In the dark and silent night, the simple Huaqiao Village is quiet and peaceful.
In the middle of the night, when the villagers were all sleeping soundly, a group of gray-clothed and masked men appeared in Cunqiao Village like ghosts, climbing over the eaves and walls. They jumped into the old house of the Hua family in the east of the village and began to rummage through the drawers and cabinets everywhere.
"Boss, no."
"Look again!"
"yes!"
…
However, the masked man in gray searched for a whole hour but still found nothing.
"Boss, there's not a single person in the entire house! Maybe all the things have been taken away?" A man in gray reported to a man who was dressed similarly but looked quite dignified.
"Boss, our spies have reported that Hua Qingcheng and her mother and father live separately, one at the head of the village and the other at the end of the village. Could it be that those two old guys moved to Hua Qingcheng's house?" Another man in gray rolled his eyes and spoke.
"Walk!"
"yes!"
Following the leader's order, twelve masked men in gray clothes immediately climbed out of the Hua family and headed towards the Hua residence at the end of the village.
At the front gate of Hua's house, two big red lanterns were hung high, adding two hazy red stripes to the quiet house. In the pitch-black night, they looked both eye-catching and mysterious.
As the masked man in gray approached the Hua residence at the end of the village, Zuo An, who was sleeping in his room in the backyard, suddenly opened his eyes. He grabbed the Frost Sword from under the bed and left the room. Then, using his Qing Gong skills, he flew onto the roof and headed towards the front yard with light and swift steps.
When the thirteen masked men in gray, including their leader, were about to leap into the Hua residence, they were suddenly shocked by a powerful aura and were thrown to the open space in front of the gate of the Hua residence.
"Boss, are you okay?"
A man in gray who had fallen to the ground saw that his leader had also fallen, and immediately stood up and stepped forward to help him up.
"roll!"
The leader waved away his companion's hand, jumped up from the ground and stood up neatly, looking fiercely at a man in black who stood with his arms crossed, a sword tucked into his arm, and his back to them proudly.
"Excuse me, who are you? Why are you meddling in other people's business?" The leader pointed a sharp sword with a cold glow in his hand at the man in black.
"No respect for elders!"
As the man in black finished speaking, the leader felt a burning pain on his left cheek, and the man in black who slapped him had already returned to the position where he had just stood, so fast that the leader thought he was dazzled.
"How does Fu Bingyan teach his disciples? Why are they all a bunch of idiots?"
But in front of the gate of Hua's house, in the dim light of lanterns, a heroic young man in black clothes, with a gold ribbon around his waist, his black hair tied up high, and a sword in his arm, was looking at them with a smile on his face, his lips slightly raised.
"What an arrogant brat you are! You even dare to call my master's name!" When the leader of the gray-clothed masked men heard Zuo An's words, he was immediately furious and stepped forward with a sword to stab Zuo An.
"What are you still standing there for? Come on!"
Following the leader's order, the other twelve masked men in gray swung their swords and slashed towards the left bank.
"Keng keng keng"!
Zuo An used his unsheathed Frost Sword to block the attacking sword array, then flew up and kicked each of them in the chest. The gray-clothed masked men then fell back one by one with a "bang" and hit the ground heavily.
"For the sake of that old woman Fu Bingyan, it's not too late for you to get out now." Zuo An glanced at the gray-clothed masked man lying on the ground and said sarcastically.
"Who are you? What is your relationship with my master?" The gray-clothed and masked leader, lying on the ground with his hands covering his chest, was very unconvinced.
"Hmph! You're not even qualified to ask my name. Even if Fu Bingyan stood before me, he'd still have to call me Uncle Master, you ignorant fools!"
"You, you...you are my great-uncle Zuo'an?"
The leader of the gray-clad, masked men looked incredulously at the handsome young man in black standing proudly before him. But as the leader finished his words, he felt a burning pain on his right cheek. Now, both sides of his face were swollen to the same height, neither larger nor smaller, perfectly symmetrical.
"Stupid, there's really no cure for it! I just said that you are not qualified to ask my name." Zuo An sneered disdainfully.
"People die for money, birds die for food, but you also have to consider whether you have the life to eat it. The top task on the Luoshamen bounty list has been taken away by me, and you dare to come and grab it? Do you think your life is too long?"
Zuo An's words were cold and his aura was full of momentum. The masked man in gray immediately felt a huge pressure from the superior coming towards him, which made him want to kneel down and surrender.
"Master... Grandmaster, please spare my lives!" The masked men in gray knelt down and begged for mercy.
"There's no such thing as a second chance. I'll only give you one chance."
As Zuo An finished speaking, the masked men in gray hurriedly picked up the swords that had fallen to the ground, and fled in a panic one after another.
"Humph! This Ghostly Sect is really a sack of sacks and straw bags, one bag (generation) is worse than another."
After Zuo An complained, he flew back to his room in the backyard of Hua's house and continued to sleep.
"Grandpa, an assassin just came. It's not a good idea for us to pretend to be asleep, right?" In a room next to the main hall in the front yard of Hua's house, Qiu Ming spoke to Qiu Fu on the next bed with a guilty conscience.
"Silly child! I'm old, and if I get injured, my recovery will be slow. And you're still young, and if you get injured you'll have to take medicine, which will be detrimental to your growth. Young Master Zuo'an is agile and has great martial arts skills, so it would be best if he could take care of you."
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