The morning sun shines through the forest, the birdsong gracefully stays in the remnant wall and decadent courtyard, the moss is mottled with old trees, and in the sun, two groups of people hold their own weapons, facing each other inside and outside.

"Min Shangshu. ”

The door of the small courtyard is tilted, and on the horses at the door, the figure wearing a blue robe and leather armor is lifted, and he dismounts with a cloak, and walks into the courtyard with yellow boots on a blue background and arches his hands.

The four long knives with broken necks behind his back reflected the morning light, and the forest was cold and snow-white, so that the seven guards inside escorted the gray-haired old man in the middle to move backwards.

"Get out of the way, you really have to resist, none of you can stop him. ”

Min Changwen pressed the shoulders of one of the guards, pursed his lips and walked out of the guards, shaking off his wide sleeves and returning the salute.

"Zuo Qianwei, long time no see. ”

Over there, Zuo Zhengyang raised his hand and asked the subordinates behind him to put away the swordsmen, and he was also relieved, as long as the swords and soldiers did not face each other, it would be the best result.

The two looked at each other for a while, but Zuo Zhengyang still spoke first.

"Min Shangshu, you are a member of the imperial court, why did you suddenly abandon the Jingshi and make Your Majesty angry, Zuo knows that you are a human being, and you will never do such a thing. ”

In the sound of weapons returning to the sheath, Min Changwen nodded, stretched out his hand to invite him to sit on the stone bench on the side, sighed, and looked up at the moss-dappled tree.

"Zuo Qianwei, you also know that there are demons rampant in this world, right?"

"I know that when Zhou Yao's mansion was outside, he encountered a spirit at night, and Zuo personally cut off a fox's tail. Zuo Zhengyang put the thin knife on his waist to the corner of the table, his hand paused, and his eyes suddenly looked at the old man opposite.

"Min Shangshu means that there are monsters in the capital, so you have to escape from the city?"

The old man remembered the events of that night, closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

"Many, Lord Gong, the head of the household, has suffered an accident. ”

Zuo Zhengyang frowned, stood up suddenly, his eyes swept over the two groups of people who were wary of each other around him, his hand waved away, but his voice was low.

"Impossible, when Zuo went out of Beijing, he also saw Master Gong go to the court. ”

"Then do you think the old man is lying and deceiving you?" the old man got up and looked at him without waves, "Zuo Qianwei and the old man have known each other for many years, have you ever seen me stand upright?!"

Looking at the old man's tone and expression, Zuo Zhengyang clenched his fists for a while, and then nodded.

"I believe in Min Shangshu!"

As he spoke, he grabbed the saber at the corner of the table, turned around and yelled at the more than ten subordinates brought from outside the courtyard: "You stay here to protect Lord Shangshu, and I will go back to the capital to find out the truth in person!"

"Zuo Qianwei can't!"

The old man stopped him, and the latter strode out with his saber in hand, and the sound of his cloak was heard at the courtyard gate.

"If it is as Lord Shangshu said, Zuo should share your worries for Your Majesty and kill the demons, but it is not what Your Majesty said, Zuo will come back to arrest you and bring it to Your Majesty to dispose of!"

Walking down the stone steps quickly and stepping onto the horses brought by others, Zuo Zhengyang's words suddenly stopped, and he raised his hand to ask the deputy not to speak, his ears trembled slightly.

What I heard was the slight sound of rustling.

He jerked his gaze at the courtyard wall and shouted, "Who?!"

The long knife on his waist came out of the sheath with a bang, and the public of the Imperial City Arrest Division around him pulled out his weapons with a sigh, only to see the thousand guards on horseback stepping on the saddle, and the whole person jumped up like a big bird fluttering in the forest.

At this time, Min Changwen in the courtyard stood close to the gate of the courtyard, hearing Zuo Qianwei's heavy drinking outside, and the moss and old trees not far away, the branches and leaves were shaking loudly.

The old man raised his gaze, and the sunlight above distorted through the air, as if something was falling above his head.

"Min Shangshu be careful—"

There was a sharp sound in the air, and a thin knife was thrown, almost touching the old man's forehead, and a few inches in front of him collided with something, and sparks jumped in the air.

Zuo Zhengyang snatched the old man, lifted the hem of his robe, kicked out the air in front of him, but kicked it out, turned around and pushed Min Changwen to the side of the eight guards not far away.

"Protect your lords!"

The backhand turned out a broken knife behind his back, and two circles of knife shadows were drawn in an instant, compressing the space of the courtyard to a small range, and in the eyes of everyone inside and outside, it was all the cold metal rays of the sun reflecting the knife surface.

Bang –

The swirling blade slashed at the mossy old tree, and the debris exploded in all directions, dragging the dense branches and leaves to smash against the courtyard wall with a clattering cracking sound.

Rumble.

The mud brick wall was crushed and sunk for a while, and the leaves fluttered and fell, and between the staggering, a few leaves streaked through the air, and the original trajectory seemed to touch something, almost quietly deflecting to one side at the same time.

'Found you. ’

Zuo Zhengyang's eyes narrowed, and his backhand rushed into the sky with a long knife, and in the bright sunshine, the severed knife in his other hand slashed angrily.

Ding——

The ripples of gold and iron suddenly swept away in the surrounding air, and Zuo Zhengyang, who swooped over, pressed the handle of the knife and pulled out a semicircle, and in the originally empty air, something was twisted in the light, as if flying out upside down, and slammed into the low wall of the courtyard gate, stirring up countless dust.

Airplanes.....

In the sky, a long knife fell, and Zuo Zhengyang, who slashed out a knife below, kicked out with a backward swing during the knife retraction.

Point the toe on the back of the knife.

The vertically falling weapon suddenly turned horizontally, deflected direction, and pulled out a black shadow in the sunlight, nailed to the earthen wall, and the head of the knife poked out from the other side of the courtyard wall.

Click.....click.....click......

A crimson color appeared in the smoke and dust, forming blood droplets along the blade, and kept falling.

The dilapidated courtyard quieted down, and Min Changwen was guarded by the guards in the middle, and when the dust fell, he saw a woman in a purple and black robe being nailed to the wall with a knife.

"How can it be a woman?"

However, the next moment, Zuo Zhengyang pulled out the long knife, and the corpse fell to the ground, the clothes on his body were loose and crooked, and the corpse inside was like a paper man, revealing a gap in the back of his neck, and there was nothing in the internal organs.

"Sure enough, it's a monster. ”

Zuo Zhengyang stared at the corpse and squeezed out a low voice, took the weapon handed back by his subordinates, inserted it back into his back, turned around and walked out, waving his hand: "You must not leave Lord Shangshu, wait for me to go back and report this matter to Your Majesty and the Fazhang!"

"That protector of the country is a demon!" Min Changwen said while standing in the courtyard.

The figure who turned over the horse was stunned for a moment, turned around and looked at the old man with wide eyes, and couldn't say a word for a while, if the powerful protector of the country is a monster, then Your Majesty ......

Thinking of the end, Zuo Zhengyang pulled the reins and turned the horse's head to leave, Min Changwen chased him out of the courtyard: "Zuo Qianwei, don't be reckless, the civil and military officials in the capital are estimated to be like this skin, don't go back and lose your life, I have sent the little girl to Qixia Mountain to find Lu Liangsheng, maybe he has a way." ”

"Zuo can't wait. ”

Zuo Zhengyang arched his hand on the horse, "No matter whether he Lu Liangsheng has a way or not, I have to protect Your Majesty, this is my duty, Lord Shangshu, farewell!"

With the whip whip blowing, he shouted "Drive!" and ran away along the road he had come.