Chapter 362: Old Secrets

After Duan Rong swept away those tails, he brought Xiao Yu to a courtyard of a private house.

This courtyard was very remote, and there was no one, covered with dust. It was obvious that no one had lived there for some time.

The two sat in front of the table and chairs in the main hall.

Duan Rong fetched some clean water from the well in the yard. They washed the dust off their faces and took a breath.

Duan Rong searched in the kitchen of this house and found some beans.

There was a vegetable patch in the corner of the yard, but the vines had dried up, obviously no one had watered them for a long time.

However, Duan Rong still found two sweet potatoes in the soil of the vegetable patch.

Duan Rong used his true energy to grind the beans into powder, then put in the sweet potatoes and cooked two bowls of sweet porridge.

Duan Rong brought the two bowls of porridge to the wooden table in the main hall, but Xiao Yu was so worried that he had no intention of eating.

"Eat a little." Duan Rong smiled and said, "I seldom cook."

Xiao Yu smiled bitterly, looked at Duan Rong, and asked, "How do you know that there is no one in this yard?"

Duan Rong took a bite of the sweet and sticky sweet potato, pointed to his nose, and joked, "I smelled it."

Xiao Yu smiled slightly and said, "Smell it? You have a dog nose?"

Duan Rong answered seriously, "Yes. I smelled it from a long distance. There is no human smell in this yard. Obviously no one lives there."

Xiao Yu rolled her eyes at him and said angrily, "The more you talk, the more outrageous it is. Then tell me, what does human smell smell like?"

"It's a strange and unpleasant smell. You won't understand even if I tell you."

Xiao Yu snorted coldly. Duan Rong was obviously talking nonsense.

"Look, I told you nicely, but you didn't believe it." Duan Rong said, "Eat it quickly, it will get cold in a while."

Duan Rong was naturally talking nonsense to Xiao Yu. It was quite easy for him to find an abandoned house to hide temporarily under the cover of his spiritual sense.

He said that just to chat with Xiao Yu and relieve her inner anxiety.

After Duan Rong's interruption, Xiao Yu's heart was indeed not as hot as before. She picked up the bowl and slowly finished the bowl of porridge.

The two hurried all the way, and they didn't eat much in the next two days. They just used dry food to fill their stomachs.

Originally thought that they would have a good meal when they got home, but they didn't expect that they would encounter a big change as soon as they entered the door!

This was the first bowl of hot food they had eaten in the past few days. Although it was just a bowl of sticky porridge, it was warm in the stomach after swallowing it, which was very comfortable.

The reason why Duan Rong brought Xiao Yu here was that he saw that Xiao Yu was in a bad mood and needed to calm down. Secondly, Yang Zhen asked them to meet at midnight, and it was just dusk now. They needed to find a hidden place and wait until late at night.

It was almost certain that this matter was related to Ruan Fengshan, so the next action was better for them to go underground and investigate in secret.

After the two of them finished their meal, Xiao Yu's mood was obviously better, but her mind was still constantly turning over all the things she had seen and heard during the day.

"Duan Rong, something must have happened? Something must have happened to my father and the others?"

Duan Rong looked at Xiao Yu's pale face and couldn't help but worry.

"Don't think about it. I met Yang Zhen at midnight tonight, and I should be able to know some hidden secrets."

After not coming back for three years, Xiangu County at midnight seemed to be a little different from usual.

Although it was still a familiar street market, the patrolling yamen runners had obviously doubled. In the deep darkness of the night, the sound of the night watchman's clappers came faintly.

A team of patrolling yamen runners yawned and walked over for a while, and two figures jumped out of the shadow of an alley.

The figure was very fast, and it flashed past and jumped into the alley of the residential houses opposite West Street.

Duan Rong and Xiao Yu moved almost silently. It was dark at this time. The two easily avoided the patrolling yamen runners. In just one stick of incense, they arrived in front of Jie Lei's abandoned old house.

It must be said that the place Yang Zhen chose was not bad. Jie Lei's place was very remote, and his case was three years ago. In many people's hearts, this house had been forgotten.

Duan Rong's eyes moved, and he and Xiao Yu jumped, like fallen leaves riding the wind, and fell into the yard.

Xiao Yu's beautiful eyes moved in the dark night, and her ears carefully distinguished the sounds around her, but Duan Rong had already turned his head and looked at a big beech tree in the corner of the yard.

Duan Rong shouted, "Come out. I saw you."

Xiao Yu's beautiful eyes swept over the big beech tree. She didn't find anything unusual. She suspected that Duan Rong was yelling at someone, but at this moment, she saw a black shadow suddenly jump down from the branches of the big beech tree.

The branches of the big beech tree shook as the man jumped down.

Yang Zhen stood under the big beech tree, looking at Duan Rong suspiciously, and asked, "How did you find me?"

In the dark night, Duan Rong chuckled and said, "I smell the smell of you."

Yang Zhen frowned and cursed, "I haven't seen you for three years. I haven't avenged the knife on my chest yet."

Yang Zhen said, and then he drew out a knife and slashed at Duan Rong.

In the dark night, the cold light was like water, and Xiao Yu stood there without moving.

Because when Yang Zhen made a move, Xiao Yu had already seen that he was only at the third level of the inner breath realm. How could he hurt Duan Rong?

Duan Rong took a step back to avoid Yang Zhen's knife and said coldly, "It's just a small wound, do you have to remember me for three years?"

Duan Rong's body, like a ghost, flashed left and right, and saw Yang Zhen a shock.

He could expected that Duan Rong entered Zongmen for three years. Their gap must be more and more, but at this time, Duan Rong was still scared to Yang Zhen.

And he hid himself in the big tree, and was glanced at a glance at a glance that he also made Yang Zhen also shocked his heart!

Yang Zhen saw Duan Rong's hands down, but just flickered with his blade, but his most powerful three -type killing tricks made it out, but even Duan Rong's hair did not encounter.

Suddenly Yang Zhen returned to the scabbard, and said, "Don't fight!"

Duan Rong laughed and said, "What? Don't revenge?"

Yang Zhen said: "Lao Tzu was bitten by a dog."

Duan Rong was scolded by Yang Zhen. But today he came to Yang Zhen, and it was not easy to scold back.

When Yang Zhen saw Duan Rong, he did not pay back, and the original anger in his heart disappeared. In fact, in the final analysis, he also owed his life.

Yang Zhen sighed: "Go, go to the dark room of the dry well. I will take you to see someone."

Xiao Yu suddenly asked: "Yang Zhen, my father Xiao Zongting is dead or alive?"

Yang Zhen's figure was slightly ate, but he said, "You know the person in the dark room, you know naturally."

After Yang Zhen finished, he walked to the dead well and jumped down.

Xiao Yu looked at Duan Rong a little worried. Duan Rong patted her shoulder and said, "It's okay, let's go down too."

Although Xiao Yu suspected Yang Zhen, she trusted Duan Rong. Since Duan Rong said that it was okay, there must be a reason for him.

Immediately, Duan Rong and Xiao Yu jumped into the dry well.

At this time, under the dead well, Yang Zhen had blown the fire and folded, and through the weak light, he saw a hole in the bottom of the dry well.

Yang Zhen got in from the entrance of the hole, and Duan Rong looked at the black shadow of Xiao Yu at the bottom of the well in the well, and said, "You follow me."

Duan Rong said that she also got in, and Xiao Yu finally got into the hole.

After drilling into the hole, he crawled a distance and came to one side.

From then on, walking forward is the corner of a martyrdom, shot from the corner with dim lights.

Yang Zhen hit the dust on his knees and walked forward.

Xiao Yu walked at the end nervously.

After turning that martyrdom, not far away, it is a bucket room.

Yang Zhen had gone in, Duan Rong and Xiao Yu stood at the door of the bucket room.

Under the dim light, I saw Yang Zhen's side and standing with a person.

The man was not high, and he only went to Yang Zhen's shoulders. He was wrapped in a headscarf on his head and a thick cotton coat on his body. The shadow of the headscarf covered his face and could not see his appearance.

Xiao Yu stood there and was wondering, who was that person.

But suddenly he heard a familiar beautiful girl, and called her with a crying cavity, "Miss Yu!"

The man screamed, and had rushed to her and rushed into her arms.

Xiao Yu had no flashing flashes, and she had tears in her eyes.

Although three years later, she couldn't forget that voice. That's Zhu Xiaoqi's voice!

Zhu Xiaoqi rushed in Xiao Yu's arms and cried for a while.

Xiao Yu asked with the tears on Zhu Xiaosa's face, and asked: "Xiao Qi, are you okay?"

"Miss, I'm fine."

"Xiao Qi, what about my father?" Xiao Yu asked anxiously: "Where is my dad?"

When Xiao Yu saw that Zhu Xiaoqi was okay, the depressed mood in her heart was suddenly slow. She expected that since Zhu Xiaoqi was okay, her father should be fine.

But I did not expect that Xiao Yu asked, Zhu Xiaosi cried even more fierce, and said, "Miss, Master, he died!"

Xiao Yu heard the word of death, and suddenly like a thunder, and the emotions in her heart, such as the mountains and the sea, instantly knocked down her.

Xiao Yu's eyes were dark and fainted.

"Miss!" Zhu Xiaoqi screamed.

The moment Xiao Yu fainted, Duan Rong grabbed her, Duan Rong supported Xiao Yu with one hand and leaned on his body. As soon as he turned his left hand, a porcelain bottle was held in his hand.

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Duan Rong held Xiao Yu in one hand, and handed the porcelain bottle in his hand to Zhu Xiaosi beside him, saying: "Take one capsule and feed your lady to eat."

Zhu Xiaosi took the porcelain bottle in Duan Rong's hand, poured out a pill out of the pill, and fed it into Xiao Yu's mouth.

Duan Rong rubbed Xiao Yu's throat and let her swallow the pill.

Zhu Xiaosi noticed that Duan Rong's intimacy against Xiao Yu, a bruise in his eyes flashed.

After Xiao Yu swallowed the pill, but after counting the rest, she woke up leisurely.

As soon as Xiao Yu woke up, he grabbed Zhu Xiaoqi and asked sharply: "Xiao Qi, how did he die?" Say! "

Under the dark yellow light, Xiao Yu's forehead, the blue tendons rose, apparently the emotions were fiercely surging.

"It's Ruan Fengshan killed Master!"

"Ruan Fengshan?!" Xiao Yu and Duan Rong heard that they were cold.

This answer, the two also guess a bit, but at this time, Zhu Xiaoqi said that they were still like a lightning strike.

Xiao Yu was so angry that he drank: "Dad, he is loyal to the darts! Why did Ruan Fengshan kill him?!"

Zhu Xiaoqi wiped the tears on his face, and took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Xiao Yu, saying: "This was written by the master before going out that night. I would like to tell me to give you. "

"Dad gave me? ..." Xiao Yu took the letter and looked at it, but saw that there was no word on the cover of the letter.

She immediately tore open the envelope and pulled out a thick stack of letter paper.

Xiao Yu felt a pain in her heart when she saw the handwriting. Although it was hastily written, it was obviously the handwriting she had been familiar with since she was a child. When she was still a child, Xiao Zongting took her to copy calligraphy.

At this time, the father and daughter were separated by life and death. Seeing the handwriting again, Xiao Yu felt as if her heart was being cut by a knife.

"Xiao Yu, my daughter, I am writing to you..."

Although the letter was written to Xiao Yu, Xiao Yu handed the letter paper to Duan Rong without reservation after reading each page.

The two read more than a dozen pages of densely packed letter paper in the dim light with a focused expression. Xiao Yu sniffed and wiped tears while reading.

Not long after, they all finished reading.

After reading, they were silent, with a thoughtful light flashing in their eyes.

Zhu Xiaoqi had not read the letter, and she did not know many of the secrets in it.

Speaking of which, this matter has to start with an old story more than ten years ago.

This old story was also known to everyone at that time, but many years have passed and it has been buried in the dust of history, and few people remember it.

But Xiao Zongting will never forget this matter.

Because his leg was lame in that battle!

His martial arts were also ruined in that battle!

The old shopkeeper of Yuanshun Escort Agency also died in the siege of a group of masters in that battle!

That night was like crying blood!

How could he forget? How dare he forget?

After the battle that night, the old shopkeeper died, and he escaped, but his martial arts were completely ruined. He fell seriously ill and almost died!

It was when he was seriously ill and comatose that his wife died of dystocia due to excessive anxiety, leaving only Xiao Baiyu, who was born with a disease.

Such a great hatred, Xiao Zongting was like having his bones and heart cut out. For more than ten years, he has never wanted to avenge this hatred? !

Although he had lost all his martial arts skills, he had been in the martial arts world for many years, and he was generous and had many friends.

As soon as he recovered from his illness, he immediately began to investigate the matter.

But such a big move actually organized more than ten masters to besiege his Yuanshun Escort Agency's escort team. After a detailed investigation, there was no clue.

Even Xiao Zongting was not familiar with the martial arts of those people.

He knew many masters in nearby counties and prefectures, and he also knew a little about their methods.

He was sure that those masters who besieged the escort team were not masters from nearby counties and prefectures.

But who was it? Who could organize such a group of masters from other places to besiege them? Who on earth could be so well-informed? ! And what deep hatred did he have with them? !

Xiao Zongting used various means and inquired for many years, but still had no clue.

However, just over half a month ago, Xiao Zongting suddenly saw a middle-aged woman in front of the beef soup stall in Xiangu County.

The woman had gained some weight, and there were a few white strands in her hair, and her face was full of sadness.

But when Xiao Zongting passed by there, he felt that the woman looked familiar.

He limped past the woman's stall, and although he was puzzled, he didn't intend to investigate further.

But just as he was about to leave, it was as if a divine light suddenly appeared in his mind, and he remembered who the woman was.

Xiao Zongting immediately turned his head, walked to the side of the woman, and suddenly shouted: "Li Man!"

Li Man was suddenly called by someone, and immediately turned her head to look at Xiao Zongting.

The two looked at each other and recognized each other instantly. More than ten years have passed, and although both of them look a little old, their big looks are still there.

Li Man immediately wanted to escape, but was caught by Xiao Zongting.

Speaking of which, there was one thing that made Xiao Zongting feel uneasy. After he recovered from a serious illness, he heard that after the old shopkeeper died, his wife, who was too sad and heartbroken, also fell ill and followed the old shopkeeper.

The reason why Xiao Zongting felt uneasy was that he and the old shopkeeper were as close as if they were wearing the same pants. The old shopkeeper had talked to him about almost everything at home and outside.

He knew very well that the relationship between the old shopkeeper and his wife was not good. The two often quarreled and even slept in separate rooms.

The wife was a lady from a noble family since she was a child, and the old shopkeeper was a rising rogue after all. The two had almost nothing in common.

And this Li Man was the lady's personal maid brought from her natal family, who grew up with the lady since she was a child.

A few days after the lady passed away, Li Man disappeared.

Because she was just a maid, the escorts didn't care much at the time. It was just that Ruan Fengshan asked people to look for her, but later it was left unresolved.

Over the past ten years, Xiao Zongting has been thinking about that old incident all the time.

Countless strange doubts have passed through his mind countless times.

The disappearance of Li Man is one of them.

At this time, he suddenly met her on the street of Xiangu. Xiao Zongting almost regarded this as God's arrangement, and immediately dragged Li Man to the wild lake behind the City God Temple for questioning.

Li Man had been away from home for more than ten years, wandering and helpless. She originally thought that after more than ten years, no one should mention that old incident again, and she was already old, and she didn't want to die outside.

But who would have thought that she had just returned to her hometown and just took a bite of beef soup that she hadn't tasted for many years, and was caught by Xiao Zongting.

Who can say that this is not God's will? !

When Xiao Zongting asked, Li Man had already been disheartened! She told everything she knew without hiding it!

It turned out that Ruan Fengshan was not the biological son of the old shopkeeper at all! He was the wicked son born from the affair between his wife and his cousin!