For several days, Tian Huaying did not go out at home. Xu Anping looked up at the sky outside the teahouse and found that the clouds were dense and the cold wind was gusting, and he saw that the first snow of the year was about to fall. Looking down again, although it was already the time of Shen, the streets were still full of people and beaming with joy, and the shops were also dressed up in red. Only then did I realize that it was already the twenty-second day of the lunar month, and the Spring Festival was about to be celebrated. In his last life, he was a killer, flying all over the world all day long, and he had no concept of the Spring Festival, but occasionally saw relevant news in the news, as if there were people in various countries around the world celebrating the festival on that day; This body is the most looking forward to the Spring Festival every year, because there will be new clothes, white bread, and even meat during the Spring Festival. Thoughts are a little out of control together: Is Lian'er okay? She must be washing vegetables in cold water again now. Aunt Yu is estimated to be nagging beside her, complaining that this year's food is not enough to eat. "Well, it's time to go home." Xu Anping stood up and walked out of the teahouse and walked towards the blacksmith shop in the south of the city.

"Master, do you remember me?" Xu Anping greeted the blacksmith with a smile.

"Oh, little brother, I remember you. What are your requirements this time? "Although the blacksmith has seen many customers, he is still very impressed by this strange customer.

Xu Anping touched his nose and said with some embarrassment: "Master, I want to ask you to help me make a few iron clips for hunting, and the bite should be strong." Seeing that it was about to snow, I prepared to go home to the mountains to lay some traps and catch some game. Don't you know, there are wild boars on the mountain next to our house, and if the clamp is a little smaller, it will be broken, and it will be in vain. ”

The blacksmith laughed, "It's easy. But it's a bit big, almost a foot long and half a foot high. ”

"That's fine, if you're small, you won't be able to catch wild boars. If I can catch it, I'll bring you a trotter next year. Xu Anping estimated the size of the basket and said, "Then make four, and I'll pick it up at noon tomorrow." ”

"Okay! Sure to keep you satisfied. Then the blacksmith swung his hammer, and the iron clanged.

The next day, it seemed to be a little early, Xu Anping pushed open the window, "Wow! It snowed a lot last night. "The snow on the ground is already half a foot deep, and there are still small snowflakes before the sky clears, and the early risers have already started to clean up the snow. As the Chinese New Year approached, the atmosphere of the Deng family was more lively than usual, and the laughter of the maids could be heard from time to time in the cold air. At this time, I also heard Steward Cai's scolding, "Your legs and feet are numb, if you delay the sacrificial stove prince, be careful of your skin." Xu Anping remembered a couplet of this era, "God says good things, and returns to the palace to be auspicious; I went on the 23rd, and the first and fifth watches of the new year came. So, the more he missed in his heart, he washed his face and went to tell Miss Deng that he wanted to go home to see, although he saw a trace of reluctance in Deng Xiaoke's eyes, but he still left Deng's mansion, after all, this is not his home. He carried the basket on his back to the blacksmith shop in the south of the city, put four iron clips into it, and bought a few catties of rice and white flour at the grain shop next to him and put them on it. Then, he went to the street and cut three catties of pork, and put them at the bottom of the basket, just covering all the clamps at the bottom. He had been in a state of inexplicable excitement since last night, as if he was looking forward to the New Year and the warmth of home, which was rare for an assassin who wanted to stay calm at all times. Out of the city gate, Xu Anping saw that there were already many footprints leading to the distance in front of him, and he also walked in the snow with deep and shallow feet, and walked towards Yujia Village.

Carrying thirty or forty pounds of things on his back, although it would not cause him any physical burden, he could not walk very fast. At the beginning of the day, Xu Anping arrived at the head of Yujia Village, and looked at the old locust tree covered with thick snow in front of him and felt very kind, just like it was more than ten years ago. When he met an acquaintance in the village, Xu Anping greeted him shyly, and unconsciously quickened his pace and walked towards home amid the praise of everyone. When he returned home, he first took out the iron clamp and hid it under the bed, and then he couldn't wait to go to Yu's house with the frame on his back. Of course, it was inevitable that there would be a nagging from Aunt Yu again. Yu Xiaohu was still staring at Xu Anping to see if he would take out the maltose this time, first disappointed and then jumped with joy when he saw the piece of pork. Yi Lian'er still stayed by the side obediently and didn't speak, but her big watery eyes were full of joy and longing, and she was reluctant to move away from Xu Anping for a moment.

After dinner, it was already dark, and the snow began to fall heavily with the north wind, and in a short time the snow on the ground was deeper. Xu Anping accompanied Aunt Yu and Father Yu to talk about the harvest year for a while, and then turned around and returned home. Although he also wanted to talk to Yi Lian'er more, he decided to talk about it later when he thought of the evening. Xu Anping didn't turn on the lights in the room, sat at the table and thought about tonight's plan with his eyes closed, and after finding no obvious mistakes, he took four iron clips over the wall and walked towards the grove behind the village. The village was quiet, with only a few barking dogs once in a while. After a while, he returned to his home, arranged the snow on the wall, and began to organize his tools one by one.

Xu Anping lay quietly under the desk, constantly rehearsing what was about to happen in his mind, without the slightest sleepiness. As the night got deeper, he began to close his eyes and wait patiently for the window to knock. Sure enough, as soon as the ugly hour passed, the window rang like the previous times. He picked up the note and walked towards the grove behind the village. When he arrived in the grove, he carefully discerned the direction, bypassed an inconspicuous bulge, walked under the osmanthus tree, took out a note again, and then exhaled a breath of turbid air and walked towards the cliff by the Taiping River. A moment later, he arrived at the location and stood not far from the cliff in the wind and snow.

"Anping, you are still very punctual. How's things going? Uncle Lin walked out from behind the cliff and asked.

"Uncle Lin, I'm looking for a deed. I have now become the scholar of the young master of the Deng family, and I often come into contact with the eldest lady of the Deng family, and it is more convenient to enter and exit the backyard than before, and I believe that I will be able to find the deed soon. Xu Anping replied calmly, he didn't notice anything unusual about Uncle Lin.

"Oh, then you have to hurry, it's going on from above." After Uncle Lin finished speaking, he did not let Xu Anping leave, but put his hand into his arms.

Xu Anping's pupils shrank, his heart tightened, and the muscles of his whole body tensed, almost subconsciously wanting to shoot out the two silver needles sandwiched between his hands. Then his thoughts changed sharply, and in order to avoid being difficult to collect all the work and involve the Yu family, he still decided to see the move. He saw Uncle Lin take out a small package from his arms, with a heavy look.

"Anping, this is the silver that Uncle Lin saved for you before. Because there are more silver taels, I brought you some of them this time, and the rest will be brought to you next time. As he spoke, he threw over the package containing the silver taels.

Xu Anping reached out to pick it up, but it seemed that the package was not fastened, and several silver ingots fell to the ground and smashed into the snow.

When he squatted down to pick up the silver ingot, Uncle Lin was also hesitating. The rudder of the Blood Hand Alliance in Anlu Mansion was already urging him to complete the task, and it would definitely take a lot of effort to kill Xu Anping now. However, thinking of Xu Anping's question about asking for money to prepare for marriage, his heart suddenly cooled. "Anping, why are you so careless." As he spoke, he took a few steps towards Xu Anping, and he suddenly noticed that the snow on the sole of his right foot was wrong, and he subconsciously withdrew backwards with his left foot. However, before the body could react, there was already a sharp pain in the right ankle, and then a "click" sound was heard as a bone break.

Xu Anping acted as if nothing had happened, carefully picked up the silver ingots before standing up, and said with a smile: "Uncle Lin, you are old, don't walk around casually." You see, you're stepping on a trap. Seeing Uncle Lin's face covered in cold sweat and holding a blackened dagger in his hand, Xu Anping still didn't dare to be careless, he never dared to underestimate the cold-blooded and dying counterattack of an assassin.

"Xu Anping! You rabbit cub, you dare to plot against me. You think you'll be able to get away with it? Do you know that the rudder of the Blood Hand Alliance is all over the country, and there are many gold-level and silver-level master assassins, and there are countless bronze-level assassins like me and black iron-level assassins like you. Also, do you know where the name 'Bloody Hand Alliance' came from? It was the alliance leader who sneaked into the right prime minister's mansion with a sword in one hand, if it wasn't for the luck of the right minister Xia Guoyuan, who happened to have a guard to save him, he would have been stabbed to death. Even so, the alliance leader still killed thirteen people in a row, escaped, and left a handprint on the gate of the Right Prime Minister's Mansion with the blood of the guards before leaving. So, don't think that if you kill me, you'll be safe. You will definitely be hunted down to death by the Holy Alliance, and even the rest of the family will die because of you. Uncle Lin looked down at the trap on his foot, and knew that his right leg was useless, but there was no joy or anger on his face, but he secretly hated in his heart.

Xu Anping's eyes flashed and he didn't answer, but just looked at Uncle Lin fixedly, as if he was very afraid.

Uncle Lin was about to add another fire, and then said: "Anping, Uncle Lin also watched you grow up, and he also has feelings for you, knowing that you are sometimes impulsive. Didn't you say you wanted to go to the city and get married? This matter will be handed over to Uncle Lin. ”

Xu Anping hesitated for a moment, revealing a confused look, "Uncle Lin, I have done such a big wrong thing, will the Holy Alliance really let me go?" I don't want to die! ”

"Don't worry, Anping. As you don't know, Black Iron Assassins are selected by Bronze Assassins and do not need to be recognized by the Order. So as long as I don't say it, no one will know about you. Think about how good Uncle Lin is to you and teach you assassin kung fu. Uncle Lin said in an eager and affirmative tone, and at the same time raised his right hand, as if asking Xu Anping to come over and help him up first.

The confused look on Xu Anping's face disappeared, his left hand and right hand were raised one after another, and the embroidery needle had already pierced Uncle Lin's throat and heart respectively.

Uncle Lin's face was full of astonishment, he looked at Xu Anping in disbelief, and said with a "woo" in his mouth: "You... How ......". It took a while before he lowered his head.

Xu Anping slowly approached Uncle Lin's side, first picked up the dagger in his right hand and slashed his throat twice, and then threw it aside to see a large piece of snow "zing". "Uncle Lin, you want to ask me how I found out, right? Oh, the main thing is that your acting skills are not up to par, and you are a bit like an old man in your previous life, so you can only be considered unlucky. Oh, by the way, I didn't tell you yet, I'm from another world. You're going to keep it a secret for me! Xu Anping muttered quietly while neatly rolling up his left sleeve, and sure enough, he found a three-sleeved arrow tied to his arm; Then he put his hand into Uncle Lin's arms, accurately touched out a stack of silver tickets, and saw that it was a silver ticket from the Four Seas Money Bank, which can be exchanged in all the capitals and cities of the country, and nodded again and again. Insecure assassins will carry money with them so that they can escape at any time, and Uncle Lin is no exception. When he saw that the embroidery needle was only an inch through the silver ticket, he secretly cried out in his heart that if it were not for his usual caution, he would probably have fallen tonight.

Taking out all the bits and pieces of Uncle Lin's body and piling them aside, Xu Anping finally took off the clip, and then tied the body to a big stone and dragged it to the depths of the river. "Uncle Lin, I've finally sent you to reunite with your family."

After speaking, Xu Anping turned around and went home, his steps much lighter than when he came.