1.

"Lin Shaoxia, this is ......"

Tan Rui had mixed feelings in her heart at this time, and she was extremely excited after receiving Lin Xiao's invitation - originally she thought that Lin Xiao was the type who didn't eat oil and salt, and her previous goodwill behavior was just a bamboo basket for nothing. Unexpectedly, he actually came over and told him that he had something important to help, and for a while, he almost couldn't control the ecstasy in his heart, and almost wanted to hug Lin Xiao and cheer.

But when she followed Lin Xiao to the guest room, she saw Hongchen lying on the bed at first glance. Not only that, the half-exposed light veil that Hongchen was wearing gave her an extremely strong psychological impact.

Thinking of such a "bewitching" woman lying on the bed of her favorite person so unrestrainedly, the eldest lady of the Tan family only felt as if she had been hit hard by a giant hammer in her chest, and she was almost about to vomit blood.

"She......" Lin Xiao glared fiercely at Hongchen who was pretending to sleep on the bed, but saw that she had no feeling for her own substantial gaze, so he sighed helplessly: "She is my sword spirit." ”

Tan Rui couldn't help but be stunned: "Sword Spirit, then how can she ...... ...... like this"

Lin Xiao looked at Hongchen's dress, secretly covered his face in his heart, and forced out a smile under Tan Rui's gaze: "Ling...... It's all so eclectic, Miss Tan is used to it!"

Tan Rui then turned her gaze back to Lin Xiao and asked, "I don't know if Lin Shaoxia invited me here, is there anything that the little woman needs to serve you?"

"Miss Tan is polite, I can't talk about service, but there is one thing that I need your help with, Miss. Lin Xiao poured Tan Rui a cup of flower tea.

"Shaoxia, but it doesn't hurt to say it, Tan Rui will do his best. ”

Lin Xiao took a sip of tea, turned his head to look at Hongchen lying on the bed, and found that the latter had opened his eyes and was also looking at himself.

The eyes of the two touched each other, Hongchen blinked slightly, and made a look, Lin Xiao bowed his head slightly, turned back to Tan Rui and continued: "I heard that Lord Ling Zun bought an old mansion in the east of Lanzhou City a few years ago, I don't know if there is such a thing?"

Tan Rui nodded and said: "This is true, our Tan family owns the three largest businesses in the entire Lanzhou City, my father bought that old mansion to store some valuables for trade, and I assisted my father in putting things into the warehouse at that time." Lin Shaoxia, why did you suddenly remember to ask this?"

Lin Xiao further probed: "Then do you know where that old mansion came from?"

Tan Rui smiled: "If you ask me this question, you can ask the right person." That mansion used to be the immortal mansion of a Xuanmen family stationed here decades ago, and later this family offended the people of the Demon Dao because of something, and the whole house was slaughtered. Ever since the family died, the house had been vacant, and no one dared to live in it because so many people had died. Later, my dad took it down and used it as a warehouse. ”

Hongchen also walked to the edge of the table and sat down, the clothes on her body were changed into a normal set of long gowns and long skirts at some point, and the bewitching feeling was gone, but it looked heroic, which made Tan Rui couldn't help but look at it twice.

Lin Xiao and Hongchen glanced at each other, what Tan Rui said just now was basically consistent with the results of the previous investigation, it seemed that the abandoned old mansion that Tan Song had put down was indeed the original mansion of the Innocent Family.

But listening to the meaning of Tan Rui's words, the house is now stored with extremely valuable trade items of the three merchants of the Tan family, and the defense must be airtight; and Tan Rui is the young lady of the Tan family after all, if she knew that they wanted to sneak into the house and had other plans, she might not help with this favor.

Tan Rui asked, "What do you want me to help with?"

Although considering this possibility, Lin Xiao still stubbornly asked, "Miss Tan, this favor, even if you don't help, we will do it." Since you asked, then I will tell you the truth - the two of us came to Lanzhou this time to investigate an old case, which is related to the old mansion of the innocent family, and there are some questions that I need to go in to investigate, and I hope that Miss can make it convenient for you to take us in. ”

Tan Rui's face changed slightly, knowing that bringing people into the old mansion would involve the safety of the family industry. Although she secretly has feelings for Lin Xiao, it doesn't mean that she will get carried away by it. For a moment, I didn't know how to respond.

Tan Rui's face changed, and Lin Xiao and the others had already noticed it. Hongchen picked up the teacup, took a sip in disguise, and hid one hand under the table, already firmly holding the three iron Bodhi. As long as Tan Rui has a warning message, she will immediately pop out the hidden weapon and seal the acupoints on her body to prevent her movement.

Tan Rui was silent for a long time, so long that Lin Xiao changed the tea soup twice, she still sat there without saying a word, her hands and ten fingers nervously pulling at each other, looking very entangled.

After a long time, Tan Rui breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Lin Shaoxia, and this girl, it's not that I don't trust you and refuse to take you in...... It's that this thing is really difficult, and it may be beyond my ability. ”

Lin Xiaoqi said: "Although the mansion of the Innocent Family is strictly guarded by your Tan family inside and out, but you are the daughter of the Tan family, can't you still give orders to those guards who are responsible for defense?"

Tan Rui shook her head: "If there is no such person, I can still order them, but...... Not with him. ”

"He?" Lin Xiao couldn't help frowning: "Who is he?"

Tan Rui said: "He is a master hired by my father with a lot of money, and he is responsible for the internal and external protection of the old mansion. Even if I could use my identity to get someone else to let you in, I wouldn't be able to pass his level - he only listened to my father's orders. ”

"What's his name. Hongchen asked.

Tan Rui frowned: "I don't know very well about the things in your rivers and lakes, I only know what kind of 'No. 1 Divine Arrow in the World' he is......"

"The No. 1 Divine Sword in the World?" Lin Xiao said stunned, "Could it be the 'Sword God' Xia Yang?!"

Hongchen almost rolled his eyes directly to his heels: "Are you having a bad brain! A dignified Sword Sect generation grandmaster, how could he condescend to show a merchant the courtyard! If this word spreads, aren't you afraid of being hunted down and killed by the people of the Ethereal City?!"

"Xia Yang?" Tan Rui also shook her head, "It's not this person, although I don't know what his name is, but I heard my father call him Mr. Yin." ”

"Mr. Yin?" Hongchen was surprised at first, and then raised his eyebrows: "May I ask what Miss Tan said about the 'No. 1 Divine Arrow in the World', is it the 'sword' of the 'sword' or the 'arrow' of the 'bow and arrow'?"

Tan Rui thought for a while and said: "I have met Mr. Yin a few times, and he does carry a pair of bows and arrows all day long, which should be the 'arrow' of 'bows and arrows'." ”

Hongchen looked back at Lin Xiao: "It's Yin Yangqiu." ”

"Yin Yangqiu?" Lin Xiao repeated hesitantly, "You can't be talking about the 'arrow without missing hair' from Guiyuan Villa, right?"

Hongchen shrugged his shoulders and nodded slightly.

Lin Xiao's face was full of disbelief: "I also said that my brain is broken, you are even more outrageous than me!" Yin Yangqiu betrayed Guiyuan Villa, and now he has disappeared for almost ten years, and everyone says to the outside world that he is dead, how can he come to the Tan family to be a janitor?"

Hongchen spread his hands to show that he was also at a loss: "I also know that this sounds unbelievable. But to tell the truth, apart from 'no false arrows', which other Mr. Yin in the world can be worthy of the title of 'the world's first magic arrow'? Moreover, Yin Yangqiu disappeared after betraying Guiyuan Villa, and no one knows whether he is really dead; perhaps in order to escape the pursuit of his old club, he joined the Tan family as a small janitor to disguise his identity. ”

Tan Rui said: "Although I don't know Mr. Yin's origins, nor do I know what kind of level his cultivation is, but judging from what you have described, I can be sure that he is definitely a very tricky character to deal with. ”

Hongchen nodded and said to Lin Xiao, "She's right. People who are good at archery are bound to have extremely developed eyesight and hearing, especially for people in the realm of Yin Yangqiu, who are afraid that they already have no less than the realm of the Eight Heavens, and they can see the six ways and hear the eight directions. It is indeed unlikely that we will want to sneak into Haiti under his defense. ”

"Since 'hiding from the sky and crossing the sea' doesn't work, it's a big deal for us to make a move with him to 'divert the tiger from the mountain'. The corners of Lin Xiao's lips hooked up a smile.

Tan Rui's eyes widened: "Lin Shaoxia, is it possible...... You want to single out Mr. Yin?!"

"How can I?" Lin Xiao pointed at himself and said with a smile: "I, a guy who has cultivated more than six heavens and seven heavens insufficient, why should I single-handedly pick out the famous 'arrows without missing hair'?"

"But you didn't mean ......"

"I really can't. Lin Xiao said and pointed to Hongchen beside him, and his words changed, "But she can do it—let alone a Yin Yangqiu, even if it is ten, it is not enough for her to warm up!"

Hongchen sighed angrily: "I know that what I have on the stall is not a good thing!"

Tan Rui asked, "What is the plan of the young man?"

Lin Xiao said: "Please Miss Tan take us to that old mansion on your behalf, Hongchen will be responsible for attracting that Mr. Yin, I will take the opportunity to sneak in and find clues as quickly as possible, and act quickly tonight." ”

2.

It's night, east of the city.

The original mansion of the innocent family stood in the night, and the plaque engraved with the two gold-inlaid characters of "innocent" on the door beam had been removed, and the paint on the door had dried up and fallen off a lot, although it was filled with the guards of the Tan family but not unpopular, but when it got closer, there was still a dilapidated atmosphere.

Yin Yangqiu sat on the roof of the main hall "Haoran Xuan", carrying a longbow on his back, leaning on a tube of feather arrows at his feet, about a dozen branches. He looked up at the moonlight tonight, holding half a roast chicken in his left hand, tearing it with his right hand and then sending the chicken into his mouth, with a pot of turbid wine beside him, and from time to time he lifted it up and took a sip.

"Since you're here, why hide and hide?!" Yin Yangqiu heard a very slight sound from the side, and couldn't help sneering, raised his head and poured a big sip of wine, put down the wine jug, and the greasy hand that had torn the roast chicken suddenly rose, and three silent sleeve arrows had already hit a corner of the roof.

A chuckle came from the other party in the darkness, and it sounded like a woman's voice. The three silent Hidden Arrows disappeared into the darkness of the night and then did not move, apparently empty.

Yin Yangqiu knew that since the other party dared to provoke him, he must not be an idle person; the three sleeve arrows were purely to find out the truth of the opponent, and their intention was not to hurt the enemy. And just as he put the last piece of chicken in his mouth and lifted the flask to drink, he heard a sound of breaking through the air from the direction where the arrow had just been shot.

Yin Yangqiu is not only strong in archery, but also very accomplished in hidden weapons, so listening to sound and distinguishing position is a good skill. At this time, when I heard the sound of breaking the sky, I guessed that the other party should have returned the sleeve arrow he shot, and the reason why it made a sound should be because the opponent's sleeve arrow was not fired by the machine, but was thrown back after infusing internal force. And if you listen carefully to the way the sleeve arrow came from, it was the flask in your own hand, not yourself.

The disdainful sneer on Yin Yangqiu's face became more and more obvious, thinking that the other party was also a timid mouse, and he didn't dare to provoke himself easily. At the moment, he didn't bother to shake the Hidden Arrow away, but took care of himself to carry the pot and drink, but just turned his hand slightly in the direction to avoid the way of the Hidden Arrow.

"Smack-", a crisp ceramic breaking sound sounded.

Yin Yangqiu's face changed violently, and then he felt that the wine jug in his hand was much lighter, and at the same time, a stream of water spilled on him.

The sleeve arrow that was thrown back by someone was straight all the way, and at the moment when Yin Yangqiu moved the pot to avoid it, the direction was strangely deflected, and the wine bottle in his hand was directly shot out of a transparent hole, and the wine suddenly poured out.

Yin Yangqiu suddenly became alert, he just felt that the other party had been hiding in the dark, obviously his strength was not as good as his own, and he only dared to do some petty theft offensives. It wasn't until this moment that he woke up: it was no coincidence that the opponent's sleeve arrow deflected, but he had already calculated his own movements, and applied dark energy on the hidden weapon to promote the deflection of the sleeve arrow, and then shot the locked target.

As a result, Yin Yangqiu suddenly felt horrified. Judging from this secret weapon kung fu, the other party's strength is not below him, and he is not the kind of young man he imagined. If that person really wanted his own life, when he was hidden in the darkness before, he could have acted unknowingly and unknowingly, and he would never be able to resist it.

The other party deliberately left a hand and exposed his whereabouts (presumably on purpose), which made Yin Yangqiu feel very uneasy. But what made him even more uneasy was that he shot three silent hidden arrows, but the other party only returned the salute, and the remaining two did not know when they would come.

Yin Yangqiu didn't dare to hold it up any longer, put his hand on the roof, quickly stood up, took off the longbow behind his back with his backhand, and kicked lightly on the quiver with his foot.

He held the arrow in his hand, bent his bow and arrow, and the cold light flickering at the arrow pointed to the darkness.

"Your Excellency's cultivation is profound, how can you be like those ordinary people, greedy for worldly things such as money. Yin Yang Qiu said loudly. His words came out with the blessing of internal force, and the sound shook the roof tiles, echoing in the corridors of the old mansion, making the surrounding atmosphere even more mysterious.

The deathly silence lasted for several breaths, and a woman's voice suddenly came from the darkness: "Your Excellency, don't take fifty steps and laugh at a hundred steps, the dignified Elder Guiyuan Villa, condescend to be a lowly gatekeeper for the so-called worldly people in your mouth, and I don't know if the price your master offers you is worthy of you." ”

Yin Yangqiu's face changed, his arrow was always aimed at the dark place in front of him, as long as the other party made even a slight sound, he was sure that the arrow would hit. However, with his otherworldly hearing, he could hear it clearly at this time—the woman's voice was actually behind him!

When did it shift? Is there really any ghost in this world?!

As soon as his mind moved, Yin Yangqiu's body did not turn, he twisted the bow with his backhand and stretched it, and shot at a "back arrow" where the voice came from. With a hideous sound of tearing the wind, the feather arrow broke through the sky and disappeared into the night.

A fiery red shadow suddenly appeared in the darkness, and when Yin Yangqiu turned around, he just saw a dazzling red light flashing, and a woman in red held a long sword, blocking in front of her; the feather arrow flew towards the blade of the sword in her hand, and the sharp arrow collided with an even sharper edge, and in an instant, the whole feather arrow was neatly split by the long sword, and split in two.

Yin Yangqiu's heart was even more frightened, his feather arrows and arrows were all specially made by himself, on the surface, they were pig iron arrows, but in fact, the part of the pig iron was only a thin layer on the outside, and the solid inside of the arrow was made of dark iron; And the woman so lightly split the arrow he shot with a single block of the horizontal sword, which shows the strength of her person.

"The arrow is not missing?" The woman in red looked at the feather arrow that had fallen at her feet and was cut in half, and smiled lightly: "After tonight, Your Excellency's large trumpet seems to be able to be changed!"

Yin Yangqiu was furious, especially when he saw that the other party was just a young and beautiful woman, he suddenly felt frustrated, which made him even more angry. He set up a feather arrow again, and bent his bow with enough strength to shoot it, and the feather arrow was like a meteor catching the moon, and it was aimed at the heart of the woman in red.

A short whisper suddenly came from the corner under the eaves, if Yin Yangqiu would definitely be able to catch it at the first time in normal times, but all his attention was focused on the woman in red at this time, how could he pay attention to the other noises around him.

Under the eaves, Lin Xiao let go of the hand covering Tan Rui, glared and said, "Miss, what are you shouting?"

Tan Rui looked incredulous: "Can she block the arrows shot at such a distance?"

Lin Xiao looked up, just in time to see the scene where Yin Yangqiu shot out with a bow, and couldn't help but lower his head and cover his eyes.

Tan Ruiqi said: "Lin Shaoxia, what are you doing here?"

Lin Xiao shook his head: "It's nothing, I'm just afraid that if I continue to look at it, it will be the same as that Yin Yangqiu - my self-esteem will be damaged!"

Tan Rui raised her head inexplicably, and happened to see the next scene, and was instantly so shocked that she couldn't close her mouth, and even stood up involuntarily.

was also frightened, as well as Yin Yangqiu.

It's just that the difference is that Tan Rui is surprised, while he is frightened!

His eyesight had always been so good that he could see as if it were daylight even in the dark of night when he couldn't see his fingers, but he didn't want to believe what he had just seen. Just when the arrow that had just been shot was about to reach the heart of the woman in red, she had already freed up a hand as quickly as thunder and held the arrow directly!

Yin Yangqiu subconsciously rubbed her eyes, for fear that she had seen it wrong, but the result was - she really held it with her bare hands!

The feathered arrow trembled in the hand of the woman in red, as if she wanted to struggle to move on, but she held it tightly, and could not move forward even an inch. At this time, the feather arrow was still half a foot away from her chest, and even the clothes on her chest did not pierce.

Lin Xiao's ears moved, although he didn't have Yin Yangqiu's hearing, he could roughly hear what was happening on the roof, and it was estimated that the "arrow without missing hair" at this moment might have been dumbfounded, and he shouldn't notice himself again, so he said to Tan Rui: "It seems that your family's master can't take care of us now, let's hurry in." With that, he grabbed her by the waist, jumped up from the side wall, and jumped into the mansion of the Unsullied Family with her.

"Lin Shaoxia, what are we doing here?" Tan Rui was the first time to sneak into his own warehouse in the middle of the night, still with such a sneaky identity; watching Lin Xiao pull himself all the way around, and when he saw the guarded family, he poked out a finger and dragged it into the shadows, and his heart no longer had the joy of adventuring with the person he liked at the beginning, but he felt faintly uneasy.

Lin Xiao stopped his steps and hid himself and Tan Rui in a blind spot behind a wing room, but instead of answering her question, he frowned and looked down at the constantly heating Qiankun bag in his hand-

The situation is more complicated than expected!

The Qiankun bag is hot, which means that the half of the fragment in it resonates with somewhere in the room, and it seems that he has not come to the wrong place - the ancestor of Liaoyuan, Hua Feng, did come here with that map back then.

But the tricky thing at the moment is that the reaction shown by the Qiankun bag is intermittent, which means that the traces of the soul imprint left here are not obvious, and it may be slowly erased over time. If you want to find it, you have to search the entire mansion.

But this is also the mansion of a Xuanmen family, and it is not easy to thoroughly investigate every corner and find a small soul imprint, not to mention that the three layers and the outer three floors here are all guards of the Tan family, and the "arrow without missing hair" who was temporarily dragged by the red dust is also a potential threat.

Lin Xiao took the Qiankun bag back to his waist, turned around and asked Tan Rui: "Miss Tan, you said that you once assisted your father in registering the things here, so do you know where the most hidden place in this mansion is?"

Lin Xiao's train of thought is like this: in order to avoid the pursuit of Lihate Heavenly City, Hua Feng, the ancestor of Liaoyuan, wanted to get rid of his old club, the Innocent Family, and after returning here, he would definitely not be able to leave again in a short time, and he would definitely hide in a hidden place in the mansion to avoid the subsequent massacre. Therefore, the most hidden place must be the place where Hua Feng was hiding in the first place, and the soul imprint branded on that map will definitely remain there.

It was precisely because of this idea that he asked Tan Rui where the concealment was here.

However, what Lin Xiao didn't expect was that the same sensitive issue would have different meanings in different people's ears. Tan Rui was puzzled by Lin Xiao's purpose for coming here, and when she heard him ask, she mistakenly thought that he was asking in disguise where the most valuable items were hidden. This eldest lady of the Tan family has always had a rich imagination, and as soon as her mind is opened at this moment, all kinds of possibilities in her mind will come to her mind one after another, and it will become out of control.

"Are you asking where the most valuable items are hidden?" Tan Rui's tone began to become a little strange.

Where would Lin Xiao have thought that at this time, Tan Rui's thoughts turned to the strange corner of her mind, thinking that the most hidden place is not used to hide the most valuable items, and there is no doubt about him at the moment, so he nodded and said, "Exactly." ”

Tan Rui's heart was half cold all of a sudden, thinking that she had really lured the wolf into the room this time, so she stood up directly in a hurry, opened her mouth and shouted: "Come ......"

Lin Xiaoden was taken aback, and she didn't know why she suddenly changed her hexagram. Before he could fully react, the first sound in Tan Rui's mouth had already come out, and the next moment, she rolled her eyes and fainted.

Lin Xiao hurriedly caught Tan Rui's body that had fallen forward, helped her lie down in the corner of the wall, and turned his head to look, only to see Hongchen standing behind him, his hand still maintaining the movement when he cut the back of Tan Rui's neck.

"Sure enough, nine times out of ten, the eldest lady in the world is a straw bag!" Hongchen stared at the unconscious Tan Rui viciously, "I almost made this girl a big deal!"

Lin Xiao took a breath and gave her a thumbs up: "It's really thanks to you!

Hongchen pointed out of the wall: "I led me out of the city, I guess this time we should be on the way back - so no matter what we are looking for, we have to hurry!"

Lin Xiao smacked his tongue and said: "I'm afraid it's a little difficult, this mansion of the Innocent Family is so big, and it has to constantly avoid the guards patrolling and guarding, how can it be so easy to find a small soul imprint." ”

"Actually...... I have an idea. ”

Lin Xiao raised his eyebrows: "What do you say?"

"You've just avoided the guards, and it's pitch black, so you probably didn't notice anything wrong. Hongchen said, "When I came in, I took a general look around the roof, and I realized that in a sense, we had already been here. ”

"What?" Lin Xiao exclaimed, "How is this possible?!"

Hongchen looked him directly into his eyes: "Although some places have been repaired and transformed, I can be sure that the basic layout of this mansion is exactly the same as the Liaoyuan family's 'Qiwu Yuyi Residence' that we went to before!"

【To be continued】