The moon was bright and the stars were sparse, and a white mist enveloped Qingyun Temple. It seemed that it was disturbed by the mist, and the noisy cicadas that originally screamed at midnight also disappeared immediately.
Not only that, even Old Man Bu's snoring gradually disappeared.
Probably because he was too tired during the day, or because the strange fragrance on Lin Yu's body had other effects, Lan Yunyi fell into a deep sleep.
The sleepy little insect stood on the treetop, opening its two compound eyes.
Xiao Chong seemed to see a vigorous figure hidden in the white mist. With a sharp flash of sword light, the window of the wing opened with a creak.
When the hidden guard who was originally hiding in the night heard this voice, his numb nerves suddenly became sharper.
He turned into Qingyun Temple and took a closer look at the window of Lan Yunyi's wing, only to find that the window was closed from the inside.
He listened cautiously and did not hear any unusual movement in the side room.
The princess lives inside, and he is a man, so it is difficult to enter. Besides, if anything happens, Zhu Qing will definitely react.
"Why do I feel a little dizzy? It's probably because I caught a cold."
So he covered his sore forehead, murmured a few times, then shook his somewhat sluggish head and returned to his original position.
The man in black, who was hiding in Lan Yunyi's wing, listened to the footsteps gradually disappearing, and then turned to look in Lan Yunyi's direction.
Under the black mask, only a pair of cold eyes were exposed. Although they had single eyelids, and the tear mole at the end of the eye, they were extremely beautiful.
From the eyes, this man looked very young, but the scary thing was that there was no warmth in his eyes.
He is not tall and relatively thin, but his posture is very agile, like a wild wolf.
He walked towards Lan Yunyi's bed step by step without making a sound.
He looked like he knew the person on the bed, but when he approached Lan Yunyi, he didn't hesitate at all and covered Lan Yunyi's mouth with the handkerchief.
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Lan Yunyi woke up when a basin of cold water was poured on her. When the cold water touched her skin, it was like a layer of ice would form on her skin.
Being drenched by cold water from head to toe, Lan Yunyi's brain buzzed, and she coughed several times, then raised her head in a daze.
As soon as she opened her eyes, she was almost burned by the dazzling light in front of her. There were lights in front of her, as if countless candles were burning. The flames flickered, illuminating the entire room.
There are many long wooden signs erected next to the candlelight. The wooden signs are densely written with words, which look as bright as blood. There are also many portraits hanging above the wooden signs, which look eerie under the light of the candlelight.
of.
This is the ancestral hall of Lan Mansion.
Crazy, Lan Qianjing is really crazy.
He actually captured her at night and brought her to the ancestral hall. He must have planned to execute her privately without anyone knowing.
This is what Lan Qianjing would do. He looks well-dressed on the surface, but in fact he is a well-dressed beast!
Lan Yunyi's scalp was numb, and the bad memories of the past in the ancestral hall were overwhelming, making her whole body tremble uncontrollably.
She moved hard, only to find that her hands were clamped behind her back and her whole body was tied up. Lan Yunyi's little face became paler.
"Lan Yunyi, do you still remember the last time my brother saw you? You looked fearless that day. Why is your face so pale now?"
Lan Yunyi suddenly raised her head and saw Lan Qianjing walking slowly to her side with his hands behind his back.
There was still a faint smile on his lips, and a shorter man followed closely behind him. Lan Yunyi recognized him at a glance.
"Xiuhe..." Lan Yunyi called out in a low voice.
Lan Xiuhe was still holding the wooden bucket for splashing water, but he didn't give Lan Yunyi any look.
Lan Xiuhe is about the same age as her, only a few hours older than her. He has been withdrawn since he was a child and doesn't like to talk. When Lan Yunyi was a child, she discovered that he liked to torture and kill animals.
He doesn't look like a normal person at all. Instead, he looks like a sharp knife without emotion and heart.
Lan Yunyi saw this scene when she was a child. She was shocked and scared, but she did not dare to tell her brother about it.
No matter which brother it was, if Lan Xiuhe knew about this, he would be beaten to death. She was afraid that Lan Xiuhe would have a rebellious mentality... and kill people.
She endured the fear in her heart. In addition to taking care of other people, she had to rack her brains every day to make up an endless story for Lan Xiuhe. She also made a three-part agreement with him - if he wanted to continue listening, he could not torture or kill animals.
He did not resist Lan Yunyi staying by his side and telling stories, but he would not talk to her. He would sit quietly next to Lan Yunyi and kill the small animals with no expression on his face.
But Xiao Yunyi was trembling all over, stumbling when speaking, and told him stories.
I don’t know how many stories I told before Lan Xiuhe said his first words to Lan Yunyi: "Why do you cry every day? You cry so much that I can’t hear the story clearly."
Xiao Yunyi became even more frightened when she heard that. Her teeth that were not all long were chattering up and down, and her voice was still laced: "If - if you still torture and kill small animals tomorrow, I will tell my elder brother about it."
, I will never tell you stories again."
The next day, Lan Xiuhe came to sit on the threshold early and waited for Lan Yunyi to finish telling the whole story. Lan Xiuhe did not torture or kill animals.
Suddenly a bird flew next to the two of them. Xiao Yunyi was so frightened that her whole body froze, but Lan Xiuhe made no next move and turned his head stiffly to Lan Yunyi.
"You'll come again tomorrow, right?"
His tone was still cold, but Xiao Yunyi smiled, revealing her little baby teeth.
But the next day, Lan Xiu and his little figure sat alone on the threshold and waited all day, but still didn't hear Lan Yunyi's story.
On the third day, Lan Xiuhe caught a rabbit, put the dagger against the rabbit's artery, and sat on the threshold for another whole day, but he never waited for Lan Yunyi.
Lan Yunyi was pushed into the water by Lan Yuanzhou and was unconscious for two full days. When she woke up, her whole body developed a high fever.
Xiao Yunyi endured the discomfort and ran to the threshold all red. All she saw was the body of a little rabbit.
Next to the little rabbit's body, Lan Qianjing and Lan Xiuhe stood. Lan Qianjing looked at the little rabbit's blood-stained body, touched Lan Xiuhe's head, and gave him a happy smile.
Five-year-old Lan Yunyi really couldn't understand that smile.
From then on, five-year-old Lan Xiuhe was taken to Lan Qianjing's side. Seven-year-old Lan Xiuhe killed the first person and never spoke again.
It wasn't until Lan Yunyi was ten years old that Lan Bojian calculated her ominous horoscope, which would endanger Qi Guo.
Lan Qianjing captured her into the ancestral hall that night, intending to sink her directly into the pond.
At that time, the candlelight was swaying like this, and the portraits of the Lan family's ancestors were hung high above the ancestral hall. To Xiao Yunyi, they looked like green-faced and fanged monsters.
Lan Qianjing ordered people to tie countless stones to Lan Yunyi's body. No matter how Lan Yunyi screamed, begged for mercy, or even broke her throat, Lan Qianjing did not hesitate.
At the moment Lan Yunyi was carried out of the ancestral hall, Lan Xiuhe, who had just killed someone, walked into the ancestral hall wearing clothes still dripping with blood and spoke a word.
"Brother, let her go."
This was the last thing Lan Xiuhe said in this life, but it was a pity that Lan Yunyi didn't hear it.
On the second day after saying these words, Lan Xiuhe was sent to the temple.