My house was confiscated and I was exiled. I emptied the emperor's warehouse and fled.

Late at night, Qin Junyi finally jumped out of the window and returned.

His clothes were stained with a lot of blood, and his cold expression showed obvious fatigue.

Seeing the four people chatting and drinking in the room, their expressions were startled.

"Brother, are you injured?" Qin Mu, as the elder brother's controller, rushed over immediately, grabbed his arm and looked him up and down.

Su Yunwan was about to go up to him when she smelled the strong smell of blood on his body. She frowned in discomfort, stood and asked, "What happened?"

Qin Junyi slapped his third brother's hand away and walked over: "There was a group of refugees who were killing, burning and looting in the village on the other side of the mountain. Now they are all wiped out. I was not injured, it was all other people's blood."

In the evening, when Qin Junyi was about to finish up and return to the team, he was attracted by the noisy crying in the opposite valley.

When he and Qingxuan arrived, they found a large number of refugees making trouble.

They rushed into the village and dispersed into every house. They beat the men to death and then killed the women when they met. The screaming child was fatally stabbed.

Qin Junyi summoned all the nearby shadow guards, and one of them took the lead and entered the village with a sword.

With Qingxuan at his side, he was not injured. It's just that Qingxuan deliberately let him practice in actual combat in order to restore his internal strength as soon as possible.

With the enemy outnumbered, Qin Junyi was exhausted and rested against the wall.

The refugees were afraid of being killed and had to flee or hide under the cover of night.

He didn't want to let anyone go and ordered people to hunt and find them. When the refugees were completely wiped out, they realized that it was already dark, and two shadow guards were left to help the villagers deal with the aftermath, and they rushed back without stopping.

Qin Junyi approached Su Yunwan and briefly talked about his experience. Looking at the food and wine on the table, he changed the topic and said, "You are very interested."

The smell of blood hit his nostrils, and Su Yunwan immediately walked to the back room, "I have nothing to do, so I had a few drinks, and I'll go find clothes for you."

Qin Mu's expression was slightly frightened. He was worried about letting Ling Qi and his sister-in-law be alone in the same room, so he took Wu Shaohan to stay with him and asked people to bring him food and wine to talk by candlelight.

During this period, Wu Shaohan and Ling Qi were in the background, and he was telling his sister-in-law about his elder brother's past.

Su Yunwan sipped the wine and listened with gusto, so she didn't bother to look for Qin Junyi.

"If this happens again, you should go to sleep first." After Qin Junyi finished speaking, he and Ling Qi used a special potion to remove the disguise.

After Su Yunwan found clothes, she felt that there was a disgusting smell everywhere in the house, so she said, "I'll find you something to eat. You should take a bath and change clothes first."

"Just let them be."

"No, I'll come when I go."

Su Yunwan couldn't wait to leave the room. If she stayed there any longer, there was no guarantee that she wouldn't vomit.

Qin Junyi didn't notice it. After the water was delivered, he waved off Ling Qi and went into the bucket to take a bath.

Qin Mu snatched the sweat towel from Wu Shaohan's hand, rubbed Qin Junyi's back, and told in detail what happened that night. Finally, he said: "Brother, if the old lady continues like this, sooner or later something bad will happen."

"I'll clarify the key points with grandma tomorrow morning." Compared with the old lady, Qin Junyi's focus was more on Qin Ruolan, "When Lanlan went downstairs, what was Shiyi doing?"

Suddenly asked about Shi Yi, Wu Shaohan and Qin Mu looked at each other and saw the confusion in each other's eyes.

Wu Shaohan said: "I'll go down and inquire about it."

With permission, he turned and left.

Shi Yi's follow-up action did not avoid people, and his subsequent loneliness and sorrow were also seen by Shi Er, who was delivering the medicine.

Soon, Wu Shaohan came back and reported Shiyi's reaction.

At this point, Shiyi's thoughts are clearly revealed.

Wu Shaohan suddenly fell to one knee on the ground, his pleas stuck in his throat.

His whole body was tense, fearing that his master's next sentence would be to ask Shi Yi to return to the Shadow Guard Camp torture hall to receive his punishment.

If you really have to deal with it according to the rules, even if you can save a life by picking one up, it will only have value as a teaching tool or a medicine person.

He and Shi had worked together as his master's personal bodyguard for several years, and he really didn't want to see Shi Yi end up in such a desperate situation.

But as his master's designated successor, he was not allowed to plead for favors.

His heart felt like it was being tightly grasped by an invisible hand, making him so worried that he had trouble breathing.

On the contrary, Qin Mu's face was stern: "Brother, you can't keep any more!"

He had been trapped in the Shadow Guard camp and knew the rules of the Shadow Guard camp very well.

That time when he was on the verge of despair, the commander contacted his elder brother privately, so that he could save him with emotion. As a result, the commander was severely punished by the execution hall and rebuilt in disguise, and suffered a lot.

As a shadow guard, Shiyi dared to think of Qin Ruolan as the eldest lady of the Qin family, which was an unforgivable crime!

Qin Junyi asked Wu Shaohan to get up and leaned tiredly on the barrel: "I have already noticed it."

"Then why do you still keep him by your side?!" Qin Mu said in shock.

"Today is different from the past. Lan Lan has reached the age of getting married again. If she also likes Shi Yi, I plan to let Shi Yi change her identity. I feel more at ease with Shi Yi than marrying an outsider."

Qin Junyi no longer wants to let his sister get married, but he also knows that sooner or later such a day will come. Therefore, when he first found out that Shiyi was thinking, he did not follow Qingxuan's suggestion to transfer him.

But now that my sister has someone else in her heart, Shiyi really can't keep him.

"Chu Yi, the Chu family..." Qin Junyi closed his eyes, frowned and was immersed in deep thought.

If we can unite with the Chu family, it will be a big help to deal with the current predicament. The road to the future...

Qin Mu and Wu Shaohan stood quietly aside, breathing lightly, like two sculptures, motionless.

And this is exactly what a shadow guard should look like.

Some aspects of his past experience as a shadow guard have been engraved in Qin Mu's bones.

It wasn't until Su Yunwan returned to the house with a bowl of egg noodles that the two of them seemed to have come to life again. Wu Shaohan went over to take the tray, while Qin Mu continued to give his elder brother a bath.

Su Yunwan wondered: "Why did it take so long to wash?"

"I almost fell asleep." Qin Junyi responded from behind the screen, and then asked Qin Mu to go out first, while he quickly bathed and dressed.

As soon as he came out, Su Yunwan put a pair of chopsticks into his hands and asked him to eat the noodles.

Then, she lit a plate of sandalwood to wash away the faint smell of blood.

The bloody clothes were no longer in the house, and must have been taken away by the shadow guards.

Qin Junyi hadn't eaten dinner yet, and he was already so hungry that his chest was pressed against his back, just like when he was marching and fighting, and he quickly devoured a bowl of noodles.

Qin Mu said distressedly: "Brother, from now on, you don't need to go out in person for this kind of thing. Just let the commander lead people to handle it. My sister-in-law has been eagerly waiting for you to come back!"

Su Yunwan was named: ...This really doesn't exist!

Qin Junyi looked at Su Yunwan with guilt in his eyes, "Wanwan, I kept you waiting for so long."

"It's not bad." After the wine and meat passed through the intestines, it was indeed not bad.

*

After going to bed, Qin Junyi asked: "What do you think about my sister marrying Chu Yi?"

"As far as I know, women who like Chu Yi are all over the capital, but they are careless and ruthless." Su Yunwan closed her eyes and let tiredness well up in her heart.

Qin Junyi added: "I want to have a meeting with the head of the Chu family tomorrow."

There was no reply for a long time. He took a closer look and saw that the person in his arms had fallen asleep.