Chapter 21 Ingenuity

Ye Feng chatted with Xiao Bai for nearly a night, and he not only asked Xiao Bai about the reason for delaying his awakening time, but also asked all about some sword skills that he couldn't understand recently.

Xiao Bai is worthy of being a master with the realm of Sword Venerable, and many things that Ye Feng can't understand can often be explained clearly by Xiao Bai in one sentence, which makes Ye Feng understand a lot of truths overnight.

When the eastern sky was white, Xiao Bai returned to the inside of the pendant.

Before entering the pendant, he told Ye Feng that he also had some things about soul cultivation recently, and he needed to retreat and specialize, so he would still disappear for a while.

Seeing that after Xiao Bai entered the pendant, the pendant returned to coldness, and Ye Feng's eyes couldn't help but show a hint of loneliness.

Although he didn't have a lot of contact with Xiao Bai, he had long regarded Xiao Bai, a partner who was also a teacher and friend, as a close relative.

He knew very well that if it weren't for Xiao Bai, he would never be where he is today, let alone being valued by the Lishui Sword Sect and becoming the upper class of the Yin Shang Kingdom.

Carefully hanging the pendant on the front and back of his chest, Ye Feng walked quickly towards the post station.

When he came to the front of the post station, he found that Zhan Peng and the others had already packed up, waiting for him to return alone, and then all set off.

After saying hello to everyone with a little apology, Ye Feng jumped on the horse.

While raising the whip to urge the horse, his eyes glanced at the carriage in which the master and servant of Lianqiao were riding, and a smile appeared in his eyes.

"If he escorts his master and servant to Putian County safely, will he get a high-level weapon?" Thinking of the promise the woman had made, Ye Feng laughed slyly.

One morning, the caravan was uneventful.

But in the afternoon, when a dark cloud came galloping in the sky, covering the entire clear sky, a trace of foreboding rose in everyone's hearts.

The Yin Shang Kingdom is located in the southeast and is not a rainy country. Many people have never seen baby-faced weather from birth to death, and now when they see dark clouds sweeping the entire sky, many foot merchants can't help but be secretly frightened.

Dark clouds swept the sky in less than a tea time, and the rain fell with a downpour.

Dense raindrops poured down from the sky, and in the blink of an eye, the whole world was reflected in a silvery white.

The rain obscured the view of men and horses, and the caravan had to stop.

After going out to investigate for a long time, Zhan Peng ran from a distance in the face of the wind and rain.

He told them that on a mound not far away, there was a thatched hut built by hunters. Just now, he had already discussed with the hunters inside, so that everyone could go into the grass hut to hide from the rain first.

Everyone who had already been drenched in the torrential rain heard Zhan Peng's words, and cheered in unison, even ignoring the goods, and desperately ran towards the grass shed.

Ye Feng and He Huan followed everyone into the grass shed, and when they entered the grass shed, those merchants had already sat in a group around the only stove in the grass shed.

After a cursory observation, Ye Feng found that there was only one hunter in a patched shirt in this grass shed at the moment, who was boiling ginger tea for everyone.

After not detecting any abnormalities in the grass shed, Ye Feng and He Huan sat down in the corner of the grass shed.

As soon as the two of them sat down, the coachman surnamed Cheng, Lianqiao, and the woman who had never shown her true face also walked in from outside.

The woman wears a peaked hat on top of her head and a black scarf over her face.

Although everyone couldn't see the woman's face, after seeing the woman's figure, their eyes couldn't help but straighten.

The woman's figure is definitely above the first-class level, and for these foot merchants whose only entertainment is in a brothel on weekdays, seeing a woman's figure is enough to make them have a physiological reaction.

Facing everyone's bewildered eyes, a trace of anger rose on Lianqiao's face.

She glared at everyone angrily and said in a deep voice, "Look at what you see, and if you look at it again, I will gouge out your eyeballs." ”

Lianqiao's angry rebuke caused everyone to turn their heads in unison, thinking of the means by which Lianqiao and the three of them raised their hands to kill the three assassins that day, and the hearts of those foot merchants all trembled.

Seeing everyone turn around, Lian Qiao nodded with satisfaction.

Patrolling left and right, she found that Ye Feng and He Huan were sitting in another corner, she hesitated for a moment, and then said, "Miss, why don't we go and sit over there." ”

The direction that Lian Qiao was pointing in was exactly the opposite of the direction where Ye Feng was located.

Seeing that Lianqiao's expression was extremely unnatural, the coachman surnamed Cheng pursed his lips and secretly laughed, while the woman shook her head slightly.

"No, let's go over there. The woman said softly.

When the words fell, she ignored the strange gazes of Lianqiao and the coachman surnamed Cheng, and took the lead in walking in the direction where Ye Feng was.

The place where Ye Feng and He Huan were sitting was the corner of the grass shed.

After the two of them sat down, there happened to be an open space around them, and the woman didn't greet Ye Feng and sat down in the open space.

Even the woman sat down, and Lianqiao and the coachman surnamed Cheng naturally couldn't separate from them.

The two sat on the woman's side, their eyes scanning the surroundings vigilantly.

In the center of the thatched hut, Orion, who was boiling ginger tea, poured ginger tea out of the cauldron.

Smelling the faint aroma of ginger tea, all the merchants around him brought out their own bowls and basins.

Everyone served a bowl of ginger tea, blew the hot air lightly, and took small sips.

Hearing the sound of the foot merchants, Lian Qiao hesitated, took out three silver bowls in her bag, and said, "Miss, or I'll pour some ginger tea." ”

The woman did not speak, and the eyes of the coachman surnamed Cheng remained fixed on the merchants who had drunk ginger tea.

Seeing that there seemed to be no signs of poisoning, the coachman surnamed Cheng nodded at Lianqiao.

Lian Qiao took a few steps forward with the silver bowl in his hand.

Suddenly, she turned around and took out two silver bowls from her bag again, and then walked quickly to Orion.

"Please bring me a few bowls of ginger tea too. Lian Qiao said politely.

The emaciated Orion, with a somewhat gloomy face, raised his head, glanced at Lianqiao, and silently raised his spoon to fill the silver bowl in front of Lianqiao.

Lianqiao carried five silver bowls full of ginger tea on a tray and returned to the resting place.

After handing the ginger tea to Miss and the coachman surnamed Cheng respectively, she whispered, "Miss, why don't I send these two bowls of ginger tea to them?"

The woman didn't speak, just nodded.

She picked up the ginger tea, carefully lifted the corner of the veil, and slowly passed it to the corner of her lips.

At the moment when the woman's red lips were about to touch the silver bowl, suddenly, Ye Feng, who was meditating with his eyes closed, spewed out a puff of sword qi in his hand, shattering the tea bowl.

After breaking the tea bowl, Ye Feng stood up, stared at the trembling Orion, and said in a deep voice: "Your Excellency looks like a character, why hide your head and show your tail?"

As if he was a frightened hunter, his expression suddenly became extremely hideous.

He chuckled and threw away the spoon in his hand, and leaped over the head of the foot-walking merchant.

"If your fate is great, I will spare your life for the time being. The Orion cried. With that, he slammed into the hut wall, and then ran quickly into the rain.

Inside the grass house, Ye Feng stared at Orion's back, and a cold light flashed in his eyes.

He glanced at He Huan, and He Huan, who had already locked on Orion, immediately rushed out of the grass hut like an arrow.

Under the rain curtain, He Huan and Orion were soon lost.

At this moment, Lianqiao, who was stunned, saw that the ground soaked in ginger tea on the ground had been stained black.

"How did he find out that Orion was an Assassin?" said Lian Qiao in a low voice.

Beside her, the woman, who was frightened but did not show any fear, whispered, "If I am not mistaken, he must have noticed Orion's hand. It is impossible for any Orion to have an unusually white palm, but the Fake Orion's palm is smoother than a woman's, which is definitely not normal. ”

The woman's explanation made Lian Qiao suddenly realize, she looked at the woman suspiciously, and asked, "Miss, have you already discovered the flaws of that hunter?"

The woman shook her head, even through the veil, she could still feel the regret in her heart.

She explained in a low voice, "No, I didn't notice the assassin's palm until he revealed the assassin's identity. ”

As she spoke, the woman looked at Ye Feng sideways, and found that Ye Feng looked determined that He Huan would be safe, and she couldn't help but wonder in her heart.

He Huan's strength was only a seventh-level swordsman, and that assassin was obviously at the level of a ninth-level swordsman in his cultivation.

She couldn't figure out what the reason was that Ye Feng was so confident that his partner would definitely be able to come back safely.

In the rain curtain, the two figures seemed to pass through quickly.

Due to the excessive speed, the figures of the two people left afterimages in the rain curtain.

Suddenly, a sword light like a meteor burst out from the rain curtain.

Everywhere the sword light reached, the torrential rain stopped falling as if it had suddenly stopped.

With a muffled "poof", the swordsman running forward staggered, and a puddle of blood erupted from his vest, and he fell to the ground suddenly.

Inside the thatched hut, the foot merchants who had drunk herbal tea and suspected that they were poisonous, were all huddled in a ball of fright.

Seeing that this group of foot merchants were so frightened that their hands and feet became weak and they lost their ability to walk, Ye Feng couldn't help but shake his head.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the tea you drank was not poisoned, and I saw with my own eyes that the assassin had only poisoned the ginger tea of the five of us. Ye Feng explained with a smile.

Under his explanation, the footmen all stood up in disbelief.

They had just stood up when there was another sound of footsteps outside the hut.

He Huan, who was drenched in by the rain, strode in from the outside, and as soon as he entered the room, he dropped a bloody human head.