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"I, I don't know, it was all arranged by that old thing!" The woman's body stiffened uneasily, and her lips trembled slightly. She stiffened her body and tried to pretend to be cute and pitiful, crying.

"I don't know...tsk..." Li Xuan raised the corners of his mouth teasingly, raised his eyebrows and looked at Ning Yu, while leaning a little closer to her ear, and said in a deep voice, "Your chance for revenge has come... ..."

Li Xuan's voice was deep and hoarse, and after deliberately letting it go cold, it still had a slightly gloomy taste: "Every time I counted, I chopped off one of his fingers, and when I finished chopping off my fingers, I broke off my toes, and when I finished my toes, I broke off my toes. , just take off his arms and legs until he is made into a human pig, and then put it in a jar for your enjoyment, how about that?"

"No! Don't!! I, I really don't know! I really don't know!!" The woman's face was pale, and she held Li Xuan's strong arm in horror, struggling and begging loudly, "It's all done by that old thing. I did it, I, I’m just a concubine, it’s none of my business!!”

"one."

Li Xuan's eyes were gloomy, and he squeezed out a word coldly through his teeth, and the blade in his hand moved closer to the side of his neck, and as she struggled crazily, blood continued to snake down.

Ning Yu raised her foot and stepped on the back of the man's hand fiercely, raised her sword and dropped a little finger by him. With a heart-piercing scream, the man's whole body began to tremble crazily. Blood gushed out from the fracture, slowly spreading on the ground full of loess and gravel.

"Ah—no!!" The woman's pupils constricted, and her mournful cry pierced the night sky. Tears flowed across her cheeks, and her hair, which was originally clean and tidy, fell apart in the struggle, looking miserable, "I Give you money, I have money!! I beg you, please let him go..."

"two."

Li Xuan pursed his lips indifferently, and continued to count as if he hadn't heard anything.

"Ahhhhh!!"

The man crawled on the blood-stained ground, screaming like crazy, and as the second finger was chopped off by the rain, his thick clothes were already drenched with sweat.

"I said! I said!!" Panting, the woman clutched Li Xuan's arm desperately, looked at the man's already pale face with tears streaming down her face, but her legs were so weak that she could hardly stand still, "The morning after tomorrow... On the small road to the mountain, exchange 1000 taels of silver with the waist card and the cottage..."

Li Xuan snorted coldly and pushed the limp woman toward Ning Yu, she stumbled and threw herself on the ground, desperately crawled to the man's side, clenched his bloody wrist, shaking with shock and pain I can't help myself.

"Ning Yu." Li Xuan glanced sideways at the guards around him, all of whom were skilled and well-trained, and definitely not what ordinary people could cultivate, so he raised his eyebrows and smiled lightly, "This I won't kill the two of them for the time being, but I don't want to release them either, you...should be locked up in your own place, right?!"

He seemed suspicious, but his tone was very firm.

Ning Yu couldn't help being slightly taken aback, not knowing how to answer for a while.Because he really didn't know what happened during the ten days when he was not with Lan Jing?

And this joking man...how much does he know? !

……

In the small courtyard in the city, a few mottled tree shadows were cast by the cold moonlight, but warm candlelight was still flickering between the window edges of the main house.

Lan Jing lay alone on the couch, stroking the half-empty bedding with one hand, tossing and turning, still unable to fall asleep.

Li Xuan only brought Ning Yu to investigate the clues of Xuanming Kingdom today, he insisted on keeping Ling Feng for himself.But those spies from the Blood Pavilion are the highest-ranked killers in Xuanming Kingdom after all, and Ning Yu's kung fu is not as good as Ling Feng's. What if they are injured?got caught?But what to do? !

He suddenly realized something and suddenly sat up straight, staring at the door in a daze.Ning Yu said that she found the mark they left behind, so she rushed to investigate, but... no one seemed to have thought about it, if the whole thing was a conspiracy, a bait to lure them into the net , so what?

"Ling Feng!" Lan Jing sat on the side of the couch with the support of the strong bedpost, and whispered anxiously, ever since he had this idea, he couldn't sit still anymore.

"Master." The door of the room was gently pushed open, and Ling Feng hurriedly walked in, bowing his head. When he looked up, he saw Lan Jing looking at him anxiously, with long black hair pouring down like water, half covering her face. His slightly pale cheeks.

"You said... Could that mark be the danger set by the Xuanming people!" Lan Jing not only didn't let him get up, but ran over barefoot in a hurry, squatting in front of Ling Feng and pressing his hands with his hands. asked with a tense shoulder.

The anxious look was like a puppy abandoned by its owner.

"No." Ling Feng looked at his master squatting in front of him, and did not dare to get up alone, so he kept a half-kneeling posture, squeezed a comforting smile at him with a bitter face, and said softly, "All these years Don't you believe in Ning Yu? Although he has a cold face every day, he can't be more prudent in his work!"

"What you said... seems to be right." Lan Jing frowned and thought for a while, and finally felt a little relieved, but when she was about to stand up, she realized that her legs were a little limp from fright.

"Your subordinate is rude." Ling Feng looked at Lan Jing with a somewhat embarrassed expression, and his bare feet were turned red from the cold ground, so he had no choice but to hold him in his arms, confessed his guilt in a low voice, and turned to the couch walk between.

A burst of indistinct footsteps suddenly broke the silence of the night, getting closer and closer along the path between the streets and alleys, and finally stopped outside the courtyard gate.

Ling Feng carefully pressed Lan Jing on the couch, and stretched out his hands slightly by his sides, and the two hidden weapons were quietly pinched between his fingers, shining faintly and coldly.

The courtyard door was gently pushed open, but the aura that followed became more and more familiar.When Li Xuan pushed open the door and broke into the warm candlelight, Lan Jing jumped out of bed as quickly as a butterfly and threw herself into his arms.

Li Xuan hugged him tightly with a smile, and slowly sent him back to the couch again. At this moment, the feeling of being depended on was so happy that it filled his heart with sweetness.

"Worried about me?" Li Xuan also sat down on the edge of the couch with his clothes lightly lifted, lowered his eyes and kissed his forehead, after seeing the pair of fateful mandarin ducks just now, he suddenly felt that at this moment he and Lan Jing could love each other and share life and death together , is also a kind of luck.

"Hmm..." Lan Jing nodded obediently, and raised her hand to hook his neck.

"Where is Ningyu?!"

Ling Feng looked outside the house for a long while, but he still didn't see Ning Yu's figure, so he had to suddenly interrupt the atmosphere that had just become charming and turned to look at Li Xuan, asking with a faint unease.

"Abducted two people from the Blood Pavilion, I will ask him to find a place to imprison him temporarily." Li Xuan turned his head and casually responded, but the faint meaning revealed in these words made the other two slightly startled .

Lan Jing and Ling Feng looked at each other, suddenly didn't know how to answer, so they had to keep silent and wait for him to continue.

"The young prince of Fengyu Kingdom was captured by Fei Yan and brought back to Xuanming three days ago." Li Xuan looked at the expressions of their master and servant, and he knew it in his heart, but his face only slightly curled his lips, and continued. Said, "We are still one step too late."

"Then our plan... isn't it all aborted..." Lan Jing opened her mouth in astonishment, and looked at Li Xuan unwillingly.After working so hard for so many days and wasting so much energy, it ended up being nothing? !

"But the arrest of the blood pavilion spies was not in vain." Li Xuan looked at Lan Jing reassuringly, and lowered his voice and said in a deep voice, "It can be used in the future."

"How to use it?" Lan Jing raised her eyebrows.

"This is a pair of mandarin ducks in trouble~" Li Xuan picked up the half cup of herbal tea left by Lan Jing on the table and drank it with his head up, then wiped his lips and said with a slight mocking smile, "This woman is Li Shouhong Xin The little concubine I took has been very favored recently, and she knows everything about him accepting and giving tribute to bandits, which is a very rare witness."

"The most important thing is..." Li Xuan paused for a moment, and a sternness suddenly appeared in his dark eyes, "As long as that man doesn't die, she can be used by us forever!"

"Is it really possible?" Lan Jing was a little dazed, trying to digest everything he said just now, and repeated as if confirming.

"It should be possible." Li Xuan glanced at Ling Feng who was standing beside him with his hands hanging down, and seriously ordered in a low voice, "Early the morning after tomorrow, you will take some people to wait on the small road in the south of the city, and Li Shouhong will send a team to hold the badges Go to Shuilongzhai to exchange bribe money, we can directly replace it."

"Uh... what are you going to Shuilongzhai for?"

The bandit den that occupies the mountain as the king can go and leave whenever it wants?

Lan Jing was stunned for a moment full of suspicion, and after a long time, she suddenly raised her head, looked at Li Xuan as if suddenly enlightened, and asked tentatively: "You took a fancy to that money?!"

Li Xuan was taken aback, but Ling Feng burst out laughing. He held his forehead with black lines all over his head, looked at Lan Jing's unsure look and asked softly, "My lord, don't you think this is an investigation?" Is it a good opportunity for Shuilong Village?"

"Now we only have witnesses. If we want to prove Li Shouhong's crime, we must have conclusive physical evidence." Li Xuan also looked at him with a smile, stroked Lan Jing's soft black hair, and said seriously , "Shuilongzhai enshrines such a large amount of yearly silver every year, and it must be entered into the account book and keep evidence to prevent future bites by the government."

"You mean, we went to get the old silver openly, and after we entered the cottage, we took the opportunity to look for the account book in secret?" Lan Jing frowned and thought about it carefully, and still asked hesitantly, "You have captured his concubine now room, will he be on guard and dare not send someone to fetch it?"

"On the contrary." Li Xuan narrowed his eyes slightly, and smiled mockingly, "Ning Yu should have sent a kidnapper's notice to Li's residence, asking him for a thousand taels of money to be tied up, and it will be ready within three days. He used to spend so much money for that little concubine, but now he will not spare the thousand taels of silver, and since he needs money urgently, he will not let go of this agreement."

"Two birds with one stone." Ling Feng sighed softly, but suddenly turned around and kowtowed to Li Xuan, "I'm afraid they will act early, and my subordinates will immediately send someone to keep an eye on Li's residence, and come back immediately if there is any change!"

Li Xuan nodded silently. Judging from the current situation, it is true that this possibility cannot be ruled out.

Before Ling Feng turned around, he heard a timid soft call outside the door: "Master, I just prepared some porridge and side dishes, do you want to use some before resting?"

Li Xuan went out in the evening and returned at midnight. He really felt a little hungry, so he replied in a low voice through the door: "Bring it in."

The door was gently pushed open, and Qiu Yang walked in cautiously holding a wooden tray.Two bowls of clear porridge and three dishes of side dishes. Although the food is simple, it is very carefully prepared.

Since entering Changxing County, Qiu Yang has quietly taken over all chores, carrying water, chopping firewood, and cooking, doing everything impeccably.Although he is young, his cooking skills are quite good. Maybe because he was dependent on his father in the past, he took on the hardships of life early.

"master……"

Qiu Yang put the food on the table, and stood alone at the side waiting for orders.Inadvertently, she seemed to feel Lan Jing's eyes watching her all the time, so she secretly blushed and glanced at Lan Jing, but hurriedly lowered her eyes, and murmured softly.

"Well, you go down first." Lan Jing nodded with a little pity, and seeing Qiu Yang bowing and retreating slowly to the door, she added quietly, "Thanks for your hard work."

Qiu Yang's arm that had just supported the door frame froze for a moment, and turned his head to look at Lanjing with surprise on his face, his clear eyes were shining brightly, with a bit of joy beyond words...