"I haven't seen it. Duchenne quickly calmed down and shook his head repeatedly.

"Oh, is it?" Tang Yi had been staring into his eyes since he took the painting, and his stunned and nervous expression just now had been seen in his eyes, and he had some doubts in his heart.

Duchenne looked very serious again and looked at the painting in his hand again, and shook his head more firmly, "I really haven't seen it." Seeing that he glanced suspiciously at the room to the north, he hurriedly said: "Guest, do you suspect that they live here? That is too wrong!

"No need. Tang Yi barely squeezed out a smile on his face, "I don't have the slightest suspicion of the shopkeeper." Excuse me, you go. ”

Du Xing slowly descended the stairs, and as soon as he reached a place where Tang Yi and his party could not see, his steps immediately became brisk. He quickly walked behind the counter, opened a drawer, pulled out a bunch of keys, and sped to the backyard. There were several wings next to the stables, and he looked left and right in the darkness a few times, walked lightly to one of the wings, and with a "yah", slowly pushed open the hidden door.

Du Xing flashed into the wing room and shouted softly: "Hong Si, don't be nervous! It's me!"

The firelight lit up, Hong Si saw clearly that it was the shopkeeper, and hurriedly got out of bed, looking down for the cloth shoes on the ground.

"Blow out the lights!" Duchenne shouted in a low voice. Hong Si didn't know why, but he quickly blew out the lights.

Duchenne walked up to Hong Si and whispered in his ear. In the dark, Hong Si's eyes lit up, and he seemed to be nodding his head again and again.

After explaining, he gently opened the door line, peeked a few times, walked out quickly, took the door with his backhand, walked quickly to a wing room in the corner, quickly unlocked it, dodged in, and closed the door with his backhand. Take out the fire knife and flint, light it with a "bang", and light an oil lamp. It was a utility room, and he walked quickly to an old wardrobe at the foot of the wall, unlocked it with his key, turned around and blew out the oil lamp, and went into the wardrobe, which had no back panel, revealing a dark rectangular hole.

Duchenne got into the hole in the wall, climbed up the narrow walkway, walked more than ten steps, pushed with both hands, lifted the plank above his head, used his hands and feet together, and climbed up, but he was already under a bed. He crawled out of the bed and was about to stand up, when he suddenly felt a cold blade on the back of his neck, and a soft voice came from the darkness: "Don't move!"

"It's me!Du shopkeeper!" Du Xing said softly, not too nervous.

"Oh, it turned out to be Uncle Du!" Yin Tianjin hurriedly put away his long sword and reached out to help Du Xing.

Fang Yi was already alarmed, sat up in a daze, yawned and asked, "Senior brother, what's wrong?"

"Whisper!" Yin Tianjin shouted in a low voice, "It's Uncle Du!"

"Oh, it turned out to be Uncle Du here!" Fang Yi lowered his voice, "It's so late, what's the matter?" He drank a lot of wine tonight, and when he returned to the room, he fell asleep, and he just woke up.

"Don't be nervous when you hear this: there's a big crowd of people in the inn, and they're here to hunt you down!" Duchenne said softly.

"Ah?!" Fang Yi was still nervous, and he was already drowsy and thrown out of the clouds, and his voice couldn't help but be much louder.

Yin Tianjin hurriedly covered his mouth and said softly: "When they came, I saw it through the crack in the window, and I vaguely remembered that there were a few faces from the enemy's side...... By the way, Uncle Du, how do you know that they are enemies?"

Duchen briefly recounted the situation of the enemy's interrogation just now, and said: "I see that the two leaders are a little suspicious, and you have to brave the rain and leave all night!"

"Hmm...... But they must be watching us secretly...... How to go?" Yin Tianjin's heart was also a little flustered, and he was helpless for a while.

"Don't worry. Your room has a secret passage leading to the stables. When you were all assembled, come with me to the stables, and quickly rode out of the inn and evacuated to the west avenue. Duchenne said.

"But I'm ...... Once you go to gather everyone, you will be noticed by the enemy as soon as you go out......" Yin Tianjin scratched his head, worried about the tunnel.

"You don't have to go out! You live in the same room. With that, Duchenne walked to the bottom of the wall of the left toilet, groped for a while, and with a "click" sound, ripped open a wooden board, and said in a low voice: "From here is the room where the lady lives, let's go over and inform them!"

It didn't take long for everyone to know the situation, pack their luggage, get into Yin Tianjin's room, and follow Du Xing to the utility room. Du Xing said: "You wait here first, and then Master Yang and the three of them will come over and go with you!"

"Uncle Du, won't you come with us?" Yin Tianjin asked in a low voice.

"No need. My martial arts skills are too bad, and my riding skills are also poor, and walking together can't help much, but it's a burden!" Du Xing said lightly.

"But...... But we're gone...... The enemy is ruthless, I'm afraid he won't let you go!" Madame Fang persuaded.

When we escaped the day before yesterday, fortunately, Shopkeeper Wu and the others also fled with us for a long way before returning. Otherwise, I'm afraid it's already ......," Yin Tianjin also persuaded.

"Sister-in-law, Master Yin, you don't have to worry! As soon as you leave, we will immediately sneak out of the inn and find a safe place to hide!" Du Xing had already planned, "What's more, they will be in a hurry to chase you and have no time to pay attention to us." ”

Fang Yi got anxious: "That's right, as soon as we leave, they will chase after us immediately...... In case we catch up, we're ......."

"Young master, don't worry!" Du Xing said confidently: "They can't catch up, I have let Hong Si put laxatives in their horse feed!"

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Qiu Ling and his entourage changed into dry clothes, and because it was late at night, they all took out the dry food they carried with them to satisfy their hunger. After eating for a while, they all felt tired and fell on the bed to rest.

The chiefs could not sleep. Ruan Xingang and Tang Yi sat on the edge of the bed, watching Qiu Ling stomp back and forth in front of the bed. Qiu Ling pondered for a while and said, "This shopkeeper is indeed suspicious...... In this way: Tang Yi, you go and send two brothers to keep an eye on him!"

Tang Yi agreed, and not long after he went out, he came back in a hurry, and before he entered the door, he hurriedly said: "That guy really has a problem! I didn't see him at the counter, and I couldn't even see a guy there!"

"Oh!" Qiu Ling immediately stopped, Ruan Xingang's face changed slightly, and he stood up.

"Hurry up and send someone to keep an eye on the stables!" Qiu Ling tapped his index finger to Tang Yi, "Also, send a few more brothers to watch the movements of the guests staying in this inn, and if there is a problem, immediately warn them!" Tang Yi "En" sighed, turned around and walked out quickly.

Qiu Ling began to stomp back and forth again, muttered for a while, and said, "Brother Ruan, I think these rooms in the north are the most suspicious...... Remember, when we came to stay there was such a big commotion, there was no movement in those rooms, not even the lights were on. ”

Ruan Xingang recalled for a moment, nodded and said, "It seems to be true! It's a little strange! Otherwise, I'll take a look!"

"Good. Qiu Ling bowed his head and instructed: "Be careful, don't let the other party find out." ”

Ruan Xingang nodded, picked up a pair of small axes from the head of the bed, tucked them in his sleeves, went out of the room, cautiously walked to the door outside a guest room, and put his ear to the door to listen quietly. After a while, he went to the next door to listen, and listened to all the rooms, and then turned and walked back. After thinking about it for a while, he returned to the door of a room and listened quietly for a while, then wet his right index finger with saliva, poked a hole in the window paper, looked at it carefully for a while, shook his head gently, and walked back to the room quickly.

"How is it?" Qiu Ling saw his expression, and expected that there would be no gain, so he still asked.

"It's so strange, there's no sound at all!" Ruan Xingang frowned again and shook his head, "It seems that no one lives at all." I also poked through the window and looked inside the house, and although it was dark and I couldn't see clearly, I felt that no one was living there. ”

"Really?" Qiu Ling stopped, tilted his head and thought for a moment, grabbed the sheathed steel knife on the small table, and said in a deep voice: "Let's go, go and see!"

When the two came to a guest room, Qiu Ling tapped the door with the handle of his knife, listened intently for a while, and did not react at all. Then he knocked hard twice, but there was still no movement, so he gritted his teeth, opened the door with a kick of "Peng", and quickly dodged to the side.

With a "whoosh", the fire in Qiu Ling's hand lit up, and the two of them carefully entered the guest room step by step, looking at the bed, but where was there anyone?

Qiu Ling pulled out the steel knife, rushed to the bed in one step, and squatted down to check the bottom of the bed, which was empty. Then he stood up and checked the bed, and when he saw that the quilt was not folded, he lifted the quilt, reached out and touched it, turned his head to Ruan Xingang and said, "There is residual warmth, I just left not long! Let's go to see other rooms!"

In the sound of "Peng" and "Peng", the two kicked out the rest of the rooms for a while, and the result was the same. The two looked at each other, momentarily surprised.

"Ahh In the midst of the uproar, someone screamed: "There is an enemy! Run away on horseback!" "Chase!" "Tang Shuang and Tang Bian are injured!"

Qiu Ling and Ruan Xin hurriedly rushed down the stairs, and in the blink of an eye, they had reached the backyard, but they saw six or seven Tang Sect disciples squatting down to check the two people lying on the ground, and one saw Qiu Ling and the two coming, and pointed to the open gate in the backyard in a panic, and said loudly: "Uncle Qiu! Just now, the enemy suddenly appeared in the stable, get on the horse and run! We couldn't stop it, Tang Shuang and Tang Bian were stabbed! However, we hit one!"

The Tang Sect and the Sha brothers also came one after another, and seeing Qiu Ling squatting to check on the injured, Tang Yi ran over and asked urgently, "Brother Qiu, how is it?"

Qiu Ling turned around and said, "It's no big deal!" Tang Shuang was stabbed in the thigh, and Tang Bian injured his right rib and left arm. We're going to have to chase them right away! Just leave the two brothers to look after them!"

The crowd rode into the rainy night. When he chased out of Rich, he saw an enemy standing motionless on the dark and dreary avenue, and a horse standing beside him, and he couldn't stop screaming.

Qiu Ling had no time to pay attention, so he rode the horse first, and galloped less than two miles, when suddenly a horse knelt on the ground with a wail, and the man on the horse almost fell.

"What's going on?" Qiu Ling and Tang Yi both asked loudly, and as soon as the words fell, the mounts under them also knelt down one after another, but fortunately, both of them were vigorous, and they jumped off the horse to stand still. Looking back, Yu Ma fell to his knees in an instant, and the neighing of horses and the cries of people rang out.

There were a few people who shook the fire, Qiu Ling leaned over to check, but saw that the horses were confused, salivating, and the "sparse miles" behind the buttocks continued to discharge thin feces, and the smell was stinking. Several horses scrambled to their feet, and finally fell to their knees in a helpless neigh.

"What a cunning thief!" Qiu Ling gritted his teeth, "Hey! blame me for being careless, I didn't expect them to be chin in the horse feed...... Let's go back first, there are still some horses in the inn, see if we can ride!"

Everyone started their light work and rushed back to the Shuangjiang Inn, and Boss Sha ran to the side of the man who fell on the avenue, shook the light of the fire, and said loudly: "This guy is dead! Brother Qiu, why don't I ride his horse and chase the enemy first!"

Qiu Ling said loudly: "No! What is the use of catching up with us alone? We went back to find the horse, and everyone chased it together!"

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Everyone followed Qiu Ling and Ruan Xingang back to the backyard of the inn, but when they saw that there was still light in the stable, several people were hurriedly untying the reins of the horses, and it seemed that they were in a hurry to leave.

"Where to go?" Qiu Ling shouted with his knife in his hand.

Those few people were taken aback, and looked up to see a group of ** people rushing into the black pressure in the courtyard, it was the group of people who were rampage in the inn just now, led by a strong man in black with angry eyes, dry fingers in his left hand, and a steel knife in his right hand, and the knife body emitted a cold knife light.

"Heroes, spare your lives...... Don't kill me...... It's none of my business...... Spare your life" Those people were so frightened that their faces were as pale as dirt, and they all "pounced" and knelt down, kowtowing like pounding garlic.

Qiu Ling took a quick look, there were four people in total, and it seemed that they were doing small business. There were only four of their horses left in the stable, and they were furious at the moment, and they exclaimed, "Where are the horses?!"

An older vendor was a little bolder, and said in a trembling voice: "Hui Daxia: After you left just now, the shopkeeper told us to flee quickly, saying everyone...... The hero will be back in a while, and he won't be able to leave if he wants to. When the guests heard this, they were all frightened and ran away, and the guests on horseback also rode away. We were running slowly, just about to go...... Only...... We are just small traders...... Asking for money...... If you want a horse...... Take it all, and spare us, with your noble hands!"

"What a hateful thief!" Qiu Ling's words of scolding the shopkeeper Du made the four of them smash garlic again and again, and whimpered in a low voice.

"Go ahead, stay here!" Qiu Ling said with a sigh. As if they had been pardoned, the four of them kowtowed and thanked them again and again, and left in a hurry.

The Sha brothers rushed up and down the inn in a rage, shouting that they wanted to find out the shopkeeper Du and break him to pieces, but where could they still find him? The whole inn had already been empty, so angry that they smashed the table and kicked the stool, broke the window and smashed the door.

"Brother Sha, don't look for it, run early!" Qiu Ling persuaded, "Let's go out and ask the people of this town to see where we can still find horses in this town." ”

When everyone left the inn, they saw that all the doors and windows of the nearby shops were closed, and it was pitch black. Boss Sha kicked open the door of a shop, and after a while, he came out with a man covered in chaff.

"Say, where are the horses in this town?" Qiu Ling asked sharply, glancing at the man.

"I don't know...... How can there be a horse sold at night......" the man stammered.

With a "bang", Boss Sha kicked him to his knees, grabbed him by the neck, and threatened: "Ask you where there are horses on the dog days! Say it quickly! Otherwise, Lao Tzu will break your neck!"

When his life was at hand, the man suddenly cleared up and hurriedly said, "Don't ...... Other...... The little one remembered that there are a lot of horses in Qiujiazhuang in the west, you can go there and borrow them from Master Qiu!"

"How do I get to Qiujiazhuang? Speak quickly!" Although Boss Sha is vicious, his brain is not very flexible.

"Let him take us!" Qiu Ling commanded.

After walking about a mile and a half to the west, I came to a manor surrounded by bamboo forests, and there was still a glimmer of light in the courtyard. Qiu Ling motioned for everyone to be silent, and Ruan Xingang and Ruan Xingang jumped over the wall of the upper courtyard to look in.

There are several lanterns hanging in the courtyard, the yard is quite large, and several peach trees are planted inside, the peach blossoms are blooming brightly, and the breeze sends bursts of sweet fragrance. Qiu Ling said in his heart: "What a place, this Qiu Zhuang owner is a person who will enjoy happiness!"

There was a sound of a horse sneeze on the left side of the courtyard, Qiu Ling fixed his eyes and saw that the wing room was a stable, and he was overjoyed, turned around and beckoned, and everyone jumped on the wall one after another, jumping down to the courtyard.

"Whew!" the horses neighed in fright, and the horses neighed with them, and it was terrifying to hear in the quiet night.

"Who is it?" The door of the hall suddenly opened, and a group of people rushed into the courtyard with torches in their hands and bright blades in their hands.

"Tell you Qiu Zhuang Master to come out and speak!" Qiu Ling was so angry that the ears of the martial artists of the Guardian Academy were buzzing.

A martial artist seemed to be the leader of all the martial artists, stepped forward, hugged his fists and said, "What do you call your friends?

Boss Sha took a step forward, waved the double hook in his hand, and shouted: "Get out of the way, tell your owner to come out and speak!"

The leader of the martial artist was furious, raised his knife and slashed it, and just halfway through it, he was already locked by the sand boss, and the other hook had been obliquely hooked on his throat. When the martial artists saw that he was restrained by his move, they were shocked, and someone shouted, "Don't ...... This hero, please don't hurt Master Qin...... I...... Let's call us the owner!"

"No need! I'm coming!" a white and chubby old man walked out slowly, arching his hand as he walked: "All the heroes have come to the cold house, and they have lost their sights! Please forgive me! I wonder where Qiu can help the heroes?"

"Don't dare!" Qiu Ling arched his hand and instructed Boss Sha: "Brother Sha, let this master go!" Boss Sha listened to Qiu Ling's words very much, and when he heard this, he accepted the double hook and retreated.

"In Xia Qiu Ling, friends from the rivers and lakes showed love and gave him the nickname of 'Thunderbolt Knife'. Qiu Ling said lightly.

"I have admired Qiu Daxia's name for a long time! Fortunately, I will meet you!" In fact, Qiu Zhuang is not a person in the martial arts, where does he know the name of the other party, but the entertainment on the scene is easy, "Qiu Daxia has any orders, just say, as long as Qiu is within his ability, he will do it one by one!"

Qiu Ling arched his hand and said: "Thank you, Master Qiu! In this way, our group is tracking down a group of court criminals, but these people are cruel and cunning, and they have stolen our horses. I heard that the owner of Qiu Zhuang is benevolent and heroic, and I have come to borrow a horse from you...... I don't know what Qiu Zhuang thinks?"

"No problem! Take as much as you want!" The people in the village listened: Hurry up and lead the horses out to all the heroes!" the owner of the village commanded.

After a while, Qiu Ling and his entourage led the horse out of the village, turned over on the horse's back, and thanked the owner of the Qiu village who sent it out.

Master Qin followed the owner of Qiu Zhuang to see him off, secretly admiring the courage of the owner of the village who was powerless, but he didn't notice that his hands were trembling slightly.