After Junior Brother A Zhai goes down the mountain

Long Huayi smiled under the hood: "Why, what's wrong?"

His voice was a bit old and hoarse. It was hard to imagine that such a seemingly respectable elder had already changed his shell inside.

Pei Lanqiu: ...Sure enough, Fifth Master Long can do everything, except pretending to be a girl.

Sun Mukai raised his hand to wipe his eyes, and tried to put on a smiling face: "Elder Elder, you are still so interesting."

He looked at the unconscious "sister" on the bed, and said softly: "Grand Elder, why don't we go outside and talk about it?"

Long Huayi: "No problem, just say it here."

Sun Mukai looked at his "sister" again, with love and happiness hidden in his eyes, and thinking of the news he had inquired in the steward's courtyard before, he felt that this big Sun's mansion was actually so desolate.

He whispered: "Lin Er hasn't come back yet?"

Long Huayi nodded: "Not yet. I've met him. Although he is a young hero, he is still a child. He is innocent and kind, and he is just right for him."

Old Pei, remember to praise me.

Sun Mukai's bitter expression finally cracked open, and he finally showed a slight smile: "Yes, Lin Er's heart is worthy of a match."

Long Huayi teased with an old face: "Then why do you look sad? You didn't come here for your sister's marriage, could it be for yourself?"

When he said this, he shook his head and smiled again: "You... Mu Kai, the dignified son of the Sun family, what kind of girl doesn't like you? You have a good-looking talent, strong martial arts..."

Sun Mukai looked desolate, the more he listened, the more he thought of the dead Xinyue, tears fell from his heart.

Long Huayi: ... oh oh.

So Fifth Master Long, who was wearing the shell of the Great Elder, stretched out his hand, and patted the shoulder of the crying eldest son: "What's the matter? Could it be that pedantic father of yours disagreed?"

Sun Mukai looked blank, and said softly: "Grand Elder... What is most embarrassing is not disagreement, but when he gave you hope, he pretended to destroy it as if nothing had happened... My father, what is he thinking? "

The normally bright young man seems to have lost his way at this moment, feeling desolate.He unconsciously tugged at his sleeve, and said slowly, "Elder Elder, that's how it happened."

"I met Xinyue in a natural and man-made disaster a few years ago." He smiled, "It's that girl from the south of the Yangtze River you once met, who had to sell herself to bury her father..."

"Although she is not a lady loved by everyone in the world, she is kind and tenacious, daring to act, and she has become one of the three stewards with real power in this mansion by herself."

In a few words, he outlined a gentle and charming Jiangnan woman.Although Long Huayi had never met this Xinyue girl, he could get a glimpse from Sun Mukai's description—she was a good girl, but she was not the eldest daughter-in-law that the Patriarch of the Sun family wanted.

"Your father... disagrees?" he asked.

Sun Mukai nodded with a wry smile: "Naturally, I disagreed at the beginning... As expected, my father still held that kind of sectarian opinion. I lobbied for a long time, and my father finally let go, but the condition is: he must relinquish all his duties in charge and become a low-status worker again. Maid, take care of my sister who is seriously ill for a year."

When he said this, he looked tenderly at the lying "sister" who was breathing steadily: "Xinyue told me that my sister is weak, and she should take good care of her."

Long Huayi nodded.

"It's just..." Sun Mu opened and closed his eyes, "I should have discovered it a long time ago... Xinyue told me one day that something was wrong with my sister."

Long Huayi raised his eyebrows under the hood: "What's wrong?"

Sun Mukai sighed, and said with a wry smile: "My elder brother is incompetent... My father has always said that my sister's illness is too serious, and I will run into trouble if I go to visit..."

"Xinyue told me that day: She felt that her sister seemed to be in shackles." Sun Mukai pressed his forehead, "But both Xinyue and I thought we were wrong...so we didn't take it to heart."

"—Until one day, Xinyue suddenly disappeared."

"I asked my father, and he said that Xinyue had gone on a mission. So I didn't ask, I just kept in touch with her... Now that I think about it, that wasn't a letter that Xinyue wrote to me at all." The young man hugged in pain. head, "...it was written by my father, manipulating the new moon that has become a puppet."

Long Huayi's pupils shrank: "Puppet? Your father can be a puppet?"

Sun Mukai shook his head: "I don't know."

"I just went to the residence of the stewards...a steward who is familiar with Xinyue whispered to me that on the day Xinyue said she was on a mission, she ran back from the lady's room in a panic, shouting, 'Yes. Fake, how could it be fake'... was taken away by the master's hidden guards and never came back."

After he finished speaking, he hugged his head blankly and cried bitterly.

Long Huayi frowned.

is fake?

--Could it be that……

"Mu Kai." Long Huayi said softly, "In your heart...do you have a plan?"

Sun Mukai raised his head, a wry smile appeared on his blank face:

"I've been lying to myself. I believe that everything my father does is for the family, for the continuation of the Sun family's unique learning... For this reason, I can put aside my own thinking and follow his orders completely."

"When he secretly traded the holy spring with the saint of unknown origin, I chose to be a helper and enjoy the favor."

"When he was about to sacrifice Lin Er, I also stood by and felt indifferently, ah, it's just an outsider."

He said softly: "Perhaps, this is... the punishment for this insensitive guy like me."

"Because of what Xinyue said, after thinking about it, I can only think of one thing."

Sun Mu opened his hands trembling: "What disease is it that makes a girl linger on the sick bed for so long, and besides the doctor who can enter, why is only the father allowed to visit? Why can't I, the older brother, be allowed to visit?"

"Why chain my sister?" He quietly opened the curtain, "Is it crazy? No. How can my sister not even recognize my brother?"

He looked at the person lying on the bed tenderly, and said softly: "...So, which family's girl is there? It must be very sad to be kept in this cage-like Sun's mansion."

What disease?Of course not sick.

Pei Lanqiu sat up straight away, and Long Huayi took advantage of the situation to cooperate with him, using ventriloquism to imitate Xin Yuzhu's voice.

Pei Lanqiu silently glanced at her old partner: versatile.

Fifth Master Long chuckled through the veiled hat: Isn't that so?

[I was originally a student of Xingshan Mountain, but there was an accident at the teacher's school, and I was robbed here by people from the Demon Sect. 】Pei Lanqiu said, 【I am indeed not your sister, Mr. Sun. 】

Sun Mukai looked pained, and said bitterly: "Is that really the case..."

He asked repeatedly: "What about my sister? Where is she?"

Pei Lanqiu paused: [...She is still at the residence. 】

Sun Mukai asked anxiously: "Where is it? Did my father lock up my sister?! Why... why did he do this?!"

Pei Lanqiu closed her eyes: [...do you know Yuzhushi? 】

Sun Mukai nodded: "Of course I know... There is a sea of ​​rain bamboo flowers in my clan, absorbing the aura of heaven and earth, and blooming when it meets the moonlight. Its withered rhizomes are dried into rain bamboo stones, which can be used for smelting weapons. It worked great."

"Its growth requires the joint efforts of the disciples of the Sun family to inject internal strength every day, so that it can grow slowly."

He sighed: "It's just that the production of rain bamboo stones is getting lower and lower. By my great-grandfather's generation, there are very few left... Fortunately, my great-grandfather and great-grandmother found a way, so that the Sun family will not be cut off from it."

Pei Lanqiu was silent for a while, and continued to ask: [Then do you know why every generation of the Sun family's female family members are so short-lived? 】

Sun Mukai nodded: "Because this secret method requires the efforts of the daughters of the Sun family and damages the foundation. If things go on like this, it will naturally be short-lived... This method is not good."

Sun Mukai sighed: "... Originally, my father wanted to trade with the previous warriors, exchanging a piece of rain bamboo stone for a piece of internal strength. Although it is not as powerful as the disciples of the Sun family, it still adds up to a lot, and the effect is extraordinary."

Before Pei Lanqiu could speak, Long Huayi snorted coldly: 【You are so naive, Mr. Sun. 】

Pei Lanqiu: ...Is the partner for sale?

He glanced coldly at Fifth Master Long above him, and continued to speak cooperatively: 【Do you think it will be an exchange of equal value?no. 】

【Your good father, I just want these warriors to spend their lives making the flower mud for those flowers. 】

【——Together with the female relatives of your clan. 】

【——Your mother, and your sister. 】

Twolegs, what are you doing here, meow?

The little black cat squatted obediently on the roof, with one paw hanging down loosely, as if scooping for air.

"The maid lives here." Lin Yingshi said, "Now the sun has not completely set, so I can only come to her."

As soon as the words fell, the maid poked her head out of the window and whispered, "This way."

Lin Yingshi picked up the kitten that was still scratching the air, twisted her waist, and slipped into the room extremely quickly.

The maid inquired about the surrounding situation, and after confirming that there was no one there, she carefully closed the window.

"My lord, I have news from my servants."

Lin Yingshi scratched her chin: "What news?"

The maid approached him and quickly whispered a series of words in his ear.

"The maidservant found out at the door of the head of the Sun family that the Sun family will meet with members of the Holy Cult in a few days. At that time, a batch of goods will come from outside the city, and the Sun family will sell them to various places."

"Besides, they also want the treasure of the secret book... Let you be a pathfinder, you must be careful..."

"Furthermore... recently, the eldest son of the Sun family seems to be having trouble with the Patriarch of the Sun family."

She told the recent news in detail, Lin Yingshi smiled: "I see, thank you."

The servant girl hesitated for a moment, then whispered: "Young master, I wonder if you have seen a good-looking female steward? She should be the personal guard of the head of the Sun family now..."

It's the puppet.Lin Ying knew it all.

"She met a person from the Jianghu today. The person from the Jianghu was wearing a blue robe with stars embroidered on his chest, which looked like the Dianxing Mountain of the nearby sect."

Dot Star Mountain...is it related to the puppet?

He remembered the abnormal shape of Dianxing Mountain that Xin Lan had mentioned, and couldn't help frowning slightly.