Xiao Qianli stood up and looked at the old man. Said loudly: "Thank you for the kindness of the old man!"

He commanded, "Cheng Yuan, come here!"

Hearing the master's call, Li Chengyuan hurriedly pulled out his spear and walked over.

Xiao Qianli took the roast chicken from the old man's hand, stuffed it into Li Chengyuan's hand, and said in a deep voice: "Take the two children, find a hidden and secluded place to settle down, and when the matter is over, you will come out!"

"Huh?" As soon as he heard that he was going to take the child by himself and not let himself participate in the next fight, Li Chengyuan suddenly became anxious, shook his head like a rattle, and said again and again, "Master, this is not good, how can I take these two little dolls......

As soon as he lowered his head, he saw two little dolls following him step by step, raising their heads, two pairs of dark eyes looking at him, and the second half of the sentence could no longer be spoken.

Seeing this situation, Xiao Qianli couldn't help but smile lightly, Li Chengyuan was suddenly deflated, like a defeated rooster, and replied dejectedly: "Obey the teacher's orders!"

At this point, Li Chengyuan could only helplessly put the two little dolls on Qingying's back, watching them happily gnaw on roast chicken, drooping their heads and leading horses, carrying war guns, and leaving pitifully three times in one step.

When Li Chengyuan slowly walked away without a trace, Xiao Qianli ordered again: "Follow the wind, Ah Xun!"

The two of them bowed together and said, "What does the master command?"

"You are guarding the flagpole, no matter who you are, there are those who are presumptuous, there are those who attack, and there are those who rob corpses!"

After three killings in a row, Liu Suifeng and Chu Xun's eyes flashed, and they nodded heavily: "Obey the master's orders!"

Xiao Qianli nodded, and when he was about to leave, Chu Xun hurriedly asked, "Master, where are you going?"

"Hmph!" Xiao Qianli sneered, "I'm going to see what that so-called merchant is first." It's okay to have a group of thugs who collect bail money, what do they want to do if they are trying to sell so many children from other places!"

Leaving the long street, Xiao Qianli found a pedestrian and asked for directions, and then walked straight to the south of the city.

In the southern suburbs of the city, there is a large village covered by greenery, covering an area of no less than 1,000 acres.

In early spring, the climate is still relatively cold, and this village is already a tower of ancient trees, green trees, red walls and yellow tiles, and golden and brilliant. But there was no trace of half a pedestrian around.

The door is closed, two guards holding knives are leaning on the door post with a relaxed demeanor and chatting, and the top of the red vermilion lacquer gate hangs a black gold silk nanmu plaque, on which the dragon flies and the phoenix dances with three big characters "Qingpingzhuang".

Xiao Qianli only glanced at it from a distance, and after a slight groan, he went around to the side of the courtyard, trying to hide his figure while paying attention to the movements around him.

After turning for about half an hour, Xiao Qianli's eyes suddenly lit up, and at the corner of the village courtyard not far away, there was an ancient clumsy tree, leaning against the bluestone courtyard wall, just shrouding the wall in a verdant.

Xiao Qianli looked left and right, and his body had jumped up lightly, leaping, floating, and a little, and his toes had landed lightly on the green wall.

He quietly brushed aside the branches of the tree and looked in, only to see a large field, divided into countless small patches of fertile black soil, in which unnamed plants grew.

"Three white grasses, peace of mind, warmth. It can be used to refine all kinds of centering, flattening, and blood-warming pills. ”

"Tianyang flowers, hot and dry, like a little fire in the heart, the sun rises. It can be used to refine positive pills. ”

"The wood heart leaf contains a large amount of wood line vitality, which is flat in nature, and can be used to refine the qi replenishment and return to the yuan type of elixir. ”

At this time, Xiao Qianli's medicinal collection technique was only rudimentary, and more than half of the medicinal materials here were unknown. But just recognizing these was enough for him to like it for a while.

Although Xiao Qianli really wanted to put all these medicinal materials into the treasure bag, he would definitely not startle the snake now.

Originally, he also thought that what happened to the two children should be the organized abduction and trafficking of a group of children by some traffickers, who relied on begging to earn money for the traffickers. But when he found that among Li Chengyuan's opponents, there were actually a few characters above the middle level of foundation building mixed in, Xiao Qianli began to vaguely feel that things were a little strange.

And the words of the old shopkeeper made him even more suspicious.

"Serving as a nursing home for merchants? Collecting bail fees? These are also reasonable, but a high-level foundation building hand, in such a border town, how can he also be a nursing home leader or an elite dart master, right?"

In Jiuquan, a large county in the northwest, only the Liufu on the rich side has only four major enshrinements that have reached the realm of Huaqi, and Chu Xiong, the leader of the nursing courtyard, is just a middle-level outsider who builds a foundation.

And Ma Xiongfei, the head of the Yangwei Dart Bureau in Taiping Town, has practiced kung fu for half a lifetime, and now he is more than half a hundred years old, but he is only barely better than Chu Xiong.

A high-level martial artist who has built a foundation is actually just a small thug who uses protection money to collect protection money? Then the martial arts level of this Daxing City is inevitably too high.

Xiao Qianli's suspicions were not limited to this, according to the old man, two disciples of the martial arts sect once passed by Daxing City and took a little beggar away, and they were assassinated that night. Let's not talk about the martial arts of those two disciples, but since they are disciples of an authentic martial arts sect, aren't these thugs really afraid of the other party's wanton retaliation?

Many doubts made Xiao Qianli cautious, so he decisively arranged for Li Chengyuan to take the two children away, and let Liu Suifeng and Chu Xun continue to stay in place to attract each other's attention, and he quietly touched the Zhuangzi of the "big merchant".

It's not that he wants to put the two apprentices in danger, with Liu Suifeng and Chu Xun's current ability, ordinary Huaqi beginner-level masters, both of them have the ability to fight with one or even defeat their opponents;

"Is it a medicine merchant?" Xiao Qianli looked at the medicine field that was divided into hundreds of acres and large and small pieces, looked at it with some doubts, and watched a team of guards patrolling back and forth, and the doubts in his heart were a little more.

It's just that Xiao Qianli recognized the medicinal herbs, just pulling a few plants, it is worth a few beggars begging for a year's silver, in this case, why should they bother to abduct and sell children from other places?

Xiao Qianli stood quietly at the head of the wall, the huge canopy of trees just covered his whole person, unless he was standing very close, outsiders couldn't see that there were still people standing on the wall.

As time passed, the guards patrolling back and forth around the medicine field were still the same, and Xiao Qianli was also extremely patient and motionless.

The figure in the distance swayed, as if someone was shouting loudly, and several teams of guards cheered and rushed over.

"It's now!" Xiao Qianli's body was like a feather, falling lightly from the wall, his toes had just fallen to the ground, and suddenly his body flashed, and he had already crossed dozens of feet away.

"Ziyan Three Stacks", even a light skill stunt that can be compared with a reed crossing the river, the first stack of momentum, the second stack of flashing potential, the third stack of Xiangdong, can not have the slightest internal breath circulation or take advantage of the momentum to breathe, all rely on the kung fu of one breath, the deeper the skill, the greater the room for this light skill.

Xiao Qianli flashed dozens of feet away, but his breath was already turbid, and his body glided to the back of a big room extremely fast, just avoiding the guard's gaze.

"It's no wonder that this light skill is easy to learn and difficult to master, I just performed it once, and I have a sense of exhaustion that my true qi cannot be sustained, which shows the great cost. Xiao Qianli glanced at the wall where he had just hidden, and couldn't help but secretly rejoice in his heart - if it weren't for such a wonderful light skill, if he wanted to mix in silently, he didn't know how much more hands and feet would have to be consumed.

Xiao Qianli can actually choose to sneak in late at night, but since the other party has important things to guard, he will inevitably arrange a large number of secret sentinels while laying down guards, and if he is not careful, he will be discovered by the secret sentinels. Sneaking in in broad daylight, you can see more clearly, avoiding the trouble of the dark whistle.

Under the cover of the row of houses, Xiao Qianli searched quickly in the courtyard, looking at the houses one by one, but never found anything.

"How is that possible?

searched several buildings in Zhuangzi in a row, but Xiao Qianli found nothing, and he was secretly suspicious in his heart.

"If these kidnapped children from outside are hiding in this courtyard, where will they be placed?"

"According to what the old man said, there are these little beggars in a slightly more prosperous place in the city, and if the ones released are already considered 'finished products' that can beg, then what about the toddlers who can't talk and walk?"

"Could it be that those children are not in the Zhuangzi at all, but in a more secluded place?"

Xiao Qianli hesitated for a moment, looked up at the sky, and couldn't help but move in his heart.

"It's almost dinner time, and the kitchen might have some clues. ”

In contrast, in such a Zhuangzi, the kitchen is the easiest place to find, looking at the smoke rising from the roofs of three places, Xiao Qianli quickly determined the direction.

The first place is a delicate small kitchen, just seeing that the trays in the hands of the maid are made of sterling silver, Xiao Qianli directly gave up further searching.

The second place is a large cauldron stove, and dozens of guards are squatting in the courtyard, talking and laughing, and teasing the maids passing by from time to time. Xiao Qianli just glanced at it secretly, and immediately jumped away.

The third kitchen was extremely weird, with a strong medicinal smell mixed with the smell of milk, which made Xiao Qianli frown.

Looking from the rooftop, I saw dozens of identical small stoves placed against the wall in the courtyard, and the clay pots on the stoves were gurgling and making black splashes, exuding a strange smell of medicine.

"Almost!" said an old man with a long beard, standing in the courtyard, estimating the time, "and it can be brought out." ”

Immediately, several servants stepped forward and brought down the crockpot, and some people came in with large vats of milk, and poured them into the crockpot one by one, only to hear the sound of "snorting", and the hot liquid in the crockpot was washed by the milk, and suddenly emitted a more strange smell.

Immediately, more than a dozen servants came with bottles, carefully pouring the mixed liquid from the crockpot into the vial, and the old man kept shouting: "Be careful with me, if you break the bottle or leak a little, you can't afford to lose a little life!"

"What the hell is this doing?" Xiao Qianli felt more and more puzzled the more he looked at it, and when he saw those servants filling the vial, he lined up with the vial and walked out of the courtyard.