CH 108.3

They talked while walking and soon arrived at the place with the stage.

The backyard, which had been bustling with activity moments ago, was now empty.

The stage was long gone, and only four people were lying on the ground.

When the two soldiers saw them, they hurriedly walked forward, and quickly checked them for signs of life.

“They’re still alive! They are breathing!”

“They are just unconscious. Lord Governor, Madam, there is no need to disturb yourselves, we’ll wake them up right now.”

Without waiting for Bai Lixin and Dijia to say anything more, several slaps fell hard.

“Good brother, wake up!”

Pa!

“Good buddies, let’s share the blessings and hardships.”

Pa!

We can’t be the only ones to take a beating.

We’re brothers for life!

Bai Lixin: “……”

‘It’s pretty miserable to be your brother.’

The sky was dark, and only a full moon shone down overhead.

The hustle and bustle of the courtyard were gone, leaving only solitude.

There were a few small courtyards not far away, but they were all pitch dark, with no candlelight at all.

It should be the warm season of early summer, but it was dead quiet and cold everywhere.

“Does Xian Gu live in a place like this every day?” One of the soldiers asked. “There are so many courtyards without light. It’s like a lonely graveyard. It’s quite scary.”

“Maybe it’s different when she comes in. Besides, Xian Gu is a ghost, she can’t be afraid of this environment. ” Another soldier chimed in, “Don’t group up others blindly; you might as well group us up instead. I’m scared out of my mind. I just want to get out of this hellhole.”

As he said this, his slaps became heavier and heavier.

As the next slaps fell, the unconscious soldiers suddenly let out a simultaneous groan.

The two soldiers immediately stood up and ducked to the side.

A few moments later, the soldiers opened their eyes and covered their faces.

“My face hurts.”

“Me too, my face seems to be swollen.”

“What’s going on? Was it that ghost Bai Ban that did it?”

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In the live broadcast room.

[“The Good Brothers”]

[“The Brothers Who Died”]

[“Plastic Brothers”]

[“We’re All the Same”]

[Good guys, you are so good at book titles.]

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Bai Lixin: “Now that you guys are awake, tell us how you got in.”

The soldiers saw the governor was right in front of them, and they hurriedly stood up from the ground.

Upon hearing Bai Lixin’s question, they looked at each other, both seeing fear in each other’s eyes.

One of the soldiers took a deep breath and spoke slowly, “As soon as we came in, we were locked in a box. It was dark all around us and we couldn’t see. All we could hear were the sounds coming from outside.”

“After a bumpy ride, the box was opened. We found that we couldn’t control our bodies and we were standing on the stage.”

“It could be the light, but Lord Li and Madam Li were smiling so eerily, like paper figurines in a paper shop.”

“I almost peed in fear.”

“Fortunately, we saw you guys afterwards, or else we would have died of fright.”

“After the performance, we were put back in the box and then we passed out. When we woke up again, we saw you. ”

Bai Lixin: “Did you notice anything else?”

One soldier: “No.”

Another soldier retorted, “I think I remember hearing a conversation while we were in the box.”

“One of them had a somewhat feminine and shrill voice, like that of a eunuch. I guess it was Lord Li.”

“The voice was quite flustered, saying ‘how can you be so similar’; ‘why do you know this story’; and ‘I’ll give you everything you want’. He talked so much, in contrast to Bai Ban, who didn’t talk much.”

“Then I heard a rush of footsteps and the man seemed to leave.”

Then, not long after that, another man came.”

“But unlike Lord Li, this one spoke less. It was a woman, and I couldn’t hear what she said properly. ”

“But I could hear Bai Ban say, ‘Is that you?’ ‘Although you won’t admit it, you gave me the book, didn’t you?’ ‘I know your hand’.”

“The female voice seemed to deny it, and Bai Ban said, “I will never betray you.” “I will not set foot in the Li family again, and you should not come to the Meiyuan House or something like that.”

“Then I couldn’t hear anymore and I fell unconscious.”

Bai Lixin and Dijia looked at each other, and Bai Lixin said, “Come on, let’s get away from here first.”

The female voice must be Feng Gu.

The soldier was surprised: “Madam, have you found the exit?”

Bai Lixin: “I found it. It’s underwater. You all know how to swim, right?”

The soldiers nodded, “Yes, yes, yes.”

Under the illumination of the cold, lonely moonlight, the men quickly walked in the direction of the pool.

There was silence all around them, and everything seemed to stand still. There were no cicadas, no frogs, not even mosquitoes or a breeze.

The sound of feet hitting the ground was extraordinarily loud, and the soldiers even had to lift their feet gently to ease their panic.

They arrived at the pool and quickly dove into the water.

Because of the sun during the daytime, the bottom of the lake was glowing, so the door could not be distinguished at the bottom.

Now that it was late at night, the faint white light was especially noticeable in the darkness.

The group quickly swam to the door. The soldiers went through first, then Dijia and Bai Lixin followed.

……

Bai Lixin opened his eyes and was bewildered at the sight of the messy bed.

Li Yuan had passed out, and Xian Gu was wearing a thin dress, leaning lazily against the bed. “You have finally come out. Hurry up.”

The six soldiers stood dumbfounded by the bed, their faces flushed red, and they all lowered their heads to look at the ground, not daring to look up.

Bai Lixin pointed to the painting and asked, “Do I need to take you with me?”

Xian Gu looked at Li Yuan on the bed, then at Bai Lixin. After a moment’s thought, she said, “Okay, you can take me away. To be honest, I’ve stayed in there long enough. Can you make me another painting? I want to go back to my previous home.”

Bai Lixin: “Okay.”

Xian Gu smiled and went back into the painting. Bai Lixin wasted no time and scavenged all the rhinoceros horn incense, making the soldiers’ jaws drop.

Soldiers: “……”

‘The actions are so skilled.

What exactly did the madam do before?’

It was already dusk by the time the group came out of Li Yuan’s room.

The surrounding area was all dark, and lanterns were hung in the courtyard.

Servants passed them in twos and threes, cicadas chirped, and even the air was fragrant with the scent of flowers.

The soldiers were so close to crying tears of joy.

“Aaaahhhh, we’re finally away from those haunted places. I’ll never say that the place I live in is haunted again. I’ll never shit where I eat again, wuuuu.”

“I feel like I’ve been in the painting for such a long time, yet it’s just dusk outside. It is just two hours later, yet I nearly died in the painting.”

“This is life; youth is in bloom; I love the real world!”

Bai Lixin coughed lightly. “Since you are back to somewhere familiar, there is something else I would like to trouble you about.”

The soldiers instantly straightened up and looked at Bai Lixin respectfully, “Please speak, Madam, we will do as we are told!”

Bai Lixin: “It’s not a big deal really; it’s just a bit of manual work. I don’t know if you still have the strength to do it.”

“You’re kidding, madam,” the soldiers laughed. “We’re in such good shape that we could run around Fengcheng twice.”

“But what exactly is the manual work? Let’s see if we can do it, so we don’t embarrass you.”

“Simple manual work,” Bai Lixin said softly. “You all know how to do it. All you have to do is dig out soil with a shovel.”

The soldiers casually waved their hands, “Heh, I thought it was something difficult. I’ve been digging since I was a boy. Where do you need us to dig? How much? What are you going to do with the soil, madam? Make clay sculptures? Or grow something?”

Bai Lixin smiled sweetly as he leaned lazily against Dijia and said shyly, “Neither. It’s digging graves.”

“Since everyone is tired, let’s go after eating dinner.”

“It’s not far, it’s at the back of the mountain.”

“You’ll be digging nine graves. It’s quite a task, so eat more tonight.”

The soldiers: “???”

Digging… digging what?

Did they hear it correctly?

Digging graves?

A hot pair of eyes fell on Bai Lixin, and Bai Lixin’s face turned red. He even buried his head in Dijia’s arms in embarrassment.

Dijia: “Listen to him, all of you listen to him, you must listen!”

The crowd: “……”

*There is a knife on the head of lust, Lord Governor.

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It was a dark and windy night.

It was a graveyard area, and no matter the time of day, few people ever set foot in it.

In the distance, the leaves rustled. Accompanied by the sound of the leaves was the lonely howl of wolves and the howling wind.

Several pairs of hands, holding shovels, trembled as they dug a grave and revealed the coffin inside.

A voice that sounded coquettish rang out in the darkness, “Open it.”

They opened the coffin.

Inside was only a set of clothes; the corpse was not there.

The soldiers called out, “Huh, why is there nobody?”

Bai Lixin urgesd “Next.”

One by one, all but the Madam’s coffin were opened.

Without exception, all of them had a piece of faded clothing. There were no corpses.