This time Su Yixin brought Gu Qingjue Luowang Wushang, as well as her brothers Li Zhengzhen and Gao Ge.
Four people wielding swords set out from the morning until the sun was about to set, and then they set beside a grassland ten miles outside Shuozhou City.
Then walk into the city.
By the time they entered the city, the sun had completely set.
The four of them first found an inn to stay.
The next day I went to Futing Street, which Yang Junsheng had checked out before.
Futing Street is the street where the Fan family belongs.
After fifteen or sixteen years of changes, the families that were close to Fan's house gradually moved away. Not only was Fan's house overgrown with weeds, but also the neighboring houses were also covered with weeds.
"Let's go to a nearby house first to inquire about the news."
The house Gu Qingjue was talking about was about three houses away from Fan's house.
There was an old woman in her seventies sitting in front of that house.
On such a cold day, she was not inside the house. Instead, she lit a fire at the door. There was a rocking chair wrapped in old cotton wool next to it. After lighting the fire, she lay down on the rocking chair.
"Old man."
Su Yixin shouted.
The old woman slowly opened her eyes and looked at Su Yixin.
The whites of her eyes were cloudy, and her voice was more like a broken gong, very hoarse: "Little girl, who are you looking for?"
"Old man, my surname is Su. I am looking for my relative. She used to live in that family."
The old woman followed Su Yixin's finger and saw Fan Zhai.
"Oh, you are looking for that house. Then stop looking, that house is no longer there."
"Old man, I am a distant cousin of the Fan family, and I came to join them."
The old woman looked at Su Yixin, Gu Qingjue and others again.
Seeing that they were all well dressed, he laughed and said, "Little girl, you didn't tell the truth."
"Look at what you are wearing, you are not the children of an ordinary family. This family disappeared sixteen years ago. Now you come here to look for it. You are seeking refuge. You are obviously trying to find out the whereabouts of the Fan family. "
Su Yixin: "..."
You really can't fool the old man.
They have an old heart and a clear mind.
Gu Qingjue took a step forward at this time and said: "Don't be surprised, old man. I am really old and have some scruples, so I say this. My name is Gu Qingjue, and my mother's surname is Fan. I did a lot of research before I found this place. I want to know if my mother was born in this family."
The old man sighed.
After a long time, he finally said: "The old woman has lived here all her life. Please tell me, what is your mother's name?"
"Fan Chengfang."
The old woman's eyes opened a lot.
He sat up and looked at Gu Qingjue, looking up and down carefully.
Then he nodded: "If you look closely, you do look a bit like Fang Yatou, but her name is Fan Huifang, not Fan Chengfang."
Fan Huifang, Fan Chengfang.
It is very likely that Fan changed his name after leaving Shuozhou.
"Why!"
The old woman sighed: "This Fan family is already very prosperous."
As the old woman spoke, her eyes looked into the distance, her voice began to become ethereal, and she recounted everything she knew.
The Fan family is prosperous, but Fan Huifang is the only direct daughter of the Fan family.
Fan was extremely popular in the Fan family. She was good at playing music, chess, calligraphy, painting, singing, dancing, riding, and shooting. Let alone a woman, there were very few men in Shuozhou who could rival her.
It is said that Fan's garrison in Shuozhou was based on the order of his ancestors, guarding a secret.
No one knows what this secret is.
Sixteen years ago, a large number of outsiders suddenly arrived in Shuozhou, which had always been peaceful. They all stayed outside Fan's house and wanted to find out what was going on inside.
But Fan's masters are like a cloud, guarding Fan's house like an iron barrel.
Can't find any information easily.
But I don’t know what happened, but suddenly one night, the people staying outside Fan’s house disappeared overnight. When the next morning, the neighbors who came and went discovered that Fan’s house was quiet, as if it was an empty house.
Even the guards who usually guard the door were missing.
The neighbor was suspicious and knocked on the door.
After knocking for a long time, no one came, so he pushed hard and unexpectedly the door opened.
The huge Fan House disappeared without a trace overnight, leaving no one behind.
Everything inside, except flowers and plants, everything that could be taken away was taken away.
Having said this, the old woman regained her focus and said to Gu Qingjue: "It's really strange. I have been guarding the door and didn't see how the Fan family disappeared."
Su Yixin also felt incredible after hearing this.
To say that the entire Fan family has been exterminated, how long will it take to kill hundreds of people?
Drugged?
Those people had been lingering outside Fan's house for so long. Fan's house had already taken precautions. Even if some people were careless, it was impossible for so many people to be poisoned at the same time.
Hundreds of people evaporated out of thin air overnight?
After thanking the old woman, Su Yixin quietly placed some broken silver under the old woman's rocking chair.
It's not that Su Yixin doesn't want to give more.
In the old woman's situation, a large denomination of silver would only bring trouble to her, while some broken silver would be more practical for her.
"I want to go in and have a look."
"good."
Time has passed, and Fan's house, which was uninhabited fifteen years ago, is full of weeds. The trees that were planted back then have grown unchecked without being pruned.
Several people pulled the weeds forward.
Fortunately, it is winter now and the grass and trees have turned yellow, so there is no need to work so hard.
"Is this the main hall?"
Good guy, there is nothing in the main hall. Not only is there no table, there is not even a chair.
I don’t know if it was someone from the Fan family who took them away, or if they saw Fan’s house was empty later, someone came in and took these things away.
Exiting the main hall and walking to the left, I found nothing else except the abandoned garden and the collapsed courtyard wall.
They returned to the main hall and passed from the right. There should be rows of side rooms. Some of the door frames had fallen off. Looking inside, there was nothing.
All in all it's clean.
All that is left is this empty shell.
Li Zhengzhen looked at Gu Qingjue and said, "Ziyuan, how about we go back to the inn first?"
"Lets see!"
Gu Qingjue said: "If they were not silenced overnight, there should be a tunnel in the mansion. Only in this way can it be explained. The old woman at the door did not see anyone coming out, but everyone disappeared without a trace overnight. "
Li Zhengzhen scratched his head: "If it's authentic, it's not easy to find."
Regarding the fate of a family, it must be very secretive. If Fan's house was normal, it would still be possible to find it. Now there are weeds everywhere, and all the clues are covered up by the weeds. It is too difficult to find.
Su Yixin looked at the withered and yellow weeds all over the yard and said, "Brother, I will set up a formation now and you will be responsible for burning all these weeds."
