Chapter 40: The Murder in Locust Alley
"Did you go out to inquire and encounter Dongchang's man?"
Nie Xiaoqian said in her heart, and turned around to look at Yan Changtian.
Yan Changtian was small and was protected by Nie Xiaoqian, so he did not see his sixth uncle Zhu Weiming coming in. However, he seemed to be a little nervous by Nie Xiaoqian's actions of hiding out the lamp just now. His fists were very solid, and his little face was tense.
"Go back quickly, your elders may look for you in a while." Nie Xiaoqian said to Yan Changtian.
"Yan Changtian said he was leaving." Yan Changtian agreed, bowed and took the lantern Nie Xiaoqian lit for him back.
Nie Xiaoqian thought about it, hid the ghost body, floated to the attic first, and she wanted to see what happened.
"who?"
Under the attic, there was a sword on the knees next to the door of the room. Yan Li, who was meditating and alert, moved his earlobes slightly, heard footsteps coming from far to near, rushed over, and reached the door in a blink of an eye.
"Second brother!"
"Sixth brother?"
Yan Li heard the voice of his sixth brother Zhu Weiming, and noticed that there was something different from the sound of footsteps and the response. He held the sword in his hand and stood up, opening the door.
As soon as the door was opened, Zhu Weiming could no longer hold on. With the smell of blood in his body, his steps staggered in.
"Sixth brother, what happened?" Yan Li asked in surprise when he saw this, and helped Zhu Weiming into the house.
Zhu Weiming returned home from injury, and the movements were heard, and the others in the room were awakened, with a sad face, and surrounded them all.
Yan Li took out the Jinchuang medicine, bandaged Zhu Weiming's wound, and explained Zhu Weiming's injury to everyone: "I was stabbed in my left arm and back, but fortunately the wound is not too deep and there is no danger for the time being. After applying the medicine, you should be fine if you have rested for half a month."
After hearing this, everyone felt relieved and asked Zhu Weiming how he was injured.
Zhu Weiming and others bandaged the wound, took a few sips of hot soup, and his pale face slightly improved: "I didn't find out about my elder brother, and I was very careful after I went out, but I didn't know what happened and was discovered. The enemy's martial arts skills were not very high, but they were many. I was outnumbered and was cut twice and escaped in the chaos."
"You can't even hide your whereabouts?" Yan Li realized the serious situation and frowned and asked, "Did you stop at the back when you come back?
"I avoided my tail and hid outside for two hours, and I was sure that I had already thrown them away. But they had a lot of people and had a good nose. Although the county town was large, they would probably be able to smell the smell and chase here soon." Zhu Weiming replied.
"Enemy, are they? Isn't the one who chased you? " A woman next to him heard something in Zhu Weiming's words and asked immediately.
"No, it's some people from all walks of life, and there are all gangs of all sizes. Hey, we are criminals of the imperial court, and the heads are very valuable, one is worth thousands to tens of thousands of taels. If you catch one, you will be promoted to three or five levels immediately. The glory and wealth are moving, and now it is not just the Dongchang man who chases us." Zhu Weiming finished speaking, and sneered in a sarcasm.
"Since our whereabouts have been leaked, those scum who are greedy for rewards will definitely be moved. There will only be more and more pursuers in this place, and I am afraid that even if we can kill them, we will not be able to kill them at that time." Another person said in a deep voice.
"We will leave now without further ado." Yan Li listened to his words, thought for a moment, and then said firmly.
"What if he can't find us when he comes back?" Zhu Weiming asked. He agreed with his second brother Yan Li's decision, but he was worried that after the separation, the eldest brother would not find them when he comes back.
"I will leave a secret code along the way. He will be able to find us when he comes back and sees it." Yan Li replied. He was prepared to deal with this.
All the luggage was packed last night, and the child was awakened and he could leave immediately.
"Where is the third young master?" The woman who went to call the child to the inner room, but found that one of the three children was missing.
"Si Niang, I'm here." Yan Changtian happened to crawl into a small wall hole in the corner of a pillar. Hearing Si Niang's scream, he quickly answered.
The situation was urgent. Since the person was here, the woman didn't think much about it. She asked Yan Changtian and the other two children to hide in the large boxes that could breathe, and carried them by several old Cang's heads, preparing to leave the Li family's ghost house.
A crescent moon hides into the heavy clouds, and the mysterious night is mottled with wind.
Outside the house, the dark locust tree alley is silent and deep, like a giant beast treating people.
Yan Li and Zhu Weiming, who were disguised as juggling troupes, climbed out of the yard, stepped on the cold bluestone slabs, but they had already arrived at Huaishu Hutong.
Just as they were about to escape quickly under the cover of the night, at the end of the dark alley, the sound of the piano suddenly sounded, setting their steps in place.
The shadows in the darkness are confused, and the sound of the piano is scattered and fast, as if a silver bottle breaks out, gradually becoming a fierce and fierce momentum, revealing the generous and tragic sound of iron cavalry and swords and guns, making people excited.
Ambush on all sides!
For a moment, murderous intent was thriving through the night and the coldness rushed over!
The cold sweat slid quietly, and the young and strong in the team quickly turned around and pulled out the flower guns and flag guns inserted in the boxes, and they were in their hands, condensed into a defensive force to protect the box around them.
"A huge rock ran down the cliff and grew."
"Flying waves start from the strings."
The intense piano sound was slightly slower, and the two of them chanted loudly in the darkness.
Zhu Weiming, who was holding a flower gun in his right hand, was shocked and said tremblingly: "The fingers below the chords are dead, the second brother is the killer of Yishuilou."
His voice was very low, but after he finished speaking, someone responded at the end of the far alley: "The word "killer" is too famous. Although the new words "The Six Fingered Piano Demon" of Nie are just accustomed to us, strictly speaking, we are just street performers."
"Will anyone who can afford to play and sing the sound of the dead?" Zhu Weiming shouted angrily.
The wind is silence and the cold Yishui River is the famous killer in the Yishui Tower. The two evildoers died in the chords. A magic piano and a zither sound are terrifying. Yinyuan Fengju are all ranked at the top.
Although Yan Li and his team had more than a dozen people, each with martial arts, their faces changed drastically when facing these two killers. Because Brother Lu was not by his side, even if they rushed forward, they were probably not opponents.
What's more, they vaguely felt that in addition to pointing to the destruction chord, there was another murderous aura hidden in the hidden aura, not knowing where to hide, waiting for the moment when they would kill with one blow.
There is no way out, but there is a death in the back.
Yan Li made a quick decision, turned his head and shouted in a low voice: "Go!"
Zhu Weiming hesitated and said, "Second brother?"
"Let's go!" Yan Li pushed Zhu Weiming back behind the wall.
Seeing that the situation was at a critical moment, Zhu Weiming had no choice but to bite the steel teeth and leave. Lao Cang held the box, the green and strong man with his flower guns, jumped up together, and passed over the wall and entered an equally abandoned house next to him.
A moment later, only Yan Li stood in front of the ghost house with a sword.
Chapter completed!