A fast horse, with a fierce mane and a clear neighing sound, the horse's body is as black as splashing ink, only a little white near the horse's hooves, like the residual afterglow on rice paper. A man and a woman on the horse, the young man is handsome, and the girl is beautiful and elegant, it is Zhan Suiyu and Zhang Qining. I don't know what Zhan Suiyu said in her ear, but I saw Zhang Qi Ning Wan'er leaning in front of him with a smile.

Zhan Suiyu also smiled, and clamped the horse's belly between his legs, "Drive!" ”

The two of them were passing through the Liao family boundary and rushing straight to Yueyang City.

In Lantai, the Zhang family agreed to the relationship with the Zhan family, and Zhan Suiyu reported to his parents at home, and he had already received a reply. He proposed to take Qi Ning back to meet his parents, thinking that he would be opposed, but who knew that a lot of prepared words were swallowed back into his stomach before he could say them - Zhang Shihua and Zhang Tingyu actually agreed!

He also asked Zhang Qining at first, "Your sister and your brother... What's going on? ”

Zhang Qining said: "Maybe it's because you even handed over your family to me, and I feel very relieved." ”

Speaking of this matter, we have to start with Zhang Qining coming out of Zhang Shihua's room that night. She wanted to find out where Zhan Suiyu had gone again, but she ran into someone head-on.

Seeing that he came from the gate, she couldn't help asking, "You went out and came back?" ”

"yes." Zhan Sui Yushen mysteriously took out a wooden box from his sleeve, walked up to her and knelt down on one knee, and handed the wooden box to her.

"What?" She took the wooden box and opened it to look at it, only to see that one title deed after another was neatly stacked in the box, there were twenty or thirty of them. Did this guy use all the bounties for solving big cases and solving unsolved cases to buy land?

Zhan Suiyu: "My little vault." ”

Zhang Qining was suddenly stunned, "You shouldn't have brought these directly in the baggage, right?" ”

Zhan Suiyu nodded, "Yes." ”

“… It's a shame that you can walk to Lantai safely. "I heard that there are some places from Yueyang to Lantai, and there are bandits infested, and Zhan Suiyu appeared in front of her intact with these on her back, which is really gratifying. Could it be that the bandits were confiscated?

"You can't grab my head, what do you think I'm doing with light skills?" Whoever can run, don't use your hands and feet, waste your tongue.

"So, obediently hand over the little treasury, and you—" Zhang Qining looked at him with a smile.

Zhan Suiyu: "The dowry is a gift that the Zhan family has to prepare according to the rules, and this is what I gave you." Compared with the money owned by the Zhang family, of course, it is insignificant, although it will not be able to talk about rare treasures, delicacies from the mountains and seas in the future, but you can be allowed to have three meals with peace of mind and one heart.

There won't be any confidante to annoy you, I'll apologize first if you quarrel, and I'll help you solve the trouble you think is troublesome... Well, except for things like having children.

What I can do for you, what I want to do with you, I'll tell you. No matter what happens, I'm there for you. He looked up at me, with a demagogic smile in his deep eyes, and said, "My heart is happy, and your desire belongs to me?" ”

The night breeze caresses the white begonias on the side, and there is a dark fragrance on the sleeves.

"This life is short, how can I be happy without you? If you don't meet you in the world, there is nothing to be happy in life. ”

Zhang Qining said so, and let Zhan Suiyu hold her for several circles, and she didn't close her eyes all night in excitement.

*

"Settle down at the inn and rest for one night, and you can go to Yueyang tomorrow." Zhan Suiyu took Zhang Qining's hand, put one hand around her waist, and took the person off the horse.

Zhang Qining: "What do you like about the second elder?" "The impression of the first meeting is especially important, and she has to prepare well.

"Don't worry, I'll pick it with you. It doesn't matter what the gift is, the important thing is to meet the daughter-in-law. Zhan Suiyu teased her, gently scraping her nose.

Both of them are extremely outstanding, and their kung fu has attracted many people in a short time. Zhan Suiyu entered the inn with her, "Little Er, two rooms." ”

"Okay!" Xiao Er warmly beckoned them to sit down at a table, wiped the table diligently, and asked, "The two rooms are ready, this is the room number of the two." It's noon, what do you two eat? ”

He turned his head and saw Zhang Qining on the side, his eyes widened, this girl looks really standard! Look at Zhan Suiyu again, these are really two talented and beautiful women who came out of the script. After pouring water for them, he couldn't help but say: "The two of them are really a match made in heaven, and it just so happens that there is a Yan Feishuang in the signature dish of our store, the pigeon soup is stewed very delicious, with tender lotus seeds, fried pea seedlings, and the thief is fresh!" Two to try? ”

This little two is really good at talking. Zhan Suiyu said with a smile: "Just according to the last one you said, there will be two more special dishes." ”

"Well, wait, officer. Come, come! With that, he retreated.

The people on the side were talking about a recent incident, and Zhan Suiyu and Zhang Qining didn't care about it, but when they heard the names of their acquaintances, they couldn't help but be stunned.

"That nest of bandits was really served? Who, so powerful? ”

"Ji Ran, Ji Shaoxia!"

"Is it him?"

Ji Ran...?

Zhang Qining glanced up at Zhan Suiyu, as if asking. I saw Zhan Suiyu shake his head, and the two continued to listen.

"Are you sure it's Ji Shaoxia?" A person touched his chin and said with some suspicion: "Ji Shaoxia is chivalrous and courageous, but he is also a well-known gentleman's sword." I heard that there was not even a single chicken left in the thief's nest this time, so I not only killed it, but also set it on fire! It's so cruel and vicious, in my opinion... It's not like Ji Shaoxia's style. ”

"You only know one thing, but you don't know the other." A person took the words, took a sip of cold wine and said, "Ji Shaoxia didn't come specifically to suppress bandits, he was just passing by." He seemed to be there to find someone. ”

"Looking for someone? Who is it? Could it be that Ji Shaoxia is killing for that talent? A person's interest was aroused, and he hurriedly poured a glass of wine for the insider, and pretended to be familiar: "Brother, how do you know?" Tell me about it! The man... I'm afraid it's not Ji Shaoxia's confidante, right? ”

Men are mostly women.

The man took the wine and tapped it on the table with one hand. "I'm fucking right! In Xia Bucai, I happened to stay in the same inn as Ji Shaoxia that day, and when he inquired, I listened to it next to me, and he was looking for a girl. The hero was sad about the beauty, and he was angry at the crown, and he didn't run away! ”

The audience on the side sighed for a while, it was really a young man, and he was very angry!

"And what about later? Have you found anyone, what about Ji Shaoxia? ”

The man shrugged his shoulders, "How do I know this, the fire has been burning in the stockade for several days, and it almost set fire to the forest on the side." People must have been rescued. Forty or fifty people up and down, the smell of burnt dead people is so overwhelming! The government hasn't sent anyone up yet. ”

Hearing this, they smacked their tongues again, and oops, oops, With this, they talked for a while.

"This Ji Gongzi doesn't sound like a hero now, but like a fairy in the book. A fire was lit out of thin air, and the entire stockade was burned, so could he grow wings and fly out of such a big fire? Not to mention with a person.

I guess that person is Miss Tao. You and I have seen her physical condition, and it is fortunate that she will not delay in escaping. Besides, the bandit is not a vegetarian, as long as Ji Gongzi does not give up the right path to practice that magic skill, no matter how good his internal skills are, after all, he is weak and old, and it is still an exaggeration to single-handedly challenge the entire village. ”

Xiao Er happened to come over, and Zhang Qining called out to him.

"Girl, what's the matter? You commanded. ”

"It's nothing, it's just listening to the lively discussion at the next few tables, I can't help but be a little curious. Ask the little second brother about it, when did Ji Shaoxia happen? Zhang Qining: "I'm afraid we're going to pass by there, I don't know if it's convenient now?" ”

When Xiao Er heard this, he sighed lightly. "Almost half a month ago, we are not close to the government, the bandits, Ji Shaoxia is a matter of the rivers and lakes, anyway, the bandits are finished, and the people are fine, this is not a non-official government. If you're just in a hurry... The impact should not be large, only the inside of the village has an accident, and the road outside is fine, and it is okay not to get close. ”

"I see, it's hard work."

Zhang Qining, the beauty, smiled and thanked her, but she couldn't find the north of the little er, but the person she liked was still here, so it was not easy to stare at it. He touched his head and laughed twice, and said: "Guest officer, you use it slowly, just ask for something" and retreated.

Zhang Qining looked at Zhan Suiyu's worried expression, and said, "Ji Gongzi is good friends with you, this matter is indeed not like his style, I am afraid that there is another hidden reason." Check it out? ”

Zhan Sui Yu was going to take a look, but he was a little hesitant to take Zhang Qining with him. After all, if forty or fifty people were really burned to death, the scene must have been... But Qi Ning didn't care, he thought that when he was in Suzhou, his daughter-in-law was not even afraid of corpses and monsters, and he was a little uneasy to let her stay alone - she was so beautiful, what should I do if I was targeted by someone who didn't have long eyes?

So he nodded and said, "It's okay." After eating, go and have a look. ”

*

After the meal, the two of them found the village all the way, but they didn't expect that what the innkeeper said was really not an exaggeration.

The tree outside the stockade was burned down, and it happened to fall in the canal that went around outside the village, and the trunk of the tree was there. It happened that it burned and then it rained heavily, which saved the surroundings. No coincidence is not a book, and it is no wonder that the man said it so mysteriously, Zhang Qining couldn't help but sigh after reading it: "It's really a coincidence." ”

Zhan Sui Yu rubbed a handful of scorched wood, twisted his fingertips, and there was a strange smell in the burnt smell in front of his nose. "Let's go in and have a look."

When the two of them went inside, the stockade was burned to the ground, and it was almost impossible to see what it was. Further inside, there were several charred corpses, their faces unrecognizable, like charred human shapes.

Zhang Qining said strangely: "When the fire is on, these people are not far from the door and do not go out, and the direction in which their heads fall is facing the outside, and it doesn't look like they want to be righteous and die." It's more like I wanted to run but didn't run out, and was stopped by something. She couldn't help but look at Zhan Suiyu, "Originally, it didn't look like Ji Gongzi's handwriting, but now I look... It makes people wonder if this matter is really related to Ji Gongzi. ”

The contents of the village were burned clean, the beams of the houses collapsed, and the houses collapsed into a pile of ruins. Further inside, except for the fact that there are more charred corpses, men and women are indistinguishable, and there are a few more children's corpses in the corpses, it is no different from the outside.

"Ji Ran, don't say ten points, I dare to say eight or nine points. Even if there is a great feud, and there is a debtor and a debtor, he will never implicate the innocent, let alone the old and weak, women and children. Although a fire is clean, the people in the fire suffer a lot. Ji Ran never tortures people. As long as he's not crazy and says he did it — I don't believe it. ”

Zhan Suiyu put his hands behind his back, and his fists couldn't help but clench.

Now there are rumors outside, if it weren't for the groundless...

Zhang Qining narrowed her eyes, she and Ji Ran had only met twice, but the impression of these two sides was still there. The gentleman is gentle and upright, and he fights the sword world without losing his chivalrous tenderness. said that he did it, not only Zhan Suiyu didn't believe it, but she also didn't believe it, because it was unreasonable.

"Let's see, if there's nothing, it's all right... Let's talk about it in the long run. ”

Zhan Suiyu: "When I find that kid, I have to knock him hard!" "I took Qi Ning back to see my father and mother, but I was delayed by him halfway. Ji Ran, this kid, it's best to come out to me without anything, and explain what is going on.

Ji Ran... Zhang Qining sighed lightly. Zhan Suiyu forgot, she hadn't forgotten Tao Xueqi beside him.

That girl dared to push her into the river in Suzhou, and even thought about the way back. The means are ruthless, bold, not as soft and weak as they seem, very fine, and very tricky. Looking at the burning of the village now, why does she feel so familiar?

Zhang Qining raised his eyes and swept to a place where there were traces of dragging, and he couldn't help but be suspicious. After looking at the trace, I followed it and looked back, and there were many fewer corpses, but there were no more inside. She said in her heart, sure enough.

What she saw, Zhan Suiyu naturally found it, and looked at it all the way in her heart, and said, "Are we waiting here?" ”

Zhang Qining nodded.

The body was gone from the inside to here, and there were traces of dragging it out, thinking someone had dragged it outside. What's the use of dragging people who burn like char outside? You might as well make a bold guess, someone dragged it out to be buried, as for who that person is... And so on.

After a while, a young man who crossed the sword walked in from outside, his hair was a little messy, his white clothes were gray, black, black, red and red were very dirty, and his hand that was used to holding the sword and dancing in the wind was even more unsightly. lives like a newcomer to the beggar gang, or the kind that is stared at and bullied.

"Ji Ran."

The man kept his head pitted, lost his soul, and Zhan Sui Yu paused at his feet as soon as he spoke. I raised my eyes and glanced at it, but I didn't even think about it, so I turned around and ran.

But how can he run past Zhan Sui Yu, on the rivers and lakes, Sui Yu can stand aside when it comes to martial arts, and others have to stand aside when it comes to light skills.

He climbed up to Ji Ran on tiptoe, pressed his shoulders and pressed him to press him, frowned and said, "Ji Ran, you kid, what are you running!" Really a thief? ”

"I..."

saw him spitting and spitting, but he didn't see Tao Xueqi. Zhang Qining couldn't help but walk over, "Master Ji, Lin Zhao and I were originally going to Yueyang, but when we heard about you, we just saw you turn around and leave, which is too unkind." ”

"Yue Yang? You-"

Zhan Suiyu saw that he didn't turn his head and left, so he let go. "Ang, we're married. I thought the date was set, and someone sent you an invitation to drink my wedding wine. You're good, now it's amazing, you don't say a word after you finish a big thing, and you don't recognize your brother when you see it. ”

"No, I.." Zhan Sui Yu said this, Ji Ran couldn't help choking, and finally just sighed.

Zhan Suiyu: "It's only been a few months, can you still talk more happily?" See me, what are you running! Hell not? What the hell is going on in this village? ”

Ji Ran didn't speak, Zhang Qining didn't see Tao Xueqi, and opened his mouth to pick the key question. "Ji Gongzi, where is Miss Tao?"

"She..."

"Ji Ran, don't blame me for being unkind to you!" Zhan Sui Yu was really annoyed. In a few months, what forced the former white-clothed young man to look like this?

Ji Ran paused, and finally said something smooth. He doesn't know how many times he's said this these days.

"I lost her..."