Each shop is composed of a small wooden frame, which is only half a person's height. On it are placed the things that the touts want to sell. Rouge, gouache, play, food, everything.

What is worth mentioning is the lantern riddle competition, where various lanterns are placed and there are lantern riddles underneath the lanterns.

Ye Xiaoxu wanted to go out to celebrate the festival, but General Ye remembered the past and feared that his daughter would be injured, so he called five or six sword-wielding followers who were highly skilled in martial arts and followed Ye Xiaoxu closely.

The market was crowded, and the entourage was squeezed out of the way. Suddenly three or four burly men emerged from the crowd, covered her mouth, and took her out of the crowd. The entourage reacted and chased after her.

Ye Xiaoxu cried out that she had no way out. She was held by the thieves and came to a deserted bamboo forest. The thieves put her down. Under her feet, large tracts of bamboo leaves spread. The surrounding bamboos were twisted and clustered, and they were like ghosts with their teeth and claws.

When the wind blows, it sways and trembles, as if it will move around, making people look indescribably weird and eerie.

The thieves are pressing forward step by step.

Ye Xiaoxu pretended to be calm, clenched his hands into fists, placed them by his side, and said, "Do you know who I am?"

"Oh, you're quite calm. Then tell me, who is it?" Those burly men were built with huge backs and beards, and they also had swords on their waists, which made people look timid.

"I am the daughter of General Ye Yuan Ye. You'd better not act recklessly!" Ye Xiaoxu emboldened himself. As the daughter of a general, the other party would not dare to act rashly.

"The general's daughter looks like she can get a lot of money!" the thief chuckled.

Seeing that they were only seeking money, Ye Xiaoxu calmed down and said instead: "If you let me go back, I will definitely reward you with a lot of money. My entourage is coming soon, and you can't take advantage of it! Why don't you let me go back and pay my dues?"

I can get some silver."

"Do you think we are stupid? Let you go back? Let you go back, don't talk about money, we don't even have our lives!" As soon as he finished speaking, several followers rushed over.

Seeing the entourage arriving, Ye Xiaoxu felt a little relieved. When the thieves saw the entourage arriving, they did not panic, as if they were waiting for them on purpose.

The two sides started to fight, and the situation was terrible. As soon as they met, the thief and his entourage started fighting instantly. The weapons clashed with each other, making endless noises. Swords and swords were going back and forth, and there were many figures.

The leader of the thief kept exerting his strength with his arms, cold light flashed in bursts, and the sword whizzed past, and drops of warm blood were sprinkled in the bamboo forest. He also kept knocking down the bamboo branches behind him, hindering the followers from approaching them. Suddenly, the thief's body appeared.

A strong gust of wind blew in front of him, and he saw bamboo leaves flying in succession, each one heading towards the thief's heart veins and major acupoints all over his body, each one deadly and full force.

The thief jumped forward. He was in mid-air and had already pulled out a bamboo stick at his side. He saw the light yellow bamboo stick hitting the follower head-on. The follower was not in a hurry and stepped back steadily.

He tapped his toes gently on the bamboo, wrapped his ankles around the bamboo pole, and with a strong movement of his hands, he shot out the two knives at the same time and flew towards the thief.

The thief did not panic. He moved the bamboo stick in his hand back and forth, bypassing the two sharp blades with great precision. His figure also quickly rotated to avoid the fierce attack of the blades.

The bamboo stick in the thief's hand seems to be the same length and weight as ordinary bamboo, but in fact it is extremely tough and different from ordinary green bamboo. Moreover, the thief's body skills are exquisite and fast, and he can judge the direction of the follower's blade in a short time.

Direction and strength, accurately bypassing the rapid attack of the follower.

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, it is really not easy to deal with the offensive with such calm thinking.

Suddenly, the thief's attack slowed down, and the followers slowly moved forward. Just as he was about to stab one of them, a burst of white powder rose up in front of his eyes, and the followers suddenly fell down!

Ye Xiaoxu was a little flustered. In this wilderness, the sky and the earth were not responding. Ye Xiaoxu ran away.

When the thief saw Ye Xiaoxu trying to escape, he chased her and immediately grabbed her. With a strong force on her neck, Ye Xiaoxu fell down.

At this time, General Ye felt anxious when he saw that Ye Xiaoxu had not returned all night and his entourage was missing. He sent people to search everywhere, but there was no news.

Ye Xiaoxu was kidnapped when he was young, which made General Ye feel very distressed. He had always sent people to follow him, but who would have thought that something like this would happen again.

General Ye was heartbroken.

When Ye Xiaoxu woke up, he found that he was thrown into a corner. He looked around and saw that this house was... very dilapidated! The low courtyard wall was damaged in many places, and a wooden door was crooked and could never be closed.

strict.

There were a lot of junk piled up in the yard. The house only had two rooms, the east and the west. Apart from a few shabby pieces of furniture, there were only four gray walls left in the outer room.

Ye Xiaoxu got up and walked to the inner room. As soon as he entered the inner room, Ye Xiaoxu smelled a strong smell of medicine. This smell must have lasted for many years, as if it had penetrated into the surrounding walls, and the whole room was like a

Like a medicine box.

The furniture in this room is better than that in the outer room. Although the furniture is not made of good wood, it is at least a complete set of furniture for the bedroom. There is a bed against the north wall, and a person is lying quietly on the bed, naked.

Upper body.

Ye Xiaoxu was a little scared and called softly: "Are you okay?"

"Hey -" Ye Xiaoxu shouted again.

The person on the bed didn't respond. Ye Xiaoxu came closer to take a look, sniffed and screamed, "Ah -".

The person is dead!

Hearing the cry, several people rushed in from outside the house. These people were Ye Xiaoxu's followers. They were knocked out by drugs and found themselves in the house when they woke up.

A follower who had experience in examining dead bodies moved forward to inspect.

The bed was simply made, the folded quilt was placed in the corner of the bed, and the sheets were stretched as flat as possible. However, the slightly unnatural posture of the deceased showed that he had struggled slightly before his death.

Based on the position and angle of the deceased's hands, the attendant should have been able to determine that the deceased had tried hard to scratch his face or throat at the most important moment of his life. Combined with the fact that the deceased's legs were slightly kicking, he could have concluded that the deceased was suffocated.

And struggling.

It can be said that suffocation is inevitable in all deaths. No matter whether the deceased was strangled, drowned, beaten to death or died of illness, he died after losing his breath. The extent of the struggle of the deceased was not

Big, the entourage judged that it was mainly because he was too weak and had no strength to do strenuous movements. He had been sick all year round and had even been bedridden in the past two years. This can completely drain a person's body, even if he is originally very strong.

Looking at the deceased's ginger complexion, thin cheeks, and skinny body, the attendant could not tell whether he was strong when he was young, but he could conclude that he had been quite weak in the past ten years.

The attendant was thinking while examining the corpse. The main thing to do now is to determine whether the deceased was killed.

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As long as it can be determined that the deceased was not murdered, it does not matter whether he died of illness, a fall, or choking on water.

There were no bruises on the deceased's face, upper body, arms, hands, feet, etc. His face was peaceful, his limbs were not missing, there was no smell of blood in the room, and there were no blood stains on the bed, bedding, or the walls not far away.

After confirming the above situation, the attendant began to press the deceased's torso and limbs with both hands to see if there were any traces of fractures. In fact, the attendants did not need to check so carefully. The deceased was very thin, and the real skin and bones, arms, and ribs were very clear. If there were any fractures,

You can tell by looking at it.

There was nothing abnormal about the body of the deceased, and the attendant judged that he died early in the morning based on the temperature of the body and the hardness of the joints.

"What's wrong? Is there anything wrong?" One of the attendants saw him standing beside the bed with his hands on his hips after completing the examination, looking at the deceased with a slight frown, thinking that he had discovered something. Unexpectedly, he shook slightly.

He shook his head and said, "I didn't find anything wrong, but it just doesn't feel right."

While she was talking, Ye Xiaoxu felt something crawling across her feet. When she lowered her head, she saw that it was a larger rat and screamed. The attendants around her were startled by Ye Xiaoxu's cry.

Asked: "Miss, what's the matter?"

"Rat! There is a rat!"

The mouse crawled over again, and Ye Xiaoxu was startled. Even though she usually behaved well, she couldn't care less at this time.

"Get it away quickly." It's normal for a girl's family to be afraid of mice, not to mention that the attendants have the responsibility to protect the young lady. However, one of the attendants beside him still felt helpless because he was being pestered by her and could not move a step. This way of pestering people

It was so unique that it almost made him into braids.

"Hurry up, get it away!" In this life, what she is most afraid of is mice. They are furry and make a "squeaking" sound. Every time she hears it, she is scared to death. She doesn't know.

Why did this group of thieves care about her? She was tied up in this place, and something so terrifying appeared. She was so scared that her legs became stiff.

The attendant took out the soft sword from his waist, stabbed the mouse to death in two or two strokes, and said: "Miss, the mouse is dead." Ye Xiaoxu then let go of the attendant. He raised his eyes and looked at the bloody mouse beside him.

Xu's face instantly turned pale, and she began to tremble with fear. In her mind, scenes reappeared, and she kept shrinking back in fear.

Ye Xiaoxu hugged herself tightly, shaking constantly, and she shed tears in fear. Her childhood was an indelible memory of hers. In the eyes of everyone, she was a high-ranking young lady, and there was no chance of being bullied, but no one knew that she

Her mortal enemy, her fear is actually a little mouse that has no power to restrain a chicken.

The attendants saw her tear-stained and bloodless face.

"Rat, there are so many rats, dad, mom, come and save me." Her tears were like a kite with a broken string, uncontrollable.

"Miss, I will throw the mouse out right now!" the attendant said, and then kicked the annoying mouse away. But this did not calm Ye Xiaoxu. She kept shaking and covering her head in fear. At this moment

She is just like a doll, she will break into pieces if touched lightly.

The followers looked at her and couldn't help but worry: they had been ordered to protect the young lady, but they allowed her to be kidnapped by thieves, and they had neglected their duty. Now, the young lady seemed not right, and if there was any evil, he must die to apologize.
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