The commotion outside the wooden fence was quickly noticed by the two bears, Xiong Da and Xiong Er, who were playing and frolicking.
Dahuang's characteristic is that he forms cliques and doesn't act recklessly; he learned to call on others from a young age.
The approaching strange man frightened the puppies. The two little ones whimpered and ran back as fast as they could, tumbling and crawling all the way.
It ran all the way to the owner's door and then started barking loudly at the gate.
In the room, Xiaoman and Errui were sleeping in the same bed. Hearing the dog barking, Xiaoman, who had been sleeping soundly, suddenly sat up, startling Errui, who woke up at the same time: "What's wrong?"
"There's a dog barking, I'll go check it out!"
Xiaoman was only wearing a single layer of clothing to sleep, and at this moment she rolled out of bed, picked up her gun, and put on her shoes in one smooth motion.
Errui quickly got up too: "I'll go out with you!"
The moonlight was bright outside, and the two of them didn't even need torches; they could see the road leading to the valley entrance simply by standing in the courtyard.
At this moment, the night wind blew along the road, the trees swayed, and the shadows flickered.
When the bears saw their owner come out of the house, they immediately wagged their tails and came over to hug their legs and pounce on them, without any unusual reaction.
Errui asked in confusion, "Did you hear wrong? The dog didn't bark!"
Xiaoman was also puzzled: "I don't know, this dog is so easily startled!"
The dog is small and timid, but it's fine when it's with people during the day.
When we let our animals roam free at night, we are always startled by pheasants and rabbits that suddenly dart out.
Although it was a false alarm, the two still walked around the three houses before going back to rest.
Time passed slowly, and two more masked men in black appeared by the wooden fence, hiding in the shadows like tree stumps.
The guard of the Du family touched the iron chain, trying to unlock it.
"Too much trouble, we need tools," the thug who came with him muttered. "Why don't we just climb over the wall?"
Because he got beaten up when he went to Xujia Village last time, and because Qingquan Bay is a bit haunted, he was somewhat reluctant to come here.
If this man hadn't promised him a hundred taels of silver for setting a fire, he really wouldn't have wanted to come.
Otherwise, they would have joined the other three to rob that family on the mountain; they heard that someone had given them fifty taels of silver.
"Idiot!" the Du family guard cursed under his breath, reaching for lock-picking tools at his waist.
It's easy to climb over the wall now, but how will we get out with people later? We can't just climb over the wall again.
He wanted to unlock it, but the log, as big as a bowl, was too big for him to reach the lock.
"Big Bug, get over the wall!" the Du family guard said to the thug.
The big worm looked up at the pointed things above the log wall, blinked, and said, "This money isn't easy to earn, you'll have to add more!"
His extortion attempt failed, and the Du family guard silenced the thug with a single sentence: "If you keep tugging at him, go back. You can forget about the money."
He promised a hundred taels of silver, enough to buy several lives, but this scoundrel wanted more.
Upon hearing that he was to go back, the tiger immediately replied, "Okay, I'll go open the door!"
As he spoke, he took out an iron claw and threw it over the wooden wall, then pulled on the rope and climbed up the wall. He was skilled and seemed to have done a lot of things like climbing over walls and breaking into houses.
This is also why the Du family's guards were willing to pay a high price to hire him; the man's legs and feet were extremely nimble.
Not long after he went inside, the gate opened, the Du family guard slipped inside, and then closed the gate again.
As the two walked along the road, the two puppies started barking wildly again.
"You beast, you're asking for death!"
The guard cursed under his breath. Not daring to delay, he immediately stepped onto the wooden bridge and ran towards the three houses.
But just as he stepped onto the wooden bridge, he suddenly realized something was wrong. The guard reacted quickly, and before he could retract his leg, he fell sideways into the water beside him.
At this moment, a large animal trap on the bridge was triggered. The powerful elasticity made the trap jump up and land heavily on the wooden railing with a thud.
"Big Bug," who was following closely behind the guard, hurriedly stopped, breaking out in a cold sweat when he saw the animal trap: "My God, this is for tigers!"
The guard quickly scrambled out of the knee-deep water, ignoring his soaking wet clothes, and growled at the thug, "What are you standing there for? Set it on fire!"
Animal traps were placed on the wooden bridge of the medicine shop, indicating that precautions were taken.
He didn't know where the target was, but the first thing he did was to light the fire.
Upon seeing the animal traps, "Big Bug" dared not walk on the bridge anymore. Instead, it imitated the guards and jumped into the water to wade across.
In just a few breaths, Xiaoman and Errui had already rushed out of the room again.
They haven't slept since the first time the dog barked.
Upon seeing someone burst in, he immediately shouted, "Thief! Catch the thief!"
From the house next door, Wu Yang and Xu Genqing also came out, carrying weapons they had prepared beforehand.
Four young men suddenly appeared, but the Du family guard remained calm, his gaze fixed only on Xiaoman.
Under the bright moonlight, the faces of the four people were clearly visible, especially the tall and thin Xiaoman, whom he had seen clearly long ago.
Without a word, the Du family guards drew a sharpened broadsword and charged towards Xiaoman.
He came here with only one goal: to kill this scourge.
Seeing the masked man in black charging towards her, Xiaoman drew her long-handled red-tasseled spear, pushed Errui aside, and caught the broadsword slashed down by the Du family guards.
Xiaoman's red-tasseled spear has a wooden shaft that is very flexible, and an iron spearhead that gleams coldly in the moonlight.
He gripped the gun barrel tightly with both hands, gave it a sharp shake, and the gun tip shot out like a venomous snake's tongue, aiming straight for the throat of the Du family's guard.
This startled the guards of the Du family.
He didn't waste a day hiding in Lihua Town; he found a few thugs and asked them about Xujia Village.
Xujia Village has no secrets now, the first being the election of a female village chief.
Apart from a few families from the same clan, most of the villagers are migrants.
Jiang became the village chief because he did not flee the famine and told everyone that soaking oak leaves in water could fill their stomachs.
Besides her own son, Jiang also had a boy of similar age by her side. They were as close as family, and even the pharmacy was managed by the boy.
Most importantly, almost no one has ever seen the child's family.
Having this information is enough; whether the child is called Xiaoman or Xiaotian is not important.
After all, the Nie family's child was only a month old when they took him away, so anything could have been called him.
How could a child fostered by a farm family know kung fu, and even perform it so well?
Normally, the guards of the Du family would have had to ask a few more questions.
But now that we've already alerted the enemy in the village, whether they are or not, the most urgent task is to eliminate the target.
The Du family's guards were quite skilled, which is why they dared to go into the village alone to gather information.
Upon seeing Xiaoman suddenly brandish her weapon, he immediately dodged to the side and simultaneously swung his knife at Xiaoman's waist.
Xiaoman dodged in a flash, and the exchange of blows and spears was over in an instant.
"Who are you? Why do you want to kill me?" Xiaoman asked.
The guard from the Du family said in a deep voice, "You don't need to ask who I am. You just need to know that you shouldn't be alive. You were adopted for the past eighteen years."
"I shouldn't have lived. Have I been adopted for these eighteen years?" Xiaoman repeated the words to herself, and suddenly realized.
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