It's night, Jiangcheng.

The light of the bright candle reflected the earthy papier-mâché window paper, and the wind blew through the cracks, slightly blowing the flickering candle flame, so that when viewed from the outside of the house, it was as if someone was carrying a wick. Even if the husband is wandering the streets, he keeps reporting: "At night, watch out for the candles." Then the sound of the gong was struck: "Knock, knock!" Boom! The sound of gongs and drums repeated the shouts of the husband, but there were still many rooms with lights that had not yet been extinguished in the silent middle of the night.

The winter wind whined and blew, rolling up some fallen leaves on the side of the stone path, rolling in the air or on the ground, sweeping a cloud of dust covered with stone slabs, swinging to the red-glowing lanterns in front of the wooden doors of every house, and then to the place where the wind settled.

"the boy, wake up, wake up."

In a house where the lights were still on, the man was holding the baby who was falling asleep wrapped in swaddling clothes, and he used his free right hand to push the woman lying on the bed with some anxiety: "Wake up, wake up." ”

The woman woke up to him disturbingly, and she hurriedly sat up straight and called softly, "Child." "Busy looking for his three-month-old son.

"Here." The man whispered, sat down on the edge of the bed, and gently handed the baby in his arms over.

The woman carefully took the sleeping baby, and she whispered to the man, "It stinks, what did Nong tell me to do, I thought-"

"Shhhhhh

The woman clutched her swaddling clothes, visibly flustered, and she moved in fear towards the bed against the wall.

The man got up, slowly avoided the tables and then walked to the door, suddenly opened it and saw that all the flying leaves rushed in, he was so frightened that he hurriedly ran back, and hurriedly ran to the bed and hugged his daughter-in-law and child, only the two of them were shaking with their swaddling clothes.

The candle flame went out, and the dark room gradually fell silent.

After a while, the woman raised her head slightly, but only saw a fallen leaf in the moonlight, and there was nothing abnormal in the rest, so she realized that it was indeed a false alarm.

She pushed the man away, and scolded again: "Timid! It's still a man, and it's like a single wind scares anything. ”

The man slowly turned his head, breathed a long sigh of relief, and said, "It's okay if there's nothing to do, it's okay to have nothing to do." But when he got out of bed, and was about to close the door, a dark shadow flashed in, and the man and woman were so frightened that they fainted on the ground and on the bed.

The dark shadow that had broken into the room melted into the darkness, and with his sword in hand, he walked towards the crying baby. The baby had been thrown on the bed by the woman who had passed out, and when he was picked up, he had to cry harder, as the price for waking him up and falling painfully.

At this moment, an unusual wind came from behind the black shadow, and in the baby's loud crying, Yang Xizi tightly protected the baby with his right hand, but he didn't have time to draw his sword to fight back, so he could only dodge the sword blade to the left. The blade of the sword lost its target and suddenly turned in the opposite direction, and she quickly used her waist to dodge the sword body in the shadows.

In between these breaths, there are already two blows.

Yang Xi knew that she was holding the baby and there was no way to fight back, so she wanted to run out of the door, but just as she stabilized her body, she was tripped by the latter with a hook kick, and the baby was thrown to the ground. It was too late, and when Yang Xi lost her balance in mid-air and fell down rapidly, she turned her head with all her strength, and after a "bang" sound, she hit the ground with her left arm to protect the baby on her right.

But this time, it really hurts.

"After catching you thief for half a month, I can finally arrest you tonight!"

As soon as Yang Xi heard this, she knew that the person who attacked her behind her should be a catcher.

But this arrester is so stupid that he captures her as a thief

Yang Xi lay on the ground and shouted bitterly: "You are blind to catch fast, if I were the thief who stole the baby, would I still protect him like this?" ”

The voice is crisp, not like the rich timbre of a man.

Since Jiangcheng had a thief who specializes in stealing babies half a month ago, he always steals in the middle of the night at the third watch, does not steal gold and silver property, does not steal fancy clothes and clothes, but only steals babies who are not yet full moon, and leaves the immortal wisps tied on the baby's arms and throws them at the head of the bed. caused all kinds of rumors in Jiangcheng, which made everyone in Jiangcheng who had babies under the full moon panic, until it reached the ears of Lord Xu, the government of Jiangcheng Mansion, and Lord Xu issued a heavy order to arrest this bold thief......

The catcher didn't pay attention to the words of the person who fell to the ground, and only squatted down to snatch the baby who was being held tightly by Yang Xi, and suddenly smelled a fragrance emanating from Yang Xi's body. Caught quickly and intoxicated approached and took a deep breath, then rolled his eyes, put down his sword, and placed the baby on the ground, he grinned secretly: "Well, it's quite fragrant, don't you let me have fun catching a female thief?" ”

At this time, he insisted on taking off his shirt, but he didn't notice that Yang Xi's eyes were as big as eggs.

"Shhh...... Hiss ......"

An eerie, somewhat trembling voice washed over the fast-catching right ear with a hot breath.

Yang Xi, who was in front of him, had already backed back with his hands on the ground behind him, and looked at the thin body lying in the faint moonlight with wide eyes and great horror - the long unkempt hair seemed to be stained with foreign objects, like the living corpse that her father had described to her - "It's just that it has no spirit, it can still walk, run, and kill......"

Yang Xi suddenly regretted running out of the house, she had wanted to go to the Qingfeng Temple on the Jinnan Mountain where all the legendary monks were strong in martial arts to learn martial arts, but when she ran to the south gate, the city gate had already closed. She had to turn back the way she came, but she never thought that she would encounter the living corpse that her father had told her.

"Daddy......"

She stepped back, and although she couldn't see the appearance of the living corpse, she was sure that it was definitely not human!

He could clearly feel that he was being held against a sharp weapon behind his back, and although he was through his clothes, he could still feel a cold and terrible feeling! He wanted to stop the female thief so that the female thief could come back and save him, but the thing behind him that didn't know whether it was a human or a ghost was choking his throat with a cold hand, especially when he smelled the extreme stench of that thing, he had burst into tears, and silently swore in his heart: "If you don't die today, you will never go back and never scold your daughter-in-law for smelling feet!" ”

But when he saw the female thief running faster than a rabbit, he shouted angrily in his heart: "Stinky, don't let me catch you again, otherwise ......"

on the streets.

"No! I, Yang Xinai, a dignified and chivalrous woman in the rivers and lakes, how can I leave this hunt and run away alone? Not to mention the baby! Just as Yang Xi turned around and wanted to go back to save him, he thought again: "But this catch is full of evil, and I still want to ...... That's it, the wicked have their own wicked grinding! But—" She hesitated, on the one hand, the benevolence of the rivers and lakes, and on the other hand, her own life, and her mind recalled the cry of the baby, and she made up her mind.

"Daddy said that to be a man, you must have benevolence and righteousness in the rivers and lakes, and you can't do the rivers and lakes without benevolence and righteousness! For the sake of that child, I must go back! But just as she was about to turn around, Yang Xi's body suddenly trembled, and she clearly sensed that there was a pair of hands on her left shoulder, could it be a living corpse chasing out......