- Hearing Uncle Fu Jian mention the word "freedom" again, the two teenagers no longer feel as relaxed and expectant as they did when they first heard it. They still didn't dare to answer lightly, but their fear of Uncle Fu Jian at this time had deepened.

Xiao Ling's expression didn't change much, but replied seriously: "Xiao Ling remembers." ”

Suddenly a bolt of lightning slipped through the sky, and a reddish electric light began in mid-air and slid all the way to the horizon, opening a long wound between the darker and darker clouds. However, the wound did not bleed and only "healed" after a split second.

I just don't know if this scratch, which is so fast that it leaves no trace, will leave a ravine in the depths of the clouds that is difficult to reassemble.

The red electric light also imprinted on Xiao Ling's extremely young face for a moment, but perhaps because his eyes were calm enough, most of the red brilliance was reflected in his eyes, reflected by the pupil light, which made Xiao Wu, who was looking at him upright, suddenly have a personal feeling for the first time: Xiao Ling's mental growth has far exceeded the growth of his body, and it is also far faster than himself and Xiao Sun.

He already has the shadow of Uncle Fu Jian.

And will he replace Uncle Fu Jian with younger qualifications in the near future?

……

The pouring rain poured down immediately, although these four people learned the laws of killers, and in the future, they would only use assassination activities as a means of making a living, but after all, they only had a flesh and blood body, and there was no need to resist the forces of nature.

On the beach, I found a tea stall with the most broken cloth shed and the fewest customers, and the four of us sat in.

Four bowls of hot tea were brought to the table, and each of them picked up an enamel bowl, but did not drink it immediately. Instead, he poured the tea bowl slightly, consumed half a bowl of tea soup, and only washed his hands.

Today, the people who set up sheds to sell food and drink by the sea are all merchants from the inner city who have traveled nearly twenty miles to come here, and all the fresh water and food are transported from the inner city, which takes a lot of manpower to turnover. Wait until it's time to sell. Naturally, the pricing will be slightly higher.

The busy guys in the shop couldn't help but feel distressed when they saw the guests sitting around the table washing their hands with such expensive tea.

But seeing that the young man with three children was cheerful and generous, the man sighed secretly. I only said in my heart: No one else is distressed, what do I have to worry about and make a lot of fun.

The guy at the temporary tea shop didn't know that this kind of hand-washing behavior was a rule of the sect where these four people belonged. Walk outside. In order to prevent being poisoned, they specially practiced a method. The act of washing hands with tea is not actually washing hands with water, but 'washing' tea with hands.

Before they poured the tea, they had quietly put some powder on their hands. Medium and above DU drugs cannot escape the test of this powder.

Originally, on this seaside, not far away were the patrol soldiers. Walking back and forth slowly, the shops in this environment are temporary. There should be no such sinister thing as zài, but as a person in their faction, they have been deeply involved in consciously abiding by certain regulations, and they will not change the constitution without authorization because the environment seems to be safe.

This kind of strange behavior is actually related to their professional characteristics of not doing ordinary things.

After trying the tea is non-toxic, the four of them took a sip shallowly, and this behavior was almost carried out according to a neat and consistent rhythm.

The habit of putting down the tea bowl lightly is not because they are gentle-hearted, but because their profession requires them to have a pair of hands that are meticulous to the point where every inch of muscle is flexible, so as to help them have more stability when picking locks, removing tiles, or unraveling mechanisms.

Looking at the rain from afar, they had no intention of admiring the rain, just waiting for the boat that would come to the shore to pick them up soon.

Ye Nuonuo and Mo Ye, who had only been walking for a short time, were afraid that they didn't have a chance to know another reason why the four of them stayed at the observation deck and didn't leave.

They did practice martial arts, but they were not disciples of the Kyoto Martial Arts Hall at all, and wearing a martial arts hall dress was just a disguise of identity.

However, even if they really wore out the uniforms of their own disciples, I am afraid that no one would be able to recognize them.

……

The rain gradually fell heavily, and when it was really like a pour, the usual gusts of wind on the beach gradually disappeared and weakened.

In previous years, most of the free time after the festival was over, it was the best time for the temporary stalls on the coast to do business, but this year, it was the turn of the festival, and most of the tourists were forced to hurry back to the city by the heavy rain not long after the festival ended.

Seeing this situation, many shops on the beach could only make this choice and returned to the city one after another. Although they did not make as much money on this day this year as they did on the same day in previous years, they did not bring back any food supplies for the first time, which can be regarded as a slight profit.

The owner of the tea shop originally wanted to hold on a little longer, because the four customers sitting in the shop at this time, the young man who took the lead was really generous. The owner of the tea shop also counted on him to spend some more money in the shop, knowing that the shop sells more than just tea.

But the four of them sat for a long time, and they didn't drink much except for the four bowls of tea they bought at the beginning, and there was no movement after that. Not only that, but they don't even speak much.

This made the tea shop owner a little puzzled and curious.

He subconsciously looked at the clothes of these four people, and at first glance, he only felt that they looked a little like martial arts hall disciples, but in his mind, he recalled in his mind that there were all kinds of guests he saw in the inner city tea shop every day, and there didn't seem to be martial arts hall disciples in this kind of attire among them.

The shopkeeper's gaze naturally shifted and he noticed the black cloth umbrellas of the four people leaning on the four legs of the small table.

In fact, he didn't deliberately observe the umbrellas, but when his eyes moved, among the four people, the young man who looked like the leader suddenly swept sideways......

When the tea shop owner's eyes met the man's straight gaze, he couldn't help but feel a little nervous. The coldness in the young man's eyes made the tea shop owner feel as if he had done something offensive to them, so he looked sluggish, and quickly bowed, as if apologizing, or just habitually holding an attitude of awe towards the strong.

In the face of the teahouse owner's respect, the young man did not reveal a word. He just withdrew his gaze indifferently, and then continued to look at the sea not far away, just like the three teenagers here.

The teahouse owner didn't look at the four people anymore, he went back to the makeshift tea table under the large canvas shed, there was no tea set that had been dirty because it had been left for a long time, but he picked up a clean tea bowl and a rag with some moldy spots, and wiped it vigorously.

The speed at which the bowl is wiped lap by turn. It's getting faster. Just like the change in the mood of the teahouse owner at this time.

The young man's gaze reminded the teahouse owner of a type of people: they called themselves "Jianghu people".

Among such people, there are those who are of better character. It is called "chivalrous", and if the behavior is violent, it is called "heroic".

A person's ability to endure thirst is much weaker than the ability to endure hunger, no matter how profound your martial arts are. If you don't drink water for dozens of miles, your body will be consumed at an accelerated pace.

Business done in a teahouse. Therefore, the audience is very wide, and the service process is relatively simple. The owner of the teahouse is also because he has been in this kind of working environment all year round, so he can practice rich experience. However, it is precisely because I saw the aura of the rivers and lakes in these four people. He couldn't help but wonder again.

About thirteen years ago, public order in Kyoto was at its most chaotic, and a profession emerged among the people. In the vernacular, it is called selling people's heads, but in fact, it is to buy murderous work.

Post notices with the government. As long as the murderer can afford to pay the price, then they hire the killer, which is equivalent to buying a tool to kill the target for them directly, but the target person may not be wearing a crime that can only be avenged with his life.

At the end of the previous dynasty, chaos abounded, and people like this kind of ignoring the laws of the court and buying murders gradually increased.

Vendetta in the market is the lowest grade, and a person who quietly disappears in the alley, and rarely anyone sees it. The assassination of the emperor and his relatives is of the highest grade, but that kind of assassination incident occurs in many palaces, and the palace people in the palace will consciously keep their mouths tight, and for ordinary people, they will still not have a chance to see it.

And if the most assassination activities that occur in the market are concerned, they have to be in the middle level. For example, when a rich man or a minister kills a mandetta, ordinary people can often see a group of people walking halfway down the street, and suddenly draw their swords and dance their swords and fight, until their heads fall to the ground and blood is splattered on the spot.

In addition to paid killers, there are also some chivalrous swordsmen who claim to be doing the right thing for heaven and killing officials and evil officials, as well as reckless and heroic people who rob the rich and help the poor. However, in the turbulent times, the words and roads are out of balance, and the righteous deeds of chivalrous people will also be killed by mistake, and it is unknown whether the robbery of wealth has really helped the poor.

At that time, all officials in Kyoto had to keep close guards at home, and they would take them wherever they went, and the families of wealthy families would inevitably have groups of caretakers. Kyoto Prefecture can't control the shape created by this real situation, so it can only let it go.

And this chaos was not gradually diluted until ten years ago, after Wang Jiajun entered Beijing. This is mainly because of the inspection of the entry and exit of the four-way city gate, under the control of the Wang family's army, it is really very strict.

When Wang Jiajun first came in, what happened outside the city, the official could not manage it particularly comprehensively for the time being, but at least the dark miasma in the inner city should be cleared first.

All those who entered the city were not allowed to carry sharp weapons, and iron tools such as hoes and sickles for agricultural use were all certified with branding on them. In order to manage the order of the inner city, except for the addition of the patrol team, all the iron shops are also officially recorded, and it is absolutely forbidden to make weapons privately.

It's like holding the seven-inch lifeline of a poisonous snake.

Without weapons, the work of an assassin killer would be greatly affected. The so-called "selling heads" business is also rigorous and particular in the killer business, only by cutting off the head of the target person and bringing it back to the proprietor to recognize, can you get a reward, how can you do it without the assistance of sharp weapons?

Up to now, there are very few killers in the inner city, and after continuous "cleaning and construction" in the outer city in recent years, the mountain bandits who used to build the stockade under the city wall have long disappeared. Or they were surrounded and suppressed by the officers and soldiers of Kyoto Prefecture, or they were put in prison, and they were still working as coolies to return their sentences, or they had already done good.

The situation has gradually stabilized, but the current emperor still retains a system derived from the chaos of the world more than ten years ago, that is, the family residence and the private guard.

These two types of people are officially approved private arms, and under the order of restricting sharp weapons, only bureaucrats with meritorious names can wear swords with personal guards, and martial artists such as family homes can only use wooden weapons to protect themselves.

However, those who have a demand, and at the same time have a source of supply, these two types of military personnel, but gradually make another special case appear in the inner city of Kyoto: the opening of the martial arts hall.

But in order to obtain official permission, there are also many particularities to open a martial arts hall. In the martial arts hall, only wooden and bamboo weapons are used instead of weapons for practice, and of course, there are also sharp weapons made of fine iron, but these weapons rarely appear in daily practice, let alone wear them on their side.

However, just now, the teahouse owner just unconsciously glanced at the black umbrella that the four people were carrying, and then found a distant sense of familiarity in the eyes swept by the young man.

It seems that this person is like the swordsmen who were common in the streets of Kyoto's inner city more than ten years ago, and when you want to pay attention to their swords resting on the table, their eyes will flash with a sensitive and vigilant look.

If you want to look at it a little longer, it is not difficult to find the seeping feeling in the eyes of the owner of the sword.

This feeling is not something that a martial arts hall disciple would reveal.

Most of those Jianghu people have human blood on their hands, and many of them have done the work of selling human heads, in comparison, the martial arts disciples are much more pure, they practice with wood every day, and when they are most violent, they just break other people's bones.

If the bones are broken, they can still be picked up, but a living person gradually loses his breath and becomes stiff, and the person who killed him has to cut off his head and go back to receive the reward, and the cruelty of such a person seems to be as if they only need to see through one gaze to make ordinary people tremble and avoid it.

The teahouse owner, who couldn't hold back his pounding heart, quickly wiped the tea bowl, thinking of this, he couldn't help but be a little scared.

Although the killer industry also has its own rules, in their concept, labor must be paid, so there is no need to do unpaid things, will not commit murder against non-target people, but looking at their current expression, it seems that they are waiting for someone! Is this the momentum to do another head business? If the slaughtered party is not a good person, then if these two groups fight, their own tea shop is afraid that it will inevitably suffer!

Although the security in the inner city is very well managed, just this month, didn't there be two vicious assassinations? (To be continued)