Although the mountain road is rugged and steep, coupled with the heavy snowfall, the road is slippery, but Ding Cheng grew up in the mountains since he was a child, and he is familiar with every grass and tree in the mountains.

Ding Cheng came to Duanjiazhuang and crouched behind a pine tree to check the situation. The gate of Duanjiazhuang was open, and there was a faint fire in the village. Ding Cheng jumped on the branch of the tree and looked at the village, but saw that the village was full of corpses, several houses were on fire, and there was blood all over the ground, and there was no trace of the enemy in the village, and it seemed that the villains had evacuated.

Ding Cheng jumped off the ground and slowly approached the Zhuang Gate, and the two guarding Zhuang Ding fell to the side of the door, both of them were stabbed in the chest. Ding Cheng entered the village and slowly walked into the hall, where a servant at the door of the hall fell by the door, blood stained the door, and a teacup on the ground shattered.

The tables and chairs in the hall overturned, the fragments of porcelain vases were all over the floor, and the huge picture of mountains and rivers on the main hall also fell to the ground and was torn into several pieces. Ding Cheng walked through the hall to the back hall, and an osmanthus tree in the back hall courtyard was broken into two, and the fracture seemed to be cut off by a sword. The doors and windows of the back hall were in tatters, many of the fractures were neat, and there was a lot of blood on the ground, but there were no bodies.

Ding Cheng entered the room and saw at a glance that Master Duan Zhuang was sitting in a chair with a big knife in his hand, covered in blood. Ding Cheng called Uncle Duan, and approached to hold Master Duan's arm, but Master Duan did not respond. Ding Cheng probed his mouth and nose, only to find that the owner of Duan Zhuang had already died. Judging by the situation, Master Duan must have gone through a fierce battle before he died, and judging from the blood stains on the ground, the enemy must have suffered a lot of casualties.

However, there were no corpses of outsiders on the ground, so it can be seen that the enemy must have taken the corpses of his own side with them when they retreated. For many years, Duan Nantian has been treating Ding Cheng as his own parent, and Ding Cheng can't help but feel sad when he thinks of the kindness that Lord Duan Zhuang treated him in the past.

Suddenly, there was a crisp "bang" in the inner room, and it was the sound of pottery breaking. Ding Cheng immediately became alert and walked inside with a long sword in his hand. Walking to the door of the inner room, Ding Cheng was shocked to find that the two men in black were rummaging through the cabinets and looking for something. Ding Cheng was angry from the heart, and a sword stabbed out and killed a person.

The other person was about to fight back with a knife, Ding Cheng had already slashed a sword on his left and right arms, cutting off the tendons and veins of his arms, and then the sword flashed, and the long sword slashed through the person's throat, and the person's neck was bleeding like a pour, and he was dying.

Ding Cheng came out of the inner room, saw the body of the owner of Duan Zhuang, his heart was gloomy, and suddenly remembered Duan Sirong again, his heart tightened, and he hurriedly walked to Duan Sirong's boudoir in the side courtyard.

The door of Duan Sirong's boudoir was open, and the two maids were lying on the ground. Ding Cheng rushed into the room with an arrow, and at a glance, the objects in the room were crooked and messy, but there was Duan Sirong's shadow somewhere. Ding Cheng's mind buzzed, it was blank, and when he looked at it, he felt that the walls, doors and windows were spinning.

Ding Cheng patted his head vigorously to calm himself down, since Duan Sirong was not found in the house, that is to say, Duan Sirong may not be dead, or it may have been hijacked by the enemy, so he must find the traces of Duan Sirong and the enemy immediately!

As soon as Ding Cheng stepped out of the door, a person on the roof swooped down with a single knife in his hand, and slashed at the top of Ding Cheng's head. Ding Cheng raised his sword to block, the swords intersected, and suddenly felt a numbness in his arm, the long sword almost came out of his hand, and a swallow turned over and landed on the flower bed outside Zhang Xu. The man was dressed in black, with a black scarf and a mask, but it could be seen from the gray hair on the sideburns that the person who came was not young.