Chapter Thirty-Three
When Wang Houting's figure disappeared, Qin Lang deliberately said, "Why do you refuse if you have a kindness?"
Bai Yugong said, "Do you have a brain? How could there be such a coincidence in the world? He is a painter with the third-grade finishing touch. He would be so kind to invite us to spend the night. Maybe he would have set up an ambush and set up a trap to wait for us to go drill." After pausing, he said, "What's more, he has bad intentions towards me. Have you forgotten?"
Qin Langxin said that Bai Yu Palace was finally smart once, and he also felt that Wang Houting was not as simple as it seemed on the surface.
The night had completely covered the snow field with the wind. The wind was getting heavier and heavier. The white reed flowers fluttered with the wind, just like a heavy snowfall in the sky. The two slow horses pulling the cart were frightened by the rapid wind and kept neighing.
The roof of the carriage was swept up by the strong wind. The two of them watched the black puff rolling in the wind and floating towards the reed forest in the distance. Their bodies were covered with white reed flowers, which looked like they had crawled out of a pile of cotton, and they were quite embarrassed.
Baiyu Palace suddenly felt a little regretful now, maybe they should accept Wang Houting's invitation.
The wind is still increasing, and Bai Yugong feels that he may be blown away by the wind at any time. He grabbed Qin Lang's arm and shouted with all his strength: "Or... should we... find a place to shelter from the wind?"
Qin Lang nodded. In fact, he was more worried about being blown away by the wind than Baiyu Palace.
He walked forward with the carriage and the wind. Baiyu Palace did not dare to stay in the carriage. He came down and led another horse. Reeds like goose feathers and heavy snow were floating everywhere. He could not see the way ahead clearly. Baiyu Palace was secretly grateful. Fortunately, Qin Lang did not listen to her life. Otherwise, the fire would have taken advantage of the wind and could really burn the Baili snow field clean with one fire.
Not long after walking in the wind, I saw the lights flashing in front of me, which may be what Wang Houting mentioned.
They walked towards the light for a moment, and finally arrived at the place where the lights were turned on. It was not a village at all, but a ancestral hall standing alone on the puff pasture. Outside the ancestral hall was tied with a red horse, which was Wang Houting's mount just now. It seemed that Wang Houting had arrived first and most likely entered the ancestral hall to shelter the wind.
The lights came out from the window inside the ancestral hall. Qin Lang narrowed his eyes and saw four big characters written on the plaque above the gate of the ancestral hall - Wang Family Ancestral Hall. Is it this where Wangjia Village mentioned by Wang Houting? There is no reason, but why do you only see the ancestral hall but not the village?
Qin Lang parked the carriage and tied two horses to the pillar on the other side of the ancestral hall.
Baiyu Palace has already knocked on the door.
"Is anyone?" She thought Wang Houting was probably inside.
After knocking for a long time, no one came to open the door. Bai Yugong pushed it hard, and the door creaked and opened.
The strong wind pushed them in, and then the two of them worked together to close the door.
Bai Yugong pressed the door with his back, untied the scarf covering his mouth and nose, and finally breathed freely.
The wind was still blowing, as if another pair of invisible hands were pushing the door one after another. Qin Lang picked up the door bolt from the side and temporarily pushed the door bolt.
Bai Yugong saw the reed flowers on his head, and his eyebrows were covered with stains. He was like a white-haired and white-eyed old man. He couldn't help laughing. After laughing, he realized that he was not much better.
They cleaned up briefly and saw the candles flashing in the room. Most of the two white candles as thick as arms had burned. Qin Lang brought a lantern over and lit it. After igniting it, he observed the structure of the ancestral hall. This is a three-entry ancestral hall, composed of three parts: the ancestral gate, the ancestral hall and the ward hall. Their current location is still the ancestral gate.
Baiyu Palace determined that Wang Houting was inside and shouted: "Is anyone?"
No one responded inside, Bai Yuting snorted.
"Pretending to be a ghost."
Qin Lang raised the lantern and said, "Go and take a look from behind."
The two walked along the winged corridor into the Xiangtang behind. The first thing they saw was rows of lanterns with white and black letters hanging on the beams of the roof. In the middle of the Xiangtang, Baiyu Palace took a breath of air. Although they knew that it was common to place tablets in the ancestral hall, they felt very uncomfortable when they saw the dense tablets.
Bai Yugong whispered to Qin Lang: "Why are there so many tablets?" At first glance, they were all named Wang. Could it be that all the people in Wangjia Village are dead?
Qin Lang shook his head and said that he didn't know it. The two of them went to the back bedroom again and looked at it. It was pitch black inside, so they didn't go in.
Qin Lang called out to Brother Wang outside, but no one responded. He became more and more surprised. He just saw Wang Houting's horse outside, why is the horse still gone? Didn't he enter the ancestral hall? He couldn't live a living person disappear out of thin air?
Bai Yugong suggested: "Let's go out." This place feels quite terrible.
Qin Lang nodded, turned around and went out when he saw the stage opposite Xiantang. The three walls around the stage were covered with exquisitely painted murals.
Baiyu Palace raised the lantern to illuminate the mural and suddenly exclaimed: "Look!"
Qin Lang looked in the direction she pointed, and saw a scholar in blue hiding under the arch bridge on one of the murals. The scholar's facial features were almost exactly the same as Wang Houting. There were two white bones and skeletons on the arch bridge. They held sharp blades dripping with blood in their hands, and they were looking in different directions, as if they were looking for something.
Qin Lang took the lantern from Baiyu Palace and looked for the beginning of the mural. The first mural painted a scene of bloody killing. Against the background of the blazing fire, a group of white bones and skeletons were slaughtering the elderly, weak, women and children. The stone tablet at the entrance of the village broke and fell to the ground, and was stained with blood. The three words Wangjia Village were engraved on the stone tablet.
Bai Yugong said in surprise: "He... the Wangjia Village he mentioned turned out to be here..."
Qin Lang continued to look down. The content of the second mural was a huge skeleton depicting human skin. It was drawing a phoenix flying with only wings on the back of the human skin. The skeleton was drawn very much, almost occupying the entire picture.
The third painting is the first painting that attracted the attention of Baiyu Palace. Wang Houting hid under the arch bridge, and two skeletons held sharp blades in their hands to chase after them.
But what shocked them was that when they saw this mural again, the content of the mural changed. Now there were three skeletons on the bridge. A skeleton that was pitch black was lying on the bridge railing. Looking down, it seemed to be suspicious. Wang Houting was still hiding under the arch bridge, but he had a pen in his hand. At this critical moment, this guy was still drawing. Of course, it was impossible to show his talents, but he should be using his so-called painting skills.
Bai Yugong said in a trembling voice: "You...have you noticed it?"
Qin Lang nodded, and Baiyu Palace also found that the mural had changed at this moment.
Bai Yu Palace didn't dare to look at this evil mural again, and urged Qin Lang to leave here quickly. She didn't even want to stay here for a moment.
The two walked towards the temple gate along the flank corridor. Before they could approach the temple gate, smoke suddenly rolled in front of them, but the temple gate caught fire. The fire took advantage of the wind. After a while, the entire temple gate was surrounded by fire. The outside was red and smoke continued to spread in.
Bai Yu Palace reminded: "Back Door."
The two turned around and walked backwards, walked through the Xiangtang, and entered the bedroom that they had not been in. The door of the bedroom was two black cloth curtains, and two large white characters were embroidered on the curtains.
——Go to the general and enter the minister.
Bai Yu Palace lifted up the curtain embroidered on the right and drilled in. Qin Lang didn't think much about it. Almost at the same time as her, she lifted the curtain embroidered on the left and went in.
The lantern was still in the future and illuminated, and it suddenly went out. The bedroom was pitch black. The White Jade Palace exclaimed: "Qin Lang, are you here?"
Qin Lang didn't say anything, Bai Yugong stretched out his hand and grabbed Qin Lang's cold big hand in the dark. Although there was no warmth, he thought that he was by his side and felt a little calmer and whispered: "Why did this lantern suddenly go out?"
call out!
The sound of arrows breaking through the air came from the darkness. Bai Yu Palace was a little strange. Looking in the sound, a fire suddenly lit up in front of him, but a rocket was shooting on the haystack, which started to burn.
Chapter completed!