It's the Lantern Festival in a blink of an eye.

According to custom, regardless of whether men, women, children, or young are respectful or inferior, they will go to the street to guess riddles and watch lanterns that night.

The west of Xinzheng City has been going west to the mass graves, so even during the day, most of the people go to the east, and the west is gradually no road, overgrown with weeds and desolate.

The south of the city is very lively on weekdays, merchants come and go from the south to the north, and the wine shops are gathered, and the high or short restaurants and shops are uneven, and they are lined up one after another. But at night, especially on such lively days as watching lanterns and riddles, the south of the city is also closed and empty, and it is pitch black everywhere, only those guignes are fluttering in the wind, and it is not uncommon to hide some villains or vicious dogs, so the timid and women are basically not near this place at night.

There is a moat on the east side of the city, a row of neat weeping willows is planted on the bank of the river, and the lanterns are hung on the weeping willow trees one by one along the bank of the moat, and they extend to the end of a stone arch bridge.

The lanterns of different forms are colorful, reflected on the river surface, the Xinzheng City is brightly lit, the gongs and drums are noisy and the fireworks are gorgeous, the bustling tourists are weaving, the people who watch the lanterns are dressed in festive costumes, the Xinzheng City is decorated with excitement and extraordinary, and the people have a smile on their faces, and they are full of joy.

There has always been an unwritten rule for watching lanterns, that is, marriageable men and women can only look at their favorite people by watching the lanterns on this day. Therefore, although spring has begun, it is warm and cold at first, but in order to show their graceful posture, those girls who love beauty are not afraid of the cold and take off their heavy cotton clothes and change into lighter spring clothes, which makes this lantern look more springy.

For convenience, Zheng Ji was still dressed as a son, and He Yongjie also walked slowly in the crowd of lantern watchers. Such a handsome boy came out of the lantern party, and naturally he was favored by countless ladies and small jasper, and they cast admiring eyes, some of them were bolder, and even quietly followed all the way.

Zheng Ji came with a mission, knowing that tonight was destined not to be peaceful, she was uneasy, she didn't want to see the murder scene, in order to hide the uneasiness in her heart, she focused all her thoughts on guessing the lantern riddle.

I saw that the riddle was written: a field full of grass (type a plant name).

Zheng Ji uncovered the mystery, and immediately someone handed her a pen and paper, she quickly wrote down the word "plum blossom", and immediately ushered in bursts of applause.

Then, she saw a riddle written on it: The two countries are at war, and the soldiers are strong (playing a chess item).

Zheng Ji wrote the word "chess" with a pen, and this time the applause was more enthusiastic, and Zheng Ji's interest was even stronger.

I saw that she continued to write the words "easy to solve" under the next riddle "quick knife to cut the mess", the font is both graceful and elegant, and the iron painting silver hook hides elegant rhyme, and immediately applause is like thunder, cheers continue, and behind him also attracted more ladies and ladies who admired her talent and appearance, and became the most dazzling star of the lantern festival.

This was cheaper for the reckless and lustful Yongjiao, who took the opportunity to rub the oil of those beautiful daughters and daughters-in-law, at first he just pretended to be crowded and secretly touched others, but later saw that those beauties were at most just wrinkling their eyebrows and glaring at him, and gradually became more and more bold, and began to stretch out his salty pig hands to the more plump places of others.

The lantern riddles were in full swing here, and just as everyone's eyes were focused on Zheng Ji, they suddenly heard a young woman crying loudly: "Indecent! What a disrespect! ”

Everyone found that the person who called for help was next to the handsome boy, and they were surprised, only to see the woman who called for help holding the arm of a vulgar-looking person with one hand, and hiding her face with the other hand and crying: "Please get justice for the little woman, this frivolous person is disrespectful to me, woo woo!" ”

Zheng Ji saw that everyone was looking in her direction, looked sideways, and found that the person who was pointing out the indecent person was Yongjie, and secretly said in her heart: I am really looking for death!

"Shoot him, shoot him!"

"Beat him up first, and then send him to the government!"

"It's a beast that's not as good as a pig or a dog! Death is too good for him! ”

“……”

In the crusade of everyone, Zheng Ji was unconsciously squeezed onto the bridge by the crowd that rushed up, she thought: It's okay, just stay away from right and wrong, and end quietly.

Suddenly the roar shook the sky, the sound of punching and kicking was endless, and no matter how strong Yongjie was, he couldn't stand being beaten like a pig, and let out a hoarse wail.

In the south of the city, several black shadows flew on the roof, but the walls were as flat as if they were walking on the ground.

Someone whispered: "Look at this posture, we don't need to do it tonight, I came for nothing, and I didn't touch Yongjie with a finger, it's really not fun!" ”

At this time, I don't know who suddenly shouted in panic: "Look, everyone, there seems to be something moving in the west of the city!" ”

It is well known that if one place is brightly lit at night, then the opposite place will be extraordinarily dark, and compared with the brightness and bustle of the east, the west of the city is even darker, and it is as quiet as death.

After this man shouted, some timid people hurriedly turned their heads to look at the west of the city.

I saw that there were really startled night birds rising in the west of the city, and the weeds that were more than one person tall were not blown by the wind, swaying there, like monsters moving slowly towards this side, and suddenly made people's backs chill inexplicably.

This is not speculation, there is really movement in the west of the city at this time.

I saw a man in black move forward, and a group of people in black quickly rushed towards the crowd, and the onlookers quickly made a way when they saw that the situation was not good.

People didn't know why the man in black suddenly appeared, and they were stupid for a moment.

I saw the man in black stretch out his fist to some people who were fighting Yongjiao, these people were the opponents of the trained and skilled men in black, and they were simply vulnerable.

At first, everyone thought that they were here to eliminate harm for the people, but they didn't expect to come to save this stinky hooligan, and they were immediately angry, and when they saw that the man in black was steady and ruthless, they quickly split up and fled.

Looking at the lively crowd, some people wanted to be reasonable, and stammered: "He is a hooligan...... Insult a woman from a good family, everyone...... I beat him. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the poor man was killed by the man in black.

Yongjiao, who was begging for mercy just now, was beaten with a blue nose and swollen face, and after seeing his rescuers, he immediately changed his face and shouted and scolded at the scattered people: "Dog mongrel, dare to beat the master, don't run away, I can't kill you!" And kicked at the slower runner's ass.

When the man in black saw that everyone had run away, he ran towards Zheng Ji, and Zheng Ji, who didn't know what to do, thought: What's the matter with this priest? Didn't you say that you were going to destroy Yongjiao? Why did they come to save him?

Thinking that they were also here to protect themselves, they greeted them and said, "I'm all right!" ”

But under the bright light, Zheng Ji found that the man in black sneered at her with a contemptuous face, who came is not good?

Sure enough, I saw the man in black digging out the heart of the black tiger and attacking Zheng Ji's chest, Zheng Ji, who had no martial arts, couldn't dodge, only waited for death, smiled sadly, simply closed his eyes and stood motionless.

I only felt that a gust of wind stopped when I was a fist away from me, and then I heard someone fall to the ground with a muffled sound, Zheng Ji opened her eyes nervously, and suddenly her legs were so frightened that her legs were verbose.

I saw that the man in black who was about to attack him just now was already lying in a pool of blood and breathless, and the dagger firmly tied to his chest was shining in the moonlight.