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He Lingchuan cut the rope around his ankles and hauled him down to the ground. “Lead the way. Where do we go?”
“To the western end of the county, to Mochou Lake[1].” Third Master Gan glanced around in a panic. “We’re… we’re already in the western end?”
There were only a few abandoned thatched huts here, not far from the county center. He Lingchuan had simply grabbed him and brought him over in passing.
“Move.” He Lingchuan’s face was solemn. “Your big brother was right, this spirit medium isn’t someone you can play with. An idiot like you dealing with her is guaranteed to eat a loss.”
They mounted up and rode further west.
Slanting wind and fine rain, everything carried the early-summer scent.
When they left the official road, Third Master Gan pointed them onto a narrow forest path.
“Where does this lead?”
Before long, the trees thinned, and the space opened up. Halfway up the slope stood a small stilted house, half-hidden in a bamboo grove.
Behind it lay a stretch of water, which was most likely Mochou Lake, just as Third Master Gan had said.
A lakeside dwelling, bamboo sea, and rain for company. By all rights, it ought to have been full of quiet charm. But on this pitch-black rainy night, the shadows of bamboo swayed and slapped across the lone house’s outer wall like clawing...
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