The days flew by, and it was the height of summer in the blink of an eye. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The occasional wind in the courtyard carried a wave of heat, hitting the face so hot that it seemed to penetrate into the skin through the pores.

All living things are so hot that they can't breathe.

But this heat can't stop the footsteps of the naughty boy at all, and he can still go up to the house with energy to uncover the tiles and go into the water to catch turtles.

When this heat wave blew to the southeast, Du Yan on the road still rode his green donkey, walking alone in the shade of the mountain road.

He went from east to west, passed through Mianzhou, and then turned south and entered Xiangzhou.

Originally, he should have walked out of Jingnan Dao a long time ago.

Occasionally, I saw a young boy who was begging in a small town, and delayed his trip.

The little boy was trafficked here, broke his legs, was given dumb medicine, and left on the street to beg.

Recalling his youthful experience, Du Yan felt compassionate, rescued the boy, and took some time to heal his legs and throat. I also taught some simple self-defense skills before I got back on the road.

It was too hot, and he was not in a hurry, but only walked in the early morning and evening every day, and rested at noon.

On this day, thirty or forty miles away from Xiangzhou City, he found several interesting people.

What he found interesting was that he could see that the men were clearly modified. For example, a bearded person with a big face has a sticky beard. The face of the sick young man was yellowed.

He was an expert in this area, and when he saw that their crude methods were full of flaws and did not know it, he naturally found it extremely interesting.

Although these people carry burdens and dress normally, they look like porters, but their gait and body shape are clearly different from ordinary people.

It's noon, and the heat is unbearable. They sat down in the shade of the willows by the side of the road, but their eyes glanced at a group of people under another willow from time to time.

There were seven people in that line, either squatting on the ground or sitting on a bed. There was a very ordinary black-lacquered carriage parked next to it, and a few tall horses tethered under the willows.

Several men sat in a group around a man in his twenties and thirties. The man in the middle is dressed in a silk shirt, with a silver crown tied around his head and a silver hairpin inserted.

Although the face is quite windy and haggard, the face is surprisingly handsome and elegant, and the spirit is beautiful. On closer inspection, a vermilion mole between the eyebrows is hidden at the left tail of the eyebrow.

Next to him stood a man holding a fan, and another holding a tea bowl and handing it to the man.

Du Yan turned his head to look at the modified men again, and said in his heart, did you meet your peers? Did these people want to rob the silver-crowned man?

Sure enough, when the silver-crowned man and his party had rested enough and set off, several men here also stood up and followed.

The silver-crowned man and his party all had horses, and they each got on their horses and hugged the carriage and galloped away.

At this time, a figure popped out of the man behind him and chased after him in great stride. It doesn't seem to be working, but it's not slow.

The rest of the people are still doing the normal thing, carrying the burden and moving forward slowly.

Du Yan looked at the figure and gait of the person who rushed out, and secretly praised his fast posture.

Du Yan had nothing to do, so he should watch the excitement, keep a distance of twenty or thirty steps from those men, and follow unhurriedly.

The donkey was already slow, and he rode alone, his face was wrinkled, and he looked like a little old man, and he really couldn't arouse the slightest vigilance from others.

After more than an hour, everyone entered the city of Xiangzhou. The man who followed the man and his party stood at the gate of the city and waited. Seeing everyone, he approached the ear of the leader beard, and didn't know what he said, but he nodded and turned around to discuss a few words with a young man.

A few people disposed of the goods they had brought with them in the bazaar, bought an old carriage, and changed their clothes in a narrow alley. The handsome young man disguised himself as a merchant, and the rest of the men disguised himself as his retinue.

Du Yan said secretly, these people are not very good at disguise skills, and they are extremely cautious.

After coming out of the alley, they walked down the main street to the door of the Xiangfu Inn, where they asked for a few rooms to live in.

Du Yan also stayed with him and asked for the room next to the group of people. He knows something, and he pays attention to it everywhere at night.

Sure enough, at the end of the day, when he heard the sound of the door opening next door, Du Yan turned off the lights, and quietly pushed the door out, hiding in the dark.

I saw the man who was pretending to be a merchant during the day and a thin man walking out hand in hand. When he walked to the door of a room, the man pretending to be a merchant suddenly fell to the ground, and the other person squatted down and shouted, "Young master, what's wrong with you......?"

He shouted in the hallway, and in a moment several doors opened, and someone poked his head out to investigate. A person also came out of the door beside them and scolded, "What is it called, and let people sleep!"

The person Du Yan saw was one of the servants of the silver-crowned man in the white day.

The thin man immediately begged: "Uncle, please do well, help the little one to invite a doctor, my young master is sick, and the villain can't get out of here." ”

The man who came out of the house looked down, and saw the people on the ground foaming at the mouth and unconscious, according to the light in the room.

He didn't want to pay attention to it, but the thin man knelt on the ground and kowtowed, begging vigorously, so noisy that his master couldn't sleep. He glanced indoors, and reluctantly said, "Wait!" and went back to the house, dressed, explained to his companion, and went downstairs.

The rest of the people who watched the excitement saw that there was nothing to do, and they closed their doors and went to sleep.

The thin man kowtowed at the door of the room and said, "Kind uncle, can someone come again to help the young master carry the young master into the room." ”

The people in the room saw that he was thin and small, and they probably couldn't hold the master. They made a commotion outside the door, and the master did not rest well. Then another tall man with no outer clothes came out and helped him carry the man back to his room.

Du Yan watched them enter the house, and there was a muffled sound of "tom" in the room, which seemed to be the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground. Immediately afterwards, the thin man rushed out of the house, ran to the door of the house just now, and banged on the door. When the door opened from the inside, he hurriedly said: "Oh no, the old man was mixed with the table leg just now, his head hit the cabinet, and he bled a lot of blood, you go and take a look!"

The two of them in the house rushed out and hurriedly followed the thin man. This time I went in and never came out.

In a moment, two people quietly came out of the house, one behind the other, hiding outside the door of the silver-crowned man.

Du Yan thought to himself, they were waiting for someone to come out to find their companions.

As he expected, after a while, the people in the house probably sensed that something was wrong, and one of them came out to check. As soon as he stepped out of the door, the ambushed man slashed with a knife, and the other quickly caught the fallen body.

These movements were neat, and the people in the room didn't notice anything abnormal. The two had already carried the man back to the house with their hands and feet.

Du Yan counted with his fingers, there were originally seven people in the man's room, one person who went out to find the doctor, one person who helped carry the person, two people who hurriedly went out to see their companions, and one person who came out to check, now I am afraid that only the man with the jade crown and one entourage are left.

At this moment, the door opened again, and the four men came out, walked towards the silver-crowned man's room, and when they reached the door, they pushed the door straight in. Du Yan heard an angry shout outside: "Who ......" The voice stopped abruptly, as if someone had choked his throat.

Du Yan was curious, these people acted in this play, it didn't look like they wanted to make money and kill people. Otherwise, you can just find a section of the road with few tracks, and by the way, you can destroy the corpse.

He looked around, and saw that no one was watching, so he immediately leaned under the window, punctured the window paper, and put one eye on it to see.

This house is an ensuite, with a small inner room and a single bunk. There is a long couch outside, which is suitable for them to live in a master and many servants.

The silver-crowned man in the room had taken off the jade crown and was lying on the ground wearing only a middle coat, not knowing whether he was alive or dead. The other person couldn't see because of the sight problem, and it was estimated that he was also knocked unconscious.

Four men rummaged through their bags indoors, looking for something.

After a long time of finding nothing, one of them suddenly thought of something, squatted down next to the silver-crowned man, and groped for a while on him.

I didn't find what I was looking for, so I thought for a while, and pulled up the middle pants of the silver-crowned man, revealing an object tied to the inside of my calf.

He took it off, and opened the silk cloth in which it was wrapped, and inside it was a small crescent-shaped scimitar, golden and no longer than the palm of an adult's hand.

The man was overjoyed and said softly, "It's here." ”

The remaining three people gathered over, looked at the scimitar, and were also overjoyed, and one chuckled: "I can hand in the errand now." ”

Another said: "The prince has a rich bounty, and we can rest for a few years after making this ticket." ”

Du Yan secretly thought, it turned out to be commissioned by the son, and he didn't know what this little scimitar, like a child's toy, was used for?

Seeing that they were about to come out of the house, he hurriedly dodged out of the window and hid again in the darkness before.

They carried the silver-crowned man back to the room one by one, and fed each of them some medicine in their mouths before they went out and went back to the room to sleep.

I thought that the person who went out to ask for a doctor was either ambushed and killed, or he was knocked out of a dull stick and thrown into a corner.

Early the next morning, a group of people left the room in a big way and headed southeast.

When Du Yan passed by the silver-crowned man's room, he saw that the door was closed and silent, and those who didn't know said that they hadn't woken up yet.

Du Yan was old in the rivers and lakes, and knew that what they were fed last night must be something like sweat medicine, which could make them sleep until noon. When he woke up and went to ask for something, he didn't know where he had gone.

Secretly, these robbers also have a bit of morality, and they didn't simply kill people. It is estimated that they keep changing their clothes all the way, and it is expected that the silver-crowned man and his party do not know their true faces, and it is not easy to find them, even if they report to the official, it is difficult to explain clearly.