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The night was full of snow outside the window, almost flooding half of the city, until after Mao, the sound of the wind that seemed to tear the sky and the earth stopped, and the sky finally cleared.

A bleak round of sun hung in the sky, making the winter clear. Lu Zhui was still wrapped in the Greatcloak, and did not get up. He just looked out the window and yawned and said, "It's dawn."

"It's weird." Xiao Lan said, "The snow was so heavy last night. It stands to reason that ordinary people would hide behind closed doors, but there was smoke and fire in this city."

Lu Zhui listened, and there seemed to be a lot of pedestrians on the street, and he could even hear the sound of a frying pan from the stall earlier.

"You'll get some more sleep." Xiao Lan sat up, "I'll buy some breakfast and come back, and then inquire by the way to see what happened."

"Together." Lu Chai sat up, stretched out his hand and rubbed his face indiscriminately, "I can't sleep alone."

Xiao Lan nodded, took one side of his clothes and covered his shoulders, and asked, "Dreaming last night?"

Lu Chai struck a spirit, and said nervously, "What dream?"

Xiao Lan smiled and said, "I was asking if you had a dream. Instead, you asked me what I dreamed of?"

"How do you know that I was dreaming?" Lu Zhui was very wary. Don't say that after I fell asleep, I couldn't help being ashamed of you. If so, there is only one way to kill.

"You whispered in your mouth, and smiled from time to time, as if you had a good dream." Xiao Lan put the crumpled shirt aside, and stood in front of the baggage, picking it up, "Why, when I wake up forget?"

Lu Zhui looked at his well-defined spine, and his tone was erratic: "Only talking about sleep?"

"Otherwise?" Xiao Lan looked back at him.

It's nothing. Lu Zhui immediately retracted his gaze and said with a serious face: "In case I hit Brother Xiao in a dream, please don't be offended."

"Do you still have this problem when you sleep?" Xiao Lan leaned closer, surprised. "You want to hit people casually?"

Lu Zhui backed away: "Yes."

"Yo." Xiao Lan was afraid, "Then I must be more careful, lest I get bitten and punched one day without knowing it."

Lu Gongzi chuckled dryly, saying that you want to be beautiful.

Also took a bite.

"Get up." Xiao Lan smiled and stood upright. "I'll go to boil hot water to wash you up, and then take a look at it. Have the people downstairs gone."

In the cold weather, you can only wrap yourself up into a thick rice dumpling. Wearing a bloated cotton robe, Lu Chai sighed into the palm of his hand, standing by the window and looking down. Although there are not many pedestrians on the street, he finally no longer looks like the empty ghost town of last night, but for some reason there is nothing. People sweep the snow, all only leaning against the wall, walking through the snow with difficulty.

Xiao Lan quickly boiled hot water and came up, saying, "The people downstairs are still there, but they have changed their faces. I said that the snow-covered mountains are going to stay here for two more days. They didn't say much, as usual. It's that impatient look."

"The folks in the village are not bad guys. They will never really drive us out and freeze to death." Lu Zhui asked again, "Is there a custom of not sweeping the snow on the streets in the northwest?"

"Where is there such a custom?" Xiao Lan smiled, "Paving a floor of snow without sweeping, waiting for the wrestling to fail."

"You're right. It didn't take long for me to stand in front of the window. Four or five people have fallen underneath, but even if it fell like this, no one cleaned up the snow, which is strange." Lu Chai covered his face with a hot veil. , I feel a lot more comfortable, "No matter, let's go out and have a look."

The people in the hall were having breakfast, and when they came down, one of them pointed at the cauldron on the other table. It was slimy and didn't know what was cooked. Lu Zhuixi smiled and said, "I don't bother you anymore. Let's go out to eat."

"Don't go far." One of the older people, looking to be kinder, warned, "If you see people running on the street, come back to this inn soon."

"Run?" Lu Chai frowned, "Why run?"

"There are ghosts arresting people." The humanity said, "Don't ask, come back soon after eating."

Lu Chai nodded and thanked him, and glanced at Xiao Lan. Is there a ghost arresting someone?

"Do you believe it?" Lu asked after going out.

"Naturally don't believe it, there are so many ghosts and gods in the world." Xiao Lan held his hand, "Be careful."

Lu Chai was taken aback, and glanced at the hands that were tightly held together.

Xiao Lan smiled: "Don't fall."

They are all martial arts masters, don't say that this bit of snow, even on the ice blade, I am afraid that they can come and go freely. But at this moment, the two of them had no power to bind the chicken, holding hands and staggering forward in the snow, pulling each other when they were about to slip, clumsy and slow.

Xiao Lan asked, "Will we be like this when we are old?"

Lu Zhui coughed twice: "Oh."

He felt like he had been caught in an evil spirit. From this casual joke, he could hear a little bit of old age with his son and promised a white-headed promise, which was probably really hopeless.

"Boss," Xiao Lan looked for a small stall, "two pancakes, and two more bowls of tofu."

"..." The boss looked up and saw that it was a stranger, but was taken aback. "You two are from outside?"

"We are going to go to the army camp in the west to be with brother." Lu Chase said, "Unfortunately, we caught up with the blizzard and stayed in the Changfeng Inn. Oh yes, it is no longer an inn, but the people in it are very kind. Still promised to take us in."

"Yeah, if it weren't for a good heart and bravery, who would be willing to take the risk to guard this city." The boss brought out the breakfast, "two of you eat slowly, go back after you finish, don't walk in the street. "

"I heard that there are ghosts in the city," Lu Zhui lowered his voice, "what is going on?"

The boss waved his hand again and again: "No, no, no."

Xiao Lan put a small piece of silver on the table: "My brother likes to ask the end in case of trouble, so the boss will just say a few words, otherwise, I'm afraid that he will have to scratch his heart and his liver for the rest of the journey. His ears are noisy."

"This..." The boss was embarrassed, seeing that there was no one around, he whispered, "This city has been haunted since three months ago, and a dozen people will be lost every now and then, making everyone panic. It's hard to be safe."

"The people who lost are male or female, old and young, and, has anyone seen what that ghost looks like?" Lu asked.

"There are both men and women, but they are both young and middle-aged. The elderly and children lose very little." The boss said, "The ghost is burly and must be two people tall. No matter how strong a man, he can be easily pinched by his neck and carried away. , It's still invulnerable."

"They have been here a few times. The last time was a few months and days. Also, this city is already panicked and the local officials don't care?" Lu Chai continued to ask.

"I have been here seven or eight times. The last time I came was at the beginning of this month. As for the magistrate, he was also in charge, but he couldn't control it." The boss waved his hand, "Please don't ask the guest. Go home after eating."

Snow began to float in the sky again, and the small markets that had gathered temporarily on the street quickly dispersed. After the people bought the rice oil they needed daily, they went back into the house, and let the snow cover the sky outside. The door is half buried.

Xiao Lan also bought some rice oil and seasonings, and planned to buy a piece of meat, but was pulled by Lu Zhui, shook his head and said: "The city is so weird, I guess there is no outside vendor who dared to come in. Food, don’t grab you and me."

"Will meet local officials here?" Xiao Lan asked.

"Go back to the inn first." Lu Chai said, "It seems that even if the wind and snow stops, you and I will not be able to leave for a while. Ghosts and monsters arrest people, and they also specialize in arresting young and strong young adults. Work hard, if you don’t solve this problem, I’m afraid this place will become an empty city soon."

Xiao Lan nodded, and the two returned to the inn, put the buns and buns bought outside on the long table, and said, "By the way, I bought some food for the big guy. I'm out, thank you for taking care of me."

It was still the older uncle that morning, waving his hand and saying, "You don't have to be so polite."

"It's really cold." Lu Zhui sat down at the table, opened the oil paper bag, and said carefully, "Something happened in this city, why didn't you see any official?"

"Do you know what's going on?" the other person asked him in a loud voice.

Lu Chai nodded, "Listen to someone outside."

"Haunted, what can the government do." The man ate the buns and said again, "Before he was in charge, but later he was arrested for patrols. In desperation, Liu Zhixian sent his master out of the city and wanted to go. I asked for some reinforcements, but no news came back for two months after going there. After that, the county government was left with a set of clothes, bloody."

"Master's?" Lu Chai frowned.

The man nodded, didn't want to eat any more, only sighed deeply.

The patrol is also a descendant in this city, who can watch them go to death, so after everyone discussed, they decided to organize the young and middle-aged to stay vigil in this abandoned Changfeng Inn.

"The wind and snow don't sweep the street, is it to resist this demon?" Lu Zhui asked again.

The uncle nodded and said that although the catching ghost was tall, he was not very flexible in walking. Someone once saw them fall into dogs and eat **** on the ice. After the news spread, the people in the city stopped sweeping snow. Let the heavens build up thick ice barriers layer by layer, and feel more secure in my heart.

"So that's the case." Lu chased after a few more words before returning to the residence with Xiao Lan. He closed the door and said: "Listening to the voice of the people, the magistrate here is not a sloppy bag. The city is so dilapidated and panic, he should really have nothing to do."

"Some people deliberately want to cut off the connection between Changfeng City and the outside world." Xiao Lan said, "This kind of thing may be unimaginable on the plains with dense villages, but the northwest is wide, and the two cities are often far apart. Because of the war, even the caravans are gone. Adding up many reasons, it is not difficult to achieve this goal."

"I really don't know what horrible life the people have been living in the past three months." Lu recalled for a while, "When will I meet the magistrate?"

Xiao Lan nodded: "When the wind and snow are smaller, you should take a break first, and don't worry about this moment."

Lu Chai stood at the window, holding a cup of hot tea in his hand, and sighed, "If those monsters come tonight, it would be fine."

"Even if you don't come tonight, you and I will stay here for ten and a half days, and you can always wait." Xiao Lan said, "There are hundreds of young and middle-aged people in this city, and they won't be willing to stop here."

"If they come, are they going to catch you or me?" Lu Chai asked back.

"Naturally it is me." Xiao Lan replied, "Even if you look at your figure, you know which one is more cost-effective."

Lu Chai smiled and shook his head, and stretched out his hand to pull at his collar: "Let's go together."

"If there are really cannibal monsters?" Xiao Lan quipped.

Lu Zhui thought for a while: "Yes, then forget it, just catch you alone, I won't go."

"Hey." Xiao Lan squeezed his face, "Flying separately when the disaster is approaching?"

"The birds in the same forest are called to fly separately." Lu Zhui slapped him away.

Xiao Lan asked back: "Aren't we?"

Lu Zhui: "..."

Ok?

Xiao Lan looked at him with a smile, her eyes were gentle and her facial features were sharp.

Lu Zhui felt that things didn't seem very good.

But there are some inexplicable expectations.

Xiao Lan suddenly asked, "Do you know why I like to watch Galaxy in the northwest?"

There was a moment of silence in the room, and Lu Zhuibang replied stiffly: "I don't know." The eyes met so silently, shouldn't he say something else, talk about the scenery, lack of interest, disappointment, and boring.

Xiao Lan said: "Because when you were at the Mingyue Tomb, you would often sneak to the Red Lotus Hall and pester me to see the stars."

That year was the rainy season. Even if it didn't rain in the middle of the night, the sky would still be foggy. Even if there were stars, there were only a few sparse and faint ones, and the energy and weakness hidden behind the clouds, as if they would disappear anytime and anywhere.

"Then you will wait, lie down in that little dirt pit, and look up at the sky." Xiao Lan said, "Always wait for a night."

Lu Chai was puzzled: "I like stars so much?"

"At first, I thought it was. Later, when I thought about it, you probably didn't want to go back to that dark residence alone." Xiao Lan said, "So just pretend to look at the stars and pester me with you night after night."

Lu Chai smiled and said, "No wonder you said I always bully you."

"I was so sleepy that I was fighting with my upper and lower eyelids, but I couldn't leave you alone, so I would talk a lot in a mess, saying that the stars in the northeast are very high and the stars in the northwest are very bright. If you like, I will look at them together in the future. Three days and three nights, I just want to coax you back to sleep." Xiao Lan smiled, "After so many years, I finally have a chance to bring you to this Northwest Desert."

Lu Zhui said, "When you were a kid, did you play me like this?"

"How can I be perfunctory." Xiao Lan exchanged a cup of hot tea for him, "I will naturally honor what I said before."

"I have amnesia, and I don't remember what you promised." Lu Chai sat in a chair, "What if you lie to me?"

"Then only An Xin was deceived by me." Xiao Lan held the chair handle with both hands, bent over and sighed with regret, "Who told you to forget, eh?"

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