The copperhead is simple-minded, but it's not stupid. When he came here to investigate before, it was he and his second brother Silverhead who came.

The gate was locked, and they made the plan after asking the people around them. But now when he came, he found that the door had been closed from the inside!

"Three masters, this door is closed, do we really want to break in? But the second master said it, just let us keep it! I ......"

Listening with his ears pricked up, Brother Shi heard a conversation outside.

This seemed to be dissuaded, but before the words were finished, they were interrupted by a rough voice: "Guard? If you let that person named Shi Yuan run away, you will be responsible? If there is someone inside, it will be a big deal to kill them together......"

"There really are people in this courtyard!"

And after these two people said this, Brother Shi was even more certain. Whispered in his heart, and then retreated.

"Let's hide first, this is not an empty house, they want to break in, they will alarm this person's house, and we will find a way when the time comes."

As soon as he finished speaking to Liu Ruyan, there was another "bang" sound outside the door. Immediately after, Brother Shi saw a house in the distance lit up...... Seeing this, I didn't have time to think about it, so I pulled Liu Ruyan and hid behind the railing next to him.

The sound of the impact outside the door became more and more intense, as if it was about to be knocked down...... In the dark night, this voice can't help but make people feel a little panicked.

Liu Ruyan also unconsciously grabbed the corner of Shi Yuan's clothes, while Brother Shi tightly held the dagger in his hand...... Both were holding their breath.

"Who's making noise here?"

After a while, I saw a middle-aged man walking to the door with a lantern in his hand, and shouted to the door with a trembling voice.

But the people outside the door continued to bang the door as if they didn't hear it.

"Who the hell are you? I actually broke into a private house in the middle of the night! ”

This time, although the middle-aged man's voice was still a little trembling, it was a little louder......

And the sound of the impact outside the door also stopped suddenly. The middle-aged man was a little panicked, first swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and then continued: "Who are you?" If I don't speak, I'll be shouting! ”

This sentence is naturally a threat. Although the whole courtyard is quite large, he is now living alone......

The middle-aged man's surname is Chen, and he is from Suzhou. It is a paper and ink business, because it has been running between Jinling and Suzhou all the year round, so this bought this house in Jinling, just like the Lin family's house in Yangzhou.

Earlier, he would often come to Jinling, and even raised a concubine in this house. But since the disaster broke out at the beginning of this year, refugees are rampant, business has become more and more difficult, and there are more and more roadblocks and robberies, so he has not come to Jinling again.

It's also that he is old and wants to live in peace, so he just asks the Jin family to send the goods to Suzhou......

Yes, he had been in contact with the Kim family before.

I haven't been here for a long time, and there is no one in the house this time and again. The original concubine also ran away with someone, and those family members also left...... It's just this one empty house left.

Although he also asked his friend to take care of the house, his friend had never been here. As a result, the people around me also thought that this was an empty house......

He originally wanted to wait for the disaster to pass and the situation to stabilize, but coincidentally, things went unexpected......

The Lin family, who is in the pen and ink business like the Jin family, has a new kind of paper, which is of good quality, and the price is only half of the original!

The so-called man dies for money, birds die for food, and even more so for businessmen!

When he heard the news, he couldn't sit still. I wrote several letters to my friends in Jinling, inquired about this matter, and then came to Jinling City alone and mixed in the caravan.

But who would have thought that he had worked hard, he had just come to Jinling with the caravan today, and he was just about to sleep peacefully, when this kind of thing happened.

I think he didn't encounter any danger all the way, but he went to Jinling and had a change......

Although he didn't know who the people outside were, he still heard it, and the people outside the door were afraid that they weren't good!

wanted to intimidate the other party, but after he finished speaking, there was still no movement outside the door, and he couldn't help frowning...... Could it be that someone is playing drunk?

Not only him, but Brother Shi, who was hiding in the shadows, was also full of doubts at this time. Anyway, it's a little too quiet outside the door, and it's scary to be quiet!

was thinking about it in his heart, but he noticed that Liu Ruyan pulled down his shirt and turned to look, but saw that she was looking at herself nervously. So, he reached out and pressed the back of the other person's hand, signaling him not to be nervous.

The middle-aged man surnamed Chen shouted several times in a row, but still no one responded, which made it clear that someone was playing drunk outside the door.

"What a bad luck!" He muttered to himself with some dissatisfaction, and then turned away again......

Originally, he wanted to open the door to check it out, but this time when he came to Jinling, in order to hide people's eyes, he didn't bring anyone with him for the rest of his expenses.

Now it was too dark, and he was already timid, but he didn't have the courage, so he turned back into the room......

"Let's go!"

Brother Shi, who was hiding in the dark, saw that the man had returned to the house and turned off the lights, so he pulled Liu Ruyan and walked out.

I don't know what's going on outside the door, but there's a group of people in the backyard! If you let them come, you won't have a chance to leave!

"I'm afraid it's their ambush, or ...... Shall we wait? ”

Seeing that Brother Shi walked to the door in three steps and two steps, he was about to open the door, but Liu Ruyan stretched out his hand to stop him, and said a little nervously.

"Don't be afraid! Using this method to ambush is too ostentatious! Something must have happened! ”

Brother Shi didn't think too much about it, and after taking Liu Ruyan's hand away, he put down the door bolt and opened the door......

It is absolutely impossible to say that Brother Shi is not nervous at all, but the disappearance of the voice outside is indeed too bizarre, and he can't think about anything else......

With a "squeak", the door was opened. Sure enough, there was no one outside the door at this time...... No! To be exact, there should not be a single living person!

There were six or seven people in total, because the night was too dark, and the shock in his heart, Brother Shi was not in the mood to check, but he saw that they were all lying on the ground at this time.

And the reason why these people are certain to be dead is because his feet happen to be stepping on a puddle of blood......

(End of chapter)