The fire at the Hengxiang Inn in Wei'an City burned fiercely, the flames soared into the sky, and the flames licked the dry and cold air and sprinkled a little spark around, which was particularly dazzling in the dark night.

The sleeping people were awakened, and hurriedly came out to see the situation, fearing that the falling sparks would accidentally sweep their houses, and a noise suddenly sounded on the street. A group of sons and brothers who survived the catastrophe came out of the secret passage in the backyard of the inn, avoiding the crowd and going home separately.

The fire attracted the officers and soldiers who defended the city and the people of the government, the street was suddenly brightly lit, everyone worked together to extinguish the fire, two hours later, the fire was completely extinguished, and the Hengxiang Inn had been burned to the ground, leaving only the black wooden frame and the collapsed columns, a dilapidated scene. Officers and soldiers went in and out, and a dozen corpses were carried out, all of which were charred and their faces could not be distinguished.

The officers and men searched their bodies one by one, and found flints, fire oil, and porcelain bottles similar to poison from many corpses, and it seemed that these people were the murderers who poisoned and set fires.

Wang Yi, the leading officer and soldier, asked, "Are there other murderers or victims?"

"My lord!" another group of officers and soldiers brought out the bodies that had also been burned beyond recognition. After a series of searches, items that appeared to represent identity were found from each of the four corpses.

There are a total of five objects, namely three tokens, a jade pendant and a night pearl, all of which are blackened by the smoke and fire, and the officer and soldier Wang Yi in charge carefully identified the objects, one of the tokens is marked with 'Qingsong Hall', and then look at the other two tokens marked with 'Mu Lin Pavilion', as well as the night pearl and jade pendant.

Wang Yi vaguely remembered what Mu Linge and Qingsongtang represented, these four people should be the ones who fought against this gang of murderers, or these four people were the targets of this group of murderers. Coming back to his senses, he took a deep breath, "But there are other living mouths?"

One soldier replied, "No living holes have been found here, but a large number of people have been seen coming out of the back door and scattering. ”

Li Shijie stood silently in the crowd of onlookers for a long time, tears in his eyes. Because he was standing at the front of the line, he could clearly see the jade pendant that was found from the corpse by the light of the lamp, and he remembered that he had seen this jade pendant when he met Li Zifeng privately for the first time that year......

【Memories】

Four years ago, in a small farm yard in a small town at the foot of Hengshan Mountain, he secretly met with Li Zifeng.

The green, crystal clear jade pendant was hanging on Li Zifeng's body at that time, Li Shijie was attracted at once, and the corners of his mouth rose slightly, "This jade pendant is good!

Li Zifeng smiled faintly, "A meeting gift from Master." ”

"Can you take it off and let me take a look?" Li Shijie saw Li Zifeng's reluctant face, and couldn't help but smile, "I won't take it away and won't return it, look at your distress." ”

In the end, Li Shijie got the jade pendant and looked at it carefully, the jade pendant was green all over, crystal clear, unique in shape, and unique in accessories, you can recognize its difference at a glance, "Good thing, return you." Li Shijie returned the jade pendant to Li Zifeng, and said with some jealousy, "You have had a good life all these years." [End of Memory]

......

Li Shijie had previously talked to Zhou Yixuan, intending to control the rich businessmen and powerful people who came here to participate in the beauty pageant, and coerced them to deposit their silver taels into Chase Bank and give them some corresponding benefits.

After he arranged everything, he wanted to wait, and then he heard that a large number of Lingye Palace killers had sneaked into the Hengxiang Inn, and Li Zifeng was present, so he decided to come over and have a look, but it was still a step too late, when he came, a strong fire had already ignited, and the officers and soldiers were busy extinguishing the fire......

Li Shijie clenched his fist in his right hand, trembling constantly, and two lines of tears flowed down the corners of his eyes, he originally didn't believe that Li Zifeng died like this, but the next moment he heard Wang Yi whisper the names of the tokens on the other three, plus the information he had found before said that Li Zifeng appeared in Wei'an City with the people from Qingsongtang and Mulin Pavilion, as well as the unusual jade pendant, he believed it......

Li Shijie wanted to rush over, but it was not easy to expose himself at this time, so he could only desperately endure it, endure the grief in his heart, and at the same time hate himself, hated his selfishness, and killed Li Zifeng. hated his own negligence, allowing the killers of Lingye Palace to take advantage of the loopholes.

Wang Yi, the leading officer and soldier, collected his belongings, ordered his officers and soldiers to clean up the scene, and dispersed the onlookers.

Su Kexin, dressed in black, stood in a corner not far away and watched silently, his eyes were full of indifference, according to Fang Cai's subordinates, Li Zifeng and his party were hit by the collapsed beams and drowned in the sea of fire......

Su Kexin came back to his senses, turned around and left, and walked towards the depths of the alley, and after walking for a short time, he suddenly felt a cold wind blowing behind him, and quickly turned around to check, Li Shijie was wearing regular clothes, standing in front of him with a gloomy face, and there was no longer a look of his cousin's love for his cousin in his eyes.

Su Kexin didn't seem to expect Li Shijie to appear, and was suddenly surprised, "Cousin, why are you here?"

"Are you asking me?" Li Shijie looked at Su Kexin's assassin outfit in a night suit, and said coldly, "Then you will appear here again, come and see your masterpiece?"

Su Kexin's eyes flickered, "What did you say, cousin?" I don't understand." ”

"Don't understand?" Li Shijie's face was expressionless, and his eyes showed a look of disappointment, "When you tattoo the pattern of the other side flower on your arm, it must be very painful, right?" ”

Su Kexin's brows tightened, searching in his mind for where the stuffing was exposed, and after a while, he recalled the scene where Li Shijie was drunk and teasing himself that night in Hongyuan Villa, and his eyes sank a little, "You saw it? It turns out that you weren't drunk at all that night? You did it on purpose?!"

"Just understand?" Li Shijie sneered, "Don't the protectors of the Lingye Palace even have this bit of observation?"

Su Kexin frowned, her originally beautiful eyes were filled with a cold aura, since she had already torn her face, there was no need for her to disguise it anymore, Sen Ran smiled, and her voice became low, "That's right, I am the protector of the Lingye Palace, but what's the use of you exposing me?" Hongyuan Villa has already cooperated with the Lingye Palace. My identity makes sense. ”

Listening to Su Kexin's personal admission, Li Shijie couldn't hold back the grief and indignation in his heart, and pulled out his long sword and put it on Su Kexin's neck, Su Kexin's voice was hoarse, "You want to kill me?"

Li Shijie smiled and said, "If I had killed you earlier, everything today would not have happened!"

Su Kexin smiled mockingly, "You are also working for the Lingye Palace, how much cleaner are you than me?!"

Li Shijie couldn't help but scold, "In order to achieve the goal, I don't hesitate to kill my younger brother who has lived together since childhood, your sister is really hurting!"

"As long as it hinders us, it should be damned! Do you think you haven't harmed him? Breaking into the library at night and seriously injuring him, meeting with him in private, indirectly pushing him into the ambush circle we set up, and for his own selfish desires, we designed to kill the black-clothed guards, killed the secret guards of Mozhou, and forced him to have nowhere to settle in the Hengshan faction! What qualifications do you have to accuse me of him?!" Su Kexin roared, and there were faint tears in the corners of his eyes.

After a short silence, Li Shijie removed the sword on Su Kexin's neck, Su Kexin took the opportunity to touch his waist and pull out the soft sword, and stabbed straight at Li Shijie, Li Shijie swung his sword to resist, and the two long swords were intertwined, clanging, splashing sporadic sparks.

Li Shijie is also a master, he suppressed Su Kexin in a few moves, Su Kexin could only turn to passive defense, and kept turning over to avoid the compelling sword qi, Li Shijie made ruthless moves, picking on tricky places, Su Kexin couldn't dodge when he turned over, and was stabbed by Li Shijie in the shoulder blade, picking off the flesh and skin, and splashing out several blood beads.

Su Ke's heart ached, he took two steps back, and gasped, Li Shijie frowned, and there was no pity in his eyes, "The next time we meet again, it will be when I take your life." Li Shijie paused and roared, "Get out!"

Su Kexin looked at it in a daze for a while, two lines of tears flowed down the corners of his eyes, and after two breaths, he disappeared. The depths of the alley fell silent again, Li Shijie leaned against the blue brick wall on the side, slowly sat down, looking at the blood stains still left on the long sword, and couldn't help but burst into tears......

(End of chapter)