After leaving these confused words, the maid quickly left Meiying Pavilion.

"Mei Ying?" Chu Tianshu chewed a mouthful of dumplings and spat it out, "Fuck, it's ice."

The dumplings were not only ice cold, but also had a bit of the fishy smell of raw meat. After vomiting for a long time, he took out the compressed biscuits from the package and divided one between Lin Huai and himself.

The two of them huddled on the bed and ate compressed biscuits. Lin Huai sighed: "Why do I feel that this copy is so desolate..."

He glanced out the window: "It's cold again."

He glanced at the raw dumplings in the bowl again: "I'm hungry again."

Chu Tianshu glanced at the pale sheets and quilts, and commented: "You're so embarrassed, I'll give you a little more energy."

As he said that, he opened the system panel, dug around in his parcel column, and finally pulled out one——,

East—North—Big—Flower—Belt.

Chu Tianshu: "Are you excited?"

Lin Huai: "...medium."

Chu Tianshu made the bed and said with emotion: "I scolded the Lord when I pulled this out of the turntable before, but I didn't expect it to be useful now."

Then, he added: "Tomorrow morning, let's go to the main hall to explore the secrets. It might be lively here in the evening, and two people can listen."

Lin Huai huddled on the big flower quilt and raised his eyes: "What?"

Chu Tianshu said: "'Beware of Mei Ying', Mei Ying sounds like she can sing opera very well."

Lin Huai:……

Lin Huai was deeply chilled by this Phantom of the Opera joke. Chu Tianshu said again: "You said that the owner of the village ate someone when he caught him. Did his stomach get cold from the cold food in the village?"

"Stop imitating Northeastern dialect!" Lin Huai complained, "Sleep!"

The two slept on the flower quilt all night. Before going to bed, Chu Tianshu kindly ran to the next door to remind the thin man not to run around, but he was scolded back.

Chu Tianshu felt a pinch on his nose, and Lin Huai laughed at him: "A hot face but a cold butt."

The cold-hearted Chu Tianshu shrugged: "No, I'm just afraid that he will be caught by ghosts in the middle of the night, and the ghosts will scream and disturb us when we sleep."

The two slept together for the whole night. Lin Huai would automatically turn on the ghost mode when he was sleeping in the dungeon. Chu Tianshu hugged him to sleep, and the more he hugged him, the colder he got.

In the middle of the night, he woke up from the cold. He sniffled and was about to sneeze, but a scent of fragrance wafted into his nose.

"Meixiang?" He thought half-consciously.

The fragrance of plum blossoms seemed to have a seductive magic power, going straight into his stomach. It was not snowing in Plum Village at midnight, the moonlight was cold, and a woman's figure was reflected on the paper window.

The woman stood sideways by the paper window, seeming to be looking at the two people sleeping in the window.

The fragrance is getting stronger and stronger.

The strong fragrance floated into the nose, into the lungs, and finally into the internal organs. Chu Tianshu gently bit Lin Huai's shoulder amidst the magical fragrance that aroused others' greed.

‘It smells so good.’ He took a bite, licked it again, and fell asleep contentedly.

The woman's figure disappeared from the paper window. She left in an ethereal manner, leaving no footprints by the window, as if she had never been here.

The fragrance of plum blossoms disappeared without a trace just like when she came.

Early the next morning, it started to snow again in the yard. When the two woke up from the flower quilt, the maid brought a new breakfast.

Chu Tianshu took a bite and spit it out: "It's still raw."

What was placed on the plate were still raw dumplings. The two had no choice but to nibble on the compressed biscuits again.

The maid said that today, as usual, they would have a consultation in the afternoon. Before the consultation, they could wander freely in Plum Village for a while.

The thin man in the room on the other side hadn't woken up yet. Chu and Lin were not in the mood to bother him anymore. They first walked around the yard and then entered the main hall.

"There are so many plum trees in this yard." Chu Tianshu sighed, "They must be very beautiful when they bloom."

Compared with the West Pavilion and the East Pavilion, the scale of the main hall is indeed much larger. What is shown in it is the appearance of a woman's boudoir who is extremely well-educated and interesting in life.

Entering this room, the two people, who had always been wild and unruly, became cautious in their steps. They rummaged through the room and finally found a desk.

"This woman seems to paint often." Chu Tianshu came to the conclusion after examining the brushes and paints on the desk, "but there is not even a single painting in this study room."

It is extremely strange to say that in this room, which is extremely complete with the four treasures of the study, there is not a single painting. Not only paintings, but also a few calligraphy works. However, the room does contain extremely precious ink and fine works.

Good cinnabar, etc. The room seems to be cleaned frequently, and the owner seems to intend to keep the place as it was when his wife was still alive.

As he approached the bed, Lin Huai smelled a faint fragrance of plum blossoms.

He frowned, it seemed that when he shocked the owner of Plum Village yesterday... he also smelled a similar aroma.

He lowered his body, and the scent became stronger as he got closer to the mattresses. These mattresses were very old, and it seemed that they had not been replaced since ten years ago.

"There is something under this mattress."

He reached out and touched it, and sure enough he touched a raised piece.

After opening the mattress, a box appeared in front of the two of them. It was an ebony box with a faint fragrance on it.

"It's locked." Chu Tianshu replied after studying it for a while.

"Oh, let's find the password again..."

"Click."

Lin Huai:……

Chu Tianshu held up a piece of wire: "But it can be pried open."

The two people who were solving the physical puzzle stood next to each other, staring at the dozens of letters that had been taken out.

The letters were well kept, but they became old, yellow and brittle due to the passage of time.

Chu Tianshu carefully opened the top letter. On the letter, someone wrote in Qingjun handwriting:

"Yaoyao my wife,

In recent days, I often read family sword manuals and try to figure out the essence of "ruthless". Anyone who is ruthless should correct his heart, cut off his emotions, cut off his desires, forget about emotions when he is in love, and should not be moved by emotions or disturbed by emotions.

Then you can thoroughly understand the laws of heaven and earth, reach the pinnacle, and be able to do things that ordinary people cannot.

How sad! I have studied the sword manual for more than twenty years, but I have never been able to touch the realm of "absolute desire and selflessness". The mystery of the sword manual is beyond the reach of us mortals.

It has been snowing recently in Meizhuang, which makes it desolate and secluded, which is of great benefit to my practice. The new year is approaching and the servants are coming home, so Meizhuang is just you and me, so it can be regarded as a paradise suitable for retreat and practice."

"What's in the letter?" Lin Huai came over to look at it.

"This letter seems to be written by the owner of the village to his wife. His wife's name is Yaoyao." Chu Tianshu concluded, "This man seems to be a martial arts fanatic, and the letter talks about his understanding of kendo."

He carefully placed the first letter on the table and opened the second, third, and fourth letters.

The hostess who collected these letters can be said to be very organized. These letters are arranged in chronological order, from the latest to the earliest. From after the two got married to before the two got married.

As a letter was flipped forward, the changes of the owner of the letter were also revealed to the two of them. At the beginning, he was still a young boy who had just started to fall in love, and the mistress of the letter, "Yao Yao", was the person he was interacting with.

When her father went out to compete in martial arts, he fell in love with a girl from another sect at first sight.

The two first met under the peach tree. The hostess was wearing her favorite white dress and was smelling a peach blossom. It was March, and the peach blossoms were blooming. This was supposed to be the story between Duan Swordsman and

The beauty's romantic story lasted until the village owner's father was killed by others in a martial arts competition. Before his death, he gave the family sword manual to the village owner and asked him to practice to the tenth level.

This sword manual seems to be able to change a person's temperament. It can make people become cold-hearted. The more the practitioner cuts off love and desire, the deeper he can practice this sword manual. In order to support his husband's martial arts practice,

The hostess moved to the cold, lonely and inaccessible snow island with the owner of the village, and practiced swordsmanship here from then on.

It can be seen from the initial letters that the owner of the village at that time still felt guilty about his gentle wife. Because the desert island was covered with ice and snow, the hostess who loved flowers planted many plum trees on the island.

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From then on, the owner of the village locked himself in the yard to practice swordsmanship all day long, staying behind closed doors. From then on, the tone of his letters changed, and they were full of dissatisfaction with his restlessness. The hostess expressed his dissatisfaction.

In support of her husband, she also moved out of their living room and lived alone in the most remote Meiying Pavilion.

The mistress was good at painting, especially plum blossoms. When the plum blossoms bloomed, the owner of the village would always lock himself in the yard of the study and not go out. So the mistress often painted plum blossoms and ordered the servants to bring them to him to greet him.

good.

Although they are far apart, it can still be seen from reading between the lines that the couple has a deep relationship. The husband is obsessed with swordsmanship, and the wife fully supports it. Although their writing is light, it is still as peaceful as life.

"Good at painting, especially plum paintings..." Lin Huai knocked on the table, "According to the letter, the 'plum' painting that the game wants us to find should be one of the paintings given to the male host by the hostess.

?And according to the description in the letter, this hostess is also a peerless beauty..."

"Then, those paintings should be in the study." Chu Tianshu thought of the scrolls he saw in the study and came to a conclusion.

They continued reading and finally stopped at the love letter written by the male host to the female host seventeen years ago when the host and hostess first met.

"When the peach is born, its flowers are shining brightly. When the son returns, he will live in a suitable home..."

Chu Tianshu folded the letters and put them back into the box. Just when he was about to close the lid, Lin Huai suddenly said "Hey": "There is also a letter stuck on this lid."

It turned out that there was another letter that they had ignored. Chu Tianshu immediately took off the last letter and opened it carefully.

This last letter still exudes the fragrance of plum blossoms. According to the previous letter, the hostess planted plum trees by hand every day because of her loneliness all day long, and her body was also dyed with the fragrance of plum blossoms.

"The last letter... seems to have been written on New Year's Eve ten years ago, when the master dismissed all the slaves and there were only these two people left in Plum Village." Chu Tianshu said.

He read along the handwriting on the letter paper, column by column. Compared with the previous letters, the handwriting on this letter seemed more frantic.

A month after dismissing the slaves, the male master still seemed to have failed to understand the sword manual. He became depressed and desperate, unable to sleep all day long. Finally, he told the mistress in a letter that he would be fasting for a month.

"If you can't cut off the desire for food and drink, then how can you call it 'cutting off love and desire'?" Chu Tianshu read out the above words, "At the end, he wrote that in the next month, he

, will lock himself in the academy and never come out. If the plum blossoms in Meiying Pavilion bloom, ask the hostess to draw one for him and put it under the door."

The author has something to say: Ao Guwen is really tired (x)

I originally wanted to write this copy with a flavor of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio... Suan Liao.
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