Chapter 44 How can I forgive you so easily?
My heart was in my throat.
Xiao Zhinian reacted quickly and jumped onto the beam, holding the silver frost dagger in his hand, ready to catch the intruder off guard at any time.
The person who pushed the door open was a child who was half a head taller than the table. He was holding a pillow and walking with a staggering step. He looked a little stiff, and it was unclear whether he was awake or not.
Xiao Zhinian took a closer look and found that it was the kid from the Zhao family. What was his name? It seems to be Zhao Xiaosi?
In short, he watched the child walk all the way from the door to the table, put the pillow in his arms on the rosewood chair, and then climbed up and dozed off on it.
"......mother."
Zhao Xiaosi kept murmuring in his sleep, and the faint snoring sound spread to every corner of the room.
I heard that when a person is in a deep sleep, his mind will be out of his body and he will involuntarily do some strange things. Now it seems that this is the case with Zhao Xiaosi.
Xiao Zhinian looked up for a while and made sure that he was not awake. Just as he was about to jump down, he heard Zhao Xiaosi below suddenly throw the pillow aside, hitting a precious painted vase placed on the antique shelf next to it.
The vase was not supported and fell to the ground. At the critical moment, a hand picked up the vase and put it back quietly in its original place.
Xiao Zhinian breathed a sigh of relief. The sudden appearance of Zhao Xiaosi disrupted his plans. He was not in a good mood and looked very gloomy.
"mother!"
My hand shook and I almost hit the vase again.
Zhao Xiaosi didn't know what stimulated him, but he suddenly screamed in his dream, sat up, and half-opened his lifeless eyes.
"......"
Scare him.
Xiao Zhinian really wanted to beat that kid up, but he held back. If he woke him up by beating him up, it would cause trouble.
Forget it.
Zhao Xiaosi sobbed and burst into tears, perhaps because he had experienced something sad. He shouted, "Mother, please don't leave. I will be obedient... I can recite it, mother, please listen to me, "Preface to the Pavilion of Prince Teng"..."
The blue veins on Xiao Zhinian's forehead twitched suddenly. Amazing, amazing! He was still reciting in his dream. It was really amazing.
He didn't have time to listen to this kid talking in his sleep, so he raised his hand and knocked him out. It was so annoying and the noise made his eardrums hurt.
It is not advisable to stay here for long. I can't find the account book, so I will have to come back next time.
Xiao Zhinian nodded approvingly, leaned on the window frame with one hand, pushed open a crack to observe the situation outside, and seeing that there was no one around, he was about to jump out of the window and leave.
"Stop! Who's over there?!"
A roar was heard not far away, followed by the sound of kicking and clattering footsteps coming from the Zhao residence. The guards, like a group of beasts startled in the dense forest, ran towards the direction of the noise.
Xiao Zhinian thought to himself that something was wrong. Just as he looked up, he saw a black figure jumping out from the eaves of the house opposite and running out quickly.
Coincidentally, when Xiao Zhinian discovered the man in black, he also looked towards Xiao Zhinian.
Their eyes met.
Those eyes flashed with bloodthirsty ferocity in the darkness, like an eagle or dog, cold and sharp.
Emerald Jade...
A white light suddenly flashed through Xiao Zhinian's mind.
Could this person be the man in black that Yang Sharen once mentioned?
In just a moment, the man in black tiptoed lightly and jumped to the other side of the eaves.
Without caring about anything else, Xiao Zhinian followed his intuition and jumped directly to chase the footsteps of the man in black.
"There are accomplices! Catch them! Quickly!!"
The Zhao family guards pointed at them from a distance and chased them relentlessly with torches in hand.
Xiao Zhinian ignored these noisy people. He had only one thought in mind, which was to catch this man and torture him thoroughly.
Thinking of this, he quickened his pace, his robe fluttering, and he was almost catching up with the man in black.
“Don’t run!”
Xiao Zhinian couldn't help but shout at the black shadow. As the distance got closer, he raised his hand and chopped down on the black-clothed man's shoulder and neck.
Obviously, this man in black was very different from the one Xiao Zhinian had met before. He must have been well-trained. As soon as he sensed Xiao Zhinian's palm wind, he immediately dodged sideways and disappeared in an instant.
Xiao Zhinian was stunned: "Where are the people?"
As if in response to his words, the man in black suddenly appeared behind him, with a long sword in his hand. He turned his hand and tapped Xiao Zhinian's waist two or three times with the hilt of the sword.
“Hmm!”
Xiao Zhinian was caught off guard by the attack and fell forward two steps. Then he turned around steadily and saw the man in black standing on the eaves from a distance, holding a long sword, staring at him coldly, as if to say that he was overestimating his own abilities.
The moonlight is bleak.
The situation is tense.
Xiao Zhinian asked, "Who are you?"
The man in black sneered, as if he was deliberately lowering his voice: "It has nothing to do with you. If you catch up with me again, don't blame me for being rude to you."
Turned around and was about to leave.
Xiao Zhinian naturally would not let him go, and he immediately stepped forward to fight with him. Without a weapon, if he fought alone, Xiao Zhinian would be at a disadvantage. Fortunately, he had been training hard in his daily life, and the two of them were tied for a while.
The battle lasted for thirty rounds. The man in black swung his sword at him on the head. Xiao Zhinian stepped back. At this moment, the man in black turned his hand and stabbed the sword into Xiao Zhinian's shoulder where the injury had not yet healed.
The tearing pain forced Xiao Zhinian to retreat repeatedly. The man in black drew out his sword, blood splattered, and then he kicked away and returned to his original place with the force.
Xiao Zhinian looked gloomy, holding his injured shoulder, suppressing the pain, and asked with gritted teeth: "Who are you, and why do you want to kill Shen Zhejiang again and again?"
The man in black was also cold and asked an irrelevant question: "Looking at your current appearance, you still miss Chen Zhejiang. It seems that you really love him deeply."
Xiao Zhinian shouted angrily: "What nonsense! Just answer my question!"
The man in black didn't take him seriously and said sarcastically, "How ridiculous! You are so affectionate to him. I'm afraid he treats you like a worn-out shoe and will trample you under his feet sooner or later."
"A plot to sow discord, eh? Don't think I don't know. Stop playing those tricks on me!"
"Whether you believe it or not, you have investigated the whole Shen family being executed. Do you think he can let go of the lives of more than a hundred people?"
"......"
Xiao Zhinian was most worried about this matter. He had never been involved in the Shen family case from beginning to end, so he could not deeply understand the pain that Shen Zhejiang had suffered over the years.
But he was trying his best to make up for it. He could do a lot for Shen Zhejiang, but what he was most worried about was that Shen Zhejiang really didn't show the slightest emotion.
What should he do?
He doesn't know.
Seeing that he was silent, the man in black looked even more vicious and continued to attack his defense: "Your father killed his parents, and you and him were originally enemies. Don't dream. Even a fool would know that how could Shen Zhejiang forgive you?"
How can I forgive you...
It was like a huge rock falling from the sky, pressing down on Xiao Zhinian's chest, making it almost impossible for him to breathe.
After a long while, Xiao Zhinian took a deep breath and asked word by word with emphasis: "You are not him, how do you know that he won't give his true heart to me?"
"Oh, you are stubborn." The man in black looked at the gradually brightening fire. It was almost time. Since he had succeeded, he didn't want to bother arguing with Xiao Zhinian anymore. "I will remind you one last thing. Save your energy. The thing you are looking for has been burned to ashes."
Hearing this, Xiao Zhinian turned around abruptly and saw that a raging fire had broken out somewhere in Zhao's residence, illuminating the dark sky.
"you......"
The place where the man in black had originally stood was empty.
Got fooled.
Xiao Zhinian frowned deeply, took off the cloth covering his face, and couldn't help cursing: "Fuck it!"
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