no soul

Lin Hong sat across from Wanliang, "Sister, do you have a story?"

——The boss said "It's better to ask others this sentence".

Wanliang suddenly raised her head to look at him, and immediately laughed, her voice was like a silver bell, "Who doesn't have a story?"

"Especially—" Wan Liangyu held up the teacup in her hands, "like me who died early."

Lin Hong didn't expect that she would say that he was dead, so he tilted his head to look at her, "My sister is a sensible person."

"Understood." Wanliang sipped her tea and narrowed her beautiful eyes.

Lin Hong smiled, "Should I tell my sister's story or not?"

"Mr. Lin is willing to listen, of course I am willing to tell." Wan Liang put down her teacup, "I am not even worthy of listening to other people's stories. It is rare that someone is willing to listen to my story. How can I not seize the opportunity?"

Lin Hong was noncommittal.

Wan Liang smiled wryly, "In short, life is boring, I can't help myself, I don't even deserve love."

Wanliang stretched out her jade hand, looked at her nails, "My story is probably about being brave once in a while."

"I would like to hear more about it." Lin Hong watched her, waiting for her to continue.

Wan sneered, "Secretly meeting my beloved, I died for it."

The slaves of the Dazheng Dynasty could be bought and sold at will. Volume 23 of "Zhenglv Shuyi" reads: "The slaves are tied to the master, and their life and death are up to the master... It is not a crime to rape one's own wife, guest daughter, and slave girl." (Note 1 ) The master can beat the slaves at will, and even kill them without reporting to the government.

If Wan Liang dares to have a private meeting with her lover even though she is a concubine, then it is indeed brave.

"It's my good fortune to meet him, even if I die." Wan Liang's eyes were a little cloudy, as if soaked in memories, with a smile on her lips, "I'm content to think that the people I love are still alive. "

"Sister is admirable." Lin Hong suddenly felt that he was short of words.

Naturally, there are quite a few minions and servants in his family, and he is aware of their difficulties, and has always been a brother and brother, never thinking of doing anything to harm them.

This sentence "admiration" is absolutely against my will, but it also has a hint of regret.

"Thank you, Mr. Lin." What is lacking when you are alone and helpless is a person who agrees.

Lin Hong raised his question, "I just don't understand, why is my sister asking me so many times?"

Wan Liangyu rested her head on her hands, "My sweetheart is a knight who punishes evil and promotes good, so I naturally want to be like him."

"Anyway, sister thinks I'm a villain?" Lin Hong didn't know whether to laugh or cry, Duan Yu really hit it off.

Wan Liang looked at him and smiled softly, "Now I see that Mr. Lin is not that kind of person."

"Then what kind of person is Hu Zhan?" Lin Hong looked at her, reminding her, hinting at her.

"He has something on him." Wanliang took out the sachet she was going to give to Lin Hong just now, opened the sachet with fingers like shaving onion roots, pulled out a gauze bag wrapped in spices, and even brought out a Beautiful glass earrings.

She twisted the glazed pan with two fingers, and placed it on Lin Hong's palm, her raised loving eyes were a little cold, but there was a smile on her lips, "The person Mr. Lin hates is also the one I hate." people."

Wan Guchuan kept looking there, and his eyes fell on the hands they held.

Duan Yu puffed out his cheeks and kept chewing, looked up and saw Wan Guchuan's expression, he was startled, and followed his gaze, "Brother Wan, why have you been watching, the porridge is cold."

"I'm afraid something will happen to him." Wan Guchuan still looked sideways.

Duan Yu continued to chew, thinking to himself, are you afraid that something will happen to him or that he will have sex?

Lin Hong grasped the glazed pan and understood what she meant.

At the same time, I also understood that Wanliang really wanted to harm him just now...

"Harm..." Lin Hong returned to the table where the two were sitting.

Wan Guchuan looked at him, waiting for him to speak.

"I look like a 'womanizer'??" Lin Hong QAQ sadly.

Both of them looked at him, Duan Yu chuckled, "Looks like a dude."

Lin Hong was about to hit him on the back of the head again.

Duan Yu quickly shut up.

Lin Hong stepped to the bench with long legs, sat down, and explained in detail what happened to Wanliang and him.

"It seems that the man she met privately is still alive." Lin Hong said.

Wan Guchuan pondered, "She said 'all' the people she loves are still alive?"

Lin Hong nodded, "This is definitely what she said."

"So, 'the person she loves' refers not only to that man, but who else?"

"I... didn't ask." Lin Hong looked over, and Wanliang had disappeared.

"There are really too few clues," Lin Hong began to shake the chopsticks again, "I returned the box to that crazy woman last night—it was indeed what she was looking for, and this is her end." Wish it, but we haven't been able to go back."

"It means that she is not the key, or..." Wan Guchuan said, "There is more than one ghost here, and we can only go back if they all fulfill their wishes."

Lin Hong counted in his heart, so many... It's good... "Will there be a connection between them?"

"Hard to say."

"What does that crazy woman want with that thing?" Lin Hong felt very puzzled.

Holding the teacup, Wan Guchuan took a sip of tea, "How do you know that 'she' must be a woman?"

"What!" Lin Hong looked at him in shock, "You're right!"

The "woman" had a saw-saw-like voice, and it really made sense to say that 'she' wasn't a woman.

Lin Hong thought, if her expression wasn't so ferocious, she would be considered a beauty, right?

"If this is the case...then this brother is too miserable..."

Duan Yu also swallowed with some sympathy, feeling the pain below... "Is he a eunuch?"

"No." Wan Guchuan said, "The eunuch will be cleaner than him after castration."

Lin Hong had heard that some officials in the Dazheng Dynasty would keep actors and prostitutes in their courtyards outside. In order to prevent them from having relationships in places they could not see, they would castrate actors to a certain extent.

It was too offensive, he didn't want to say it.

All three remained silent.

"Why don't we split up?" Lin Hong sat up straighter, as if he had made a big decision, "The inn is not very big, if we encounter any situation, just call and finish."

"That must be done before you cool down." Wan Guchuan disagreed.

"I can't!" Duan Yu disagreed even more.

"Then you all go together, and I will go by myself." Lin Hong was very determined, "Go home early as soon as you finish."

Wan Guchuan wanted to say something, but Lin Hong had already waved at him.

"Shout when something happens." Wan Guchuan looked away.

Wan Guchuan and Duan Yu went upstairs.

Lin Hong wandered around in the lobby.

In fact, Lin Hong separated the two of them because he wanted to wait for the boy to come to him - who made this boy always appear when he was alone.

It's a pity that I wandered around for a long time and couldn't wait.

He saw a waiter in the shop turning out from the back of the corridor with a mattress in his arms.

A few days ago, he and Duan Yu went all over the inn, but there was nothing behind the corridor, where did they move out the mattress?

"Stealing things and hiding behind the corridor? Do you want the boss to know?" Lin Hong provoked him.

"No, no!" The waiter in the shop was startled when he heard that he was going to sue the boss for stealing things, there is nothing wrong with wanting to accuse him of the crime!

"The guest officer misunderstood. We have an underground warehouse behind the corridor. I'm going to get the mattress to send to the guests. I'll see if you can get me..."

"It's just a misunderstanding," Lin Hong patted him on the shoulder, "Then go get busy."

Xiao Er agreed, and hurried for a walk.

Lin Hong wandered around for a while, taking advantage of no one's attention, he leisurely went around to the back of the corridor.

He looked and looked, but didn't see any clues, and there was no entrance.

He moved his gaze to the floor, where a few inconspicuous handprints were printed on the thin dust.

Lin Hong squatted down and looked carefully, and he really saw a gap. He tried to pick it with his nails, and a small square grid trembled. When he tapped his knuckles, the sound was crisp—it was empty.

Hidden very deep.

Lin Hong saw a thin piece of copper lying on the ground next to him, so he reached out to pick it up and inserted it into the gap. It fit just right, and he pushed it hard, "squeak"—the door on the ground opened.

A damp, musty smell rushed towards Lin Hong's nose. He stretched out his fingers and rubbed his nose. This... where is the bedding?

A staircase leads into darkness.

Lin Hong wanted to ask Wan Guchuan and the others to go down and have a look together, but just as he was about to walk away, he caught a glimpse of a small figure flashing past from below, and Lin Hong stopped in his tracks.

The person he was looking for appeared.

He hesitated for a moment, this kid always came to him when he was alone, don't let Wan Guchuan and Duan Yu scare people away.

If you don't enter the tiger's den, you won't get a tiger cub. Lin Hong summoned up his courage and decided to go down and have a look by himself.

He rummaged through his purse, trying to throw something on the ground to show Wan Guchuan and Duan Yu where he was.

If it is too expensive to throw away, it will be troublesome if someone picks it up. He found a wooden handle, which fits well. Duan Yu also saw him playing with it.

Getting ready, Lin Hong walked down.

The more you go down, the more musty smell becomes stronger.

There was a burning candle some distance away from the stairs, so the eyes were not completely dark, but it was still very dark. Lin Hong still walked with some difficulty, for fear that he would fall down the stairs if he stepped on the air...

At the end of the stairs, there was a fairly spacious space, with a faint candle flickering in the darkness, and the surroundings were so quiet that Lin Hong felt that his deliberately light footsteps were a little loud.

In the dark, Lin Hong saw all kinds of debris piled up all around, messy, not neat, and there was no bedding as the waiter said. It didn't look like a warehouse at all, but a garbage dump.

Lin Hong didn't see the child either.

He observed carefully, and he saw broken enamel bowls, torn puppets, tattered coir raincoats, half straw hats, moldy fish baskets, rusty swords...

The atmosphere is weird and depressing...

Lin Hong really wanted to leave, not for any other reason, but because he was afraid of mice...

He looked around, and there was indeed no such little boy, he was just about to leave.

Turning his head, he suddenly saw the little boy sitting on a pile of sundries!

The boy sat there with his head tilted, candlelight and darkness flickered on his face, Lin Hong felt that his face was in chaos, and he couldn't see his facial features clearly.

"Brother, do you want to play hide and seek?"

Lin Hong's heart beat a little faster, "Play. Let's go up and play."

"I don't want it." The little boy shook his body from side to side, "The three of us can play here."

three?

Lin Hong felt chills down his spine, "Isn't it just you and me here? Why are there three people here?"

The little boy stopped shaking, and asked with doubts in his tone, "Isn't there another one behind you?"

"Shua—"!

The only remaining candle was extinguished in an instant, and the surroundings were plunged into darkness!

Lin Hong didn't look back, and immediately ran towards the place where he came down!

The candles on the road were extinguished one by one, and the darkness behind them chased after them.

Lin Hong almost tripped over the steps, and he saw a little light—it was the door when he came!

A shadow suddenly appeared there, seemingly looking in.

Lin Hong felt that something was pulling on the hem of his clothes, so he couldn't care less and rushed out.

"Zra—" the fabric ripped open.

Lin Hong crashed into one's arms.

Wan Guchuan embraced Lin Hong with one hand, and pressed the other hand on the sword hilt at his waist, watching the movement below with his dark eyes.

However, there was silence below, and he could only hear Lin Hong's heartbeat.

He lowered his eyes to look at the person in his arms. He usually looks very well-proportioned, but in fact he is a little thin, and Wan Guchuan can hold it with one arm.

It was very warm, and I suddenly didn't want to let go.

Duan Yu is as quiet as a chicken next to him, it's okay for Brother Lin to be confused, why is Brother Wan also confused?

Lin Hong came over slowly, and pulled Wan Guchuan to make him back up, "Go, go!"

"Where are you going? There is nothing behind you." Wan Guchuan let go of him, protecting him for fear that he would fall.

Lin Hong turned his head and took a look, but there was indeed nothing.

He lifted his hem with one hand—a piece was missing, apparently torn off.

Wan Guchuan saw it, "What did you see?"

"It's the little boy I mentioned to you. He said there was someone standing behind me, and I ran out without looking." Lin Hong was still terrified.

Wan Guchuan cast his gaze into the darkness below, "You wait for me here, I'll go down and have a look."

"Don't." Lin Hong grabbed him.

"It's nothing, maybe there will be a clue." Wan Guchuan was about to leave.

"Stop!" Lin Hong grabbed him tightly, "Wait a minute."

Wan Guchuan watched him walk away, waited for a while, and watched him walk over with a lit candle and a handful of unlit candles.

Lin Hong solemnly placed it in his hand.

Wan Guchuan: "..."

Wan Guchuan went down, and Lin Hong stared down.

Duan Yu returned the wooden handle he picked up to Lin Hong, "We saw this, so we guessed you went in."

Not long after, Wan Guchuan came up from below, holding a rusty knife in his hand, and spread it out for the two of them to see, "This is exactly the knife that Bai Yingying was holding that day."

"No way!" Lin Hong looked at the knife, "The knife in his hand was shiny and sharp that day, it couldn't have become like this in just two days, right?"

Wan Guchuan was very sure, "I won't admit my mistake, this is it."

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Note 1: Refer to "Tang Law Shuyi"