After the old woman left, Zhuang Shanfang took out a small cloth bag from his sleeve, opened the cloth bag and displayed a row of silver needles inside, he randomly took out a silver needle from it, and poked into the wine, only to see that the place where the silver needle penetrated into the wine quickly turned black, like a crow feather.

When Zhuang Shanfang put the silver needle back, the bottom of his sleeve accidentally touched another wine glass on the table, and the wine glass fell to the ground with a "clang", and the wine in the cup fell to the ground. In an instant, the wine poured on the ground bubbled like boiling water, and the wine that had just been clear also became cloudy and black, and melted in that moment.

In an instant, there was nothing left, as if there was no such glass of wine at all.

"Childe, this wine is undoubtedly poisonous, Miss Xu just ate that bowl of noodles, and she slept like this, I don't know if she was poisoned."

"Let me see."

Liu Yi walked quickly to the couch, and put his index and middle fingers in front of Xu's curling nose to probe his breath, and he could feel a gentle warm breeze blowing regularly on his fingertips.

"She breathes evenly, it doesn't look like she is poisoned, and the face just now should be sweat medicine or something, so she can't wake up."

"Childe, what should I do then?"

"Then let's see, remember not to really fall asleep tonight, I'm afraid we'll die if we sleep."

"Yes, Childe."

Zhuang Shanfang replied cleanly.

Liu Yi brought scissors, ready to cut off the burning candle wick, and said, "Let's lie on this table and sleep on this table tonight, and give the bed to Miss Xu." ”

After speaking, only to hear the sound of "card rubbing", Liu Yi cut off the wick of the candle that was burning fiercely, and the originally bright room suddenly darkened.

The thin clouds in the sky are like a Chinese woman's gauze skirt in front of Chanjuan, and the bright and clear light is projected into the sandpaper window through the thin clouds, shining on the stone slab as if a thin layer of frost is formed, which is the only light source in this gray small room. A warm evening breeze blew in through the cracks between the door and the window, and the sound of cicadas in the trees in the woods outside was like the whisper of a maiden's laughter.

Liu Yi and Zhuang Shanfang seemed to be asleep on the table, and the room resounded with snoring that was sometimes strong and sometimes weak.

There were two figures faintly in the corridor, hesitating outside the door, it was the troublesome old woman Ye Niang just now, and the shopkeeper downstairs who counted the money.

The shopkeeper questioned: "They didn't eat noodles or drink just now?" ”

Ye Niang on the side was holding a wooden drawer, on which were placed a fire fold and a slender iron rod that connected on both sides, as well as a stack of powder.

Ye Niang responded: "Yes, shopkeeper, just now I repeatedly persuaded to drink, but they just didn't drink, I'm afraid that they know that we have ghosts, so do we still stay?" ”

The shopkeeper didn't think too much about it, but replied neatly: "No." ”

The two of them spoke in a very low voice, but they were still heard by Zhuang Shanfang.

Zhuang Shanfang has been a secret guard for many years, and he naturally has to be able to hear well, because Liu Yi often blows a bone whistle to call the secret guard.

Zhuang Shanfang was lying on the table, his head resting on his left hand, and his right hand was down.

Zhuang Shanfang pulled Liu Yi's hanging sleeves and called "Childe" in a way that couldn't be smaller.

Liu Yi closed his eyes and pretended to be dreamy and shouted loudly, "Wine!" Wine! ", signaling Zhuang Shanfang that he did not sleep. Then he smacked his lips as if he had actually tasted good wine.

The shopkeeper outside the door laughed quietly: "It seems that these two people are asleep, and we can do it." ”

Ye Niang responded: "Yes, master." ”

Saying that, Ye Niang took out a piece of paper from her arms, poured all the powder in the dish on the paper, folded the paper into a long strip that could be stuffed into the iron rod, and then stuffed the long strip into the side of the iron rod, and lit the long strip at the end of the outside with a fire fold, and directly stabbed the paper window, and most of the iron rod entered the house.

At the very beginning, the thick smoke snaked into the room like a small snake, and then slowly dispersed again. A strong smell came to my nose, as bad as Chinese medicine.

Liu Yi touched Zhuang Shanfang with his elbow and motioned to start moving.

Liu Yi and Zhuang Shanfang got up while the two of them were not paying attention, and then walked from the table to the door, grabbed the iron rod that came in, and took down the iron rod with lightning speed.

Ye Niang, who was holding the pole outside the door, was startled and sat directly on the ground, and then reacted that the iron rod in her hand was taken away.

The shopkeeper next to him immediately picked up Ye Niang on the ground and staggered to the staircase.

At this moment, Liu Yi and Zhuang Shanfang stepped on the flame on the iron pole and chased it out.

When they arrived at the staircase, Liu Yi and Zhuang Shanfang stopped Ye Niang and the shopkeeper who were about to escape.

The two were so frightened that they immediately knelt on the ground and shouted for mercy: "Two good men spare your lives, we didn't mean to poison you." ”

Liu Yi pulled out the sword at his waist and pointed it at the throat of the shopkeeper. Suddenly, the shopkeeper only felt a trace of coldness in his throat, and a sharp weapon against his throat made him unable to move.

Liu Yi said coldly: "Why did you kill us? ”

The shopkeeper raised his hand high, a little trembling, and his voice trembled: "It's not my intention and Ye Niang's intention to kill you......

"Then why do you want to drug the noodles and then poison the wine, and that's it, you still want to poison us with poisonous smoke, what's the matter?"

The more Liu Yi talked, the more atmospheric he became, and the sword in his hand was closer to the shopkeeper, as long as he got closer, he could make the shopkeeper's blood splash seven feet.

The shopkeeper spoke: "Ye Niang, don't pretend, take it off." ”

As soon as the words fell, Ye Niang straightened up, her neck tried to raise back, and she moved her muscles and bones.

I saw Ye Niang put her two hands on the collarbone, and pulled hard, and a layer of skin was raised, Ye Niang's two hands were lightly stretched under the skin, and with a gentle pull, suddenly, Ye Niang's rough epidermis cracked, and it turned out to be a young girl in her early twenties. After tearing off the mask, she carefully withdrew her clothes and stuffed them, and her figure immediately turned into a graceful girl.

I saw Ye Niang lying on the ground and softly pleaded: "The little woman is guilty, please ask the two heroes to bypass the shopkeeper and the little woman, we are also forced to be helpless." ”

Liu Yi said sharply: "Who are you innocent, who are you who seek money and harm people's lives, and who are innocent!" ”

The little woman knelt on the ground, wanted to cry but did not cry, and said, "Two guest officers, please listen to me." ”

It turned out that the woman and the shopkeeper were originally a loving husband and wife, and they lived in a town more than ten miles away.

Originally, it was also a happy life for men and women to weave. But helplessly, the man's father was collecting medicine on the mountain on a rainy day and fell down. The fall was so heavy that the ribs pierced deep into the internal organs, and the thigh bones were also shattered. When he was carried back, he was still angry, so he thought about healing his father.

But the cost of the treatment was expensive, and no one in the village could borrow that money, except for a few wealthy people. In desperation, he could only go to the bully in the village who had a high debt to borrow, and the bully offered a high interest rate, but the money was in a hurry, so he could only ask the bully to borrow it.

Although he borrowed money to treat his father's illness, he still didn't survive five days and returned to the west. But the family is in high debt.

So he sold his house and land, and even the weaving machine, but he couldn't pay it back.

So the bully came up with an idea for them, saying that his family had opened an inn on this barren mountain, and that the two of them should run it, and that they would have to pay fifty taels of silver every month.

In the first two months, although there was some business in this barren mountain and wilderness, how could the fifty taels of silver be scraped together. As a result, the man was beaten by the bully, and Ye Niang was molested by the bully.

The bully saw that this was not a solution, so he asked the shopkeeper and Ye Niang to make a fuss about the diet, and no matter how bad it was, he used the smoke to stun the merchants, kill them, and then grab the money.

The shopkeeper and Ye Niang were also unwilling, so when they collected all the money every month, they stopped and did not hurt anyone. As for why Ye Niang pretended to be an old woman, it was naturally because she was afraid that the merchants would do that kind of thing to Ye Niang, so she turned into an old woman.

Ye Niang complained: "This month, there are not many businessmen coming and going, so we can only attack the two guest officers. ”

Liu Yi still didn't put down the sword in his hand, and said coldly: "Can't you just escape?" Since you don't want to do it, then take advantage of the dark moon and high wind to escape. ”

The shopkeeper cried: "Guest officer, it's not that the little one hasn't done that, but if the little one runs away, the people guarding outside will be caught, and they will naturally be punished, don't believe it, you see ......."

As he spoke, the man untied the belt around his waist, and his clothes were loosened, revealing his open chest, only to see a crimson red mark on his chest, and a series of deep or shallow whip marks, which looked like he should have been some years old.

"Is this the bully hot?" Liu Yi asked.

The shopkeeper knelt on the ground and said silently, "Yes, it was the little one who once ran away with the, and was caught by them. They didn't dare to do anything to the cheap, because the bully took a fancy to the cheaper's body, and those subordinates naturally didn't dare to do anything to the cheap, so they could only do something to the small one. ”

Liu Yi inserted the sword in his hand back into the scabbard, untied the money bag from his waist, took out a dozen taels of silver and handed it to the shopkeeper, and said, "Take this silver, you will escape with your daughter-in-law and live a good life." ”

When it came to escaping, Liu Yi was a little moved.

He and Xu Yanjun are not on the run, if he does not ascend the throne, he and Xu Yanjun, the Xu family and the entire Yiwang Mansion can only wait for death. He's escaped now, right? He ascended to the throne, but life did not change for the better. The moment he ascended the throne, he knew that he had more shackles, more last resorts, and more insincerity. He also finally understood the helplessness of his father and the helplessness of the emperors of the past dynasties. But by the time he ascended the throne, it was already too late.

And how many emperors woke up the moment they ascended the throne, but how many emperors were able to escape from this shackle?

It doesn't seem to be, including him Liu Yi, it doesn't seem to be.

The shopkeeper took the money, hesitated for a moment, then stuffed the money back into Liu Yi's hand, knelt on the ground in despair and said, "Even if the little one has money, how can he escape?" There are bullies' men guarding outside, and the little ones can't escape. ”