Hongyilu faced each other in silence, Zhu Yuluo never put down the blade on her neck, and even though Li Qi was brave, he did not dare to do anything without permission.

A rush of footsteps broke the terrifying silence, and Li Jingshu staggered through the door as if she had lost her soul, surprising everyone.

But I saw that her hair was slanted and her dress was messy. Not only had she lost one of her shoes in a panic, exposing her muddy lotus feet, but a large gash was ripped open in her front, and she had to use one hand to catch it.

To prevent the dress from falling off, her other hand barely held the messy hair. Her beautiful face was full of shame, anger and anger, and there were even wet tears left in the corners of her eyes.

With this look, anyone could imagine what unspeakable things she had just experienced.

Only Zhao Xueying was not too surprised, because she knew that with Zhang Zhongjie's temperament, if he could do whatever he wanted to a beauty like Li Jingshu, he would never miss this opportunity in vain.

"Did that bastard bully you?" Li Qi was so angry that he clenched his teeth.

Everyone in the small courtyard focused their attention on the sudden appearance of the beauty. Zhao Xueying looked behind her, but Zhang Zhongjie was not there. She thought to herself that she must be with Zhu Qingying at this moment, and her jealousy became even more intense. Fan Qingteng looked at her with a gleaming look.

Li Jingshu was spinning, wondering if she could get a piece of the pie when Zhang Zhongjie had enough fun.

Li Jingshu looked like she was about to cry, avoiding Li Qi's sight, as if she didn't know how to face her father, and threw herself into Zhu Yuluo's arms with a cry of grief.

"Mother! Daughter..."

She cried "Wow", completely ignoring that Zhu Yuluo was still being held hostage by Fan Qingteng. She put her hands around her mother's waist and pressed the side of her face against Zhu Yuluo's chest.

This made Fan Qingteng hesitate. According to common sense, he was holding a hostage. If anyone dared to approach rashly, he should execute the hostage immediately. But since it is a seemingly "harmless" girl like Li Jingshu, look at her

Her appearance, and she had obviously been "bullied" by the boss. Not to mention whether she had been conquered physically and mentally by Zhang Zhongjie, just her pretty appearance that did not dare to resist poor Chu Chu made him feel itchy.

The benefits delivered to your door will not be taken advantage of.

Fan Qingteng slowly stretched out a hand, as if he wanted to help the girl wipe her tears. The girl glanced at him sideways, biting her lip and saying nothing.

What a sweet and submissive boy!

Just when Fan Qingteng was thinking about how to take advantage of Li Jingshu in front of Zhu Yuluo, the lamb-like girl in front of him suddenly moved and grabbed the pulse gate of the hand holding the knife like lightning!

Fan Qingteng was startled, and then he realized that he had been tricked. Since Li Jingshu was in Zhu Yuluo's arms, very close to him, not only did he have no time to execute Zhu Yuluo with his knife, but he would be detained by the girl if he even hesitated for a moment.

He stayed at the Pulse Gate and was brutally captured alive.

After all, he had been wandering around in the world for many years. Seeing that the situation was not good, he immediately threw down the mantis knife and ran away.

Zhu Yuluo was held by him and stood for a long time. She was already exhausted. At this moment, she lost support and immediately collapsed. Naturally, she was hugged by Li Jingshu.

By the time she stabilized her mother, Fan Qingteng had already run ten feet away.

When Li Qi saw that his beloved wife had been saved, he shouted loudly, Qingqiu's sword technique was fully deployed, and the sword light instantly enveloped You Ming's whole body.

You Ming was not Li Qi's opponent, and he became hasty again. He didn't even have time to swing his scythe, and Li Qi's sword hit him all over his body five times. He fell to the ground and died on the spot.

The lone wolf was still conscious. Seeing that Zhu Yuluo had been rescued, he hurriedly rushed to Jie Jin's side, wanting to use him as a hostage again.

A ray of sword light lit up from the top of the wall, and Zhu Qingying's human sword merged into one and fell from the sky, with the horizontal sword blocking Xie Jin's body.

The lone wolf roared loudly and swung his sword to slash. At this moment, he saw a strange light coming from a distance like an arrow. He had no time to dodge and fell to the "Tianyi Sword Qi" from Lan Qiao from the entrance of Hongyi Lu.

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When Zhao Xueying saw Lan Qiao and Zhu Qingying appear, but Zhang Zhongjie was nowhere to be found, she screamed in her heart and was about to jump over the wall to escape, but was blocked by Li Qi's sword light.

Li Jingshu knew that with the strength of her father and husband, Zhao Xueying would never be spared, so she shouted "catch him alive", passed by Zhu Yuluo, and went straight to chase Fan Qingteng.

Zhao Xueying drew her sword and rushed to attack. After only six moves with Li Qi, she lost her advantage of taking the lead.

Lan Qiao took the opportunity to unlock Xiao Wuhen's acupuncture points and was about to go back to help Li Qi. Li Qi had already knocked away Zhao Xueying's long sword and kicked the latter's knee socket.

Zhao Xueying's legs went weak and she fell to the ground on one knee. Before she could stand up, she felt numbness in her ribs and Li Qi tapped her acupuncture points.

"Go help Xiao Shu!" Li Qi shouted to Lan Qiao.

Lan Qiao nodded slightly and chased in the direction where Li Jingshu ran just now. Zhu Qingying and Li Qi looked at each other and followed.

Fan Qingteng was nicknamed the "Evil Ghost of Longxi". Although he was short in stature, he had good Qinggong. He committed many evil deeds in Longxi and was attacked by the righteous sects many times. He always escaped with his excellent Qinggong.

This time he reacted very quickly. Even though Li Jingshu had a calculated plan, he still seized the first chance to escape. Then he only needed to find a way to get rid of Na Nizi, and he could escape from Jiangpu.

He was not familiar with the terrain of Jiangpu. The only thing he remembered clearly was that he went all the way south, which was the ferry on the bank of the Yangtze River.

If he can be allowed to grab a small boat and sail away from the shore, even if there are masters like Li Qi or Lan Qiao coming in person, he can only look at the river and sigh.

Fan Qingteng thought this, a glimmer of hope arose in his heart, and at the same time, the wind blew under his feet, and he had already reached the dock.

He was lucky. There was a small boat parked on the pier, which seemed to be the fishing boat of nearby fishermen. He flew up diagonally on his toes, landed firmly on the boat, cut the cable with the wind of his finger, picked up the oar and paddled hard on the shore.

As soon as the ground pushed up, the boat suddenly accelerated and drifted towards the center of the river.

Li Jingshu arrived a step too late and saw that she could no longer board the boat, so she threw herself into the river without hesitation. The posture of flying into the water was really beautiful.

Lan Qiao had no time to stop him. By the time he arrived at the edge of the trestle, Li Jingshu had already disappeared.

While he was in a panic, Zhu Qingying had also arrived, patted his shoulder and comforted him: "Don't worry, Xiao Shu is very good at water, even if you drown the bastard, you can't drown her."

Listening to her metaphor, Lan Qiao didn't know whether to be angry or amused. Suddenly, he saw the boat swaying, and then the shaking became more and more violent. Finally, it completely tipped over, throwing Fan Qingteng into the river.

Fan Qingteng's ancestral home was in Longxi and he was not familiar with the nature of water. As soon as he fell into the water, he jumped up and down like crazy and swam back to the shore with waves several feet high.

But he hadn't swam very far when his feet suddenly seemed to be held back by something. His upper body straightened up suddenly, and he sank immediately. After a while, he struggled to surface again, swam two feet closer to the river, and then

Once dragged into the water.

After a while, he jumped onto the water again. This time he looked panicked, like a lost dog, and swam desperately toward the shore. However, when he swam to less than four feet from the shore, he was caught for the third time.

Dragged until it sank underwater.

Lan Qiao once fought against Li Jingshu underwater in the Xixia Treasures. She was so powerful as an "underwater dragon" that he even felt pity for Fan Qingteng in his heart.

A moment later, Fan Qingteng's two hands rushed out again, as if desperately trying to grab something, and then he sank again. This was repeated many times, and every time Fan Qingteng struggled to stretch out his head and opened his mouth to shout, he often failed. As soon as she screamed, the river water poured into her mouth and nose again, and Li Jingshu's figure was never seen.

Not long after, the water began to turn red, and blood surged up.

After a while, the movement in the water gradually subsided.

On the stone steps beside the pier, a graceful girl emerged from the water, soaked to the skin, and her hair spread down like layers of waterweed.

Fan Qingteng seemed to have lost consciousness. The girl held him by his collar and dragged him to the shore like a sack. He lay on the ground in a large shape, with river water constantly pouring out of the corners of his mouth.

His lower abdomen was stained red with blood, which seemed to be where the injury was. Lan Qiao saw that Li Jingshu's hairpin was missing from her head, and guessed that she must have stabbed Fan Qingteng's lower abdomen with the hairpin.

Women can be quite scary when they are ruthless.

Lan Qiao thought silently, took off his cloak and put it on her shoulders. At the same time, he secretly used his skills to help dry the moisture on her body.

Zhu Qingying glanced at Fan Qingteng who was bleeding on the ground and said, "He is about to die."

"You can't die as long as I'm here." Li Jingshu smiled and said, "I still have something to ask him. We can't let him die too easily."

When Fan Qingteng woke up again, he was locked in a dark dungeon.

Hongyi Lu did not have such a terrifying place. Li Qi specially borrowed this dungeon from the Kong family in Jiangpu, which was used to torture erring servants, to question the assassin who was captured today.

The air in the dungeon was hot and humid. Fan Qingteng groaned in discomfort and drooped his head like a wilted plant.

Li Qi, Xie Jin, Zhu Qingying and Lan Qiao stood around Fan Qingteng. This scene was actually a bit strange and familiar. It reminded people of the time they tortured another assassin on Xie Jin's westbound ship, "Qin Huai" "The Witch" Hua Yuxi.

Fan Qingteng was not a tough guy. After Zhu Qingying was tortured several times, he quickly told everything he knew.

He said that the reason why Zhang Zhongjie wanted to attack Zhu Qingying was because he did not want Emperor Jianwen to hand over the military power of the city guard to her, and the reason why he chose the time when Zhu Qingying visited Jiangpu was because he was afraid that it would be inconvenient to conceal his actions in the city.

As for Li Qi's subsequent question about why Zhang Zhongjie didn't want Zhu Qingying to take over the military power, Fan Qingteng couldn't explain.

"Maybe... maybe the master wants to sit in that position?" He guessed.

Zhu Qingying shook her head slightly: "Maybe there is another mastermind behind Zhang Zhongjie."

She knew in her heart that even if she was really killed in Jiangpu, the emperor would never choose someone with Zhang Zhongjie's qualifications to hold such important military power.

Xie Jin suddenly asked: "If we exclude the princess, who else in the city is most likely to be in charge of the military?"

When Li Qi heard this, he suddenly said: "What the gentleman said is that usually, the person behind the scenes is the person who can get the greatest benefit from this matter."

Zhu Qingying muttered: "In terms of rank, besides me, Cao Guogong Li Jinglong is the most qualified. Although he failed in the two Northern Expeditions, he is still a duke. The emperor still trusts him, and he is the most likely defender of the city. Candidate."

"No." Lan Qiao said in confusion, "Even if Li Jinglong is given the position of city defender, what benefit will he gain? King Yan's army has already arrived at the city. With Li Jinglong's military ability, it is impossible to defend it for too long. If

After all, the city will be destroyed, and there will be no eggs left in the overturned nest, so he won’t have any good fruits to eat.”

Everyone was puzzled for a moment and looked at each other in silence.

Li Qi glanced at Fan Qingteng who was standing aside, snorted and said: "It seems like I can't ask anything more from him. Let's kill him."

"No!" Fan Qingteng trembled and begged for mercy, "Save my little one's life. I will definitely change my ways in the future."

Seeing that Li Qi was unmoved, he paused, and suddenly said with joy on his face: "Yes, that's right, I have another treasure, let's see if I can exchange my life for you."

Lan Qiao asked curiously: "What treasure?"

Fan Qingteng's face flushed with excitement, and he took out a scroll of secrets wrapped in oilcloth from his arms. The four big characters on it were "Four Symbols Wuji".

"This is……"

When Lan Qiao asked, Fan Qingteng immediately claimed credit and said: "This is a copy I secretly saw from someone named Zhang and copied it in private. It took me many times to complete the copy, and the person named Zhang has no knowledge of it."

Lan Qiao took the secret book, flipped through it, and showed it to Li Qi.

Li Qi is a master of martial arts. He only briefly considered the words in it and knew it was true, so he nodded to Lan Qiao.
To be continued...