Suifang

"Pear Blossom Town" exploded early in the morning, followed by firecrackers and gongs and drums, celebrating something.

Xia Suijin lay listlessly on the medicine cabinet, picked a piece of licorice and threw it into his mouth to chew. The sweetness mixed with bitterness spread out, just like his mood at the moment.

The old doctor stroked his beard and asked, "Why is it so noisy outside? Who dares to get married at this juncture, not afraid that the bride will be skinned?"

A young man who hurried past heard this, turned a corner, and went straight to the old doctor who dispensed the medicine, and said with a smile:

"The skinner is dead! The body was hung on the big pear tree at the gate of the city. Everyone in the town ran to see it. A dozen girls' skins were piled up under the tree. A few kind-hearted old men Grandma cried so sadly that she said she would burn the human skin so that the dead girls could be reborn."

"Oh? What else?"

The old doctor turned his head and glanced at the stunned Xia Suijin, and said meaningfully: "I don't know which chivalrous man can get rid of this scourge."

The young man nodded hastily: "Yes, yes, you have done such a great deed, so you should set up a banquet to thank him, no, everyone is looking for that benefactor now, doctor, please help me to pay attention. "

"Well, I see."

The old doctor handed the prepared medicine to Xia Suijin, and asked in a low voice, "My lord, are you the knight who killed the skinned man?"

Xia Suijin shook his head and sighed: "It's not me, but... I think I know who it is."

Walking all the way back to the inn, I held a dustpan of apples, oranges, peanuts, walnuts and other food in my arms, which were all given by the people who were celebrating on the road.

"I see you are happy and happy, but you don't know that your benefactor is suffering from the pain of being skinned."

Xia Suijin ordered the waiter in the store to boil the medicine, and pushed open the door with the ointment in his pocket, and couldn't help but sighed slightly, saying:

"If you are in severe pain, just call out. When I was seven and a half years old, my leg was broken and I was locked in a dark room howling for a day and a night. I didn't eat a mouthful of food or drink a sip of water. It was much worse than you."

From under the emerald green veil came a beast-like sob of pain.

The whimpering was restrained, and the sound was torn and distorted.Xia Suijin lifted the gauze curtain and saw a skinless face full of flesh and blood that was distorted by pain.

This face has been stripped of a layer of skin, revealing only red and white flesh and blood.The ointment applied before leaving has turned into blood and dripped down with the blood, and the pillow is dripping with blood.At this time, the man stretched out a hand with bursting veins, and slowly and tightly grasped Xia Suijin's neck.

Xia Suijin knew that he was in pain, so he let him grab it, and said with a stiff neck, "If you want to grab it, grab it, don't grab it to death."

His breathing became heavy, as if he had been put on a shackle that was wound and tightened, and the more he tightened it, the more difficult it was to breathe, and there were bouts of whitish dizziness in front of his eyes.

I can't, it's so uncomfortable!

Xia Suijin tapped that arm lightly, as if pinching the snake's seven inches, and the arm immediately hung down softly.He immediately sat down on the ground weakly, rubbed his neck and murmured:

"Forget it, I don't care about you. Who told you to be a real chivalrous man, who killed the skinner and saved the girl in the town. I was the one who picked up the cheap one and saved the benefactor. Let this matter spread more I have a long face."

Feeling so relieved in my heart, I immediately felt much better, jumped on the bed, took out a delicate rouge box, and coaxed a child to say:

"Xiashi, I'll put some medicine on your face, I don't know if it will produce a new skin, but it definitely won't hurt like this."

The knight shook his lips and uttered a complete sentence hoarsely: "I... can't control it..."

Xia Suijin hurriedly said: "It's not in the way, it's not in the way, I don't know what to call a knight? My name is Li Sujin, you can call me 'Xiao Su'."

Give your own name first to dispel the doubts of the knight.

Immediately afterwards, the knight uttered a word with difficulty: "Fang..."

"Ah, so it's Fang Xiashi."

"It's vanilla 'Fang'. Also, don't call me 'Xiashi'."

So Xia Suijin shouted respectfully:

"Mr. Fang"

I don't know if it was his illusion, but after shouting these three words, the knight's expression looked even more painful.

In the middle of the night, singing and singing on the song stage spread continuously, Xia Suijin tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep, thinking: People in this town really know how to enjoy themselves, if they found out that the skinner died in the morning, they would have a big feast in the evening, what a pity that the life-saving Fang The young master doesn't have the good fortune to enjoy himself.

He got up and closed the window, and when he saw the beautifully carved long sword on the table, he couldn't bear it anymore.

Not the sword, but the silver mask attached to the hilt, and the bulging pouch.

The sword, the mask, and the pouch, these three things were found next to Young Master Fang last night.

The sword is an excellent forged sword, with exquisite and gorgeous carvings, and the blade is as bright as a star. It can be seen that it has never or rarely been stained with blood; the silver mask should be made of pure silver, and it looks like ice and snow flashing under the moonlight cool light.But what he cared most from the beginning to the end was the small bag that was loaded with something and was heavy to carry.

Mr. Fang must have fallen asleep. In fact... it's okay to take a sneak peek, but judging from the cumbersomely tied golden rope, its owner doesn't want outsiders to know what's inside.

After struggling for a long time, Xia Suijin sighed dejectedly: Forget it, his majestic His Royal Highness, the leader of the three thousand shadow guards in the Great Dark Palace, has done such sneaky things to damage his reputation.

I don't know when the veil was lifted, and a pair of star-like eyes looked over, and asked:

"What are you doing?"

"—Oh, you're awake! I'm startled, when did you wake up?"

Xia Suijin patted his chest in shock, thinking that luckily he didn't untie the bag, otherwise his fame in this life would be ruined.

Mr. Fang said: "My face hurts, and I haven't slept all the time."

"Then... Shall I apply some more medicine?"

"working"

The first time was raw and the second time was familiar, this time the force of applying the medicine was gentle and gentle, and Mr. Fang didn't wrinkle his brows where he couldn't see clearly.Xia Suijin was very satisfied, and guessed in his heart that Mr. Fang would not need to take care of him soon, and he would be able to go out by himself. At that time, he would set off to the Murong family to participate in the martial arts competition of Yu Mingchen, the number one beauty in the martial arts, to recruit relatives.

Just thinking about it, Mr. Fang suddenly said:

"There is one more person."

Xia Suijin was taken aback: What do you mean?

"Last night, I used my body as bait to lure two flayers. One was killed, but the other escaped."

Xia Suijin trembled in his heart, did he have an accomplice in cruel things like skinning?

Immediately, he thought of the people in "Pear Blossom Town" who were throwing a big feast outside, and thought bitterly: Nothing will happen, right?

Facts have proved that he is really a crow's mouth.

The next day, a bloody female corpse lay naked under the big willow tree by the lake, and the pristine pear blossoms were stained red like fire.

Xia Suijin heard about the tragedy early in the morning, and ran outside the city to see it. Even though he was mentally prepared, he was still so frightened by the bloody corpse that his stomach twitched, and he almost vomited under the eyes of everyone.

The flesh corpse's eyeballs were protruding, its mouth was gaping open, and there were still a few pieces of white tender flesh that hadn't been peeled off at the base of its arms and legs.The old doctor said:

"It's excruciatingly painful."

The red paper flowers celebrated in Lihua Town were still floating under the eaves, and after only one day, they fell into a panic of peeling.Not only that, but a few days later, the five big and three thick blacksmiths were also skinned. The skin on one leg was intact, and the other parts were bloody with red and white flesh.

Xia Suijin began to complain to herself in the mirror: "Why does my face look so good-looking, with slender eyebrows, bright eyes, pretty nose, red mouth, and sharp chin, and a sweet and cute smile with a pear dimple. I really can't bear to use it as bait."

Mr. Fang held a needle and thread in one hand and a bamboo hat in the other, and was sewing black gauze along the edge of the bamboo hat. Hearing this, his red and fleshy face seemed to twitch.

After the black gauze was sewed on the bamboo hat, he said, "I'll be the bait, and you help me secretly."

Xia Suijin turned her head and persuaded her sincerely: "Let me tell the truth, with your current appearance, the skinner may...well, I don't like it."

Mr. Fang: "..."

"Well, actually, I also wanted to be a hero, Mr. Fang followed my wish. Tell me how you lured that skinned man and how you dealt with him, so that I I know it."

Mr. Fang said: "I was walking on the street that night, deliberately attracting the skinner's attention, and then... for some reason, I smelled a strange fragrance, and when I woke up, my face hurt, as if there were many bugs Crawling around under the skin, and then... nothing more."

In the end, although he was shameless, Xia Suijin still felt an unspeakable shame from his eyes.

Xia Suijin wanted to comfort him: people have stumbled, horses have stumbled, but when he heard "worms", he immediately had an idea, and hurriedly left a sentence:

"I'm going to buy a nice outfit"

He was in a hurry to get down to business.

In the evening, Xia Suijin walked in wearing a gorgeous and unparalleled brocade robe like burning lovesickness red beans, with a smile, like the beauty of a pool of spring water, and asked:

"How is this body?"

Mr. Fang seemed dazed, and after a while he said with difficulty: "It's very conspicuous."

"What I want is to be conspicuous. I'm going to wander around the street for a few times now, and I'll have dinner outside. If I don't come back after Yinshi, um...it shouldn't be. That's fine, I'm leaving."

Xia Suijin gave a few more instructions before limping away.

The people in the town said it well: this young man is good in everything, but his legs and feet are bad, he is disabled, and he has a good face for nothing.He had heard this a lot, and he didn't take it too seriously. He took out a bamboo flute and sat by the willow-green lake to play it.

The sound of the flute was like weeping and complaining, and it continued until late at night.

Thick mist floated out of the lake, Xia Suijin put a paper lantern beside Xia Suijin, and blowing it, the candle in the lantern went out.The cold tidal wind mixed with water vapor rushed to his face, and his eyes and nose were stinging.

At this time, a sweet scent wafted in the cold night wind, like the fragrance of blooming flowers, and also like the slight drunkenness of spirits.

There were dull and rushing footsteps behind her, and Xia Suijin turned her head in surprise, only to see the face of a woman painted with coffin makeup.

The facial features of that face were extremely uncoordinated, the mouth was very red, and the face was pale and pale. He was smiling stiffly towards Xia Suijin, stammering:

"You, are you alone?"

Her lips did not move as she spoke.

Immediately afterwards, an inexplicable sense of dizziness caused Xia Suijin's figure to sway, and then he fell to the ground exhausted, thinking to himself: It's not good, it's not good!The horse is about to stumble.

At this time, the girl walked over slowly, still asking:

"Are you alone?"

--No!There is another person.Mr. Fang, where are you?

The girl suddenly "giggled", the laughter was clear and loud, echoing abruptly and piercingly throughout the foggy night.she says:

"Your skin is so beautiful, I want it."