At the same time, Gu Mingyan lies on Duan Chengxuan's back, and the wind outside the city roars across his cheek.

in fact, she did not see where they came out of the city. They only knew that the natural soil smells into the nasal cavity, and the cold wind was pouring into the throat. She had to bury her head in the neck of her section, and her body was thrown up and fell.

I don't know how long I have been walking. Duan Chengxuan stays on a thick tree with her on his back and puts her down.

Not far away in the deep forest, there was some light. Gu Mingyan couldn't help asking, "where have we been?"

"Not far from Tianyan City, there are many small houses with rich merchants nearby, almost no one will stay for one night." Duan Chengxuan straightens her body, grabs her hand and holds the trunk beside her, and whispers, "take care of her."

Behind came the sound of leaf friction, Gu Mingyan was relieved to see Duan Chengxuan's figure leave.

But in a moment, Duan Chengxuan turned back, and the fire was gradually far away, hiding in the deeper jungle, leaving only darkness.

"What?" Gu Mingyan wrinkled his nose. The smell on his body is like the smell of things being put into decay. It's different from the smell of dead bodies. It's more like rotten fruit.

Duan Chengxuan shook his sleeves and squatted on the branch. "They carried away two boxes of rotten fruits and a box of rotten cabbage."

"There's so much fire at such a late hour, it seems just a cover up." Gu Mingyan coughs twice with his mouth covered. For some reason, she always thinks that there's something sweet in the rotten vegetable leaves. She just drags Duan Chengxuan's arm to his nose and sniffs it, then taps his shoulder: "it's not like a way of blocking things."

Duan Chengxuan leaned forward, frowned and beckoned the people behind to follow them.

"I'll take you to the villa first." Duan Chengxuan picks her up again and gropes for the road in the dark. It seems that the kid has been there many times to investigate this matter and still remembers some key road signs. Even so, Duan Chengxuan took a long time to find the so-called villa.

Before that, Duan Chengxuan had no idea that there would be a small villa in such a gully.

Most of the land behind is reclaimed, and it seems to be prepared for use. This villa happens to be in a hidden gully. If there is no acquaintance leading the way, it is almost impossible to find it.

Duan Chengxuan takes Gu Mingyan to the field behind him first. Before Gu Mingyan gets down, he has smelled a strange smell. Pat Duan Chengxuan on the back to show him to find a high place without stopping.

On the slope road outside the villa, Gu Mingyan coughed twice: "there is no difference between raising poisonous grass here and making miasma, and there must be a lot of corpses, which are not buried in the land. They must have been thrown nearby."

When Gu Mingyan's voice fell, the crow's voice suddenly sounded in the sky.

She patted her head strangely and asked Duan Chengxuan, "is there a mass grave outside Tianyan city?"

"There are no random burial hillocks in the 50 Li area outside Tianyan city. Even the dead in the Imperial Palace must be thrown to other places. This is the ancestral training left by Duan's royal family." Duan Chengxuan also seemed to think of some strange things. He took Gu Mingyan's arm and said, "where did the scholar in your mind die in the mass grave?"

"I can't remember." Gu Mingyan frowns. He only remembers that the mountain behind is similar to Yinshan, but if it really counts, she has no impression on it.

"There are still a few hours before dawn. We can look around." Duan Chengxuan catches people on his back again and decides to see where the circling crows are going.

Gu Mingyan is uneasy to recall the events of that year, but those memories are still vague, and there are some small words. She does not know whether it was Gu Mingyan's entrustment before her death, or who she once said these words to personally.

Gu Mingyan is in a hurry. Duan Chengxuan takes her to stay on a huge stone and looks at the rotten corpse in front of her. There are crows gathered around it. The pungent smell rushes into his nose. Gu Mingyan says coldly: "this is the so-called mass graves."

"Can you see clearly?"

"This is the place where he died. I came here, but only Yuzhi's sister was around me." Gu Mingyan said his thoughts and simply bent down to sit on the big stone: "I feel that these things are connected, whether it's immortality or your brother's obsession."

Duan Chengxuan also has a calm face, which also has a similar feeling.

It is very close to Dongfang's manor, and the poisonous herbs they planted are all used on the day of the birthday feast. If Gu Mingyan really came here that year, it means that it has existed for a long time. According to Dongfang's downfall in previous years, this manor has only recently fallen back into their hands.

But what do these represent?

"Take some flesh and blood back. I have never seen these crows near Tianyan city." Gu Mingyan takes a small box and hands it to Duan Chengxuan.

Duan Chengxuan took some clearly, and said: "these crows are not fed at all, but used as medicine, right?"

"Nine times out of ten, but we still have to think about why those garrison soldiers will take the bodies of the dead. Are they part of this area, or what part of it is doing?" Gu Mingyan nodded seriously to find the final answer, but got more irrelevant clues.

Now all the clues point to the two people who once disappeared, and one of them is related to Duan Cong.

Send someone to pick up some useful things at will, Duan Chengxuan calmly returns to Gu Mingyan: "everything is over."

Gu Mingyan looks up, but finds something warm sliding down his cheek. Duan Chengxuan lifts his hand to wipe away the tears from her face. He says softly, "that's not your memory, but this body is yours."

He rubbed against Duan Chengxuan's palm, and Gu Mingyan closed his eyes: "I know it's not me crying."

Her heart didn't speed up, and her voice was calm, as if Gu Mingyan was crying for it.

Even though the man once apologized for using her, the fact is that the scholar was a poor man who was used by others until he died, he was only a part of others' drug test, but she didn't realize at that time, just a nonexistent mass grave, what kind of future events would be involved.

Gu Mingyan left here with her back. When she returned to Tianyan City, she had already fallen asleep.

The ghost also came back with Mo San, holding something wrapped in a piece of cloth.

"What is this?"

"The medicine of the third princess is made of red fruits with charming mind. Later, we went to the tea house of the third princess's mother's house, and they brought back the red fruits that Erdan only had without permission." Mo San opens the cloth with a calm face, revealing the delicate fruits under it - this is what he just picked.