Even though the surrounding doors and windows were closed tightly, at this moment, Gu Yunzhen felt the cold wind blowing on her face like a knife.

She felt a faint chill rising from the soles of her feet.

The faces of Mrs. Murong, Murong Yong, Mrs. Murong, Murong Hui, Liu Muyu and others flashed in front of her eyes, and she was full of doubts, speculating about the various possibilities behind it.

For a moment, she couldn't help thinking of the dramas and story books she had read in the past, such keywords as white moonlight, cinnabar moles, family accidents, deep-rooted love, involuntary... substitutes, etc. filled her thoughts.

"Substitute." Gu Yunzhen murmured, as if talking to himself, but also as if asking Gu Yanfei, "Am I a substitute?"

After she said it, she felt that her guess was a bit absurd. She had only heard of someone looking for a substitute who looked similar, but she had never seen anyone looking for a substitute with the same character.

"It's indeed a 'stand-in', but," Gu Yanfei twitched the corner of his mouth mockingly, "Miss Liu should be the stand-in for Big Sister."

The tail of her slightly raised words revealed a hint of mystery that was unclear.

Based on the clues from the previous life, Gu Yanfei is 90% sure that Liu Muyu is Gu Yunzhen's substitute.

"..." Gu Yunzhen was at a loss, completely unable to figure out the meaning of Gu Yanfei's words.

Gu Yanfei went on to look at the second piece of silk paper in Fei Ge's biography, which was written about the real person Shangqing.

It has been more than 30 years since Shangqing Daoist joined Wuliang Temple when he was young, and worshiped Tiangang Daoist's first disciple as his teacher.

It is said that, like the legendary Tiangang Daoist, he was born with Taoism and extraordinary intelligence, especially good at talismans, alchemy, and Fengshui. After entering the temple, he quickly achieved great success in Taoism. less supernatural powers.

For example, he once saw at a glance that the ancestral grave of General Feng's mansion had been tampered with;

For example, he used a method to bring back the second girl of Changning Houfu who had been demented for five years;

For example, he used only one talisman to pull back the Seventh Young Master of Prince An's Mansion, who was stabbed to death with a knife, from the gate of hell...

There are countless such miracles, and the real person of Shangqing gained fame from this, and has the title of "living fairy".

After Gu Yanfei finished reading, he handed the two pieces of tissue paper to Gu Yunzhen.

Gu Yunzhen also looked at it seriously, and raised her brows in surprise when she saw that the second piece of paper was written about Shangqing Daoist.

Gu Yanfei caressed the depression under her lips with her index finger thoughtfully, and the old lady of the Murong family lying on the bed once again appeared in her mind, the death energy around her was thick and dense like a cocoon, tightly bound her in it.

"I once heard a story..."

As soon as Gu Yanfei raised his head, Gu Yunzhen raised his head from the tissue paper and looked at her suspiciously.

This is actually something that Gu Yanfei witnessed happened in a mortal town when he was in Yaoling Realm.

In a small town, a scholar accidentally saved a girl from a country gentleman's family. Because of the grace of saving her life, the girl married the scholar with a promise of her own body.

However, his wife was weak and died of illness less than two years after marriage.

The scholar accidentally found an evil book. In order to revive his wife, he locked his wife's soul in her skull with magic, and then buried the skull in the ground, watering it with blood every day, from mice, to chickens, to cows... …The amount of blood needed is getting bigger and bigger day by day, until it needs to be poured with human blood.

For this reason, the scholar did not hesitate to kill one person after another.

Flesh and skin grew little by little from the wife's bones, like seeds taking root and sprouting in the ground, but her body no longer had warmth, her limbs were stiff, and she couldn't see the light.

The wife didn't want to be resurrected, let alone become this half-human, half-ghost appearance.

But the scholar still forced it, he couldn't let his wife die.

Because the scholar's family was in decline, if it wasn't for the richness of the Yue family, he would have had nothing, and he relied on the Yue family to make a comeback.

Once his wife dies, without the help of his Yue family, the scholar will become poor again.

Gu Yanfei suddenly stopped here, her eyes darkened.

Gu Yunzhen's heart fluctuated with the story. At first, he was moved by the scholar's "affectionateness", and then he was entangled in the scholar's killing several people to save one person. Hearing this, he hated the scholar's selfishness and cruelty.

"Then what happened later?" Gu Yunzhen asked, feeling that the wife in this story was too pitiful.

Later...

Gu Yanfei blinked, as if returning to the memories of a hundred years ago.

Later, that wife was completely "resurrected" with flesh and blood, but her blood was black, and she became an irrational monster, killing a whole city of people.

At that time, Gu Yanfei was ordered by his teacher to go down the mountain to eradicate the evil things.

She witnessed a hell on earth with her own eyes. The wife was covered in human blood, her mouth was bloody, her hands were bloody, and she was still holding pieces of meat between her fingers, but she was crying, with two lines of black tears streaming down her face. Begging her: "Kill me!"

Gu Yanfei twitched her eyelashes lightly, after all, she didn't say this paragraph, but wrote lightly: "Later, that scholar was killed by his wife, and that wife also died."

"Any kind of magic has a price to pay."

As Gu Yanfei said, he took out a handkerchief from his sleeve and handed it to Gu Yunzhen.

"..." Gu Yunzhen opened his eyes slightly, and the tails of his eyes were red.

She was still immersed in Gu Yanfei's story and couldn't extricate herself, feeling empty in her heart.

The candlelight flickered twice, and a drop of transparent candle oil flowed down, like a line of clear tears, crystal clear under the light of the candlelight.

"Cuckoo."

The pigeon called softly, and the two sisters looked for the sound together, and saw the three-colored cat staring at the carrier pigeon, and the carrier pigeon shook its wings innocently.

Gu Yanfei grabbed the Sanhua cat, tapped the pink cat's nose, and said admonishingly: "You, don't just know how to bully Googo all day long. Googo is much more sensible and capable than you."

Goo-goo is the name Juanbi gave to that carrier pigeon.

"Meow!" the cat heard that its majestic spirit beast was being compared with mere pigeons, it almost didn't jump, and it raised its buttocks and sharpened its paws twice in protest.

Gu Yanfei continued to lecture the cat in a serious manner: "You, you always eat and sleep, and eat and sleep, do you know that you will become stupid?"

"Look at you, you are fat like a ball, be careful not to jump high or far!"

Gu Yunzhen looked at this person and cat, and was amused. He covered his mouth and laughed, and the little melancholy in his heart disappeared.

Seeing that she finally smiled, Gu Yanfei curled the corners of her lips, eyebrows and eyes.

"Miwu~" The cat leaned over and rubbed against Gu Yanfei's skirt affectionately, and acted coquettishly around her, with a milky and sticky cry, which meant that I was the cutest, most capable, and most sensible.

"Okay, stop being coquettish, and go to work obediently!" Gu Yanfei lowered her head and whispered a few words next to the cat's ear, then patted the cat's butt lightly, signaling it to go quickly.

It is the most powerful! The cat raised its tail high, squinted at the white pigeon not far away, and stepped out of the ancestral hall on its elegant cat.

The sky in winter darkens very quickly, the night has already fallen, and the Hou Mansion at night is empty and lonely, silent and cold.

The moon is sparse tonight, and the bright moonlight falls softly on the courtyard.

The cat walked swaggeringly in the mansion, jumped up the tree briskly, jumped over the fence, stepped on the tiles on the roof of other houses, and took a shortcut all the way to the north of the city.

It is going to the Murong Mansion.

The night belongs to cats, Qingguang doesn't recognize Murong's house, but other cats do, and even some cats show him the way.

It only took Sanhuamao a stick of incense to reach Anding Hutong where Murong Mansion is located.

It is really powerful, faster than a horse!

Thinking triumphantly, Qingguang licked his nose and paws.

The cat squatted on top of a high wall, condescendingly looking down at the gloomy mansion below, tilted the cat's face and thought for a while, and finally remembered.

By the way, the master said, the old lady's yard is coming in that direction!

The cat howled again happily, and jumped towards the northwest of Murong Mansion...

It also demonstrated its ability to climb over walls and climb trees, and climb up houses to remove roof tiles. It found the yard where Gu Yanfei mentioned that the old pines were dead and the pond was dry, and then found the tree closest to the window and quickly climbed up.

This time, its movement was a little too loud, and a branch of a tree was shaken by it to "rustle".

Pieces of dead leaves fell from the branches one after another.

Sanhua Mao took a high vantage point and glanced into the window, only to see an old woman lying on the bed against the wall in the house, and a couple of men and women in their forties sitting at the coffee table talking.

There was only a palace lantern lit with sheep's horns in the room, and the light was slightly dim, which made the atmosphere a bit depressing.

The cat outside the house simply lay on the branch and did not move.

The couple naturally heard the sound outside the window, but they thought it was the windy night. Mrs. Murong glanced in the direction of the window, and immediately looked away.

"Master, the Gu family has agreed to make a happy event. According to Shangqing Daoist's intention, I set the wedding date on New Year's Eve." Mrs. Murong said to her master with a happy face.

"Okay!" Elder Master Murong Hao stroked his goatee, said yes repeatedly in satisfaction, and then asked with a little displeasure, "Did Miss Yu run out today?"

Mrs. Murong nodded in embarrassment.

Liu Muyu is his niece, and he can hardly absolve himself of the blame for such troubles at such a critical juncture today.

Mrs. Murong coughed dryly twice, cleared her throat and said, "I was afraid that the Hou Mansion would be annoyed, but fortunately, Mrs. Gu is a sensible person and did not pursue it."

As she spoke, the corners of her plump lips curled up contentedly.

After all, the two families have already exchanged Geng invitations, and the marriage has been decided. With the character of the second son, the Gu family can't find such a good son-in-law even with lanterns!

Murong Hao heaved a sigh of relief, and didn't get too entangled, he just said: "Ma'am, since there will be no accidents in this marriage, let's marry him off."

"Master, don't worry." Mrs. Murong replied seriously, and quickly changed the subject, "Shangqing Daoist will come tomorrow, and will go to the Marquis Mansion with me."

"With the real person here, I feel relieved." Murong Hao stroked his beard again.

There was another rustling sound outside the window, and the swaying branches and leaves left a few hideous and weird shadows on the window paper, as if something was peeping at them from the darkness.

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