A piece of Japanese incense

Yuzhu finally led Aban and Tingzhu into the house. Yuzhu looked around vigilantly, then bolted the door and carefully checked the doors and windows.

"What's wrong?" Zhi Yihe asked worriedly.

Ting Zhu trotted over to her, hugged her arm, and whispered, "Ah He, this place... isn't right."

They came closer and formed a circle, and Yuzhu gestured anxiously.

Yu Tuan interrupted him anxiously and asked anxiously, "Hey, what happened?"

Ah Ban whispered, "When I was going upstairs, several men were staring at me. One man even walked right in the middle of the stairs and nearly bumped into me."

Yu Zhu waved his arms and said exaggeratedly: "If the girl hadn't told me to keep a low profile, I would have found someone to beat him up!"

"Bah! Despicable thing! How dare you mess with me! I'll kill every one of them!" Yu Tuan said indignantly.

"Don't worry! It's okay. You are in the small room next door. Tuhua and Acheng are also there. Our people are downstairs. They will rush up as soon as there is any movement. I don't think they dare to give it a try!" Zhi Yihe touched Tingzhu's head soothingly.

Zhi Yihe and Ting Zhu deftly spread out the bedding and took out the soft pillow and quilt from the box. Yu Tuan skillfully brushed away the remaining ashes and reburied the red-hot silver frost charcoal.

As the night deepened, the post station seemed to sink into stagnant water and became eerily quiet.

Yu Tuan had fallen into a deep sleep on the bed due to fatigue from the long journey during the day, while Ting Zhu and Zhi Yihe tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep.

"It's your first time sleeping on the floor, you can't fall asleep, right?" Zhi Yihe asked.

Ting Zhu shook his head and replied, "No, I was just thinking about how my brother and I will live in the future. If we encounter the same thing as today again, how will we deal with it?"

"Haven't I given you plenty of self-defense? Go out and strike bravely! Defeat the bad guys!"

Ting Zhu burst out laughing. "You're still blaming me! How's your archery going? I see you have a jade bracelet on your hand. Could this be what you meant by 'poor students have more stationery'?"

Just as Zhi Yihe said "go", he heard a deliberately soft and slightly flattering female voice outside the door: "Sir, I've come to deliver quilts. I heard from my shopkeeper that the young lady needed them, so I found a few more and sent them to the young lady. I must not let the distinguished guest in the upper room catch a cold~"

Zhi Yihe and Ting Zhu exchanged a few glances, got dressed, and opened the door a little, intending to thank them and then take the quilt.

"Miss! Here is a pot of ginger tea. It's cold, so I specially added some hot soup for you to ward off the cold and warm your body." The woman smiled and tried to walk past Acheng to enter the door, but Acheng held her hand firmly behind the door.

Aban from next door frowned, moved silently to the door, listened carefully for a moment, and slowly opened the door a crack.

"Thank you." Yutuan, who had woken up at some point, suddenly rushed to Zhiyihe and took the quilt in her hands first.

The woman was caught off guard. Just as the edge of the teapot was about to cross the threshold—

"call out!"

A subtle, almost inaudible sound of piercing the air shot out from the shadow of the woman's armpit like a venomous snake! A flash of cold light, so fast that it could not even blink, went straight to Yu Tuan's throat!

"Be careful!" Zhi Yihe was horrified.

After all, Ah Cheng was a martial artist. At the critical moment, he pushed Yu Tuan hard. The cold star brushed past the side of Yu Tuan's neck and with a "snap" sound, it was deeply nailed into the wooden beam behind him. It turned out to be a three-inch long black iron caltrop. The tiny barb at the tail flashed a faint blue light under the oil lamp!

"Go!" The flattering smile on the woman's face instantly twisted into a ferocious one, and she slammed the heavy teapot in her hand into Yu Tuan's face! The scalding hot water splashed everywhere!

Yutuan screamed, but the woman did not retreat but advanced. The dagger was like a poisonous snake coming out of a hole. While opening the teapot, it stabbed at Zhiyi's lower abdomen in a flash!

Before Acheng could rescue him, two ghostly black shadows pounced towards him silently!

The sword suddenly rises!

The assassin's movements were ruthless and swift, without any tricks, each one going straight for the vital points. The two of them quickly entangled Ah Cheng, and the woman's dagger went straight towards Zhi Yihe!

"Girl!" Yutuan screamed, and rushed to Zhiyihe regardless of everything, opening his arms to protect her.

"Someone come! Scribble! Scribble!" Zhi Yihe shouted while dodging, picking up items around him and throwing them at the woman.

Seeing that no one had come for a long time, Zhi Yihe became anxious and ran to the table to get the hairpin she had given to Tingzhu, but she saw Yutuan staggering after her, covering her ribs with one hand, with blood oozing from between her fingers.

"Yutuan!" She hugged her, and the woman pulled out a dagger and was about to stab again, but Zhi Yihe blocked it with his arm. The woman then turned around and turned all her attention to Zhi Yihe again, with the dagger pointing directly at her neck.

Yutuan used all his strength to grab the woman's wrist. Zhiyihe endured the great pain in his arm and looked at the hairpin on the table, but found that the hairpin was gone.

With a scalp-numbing, sticky and dull sound, the slender body of the golden hairpin pierced the woman's left eye!

"Uhhh-!!!"

The woman instinctively let go of the dagger, covered her left eye with both hands, and struggled with a shrill and twisted scream. The golden hairpin was still deeply nailed in her eye socket.

Ting Zhu succeeded in her attack, but the huge impact and fear made her collapse to the ground, trembling.

Yutuan rolled and crawled towards the woman's dagger, and Yuzhu rushed in in time to catch the shaky Yutuan.

Without hesitation, Ah Ban picked up the dagger and stabbed it hard at the back of the woman's neck. Liquid spurted out, splashing all over Ah Ban's cheeks and front...

The woman's screams stopped abruptly, and her hands dropped, revealing the golden hairpin deeply embedded in her eye sockets and half of her face covered in blood and flesh.

"Ah——!" Tingzhu let out a heart-wrenching scream.

Ah Ban, still holding the dagger in his hand, ran to Ting Zhu and hugged her tightly: "Little sister! It's my brother! It's my brother!"

When Tingzhu saw the dagger, he vomited violently, as if he wanted to vomit out all the fear and panic in his heart.