Weicheng snow

The scene turned again, and the surrounding scene turned into an ancient courtyard with high walls.

Yi Qingchen was standing under an old and withered flower tree, the branches and the eaves were covered with thick snow, a little boy in very over-dressed ran out of the open hall, and the snow in the courtyard A series of small footprints were left on the ground, and a maid in a red dress followed him unhurriedly, as if carefully guarding the child, but the child did not wait for the maid, but rushed to the courtyard in one breath In front of the gate, she rushed into the arms of a man, "Daddy, Daddy!"

The man stretched out his hand and rubbed the little boy's head, raised his eyes to look at the hall, and beckoned there, "Jiuqu, come here too." The little boy followed the man and looked back. The boy who was very similar to the little boy was standing timidly behind the door of the hall, and only after hearing the words did he step out of the threshold cautiously.

Jiang Zhige couldn't stand it anymore, so he ran back in two or three steps, grabbed Jiang Jiuqu's wrist, and led him to the man.

It wasn't until the two came over together that the man took out two packs of warm pastries from his luggage, handed them to the two, and praised Jiang Zhige with joy, "Jiuqu, you should learn more from your brother, This time he won the first place in his class again, which really gave our Jiang parents face."

Jiang Jiuqu hugged the hot paper bag, smelled the sweet fragrance in it, showed a shy and proud smile, nodded and said, "Well, brother Zhi Ge is the most powerful..."

There was heavy snow in front of my eyes, and the picture turned into a dark alley in an instant.

Yi Qingchen waited for a long while, but nothing happened, and he didn't understand what was going on, so he turned over the wall to check.As soon as Fang went up to the wall, he saw a group of boys in schoolboy costumes playing around in the courtyard, among them four or five taller children were surrounding Jiang Jiuqu at the corner, saying rudely, "Hey, bean sprouts, your brother You are so powerful, why are you so useless? I heard that you got the bottom of your class again? It’s really shameful. You are also blunt in your fists and feet, and your class is not good. How can you two be brothers?"

Hearing this, Jiang Jiuqu clenched the schoolwork paper in his hand tightly, his small face flushed, "What do you know, brother Zhi Ge is the most powerful, as long as brother Zhi Ge is good enough!" They laughed and teased each other, "Hey, did you hear that? He actually said 'as long as brother Zhige is good enough', are you aggressive? It doesn't matter how good he is? He can support you for a lifetime ?"

Jiang Jiuqu quickly argued, "Yes, Dad said, we are brothers, as long as Brother Zhi Ge is healthy, we can live together in peace and prosperity for the rest of our lives..."

The group of brats wanted to continue to laugh at Jiang Jiuqu's stupid and naive thoughts, but suddenly a boy shouted from behind, "Hey, what are you doing to Jiuqu!" , "Oh, oh, brother Zhige is here!"

Jiang Zhige drove away the troublesome children aggressively, helped Jiang Jiuqu up from under the tree, and said angrily, "Why didn't you call me?" Hiding the schoolwork paper behind her back, "It's just being laughed at, it's okay, but it's you brother, you must never fight with them, brother, you are a good student, you can't fight, let alone let your parents know."

Jiang Zhige was a little confused, "What nonsense are you talking about, you are my younger brother, shouldn't it be right for elder brother to protect younger brother?" Jiang Jiuqu said in panic, "No, elder brother must never do bad things!"

Jiang Zhige tilted his head in doubt, grabbed Jiang Jiuqu's right hand, stretched out his left hand, and joined the two wrists together, revealing two identical red ropes.Jiang Zhige smiled heartily, "Anyway, whenever you are bullied, you can call me by my name. We are brothers. This red rope is proof that the elder brother will always protect the younger brother!"

Jiang Jiuqu stared blankly at Jiang Zhige's eyes, his young heart was greatly shocked, and he murmured, "Brother..."

"As long as I'm a brother, will my elder brother be with me for the rest of my life?"

Jiang Zhige was amused by Jiang Jiuqu's remarks, "What nonsense are you talking about? Shouldn't it be right to share difficulties and share blessings? Don't worry, brother will definitely protect you."

The snowflakes scattered all over the sky unknowingly turned into a rain of bright red blood.

The sky was pitch black, with no sunlight to be seen, and the scene returned to the Jiang family's mansion, still the courtyard with the weird flower tree, and at this time, the flower tree had already bloomed with bewitching peach blossoms.

The blood rain continued, and the raindrops fell on the floor tiles, making a crisp and pattering sound, which even covered the sobbing and crying of the person in the room.

Yi Qingchen stood where he was, and looked into the hall following the sound of sobbing. Jiang Jiuqu was holding a blood-splattered vase in both hands, and was kneeling beside his parents' corpses with blood on his face, crying bitterly, "Why... ..Why am I the only one who picked it up...Brother...don't want me...you said...we will always be together.. ...."

"Just because I picked it up..."

"So you don't want me..."

The rain of blood was getting bigger and bigger, as if it was going to swallow the world in front of us.

Yi Qingchen's attention stayed on Jiang Jiuqu from the beginning to the end, and he didn't notice that there was a person standing beside him. When he realized it, that person had been standing in the rain for a long time.

She is wearing a red gauze, her long and long hair is loose, and she has a simple style behind her head. She is holding a qin-shaped thing tightly wrapped in red silk in her arms. Seeing the light dust in her clothes, she is quite polite. He bowed his body, "Young Master Yi."

Yi Qingchen guessed that this person was probably the one who took away the ghost-faced gentleman under the eyes of the Yue family killer, and was about to ask her why she took the ghost-faced gentleman away, but the woman in red yarn said before him, "Don't worry too much, sir." worry, I was entrusted by someone to protect you, Young Master. The person you are looking for has been taken to a safe place by me, and he will come back when he wakes up..."

Yi Qingchen thought for a while, and was about to ask her if she was a helper sent by Zhenzhen, but the woman seemed to be able to read minds, and she answered one step ahead of him, "Mr. One step to help the young master."

"Actually, we have seen it before, by the lake in Shilin Village..."

After being mentioned in this way, Yi Qingchen finally understood where the sense of familiarity with the woman in front of him came from, "So that's the case. Then who is your young master?" The woman in red shook her head and replied politely, "Specifically , you should ask Mr. Murong when you go back..."

"Speaking of... Young Master, you sneaked out from Wei City, and Young Master Murong is really worried."

Yi Qingchen let out a "huh" and scratched his hair in embarrassment, "Shouldn't you cause him any trouble?" The woman smiled lightly and shook her head.Yi Qingchen knew in his heart that since he was invited by Murong Qian, he would definitely not harm him.It's just why she has been refusing to show up?But you want to meet yourself in a dream?

The red-clothed woman naturally heard Yi Qingchen's questions, and replied very respectfully, "My identity is a bit special, and I shouldn't show up easily. As for why I chose this place to meet..."

"It is to present the truth of that man's dream to you, my lord..."

Yi Qingchen wanted to ask who "that person" was again, but the surrounding images suddenly froze, the rain stagnated in mid-air and stopped falling, Yi Qingchen looked around suspiciously, the woman in red was stunned, and suddenly turned her head to look in a direction Suddenly, a gap opened in the void, and the red rope rushed out of the gap like a group of snakes, attacking the two of them.

Seeing this, the woman in red said calmly, "The medium in the dream drawing technique seems to want to drive us out of here..."

Yi Qingchen was confused when he heard it, "The art of drawing dreams?"

The woman in red didn't explain immediately, she grabbed Yi Qingchen's collar and took a few steps back lightly to avoid the offensive of the red rope, "The art of dreaming, as the name suggests, is to link the dreams of two people. This kind of technique requires a special medium, which can be a keepsake or a personal item, but it must be something related to both parties in the dream..."

After all, another bunch of red ropes struck.

Due to the presence of Yi Qingchen, the woman in red did not dare to fight rashly with the red rope, for fear of ruining the dream, she only occasionally plucked the strings in the air to shake the red rope back when she had to, and kept dodging at other times .

As time went by, there were more and more red ropes around. The woman in red looked at the bright red dancing all over the sky, and murmured, "This is not the way to go..." She grabbed Yi Qingchen and avoided it. After being attacked by a red rope, he dodged to the vicinity of the crack, inside the crack was a boundless black void, Yi Qingchen hesitated, "Do you really want to go in?"

The woman in red didn't want to talk nonsense, grabbed Yi Qingchen and jumped in.

Behind the crack is the boundless sea of ​​tranquility that Yi Qingchen is most familiar with.

After the two entered the boundless sea completely, the crack behind them closed automatically. The woman in red led Yi Qingchen and walked out for a while, and came to the side of the nightmare who was still sitting at the same place playing the piano. The nightmare heard the sound of the two approaching, Just chuckled, "People from Dugu's family? What's your business here?"

The woman in red sighed slightly, and told the nightmare about what happened in the ghost-faced man's dream. The nightmare said with a smile, "The art of drawing dreams? So that's how it is..."

Although Yi Qingchen is not very familiar with the nightmare, but thanks to the blessings of Xixi and Zhenzhen, it can be regarded as a close relationship, so he tentatively asked, "Will this spell be fatal?"

The nightmare did not admit it, and shook his head with a smile, "It depends on the purpose of the caster. Spells are an extremely mysterious knowledge. Among the spells related to dreams, the art of dreaming is just an entry-level technique." It’s just the fur, there will be many branches on top of this, such as modifying memory, creating demons, or changing..." At this point, the nightmare seemed to realize something, and it obviously paused.

"...In short, these techniques must be based on the technique of drawing dreams to be able to be done."

"Immediately find the two brothers of the Jiang family after returning to see if their spirits have changed. Right now, their dreams are entangled, and their memories are bound to affect each other..."

Yi Qingchen asked again, "Then is there a way to unravel the dream-drawing technique?"

The Nightmare Tapir nodded, "However, the top priority is to find these two brothers as soon as possible. After a long delay, according to the temperament of that ghost-faced gentleman, there may be some troubles."

Yi Qingchen realized the seriousness of the problem, and hurriedly turned to the woman in red, "Where is the ghost-faced gentleman?"

The woman in red closed her eyes, and replied calmly, "The tomb mountain in the west of the city..."

After experiencing the ups and downs in the dream, Yi Qingchen subconsciously stood up and looked out the window after waking up. The pale light shone into the room, which was the unique daylight in Jiangling's afternoon. He recalled the nightmare's instructions in the dream several times , just got up and put on his boots, put on his clothes and went out. When he ran through the corridor, he bumped into Hua Shenchi who was carrying the medicine upstairs. Living in Hua Shenchi, he said to him, "You go with me first, and I will explain to you on the way."

Even though the two of them did not stop, they were still one step too late.

When we arrived at the cemetery, a raging fire had already ignited on the top of the mountain, and many pedestrians gathered at the foot of the mountain, but no one offered to fetch water to put out the fire, because the fire was really too big, and there were people relying on the mountain wind and the trees to keep growing. Trend, there is no time to rescue.

Yi Qingchen hesitated for a moment, and warned Hua Shenchi to wait at the foot of the mountain, but he suddenly rushed into the sea of ​​flames. Hua Shenchi wanted to chase, but was stopped by the surrounding pedestrians.

I don't know how long he ran in the sea of ​​flames, Yi Qingchen only felt that the surrounding temperature was very high, and the air became thinner. If he couldn't find the ghost-faced gentleman, he could only go back home.With the idea of ​​being like a servant, he searched for a cup of tea again, and finally found that familiar figure in the sea of ​​fire.

Right now, the Ghost-faced Lord is standing on top of a mausoleum wrapped in iron chains. The appearance of the tomb is very strange, but the state of the Ghost-faced Lord is even weirder.His eyes were dull, his long hair was loose, and he didn't even notice that Yi Qingchen was approaching.

Yi Qingchen called him for a while, seeing that he didn't respond, he tried to tug on his clothes again, the ghost-faced gentleman just slowly moved his head, and looked at Yi Qingchen suspiciously, "Brother Yi?"

For a moment, Yi Qingchen had the idea that the person in front of him was Jiang Zhige, but in the next second, the ghost-faced gentleman suddenly looked around at the scene, and asked Yi Qingchen in shock, "This, I did all of these ?”

Yi Qingchen didn't know the state of the ghost-faced gentleman right now, he only knew that his life was important, so he hurriedly grabbed his hand and took him to Huohaihai, "Let's go out first." The ghost-faced gentleman looked down at his Hand, looked at the dress on his body, then raised his hand to touch his face, with a momentary look of surprise.

It immediately became clear.

After the two finally rushed out of the sea of ​​flames and reunited with Hua Shenchi, many policemen had already put out the fire on the edge of the sea of ​​fire, Yi Qingchen didn't stay any longer, and led the two of them to the inn.

On the way, the ghost-faced gentleman suddenly let go of Yi Qingchen's hand, and took two steps back. Yi Qingchen thought he felt guilty for setting the fire, so he hurried forward to comfort him, "Brother Jiang, the current situation of the mountain fire The matter has not been clarified yet..." The ghost-faced gentleman's steps were a little unsteady, he swayed twice, and the expression on his face seemed to have changed, becoming charming and wild, "Find out? This fire was set by the servant..."

After all, looking at the surrounding scene, a look of doubt flashed across his brows and eyes, "What is this place?"

Hua Shenchi shielded Yi Qingchen behind him, watching every move of the ghost-faced gentleman vigilantly.

The ghost-faced gentleman observed the surrounding scenery, did not make any dangerous moves, and only raised his hand to cover his aching head, "This feeling... abominable..." Yi Qingchen Seeing this, poked a head out from behind Hua Shenchi, and tentatively asked Ghost Mian Langjun, "Do you know that the shark bead you stole is probably fake?"

"Fake? Impossible." Even so, the ghost-faced gentleman reached into the lapel of his clothes and groped for a moment, but the expression on his face became more and more indifferent.

When Hua Shenchi was at Honggu's house earlier, he had discovered that the shark bead was not on the ghost-faced gentleman. At that time, Yi Qingchen could not determine whether the shark bead was hidden by the ghost-faced gentleman himself, or was taken away by others.Right now, after probing, Yi Qingchen also knew that the shark beads were indeed stolen by other people, and the person who stole the shark beads, except for the killer of the Yue family, could only be the woman in red sent by Xiaoqian .

Yi Qingchen himself is more inclined to the latter possibility.

Although there is not enough evidence, in the self-report of the Yue family killer, he has never been close to the ghost-faced gentleman from the beginning to the end, but the woman in red can appear beside the ghost-faced gentleman without anyone noticing before him.Moreover, Yi Qingchen had checked the body of the Yue family killer, and had seen the strength of the woman in red, so the statement of the Yue family killer was very credible.

But why did the woman in red secretly steal the shark beads?Was it ordered by Murong Qian, or that Dugu Patriarch?

The ghost-faced gentleman groped for a while, and finally gave up and spread his hands, "It seems that my family has been tricked by your good brother."

Yi Qingchen realized that there was something in the ghost-faced gentleman's words, "What do you mean?"

"Looking at the harmonious appearance of your two brothers, I feel very uncomfortable." The ghost-faced gentleman covered his mouth and smiled, "Do you still think that your younger brother is such an innocent and well-behaved person? I am honest. Let me tell you, Shark Pearl was given to my family by your good brother..."

In this way, Yi Qingchen didn't understand more and more, and the ghost-faced gentleman seemed to have read the doubts in Yi Qingchen's heart, and said quite proudly, "I'm afraid you don't believe me if you tell me, Yumian Feihu, he has been with you a long time ago." Our Marrow Sect has finalized a deal... Otherwise, how do you think the Sorrow Sect broke through the defense of the Zhennan Palace so easily?"

As soon as these words came out, Yi Qingchen was shocked, Hua Shenchi frowned slightly, but said nothing.

The ghost-faced gentleman looked at the expressions on the faces of the two with great satisfaction, and smiled triumphantly, "Your brother, he wants to destroy the entire Central Plains!"

Yi Qingchen couldn't hold back anymore, "What nonsense are you talking about? Why does Xiaoqian do these things? Isn't the Zhennan Palace his home? What's the benefit of him doing this?"

The ghost-faced gentleman only chuckled a few times when he heard the words, "Whether it's true or not, son, you can just ask your good brother? As for the reason, I can roughly guess the reason. Young master, you are very bad, until now, I still want you to bear the crime of stealing shark beads..."

"Such a Central Plains, son, why are you still unwilling to give up?"