The young man who was trampled underneath him, his teeth were about to grind out, and his eyes looked at the condescending young man.

Lao Hua saw that his vicious threat had not achieved the desired effect, so he took out a white jade pendant interspersed with red threads from the young man's chest, engraved with the word "Yin'er".

Lao Hua had some conjectures in his heart, so he crushed this jade pendant without hesitation.

"No!" the breathless young man let out a desperate cry, intending to defend the majesty of the county lord to the death, and with the determination to die and never reveal the slightest news, he was shattered at this moment.

Lao Hua's heart trembled for a moment, but his expression was still very fierce, and he said to the young man in a very low and fierce tone: "This jade pendant must be the only thing your mother gave you when she was alive, right?"

The young man's face was pale, and his eyes were closed, as if he were a dead body without any life.

Xu is patience was almost exhausted, Lao Hua withdrew the foot that stepped on the young man's chest, bent down and pulled the corners of his chest with both hands.

"Why don't you want to think about the safety of your wife and children, huh?" Lao Hua said through gritted teeth, and after speaking, he raised his right hand and slapped the young man's face several times.

As if awakened by pain, or perhaps unwilling to be hurt by the only person who still loved him, the young man finally opened his eyes and said urgently: "The county lord has three concubines. ”

"Oh?" Lao Hua slowly withdrew his hand, looked at the few clear palm prints on the young man's face, and waited for the next step.

"Among them, the most favored concubine of the group leader is surnamed Xu, who lives on Changhong Street in the south of Qingfeng County," the young man paused, desperately thinking about all the information about the concubine, and opened his mouth to continue: "This woman surnamed Xu likes apricot and tung flowers, so the backyard of the house where she lives is full of apricot trees. ”

"What else?"

"I don't know, but I was told this from a brother who recruited before me. ”

Lao Hua pondered for a moment, and a plan that he thought was acceptable gradually took shape in his mind.

Seeing that the young man was speechless, the young man tried to beg, "My wife and children..."

The voice stopped abruptly, and the young man's eyes went dark, and he was slashed in the back of the neck by the hand knife from the young man, and he fainted.

......

In the middle of the night, the castle of Qingfeng County was silent.

On a street in the south of the city, there was only a rickety old man, walking with sleepy eyes.

"It's dry, watch out for candles. ”

"When" a gong sounded, slowly echoing in every corner of the street.

Lao Hua lay in the middle of an alley on the street, holding his breath and not moving.

When the footsteps of the groomer faded away, Lao Hua stood up and climbed up along the stone brick wall behind him.

Seven or eight trees were scattered on both sides of the cobblestone path, and a branch full of white apricot blossoms stuck out of the wall and hit Lao Hua's head.

Lao Hua hooked his hands on the wall, looked at the courtyard inside the wall, and confirmed that only this courtyard was planted with apricot trees, and jumped down gently over the wall.

There was no sound, and Lao Hua's thin young body was like a dexterous short-tailed monkey, constantly leaning against the wall and crawling into the courtyard.

There is only one house in the courtyard, and with Lao Hua's vision, there is a paper window on the left side of the front door that is still shining red, and it is dark all around.

After repeatedly confirming that there were no guards guarding the courtyard, Lao Hua suddenly stood up from the darkness and bent over to pace towards the shiny paper window.

Standing on the wall outside the paper window, Lao Hua leaned sideways and put his ear on it.

Only the rustle of the pages turned over, and from time to time there was the whisper of a woman.

The woman's voice was slightly hoarse, but it was inexplicably tactful.

Lao Hua stuck to the wall and waited for a long time, but there was no other noise, and he secretly sighed, and quietly paced towards the main entrance of the room behind him.

Lao Hua silently counted three times in his heart.

The door was slammed open, and Lao Hua no longer hid it, and quickly rushed towards the room where the candle was still lit inside.

The back of a thin woman in front of her continued to magnify in Lao Hua's eyes, Lao Hua raised his bandaged left hand, leaned behind the woman, and covered her lips.

A soft touch came, and Lao Hua quickly tripped the woman and pressed her to the ground.

With his left hand still covering the woman's lips, Lao Hua saw the woman's face clearly by the flickering candle flame.

The extremely delicate face showed panic at this time, and the two thicker eyebrows fit just above the woman's slender fox eyes.

Lao Hua was stunned for a moment, the heroic spirit between the woman's eyebrows gave him the illusion that a heroine was fighting bravely on the battlefield.

Shaking his head, Lao Hua didn't appreciate the woman's face too much at this time, and took out a short knife from his waist with his right hand and pressed it against the woman's neck.

"If you don't know each other, you have to go to see Lord Yama now, and you will never see each other when you get along with your county lord. ”

Lao Hua's left hand was still pressed on the woman's lips, and when the woman heard this, she nodded vigorously, and the panic in her eyes quickly faded.

Lao Hua immediately took his left hand away from the woman's lips, flipped the short knife with his right hand, and slashed the back of the knife against the woman's smooth neck skin.

Feeling the goosebumps on her neck, the woman's body trembled, knowing that this uninvited guest was real.

"If you answer me a few questions, I will leave when I am satisfied, and you can continue to live. Lao Hua said in a low voice.

The woman nodded.

"Very well, this first question... Ling Miao, the new county lord of Qingfeng County, is still in his own mansion in Qingfeng County?"

"It's always there. ”

"Second question, when was the last time Ling Miao came to you?"

"He... He's only been gone for two hours. The woman's cheeks flushed, and she began to hide her gaze as she looked at the young man.

"Good. ”

Lao Hua tore a corner of the woman's goose-yellow clothes from the woman's body.

"What are you going to do, you... Not. ”

The woman's lips were tucked into the corners of Lao Hua's torn clothes, so that she could only make a muttered sound.

"I'll lend you one. Lao Hua put the short knife back on his waist, and uncontrollably picked up the woman under him and carried it on his shoulder.

Feeling that the woman seemed to have no weight, Lao Hua stood up, picked up the candle that was still burning in the wing, and threw it towards the top of a red embroidery bed on the inside of the wing.

The candle flame on the candle slowly boiled on the futon, and wisps of smoke spread.

Lao Hua carried the woman to the front door, and the woman on her shoulder trembled restlessly, but she was held down by the powerful big hand of the young man under her.

Holding the woman's back with his left hand to maintain his center of gravity, Lao Hua took out his right hand and took out the short knife on his waist.

The cold blade stuck to the calf under the woman's skirt, and Lao Hua hesitated a little.

can think of Zhangjia Village in the distance, if you don't make some mess here to divert your attention, I am afraid that the news of the disappearance of the three big men will not be hidden.

Thinking of this, Lao Hua no longer hesitated, and the short knife directly cut a bloody mark on the woman's left leg.

The woman on her shoulders struggled violently.

The knife continued to slash through his left leg until enough blood lines burst out and dripped onto the floor at the front door of the room.

Lao Hua carried the woman all the way to the exit of the house, and a long trail of blood followed him all the way.

"Almost. Lao Hua looked at the blood stains behind him, and once again tore off a large corner of the woman's skirt on his shoulder.

A smooth, white thigh was completely exposed, and the leg was covered with more than a dozen scars.

Lao Hua squatted down, lay the woman flat on the ground, and quickly bandaged the thigh with the corner of the torn clothes.

The woman had tears flowing out at this time, but she couldn't make a sound, and she could only see from her eyes that there was a mixture of grief and indignation and a strong sense of grievance.

After the thighs were completely bandaged into a rectangular zongzi by the corners of the clothes, Lao Hua carried the woman back and ran towards the backyard of the house.

At this moment, all the windows around the room were bright, and black smoke was constantly leaking out through the cracks in the doors.

The fire became more and more intense, and the entire Changhong Street seemed to be lit up by a huge lantern.

......

Two hours later.

Ten miles outside the city, in a forest.

There were faint traces of moonlight, which penetrated through the gaps in the dense branches and leaves, and shone on the face of a young man.

Lao Hua condescendingly looked at the woman kneeling on the ground three meters in front of him, silent and silent.

The rags in the woman's mouth had already been taken out by the young man, and at this time she pursed her lips, looking at the young man's feet and not knowing what to think about.

After a while, Lao Hua finally opened his mouth and said slowly: "The new tax law killed a family in my Zhangjia Village, and also killed the three county lords who came to collect taxes. ”

It was a very gentle tone, but from the woman's ears, there was a bit of hidden anger.

The woman raised her head slightly, and looked at the boy with a pair of beautiful eyes.

The young man's thin body was hidden by the darkness, but the woman could see the young man's face sprinkled by the moonlight very clearly.

The woman was very puzzled, she couldn't imagine that this handsome young man, who seemed to be only fifteen or sixteen years old at most, acted so ruthlessly.

The woman couldn't help but shake her head slightly, she wanted to save her life now, she was nothing more than being used as a bargaining chip by this young man.

"I strongly disagree with the county lord's new tax decree," the woman's beautiful eyebrows furrowed, and she looked at the young man and gritted her teeth and said, "Since you tied me up, you must know that I am extremely important to the county lord... If you let me go back at that, I will do my best to tell the Lord of the County about it and ask him to withdraw the decree. ”

The young man sneered when he heard this, squatted down, and picked up the woman's chin with his index finger.

"You also think too highly of yourself, I tied you up, just to divert the attention of the county lord, let him distract him, don't slaughter Zhangjiacun so early. ”

When the woman heard this, her hairs stood on end, and the countless words that had been prepared were stuck in her mouth, and she was speechless for a long time.

Seeing that the woman was speechless, Lao Hua didn't pay any more attention, turned around and walked towards a nearby willow tree.

Leaning under the willow tree and looking at the woman kneeling on the ground, Lao Hua pondered.

What's next? If you can't lure the snake out of the hole, won't it be all empty?

Thinking about it, Lao Hua couldn't think of a good countermeasure.

was originally full of enthusiasm, for the safety of the whole village, he came to Qingfeng County alone and tied up the most favored concubine of the county lord.

But at this moment, Lao Hua realized that his plan was very ridiculous.

Because... He couldn't figure out what to do next.

It would be nice if Xiao Lian was here, she is so smart that she will definitely be able to come up with a countermeasure without mistakes.

A shadow appeared in Lao Hua's mind, and the smile of the shadow made Lao Hua's heart ache faintly at this time.

Suddenly, a strange "quack" sound sounded from the tree behind Lao Hua.

I saw a crow half a minute older than ordinary birds poking its head out of the branch buds on Lao Hua's head, and on the black and shiny bird's head, a pair of scarlet eyes were looking at Lao Hua strangely.

Lao Hua had a bad premonition.

The huge crow flapped its wings a few times, flew over Lao Hua's head in an instant, and disappeared into the sky.

"Not good!" Lao Hua hurriedly got up, came to the woman's side, picked her up, and ran at full speed towards the depths of the forest.

At this moment, there was a rumbling sound on the ground of this wood, and in a moment, hundreds of horses covered with heavy armor came to the place where Lao Hua and the woman were resting before.

Hundreds of figures on horseback, all holding hundreds of standard long knives that emitted a chilling light, looked into the depths of the forest.

The bright moon in the sky, as if feeling the endless killing intention from the forest, was slowly swallowed by the clouds and mist, and could no longer be revealed.