Ding Ruoyu refused to answer any of her questions on the pretext that she was tired.

A month passed quickly, and the Duanrong County Lord finally returned after dragging and dragging in the Burning City, and Chen Lan was also released into the Dead Soldier Camp.

The weak water brought them a new mission, asking the two to go to South Vietnam to prevent the assassination of the head of the Nangong family by the Xijiang swordsmen.

In the Underground Net Palace, the dead soldiers of the third group brought information about the Xijiang Swordsmen. A group of four people, they are brothers with different surnames, the eldest Zhang Ben, makes a ghost head knife, and has a favorite concubine named Peach Blossom, he likes to take it with him when doing business on weekdays, but he didn't bring it this time.

The second brother, Di Gui, has tuberculosis, but a goose knife is fast and unstoppable, and he has the best kung fu among the four brothers.

The third child, Tang Chunjing, a native of South Vietnam, is white and clean, has a three-inch tongue, sharp teeth, and is slightly worse than the other three in kung fu.

The fourth Chu You, who studied under the Dongying martial arts, has an arrogant and impulsive temperament, does not like to deal with people, and rarely uses force, but almost kills with a knife.

If they confronted each other head-on, the two of them joined forces, and they had to barely kill the weakest Tang Chunjing.

"These four are like brothers, how can we stop their actions?" Chen Lan bit her finger and looked at Ding Ruoyu, who was silent beside her.

Ding Ruoyu had the same idea as her, they were all four people who were separated.

"Why did they assassinate the head of the Nangong family?" The two of them then focused on the cause.

The person who passed the information to them was a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl named Qiu Ping.

Qiu Ping told them that there were relatives in the Four Knife Hakka family who were arrested by the Nangong family to practice Gu, and they had a deep blood feud with the Nangong family.

The Nangong family is proficient in Gu art and snake taming, and the method of taming snakes from Lihong was learned from the previous head of the Nangong family. Ding Ruoyu looked at the thin pages in Chen Lan's hand, and felt a feeling of nausea in his heart when he thought of those hurtful poisons.

In South Vietnam, the Nangong family is not a nobleman, but they have a status second to none. Over the years, there have been no less vendettas.

"What about the head of the Nangong family? What kind of person is he? Chen Lan pulled Qiu Ping and asked.

"It's an eight-year-old." Qiu Ping cupped her cheeks and thought for a while, "In the near future, I will leave my own Zhuangzi and go to another village to worship my ancestors." ”

"The Nangong family is heavily guarded, and the Four Knife Masters must be on the way to Bezhuang from the head of the family." Chen Lan said to Ding Ruoyu.

Ding Ruoyu glanced at her and turned his gaze to Qiu Ping again: "The peach blossom you mentioned earlier, do you have any information about her?" ”

Qiu Ping laughed when she heard this: "Peach Blossom is a famous character in Nanyue, and Boss Zhang was able to redeem her for her back then, but he borrowed a lot of silver from his second brother Di Gui." It was at that time that they befriended the fourth child, Chu You. Speaking of peach blossoms, she used to have an older sister......"

"There's a way." After Ding Ruoyu listened, the corners of his mouth curved into a shallow arc.

The two of them packed their bags and went on the road early the next morning. Passing through the market, Ding Ruoyu bought the kind of cheap group fans that can be seen everywhere on the street.

She and Chen Lan dressed up as ordinary little women and got on the ferry to the south.

Ordinary white cloth with a rough pink cherry blossom embroidered on it. The large blank space seems to invite people to draw a few more strokes.

The ferry is not big, but it is packed with people. In the middle of the night, snoring was heard in the cabin, and the small oil lamps were shaking. Ding Ruoyu hesitated when he held the pen, for fear that the painting would be broken.

Chen Lan saw that she was hanging there for half an hour without writing, so she said, "What do you want to do?" ”

"Draw butterflies." Ding Ruoyu finally put down the pen and turned his sore wrist, "I haven't painted." ”

Chen Lan hurriedly pushed her aside.

She lifted the pen, shook it around on the various colors of danqing, and then put down the pen, and there was a lifelike swallowtail butterfly on the fan.

"With this fan, you say that Boss Zhang will not be fooled?" Chen Lan held a fan in his hand and half-hid his face, and flew a wink at the girl behind him.

"No, but his heart will be in turmoil." Ding Ruoyu replied to her with a faint smile.

Chen Lan quickly cleaned up the small table and pushed her to climb onto the bed.

Early the next morning, they arrived in South Vietnam. After successfully passing the border check, the two of them covered their veils and stayed at the inn opposite Nangong's Lihua Villa.

"Alan."

When he went upstairs, Ding Ruoyu suddenly grabbed Chen Lan and quietly pointed to the corner of the lobby.

The small square table was surrounded by four dusty swordsmen, tall, short, fat and thin, full of anger, and it was extremely difficult to provoke at first glance.

"Such a coincidence?" Chen Lan was taken aback.

Seeing that the four people looked up, Ding Ruoyu hurriedly turned around to block Chen Lan's expression and hurriedly entered the guest room.

"Big brother, what's the matter with those two little ladies?" At the square table, Tang Chunjing glanced at the back that disappeared behind the door, touched the hooked nose, and his eyes flashed with interest.

"We're here to do business this time, don't make trouble with your crooked ways!" Zhang Ben sat with his back in the direction of the guest room, naturally he didn't see anything, thinking that Tang Chunjing was thinking about a woman again.

"Ahem, ahem, like...... Ahem, Lian Jiazi...... Ahem, ahem, ahem......" Di Gui held the knife on the bench, and as soon as he spoke, he couldn't stop coughing.

Chu You looked at the closed door, his expression was gloomy as usual, and he only continued to drink and eat.

"I didn't expect the four of them to be so vigilant!" Chen Lan saw the scene of the four of them discussing in a low voice through the crack in the window, and couldn't help complaining.

"Are you hungry?" Ding Ruoyu asked. She changed into a thin shirt, with a snow-white bottom and dotted with patches of pink flowers. The original ordinary and even somewhat cheesy pattern, lined with her bland, actually showed a bit of beauty.

Chen Lan looked at her and opened her mouth, but before she could speak, she saw her put on a veil, picked up a fan and pushed the door out.

In the lobby, Tang Chunjing, who was facing the direction of the guest room, stretched out his leg and touched Zhang Ben.

The four of them looked at Ding Ruoyu in unison. Medium-sized, slender in stature, with a white gauze covering almost the entire face, revealing only a pair of slender and uplifted eyebrows.

The young woman went downstairs slowly, went to the counter and ordered food, and then turned and went back without glancing at any of them.

She suddenly shook the fan in her hand gently, and Zhang Ben stood up suddenly.

"Big brother!" Tang Chunjing called him in a low voice, and Chu You also reached out to drag him.

But Zhang Ben had already walked out quickly, rushed straight to Ding Ruoyu, and ripped off her veil.

It was a frightened and angry face, but it wasn't what he had imagined.

"Why are you wearing this? And this fan! He shouted violently, grabbed Ding Ruoyu by the collar, and lifted her body up.

The little woman was frightened and said with tears: "I just like cherry blossoms and butterflies!" ”

Zhang Ben stood in place, and Mu Ran let go of his hand. The door of the guest room opened again, and Chen Lan helped Ding Ruoyu back to the house, and turned around and glared at Zhang Ben.

"Red cherry blossom ......" Zhang Ben was still in a daze, muttering in his mouth, until the other three stepped forward to wake him up.

"Change rooms and move next door to them!" Zhang Ben said coldly.

The sound insulation of the inn is not very good, and you can hear any movement in the room next to it clearly. The four men huddled on the same bed, listening to the laughter and chatting about the secrets of their daughter's family all day long, listening to the irritability.

"Third child, there are many women you know, call a few to come up and have fun!" Chu You, who has never liked to talk, couldn't help but propose.

"Big brother?" Tang Chunjing asked Zhang Ben with his eyes, the four of them have always been the boss.

"Don't scream!" Zhang Ben got up and stood against the wall, and gave a thumbs up and poked the wall behind him, "The two of them have enough to play." ”

Seeing the boss speak, Tang Chunjing hurriedly opened up excitedly: "Hurry up, hurry up, according to the old rules!" Big brother comes first, let's guess boxing! ”

Zhang Ben snorted coldly and went out the door, leaving the three of them giggling and arranging the order.

At the table, the two women had just bathed, the water in the wooden basin was still steaming, and their hair was not pulled up, slightly moist and draped over their shoulders, and the material of the tulle became more and more transparent.

Zhang Ben quietly climbed in through the back window, and saw them leaning together, half-sitting in front of the desk to draw, and also leaning over to look at it gently.

"Sister Hongying, you are clumsy, this pen is heavy again!" The woman in the blue shirt twisted the waist of the woman in the white shirt, making the other party laugh, and she was about to draw a pen on her face.

The woman in the blue shirt snatched the pen and said seriously: "Look at me!" ”

With a few brushstrokes, a smart butterfly is outlined.

Behind him, there was applause.

"Well drawn!" Zhang Ben opened his mouth, startling the second daughter.

"Y-How did you get in?" Chen Lan exclaimed, seeing him step forward, he hurriedly retreated, and was about to fall to the ground when he tripped over the table leg.

Zhang Ben jumped forward, quickly supported her slender waist, and hugged her in his arms.

"Although the facial features are not as good as the peach blossoms, they are not too bad." He said.

"You let go of my sister!" Ding Ruoyu shouted, grabbing the pen on the table, as if he was going to use it as a weapon.

Zhang Ben narrowed his eyes, pushed Chen Lan away casually, and forced her step by step.

"I heard your name is Red Sakura?" He's got a lot of fun.

Ding Ruoyu retreated in a panic and accidentally fell into the bathtub.

The water soaked her clothes all at once, and a cherry blossom-like birthmark on her collarbone was clearly visible.

Zhang Ben pounced on her regardless of it, peeled off her coat, gently stroked the red mark, and sighed helplessly: "You are still so clumsy, you are half a beat slow to do anything, so you haven't escaped ......"

He was stunned.

The red cherry in front of him is not his red cherry.

It's a game!

When he reacted, Chen Lan had already flown forward, holding a short sword and stabbing at him in the back!

It's late! Ding Ruoyu was in a hurry, Chen Lan was half a beat late, and was kicked in the abdomen by Zhang Benfei. She hurriedly reached out and grabbed Zhang Ben's hair tightly, pressed his head into the water, and jumped out of the basin herself.

Zhang Ben's hands fluttered, and she couldn't hold on for a while before she was broken away. At this moment, Chen Lan endured severe pain and rushed over to help her drag Zhang Ben into the water.

"Hold it down!" Ding Ruoyu said in a low voice, his eyes were closed, and a chill gradually appeared on the back of his hand.

The hot water in the bathtub froze inch by inch, gradually condensing Zhang Ben's head into a large ice lump.

Ding Ruoyu sweated profusely on his forehead, but he didn't stop until the whole basin of water froze.

Zhang Ben had already been unable to move, and suffocated to death in the basin without a cry for help.

"Let's go!" Ding Ruoyu grabbed the baggage that had already been packed up in the cabinet, and helped Chen Lan to escape from the wide open window, but entered the waste firewood house of Pear Flower Villa.

The two fell to the ground, gasping for breath in prostration, their faces pale under the moonlight.

After resting for a while, Ding Ruoyu fed Chen Ye medicine, and looked up at the snow-white moon outside the window: "The hour is almost up, I'll go back and take a look." ”

She picked up the cherry blossom fan and disappeared behind the towering walls of the villa.