In the front hall, Shen Dashao sent away the guards in the house, leaving only Li Yong alone. He leaned lazily on the back of the leather chair and asked Xu Pingyan a few innocuous questions, and Xu Pingyan answered truthfully. Li Yong made a note.

Xu Pingyan was puzzled. Judging from the situation under the stage that day, he was very concerned about the second brother, why was he so careless about interrogating her, the so-called murderer? Then there are only two possibilities, either Shen Ershao was not assassinated at all, or he already knew who the real murderer was, and she was just a nominal cover.

Xu Pingyan didn't want to wade into troubled waters among the mixed warlords, let alone suspect Shen Dashao's intentions.

Shen Dashao observed her expression and said with a smile: "Fortunately, the knife didn't hit the vital point, and my second brother only picked up his life." ”

Xu Pingyan bowed slightly. It seems that it can only be the second possibility, she is just a guise for a murderer to cover up people's ears.

She breathed a sigh of relief.

Shen Dashao stared at her squinting and exhaling, and thought it was funny, like a cat napping in the yard. He straightened up, Li Yong hurriedly brought the notebook, handed it to him, he swept his eyes slightly, and ordered a few whispers.

Li Yong raised his head in surprise, glanced at Xu Pingyan with sorrow and pity, and trotted away.

Shen Dashao took out a Western cigarette, put it to his mouth, rubbed the copper and gold roller on the lighter with two fingers, hugged the flames and put the cigarette butt together, inhaling and spitting, and the smoke was filled.

"Did the young lady have any last words before she died?" He closed his eyes in pleasure, his tone sudden, but light.

Xu Pingyan squeezed the small bag in her hand, her heart was suddenly anxious, she pursed her lips without saying a word, and roughly explored the surrounding environment.

She really can't escape.

Li Yong came in the door, holding a man-high sack in his hand, and was instructed by Shen Dashao to spread out the bag and put it on Xu Pingyan's head.

Xu Pingyan blocked it with an elbow, glaring angrily, and there were violent ups and downs in her tone, "You have no evidence at all, why kill me!" ”

Shen Dashao extinguished the cigarette butt, threw it into the ashtray, walked with his hands behind his back, took the sack in his entourage's hand, and looked at Xu Pingyan's face condescendingly, from his eyebrows to his lips.

"Evidence never speaks, dead people are evidence." His breath was slightly cool, stained with the fragrance of tobacco, and pounced on Xu Pingyan's forehead.

As she spoke, she opened the sack, smiled gently, and covered her whole body with her hands from top to bottom.

Xu Pingyan opened her eyes, seeing the light encroaching little by little, and she was in the dark. She was really a little scared, fear spread into her heart, her heart was beating fast, and fine cold sweat oozed from her forehead. She is not afraid of death, she is only afraid that she will not be able to repay the blood feud of the Xu Mansion in her lifetime.

She struggled twice in a panic, Shen Dashao grabbed her wrist, looked around, and whispered in her ear: "Don't say anything, don't pay attention, you may still be alive." ”

She suddenly fell silent, motionless, her wrist hanging down in Shen Dashao's big palm.

Shen Dashao slowly let go of her hand, amazed by this woman's surprisingly calm and ability to adapt to danger.

Xu Pingyan was escorted to the Five Poisons Mountain and knelt on the ground for half an hour.

Shen Dashao only brought Li Yong and five guards on this trip, in order to lure the snake out of the hole.

The sun was shining, and the shimmer seeped into the sack. Xu Pingyan clenched her hands, her palms were sweaty, sticky and greasy.

Li Yong leaned in and nodded at Shen Dashao.

Shen Dashao loaded the short gun casually and fired a shot into the sky, and the sound of the gun shook loudly, startling a flock of perched birds.

"As long as you confess to the mastermind behind the scenes, I can spare your kid's life!"

He said loudly. His gaze crossed Xu Pingyan and went straight to the ghostly black shadows that were approaching in the grass not far away.

As soon as he finished speaking, only two bullets were heard, and two of the guards fell down with a muffled sound before they could lift their guns.

After Li Yong covered Shen Dashao and avoided the tree trunk, Shen Dashao's eyes were like an eagle on the top of the sky, staring at the black-clothed man who walked lightly. The gun hole was pointed into the sky, and another shot was fired, and the guards who were lying in ambush under the hill got a second shot and rushed up.

Shen Dashao stood in the smoke of gunpowder, as if he had drunk blood, he was full of spirits, and shouted in a hissed voice: "Kill!" ”

The sound of gunfire disappeared in Xu Pingyan's ears, she knelt on the ground, trembling all over, her mind was full of countless gunshots from that night eight years ago, rumbling and flashing with small flames, exploding in front of her eyes.

The hundreds of people in black rushed to the aid side shouting, looking at the clothes, they should be the rogues who occupy the mountain as the king.

She lowered her eyes, only to feel that the sack had been removed, and her eyes suddenly lit up, and then her shoulders were held tightly.

"I'll take you away!" The man said.

She Mumu raised her head and saw Shen Yuji, and the tears in her eyes suddenly burst out of her eyes.

"Brother Kyushu......" she subconsciously called.

The second name of the Shen family is Yu trace word Kyushu. This small character was taken by himself when he was seven years old, from Lu You's sentence 'But sadness does not see Kyushu Tong'. After the mountains and rivers were broken, and the division was a trouble, he never said this little word again, and he never told a girl.

He was a little surprised, a little puzzled, looked at Xu Pingyan's tearful eyes, and had inexplicable compassion and joy in his heart, he picked her up horizontally, leaned over and escorted her out.

Only then did Shen Dashao see the second brother walking alone in the rain of guns, a chill flashed in his eyes, he raised his pistol, and led the five-person guard to bend over to cover for Shen Yuji.

However, there was still a random bullet that hit Shen Dashao's shoulder, and a line of blood splashed out, flying on Xu Pingyan's face bit by bit.

Xu Pingyan dragged the white shirt on Shen Yuchen's chest, but the outline of Shen Dashao outside her eyes gradually blurred.

She had that nightmare again, the miserable white moonlight shone on a ditch of blood, and she lay on top of the burned ruins of Xu's mansion, crying until she could not shed tears.

Xu Pingyan woke up from her dream, screamed and straightened up, covered in a cold sweat and with tears on her face.

The girl who was guarding the door ran in when she heard the sound, poured a cup of warm tea with her hands and feet, and handed it over.

Xu Pingyan took it and drank it, closed her eyes and condensed her breath, and gradually sank the fear, despair, and depression in her heart.

Another girl who rushed to report the news had already attracted Shen Yuchen over, and the two girls glanced at each other and tiptoed out.

"The doctor said that you have been depressed for many years, your liver is damaged, and you have undergone convulsions before you fainted, do you still feel any discomfort now?" Shen Yuchen sat on the edge of the couch and reached out to grab the empty porcelain cup she was holding in her hand.

She came back to her senses, slowly raised her face, her expression was indifferent and helpless, like a homeless child, but the moment she saw him clearly, her eyes suddenly sharpened.

Shen Yuchen was startled by this look, forced herself to calm down, laughed, and lightly pulled out the porcelain cup in her hand and put it on the red sandalwood square table on the side.

He wanted to ask her what the Kyushu brother she was shouting about was the origin, but when he saw her cold face, he didn't know how to open his mouth so that he didn't seem abrupt.

He hesitated for a long time, didn't say a word, and walked away dejectedly. opened the carved door with both hands, suddenly remembered something and turned back, "The troupe is in a hurry, your master and someone left overnight last night, oh, your senior brother Bai Heng didn't leave, and he was still waiting for you in that alley, I heard that the eldest brother said that he waited outside the mansion for four or five hours this morning." ”

With that, he stepped into the light.

Outside the crack in the door, a narrow light leaked in, and the smell of spring flowers and grass drifted in. Xu Pingyan looked at his back farther and farther away, her heart was like a nest of sparks, secretly burning, and her throat seemed to be stuffed with a ball of cotton, choking and wanting to cry.

She grabbed the feather pillow behind her, snorted, and slammed it to the ground.