The stars could not be seen in the half-bright sky, and the bright moon was still like a round mirror to record the peace of the world, and it was wrapped in a large cloud of rising black smoke in a moment. Layer after layer of soaring fire broke through the half-lit sky.

A sharp scream came from his throat, and the blood from the sword splattered into the sky. When the smoky wood falls, a little spark jumps out and then goes out, like a falling star dying in the innocent night.

Beautiful and deadly.

It was a scholarly family surnamed Murong in the imperial capital that caught fire, and it was already twelve o'clock in the middle of the night at this time, and the "rescue" who was a neighbor was grinning in their dreams.

No one heard the cries for help, because the victims did not have time to call for help.

In the same way, no one saw the firelight illuminating the two pairs of obsidian eyes.

"Master, there are corpses all over Murong's Mansion, we are one step late, I'm afraid that the things have already been found by the murderer." A masked man in black kowtowed to the masked man next to him.

Under the plaque of Murong Mansion, the masked man standing was dressed as fierce and vicious, with hideous fangs and half-black and half-white, and with the black and white robe, it was even more creepy. However, the man in black, as a subordinate who had been following him for a long time, was certainly not afraid, he looked down at the place where his master's robe covered his boots, and waited motionlessly for orders.

The masked man didn't speak, and the man in black didn't plan to speak again, and he didn't look up at his master. The gaze only slightly followed the robe, and even if the master's face could not be seen, he could guess what kind of unkind face would be revealed under the mask.

The hissing fire consumed the air, and the oxygen beside the rubble grew thinner. The red light in the two pairs of eyes not far away was extraordinary, and perhaps the next second the masked man's thunder reprimanded would pop out of the air.

The next second came, and there was no reprimand, and it was still the most piercing sound of fire in the ears. The masked man gave the order: "When a group of small ants is wiped out, maybe one or two will be hidden in the cracks of the ground, and there will be a chance to ask for clues." If he gives a clear account, it will be the creation of his life. ”

Tepid words seem to be evil and good, making people unpredictable about his temperament.

"Master, you can't go."

The man in black, who had no mood swings, wanted to stop his master, as if he was afraid that something would be exposed.

The masked man sensed something, his cautious gaze lit up into a sharp sword, and his cold voice just came out like an ice cube bubbling around: "You have something to hide from me?" ”

"The subordinates don't dare!" The man in black clenched his fists again and bowed his head, and when he looked up, the man in front of him was already walking towards the firelight.

The raging fire shone on the blood flowing on the ground, and the terrible red color was reflected brightly, as if it was oil that burned with the flames in the next second.

"Dad, mother......"

"Mother..."

“…”

They pricked up their ears to listen, and the cry of the howling girl was mixed with the sound of fire, and the heart was broken into drops of blood when it was heard.

The masked man and the man in black will never be heartbroken, this kind of life-and-death parting scene is already commonplace for them.

People are not plants and trees, who can be ruthless?

But they are the immovable ironwood that has been refined in the cracks of the stones.

The man in black pointed in the direction of the cry, "Master, there is a living mouth in the direction of the courtyard, do you want to ......?"

The masked man stepped on the corpse and saw a girl in a green dress and gauze skirt kneeling beside a pair of corpses calling her father and mother, she was holding a pigtail of sheep's horns, she looked about eight or nine years old, and the big tears poured out the dirt on her young cheeks, making it look like this child was ignorant and scrubbed her face with sewage.

The masked man looked closely, the girl did not have too serious wounds, the hem of her skirt was stained with blood, and she desperately shook the murdered parents, revealing a neat and delicate bandage on her right arm.

No one had the leisure to bandage the wound at the time of the catastrophe, indicating that the girl had suffered a wound to her right hand before.

Also, the girl who is powerless can still be safe and sound in the sea of blood, and she has undoubtedly been protected.

"Big Bad Guy ......" The girl curled up and shrank back when she saw the wicked man coming, her voice trembling, and her frightened gaze magnified the cold white knife shadow little by little.

With a "clang", the big knife somehow fell next to the girl in Tsing Yi, and she was so frightened that she continued to cry.

The man in black saw that his weapon was missed by his master, and he turned his face in confusion and asked, "Master, why don't you let me kill this living mouth, an ignorant child, she won't know the whereabouts of things." ”

The masked man did not answer, his eyes fixed on the corpses of the couple on the ground. The couple was the owner of the Murong Mansion, and they were unfortunately killed tonight, and the bloodstained wounds proved that they were not burned to death by fire, but by the sword. The light of the fire not far away illuminated the masked man's slightly moist eyes.

Those moist eyes, is this situation miserable? Or mourn the wounds? It is impossible to know only the former.

The subordinates didn't dare to speak, the masked man's gaze couldn't leave the woman on the ground, and there was a hint of Xingshi asking for guilt in the question: "Why don't you tell me that she is with Murong Yunyi." ”

"Your subordinates think you know." The man in black said angrily, and there was nothing big on his expression.

"Take it away." The masked man's decision was never casual, and when he didn't get a response, he asked, "What, do you need me to repeat it?" ”

The black-clothed man's pupils widened in horror, and his facial features twisted together in hatred, "Master, you should be able to guess her identity, if the people above know about our ...... before we took them in."

"Shut up, no one will know, women are no threat to us. If there is no one after the Empress Wu clan, no one can be the second empress..."The masked man reprimanded back, interrupting his subordinates' unfinished words.

"You're the big bad guys who kill people and set fires! The girl in Tsing Yi got up and wanted to run away from the scene, but how could she escape! Before he could take the second step, he saw a darkness in front of him.

In the opposite direction of the firelight, they blurred their traces of their vanishing into the night.

The next day, the dark curtain gradually closed, and the unsuspecting sun stretched a smile at the black and scorched Murong Zhai.

Some people reported to the officials, and it was almost noon when a group of officers and soldiers sealed the house to investigate. They didn't collect much evidence and interrogate, and the corpse had been burned beyond recognition, so they slacked off and left in a hurry, leaving the people sighing at the devastated Murong Mansion.

"A fire, a hundred or dozens of lives!"

The most outstanding in the crowd was a young man with a xylophone on his back, his face was very delicate, and his skin was as white as jade, but he looked like a cardamom beauty embryo. If it's a woman dressed as a man, it's forgivable, but the annoying thing is that no matter how carefully he looks, he is a beautiful man who is like a fake.

He seconded: "This fire came strangely, since there are hundreds of people in the Murong family's house, why don't any of the hundreds of people have the opportunity to put out the fire?" Dare to love is a big family, a big business, a hegemon, a greedy people, what kind of heroes have you offended! The government didn't dare to check it just now! ”

"Although it has been less than ten years since the new emperor ascended the throne, there has always been peace in Kyoto, who dares to be presumptuous?" The people A guessed.

An uncle refuted the young man's words, "The little brother is in vain, the head of the Murong Mansion is a good person in Kyoto!" The poor areas that the imperial court could not take care of were all given by Mr. Murong to help the poor, and from time to time to give to monks, but unfortunately he could not enjoy the age of not being confused, his son was only in his early tens, and I heard that there was a little daughter, but she never showed up. Alas, they all died in the flames. Offended the heroes? Oh, I'm afraid it's almost the same as offending the sinister villain! ”

"Whew!" The young man who carried the piano smiled slightly, "Don't blame the uncle, when I first came to the imperial capital, I didn't know about the things in the city, and I just speculated casually in my later life." ”

The common man B covered his mouth mysteriously and said: "I heard that the ancestor of the Murong family was a Jiangyang thief, and it was only in this generation that he changed his evil and became a scholarly family, maybe the enemy family came to the door, and maybe it was for the gods..."

"Da da da", the neat sound of footsteps masked the unfinished words.

It was a group of officers and soldiers who ran over and stationed, and a magnificent sedan chair was ushered in behind, and the accompanying slaves closely protected the men in official uniforms who got off the sedan chair, and the pomp and circumstance were as if they were defending against an attack. According to this battle, everyone held their breath, and when the xylophone boy wanted to ask the unfinished sentence: "What is God", he was dispelled by a chant.

"Hou Ye Zunjia."

The people all bowed down and shouted in unison:

"The grass people see Lord Hou."

No one dared to look up at the dignity of the Hou Ye, and the golden official would only stand on a high place and make people kneel.

The young man who carried the piano quietly asked the people B: "This is the founding hero who followed the emperor?" As soon as the emperor ascended the throne, he was crowned Marquis of Zhou? ”

"Yes." The questionee replied softly.

The young man who carried the piano didn't ask anything more, thinking that the people in the criminal department didn't dare to investigate the matter, but he alarmed the Hou Ye outside the matter, and he was a bit of an official dog with a mouse!

originally thought that this Marquis of Zhou would handle it impartially like Bao Qingtian, but it only ended hastily, and finally announced to the public that there was internecine strife in Murong Mansion, and no one dared to object.