In the early years of the Republic of China, the living standards of the people were generally low, and it was possible to cause the legs and feet to turn out due to lack of nutrition, but the instep of the old woman's feet was almost all turned over, and the center of the foot was turned inward, and this deformity could not help but be surprising under the occasion.

Wu Zhiyuan watched the old woman disappear into the black rumbling alley, his heart suddenly rose, and a trace of pity for this old woman rose in his heart. After standing for a moment, he sighed to himself and headed to the east of the street.

The autumn nights in the north are a bit cold, so the lively atmosphere of the streets gradually fades in the short time after the sun sets. Wu Zhiyuan walked to a very prosperous area when he came, and found that many shops were closing, and most of the stalls on the street had been closed, only a few green buildings were still hung with red lights at the door, and a few dusty women who had not received guests were still standing at the door and pulling and pulling at the male customers passing by.

Wu Zhiyuan had no intention of wandering the streets, so he found an inn and stayed. The inn has two floors, and Wu Zhiyuan lives in a room on the second floor. He was a little tired from the day's travel, and without a bite of dinner, he went back to his room and lay down on his back, and fell asleep as soon as he closed his eyes.

I don't know how long he slept, Wu Zhiyuan was suddenly awakened by a "click" sound from the roof, he suddenly opened his eyes, listened carefully, after the "click" sound, there was a faint sound of breaking wind.

The "click" sound is the sound of someone stepping on the roof tiles, and the sound of breaking wind is obviously that the person jumped to the ground in the air after stepping on the roof tiles.

Wu Zhiyuan was not a nosy person, but now that he was in a different place, it was difficult to guarantee that anything that happened to him had nothing to do with him, so he gently turned over and got out of bed, stuffed the burden containing Dong Qian's bones into the quilt, and did not go out of the door, but opened the window and jumped out.

The place where he settled was the long street between the east and west, Wu Zhiyuan saw a figure not far away moving quickly to the west along the long street, looking at the speed of the other party, he should have a certain amount of vitality cultivation, and the cultivation was far above himself, because even if Wu Zhiyuan tried his best, he could not reach the speed of the other party's attack.

Wu Zhiyuan hesitated for a short time, his cultivation was not as good as the other party, in case it was an enemy or a friend, he would definitely suffer a loss if he fought head-on. At this time, Wu Zhiyuan regretted that he had abandoned the cultivation of the Guiyuan Dao Law in the past few days, and he needed to know that the battle against the enemy depended on cultivation for seven points, and three points on skill, and the current situation Wu Zhiyuan's cultivation and skills obviously would not have an advantage.

After hesitating for a moment, Wu Zhiyuan decided to catch up and find out, so he used his vitality and accelerated towards the mysterious figure in the distance.

The speed of the other party did not decrease at all, and he flew all the way west along the street, obviously having his own destination, Wu Zhiyuan tried his best and could only keep the distance from the other party no longer extended, but this did not mean that he was tied with the other party's speed, because the mysterious man did not know that there was someone following behind the road, if the other party exerted all his strength, Wu Zhiyuan would be left far behind him.

Soon, the two of them passed the place where Wu Zhiyuan saw the strange old woman, west of this place was the dilapidated abandoned houses and alleys, and the mysterious person in front did not stop, and continued to fly westward.

Between the light and darkness of the moon, Wu Zhiyuan saw the mysterious person's clothes fluttering in front of him, as if he was wearing a robe, because the distance was too far, Wu Zhiyuan was not sure what kind of clothes the other party was wearing.

Seeing that the mysterious man continued to rush west, Wu Zhiyuan secretly guessed in his heart, could it be that he was going to Dong Mansion? If that's the case, then even if I'm following the right one this time, the middle-aged woman who met me in the evening behaved too abnormally, and maybe you can find out the reason for it.

Sure enough, Wu Zhi saw the mysterious man stop in front of the Dong Mansion from a distance, and then jumped up and down from the wall into the courtyard of the Dong Mansion.

Choosing to visit in the dead of night, and not knocking on the door according to etiquette, but climbing over the wall to enter, it seems that this person's purpose is not pure, and he is either a traitor or a thief. Wu Zhiyuan felt that he had an obligation to save the Dong family from danger, after all, the Wu family owed Dong Qian too much.

With this in mind, Wu Zhiyuan jumped to the wall without hesitation, and then jumped into the courtyard. From this action of climbing over the wall alone, it can be seen that Wu Zhiyuan's cultivation is not as good as the other party, the other party jumped directly from outside the wall and entered the wall, but Wu Zhiyuan needed to jump on the wall to climb in.

When he entered the courtyard, Wu Zhiyuan did not find the figure of the mysterious person, and it was expected that the other party had already touched a room in the courtyard. Wu Zhiyuan looked around, this Dong Mansion is very large, there are no less than dozens of east and west wings and main rooms, where did the mysterious figure go?

Just when Wu Zhiyuan was at a loss, he suddenly discovered a strange phenomenon, that is, in the huge mansion, it was actually pitch black, and all the rooms were not bright!

But after thinking about it, Wu Zhiyuan also felt that it was more normal, he had already slept for a while, and it was already the fourth watch of the night, and most people had already fallen asleep, and it was reasonable that there was no light.

There were no lights, and only by the unknown moonlight, it was difficult for Wu Zhiyuan to find the mysterious figure. Wu Zhiyuan groped his way forward, walked to the rockery and bent down to stop to observe the surrounding situation. At this moment, a figure suddenly came around from the rockery and bumped into Wu Zhiyuan, and the two of them let out an "oops" sound at the same time.

"Who?" Wu Zhiyuan was the first to react, grabbed the collar of the visitor, and asked in a deep voice.

Under the moonlight, Wu Zhiyuan found that this person was a man, about twenty years old, and his appearance was extremely handsome, but his complexion was not yellow, but a very strange color, faintly tinged with green. Wu Zhiyuan didn't care, it was normal to see things in the moonlight and have differences in color.

The man didn't make a sound, but stretched out his hand and pointed back in a panic, Wu Zhiyuan immediately realized, presumably the mysterious person had broken into a certain room and was committing murder, this person ran out in a panic because he was afraid. So he loosened the man's collar and rushed in the direction the man was pointing.

Rushing forward a few steps, Wu Zhiyuan suddenly stopped, the man only pointed out the direction, did not specify the specific location at all, the Dong Mansion is so big, how did Wu Zhiyuan find the room where the mysterious person committed the murder? Thinking of this, Wu Zhiyuan hurriedly turned around, but found that the person was gone, and he was expected to be frightened and hid.

Wu Zhiyuan didn't have time to pay attention to the person's trace, but listened carefully, and sure enough, he heard the sound of tables and chairs colliding, so he didn't dare to hesitate and followed the sound.

The voice came from a certain room in the West Chamber, Wu Zhiyuan walked through the corridor to the West Chamber, and at a glance saw the door of a room in the north head open, and he hurriedly rushed to the door.

The moon was already in the west, and the west chamber was backlit, so the room was very dark and it was almost impossible to see clearly, but the tall figure standing inside the door was recognized by Wu Zhiyuan at a glance, because he was wearing a robe.

The mysterious man in the robe turned his back to Wu Zhiyuan at this time, but the light of his left hand flashed, and Wu Zhiyuan immediately recognized that it was the light emitted by the sword.

"Wu Gongzi, help!" At this moment, the people in the house seemed to hear the movement at the door and hurriedly cried out for help.

Wu Zhiyuan was very familiar with this voice for help, because this voice was the middle-aged woman he had talked to!

Wu Zhiyuan ignored two details, in fact, the current situation does not allow him to spend more time thinking about anything. In a fit of rage, Wu Zhiyuan shouted: "Stop!" ”

I thought that this loud shout would calm the mysterious man, but I didn't expect the other party to dance as if he hadn't heard it, and his right hand flung forward, making a crisp sound of "pop", which was actually dust!

The dust was thrown forward like a horsewhip, and then there was a scream of the middle-aged woman, and when I thought about it, I knew that it was caused by the dust being pumped on my body.

Wu Zhiyuan saw that the mysterious man regarded himself as nothing, and because of his vitality cultivation, he was far away from the other party, so he didn't dare to fight hard, he looked left and right, and found that there was a flower pot on the windowsill outside the room, and there were no flower branches in the flower pot, only pot mud was left, so he picked up the flower pot and smashed it at the back of the mysterious man.

Listening to the sound of "bang-bang", the pot smashed firmly into the back of the mysterious man, and then fell to the ground, and fell into a pile with mud.

The mysterious man may have been too attentive before, and only now did he notice that there was someone behind him, he suddenly turned around and looked at Wu Zhiyuan with an angry face, and after Wu Zhiyuan looked at him, his heart was even more angry!

I saw that this mysterious man was holding a long sword in his left hand, a dust whisk in his right hand, his hair was pulled in a bun, and he was wearing a Taoist robe, and he was actually a Taoist priest! The Taoist priest broke into the house late at night and committed murder against a weak woman, which was already outrageous, and what made Wu Zhiyuan even more resentful was the appearance of this Taoist priest, his face was thin, his cheekbones were prominent, and his eyes were slender, like a mouse. This respectful face Wu Zhiyuan has long been remembered in his heart, because the Maoshan Taoist priest Yu Yisu who deceived his parents has this similar appearance, although the evil path in front of him is not Yu Yisu, but he is also born with a similar appearance, how can Wu Zhiyuan not be resentful?

At the moment when the Taoist priest turned around and glared at Wu Zhiyuan, the middle-aged woman in the room took the opportunity to jump, broke the window and escaped.

"It's a good thing to ruin the poor road, and I have a chance to settle accounts with you again!" Seeing the middle-aged woman escaping, the Taoist priest glared at Wu Zhiyuan angrily, and was about to seize the door to chase him.

Wu Zhiyuan was standing at the door at this time, listening to the words of this Taoist priest, he was even more sure that he was a ** captive evil way, he blocked the door with his body, and pretended to be relaxed: "Bad for your good deeds?" You yin dao, in the middle of the night, even trespass on private houses with the intention of yin plunder, is there any shame? ”

"Ignorant junior!" The Taoist priest ignored Wu Zhiyuan, stepped forward and stretched out his hand to Wu Zhiyuan's chest.

Wu Zhiyuan had long known that he was not the opponent of this Taoist priest, so he had already taken precautions, and on the side of his body, he easily dodged the Taoist priest's palm blow, and at the same time used the vitality to infuse his right hand, and used his palm as a knife to slash down at the Taoist priest's wrist!