Xu Mubai raised his head and saw a man in black standing on the top of the tree. His body undulated slightly with the wind, as if he was connected with the tree. He wore a silver mask on his face and looked at him with cold and ruthless eyes.
Hold yourself.
This was not the first time that Xu Mubai met this person. On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival in August, he invited Hu Xiaotian to drink at Deyue Tower. At that time, this person put out the candles in the room and led Hu Xiaotian out. He also chased him out, but midway
Blocked by the rain of tiles, Xu Mubai knew that there was a big difference in martial arts between himself and the other party. He looked at the man in black, channeling his inner strength, and was ready to meet the other party's attack at any time: "Who are you? Why are you going against me?"
Xu Mubai did not know that the other party's true identity was Ji Feihua.
Ji Feihua sighed softly and said: "It's useless for you to be considered a descendant of the Xu family. Mrs. Xu's reputation has all fallen on you unworthy descendants. What's the point of bullying a weak woman? You want to cause a murder and frame someone else's fault."
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Xu Mubai bit his lip. Inside his long sleeves, two flying knives slid quietly along his arms and into his palms. He launched them suddenly. Facing an opponent whose martial arts far surpassed his own, except for a sneak attack, he had no chance of victory.
Two rays of cold light shot towards each other one after the other.
Ji Feihua didn't panic when she saw the flying knife coming. She flicked her long sleeves and swept over the light of the two knives. The flying knife immediately changed its direction and shot towards Xu Mubai's body. The speed of the reflection was as fast as
More than double Xu Mubai's throwing speed.
Xu Mubai secretly screamed that something was wrong. He spun his body like a gyro and changed six or seven movements. He was able to dodge the reflected flying knife, but his knee suddenly felt a sharp pain. It was the steel needle ejected by the opponent.
After being shot, his right knee went weak and he fell to the ground on one leg.
Ji Feihua said calmly: "It's too late to think of begging for mercy now!"
Xu Mubai said in pain: "Kill if you want, why bother humiliating me!" His bones were strong, and he did not lose his backbone despite being at a disadvantage.
"If I kill you, I will only dirty my hands!"
Ji Feihua was still standing at the top of the branch, hiding behind her mask and looking straight ahead, because she saw a woman appearing on the top of the branch three feet away from her. This woman was none other than Xu Fengmei, the manager of the Xu family in Jinling.
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Ji Feihua smiled calmly and said: "So you are the mastermind behind the scenes!"
Xu Fengmei said: "The kid is not sensible. I hope you won't argue with him. If anything happens, I will take care of it for him."
Ji Feihua said: "Of course you have to take responsibility for what you do. You have a strong tone. Do you think you can represent the Xu family?"
Xu Fengmei smiled faintly and shook her left hand gently behind her back. Only Xu Mubai could see this position. Xu Mubai understood that this was to let her leave as soon as possible.
Xu Mubai has known Xu Fengmei since he was a child, and has always been in awe of the Xu family manager. However, he did not understand her martial arts. After seeing Xu Fengmei's performance at this time, he realized that this sister-in-law was also a hidden master.
Ji Feihua watched Xu Mubai go away, but she had no intention of taking action. She said softly: "I'm afraid Mrs. Xu doesn't know what you are doing now, right? Who is in charge of the Xu family now?"
Xu Fengmei looked at Ji Feihua coldly and said, "It's not the outsiders' turn to ask about the Xu family's affairs! Who are you?"
Ji Feihua said calmly: "You might as well come here and take off my mask and have a look!" She didn't even launch an attack, but turned around and threw in the direction of the ruined temple.
Xu Fengmei frowned. The other party was not eager to fight, not because he was afraid of his martial arts, but because he was worried that he had a backup plan. While he was pestering him, he sent people to destroy the temple and attack Long Xiyue again.
Although he is good at planning, he did not expect that today's plan would change midway and that the opponent would have strong support behind him.
Zhan Peng's shoulder was stained with blood and he was stabbed several times. More than half of his twenty warriors were also killed and wounded. Li Honghan was also injured in many places. At this time, ten of his men who were originally ambushing at the mountain pass heard the news and came to reinforce them, and gradually regained the initiative.
At this moment, a shout suddenly came from the distance. Li Honghan was startled when he heard the sound. The sound was Zhu Jingyao's signal for him to retreat. Li Honghan knew that something urgent must happen. He did not dare to fight, and looked at it with some reluctance.
He glanced at Zhan Peng opposite him. Zhan Peng was covered in blood, like a god of murder. He aimed his bow and arrow at Li Honghan. He had already killed seven of the opponent's warriors one after another.
Li Honghan nodded bitterly and said, "I will settle this account with you sooner or later." He waved his hand and led his men to retreat outside the forest.
Zhan Peng saw the opponent go away, and the tight bowstring slowly relaxed. After this bloody battle, there were only eight warriors who survived. Zeng Xiaorou walked out from behind the rock where she was hiding, trembling with fear. Zhan Peng looked at the ground in a mess.
After taking a look at the corpse, he couldn't care less about burying these brothers now. He ordered the team to be reorganized and returned to the ruined temple immediately.
The group returned to the ruined temple and saw that Liang Yinghao and Long Xiyue were fine. They were relieved. Liang Yinghao called Zhan Peng into the monastery to help him bandage his wounds and told him everything that had just happened in detail.
Zhan Peng felt lucky when he heard that a master was secretly helping him.
At this time, there was a knock on the door, but it was Long Xiyue who came. Zhan Peng got dressed and opened the door.
Long Xiyue asked with concern: "How is Brother Zhan's injury?"
Zhan Peng smiled and said: "It's just a skin injury, princess, don't worry."
Long Xiyue glanced at Liang Yinghao and said: "Brother Liang, it turns out you lied to me just now, saying that Xiaorou was a spy. In fact, you wanted to use her to lure people from Xichuan away."
Liang Yinghao said: "Princess, don't blame me. We are also considering the safety of the princess. The lord has entrusted you to our care. If anything goes wrong, we will have to die to apologize."
Long Xiyue said: "I don't want you to die for me, and don't think so. In fact, in Xiaotian's heart, you are as important as me."
Liang Yinghao and Zhan Peng felt warm in their hearts when they heard these words, feeling that even sacrificing their lives for Long Xiyue was worth it.
Zhan Peng said: "Oops!"
Long Xiyue and Liang Yinghao looked at him at the same time, wondering what bad thing he meant.
Zhan Peng said: "I gave Miss Xiaorou a fright just now, and I haven't apologized to her in person yet."
Long Xiyue also nodded. It was unfair to her to put Zeng Xiaorou in danger in order to protect her.
Liang Yinghao shook his head and said: "This matter may be a bit strange."
The two of them looked at Liang Yinghao at the same time.
Liang Yinghao said: "I really have no evidence just now. I just wanted to make the princess feel at ease, so I took this step. However, we kept a low profile along the way and tried to avoid crowds. Why did Xu Mubai follow us? I just went
I looked in front of the ruined temple and found a mark. Apparently someone had deliberately left a mark." He was originally a bandit and was very familiar with this technique.
Long Xiyue said: "But there were people from the Li family of Xichuan who passed by just now." They were not the only ones taking shelter in the ruined temple tonight, Li Honghan also came there, so it should not be possible to tell that it is Xiaorou just based on a mark.
What you did.
Liang Yinghao said: "Li Honghan doesn't seem to have any contact with the Xu family. Not only that, the princess also saw it just now. Xu Mubai killed a warrior of the Li family. The Li family would not be so stupid and leave such an obvious mark to the enemy.
.As for the twenty warriors under our command, they are all carefully selected by the lord. They are so loyal that they would never do such a deceptive thing." What he meant was that Xiaorou was the biggest suspect.
At this moment, a scream suddenly came from outside. The three of them went out at the same time, only to see a warrior guarding the back door lying straight in a pool of blood. He had been stabbed in the chest, and the blood was still gurgling out. Zhan Peng squatted down and
Reaching out to cover his wound, the warrior pointed to the courtyard wall.
Liang Yinghao walked a few steps quickly, climbed up the wall, and looked up, only to see a petite figure in the distance disappearing into the distant mountains and forests.
Zhan Peng said loudly: "No need to chase!"
The remaining warriors searched the ruined temple and found that only Zeng Xiaorou was missing, which meant that the warrior must have been killed by Zeng Xiaorou. Remembering that along the way, Long Xiyue and Zeng Xiaorou were sisters, and they always had her.
Along with this, everyone couldn't help but feel frightened. Zeng Xiaorou had the chance to get rid of Long Xiyue at any time, but for some reason he didn't take action.
Fortunately, the warrior was not stabbed. After bandaging, he described the scene intermittently. He was responsible for guarding the back door. Just now Zeng Xiaorou came over and said he wanted to go out. The warrior refused because Zhan Peng had explained in advance that there was no such thing.
His permission allowed no one to come in and out at will, so he asked her to ask Zhan Peng for instructions. Unexpectedly, without saying a word, she suddenly pulled out a dagger and stabbed him.
After Long Xiyue heard this, her mood suddenly became much lower. She turned around and walked back to her room silently, closing the door.
Zhan Peng and Liang Yinghao looked at each other, the expressions on each other's faces looked a little helpless. Liang Yinghao sighed and said: "The princess is kind-hearted. She regards Xiaorou as a sister, but she was betrayed and replaced by
No one will feel better psychologically."
Zhan Peng said: "We can only wait for the master to catch up and enlighten her slowly."
Long Xiyue closed the door with her backhand, leaned on it, closed her beautiful eyes, and tears silently fell down her pretty face. Maybe she thought the world was too beautiful, and she still believed in the majority after encountering so many setbacks.
People are kind, but Xiaorou, a sister who gets along day and night, would betray her. She really couldn't understand it. After the ups and downs tonight, she missed Hu Xiaotian more and more. If he was by her side, maybe all this would not happen.
occur.
There was a gentle knock on the door.
Long Xiyue took a deep breath, controlled her emotions and said, "I want to have a good rest. I don't want to see anyone right now."
A familiar and friendly voice came from outside: "What? You don't even want to see me?"
Long Xiyue thought she heard wrongly and hurriedly opened the door, only to see Hu Xiaotian appearing in front of the door like a drowned rat. No matter how embarrassed he looked, he always had a sunny smile on his face. (To be continued.)
