Those people were leaving, and the body of their companion was taken away by them, but the woman before them was missing.
Xia Zhaoyi looked away and looked up at the old man: "Fortunately, Master arrived in time."
The old man looked at her. The girl's complexion was too pale, the corners of her lips had lost all color. Her eyebrows, eyes, mouth and nose were all those of a stranger.
The old man used a hammer to create an open space on the ground, turned around and sat against the pillar, saying: "Sit."
Xia Zhaoyi raised his eyebrows, lowered his head, pushed aside the bones, and sat down next to the old man.
The two masters and apprentices, one tall and one short, sat side by side. The light came from a lost torch that fell on the ground in the distance.
The cold wind carried the cold wave, shaking the cold light of the torch, and the old man said: "I smashed a pillar in an alchemy stone room to the north of Qianqiu Hall, and inside there was a roughly embalmed body of a girl."
"The girl's body needs to be embalmed?" Xia Zhaoyi looked at the darkness ahead and said in a low voice, "...could it be that this girl's face is very similar to mine?"
The old man turned his head and looked at his disciple: "How do you know."
"It seems to be true," Xia Zhaoyi said, "I just guessed casually, the woman who was the leader of this group was shocked when she saw my face, as if she had seen a ghost, and she treated me with the same attitude
They are two completely different people. Master smashed so many pillars, but he only took this girl out and told me when he met me, it was obviously unusual."
As well as the chill that had been lingering around her, she had often wondered where the chill came from. Just when the woman kept trying to call her out, she suddenly thought that maybe the chill had nothing to do with her Xia Zhaoyi, but this Ah Li.
As he said that, Xia Zhaoyi raised his eyes and looked at the old man: "Master deliberately threw away his junior brother, does he want to find me first and communicate with me so that he can deal with his junior brother and my second brother?"
The old man's face was expressionless, and after a while, he nodded: "It's very easy to talk to you."
Xia Zhaoyi smiled slightly: "Master, to be honest, it's been a long time since I saw you smile."
"Stiff." The old man said.
"What?"
"Face."
"Pfft," Xia Zhaoyi said with a smile, "Nonsense, how is it possible?"
The old man stopped talking about this and changed the subject, saying, "How did you wake up half a year ago?"
"The one who was beaten awake," Xia Zhaoyi said, "was beaten because he was confused."
"Ah Li," the old man read out the word slowly and said, "Do you think this Ah Li and the girl in the pillar are twin sisters?"
"I've never seen it before, so I don't know how similar it is, but judging from Master's words, it should be very similar?"
"It's better not to see her. The girl has a ferocious face and a strange expression. Both your second brother and Zhili were very frightened."
"Did you scare even my second brother?" Xia Zhaoyi was surprised.
"It's no surprise that he was frightened by the shock at first glance."
Xia Zhaoyi nodded, sighed and said: "Fortunately, Master informed me in advance, otherwise I would still be in the dark in front of my second brother."
"Do you know Ah Li's last name?" the old man asked.
"I don't know, everyone calls me Ah Li. If Ah Li and the girl are really twin sisters, then the pillars of Qianqiu Palace are all members of the Qiao family. Maybe Ah Li's surname is Qiao. Come to think of it," Xia Zhaoyi frowned, if
He thought thoughtfully, "I learned about two things about Ah Li. First, she went to the gang not long ago, because when I woke up, I didn't know the name of the girl who came to deliver medicine, and she didn't know she was there.
Weird, I didn't doubt it. Secondly, before Lin Youqing's death, Ah Li had a close relationship with Lin Youqing, which is why she offended Liu Sanniang."
Thinking of Lin Youqing, Xia Zhaoyi paused and said: "Lin Youqing followed her master to the North and took my ashes out of the North. She wanted to exchange my ashes with my second brother, secretly I ran away, but unexpectedly fell into the hands of gangsters, and my ashes went to Chongyi together. I don’t know if it has something to do with me waking up in Ah Li’s body, but the fire..."
Xia Zhaoyi looked at the old man: "Master, is this the mountain you set fire to in Beiyuan?"
"?" the old man said, "Why should I burn the mountain?"
"Everyone in the world has said that the master couldn't bear the corpse of his beloved disciple being insulted by others, so he burned the mountain in anger."
"First," the old man said, "if this is the case, I will only burn one coffin. There are so many creatures on the mountain, so how innocent it is. Second, when I get there, the mountain will be covered with withered ashes. It is not my fault."
Xia Zhaoyi looked at the old man and smiled again.
She naturally knew that it was not Master who did it, but she preferred to see Master's serious explanation.
Master is still Master and will never change.
Feeling much better, Xia Zhaoyi turned around and looked around, listening to the distant wind, and said: "That woman was afraid of my face, so she was an insider of the death of the girl in the pillar. When she came, I was on top and killed myself to protect myself. One person, and then several more men came. The leader was called the master by them. He was young and could not be older than thirty-five. But his dead soldiers would rather die by taking poison. The extra ones must not be asked, so they can only Capture the king directly."
"What can be discovered about the lifting of this pool?" the old man asked.
"The end is blocked," Xia Zhaoyi looked back at the stone steps going down. "It's damp and dark down there. It's full of torture instruments. There are all kinds of tortured bones along the way. At the end is a big stone door."
The old man raised the sledgehammer in his hand.
Xia Zhaoyi shook his head: "The place is narrow and the hammer cannot be extended, so it may not be able to function."
The old man lowered his hand.
"There should be a road to the north," Xia Zhaoyi continued, "We still need to look for it, but I think the mechanism should be at the bottom of the pond."
"Where's Shen Lie?" the old man said.
"Shen Lie?" Xia Zhaoyi raised his eyebrows, "He's not on the shore?"
"I said I was looking for you, but it seems I didn't find you." The old man stood up, looked to the north, and said, "You are still sick now and you should rest. I will go look for you. I will ask Zhili to accompany you back later."
The light was almost dim. The old man went over, picked up the torch on the ground, and stood behind a pillar. The almost exhausted torch was bright again.
Xia Zhaoyi followed him, raising her eyes to look at the firelight, and suddenly felt that time was mottled, the heaven and earth, mountains and rivers were ups and downs, and after thousands of miles of twists and turns, they were back to the starting point.
At that time, she was also a little girl, following her master. Later, she gradually grew taller. She was not as tall and straight as the master's second brother, but she was slender enough and was as tall as an average adult man.
Now, Yixi has become the little bean sprout looking up.
"Master," Xia Zhaoyi said, "tell me how I became A Li."
"have no idea."
"Am I a human or a ghost?" Xia Zhaoyi asked again.
The old man looked down at her and said, "Is it important?"
"It seems a bit important?"
"Are you confused by this?"
"That...not really. I get curious occasionally."
"That's not important," the old man said, and walked forward, trying to avoid the bones on the ground. "You exist independently and have self-awareness. You can be free and easy. You are you. If you are willing, you should I am a god myself.”
