The mutation protruded, the vendor drew out a short sword, and stabbed directly at Meng Qi who was close in front of him, the sword was like the wind, and the naked eye could only see a light and shadow moving, and the next moment, the blade appeared in front of Meng Qi's eyes.

Meng Qi was stunned, just reacted, and sat directly on the ground, although it was a little funny and embarrassed, but it won a short gap for the soldiers of the ground branch next to him to come to the rescue, and the veteran in the earth branch immediately knelt down, slammed his knees on the ground, grabbed it with one hand, and held the blade alive.

The blade then stagnated in mid-air, and it was difficult to move forward even a second.

Drops of blood fell from under the clenched palms onto the bluestone slab, and the blood stretched along the cracks in the old soldier's knees on the slate into several blood streaks.

The stall owner saw that the veteran was fearless to protect the owner, his expression was awe-inspiring, he looked up at the veteran who made the move, and the veteran also looked at the stall owner coldly, and the eyes of the two collided together.

After a moment of confrontation, the stall owner smiled hideously, the hand holding the hilt of the sword rotated suddenly, and the sharp blade cut the palm of the old soldier's hand holding the blade, and suddenly blood gushed, but the old soldier still did not let go, and did not even frown.

The stall owner looked at the old soldier's indifferent eyes again, and couldn't help but feel a chill in his back, and before he could react, the soldier next to the veteran of the local branch finally made a move.

Hai crossed the aiming step, directly picked up the gun and pulled the trigger, without the slightest delay, a gunshot rang out, the bullet hit the center of the vendor's eyebrows, the vendor was killed on the spot, and his face was still frozen in horror when he looked at the veteran.

"Ahh The crowd around them screamed when they saw someone dead, and fled in a flash.

The stall owner's body fell to the ground, and the hilt of the sword was loosened in his hand, and the veteran threw aside the short sword in his hand, tore a piece of cloth from the hem of his clothes, and bandaged it casually around his palm.

Meng Qi got up from the ground and said, "I'll go to the medical hall to bandage it later." ”

The veteran smiled: "Why do you need to go to the hospital for this flesh injury, after a while, you will be fine." ”

Meng Qi shook his head and didn't speak, he moved his gaze to the stall owner on the ground and asked, "This guy is a good hand, I was already on guard just now, and I was almost stabbed by him." ”

"Well, it's good." The veteran nodded.

Just now, the stall owner's sword drawing and sword action was as fast as lightning, and the clouds flowed, and insiders could see at a glance that this skill was not bad, if it was in the army, it was at least a deputy general level.

"Check it out." Meng Qi nodded and motioned for the veteran to go up.

"Yes." The veteran stepped forward, raised the vendor's arm, and found that his palms were calloused, and it could be seen that this person had been using a sword for a long time, and the veteran opened the vendor's collar again, and found that there were two white marks on both sides of his neck, which the veteran was very familiar with, and it was the traces left by the march wearing heavy armor all year round, and it was obvious that the vendor was a soldier.

The veteran stood up and reported to Meng Qi: "This person is from the army, judging by his skills just now, at least he is a young general." ”

Meng Qi nodded, thought for a while, and suddenly walked to a stall selling dustpans and brooms next to him.

The vendor who took care of this stall was a chubby lady, and the people around her ran away from her, but she was the only one who stayed by the side, not because the lady was bold, but because she couldn't rest assured that the things on the stall were not at ease.

At this time, the eldest lady was hiding behind an erected dustpan and shivering, and the arm-long and wide dustpan naturally could not cover the eldest mother's body, and the trembling back half of the eldest mother's body could be seen from the side.

Meng Qi walked over and said with a smile: "Auntie, don't be nervous, we are good people." ”

The eldest lady has been blocking her head with a dustpan, during which she didn't even dare to stretch out her head to look, which will hear the sound close to her ears, and she sat on the ground in fright, she trembled and pointed to the things on the stall, and said, "These things don't need money, you take them." ”

Meng Qi smiled and said, "Auntie, we are not robbing things, you misunderstood us, I came to inquire with you about something." ”

"What... What's up? The eldest lady was still very nervous, and looked at Meng Qi with a wary expression.

Meng Qi stretched out his hand and pointed to the dead clothes vendor next to him and said, "Do you know this person?" ”

The eldest lady turned her head to look at the vendor who fell to the ground, trembled again, hurriedly turned her head, didn't dare to look at it again, and muttered: "He... I don't know him. ”

Meng Qi said again: "Then has he been hanging out here recently?" How many days have you been out of the stall? ”

The eldest lady tilted her head and replied, "Probably... About two or three days, this is the third day. ”

Meng Qi continued to ask, "You haven't seen this person before, have you?" ”

The eldest lady nodded and said, "Yes." ”

"yes, I see." Meng Qi nodded thoughtfully, put his hand into his pocket, took out a silver ingot, put it on the eldest lady's stall, and said, "Thank you." With that, he left here with the people of the earthly branch.

After a long while, the eldest lady stuck her head out from behind the dustpan, she saw that there was no group of fierce people on the street corner, she breathed a sigh of relief, and after putting down the dustpan, she suddenly saw a silver ingot on the stall, and her eyes lit up.

"Oh this—" The eldest lady reached out to take it, but halfway through, she retracted her hand, and she glanced again in the direction of the street corner, and remembered that the ingot of silver should have been given by the person who had just asked her.

After hesitating for a while, the eldest lady finally picked up the ingot of silver, but she didn't put it in her pocket, but walked to the side of the stall owner, put the silver in front of the dead stall owner, and sighed lightly: "Look at your age, you should also be old and young, and you have suffered this misfortune, hey." While speaking, the eldest lady still didn't dare to look at the stall owner's corpse, but kept staring at the finely made straw hat on the stall.

After a while, the surrounding crowd gathered around again, pointing at the middle of the field.

When the eldest lady saw that someone in the crowd looked at the silver she put down with ill will, she said loudly: "You can't touch this silver, and when this old brother's family finds it, you can buy some more food for them to deal with the aftermath." The eldest lady said that, returned to her stall, hurriedly packed up her things, and left in a hurry, with no intention of continuing to set up a stall.

On another street, Meng Qi and his entourage passed by a medical hall, and walked straight in with everyone, he looked at Lang Zhong who was sitting on the table in the store and said, "Old man, please bandage my brother's wound, his hand is scratched." As he spoke, he motioned for the veteran to step forward and show Lao Langzhong the wound.

The veteran's face twitched, and he couldn't help but say, "Thank you, Your Majesty." ”

Meng Qi smiled: "We don't need these between us, you saved me just now, and I didn't say thank you." ”

The surrounding soldiers of the local branch all smiled, urged the veteran, and said, "Hurry up and deal with the wound." ”

"Hmm." The veteran glanced at Meng Qi gratefully and walked in front of Lang Zhong.

Lang Zhong slowly opened the strip of cloth wrapped around the palm of the veteran's hand, and when he saw the wound below, his beard shook in shock, and his eyes were dumbfounded.