"Bang"

There was a muffled sound in the scorching night, and the burning house collapsed.

The heavy beams were also ignited and smashed into the flames, splashing sparks in the sky.

Under the light of the fire, several startled creatures shouted, some tried to put out the fire, and some knew that the catastrophe was coming, so they ran out with their lives, trying to escape from the place where they would die.

But just as they ran to the outskirts of the small stockade, they saw a strange guy leaning on the wooden railing in front of them.

He sat on the railing, his legs dangling in the air, and he was moving back and forth, like a child's game.

In the middle of the night, by the light of the skyrocketing fire behind them, these people could see that the person in front of them was wearing a black robe, wearing gloves, and carrying a goose feather knife in his hand.

He was a little thinner, but he was also strong, and he still had a smile on his face, but that smile was quite playful, and on this murderous night, he was quite cold and cold.

"Yo, little brothers, here you are."

He raised his hand and greeted a few panicked bandits.

For a while, no one answered.

"I killed your boss, burned your broken cottage, and killed your two vicious dogs, don't doubt it, I did everything tonight."

Shen Qiu jumped off the railing, carrying a bloodstained knife, and said to a few bare-handed mountain bandits in front of him:

"Just a dozen outsiders who don't know martial arts, they dare to occupy the mountains on the outskirts of Nantong City, rape and plunder, and robbed the warehouse of the Nantong number of the Moon Merchant Square a few days ago...

If you rob something, you will rob it, and everyone will have to live, I can understand that. But why kill? Whoever is not raised by his parents, and if he is cut by you, everything will be in vain, and there will be a few more families to wear linen and filial piety.

Do you really have no sympathy at all for these bandits? ”

"Shoulder to shoulder!"

Seeing that something was wrong, a man screamed, pulled out a handfork from his waist, and howled and threw himself at Shen Qiu.

It's just that he was brave in blood, and he was stirred up by the fire in the night, and he stumbled a little under his feet.

Before the others could move, they saw a knife light up.

The leading brother was stabbed by the evil star, and the large head flew out, and was on the ground, and the headless corpse spurted blood, shook twice, and fell to the ground.

The heavy object fell to the ground, startling a few crows in the forest, and the eerie sound of quacking, coupled with the fire burning and peeling behind him, added a bit of gloom to the night.

The remaining two immediately retreated.

Shen Qiu raised his knife forward, his tone became colder and colder, and he said:

"The Nantong has killed 5 people, I have killed 14 of you, and there is still one missing. One pays three, and your retribution is coming. ”

Hearing Shen Qiu's cold words, the clever one of the two in front of him suddenly pushed his companion, then turned around and ran.

His companion was caught off guard, and fell forward, his arms dancing, only to be met with a bright knife that illuminated the terrified eyes.

"Poof"

The blade stabbed in from the front chest and stabbed out from the back, and the blood slid down the blade and fell on this guy's fine upper body, as if all his strength had been drained and fell into Shen Qiu's arms.

Shen Qiu didn't look at him, reached out and grabbed his hair, pulled out the knife, and threw the corpse on the ground with a flick of his hand.

His eyes were fixed on the guy who had escaped.

Shen Qiu had infiltrated the cottage, and he didn't have a bulky axe, so he pulled out a dagger from his waist, like playing a game of darts in a tavern, and threw the dagger forward with the technique of a life-reeling axe.

"Whoosh"

The dagger stabbed into the fleeing man's waist, causing him to fall to the ground in pain.

"Fifteen! You've already killed 15 of them, and that's enough! That's enough! ”

He lay on the ground, his legs constantly pushing his body back, and when he felt death coming, he trembled and screamed:

"I just joined the gang the day before yesterday, and I haven't participated in robbery and murder! Let me go, let me go, please! ”

"Hush."

Shen Qiu squatted down and grabbed his neck, and in the midst of the flames behind him, Shen Qiu's tone was cold.

He said:

"It's really rare, in this dirty and filthy cottage, there are innocent bandits like you... You're so cute, what do you believe if I say anything? ”

The man struggled to speak, but his throat was so choked that he couldn't make a sound.

Shen Qiu slowly dropped the knife, took out a piece of paper from his waist bag, and by the light of the fire behind him, he read softly:

"On the day the Nantong was robbed, there were 16 thieves. There are only 16 people in your village, and you said that you have just joined the gang and have never killed anyone?

That's going to make you die! ”

"Rub Click"

The wind and thunder surged with the force of his fingers, and his throat bone shattered.

Before the man could die immediately, Shen Qiu dragged his arm, like a struggling dead dog, to the burning stockade, and with a wave of his hand, threw the thief into the fire.

He turned, and by the light of the fire, took out the strip of charcoal and crossed out the line of writing on the paper.

On this piece of paper, there are 6 handwritings that have also been crossed out, and now only the last one is left to cook.

Shen Qiu put away the paper and glanced back at the burning cottage.

He shook his head, picked up the knife, wiped it clean on the thief's clothes, put it in its sheath, and strode into the illuminated night.

At this time, spring went to autumn, and it was April of the twenty-fourth year of Zhengding, and half a year had passed since Shen Qiu returned to Suzhou.

After rescuing Old Man Liu's buddy that day, Shen Qiu made a name for himself in the Luoyue neighborhood, and business continued after that.

But most of them are looking for him, and there is not much to save people and seek revenge.

Think about it too.

Ordinary people, under the condition of being safe and law-abiding, do not have so many deep hatreds and hatreds to ask him to cook.

Although there are many bad people in this world, there are always good people in the majority.

No matter how corrupt the discipline and legal principles are, there is still a basic social order, and even if there is really hatred, the first reaction of ordinary people is to find the government.

Shen Qiu was unwilling to give up his heart and be a killer who didn't ask questions and didn't talk about the bottom line.

came and went, and there were not many jobs that the reopened Lujia Dart Bureau could take.

As a result, a few years ago, Miss Yaoqin heard about Shen Qiu's troubles from Qingqing, so she went to find him.

In the name of the Falling Moon Merchant Workshop, Yaoqin hired the Lu Family Dart Bureau, to be precise, Shen Qiu, to specifically search for the merchants near Suzhou to deal with the troubles they encountered.

This is the job ordered by the boss, and the wage earner naturally has to take it seriously.

Shen Qiu rode a fast horse and ran around the large and small semicolons of Suzhou, and found that the Falling Moon Merchant had a big business, many semicolons, and many troubles.

In the past six months, Shen Qiu has chased thieves, killed water bandits, and helped the business drive away wild beasts in the mountains, and just tonight, he did it twice to avenge the dead and wounded.

In recent years, the government of the Southern Dynasty has been very oppressive, and after the death of the previous lord Zhao Hu, the new lord was completely a puppet, and the court was harsh, so that many good people in remote areas had no way to live.

There are more and more bandits and bandits.

Most of them are gangs of more than a dozen people, there are not many people, they are making chaos everywhere, and they will hide in the mountains when they encounter an attack, and after two or three times, the government is too lazy to care.

Villagers in various places can only form villages to protect themselves, and even some generous villagers have formed group exercises.

For example, this time, the Nantong branch of the Falling Moon Merchant Square was robbed and killed, and Shen Qiu came to take care of it to avenge the innocents, but those powerless civilians suffered hardship, so they could only swallow their anger.

"The world is really getting more and more chaotic."

Shen Qiu rode on his horse and let out a sigh of emotion like a person of this era.

He went to the warehouse at the bottom of the mountain, the Nantong branch was the penultimate stop of his inspection, and he would go to the Changshu branch tomorrow, and if nothing happened, he could return to Suzhou.

It's been almost 2 months since I came out, and I don't know if Qingqing is okay in Suzhou?

Half an hour later, Shen Qiu returned to the warehouse at the foot of the mountain, which was still some distance away from Nantong City, and was set on fire when it was robbed that day, and is now being rebuilt.

"I burned down the cottage, and the sixteen bandits have been removed, and I have avenged the dead guys, you can rest assured."

Shen Qiu jumped off his horse and said a word to the steward who was waiting for him.

The steward wiped his tears and immediately bowed to Shen Qiu, who accepted it calmly.

He said to the steward,

"You don't have to worry about this, Miss Yaoqin is not an unreasonable person, you can't blame this matter, you will do things in the future.

Also, I didn't say you. ”

Shen Qiu didn't plan to say more, but in the end he couldn't hold back, he frowned, and said to the resigned steward:

"There are more than twenty people in this store, including the purchases, and there are only sixteen mountain bandits, and there are no bows and arrows to use, even if you are armed with sticks and use the storehouse to defend them, you can drive them out.

The worst is that the soldiers dragged to the city to help, then the Nantong government order will not be saved from death, doing business is the top priority, I can understand, but in the future, you also have to think about your own life.

It's really not good, it's always okay to hire a few nursing home martial artists, right? Those five guys died unjustly. ”

The steward knew that Shen Qiu was the person that Miss Yaoqin trusted, so he didn't dare to argue with Shen Qiu, and after he finished speaking, the steward whispered:

"I've hired a nurse, and the young man has taught me a lesson."

"I'm not teaching you either, you don't have to take it to heart."

Shen Qiu waved his hand, only to feel a burst of irritability in his heart, which was completely different from the rivers and lakes he imagined.

And he said to the steward,

"I'll rest for one night, and I'll go to Changshu tomorrow, and it's still stable over there?"

"It's generally stable."

The steward and Shen Qiu walked into the prepared guest room, and he said to Shen Qiu:

"But the Changshu firm is also a little troublesome, although it is not as serious as mine, but it is not easy to deal with."

"How?"

Shen Qiu asked, the steward looked left and right, and he whispered:

"There's a thief over there, or a flower thief.

I heard that there was a merchant in Changshu who was familiar with my business, and the lady of the family was in trouble, and the merchant invited a dart master to deal with it, but it became more and more troublesome.

Several dart masters who went to hunt down the thieves went and lost their voices, fearing that they would be killed, and after a few days, the families of those dart masters also suffered one after another. ”

said that he was fighting here, and the shopkeeper also sighed and said:

"The ladies were humiliated, and a few of them had a strong temperament, so they broke off on their own.

And the merchant who invited the dart master was also there, and the flower thief went a second time, killed the nurse, and took his daughter away, and threatened to buy the poor girl in a kiln elsewhere. ”

"So fierce?"

Shen Qiu narrowed his eyes, and he asked:

"Do you know the name of the thief?"

"I don't know."

The steward said:

"But some people say that the thief called himself 'Powerful Ghost Zhou Qi', and I don't know if it's a nickname or a name."

Shen Qiu suddenly sneered, remembered the mountain ghost, and said:

"Self-proclaimed ghosts? He also deserves it? The one who suffers is the old merchant who has the merchant shop, and that is also his own person, so I will go to Changshu to meet this terrible ghost Zhou Qi for a while. ”

Early the next morning, Shen Qiu set off on horseback, crossed the Yangtze River at noon, and galloped all the way in the direction of Suzhou.

The Changshu business is just in the middle of Nantong and Suzhou, and it is very convenient to go back to Suzhou after dealing with Changshu.

Two days later, Shen Qiu arrived at the Changshu store, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw a commotion in the shop, as if something had happened.

"I was ordered by Miss Yaoqin to come to Changshu to visit."

Shen Qiu found a guy and said to him:

"Your steward should have received the letter in advance, so let him come and see me."

"Young man! Our shopkeeper is in trouble! ”

When the guy saw Shen Qiu's letter, he pointed to the chaotic crowd in the business with a fearful expression, and said to Shen Qiu:

"The shopkeeper, along with his wife, and his daughter, were swept away by the terrible ghost Zhou Qi to Yushan outside the city, and there was a letter this morning, saying that he wanted the firm to prepare a ransom of five hundred taels, otherwise he would tear up the ticket tonight."

"Huh?"

Shen Qiu frowned at the moment, this flower thief was really arrogant.

He said to the fellow:

"Get rid of the irrelevant people! Only the people who left the business name, in addition, I heard that the dart game in the city was also killed by the seven of that week, how many dart masters? ”

"Yes."

The quicker fellow whispered:

"They have greatly damaged their reputation and lost face, and they have been run on by their peers in the past few days, and they can't do business anymore."

"Invite the head of that dart board as well."

Shen Qiu thought for a moment and said:

"That week, Qi can enter the city late at night to kidnap people, and it must be excellent to improve the light skills, and then prepare a few fishing nets, the one with barbs is better! Can you have a bow and arrow in your business? ”

"Shaoxia, that's taboo."

The man looked frightened, and he whispered:

"The government has never allowed bows and arrows to hide armor."

"If you don't have it, buy it! If you can't buy it, look for it! ”

Shen Qiu looked left and right, stretched out his hand and put it on the guy's shoulder, and he whispered:

"Now that the business is in trouble and the shopkeeper is missing, it is the time for you to behave, if you can get a bow and arrows, I will give the shopkeeper a few good words for you."

He glanced at the fellow, and he said in a long voice:

"If you're willing to be an errand boy for most of your life, then I'll leave it untified."

Shen Qiushi Shi Ran walked into the business with his hands behind his back.

Under his command, the chaotic merchant quickly restored order, and the dart head of the city's dart bureau was also invited, Shen Qiu talked to him for a quarter of an hour, and the dart head left in a menacing manner.

After the dart head left, the guy who had been questioned by Shen Qiu before sneakily walked up to Shen Qiu's side, lowered his voice and said:

"Shaoxia, I have a friend's second uncle's family is an Orion, and I may be able to find a few hunting bows and crossbow machines. In addition, the fishing nets you ordered have also been found, and they are all used by fishermen outside the city to catch big fish, and they are extremely strong. ”

"Very well, let's go find it."

Shen Qiu sat on a chair in the front hall and said to the guy with a smile:

"The dart masters will also prepare bows and crossbows, but the more such things, the better, and besides, there is always medicine in the Orion's house, right? If so, poison all the arrows..."

"What kind of morality do you talk about to deal with the flower thieves who are waiting for the next work?"

"You're right, young man?"