It is said that Ling Rui did not return to the martial arts hall directly after saying goodbye to Meng Yan, but took a stroll in the East Market by the way, and whether the roadside vendors were selling porcelain, bronze or jade, it was more in line with his interests.

"Childe, come and see, I'm a fake jade cup from Yufeng Villa, there is no such shop in this village, do you want to buy a few and send it back to your sweetheart?" A lady selling jade stopped Ling Rui.

"Well, it's really nice to look at or touch, but it's a pity that I don't have a crush yet, I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint the boss." Ling Rui said jokingly.

"Oh, look at what you said, Childe is such a talent, it's not easy to meet a beautiful woman, it's not good if you don't have some decent tokens," At this time, the lady lowered her head, suspiciously fiddling with her goods, but suddenly whispered expressionlessly, "Be careful of the tail." ”

"Huh?" Ling Rui was a little surprised for a moment, then quickly reacted, calmly glanced left and right, and sure enough, he found that two people were staring at him next to a private house.

"Come on, come and take a look at the jade cup of Yufeng Villa." The eldest lady began to sell happily again, as if it was a completely different person hinting at Ling Rui just now.

Ling Rui calmed down, recalled Meng Yan's words when he said goodbye just now and the expression of sweat oozing from his face, and suddenly realized: "Oh no, Meng Yan may be in danger, I was so stupid, I didn't even pay attention to it just now." Then, Ling Rui nodded to the eldest lady to express his gratitude, and quickened his pace towards a small alley next to him, while the two people who followed him also quickly followed Ling Rui's figure into the alley, but they found that they had walked into a dead end, and Ling Rui was nowhere to be found.

Just as the two were surprised, Ling Rui jumped off the roof of the house next to the alley, quickly knocked one of them unconscious, and after two or three rounds of fighting, he knocked the other unconscious. "It doesn't look good, according to the direction Meng Yan left before, he should be going to the north gate, we must find him quickly." Ling Rui settled down and immediately ran towards the north gate.

(Outside the North Gate, on the outskirts of Yuzhou)

"Little rabbit cub, Lao Tzu will send you to Hades." The one-eyed strong man raised the big knife, and Meng Yan also closed his eyes tightly after feeling that he was too weak to escape.

"Smack!" With a loud bang, the back of the strong man's hand suddenly flowed with blood, and it turned out that he had been beaten by the whip and made a bloody cut, so painful that he dropped the knife and screamed.

The heroic Yuxin brandished the golden snake whip and fought with the remaining few of the strong man's men.

"Damn, where did the stinky girl dare to do bad things about Lao Tzu, wait until I kill this kid first and then clean you up." As he spoke, the strong man raised his knife and stabbed Meng Yan who was lying on the ground again.

Yuxin noticed the movement of the strong man, knocked down a small minion next to her, melted the internal force on the whip, shot the whip out in a spiral, and hit the strong man who didn't have time to react to the ground again, and the strong man suddenly vomited blood and wailed.

The other minions were frightened when they saw this, and hurriedly gathered around the strong man to help him up. "Yuan Qing, I should have arrested you, a person full of evil, directly into the government today, but now it is important to save people, leave your dog alive for the time being, and if you know each other, hurry up and get rid of this girl." What Yuxin said was categorical, this kind of momentum that does not lose to a man actually made Yuan Qing, who is usually powerful, feel a little frightened.

"Damn, damn stinky girl, Lao Tzu is from the Wind and Thunder Hall. Offended the Wind and Thunder Hall, you people are waiting to die without a place to be buried, let's go. Yuan Qing limped away quickly by his subordinates.

Yuxin turned around and called out to Meng Yan, who was already lying on the ground unconscious, and squatted down to try his breath, and the woman who was in the carriage before also walked to Yuxin's side unconsciously, she was wearing a set of off-the-shoulder pink dresses, with sky-blue cloud sleeves lingering on her arms, coupled with her peerless appearance with willow eyebrows and long eyelashes and delicate facial features, although she did not dress up too much, she was still like a fairy by the Tiangong Yao Pond.

"Ah, Miss, you're here, his breath is very weak now, it seems that it should be caused by excessive blood loss, if I entangle with those people a little longer, he will definitely not be able to hold on." Yuxin looked very anxious.

The woman squatted down to check Meng Yan's pulse, then tested the temperature of his forehead, a trace of uneasiness crossed her heart, and then she got up and said to Yuxin: "Xin'er, you can carry him into the carriage immediately, and we will hurry back to the villa to heal him." ”

"Yes!" Xin'er carried Meng Yan into the carriage, and the woman also entered the carriage, and then used the silver needle to cross the cave to keep Meng Yan's consciousness awake, and the carriage sped up in the direction of Jinyun Mountain.

Not long after they left, Ling Rui groped around and found the edge of the small lake, and when he saw that there were still many corpses on the ground, but there was no Meng Yan among them, the uneasiness in his heart became even stronger. He noticed that the knife wounds on these people were very similar to the traces left by Meng Yan's sword method, indicating that these people were most likely killed by Meng Yan, and this was also the place where Meng Yan and the people who followed him fought fiercely, so if Meng Yan hadn't died here, where would he be now?

Puzzled, Ling Rui was still ready to go back to the martial arts hall first and then think about what to do next to find Meng Yan. By the way, he remembered the two people who were following him before, and he thought that since those two people should be the same group as the people who attacked Meng Yan if nothing else, then as long as he lured them out and found a way to find out the actual identity of their group, it was very likely that he could find out about Meng Yan from them.

Ling Rui walked to the door of the Yunsheng Martial Arts Pavilion, at this time, the housekeeper of the Yunsheng Martial Arts Pavilion had been waiting at the door for a long time, and immediately greeted Ling Rui when he saw him come back.

"Old butler, what's the matter, seeing that you are so flustered, is there anything wrong with me?" Ling Rui was very surprised when he saw the housekeeper's anxious expression, and he asked himself in his heart why he had encountered so many strange things today.

"Something is wrong, I heard that Lord Jin was imprisoned in the capital because of suspected rebellion, an hour ago, Lord Taishou also led troops to surround the martial arts hall and asked the owner to hand over Meng Yan, and the owner of the hall told Lord Taishou that Meng Yan had left the martial arts hall by himself in order not to let you get involved."

"What, Prince Jin rebelled, how is this possible, Lord Jin loves the people like a son and has long been famous all over the world, many people in the rivers and lakes and even ordinary people are full of praise for his character, how could such a thing suddenly happen!" Ling Rui was stunned when he heard the news, he wondered if Meng Yan's disappearance after being attacked had something to do with this incident?

"By the way, didn't Meng Yan go out with you? Where is he? ”

"He was attacked by a group of unknown people on the outskirts of the North Gate, and now he is missing," Ling Rui sighed and took out a bloody belt buckle that had fallen to the ground that he found at the scene, "This is the only thing I found about Meng Yan at the scene. ”

"Alas, that's it, you come in first, the hall owner told you not to go out recently, don't cause some unnecessary trouble, after all, this time King Jin's rebellion case caused too much turmoil."

"Well, yes, old butler, I remember." Ling Rui walked straight to his room, lying on the bed and thinking about what had happened today, constantly piecing together these trivial pieces of information with his own thoughts, trying to find the place where Meng Yan was most likely to stay now. However, he has never been able to sort out any clues, after all, there are still too few clues, and he can only pray that his good brother is still safe and sound.

(The northwest corner of Yuzhou City, Fuxin Inn, that is, the Yuzhou rudder of Fengleitang)

Several minions helped Yuan Qing, who was seriously injured, to enter the Fuxin Inn, and quickly entered the underground Wind Thunder Hall from the kitchen passage to divide the rudder. There were 8 black-clothed guards stationed in the underground passage, and Yuan Qing and his gang cautiously walked down the passage and knelt in front of a stone gate in front of them.

"Yuan Qing begged the second master to save me!" Yuan Qing cried and lay on the ground.

The stone door slowly opened, and the four black-clothed guards in the rudder stood at the four corners, and there was a person on the stone seat in the middle who was entrenched in his legs, exercising and pranayama. This man has thick eyebrows and a straight face, and his slender eyes make him look quite urban, and although his appearance seems to be only a young man, his sideburns are indeed much grayer. When he heard the sound of the stone gate opening, the second master slowly opened his eyes, looked at Yuan Qing and his men who were embarrassed in front of him, he slowly stood up and walked towards the people kneeling in front of the stone gate.

"I just received news that the place where you killed on the outskirts of the city has been surrounded by people from the government, and the weapons you discarded at the scene have also been picked up by the government, it seems that not only have you failed to remove the obstacles, but you have also contributed a lot to the government's investigation of us," the second master said with a contemptuous expression, "Do you think I will heal such a useless waste?" ”

"The second master, the small one knows the mistake, beg the second master to give the little one another chance, the small one must bear the guilt and make meritorious contributions, and the small one must put that kid... Yuan Qing didn't finish speaking, only to hear a few screams suddenly coming from behind him, and when he looked back, his subordinates were all cut by the guards on both sides in an instant. When he turned his head to look at the second master in surprise, a needle shot out of the second master's cuff and stabbed Yuan Qing's throat directly, Yuan Qing's throat suddenly flowed like blood, and then the whole person fell to the ground without breathing.

"Get rid of them." The second master turned around and walked back to the stone gate.

"Pass my order, everyone immediately take away all useful items and evacuate the rudder, and destroy the useless things on the spot."

"Yes!" One of the guards went upstairs and called the boss and his fellows, who were also them, after which everyone began to pack up and prepare to evacuate.

"Report!" After a while, a man in black entered through another stone gate in the rudder, "Report to the second master, our people have already found out, and the carriage that took Meng Yan went to Jinyun Mountain, looking at the direction of Yufeng Mountain Villa." ”

"Yufeng Villa... The second master said to himself.

"Little one, I don't know if I want to tell the big boss this news?" The man in black continued.

"No, this little thing doesn't need to be mixed up with the big boss, you go back to the big boss immediately, and say that I will go to the main altar to meet him as soon as possible, remember, you can't reveal anything you came to tell me today, otherwise you know what the consequences are." The second master turned his back and said to the man in black who knelt on one knee.

"Yes, my subordinates obey!" The man in black quickly left.

"Yufeng Villa... Yufeng Villa... Looks like things are getting a little tricky. The second master was still thinking about something in his head, surrounded by the busy figures of his subordinates.

(Jinyun Mountain, Yufeng Villa)

Jinyun Mountain is located in the northwest of Yuzhou, different from the humid and hot in Yuzhou in summer, the climate here is cool and comfortable, at the same time, the mountains are full of clouds and mist all the year round, the two sides of the mountain road are full of greenery, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant, and the beautiful scenery makes the tourists who come here from time to time linger. Yufeng Villa, a beautiful and magnificent Chinese mansion located in the Peach Blossom Pass on the mountainside of Jinyun Mountain, is an open flat land surrounded by peaks, surrounded by several waterfalls cascading down from the tall rock walls outside the wall, and the gorgeous pavilions and pavilions of the villa loom in the rising mist.

In front of the magnificent gate of the villa, a wide and flat mountain road connects the villages and towns at the foot of the mountain and the official roads leading to various places, and from time to time there are jade merchants approved by the mountain villa to drive horse-drawn carriages to buy exquisite jade and then sell it to all parts of Dashu. Due to the wealth of small achievements and the style of action of the disciples of the villa to punish evil and promote good, Yufeng Villa has long been famous and admired among the martial arts and decent factions, and correspondingly, it will inevitably become a thorn in the side of individual Jianghu forces. Now, all kinds of rumors about the new owner are rampant, and for people in the martial arts, Yufeng Villa, which is already little known, has been covered with a more mysterious veil.