Raising Orphans, Not Assassins

Hearing the childish voice in front of them, the woodcutters present all laughed.

"Boy, how old are you this year?" asked the sharp-nosed woodcutter.

Sun Sheng raised his head and asked in confusion, "12 years old, what's wrong?"

The woodcutters laughed even louder.

Zhang Long had a smile on his face and joked, "Da Ming is only 10 years old this year."

Hearing this, Sun Sheng's face suddenly turned red.

Da Ming's height and physique far exceeded his peers, and he didn't look like he was 10 years old.

He was obviously older than Da Ming, but he regarded him as his elder brother...

Sun Sheng looked at Da Ming with a simple face, gritted his teeth and said, "I can't repay you for saving my life."

"You have to be loyal when you get out there!"

"Big brother!"

After saying that, Sun Sheng stood up and imitated the people in the Jianghu to clasp his fists and bow.

The woodcutters were completely amused by Sun Sheng.

"Kid, go back to where you came from."

"We are just a group of woodcutters, not Jianghu people."

"Yes, kid, go home, your parents must be waiting anxiously."

The woodcutters advised.

Sun Sheng's eyes turned red, and he said, "My parents are dead, and I am the only one at home now."

Hearing this, the woodcutters were silent.

It turned out to be an orphan.

Zhang Long touched his rough beard, pondered for a while, and suddenly his eyes lit up.

"Boy, if you really want to worship Da Ming as your big brother, I will teach you a trick."

Zhang Long turned around and pointed at the wood that Da Ming had chopped in the morning, and said, "Tie these branches with ropes."

"After you're done, I'll tell you about a good place."

…

"Tap tap..."

A carriage was driving on the official road.

"Girl, Lin'an County is ahead. There is a teahouse on the official road. Do you want to get out of the car for some tea?"

The driver said while driving.

In the carriage, Qin Yi opened her eyes and calmed the internal force circulating in her body.

She looked at Xiao Lian and asked, "Do you want to get off?"

The two left Yuhang County and hired a carriage. They have been traveling for a whole morning. It should be time for lunch.

Xiao Lian hummed and said, "I'm fine with anything."

She had a wooden lunch box at hand, and her lively eyes were staring out of the carriage.

Qin Yi was puzzled.

Her disciple seemed to be worried.

"After the matter of Fengyu Tower is clarified, you can go back." Qin Yi said calmly.

"Yeah." Xiao Lian had a faint smile on her pretty face, and there was a light in her eyes.

It seemed that she was looking forward to returning to Yuhang County.

"Stop at the teahouse in front." Qin Yi said to the driver.

Not long after, the carriage slowly stopped. Qin Yi and Xiao Lian got off the carriage and came to the teahouse on the official road.

At this time, the sun was shining, and there were no customers in the teahouse.

The tea master in the teahouse held a fan in his hand, and fanned from time to time to dispel the stuffiness in the air.

"Bring a pot of tea and some snacks." Qin Yi said lightly.

The tea master responded, put down the fan, and went into the back kitchen.

This place is close to Lin'an Prefecture. The roadside teahouses are slightly larger and will prepare some snacks for passers-by to fill their stomachs.

"Snacks don't fill your stomach. Isn't there a food box? Let me see what's in it?" A frivolous and lazy voice came from the side.

Xiao Lian felt her left hand lighten.

A man in a jute shirt and holding a blade of grass in his mouth appeared beside her.

He had a black-sheathed black knife on his waist and a wooden food box in his left hand.

The food box somehow got into his hands.

"Give it back to me." Xiao Lian's pretty face changed slightly, and a cold flash flashed in her eyes.

The man ignored Xiao Lian. He opened the food box on his own and saw what was inside. He exclaimed: "Wow! White flour dumplings! It's not even the Mid-Autumn Festival yet..."

Before the man finished speaking, he turned in the air and avoided several cold rays that attacked him.

Xiao Lian pursed her lips slightly, her eyes were cold, and she fired hidden weapons with both hands.

More than ten kinds of Tang Sect hidden weapons fell on the man like raindrops.

"Wow..."

A sound like waves came out.

Then, a few knife lights blocked the cold rays that came head-on like a barrier.

A large number of hidden weapons were scattered on the ground.

"Stop, stop, stop."

The man held the food box in his left hand and the black-handled long knife in his right hand. The grass leaf in his mouth fell to the ground at some point.

The blade of the long knife was as black as ink, and it looked deep and cold under the sunlight.

The man looked helpless and blocked the food box in front of him. If Xiao Lian continued to attack, the hidden weapon would hit the food box.

Seeing this, Xiao Lian's eyes were still cold, but the hand that fired the hidden weapon stopped.

Seeing Xiao Lian stop, the man breathed a sigh of relief, and looked at Xiao Lian with a hint of surprise.

"Qin Yi, is this the disciple you accepted?"

"This Tang Sect technique, if you hadn't told me, I would have thought it was some little genius from the Tang Sect."

Huang San sheathed the black knife again and handed the food box back to Xiao Lian with a helpless look. 

Xiao Lian pursed her lips slightly, took the food box back, and looked at Huang San with a vigilant look.

Huang San noticed her eyes and the corners of his mouth twitched twice.

He felt a little guilty, as if he was snatching a child's candied haws.

Qin Yi glanced at Huang San calmly, sat on the bench, and said in a calm tone: "What are you doing here?"

Huang San did not speak. He first looked around on the ground, then ran straight to the bushes, plucked a blade of grass and held it in his mouth, and then said: "Hey, look at what you said. We are now grasshoppers on the same rope."

Hearing this, Qin Yi's delicate eyebrows frowned slightly. "Did you kill him?"

Huang San shook his head: "No one gave me money, why should I kill him?"@@novelbin@@

Xiao Lian put the food box on the wooden table with a lunch box in her hand and glanced at Huang San.

Huang San changed the subject and smiled: "But I stole a token."

He took out a golden token from his arms, on which was engraved a pattern of wind and rain.

Qin Yi's eyes were more turbulent. "What do you want?"

Huang San smiled and put away the token: "It's a pleasure to talk to you."

"I want to go to see the owner of the building with you, no… To be precise, we are going to see the owner of the building together."

Qin Yi lowered his eyes, as if he heard something, and said in a flat voice: "You are different from me."

"What's the difference?"

A strong and sturdy voice came.

Xiao Lian subconsciously looked in the direction of the voice.

She saw a two-meter-tall and door-wide, strong man squeezed out of the back kitchen of the teahouse.

The strong man had a wolf head tattoo on his face and two purple gold hammers on his back. His expression was fierce enough to scare children to tears.

"Little girl, what's your name? You used the hidden weapon well just now, but the hits were too scattered. You have to aim at the acupuncture points..."

A hoarse voice came from behind Xiao Lian.

She turned around in a hurry and saw an old woman with a hunched body and gray hair behind her.

The old woman was holding a basket in her hand, and Xiao Lian vaguely heard a slight hissing sound in the basket.

The old woman appeared behind Xiao Lian at some point.

Hearing the hissing sound in the basket, Xiao Lian subconsciously took a few steps back.

"Why are you trying to scare the youngsters? Be careful, Qin Yiyi will chop your beloved ones in two."

A weak scholar in white clothes and holding a fan suddenly jumped down from the ceiling of the teahouse.

He smiled gently at Xiao Lian and said, "Miss, I am honored to meet you."