Tang Zhutou was startled, subconsciously pressed the handle of the knife with his hand, took a step back, and looked nervously behind the old thief. But in the empty backyard, there was no one. Looking at the old thief suspiciously, he said gloomily: "You are fooling me? ”

The old thief was anxious: "How dare I play the head of you!" What I'm saying is true! He followed me all the time, and when he got to the City God Temple, he was gone! ”

Tang Zhutou stared at the old thief and said slowly: "Then what did you tell him?" ”

"Nope! I didn't say anything! ”

Tang Zhutou nodded slowly: "That's pretty much the same!" Suddenly, he looked behind the old thief suspiciously, and sighed, "Is it him?" ”

The old thief turned his head to look, and at this moment, the white light flashed on the waist of Tang Zhutou, and most of the old thief's neck was cracked, and blood splashed out like a fountain. His throat was also cut by this knife, and he couldn't even make a sound, so he fell to the ground, kicked his legs slightly, and stopped moving.

Tang Zhutou looked around vigilantly, but there was no one, so he wiped the single knife in his hand on the corpse's clothes a few times. Carrying it, carefully preparing to leave.

Suddenly, he felt the wind above him! Not the sound of a cold wind howling, but a strong wind! There is a strong wind attacking by the enemy!

However, his reaction could only go so far, and at the same time, he felt a slight slash on his right shoulder with the knife. Turning sharply, he saw a masked man in black, with a cold gaze, staring at him. In his hand he held a bloody short blade.

Tang Zhutou was shocked, and he picked up the knife and slashed, but the right hand holding the knife did not obey the call at all and could not raise it. Tang Zhutou looked down in panic, and his right hand was intact! What's the matter, his gaze moved upwards, to the shoulder where he felt something scratch just now, and through the reflection of the snow on the ground, he found that his right shoulder was bright red!

He now understands that the other party has already been hiding in the elm tree, and the slight stroke he felt just now was that the other party fell down and sneaked attack, cutting his shoulder joint with a sharp blade and cutting the ligaments of the joint!

This person can accurately cut off his shoulder ligaments in the dark night, and his martial arts are so high that he can't reach them!

Of course, this man in black is Leng Yi.

Tang Zhutou still handed the knife to his left hand, and without saying a word, he slashed towards Leng Yi.

Leng Yi's movements were extremely agile, and when the single knife was almost on top of his head, he swayed forward like lightning and dodged his knife, and at the same time, with a short blade in his hand, he slashed at the elbow of Tang Zhutou's left hand holding the knife.

Tang Zhutou felt that his left hand immediately lost strength, and the knife fell into the snow.

He immediately turned around and ran, but as soon as he took two steps, he was hit hard in the back and fell to the ground, and then, a short blade with a cold and bloody smell was attached to his neck, and a low voice held his throat came: "How did you know that Leng Zhi County has gold?" Why let this old thief steal? ”

Tang Zhutou struggled for a while, his waist and eyes were pressed by other people's knees, his whole body was sore, and he couldn't move. took a breath and said, "Your ......, what is the relationship between you and the Yinling Zhixian ......?" - Ouch! ”

But it turned out that the man stabbed him in the left shoulder!

Tang Zhu had a headache and wanted to scream, but there was a bloody short blade in his throat, and the man's deep voice sounded: "Do you want to say it?" ”

Tang Zhutou was really distracted, panting, and said, "I said! I say! -- I am, I heard it from someone else. ”

"Who?"

Tang Zhutou was speechless for a while. After a moment of hesitation, he was stabbed in the thigh again, and just as he wanted to scream, his throat was suddenly tightened, and he couldn't make a sound.

Leng Yi slowly let go of his throat, Tang Zhutou coughed, and said, "I ......, I listened to the ......, and listened to the people in the teahouse......

"Lie!" The other thigh was also stabbed.

Tang Zhutou struggled and said, "I'm talking about ......, it's true......"

"I'll see how long you can be hard-mouthed!"

Leng Yi turned the soup catcher over, put the short blade against his heart, slowly inserted it in, and at the same time, asked, "Who asked you to find an old thief to steal Leng Zhi County's taxes?" To say or not to say?

"I ......, I really don't know ......, please! Spare your life! I'm telling the truth! ”

The short blade in Leng Yi's hand ruthlessly pierced his clothes little by little, pierced into his chest, and stabbed into his heart little by little!

Before he was about to pierce his chest cavity and pierce his heart, Leng Yi stopped his hand and said coldly: "Let me ask one last question: Who instructed you?" ”

Tang Zhutou smiled, looked at Leng Yi, and suddenly, with all his strength, he jerked his body up and pushed towards the short blade. This short blade was too sharp, and before Leng Yi had time to withdraw, it had already pierced into Tang Zhutou's heart!

Leng Yi was taken aback, and subconsciously wanted to pull out the short blade, but he immediately stopped, he knew that the knife that pierced the heart, if it was pulled out, would kill him immediately, and leaving the knife in the heart could temporarily delay his life.

Therefore, his mind was like electricity, and at the moment when Tang Zhutou's body was about to fall down and break away from the blade, he supported his body from behind and prevented the knife from withdrawing. "I don't want to kill you!"

"I know ......"

Leng Yi looked at his dilated pupils, and slowed down his tone: "Tell me, who instructed you?" ”

Tang Zhutou smiled, as if victorious, and slowly, word by word: "This is a big secret, and you must use your surname to strictly guard ......." You...... Let Leng Zhixian wait for him to ...... and suffer ......! ”

With that, he closed his eyes.

Leng Yi probed the pulse of his neck, and it had stopped beating.

The big secret?

For this secret, three people have died so far, and two of them committed suicide, just to keep this big secret from being heard! What kind of secret is this?

Leng Yi felt a chill in his heart.

He laid the body down, drew his short blade, wiped the blood from the corpse, and inserted it into the scabbard of his boot.

This short blade was seized from the old thief. The blade is very thin and unusually sharp, and it is a treasure sword. He decided to stay and defend himself. In terms of equipment, the only thing he has concentrated on practicing is the dagger, because the use of the dagger is very similar to the use of fists, and he has a high attainment in free fighting, so it is more suitable to use a short blade, and it is also easy to carry.

He had already searched everything on the old thief, including the pawn ticket that the old thief said. He then searched the contents of Tang Zhutou's body, nothing special, and put a few large pieces of silver in the bag of broken silver he found into his arms, and the rest were still put back in Tang Zhutou's arms.

stood up, picked up the single knife on the ground, stabbed Tang Zhutou a few times in several wounds on his body, and deliberately cut a few knives on Tang Zhutou's arms and palms, faking resistance injuries, and then stuffed the knife into Tang Zhutou's palm.

In this way, it gives the impression that the old thief snatched the single knife of the soup catcher and cut the soup catcher's head. Before he died, Tang Zhutou retrieved the knife and hacked the old thief to death with one sword.

Although it was still snowing, Leng Yi still carefully took off his clothes, erased all his footprints on the ground, and then swept away the footprints backwards until he walked outside the backyard, only then did he put on his clothes and disappeared into the darkness.

Leng Yi walked back to the door of the inn casually, and saw the soap in civilian clothes in the inn nodding and greeting him, so he nodded and slowly entered the inn.

Leng Yi stepped upstairs, and saw Wu Zhutou and Deputy Song Zhutou standing at the door one by one, vigilantly staring at the guests who walked by from time to time. Seeing Leng Yi, he hurriedly bowed and saluted.

Leng Yi said: "It's nothing, right?" ”

"Nope!" The two said together.

"That's good!" Leng Yi took out the key from his arms, opened the door lock, pushed the door open with a squeak, and was immediately stunned, screaming: "Mom! Where is my chest of gold? ”

This voice resounded throughout the upper room, and the two catchers on both sides were scared, and hurriedly looked into the house, and couldn't help but feel like their souls flew out of the sky!

The small box containing the tax money that had been placed on the round table in the center of the room was gone!