Raising Orphans, Not Assassins

Chen Ye and the little blind boy walked into the room. Qin Yi keenly felt that the two had no martial arts skills, and a strange feeling rose in her heart. She narrowed her beautiful eyes and suddenly realized something. How did these two people know that she was from Fengyu Tower? The identity of the assassins in Fengyu Tower is secret, and no portrait has ever been leaked. Only the characteristics of martial arts and weapons are circulated in the world. After Chen Ye entered the room, he sat down on the chair naturally. Seeing a pot of tea on the wooden table, he poured a cup of tea. The little blind boy next to him turned pale as soon as he entered the room, as if he knew the identity of the woman in the black dress. Qin Yi closed the door and said in a flat voice: "What did Zhao Wu say?" Chen Ye picked up the teacup, took a sip and smiled: "I don't know, Wanjin Hall gave me 200 taels of gold and asked me to forget that sentence. I am trustworthy and will not break my promise, so I can't remember it. But the friend who uses silver spears seemed to say to my little brother before he died, asking him to pass on a message. Ask him." Chen Ye threw the topic to the little blind boy. Qin Yi looked at the little blind boy, and then moved her eyes to Chen Ye. These two people are very strange. The little blind boy took a deep breath and said in a trembling voice: "He only said four words; ‘Earthly branches have changed’." Hearing this, Qin Yi's expression was shocked and her pupils shrank into a needle. "Sure enough..." Qin Yi said in an inaudible voice. Qin Yi came back to her senses and clasped her fists into a fist and palm gesture to Chen Ye and the little blind boy and said: "Thank you both!" After speaking, Qin Yi thought for a while and said: "This sentence is of great significance. Do you have any enemies? I am willing to kill them for you..." Chen Ye's mouth twitched twice. Is this how the assassin of Fengyu Tower works? The way to repay a favor is to kill someone for someone else? He still prefers the way of Wanjin Hall. "No need, we are all children of the rivers and lakes (Jianghu), and we should repay our love and hatred with our own hands." Chen Ye drank the tea in the cup, stood up and bowed, saying: "I have delivered the message, goodbye." After speaking, Chen Ye did not stop, took the little blind boy out of the door, and returned to his room next door. As soon as he entered the room, the little blind boy jumped onto the bed, his teeth chattering. He hugged himself and said, "It's her..." "It's her..." Chen Ye was puzzled: "Who is she?" "Yu Luosha, the gold medal killer of Fengyu Tower!" "Is she famous?" The little blind boy knew that this mysterious Mr. Donghua seemed to know very little about the world, and explained: "Although her strength is in the middle stage of the second rank, her status in Fengyu Tower is different." "She is the direct disciple of the owner of Fengyu Tower! She had a strange encounter when she was young. I don't know what she took. Her internal strength is extreme cold and yin. It is said that even if she is poisoned, she can use her internal strength to suppress it for a short time. In addition, she was personally trained by the owner of Fengyu Tower." "Her strength is very terrifying, and her danger level is even higher than that of the Smiling Cat Xu Xiaolin." "And she never kills people by assassination. She always does it openly and kills the target person cleanly and neatly." “Anyone who tries to stopping her will be taken care of. That’s why people in the martial arts world call her Yu Luosha. She has a lot of blood on her hands.” (Yu Luosha: Jade Rakshasa) The little blind boy wanted to cry but had no tears. He muttered, “What bad luck, what bad luck, how come I can meet her when I stay in an inn…” Seeing his look, Chen Ye couldn’t help laughing, “By the way, what do you think? Is she a beauty as you said?” The little blind boy’s face changed drastically, his expression became nervous, he put his finger to his lips and whispered, “Shh! There is only a wall between us and her, she can hear every word we say!” “So powerful?” Chen Ye said with a smile. The little blind boy wanted to cry but had no tears: "Please! Mr. Hua, the assassins in Fengyu Tower have eyes and ears that are far better than ordinary warriors. It's just a wall between us. Our conversation has probably fallen into her ears now." After saying that, the little blind boy asked in confusion: "Mr. Hua, why did you wade into this muddy water?" "If Wanjin Hall knew that you sold them out, they would probably hunt you down." Chen Ye smiled helplessly: "It's a long story, but it's all for the children." The little blind boy was stunned for a moment, thinking about Chen Ye's words, and thinking about his previous question, his face became strange. "Mr. Hua, she is not an ordinary person who can..." The little blind boy stopped talking halfway through his words and said no more. He was afraid that there were ears on the other side of the wall, and if that person stabbed him with the spear, it would be miserable. The little blind boy was silent for a moment and sighed: "I admire you!" … In the next room. Qin Yi sat at the wooden table. The Yangchun noodles in front of her had already lumped together. The snow-white noodles absorbed the noodle soup and became swollen and loose. As she exhaled, she heard the conversation between Chen Ye and the blind boy next door. A complex thought flashed in Qin Yi's autumn eyes. The four words "earthly branches have changed" verified everything she had been investigating for a month. A month ago, she assassinated Tang Feng. From the information she learned from Tang Hao, she speculated on a possibility. Someone in the underworld was planning to lure out the assassin of Fengyu Tower and then kill him. This was to weaken Fengyu Tower. However, Qin Yi had been investigating for a month and only found out that there was a problem with the intelligence contact person in the Yuhang County Liquor Store. Qin Yi did not find out who he reported to. Fengyu Tower's intelligence system has always been a single-line connection. The assassins and the intelligence personnel belong to two different departments. Even if she was taught by the owner of the Tower, she didn't know anything about the intelligence system. The clues ended here. The other anomaly is that many people in Fengyu Tower have failed in the past month. These anomalies combined faintly reveal that there is a problem with the intelligence agency of Fengyu Tower. "Earthly branches have changed." Qin Yi's eyes gradually turned cold. The intelligence of Fengyu Tower is handled by twelve mysterious "earthly branches". No one has ever seen their true faces, nor do they know where they are. It is only known that the earthly branches will pass the collected intelligence to the lower levels one level at a time for the assassins to review. Now Zhao Wu, the Silver Spear, who is also a gold medal assassin, is dead. Before his death, he passed on the four words "Earthly branches have changed". It is enough to explain the problem. There is a traitor among the twelve earthly branches. Someone betrayed Fengyu Tower. Qin Yi stared at the clumping noodles, and suddenly a flash of inspiration came to her mind. "No... it's not that the earthly branches have changed!" "That's not what Zhao Wu wanted to convey!" Qin Yi's eyes were bright, and he murmured, "There is a traitor among the deacons!" Fengyu Tower has set up deacons in all prefectures and states. Assassins need to inform the deacons and register when they receive missions. This prevents multiple assassins from accepting orders to assassinate the same person and causing internal strife. "Zhao Wu is a loner and rarely contacts people." "Before his death, he spread the four words that the earthly branches have changed. He was not talking about the earthly branches." "But he was reminding Fengyu Tower that there was a problem with the deacon in the Jiangning Prefecture!" Qin Yi gradually figured out the key. Zhao Wu was ambushed by Wanjin Hall. The only person who could reveal the location of Fengyu Tower's assassins was the deacon. Because the deacon knew that the assassin who accepted the mission would definitely appear where the target person was. The assassination of Tang Feng a month ago appeared in Qin Yi's mind. Deacon Huang of Lin'an Prefecture... and Deacon Li of Jiangning Prefecture. Qin Yi took a deep breath, and her eyes gradually became cold. She picked up the sword with her left hand and stood up. When her peripheral vision swept across the wooden table, her eyes landed on the bowl of crumbly Yangchun noodles. Qin Yi froze, put down her sword, took off her veil, and picked up her chopsticks again. n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om