eyes.

In this way, the three of them, a cat and a dog, went to Sioux City, looking for a place to settle down every evening, and let Xiao Hei and Xiao Ha come out to exercise their legs and feet to earn some money. In September, Sioux City arrived.

I don’t know if it’s because I’ve changed my appearance and my gender. The journey was safe and sound, and I never met the Dongfang Ming people and that mysterious gloomy man again.

"It's finally here! Everyone has a good rest in the inn today, so you don't need to go out." I threw myself on the bed, took a deep breath, and shouted.

"Really? You don't need Xiao Hei and Xiao Ha to go out and laugh today?" Xiao San'er said happily.

"What a joke! It's so ugly, those who don't know it think that Xiao Hei and Xiao Ha are girls from some flower house!" I lay on the bed lazily chatting nonsense with him.

"Isn't it just selling laughter? When they perform, everyone laughs; when everyone laughs, you go to collect money. Isn't this just selling laughs?"

"If you say it's a joke, then it's a joke. Smile, it's been ten years, it seems that I've received a little less money." I turned over and hugged the pillow and moaned.

It is an extremely luxurious thing for me to be able to take a nap in the room during the day, so when I wake up on the bed with my pillow in my arms, I feel as if I am still dreaming.

I sat up slowly, and found that I didn't know when I was covered with a quilt, and the cloth shoes I took off were neatly placed under the bed.

The bright sunlight came in from the window, and it happened to shine on the big bed opposite. Xiao San'er curled up with the black cat in his arms, closed his eyes tightly, and his long eyelashes trembled slightly, like an innocent and innocent boy. Legs stretched straight and one long leg retracted, holding the sword and leaning against the head of the bed, under the two black sword eyebrows, his eyes were slightly closed, there was a smear of black under each eye, and one hand was hanging by his side, clinging to him on Xiaoha.

I felt warm and blamed myself at the same time. He sat and slept like this every night during this journey. He must have not had a good night's sleep for a long time, so I got out of bed lightly, put on my shoes, took another clean dress and hung it up. At the windows, shade them from the glare of the sun.

I tidied up the clothes on my body, tied the bun on my head again, touched the purse in my arms, pushed the door lightly and walked out.

Sucheng is indeed one of the most prosperous and prosperous places in the south of the Yangtze River. The streets are crowded with people, noisy and complicated, and the sound of hawking keeps coming and going. Coming here from the bitter cold outside the customs, there is a sense of intimacy in the mortal world.

As I walked and watched, I followed the route I remembered and came to the door of a pawn shop.

When I first came here, it was still Zhu Qiqi's property. Now the signboard with the word "Seven" in black background and silver characters at the door has been removed, and a signboard with the word "Zhu" in gold characters on red background has been replaced.

I walked in and put a string of pearls on the counter: "How much silver can this bracelet be worth?"

From the window of the counter of the pawn shop, a skinny hand stretched out first, took the beads over, and vaguely heard a "huh" from inside, and then revealed a thin face with a mustache, looked me up and down, and said : "Guest officer, you wait first." After speaking, he disappeared.

After a while, the door next to the counter opened, and an honest-looking middle-aged man came out, clasped his fists and said with a smile: "Master, I am the shopkeeper here, please follow me."

I was surprised, and followed him in quietly.Could there be something wrong with this bead string?

At the beginning, Zhu Qiqi decided to buy a boat with Shen Lang and the others to go to sea, so he returned all the properties under his name to the Zhu family.She once said to me: "This is the dowry my father gave me. Although it has earned me a lot of money over the years, it is still a burden. Now that Shen Lang and I have decided to leave the world of mortals and go to the world Enjoy the carefree life, these mundane things are of no use to us anymore, so I simply let them take care of them together with my natal brothers and sisters. If one day I come back, I can just reach out and ask them for silver flowers. I think they dare not refuse Agreed."

It is precisely because I know that this "Zhu" pawn shop is the property of the "Living God of Wealth" Zhu's family. It has always been innocent and has a good reputation, so I dare to inquire about this string of valuable beads. Unexpectedly But he was invited into a small room at the back of the counter.

"I don't know why the shopkeeper's servant came here?" I asked, looking around secretly.

Although this room is not big, it has all internal organs, tables, chairs, benches and five internal organs. The walls on all sides are built into large cabinets, which are divided into countless small compartments. Each small compartment has an independent lock, which looks like a safe in a bank. generally.

The shopkeeper asked me to make two cups of tea, and beckoned me to sit down again: "My lord, don't worry." After speaking, he took out a bunch of keys, stood up and walked to the big cabinet, opened a small compartment, and carefully opened it from the inside. He took out a simple and elegant mahogany carved box and pushed it in front of me.

"Shopkeeper, what do you mean?" I raised my eyebrows and asked strangely.

"Young master asked how many taels of silver this string of beads is worth, and this is the answer." The shopkeeper said with a smile.

I dubiously opened the wooden box, and a piece of slightly yellowed paper was folded in four and lying inside, revealing the calligraphy and ink inside.

I didn't understand: "What is this?"

"Your deed."

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