Phoenix Feather

Shen Yang came in to pour tea, and when Xuan Xuan and others talked about the Jin family, he stood aside and listened for a while.

After Yue Yu finished saying that, she noticed a flash of thought on Shen Yang's face, and she seemed a little shocked.

Xuan Xuan also saw it, and asked, "Did Teacher Shen think of something?"

Shen Yang put down the empty teacup in his hand, and smiled gently: "Although I'm used to being called teacher by students, I'm really not used to hearing you call me teacher."

Xuan Xuan and the six of them, no matter their appearance or temperament, could tell they were not ordinary people at first glance. They gave Shen Yang a rather mysterious feeling, and when the word "teacher" came out of Xuan Xuan's mouth, he felt a little uncomfortable.

Xuan Xuan smiled: "Is it kind to call Teacher Shen? Speaking of which, this is really the first time I call Teacher Shen."

Shen Yang was taken aback. This is the first time calling a teacher?Could it be that Hyun Hyun never called a teacher when he was a student?It doesn't look like he is such an impolite person.

Xuan Xuan said: "For some reason, I study at home."

Shen Yang nodded, and he said: "After listening to your conversation just now, I suddenly remembered that people seem to die during the few days of ancestor worship every year."

Everyone was stunned.

Ibubu called: "No, so evil?"

Shen Yang said: "I don't remember the things when I was young, and I didn't pay attention to these things at that time. What is certain is that in the past six years, people have died in these few days."

Zhan Huanchen touched his chin: "There are inside stories, there are inside stories."

Yue Yu was careful and asked, "Is the number of people dying the same every time?"

Shen Yang said: "I'm not sure about this, but there are definitely more than two people, and the causes of death are not the same, but it can be summed up as accidents, all kinds of accidents."

Ibubu trembled, "Hiss, it's really creepy. Didn't the sun lady protect you from getting sick? Why did you become a murderer?"

Xuanxuan said: "As for the pure blood, the rumor that people with half blood will die if they don't come back to worship their ancestors is quite scary, but I always feel that this cannot be true."

Shen Yang smiled wryly: "Even if it's not true, but after all, not many people dare to make fun of their own lives, especially under the premise that some people died because they didn't come back to worship their ancestors."

Su Fengliu said: "People die every year when offering sacrifices to the ancestors. Is it possible that someone must die when offering sacrifices to the Sun Lady?"

Xuanxuan asked Shen Yang: "All the people who died in previous years were sun wives?"

"No," Shen Yang shook his head, "I remember that the ones who died last year were a couple who came back to participate in the ancestor worship, and the other was a relative of a local who came to join in the fun... All I know is that they died three years ago. Personally, the year before last, all the dead were locals, and one of them was a child."

"That means there are no rules."

"That's right."

……

"Father," Shen Liu ran in from the outside and hugged Shen Yang's thigh, "You've been drinking water for a long time."

Shen Yang patted his son's head, "Father is chatting with elder brother and the others."

Shen Liu blinked, "What are you talking about, can I talk too?"

Zhan Huanchen teased him: "Tell me which one is more popular with girls, you or Xiaojun."

Shen Liu blushed, and shyly scratched her face with her small hands, "Well, Dad is the most popular among girls. Brother Hai often said sourly that those female students surrounded Dad like flies."

Shen Yang coughed: "Don't listen to Brother Hai's nonsense."

"No nonsense, I saw it too, those sisters like Dad, but," Shen Liu showed a confused expression, "The questions those sisters ask are very strange, they ask me and Xiaojun's father and Brother Hai Which is shou and which is gong, they are afraid that we don't understand, and they say that shou is 0 and gong is 1, but I still don't understand, and then they laughed strangely, saying that I am little 0, dad, you understand, sister and the others Say something?"

Everyone couldn't laugh or cry, the girls nowadays don't even let off children.

Xia Ruohai rushed in in a gust of wind, and probably had been listening outside. He warned Shen Liu with a serious face: "Stay away from those strange sisters in the future, don't listen to what they say, don't believe it, do you understand?"

Wen Xiaojun, who followed in, said: "Uncle, those older sisters said they hoped that you would overwhelm Father Shen. They like uncle Shou, and they will attack you every year. But Uncle, you don't seem to be taller than Father Shen. Can you overwhelm him?"

Xia Ruohai jumped and shouted: "You two, don't talk to those crazy women again, not even a word!!!"

Wen Xiaojun said aggrievedly: "Every time it's the sisters who say that Xiaoliu and I don't understand and can't get in the way."

Shen Liu nodded seriously.

"..." Xia Ruohai was furious, "What they say, you just put it in your left ear and out your right ear, forget everything, don't remember even a single word!"

Wen Xiaojun and Shen Liu saw that Xia Ruohai was furious, how dare they say no, they nodded quickly.

Xia Ruohai yelled at Shen Yang angrily: "Look at the good students you teach, and the bad ones you teach!"

Shen Yang rubbed his nose, he didn't teach these things, but his students were indeed outrageous, so next time he should not take his son to school.

Xia Ruohai was still angry: "Those dead women, they look good when they go back."

Wen Xiaojun boldly said: "Uncle, can you beat the sisters by yourself? What kind of two fists can't beat four hands."

"It's not just four hands, there are many sisters." Shen Liu looked at Xia Ruohai sympathetically, "Brother Hai, you must not be enough to fight, and dad is not enough either."

Xia Ruohai: "..."

Xuan Xuan and the others held back their laughter.

Yue Yu sighed: Rotten girls like Xuan Miao Ke are really everywhere.

***

Shrine at two o'clock in the morning

Xuanxuan and Yueyu came out from the shadows only after the group of women in red clothes left.

"Go ahead and take a look." Xuanxuan pulled Yueyu into the ancestral hall.

Three sets of coffins lay neatly there, forming a Sichuan character occupying the center of the ancestral hall.

Removed the lid of the third coffin and took a look inside with a flashlight. The face of the clay statue was Li Mei's. Xuanxuan couldn't figure it out. He said, "I think this clay statue should have been made early in the morning. But Zhu Hong and Li Mei were chosen as the sun lady for a day, how could this clay statue be changed into their appearance immediately?"

Yue Yu said: "There are three sun wives, Zhang Xiao died, Zhu Hong took her place, Zhu Hong died, Li Mei took her place, who are the remaining two sun wives? There are no them in this clay statue?"

Xuanxuan said: "There are all kinds of strange things in Sun City, and all kinds of unreasonable things."

Moved the coffin lid back to its original place, left the ancestral hall, and came to the location of the organ based on memory.

Soon, the two found it. There were two sun patterns engraved on the stone slab. The big sun surrounded the small sun. The circle of the small sun was a bronze ring embedded in the stone slab. Pull the bronze ring up——

A dark rectangular gap was revealed.

The hole is not big, and only one person can pass through it.

Xuanxuan took out a rope, tied a flashlight to one end, held the other end in his hand, and slowly let it down——

The rope gets longer and longer, and the aperture of the flashlight gets smaller and smaller. While putting the rope, Xuanxuan estimated the approximate depth, ten meters, 20 meters, 30 meters...

After about 60 meters, Xuanxuan felt that he had reached the end.

Looking down with the probe, only a small spot of light from the flashlight can be seen.

Xuan Xuan handed the rope to Yue Yu, and was about to go down, but Yue Yu stopped him, "I'll go."

After glancing at Yue Yu, Xuan Xuan didn't say much, "Be careful."

Watching Yueyu disappear into the darkness, Xuanxuan couldn't help but feel nervous.

Little Phoenix rubbed Xuan Xuan's cheek to comfort him.

Xuanxuan stroked the little phoenix and waited patiently——

Unexpectedly, after 10 minutes, Yue Yu came up.

Xuan Xuan was greatly surprised: "So fast? What's below?"

Yue Yu looked strange: "There is nothing, on the surface."

……

After climbing about ten meters, Yue Yu realized that the cave was funnel-shaped, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom. He could no longer go down after climbing about 50 meters. He touched around, but found no secret door. kind.

With the faint light of the flashlight she put down earlier, Yue Yu found that there was nothing at the bottom of the cave, and the bodies of Zhang Xiao and Zhu Hong were gone...

Xuan Xuan opened his eyes wide and looked at Yue Yu.

Yue Yu said: "The smell of blood is very strong inside. The walls around the top [-] meters are all stone walls, and then there is mud, and the bottom is no longer mud."

"It's not dirt, what is it?"

"Black, a bit hard, feels like solid wood."

"Zhu Hong's body was obviously thrown in, why did it disappear?" Xuan Xuan was puzzled.

Yue Yu said: "I let the little Qilin go in and have a look, and there is nothing there."

They thought they would get something, but they still got nothing, and both of them couldn't help feeling a little discouraged.

On the way back, Xuanxuan kept thinking about where Zhu Hong's body was.

Suddenly, Yue Yu pulled him and pulled him aside to hide.

what's up?

Yue Yu pointed in one direction, motioning Xuan Xuan to look——

Under the bleak starlight, a slender figure approached from far away.

Nearly.

It's Li Mei.