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After so many years, the city finally ushered in its original prosperity with a faint hope.A wisp of cooking smoke rises from the neighborhood of the homestay, fluttering gently in the evening breeze.

Wen Wu has long been missing, Xie Yan wanted to catch him and finally wanted to ask about himself, but when he went to his room to find someone that day, he found that the room was empty for a while, and he didn't know when the tea was cold .That's right, Wen Wu was born in the mysterious Mirror Moon Valley, and he had little contact with other Taoists, so coming and going like the wind is in line with their style of being a dragon who never sees the end.

Xie Yan was sitting on the eaves of the inn with a piece of grass in his mouth, and the noisy inn lobby was under his feet. He was always smiling at the moon dusk, and was eagerly discussing something with the badly hurt waiter. Liu Gudeng sat at the table and drank from a big bowl, echoing a few words from time to time, making the table rattle.

In his position, when he turned around, he could just face the small window of Jian Suyu's room opposite.The person on the opposite side frowned, with a handsome face, who was sitting cross-legged on the bed in meditation, while Saber Xiaolian was emitting a shining blue light on the table.As if aware of the too hot gaze, Jian Suyu opened her eyes and glanced at someone who was laughing, got up and walked to the window, and closed the window mercilessly with a "bang", shaking the ashes on the eaves Three shakes.

Xie Yan smiled happily for a while, stroking his Baihong Sword with one hand, looking at the bustling pier, rubbing the seal on the back of his neck with the other hand, and murmured: "Could it be that I'm also a dragon..."

However, Wen Wu had already left, and no one could answer him anymore.

Three days after they found out that Wen Wu had left, the distraught Pu Xinjiu appeared.Everyone tacitly agreed not to bother him, and let him stare at an egg alone for a long time in the room.

In the end, it was Xie Yan who made Pu Xinjiu speak first.To be precise, it was Pu Xinjiu who came to chat with Xie Yan after being silent for several days.

"The resentful spirit from Yuanqing has dissipated." At some point, Pu Xinjiu had already sat beside Xie Yan, his eyes were full of exhaustion, and he didn't have the high-spirited appearance of the former Tiandu Yunhai disciple. "I broke it up with my own hands."

"He won't blame you." Xie Yan nodded knowingly, watching the people coming and going on the street in boredom.Just like what the senior brother said, as long as Yuanqing disappears, the city will return to normal. Now Haiqingheyan, everyone knows the reason.

Pu Xinjiu's body trembled uncontrollably, he held the dragon scales on his neck tightly, and said in a hoarse voice: "I blame myself, biting a piece of his flesh in the previous life, and breaking up his last remnant soul in this life— —I just blame myself."

"He took me to many places, the largest bun shop in the city, the busiest pier, the Hanshan Temple that has long been a ruined temple, and the dilapidated house where we used to live."

"I also talked about many things about my childhood, but I don't remember them all."

As if thinking of something funny, Pu Xinjiu couldn't help smiling, his eyes were full of doting: "Yuanqing said that he didn't eat the eggs I gave him before he died, so he hid a lot of eggs in the city lord's mansion. Can is waiting for me to come back. You said that he has lived for so many years, but he is always like a child."

Unable to help sighing, Xie Yan patted Pu Xinjiu's slightly trembling shoulder comfortingly.

That resentful spirit harbored hatred, guarding a dead city, waiting for someone who would not return, the current ending was a relief for Yuan Qing.

Not only was he freed, but the city was also freed.

"Thank you for the banquet." Pu Xinjiu stood up suddenly, turned his head to look in the direction of the moat, and said in an uncertain voice, "Do you think the people in this city will be fine in the future?"

"Yes." Xie Yan affirmed, "It's over—everything will be fine."

"Thank you for the banquet!" Yue Dusk suddenly screamed, shocking the two people on the roof.

"Something happened at dusk!" Xie Yan jumped off the roof and flashed into the lobby of the inn, followed by Pu Xinjiu following closely behind.

The noisy people in the inn were already scared and hid in the house, not daring to come out.

"I'll check his injuries..." Yue Dusk had a pretty pale face, he was still holding a few bottles of pills in his hands, and he said in shock, "He... was fine just now... and passed out all of a sudden... ...there's no breath..."

The waiter who was still chatting with Yue Dusk before seemed suddenly out of breath, closed his eyes, and fell towards Yue Dusk.Liu Gudeng also laughed and said that the second brother was so tired that he fell asleep. Unexpectedly, in an instant, the person who passed out in front of him had a head of white hair, and when he checked again-he was no longer breathing, and his heartbeat was also gone.

"Yeah, he died in a short while." Liu Gudeng said the last two words very softly, as if he was taboo about something.He still remembered the weird scene where the waiter from the shop bumped into him at the top of the city, and then greeted them with a smile the next day.

Logically speaking, Yuan Qing had already disappeared, so this kind of accident should not have happened.Xie Yan carefully observed the face of the waiter in the shop - the face of a young man who was originally smiling had turned into a weather-beaten face of an old man. "Is that all for a moment?"

"Yes, there were no signs at first." Yue Dusk nodded affirmatively, "Gu Deng also saw it."

Liu Gudeng subconsciously took a look at Pu Xinjiu's face, and saw that the latter also had a frightened expression, so he suppressed the uneasiness in his heart, he must have thought too much...

Hearing the movement, Jian Suyu went downstairs, his calm eyes swept across the shop waiter's body for a moment, and looked at Yue Dusk: "This is just the first one, be careful, Xie Yan comes out with me."

Before Xie Yan could be surprised, he was dragged to the backyard by Jian Suyu. With a wave of his hand, a layer of transparent ice mist rose around the two of them, blocking the prying eyes of the outside world and all human affairs.

"Brother, are you going to whisper to me?" Seeing how cautious he was, Xie Yan couldn't help teasing, "Who just closed the windows mercilessly just now."

Jian Suyu closed her eyes forcefully, automatically ignoring his foolishness, and said in a low voice, "What did Pu Xinjiu tell you?"

"Senior brother, didn't I tell you that you are so jealous? He was sad for several days and just chatted with me—" Xie Yan put away the joke on his face, straightened his face, and said in surprise, "You doubt he?"

Jian Suyu nodded without hesitation.

With an unbelievable expression on his face, Xie Yan couldn't help but feel sorry for Pu Xinjiu: "His cultivation base is not as high as mine, and he talked with me on the roof just now, how did he get past me and you who are not far away? Besides, even if you are meditating, don't you care?" Come on, that solitary lamp is also in the lobby, I would like to know how an unknown outer disciple of Xinjiu did it under the eyes of the head disciple of Tiandu Yunhai!"

His aggressive tone made Jian Suyu feel at a loss for a moment, and Jian Suyu couldn't help reminding softly: "He is the king of ghosts."

The implication is naturally that Pu Xinjiu moved his hands in a way that they couldn't detect.

But unfortunately, after what happened in Yuanqing, Xie Yan obviously misunderstood what he meant. "All right, it's the original sin for him to be assigned the identity of a ghost king, right? At the beginning, Yuanqing was also assumed to be a monster by the whole city and wanted to eat his flesh and blood. This is also his fault, right? I said The two of them are really destined to be cultivated for several lifetimes, and they will be assigned a shitty identity at every turn, and some crimes will be attached, even if they jump into the Yellow River, they will not be cleared."

It was rare for Jian Suyu to see him lose his composure. She was speechless for a while, and subconsciously reached out her hand to grab him, but it was in vain.

"There is nothing unusual about the corpse of Xiaoer Dian, there is no trace of spiritual power or ghost energy." Xie Yan waved his outstretched hand away, stared at him, and said coldly, "So brother, you must prove everything. , the 'prevention before it happens' argument doesn't stand up when it comes to testifying against a person."

Then he waved his hand, and the barrier in front of him shattered like ice, and strode out.

But what Jian Suyu didn't know was that his unintentional words brought back the memory that Xie Yan wanted to bury the most in his heart.

People in Yecheng, from the ninety-five emperors to the common people in Li, all know that Xie Guoshi has a deep understanding of economics, is proficient in arithmetic, is humble and kind, and is approachable. Among the court ministers who are obedient, they can be regarded as highly respected.

Anyone who knows a little bit of knowledge knows that Xie Guoshi has a jewel in the palm of his knees - Lan Yueshi, who has described her as beautiful since she was a child, and has attracted praise from countless wives in the backyard.Mrs. Xie's body is weak, so this young lady is often fostered at Mrs. Xie's mother's house. Instead of being a gentle and virtuous lady, she is aggressive and forthright. She is dressed in red and has a chivalrous demeanor. Spear, with a nine-section whip in one hand, waving the wind in people's ears, beating several eunuch children in Yecheng to their teeth, thinking that there are few men in the world who think they can surrender-of course, this is a later story.

Speaking of Mrs. Xie's mother's family, who doesn't know who doesn't know.If you catch anyone on the road, you will be able to answer "Lan's family has more money than everyone in Yecheng plus the money in the treasury", and you can see the sea-blue "Lan" on any cargo ship or passenger ship at any wharf. The flag flutters in the wind.The Lan family in the East China Sea started their business as pirates and established a maritime kingdom after turning to business. However, the court has always let it go. Many people secretly guessed that the so-called respecting ghosts and gods and keeping a distance, the court should be afraid of a family of monks.

The ancestral precepts of the Lan family: one is the Lan family, and the other is the Lan family forever.Therefore, as long as the blood of the Lan family is flowing in the body, even half of it must be named as Lan in the family tree of the Lan family-so Lanyueshi is called Lanyueshi, not Xieyueshi.

In addition to Lanyueshi's reputation, the National Teacher's Mansion is also famous for Xie Yan, but it is even worse. His dandy temperament has been like this since he was a child.Although Xie Yan's surname is Xie, he is actually Xie Guoshi's own nephew, he is not from Xie Guoshi and his wife, but they treat it as their own.

Xie Yan discovered that he was different from others in the cold winter when he was five years old.

In the winter, a group of children gathered in the private school to make a fuss. After the good-tempered teacher left, someone suggested that everyone roast chestnuts together.The raw chestnuts became golden and fragrant after being thrown into the fire for a while, but they could not be taken out.A few brave children took chestnuts from the fire, and they were scalded to the point of screaming. Instead, Xie Yan calmly reached out and took out a few chestnuts from the fire, and distributed them to everyone.The flame seemed to be spiritual, it only swirled around his fingertips but did not hurt him.

When he was a little older, he was already able to skillfully use fire to roast the eggs in the chicken coop, scalding the old hen so that it jumped up and down in the National Teacher's Mansion; or burning the tip of the dog's tail, causing the family to watch The big black dog at the back door ran around in the yard for many years, which really made the whole Guoshi mansion restless.

The most extreme time, Xie Guoshi went to court, and even the Holy Majesty couldn't help but remind him that a hole the size of a hole had been burned on the back of the court clothes.

Xie Yan has always disliked Xie Yan's tendency to get into trouble. At that time, Lanyue waved her whip, pointed at his nose and yelled: "My brother-in-law is right, your stubbornness can't be sealed! The devil's son is too. demon!"

Later, the two entered Xuanyin to practice Taoism together, and they had a deep brotherhood, but Xie Yan remembered their unintentional words in childhood for many years.

"Birth is not original sin." Xie Yan muttered subconsciously, not knowing whether he was defending others or himself.