Yan Fei

Although he didn't quite know what he was going to do, Xu Zhiming did as he said.

Yan Zi took out a small cloth bag from his bosom, took out a note and a pen from inside, dipped some water and wrote a few lines on the note.After putting down his pen, Yan Zi whistled outside, and Xu Zhiming saw a swallow flying from the window and landed on his shoulder.

"...I've always wanted to ask, do you raise swallows?" Xu Zhiming asked, "I remember that swallows don't seem to be often used to send messages."

"My grandfather taught my father, and my father taught me." Yan Zi rolled up the note and stuffed it into the small cylinder on the swallow's leg, and said softly, "This swallow is not an ordinary swallow. It’s the Zuo brown swallow that my family has been raising. It looks similar to ordinary swallows, but it flies fast and can be tamed.”

Xu Zhiming responded, looking thoughtfully at the swallow that was parked on the table.

Yan Zi let the swallow out, and said, "Do you want to pet it?"

"Ok?"

Yan Zi called another swallow like a magic trick and handed it to Xu Zhiming.Xu Zhiming pursed his lips, looked at him hesitantly, and then glanced at Yanzi who was staring at him with Douzi's eyes.The little bird as fat as a ball squatted on Yan Zi's index finger, puffed out its chest and let out a resounding "chirp".

"It seems to like you quite a bit." Yan Zi's brows and eyes softened, and the corners of his mouth curled up, "Don't you want to pet it?"

Xu Zhiming seemed to have some concerns, frowned, stared at Yanzi for a while, and stretched out his hand towards it.Unexpectedly, this swallow was quite oblivious, happily jumped on his knuckles and flapped its wings.

"Ah, I really don't give you any face." Yan Zi flicked its little head, narrowed its eyes and smiled, "It likes you very much."

"……Um."

"I'm going to fetch water, I haven't washed it properly for a while." Yan Zi took off her blouse, and turned out the door without saying a word, "I'll leave it to you first!"

When he lifted the water up for the last time, the swallow had already nestled in the cloak around Xu Zhiming's neck. It was obviously a bird, but it rubbed against Xu Zhiming's neck like a puppy.

He turned to the bathtub behind the screen, and said, "You are very attractive to them. They never do this to outsiders. But also, you don't seem very polite to Ganu, are you very courteous to these small animals?"

"...The wolf of the Northern Territory has always been fierce, but when I met it, our situation was very dangerous, and it really didn't have the strength to fight me. In the end, we supported each other and survived. So it is more like me. bro."

"Hmm... that's it."

Yan Zi's clothes were hung on the screen, Xu Zhiming heard that he had already soaked in the water, his eyes shifted towards him intentionally or unintentionally.Among the clothes on the screen, there is a faint golden thing.

Xu Zhiming squinted his eyes, and quietly approached the screen.

It was a golden bird.

He was slightly taken aback, his expression changed, and he looked at the screen again, as if he was looking at Yan Zi through the screen: "Yan Zi, where are you... from?"

"...What do you ask this for?"

"..."

"I don't really want to mention it. Don't ask."

"……it is good."

Not long after, there was a rustling sound from behind the screen, and after a while, Yan Zi turned out in obscene clothes.While putting on the rest of his clothes, he said, "Thank you."

Xu Zhiming was still sitting where he was, slowly and lightly touching the little head of the swallow in the nest of his neck, and asked, "Huh? Thank you for what?"

"Didn't chase after me and ask questions."

"You don't want to say it, and I don't have any reason to force you, do I?"

"Is that so? In the past, there were always people who kept asking me about my affairs, as if the things on me were treasures worth more than a thousand gold."

He sat on the edge of the bed, and Xu Zhiming also walked over, took the swallow from its neck, placed it on the pillow, and said softly: "I know you are having a hard time, why did you come to expose your scar, right?" ?”

After finishing speaking, he raised his eyes slightly, and the soul-stirring crimson in his eyes just hit Yan Zi's eyes.It was at this moment that Xu Zhiming took a closer look at Yan Zi's eyes.It was golden, as if a thick layer of gold leaf had been sprinkled deep in his eyes. Although it was beautiful, Xu Zhiming felt confused for a while when he remembered that his golden color was called Ya Zi's harm.

The two stared at each other for a long time, Yan Zi slowly turned his head and nodded slightly: "Yes."

Xu Zhiming seemed to want to say something, but he heard the voice of the shopkeeper from downstairs, and after a while someone came upstairs, and finally the sound of the wooden door closing not far away.

"...it must be plum blossom."

"Should be." Yan Zi looked at the doorway and said, "The store's booklet not only has the name written down, but also indicates whether the guests have left. The column for dipping plums is still empty, but all those who went forward have already left. gone."

Yan Zi turned around, poked the swallow sleeping on the pillow awake, gestured to it, and the swallow flew out of the window.He said: "I asked that child to remind Lui. After all, if Lianmei still stops here, it is likely to be directed at Lui."

"Are you still sleeping tonight?"

"Can I sleep tonight?" Yan Zi asked back, "It's best to settle the matter of soaking plums tonight, otherwise Lui won't feel at ease when she travels."

"It's easy, I have a knife with me."

"Forget it, I'm worried about your eyes." As he said that, he closed the neckline that was a little loose, and adjusted his belt.

After Haishi, Yan Zi glanced at Xu Zhiming who was already blindfolded, and reached out to pinch the candle on the table.Three quarters later, the two people leaning against the end of the bed suddenly opened their eyes and stuck to the door.

"Someone has gone to the door of Miss Lui's room." Xu Zhiming whispered.

Yan Zi patted his arm as a sign of agreement.The candles had already been extinguished in the lobby, Yan Zi opened the door slightly, and saw a woman standing at the door of Lui next door, who had already half-opened the door and entered.

Yan Zi moved very carefully, who would have thought that the woman suddenly looked back at Yan Zi, and kicked the door directly.Seeing this, Yan Zi was startled, and hastily opened the door to go out.Xu Zhiming felt the wooden door he was sticking to move in, and shouted: "Swallow!"

Xu Zhiming followed, and when the two rushed into Lui's room, Jinmei's hair was disheveled, and she pinched Lui's neck forcefully, with a knife resting on Lui's neck.

"—Are you crazy, you!" Yan Zi said angrily.

Jinmei said: "If you dare to step over, I will kill her directly. I will kill her too."

"Why did you sacrifice your life for Yazi!"

"No reason—I hate Hex Ward."

Hearing her mention the word Bixiewu, both Xu Zhiming and Yan Zi were startled.

"Why did you find a girl's family for your grievances with Bixiewu!"

"Since you know that I am Yazi, you should also know what this girl is holding in her hand." Jinmei narrowed her eyes, "I let her play a trick and run away, but she bumped into the point of the knife by herself."

"That thing?" Yan Zi sneered, and took out a bamboo slip from his bosom, "Are you talking about that?"

Jinmei's eyes widened, she threw away Lui, and rushed forward to snatch the bamboo slip with her hands, as if the bamboo slip was her life.

Yan Zi pushed Xu Zhiming, sideways to avoid her blade.

"swallow!"

"Shut up!" Yan Zi raised his leg and kicked hard on Jinmei's wrist, only heard a crisp "click", and he broke Jinmei's wrist abruptly.

The knife fell to the ground, and Louy, who had just breathed out, hurriedly pressed her to the ground, and removed her arm.

Yan Zi stroked his hair, and said, "It's just a catalog of transactions. It seems that your leader is quite careful, and you can't let it out at all..."

"Let go of me! Let go!" Jinmei roared, "What do you know! You can't let those damned blackbirds interfere with the plan of the leader, can't you understand?!"

"Understand what?" Xu Zhiming asked.

"That evil spirit dock! How many people were killed?! They killed my father! They made me leave my hometown!"

"Judging from your accent, you are from the frontier of the Western Regions, right?" Xu Zhiming's tone was calm, unable to hear his thoughts.Then he turned to Yan Zi, and said with a smile, "Didn't the frontiers used to be gangsters? It was recorded that Bixiewu went to clean up most of them. There are still some, which should be under the command of your cobalt forest alliance, right?"

Yan Zi glanced at him and responded.

"Could it be that your father is a bandit?"

Jinmei was taken aback for a moment, gritted her teeth and remained silent.

"Even if," Yan Zi said, "even if they kill your father, even if your father is innocent, you should never have joined Yazi. Bixiewu killed someone, so is Yazi clean? Can you count how many people there are?" Did people die because of Yazi?"

Bain Mei was choked speechless by his words, unable to refute.Yan Zi wiped his face, turned around and pulled Xu Zhiming, and told Lu Yi: "Tie her up, and take her to deal with later."

Xu Zhiming could hear the exhaustion in his words, and just wanted to comfort him, but he heard Lui scream, and the plum blossom seemed to fall from the ground, and rushed over with a shout.

It wasn't until Yan Zi realized that Jinmei opened her mouth wide and rushed straight to his neck, almost unable to avoid it.

At this time, Xu Zhiming beside him pulled him back, pulled out his long knife that Yan Zi hadn't seen unsheathed several times, and stabbed it straight into Jinmei's abdomen.

Bain Mei raised her hand to pinch his neck, and vomited a mouthful of blood.But when Luy saw it, Xu Zhiming smiled, and then pushed Jinmei indifferently, pushing her out of his blade and falling to the ground.

"..." Yan Zi looked at Jinmei, speechless for a while.

Xu Zhiming turned around, shook off the blood on the knife, and said, "Look, I told you that I can help you. I will definitely do what I promised you."

Yan Zi's gaze straightened.It's been a long time since he saw warm blood, but right now it's on Xu Zhiming's face.

"So, don't leave me behind."