Datang is outside the borders.

The swordsman stood outside a cottage and looked up, this cottage is not small, although it is in a desolate place, but the building looks magnificent, if it is not for the exact information, the swordsman will not associate it with the bandits' den anyway.

After learning that Liu Hong had not returned, and Li Biao had absconded overnight, the swordsman learned from Yin Wenjiao that Li Biao was actually a participant in the bloody case eighteen years ago. This can also explain why after being forced to ask by the swordsman last night, Li Biao absconded overnight, he must have known Liu Hong's whereabouts and reported it. After knowing this, the swordsman regretted again and again that he shouldn't have let Li Biao go so easily last night, but it was too late to think about it at this time.

Linking everything together, the swordsman guessed that Liu Hong and Li Biao probably knew that the matter had been exposed, and it was absolutely impossible for them to return to Jiangzhou Yamen to fall into the net. After visiting the guards of the Jiangzhou Yamen, the swordsman learned that Li Biao had taken two cronies with him when he left. He also knew that Liu Hong had always had an inexplicable connection with this cottage outside Datang. Liu Hong and Li Biao are missing, and the swordsman guesses that maybe the two of them will hide here, so he will appear here.

Putting away what he was thinking, the swordsman walked towards the cottage, but when he reached the gate of the village, he was blocked by the two.

"Stop, who are you? What's going on here? ”

One of them stepped forward and raised the long knife in his hand in front of him, and asked sharply.

"Go in and tell Liu Hong and Li Biao, let them come out and die, otherwise don't blame me for killing all the way in."

The swordsman glanced around the two of them and found that these two were just ordinary people, and they didn't have the slightest aura of cultivators on their bodies. The swordsman didn't bother to talk nonsense with the two of them, so he said in a deep voice at the moment.

"Dare to call the name of the big boss and the second boss, it's damned. Lao Tzu, I'll send you to the underworld to shout. ”

Being so despised by the swordsman, the man was angry in his heart, and rushed towards the swordsman with his sword. It's just that he is an ordinary person, how can he be the opponent of a swordsman? The swordsman didn't even bother to dodge, he stood in place and raised his foot and kicked towards the person, and the person was directly kicked backwards by the swordsman's kick, and flew straight out of a few meters and hit the tall gate behind him before stopping, and his body slowly collapsed on the ground along the gate, and he was silent.

"Enemy attack, enemy attack."

The other person saw that his companion couldn't even make a move in the hands of the swordsman, and he didn't know whether he was alive or dead, and his face turned white with fright. He didn't care about the companion who was kicked away by the swordsman, so he dropped the long knife he was holding and ran towards the cottage, shouting hoarsely as he ran.

"Waste."

The swordsman snorted disdainfully, and he didn't stop it, just raised his footsteps and followed the man step by step towards the cottage.

didn't go far, and the swordsman was surrounded by a group of bandits who rushed to hear the sound. This place was not far from the largest house in the center of the cottage, and the swordsman simply stopped, ignoring the people around him, and set his eyes on the room in the center of the cottage, waiting quietly.

The swordsman didn't move, and the group of thieves naturally didn't dare to move, but they just surrounded the swordsman, so that he couldn't continue to move forward. And the thief guarding the door didn't stop and staggered in directly, telling Liu Hong to go.

"Who is so bold as to dare to come here to make trouble?"

Not long after, a dark voice came from outside the crowd into the ears of the swordsman.

The crowd surrounding the swordsman quickly parted to the two sides, revealing a gap, and the swordsman saw two people walking towards this side, one of them was Li Biao, who was captured and questioned by the swordsman last night, and the other was thin, and the wide clothes on his body were empty and looked very inappropriate. The man's face was gloomy, and a pair of uncertain eyes looked straight at the swordsman in the encirclement.

"Big brother, this kid is the guy I told you about."

Li Biao recognized the swordsman at a glance, and he whispered to the emaciated man beside him.

"You are Liu Hong?"

Seeing Li Biao standing behind the man, the swordsman immediately guessed the identity of the emaciated man, he should be the main target of his trip, Liu Hong.

It's just that the swordsman didn't expect Liu Hong to be such a ghost, looking at his figure, I'm afraid there won't be a few taels of meat left after peeling the skin and removing the bones, right? This Liu Hong has been an official in Jiangzhou for so long pretending to be Chen Guangrui, can't he even eat enough?

Wrong.

The swordsman's pupils shrank suddenly, because after careful inspection, the swordsman immediately found that this Liu Hong was not a human being, his body turned out to be a skeleton monster, no wonder he had been fat for many years but had lost weight to look like this ghost, it turned out to be for this reason.

"Yes, who are you? How dare you ruin my good deeds? ”

Liu Hong squinted his eyes and asked gloomily.

Although they have never met, Liu Hong has long hated the swordsman in his heart. Eighteen years ago, the fledgling Liu Hong found the gangster Li Biao and was ready to do a big career. At the Hongjiang ferry, the two happened to meet Chen Guangrui and Yin Wenjiao, who were about to take office in Jiangzhou, and after talking and learning that Chen Guangrui was the newly appointed city lord of Jiangzhou by the imperial court, Liu Hong's heart was full of careful thoughts. He and Li Biao summed it up, and when the boat marched into the river in the middle of the night, the two killed Chen Guangrui's entourage and the servant, and then killed Chen Guangrui and threw his body into the river, leaving only the lives of Yin Wenjiao and a few maids, and coerced a few women not to talk nonsense, so they changed Chen Guangrui's clothes, brought official certificates, and went to Jiangzhou to take office.

With Chen Guangrui's identity and blocking the mouths of Yin Wenjiao's several female dependents, Liu Hong's position as the city lord of Jiangzhou can be described as infinitely beautiful, and with the establishment of the imperial court, it is naturally much more comfortable than the grass he planned before. It is said that Liu Hong did not do too badly in the position of the city lord of Jiangzhou, at least he could barely cope with it on the side of the imperial court, so he has not shown any horses and feet for so many years, and he has been able to live a comfortable life for eighteen years.

Liu Hong originally thought that his life would always go on like this, but where would he have thought that there would be such a change as a swordsman now? This time, before he went out and returned to Jiangzhou, his right-hand man Li Biao hurried to report that the matter of that year might have been exposed, and fortunately, Liu Hong had secretly organized a group of bandits to build such a village over the years, and even if he did not return to Jiangzhou, there was a place to stay. But after so many years of pampering, and now he wants to nest in this small place, how can Liu Hong not hate the swordsman in his heart?