poor house

Quickly urging, she turned her head and glanced at the maid and servant who were kneeling on the ground, and sighed heavily in her heart.

The young master's life is more important than the people in this room.

"Mother, what do you mean the official doesn't know me? Mother, what are you going to do?!" Wu Xie, who heard the clue, broke free from the butler's pull and rushed back to the lobby, but saw another man standing beside her mother.

Wearing the same cyan long gown as her own, and the same Pisces jade pendant as her waist, even her body shape is similar to hers, except for that expressionless face, which seems to be familiar to her, yet somewhat unfamiliar. .

"You are--"

"Zhang Qi Ling."

Zhang Qi Ling?

It should be the first time I heard the name, but why does it feel so familiar in my heart for no reason.Wu Xie stared blankly at the expressionless stern face, and before he had time to capture the fleeting feeling, he realized why he existed.

"Mother, how can you let someone else go to jail for me, besides, Zhang Qiling is not from our family at all, why do you let him suffer this innocent disaster?" In desperation, he grabbed Zhang Qiling's wrist, feeling cold But Wu Xie was shocked instantly.

"It's because he's not from our family that he can pretend to be you, silly boy!" Stepping forward anxiously, Mrs. Wu said with hatred, "And he proposed it himself, so hurry up! "

"What? Why?" Gritting his teeth and clenched Zhang Qiling's wrist, Wu Xie didn't understand why this stranger risked his life to save himself.Obviously have no impression of him at all, obviously don't know this person at all, obviously today is the first time seeing him——

No, no, this is not the first time.

Staring fixedly at those dark eyes that seemed to be bottomless, Wu Xie suddenly remembered that he had seen this line of sight on a snowy night many years ago.

It was Lantern Festival that day.When I was still a child, I got separated from the butler while watching the lanterns. The streets were bustling with people coming and going. No one would notice a little child during the bustling time, and the young Wu Xie didn't even know how to return. What is the way home.

Although there are lanterns on and fireworks blooming in the sky from time to time, this is meaningless to a lost child.The only thing Wu Xie could remember at that time was the freezing weather.

The bluestone road is full of snow after the heavy snow a few days ago, and the white color is reflected by the lanterns with colorful circles of light.Wu Xie stumbled through the snow holding the little lantern bought by the housekeeper, her face flushed from the cold was covered with snot and tears.There were too many people, and Wu Xie instinctively looked for a place where he could see the way ahead, so as he walked, fewer and fewer people stood in front of him, and there were fewer and fewer lanterns around him.

Wu Xie, who was holding a small lantern, didn't know it at first, but when the lantern in his hand was about to burn out, he was frightened by the darkness around him and didn't know where to go.The alleys are covered with snow, and there is no sound in the quiet darkness except for the occasional barking of dogs.

The light of the lantern in his hand flickered in the swirling cold wind, and Wu Xie's shadow on the ground also became longer and shorter.The moon was hiding somewhere, and the obscure light only made the only spot of light even more weird.Even the silent houses around them have turned into covetous and silent monsters.

Wu Xie, who was still a child, was crying so hard holding the lantern that the flame was getting weaker and weaker, and the thicker night seemed to swallow up the last bit of light soon.The cloak on his body had been unraveled and fell to the ground, and the snow and fur wrapped around his body became more and more clammy and cold.

Shrinking his body into a small ball and squatting at the intersection, Wu Xie sobbed and watched as the vermilion fire gradually extinguished, and the scene in front of him turned into pitch black.

After an unknown amount of time, Wu Xie woke up with a gentle jolt.Waking up and half awake, Wu Xie only knew to lean towards a comfortable place. Although she didn't know why she was held in someone's arms inexplicably, the cool embrace made the little Wu Xie feel extremely at ease.

Suddenly, Wu Xie seemed to see an expressionless face and a pair of dark eyes.Before falling into a coma again, Wu Xie still remembered that he seemed to hear a deep male voice saying——

Don't be afraid, I'll take you home.

"Young master, let's go, the official is coming soon!" The servant who ran in from the yard said in a panic, and the kneeling maids and servants in the whole room seemed to be awakened by this sentence, sobbing softly stand up.

"Child, go, go!" Grabbing Wu Xie's sleeve and pushing it to the back hall, Mrs. Wu's face had long since lost her usual beauty, only paleness and determination remained.

Before he had time to refuse, let alone say anything, Wu Xie felt a sudden darkness before his eyes, and fell into the embrace of someone who seemed to have known him before.

Zhang Qiling, who are you——

When he woke up again, Wu Xie was frozen stiff all over.The drenched long gown was still damp and cold. Looking dazedly at the dark cloud-covered sky in front of him, Wu Xie was stunned, and suddenly realized where he was now.

Turning over from the ground in a hurry, Wu Xie stumbled along the alley and groped all the way back to the back door of the mansion.With trembling hands, he dared not push the open door, but he couldn't help but imagine thousands of possibilities in his mind.

Slowly pushing the door open, Wu Xie fell to the ground when his legs softened when he saw the scene in front of him.

In the courtyard where the remaining snow had not completely melted, the dark red blood soaked all the snow like running water, and the red snow seemed to have turned into a lake of blood.And those who fell on the ground were maids and servants covered in knife marks, their bright red flesh exposed to the air, Wu Xie couldn't help covering his mouth and nose with the smell of rust.

How could this be, how could this be? !

Where's the mother, where's the housekeeper, where's Zhang Qiling? !

Staggering over the corpses on the ground, Wu Xie rushed into the yard like crazy, and tripped Wu Xie from time to time with the still warm corpse, and the blue clothes were soon stained with blood.

"Mom! Mother!!" Finally saw her mother lying down in the lobby, Wu Xie, who had been shaken to pieces due to anger and fear, was holding on to the bloody hand, but he still couldn't wake up the lifeless mother. people. "The butler? The butler?" Turning around, he saw the butler's body. The knife wounds all over his body made Wu Xie feel nauseous.

Didn't they say they were only put in prison?Why did it become like this?Why would it be exterminated? !

By the way, there is also Zhang Qiling, where is Zhang Qiling? !

Standing up with all his strength, Wu Xie staggered and looked at the messy corpses all over the ground, so weak that he couldn't even shed tears.

"Zhang Qiling, Zhang Qiling, where are you—"

If Zhang Qiling died too, if this person who had nothing to do with him died because of him——

Walking into the yard, the pattering winter rain was still falling.Today is obviously the Lantern Festival, but why did such an accident happen, why did everyone in the Wu family leave him in an instant——

"Be careful!" Before he realized what was going on, Wu Xie felt that he was being pulled from behind, and then fell into a cool embrace.At the same time, several blunt sounds of sharp weapons piercing into flesh and blood mercilessly rang out in Wu Xie's ears.

"Sure enough, someone escaped, my lord is really good at predicting things~" The eloquent voice followed Zhang Qiling's fall, and Wu Xie, who had been protected in his arms all this time, looked in panic at the officers and soldiers who poured into the yard again, and The clothes were once again drenched by Zhang Qiling's blood.

"Hehe, Wu Yiqiong is an old fox, and his son is naturally a little fox." The sneer got closer and closer, and he raised his foot to kick Zhang Qiling away from Wu Xie. "Does he think that I don't know his son's face, and he still finds someone to impersonate him? It's so stupid."

"Tsk."

It seemed that in an instant, Wu Xie only heard the person protecting him click his tongue, and the originally noisy world suddenly became silent.

"Wu Xie, close your eyes."

Hearing this deep voice unconsciously, he closed his eyes. In the darkness, Wu Xie only felt the wind in his ears suddenly become shrill, whistling mixed with unidentifiable hissing.And the smell of blood in the air was so strong that it seemed that it would never go away.

"Zhang Qiling——" He stared dumbfounded at the man standing there soaked in blood. Wu Xie didn't even know whether the blood on his body was his own, or the corpses of those heads that he had chopped off with his bare hands. of.

Turning to look at Wu Xie, Zhang Qiling seemed to blame him for his disobedience.But looking back at this moment, Zhang Qiling couldn't avoid the long sword that came to him the next time, and just let it stab straight into his left chest.

"You, you, you are that stiff—" The man holding the long sword stared at Zhang Qiling whose expression had not changed at all, his eyes widened in disbelief.

"You know too much." Said lightly, Zhang Qiling held the sword still in his body with his right hand, pulled it out without hesitation, and stabbed the man's heart with his backhand.

"Zhang, Zhang Qiling, you, he said you, what are you—" Although he didn't hear the man's words clearly, Wu Xie had already noticed something was wrong.How could ordinary people still look fine after being so seriously injured, and how could they twist off other people's heads with bare hands?It has long been heard that there are zombies running rampant in the town, who specially twist off the heads of living people to suck blood and eat meat. Could it be that Zhang Qiling is that zombie? !

"Wu Xie, it's okay.