Yi County is a large county seat in Jizhou, with a large population and relatively prosperous.

Ji Yunxi and Zhong Zhenghao came here two days ago, and the two settled in an inn.

In the past two days, Ji Yunxi took Zhong Zhenghao to buy daily necessities in the county seat, and spent the rest of his time teaching him cultivation in the inn.

But he never said why he came to Yi County, at noon today, the two were eating at the inn, and Zhong Zhenghao couldn't hold back the questions in his heart anymore.

He looked at Ji Yunxi and asked, "Master, we've been here for three days, what are we doing here?"

Ji Yunxi replied: "We'll leave here tomorrow." ”

Zhenghao's face was puzzled.

"After eating, practice ten more times, and I will teach you the mental method. ”

Hearing Ji Yunxi say this, Zhenghao looked bitter, but after following Ji Yunxi for a while, he also had some understanding of Ji Yunxi's character.

This Master doesn't like to talk too much, and what he doesn't let you know, he will never tell you.

Zhenghao had no choice but to work hard, and he wiped out the food in front of him.

Ji Yunxi didn't tell him, five days ago he received a flying pigeon message, the letter was sent by an organization to which Ji Yunxi belonged.

This organization is in the business of killing people, but they kill people who deserve to be killed by evildoers.

This time the letter also asked Ji Yunxi to kill one person, and this person was not one person but five people.

They like to kidnap women and rob their property, and they have committed many crimes, but the government has never been able to find the whereabouts of this group.

The traces of their crimes involve various places, and it is difficult to find the vast area of Jiang Guo.

But this letter told Ji Yunxi's group of people the detailed location of this time, and asked him to kill this group of people.

This place is near Yi County, and Ji Yunxi took Wu Zhenghao to come here early to find someone.

And this person is the one who can help Ji Yunxi complete the task together, both to help and to observe.

As long as he saw Ji Yunxi kill this group of people, he would be rewarded.

Ji Yunxi found this person yesterday, and tomorrow they can set off to find those five people.

After lunch, Zhong Zhenghao and Ji Yunxi returned to their rooms, and the two of them sat on the bed and practiced their minds.

This is a set of breathing and breathing methods, and the swordsmanship taught to him by Ji Yunxi is more powerful.

After practicing the mental method ten times, Ji Yunxi told Zhenghao not to walk around, and he left the inn.

It was very boring to stay alone, so Zhong Zhenghao picked up the wooden sword and practiced swordsmanship, which Zhenghao had already memorized, so he was quite handy in practice.

After practicing a few times, the sound of children's laughter came from the window, Zhong Zhenghao was curious, and pushed open the wooden window to look out.

only saw three children as old as him kicking shuttlecocks, Zhong Zhenghao thought of the past at a glance.

In the village, he was playing with Liu Yi and a few others, and suddenly a child used too much force and the shuttlecock was kicked high and flew high, and he flew directly towards Zhenghao's little face.

Zhenghao is no longer a young man in a mountain village now, and he is also a person who has practiced, so naturally he will not be hit by this little shuttlecock.

He gently stretched out his hand and squeezed the shuttlecock in his hand, and the child who kicked the shuttlecock below was very embarrassed.

Several children looked up at Zhenghao, but the child who kicked the shuttlecock was very shy and didn't know how to speak.

The little girl standing on the side looked at him with wide round eyes, then looked at Zhenghao and said, "I'm sorry brother, we don't have the heart to kick high, can you return the shuttlecock to us?"

The little girl looked very smart, and Zhenghao naturally didn't care about it, so he smiled at them and said, "Yes, but you have to be careful." ”

After speaking, he threw down the shuttlecock in his hand, and the three children said thank you brother in unison, and left here to play somewhere else.

Zhenghao watched them go away in a daze, then closed the window and continued to cultivate.

Ji Yunxi returned to the inn at the time, pushed open the door and saw that Zhenghao had fallen asleep on the bed.

Although Ji Yunxi's face was cold, he remembered this apprentice very much in his heart, and during the time he was there, Zhenghao did not have any silver taels on him, and he should not have eaten yet.

So they called him up, and the two of them went downstairs to eat together, and after dinner, they washed up in the room and prepared for bed.

Ji Yunxi sat on the bed and said to Zhenghao: "Early tomorrow morning, I want to go out." ”

As he spoke, he took out a few taels of silver from his arms and put them in Zhenghao's hand, and continued: "You can use this money to buy something to eat, I will probably come back in the unitary time, and you stay at the inn and don't go far." ”

Zhenghao looked at Ji Yunxi with the silver two in his hand, and was puzzled, this was the first time that Ji Yunxi asked him to stay alone.

Zhenghao blurted out that he was about to ask Ji Yunxi why he didn't let him go with him, but as soon as he said the word master, he was interrupted by Ji Yunxi.

"It's not early, let's rest" After speaking, he closed his eyes and ignored Zhenghao.

Zhenghao knew that Ji Yunxi would not have an answer if he asked like this, so he had to give up and blow out the candle and fall asleep.

Not far from the inn where they were staying, a woman sat on the edge of a bed in a private house.

There was a little girl lying on the bed, with a smart appearance and round eyes, she looked at the woman and said, "Mother, has Daddy not come back so late?"

By this time, it was already late for the two of them to make dinner, but they still did not wait for her husband to return.

But this is also a common thing, although the area of their house is not large, but it is very exquisitely repaired.

This is all due to her husband's income from working outside the home, so that their mother and daughter live a very prosperous life.

But her husband's early departure and late return have become the norm, and he has less time to spend with his daughter.

Looking at her daughter's well-behaved face, she sighed in her heart, but still said to her daughter with a smile: "Good Lin'er, you have to sleep obediently, when you wake up, your father has already bought you candy and come back." ”

"Hmph~ You always say that, but I can't see my father a few times a day. ”

After speaking, the girl lifted the quilt, turned around, and stopped talking to her mother.

The woman saw that her daughter was helpless in this way, so she blew out the candle flame and walked out gently, closed the door slowly, and went back to her room.

When the woman returned to the house, she did not rest, but took up her husband's torn clothes and sewed them up.

Every time her husband came back late, she kept the light and waited for her husband to come back to sleep again, and slowly it was time to give birth.

The night was very quiet, except for the watchman patrolling the streets, when there were five black shadows masked and all in pitch black.

They quietly approached the woman's house, and they went to the corner and whispered to each other.

"Boss, are you sure this is it?" asked a man in black as he turned to the leaders of several men.

"Don't worry, this is it, I've already investigated the neighborhood, this man often comes back late, there are only women and children in the house, and the man is not here today, it's the day we start, brothers, Yin Liang and women are waiting for us in this house." ”

When several people heard the boss say this, they became excited, and several people took action.

I saw that one of them untied the rope trapped in his body and threw out the triangular hook he was carrying.

The hook hooked on the eaves of the house, and after the third child pulled the rope to make sure it was strong, the five of them climbed into the house one by one along the rope.

When the five of them landed, they bent down to look around, and there were only a few rooms in the house, and only the light in the woman's room was still on.

The boss whispered: "The second child and I will go to the room where the lights are on, and you will search one by one!"

After listening to the boss, several people nodded, and scattered.

The eldest and the second slowly approached the room where the woman was, and the eldest said to the second child in the corner of the outer wall of the room, "The second child uses incense." ”

The second child reached out and took out a small bamboo tube from his arms, he opened the bamboo tube and blew a light smoke out, and then put the bamboo tube into the small gap under the door.

There was a burning incense in the bamboo tube, and the smoke slowly spread from outside the door to the woman's nostrils, and she was intently sewing the clothes without noticing.

Within a moment, the Gong couple only felt that their vision was getting more and more blurred, their heads were getting more and more dizzy, and finally they couldn't support it and fell on the table.

The eldest watched all this through the crack in the door, and when he saw the woman falling, he asked the second child to put away the incense, and the two broke into the door directly.

Inside, the boss walked up to the woman, and he put his hand on the woman's neck to make sure she had fainted.

He said to the second child: "Search for money first, and then bring this beauty back later." ”

So the two of them rummaged through the cabinets in this room and scavenged for money, and the other two found nothing in the empty room.

When the third child entered the house, he saw that it was dark in the room, and he didn't dare to light the candle easily, so he only tiptoed forward.

At this time, he saw a noise in front of him, it was the sound of someone turning on the bed, and he slowly touched it after making sure that there was someone on the bed.

took out the fire fold in his arms and shone it on the bed, it turned out to be a little girl, and she didn't avoid waking her up, and the third child pointed at the acupuncture point on the back of her neck, and the girl fainted.

The third child, who knocked the girl unconscious, also turned over in the house, and after a while, several people gathered in the courtyard.

The eldest and the second were carrying the woman, and the other was carrying a package, which was full of silver taels.

The other people didn't get anything, and the third said to the boss: "There is a little girl in the room, I knocked her unconscious, how to deal with it?"

The boss said, "Take it away, it is estimated that it can be sold for a good price." ”

The third child returned to the house, picked up the little girl out, and walked to the door together to prepare to leave the place.

Suddenly, there was a "squeak" sound outside the door, the door was pushed open, and a man walked in.

He was the woman's husband, and he walked in and saw five men in black in his courtyard, with packages in their hands and their wives and daughters.

He shouted, "Thief, let go of my wife and daughter." ”

When several people saw the man rushing over, they couldn't help themselves, only to see the boss who took the lead rushing directly towards him.

The boss held a dagger in his hand, and it pierced the man's heart in one fell swoop.

The next day, when the sun first appeared, Ji Yunxi got up early and went out alone without calling Zhong Zhenghao.

Ji Yunxi walked out of the inn, there were not many people on the street at the moment, and there was a person outside the inn standing with his hands on his chest and a long sword in his hand.

Ji Yunxi saw this person and walked up, the man saw Ji Yunxi coming over and said: "Last night, a carpenter was stolen, the woman and daughter were missing, the carpenter was killed, it should be done by that group of people, and the people from the government checked all night without any clues." ”

After hearing this, Ji Yunxi said, "Let's go." ”

The two of them galloped directly towards the place where the five thieves were hiding, looking at Ji Yunxi who was running in front of him, he thought in his heart that this person was cold on the surface or a lover of personality.

Ten miles away from Yi County, there is a cave in the woods that is very hidden, and the cave is brightly lit at the moment.

There are four people resting here, the same four thieves who brought the woman and the girl back yesterday.

A man from outside the cave walked in and shouted, "Get up, brothers pack up your things, let's leave." ”

The four of them woke up when they heard the voice, and the second said to the visitor: "Big brother, don't be in such a hurry, this place is not so easy to be discovered." ”

"Yes, boss, I still want to have a good time with this little lady. The third child echoed.

His eyes looked at the woman, who was covered only by thin clothing, and her eyes were full of despair, and she suddenly fainted while sewing clothes last night, and when she woke up, her hands and feet were tied, and her mouth was gagged.

As soon as she opened her eyes, she was ruined by these people, and although she struggled hard, it was to no avail, and what scared her the most was that her daughter was also brought here.

Fortunately, they didn't do anything to their daughter, and they didn't know what these people did to her daughter, who had been fainting and hadn't woken up.

At this moment, when she heard the third child mention her, she shrank back in fear.

When the boss heard the third child's words, he knew that the third guy was ** on the brain again, so he said: "The third one, don't waste your strength, save your energy and hurry, you guys clean up quickly, I'll go outside and guard." ”

After saying that, they walked out, and after the boss left, several people began to pack their luggage and stolen money.

The third child muttered while cleaning up: "The boss is really too cautious, this is about to leave, those incompetent people in the official government, we have been wanted for a few years, but we can't even catch our shadow, I really want to stay with this little lady for another day." ”

After saying that, he also looked at the woman, and when the second child heard what he said, he taught him a lesson: "In the past few years, it has been because of the boss's caution that we can be so free, with your personality you have been arrested a long time ago, don't talk nonsense and clean it up quickly, we will transfer this little girl out, and it is always a trouble to take it with us." ”

After hearing this, the third child asked questioningly, "What about this beauty?"

The second child said: "Old rules. ”

Hearing these three words, the third child couldn't help but glance at the woman with pity, and sighed in his heart, "It's a pity that this beautiful face no longer exists in the world." ”

Although they couldn't see their faces clearly with masks, looking at the man's eyes, the woman felt panicked and chilled.

Ji Yunxi listened to the direction that Zhang San told him by his side, the name Zhang San was very simple, and it was also what they needed to do this job without revealing their real names.

The two soon found themselves in the hiding place where the five thieves were.