Sir, this sword is a keepsake

At Xinshi, Shen Fang came to the room at the end of the east corridor on the second floor, and looked back at the small courtyard that stood brightly in the clear light of the cold moon.With faint unease, he pushed the door open, walked straight to the bed, and put the bag of soft drinks under the pillow.

Immediately afterwards, he placed the teacup held in his left hand on the wooden table in the middle of the room.As soon as the teacup was released from his hand, strands of white smoke flowed from his fingertips.He just held it for a short distance, so he had to use his internal strength to drive away the chill that seeped into his fingers.It seemed that what he was holding was not hot tea, but a cup of cold water that could penetrate the bones.

He looked at the palm of his hand for a few seconds, then took off the wild snow sword, sat in front of the table, and looked down at the sword.

Today, he used Lu Ying's wind chimes to temporarily suppress the heavy killing sword energy of Huangxuejian, so as to avoid attracting the attention of experts on the way. At this time, Huangxuejian was as peaceful as a deep sleep.However, Shen Fang still couldn't keep the two swords close for too long.

Although Huangxue Sword and Yiwei Sword have the same root and origin, and have known each other for more than a hundred years, swords are weapons of death after all, and it is inevitable to compete with each other with their respective sword qi without knowing it.

Yiwei sword has always been wild and unruly, Shen Fang was afraid that it would be stained with the desolation and sadness of Huangxue sword, thus polluting his sword heart.

——Thinking about it, this is also the sword in its own way, reminding the person who uses the sword: don't let hatred blind your heart.

After sitting like this for a stick of incense, two footsteps sounded from the stable in the backyard.Although the owner of the footsteps has tried his best to keep his steps light, the dark night is still silent, but to Shen Fang's hearing, one person's footsteps are heavy and faltering, while the other is light and flustered. It is self-evident that they are the father and daughter of the inn both.

When the footsteps of the two people gradually weakened until they could not be heard at all, Shen Fang still sat motionless, as if falling asleep.After an unknown amount of time, he heard someone running downstairs.

One, two, three...

Shen Fang frowned and counted, and he could hear these people's footsteps were disordered, * * *, and they made depressed * * * from time to time.Shen Fang was also feeling a little discomfort in his stomach at this time, and his eyebrows were slightly raised, a little surprised.

"Strange, is this poison just a laxative?"

He endured it for a few seconds, and found that it was unbearable, and his eyes fell on the cup of tea.Zhuang Li's meaning was obvious, this tea was the antidote he had prepared for Shen Fang.Shen Fang didn't touch it, but returned to the bed, took out a palm-sized jade porcelain bottle from his bag, poured out the white pills inside, and took two pills.After waiting for a while, the pain in his abdomen obviously subsided.If it wasn't for the precious medicine from Qihuangfang, he wouldn't have eaten those vegetables recklessly.Although Zhuang Li's worry was superfluous, in Shen Fang's view, it was a bit cute.It's just that he doesn't trust Zhuang Li, just like he doesn't trust the White Horse Escort.

Shen Fang shouldered two swords, walked to the door, bared his teeth for half a second, loosened the muscles on his face, pushed the door open with a "squeak", and roared with his loudest voice: "Which bastard is in the dish?" It's drugged!"

"Mr. Shen!" "Mr. Shen, you too..." "This toilet can't even be squeezed in..."

Responses came one after another.In the courtyard, on the stairs, in the hall, and on the corridor on the second floor, there were all escorts covering their stomachs and frowning. Seeing that Shen Fang had also come out, they finally let go of their voices and howled.

"Where's Zhao Renzhong?" Shen Fang raised his eyebrows in anger.

Seeing that Shen Fang looked unhappy, the bodyguards knew that he was venting his anger on the head of the bodyguard, and looked at each other. One of the elders, leaning on the railing, said in a rough voice, "The head of the bodyguard ran to the toilet just now... Well, Mr. Shen, This is obviously the drug given by those two shopkeepers!"

"I've looked for them, but the old and the young are not here!" One person cursed in the dark.

"A group of useless people, what's the use of talking about it now, you don't know how to watch other people cook when you live in a restaurant!"

Shen Fang didn't bother to talk to them, and directly passed the escorts before him, and ran towards the hut.The bamboo fence between the backyard and the patio has been kicked and kicked by countless people, and it is already badly damaged.Seeing Shen Fang rushing into the toilet, everyone dared not speak out.

The elder bodyguard reprimanded: "If you can't hold it back, go outside to solve it, you are stupid."

"Yes Yes Yes……"

The footsteps up and down were chaotic, Shen Fang couldn't hear how many people were moving for a while, anyway, many people were rushing towards the gate of the inn.

Shen Fang didn't go to the toilet, but dodged into the corner of the back yard, listening to the sound of the front yard on the one hand, and observing the three latrines in the yard on the other hand.Unbearable sounds came from the closed two rooms from time to time.After a while, a door opened, and a bodyguard walked out, not Zhao Renzhong.

The man left in a hurry.

So, the third one is Zhao Renzhong?

Shen Fang waited patiently until after half a stick of incense, there was no sound in the front yard, and everyone had left.

"This……"

Shen Fang was a little uncertain about the current situation for a while, and was about to go back to the room, when he saw a crack in the door, and a familiar black figure came out.

It's Zhuang Li.

Shen Fang clearly remembered that this person hadn't touched a single bite of food, and finally couldn't wait any longer, got up and went out and said, "Why aren't you in the room?"

"Wait for you." Another bad answer, Zhuang Li, who ignored Shen Fang's eyes, continued: "I'm afraid that if you refuse to drink my antidote, you will be attacked by someone while going to the toilet and die in the pit. Why? , Is my 'snap of inspiration' immediate effect?"

Shen Fang didn't answer, but raised his eyebrows and asked, "How did you know there was poison in the food?"

"When I came here, I went to the kitchen and walked around. This small shop doesn't have any ingredients, but when you came, those bodyguards went to the kitchen, and there was a lot of fish and meat on the table. That's not enough. Strange?"

Shen Fang knew it was reasonable, and nodded, "I'll go back to my room and have a look."

"Go back to the room?" Zhuang Li paused, as if thinking of something, he was shocked, "You didn't put such an important thing on you?"

Shen Fang looked solemn and did not answer.The two came to Shen Fang's house. Shen Fang remembered that when he left, he didn't close the door, but he also remembered that when he left, the inside was still neat and tidy, but the scene in front of him was obviously a thief - the bed The quilt was lifted, the pillow was tilted aside, and the softness had disappeared.

"Oh, I've been staying in that latrine all the time, it can't be blamed on me. It's obvious that after you went out, someone came here by mistake." The nervous Zhuang Li quickly separated himself.

"How do you know if you are their accomplice?"

"Me? With them?" Zhuang Li was taken aback, pointing to himself and then to the door, but unable to find the words to explain himself, he stared angrily.

Shen Fang ignored him, opened the window, jumped down, landed on the quiet street in the middle of the night, turned and ran eastward.However, in an instant, there was a gray figure behind him, and it was Zhuang Li who came after him.There is no sound of footsteps, only the sound of the wind, as if chasing Shen Fang's steps behind.

Shen Fang suddenly quickened his pace, and Zhuang Li caught up again effortlessly. With such a speed, he needed to pay attention to the flow of breath and movement skills, while Zhuang Li kept keeping a distance of half a body from himself. It can also jump up to the treetops and roofs beside the road from time to time.

Shen Fang was once again convinced that Zhuang Li's lightness kung fu was far superior to his own, and it was so weird and unfathomable.What's even more astonishing is that Zhuang Li can still chatter endlessly.

"Oh, how do you know it's going in this direction?"

"If it's wrong, what should I do?"

"Should we split up?"

"This doesn't seem too good. If I meet him, I may not be able to beat him."

"Isn't your cold pool shadow good enough?" Shen Fang finally added a word.

"Time works, time doesn't work." Zhuang Li said frankly about the weakness of his kung fu.

The two had already gone to the suburbs, looking for someone by moonlight.If the group of bodyguards were just looking for a place to get rid of their diarrhea, there was no need to go to such a place at all, and they would go to the dark forest in a short distance.

Shen Fang stopped in a hurry, "It seems that I chose the wrong direction." Seeing Zhuang Li looking at him in disbelief, he explained: "This town only has one road going out of the town from east to west, so I chose the wrong direction." It's a gamble, and today's luck is not good."

Zhuang Liqi didn't go anywhere, he couldn't believe that Shen Fang was so reckless, and shouted, "It's over, it's over, it's over, Spring and Autumn Nineteen was stolen just like that! Your ancestral swordsmanship has been stolen. Can you be so calm?"

He spun around on the spot, suddenly stunned, "Hey, what do you mean by that, is that you don't doubt me anymore?"

Shen Fang glanced at Zhuang Li thoughtfully, "Your master asked you to accompany me to deliver the sword manual?"

Zhuang Li rolled his eyes angrily, "Why do I come here now, what do I want to do, is it important?"

"Important, if your master is the enemy of the villa, I will get rid of you right now, and he will lose a helper."

"...Shen Fang, you should find the sword manual first."

"and many more……"

"What are you waiting for..."

"No, I mean, right now, something has happened."

"Ah?" Zhuang Li looked at Shen Fang with a weird expression, until a trace of blood penetrated his nose, and then he followed Shen Fang's train of thought.

The smell of blood was strong, and it seemed that many people died.They climbed up the slope to the south following the fishy smell, and when they reached the top of the slope, they stopped.

The corpses of more than a dozen bodyguards lay neatly down the slope.The slit in the throat of the dead body stopped bleeding, but the blood was still flowing and converging under the dead body.

"It's a step late. But the person who started it shouldn't have gone far." Zhuang Li said softly, "Among these corpses, the leader is missing." He was surprised at Zhuang Li who was walking towards the row of corpses.

"Well, he should also instigate the innkeeper to put medicine in the dishes."

Hearing this, Zhuang Li finally realized something, frowned slightly, and thought: "No wonder you sent them away, those bodyguards should have killed them two to silence them, it seems that you have suspected them for a long time."

"But until now, I don't know all his arrangements. You, what are you going to do?" Shen Fang was surprised, and looked suspiciously at Zhuang Li who squatted next to one of the corpses.

"Maybe there are some valuable things." Zhuang Li said casually.

"Here, wait, you want to take their money?" Shen Fang was a little incoherent for a moment.

"What's the matter, young master, if you don't want to take the money of the dead, I said," Zhuang Li got impatient, "Aren't you taking too much care?"

"Don't you think it's dirty?"

Surprised as if he heard some joke, Zhuang Li laughed and said, "Dirty? Money isn't dirty, or is this corpse dirty? It just died not long ago, and it's dirty when it's rotten and smelly."

Shen Fang frowned, but stopped talking, and let Zhuang Li skillfully touch the bosoms of the dozens of corpses.After a while, Zhuang Li returned to the slope briskly, and seemed to have gained a lot, but his expression was not very happy.

"It took some time, but that person's journey is definitely not as fast as ours," Zhuang Li asked again, "Do you know where that person will go?"

Shen Fang walked back on his own.

"Shen Fang, I'm asking you something, won't you stop chasing me?"

"Stop chasing." Shen Fang turned his head and said, "Chunqiu Nineteen is no longer with me, so you don't have to follow me."

Hearing this, Zhuang Li was stunned for more than ten seconds before catching up.

"Stop chasing? Shen Fang, are you kidding me? Then what are you going to do? I promised my master that I will accompany you to send the sword manual to Luoyang. I, who just met You lost your sword manual...how can I explain it? If I had known this, I should have dealt with those people for you as soon as you entered the inn, who knew that you, Shen Fang, were so unreliable!" Zhuang Li unexpectedly He is even more confused than Shen Fang.

"No matter who your master is, it's none of your business if I send you the sword manual." Shen Fang glanced at him, slowed down his pace, and said coldly, "Besides, I went down the mountain for one thing. My senior brother takes revenge."

As soon as the words fell, Huang Xuejian behind him woke up suddenly, and the sudden sword energy pierced his back with severe pain, and Shen Fang suddenly bent down.

"What's wrong with you?" Zhuang Li said nervously after finding out that something was wrong with Shen Fang.

"Do not touch me!"

Shen Fang shouted to Zhuang Li who was about to step forward to help, but it was still a little late.The two swords on his back were full of sword energy in an instant, Zhuang Li felt the fierce sword energy rushing towards his face, and then, his body was thrown lightly like a fallen leaf, and fell to the ground.

The wind suddenly stopped.Zhuang Li, who was lying on the ground, said weakly: "Shen Fang, you hurt someone, you can't just slip away like this... I still don't understand what kind of murder is going on tonight... What's going on with those bodyguards..."

Seeing that Zhuang Li was not injured, Shen breathed a sigh of relief, and took off the wild snow sword behind his back, "I have business to do right now, so I will keep Mr. Ren."