Wei Xiangduan sat in front of the bookcase, looking serene, and smiled slightly when he saw his wife come in.

Mrs. Wei stroked her chest and breathed a sigh of relief, and said angrily, "You are still smiling." "I used to sit in front of the desk.

Wei Xiang suddenly saw a few blood stains on his wife's left hand, was shocked, possessed her hand, and asked eagerly, "Are you injured?" ”

Mrs. Wei was inexplicable, shook her head, and when she saw the blood stains on her hands, she suddenly realized, pulled out her hand and rubbed it, and said, "I was in a hurry just now, and I was pricked by a sewing needle." ”

Wei Xiang relieved himself and asked, "How is it outside?" ”

"What else, two assassins, caught one and ran away."

"Caught one, ran one." Wei Xiang muttered in his mouth, rummaging through a pile of slips with both hands, and only after a while did he come up with a sentence: "Very good"

"What is very good. This place is not like your previous Taishou Mansion, it is Chang'an, there are many people and miscellaneous. In the future, it is necessary to strengthen vigilance and have someone to patrol the night. Mrs. Wei couldn't help but chatter.

"There are many people and they are miscellaneous." Wei Xiang shook his head and sighed, and said, "Madame just arranges it." With that, he took out a roll of bamboo slips and spread it on the desk, lowered his head and began to read.

"You don't want to know where the assassins came from?" Mrs. Wei asked.

"Where did it come from?" Wei Xiang's attention was on the bamboo slips.

"Huo Mansion, someone recognized the captured assassin as a Huo Mansion slave."

"Huo Mansion?" Wei Xiang raised his face and glanced at his wife, and snorted.

"It's rumored outside that you went to the secret to persuade the emperor to take away the power of the Huo clan, can they not hate you?"

"Tantra?" Wei Xiang shook his head helplessly: "They only remember that I said 'depriving their power', and they didn't understand the good intentions of 'the world of all meritorious heroes' that I wrote later." The general is gone, the descendants of the Huo family have no talent and no virtue, and they still want to seize power, how can they serve the public? What's wrong with returning to the emperor and enjoying wealth and prosperity. As he spoke, he became emotional, snapping the bamboo slip and throwing it on the table.

"Even so, you have a clear conscience." Mrs. Wei sighed lightly.

"Huo Quai, Huo Guang, Huo's Kunzhong, the pillar of the Han family, has high merit. Therefore, I have been working hard to preserve the descendants of the Huo family. But they went faster and farther on the road to death. I also want to stop them, but I can't stop them, I can't stop them. Wei Xiang's tone became deeper and lower. He slowly stood up and walked to the door, his eyes staring into the distance, sad.

He sighed, he really didn't want to see another one more charge of the Huo family, after thinking about it, he called to cover it up, and told him to take care of the people in the mansion, no one was allowed to say that there were assassins, and if outsiders asked, they would say that there were thieves in the mansion.

At that time, the moon and stars are scarce. Niu Baoguo lay on the ridge of the wall and did not dare to make a sound, and after a while, the courtyard returned to calm. He lay on the wall for a while, then slowly regained his strength, climbed the ridge of the wall with both hands, and jumped to the ground outside the courtyard. Before the person could stand firmly, he heard a chuckle behind him: "Master Niu, long time no see." ”

Niu Baoguo was so frightened that he stood there for a long time before he slowly turned around. First, when I saw the long figure printed on the ground in the moonlight, I couldn't help but feel worried in my heart, and when I raised my head, I saw that there was a young man standing in front of me. He felt that the young man was very familiar, but he couldn't remember who it was for a while.

The young man grinned and said: "Master Niu, don't say goodbye to Pingding County, your skills have grown a lot, and you can climb the wall well." ”

When Niu Baoguo heard him say this, he suddenly remembered the humiliation he suffered in Pingding County, and his face turned red: "Zhang Xiaoyi." ”

"Remembered?" Zhang Xiaoyi was still smiling.

Niu Baoguo's face was gloomy, and when he saw that there was no one beside him, he secretly clenched his fists and wanted to attack. At this time, a few clouds floated in the sky, covering the moonlight, and Zhang Xiaoyi's figure also disappeared into the darkness.

He subconsciously closed his eyes, and in an instant, he suddenly woke up: "What am I talking about with this little child?" ”

Niu Baoguo has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, and he has made small achievements after growing up, creating a random five-in-a-row palm, and becoming a faction of his own in the martial arts. However, he is not willing to be poor and intends to cling to the powerful, but his status is low, and no one takes him seriously. So he appointed himself the head of the house, accepted some apprentices, slowly became famous, and was extended by Xu Yanshou to the house. Unexpectedly, in a battle with Zhang Xiaoyi, he, a martial arts master, was defeated by Lu Li's chaotic fists, losing face, and could no longer stay in the Xu family manor. He went to Chang'an to join his friend Ren Wushi and became a guest of Huofu.

He originally thought that by relying on the Huo family, the first powerful person in the Han Dynasty, he would be able to soar. However, today's encounter, he understood that he was just a pawn of the Huo family, using it if he used it, and discarding it without mercy. "Without any explanation, he sent me to assassinate the prime minister of the dynasty, hehe." He sighed in his heart, and it was difficult to hide his sadness.

Niu Baoguo stared at Zhang Xiaoyi, thinking to himself, it was fortunate that this kid screamed in the courtyard just now and stopped the assassination of the prime minister, maybe he saved his life.

"Hey, people from the rivers and lakes, what kind of court dispute are you involved in?" Thinking of this, a friendly smile appeared on his face: "Zhang Xiaoyi, you are still so naughty." ”

Zhang Xiaoyi saw that he suddenly became kind, and he was vigilant, took two steps back, and made a posture of response.

Niu Baoguo just smiled and said sincerely: "Brother Xiaoyi, it was not mine before, and today I want to thank you for saving my life." Seeing Zhang Xiaoyi's shocked expression, he continued: "I didn't know that I was here to assassinate the prime minister today. I defected to Huofu, just to show my ambitions, but I became a pawn at the mercy of others. ”

He sighed, "Don't have such ambitions." ”

When Niu Baoguo said this, Zhang Xiaoyi didn't understand it very well, but seeing that he looked depressed, he was a little reluctant and grinned.

After the fight in Pingding County, he always thought that Niu Baoguo was just bluffing people and had no real skills. However, when I saw Niu Baoguo's ability to break out of the encirclement just now, I felt that I had despised this person, and I felt a little ashamed in my heart.

In fact, Niu Baoguo learned from the pain and figured out a way to control chaos with chaos. There is no routine in Lu Li Chaoquan, or with brute force or skill. Therefore, he summed up a way to deal with chaotic boxing, don't pay attention to any routines, rely on internal force and quick reaction, just fight, try it tonight, and it really works.

Zhang Xiaoyi just wanted to open his mouth to respond a few words, but he heard a sound of footsteps from the other side of the street, which seemed extremely noisy in the quiet night. His face changed suddenly, and he said in a low voice: "It's not good, the officers and soldiers who are patrolling the night are here, run." "Just run away.

Not long after Niu Baoguo came to Chang'an, he didn't know what to do, and he was stunned for a moment, and Zhang Xiaoyi was gone. He also secretly screamed, "Not good." He ran away. I only heard a group of people behind me shouting chaotically: "What people? Don't run, stop. ”

Niu Baoguo turned a few streets like a fly, and felt that there was no movement behind him, so he stopped, and then his legs were weak, and he sat down at the foot of the wall, his head hanging on his knees and panting. After a while, he felt better, and slowly stood up against the wall, thinking that he was too old to withstand such a violent toss.

He looked around, looked up at the starry sky again, identified the direction, and headed towards Huo's mansion.

It was late at night, the gate of Huofu was closed, Niu Baoguo stretched out his hand and was about to knock on the door, hesitated, turned around and looked at the shadow of the tree sprinkled on the ground not far away, sighed lightly, trotted a few steps, climbed the tree and climbed over the wall.

The huge Huo Mansion is full of people, and it is covered with a layer of pale moonlight, which is even more bleak.

Niu Baoguo first went back to his living room to change his clothes, and then walked through the corridor and came to the outside of Huo Yun's study.

He found that the room was lit with lights, but it was very quiet, and he thought that Xiao Liu must not have come back, so he coughed lightly, cleared his throat, and wondered what to say.

He heard Xiao Liu's scream, but he didn't know what happened in the future. He took off his hemp shoes, bowed his head and crossed the threshold, arched his hands and walked straight to the direction of the bookcase, and did not dare to raise his head, and called in a low voice: "Lord." "Waited for a while, but there was no response. He called again: "Lord." There was still no response, so he slowly raised his head, and it turned out that there was no one behind the bookcase.

He breathed a sigh of relief, straightened up and prepared to go back to his room, when he accidentally glanced at the bookcase, and found that there was a brocade bag on it, and next to it was a black object, which shimmered in the light. His eyes were drawn to this strange object, and he stared at it for a long time, and his heart moved, and he looked back at the room, but there was no one. Unable to suppress his curiosity, he turned and walked over to the bookcase and picked up the object.

"Tiger Talisman?" After Niu Baoguo saw this object clearly, he couldn't help but be surprised. "This is the tiger talisman that mobilized the Beiying Forbidden Army, why is it here?" He subconsciously looked out of the door, and without thinking much about it, he grabbed the brocade bag and put it into the tiger talisman, put it in his sleeve, and jumped out in three steps and two steps.

Running into the yard and being blown by the cool breeze, he suddenly sobered up a lot, "What am I doing with this tiger talisman?" He shook his head self-deprecatingly. I was hesitating whether to return it, when I saw someone walk into the bookstore, thinking that there was no way back. "Run." He screamed in his heart, and climbed the wall with a bone.

Climbing out of the wall, I vaguely heard someone in the courtyard shouting, "Catch the thief." ”

He smiled bitterly and looked up at the sky, the deep blue starry sky was deep and vast.