Before Aunt Feng's words fell, Yun Hua, Li Zhuoran and others had already chased after her. The man saw that there were pursuers behind him, and in front of him was blocked by Aunt Feng holding two kitchen knives, and he stood there for a while, not daring to act rashly. Seeing this, Yun Hua said to him: "If I'm not mistaken, you are from the Mingzhou area." When the man heard this, he turned his head sharply, thinking that he had been brought out, and his mouth under the mask opened slightly, and asked, "How do you know?" He looked very young, but his voice was low and muddy, like an old man.

Li Zhuoran glanced at Yunhua, and didn't know how he could see the identity of this person, but when he heard that person admit that he was from Mingzhou, he said to him: "I know that there are sixteen heroes in Mingzhou Mansion, I don't know which way you are, say it, maybe everyone is still a friend." The man sneered and said, "It's just sixteen roads reckless, what kind of hero?" At best, they are fishermen. ”

Li Zhuoran has always had some friendship with the people of the green forest in Mingzhou, and when he heard him belittle his old friend so much, he jumped to his feet and scolded: "Bah! What kind of thing are you, you come to other people's houses late at night to steal chickens and dogs, and dare to say that others are fishermen, I think you are a thief at best. Li Zhuoran is a native of Huizhou, with a bit of arrogance in his nature, and at this time, because of his anger, he brought out all the local words of his hometown. The man was scolded, his eyes became more fierce, and he gritted his teeth and said, "You wait for me." Li Zhuoran slashed at the knife when he heard this, and shouted in his mouth: "The dog thief is really rampant, your grandfather will send you to the Yama Hall to wait now." ”

That person had been surrounded by everyone, and when he saw Li Zhuoran swinging his knife to slash, he knew that he must be afraid of injuring his own people by mistake, so he reflexively retreated and suddenly rushed towards Chai Wu. Chai Wu saw this person running towards him, shouted, raised his fist and came up to restrain him, but this person suddenly took out a knife from the placket of his clothes halfway through, and stabbed straight at Chai Wu's face. Chai Wu was unarmed, and had to take two steps back for a while, and Aunt Feng next to him saw this and hurriedly stabbed over, waved a kitchen knife and slashed down at the dagger in the man's hand. The man in gray did not use the knife to block, but followed the trend of the kitchen knife, and quickly pressed the knife down, Aunt Feng felt like she was slashing on a piece of nothingness, and she couldn't borrow strength at all, and her fat body fell forward because of too much force, and the kitchen knife slashed deep into the mud under the man's feet.

The man drew an arc down the dagger and retracted it, and at this time he saw that Aunt Feng was drawing a knife from the ground, so he quickly knelt down on one knee, raised the dagger with both hands and stabbed Aunt Feng in the back. Yun Hua was startled, and it was too late to open his mouth to stop him, so he rushed forward and flew up with a leg, kicking the gray-clothed man sideways; Then he leaned forward and slammed Li Zhuoran's arm up with his left shoulder. Li Zhuoran was defenseless, and was overwhelmed by this sudden force, and took two steps back, and the long knife was almost out of his hand.

"Yunhua?" After seeing who was blocking him, Li Zhuoran was extremely surprised. "Do not take his life." Yunhua explained in a low voice, Li Zhuoran nodded, but suddenly heard a "poof" sound in his ears, it turned out that Yunhua's kick just now was too strong, and the gray-clothed man rolled on the ground a few times and fell into the pond. "It's broken!" Uncle Feng shouted, threw the sword in his hand to Aunt Feng, jumped into the pond, and said to Yunhua: "Young master, go to the place where the water flows out and block him." ”

It turned out that the pond was drawn from the nearby Baiyue River, and the water of the river crossed in the courtyard of Qingpingzhai, and before turning around to the bamboo forest here, it flowed out through an arch under the wall, and joined a tributary of the Baiyue River: it was connected to the outside. The people hurriedly ran to the edge of the wall, and in no time they came to the bottom of the wall in thirty or forty steps. Li Zhuoran didn't have time to think about it, and jumped straight into the water in front of the arch, trying to stop the gray-clothed man from swimming out. The river was so deep that it was below his chest.

Suddenly, seeing a splash of water swimming very fast in front of him, Li Zhuoran shouted loudly: "Come on, Xiaoyu, come to your grandfather's chopping board." After saying that, he was about to cut it down when he raised his sword at the right time, but unexpectedly, the splash suddenly stopped, and a person stood up in the water, Li Zhuoran looked at it, it was Uncle Feng, and he couldn't help but be stunned. Uncle Feng saw that Li Zhuoran raised his sword here, but he couldn't stop the gray-clothed man, so he knew that this person must be very knowledgeable about water, and he had just dived out of Qingpingzhai very quickly, and hurriedly said to Yunhua: "Young master, go up to the wall." ”

Yunhua understood, jumped up, and grabbed a piece of bamboo with a thick cup. The bamboo was grabbed and pressed by him, and suddenly the force was forced, and the upper part was about to bend down, Zhang Yunhua jumped on the wall with a little ground, and by inertia, he jumped on the wall in the air: at this time, there was a little candlelight in the lattice window of someone else's small building outside the wall, and Yunhua saw that this person had crawled out of the water and was running desperately forward, throwing himself into the autumn rain in the darkness in the distance. He knew he couldn't catch up, so he jumped down and shook his head at the crowd.

Li Zhuoran sighed and said: "Alas, there are so many of us, and we even let him run away, tomorrow I will send a letter to my brother in Mingzhou, and ask them to check the origin of this broken gong throat." Yunhua said: "We know too few clues, I'm afraid it's not easy to check, but I'm afraid our identity has been leaked, otherwise why did we encounter such an uninvited guest on the first day of Lin'an." Li Zhuoran nodded, and suddenly said, "It's not good, Jinshu and the child are still in the wing." So saying, he ran away, and the people followed him into the front courtyard.

As soon as he arrived at the small courtyard, Li Zhuoran saw that the wing room was in silence and darkness, and he couldn't help but shake his hamstrings, and shouted forcefully: "Xiao Ou! Xiao Ou! Are you okay. Ou Jinshu heard Li Zhuoran's voice, and opened the door while answering: "We're fine, we just listened to Brother Yunhua's words and blew out the lights and candles, how are you?" Are there any injuries? What about the man? ”

Li Zhuoran stepped into the wing room and said angrily: "Don't mention it, that person must be a loach spirit, jumped into the water and swam out a few times." When Ximen March heard this, he and Qiuqiu climbed out of bed and asked, "Uncle Zhuoran, is the loach spirit a monster?" Do youkai eat people? Li Zhuoran hurriedly relieved: "Don't be afraid in March, loach monsters don't eat people, and they die when they leave the water." Yun Hua saw that Ou Jinshu safely hid the child under the bed and stood in the house with a sword to protect him, and he was very grateful in his heart, and said to her: "Sister Jinshu, although that person is gone, I don't know if he will come back at night, Xiaoqiu will bother you to protect it tonight." ”

Ou Jinshu said with a smile: "Brother Yunhua, don't worry, my sword has not been practiced in vain for so many years, and Xiaoqiu will hand it over to me." At this time, Uncle Feng had already come in to light the lights, Yunhua looked around and asked, "What about Bihu girl, why haven't you seen it all this time?" Uncle Feng hurriedly explained: "Before I heard the commotion in the courtyard, Miss Bihu was in front and asked me about the matter of locking it at night. I heard Brother Chai shouting, and I was in a hurry to come over, but Miss Bihu was worried that I would lose the gate when I left, so she guarded there for me. ”

Yunhua nodded and said: "You will go back and change into dry clothes later, beware of catching a cold, and call Bihu back by the way, I am afraid that it will not be peaceful tonight, and I need to bother everyone to take turns to keep vigil." Aunt Feng said: "Don't worry, Son, the vigil will be handed over to a few of us." Yunhua nodded and said, "I hope that just now was just a little thief, so don't implicate too much." Then they all agreed on the order of the vigil, and because it was raining, they went out to change their clothes and freshen up. When Li Zhuoran left, he also took away the letter of cooperation between the five people, saying that he wanted to go back and ponder and add a few more strokes.

In the blink of an eye, on the second watch, Ou Jinshu turned off the lights and took Qiuqiu to rest. At this moment, in a high-gate mansion ten miles east of the Lin'an Imperial City, there is a study, which is still lit, and an old voice suddenly sounded in the study: "Two children? What kind of child? The man in gray was standing in front of him: his mask had been removed, and a scar could be seen on the bridge of his nose, his cheeks sunken because of his thinness. The gray-clothed man bowed down and said, "Prime Minister, they are two eight or nine-year-old children who were led out of General Xiang's mansion. Prime Minister Shi Cheng's eyes suddenly narrowed into a slit, revealing two fine lights, and said with a cold smile: "It seems that this Xiang Yuanchao is not at ease." ”