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Boss Yan also jumped in with Yun Er, and as for Jing Mu Qian, Winged Fire Snake, Bi Yuewu, and Ginseng Ape were already guarding the four sides of the room, ready to deal with the unexpected at any time. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info↑

A burst of sound came from the sound of Suosuo, and several people pricked up their ears to listen to the source of the sound, Yun Er suddenly kicked on the bed where the cobbler slept, and the heavy wooden bed was spun by Yun Er's kick, and a spike with a cold light suddenly poked out of the floor and stabbed against the side of the bed.

Jing Mu Qian roared and grabbed the spear and pressed it to the side, only to hear the sound of Kala, the barrel of the gun broke from it, and the saber of the water ape slashed the floor, the floor was torn apart, and the winged fire snake and the crossbow arrow in the hands of Boss Yan had already flown down from the breach.

There was a low, muffled grunt from downstairs.

"He's hurt!" Elder Yan shouted, and his body flew backwards, shattering the tense cowhide window in one fell swoop, and his body fell downstairs with the broken window.

Jing Muqian threw away the half-piece of gun in his hand and jumped downstairs with Boss Yan.

Aqua Ape quickly slashed a large hole in the floor with his horse chopping knife, and a gunpowder bullet was ignited and thrown down, and he needed to get the people in the room below the room and hand them over to Boss Yan and Jing Mu Xuan outside the inn.

Yun Er and the Winged Fire Snake left the big hole, and they heard the sound of gunpowder bombs downstairs, and then thick smoke came out of the big hole.

The Winged Fire Serpent jumped out of the big hole, and before he could stand firmly, a long knife whistled and slashed at him, and the Winged Fire Serpent was taken aback, wondering why the gunpowder bullet did not cause any harm to these people. Kicking on the half-broken pillar, his body flew sideways, narrowly avoiding the shiny long knife.

The dust and smoke gradually cleared, and the environment in the room became clear, and the three scarred white-clothed men looked at the winged fire snake viciously.

"You can't leave!"

The winged fire snake saw Boss Yan and Jing Mu Xuan appear in front of the door and window, and said coldly.

A man in white smiled and said: "Lao Tzu is originally a ghost, life and death are the same, since you are the minions of the dog official." Then suffer death! ”

This guy didn't wait to finish speaking, he pounced with a knife, and the other two followed behind, apparently to kill the winged fire snake first and then deal with Boss Yan and Jing Mu Qian who were guarding the door and window.

Boss Yan sneered, and the two crossbow arrows flew out one after another, and the man in white didn't have time to block it at all, his knee was pierced by the crossbow arrow, and his body fell to the ground as soon as he became weak, and the other two had to go to support their companions. He was shot through his legs by the crossbow arrows of Jing Mu Xuan and the Winged Fire Snake, and the three of them fell to the ground together, and the pain was unbearable.

Boss Yan stepped on the broken sawdust all over the ground and walked into the house, and said coldly: "Who are you?" said that grandpa gave you a good time. ”

The man in white at the head hissed and laughed: "Grandpa is a ghost!" ”

Although these words were said with a smile, the viciousness between the lips and teeth could not be concealed in any way.

Boss Yan was about to step forward to torture, but found that the three white-clothed people were hugged tightly together, which seemed to be very wrong.

Picking at their loose hands and feet with their spears, they found that the three men had died of exhaustion, and each of them had a bull-eared knife in his hand and stabbed deeply into the chest of his companion.

"Hiss" Boss Yan gasped, he has seen a lot of people who commit suicide, and he has never seen someone as resolute as them, as if after discovering that he has failed. Their first thought was suicide, and they didn't hesitate at all.

Such a dead man. It's the scariest thing.

Yun Er heard the signal of safety from Boss Yan, so he jumped down from the big hole, and immediately saw the three white corpses on the ground.

There were also two gray corpses on the wall, and upon closer inspection, it was revealed that they were the bodies of the innkeeper and his fellows, and no one had a steel cone nailed to their throats. From the throat all the way to the back of the head, and then nailed to the wooden wall, it would have been dead for a long time.

"What did you find?" Yun Er asked Boss Yan.

"The assassination was clean, and the death was even more clean, Second Young Master, we are in trouble, there should be more than these three people in this group. I found six pairs of footprints in the yard, three of which were walking outside. If it's all this kind of dead soldiers, it should be very troublesome. ”

Yun Er looked at the corpse, and suddenly used a short spear to pick open the dead man's masked white cloth, his pupils shrank suddenly, and there was a large burnt mark on the corpse's forehead, and he picked off the masked cloth of the other two corpses, and also saw the brand on his forehead.

The imprints were already scorched black, and they couldn't see anything clearly, but whether it was Yun Er, Boss Yan and the others, they knew what these imprints were.

Tattooing the forehead with ink was originally a punishment in ancient times, called ink punishment or whale punishment. Emperor Wen of Han abolished it. However, it has been used from generation to generation. In the Tang Dynasty, when the escaped slaves and maids were captured, they often tattooed words like "escaped slaves" on their faces, which were called "private whales". It was not explicitly forbidden until the time of Taizong.

Ethnic minorities in the south have the habit of getting tattoos. In many areas of the Tang and Five Dynasties, especially in some large cities, the Chinese of the lower classes was very popular. This custom was called "carving green" at the time.

Soldier tattooing is evolved from the fashion of whale punishment and "carving green", and gradually formed a system through the five dynasties of the late Tang Dynasty.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty and the fifth dynasty, wars were frequent, and warlords from all over the country forcibly conscripted people as soldiers. In order to tighten control and prevent flight, the warlords resorted to tattooing letters on the faces of their soldiers. From then on, the soldier's tattooing was no longer for decoration or to show his bravery, but became a sign of humiliating status.

Probably from the Later Liang Taizu Zhu Wen through the Later Zhou Taizu Guo Wei and then to the Great Song Dynasty, the tattooing on the soldiers' faces gradually formed a system and became a necessary procedure for recruitment. Since then, being a soldier has become a special profession, once you become a soldier and have a tattoo, you have to belong to the military for life, and you can no longer engage in other professions. In this way, the soldier became a special class in society.

Due to the influence of the soldier's tattooing, the penal code officially reinstated whale punishment. From the beginning of the Jin Tianfu period five generations later, all the prisoners who were mismatched had to have tattoos on their faces, which was called "thorn matching". Most of these prisoners are sent to serve in the army, which is called "matching the army". In this way, the status of a soldier is not much different from that of a prisoner.

"There is no tattoo on the face of the Jingxi Army, and the reason why the marshal is criticized by civilian officials is a very important reason. Since these people are so brave, and they are familiar with gunpowder bullets, and they know how to avoid the shrapnel of gunpowder bullets, they should only be the Western Army. ”

Winged Fire Snake has served as a low-level military attaché, so he is naturally very familiar with this set in the army.

Jing Mu Qian pulled the corpse with a long knife and said: "It is impossible for the Western Army, the more brave the sergeant, the more respect the commander, besides, the Jingxi Army and the Western Army have always been friendly, there is no need for them to come to us for trouble, right?"

Even if there is a conflict, the friendship between Yi Dashuai and Di Shuai should be easily resolved, besides, the trade route of the Western Army is on the Tangbo Ancient Road, and they do not do maritime business. ”

Yun Er said in a deep voice: "This is a new phenomenon, we must pay attention to it, this matter should have nothing to do with Di Shuai, there are many factions in the army, and the relationship between them is complicated, far less pure than our Jingxi Army, this matter must be investigated." ”

The winged fire snake stepped forward and carefully searched for three corpses, and finally found nothing, these people were wearing white coats, just to hide in the wind and snow, and kill the shopkeeper and his men downstairs, and the people upstairs did not even notice it in the slightest, it should be a good hand at lurking and fighting.

The four of them jumped up to the second floor from the big hole, preparing to leave the inn and return to the shop with the feverish leatherman, after all, there was also a war there, and Yun Er was very worried.

It turned out that Yun Er's judgment was right, the target of those people was Yun Er, and the shop was just a feint, just when they were packing up their things and preparing to leave, the big guy hung one arm and drove a carriage with a dozen caravan guards in a hurry.

Carrying the cobbler to the carriage, the big guy strongly asked Yun Er to get into the carriage too, and said that this carriage was a special carriage made by the Eagle's Nest, and an iron plate was added to the carriage board, which could block the shooting of the crossbow, and it was a special carriage for the Yun family's big shopkeeper.

Unable to resist this big guy who always likes to shed tears, Yun Er got into the carriage and drove towards the Yun family's shop on Black Mountain Island under the escort of everyone.

The people on the island of Montenegro can't talk about watching and helping each other, they are hunters on the one hand, and they are also prey, and there is a fight in the inn, and there is a gunpowder bomb explosion, but there is no one on the street, and the snow is falling one after another, and it does not take much effort to cover up the ruts, and if it were not for the green smoke coming out of the broken inn window, it seems that nothing has happened here.

The Yun family had already walked far away, and on a piece of snow not far from the inn, a snow bag suddenly puffed up, and then a nimble figure like a raccoon cat got into the inn, and a terrible howl sounded in the inn, and then there were a few whimpering words, and finally it fell silent.

The white figure jumped out of the back window and rolled down the slope in a ball of grunt. After a few bounces, he burrowed into the dense woods.

Boss Yan walked out of the second floor of the inn, squinting his eyes at the place where the man in white disappeared, and wanted to follow him to see the roots of the man in white, but remembering Yun Er's explanation, he sighed and went down to the second floor, and it was enough to hear the words of the man in white crying dead.

The Yun family's shop is on the edge of this humble bazaar, covering an area of three acres, and the guards of the Yun family's caravan are all veterans who have retired from the army, and they always habitually choose the place where they are stationed in a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Just now, it was relying on the dangerous terrain here that he repelled the attack of the six white-clothed people, and the big guy was injured by an arrow at the door of the shop because he was about to go out to meet the second young master, but fortunately, the people were just feints, otherwise the casualties here must be very serious.

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