A husband found in the village? I bought a regent for a penny!

Shi Tou covered his head with his hands and dodged, while replying to He Jinglan, "I was wrong, I shouldn't have said that to Sister Jinglan. You took me with you and ran away, you must be a good person!"

He Jinglan stopped for the moment, "Although you're foolish, you managed to come to your senses in time, so I'll let you off the hook."

Shi Tou breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I just don't understand why you deliberately made that bad guy turn around to look at Sister Xixi?"

"I didn't even see anything clearly before you dragged me away."

Stone frowned and thought for a while. Although he thought it was unlikely, he still dared to guess, "Could it be that Sister Xixi has a secret weapon that can defeat the bad guys?"

He Jinglan hesitated for a moment, then mumbled, "Mm."

Stone's eyes widened suddenly. He looked around excitedly and whispered, "There really is a secret weapon?!"

"What is it? What does it look like?"

"A hidden blade? A poisoned dart? Or perhaps a legendary musket capable of hitting a target from a hundred paces?!"

The little guy stared at He Jinglan expectantly and excitedly, his eyes shining with countless bright starlight.

He Jinglan felt like she was being blinded by the light, and looked away in disgust, saying, "Why are you getting so excited? Don't forget what situation we're in."

"How many more bad people like that are around? Will they come over? It's all still unknown."

"Instead of using a secret weapon, you should quietly conserve your energy. If anyone else comes later, I won't have time to deal with you. You'd better run quickly."

He Jinglan could neither abandon Gu Xixi nor want to implicate innocent people.

She had already decided that if she encountered other assassins, she would separate from Stone and run away.

She herself naturally turned back into the courtyard to look for Gu Xixi, while Shi Tou ran as far away as possible.

In any case, the only people the other side wants to arrest are He Jinglan and Gu Xixi.

Once the stone is gone, those people won't specifically chase after an unrelated child.

However, He Jinglan had just finished speaking.

Stone looked up, revealing a big smile. "Hehe, it's okay, I don't need to run!"

He Jinglan frowned in confusion, "Are you being silly again?"

Stone laughed confidently, "I'm not stupid. Doesn't Sister Xixi have a secret weapon? I trust Sister Xixi!"

He Jinglan couldn't help but sigh. Should she say that this child was clever or cunning?

She looked up at the sky above the courtyard wall, feeling uneasy. Why was there still no movement?

Seeing that He Jinglan wasn't watching him, Shi Tou crouched down and crept forward quietly along the wall.

However, after taking only two steps, He Jinglan reached out and grabbed him by the back of his neck.

He Jinglan didn't even look at it and said, "You're not allowed to go."

Stone turned around stiffly, then grinned to ease the awkwardness, "Hehe..."

"Then I won't go over there, I'll climb the wall and look from the top of the wall, that should be okay, right?"

“No,” He Jinglan said firmly, “You’re not allowed to peek before Xixi tells us to go home!”

Stone asked with a pained expression, "Why?"

He Jinglan didn't respond, pretending not to hear.

Because this question is too difficult to answer.

Is she going to say that the state of a person poisoned to death can be bizarre and horrifying, and since the body is left exposed in one's own yard, it is really not suitable for young children to watch!

What if Shi Tou gets scared and develops a psychological trauma towards Gu Xixi?

Or he could shout out what he saw, and who knows what bizarre rumors would spread throughout the village.

Fortunately, this time it didn't take long before I heard Gu Xixi say, "Jinglan, Shitou, come back!"

He Jinglan, who had been tense since meeting the assassin, could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

"Oh! Here we come!"

As soon as Shi Tou entered the courtyard, he ran and pounced on Gu Xixi.

"Sister Xixi, are you alright?"

Gu Xixi touched the stone's head. "It's nothing."

The man in black was lying in the courtyard.

He Jinglan noticed a patch of swept-over marks and freshly sprinkled topsoil nearby.

She gave Gu Xixi a meaningful look.

There must have been blood there just now.

Gu Xixi returned a smile that said, "Everything is under control."

Stone also turned his head to look at the man in black.

The man in black's death was not gruesome. Apart from his pale face and black lips, he looked peaceful, as if he were asleep.

But Stone was still young, and he was a little scared, so he didn't dare to look too much.

"Sister Xixi, he...he's fainted, or...or..."

"Dead...?"

Gu Xixi calmly replied, "Yes, she fainted."

He Jinglan looked up in shock.

How did she manage to stand in front of the corpse and say, without batting an eye, that the person was just unconscious?

Shi Tou relaxed and smiled, "So he didn't die, he was just unconscious."

He then warned, "We can't just leave him like that. What if he wakes up? We have to tie him up right away!"

"No rush," Gu Xixi said, patting the stone reassuringly.

“I gave him a sedative, and he won’t wake up until tomorrow.”

Stone, with his clever mind, immediately applied what he had learned to other situations. "Oh, I get it!"

"Sister Xixi's secret weapon is sleeping pills, isn't it!"

Gu Xixi smiled and nodded.

He Jinglan clapped her hands, "You guessed right, you're so smart!"

According to the laws of the Great Ye Dynasty, if someone forcibly enters another person's residence with malicious intent, especially if the intruder is armed with a knife, the homeowner may fight back and kill the intruder, then report the incident to the authorities. The homeowner will not be prosecuted for murder and will be innocent.

The killer's body has to be dealt with eventually.

So Gu Xixi found an excuse to send Shi Tou away, "Just now Xiao Hua was frightened and hid under my bed in a panic. Go to my room and keep it company."

Stone and Xiaohua have always had a good relationship, and as soon as he heard that Xiaohua was frightened, he went there immediately.

Gu Xixi and He Jinglan exchanged a silent glance, remaining vigilant.

Until a soft whistle came from outside the courtyard wall.

This is a special code used by the He family's shadow guards.

The two people in the courtyard both relaxed.

He Jinglan said angrily, "I want to ask them, where did they go when they were guarding this place?"

"Wait a minute," Gu Xixi called out to her, "Don't be too harsh on her, just find out the reason."

He Jinglan nodded, left with a sullen face, and returned shortly afterward with a cold laugh, her expression grim:

"Those people really went all out to capture us!"

"Do you know how many assassins have entered this small Flower Pond Ferry Village today?"

"More than forty!"

"Moreover, the distribution, the timing, and the location were all different, a brilliant feint attack!"

It turns out that He Jinglan and Shi Tou had gone home before noon.

Seeing that Gu Xixi was focused on her work, the two of them remained silent and planned to go out and pick some wild fruits so that Gu Xixi could make chilled fruit drinks.

When the He family's secret guards discovered the assassin's trail, they left Gu Xixi's courtyard and followed to protect He Jinglan.

This created a gap in the defenses around the courtyard, allowing the assassin in black to break in.

He Jinglan said, "As a result, everything was calm on my end, and the shadow guards also said they never saw the assassin again."

"This means they deliberately lured away my guards so they could capture you first."

Gu Xixi sighed, "As expected, Mu Nanzhao is even more hated than your brother He Jinghui."

“I’m afraid Master Liu’s side is even worse…” She frowned.