"Daddy! Do you think these people are sick, they come to buy books every night, and there is almost no one during the day! ”

A little girl of twelve or thirteen years old, holding a bronze candlestick, pouted and muttered.

Not far in front of her, a gray-haired middle-aged man was sorting through the books on the shelves by candlelight.

Hearing his daughter's words, the middle-aged man laughed, turned his head and glanced at her dotingly.

"They're embarrassed! Afraid of being laughed at by others! ”

Obviously, the little girl was not satisfied with the explanation given by the middle-aged man.

"Do you have to be sneaky to buy books? Didn't Dad say that those who read are the most honorable people in the world? ”

Looking at his daughter's bright eyes in the candlelight, the middle-aged man was silent.

He didn't know how to explain to his daughter why he had to treat the same thing separately.

"Light rain! You'll know when you're older..."

The middle-aged man, like all parents, used this invincible sentence to explain his daughter's doubts.

"Oh..."Xiaoyu responded in a low voice, in fact, she knew very well in her heart that when her father usually said this, it meant that he didn't want to explain it to herself.

"Then why did the young master drive Mr. Lu away?

I still want Mr. Lu to teach me knowledge, but it's the first time I've seen the young master lose his temper so much..."

Speaking of this, Xiaoyu couldn't help but shudder.

In her eyes, Lu Tianba has always been a gentle and elegant image, no matter who she is.

The subordinates of the Lu family all said that there was no such good young master in the world.

But last night, she witnessed the scene where Lu Tianba blasted Mr. Lu away, and the gentle young master actually drew his sword...

"Forget Mr. Lu, Xiaoyu, we must take care of these books!

You must remember to keep this distance and hold the candlestick steady, if we don't take care of these books, we will be the next Mr. Lu! ”

The middle-aged man's voice was a little low, Xiaoyu chick kept nodding his head like pecking rice, and the hand holding the candlestick was more tightly protected.

After this, the room fell silent, and Xiaoyu stared cautiously at the flickering candles, not knowing what to think.

Suddenly, Xiaoyu's eyes flashed, and the fire on the candlestick just now trembled visibly, almost extinguished.

Bright eyes scanned the surroundings to make sure that the doors and windows were closed, and that no wind was blowing in, and Xiaoyu let out a long breath.

But then, her little face turned a little pale.

If it weren't for the wind, why would the candle flame just now shake so much?

"Dad..."Xiaoyu still couldn't help but shout timidly to the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man didn't look back, still standing in place, his expression was extremely solemn.

The large and small shadows on the floor still shook constantly, and even twisted a little.

"Don't move..."The middle-aged man only had time to say this, and the shadows of the two people on the ground completely disappeared.

It was dark tonight, and the moon didn't know where it was hidden, and it never came out.

The earth was pitch black, as if it had been splashed with ink.

Xiao Yu's teeth tightened and he held the bronze candlestick and trembled.

The hot candle oil in the candlestick dripped down the candlestick and fell onto her hand, and there was a piercing pain.

However, she didn't make the slightest sound, still gritted her teeth and insisted on not moving a bit.

From a very young age, she knew that no matter what her father said, she just had to do it seriously.

The middle-aged man tried to keep his eyes open, and with his sense and faint visibility, he slowly came to the door and window, and by the way, he used his body to block the light rain.

Put your hand in your mouth and poke a small hole in the paper window with your spit, then look out.

It was still dark outside, and there was nothing in the yard except for the trees around it.

"Xiaoyu, you just stay here, and don't come out for a while, no matter what happens! Do you understand? ”

The middle-aged man hid his daughter behind the counter at great speed, and said to her very seriously.

"Dad..."Xiao Yu squeezed a word out of her throat.

"Did you hear me clearly?" The middle-aged man said again.

It wasn't until Xiaoyu nodded seriously that he quickly got up.

Just now, when he was about to withdraw his gaze, in the darkness of the corner of the wall on the left side of the courtyard, a beam of knife light flashed.

He now regrets it very much, he didn't listen to the young master's words, and came alone.

Shaking the big knife in his hand, the middle-aged man gritted his teeth, pushed the door violently, and stood at the door.

The appearance of middle-aged people is like a signal, and in the darkness around them, several people come out at the same time.

Everyone stood in the courtyard with large knives in their hands, dressed in black, covering their whole bodies.

As time went on, more and more people came out.

Until the end, the middle-aged man probably counted that there were as many as twenty people.

"It's hard for you to get such a big formation, just for such a small bookstore!"

The middle-aged man sneered and said slowly.

"Did you burn this house yourself, or did we kill you and burn it again?"

The faint voice came, and the middle-aged man was startled, looked left and right, and then his pupils shrank and found that the man in black who spoke fell from the sky and slowly stood in front of him.

"If I'm not mistaken, you are the Li Yang who caused Mr. Lu to be expelled!"

The middle-aged man slowly drew his broadsword, and the sound of the sword unsheathed echoed in the silent night.

"Looks like you've chosen the latter! But have you thought about the little girl in the room? ”

The voice of the man in black was very eerie, with a hint of mockery.

The door suddenly opened with a "squeak", and Xiaoyu's face was still pale, but she stood beside the middle-aged man very firmly.

"Xiaoyu, you..." The middle-aged man was stunned, and was about to scold, but was interrupted by Xiaoyu's slightly immature voice.

"That person, you heard clearly, my father Lu Yun, and I, Lu Xiaoyu, are from the Lu family!

You can kill us, but the young master will definitely make you pay a hundredfold price!" ”

Not only Lu Yun, but even the man in black was stunned.

An eleven or twelve-year-old girl, not only was she not afraid, but she could even say such a thing righteously.

However, this still did not change, and with the wave of the black-clothed man's big hand, everyone in the courtyard drew their broadswords almost at the same time.

"Xiaoyu, you go quickly, dad blocks them!" Lu Yun was completely panicked, he absolutely couldn't allow his daughter to have any mistakes.

"I'm going to die with my father!" Xiaoyu said categorically, her body did not move at all.

Seeing that everyone was about to rush over like hungry wolves predatoring, the despair on Lu Yun's face became thicker and thicker, and a faint voice appeared between heaven and earth.

"You are a dignified seven-foot man, you are not even as good as a little girl, and you really want to be a killer.

It seems that the previous lesson did not make you remember it for a long time! ”

As the words came out, a man wearing a hat and dressed in white suddenly appeared in the courtyard...