The girl's eyes widened slightly.

The middle-aged man looked at the change in her expression, his voice became soft, and he gently brushed away the messy hair covering the girl's eyes, "Your father and brother are both imperial doctors, right, and then you will be the medicine in the palace yourself...... Tsk, wealth and glory are at your fingertips. ”

Yikang's eyes showed a look of disbelief, and the words in this person's mouth made her mind confused for a while, but remembering Yingxiang's silence for the past few days......

Yikang suddenly understood.

The man pinched Yikang's chin.

"During this time, your name has been spread on the streets and alleys of Pingjing City," the man's eyes revealed a smile of good deeds, "but think about it, after tonight, what will people spread in the future?" Think about your father and brother, you have such a scandalous thing, how can they hold their heads up in front of people? ”

Yikang's eyes looked straight at the middle-aged man, but tears suddenly fell.

The man laughed, "Hey, it's really different to look pretty, this crying is weird and distressing." ”

Yikang shook off the man's hand, and she lowered her head slightly, muttering softly.

"So...... At that time, Yingxiang said Bai Ling's name......"

Yes, Yingxiang is the same as herself, except for those people on the mountain, what she can recognize and call on weekdays are some kings and grandsons - how could these scumbags do something to these people.

They can only pick up civilians.

A familiar person.

Bai Ling is a person that Ying Xiang is unilaterally familiar with.

- The residence of the Bai family, Bai Yi's father and sister, and the storms he has caused in the palace during this time...... Yikang entrusted Yingxiang to go down the mountain to check it all.

And it just so happened that Bai Ling no longer stayed in the palace recently, but moved back to live at home.

Yikang's tears were unquenchable and poured down.

Suddenly, she felt some kind of fateful malice.

Probably ...... The cause you planted by accident one day actually went around in circles, went around in a big circle, and finally all the work was retributed on yourself.

"How?" The man took out the knife and gently picked up the belt around Yikang's waist, and the iron blade gently rubbed the strip of cloth there, making an ambiguous and dangerous sound, "Have you thought about it?" ”

The girl lowered her head, her body trembling slightly.

She opened her mouth again and again, but she was afraid to make no noise.

After a long time, she finally gave her answer intermittently.

"You ...... Don't think about ......"

The man thought he had misheard for a moment, and he looked at Yikang suspiciously.

Her eyes were red and her face was covered with tears.

The young girl's forehead was bruised, and she tried her best to suppress her sobbing cry.

"I won't...... Say...... Anyone's ...... Name. ”

Everyone was stunned for a moment, the scene instantly became a little absurd, and the young man on the edge was the first to let out a laugh, he stepped forward and lifted Yikang's clothes, and slapped her hard.

"What's the situation? Yes? What's your situation? Is it so cheap? Want to be a man and want to go crazy? ”

The girl fell to the floor beside her, stirring up a cloud of dust.

And at this time, Yikang finally understood why Yingxiang refused to say a word at the time of the crime in the end - the moment she gave the name of the next victim, she had already become a part of the evil here.

People need to keep their reputations tight.

Even if it would lead to disaster for an unrelated person.

But who would know if there is no evil exposed?

I don't know why, when I thought about it all, Yikang suddenly felt that her mood was slowly starting to calm down - although her body was still trembling and her tears were still not stopping, she seemed to have suddenly touched some kind of despair.

This desperation is overwhelming.

But at least, that fear of falling infinitely, is gone.

"Or...... You kill me......" Yikang said tremblingly, "Otherwise, tomorrow the government yamen, I will ...... Take everything that happened today...... It's all ......."

The young man stepped forward again, and he roared and raised his fist again at the girl, but it was too late to say that the sound of an iron blade piercing sounded, and the young masked man froze there.

At some point, Yikang in the corner loosened the rope in his hand, and there was an additional dagger in his hand—half of which was now inserted into the young man's chest.

The blood splattered on the girl's face, and the blood slowly slid down.

The girl's face turned pale, but she clung to the dagger and pulled it out with all her might.

It all happened so suddenly.

Yikang suddenly felt that everything in front of her had become a little trance, and when the middle-aged man finally reacted and let out an angry roar, she had slowly lowered her arms and was ready to die-

It was at this moment that a deafening explosion was heard on the first floor.

There was a strange sound of footsteps coming from the third floor, and when everyone realized that something was wrong, strings of short firecrackers were thrown into the windows of the second floor from all directions.

Smoke, screams, incessant explosions......

The middle-aged man's command voice was drowned in this narrow room with the smell of gunpowder.

In the white light that exploded in countless instants, Yikang suddenly saw a somewhat familiar figure come to his side, he quietly picked himself up, and then jumped out of the window on the second floor.

In the moonlight, Yikang could see the faces of the people in front of him clearly.

Bai Yi.

This moment is like a frozen silhouette.

In the next moment, the two of them landed together in the stack of straw that had been stacked in advance downstairs.

Bai Yi quickly got up, he silently slapped off a few straws hanging from his hair, then took the bloody dagger from Yikang's hand and cut the hemp rope tied to her feet.

"Can you run?" He asked softly.

Yikang didn't come back to his senses for a moment.

Bai Yi didn't ask any more questions, directly put Yikang on his back, looked up and didn't know who to gesture to, and then quickly sneaked into the nearby woods, along the path between the trees, and ran towards a safe place.

Behind them, the sound of firecrackers suddenly rose an order of magnitude - Yikang turned around and saw that the second, third, and fourth floors of the tower were all emitting bright lights, like a lighthouse in the dark night.

……

Along the way, Bai Yi didn't say anything or ask anything.

He just lowered his head and moved forward, his breathing gradually starting to become rapid, and he began to sweat.

"Where are we going?" The sound of Yikang is very quiet.

"West." Bai Yi replied, "There is a camp there, there are soldiers, and my sister seems to be still there." ”

Yikang nodded, her hand on Bai Yi's arm, jolting with him all the way.

She smelled the smell of Bai Yi's body—under the strong smell of gunpowder, Bai Yi's smell was a little special.

It's not the same as those boys who always like to wear cinnamon sachets,

The smell on Bai Yi's body is a bit like soap horn, and a bit like firewood and grass.

Yikang tilted his head slightly, trying to rest on Bai Yi's left shoulder.

The shadows of the trees on both sides slid quickly behind him, and Yikang grabbed Bai Yi's sleeve tightly, and suddenly his nose became uncontrollable.