Weicheng snow

The terrain at the bottom of Taoze Lake is like a measuring bucket for scooping rice. The surrounding area is shallow and the center of the lake is extremely deep. As deep as it is, it is doomed to have only the darkness of eternal night below.

Yi Qingchen walked in the shallow water, looking for the river bank with the light, and caught a glimpse of a boxy and strange thing in the deepest part of the lake. chains.He fixed his eyes to identify it, but the lake water hurt his eyes, he couldn't see clearly no matter what, he just vaguely felt...

Looks like...a coffin?

But the residents of Weicheng do not have the tradition of water burials, so how could a coffin appear out of thin air under Taoze?

He still wanted to take a closer look, but he couldn't hold his breath anymore. Fortunately, Hua Shenchi grabbed his arm in time and pulled him in one direction.

The bamboo raft was cut in two, and the man in black was standing on the wreckage of the bamboo raft, with a gloomy expression on his face, Murong Qian saw this, frowned slightly, and raised his sword to stab at the ghost-faced gentleman , and asked, "When did you call someone?"

The ghost-faced gentleman only chuckled twice, and avoided Murong Qian's sword move, "Master Murong, you taught this. How can fighting alone is better than attacking with a group? It just so happened that the defense line at the south of the Ling After a little notice from the teaching staff, the group of useless 'hundred ghosts' under the slave family came early...Speaking of which, the things about Jiang Xia and Yiling were all caused by the subordinates of the slave family who did not live up to expectations The masterpieces of the 'Hundred Ghosts' are considered as a meeting ceremony with the Central Plains, not a respect..."

After the words fell, a few figures slowly appeared in the surrounding flower bushes, followed by dozens of figures...

There are more and more figures, all of them painted, white, powdered, with crimson eyebrows and red lips, or wearing weird masks, and their costumes are not like ordinary people, they look like puppets in puppet shows. It's so weird, and paired with peaches of peaches in clear water, it looks like the ukiyo-e scene on the screen in Taketori House.

When the Yue family killer saw him, his hair stood on end, and Yi Qingchen said, "These people... really look like ghosts."

Murong Qian raised his eyes to look around, and after a while, he fixed his eyes on the ghost-faced gentleman again, and said coldly, "Have you already broken through Lingnan..." The ghost-faced gentleman smiled without saying a word, and Murong Qian took a deep breath In one breath, "Let your people back down."

The ghost-faced gentleman sneered and said, "The current situation is clearly that the slave family has the upper hand, why does Mr. Murong order the slave family in such a tone?" Although Murong Qian was surprised at the speed of the ghost-faced gentleman calling for help, he did not panic. "Do you really want to do something here? No wonder I didn't warn you, you have a backup, and so do I..."

The ghost-faced gentleman paused for a moment when he heard the words, "I really don't want to have trouble with Young Master Murong, but... can you let the elder brother of the young master return the elder brother of the slave family?" Murong Qian went to Yi Qingchen. Looking around, he saw Yi Qingchen protecting Jiang Zhige, as if he was determined to protect Jiang Zhige.Since Yi Qingchen needs to be protected, how can he, Murong Qian, not protect him?

Seeing that the reconciliation could not be achieved, the ghost-faced gentleman said with a sneer, "That's fine, you can fight as you like. I have never been afraid of anyone. I originally wanted to take my brother back to find the old ghost to find a way to split his soul, but now... .”

Dazed for a moment, the ghost-faced gentleman's expression became more and more cold, "Speaking of which, it was you who suddenly told the slave family that you got the shark beads, so the slave family came to Weicheng to look for you, and then returned to Jiangling... So it was you It was designed? The old man Tiangui suddenly arranged a mission for the servants, saying that he wanted to set up a formation near Jiangling, and you went to propose it to him, right? The woman in red is also someone you sent?"

Murong Qian chuckled lightly when he heard this, "Who told you to stay in that troupe because you have nothing to do? It just so happens that the closest Dharma protector is you, if you don't want to find someone else?"

"But...do you think I will admit it? When did I tell you that I got the Shark Pearl?"

"How much do you think Tian Gui Lao Dao will believe these words?"

"Do you... have proof?"

"I never remember that I told you that I got the Shark Bead, but the Shark Bead was lost on the way to Weicheng, and its whereabouts are still unknown... No, no..."

"Now the whole Jianghu knows that the shark pearl is on your ghost-faced lord..."

The ghost-faced gentleman covered his head, and laughed out of anger, "Murong Qian... count yourself as ruthless..."

"Huh?" Following the exclamation of the Yue family killer, all the ghosts around raised their heads and looked in the same direction. The ghost-faced gentleman seemed to realize something and looked at it together.Then I saw the woman in the red skirt who had appeared in the dream walking quietly on the water. I didn't know when she appeared or what she was going to do.

Murong Qian clasped fists with the woman in red skirt and said, "Miss Luzhu, I'm sorry."

The woman in the red skirt looked at Murong Qian lightly, but there was no color in her eyes.

When Hua Shenchi saw it, he unconsciously stepped up the strength of his subordinates, and was noticed by Yi Qingchen.Yi Qingchen asked Hua Shenchi suspiciously, "What's wrong with you, Wood?"

Hua Shenchi hesitated for a long time, and seemed to have a feeling, "This person seems... not very human."

Yi Qingchen was startled, he thought that Hua Shenchi's ability to perceive what happened after he fell into a dream was already the limit, but he didn't expect his intuition to be so magical.

Recalling Zhenzhen's previous advice in the dream, because I have obtained half of Hua Shenchi's soul, so there are some secrets in the world that cannot be known by mortals, but I can know them.In other words, is it because of the loss of that half of the soul that Hua Shenchi is no longer limited by the fate of reincarnation, and has regained some intuition when he was a god?

The woman in the red skirt walked slowly to the center of the water, holding a guqin wrapped in red silk in her arms, silent.The "Hundred Ghosts" standing on the wreckage of the bamboo raft glanced at her twice, drew his sword and struck out, the movement was so fast that Yi Qingchen gasped.

One miss, the woman in the red dress is no longer in her original position.

Everyone looked around, and when they were confused, the woman in the red dress suddenly appeared behind the "hundred ghosts" like a ghost, and plucked the strings in the void like a dream reappearing.

Obviously there is no sound of the piano, but a circle of ripples appeared on the surface of the water out of thin air, and the ripples spread to the feet of the standing "Hundred Ghosts", returning to calm.The next moment, the standing "Hundred Ghosts" suddenly had their eyes wide open, bursting into a puddle of blood under everyone's unbelievable gazes, scattered in the water, and sank slowly, leaving only a puddle of clothes floating on the water.

All the ghosts around discussed for a while, then turned their eyes to the ghost-faced gentleman, the ghost-faced gentleman looked at the lake in silence, the smile on his face disappeared, and after a long while, he slowly turned his head to look at Murong Qian, with a smile in his eyes. Pity and sorrow, "you're crazy..."

Murong Qian snorted indifferently, and said with a smile, "As I said, if you have backhands, so do I."

The extremely rare expression of the ghost-faced gentleman became complicated for a moment, he let out a "tsk", stopped his momentum, and ordered the ghosts, "Go back to the slave's house." The ghosts looked at me and at you without saying a word.

Four hundred ghosts dressed as sedan chairs hurried over carrying a sedan chair. The ghost-faced gentleman opened the curtain, and before entering the sedan chair, he gave Murong Qian a meaningful look, "Although my family is crazy, but after all, I can weigh the importance." , some people, although they seem to be gentlemen and dignified, but in their hearts, they may be crazy to what extent..."

After all, he sat in the sedan chair, got up and drove away, with such a great momentum, it was a bit like a Kyoto oiran parading through the streets.

Presumably this is the scene of "Hundred Ghosts Walking at Night" in the towns near Jiangling?

When the last few people in the team were about to leave the peach forest, one of them seemed to remember something, and ran to the edge of the lake with weird dance steps, stretched out his hand to fish in the water, and made a strange tone in his mouth. It is "Don't sleep, get up quickly".After a while, he withdrew his hand, shook off the water in his hand, turned around and returned to the team.

Not long after, the standing ghost that had clearly been broken into pieces crawled out of the water again intact, and followed the team in two or three steps.

One after another strange phenomena appeared one after another, Yi Qingchen was horrified when he saw that he could meet all these strange things, it could be regarded as an adventure, and this life was worthwhile.

However, since I have shared half of Hua Chenchi's soul and shouldered half of the calamity, logically speaking, the future calamity should be more and more difficult to pass, but now even these things have come out, and I am waiting for my next calamity. What could it be?

After confirming that Hua Shenchi, the killer of the Yue Family and Jiang Zhige were all fine, Yi Qingchen raised his eyes to look for Murong Qian.

Murong Qian was chatting with the woman in red skirt on the shore, Murong Qian said something, the woman in red skirt answered, the exchange was very brief and polite, after speaking, the woman in red skirt hugged the piano and bowed, and left towards Weicheng.

Murong Qian turned his head to look for Yi Qingchen, their eyes met, and the former smiled happily again.

Yi Qingchen was always worried about the identity of the woman in the red dress, and worried that Murong Qian would make an extraordinary decision, so after Murong Qian came here, the first thing he said was, "Who is that woman? "

Murong Qian didn't speak bluntly, but only smiled, "Brother Xue, don't worry, it's just a helper I invited."

Of course Yi Qingchen knew that this woman was a helper, what he was worried about was how much Murong Qian spent to invite this person, but because of the presence of other people, even if he wanted to ask, he had to speak carefully.He was making up words in his heart, but Murong Qian interrupted, "Brother Xue, you must be tired after traveling all the way, why don't you go back to the city to rest?"

Right now is really not the time to talk, Yi Qingchen glanced at the wet clothes on several people, and when the mountain wind blew, it was a little cold, so he nodded, "Okay, let's go back first."

Volume Four: The Imperial City