When the convoy arrived in Zizhou, the sunset had already fallen in the sky, torches were lit on the city of Zizhou, and the city gate was open, but there were no pedestrians on the official road in and out of the city.

As a result of the assassination, martial law was under way at this time.

"The martial law on Zizhou is a pretext to play." was summoned by Ning Yi, got into the car and saluted and said a few words before Ning Xi talked about the things in the city.

After the first wave of household registration statistics, Ning Ji's assassination also happened to happen, and now the military generals in charge of the security garrison of Zizhou convened Chen Huozi and others to discuss, and began a round of martial law investigation on Zizhou.

"When the army entered the city, it was not difficult for the people in the city, even if they had an old relationship with us, or even those who were on the list, they wanted to leave. Now that the time for registration has been given, and the time for leaving has also been given, those who refuse to leave and refuse to register, just take this opportunity to take this opportunity to investigate, from yesterday morning to this afternoon, hiding in the city and having previously had a blood debt with the Huaxia Army, six groups of murderers were arrested, and the dogs jumped over the wall in a hurry, and we injured a few people. ”

The carriage moved forward, Ning Xi calmly told his father about the situation in the city, and then said: "My brother's injury is not serious, he ate the other party's fists and feet, and deliberately took a sword on his arm, and he bled a little, but he can recover after a few days of resting, I didn't tell his father that you are coming over, he may have fallen asleep at this time, this incident is caused by my negligence......"

Looking at the blurred lights of the market outside from the shaking of the car window, Ning Yi shook his head and patted Ning Xi on the shoulder: "I know what is going on here, you have done a good job, you don't have to blame yourself, back then in the capital, I couldn't hide from many assassinations, I always had to kill in front of me." Everything in the world cannot be taken advantage of by you. ”

Ning Xi lowered his head, pressed his fists on his knees, and was silent for a while, Ning Yi said, "I heard that Master Yan died in the assassination. ”

Ning Xi nodded, and Ning Yi sighed: "Master Yan Biao used to have a name in the rivers and lakes, called 'Poison Doctor', but his personality is actually an excellent person, for more than a year, I asked him to take care of the second child, and he was never ambiguous." After that, he is the benefactor of our family, you must remember. Mrs. Yan died young, and she has an adopted daughter in Hoden, who ...... this year Maybe I'm in my early teens, I'm in school, and it's time for my family to take care of me in the future. ”

Ning Yi said this, and every time he said a paragraph, Ning Xi nodded and wrote it down. At this time, although the curfew in Zizhou City had begun, and only soldiers were seen walking on the streets, there were still all kinds of voices coming from the houses around the road, Ning Yi looked at these, and chatted with Ning Xi for a few more words, before he said: "Listen to Master Nie, with the skills of the second child, he should not have been caught, and he risked his life, is that so?" ”

Ning Xi hesitated slightly and shook his head: "...... I wasn't there at the time, so it's hard to judge. But the assassination happened suddenly, the situation was chaotic at that time, and Master Yan died in front of the second brother in a hurry, after all, the second brother is not very old, and he has not experienced much of this kind of thing, and it is not surprising that he is slow to react. ”

For a long time, Ning Xi knew that his father cared about his family, and for this sudden assassination that ended dramatically, as well as some unusual things that were shown in the assassination, Ning Xi intended to defend his younger brother, but saw his father's eyes blurred out of the car window, and said: "There is news from Jiangnan, the operation to rescue the Si family has failed, and the Sword Pavilion may not be able to lobby." ”

Unexpectedly, his father's words suddenly jumped to this matter, Ning Xi was slightly stunned, he only knew that the Jurchens and the Huaxia Army on the Sword Pavilion side were in a tug of war in the past, but he had never heard of things like Si Zhongxian's family. At this time, he was stunned: "...... Well? ”

Ning Yi smiled: "I'll talk to you later, let's go see the second child first." ”

This sentence set the tone, Ning Xi didn't ask more, and then it was Ning Yi who asked him about trivial issues in his recent life and work, whether he had quarreled with Min Chuyi, and so on. Ning Xi is almost eighteen years old, and his appearance is somewhat similar to Ning Yi, but he has inherited the genes of his mother Su Tan'er, and he looks more handsome, Ning Yi is nearly forty years old, but he does not have the habit of growing beards that was popular at this time, just a shallow mustache, sometimes uncared for, and the beard on his lips and chin is darker, not old, but not angry and powerful.

After a while, the convoy stopped on the road in front of the hospital, Ning Yi went inside under the leadership of Ning Xi, the courtyard in the hospital was relatively quiet, and there were not too many lights, the moonlight shone down from the top of the ginkgo tree in the hospital, Ning Yi waved his hand to disperse everyone, and when he pushed open the door, Ning Ji, who was wrapped in bandages, was lying on the bed, sleeping deeply.

Sleeping very soundly, it didn't seem that there was a shadow left after the assassination or murder, so Ning Yi stood at the door and watched for a while.

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Everyone will have their own creation, their own practice.

If you look from the back to the front, in September and October of the eleventh year of Wu Jianshuo, the Jurchens have conquered almost the entire Wu Dynasty, and in the southwest, the key war that determines the rise and fall of the world is about to begin, and the eyes of the people of the world are gathered here.

This year, thirteen-year-old Ning Ji was at the center of this storm, and in his heart, there were changes no less than this storm gathering and brewing. Perhaps for the whole world, his changes are insignificant, but for himself, of course, it has irreplaceable significance.

Perhaps everyone in this world will go farther through the same way.

Compared with the time when he followed the military medical team to run around, more than ten days after coming to Zizhou, Ning Ji's life was very peaceful.

The medical hall requisitioned by the military medical corps is located near the military camp in the west of the city, and after a slight renovation, it is still open to the public, and in many cases it is even compulsory for local residents to see a doctor, and does not charge more money and goods except for medicines. Ning Ji followed the people in the military medical team to help, took care of the medicine, and practiced martial arts when he had nothing to do, and there were also martial artists in the military medical team, who could also give him some advice.

Sister-in-law Min Chuyi came to see him every two days to clean up the clothes to be washed or sewn for him - these things Ning Ji has already been able to do, and he has done it himself in the military medical team for more than a year, but every time Min Chuyi comes, he will forcibly snatch away the dirty clothes, Ning Ji can't beat her, so he has to tidy up his things every morning

The elder brother took him out to dinner twice, occasionally talking about the recent developments in the current situation. After receiving the towns north of the Sichuan Fourth Road, the soldiers of the Huaxia Army gathered from different directions towards Zizhou quickly exceeded 20,000, and then exceeded 25,000, approaching 30,000, and the logistics and engineering teams mobilized from all over the country also arrived at their posts in the fastest time, and built a defensive line at the key point north of Zizhou. The city of Zizhou is still full of chaos.

This kind of aura did not reach Ning Ji's side, his brother took good care of him, and many dangers were eliminated early, and the life of the medical hall was in order, but it was like a quiet corner in Zizhou City that no one noticed. There is a huge ginkgo tree in the courtyard of the medical hall, and I don't know how many years it has survived. It was September, and the ginkgo on the ginkgo biloba was ripe, and Ning Ji laid the fruit under the guidance of the military doctors and harvested it for medicinal purposes.

The warm and pleasant sunlight often sprinkled down from the leaves of the ginkgo, and Ning Ji squatted under the tree and began to be distracted and in a daze.

This is the age when young people are gradually learning to think about things, and many questions have already fermented in his heart. Of course, although the outside world is cruel, stupid, and unreasonable, there is always the warmth of his family by Ning Ji's side, and he will certainly complain in front of his brother, but the whole emotion is naturally not too extreme.

It is also for this reason that when he came of age, no matter how many times he recalled it, the decision he made at the age of thirteen was not formed in an extremely distorted mind, and in a sense, it even seemed to be the result of careful consideration.

On September 22, the assassination was in front of his eyes.

In the courtyard with the golden ginkgo tree, an assassin hysterically threw a steel knife, and Master Yan Biao almost subconsciously blocked in front of him - this was an overkill move, because Ning Ji was extremely calm at that time, and it was not too difficult to dodge the steel knife, but just before he launched a counterattack, Master Yan's back appeared in front of him, the blade passed through his heart, pierced through his back, and blood splashed on Ning Ji's face.

At this time, someone was setting fire to it in the distance, creating a mess, and a high-ranking assassin rushed towards him with a hideous face, his gaze over Master Yan's back, and Ning Ji could almost see the spit in the other person's mouth.

There was a great anger in his heart: Why are you so angry when you are a bad person?

It was in that moment that he made a decision.

The other party rushed over, Ning Ji staggered back, and after a few knives, Ning Ji was caught by the other party.

Able to catch Ning Yi's second son, the three assassins present were stunned on the one hand and ecstatic on the other, they carried Ning Ji and left, and also tied Ning Ji's hands with cowhide ropes. The trio made their way out of the city, with one of them staying behind to quickly exit the city through the secret passages as planned, and the nine surviving Assassins joined up in the city.

They were originally the head snakes who had been operating in Zizhou for several years, and they planned carefully to fight fast and slowly, although it was risky, but they finally got the results. Ning Ji was carried on the shoulders by one of the tall men, his hands and body were tightly tied, and the long and short double knives on his body were naturally taken down, and the nine people thought that they had done something big, and the next thing was to quickly break away before the Huaxia army formed a big encirclement.

For a child whose stature has not yet fully grown up, the ideal weapon never includes a knife, relatively speaking, swordsmanship, daggers and other weapons point, cutting, poking, stabbing, emphasizing the minimum force to attack the vital point, is more suitable for children to use. Ning Ji has loved knives since he was a child, and the long and short double knives make him feel handsome, but the real killer next to him is actually the third knife in his sleeve.

It was just a short knife that was not yet the size of the palm of his hand, but it was a weapon that Hongti, Watermelon, Ning Yi and others had learned to him after thinking about it. As Ning Yi's child, his life has its own value, although he will encounter risks in the future, as long as he does not die at the first time, most of the enemies are willing to spare his life in a short period of time, after all, this is a key bargaining chip.

What Ning Ji has practiced hard since he was a child is the short knife hidden in his sleeve and palm, which is not only the mastery of martial arts, but also the thinking of tricks. At the age of thirteen, Ning Ji used this knife, from the sleeve to the palm, and even waved the knife in front of the other party, the other party could not notice. Its greatest use is to cut the rope after being caught.

Moments after the nine assassins joined forces in Zizhou City, they were still on high guard against the pursuers of the Huaxia Army in the rear, and they had no idea that the greatest danger would be the child they had brought over. The big man who carried Ning Ji was a giant with a height of nearly two meters, grinning and laughing, and the next moment, the palm of the young man on his shoulder turned and cut the other party's neck.

The person was still standing, blood gushing out, Ning Ji flipped down the ground in the air, flew until he had thrown it with all his might, and took the left eye of a woman opposite, the female assassin was still standing next to her husband, the next moment Ah, there was a bloody light on her face, her left eye was swept by the knife light, the eye was destroyed, the flying knife waited for her side face, but the person was not dead. As soon as Ning Ji landed, he picked up a steel knife and threw it into the forest.

Everyone chased after them, Ning Ji walked quickly, took everyone around in a small circle, and rushed back to the same place. At that time, the couple was still dealing with the injury, Ning Ji rushed out from behind, and slashed down with all his strength according to the stomach of the woman who was lying on the ground.

Lying on the ground, the knife slashed his feet and split his legs, which was already difficult to prevent, plus Ning Ji's body was not big, and the knife light was even more powerful, the woman with the eye injury was also lying on the ground, Ning Ji's knife light shrouded the other party just right, the woman's husband was still standing, the weapon could not resist, and he couldn't retreat - he may not be able to believe in his heart that a pampered child is so ruthless - in the blink of an eye, both legs were stabbed, Ning Ji rolled over his legs, and directly split a pair of hamstrings of the other party.

How can they figure it out, although Ning Yi cares about the psychological growth of children in many things, but in such a harsh war environment, no one dares to have reservations about fighting and self-preservation. Since childhood, those who have taught Ning Ji martial arts are either masters who have experienced battle formations such as red grapes and watermelons, or ruthless characters like Du Du, or evil masters like Chen Huozi, who will take advantage of the enemy's weaknesses to the extreme. Relatively speaking, it seems that only Chen Fan, who occasionally points out Ning Ji, can bring him a little heroic atmosphere.

As for Ning Yi, he can only apply these methods to the art of war and explain them one by one: the golden cicada sheds its shell, waits for work at ease, robs while it is fired, strikes the east and the west, and encircles Wei to save Zhao...... And so on and so forth.

Ning Ji had long been familiar with these tactics by heart, and it was only this time that he finally encountered so many enemies and used them. He cut the tendons of the couple, and without killing anyone, he fled quickly before the others hurried back, ambushing the lone in the woods.

In this way, when the reinforcements arrived not long after, Ning Ji left three more enemies in the woods, and the other three may have been regarded as local snakes or even famous green forest people when they were in Zizhou, but at this time they had been killed and left their companions to flee desperately.

Most of the helpers who came from Zizhou were also old fritters on the rivers and lakes, and seeing that Ning Ji was also injured but not bad, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. But on the other hand, when they saw the situation of the whole battle and reviewed it a little, everyone couldn't help but be secretly frightened by Ning Ji's methods. Someone mentioned to Ning Xi that although Ning Xi felt that his younger brother was fine, after thinking about it, he still thought that it was better to let his father make a judgment.

As for Ning Ji, after this incident, he seemed to let go of his thoughts, and after seeing the dead Master Yan, he concentrated on recuperating his injuries and falling asleep, and many things had found a direction in his heart, at least temporarily.

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As if sensing something, he subconsciously woke up in his sleep, and when he turned his head to look to the side, his father was sitting on the edge of the bed, looking at him by the faint moonlight.

"Dad, you're here." Ning Ji didn't seem to feel the bandages on his body, and sat up happily.

Ning Yi hurriedly went to help him: "Don't be too fast, how do you feel?" ”

"I'm fine, I've slept for a long time. Dad, when did you come? ”

"Not long after, I heard that something happened to you, so I hurried over, but I didn't tell your mother, for fear that he would worry."

"I'm fine, I've all killed those guys. It's a pity that Master Yan died. ”

Ning Ji was about to lift the quilt and come down as he spoke, Ning Yi saw that he had such vitality, but no longer stopped him, Ning Ji got out of bed, and said in his mouth that he had slept too long and couldn't sleep, Ning Yi instructed the people outside to prepare some porridge and rice, he took a single coat and put it on Ning Ji, and walked out with him. The moonlight in the courtyard was slightly cool, and there were already bright yellow lights, but the others withdrew. Ning Ji walked slowly under the eaves, showing Ning Yi how he repelled those enemies.

"I heard that Xiao Ji seems to have been caught by them on purpose."

At a certain moment, Ning Yi asked this sentence with a smile, Ning Ji was slightly stunned, and after a while, he nodded: "...... Well. ”

"Why? Because of Master Yan? ”

"Master Yan is dead......" Ning Ji repeated this, but it was not a positive statement.

"Over the years, there have been other people who have seen death in front of us, in such a world, I have never seen a dead person, I don't know if there is anything else in the world, why do you have to risk your life when Master Yan dies?"

Ning Ji was silent for a moment: "...... When Master Yan died, I suddenly thought...... If they were to run apart, they might never be able to catch them again. Dad, I want to avenge Master Yan, but it's not just because of Master Yan. ”

The young man confessed frankly, although the speed of speech was not fast, but he was not too confused, Ning Yi said: "Why is that?" ”

"Dad, I'm in the hospital these days, and I'm living a peaceful life."

"Your brother has blocked a lot of things for you."

"But it's a mess outside, a lot of people want to kill our family, Dad, there are a lot of people rushing ahead, why should I hide here."

When the young man said this, Ning Yi nodded and expressed his understanding, only to hear Ning Ji say: "Dad, you once said before, you dare to fight hard with others, so you are equal to everyone." Our Huaxia Army also dares to fight hard with others, so even the Jurchens can't beat us, Dad, I also want to become you, Uncle Chen Fan, Aunt Hong, and Aunt Gua. ”

"......" Ning Yi fell silent.

"At the time when Master Yan died, that person rushed over with his teeth and claws, and they also risked their lives, they came to me, and at that time I suddenly felt that if I still hid back, I would never have a chance to become a powerful person in my life."

“…… Dad, I'll kill it with all my might. ”