Like humans and animals, there are always a few places on the body that blood is untouchable, as long as you cut it, don't think that you can stop the speed of blood flow. This was told to me by Yu An, who was the head of the Xun hexagram and the number one assassin of Tianshu, and who taught me many of the usual killer tactics during his recuperation. In such troubled times, if I want to survive, I must first learn how to protect myself.

The man's arm was bleeding profusely, and he threw down his sword, desperately trying to cover the wound with his hand, but blood poured out from between his fingers at an incredible speed.

I looked at the red liquid gushing out of the darkness and frowned: "It's useless, since you kill people for a living, you should have expected such a day." ”

The blood that had gone had taken away the breath of the man's life, his face turned pale, and he looked at me with wide eyes in disbelief. Maybe his master told him that I was just a powerless sorcerer, or maybe he never thought that one day he would die at the hands of a thin child.

The man's knees trembled, and he curled up on the ground convulsing incessantly. The carriage in the distance had already left while he was chasing and fighting with me. The people in the car probably thought I was going to die tonight, so they weren't even in the mood to stay and watch.

I wiped the bloodstained dagger off my sleeve and slipped it back into the pocket inside my boot.

I've been caught up in the Zhao family's struggle for the throne since the moment I saved Beru, and it's not surprising that someone wants me dead now. Many years ago, Wu Feng told me that I took death too seriously. Now, as he said, I am finally accustomed to it, to calculation, to death. I glanced at the corpse on the ground, turned around indifferently, and the moment I turned around, I found a person standing behind me at some point—a man with red hair and a wide open shirt. He carried a woman on his shoulders, a woman with a disheveled hair and unconscious.

The bare-chested man looked at me with a smile, and I took a step back and looked at him with a wary look. The man grinned and put the woman on his shoulder on the ground, walked over to the corpse as if no one was around, squatted down to look at the wound on the coachman's arm, and said with a smile: "Beautiful! The wound is neat and clean, without mud and water. Good job, little thing! The man crouched beside the corpse, his eyes filled with light, like a wild beast seeing its prey, and a pervert seeing a beauty.

In the middle of winter, Layue only wore a large cardigan robe and came out to swing, and in the middle of the night he carried an unconscious woman on the street, and saw the dead man's eyes shining, extremely excited, and the person in front of him was strange in every part of his body.

I made up my mind and cautiously asked, "Dare to ask what is sir?" ”

The red-haired man stood up and waved his hand impatiently: "Don't talk to me like that, it's a headache." Little thing, you have good craftsmanship, I like you a lot, how about going to my house for a drink? ”

Drinking at his house?! As long as you are a person of right mind, you will not invite someone home for a drink in this situation?

I smiled awkwardly: "Little brother still has urgent matters, let's do it another day!" ”

"Really not going? The wine I have there is just stolen from the cellar of Zhifu, and ordinary people can't drink it. ”

Pepper pulp, take the spicy aroma of Sichuan pepper, brew it into wine, and use it to séance. The pepper syrup stored in the Zhifu must have been used for the sacrifice of the crown prince a few days later, how could such an important thing be stolen? "Isn't the eldest brother bragging, the Zhifu is heavily guarded, how can you steal the sacrificial pepper wine from his cellar, the younger brother doesn't believe it."

"I also stole this woman from the Zhifu, and now I am going to send it back when I run out. If you don't believe me, wake her up and ask. ”

If you run out of it, you want to send it back?! I glanced at the man's wide open shirt and the woman's loose hair, and a very bad guess immediately popped up in my head - the flower thief? Murderer? Whoever he is, I can't stay any longer!

"The women of Zhifu can steal out, the eldest brother is powerful, and the younger brother is respectful. It's just that it's too late today, tomorrow, tomorrow, the younger brother will definitely bring good wine and wait for the eldest brother in the bamboo forest outside the city. ”

"Alright, it's decided!" The man yawned lazily, turned around and raised his hand, and threw down a sentence, "If you don't come tomorrow, I'll rip off your heart and liver and drink!" ”

When he said this, his tone was as light as if I wanted me to bring more jugs of wine tomorrow to save not enough to drink. The man who appeared inexplicably quickly disappeared into the night, and his appearance and departure were confusing as quickly as possible.

Zhao Mengli's matter is not over yet, and I have such a troublesome character here. I put my hand on my head and glanced at the woman on the ground who had been abandoned by the man. If I leave her here, I guess she will freeze to death in another hour, but I don't have the strength to carry her back to Zhifu. Besides, I can't go to Zhifu yet. Oh my God, do you want me to sit here and freeze to death with her?!

I brushed away the messy hair covering the woman's face with my hand, this is a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl, her facial features are small, although she is not a beauty, she looks good, but now her snot and tears are all stuck to her face, dirty and very embarrassed. The clothes on the woman's body were torn in several places, but the style and fabric were of the highest quality, and it seemed that it should be the concubine room in Zhiyao's mansion.

I pinched the woman's lips hard, and she woke up in pain.

"Are you awake? Can you see me? I shook my finger in front of her eyes.

The moment she heard my voice, the woman jumped to her feet, hugged her body and yelled, kicking her feet at me. I quickly dodged away, covered my ears and squatted silently aside, letting her vent to her heart's content.

I don't know how long it took, but she shouted that she was tired and had no strength, and finally quieted down.

"Are you feeling better? The person who robbed you has been driven away by me, and you are safe now. I tentatively moved a few steps towards her, took out a square handkerchief from my bosom and handed it to her, "Wipe your face, I'll send you back." ”

The woman raised her head slowly, and a pair of phoenix eyes in her messy hair were red and swollen. She looked at me stunned, her pale lips trembling, tears rolling out one after another.

In the spring, you can often see women with men in the mountains and fields. The name festival is not so important to the common women, but it is different for the noble daughters of the scholar family. They learn etiquette at the age of eight, and at the latest they are ten years old, they have to eat separately from the men in the family. Unless it is a major celebration, many people will not leave their home until they get married, let alone indulge in other men. This woman has now been forcibly robbed of her virginity by gangsters, and I am afraid that she will not be able to ease her mind for a while.

"Don't worry, I won't tell anyone about this, you just think it's a nightmare, just sleep and forget about it." I got up and wet my handkerchief with the snow on the side of the road and gently wiped the stains off the woman's face.

The woman looked at me, then looked down at a bruise on her wrist, took a deep breath and sobbed, "I can't forget...... Why didn't he kill me? Why! I lost my father's face, I ......" The more the woman spoke, the more excited she became, and then the whole person fell into madness again.

I sighed, and helped her up half-hugging and half-hugging: "That person just said that you were robbed by him from Zhifu, does Zhifu have a small door?" I'll send you back now, and as long as tonight's events aren't discovered, they'll be fine. ”

"Undetected......

"Well, you go back and find an opportunity to burn the clothes and act as if nothing happened. If you don't say it, no one will know. ”

After hearing my words, the woman was stunned at first, and her gray face gradually showed a hint of hope, she grabbed my arm stubbornly, and said urgently: "The corner of the west side courtyard collapsed two days ago, and the house is busy with sacrifices and has not yet made up for it." ”

"Great, you'll be in from there later."

Zhifu was not far from where we were now, and I walked for half an hour with the woman in my arms, and then I arrived at the place she said.

"Don't cry, get in! Just like being bitten by a dog tonight. ”

The woman wiped away her tears, opened her mouth as if to say something, but at last she smiled bitterly, bowed to me, and turned into the hole in the corner.

I stood there for a while, and when I saw that there was no movement inside, I turned to leave.

At this time, the cold air in the night became more and more intense, and I walked towards the Zhao Mansion with a shiver. When I was holding the woman just now, I didn't feel that I was quiet now, and there was no place in my body that was not painful. The fall when I fell with the triangular eye may have hurt my muscles and bones, and my kneecap throbbed for a while, and it was better to stop and not walk, and it hurt badly as soon as I walked.

I was walking hard here, tapping and tapping, and another carriage came in the dark. At this moment, even if someone borrowed ten guts from me, I wouldn't dare to beckon. So, the side of the body flashed to the side of the road early.

It was a carriage with a draped veil, and two bright red gauze lamps hung from the roof of the carriage, and the two red lights swayed in the night, revealing an indescribable strangeness. As the carriage approached, I looked up curiously and saw a woman sitting in the carriage.

In the middle of the night, whose noble daughter is still wandering the streets so late? It is said that the evil ghosts on the mountain like to take on the appearance of women and prey on living souls in the middle of the night, so I didn't meet a real mountain ghost, did I?

Thinking about it like this, I didn't care about the pain, and ran to Zhao's mansion by stepping on the broken ice.

didn't run two steps, and suddenly a fragrant breeze blew behind him, sweet and greasy, with a hint of wine. I turned my head to take a look, but before I could see it, I was slapped hard in the face. The sharp palm wind rubbed against my ear and fanned down, and with a buzz, my right ear roared, and a silver light suddenly exploded in front of my eyes, and I couldn't see anything in the gray.