It was a bearded man, and although his face was covered, he could see curly yellow hair and rough and dark skin.

As soon as he jumped onto the roof, without the shelter of the crowd, Fang Linyuan saw the situation ahead at a glance.

It was the vendor shop in that area that was on fire, and the fire was very urgent, and in just a moment, three or five houses were already burning one after another. Where the crowd had fled, there were at least twenty or thirty bandits, with their faces covered and holding three-foot-long machetes in their hands, slashing at the crowd.

Fang Linyuan only took a few leaps before approaching the bandit closest to him.

The man was looking at the wind, turned his face and saw Fang Linyuan, and immediately shouted loudly and raised his knife and rushed towards Fang Linyuan.

But the next moment, Fang Linyuan stooped down deftly and swept under his blade and flew behind him.

Before he could turn around, Fang Linyuan had already reached out and grabbed his neck and twisted it violently.

A crunch sound was heard, and the man's head hung down in an abnormal manner.

Fang Linyuan grabbed the long knife that fell from his hand and kicked his body off the roof with one kick.

It smashed on the two bandits who were dragging the young woman, and scattered him in all directions.

The bandits on the street raised their heads one after another.

I saw that the night wind was fierce on the eaves, and the tall and vigorous young man held a long knife and jumped off the eaves.

A bandit stepped forward with a knife and was slashed through the neck by him. As the hot blood splattered, he stepped forward and stabbed another bandit in the chest.

In an instant, three people were killed one after another, and when the bandits around saw this, they all surrounded them with knives, shouting foreign words that they couldn't understand.

Even if he wasn't good at using knives, these miscellaneous pieces were nothing to Fang Linyuan.

Three or four bandits approached together, and as soon as he jumped, the bandit who rushed to the front was instantly cut off his neck, and before he could fall to the ground, the one who had been outflanked from the left side was also cut off by the swept blade.

In his wail, Fang Linyuan stabbed the last one to death.

He looked up at the rest of the bandits.

The bandits around them stopped for a moment, hesitating and exchanging glances with each other, but their feet moved timidly towards the back.

Fang Linyuan's gaze swept over them, and the next moment, he was on tiptoe, holding the knife and heading straight towards them.

Where the blade passed, a bucket full of spring water fell to the ground.

Buckets full of flowers and water were impartially poured on the old man, who was burning in terror and his robes were on fire, and the flames were extinguished.

The group of bandits also seemed to have finally come to their senses, and the birds and beasts scattered a clearing.

The leader said something loudly in Turkic, and a dozen or so bandits scattered in all directions, fleeing in the direction of the street.

Fang Linyuan caught up directly.

I just killed a few, and now I have to catch one or two more alive and ask the mastermind behind the scenes.

But the market is wide, and Fang Linyuan is two zhang away from the nearest one. He held his breath and jumped a few times, but saw that the gang of bandits had already approached the people who were answering the horse, and they were about to escape.

He calculated so carefully, and there were one hundred and eighty accomplices!

Fang Linyuan gritted his teeth.

But at this moment, a faint sound of breaking the air passed by him. The bandit in front of him screamed, his legs went limp, and he fell on the roof.

Fang Linyuan hurriedly turned around.

I saw that above the street market where the flames were rolling and there was a mess, Zhao Pu was standing there with the basket of gardenias in one hand, looking up at him.

Fang Linyuan didn't dare to pause for a moment, turned around a few steps and flew forward, pulling the bandit up by the collar.

But I saw that black blood was already overflowing from his mouth, his eyes were white, and he had long lost his breath.

He committed suicide by poisoning.

When Fang Linyuan looked up again, he saw that the group of bandits had already jumped into another street, mounted their horses and galloped away. It was only half a mile from the West City Gate, and the one at the head had already broken through the pass of the city gate amid the neighing of the horses.

——

"Dead."

Fang Linyuan held a knife in one hand and jumped down from the eaves with the corpse of the bandit in the other, and walked in front of Zhao Pu.

He slammed the corpse to the ground, then dropped the knife and moved his wrist a few times.

"You stopped him just now?" Fang Linyuan asked.

Just now, when he lifted the body of the bandit, he saw his pants nailed to the crook of his legs.

It was an embroidery needle that had been driven into his hamstring.

Zhao Pu didn't answer, lowered his eyes and squatted down, and reached out to take out the silver needle on the corpse's leg.

Xiu's eyebrows were slightly twisted, his eyes were cold, and Fang Linyuan could see the dislike in his expression at a glance.

As soon as the needle was removed, he threw it aside as if he had touched something, took out the silk handkerchief and wiped his hands.

"Come prepared, I won't leave you alive." Zhao Pu lowered his eyes and said.

"Why is the city so lax?" Fang Linyuan frowned. "How can so many Hu people with knives not notice it."

"The city gate is heavily guarded, and the sixteen guards patrolling the city are in Beijing, and most of them are the children of officials who are messing around." Zhao Pu said, staring at the West City Gate.

"But just now, it's the time for the West City Gate to change the whistle."

"They had already devised an escape route." Fang Linyuan said.

Zhao Pu snorted, lifted the hem of her skirt with one hand, and walked in front of a corpse.

"What do you do?" Fang Linyuan asked.

saw Zhao Xuan raise his legs, stepped on the brocade embroidered shoes embedded with pearls, and stepped on the cloth covered by the man.

"They still have poison in their mouths." Zhao Pu said. "Xu Neng can be used as a clue."

As he spoke, he twisted his brow irritably, wrapped his fingers in layers of silk handkerchiefs, and then leaned over to the Turkic man's face.

That's it, this highness is really afraid of getting dirty.

"I'll do it." Fang Linyuan really couldn't look at him, so he pulled him away with one hand and stepped forward.

At that moment, the sound of horses' hooves sounded faintly in the distance.

Fang Linyuan looked up and saw that the leader was an official dressed in indigo, followed by dozens of soldiers.

"The Sixteen Guards." I only heard Zhao Pu say lightly.

"You're here when you're running out?" Fang Linyuan looked at it fixedly, and saw that the leader was actually red, his eyes were wandering, and he saw where he was drunk.

If it is a soldier under him, he will not be rewarded with thirty military sticks today, and Fang Linyuan's name will be written upside down.

"We don't have to." Fang Linyuan turned around and looked at the sixteen guards who were riding horses.

"This kind of dirty work, just use it to wake up this bar."

——

Immediately, that person was Li Cheng'an, the deputy commander of the 16th Guard, and when Rongchang Street was in turmoil, he was leading a group of subordinates to eat and drink in Taixing Building a street away.

When the news came, he hurriedly got on his horse and hurried over, but it was clear that the wine had not yet woken up, and let the cold wind blow again, which made him have a headache.

It's a big holiday, why did you come across this?

When his father forced him into the Sixteenth Garrison, he said he didn't want to come, but his father forced him to find an errand to do. What do you say about going to the capital to defend an iron bucket, and there are forbidden troops and brocade guards guarding it, and the sixteenth guard Suri is only in charge of some small things such as street fights, or any effort.

What happened, the Hu people dared to set fire to the capital!

Li Chengan rode all the way, and scolded him one by one in his heart, going up to his father in the military department and down to the city defenders.

Rongchang Street is already depressed, and it is full of people, and the people on the street have run out. As he rode all the way over, he saw only one shop and a few stalls in the middle of the street on fire, and several corpses lying on the ground, dirty and disgusting.

Then he saw two men standing in the middle of the street.

Wearing a brocade dress in a bun was a very tall young beauty, and from a distance you could see a striking color. And the one next to him is a very handsome little white face, but he is covered in blood, and his appearance is strange and scary.

As soon as his horse came to a stop, and before he could catch his breath, he saw the little white face and strode up.

"Who are you?" Li Chengan stared at him condescendingly.

The next moment, the little white face grabbed his reins and tugged at him violently. He was dragged to a stumbling side, and the little white face grabbed the back of the neck and lifted him from the horse.

“…… Oops! Bold, let me go! ”

——

"Hurry up and put out the fire." Fang Linyuan tore off the squeaky commander led by him, turned his head and ordered the guards behind him.

Seeing that he was so bold, those soldiers must be descendants of the family, and they didn't dare to slack off for a while, and they stepped forward to fetch water to put out the rescue.

And the commanding envoy, who had drunk too much wine and was torn crooked by him, was full of anger.

"Who are you!" He struggled. "Don't let go of me yet!"

"You're on duty today?" Fang Linyuan held his hand but didn't move.

"Do you know who my dad is!" Li Chengan shouted in annoyance.

Fang Linyuan sneered and walked to the front of Hu Ren's corpse with him.

But when he saw this commander, he was clearly wearing a long knife at his waist and wearing an official uniform, but he vomited when he saw the appearance of the corpse.

"Your father? I'm your father. ”

Fang Linyuan was expressionless and pressed him towards the corpse. "Pull out the contents of his mouth, and if it breaks, I will take you to your ancestors now."

——

The pill hidden in the tooth pass was pulled out by Li Chengan tremblingly.

Fang Linyuan took it with one hand and threw him aside with the other.

"One is enough, right?" He held the pill with a handkerchief and walked in front of Zhao Pu.

Zhao Xuan lowered his eyes and looked at the pill, nodded, and said, "It's useless if you have more." ”

Fang Linyuan nodded, wrapped the pills in layers, and tucked them into his sleeve.

"You just said, who is your father?" Fang Linyuan rolled his eyebrows and looked at Li Chengan again. "Let me hear if it's enough to buy your derelict head."

Li Chengan was retching vigorously beside him with his knees propped up, and when he saw Fang Linyuan coming to attack again, he wiped his mouth and straightened up and said angrily: "Dereliction of duty? This group of Turks came out of nowhere, did I let them into the city! ”

"All the streets in Shangjing are patrolled and guarded by you, when this group of bandits set fire to kill, where are your sixteen guards, and where are you?" Fang Linyuan asked.

Li Chengan's face turned red, and he held back a sentence for a moment: "...... Who are you, you. ”

Fang Linyuan coldly withdrew his gaze.

At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves came from a distance, and when they looked up, they saw a eunuch in brocade, holding the reins in one hand and leading a tall horse in the other, galloping towards them.

Li Chengan swallowed.

He knew the eunuch's clothes, and only the people who served around the emperor wore them like this.

"Someone from the palace?" On the side, Fang Linyuan asked in a low voice.

Zhao Pu looked at the man and nodded.

Seeing that the eunuch stopped in a hurry in front of them, he dismounted, and then stepped forward and knelt down in front of Fang Linyuan.

"Master Hou, Your Majesty learned about the incident on Rongchang Street and urgently summoned you to the palace."

Fang Linyuan and Zhao Xuan glanced at each other, nodded at him, and then stepped forward.

The eunuch hurriedly led the horse to Fang Linyuan, and handed him the reins with both hands: "Master Hou, please." ”

Fang Linyuan jumped on the horse, pulled the reins, and glanced at Li Chengan lightly.

"You'd better not know who I am." He said. "At that point, it's time for you to fall into my hands."

Li Chengan's face was as earth-colored, so he saw Fang Linyuan lightly clamping the horse's belly, pulling the reins, and riding into the night.

He ...... He ......"

Then, he saw the eunuch saluting the gorgeous woman, and said respectfully: "See Her Royal Highness the princess, the slave and maid will retire first." ”

…… Princess?

Li Chengan looked at the woman in surprise.

saw that his expression was indifferent, and his eyebrows were lowered, like Guanyin standing high in the clouds.

The eunuch saluted him, but he did not move, carrying the basket of cheap gardenias in one hand and rolling up his sleeves in the other, and floated past them, and walked straight in the direction of the street.

He didn't even give him a single look.

The street in front of him was a mess, bloody, and the lanterns were on the ground. Large swaths of flowers fell to the ground and were trampled into the mud, and the original magnificent and brilliant colors showed a bit of strange ghost in the crackling and burning smoke.

At this moment, the night wind blew, stirring the messy lanterns and shaking gently, and the crisp copper bells rang in the silent night.

The woman stopped.

In the torn light and shadow of the flames and the night wind, he stopped and looked up at the flickering bell.

Then he stepped forward and gently removed one from above.

Li Cheng'an suddenly saw the gorgeous female ghost walking out of the painting, and was reaching out to get the liver and gallbladder of the living.

He didn't dare to come out again.

When he came back to his senses, the empty streets were nothing but a mess blown by the night wind.

And under the flickering bell shop, a silver ingot lay quietly on top of the box. ：，，.