After all, Hua Gu is a person who has experienced wind and waves, and she has a tiger temperament, so she didn't think about it, so she used the key she carried with her to open the side door and walk into Qifeng Tower.
The Qifeng Tower in the middle of the night was a completely different scene, and there was silence inside, only two remnant candles were lit at the corner of the stairs, barely painting a layer of dark yellow to the gorgeous decoration of the building.
Hua Gu bent down to hold the candlestick in her hand, held the hem of her skirt in one hand, and slowly walked towards the second floor.
As soon as she reached the corner of the stairs, she slipped under her feet, and hurriedly grabbed the handrail with her hand so as not to fall, and gasped for breath, and looked at her feet, and found that there was a thin water stain there, which spread from the first floor all the way up, and disappeared at the entrance of the second floor.
"How do these hooves do their work, the water won't be cleaned, Ming'er will definitely give them a good beating, so that they can learn to obey the rules."
She cursed a few words in her heart, and was about to lift her feet upstairs, when a breeze moved, rushing through the hair on her forehead, blowing out the candle flame in her hand.
One light and one dark, her eyeballs couldn't adapt, she suddenly seemed to fall into a quagmire, she couldn't see anything clearly, there was only a black in front of her, heavy black, the moonlight couldn't penetrate at all, as if she was blindfolded by a pair of hands, and she couldn't break free.
"Whew", Hua Gu felt that something behind her had passed, although she didn't touch her, but she felt it, her body felt it first, the hairs on her arms stood on end, and every pore was wide.
She jerked her head back, and a white shadow flashed in front of her, getting smaller and smaller, and seemed to be walking upstairs, turning a corner, and entering the corridor on the second floor.
Her eyes finally adjusted to the darkness, and Aunt Hua stood on the stairs, not knowing whether to catch up with her for a while, and reason had already told her that something was wrong, that something was very wrong, but in her heart, there were a pair of hands that kept waving at her, leading her upstairs.
Finally, the light of reason was extinguished, and Aunt Hua slowly walked towards the second floor by taking advantage of the little moonlight that overflowed from the window.
When she came to the side of the corridor, she stood still, her eyes explored inside, and there were candles on both sides of the corridor, but the candles were faint, and some dark corners in the distance could not penetrate, one yellow and one black, which made her feel more and more that there was something hidden in those black corners.
Hua Gu took out a knife from the hidden pocket of her middle coat, and pressed her fingers on a gem on it, and the blade popped out, emitting a cold light.
This is a habit she has developed all year round, even if she sleeps, she doesn't let this dagger leave her body, after decades of ups and downs, I don't know how many people's blood has been stained on the blade, only she is still safe and worry-free, enjoying the prosperity of the world.
She exhaled deeply, slowed her steps, and walked deeper into the hallway.
Her eyes swept vigilantly over the walls on both sides, her hands clenched tightly on the dagger, and her waist bent slightly, she maintained the posture of a beast attack, ready to strike a fatal blow at something.
"Tick Tick" There was a dripping sound ahead, and the birch girl narrowed her wolf-like eyes and looked towards the source of the sound, and in the darkness, a puddle of liquid of unknown color was slowly spilling out of the corner of the wall, like a sinuous snake, swimming in her direction.
Birch stood still, her eyes fixed on the liquid, her dagger sweating in her palm, and she raised it in front of her, aiming it at the invisible enemy in front of her.
"Smack."
There were a few more lines on the liquid, and layer by layer spread towards the position where Hua Gu stood, something hit it, what was it?
The answer was soon made, for the birch saw a pair of feet, standing in the corner behind them, and the darkness had helped them cover the ankles above them, as if they had cut them off in unison.
Hua Gu swallowed her saliva, she took a deep breath, and suddenly threw the dagger in her hand towards the man's body, the dagger flew steadily and accurately, drawing a silver light in the dark night, but the next moment, it passed through the man's body without any hindrance, hit the wall behind it, and then fell into the liquid with a snap, shook a few times, and did not move.
The blood all over her body seemed to be surging to the top of her head, and Hua Gu's eyes widened, looking at the feet, and suddenly, they moved, stepping on the sound of rushing water, and walked slowly in their direction, and their bodies gradually appeared from the darkness, a pair of skinny legs, narrow waist and hips, and then up, a chest that had not yet grown muscles.
She clenched her palms so tightly that she forgot to run away, her body seemed to be nailed to the ground, and her mouth made an unconscious "ahhhhhh "Auntie, auntie."
The orange candlelight floated from the other end of the corridor, like a surging tide, illuminating the corridor in circles, and a little maid trotted towards her, "Auntie, it turned out to be you, I saw the door open, and I thought I had entered the thief." ” The candlelight finally floated to the top of the pool of liquid, and the person was gone, and Aunt Hua was holding on to the wall in shock, looking at the little girl behind her as if she had lost her soul, "Have you seen the appearance of that person just now?"
” "Who?
My aunt was the only one standing here.
The little maid was asked so that the second monk was confused, "Wait, auntie, what's ahead?"
The candle waved forward, completely illuminating the liquid on the ground, dark red, illuminated by the candle flame with an oily black light.
"Ah," cried the little maid, "blood, blood." ” This earth-shattering scream woke up all the sleeping people in the room, and the doors opened one by one, and the disheveled bodies and half-asleep faces poked out.
"What's wrong?"
"In the middle of the night, who is crying wolf?"
After a cry of inquiry, there was another cry, and now the people were all awake, and they stared at Aunt Birch one by one, for the sound came from the door next to her, and the blood was flowing through the crack in the door, which was now spread into a long ribbon, and was still spreading forward.
She kicked the door open beside her, dizzy in front of her, and finally found the source of the blood: the sheets were all stained red, and the blood dripped down the curtain and zigzagged on the ground until it led to the door.
Sitting on the bed was a middle-aged man in disheveled clothes, the shout just now was from him, and now he shrank at the foot of the bed, waving his hands desperately in front of his face, "I don't know what's going on, as soon as I woke up, I saw a room full of blood, obviously she was still in my arms, I didn't do it, I really didn't do it." ” Jiang Xi rushed back from the outside, and as soon as she entered the door, she walked towards Cheng Muyou's study, and before she knocked on the door, her voice had already arrived first, "My lord, something happened to Qi Fenglou."
When I came to the house, I saw that Liu Xuzhu was also there, and he seemed to be discussing something with Cheng Muyou, so he lowered his voice again, "Something happened to Qifenglou, sir." ” "You're excited, it looks like we're up to something."