Chapter 27 Chapter 53: The Dead

Countless pictures are like broken fragments in my mind, incoherent but surging like a tide, the traces left after passing by are like being cut by a knife, there is a kind of severe pain mixed with a bit of fatigue.Wang Zongjing only felt that his head was about to explode. With his perseverance, he couldn't help but groaned in pain, and slowly opened his eyes. In the moment of sobriety at night, he looked at This place around me. Under the dim light and blurred vision, the whole room looked very dark.The slightly flickering burning candle made the shadows on the wall tremble slightly.A fat face, with a hint of caring, leaned close to his face, looking a little surprised, said: "Zong Jing, are you awake?"

Wang Zongjing only felt dizzy in his head, but he was still a little awake at last, and called out in a low voice: "Fatty." Ba Xiong suddenly became happy, reached out his hand to take off the wet towel on Wang Zongjing's forehead, probed it, and then nodded in satisfaction. Although he was still feverish, it was much better than the previous two hours. He hesitated for a while, I still went over and rubbed the wet cloth twice, dipped it again, put it on Wang Zongjing's head, and then said with a smile: "It's good if you wake up, it's really scary to see your fever and fever in front of you. .”

"Hmm..." Wang Zongjing agreed wearily, his eyes swept across the room, and he found that it was already late at night, and only Fatty Ba Xiong was still guarding the room.Turning his head, he nodded to Ba Xiong with some difficulty, and said, "Thank you." Ba Xiong waved his hand, not taking credit for it, and said with a smile: "I didn't do anything. In fact, during the day, your sister and others came to see you, especially your sister, who even brought Elder Zong over to give you a gift in person. Seeing a doctor is why you recovered so quickly. Miss Su and Diao Si have also been here to see you for a long time, and they just left not long ago."

"Well... Thank you for your hard work... I don't know what happened," Wang Zongjing said slowly, with a bit of effort, a wry smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "Suddenly he became ill like this." "Okay, okay, don't talk anymore." Ba Xiong looked at his appearance, and said hastily, "Take a good rest first, wait until the illness is cured, you can say whatever you want." Wang Zong nodded. He looked really exhausted, as if all the strength in his body had been drained, he struggled for a moment, tilted his head, and fell into a deep sleep again, even though Ba Xiong pushed him twice, Wang Zongjing also looked unconscious, and had no reaction at all.

Ba Xiong sat up straight, seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, stared at Wang Zongjing for a while, then raised his eyes, but slowly passed over the room.Simple furnishings, neat furniture, looking at everything in order, Ba Xiong stood up as if he was a little bored, and paced slowly in the room, the flickering candle shadows made his fat face look uncertain . After a while, he walked to the cabinet placed in the corner, stopped in his tracks, with a look of thought on his face, his palm lightly brushed over the cabinet, and some fat fingers lightly tapped on the surface of the pine cabinet , looked back, the room was silent, Wang Zongjing was still in a coma.

Ba Xiong withdrew his gaze as usual, remained silent for a moment, then turned his palms, reached under the cabinet, and opened the door at once.At that moment, his movements seemed to suddenly become agile. He searched for something in the wooden cabinet, and it didn't take him too much time. A yellow gourd is exactly the one that holds the elixir during the day. He looked back, Wang Zongjing still didn't respond at all, Ba Xiong's eyes flickered slightly, he stretched out his hand to remove the stopper of the gourd, put it in his nose and sniffed it, after a while he frowned slightly, as if he was a little confused.

He stood there hesitating for a while, then turned around and walked quickly back to the round table, brought the candle closer, then poured the gourd onto the table, and suddenly a dozen pills rolled out with the vibration of his wrist , lightly scattered on the table, almost all white Yangyuan pills. Ba Xiong looked at these elixirs lightly, but a disdainful smile slowly appeared on the corner of his mouth. After a while, his eyes suddenly focused, and he saw the pile of white elixirs in the dim light of the candle. , mixed with a yellow elixir that is obviously different, it looks like it stands out from the crowd, and at the same time, the fragrance of the elixir seems to be stronger.

Ba Xiong's face changed slightly, he stretched out his hand to pick up the yellow elixir, and looked at it carefully, but at this moment, in the originally silent room, there was a thin and slight sound from outside the room, like footsteps moving, and then Like the wind blowing willow branches, it was a subtle and unpleasant smell, but in this very quiet night, it came quietly and clearly. Ba Xiong frowned immediately, and his face turned cold for a while. After pondering for a moment, he quickly put all the white Yangyuan pills on the table back into the yellow gourd. When he finally got the yellow elixir, he hesitated. After a moment, he turned his hand and put it directly into his arms.Afterwards, he walked quickly to the pine cabinet, put the gourd back in its original place, and closed the cabinet door. Immediately, everything in the room seemed to be the same as before, as if nothing had happened.

Then, he turned his head to look outside the house, with a faint sneer on his face, stepped out and walked towards the door. When passing by the round table, he seemed to think of something, looked back at Wang Zongjing, then bent down, blowing lightly. Extinguished the candle on the table.Suddenly, darkness flooded in and flooded the room, causing Wang Zongjing who was lying on the bed to fall into that deep shadow. Ba Xiong stood up straight, and at this moment, his fat body turned into a huge shadow in the darkness. After standing there for a while, he quietly stepped forward, walked to the door, and opened the door. A cold night wind blew into the room, he paused, and then stepped out of the room.

The door closed gently behind him, leaving only darkness in the room. In the early morning, the rising sun sheds the first ray of light, slowly dispelling the coldness and darkness of last night, even through the closed doors and windows, one can feel the gradually brightening world. Wang Zongjing slowly opened his eyes on the bed in the dim room. Round tables and chairs, pine cabinets, claustrophobic doors and windows, everything is the same as before, a place he is familiar with.He watched silently, as if he felt a sudden strangeness that he had never had before, then slowly propped himself up with his hands and sat up.

There were many places on his body, and at the same time, there was a feeling of soreness, and the feeling of tiredness seemed to be still lingering. He sat in a daze for a while, and then the scene at Old Man Sun's house in Sun's Village appeared in his mind again. . He didn't feel angry, nor did he feel remorse or resentment. He just sat quietly on the bed alone in the dim light. Until suddenly there was a rush of footsteps outside the door, and he ran all the way to his door, and then the door was pushed open in a bit of urgency, and a slightly dazzling light shone in from the door, making Wang Zongjing slightly He narrowed his eyes, and after a while, he saw the small figure at the door, which was Xiao Ding. With an anxious and concerned expression on his small face, Xiao Ding hurried in and saw Wang Zongjing sitting on the bed with a haggard face. , are you okay? I just heard that you suddenly fell seriously ill yesterday when I came back. " Wang Zongjing smiled, shook his head slowly, with a tired expression, and said softly: "I'm fine, Xiao Ding." At this time, a figure flashed at the door, but it was Su Wenqing who came over, and after glancing into the room, he immediately expressed surprise on his face, "My lord, are you awake?" As she spoke, she walked quickly to the bed, and was about to reach out her hand, but when she stretched her hand halfway, she suddenly hesitated, and her movements slowed down.Wang Zongjing raised his head and glanced at her. Su Wenqing became calm at this moment, and reached out to touch his forehead generously, then smiled, and said with a smile: "Great, your fever has subsided .” Wang Zongjing smiled, and felt that his body was much looser than last night. At the same time, he remembered what Ba Xiong said last night, and felt a little grateful in his heart. He raised his head and said to Su Wenqing: "Listen to the fat man, I didn't feel sick when I was sick yesterday. Thank you so much for not bothering you.” Su Wenqing smiled sweetly, and at that moment she was really radiant, she pursed her lips and smiled and said, "It's a trivial matter, nothing to worry about. But you have such a good body, how can you just say you're sick?" Wang Zongjing smiled wryly, with a bit of bitterness in his smile, but he lowered his head and did not answer.Su Wenqing's eyes flashed, and he didn't ask further, but turned his head to Xiao Ding with understanding and said, "Xiao Ding, didn't you see anyone else when you came in just now?" Xiao Ding shook his head and said, "No, but as long as you are well, Brother Wang, if there is nothing else, I will go out to play." A smile appeared on the corner of Wang Zongjing's mouth, he reached out and touched his little head, and said with a smile, "I'm fine, you can go out and play." Xiao Ding laughed, turned around and walked out, only Wang Zongjing and Su Wenqing were left in the room.Wang Zongjing raised his head and said, "Where are Ba Xiong and Diao Si, why didn't you see them?" Su Wenqing said: "I haven't seen them yet, maybe they are still sleeping." After a pause, she continued: "The three of us stayed with you for a while last night, but I left first, so I don't know if they will continue to stay with you." Wang Zongjing said: "Oh, I seemed to wake up once last night, but I only saw Fatty alone, Diao Si should go back to the room first." Su Wenqing let out an "oh" and said flatly, "It seems that the fat man still has his heart." Wang Zongjing smiled, and said: "Fatty people are nice." He glanced at Xiao Ding's open door when he went out, then lifted the thin quilt covering his body, and prepared to turn over and get out of bed. Su Wenqing was taken aback, and said: "You are not well yet, what are you doing?" Wang Zongjing shook his head and said, "Go out for a walk, I'm very stuffy in this room, and besides, I feel that my body is much looser, so I think it's not a problem." Su Wenqing pondered for a moment, then nodded, and said, "Well, it's good to go out for a walk." While speaking, Wang Zongjing's movements seemed a little light, he hesitated for a moment, stretched out his hand, and said, "Let me help you." Wang Zongjing smiled, but he didn't accept her kindness, knowing: "It's okay, I can go by myself." After saying that he had landed on the ground, he stretched his muscles and bones, and then walked out to the courtyard. Su Wenqing followed him with some concern at first, but after seeing Wang Zongjing take a few steps, he didn't look tired. , On the contrary, he became more energetic, and even his pace accelerated a lot. It seemed that there was nothing serious, so he relaxed, smiled slightly, walked out of the door behind them, and came to the courtyard. In the yard, the willow trees were green, and Xiao Ding was playing with Da Huang and Xiao Hui on the grass in the courtyard. When he saw Wang Zongjing and Su Wenqing coming out, he waved to them happily.As for Da Huang and Xiao Hui, they both looked lazily, at most they glanced at this side, then turned their heads away again. Wang Zongjing walked slowly to the middle of the courtyard, and the breeze with a faint fragrance of green grass passed by, which immediately cleared his mind, and he couldn't help taking a deep breath. At this moment, he seemed to feel that his illness had been cured two points. The door of the Jinzi room opened behind them with a creak, and Qiu Diaosi walked out slowly with a slightly pale expression. When he saw Wang Zongjing, Su Wenqing and Xiao Ding all in the middle of the yard, He was obviously taken aback, then walked over, his gaze stayed on Su Wenqing's face for a moment, then he looked at Wang Zongjing, and said, "Zong Jing, why are you up, are you feeling better?" Wang Zongjing smiled and said, "It's much better." Qiu Diaosi nodded, and said: "That's good." Then he turned his eyes, looked around, and said, "Where's Fatty?" Wang Zongjing shook his head and said, "I don't know, I didn't see him when I got up in the morning." Xiao Ding, who was sitting next to him on the ground and scratching Dahuang's head, also yelled: "I didn't see him either." Wang Zongjing smiled slightly, and said: "Probably still sleeping. It seemed that he stayed in my room quite late last night, but unfortunately I fell asleep all the time afterwards, so I was so confused that I didn't know anything." Outside the courtyard, there seemed to be a noisy sound from a distance, as if the day had finally become lively, Qiu Diaosi glanced outside inadvertently, and said: "Then let him sleep for a while. By the way, you The sickness will be better, it is better not to blow outside too much, and go back to rest earlier." Wang Zongjing didn't take it seriously, and said with a smile: "It's okay, I just like to walk outside here, I feel a little stuffy after staying in the room for a long time, and it's even more uncomfortable." After Qiu Diaosi proved it, he did not continue to persuade. At this time, the noise outside the yard was louder. Through the opened gate, he could still see a few people rushing past on the main road of Yi Road outside. It was a little hasty. Su Wenqing frowned slightly, said "Hey", walked towards the door, and said at the same time, "What's the trouble this morning?" Qiu Diaosi and Wang Zongjing also followed her and walked to the gate of the courtyard. Even Xiao Ding became a little more curious, ran over and stood beside them, poked out Yuanyuan's head, and shouted: " what's wrong?" These people stood by the gate of the courtyard, their vision widened, and they saw many people coming out of their respective courtyards in front of them, as if they had some common place to go, they walked quickly towards the back garden of Qingyun Bieyuan. At the same time, those disciples were in groups of three or four, discussing something in low voices among themselves. Qiu Diaosi turned around in astonishment, and said: "Could it be that there is some news from the Qingyun Sect, are we going to gather today to discuss something?" "No." Su Wenqing looked calm, but frowned slightly, thought for a while, and said, "No one told us." It's just that at this moment, it seems that some news spread more and more widely in this other courtyard, and more people appeared one after another, and went to the back garden together.Everyone here in the 23rd Courtyard was a little puzzled. At this moment, Su Wenqing saw his elder brother Su Wenkang and two other friends walking quickly from not far away, and hurriedly stopped, saying: "Five , why did everyone go to the back garden, what's the matter?" Su Wenkang came over, with a strange expression on his face, casually glanced at Wang Zongjing and Qiu Diaosi who were standing beside Su Wenchao, his eyes were indifferent, Wang Zongjing was fine, but Qiu Diaosi's eyes flashed, his expression It was a little cold, but Su Wenkang naturally didn't care about these side details, so he just said to Su Wenqing: "Sister Qing, don't you know? Someone came to say this early in the morning. In the back garden, someone was found dead there this morning, and the person who died was still a disciple who participated in the Qingyun Examination." "What?" Su Wenqing, Wang Zongjing, Qiu Diaosi and the others were taken aback, stunned for a moment, but this was an unexpected accident, who would have thought that such an accident would happen at the foot of Qingyun Mountain .Under the shock, even Qiu Diaosi's face showed a trace of surprise, and after a while, everyone decided to take a look. Su Wenqing was still a little worried about Wang Zongjing's body, but Wang Zongjing himself felt that his spirit was better than before, so he insisted on going. Su Wenqing was still trying to persuade him, but suddenly he saw Su Wenkang around him throwing a strange message His eyes and cheeks were slightly red, and he lowered his head slightly, but he didn't speak.A few people walked down the steps and walked forward among the crowds. Xiao Ding walked a few steps, suddenly remembered the fat man, and ran back quickly. He ran to the earthen room with great loyalty and knocked on the door, intending to ask the fat man to watch it together. lively.Unexpectedly, after beating for a long time, the door of the fat man's house was still closed, and there was no response at all. Xiao Ding complained twice, but didn't bother to pay any attention to it, hurriedly ran out of the yard with Da Huang and Xiao Hui, hurriedly caught up with Wang Zongjing and the others, and went to see the unprecedented strange event in Qingyun Bieyuan together . The back garden, which was originally peaceful and quiet, looked around at this time, and there were already people flickering everywhere, and more people came here curiously after hearing the news.Wang Zongjing and others walked forward along the flow of people. As they walked, Wang Zongjing suddenly felt that something was wrong. Isn't the direction in front of him the same as the remote mountain wall where he usually comes to? How could someone die in such a remote place, and who could this be?Wang Zongjing was a little bit surprised and uncertain for a moment.Soon, everyone walked into the originally remote but already crowded under the mountain wall, and sure enough, they saw a lot of Qingyun sect disciples standing there, blocking a circle to block all the disciples of Qingyun trial. Including Mu Huaizheng, Liu Yun, Ouyang Jianqiu and even Wang Zongjing's sister Wang Xiyu and others, all stood in it with solemn expressions. A faint and terrified cry suddenly came from the bottom of the mountain wall, causing commotion among the people nearby, but when Wang Zongjing heard it, he was startled and almost cried out.Although he just had a serious illness, the voice sounded so familiar, there was no doubt that it was Su Xiaolian's crying. Impatient, he wanted to take a closer look, but there were already many people around the front, and Qing Yunmen disciples blocked the road, so they came a little later, and they were blocked in the outer circle at this moment.Wang Zongjing was so anxious that he didn't care about it for a while, he just squeezed in with all his strength, followed by Qiu Diaosi, Su Wenqing, including Xiao Ding and others, and quickly followed. There was a burst of curses from the people nearby, and Wang Zongjing just said: "Rang Rang, Rang Rang, I seem to know the people inside." As soon as this remark came out, the people in front were all dumbfounded, and they all stepped aside to make way for the people inside. They squeezed in without much effort. Arriving at the edge of the inner circle, the field of vision suddenly widened, and I saw two elders of Qingyun sect standing in the circle surrounded by Qingyun disciples, namely Zeng Shushu and Song Daren. To the side, talking softly about something.Not far from them, there was a person lying flat on the ground, motionless, with a straw mat covering his body, covering his face, it seemed to be the dead man. And three feet away from the dead body, there was a young girl sitting down, her face was pale, her body trembling slightly, covering her mouth with her hands, although it could be heard that she was trying her best to suppress it, she still seemed to be greatly frightened I couldn't help crying, two lines of tears kept dripping, it was Su Xiaolian. Wang Zongjing stood still in astonishment, he didn't know what to say for a moment, his heart was at a loss, he really didn't know what happened here.And Su Xiaolian was crying and trembling there, and she suddenly looked at this side from the corner of her eye, and saw Wang Zongjing's surprised and concerned eyes, her body trembled slightly, the tears were blurred, but it seemed to be crying more powerful. Wang Zongjing couldn't help taking a step forward, wanting to go over to comfort him, but he was stopped by the Qingyun disciple in front of him. Wang Zongjing was anxious and was about to explain to the Qingyun disciple, but at this moment, he suddenly heard Xiao Ding who was standing beside him suddenly let out a scream: "Ah, fat man, fat man..." Wang Zongjing was stunned for a moment, then turned his head to look at Xiao Ding, only to see Xiao Ding's eyes widened, but he stretched out his finger and pointed at the corpse in front of him.At the same time, even Su Wenqing and Qiu Diaosi, who were standing by the side, looked over in surprise. The three of them looked at each other, and then almost at the same time, their expressions changed drastically. The corpse under the straw mat. A gust of cold wind blew by, and the straw mat moved slightly. The covered corpse was fat and strong, vaguely familiar. Within the circle, Zeng Shushu and Song Daren are profound, and they both heard the commotion here, Zeng Shushu slightly frowned, glanced at Wang Zongjing, then took a step, but reached out and picked up the thin straw mat, When the light fell, the people around became quiet, and all eyes fell on that fat face. It was Ba Xiong.