Ren Xia of the Wandering Rivers and Lakes

Mou Hanhai took Huawu, Xiaojiu, and several martial arts experts, and Lin Yufang and a group of servants followed them to the gate of Tianbi Villa.

The scene he saw was exactly as Xiao Jiu said, Tianbi Villa was surrounded by three red ropes, and a dead body was lying not far from the red ropes.

Mou Hanhai's expression was not very good, and he said in a low voice: "The Gundam of the Zhonghai Qi sect."

Hua Wu was startled, and said: "Gundam's kung fu is not bad, how could it be eliminated without a sound?"

Xiao Jiu squatted, stretched out her fingers through the gap, and said, "His face is black, and there is something on his left arm that is illuminated by the moon, and it is shining and twinkling."

Just finished speaking, the bell on the red rope rang suddenly, and several silver needles shot out from the forest, stretching out the fingers of the red rope towards Xiaojiu.

Xiao Jiu immediately turned upside down, and the silver needle shot into the gate behind him, then he landed lightly, and hurriedly ran to the gate to look at the three needles.

"Xiao Jiu, what are you doing? Put yourself in danger, don't you want your life?" Hua Wu was a little frightened.

But Mou Hanhai followed Xiao Jiu to look at the silver needle, he said: "Xiao Jiu did this on purpose, otherwise we can't understand our opponent's ability." Then he said: "Is there anyone who can admit poison, let's see The needle is quenched with Laoshazi poison, it's really bad luck, it's just a meal, and the master Gundam is killed because of this?"

Several people gathered around Mou Hanhai when they heard what he said, but after discussing and discussing, they couldn't figure out what kind of poison was quenched on the white silver needle.

Ordinary silver needles will turn black as long as they are fed with poison, but these three are not. After Xiaojiu found out that no one understands the poison, he ran into the hall again, pointed to Su Di beside Liu Changyue, and said, "Uncle... "

Liu Changyue looked at Xiao Jiu with a dark smile, and that look was not ordinary horror.

Xiao Jiu quickly changed her words: "Brother Bigger, can you lend me the little flute?"

"What are you borrowing for?" Liu Changyue said, "It's not that I don't understand martial arts, so I should be accompanied by someone who understands martial arts, just in case? I'm just Su Di, a servant who was borrowed by you. Who will come?" Keep me safe?"

"That's right, I want to protect the lord, can you just borrow it when I say it?" Su Di raised his eyebrows.It's just that he is really good-looking, this threatening expression doesn't look vicious at all, on the contrary, it shows a different style.

"Brother!" Xiao Jiu called to Mao Xing on the other side: "Can you take care of Brother Da Da for me, I will take Xiaodizi to do some errands?"

Mao Xing was silent for a while, then nodded lightly.

Xiao Jiu turned around happily, but she heard Liu Changyue say: "Borrow it once, and you owe me once, how can you pay me back?"

"Borrow! I owe you just once." After Xiao Jiu finished speaking, she grabbed Su Di who was behind Liu Changyue and ran out.

Su Di was dragged to run, almost fell down all the way, he said angrily: "What are you doing! What are you doing so fast?"

"I'm looking for your help to identify a poison." Xiao Jiu said while running.

"How did you know that I would admit poison!" Su Di looked strange.

"You have a lot of strange scents on your body. Although I can't smell what it is, I know it's not a good thing." Xiao Jiu looked back at Su Di while running, and Su Di shuddered at that glance.

Xiao Jiu's eyes were as clear as if he could see through people's hearts, Su Di felt as if he had been seen through, and there was nothing to hide.

Xiao Jiu dragged Su Di to the door, waved away a group of people, and then quickly pushed Su Di to Yinzhen.

Su Di put his hands on the door before his nose was about to touch the silver needle, then turned around and scolded Xiaojiu: "You bastard, you know that you are strong enough to push me like that, if I get poisoned by the silver needle what to do!"

"Ah!" Xiao Jiu scratched her head and gave Su Di an apologetic look.He said innocently, "Sorry, I forgot!"

"You guys are really mad!" Su Di said, turning his head to look at the three needles on the door with a cold face.

Because the silver needle was almost half-buried in the door panel, Su Di took out the handkerchief and pulled out one of the needles.

Su Di carefully looked at the color of the needle, and found that the body of the needle was a little red. He sniffed it lightly, and then frowned, as if he was trying to think about something.

But for a while, Lin Yu said anxiously, "What kind of poison is quenched on this needle? Is there a solution? Do you know, boy?"

Su Di glared at Lin Yufang, and said angrily: "What little boy, I'm only at the mercy of our patriarch, and it's not your turn to call me boy. Besides, I have a first and last name, my surname is Su, and my name is Di. How long has it been poisoned. I don’t know about the poison, but do you know it? The uncle is thinking about something, so get the hell out of here, your face, it’s bad luck to see it!”

"You!" Just as Lin Yu was about to explode, Mou Hanhai pulled him aside.

Mou Hanhai said seriously: "Now it's not your business, but the business of everyone in the villa. The little brother is doing serious business, you don't know anything, give me some advice!"

Being robbed of his wife and daughter on his own territory is not taken seriously, Lin Yufang was so angry that his face turned green, but Mou Hanhai's status in the martial arts is very high, even if he wants to get angry, it depends on the other party's ability Only then can it be sent out.When I met someone like Mou Hanhai, I could only hold back.

Xiao Jiu looked at Su Di with bright eyes, as if thinking that Su Di must know what kind of poison it is.

Su Di glanced at Xiao Jiu, hummed, and said: "This thing is called "Wanziqianhong". It is a mixture of a rare poisonous flower, a kind of wine and a kind of poisonous ivy. The whole body will be red and itchy first, and after the skin turns purple, you will go directly to the king of Hades, and the deeper the internal strength, the faster the poison will develop.If you are a master of martial arts, you will die if you touch it.so. "

"Very purple and red?" Lin Yufang's voice rose.

"What?" Su Di glanced at Lin Yufang, "Could it be that Master Lin has heard of this name before."

"No, no, no, no, no..." Lin Yufang said no several times in a row, and these "no"s were heard by other people, and they felt a little strange.

"Is there any antidote?" Mou Hanhai was more concerned about this.

"No." Su Di said directly: "It is said that this thing is a unique poison used by Qingming Pavilion killers. Except for the people in Qingming Pavilion, no one in the world can solve it."

Xiao Jiu pondered for a moment, then reached out and pulled the silk from Su Di's hand.

Su Di was startled, and shouted, "What are you doing, aren't you afraid of being poisoned?"

With the help of the veil, Xiao Jiu pulled out the two needles on the door, reached out and dug a hole in the ground, and buried the silk and the poisonous needles together.

"Didn't you say that there is no one in the poisonous rivers and lakes? I am afraid that you will be poisoned if you accidentally touch it in your hand, so let's bury them first!" Xiao Jiu said.

Su Di heard Xiao Jiu's explanation, and looked at Xiao Jiu silently.Xiao Jiu was taken aback by him, and immediately asked, "What's wrong?"

"Your brother shouldn't have named you Xiao Jiu." Su Di said awkwardly, "You should have named you Stupid!"

After finishing speaking, he glanced at the people around him again, then "hummed" and ran back to the hall to find his master.

Mou Hanhai and the others walked into Tianbi Mountain Villa together, thinking about what happened today, and of course someone said after seeing the owner of Tianbi Mountain Villa who was not right from the beginning to the end: "Now the world is peaceful, Ever since the new leader of the Black Clothes Demon Sect stopped being an enemy of the Wulin, there have been few rumors about it.”

Mou Hanhai took a look at Lin Yufang, and said, "We were all invited by the owner of the Lin family. Now that we have encountered these things, what can the owner have to say?"

Lin Yufang shook his head. Even though his face was pale, his back was still straight, and he still looked like the owner of Tianbi Mountain Villa who built Tianbi Mountain Villa far in the southwestern border and made it famous in the Jianghu.

Mou Hanhai shook his head, disappointed in Lin Yufang.

Hua Wu said with a bad expression, "Now one person is dead, about [-] people are missing, and my seventh brother has not been found yet. I don't know if something happened."

Master Zhiyuan, who had been following them all the time but had never spoken, folded his hands together and said in a low voice, "My Buddha is merciful!"

However, at the same time, a few chuckles suddenly came from the wind, quiet and bleak, as if laughing at Zhiyuan's "compassion"...

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After returning to the hall, everyone's topic revolved around the mysterious killer organization "Qingming Pavilion".

In the past few days, the Hundred Flowers Banquet has been invited by the Wulin middlemen to see what they want to see in the Treasure Pavilion, and those who have been molested by Miss Lin have also molested it. It stands to reason that the next day is the day when some people start to leave.But the Gundam who stepped out of the red rope died, and many people disappeared. Although the news didn't spread on purpose, when Mou Hanhai and the others came back, there were already people in the world who had received the news and were waiting in the hall.

Mou Hanhai frowned, and told the people in the hall what he only knew.Then a group of people bowed their heads to discuss, their voices were extremely low, and their expressions were extremely bad.

Xiao Jiu returned to Mao Xing, and told Mao Xing the whole story, Mao Xing's expression changed, and he said: "Inexplicably mixed into other people's housework, I think this time even we are in danger."

Xiao Jiu said: "Brother, don't worry, I'll go and hear what Brother Mou can do. They are all people who have experienced in the world, and they will have a way to deal with this."

Mao Xing said: "You stay, you don't have to go. If these two days are not good, I will ask Xu Ling and Xu He to take you away first, so as to save you from being dragged down by Tianbi Villa. The foundation of Tianbi Villa is not stable at all, and Lin Yufang This time, he wanted to use the Hundred Flowers Banquet to make a name for himself in Jianghu, but he didn't expect to provoke enemies, and even those who had nothing to do with him would suffer."

"Brother isn't leaving?" Xiao Jiu asked.

"Brother's matter has not been dealt with yet." Mao Xing said.

"Is it important?" Xiao Jiu asked with concern.

Maoxing nodded.

Xiao Jiu turned her neck, squeezed her arms, sat down on the chair next to Mao Xing, and said, "Then I won't leave either, I can't do it by leaving brother here alone."

"Xiao Jiu doesn't listen to brother?" Mao Xing said.

"Brothers, we must live and die together!" Xiao Jiu leaned on the back of the chair, crossed his arms around his chest, saying the words "to live and die together" was as light as a feather, but to Mao Xing's ears, it was as heavy as Mount Tai.

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No one is in the mood to go back to bed tonight.

Xu Ling and Xu He were Mao Xing's guards. Xiao Jiu went outside after realizing that there were two people guarding Mao Xing. She walked outside and stepped a few times along the outer wall of Tianbi Villa.While stepping on it, I looked at the scenery of the surrounding woods and the location of the red ropes. Tianbi Mountain Villa is so big that if the whole place is sealed to prevent people from going out, if there are not many people coming, or those hiding in the woods are all masters, otherwise if all If people forced their way out together, those people would not be able to stop them.

When he returned to the gate after stepping on the fifth circle, he bumped into a person on the fence, that person was still in the wind, overlooking the night forest, mumbling something in his mouth.

Xiao Jiu stood beside him and said, "Master, don't you want to go to sleep?"

Zhiyuan turned his head to see him, showed a gentle and compassionate smile, and said, "Little benefactor is still here so late, isn't he the same as the poor monk?"

"Well," Xiao Jiu replied, "I can't sleep, so I walked around the wall and took a look."

"The poor monk is chanting scriptures for the high benefactor." Zhiyuan said.

"Is it true that after reciting the scriptures, you will not go to the hell to suffer, but you can go to the Land of Ultimate Bliss?" Xiao Jiu asked.

"The poor monk is just to let the high benefactor go all the way, as for where and where to go, it is not the poor monk's decision."

"Master, why do you think there are disputes in martial arts, some people bully the small, and some kill people?" Xiao Jiu asked.

"Everything is due to anger, ignorance, and resentment." Zhi Yuan said calmly.

"Then how can we stop those people from being angry, stupid and resentful?"

Zhiyuan smiled slightly, with compassion on his face: "Be willing, let go."

Xiao Jiu thought for a while, then asked in doubt, "I don't understand these four words, is it difficult?"

"It's easy for those who understand it; it's difficult for those who don't understand it," Zhiyuan said.

Xiao Jiu thought about it again and nodded. "So if you can't let go, you are unwilling, and if you let go, you are willing. But if it is easy for everyone, then everyone will become a Buddha? So some people are difficult, and others are not. Those people outside the villa are difficult, so Only then can’t let go, can’t let go.”

Zhi Yuan nodded and smiled, his eyebrows were compassionate. "The little benefactor has a wise heart. This battle is about the death of many people. The little benefactor is full of martial arts. He can walk but stay. The poor monk admires him."

Xiao Jiu stretched her waist, yawned and said, "It's nothing, just give me a hand. There are many people in the villa who are kind to me, my righteous brother, Brother Da, Xiao Dizi, Brother Mou, and Hua Wu Brother Hua and Seventh Brother, I am also reluctant to let go of these people, so it is difficult, difficult for me to leave by myself."

Zhiyuan was still smiling, not at all affected by the weird atmosphere inside and outside Tianbi Villa.

Xiao Jiu looked at Zhiyuan and said, "Master, you know martial arts, right? It's good to learn a few moves. If I don't stand like this, I will definitely fall asleep accidentally, and then roll off the wall."

Zhiyuan said: "The poor monk remembers that the little brother practiced swordsmanship."

Xiao Jiu nodded. "Master didn't bring any weapons, let's practice with hands instead of swords!"

Zhiyuan and Xiaojiu stood side by side on a very narrow high wall, and on the wall were stacked one by one thin glazed tiles.It is more difficult to step on the glazed tiles than plum blossom piles. If you accidentally use too much force, the tiles will be broken, so there must be a balance between rigidity and ingenuity.

These two people looked at each other for a long time, neither of them moved, suddenly Zhi Yuan slowly extended his left hand, seemingly without energy, but when he came over, there was a strong wind.

Zhiyuan's move is authentic Shaolin hard qigong, it looks ordinary, but its power should not be underestimated.

But Zhiyuan moved slowly, so that Xiao Jiu would have time to figure out how to fight back before the move.

At the beginning, Xiao Jiu confronted Zhi Yuan head-to-head. After receiving Xiao Jiu's few moves, Zhi Yuan immediately found that Xiao Jiu's inner strength was almost pure and strong. He first praised Xiao Jiu in his heart for having such a pure inner strength at this age. No, but the next step is to guide Xiao Jiu how to smoothly run the internal force throughout the whole body, from the eight major meridians to the smallest tendons, every inch of the body can peacefully accommodate the excessively strong internal force.

Zhiyuan said: "If he is quiet, let him be quiet, if he is strong, let him be strong; when the two aspects of hardness and softness are used, then the softness of the fingers will be transformed."

While listening to the mantra in Zhiyuan's mouth, Xiao Jiu fought with Zhi Yuan until midnight, because Zhi Yuan's moves were too heavy, Xiao Jiu fought back too hard, causing the wall under their feet to collapse with internal force. The two people jumped down to the ground and smiled at each other.

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Early in the morning, when it was daylight, Xiao Jiu ran back to the yard, poured several buckets of ice water on her body from the well, washed away the sweat from fighting Zhiyuan last night, went back to her room, changed into a set of clothes, and took photos again. Looking at the bronze mirror, he found that the moves were stable this time, so he didn't cause the blood in his body to churn, and the flame patterns only showed a little color. After confirming that there was no problem, he hurriedly ran into the hall again.

Before leaving the courtyard, Mao Xing's two guards were still guarding Mao Xing's gate. Xiao Jiu knew that Mao Xing was still resting, so he didn't bother him.

The hall of Tianbi Mountain Villa was filled with oppressive atmosphere. Lin Yufang sat obliquely on the tallest chair, with a picture of mountains and rivers behind him, but he held one hand on the chair and the other hanging down , two black eye sockets and blue face showed his fatigue and burnout.

There were still a dozen or so tables that had not been removed in the hall, and the boss of Tianbi Villa ordered the servants to serve breakfast in a low voice for the guests who stayed up all night or woke up early in the morning.

Xiao Jiu went to the nearest table to Lin Yufang and sat down, because Hua Wu and Mou Hanhai were eating steamed buns and drinking porridge there.

Xiao Jiu took a big bite out of a steamed bun, took a sip of hot tea, swallowed the food and said, "Is there any news from Seventh Brother Hua?"

Hua Wu shook his head. Although his anxiety was written all over his face, he was completely helpless when he encountered the weird and fast Qingming Pavilion killer.

Mou Hanhai frowned into a word of Sichuan.He said: "A dozen or so people disappeared last night, including Qingcheng, Huangshan, and the sons of several big families. It is not an option to continue like this. I think we will call all the people to the hall, so as not to disperse everyone. Add more people." Danger."

Xiao Jiu said: "Yesterday Master Zhiyuan and I guarded the fence all night and no one came in!" He paused, and frowned like Mou Hanhai, and said: "That means not only Outside the villa, there may be people from Qingming Pavilion in the villa."

Hua Wu turned his head and originally wanted to speak to Xiao Jiu, but was stunned when he saw the left side of his face. "What's the matter, your left neck is a little red, have you been bitten by a bug?"

Xiao Jiu touched her neck, said "Oh" indifferently, and said, "Last night, I practiced martial arts with Master Zhiyuan all night. Because my meridians are narrow, I am a little bit crazy. But yesterday the master taught me Just a few formulas, so I didn't go crazy!"

"What do you mean if you don't go crazy!" Mou Hanhai shouted in a strange voice. "Do you know what an obsession is?"

Xiaojiu remembered that Uncle Moon had told him, but couldn't recall it for a while, and was afraid that Mou Hanhai would stop him from helping, so she said, "Of course I know, it's just that the meridians burst, and it's all about going to see the ancestors." ! But before I practice martial arts, I always practice internal strength first, and the narrow meridians will gradually widen and widen in the end, and then I will be fine.”

Mou Hanhai shouted: "It's so easy and simple, do you know how to write dead characters! I don't care what kind of martial arts you practice, just stop for now!"

Hua Wu was also frightened by Xiao Jiu's words: "Brother Mou is right, it is very serious to be insane!"

"But my red streaks appeared and retreated, retreated and appeared again, and I'm not dead yet!" Xiao Jiu said, "It shouldn't be time to die yet, the King of Hades won't accept me!"

Xiao Jiu's speech was very simple, but this time it was so simple that it gave Mou Hanhai a headache.

"There's no one who takes his own life!" Hua Wu said.

"I just want to help." Xiao Jiu said with a smile, "And whoever says I don't take my own life, I'm also very afraid of death!"

"Boy..." Mou Hanhai and Hua Wu both thought in their hearts, they must take good care of this kid.

Xiaojiu had breakfast here, and the sky was getting brighter, and some people came to the hall one after another.

According to the rules of etiquette, these people must first salute to the owner of the villa, but Lin Yufang sat crookedly, looking at the beams and pillars, and ignored no one, so that later some people saw him like that "呿" Noise, ignore him.

Just as the hall was gradually getting lively, there was a sudden sound of a hidden weapon piercing through the air. Xiao Jiu and Mou Hanhai heard the sound flashing to the left and right. The hidden weapon passed through them and was nailed into the hall of Tianbi Villa top of the pillar.

The hidden weapon is a short arrow with a note on it.

Lin Yufang stood up immediately, rushed to the pillar, tore off the note, and read it word by word.

Some people immediately surrounded him, and Mou Hanhai pointed out someone to chase after the person who issued the hidden weapon, and then immediately leaned over to look.

I saw that the note was written in bright red blood:

"Hand over the treasure map, or kill one person a day."

Lin Yufang's hands trembled while pulling the note, while Hua Wu suddenly caught a glimpse of Lin Yufang's finger holding the note slowly turning reddish, and quickly deepening the color, and shouted:

"Be careful, the note is poisonous! It's "Colorful"! "

Hearing the poisonous name "Wanziqianhong", the people around Lin Yufang almost retreated at once.

However, Lin Yufang looked at the redness spreading from his fingers to his wrist and let out a cold "hum", then took out a celadon bottle from his arms, poured out a snow-white pill and swallowed it, and then In an instant, the red color faded completely from the skin on the back of Lin Yufang's hands, as if there had never been a shocking red color before.

Almost at the same time, there was a sudden burst of screaming and crying outside the hall.

Everyone rushed out immediately, but just after they crossed the threshold, they saw a young servant wearing the servant's clothes of Tianbi Villa lying on the ground, and the ground was covered with blood.

His intestines were pulled out of his stomach and strangled around his neck.And look at his protruding eyes and exposed tongue, it looks like he was strangled to death by his own intestines when he was alive.

Holding him behind him was an old woman who had also worked in Tianbi Villa for decades. The woman was covered in the blood of the young servant, crying and shouting, "My dear son— —My good son—who would kill my son so heartlessly—”

The voice of the mother calling for her son made some people's eyes turn red and their noses sore.

However, Lin Yufang, the owner of the villa, just pushed aside the crowd, and after confirming that the dead person was not his wife or daughter, he slowly turned around and walked into the hall, and sat back on the seat representing the supreme position of Tianbi Villa. on the seat.

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The person pointed out by Mou Hanhai to chase after the person who released the hidden weapon did not come back either.When Hua Wu led people to look for it, he found that the man's body was nailed to the gate of Tianbi Villa by his own sword.

At this time, people panicked.

People say that Qingming Pavilion never engages in loss-making business, and if you kill a person, you can get at least [-] gold.

However, this time, they didn't know what treasure map was hidden in Tianbi Villa, which caused disaster and attracted Qingming Pavilion, which everyone thought had been destroyed long ago.

Tianbi Villa is in danger, even if the people in the villa have wings, they still can't fly or escape, so they can only wait for Qingming Pavilion to kill them helplessly.