The day after the eve of the Lunar New Year, the two elders of the Huo family also came. When they arrived in the village, the old man Huo told the driver the time to pick them up and then sent them away.
No one in the village employs servants, so it would be inconvenient for them to bring servants with them.
The elderly couple moved into the second room of the Gu family, the guest room next to Huo Yanyu's.
In the evening, the elderly couple finally saw their grandson and granddaughter, and they felt that the two siblings were particularly energetic.
After the Huo family elders settled in, Grandma Gu set the day for slaughtering the pigs for the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month. She planned to slaughter all the pigs in the house and then buy piglets to raise in the spring.
Grandma Gu still raised four pigs this year. In her words, "I only raise four children, and I also raise four pigs."
On the 27th day of the twelfth lunar month, Gu Shouxin and Lu Zheng went to the prefectural city together and returned in the same day, so they traveled in the dark all the way from the prefectural city to the village.
Both of them were riding horses and were almost at Zhoujia Town when they both sensed that something was wrong.
Gu Shouxin extinguished the torch, stopped the horse, and pulled on the reins.
Lu Zheng then looked around by the torchlight.
Gu Shouxin said disdainfully, "Do you think you can see it? Just wait patiently, it will appear when it's meant to."
Lu Zheng laughed and said, "I need to see what they look like. Keep the good-looking ones and destroy the bad ones."
Gu Shouxin: "Oh, so you like handsome men!"
Lu Zheng: "Second Uncle, your daughters and nieces all like good-looking people. Help them find a few to take back and work with, and make sure they're good-looking too."
Gu Shouxin: ...Okay.
Suddenly, Lu Zheng's ears twitched, he turned around, and without hesitation drew his sword, the one Yan Mo had given him.
Gu Shouxin also brought weapons, and he moved quickly.
In the dead of winter, with the biting wind howling, a group of men dressed in black lay sprawled on the official road.
There are only six left alive, and each of them is indeed good-looking.
Lu Zheng wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with his thumb and laughed, "It reminds me of the experience of hunting tigers with my second uncle in the back mountain last year!"
Gu Shouxin: "It's a pity I didn't bring any wine."
Lu Zheng handed the torch to Gu Shouxin, untied the ropes from the horse, and tightly bound the six men: "Let's go, I'll treat you to drinks at the Zhou family's tavern. Your second uncle had some strong liquor brewed by himself. How about we drink a whole jar before we go back?"
Gu Shouxin sighed: "Let's go!"
The family of three knew from the beginning that getting close to this kid would lead to trouble. Nothing happened for a year, but now trouble has come knocking.
Oh well, we're already so close, it won't change anything.
The two men rode horses, holding the reins, and the six men had no choice but to follow.
Upon arriving at Zhoujia Town, Lu Zheng whistled, and soon a young man in white came out.
In the dead of winter, he was dressed so thinly; Gu Shouxin felt cold for him.
Lu Zheng handed the people over to the man in white: "Take these with you!"
The young man in white glared at Lu Zheng: "I'm here to kill you, not to train assassins for you!"
Lu Zheng smiled wickedly, with a hint of evil: "I gave you two months, and you still couldn't kill me. I seriously injured you twice and almost killed you three times. How else do you want to kill me?"
The young man in white said, "You surnamed Lu, I'll kill you one day! I'll use your head as a bench!"
Lu Zheng: "We eagerly await your arrival!"
The young man in white angrily pulled on the rope and left. After a few steps, the six assassins couldn't keep up, so he kicked them without saying a word and disappeared around the street corner, cursing all the while.
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