no puppet

When the first thin moonlight after the sunset, it completely scratched the dark and heavy sky above.

In the dark and long street at night, the dim lights are gradually extinguished, and the afterglow settles on the blue-gray floor tile steps. It is so quiet that there is no sound, only a few inaudible falling leaves.

"Stop, you give me...stop!"

——Suddenly, from the deepest place at the end of the alley, a panicked figure flew out in a hurry.

Looking closely, it was a slender woman, her face was pale with horror, her makeup was full of weeping flowers, she was only wearing a colorful tulle dress, her hair was in a loose bun, she didn't even wear shoes in a hurry, and she stepped on the blue-gray ground with her bare feet. On the floor tiles, he ran wildly along the way, wandering in countless corners of the streets and alleys, his back was stretched by the beam of moonlight overhead.

"Stop!!!" Suddenly, a man roared like a roar.

"Stop chasing!" The woman couldn't help begging in horror, "Please, don't chase..."

When the words fell, the soles of her feet slipped suddenly, and she accidentally stepped on a half protruding stone on the side of the road. There was a loud noise.

And when she raised her head again, and tried her best to prop up half of her body from the ground, with a sound of "clang", the sharp sword was unsheathed in front of her, and the light of Ling Ran's sword came into view directly——

At the same time, a handsome young man slowly walked out from the dark place at the end of the alley.

Seeing that he is tall and slender, with star-like eyebrows, wearing dark blue strong clothes, holding a three-foot long sword, the tip of the sword and the blade are both extremely sharp, right now, he is facing the deadly point between the eyebrows of the woman, and the distance between them is only half an inch away. distance.

"Young hero, spare your life! Spare your life!" the woman cried, "I have never done anything wrong, and I have never hurt anyone. I just wanted to eat something to survive!"

The young man remained motionless, the long sword reached the woman's throat, and then said in a cold voice: "It doesn't matter if you hurt anyone or not, but any monster that wanders wildly in this city will die - there is no way out!"

"Young Xia, you look kind and kind. You must not be a cruel person... I am a lonely one now, and all my work is to fill my stomach. Why have I ever thought of making money and killing my life?" The woman said with a puff. Kneeling on the ground, he repeatedly kowtowed and begged, "Master Young Hero has a lot of people, let the little girl go... In the future, I will repay the kindness of saving lives like this!"

The young man frowned and shouted: "You bold monster, do you know who I am?"

"I know! The disciples in Bi Yu's mansion are not so vicious, right and wrong!" The woman knelt down and cried, "The young hero is young and promising, and he has a broad mind. If he can spare the little girl's life today, he will be fine in the future." Become a talent to help the world, save the common people, benefit the six realms, attain the Tao and become immortal..."

"Come on, stop talking! I've never seen a monster with so much nonsense like you... I'm afraid you are a sycophant!" The long sword clanged and was put back into its sheath.The handsome young man blushed slightly, raised his hand and scratched his head, choked his throat, and said embarrassingly, "Let's go, let's go...don't be so blatant next time, even if you didn't do anything bad, let other people see it, maybe Still have to die."

The woman couldn't help but shed tears of gratitude when she heard the words, she kowtowed and said, "Thank you, young man! Thank you very much, young man!"

"Hey, don't thank you!" The young man turned around shyly, waved his hands, and raised his voice to the witch, "Taking advantage of the weather like this, hurry up and escape from the city..."

However, before he could finish speaking, the kneeling woman was about to get up, when a sharp sword hissed behind her, and before the boy could react, another long sword flew in from the darkness, just before the woman was about to stand up straight For a moment, she stepped forward fiercely, and with a "chuck", it directly penetrated her entire chest!

The boy's pupils shrank suddenly, and he turned around in an instant, seeing the tulle and colorful clothes floating and falling in the night, slowly settling under a sharp sword behind him, and finally reduced to a piece of broken wood on the ground - after the night wind When the wind blows, the slender figure of the woman collapses in an instant, and thousands of pieces of wood turn into a faint light mark, which is then chopped down by the icy sword's edge. After a short time, it will never be able to light up again.

"Little brother Kang, with such a big seal of karma on a person's head, if you don't kill him, just say a few more kind words, and your heart will soften?"

In the dark at the end of the alley, there was a man shaking a folding fan, revealing half a rich dustpan face, which was brightly illuminated by the paper lantern behind him: "You can't do this, if Mr. Cheng knows about this, look at it." Did he go back and not peel half of your skin?"

"I want you to take care of it!" Kang Wen turned his back, and out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of the place where the woman knelt down just now—now it was cut by the long sword, and only a bunch of sawdust and residue remained.

"Wooden figures, commonly known as puppets, mostly hide among the living and live by sucking human energy." Rong Buzhi smiled, looked up at Kang and asked, "Little Brother Kang, you must know that compassion is overflowing. It may not be a good thing—that puppet just now cheated your sympathy with a few words. But who knows, after you let her go softly, will she go elsewhere to do evil? "

"No!" Kang Wen said with certainty, "I've seen her for many days, but she's just a singer in a tavern, and she's just making a living with her skills, how can she cause any trouble?"

Rong Buzhi folded his folding fan slightly, and smiled secretly: "Hey, after a long time of trouble, you made up your mind to let her go early in the morning? Little brother Kang, you have worked hard for a whole year of cultivation, but you have cultivated to the point of being a dog." ?”

Kang asked angrily: "Shut up, don't keep calling me little brother Kang! I'm not up to you to make random judgments about whether I'm successful or not—if you're capable, you can go to my master and file a complaint. Get rid of all the bad things, and go to your father to reason!"

"Hey, between you and my brothers, why do you have to expose each other's bottom line?" Rong Buzhi asked Kang with a big hand, and approached him with a smile, "Besides, I said this, isn't it for your own good? Now the imperial court ban Clearly, even the common people know that getting rid of demons is the most important task - why do you become soft-hearted once a day when you come here?"

"I'm not soft-hearted!" Kang Wen couldn't help retorting, "I should have killed that puppet just now—didn't you suddenly rush out to disrupt the situation?"

Rong Buzhi laughed and said: "Come on, you, I don't know enough about your virtues—that's all, don't make a bad face, who will you show it to? Let's go, brother invites you to drink! "

At night, the inner city of Pingchao city was brightly lit.In the meantime, the noisy voices of people came and went, and the teahouses and restaurants were close to each other, often before they reached the place, laughter and laughter still poured into the ears, accompanied by waves of singing and dancing, which ignited most of the atmosphere of the night.

Kang Wen followed Chengdao to Pingchao City in the late autumn and winter last year.

After the big incident of the puppet bird attacking Fengzhen, Cheng Daofeng's physical condition declined sharply, especially in those days when the autumn cold was approaching, he was often so frightened that he had a low-grade fever and couldn't lift his spirits at all.

Later, it was Rong Pan who suggested that Cheng Daofeng move to the Ping Dynasty Chengrong Mansion for the winter. There is a medicinal bath and warm pavilion specially set up by them, which is said to be quite curative for old age and old diseases.

At first enlightenment was unwilling.Firstly, it is because the relationship between the two families is not that good, and Chengdaofeng also has no intention of being too close to Rong Pan, secondly, the Biyu Mansion cannot be left alone for a day, and the shrine at Fuze Mountain must not face desertion again .

But he didn't want it to belong to him, he didn't want it, and at the end of the year, when winter gradually came, all the serious and minor illnesses came up, and the old man couldn't bear it anymore—in the end, Cheng Miling, with red eyes, knelt down and begged Cheng Daofeng was urged to go out, but she herself took the initiative to stay and take care of the town and mansion temporarily instead of Cheng Daofeng, and also took care of daily visits to worship and clean the shrine.

In previous years, when this kind of time came, Yin Chun would take care of everything, and Kang Wencheng and Mi Ling only had to follow behind, and the number of people was enough.

Where is Yinzhu now?

A whole year has passed, and no matter whether he came to Fengzhen or Pingchao City, there is no news about him.The amount of reward for his portrait kept doubling every three to five times, hanging almost from one end of the city gate to the other end along the road, even the door panels of the vegetable market at the intersection of the street.

There are more and more speculations about him, and most of them are bad ideas.At the beginning, Kang Wen felt unwilling to hear it, and even got into a fight with Rong Buzhi, who believed that the murderer was Yin Chun. They fought several times in a row, and after the fight, both of them were tired. Originally, one lost his second uncle, and the other lost his senior brother. , until later, there was an inexplicable feeling of sympathy and sympathy for each other, and for a while, it seemed that the quarrel could not start, and each of them turned off again.

Cheng Daofeng went to Rong's mansion in the capital to recuperate, with only Huo Shitang who was always waiting on him, and then Kang Wen, the hottest and most impulsive boy.

Although Cheng Daofeng never said it, Kang Wen could also see that since the great apprentice Yin Chu left, the burden of the future of the Biyu Mansion was borne by Kang Wen alone. Silly, he knows what he needs to do and what he shouldn't do where he is, and he can indeed find a new self through step by step groping.

Just at the time of the end of the year and early winter, the imperial court issued a secret order to the Rong Mansion. This secret order is basically the same as the ban on demons 20 years ago. The large-scale slaughter of Ye Shengyin was carried out in secret and silently.

At that time, Kang Wen was placed in the patrol team sent out by the Rong Mansion, and the work that needed to be done on weekdays was not much different from when Yin Chu was in Laifeng Town, it was always complicated and trivial things such as killing demons and setting up formations.

It's just that the appearance of puppets has become very rampant recently. Just like the female puppet that was hunted down just now, they like to blend in with the crowd. Anyway, ordinary people can't see the difference between puppets and people.

But in fact, some relatively smart and sensitive people have already smelled the danger coming in the air.

They know what a "wooden figure" is and what a "puppet" is, especially after the chaos that came to Feng Town a year ago, Rong Pan intentionally issued "see seals" to ordinary people, and constantly hinted at them through various conditions. , Hunting and killing puppets will be rewarded generously by the imperial court. First of all, from the very first step, gradually eliminate the people's fear of monsters - and in this way, encourage them to bravely take up arms and participate in this battle In the coming war.

"But I don't think it's right to do so." Cheng Miling would go to the Rong Mansion every month to visit her father's physical condition, and express her unique views on the serious situation that is currently developing. "Rong Pan completely uses ordinary people as his guns. At first, it was okay to issue seals for self-defense, but now he just drives them crazy to provoke monsters. If people are killed by then, it can be said that those monsters are too fierce... he This is completely harming others and benefiting oneself, only caring about taking credit for oneself, and not thinking about others at all."

"Do more and talk less." Every time Cheng Miling began to express her dissatisfaction, Cheng Daofeng pretended not to hear, and said to her calmly, "Mind the things in front of you, as for the rest...not here Within your concern."

Previously, Kang Wen could not understand why Cheng Daofeng would leave his own daughter in the Biyu Mansion, and let her honestly take care of the house in a remote village—later, Kang Wen probably understood that the little junior sister is too straightforward In her eyes, right is right, right is wrong, there is no way to distort right and wrong.Cheng Daofeng refused to let her come, but it was the most special kind of protection for her.

As for Kang asking himself?

He is no longer quite clear about his own position, and where he should be classified.

It has been almost a year since I came to Pingchao City. Kang Wen was very busy when he was busy. There was a strong smell of copper, and the longer Kang Wen stayed with them, the whole person became a little weird.

Occasionally, when I am free, I will go out to drink with the buddies in the same company to relieve boredom.Among them, Rong Buzhi is the best friend with him, and the two are about the same age, so they naturally became acquainted after a few fights, and Rong Buzhi took good care of him on weekdays, so the two often hang out together, and Rong Buzhi will know each other He dragged Kang Wen to gambling houses, taverns, kilns and so on... spending time and drinking day and night.

Anyway, in the past year, Rong Buzhi led Kang Wen to do the things that Yin Chun didn't allow him to do, and he almost made a fuss about it once, and he didn't miss a single thing.

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Come, come, today is a review of the past, which has spanned more than 100 chapters and finally continued...the grown-up version of Kang Wen.

The important supporting roles in volume three are: Kang Wen, Cheng Daofeng, Xiaolu, Cheng Miling

Rong Buzhi should still be cannon fodder, but his existence has a great influence on Kang Wen.

Then a little hint of key background:

1. According to Rong Shilian, Kang Wen's parents died at the hands of Cheng Daofeng. (133 chapters)

2. Over the past year, people have gradually realized the existence of puppets. With the occurrence of various casualties, the conflict between people and puppets has deepened crazily.

3. During the same year, Kang Wen was eliminating demons everywhere, fighting monsters and leveling up——and Yin Zhu, he was trying his best to make Xie Hengyan.The strength gap between the two will change a little.