Chapter 23 heart out

This night Yun Jisang slept exceptionally soundly, and even Ming Huan, who always liked to sleep in, got up earlier than him.The little girl was so frightened last night that she insisted on pestering Master to go with her.When she rubbed her eyes and got up in a daze, her eyes lit up. When did Kazuki bloom by the bed?Taking a closer look, it was Zhuo Anjie's graceful and unrestrained figure. "Xi Gu..." she opened her mouth and called. "Hush—" Zhuo Anjie stretched out her finger to compare her lips, and then pointed to Yun Jisang who was sleeping. Ming Huan nodded in a sensible way.

Zhuo Anjie gently picked her up and walked out of the room, then quickly turned around with her in her arms, and then kissed her face fiercely: "My daughter Ming Huan was happy with you yesterday. Fu sleep, do you think Aunt Xi is still alive?" Ming Huan shook his head instinctively, thinking it was wrong, he nodded hastily. "Little heartless, I know how to be with your master!" Zhuo Anjie lightly scratched her nose. For some reason, Ming Huan felt that today's Xi Gu was extraordinarily happy and beautiful. What happened?The flowers will become beautiful because you Minghuan has watered them.Xigu didn't have anyone to water her, so did she secretly wash Xiangxiang by herself?Ming Huan naively guessed.

"Sister woke up so early!" Someone greeted coquettishly at the door.Zhuo Anjie turned her head to look, but it was Wang Biyan who was carrying a food box. "Hey, Madam Ru came to bring us breakfast again? I'm really bothering you." Zhuo Anjie laughed. "What's the trouble, it's just a matter of time. Where's Shaoxia Yun?" Although Wang Biyan smiled, the uneasiness on his face was so obvious. The younger brother hasn't gotten up yet, so Mrs. Ru should go inside and sit down first. "Zhuo Anjie walked ahead with Ming Huan in her arms, while Wang Biyan behind her walked in a panic, and almost tripped when she crossed the threshold.

"Madam Ru, be careful where you step." Zhuo Anjie turned her head and said with a smile.Wang Biyan forced a smile: "When will Young Xia Yun wake up?" "He came back late last night. I'm afraid he will sleep a little longer. Why, Mrs. Ru has something to do with him?" "Then... did he say anything?" Zhuo Anjie put Ming Huan on the ground, and said nonchalantly: "He said, he said that the wind down the mountain was too strong, and it made his brain hurt." Wang Biyan's face changed, he hesitated again and again, and finally said: "When Shaoxia wakes up, can you invite him to go to Yankong, he has something to say to Shaoxia Yun..."

"This mule refuses to talk because he is full of words, so he wants Mrs. Ru to find out the wind." Zhuo Anjie smiled and said, "Understood, let him go when the younger brother gets up." Wang Biyan seemed relieved, and said with a smile: "Then I'll go first, I put it here earlier, you take it easy." Zhuo Anjie turned around and stretched out her hand to stop her: "If Ma'am is in a hurry, why don't you wait for a while, wait for the younger brother to get up, and come with us to visit that mule." "This...well..." Wang Biyan nodded.

Wang Biyan wholeheartedly hoped that Yun Jisang would wake up soon, but he didn't wake up until Zhuo Anjie and Ming Huan had breakfast, put on a shirt and walked out of the house.Seeing Wang Biyan, Yun Jisang was taken aback for a moment, and then greeted: "Mrs. Ru is here so early, please sit down." Zhuo Anjie laughed and said, "It's still early? It's already early." Yun Jisang looked at the sky, and said in surprise: "It's really rare, I have slept for so long!" Zhuo Anjie handed over a towel: "Wipe your face first, I didn't call you because you were sleeping soundly. Mrs. Ru is here to deliver a message. Our elder brother has something to say, so let you go over."

"Talk to me about something?" Yun Jisang took the towel and was wiping his face. Hearing this, he was slightly taken aback, "If you have anything to do, brother Luo will come to the door by himself. Why do you have to work like a wife?" Wang Biyan sighed and said: "Young Xia Yun doesn't know, he never comes to Ou Xingju, saying that it is haunted by ghosts." "Haunted?" Yun Jisang and Zhuo Anjie looked at each other, they didn't expect that this puppet master was afraid of ghosts. "Yeah, I know it sounds funny, but sometimes there are children laughing in this house in the middle of the night, which sounds creepy."

Hearing what Wang Biyan said, Yun Jisang and Zhuo Anjie thought of the three boys who could laugh at the same time, and couldn't help but smile at each other. "What's even more frightening is that Yan Kong saw Li Wuxin's ghost once!" "Oh? Really? When did it happen?" Yun Jisang's eyes lit up. "Not long after Li Wuxin's death, he passed by here one night, wanting to come in to see the puppets Wuxin left behind, but unexpectedly, he ran into a ghost and was almost scared to death. "Is it really Li Wuxin himself? Isn't someone else pretending to be?"

Wang Biyan hesitated for a moment: "He didn't say that, but according to him, he used all his strength and gave the ghost several palms, but the ghost didn't respond at all, which scared him." "Junior brother, could it be that..." Zhuo Anjie also came to her senses. "That's right, the so-called Li Wuxin's ghost that Brother Luo met was probably that faceless puppet last night." Yun Jisang said clearly. last night?Have you met the faceless puppet?Which... did it kill? "Wang Biyan asked timidly. "I didn't kill anyone... let's go, let's visit Brother Luo, there are some things that need to be clarified."

"Let's go after dinner." Zhuo Anjie persuaded. "No, it will change later." Yun Jisang threw the towel on the back of the chair and walked out.Zhuo Anjian smiled and shook his head, picked up Ming Huan and followed behind. Ming Huan tilted his head to look at Yun Jisang for a while, then leaned into Zhuo Anjie's ear and whispered, "Xi Gu, Xi Fu looks good today, like... just like..." "like what?" "It's like... I just ate a lot of fruits." Ming Huan said innocently. Zhuo Anjie couldn't help but burst out laughing: "Will you be very proud after eating fruit?" Ming Huan nodded seriously.

"Well, from now on, Gu Xi will invite you to eat fruit every day, okay?" "it is good!" After hearing this, Yun Jisang said without looking back, "Senior Sister, keep your mouth full of virtue." Ming Huan hugged Zhuo Anjie's neck, and asked innocently: "Xi Gu, what is Jide? Do you want to put it on your mouth? Is it Guoguo?" "Giving virtue..." Zhuo Anjie thought for a while, "Giving virtue is to make the good things you do to others bigger and bigger, and then good things will happen to you..." Ming Huan turned his head and thought for a while: "Then Xifu said that Xigu's mouth is full of virtue, is it because Xigu did a lot of good things to Xifu with her mouth, and then a lot happened to Xigu herself. Big good thing?" After hearing this, Yun Jisang couldn't breathe, and suddenly coughed. Zhuo Anjie looked at him and smiled: "Yes, great, great things have happened to both of us!" Ming Huan couldn't help clapping her hands and cheering after hearing this. Wang Biyan followed behind the two, listening to their intimate conversation, felt a little sour in her heart.Those childhood whispers, those transparent innocence like thin ice, weren't they also the most precious memories that made you cry when you dreamed back at midnight? A dandelion flower that just bloomed was blown away by the wind, and the tiny white down just flew away into the distance. Yeah, that's all gone, gone, like dandelion down.After the wind blows, all that is left is the naked and lonely flower stalk. Seeing that he was going to Qiansi Hall, Yun Jisang couldn't help slowing down. Under the sun, the bronze sparrow held its head high, with its golden wings spreading, as if it would ride the wind away in the next moment.But after all, its feet are firmly fixed on the top ridge of Qiansi Hall, and it will not be able to go straight up to Qingyun throughout its life. Cao Zhong's fate is so similar to this bronze sparrow that flutters its wings but cannot fly. Just tomorrow, the imperial court will issue a decree to entrust him to Beijing.However, once the matter under the mountain is exposed, the entire puppet sect may suffer catastrophe, let alone him as the sect master.Those who earn money without virtue will suffer.This sentence may be the truest portrayal of this hero's life. "Young Xia Yun, where are you going?" Following the cold voice, Mei Zhaoxue in a black robe supported the trembling Ouyang Gaolun and turned out from behind a screen wall. Ming Huan saw this slightly scary old lunatic, and hurriedly shrank his little head into Zhuo Anjian's arms. Yun Jisang bowed in salute: "We are going to visit Brother Luo, Madam, this is..." "I originally wanted to clean up my uncle's place, but he insisted on going out, and Xiao Quan didn't know where he went. I was afraid that my uncle would get lost, so I was going to help him around." "Where's Master Cao?" Zhuo Anjie asked. "He said he was going to visit Father Peter and went out early in the morning." "Well, then don't bother Madam, let's go first." Yun Jisang nodded slightly. Watching their backs gradually go away, Mei Zhaoxue smiled slightly, and supported Ouyang Gaolun to the east. "It's rare for this old lunatic to run around like this without falling off the cliff and falling to his death." Zhuo Anjie patted Ming Huan lightly.Maybe it was because the other party frightened Ming Huan, she has always disliked this crazy old man. "Mrs. Ru, Mrs. Cao, does she often go to Elder Ouyang's?" Yun Jisang hurriedly changed the subject. "That is, in this world, Elder Ouyang is her only relative. If it were not for keeping him in the puppet gate for the elderly, she would not marry the master." "Oh, it's rare for Mrs. Cao to have such filial piety." Yun Jisang said indifferently, as if remembering something, and asked again: "By the way, Mrs. Cao should be the second son, right? How is her relationship with the young sect master?" "How? Can it be better? Who wants to put a little mother on their head? Besides, the death of the master's original partner is not very honorable. Bie'er already has resentment, and the matter of the sect master's continuation, the relationship between him and the master There was a lot of trouble at one time, but in the past two years, Fatty Hong has been involved in it, and it gradually got better." "The door owner's original match? Who is that?" "She had already passed away when I started. I only know that she is the beloved daughter of the former head of the sect. She has always disliked the master, and she was not happy after marrying the master. It seems that she hanged herself later. As for why, it is not very clear. " "Oh..." Yun Jisang nodded and didn't ask any more questions. While speaking, Luo Jiankong's mansion was in sight. The cyan tile-roofed house stands still in the wind, and the weeping willows in front of the door are dancing obliquely. Under the contrast of movement and stillness, it reflects a kind of gray uneasiness Looking at this familiar yet unfamiliar place, Yun Jisang was suddenly startled. "Junior brother, what's the matter?" Zhuo Anjie followed up and asked with concern. ? "Nothing, let's go in." "Jian Kong! Jian Kong! Shaoxia Yun is here!" Wang Biyan called out loudly as soon as he entered the courtyard. The house is silent, the wind hits the window lattice, making a soft rustling sound, and the goldfish in the pond are spitting out blisters "boo" and "boo". An ominous premonition suddenly rose in Yun Jisang's heart, and he strode forward and pushed open the door. The living room was quiet, everything was orderly, but there was no sign of Luo Jiankong. "Why, isn't he here?" Zhuo Anjie followed in and asked in a low voice.Yun Jisang shook his head. Suddenly, strange footsteps sounded from the back room, low and low, not like the movement of people walking, but like the footsteps of puppets. Yun Jisang and Zhuo Anjie looked at each other, Zhuo Anjie handed Ming Huan to him, pulled out the Bieyue Sword, and walked forward slowly.Behind him, Wang Biyan's hands tightly wrapped around the handkerchief. Zhuo Anjie walked to the door, gently opened a gap with the blade of her sword, and looked inside. The house was in a mess, with various books and items scattered all over the place.In the dim light, there seemed to be a small figure walking slowly.Although it was hard to tell who it was, it was definitely not Luo Jiankong. Zhuo Anjie pushed the door with her left palm, she flickered slightly, and rushed in!Just when she was about to strike out with a sword that could not conceal her ears, she found that the short black figure was the wooden turtle that Luo Jiankong had made.Luo Jiankong is sitting on its back with his head down, no wonder he looks like a short person. Mule, what are you doing..." Zhuo Anjie smiled and retracted her sword, then stopped suddenly, she had already seen the mottled blood on the ground! Yun Jisang also rushed in, and his expression changed immediately when he saw this. At this time, the wooden tortoise had run out of spring and stopped.Yun Jisang stepped forward intently, and turned Luo Jiankong's body around.Luo Yankong's face was pale, and blood was gurgling out from his chest and abdomen. "This is..." Zhuo Anjie looked at the wound on his chest with cold eyes. An oval blood hole suddenly appeared in Luo Hankong's chest, the edge of the hole was very smooth, Bai Sensen's ribs were forcibly broken open, and the heart of the corpse was dug out. "Pull out your heart so that you can't speak..." Yun Jisang said in a low voice with a serious face, "Brother Luo is the third victim." "No matter who the murderer is, I will kill him!" Zhuo Anjie said with a cold face. "Ah—" At the door, Wang Biyan covered her face with her hands and let out a long scream. Yun Jisang turned his head and said, "Ming Huan, don't come in, just play in the yard by yourself." Then he whispered to Zhuo Anjie, "Brother Luo's blood hasn't congealed, which means the murderer left the murder not long ago. For some reason, he took Luo Brother's body is placed on this wooden turtle, you and I both know that this wooden turtle is powered by a mechanical spring, at most it can only walk a cup of tea..." "You mean, the murderer hasn't gone far?" Zhuo Anjie held on to the hilt of the sword, her phoenix eyes filled with murderous aura. Yun Jisang nodded, then pointed to the ground: "Besides, he also took away Brother Luo's heart." On the ground, dripping blood merged into a thin red line, leading straight to the rear window. "He can't get away!" Zhuo Anjie flew out of the window before he finished speaking. Yun Jisang told Wang Biyan: "Take care of Ming Huan!" and then chased after her. The two followed the blood trail through the backyard and into the forest. The strong wind was blowing, and the birch trees were trembling. The brown and white shadows of the trees were mottled, and the spots of scarlet were dazzling.The bloodstains stretched forward and gradually became rarer.Fortunately, both of them were good trackers, and they had already pinned down each other's tracks before the bloodstains disappeared, and followed closely all the way. Passing through the birch forest, there is a bluestone path in front of you, and the murderer's footprints have disappeared here. Yun Jisang said: "Let's search separately." "No, that faceless puppet is too powerful, we have a chance of winning together." Zhuo Anjie said decisively. Yun Jisang knew that the senior sister was worried about herself, so she didn't say much, glanced around, and said in a deep voice: "Over there..." He pointed to the south.The two headed south along the trail. After running half a mile, Cao Bian suddenly rushed out from the side of the road, his expression flustered like a frightened bird. When the three of them met each other, they were all shocked. "Young Xia Yun, Nv Xia Zhuo, what are you..." Cao Bian asked blankly. "Brother Luo was killed, we are hunting for the murderer." "What? Senior brother is dead? Who killed it?" Cao Bian panicked. Yun Jisang carefully observed his expression and saw that he did not seem to be a fake, so he asked: "Young sect master, have you ever seen suspicious people on the road?" "No, I saw you coming over." Zhuo Anjie didn't ask any more questions, and turned to chase north. Could it be that the murderer really ran in another direction?Yun Jisang jumped onto an ancient locust tree and looked to the south. Sure enough, there were no people on the road, only the vast pine trees shaking like weeping. "Young Xia Yun, who is the murderer?" Cao Bian raised his head and asked from below. "I don't know yet." Yun Jisang jumped off the ancient locust tree and hurried north. Cao Bian followed and asked as he ran, "He has already killed three of my senior brothers in a row. What exactly does he want to do? Is he going to slaughter all my puppet sects..." Yun Jisang interrupted him: "Master Young Master, I'll talk about it later, it's important to go after the murderer first!" Cao Bian showed displeasure, but finally stopped talking. The two chased northward for several li, and saw Zhuo Anjie solemnly holding her sword, standing quietly under a towering ancient cypress.The sound of a rumbling waterfall could be heard faintly in the distance, and it was obvious that this place was near the path up the mountain. Senior Sister..." Yun Jisang ran over, and as soon as the door opened, Zhuo Anjie made a silent gesture. "There is someone in the tree." She lowered her voice. Yun Jisang was startled, and raised his eyes to look at this ancient cypress.The ancient cypress, with dry beard and beard, stands tall, like ghosts and gods breaking through the ground from the underworld, quietly looking down at the mortals in front of them. "Do you see who the person above is?" Yun Jisang asked in a low voice.Zhuo Anjie shook her head slightly.This ancient cypress is lush with branches and leaves, and it is so gloomy that it is impossible to see anyone hiding in the tree.She also only discovered the extremely weak energy by relying on the swordsman's intuition. "Is the murderer... in front of you?" Cao Bian asked with a trembling voice. Yun Jisang didn't answer, but just stared at Gu Bai. The wind blew by, and the dark green cypress leaves turned into green waves billowing endlessly.Every time it was overturned, there seemed to be a monster that was about to come out, hunting down and devouring people. "I'll go up and have a look." Yun Jisang said quietly... "No." Zhuo Anjie refused without hesitation.Last night, although he only had one move with the faceless puppet, the other party's martial arts were so unpredictable that even he had no idea, let alone Yun Jisang, who had not recovered from his internal injuries? "Then... let's go up together." Zhuo Anjie remained silent, staring at Gu Bai, her five fingers holding the hilt of the sword were faintly white. "What are you doing here?" Unfortunately, someone asked loudly. "Yun Jisang looked back and saw a man in thin clothes and wide sleeves floating in the misty room. It was Cao Zhong. The green robe on his body was blown high by the strong wind, like an exiled fairy who came by the wind. There were still people around him. Follow Father Peter and Lee Jong-su. "Father, the elder brother was also killed, and the murderer was on the tree!" Cao Bian shouted impatiently when he saw his father's figure. "What?!" Cao Zhong's face changed drastically, he tapped his toes on the ground, made a swallow orchid to copy the water, jumped ten feet in a row, soared into the air, and jumped up the tree. Yun Jisang was about to open fire to stop him, but Cao Zhong's figure was already submerged in the thick cypress leaves, as if swallowed by a black and blue monster, without a sound. "Father!" Cao Bian was concerned, he aimed at a thick branch, and jumped up.It's just that his lightness kung fu was not up to par, he only jumped more than five feet high, as soon as his hand touched the branch, he broke the thick branch, and fell down in embarrassment with a sound of "ouch". At this moment, Cao Zhong's astonished voice came from the tree: "Why are you?" Yun Jisang and Zhuo Anjie looked at each other, and they both flew towards Gu Bai. The cypress leaf is as sharp as a needle, piercing the skin, causing a dull pain.Yun Jisang didn't care about this much, parted the branches and leaves, and touched in the direction of Cao Zhong's voice. Pulling away the cypress leaves in front of him, he was shocked by the situation in front of him. On a horizontal branch ten feet away, Cao Zhong was standing tall, looking forward with glaring eyebrows.At the end of the horizontal branch, a boy in black stood there quietly with a blank expression, looking into the distance. "Xiaoquan?" Yun Jisang asked in surprise. "Why is he here?" Zhuo Anjie gently landed beside him. "Unexpectedly, it was this little bastard who killed some of my lovers!" Cao Zhong said angrily, and wanted to step forward and kill him under the palm of his hand. Yun Jisang quickly reached out to stop him: "Wait, he may not be the murderer." "Didn't Kebian just say..." Cao Zhong said in amazement. "Senior sister and I followed the bloodstains all the way to find the murderer, but there was no bloodstain on Xiao Xiao's body." Yun Jisang whispered. "Xiaoquan, are you here alone?" Zai Zhuo Anjie asked softly. Xiaoquan didn't answer, still staring blankly into the distance. "Xiaoquan, tell sister, what are you doing climbing this tree?" Xiaoquan remained silent, but raised his right arm flatly, pointing north. Yun Jisang looked in the direction of his finger, and suddenly his face changed drastically: "Faceless puppet!" Cao Zhong and Zhuo Anjie were startled at the same time, they raised their eyes and saw the white waterfall cascading down tens of zhang away.On the cliff beside the waterfall, a brocade-robed puppet stood upright, with black hair fluttering, and a pale face with no facial features facing them coldly.What's frightening is that it holds a black lacquer plate in its hand, on which is a bloody heart! Several people were so shocked by the bloody scene before them that they could not speak. At this moment, Cao Bian struggled to climb up, and screamed when he saw it: "Ghost! Indeed, even though it was in broad daylight, the puppet didn't have the slightest breath of life on it, but a trace of death. As if awakened by his loud cry, the faceless puppet turned around slowly, holding the lacquer plate, and walked on the cliff.Looking at the direction it is heading, it is the Qianren Waterfall! "Stay!" Even though he knew it was useless, Yun Jisang still shouted loudly. The faceless puppet seemed to have heard his voice, and it really stopped on the edge of the cliff.Below him is the rumbling ten thousand-zhang waterfall, and above his head is the clear daylight and blue sky.The puppet stood quietly between the sky and the water, holding his heart in his hand, as if he was thinking about something.What is it thinking? The talent and dreams under that cup of loess?Or is it a faint regret of not knowing the obscurity, not knowing the age? Are the indifferent bones under the wooden body singing the silent song in the deepest part of the soul? Suddenly, the puppet raised its head to the sky, and let out a mournful and passionate roar from its chest.The roar overwhelmed the wildly singing waterfall, and the sound continued for ten miles, as if it was going to stir up the earth to completely overturn, and shake the mountain to dust! A group of egrets screamed and flew past the puppet and went into the clouds. Looking at the group of egrets, the puppet suddenly stopped talking.Then, it leaned over and plunged straight into the white mist. Ah..." What happened in front of me was so unbelievable that even Zhuo Anjie couldn't help but whisper. The rumbling sound of the waterfall seems to be playing an elegy for this sad death. On the ancient cypress, several people were silent. "Master Cao, where does this waterfall lead to?" Finally, Yun Jisang asked openly. "The Reincarnation Pond at the foot of the mountain, and then the stream will flow into the Mo River." Cao Zhong came back to his senses, thought for a while and said, "But the water in the Reincarnation Pool is very deep and there are many rocks, so the corpse may not float away. " "Let's go down the mountain immediately." Yun Jisang said decisively. Cao Zhong nodded, and a cold light flashed in his eyes: "I also want to see, who is the murderer who killed the three disciples of my puppet sect!"