The cool evening breeze squeezed in through the not-so-tight window cracks.
The night is quiet. In a place like Chifengling, the quieter it is, the more uncomfortable it is. And this kind of quietness makes people feel scary.
Yuchi Pingting didn't care about this. What made her upset was that she had to sleep with this man again tonight. Looking at Nangong Feiran's face full of sly smiles, Yuchi Pingting felt like she was being played by someone. When had she been alone?
I have never felt so uncomfortable in front of him. This man is simply a monster!
Nangong Feiran just sat at the table, drinking tea and not talking, but a strange light kept flashing in his eyes. He didn't know why, but when he saw the way Changsun Wuque and Liu Qingfeng looked at Yuchi Pingting today, he couldn't help but
Angry, but he also knew
, In any case, Yuchi Pingting is his wife and his upright princess. Maybe his actions just now were a bit reckless, but he can think of the expressions of those men who have evil intentions towards Yuchi Pingting without looking at her.
He couldn't help but feel happy about this.
He himself didn't know why. Regarding Changsun Wuque, he knew that Yuchi Pingting ignored him at all, but he was annoyed. As for Yi Xiaoyao, he knew about their relationship, but he didn't think that there could be pure love between men and women.
Friendship, even if Yuchi Pingting has no interest in Yi Xiaoyao, she will not see her
Yi Xiaoyao was ruthless towards Yuchi Pingting, so when he thought about the close relationship between Yuchi Pingting and Yi Xiaoyao, he was also annoyed. As for Liu Qingfeng, it was even more inexplicable. He was also very surprised. He had always been conceited and open-minded.
How could such a broad-minded person expect that he would be like this when it comes to emotional issues...
Yuchi Pingting walked to the window and looked out against the window bars. It was pitch black and nothing could be seen clearly. Only the outline of the distant mountain peaks stood in the not-so-bright moonlight.
Standing at Yuchi Pingting's place, you could see the backyard of the shop, where all their carriages were parked. Behind them was the stables, where the strong young man in the shop was feeding the horses.
"What are you looking at, madam?" Nangong Feiran had already stood up and stepped forward as he spoke, standing behind Yuchi Pingting, his voice loud and magnetic.
Yuchi Pingting smelled a faint smell of alcohol, and Nangong Feiran seemed to have had a few too many drinks during the meal just now.
"It's nothing, I just think this place is a little strange. It's too quiet." Yuchi Pingting said. Yes, in her opinion, this Chifengling is really quiet. It is different from ordinary mountains. This kind of place is very quiet.
Being quiet makes people suspicious.
Nangong Feiran smiled and said: "Madam, please go to rest early. I will keep vigil." His eyes fell on Yuchi Pingting's face. Her rosy face looked even more shy under the dim moonlight. Nangong Feiran couldn't help but stretch out his hands to hold the hand.
Yuchi Pingting fell into his arms. Suddenly, a scent of orchid fragrance spread into his nose.
Yuchi Pingting didn't struggle. She didn't want to make too much noise. She guessed that someone was always listening to them with their ears pricked up.
Under the quiet moonlight, a man and a woman stood in front of the window, leaning on the railing and looking into the distance. The man was resolute and handsome, wearing a wild red mink fur, with his hair flying gently;
In the background, there is a hibiscus blooming from the water. The two of them stand leaning on the railing, which is like a picture of a talented man and a beautiful woman.
"Vigil? Do you think it's unsafe here?" Yuchi Pingting asked softly. Could it be that Nangong Feiran and him were thinking of being together?
"Madam said it's so quiet here that it makes people mad. There must be something wrong, so I'll keep vigil for Madam." Nangong Feiran said frivolously.
Yuchi Pingting rolled her eyes. Fortunately, Nangong Feiran couldn't see her expression. Why did he change his gender? If he was asked to stay overnight, she might not dare to sleep.
But Yuchi Pingting gradually felt a little dizzy and her body was a little tired. Maybe it was because she was tired from traveling for days, Yuchi Pingting thought. So Yuchi Pingting pushed Nangong Feiran away and walked towards the bed. But the more she thought about it, the more she felt
No, even if I am tired, I have never been like this. I feel bad at the moment. I am afraid that this store is a shady store, and I am afraid that I have fallen into the trap unknowingly.
Nangong Feiran also held the window lattice with one hand, and seemed to have noticed something was wrong, but when he thought about entering this safe inn today, the food they ate, the tea and wine they drank were all eaten by the accompanying guards and the queen.
Several old doctors at the hospital have checked it out, and there should be nothing wrong with it.
Nangong Feiran thought at first that it was Yuchi Pingting's little trick to prevent him. In fact, he was sleeping with Yuchi Pingting tonight just to show off to others. He didn't want to do anything tonight, but when he saw Yuchi Pingting and him
Same, he immediately understood that someone had plotted against him, so he looked out the window and saw a black shadow flying towards the rooms of the sixth and eighth princes. Then Nangong Feiran discovered that the shop assistant who was feeding the horses just now was now
Driving their carriage out.
Nangong Feiran felt that his legs were getting weaker and weaker, but he still held on to the wall and secretly raised his spirits and walked towards the door.
The door was suddenly pushed open, and a woman in an apricot-yellow dress broke in.
It was Feng Qingyu, followed by Mo Mo.
"Boss, are you okay?" Feng Qingyu stepped in front of Yuchi Pingting, revealed a square purple jade bottle from his arms, pulled out the stopper, and circled it in front of Yuchi Pingting's nose.
There was a pungent smell, but my mind immediately became much clearer.
"It's Huan Shen Powder, boss, prince, don't use power, don't use zhenqi." Feng Qingyu said.
This Huanshen Powder is a mind-boggling intoxicating drug, colorless and odorless, but the person who inhales it will gradually enter a coma, and the more advanced the skill, the easier it is to get addicted to it, especially when the true energy is used, the toxicity will occur
faster.
Nangong Feiran stopped practicing his skills after hearing this, but he suddenly got hooked before he could think of the reason. He and Yuchi Pingting were not people with special skills, so it was incredible that they got drugged so easily.
Feng Qingyu saw that Yuchi Pingting had improved, so she stepped forward and handed the jade bottle to Nangong Feiran, then walked to the table and blew out the candles on the table in one breath.
"There is no problem with the food. The problem lies in the candlelight in this room." Feng Qingyu said.
She was in the room with the two girls just now. She saw that the two girls seemed to be very afraid of the legend of Chifengling. Even if Xiuxiu was more courageous, she was not as talkative as she was during the day.
Feng Qingyu comforted them a few words, and then Mo Mo ran in shouting.
Feng Qingyu was about to coax Mo Mo to sleep when she suddenly felt that her whole body was lacking and weak. Fortunately, she was proficient in these things and immediately understood what was going on. She quickly took out the jade bottle she carried with her and untied herself, the two girls and Mo Mo.
Then she checked all the suspicious objects in the room, and finally found some white powder on the candlestick. She concluded that it was Huanshen Powder, and she immediately knew that they were in a dark shop.
Feng Qingyu immediately turned off the lights and told Xiao Tao and Xiu Xiu a few words, asking them to stay quietly in the house and not run around. Then she hurriedly took Mo Mo into Yuchi Pingting and Nangong Feiran's room.
He didn't even bother to knock on the door.
Nangong Feiran felt better and said to the two of them: "Go downstairs and take a look. I want to drive away our carriage." As he said that, he ran towards the rooms of the sixth and eighth princes.
Yuchi Pingting asked Feng Qingyu to save the others, while she hugged Mo Mo and ran downstairs.
Yuchi Pingting came downstairs. The first floor was pitch dark, there wasn't even a candle. Yuchi Pingting felt a cold wind blowing in her ears.
Through the dim moonlight, Yuchi Pingting seemed to see many dead bodies lying on the first floor. There were corpses piled messily on the ground and on the table. She seemed to be able to smell the smell of blood, but she was just in a daze, and she couldn't look at them again.
It’s not true. In this situation, anyone would feel paralyzed. Yuchi Pingting didn’t care about this and ran towards the backyard. If the carriage was really driven away, I’m afraid they would really be trapped here.
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However, what came into view in the backyard was a blank space. There were no carriages anywhere. More than a dozen carriages seemed to have evaporated out of thin air. Yuchi Pingting crossed the backyard and saw that a few horses in the stables were still there, but they were crazy.
He screamed non-stop and pulled the reins vigorously, as if he had seen something terrible. There was infinite desolation in the mournful neighing.
Suddenly, Mo Mo screamed in Yuchi Pingting's arms. Yuchi Pingting patted Mo Mo's back with one hand and said softly: "Mo Mo is good, what's wrong?"
Mo Mo's baby-fat little face was filled with fear, and he pointed to the place behind Yuchi Pingting and said, "There was a ghost floating over from somewhere just now."
Yuchi Pingting turned around and saw nothing but a few old cypress trees. There was just a gust of wind blowing in front of her and a chill.
"Baby Mo Mo, be good, there are no ghosts, mother is here, Mo Mo is not afraid." Yuchi Pingting kept coaxing Mo Mo.
"It's a ghost. It's just like what they said just now. It has no legs and its tongue is sticking out of its chest. It was there just now and disappeared in the blink of an eye." Mo Mo said with frightened eyes.
Yuchi Pingting knew that her son would not lie, but she was determined not to believe what ghosts and gods told her. She just felt that things here were a bit strange. Just as she was thinking about it, a figure came flying towards her, and it was none other than Yi Xiaoyao.
Seeing the solemn look on Yi Xiaoyao's face, Yuchi Pingting had a bad feeling.
"Boss, come here and take a look." Yi Xiaoyao said, leading Yuchi Pingting to the front of Ping'an Inn, pointing to the inn's sign for Yuchi Pingting to see.
Through the pale moonlight, Yuchi Pingting could see clearly that the signboard on the store door was in a dilapidated state, but it was covered with blood stains. The words Ping'an Inn in black letters on a white background looked particularly ferocious and terrifying at this time.
And this small inn in the desolate ridge is sitting here alone, lifeless, like a huge tomb.
This scene is so terrifying that one can't help but break into a cold sweat, especially the gusts of wind, mixed with strange sounds, which sound like the struggle of a dying person, ###...
"Where is Qingyu?" Yuchi Pingting asked calmly, while holding Mo Mo closer. She could clearly feel the little guy trembling in her arms.
"She is still continuing to detoxify others. Let me come down and take care of you first." Yi Xiaoyao said, looking up and seeing more and more rooms with lights turned off, and this lonely inn became increasingly dark and gloomy.
"I'm going to find a torch." Yi Xiaoyao said and ran away.
Yuchi Pingting just stood there, not moving. She was still thinking about this matter over and over again. She recalled the situation since they arrived at Chifengling over and over again, but they were all small and normal things. It seemed that nothing happened.
Something is wrong.
After a while, Yi Xiaoyao came over with a torch. The two walked into the inn together. Someone was hurriedly walking down the stairs, occasionally mixed with the screams of several maids.
Yi Xiaoyao lit several torches and placed them at the stairs and other places. Only then did Yuchi Pingting see the scene on the first floor clearly. The tables and chairs were in a mess, as if they had just been swept away.
There were no corpses everywhere as she had vaguely seen before, but bloodstains were everywhere. Even the walls were covered with bloodstains. The bloodstains were like pairs of withered hands, as if they were reaching out from the wall to strangle them.
Hold their necks.
People who had just come down kept screaming when they saw this scene.
Yuchi Pingting felt a pair of strong hands wrap around her waist, and a heavy feeling of reassurance suddenly came over her.
"Is something going on upstairs?" Yuchi Pingting asked in a low voice, looking up at the man who made him feel safe.
"No." Nangong Feiran's expression was solemn. I clearly saw a figure leaping from the window into the rooms of the eighth and sixth princes. However, I rushed in and except for the two princes who had fainted due to Huanshen Powder, there was no one there.
There's nothing wrong with it either.
"Others are in the dark, but we are in the light, so be careful." Yuchi Pingting warned.
At this time, the three princes also hurried down. Feng Qingyu walked to Yuchi Pingting and said: "Everyone is awake."
Yuchi Pingting nodded and said nothing.
However, Princess Zixuan first rushed to the Eleventh Prince with tears in her eyes, saying that she had seen something horrific and asked the Eleventh Prince to take her away from here as soon as possible.
"I'm afraid I can't leave." Yuchi Pingting said calmly.
Everyone looked at Yuchi Pingting.
"What do you mean?" the eleventh prince asked. He had always hated Yuchi Pingting, especially when he heard her lazy and seemingly arrogant tone.
"All the carriages are gone." Yuchi Pingting said firmly.
The sound of everyone gasping for air could be clearly heard at this moment, and a few timid girls even started to sob softly.
"This... what should we do?" Zuo Cheng, the chamberlain, suddenly felt that something was wrong and hurried to the backyard. He saw that there was no carriage in the yard, and there were only a few frightened horses in the stables that were still neighing.
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"Zuo Cheng, didn't you say there is nothing wrong with this store?" The Eleventh Prince glared at Zuo Cheng.
Zuo Cheng knew that he was in trouble, especially since the current situation was so bizarre, but he was trembling and didn't know how to answer.
"Eleventh brother, now that the matter has come to this, don't blame Lord Zuo." The sixth prince said: "Butler Zuo, please count the number of people and see if everyone is there. Others, don't panic, Nanzi, go to the stable to see
Watch the other horses, don't let the few remaining horses suffer any accidents." The sixth prince ordered.
A young man took the order and ran quickly towards the stable.
"Where are the three people who came to the store before us?" Yuchi Pingting asked Feng Qingyu in a low voice.
"There are still two left. One strong man is missing. Only the bearded man and the unknown man are left." Feng Qingyu said and pointed towards the depth of the store.
Yuchi Pingting followed the direction pointed by Feng Qingyu and saw the two people standing where they had been sitting when they came in. The bearded man seemed very anxious, but did not speak. He just looked at the Sixth Prince who was dispatching.
Occasionally he glanced around, but the companion who was with him before was missing.
The man, who was not sure whether he was a man or a woman, stood quietly in the corner with his arms folded. The shadow on the ground was very long, and he was as motionless as a sculpture.
Yuchi Pingting and Nangong Feiran looked at each other, unable to guess their identities.
"Is the male and female couple here?" Yuchi Pingting asked Yi Xiaoyao in a low voice.
Yi Xiaoyao shrugged helplessly and said: "I asked the couple to go out to pick us up from the detention center. I didn't expect that something would happen before they got out of the detention center." Yi Xiaoyao was really helpless. With such a large group of people, something would definitely happen if something happened.
It will be very troublesome.
The Sixth Prince made a brief arrangement, asking everyone to go back to their rooms to rest, leaving eight casual guards to keep watch until dawn and then think of a solution.
The originally gloomy inn was especially creepy at this time, but he was trapped here and couldn't leave, so he could only obey the instructions of the sixth prince.
At this time, Zuo Cheng also finished counting the number of people and said that there were not many people. Since there was no problem with the people, it was a blessing in misfortune.
Liu Qingfeng had been observing the two people, and when he saw that they were just standing there quietly, he walked over and said politely to the two people: "I don't know what to call you two? Liu Qingfeng, just follow my family.
One of the bodyguards on the Young Master's trip, something happened today, I hope we can work together to find out the truth."
The bearded old man seemed to be impatient, and he said irritably: "What's the truth? This is an injustice asking for one's life. Do you know that an injustice is asking for one's life? We are all screwed. I'm afraid my brother has already perished."
But the man wearing the bamboo hat said in a strange tone: "Humph, an innocent soul is asking for his life? Or an innocent soul is asking for his horse..." This man's horse has disappeared.
The bearded man stared at the man wearing a bamboo hat and said: "Don't believe it, it must be an innocent soul seeking his life. My brother was possessed by an evil spirit here years ago. He went to see Mr. Yin Yang and said he wanted to burn it here."
The man with the money and the paper, I am accompanying him this time to strengthen his courage, but it seems like...he has probably already..." Brother Nan, the bearded old man, had panic written all over his face.
Liu Qingfeng felt that nothing could be said if he continued talking to these two people, so he told his subordinates to keep an eye on the few remaining horses and not to let them take them away.
When everyone was about to go upstairs to their rooms, a scream suddenly came from the kitchen, causing everyone to look towards the kitchen. The three princes, Liu Qingfeng, the eldest grandson Wuque, and Nangong Feiran and his wife hurriedly ran towards the kitchen.
I saw that the small kitchen was filled with the smell of incense and candles.
A bright butcher's knife on the chopping board still had blood stains on it, and the ground was a mess.
There was an open space protruding from the south-facing wall, with two tablets standing on it, and Zuo Cheng was standing in front of the tablets, trembling uncontrollably.
Yuchi Pingting squeezed in front of the tablet, and saw two tablets with white words on a black background saying "Ji Gong Guangming's position" and "Cai Gong Songwei's position". There were three sticks of incense inserted in the incense burner in front of the tablet, like
It was inserted not long ago.
Yuchi Pingting then remembered that during the meal, when the Eighth Prince was talking to the shop owner, he seemed to have heard Boss Ji say that his name was Ji Guangming, and when the waiter led them upstairs, he also said that they could just call him Xiao Cai.
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The men who saw this scene couldn't help but look at each other. Could it be that they were not only living in a black shop, but also a ghost shop?
A strong gust of wind blew by, and the torches that Yi Xiaoyao had lit were immediately extinguished. The entire inn was plunged into darkness again, and several timid maids screamed involuntarily.
Almost everyone was trembling slightly. No one was unmoved by this scene. All this was too weird and eerie, but what they didn't expect was that something even weirder was yet to come.
The Eighth Prince ordered someone to relight the torch. Just when the torch was lit, Qiaoer, a maid next to Princess Zixuan, naturally looked at the table in front of her, but when she saw the table clearly
Then he screamed uncontrollably.
On the table in front of Qiaoer and Princess Zixuan, there was a human head placed neatly. After Princess Zixuan was disturbed by Qiaoer's cry, she also saw the person in front of her and was so shocked that she couldn't say a word.
When he said this, he didn't even scream, he just stood there as if he was stupid. Upon seeing this, the eleventh prince quickly pulled his sister into his arms.
Everyone was still wondering who this head was, when they saw the old man with a beard looking in disbelief. He rushed to the table and stared blankly at the dead head, unable to open his mouth in surprise.
This person turned out to be the brother Ren it mentioned earlier who was with the bearded old man.
Yuchi Pingting instinctively glanced at the man wearing the bamboo hat. Although he couldn't see the man's expression, his violent chest heaving showed that the man was also very surprised by the death of Brother Ren.
"How about we all sit here together and wait until dawn." An old doctor said tremblingly.
Someone immediately agreed. At this time, no one wanted to separate. They just wanted to gather together and look forward to the sun rising soon tomorrow.