Rebirth of Beigu Sirius

"Ok?"

Hearing the sound, Situ Lin hurriedly went to look around, but only saw the deep forest outside the window, and the silence seemed to be different: "There is nothing."

"Could it be my eyesight?"

When he fixed his eyes again, there was nothing there, Yun Zhuo rubbed his eyes, frowned in disbelief and said: "But I just saw a touch of water red."

This color is unusual, once it is mentioned, it is difficult not to remind people of the mysterious veil that is involved in the mysterious case of returning home, let alone at this critical moment.Situ Lin immediately put on his clothes and got out of bed to look. After walking around the window, his expression became more serious. He stretched out his hand and gestured under the window for a while, then turned to Yun Zhuo and said, "Sure enough, there is someone."

"What, is there really someone?!"

This time, Yun Zhuo also woke up from the lingering aftertaste just now, kicking his shoes and "chugging" forward, and saw a few deep footprints on the mud outside the wide open window, exquisite and unique, like a woman's embroidered shoes However, each one of them is stepped on very deeply, which is not like what a slender girl can step on.

"what happened?"

The more he looked at it, the more he felt conflicted, he shook his head and clicked his tongue: "The footprints of the embroidered shoes are so small, it should be left by a girl. But looking at the depth, she is more afraid than you and me combined. Hey, it could be that Ning Yan has a plump body fat beauty?"

"If it's really heavier than you and me combined, I'm afraid it's not just about being plump."

Situ Lin shook his head and disagreed, paused for a moment but then remembered something, his eyes rolled up and down slightly, and a smile gradually appeared on the corners of his lips.

At this moment, the situation was clearly unclear or not good, Yun Zhuo looked at the man's uncontrollable smile, and patted him inexplicably: "Hey, what are you laughing at?"

Situ Lin still couldn't help laughing: "I was thinking, the third young master is really amazing, it seems that every time he completes the Zhou Gong ceremony with me, he will attract some big events."

"what?"

Yun Zhuo scratched his head, "You mean the discovery of poisonous incense in Xianyou Zhai last time?"

Situ Lin didn't nod or shake his head, he just took out his fan to hide the smile on his face: "No, after so many years of searching for clues that I have no clue about, it always appears inexplicably after you and I go to bed, which makes me a little suspicious , Is Yunyu with you more effective than my own painstaking investigation?"

"What a mess, shut up!"

Seeing him talking nonsense again, Yun Zhuo's eyelids twitched, and he quickly reached out to cover the "source of all evil": "The poisonous fragrance is clearly the result of your secret plan to lure the enemy first, and now Ning Yan's appearance is nothing but a Because the matter of Tao Qingyan has been brought to light! It’s all just your wild imagination.”

"Yes Yes Yes."

The smile on the corners of Situ Lin's lips remained undiminished, he shook his fan and stopped making a sound.

Although this person is calm on the surface, his inner thoughts are determined and the more he thinks about it, the more he thinks about it. Yun Zhuo knows that it is bad but he doesn't bother to answer it. He said straightforwardly and seriously: "The current situation is so urgent, it is better to talk about business than nonsense! Look at this girl. What's the point of being unable to come in just now when they're all here? Could it be because they were separated by a spiritual barrier?"

Situ Lin nodded in agreement: "There is no other explanation."

"Hiss, this is really troublesome..."

Yun Zhuo rubbed his brows: "Then we and her, one can't get in and the other can't get out, and it has something to do with returning to Litan back then, what should we do?"

Situ Lin thought: "Don't worry, since she came to look for us, she must have a purpose. Now that you and I have just been placed under house arrest, those ghost generals must be watching closely. Some progress."

"Let your guard down a little bit, have you made any progress?"

Yun Zhuo suddenly realized: "You mean, we can only wait now."

Situ Lin nodded: "Let's wait and see."

He said he would wait, but in the end, there was no news again, and it was several days later when there was another strange thing.

At that time, it was warm and sunny outside the window, which was a rare good weather in early winter.In the afternoon, the ghost general guarding the door drowsily dozed off, and Yun Zhuoben and Situ Lin were also huddling together to take a nap while taking advantage of half a day of floating life.Unexpectedly, when the drowsiness was rising and I was half asleep, I suddenly heard the sound of bamboo and wood breaking. When I woke up in a hurry, I opened my eyes and took a look. I saw that the window shaft of the window where the footprints were found that day had been broken in two, and it fell down. At this moment, a person's head protruded from the window frame. His long black hair was tied into two buns and hung beside his ears. The collar embroidered with wild goose patterns was water red.

... Ning, Ning Yan? !

The color of the attire made him feel dizzy and drowsy, so he hurriedly slapped Situ Lin who was playing chess with Duke Zhou, and dragged him to the window: "Brother Lin, we have been waiting for a long time, and it seems that someone has arrived !"

"Ok?"

Forcibly awakened from sleep, Situ Lin was a little dissatisfied, rubbed his eyes and looked out the window as he wanted, and saw a woman timidly bowing her head and half kneeling in front of her, silent, unmoving, like a stagnant statue.

The water-red clothes were too conspicuous in the green forest, and now he was also awakened by the shock. He squeezed his fingers to use his spiritual breath to test it out, and found that the barrier at the window had leaked in several places.After hesitating for a moment to look around, he slowly stretched out his hand to support the woman's shoulder: "Girl, why are you looking for us?"

The woman trembled slightly when she heard the words, and slowly raised her head to look into the inner room. The sunlight outside the window immediately reflected on her face, but the gradually clear complexion caused both of them to gasp.

——It turns out that the girl has good skin and is not of a mature stature. Although she has the appearance of a teenage girl, her eyes are pitch-black without pupils, and she has no look of a living person. She hasn't turned an inch, it seems to be made of colored glaze; under the moist vermilion mouth, there are still two deep marks, which make the sound of metal and wood rubbing with her every move, which is very horrifying.

This is, a puppet? !

Suddenly realizing that it might not be human beings who have troubled them for a long time recently, Yun Zhuo hastily stretched out his hand to grab the woman's wrist and pulled away the scarlet gauze sleeve.As expected, it can be seen that the joints of his "slender hands" are all made of mechanical joints, and the creamy snow-white skin is soft and smooth, but cold to the bone, as if a layer of human skin is covered on iron wood.

When he was reading "Organ Essence" back then, he vaguely remembered that there was indeed a method of turning human corpses into puppets, but at that time he thought it was disrespectful to the dead, so he didn't study it carefully.Now that I think about it, the only person who knows how to use tricks in the world now is the Palace Master Tao who has been silent since the conspiracy was revealed. Yun Zhuo was shocked and connected the cause and effect in a series, and the previous suspicions and speculations were confirmed one by one.

"Because wooden and iron objects are much heavier than ordinary people, even though the puppets are petite, they can leave such deep shoe marks."

Situ Lin was thoughtful, but still had doubts for a moment: "But why was she made into a puppet, and why did she come to us at this moment... Could it be that she was sent by Tao Qingyan to assassinate us?"

"impossible."

Yun Zhuo shook his head: "You and I were both asleep just now, if she really wanted to do something, why didn't she stay still at that time, and just wait until we find out now, wouldn't it be a missed opportunity?"

After thinking about it for a while, it made sense. After a short hesitation, Situ Lin stretched out his hand to the girl again: "Then Miss Ning, do you have something to ask of us?"

"Ugh..."

Before the lingering sound fell, the puppet let out a low sob from its throat as if it really responded, although it was just the harsh sound of wood and copper rubbing against each other, coupled with the current situation, it was a bit like weeping.At the same time, two lines of black and red tears of blood dripped from the glassy eyes that opened steeply. One hand tremblingly grasped Situ Lin's wrist for half an inch, and the other hand took out an extremely delicate dagger from his pocket, and drew a line on his palm. .

"what are you doing?!"

Seeing that Situ Lin's "troublesome" palm was opened again, Yun Zhuo's first reaction was that he mistrusted this woman who had a close relationship with Tao Qingyan.His wrist was unsheathed with a shock, and he pointed out the window: "Could it be that they really came to assassinate us?"

"Wait a minute."

The blade didn't reach the end of the woman's hair, but Situ Lin reached out and stopped one of them: "She didn't mean to harm me."

Yun Zhuo didn't move his sword, and it was even more inexplicable: "I have taken out the sword, can it be that I want to harm someone?"

Situ Lin shook his head and signaled Yun Zhuo to watch the girl's movements, only to see "Ning Yan" dipped his slender index finger into the blood of Situ Lin's palm, and painted on the window paper.

The wooden body and iron body were not flexible like ordinary people, and the girl even raised and lowered her arms with great difficulty. She almost pierced the window paper several times intermittently, and finally drew a very crooked magic circle mark in front of the two of them.At first glance, Yun Zhuo felt that he was indistinguishable from ghosts and ghosts, but after a long while of careful observation, he suddenly felt vaguely familiar.

Situ Lin recognized it faster than him, and explained: "Look, she seems to want to use my blood to enter the illusion formation."

"Phantom formation?"

After this point, I finally remembered what the pattern was, but Yun Zhuo was even more confused, so: "Then she came all the way here to find us, just to open a way for you to enter the illusion?"

"Ugh..."

Before he finished speaking, the sleeves were pulled down. When he lowered his head, he saw the woman outside the window who had finished drawing the magic circle looking up at him. Although her face was stiff, she couldn't hide her sadness. She trembled with her finger that was not stained with blood. Pointing to his own heart, and pointing to Situ Lin's red eyes, he opened and closed his lips but couldn't speak for a long time, finally he could only let go of his hands, knelt down on his knees, and bowed deeply to the two.

This action seems inexplicable, but it is not unfounded. After thinking back and forth, Yun Zhuo finally understood what it meant, and thought: "Miss Ning, do you want to use Brother Lin's memory illusion to tell us The reason for all this?"

"Ning Yan" weighed his head a little, and lightly touched the outline of the magic circle with his fingertips. Immediately, the two of them felt spiritual power flashing in all directions, and when they opened their eyes again, the surrounding scenery was gone, and they were already in an illusion.

The illusion reflects the Yunya Palace in the past. At that time, there were still beautiful mountains and green waters, just like today.In the small courtyard shrouded in clouds and mist, the sound of the piano is bursting with fragrance, and behind a rockery outside the disciple's room sits an elegant young man of about ten years old, with a green shirt and white robe like a spring onion. Tao Qingyan.

At this moment, he was looking at the distance alone and thoughtful, a little lonely.After a while, the breeze picked up, and the pool of still water on the other side of the rockery was rippling, adding a bit of chill.Shrinking the cold wind's neck, the young man was about to get up and leave, but he suddenly paused when he lifted his foot - it turned out that a water-red veil floated from the ground at some time, and it was falling on his feet impartially .

The veil was made of silk brocade, with the patterns on it belonged to geese, it was extremely flimsy, it was probably caused by a female disciple who dropped it in the wind, Tao Qingyan bent down subconsciously to pick it up, and when she looked up again, she saw something in the distance A girl waved to him: "Brother, did you pick up my handkerchief?"

The figure in the depths of the cloud and mist is also faintly water-red in color, and when the little girl jumps up and comes close, I can see her under skirt and small shirt, and her double hair in a bun, wearing a pair of cardamom years, smart and gentle.Tao Qingyan's expression was slightly stagnant, and he nodded at her in a dull manner: "Yes, here you are."

"Thank you, brother!"

The girl took the veil with a soft smile, and immediately lifted up her skirt and sat next to Tao Qingyan, and cupped her hands at him without any surprise: "You are Senior Brother Tao, right? I've heard of it."

Tao Qingyan also saluted back: "You are?"

The girl smiled and said, "I am a new disciple recently accepted by Master. I will be under the same sect from now on. Please take care of me."

Tao Qingyan's expression turned pale: "Then dare to ask my junior sister's name."

"Ning Yan."

Ning Yan still smiled with bright eyes: "The quiet Ning, the wild goose who returns to the wild goose."

"It turned out to be Junior Sister Ning, who was newly recruited by Master. It's a pleasure to meet you."

Tao Qingyan said again: "It's just that this place is secluded and few people are there, why did Junior Sister come here?"

Ning Yan shook his head and said: "I didn't know the way when I first started, and I couldn't find a place to go after playing around for a while, so I met my senior brother."

After a pause, he thought of something and asked: "Then forgive me, why is senior brother lost in thought alone here now?"

"This makes my junior sister laugh."

Tao Qingyan said dejectedly: "Some people say that Master is not a good person because he has done a lot of evil, but I don't believe it, and the dispute with him can't be resolved, so I feel a little depressed."

"What? Someone said something like that about Master?"

Ning Yan raised his eyes, with a puzzled look on his face: "But my siblings, my parents, and my parents are living in exile on the street. If Master didn't take him in, I would have to starve to death. At least in my opinion, it must be extremely important for Master to save our lives. Nice guy."

"Why am I not like this."

Tao Qingyan also said: "My family is originally a doctor of Tianshan Mountain, and has been guarding the snow lotus in the mountain for generations. Who knows that a few years ago, the snow lotus was stolen and attracted a wolf demon, who was dissatisfied and made a big fuss in Tianshan Mountain. My parents, brothers and sisters died. Lost in this innocent disaster, I would have been dead if Master hadn’t rescued me at the claws of the demon wolf... But they actually said that Master harmed other sects and sowed dissension, which is simply unreasonable!"

"Murting other factions to sow discord, and such remarks?"

Ning Yan was shocked: "How can these people be so innocent?!"

Tao Qingyan shook her head: "I don't know, maybe it's just seeing Shizun as the palace lord and feeling jealous and talking nonsense."

"Well, what brother said makes sense."

Ning Yan nodded, the bun next to his ear trembled, he stretched out his hand to pat Tao Qingyan's shoulder and said, "But brother, what others say is what they say, but we can't help others to believe anything. Master, yes You and I are kind, if you think he is a good person and I am the same, then you should firmly believe in your own heart, why should you care about gossip."

The little girl's gentle movements were like a spring breeze blowing on her face, her words were delicate but firm, Tao Qingyan heard her move, and finally clenched her five fingers tightly and said: "Well, what junior sister said is very true. This made me suddenly enlightened, thank you very much.”

"Hey, it's nothing."

Ning Yan smiled and waved his hands: "It's nothing to talk nonsense, let's just repay my brother for picking up the handkerchief for me."

Tao Qingyan also responded with a smile: "Sister, can I have lunch before I get lost?"

Ning Yan shook her head first, then nodded immediately, her face turned a little pale.

Tao Qingyan wondered, "Did you eat it?"

"Of course I ate it."

Ning Yan almost didn't think about it, but before he finished speaking, there was an untimely "grunt" sound from his abdomen, which was very clear at the edge of the empty pool, and he immediately looked ashamed and lowered his head.

Tao Qingyan frowned: "You didn't eat."

Ning Yan didn't speak, her ears turned red.

Tao Qingyan said, "Why did you lie to me that you have eaten?"

Ning Yan said: "Brother, let me tell you, don't tell others."

Tao Qingyan nodded: "Okay."

Ning Yan said: "Your brother and I are new disciples, and the meals are given by a senior brother under Chen Shishu's sect, but the food that the senior brother gave me is too little, and the younger brother can't eat enough at all. I can save all my rations for him.”

"Is there such a thing?"

Tao Qingyan was shocked when he heard the words, and the expression between his brows that had just regained clarity sank again: "He is depriving the two of you of what is due to you, why didn't you report it?"

Ning Yan tugged at his sleeves, hesitatingly said: "My younger brother and I are poor people who have lost their parents. It is a luxury to have a resting place, let alone being able to enter the immortal sect to practice magic. That senior brother is Elders and relatives, if reporting it may backfire and cause the two of us to be expelled from the house, I don’t want to offend him, so I ask my senior brother to help me hide it.”

Tao Qingyan sighed: "That can't be like this forever."

Although Ning Yan's eyes were mournful, there was still light in his pupils, and there was a forced smile on the corner of his lips: "It's okay, just bear with it and it will pass, there will always be a day when you get through it."

"Hey, that's it."

Tao Qingyan took her hand: "I have some snacks in my room that my master gave me a few days ago, you can take them with me and eat them! Although it is not very full, it can still satisfy your hunger. It is better than being full all day long. Drums."

"Brother?"

Ning Yan raised his head in disbelief, and finally realized after a while, and saluted him heavily: "Thank you, brother."

The lingering sound gradually faded away, the mountains and rivers faded away, and the figures of the two gradually disappeared in front of the disciple's room. After a while, the scene changed, and several months later.

The scene was still next to the rockery where the disciples of Yunya Palace lived. At this time, there was a field of autumn leaves on the road, and the dark yellow and withered flakes were rubbed back and forth by the soles of a group of people's boots until they were desolate and dilapidated.And the group of people who stepped on the fallen leaves was surrounding two children, a boy and a girl who were kneeling in the middle. You sister and brother.

"What are you going to do?"

Surrounded by a group of people whose age and physique were far older than him, Ning Yan was trembling with fear, but still held his younger brother tightly in his arms with the last ounce of courage: "What makes sense, you slander me!" The head of the sect was discovered and accused by me, and now he still threatens to take private revenge?!"

"Hmph, slander?"

The leader among the spectators sneered: "In order to become the palace master, how many stumbling blocks did your master secretly set up to frame our master? Now we are only chatting for a few words but you still have to be accused by you, a girl, it is simply unreasonable ! You don’t believe it, right? Well, then we’ll fight until you believe it!”

After finishing speaking, I heard several people around me drawing their swords out, Zong Fang's tone was so firm, after all, she was only a little girl under ten years old, Ning Yan trembled in fright, hugged Ning You, closed her eyes tightly, and waited The beatings came.

"stop!"

Unexpectedly, before those people raised their swords to attack, suddenly they heard a low shout, a person hurried out from the disciple's room, his clothes were slightly messed up and his breath was uneven, it was Tao Qingyan who had heard the news.

When he saw this posture, he was frightened and angry, and stopped in front of Ningyan sister and brother in two steps, glaring at the leader of the mob: "What do you mean, slandering my master is presumptuous?" In theory, after being criticized by my junior sister, you still want to beat up your fellow disciples so blatantly?"

"It's you? Tao Qingyan."

The leader sneered: "The chief student of Yunya, Lu Yinbin is really a well-raised apprentice, such a running dog! It's a pity that you believe him so far, but he may not be sincere in saving you. It's a good life to be kept in the dark for so long now. Pitiful……"

Tao Qingyan picked up his collar almost without thinking, "What nonsense are you talking about?! Believe it or not, I will teach you a lesson here too?"

The person threatened by him was unmoved, raised his eyebrows and smiled: "It doesn't matter if you don't believe it, we'll leave it at that."

Tao Qingyan didn't let go, and only pointed at the two siblings kneeling beside him: "You can say as much as you want, but what you did is groundless, so I apologize to them!"

The leader grabbed his wrist instead, and pinched him: "Hmph, apology? What apology?! Then Lu Yinbin is a thief who is good at taking advantage of loopholes, and I'm not wrong."

"you!"

Tao Qingkang became even more angry, she stepped forward two steps and wanted to argue again, but the man took advantage of the unobserved opportunity to hit her with a backhand, which hit the wrist bone, and when she was a little delayed due to the pain, she was grabbed by the neck again, and her ten fingers were strangled on it Print marks.

"Hey, how pitiful..."

The leader let out a "tsk", pinched Tao Qingyan's chin and forced him to look at him: "The road of desire is injustice, but you put yourself in it instead. Since you both believe in Lu Yinbin so much, why don't you go together now?" Let's teach it a lesson, huh?"

"no, do not want!"

Seeing the sudden turn of the situation, Ning Yan hastily stepped forward and hugged the leg of the leader, and mourned: "Senior Brother, I did this alone, and one person is responsible for everything. I don't blame my younger brother or Brother Tao. Please forgive me. You let them go."

The girl's eyes were reddened, tears were about to cry, she was so pitiful, but the leader was still unmoved, and snorted coldly: "Don't let go."

"Oh? You really don't want to let go?"

When everyone was in a stalemate, another question came from outside the disciple's room: "It seems that what is said in the Jianghu, that the disciples of Yunya Immortal Palace are calm and courteous, gentle and indisputable, is it all nonsense?"

When the lingering sound fell, I saw another person walking slowly between the paths shrouded in clouds and mist.This boy is still young, half-clothed and half-clothed, his stature is not yet mature, but his expression already has a vague sense of dignity, the pine and gold embroidery on the white robe is particularly eye-catching, it is Yunhua, the young master of Wuling.

"Who are you? Meddling in your own business here!"

The leader had no self-knowledge, slightly loosened Tao Qingyan's hand, and looked arrogantly at Yunhua: "What is the relationship between our theory and your Wuling here? I advise you to get out as soon as possible!"

Hearing this, he looked around at the crowd who were at a stalemate, and Yunhua's face was calm and pretentious: "Who am I? Who do you say I am?"

At this point, he pulled out the sword at his waist again, with a star-patterned front and a streamer on the blade, and pointed it directly at the mob: "I have learned etiquette and righteousness since I was a child, but I have never heard of talking about elders behind their backs and being detected and bitten back." It's a simple truth. Now I can't see such a disrespectful move and come to persuade me, why do you ask me?"

As soon as the sword came out, the identity of the person holding the sword was self-evident. Everyone was shocked when they saw this. Several young disciples felt withdrawn and walked quietly to the leader, whispering: "Brother, this sword It's Ling Han. If this kid is really the eldest young master of the Yun family, I'm afraid that if we continue to entangle the two factions, it will be difficult for them to attract the palace master... Or should we go back home today?"

"Ling Han? This person is Yun Hua?"

After all, he was stern and soft-hearted, the leader squinted his eyes and sized him up, and also felt that the young master of the foreign family was a bit difficult to provoke, so he gritted his teeth and weighed the pros and cons for a while, so he had to give up temporarily: "Bah, I'm in bad luck, I'll forgive you first!"

After saying that, the leader led a group of people to disperse, Yunhua put away his sword with a cold snort, hurriedly supported Tao Qingyan who was panting on the ground, and looked at Ning Yan who was coaxing the ignorant younger brother, Concerned: "Young Master and Miss, are you alright?"

Tao Qingqing cupped his hands at him: "Thank you, Mr. Yun, for saving me."

Ning Yan made a blessing: "The son is very kind and virtuous, and the little girl will never forget it."

"Hey, anyway, there is nothing wrong with you defending your master, and I can't bear the bullying behavior of those people, it's just that the road is unfair."

Yun Hua shook his head, and said again: "Just now I saw that you are loyal to these two brothers and sisters, this time we met by chance, let's make friends with a few of them."

"It's really a blessing to be able to make friends with Mr. Yun."

Tao Qingyan saluted without moving: "Tao Qingyan in Xiayunya, this side is polite."

The figures of the two stood opposite each other, and the illusion was getting farther and farther away after all, but Yun Zhuo shook his head and sighed: "Oh, Tao Qingyan and Ning Yan's thoughts were so simple back then, and they insisted on believing even when they were threatened and scolded. Lu Yinbin is a good person. I really don't know how I will feel in my heart when they see their true colors."

Situ Lin thought with a complex expression: "The belief in Enyi collapsed, and there was nothing left to look up to. It must be the sense of destruction that the sky is collapsing."

The lingering sound has not yet faded, and the picture has been turned to several years later. There are few candles in a side hall next to the main hall of Yunya, and the atmosphere is very strange.Tao Qingyan was kneeling on the soft blanket in the middle, his eyes were red, and he was in a state of embarrassment, while Lu Yinbin was sitting on the carved chair at the top of the stone steps, looking coldly at Ning Yan prison, whose clothes were messy and tear-stained by a few disciples beside him. fasten.

He only heard him say slowly: "Disciple, I saved your life as a teacher and raised you for many years, but it's time to repay your kindness?"

Tao Qingyan looked at the people in the hall, and at Ning Yan who was crying and struggling, still in disbelief: "What do you mean, Master?"

Lu Yinbin said: "Your family has been a doctor and guarded the snow lotus for generations, so you have many ancient books and secret recipes?"

Tao Qingyan's eyes showed doubts: "Yes, but all those ancient books were lost in the disaster of the monster wolf. I was young and didn't..."

Lu Yinbin said: "Oh, the ancient books are lost, but the secret recipe may not be."

Tao Qingyan's breath stagnated when he heard the words.

Seeing his terrified state, Lu Yinbin explained again: "I heard that your parents who died in the disaster of demon wolves left you an ancestral prescription called 'Rongyu San'. As a teacher, I want to ask you to take a look, but I don't know how to answer it." Don't agree?"

"Master?"

Faintly comprehending the deep meaning in the words, Tao Qingyan's voice began to tremble: "You, what did you say?!"