where to go home

?Tianbao four years, the fifth day of February.

In the evening, in the depths of the valley in Baling County, there were bursts of hurried hoofbeats.It was already dark, but this small group of people did not light the torches. If it weren't for the sound of horseshoes echoing in the valley, no one would have noticed their existence.

In the thatched hut halfway up the mountain, a man with a sloppy face was packing his bags in a panic, his eyes were red as if they were about to explode, and he kept muttering:

"Let's go... let's go..."

I don't know if it's urging myself, or urging the woman who is holding a soft bag beside her, taking deep breaths but still shaking like a sieve.Although the woman's makeup has been stained by dirt, and she is only wearing rough linen clothes, but from the white and unmarked neck, it can still be seen that she is only 25 or [-] years old.

The team of people was getting closer and closer, and the man kept stuffing gold nuggets and jewelry into his bag, and the cold sweat on his face flowed more and more as the sound of horseshoes outside the door gradually became clearer.

"Old...Master! What can we do!?"

The woman cried out in anxiety.The man wiped the sweat from his brow, tied the burden on his back, and his knotted hands shook again and again.

"You hide first, I'll come back to find you later! Otherwise, neither of us can escape!"

"Master! Are you going to abandon me?!"

The woman cried sadly when she heard the words, tears wet her face, the man slapped her hard, picked her up impatiently and threw her into the empty water tank, his tone full of threats:

"Don't make a sound, or you will die here."

The woman quickly covered her mouth with both hands, only the tears did not stop.The man eagerly covered the water tank with a wooden lid, watching the eyes of the horse team, and missed the despair in the woman's eyes.

Seeing that the horse team was only tens of feet away from him, he quickly got into the woods, climbed the rocks on the mountain, and galloped all the way.

Before the man at the front of the horse team reached the hut, he kicked his feet hard, jumped up and squatted on the horse's back, supported the horse's back with his hands, jumped up with light work, and unfolded the paraglider, all in one go.

The man who kept running found that the shadow under his feet was getting bigger and bigger, covering his whole body. The shadow of the paraglider was like a poisonous snake, slowly wrapping around him from head to toe, and a biting cold feeling spread all over his body.He looked up in horror:

"You are... from the Tang Sect?!"

"call out--"

His answer was a cold and ruthless life-chasing arrow.

The man was so frightened by the sudden attack that he sat on the ground, his legs were sore and numb, he struggled to support his body with his hands-what are you kidding, if he can't stand now, he will have to wait for the next life if he wants to stand again.

"Tang Yunzhong." Lin Lie put away the paraglider and landed firmly in front of the man.He lightly supported the silver-glowing mask under the moonlight, and the poisoned arrow body also glowed with a faint blue light, paired with an expressionless face, just like Shura.

Tang Yunzhong on the ground was already too frightened to move, so he had to back up on his elbows.

"Tang Yunzhong, was an official in the seventh year of Kaiyuan, successively served as county magistrate, governor, and minister of the Ministry of War. Over the past 26 years, he has accepted bribes amounting to 22 taels of silver. He killed 3000 innocent people indiscriminately in order to cover up the rich and powerful, and killed his wife Tang Ning. This is an unforgivable crime. ..."

Before Lin Lie could finish speaking, Tang Yunzhong roared with red eyes, took out a dagger from his arms and rushed towards Lin Lie.It's a pity that he has brute force, but his figure is sluggish. Lin Lie had already noticed his movements, and before he could draw out the dagger, he used force with his left foot, turned over and jumped back to a distance of more than ten steps away from him.Tang Yunzhong was in vain, and when he tried to stand up again, he could only see a thousand machine crossbow aimed at his heart when he looked up, and he wanted the poisonous snake to spit out a letter to him, with mockery and threats.

"Scum..." Lin Lie twitched the corner of his mouth lightly, chasing his life with an arrow.

Tang Yunzhong hurriedly tried to avoid the position of his heart, but unexpectedly there was a sound of breaking wind behind him.

"call out--"

Blood spattered out, Tang Yunzhong had two arrows on his blood-soaked chest, one showing the arrowhead and the other showing the tail of the arrow.When he looked down at his chest again, he could no longer speak, and could only struggle to turn around to see who was the one who wanted to shoot the deadly arrow.

It's a pity he didn't get to see that face.

Behind him, a woman raised the Thousand Machine Crossbow and walked step by step, her steps were steady and her breathing was gentle, as if she was strolling in a courtyard.She also wore a silver mask that covered her eyes, leaving only light red lips and a few black hair scattered around her ears.

Lin Lie jumped over Tang Yunzhong's body and walked to the woman's side.There was a gentle smile on his face, as if the Shura who killed people with a bow just now was just an illusion born of Tang Yunzhong's fear.

"Yi Yao, don't you see that you can also stab people in the back?"

Yi Yao turned his head and didn't look at him, but replied indifferently: "Senior brother Lin, when I came over there was so much movement that he didn't notice, what can I do?"

"Ha, you are not afraid that your arrow will miss and then hit me, senior brother is very fragile."

"Really? Then you go back and I will shoot another arrow to see how fragile your heart is."

Speaking of which, Yi Yao raised the thousand machine crossbow to aim, Lin Lie hurriedly pressed her hand back to its original position, and said with a smile:

"It's been four years, and junior sister is still so uncute."

Feeling the warmth on the back of his hand, Yi Yao dodged calmly and continued to walk back.

He obviously just killed someone, why is his hand so warm?

For a moment, Yi Yao coveted that temperature.

When we got to the hut, we saw Qing Ling coming out of the hut holding a box, and saw Yi Yao and Lin Lie running over with the box in their hands.After Qingling grew up, she became more beautiful than before, and her stature has grown a lot, but she still has some hands and feet when she just started to perform the mission.

"Senior Brother, Sister Yi Yao, I just found these things on the bed, it seems to be some scattered silver and letters."

Lin Lie picked up the letter and flipped through it, and found that there were a few pages of account books mixed in. Looking carefully, the content probably recorded the amount and objects of bribing officials.

Yi Yao glanced at the letter and smiled contemptuously.

"This group of people really like to keep these things. Over the years... they still have the same virtue." After speaking, they strode out of the room to breathe.

Lin Lie knew that Yi Yao was unhappy, so he sighed softly, and closed the box and handed it to Qingling.

"You take care of Qingling first, and take it back to the castle owner in a few days. Yi Yao, see if there are Tang Yunzhong around."

Qingling carried the box and Lin Lie to search in the woods, while Yi Yao was walking outside the house, when she saw the lid of the water tank move, she approached quietly.She put her ears on the water tank, and heard the suppressed but slightly rapid breathing.Yi Yao stepped back quietly, raised his leg and kicked the wooden cover of the water tank.

"Ah—don't kill me...don't kill me!"

Yi Yao pointed at the water tank with a thousand machine crossbow, and approached slowly, only to find that there was only a young woman inside, her face was full of tears and her face was unkempt.The woman tightly covered half of her face with her hands, her pupils dilated, and when she saw it at night, she thought she had encountered a female ghost who wanted her life.

"Who are you?" Yi Yao asked the woman calmly, still holding the Thousand Machine Crossbow.

"I'm just a concubine of the master, I really don't know anything! I'm only 25 years old this year... I don't want to die yet!"

Yi Yao felt a little sympathetic to her when he heard that, and hesitated for a while.Seeing that Yi Yao didn't speak, the little concubine continued to cry, "I was just redeemed from the brothel...Nexia, you are also a woman...You must understand my sadness!"

Yi Yao was indeed a little shaken. He knew that Tang Yunzhong had made mistakes alone, and he deserved to die several times, but he shouldn't let the poor woman bear the burden with him.After thinking about this, she slowly put down the Thousand Chance Crossbow.

"Yi Yao!"

Lin Lie patted the leaves stuck to his body, and walked out of the woods.

"Is there anyone else over there?"

Yi Yao shuddered in fright, and turned to look at him stiffly, not knowing what to say.Lin Lie saw her expression and understood it.

"what--"

There was the sound of the water tank breaking in my ears, and the concubine let out a shriek before dying.Yi Yao looked at the blood flowing out of the water tank, and quickly took two steps back to stabilize his figure.

Lin Lie still maintained the posture of raising the Thousand Machine Crossbow. After seeing it clearly, Yi Yao rushed towards him in puzzlement and a little angrily.

"Lin Lie, don't you need to kill them all like this?"

Lin Lie smiled and called her name, she seemed really angry.

"Then give me a reason not to kill her."

"...He is just that man's concubine, a poor woman who has been wandering around."

"Haha, poor girl..." Lin Lie's slightly mocking tone made Yi Yao dissatisfied.

"Come with me." Lin Lie didn't hold her hand this time, but walked quickly to the broken water tank alone, squatted down and tore off the concubine's cuff, only to see a blooming flower tattooed on it. lotus.Lin Lie pointed out the lotus to Yi Yao:

"Yuhe, the top card of the Xiaohong Pavilion back then. She was indeed a prostitute, but was redeemed by Tang Yunzhong and accepted as a concubine. Later, it was at her instigation that Tang Yunzhong's wife was strangled to death by her two. In addition, She also poisoned the only daughter in the royal family, and set the blame on others."

"So, are you still willing to let her go?"

Yi Yao stared at the tattoo, and was stunned for a long time.Facing Lin Lie's question, she couldn't answer at all.

"Shut down your overflowing sympathy."

Lin Lie stood up, walked into Yi Yao's eyes and looked condescendingly into his eyes.This feeling is the same... the same oppressive feeling as that moonless night four years ago.

Yi Yao didn't speak.

"She was by Tang Yunzhong's side for seven years, and everything she enjoyed was taken from others alive by Tang Yunzhong, but she killed Tang Yunzhong and her family."

"I can't forgive such a person."

The moment he passed by, Yi Yao felt a slight tremor in Lin Lie's shoulders, and the atmosphere was silent and depressing.

"Senior Brother, Sister Yi Yao, let's go back!" Tang Qingling was a little embarrassed standing beside her, so she hurriedly called them both back to the inn.

Yi Yao took the horse silently, walked to Lin Lie who was still a little absent-minded, and put the rein in his hand.

"I'm sorry Yi Yao, I didn't mean to reprimand you."

"Senior Brother Lin, you don't need to apologize. If you had taught me earlier, I wouldn't bother you today."

Seeing Yi Yao get on his horse, Lin Lie smiled wryly and said:

"Are you trying to comfort me?"

"You need comfort?"

Yi Yao stared straight ahead, and ruthlessly threw out a sentence:

"Then go to Qing Ling."

Lin Lie stepped on the stirrup helplessly after hearing this, and said with emotion from the bottom of his heart:

"Junior Sister is really not cute at all."

Yi Yao couldn't be bothered to talk to him.

……

"Yi Yao, your master's case has taken shape."

"What?!" Yi Yao jerked the rein.

"It's just to find out the location of a killer back then."

"tell me."

Seeing his anxious look, Lin Lie smiled.

"I'll tell you carefully, but you have to do me a favor in the future."

"can."

"So quick to promise? Don't be afraid that I will take the opportunity..."

"You're not that kind of person."

Yi Yao still looked at the road ahead very firmly, looking at the side face that was more mature than when he first met, Lin Lie felt a little inexplicable in his heart.

"Don't worry, I will accompany you."

Yi Yao rode to the front, but Lin Lie didn't see the blush on her face, but heard a soft voice from ahead:

"Thank you."

Inside Tiance Mansion, Qin Yunze was hastily carrying a senior sister from the same sect covered in blood back to her home, and called a military doctor to injure her.

"This... what's going on here! Ah Lan!"

Seeing that their daughter was seriously injured, the anxious parents could only shift their eyes to Qin Yunze who also looked puzzled.He was so frightened that he quickly waved his hand:

"As soon as I came back, I saw Senior Sister Lan lying covered in blood on the way up the mountain, so I hurried back. I don't know what happened..."

"Junior brother..." At this moment, Ah Lan struggled to open his eyes and grabbed Yunze's hem.

"Wuyan Island... bandit village... Ah Jing was arrested..."

"What? Senior Sister Jing has been arrested!"

When Yunze exclaimed, Ah Lan had passed out, what happened, I had to wait for her to wake up before continuing to ask.

"Salt-free bandit village..." Qin Yunze thought for a while after returning home. "Before returning home, I heard that someone went to Wuyan Island to collect medicine and disappeared. It seems that this has something to do with the bandit village that Senior Sister Lan mentioned."

"Speaking of which, Wuyan Island is in... Qixiufang..."

Qin Yunze spread his arms and fell on the bed, stretching his limbs exhaustedly, with some worry in his eyes.

"That little girl with a poisonous tongue, don't let anything happen..."