Gu Juan looked at the manor shrouded in wind and snow from a distance, felt the cold air coming from the wind, and frowned slightly, "The rich merchant family you just said died for no reason, when did this happen?"

Liu Yu didn't hesitate and said directly, "If you go back to your lordship, this matter will be counted for more than 20 years. ”

"More than twenty years?" Gu Juan glanced at him with some suspicion, "Liu Qianhu, are you sure it's twenty years, not two years?"

You must know that when he first discovered that the world was changing and the strange incident appeared, it was only about a few years, but as soon as Liu Qianhu opened his mouth, it was twenty years, and the time span was too big, so he had to attract his attention and suspicion.

"The subordinates are sure that it will be twenty years, and if the adults are interested, there are also files to check, and there are many old people in the city who have an impression of this matter, and they should not be faked. ”

Gu Juan nodded, and pressed down his doubts first, "I know, you go on." ”

Liu Yu recalled and said slowly, "My lord, this matter has not ended here, since the accident, this garden has been empty, until the only remaining young girl of the wealthy merchant grows up and marries the deputy general of the Jingbei Military Town as a concubine, but this matter has changed again." ”

"Oh, what's the name of the lieutenant?" Hearing this, Gu Juan suddenly remembered a certain record in the Persona Chronicle, so he immediately stopped and asked.

"The adjutant general's surname is Xie Minghua, and he also knows his subordinates...... Just two years ago, he suddenly came to Beicang City, with a charming woman by his side, and his subordinates did a little bit of the friendship of the landlord, so he invited him to have a drink, and when he was drunk, he asked the woman to come out to toast, until then his subordinates did not know that she was the descendant of a rich merchant. ”

"Xie Kui...... That's right, it's Xie Kui. Gu Juan narrowed his eyes, he had already matched the name with the record on Persona, and he also knew what was going on behind it.

However, since the person was here, he listened carefully, and at least he could get much more detailed information than the brief description of the Persona.

"Deputy General Xie declined the kindness of his subordinates to help him arrange a place to live, saying that he came to Beicang County this time mainly to bring the third lady of Xinna to pay tribute to his ancestors, and he didn't need to stay overnight, and he went back overnight after finishing his work......

"The subordinates didn't ask them carefully at the time, and they didn't keep them after eating, and then recalled them after the incident, and then remembered that whether it was Xie Kui or the team of pro-soldiers he brought, there seemed to be something wrong at the time, and they always seemed to react half a beat slower when they were eating, and their movements were a little uncoordinated......

"Later, I never expected that a group of more than a dozen of them, the deputy general of a military town and a team of personal soldiers who can be called elite, would all hang themselves under the gatehouse of the manor, but they didn't see his third lady of Xinna......"

As he listened, Gu Juan walked slowly along the muddy dirt road, asking a few words about the places of interest from time to time, and soon came to the main gate of the manor.

Standing in front of the gate of the manor, Gu Juan looked at the dilapidated door wall and glanced up at the plaque hanging above the main entrance.

"Muguo Mansion. He read out the already indistinct handwriting.

In the information he has in his possession, the first Mu Guogong followed the Great Wei Taizu to fight in the south and the north, and was a rare fierce general, and was praised by the Great Wei Taizu as brave as a lion and tiger, so after being named the Duke of the country, he took the lion and tiger beast as his own town, and the children of the clan were mostly named after the lion and tiger.

The liger on the left side of the gate was missing half of its head, and the only remaining part of its eyes had turned into a large black hole, which looked a little terrible.

Gu Juan stood at the door for a moment, waiting for the cavalry spies from Beicang City to come to cooperate to tear off the seal on the door, and then open the door.

Click!

The two spies were busy with the key for a while, sweating on their heads, but they still couldn't open the rusty chain, so they simply pulled out their waist knives and cut them off with a few blows.

With a creaking sound, the vermilion gate was slowly pushed open, revealing the dilapidated scene inside that had not been repaired for a long time.

Gu Juan slowly walked to the door, and before he could enter, he could feel a cold and corrupt aura gushing out of it.

Behind the door is a straight road paved with bluestone slabs, leading to a pond rockery in the distance, with dense bamboo and various shrubs growing on both sides of the road, which should look like a vegetable field or a garden, perhaps because it has been unmanaged for a long time, it looks a little rough and messy.

Behind the rockery is a gatehouse that looks quite magnanimous, and then to the back is a patchwork of buildings, standing silently in the whistling wind and snow, giving people a cold and gray feeling.

"Has there been no one living here since then?" Gu Juan slowly walked into the outer gate and stood on the bluestone paved road that loomed under the ice and snow.

"Back to the adult, this garden has been idle for less than two years since the Mu family incident, and then it was bought by a wealthy merchant for several years, and it has been idle, at the beginning there were some beggars, splashers, merchants, or people in the rivers and lakes in the past who stayed overnight here, during which people were not seen from time to time, but it did not attract attention......

"Until the case of Vice General Xie Kuo two years ago, and a large caravan with dozens of carriages and horses mysteriously disappeared inside a year ago, and only a few people escaped, no one dared to enter again. ”

Click!

Gu Juan stepped on a broken bamboo branch that fell on the road, and a crisp sound came from the bottom of his feet, which kept echoing in the courtyard.

He looked down at the bluestone road that had not yet been completely covered by snow, helped the hat on his head, and asked, "Liu Qianhu, have you found anything?"

Liu Yu's expression changed suddenly, and a layer of fine cold sweat appeared on his forehead, "My lord, it seems that there are still people living in this manor." ”

The snow on the bluestone pavement is not too thick, and in many places the road surface below is exposed, and more importantly, the exposed bluestone pavement is not muddy, and there are even few dead branches and fallen leaves on it.

This is not normal for a manor that has been abandoned for a long time, and the only possibility is that it is inhabited and cleaned regularly.

But looking at the bamboo forest and shrubs on both sides of the road, it doesn't look like it's inhabited, giving people a rather strange feeling.

"Let's go, since we're here, let's go in and have a good look. ”

Gu Juan stopped for a long time in the middle of the bluestone road, and his right hand, hidden in the big cloud, gently touched the warm and cold axe handle, and there was no change in heat, so he led the way and continued to walk forward.

The two horsemen quickened their pace and opened the gate to the inner courtyard in front.

Gu Juan stepped over the gatehouse and looked further inside.

As far as the eye can see, there is a thick pile of snow outside, while other places such as corridors, pavilions, and doorways are piled up with thick layers of dead branches and leaves, as well as a layer of hardened dust, which smells of decay and decay everywhere.

"Liu Qianhu, now there is a little bit of an abandoned old house. Gu Juan sighed lowly, took out a plaque with a missing corner from behind the door, knocked off the layer of floating soil on it, and read out a few vague big characters on it word by word.

"Mobei people's ......"