Chapter 10: First Encounter

Xiao Huang's indifferent attitude clearly angered the sword-wielder, as she felt the blade get closer to her neck.

The taste of hanging a knife on her head is really not human, not to mention, she has never liked to be threatened.

With a lift of his hand, his thumb and forefinger gently pinched the blade, giving his neck a little room to move.

Xiao Huang tilted his head slightly, looking at the person who was far away from his sword, and his whole body was hidden in the night suit, only a pair of yin owl eyes remained, revealing an aura like a dead person.

"I don't know if you have a grudge against your father or a hatred for taking your wife?" Xiao Huang asked inexplicably, and Chi Lian was confused for a while.

He has never married a wife, where does the hatred of taking his wife come from? And he has been an orphan since he was a child, when did he have the revenge of killing his father again?

Could it be that his father, whom he had never met, was killed by the man in front of him?! But how could this man know who his father was......

Sensing the increasingly murderous aura on the sword-wielding person, Xiao Huang couldn't help but clench the fingertips of the sword blade, "Your Excellency has not refuted, then I think you mean to deny it, since there is no grudge between the two of us, why should Your Excellency have such heavy hostility towards me?" Besides, I don't know Your Excellency, you can ...... it."

Before she could say the words "treat me as a passerby," she heard the sword-wielding man say in a cold voice: "Anyone who disrespects his master deserves death!" ”

Ay? Disrespectful to his master?!

"I'm afraid Your Excellency has found the wrong person, I don't know your master." If it weren't for the cold sword blade on the side of his neck, Xiao Huang really wanted to ignore everything in front of him, turn around and leave.

I don't know where this is a deranged patient, who knows who his master is? Besides, she hasn't been in Kyoto for a few days, so she won't offend anyone without knowing it...... Could it be that he is the former enemy of the generals and his wife?

"You don't really know this seat, because whoever has seen it will die." Just as Xiao Huang was thinking about how to escape, a deep voice slowly came into his ears.

Under the starry sky, the man stood with his hands in his hands, a pair of deep eyes coldly indifferent to everything around him, and the independence of the world emanating from his arrogant bones deeply isolated him from the world.

The halo of the crescent moon was so coincidental that it shrouded his tall and majestic figure, and he was dressed in a black robe without wind, revealing a strange and inexplicable sense of mystery more and more.

It's a pity that most of the man's face is covered by a silver mask, and people can't help but wonder what kind of face will be under the mask to match the temperament of this whole body.

Hearing this, Xiao Huang turned his head sideways in surprise...... At that moment, she couldn't tell what kind of feeling she had, watching him come in the moonlight, step by step towards herself...... I don't know when, the face under the red fox's mask was instantly filled with tears.

His lips moved slightly, and he whispered, "Who are you?" ”

"Huh?" The silver-faced man paused, "Are you sure you want to know?" ”

The cold voice recalled Xiao Huang's senses, "I'm sorry, it's rude." ”

Ignoring the stranger's abnormality, the silver-faced man leaned forward slightly, "Why the overwhelming killing?" ”

Thinking back, Xiao Huang secretly took a step back, turned his head, and asked, "After answering Your Excellency's question, can Your Excellency let me go?" ”

Although her mind is first-class, and she has practiced judo in the past to exercise her body, she ...... In front of these two people, even if his force value is not negative, it is almost close to zero, and Xiao Huang reluctantly admits this reality.

If there are small hard objects such as needles, she can still take advantage of them, after all, she is very familiar with the acupuncture points of the human body, and it is okay to have a dagger, but unfortunately she has nothing on her body except a money bag.

Fortunately, she wisely did not say, "Why should I answer your question", but asked, after answering, can she still leave?

On the one hand, she met the requirements of others, and on the other hand, she fought for her own rights and interests, and it was obvious that the person in front of her, who was mostly covered by a mask, also understood her intentions.

"You're smart." The man looked sideways into her eyes slightly.

"Thank you for the compliment, it's just life or death, can you give me a good word? It was getting late, so I had to go home and go to bed. Xiao Huang pretended to be relaxed.

"Oh? It seems that this seat is delaying your time to sleep. ”

Before she could say anything more, the silver-faced man raised his left index finger slightly, and the murderous aura on her neck disappeared in an instant.

Xiao Huang knew that this was the answer given by the silver-faced man, although she had never seen this person, and the aura that vaguely emanated from his body was even more terrifying than the guard who had no trace of popularity.

But the strange thing is that even so, she has an unspeakable subconscious trust in him, but she has not yet discovered it.

got the exact result, and Xiao Huang was not grinding.

She pointed to the corpse on the ground and said, "This corpse died of a broken heart due to a sharp weapon passing through the chest; The one next to it was the one that was cut through the blood vessels in the neck and bled excessively......"

Time passed quietly, and on the empty street, she was the only one who spoke unhurriedly, and the two "listeners" also cooperated very well and listened without saying a word.

"The only thing they have in common is that their facial expressions are painless, the swords they wear are unsheathed, and there are no signs of a fight."

"Also, although there is a lot of blood on the ground, it is not much, except for the factor of colder weather, the rest is that they did not have much mood swings before they died."

"Emotional agitation can lead to increased blood flow in the blood vessels, and there's definitely more blood than that."

"Blood flow?" The silver-faced man interrupted as if puzzled.

"Uh...... It is the speed at which blood flows over a certain period of time. ”

After Xiao Huang explained in a simple and vernacular, he continued: "And if a person wants to die in this situation, then it is absolutely impossible for the person who attacked him to attack from the front, unless the latter strikes extremely fast, and they will not be able to find out in the first place...... That's what I came to at the beginning. ”

"Well, what else?"

"What else?" Xiao Huang asked rhetorically.

Listening to this man's tone, he didn't look like he didn't know anything at all, but like he was ...... Test how far her inferences can go.

But after thinking about it, they had never met before today, not to mention that like him, even the guards around him could have such momentum, I am afraid that he himself is not an ordinary person.

Then, this person will definitely not be interested in a little person like her, Xiao Huang tugged at the corners of his mouth, and couldn't help but feel funny about the idea he had just now.

Seeing that neither of them spoke, she covered her lips and coughed, "Can I go down here?" ”

"I have said that everyone who has seen this seat will die." The silver-faced man said very carelessly.

Xiao Huang frowned slightly, "Your Excellency is trying to go back on your word?" ”

"What did I promise you?"

yes, he didn't promise anything, did he?

The silver-faced man curled his lips slightly, "Unless, you give this seat a reason to live." ”

Do you want to prove your worthiness? Xiao Huang secretly breathed a sigh of relief, "It's just a play of praying mantis catching cicadas and yellow finches behind, and there is no technical content." ”

"Oh? The tone is not small, so can you see where this praying mantis is? Where are the yellow finch? Which cicada did you catch? ”

Listening to the silver-faced man's sudden interest in tone, Xiao Huang only felt a row of crows flying overhead......

She deserves to talk too much, but then again, she has only been back in Beijing for a few days, or how long has she been in this time and space? She didn't know a few of the living people, if she knew what kind of insects and birds they were...... It's weird, okay.

But the roar in her heart, she didn't dare to yell at the person in front of her, after all, the force value is a hard injury!

However, Xiao Huang didn't know that in the eyes of the two people in front of her, she was the one who was deeply hidden.

In terms of Chi Lian's idea, there are very few martial arts cultivators in the world who can reach the master, let alone those who surpass the master.

But the young man with the red fox mask in front of him can find the master and him following him as soon as he walks into this alley, which shows the depth of his internal strength.

This is why Chi Lian released his murderous aura from the beginning, but he never took the mask off Xiao Huang's face with a sword.

However, he prefers to believe that it is his cultivation that is too shallow to "implicate" his master, so he is more and more afraid to do it, for fear of misleading the master's affairs.

But who would have thought that Xiao Huang didn't notice that anyone was coming after him at that time, and was even frightened by their appearance...... So much so that when she later learned about it, she still admired her great fortune.

"This ...... I don't know. Xiao Huang spread her hands, no matter how advanced her martial arts were in the eyes of others, maybe it was because they were not exposing themselves.

But the imagination is plump, the reality is always skinny, and now she has to compromise a little.

"It's almost time for the Lantern Festival to end, and it's time to get back to ......"

"Gong Liyu." The silver-faced man spoke leisurely, his tone low and slow, sounding extremely provocative.

Xiao Huang was stunned, "What?" ”

"The name of this seat has been remembered."

Gong Liyu? After reciting silently in his heart a few times, Xiao Huang unconsciously raised a smile on his face, "Oh, then Your Excellency should also go back to rest early, staying up late is not good for your health, say goodbye!" ”

After a quick speech, she turned around and walked the way she came, anyway, she would not take this road again, if she met any strange people and things again, I am afraid she would have to give her life here tonight.

Xiao Huang pretended to be calm and quickened his pace, and carefully paid attention to the movement behind him, secretly happy in his heart, fortunately, Gong Liqian was still trustworthy.

Seeing that the white figure was getting farther and farther away, a trace of ruthlessness flashed in Chi Lian's eyes, and the person who had always known the name of the master had only one end, "Master, ...... subordinates"

"No need, you just have to follow, such an interesting person finally appeared, and if he died, it wouldn't be fun......"

Here, Xiao Huang did not choose to go back to the General's Mansion directly, she went to the cloth village in the market and bought a piece of cloth, scissors and other messy things, and then opened an upper room in an inn on the street outside the General's Mansion.

Then she went into the house and took off her mask, made a simple cloak of black cloth she had bought, and tied her hair loosely with a few strips of cloth, so that the bangs on her forehead and the hair on the side covered most of her face.

Although tonight's trip was thrilling, but one day a "deranged" person suddenly popped out, even in order to reduce some trouble for herself, she couldn't swagger back.

When everything was ready, Xiao Huang sat and waited for another half an hour, and then she used the rope made of the remaining cloth to ...... from the window Crawled out.

A corner of Kyoto, in the attic.

"Did he really enter the Brave General's Mansion?" Gong Li's fingertips lightly clasped the desk, as if he didn't care about asking.

"Yes, my subordinate stayed on the roof of the inn for nearly half an hour, and then I saw the man come out of the window in disguise and enter the back door of the general's mansion along the alley path."

"Jimo Liyun's mansion, what suspicious people have appeared recently?"

"Returning to the master, there is nothing abnormal, just ......"

Seeing Chi Lian's rare expression flickering, Gong Liyu glanced at him coldly, and the latter couldn't help but shudder down his spine, and said truthfully: "It's just that Jimo Xiaohuang, the daughter of General Xiaoyong, occasionally teaches her personal maid about the operation process of collecting taxes in the Xia Yu Dynasty, and she is extremely proficient. ”

"When?" The voice was as cold as usual, but Chi Lian heard a trace of displeasure from his master at this moment.

He immediately bowed his head and said, "The last time Mo Yan came back to restore his life, it was when the master was out. ”

After pondering for a while, Gong Liyu retracted his gaze, changed his words, and said without expression: "It's almost Chinese New Year's Eve, some corners of the palace will be a little restless, if someone wants to wade into this troubled water, you can just watch from the side, and the rest ...... Do what you have to do. ”

"Yes! The subordinates retired. ”

Where the wind passed, there was only one person left in the attic rubbing the silver mask in his hand with unknown meaning, and the lonely figure on the bank of the Lantern Festival River appeared in front of him, "Jimo Xiaohuang? Heh, it's getting more and more interesting to be on stage......"