Chapter 17 Suspicion

The first ray of sunlight from the rising sun sprinkled on the body through the shade of the trees, bringing out a little spot of light. Landing on Xi Remnant's face, the boy shook his head slightly, turned his face to the side and wanted to continue sleeping, but felt that something was pricking him.

When he opened his eyes, he saw a huge tiger head lying beside him, and the tiger's whiskers pierced his face like steel needles.

A smile appeared on Xi Canhen's face, and he stretched out his hand involuntarily, and touched Xiaohu's forehead.

Maybe because she didn't like someone treating it like this, Bao'er turned over. The direction it turned over was towards Xi Remnant Hen, and this time it completely pressed Xi Remnant Hen under its body.

Xi Remnant, who was weighed down by hundreds of catties, rolled his eyes wildly: "Bao'er...Bao'er...you crushed me to death!"

The shout made Xiaohu wake up a little bit, it woke up dimly, saw Xi Remnant under him, so he tilted his head, as if wondering how he got under his stomach.

Xi Remnant has begun to vent more air and less air to take in.

He waved his hand and patted the little tiger feebly.

Xiaohu finally found out that something was wrong with Xi Remnant, so he slowly got up, shook his body and went to the other side to continue sleeping, as if he was not cold about Xi Remnant's powerlessness.

Xi Canhen held his chest and sat up, pointing at Xiaohu: "You... hello... the Shimen faction's assassins haven't killed me yet, you who protect me will kill me first."

Xiaohu glanced at him lazily, then tilted his head and continued to doze off.

Xi Remnant Hen had no choice but to mutter, "You're ruthless."

After waking up anyway, Xi Canhen simply stood up, took out the long sword that he carried with him, and danced in the forest like this.

The sword technique Tang Jie passed on to him automatically reflected in his mind, and Xi Remnant brandished it according to his memory.

After all, he is the one who opened the Jade Gate. Even if the spiritual space has not been opened, there is still spiritual energy circulating in his body. At this moment, he is dancing vigorously, and it has a bit of sword energy.

Even if he is not an official cultivator, he at least has the air of a martial arts master.

After a sword skill dance, Xi Canhen retracted his single sword, and said to Xiaohu: "Bao'er, what do you think?"

The little tiger yawned lazily, and slapped the tiger's claws on a tree, and a piece of bark was already taken off. The bark roared and flew towards Xi Canhen, who blocked it with his sword.

He has practiced the twelve vertical sword moves for three days, and he is basically familiar with the way of the sword. At this moment, he naturally uses the vertical sword pose to split the bark. It was as if it was on the iron block, but it knocked Xi Canhen's sword away, hitting Xi Canhen's body, and a strong force sent him flying.

Fortunately, this power was used very cleverly, and it flew out with Xi Remnant Hen, not hurting him, only making him fall somersaults.

Xi Remnant sat up on his buttocks, and said in surprise: "It's amazing, is this the fairy method?"

Xiaohu looked at him contemptuously.

Xi Remnant has already rushed over, grabbed Xiaohu and said: "Can you teach me?"

"Hmm..." Xiaohu's neck hair stood on end suddenly by the boy's attentive appearance, and he took a few steps back for the first time.

Do people worship tigers as teachers? Do you want to show some face?

The little tiger turned his head, and he didn't want to look at him at all. No matter what Ren Xi Remnant asked him to do, he just ignored him.

"Okay, if you don't teach, don't teach." Seeing its indifference to him, Xi Canhen retreated helplessly.

As he was retreating, Xiao Hu suddenly turned his head to look at him, and the tiger's eyes suddenly shone.

Seeing it like this, Xi Remnant was stunned for a moment, and then a chill rose in his heart, knowing it was not good, he rushed forward without turning his head.

At the same time, not far behind Xi Remnant, a black shadow suddenly appeared, rushed towards Xi Remnant at high speed, and slashed a sharp sword light at Xi Remnant.

Although Xi Remnant's reaction was quick, he was just an ordinary person after all. The sword that came from behind had the brilliance of spiritual energy unique to a cultivator, and he chased after him.

"Roar!" Xiaohu roared violently.

The tiger king's roar moved all directions, and the sword light in the air froze slightly, as if time stopped at this moment.

Xi Remnant turned over and rushed out, rolled on the spot, the sword light brushed past his back and hit the opposite tree.

The sneak attacker missed with one blow, and with a muffled grunt, the sword light swept across, stabbing Xi's scar again.

However, the initial attack was ineffective, and the sneak attacker had actually missed the best opportunity. At the same time that Xi Remnant dodged the sword, the little tiger had rushed forward, with its claws raised forward, colliding with the attacking long sword. Together.

Under the impact of force, the attacker groaned and fell back.

While being knocked back by the little tiger's claw, the sneak attacker also uttered an unbelievable cry: "A top-rank demon tiger? How is this possible?"

Only then could it be seen that the attacker was a strong man.

His name is Hong Antao, a disciple of the third generation of Shimen Sect, Linghu period. He was a hunter before joining the Shimen Sect, and he was good at tracking, so he was sent to hunt down Xi Canhen. He thought that assassinating an ordinary boy was just a trivial matter, but he didn't expect that there was a top-grade demon tiger beside him, Hong Antao was immediately terrified.

With his strength, let alone an elite top-rank demon tiger like Bao'er, he might not be a match for ordinary mid-rank monsters.

Seeing the monster tiger appear at this moment, Hong Antao yelled and turned his head and ran away, Xiaohu couldn't allow him to run away so easily, he roared and chased him out. Its wings spread out, the wind and clouds were thundering, and its speed was many times faster than Hong Antao. It only sprinted and came behind Hong Antao, and the tiger claws were about to be photographed.

If this shot is real, even if Hong Antao dies, it will be of no avail.

However, at that moment, Hong Antao suddenly yelled, turned around and shot out a blue wind blade.

Xiaohu only glanced at it contemptuously, and was about to ignore it, but found that the blow was not aimed at himself, but at Xi Remnant behind it.

It was also taken aback by this shock, and regardless of Hong Antao's life or death, it hurriedly turned around and spit out a flash of lightning. It was the lightning blade of Gale Wind, and hit the wind blade first.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Hong Antao has escaped Xiaohu's attack.

Xiaohu was furious, he chased after him and was about to make up for it, but Hong Antao followed suit, turned around and hit Xi Remnant again, forcing Xiaohu to return to help again.

It is extremely rare for Xiaohu to have two hits without success.

But this is the limit of what Hong Antao can do.

His biggest problem is that Xi Remnant is not in his hands. While the two hits are useless, Xi Remnant has been given enough time. The kid rolled and hid behind a big tree. Opportunity for Hong Antao to attack.

Without the shield of Xi Remnant, Hong Antao's life came to an end almost immediately.

The roaring Huying came riding the wind, approaching in the blink of an eye.

The giant tiger claws raised up, and slapped Hong Antao on the face, smashing the Orion's face into pieces with just one blow.

Only then did Xiaohu fall back to the ground, and growled angrily at Hong Antao.

Although it successfully killed the assassin, its mood was not at all happy.

It's just a Linghu step, and it's unbearable for him to fail several times.

Looking back at Xi Remnant, the boy's head was protruding from behind.

Xiaohu suddenly felt that this boy's strength was really too weak, so weak that as long as he existed, he would hold him back.

Well, maybe it's time to teach him something.

Xiaohu proudly realized.

At least let this kid have at least the power to protect himself when the next wave of attacks comes.

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Shimen Peak.

Liang Xingbang and Shi Jingzhai walked back and forth anxiously in the room, and they didn't go up to meet Yu Wanniang when she came in and asked, "How is it?"

Yu Wanniang shook her head pale.

The hearts of the two sank at the same time, Shi Jingzhai said anxiously: "What do you mean by shaking your head? Are you talking?"

Yu Wanniang replied: "Lu Dong didn't come back, he and his subordinates disappeared suddenly."

"Disappeared?" The two were stunned: "What about the townspeople?"

Yu Wanniang replied: "Nothing happened in the town. When the sun rises, everything goes on as usual, only Lu Dong and the others are missing."

Hearing this, the two gasped.

When things got to this point, Shi Jingzhai and Liang Xingbang realized that something was wrong no matter what.

If someone just got a piece of crystallized clamworm by accident, then the collective disappearance of Lu Dong and others should not happen anyway, which means that it is definitely not a coincidence, but someone is deliberately promoting it.

Then the nature of the matter is quite different. Thinking of this, the three of them felt uneasy at the same time.

Who is secretly against them?

Spreading news, creating rumors, and even secretly killing people from the Shimen faction?

After thinking for a while, Shi Jingzhai said: "I think Tang Jie is very suspicious about this matter. After all, all this happened after Tang Jie came, and his task was to explore the mine. Could it be that he discovered it in the mine? What?"

Yu Wanniang asked: "If that's the case, why didn't he ask anything that night? Besides, if he discovered something, why didn't he just tell the Moon Sect, but did this?"

Shi Jingzhai couldn't answer this question, so he said angrily, "How do I know? From my point of view, I'll know after the first trial."

Liang Xingbang snorted coldly: "Whether this matter is related to Tang Jie is still unknown, but I know that if we catch Tang Jie, within three days, real people from the Xiyue Sect will be killed, and the Shimen Sect will be killed. Keep."

"I'm afraid that if I don't catch him, it will end like this!" Shi Jingzhai roared: "I couldn't find this person yesterday, and this kind of thing happened that night. If it has nothing to do with him, I absolutely don't believe it."

Unexpectedly, Yu Wanniang's expression suddenly turned bright: "I'm afraid this matter has nothing to do with Tang Jie."

"En?" The two looked at Yu Wanniang together.

Yu Wanniang replied: "The two maidservants I arranged to be next to Tang Jie told me that Tang Jie came back last night, and he has been practicing since he came back, and has never gone out again."

"Why didn't you say it earlier?" Shi Jingzhai asked anxiously.

Yu Wanniang answered angrily: "I only found out this morning. That kid travels around the mountains and rivers during the day and practices qigong at night. I have nothing to do to keep an eye on him every day?"

"Are you sure it's Tang Jie himself?" Shi Jingzhai always felt a little uneasy.

Yu Wanniang replied: "There is no doubt. Those two girls were specially arranged by me for Tang Jie. Someday I will try my best to seduce them, but that kid is so devoted to Taoism that he doesn't care about it. Even so It’s also a daily contact, and idlers can’t be fooled.”

"I'm afraid that kid isn't waiting for nothing." Liang Xingbang speculated.

"Brother, does this mean that Tang Jie is recognized?"

Liang Xingbang hesitated for a moment, but finally shook his head: "That's not true, actually..."

In fact, he didn't say anything, but at that moment, a thought arose in the three of them at the same time:

If the matter had nothing to do with Tang Jie, who else would it have to do with it?

The three of them looked at each other, suddenly their hearts shivered at the same time, but they stopped talking.

The atmosphere suddenly became awkwardly silent. After a while, Shi Jingzhai laughed and said, "Senior brother Liang, I remember that you kept the crystalized clamworm all along, right?"

Liang Xingbang's face darkened: "Third Junior Brother, what do you mean by that?"

"Ask casually, second senior brother, don't be overwhelmed." Shi Jingzhai said with a smile.

Liang Xingbang snorted: "I'm afraid it's not me who is careless, but someone who is careless, right? I keep the crystalized clam worms well, but how much is there in my stock? If you don't believe me, you can check it out and see if you can find it." There is one piece missing. On the contrary, the person in charge of the excavation is you, Junior Brother Shi, and you have the final say on how much you dig out. It is not impossible for one or two pieces to be dug up but not recorded in the account."

Shi Jingzhai said angrily: "You fart, whenever I go in and out, I have to take off my naked body first. No matter how many things I take out, they fall into your eyes. Where else can I hide? In my asshole? I risked my life to protect everyone. It is really unreasonable to get these benefits, but in exchange for such slander!"

Liang Xingbang also said angrily: "Didn't you blame me first?"

Yu Wanniang was busy smoothing things over: "Okay, okay, we're all our own people, why are we arguing?"

Shi Jingzhai said unhappily: "Yu Wanniang, don't just pretend to be okay, if you can't get away with this matter, you have a share. You made the connection with that side, and you took the sample stone. I gave you five yuan at the beginning. You didn't get a piece back, who knows if this is one of them?"

Yu Wanniang was annoyed when she heard this: "Hey, why are you still relying on me? Aren't those pieces of crystallized clamworms used to win trust over there and open joints? Isn't it easy for you to do these things as an old lady? Dealing with those guys who eat people and don't spit out their bones, it's easy not to let them grab the handle. You eat it. It took a lot of effort to get things done, but in the end, how can I be charged again? This is really thankless. "

The three looked at each other, sat down angrily together, and ignored each other.

After a while, I felt that it was not a problem to continue like this. After all, Liang Xingbang said: "Do you think this matter has something to do with those guys?"

"They?" Shi Jingzhai lowered his head and pondered: "It shouldn't be logical, the price given to them is already very cheap."

But Yu Wanniang's eyes flickered brightly: "It's hard to say, people are always greedy, if they get one point more, they will not take one cent less. I don't know if they really made troubles out of it. For example, through this incident , let out the wind, create pressure for us, and then take the opportunity to lower the price..."

Shi Jingzhai and Liang Xingbang gasped at the same time: "It can't be so dark, can it?"

"It's hard to say." Yu Wanniang was worried: "This happened just after Tang Jie arrived. Maybe it's not a coincidence, but someone wanted to take the opportunity to force us. After all, Tang Jie is just a student, even formal disciples Not to mention, what ability does he have to discover our arrangement? Even if he finds out, what reason is there to do so? Besides, I have probed his bottom with the secret method of questioning the heart. On the contrary, those guys, no matter whether they have scheming, ability or motivation, they have no reason to do so. Only they can easily get rid of Lu Dong and the others without a sound."

"If this is the case, things will be troublesome." Liang Xingbang said worriedly.

Yu Wanniang shook her head: "It may not be too much trouble. If they really did it, the matter would be simpler. What they want is a cheaper price. As long as they are willing to lower the price, the problem should be solved."

Shi Jingzhai said angrily: "It's easy for you to say, do you know how much it is? This is the accumulation of more than 30 years in the school! Not only are there crystallized clamworms, but also the spirit stones and other treasures that everyone has hoarded over the years. The goods can’t even fit in the mustard bag. So many goods have been given to them at 60% of the market price, and you still want to lower it? How low do you want to be lowered?”

Yu Wanniang was also angry: "Is it okay if I don't do this? Didn't you see that people have already bullied you?"

Shi Jingzhai roared: "That's your problem too, in the end it's the wrong person you're looking for!"

Yu Wanniang was furious: "Okay, then you go find it. This item is worth tens of millions of dollars. You should find someone who can take over and dare to take over!"

Shi Jingzhai still wanted to scold, but Liang Xingbang held him down: "Okay, okay, why are you arguing again? Don't argue, the matter has come to this point, and we always have to find a solution. It's not sure yet What's the matter? Wanniang, I'm afraid I'll trouble you to go. Those people were contacted by you, after all, you have to ask them if they did it. If so, what are your plans."

The short and chubby Liang Xingbang, usually looks not as imposing as Shi Jingzhai, but he has always been considered a think tank in this trio. In fact, many ideas are also made by him. He has given opinions at this moment, and Yu Wanniang and Shi Jingzhai were also willing to listen.

At this moment, Yu Wanniang nodded sullenly: "I will contact them later."

Liang Xingbang continued: "Besides, when something like this happens, the goods can no longer be released. This transaction must be completed as soon as possible. These few days I will sleep in the warehouse and keep watch day and night to prevent accidents. Old Shi, you Go and watch Tang Jie."

"What are you staring at him for?" Shi Jingzhai was puzzled.

Liang Xingbang replied: "Although the maidservants said that Tang Jie was always there last night, the words of those bitches are still not enough. We must always be careful about Tang Jie."

"Okay." Shi Jingzhai replied unwillingly.

Yu Wanniang asked, "What about the town?"

"The news can't be stopped anymore, so we can only let it spread. Anyway, there is no evidence, so we can just treat it as a rumor." The matter has come to this point, Liang Xingbang has figured it out instead, no matter how anxious he is, it is useless. Even if the Xiyue faction really came to ask, as long as there is no evidence, just insist that it is a rumor. The key is to clean up all the hands and tails before this, otherwise leaving evidence of crime is called courting death.

"The last one is the guy who sells silkworms. Although Ding Chaofeng had sworn at the beginning that the guy was just an ordinary person, An Tao hasn't returned so far. Now it seems that it's not easy. We still have to send someone capable to kill that guy. Yes." Liang Xingbang said.

Yu Wanniang frowned: "If it's really someone from there, wouldn't it be inappropriate to just kill him like this?"

Liang Xingbang said with a sinister smile: "There is no need to worry about this. Since they dare to play tricks, they should also have the consciousness to bear the consequences. Those who dare to harm my Shimen faction... Kill without mercy!"