"Uncle Bao, what's wrong with you?" Sima Ru looked at Cao Shubao suspiciously.

"I have to rush back to Fuzhou immediately......" Cao Shubao said, seeing Sima Ru's worried face, he squeezed out a smile and said, "Some business matters, it's okay." ”

"Then I'll go with you, right?" said Sima Ru, snuggling up.

"Fool, are you still worried that I ran away with someone else......" Cao Shubao tightened his hand and stroked the hand on her shoulder, and continued, "Have you ever heard of Xiao Biesheng's new love?"

Sima Ru originally stared at him with a pair of apricot eyes, and he wanted to follow him if he didn't want to give up, but after listening to his words, he said obediently, "Okay then!"

"When I go back, I will report to my grandmother and aunt and elders, saying that I have found a princess for them to go back to be their granddaughter-in-law...... Cao Shubao said.

Sima Ru pretended to be disgusted, broke away from Cao Shubao's embrace and said, "Hmph! Then you can think too much, from ancient times to the present, which princess is not married to the prince and grandson and the champion?"

"Oh, although my Cao Shubao is only a cloth merchant after the decline of the royal family, if I want to seek fame for my beloved girl, I am also willing!" Cao Shubao looked at her seriously and shook her hand, "Anyway, promise me, okay!"

"I'll wait for you!" Sima Ru responded with a gentle but firm look in her eyes.

The setting sun shines through the thin clouds, as if revealing a half egg yolk ball of tender orange.

Sima Ru had just slept peacefully, and Cao Shubao was just about to go out and go downstairs, but he faintly felt a pair of ill-intentioned eyes behind him, and hurriedly turned his head to find a black figure standing on the top of the pond pavilion, showing an evil smile at the moment! Cao Shubao jumped from the attic and fell to the ground, and his left and right hands had already played the iron flute and short sword respectively. The other party also jumped down from the top of the pavilion and landed five zhang away, dressed in black cedar, holding his chest with both hands, holding a sword with a unique appearance, tall and thin, half a head taller than Cao Shubao, with a pointed and long face, black hair wrapped around steel hoops and scattered over his shoulders, and a pair of white eyes that made people hairy.

The sky is getting dark, the night breeze is coming slowly, it is very refreshing, and the little frogs by the pool are cooing and chirping, and there seem to be a few shiny fireflies floating up!

"The big circle is on top, and the big moment is on the bottom. Fierce sword moment, you are one of the seven killings of the Yupu group!" Cao Shubao said with a stern face.

"It is worthy of being the first young owner of Dashun Wind Media, and Uncle Cao's reputation is well deserved. The Assassin's tone was smiling.

"Since you have been here a long time ago, why did you appear at this time?"

Daju raised his eyes three times and snorted, "Since you know me, you must also know that I like to play slowly before killing my prey." You don't know what a wonderful process it is to watch your prey go from struggling to crying and finally despairing, hahaha......"

Coupled with the innocent laughter of this buffalo, it seems that the entire Xiuhu Pavilion has become a rice field.

"Hmph, who is the prey, it's still unknown, right?" Cao Shubao shook off the scabbard with a twist of the short sword in his right hand, and stared at the sword in Daju's arms.

"Hahaha!" "Another buffalo was sloppy, and he said loudly, "You have a woman to take care of now, and in the face of a cold-blooded killer like me, psychologically you have already lost!"

After Daju finished speaking, he suddenly exerted force under his feet, and rushed up quickly, "Bang Bang" The sound of collision between the swords!

"Ahh......h

At this moment, the large moment sword was pressed against his left neck from behind Cao Shubao, and the short sword in Cao Shubao's right hand had been knocked away and inserted into the pillar on the first floor of the attic, and his left hand held the severed half-cut iron flute.

"You can kill me, but please let her go......" Cao Shubao threw away the remnant flute and bowed his head and pleaded.

Daju glanced at the attic, the beautiful flower girl was already at a loss, her face was bloodless, and her hands covered her small mouth to the limit!

Daju slowly put his sword into the sheath, raised his chin and squinted at Uncle Cao Baodao, "I won't kill you today, hum, I'll come back in the morning in five days, and someone will die here, cherish the rest of the time, think about how to add some fun to the final duel, hahaha!"

Cao Shubao looked at the big moment who turned away, and the strange laughter like a buffalo was endless, he knew that he would definitely not be able to escape with Sima Ru!

Unable to sleep late at night, the two snuggled up to each other in the attic.

"At the same time that the iron flute was cut off by Daju, I thought I was dead, and at that moment, all I could think of was you......" Cao Shubao said helplessly.

"Is that big moment really so powerful?" Sima Ru looked up at him.

"It's because of my weak heart, coupled with his famous sword that sharpens iron like clay, that I will lose so badly......" Cao Shubao shook his head lightly, looked down at her and said, "Otherwise, you will ride a fast horse alone tomorrow......"

"Shubao, I won't leave by myself, if I want to go, I'll go together!" Sima Ru pressed and stroked his hand to comfort.

"Then we will only have a dead end! Only if I hold him back, you can leave safely!" Cao Shubao said solemnly.

Sima Ru was moved for a while, and suddenly his apricot eyes turned and said, "There must be a way! In this way, you will go to Wen Taizhen tomorrow! I guess that Tao Shiheng should just talk to him to the end......"

"It's hard to say, Tao Shiheng has always been a loner, and his temperament is also withdrawn and indifferent......," Cao Shubao analyzed.

"Don't forget, it was he, this withdrawn and indifferent person, who put forward the key clues to the murder of the Zhenbei Hou Mansion, so that I could regain my freedom!" Sima Ru opened his eyes wide, his voice brightened, and he looked cute.

"But you're here alone......" Cao Shubao looked at her and said uneasily.

"It's okay, before you come back, that killer won't do anything to me, don't worry!" Sima Ru was actually very scared, but in order to make Cao Shubao safe, she would rather suppress the fear in her heart and pretend to be strong.

Cao Shubao was very smart, of course he understood what she was thinking, he hugged her tightly, looked at the gloomy night sky as if looking for a star, and promised, "Whether I can find Wen Taizhen or not, I will try to come back tomorrow night!"

Sima Ru blinked softly, as if hiding tears.

Early the next morning, Cao Shubao set off quickly, but said that it was unfortunate that around noon, he and Wen Taizhen and Xiahousha happened to meet each other. The three of them found a noodle restaurant and sat down, and each ordered a five-ding marinated noodle.

"Why are you alone?" Xiahou Sha saw Cao Shubao, who had always been cheerful, and at this moment, he only cared about hanging his head and eating noodles, and said with concern.

"The eggplant is in the other garden, it......'s okay for the time being," Cao Shubao replied a little weakly.

"Could it be that the killer of the Snow Wolf Country has already arrived?" Wen Taizhen put down the bowl and asked.

"It's a big moment, I can't beat him...... He will come back in four days, and then he will have to see life and death. Cao Shubao also put down the bowl and lowered his face.

"It is rumored that the killer of Daju is murderous, elusive, and likes to destroy and torture opponents from the will, it seems to be true. Wen Taizhen said, remembering Tao Shiheng's words, but his expression softened.

"This time, I'm afraid we will not be able to escape...... "Uncle Cao looked at Wen Taizhen discouragedly.

"Uncle Cao, you have really changed...... Wen Taizhen reached out and patted him on the shoulder.

"Why do you say that?" Cao Shubao wondered.

"Daju can't kill you at all, you have a great advantage!" Seeing Cao Shubao looking at him even more suspiciously, Wen Taizhen continued, "Don't forget, what is the foundation of your Cao family in the Central Plains for more than two hundred years?"

Cao Shubao nodded knowingly.

"People in the rivers and lakes, who doesn't know that the peerless sword Qingyu Sword is the treasure of your Cao family's town, no matter how powerful the moment is, it is just broken copper and iron in front of the Qingyu Sword. Wen Taizhen continued.

Cao Shubao was still a little weak-hearted, "You ran hundreds of miles, just to tell me about it?"

Of course, Wen Taizhen knew that Cao Shubao wanted to go back to deal with Daju, but he had already made a decision in his heart, smiled and lined Cao Shubao's shoulders, and said encouragingly, "Anything, I believe in you, you will definitely be able to handle it easily!"

Wen Taizhen saw Cao Shubao lowering his eyes, smiled and whispered a few words in his ear, and then patted him on the shoulder and said, "Then let's rush back to Jinghu Xiaozhu first!"

Cao Shubao's eyes were full of light again, and he looked at Wen Taizhen and Xia Housha and nodded, then he also got up and set off to return to Xiuhu Villa.

"You're back!" As soon as Sima Ru saw Cao Shubao riding a horse from the attic, he couldn't wait to welcome him to the first floor of the attic.

Cao Shubao had just nodded, and there was a buffalo-like laugh in the pavilion, "Hahaha, I thought you ran away!"

The two of them glanced at Daju, then turned and walked into the attic.

"If you have anything to say between the two of you, just say it quickly, there will be no chance in the future!" Daju picked up the wine jug and poured himself a sip, and then said, "Uncle Cao, don't think about running away, otherwise what will happen to this little beauty, you should be able to imagine it yourself, hahaha!"

"Are you okay?" Cao Shubao asked while looking Sima Ru up and down, ignoring Daqi.

"Hmm!" Sima Ru shook his head slightly, and then wondered, "Why did you come back alone, you treat Wen Taizhen as a good friend, isn't he willing to help you?"

"He wants me to do it personally," Cao Shubao held her hands and said sincerely, "I still have to leave and go back to my hometown in Fuzhou, and I promise to return here in four days!"

Sima Ru was a little puzzled, but nodded anyway.

The next evening, the quiet lake of the Nanshan Bamboo Sea was built.

"Wen Taizhen, you really believe in your word. Tao Shiheng got up from the bamboo chair with a flat face, looked at Wen Taizhen, who was carrying the Demon Drinking Knife and dismounting the rope, and said, "On that day, at the Zhongshan God of War Temple, I wanted to have a duel with Xiahou Zhan, but unfortunately...... It's a pity. However, since you have become the successor of his Yue Nu sword technique, then today I can also fulfill that wish. ”

"Tao Shiheng, Wen Taizhen can be regarded as having fought side by side with you, and he is dedicated to eliminating harm for the people, and you are also chivalrous, so you shouldn't start a decisive battle with him!" Xia Housha stood up from behind Wen Taizhen and stared at Tao Shiheng and asked.

Sasha...... This is a matter between me and him, what the manly husband promised, how can I go back?" Wen Taizhen tightened his thick eyebrows, looked at Tao Shiheng, and then turned his eyes to Xiahou Sha.

Shentu Weilan came out from behind the bamboo hut with a sword on her face. Although she has been living in the last room of Jinghu Xiaozhu for the past few days, she has not accepted any of the healing medicines sent by Tao Shiheng, so the injury has not only not improved at all, but has worsened. At this time, it is said that Shentu Weilan and Tao Shiheng, the enemy of the Qingcheng faction, ate and lived together, shamelessly betrayed their master. However, she only had one thing in her heart at this time, that is, to kill Tao Shiheng to avenge her master, and she believed that all rumors would be self-defeating.

Xiahou Sha originally looked unwilling, but after she saw Shentu Weilan, she walked to the side by herself, quietly looked at Shentu Weilan, and nodded to each other.

The pale yellow afterglow of the setting sun shines through the branches and leaves of the forest to the ground. The bamboo trees on both sides swayed in the wind, and the scattered bamboo leaves rolled and fell. Xia Housha looked worried, and stared intently at the two men twenty zhang away.

Wen Taizhen and Tao Shiheng looked at each other at a distance of ten feet. Tao raised the long sword in his left hand, and his right hand gripped the handle to draw the sword out of its sheath, while Wen held the handle on his back with his right hand. The swords of the two of them were unsheathed at the same time, and the sword qi and sword qi gushed out at once, and the sky in the bamboo forest changed suddenly, and the fallen leaves flew together. Tao and Wen's swords intersected rapidly, clanging and clinking sparks, thunder and lightning. The two passed by, Wen turned around and immediately threw out the sword qi with the Demon Drinking Knife, Tao turned around and at the same time waved the sword qi to shoot out the sword qi, the two forces intersected in the air and exploded, radiating away, and the surrounding bamboo trees fell separately. Wen jumped forward again and stabbed with a virtual knife, Tao leaned back to avoid it, Wen crossed his position and at the same time a spinner in the air returned to the horse, Tao turned his hand behind the back of the right hand to change to the left hand, and the backhand sword blocked the demon drinking knife and pasted, and then the swords of the two were stuck together, stirring rapidly, constantly flashing sparks, and falling into anxiety!

Suddenly, two black-clothed people sprang out of the bamboo bushes, stabbing from behind Tao Shiheng's sword! The situation was critical, Tao Shiheng hurriedly retracted his skills, flicked the sword in his left hand, and Tao Shiheng passed behind his back, and swept away the two black-clothed swords with a single move. As soon as Tao Shiheng came back to his senses, he found that two more black-clothed men appeared, and behind Wen Taizhen, who was in the first and second place, he decisively swung out a sword qi and forced the two of them back. Wen and Tao glanced at each other, as if they had reached a hostile and friendly agreement, and attacked the man in black at the same time.

These black-clothed people are all the killers of the Yupu Regiment's "Seven Kills and Eight Destructions", and their skills are all around the middle heaven, and each of them is armed with a fierce sword forged and locked by King Goujian. After Zhang Mengbin's Heroes Conference, he sent back to the Snow Wolf Country a "List of Shunguo Young Heroes", so Yu Yuyue ordered to send all the members of the Yupu Regiment to take action, wanting to get rid of the living forces of Shunguo as soon as possible.

However, in front of the Demon Drinker and Shocking Hong, none of them survived five rounds of sword attacks, and they all died under the sword qi and sword qi. Wen Taizhen and Tao Shiheng naturally saw their origins through the weapons used by the man in black.

Tao Shiheng saw that the external trouble had been eliminated, and his cold face turned to Wen Taizhen, his eyes burst with cold light, and he stabbed out a wild dragon out to sea. Wen Taizhen just wanted to parry with a horizontal sword, but he saw Shentu Weilan suddenly burst out and stabbed Tao Shiheng in the back of the heart with a sword.

Shentu Weilan's sword was used with all her strength, although she was seriously injured, but if she was hit, I am afraid that Tao Shiheng would definitely suffer a heavy blow!

Wen Taizhen's eyes flashed the scene of Xiahou Zhan being plotted, his two thick eyebrows tightened, and he suddenly rushed over in spite of the oncoming Shocking Sword, just in time to block the tip of Shentu Weilan's sword with the tip of the Demon Drinking Knife, and then the blade of the knife slapped on her chest and knocked her back to the ground.

When Tao Shiheng saw Wen Taizhen's abnormal behavior, he already expected it to be an emergency, but the earth-shattering sword could no longer contain its strength, so it could only be slightly deviated.

Shentu Weilan fell to the ground and fell into a coma with exhaustion, and Wen Taizhen's waist clothes were also broken open by Jinghong, but fortunately he was not injured.

"Wen Taizhen, are you okay!" Xia Housha had already run over desperately, she looked through Wen Taizhen's clothes, and then she breathed a long sigh of relief.

"Wen Taizhen, you lost!" Tao Shiheng's face was flat, and he put his sword into the sheath.

"You ......" Xia Housha heard it, like a boiling kettle, and was about to scold the other party for not knowing what to do, and he was so competitive that he didn't thank him if he was rescued.

Wen Taizhen grabbed her, then put the knife back into its sheath and watched Tao Shiheng walk past Shentu Weilan.

"Wen Taizhen, I'll make you a friend!" Tao Shiheng picked up Shentu Weilan, took two steps in the direction of the bamboo house, suddenly stopped, and said without looking back.

"Then I won't lose, it's worth losing!" Wen Taizhen smiled happily, glanced at Xia Housha, and followed Tao Shiheng's steps.

Seeing that Wen Taizhen was smiling so happily, Xiahou Sha naturally didn't get angry anymore and followed.

"I want to ask you for something. Wen Taizhen looked at Tao Shiheng and said.

Tao Shiheng sat at the head of the bed, wiped Shentu Weilan's forehead with a towel, and said with a flat face, "You must want me to go with you to see Zhenbei Hou and Xie An, and inform the imperial court of the situation in the Snow Wolf Country." ”

"That's right! In this situation, not only you, me, and Cao Shubao are facing a powerful threat, but I am afraid that there are countless martial arts righteous warriors and loyal people of the imperial court who are also in danger, and even a few other heroes in the rivers and lakes are always weak and unable to deal with it!" Wen Taizhen nodded, raised his head and analyzed, "We must report to the imperial court as soon as possible, so that the emperor can make plans early, and the Dashun army and horses are ready, so as not to suffer the people again." ”

"But I can't leave here yet. Tao Shiheng looked at Shentu Weilan on the bed and said softly.

Wen Taizhen could see that there must be a deep love between the two of them, so he said helplessly, "Then I will go to the capital tomorrow first and remind the Marquis of Zhenbei to beware of Zhang Mengbin." ”

"Okay, when she is cured, I will go to the capital to find you. Tao Shiheng didn't look back, but his tone was affirmative.

Wen Taizhen turned his head to Xiahou Sha and said, "Sasha, you stay and take care of Miss Shentu, I don't know what dangers are in this trip to the capital......"

"I'll go with you!" Xia Housha said undeniably, turned her head to look at the side of the bed, and then covered her mouth and smiled, "Miss Shentu, it's not that no one takes care of ......"

Wen Taizhen also glanced back and smiled at Xia Housha.