Weird Regulator

The weather is getting colder and colder, and the exhaled water vapor stagnates and solidifies in the air, turning into a thin mist.

In the backyard area of ​​Li Mansion, there was only one living person groping forward.

Suddenly a small sound echoed in the lonely midnight.

The sound was not loud, as small as a crack in an eggshell, but it succeeded in arousing the nerves of the living person.

Fang Shenyan turned his head sharply, holding the knife behind his back in his hand, and stared in a certain direction with his burning eyes.

There is endless darkness as far as the eye can see, dwelling in dense vegetation and dormant.

Looking at this scene, he suddenly remembered Xiaolan's previous actions.

At that time, Xiaolan was frightened by Yu Guo's joke and turned her head to look in one direction.

And now where Fang Shenyan's eyes were looking, it was on the same plane as the direction Xiao Lan was looking at subconsciously.

"It can't be a coincidence..."

But Fang Shenyan didn't dare to go there because no one could know what was there.

He knew very well that now he was alone because of his own actions, and the probability of being attacked was the highest among all the people.

Then if he goes deeper alone, he is afraid that he will end up with his body abandoned in the wilderness and no one cares about it.

Fang Shenyan didn't like living very much, but he didn't want to die so early either.

So after a moment's hesitation, he clutched the sharp knife and sprinted towards the back door of Li's house that he presumed.

He had deep worries before. He was afraid of alerting others and ghosts appearing, which made him very slow.

Looking at the darker sky now, he decided to get what he wanted as quickly as possible.

"The entire Li Mansion is dull and deserted, and there are no elegiac couplets.

Why is this Li Mansion, which has a very high status in this town, so empty? "

The absence of anyone in the front yard gave Fang Shenyan a hint.

There should be an overwhelming number of servants and slaves among wealthy households during this period.

But now there is no front yard, so only the backyard is left.

Including the white-robed team that went to the funeral earlier, there were about twenty or thirty men, and they all went to the back door of Li Mansion.

Combined with what the old woman said, there are funerals here every night.

Then there will be at least some handymen left in the backyard of this house.

In order to prepare things, horses and coffins for tomorrow night's funeral.

This is why Fang Shenyan chose to go out late at night. As for why he didn't discuss it with Tongguan and others...

there are many reasons.

Perhaps in Fang Shenyan's heart, he no longer believed that he could stay close to Tongguan and others.

Now the No. 7 store seems to have started to take sides.

Yu Guo was with Ji Li because of Ah Lian's matter, but Fang Shenyan's purpose was simpler. He just thought that he could live longer with Ji Li, the same villain.

There will also be a tacit understanding between them.

After a long period of groping, Fang Shenyan gradually saw a thick wall.

The tops were painted with vermilion powder, and steel nails were laid along the walls to act as a barrier.

In the middle of this wall, there is a closed wooden door.

Fang Shenyan's pace gradually slowed down because he heard the sound of horses neighing through the door.

And, two middle-aged men were talking quietly in the wind.

"This is the 12th funeral in the past few days. I don't know when it will end."

"Yes, my wife has not shown her face since the master's death. Only Master Fu comes and goes from time to time."

"Eh? Have you ever heard of a secret..."

"What?"

"Our master has been in good health before, but since Master Fu entered the house half a month ago, he has died... Could it be..."

"Hush! What nonsense are you talking about!"

"I'm not talking nonsense. You think that the master has no heirs in his life, and the wife's nephew has come to seek refuge at this time. Is there no hidden secret in this?"

"Stop talking nonsense and hurry up. There will be a funeral tomorrow."

Fang Shenyan's eyebrows widened when he heard this. Sure enough, there was unexpected information about the handyman.

In just a few words, he gained a lot and got an important piece of news.

Half a month ago, Chen Fu just entered the mansion, and at the same time, the master passed away. Judging from the number of funerals.

Since the master's death, the Li Mansion has started a funeral ceremony.

Perhaps, this is related to the main line of this mission!

"boom!"

Fang Shenyan didn't hesitate anymore and stabbed the door bolt with a knife. The force was so strong that it penetrated through it and penetrated from the other side.

Then he suddenly raised his foot and broke open the back door.

In front of me is a haystack, belonging to a small yard.

Two men in coarse cloth were squatting on the haystack, looking at the manger while making paper figures and horses.

Fang Shenyan's appearance startled them. Although they couldn't see clearly, they could see the knife shining brightly in the night.

When a man saw this scene, he overturned the paper horse and ran away crawling on the ground.

He opened his mouth wide and was about to scream, but the tip of a knife penetrated the back of his head and pierced his throat and tongue.

Red blood and the sharp tip of the knife oozed from his open mouth.

Fang Shenyan pulled out the knife with expressionless force, and the corpse fell to the ground with a plop and twitched several times.

The other busboy was completely frightened by what he saw and was still sitting there without moving.

In his horrified eyes, Fang Shenyan slowly squatted down and shook the blood off the knife.

He took out a handkerchief from his pocket, wiped away all the blood, and then asked word by word:

"Tell me everything that happened in the past half month in detail."

But the handyman just looked at Fang Shenyan, as if completely stunned.

Fang Shenyan frowned. He could see that the man was frightened, so he raised his knife and patted his cheek gently.

"I don't have much time, and you don't have much time either. Do you need me to help you speed up?"

The cold blade can wipe away the blood, but it cannot wipe away the strong smell of blood.

The handyman felt like he was in another world. He opened his mouth wide and was about to speak when he started to vomit.

"I said……"

…

About twenty minutes later, the time has reached four o'clock on November 1st.

The sky was not bright, but Fang Shenyan looked relaxed when he walked out of the stable.

There was fresh blood on his hand, so he took out a handkerchief, wiped the blood clean, and threw it away.

This time, he was convinced that the Li Mansion was the source of this mission.

The harvest tonight is very rich.

But after looking at his watch, he felt that it was still early and hesitated reluctantly.

He started running toward the front yard and the old woman's room.

After his previous experience, he traveled extremely fast and touched the eaves of the house with great accuracy.

Fang Shenyan looked inside the quiet room and found a trace of candle light.

But it doesn't seem to be lit in the living room, it can only be lit in the back room.

After hesitating for a moment, he raised his eyes and looked at the roof.

Not only was his skill among the best, he was also quite agile, and he climbed up to the roof in just a few strokes.

Stepping on the tiles with tiptoe, the tiny crisp sounds were drowned in the sound of the wind.

But when Fang Shenyan was halfway forward, his body suddenly stopped.

Because sitting on an eaves in front of him was a figure that had merged with the darkness.

The man seemed to have been waiting for Fang Shenyan for a long time, then turned his head quietly and said:

"Is there a fire?

I have endured this for a long time. "