In a deserted courtyard in the north of the city, a man was sitting at a table eating.

There is a meat and a vegetarian dish on the table, a plate of pickled vegetables is vegetarian, and a plate of scrambled eggs is meat.

The pickles were picked up from a passing by the backyard of a farmhouse, and the eggs were stolen from the kitchen of the next-door neighbor's house, along with some spices and rice.

He had no money on him.

On that day, after he escaped from the Sifang Mountain, he avoided the siege and almost lost his life in Xishui Village, and finally escaped back to the Sifang Mountain with serious injuries, but was thrown into a desperate situation and fell into the cliff.

He had heard of Baili Ye's methods, and he would rather die without bones than die under his hands.

didn't expect him to survive in such a no-man's land.

Like a dog, survived.

With the little knowledge from the medical books, he could barely recognize a few herbs for healing wounds, and dug up the roots and insects that had been able to feed his stomach, and after recovering some strength, he climbed the trees with birds' nests.

just held on day by day, until he infiltrated Yicheng.

When he was in Qiongzhou before, he kept a low profile and almost never showed up, Bai Liye had never seen him, and naturally he couldn't know what he looked like from the mouths of others, and he couldn't even draw a wanted portrait.

The people he arranged in Xishui Village failed to capture him alive, and after watching him fall into the cliff, they didn't even search the bottom of the cliff, probably because they thought he couldn't live at all.

From Qiongzhou to Yicheng, he suffered a lot.

He has to settle this account back little by little.

He chewed the pickles in his mouth hard, and the salty taste made him hate even more, and his eyes were red for a moment, but they returned to their original state when the door rang.

He put down the dishes and chopsticks, pinched his sleeve and wiped his mouth, and slowly walked out the door.

Outside the door, there was a woman.

He leaned a little sideways to let the woman in, and cautiously glanced out into the alley before closing the door carefully.

"How?"

"She was about to marry her maid, and as for Bai Li Ye, he entered Xu's Restaurant and stayed for a whole morning."

The woman whispered as she walked slowly into the house.

He glanced at her legs, his eyes filled with emotion.

"Your legs, are they okay?"

The woman tugged at her trouser leg hard, clenched her silver teeth, and then pulled away a hateful smile: "Okay, isn't that it?" I can't have good people in my life, I'm not happy, and I won't make them happy! ”

"I heard that the Queen Mother's birthday is just around the corner, and he will definitely attend at that time."

Minghua frowned slightly: "But at that time, the guards must have been strict, and if we want to do it, it may be difficult." ”

"Of course it is difficult to do it to the Queen Mother, but he is already proud of his martial arts, I recently observed him, and found that he often goes out with only one guard, and it is not difficult for us to attack him."

"Indeed, but that guard doesn't seem to have low martial arts, the two of us ......" Minghua stopped talking, glanced at him, and said: "I'm a cripple with no power to restrain chickens, you are just a three-legged cat kung fu, where did you get them?" ”

"There is a way, don't raise the morale of others, it's too late to get to this point." He threatened.

Minghua nodded timidly, and after reaching out to touch her leg, the emotion in her eyes became firm again, revealing a thick hideous malice.

Lian Rui's tracking skills and light skills are only better than Biyu, and it is more than enough to track a person whose martial arts path is almost not much higher than that of ordinary people.

It's just that what he didn't expect was that this person would live in such a dilapidated and remote place.

And the woman who worked with him turned out to be a cripple, but it was a pity that the face of the little jasper.

Listening to their conversation, it seems that they planned to do something to the general on the day of the Queen Mother's birthday, but as for how to do it, no clues can be drawn from their words.

Lian Rui thought, otherwise he would listen to the general and solve them now?

But he really wanted to know how big a wave these two maggots could make, and malice came up from the sea under his heart, and Lian Rui scratched the cold scabbard, and jumped into the low wall.

The light sound of landing outside the courtyard reached the ears of the two people in the house.

"Two, come out and talk about it?" Lian Rui hunched his waist slightly, with a faint smile on the corner of his lips, and raised his eyes to look at the two people who slowly walked out of the door with apprehension.

"Who are you?"

"I think you're pretty smart, or guess?" Lian Rui had a joking mind.

Minghua took a step back, revealing a timid look.

"Are you...... Baili Ye's people? ”

Lian Rui "tsked" for a moment: "Smart, guess again, how did I find you?" ”

The man froze, then turned his head to look at Minghua.

Minghua met the questioning gaze and waved her hand again and again: "It has nothing to do with me, I was very careful when I came, and no one followed behind me at all!" ”

Lian Rui chuckled, his palm slowly back, his thumb against the edge of the scabbard.

"The girl can't help but look down on the secret guards around the general too much."

"I ...... I ......"

Minghua trembled her shoulders and retreated again and again, tears were already shining in her eyes, and fear rose from the bottom of her heart, and immediately spread to all her limbs.

She felt as if she was being placed in the ice and snow, and the instinctive fear could not be stopped.

Minghua almost cried.

"No, don't kill me......"

Lian Rui raised his eyebrows, turned to look at the man who had been silent since guessing his identity, and asked, "She has already begged for mercy, what about you?" ”

"Huh!"

"Yo, it's pretty horizontal." Lian Rui showed a touch of respect.

But this insignificant respect can't make Lian Rui let him go.

He's on a mission.

The long sword was unsheathed, and the cold light flashed in front of the eyes of the two people, Minghua couldn't bear it anymore, and screamed in his ears, the terrible sound made Lian Rui couldn't help frowning, he had killed so many people, only the one in front of him howled the loudest and the most annoying.

And the man standing in front of her took advantage of her screaming, reflexively ran into the house, and quickly closed the door with a "bang", Lian Rui was puzzled, but Minghua slapped the door hard in the next second, and again and again, the wooden door that looked overwhelmed seemed to be ready to disintegrate on the spot anytime and anywhere.

Lian Rui strode forward, flipped Minghua to the ground with one palm, and raised his leg towards the door.

The wooden door finally cracked in half with a scream and smashed to the ground in embarrassment.

And the house was empty.

Lian Rui gritted his teeth and said in his heart, such a small room, at a glance, I am afraid that there is a secret passage.

He looked back at Minghua, who was already crying and crawling out of the wall, and sneered: "Girl, where are you going?" ”

Minghua only felt that the voice was like a ghost.

A ghost from hell who wants her life.

She was originally just an ordinary peasant girl, and she had never made such a calculation to harm people's lives in her life, but since she met the down-and-out man in front of her, the dark side hidden in her heart was excavated little by little.

Sometimes when she calms down and thinks about it, she feels terrible.

But in the end, he still couldn't defeat the resentment in his heart.

How did she get to this point?

If she could have stayed at home obediently, raised her legs with peace of mind, and helped her family do some embroidery work to supplement the family, her life would probably have passed in peace and stability step by step.

But why is she?

Why take revenge?

Minghua's neck was cold, the temperature of her limbs was gradually draining, and the scene in front of her was turning upside down and spinning, as if she saw her father and mother crying bitterly, and regretting her own mistakes.

"Isn't it good to live in peace?"

In the last seconds when the darkness completely enveloped her, she heard the man with a cold grin say something like this.

yes, isn't it good to live in peace?

Good.

That's great.

But she didn't have a chance.

Lian Rui stepped over Minghua's gradually cold corpse, and walked into the house, the long sword rose at will, everywhere it went, it was all broken, and finally leaned against the wooden bed in the inner room and was split open, revealing a black hole underneath.

Lian Rui watched quietly for a long time, and suddenly jumped up and jumped into the darkness.

He has never slipped through the net.

This secret passage has been dug since he lived in this deserted courtyard, and even Minghua doesn't know that it is used by him to escape for his life, leading straight out of the city.

As long as he moves fast enough, as long as Minghua can stop the man for a point or two, it is enough for him to escape.

He survived last time, and he will definitely be able this time.

Heavy gasps followed the sound of a manic heartbeat and roared desperately in his ears, and he couldn't hear the footsteps behind him.

The passage was rough, with a lot of gravel piled up in the corners, and occasionally a few of them tumbled down in the middle of the road, and he ran so fast that he stepped on it several times, and the pain made him almost fall to the ground.

Fortunately, the cave wall was narrow, and he was able to press against the wall with a slight stretch of his hand to stabilize his body.

Lian Rui walked briskly, calmly, while holding a long sword and pounding on the dark cave wall, a few hits on the cold hard stone, and making a dull sound.

He listened quietly, and the secret passage did not seem to turn a corner, but went straight to the end, with the faint sound of the wind and the breathing of people running ahead.

"Why bother? Isn't it good to die obediently? Lian Rui said lightly.

He used a little internal force, and although his voice was not loud, it clearly reached the ears of the man who was running in front of him.

The man's heart was horrified, the other party's internal strength was profound, and because he was seriously injured before, his foundation has not fully recovered, if he is arrested this time, it is equivalent to being slaughtered.

No way!

No way!

When the light finally appeared in front of him, he was happy in his eyes, and he was about to rush out, only to hear a sound of breaking the air behind his ears, "poof", as if something sharp pierced his body, his movements stayed in place, slowly lowered his head, but saw the bloody sword tip appear in front of his eyes.

Lian Rui tilted his head and said with a smile: "Mole ants." ”