Yan Qing pretended not to see the wariness and vigilance in the man's eyes, rolled his eyes, and said, "What do you mean the blood of us outsiders is dirty? I think your mind is dirty."

What does the man want to refute.Another person seriously warned: "Don't talk too much with outsiders."

After that, no one really talked to Yan Qing anymore.

The further you go in, the deeper the alley, the heavier the smell of moss and ancient vines.Yan Qing has always been an outlier in this long line.Both his strange face and this umbrella are different.Unbelievably, people in Zhancheng never use umbrellas when it rains.Because Yan Qing had Mrs. Su as a universal excuse, no one would dare to really come forward to trouble him no matter how many vicious eyes were around her.

After queuing for a while, suddenly the crowd in front of us surged.

Yan Qing had already reached the front of the line and saw a change in front of him.A young girl stumbled and ran out of the clan mansion. She was wearing an apricot yellow dress, so the blood marks on her calves were more obvious.With disheveled hair and a pale face, the girl pushed the first person at the head of the team away and ran out.

Behind her came a pair of people from the clan's house, each holding a wooden stick and a knife.

"Stop her for me!"

"Dare to abort without authorization, the crime is unforgivable, send it to the city lord's mansion!"

The men in line looked at each other, but when the woman rushed over, they all hid aside one by one.

"Back quickly, the crazy woman is running over."

"Stay away from that crazy woman."

They wanted to stand against the wall, and they didn't want to touch that woman.Yan Qing lowered the umbrella, then secretly tripped the man in front of him with his feet and the handle of the umbrella. The man yelled "ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Hit the opposite wall.The girl was petite and could walk under him by bending over, while a group of people from the clan's mansion directly collided with the man's body.

"Ah, who pushed me!"

"Do you want to die!"

When the crowd was chaotic, the rain became heavier and heavier, and a vast mist rose from the surface of Qingshi Lane, gradually blurring the world and vision.Yan Qing knocked down another group of people with a piece of slippery moss, turned sideways to take advantage of the confusion, and walked towards a girl.

One advantage of the barrier city is that there are many alleys and old alleys, and there are many turns and turns. The girl finally ran to an abandoned dark alley panting.

At the end of the dark alley, there were a lot of abandoned wooden carts and straws. She bled profusely and was exhausted, so she hid in a corner and hid herself behind a wooden plank.

Unable to bear it any longer, he began to sob and cry.

"Over there! She ran over there!"

"This stinky bitch can't get out of the city gate, where can she escape to!"

"What a mad woman!"

The girl is in great pain now, and her whole body is trembling. She looks at the heavy blue rain from top to bottom in the barrier city, and deep fear emerges in her clear pupils.

A drop of rainwater touched her bare skin, and the girl immediately screamed like a madman, frantically rubbing her skin with her hands.She wiped and broke down and burst into tears.Suddenly an umbrella separated the misty rain and stopped in the air above her.Immediately afterwards, in the vision of a bluish-white robe, followed by a soft voice. "They couldn't find it from here."

The girl in the yellow dress raised her head, and Yan Qing gave her a comforting smile.

Yan Qing is now in the figure of a teenager, looks as big as her, squatted down enthusiastically and said, "How are you?"

The girl's lips were bloodless, and then tremblingly said a word.She said in Zhancheng dialect: "Are you from outside? Can you save me?" After she finished speaking, she fell silent again, with a deep sense of despair in her eyes.She has never been out of the barrier city, and she does not know Mandarin, only dialect.She was born here, like a curse, and she could never live without this city shrouded in rain all the year round.

Yan Qing stared at her, then grinned, and replied in Zhancheng's dialect, "Well, I'm from outside."

The girl in the yellow skirt suddenly shrank her pupils and opened her mouth slightly in disbelief.

Yan Qing didn't dare to take the girl back to the Su Mansion rashly, he asked the girl if she had a place to live.The girl nodded, and then led Yan Qing to avoid the crowded roads, and followed one after another alley to the foot of a mountain.

There is a small wooden house at the bottom of the mountain. The girl said that this is where her ancestors lived.Yan Qing was fascinated the moment he came here, because the mountain behind the wooden house was used to hold hunting banquets by the five families in the past.It's just that now its trees and shrubs are rising one after another, and it has become a deep forest with few people.

A venomous snake hovered over the beam of the house, and under the bed because it was not lived all the year round, and because it was in this humid place, all kinds of insect nests had formed.After Yan Qing helped clean it up, the girl knelt down excitedly: "Thank you benefactor!"

Yan Qing didn't make her kneel down, he lit a fire, and then took out a elixir from the mustard space, and asked the girl to take it.

Sitting by the fire, warmth drives away pain, cold and hunger.The girl finally regained her senses, and hugged her leg, sobbing and crying.

Yan Qing walked around the wooden house and found that there were many bows, arrows, knives, and axes hanging on the walls.

Yan Qing asked, "Did your great-grandfather use to hunt for a living?"

The girl was obviously a little stunned, not understanding why Yan Qing asked this question, nodded, and said in a hoarse voice, "Yes. My family has lived by the forest behind for hundreds of years."

The girl bent over and hugged herself, letting the dry and warm firelight dry away the tears. She murmured: "The forest behind was used by dignitaries to play. 200 years ago, the barrier city was much better than it is now. It is prosperous. It was very lively. I heard from my father that my great-grandfather was here, and he saved many rich men from back then, and gained a lot of benefits."

Yan Qing nodded, probably it was really a prosperous time when the five families in the barrier city were entrenched.Whether it is mansions, streets, pavilions, or residents, they are not moldy in the dense water vapor like they are now.

Yan Qing said, "If you want me to save you, you have to give me a clear reason."

The girl pursed her lower lip, her face pale: "I aborted the child in my stomach, this is a capital offense in the barrier city."

Yan Qing: "Why? Don't you want holy water?"

The girl suddenly raised her voice: "Holy water? I don't need to cleanse my soul at all! Those bastards in the City Lord's Mansion should go to cleanse my soul!"

Yan Qing didn't speak.

The girl's voice became more and more trembling: "They are beasts! My parents didn't want to do what they said, so they put my parents to death! I don't want to marry, my younger brother doesn't want to marry, so they arranged me into the clan mansion , and sent my younger brother to the City Lord’s Mansion. I don’t even know who the child in my belly belongs to!”

At the end of the words, there was already a roar that was almost crying blood.After yelling, the girl's pupils swayed with a kind of madness, and she said softly: "You left well, you shouldn't come back. The barrier city is now a ghost city, and everyone is a ghost."

"They are thirsty for the holy water of the city lord's mansion, and use the holy water to wash away the dirt on their bodies and make their bodies light. Because they feel oppressed and uncomfortable all the time now. The blood of the people in the barrier city is heavy, and the five internal organs when walking The six internal organs are heavy, and now only the rain can make them feel better."

Yan Qing said, "Are you the same?"

Hearing this, the girl burst into tears: "I would rather I am like this too! It would be nice to turn into a ghost with them! I don't know why I am not like this, our family is not like this-I don't like to be in the rain , nor thirst for holy water! Why isn't our family like this?"

To be a sober person in hell is the deepest despair for ordinary people.

It was enough for Yan Qing to get the news from her, he threw a bead into the fire, this bead could keep the fire burning in this humid atmosphere, and at the same time ensure that poisonous snakes, insects and beasts would not approach.Yan Qing said: "Stay here, when you go out, maybe the city will clear up."

The girl was stunned for a long time, staring at the flames, and suddenly said in a hoarse voice: "Are you an immortal in heaven?"

Yan Qing: "Why do you ask that?"

The girl said, "Because you look like a fairy."

Yan Qing: "Have you seen it?"

The girl said: "My great-grandfather has seen it. You must have used some kind of blindfold, this is not your real appearance."

The girl said: "My great-grandfather said that immortals are much prettier than those in the story books. Even the most famous beauty in the barrier city is much inferior to immortals."

Yan Qing said: "Surface and dry bones are foreign objects."

The girl clenched her shirt with her fingers and nodded to him.

Before going out, Yan Qing asked her: "Who was the number one beauty in the barrier city back then?"

The girl was stunned, then thought hard and said: "Mrs. Chuxuan from the Xie family."

Thank you.

Mrs. Chuxuan.

Yan Qing was taken aback, nodded, and then stopped: "Is that fairy a woman? Did your great-grandfather tell you what that fairy looks like?"

The girl froze, shook her head and said, "No...there are only so many words passed down from Dad."

By the time Yan Qing returned to the Su Mansion, the lights in the Su Mansion had almost been turned off.

On the third floor of the window, Xie Shiyi sat by the window and played chess with himself. Heizi and white characters were all over the brown wooden chessboard. His black hair was winding, and the white light of the rain and mist outside floated up and down, and his expression was calm and indifferent. .

Yan Qing closed the umbrella and put it aside.

Xie Shiyi heard the voice, dropped a white child, raised his head and asked him: "Go out for a whole day and night, twelve hours, are you revisiting the old place in the barrier city?"

Yan Qing took it lightly and said, "The place where there are old people is called old place."

Xie Shiyi nodded, and said in a cold tone, "Well, so you don't have any old friends, so you start to know people again in Zhancheng?"

Yan Qing looked down at the blood jade beads on her wrist, immediately understood what he meant, and stopped laughing at the beginning: "Yaoyao, you really seem to be a rich and bitter wife."

Xie Shiyi: "..."

Yan Qing raised three fingers, and said, "I wandered around the barrier city today, and got three pieces of news that are feasible for us, do you want to listen?"

Xie Shiyi looked at him without saying a word.

Yan Qing said: "One, this rain is really evil. Everyone in Zhancheng is very 'heavy' now. Their souls weigh their bodies. Although it doesn't affect their lives, they all feel that they need to be cleaned of dirt. The medicine for cleaning is in the The City Lord's Mansion is called holy water, and the only condition for obtaining holy water is to give birth to a live fetus."

"Second, the entire barrier city has a seemingly complete but insane order for childbirth. All women have to go through the clan's mansion to give birth. And in many cases, it is not October of pregnancy, but January and two months of pregnancy. Feeling severe pain. If they don't tell the clan's mansion, they will only die."

"Three, for a husband and wife in the barrier city, if the woman dies, the man must also be buried with her."

Xie Shiyi listened quietly.

Yan Qing said, "Did you think of anything?"

Xie Shiyi dropped the white stone that was mixed between his fingers: "Yan."

Yan Qing laughed all of a sudden, but there was no smile in his eyes: "That's right, Yan... the parasite of 'Yan' in the world is originally only in the womb of women."

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