After Junior Brother A Zhai goes down the mountain

Lin Yingshi looked curiously at the Patriarch of the Sun family on the high platform, and seemed to have exchanged a few words with his son before leaving in a hurry.

The boy is today's winner, and the second match will be tomorrow.

"Tomorrow?" Lin Yingshi asked in surprise as she returned the chopsticks to the little maidservant.

Sheng Hefeng nodded slightly: "Indeed, tomorrow. There are three contests in total, and the winners of each day will have the final contest on the last day."

"And only the last few victors..." Sheng Hefeng showed an imperative smile, "have the chance to get into the eyes of the Sun family."

The boy misplaced the main point very accurately: "That is to say, I don't have to go up and fight people today, right?"

Sheng Hefeng: "...Indeed."

He pointed to another middle-aged man waiting not far away: "He is the deputy steward of the Sun family. He is in charge of distributing prizes to the defeated warriors and arranging the accommodation of the victors. You cannot leave the Sun family's estate yet." , we have to stay here for three days.”

As soon as he finished speaking, the boy gave a small cheer and jumped to the side of the steward.

They talked for a few words, and the steward bowed respectfully, motioning for the boy to follow him.

Seeing the boy walking away, Sheng Hefeng also found an excuse to walk away from the field.

He passed through a rockery that looked like a barrier, and glanced around with his peripheral vision.

It was silent.

He seemed to stop here, attracted by the beauty of the garden, and slowly approached the living spring in the courtyard.

Sheng Hefeng reached out and put a small black cloth bag into the hole at the top of the rockery in the center of the spring.

——In the cloth bag were the cloud-covered flowers and leaves he got from Lin Yingshi, and some inside information about the Sun family that he had probed.

Some of the agility that the young man displayed on the field was indeed a bit tricky.However, it doesn't pose much of a threat.

As if nothing happened, he walked around the garden a few more times before slowly leaving with his hands behind his back.

The moment he turned around and disappeared into the garden, someone hurriedly came from behind, carefully took out the small cloth bag from the rockery, put it in his arms, and went outside.

For the friend who just met from Yaoguang City, Lin Yingshi didn't think about what he was doing at this time, and didn't care what he was going to do.

The human heart is a complicated thing.he thinks.Even [Qinghong Zhaoying] has no way of knowing what he wants to do.

Thinking back to the almost unwavering appearance of Mr. Sheng, the young man couldn't help worrying about the Miss Sun family whom he had never met—did she know that his childhood sweetheart was only thinking about how to make use of this marriage?

And that brother Sheng actually hid his thoughts perfectly in his heart, and Lin Yingshi only sensed this person's true thoughts at the moment when his emotions fluctuated.

...Forget it.Still don't worry about it.

Whether the son of the city lord from Yaoguang City can win the final victory is still unknown.

And... Lin Yingshi followed behind the steward, passing through the labyrinth of pavilions.Mr. Zhong and the others didn't mean that the reason why the Sun family recruited relatives in martial arts competitions was not to increase their chances of winning in the martial arts ceremony.

However, is this century-old famous family really going to be reduced to relying on outsiders to increase their chances of winning?

Or is this just a form of alliance?After all, this Seven Star City is still connected with each other.

Lin Yingshi casually glanced to the side, but was attracted by the scene in the courtyard.

The courtyard here is extremely well designed.From the wooden railings they passed to the beams where they could see, they were all carved with singing birds. At a glance, you can even see the distinct feathers and eyes inlaid with jade. A sentence that is lifelike and ingenious.

In addition to these carvings, the various flowers in the courtyard are also rare varieties.The faint fragrance lingers in the courtyard, attracting the canaries hanging under the eaves to sing loudly.

"sounds so good."

Lin Yingshi walked to the cage, pursed her lips and blew a few times, singing briskly in tune with the singing of the canary in the cage.The little bird in the beautiful cage looked at him curiously, jumped up and down a few times, flapped its wings and continued to sing.

slap.

Ok?

Lin Yingshi frowned.He seemed to hear...a voice in the room?

The boy turned his head and was about to take a few steps forward to check what was going on, but was stopped by the smiling assistant manager.

"Mr. Lin, your room is over here." He said.

The boy nodded: "I seemed to hear a voice inside?"

There seemed to be a mask of a smile on the steward's face: "Maybe it's a cat. Our eldest miss likes cats, and there are all kinds of cats in this yard. It's only right for a few of them to run in and play mischief."

The boy nodded, and followed away from the room.

The moment he turned to leave, Lin Yingshi clearly heard the continuous rustling sound coming from the room.

The steward folded his hands in his sleeves, shook his head and said helplessly: "The servant who is responsible for cleaning this courtyard is really careless, and he needs to talk about it carefully. How can he let the cat enter the room? Mr. Lin laughed."

Lin Yingshi nodded.

...Who will believe you?Have you ever seen cats and canaries mixed together?

The young man looked back inadvertently.His eyesight was excellent, and he could see where he was standing just now, where the screen window that was originally intact had been pierced open.

Who is locked inside?Is that the guy who wrote the note asking for help?

He simply noted down the location of this room, and planned to visit it later in the dead of night.

......

"Why do you stay here?"

Zhong Nianying looked at the disciple of Dianxing Mountain who was still pale, and asked in a deep voice.

Xin Lan shook her head, a little hesitant.

Zhong Nianying and Yang Wenzhi looked at each other: "It's nothing. This is the eldest son of the Yang family in Jiangnan, and I'm calling him a guest at his house."

Only then did Xin Lan let out a sigh of relief, and softly confessed: "He was the eldest son of the Yang family in the south of the Yangtze River. It was Xin Lan who offended him."

Yang Wenzhi waved his hand: "Nothing."

Xin Lan paused, hesitated for a while, and then seemed to muster up courage and said: "Mr. Zhong, after one or two years, I'm afraid you won't know...Dian Xingshan, it's messed up."

Zhong Nianying nodded: "I remember that I told you and your master before I left that you and your star mountain are too special, and you were on the cusp of destroying the demon sect at that time. The star mountain is an excellent hiding place in the eyes of these desperadoes." place."

Xin Lan nodded, and said with a wry smile: "Indeed. Earlier, Master and I took precautions against each other, and indeed we caught many spies from the Devil's Cult. However..."

Yang Wenzhi asked in surprise, "However?"

Xin Lan sighed for a long time: "...everything must be guarded against, a house thief is hard to guard against."

He paused, and said bitterly: "Mr. Zhong, Mr. Yang...Master and I never imagined that the most deeply hidden spy of the Devil's Cult...is my twin Sister, Xin Yuzhu."

Zhong Nianying frowned, and said coldly, "You mean your sister?! How could..."

Xin Lan rubbed her temples in pain: "Yeah, my first reaction...how could my sister betray us?!"

"However, everything in this matter was beyond my expectations." Xin Lan said, "Master and I subdued her, and reluctantly locked my sister into the back mountain dungeon of Dianxing Mountain."

"However, just a year ago, my sister... broke out of the prison." Xin Lan said painfully, "And my sister... I don't know what kind of treacherous and ruthless way she has practiced in the dungeon. , actually took control of the junior and junior sisters who guarded the dungeon... She came out of it openly."

"—in front of me, Master, and all the elders."

Recalling the unforgettable painful memory, this gentle brother squeezed his hand tightly, and the red marks were particularly eye-catching: "Master is furious. At this time, no matter how close you are in the past, you can't stop this It was unspeakable...but Mr. Zhong, do you know?"

"—My sister, for some reason, has been imprisoned for less than half a year, but her martial arts are unimaginably high..."

"She didn't know what she did to the master and the elders, but she made them obey my sister..." Xin Lan said, "I watched my sister helplessly in front of me, and made the elders kneel down... ...."

He lowered his head, tightly covered his forehead with his hands, and said hoarsely: "...that is the master and elders who raised her personally and taught her to deduce... She, Yuzhu, When did it become like that?"

Cuizhu couldn't bear it, and handed over the handkerchief.

Xin Lan forced a smile: "...Thank you, nothing happened."

Zhong Nianying said coldly: "There is such a thing?"

Xin Lan shook her head and said bitterly, "I don't know either."

"The power in my body wouldn't have gotten out of control so quickly." Xin Lan said, "It was also at that time that I was injured by my sister, and I haven't felt better since then."

He sat quietly in one direction blankly: "This is my place to stay. It wasn't so messy before...Because I have limited mobility and it's hard to see things in normal times, it's all my little sister. , cleaned it for me."

"But...it became like this."

After Xin Lan finished speaking, the room was silent.

Zhong Nianying knocked on the table: "Then why are you still here?"

"Here, isn't it closer to Dianxing Mountain?"

Xin Lan nodded: "That's exactly what I want to say next, Mr. Zhong."

He hesitated and said: "Actually... I once stopped at the tea shop opposite the Sun Mansion to drink tea, and I met that young lady by accident."

"The eldest lady... actually has the same birthmark on the wrist as my sister." Xin Lan stretched out his hand, and there was a strange mark on his left wrist, "We are twins, and our positions are even different. It's exactly the same, so it's easy to recognize."

He said slowly: "I still don't believe that my well-behaved and obedient sister can change her temperament so much in one day."

"And that eldest lady made me in despair—think of some possibilities."

Several people looked at each other.

——This young lady of the Sun family is also competing in martial arts today to recruit relatives.

Without further ado, the four of them set off immediately.

Yang Wenzhi brought green bamboo, followed by Zhong Nianying who acted as a bodyguard, and Xin Lan was the accountant he brought.The four of them rode in the Yang family's resplendent and luxurious carriage, rattled through the bustling market in full view, and stopped in front of the closed door of the Sun's house.

The four of them got out of the carriage, Yang Wenzhi straightened his sleeves, opened the jade bone fan with a click, gently shook the fan, strolled up the steps in front of Sun's house, and knocked on the door. Gold-plated brass ring.

There was a dull knock on the door.