Chapter 25

"Dad, close the door first."

Confirming Deng Hu was dead, Xu Jin shouted to his father, Xu Dajiang, while breathing heavily.

This breathing was no longer caused by the stress response, but the result of having no experience, using too much force, and using all his strength in every step and every attack.

After Xu Jin finished speaking, he looked through the starlight and found his father sitting on the ground, motionless, and the ruffian was also lying on the ground, without any movement.

Xu Jin was terrified.

Hopefully, his father didn't suffer any fatal wounds in the chaos.

There were many people who died unjustly from stray bullets and stray arrows on the battlefield.

He hurriedly ran over in three steps to take a look.

"Dad, what's wrong with you, where are you hurt?" Xu Jin was anxious.

Xu Dajiang breathed heavily and glared at Xu Jin, "What could happen to your old man? Look at you, you brat, you've done a great thing!"

He reached out to slap Xu Jin, but his hand wouldn't listen to him.

Xu Jin wanted to help him up, but he couldn't, as if he were a puddle of soft mud.

"Let me slow down."

Xu Jin ran over to close the courtyard door first, poked his head out to look before closing it, and confirmed that there was no one inside or outside the courtyard door before coming back.

"Dad, are you exhausted or what? Should I get you something to drink?"

"Exhausted my foot, just soft hands and feet, let me catch my breath and I'll be fine."

"Your old man has fought many times with a hoe in the field, but killing someone for real, this is the first time." After saying a few words, Xu Dajiang felt much better and slowly climbed up.

Xu Jin took a look, and the ruffian who had run away had already died; he had been smashed in the head by Xu Dajiang with a stick.

"You brat, look at the great thing you've done, hurry up and think about how to clean up the mess," Xu Dajiang breathed.

"Hmm!"

Xu Jin thought for a while, and then he and his father, Xu Dajiang, moved the five corpses into the room one after another.

Then they searched all five corpses.

People were already killed.

The silver money in their hands, why not take it?

The harvest wasn't much; each of the four ruffians had four or five taels in their bosom, but the scarred face had a bit more, almost ten taels, totaling just over twenty taels for the four ruffians.

The silver in Deng Hu's bosom wasn't much either; besides the forty-eight taels Xu Dajiang had returned earlier, there were only a dozen or so taels, totaling more than sixty taels of silver.

Xu Jin originally wanted to let it go, but Deng Hu had shouted that he would take two hundred taels of silver to buy his life earlier.

Where was this guy's silver hidden?

Xu Jin searched the room as fast as he could, but apart from finding a stack of IOUs, there was no other harvest.

Was it hidden in a secret compartment?

Xu Jin immediately rejected this idea.

The inner room was divided into two bedrooms; one room only had one quilt, and the other had five or six quilts thrown about, which should be where these people lived together.

If the silver were hidden in the room, Deng Hu would never be at ease in such a situation of casual entry and exit.

Looking at Deng Hu's corpse, Xu Jin searched again.

In less than a minute, he had a harvest.

On Deng Hu's inner garment, there was an inconspicuous pocket sewn on, and in the pocket, there was a small oil-paper bag.

The next instant, Xu Jin's eyes lit up.

Two silver notes from the Lord Tianyang Bank, each for one hundred taels.

"Hmm?"

Inside the oil-paper bag, there was actually a piece of paper, covered with dense small characters, but the light was too dim to see clearly.

Xu Jin didn't care anymore and put the oil-paper bag directly into his bosom.

"You brat, do you want money or your life? We have to leave quickly."

His father, Xu Dajiang, was already anxious.

This place was indeed not a place to stay for long, but how to handle the aftermath?

Xu Jin had already discovered lamp oil and wine in the room earlier.

Very quickly, Xu Jin rejected the idea of arson.

Although arson could destroy the evidence, it would also expose the deaths of this gang of ruffians immediately.

And then let the official authorities or even the Tianhe Gang behind this gang of ruffians intervene immediately and start investigating.

However, if the official authorities really tracked it down later...

While thinking, Xu Jin suddenly laughed.

The case-solving rate of the government office in this world didn't even account for a fraction of his previous life.

What was he worried about?

But the big clues still had to be destroyed.

He didn't need to worry about fingerprints at all.

Of course, there might be supernatural magical means, after all, Xu Jin had cultivated star arts.

If there really were, Xu Jin couldn't stop it.

The tracking course in the Dao Academy mainly taught the judgment of breath tracking and various clues, and did not teach star arts.

After thinking about it, Xu Jin drew a few buckets of water from the well in the courtyard, washed the blood off himself first, and then got half a bucket of excrement from the latrine, mixed it with water, and poured it on the corpses of these ruffians.

That smell, it was there immediately!

In this way, even the most brilliant breath-tracking technique would be greatly discounted or even fail.

He also used the remaining wine from the ruffians to sprinkle on his body to cover up the smell of blood.

Subsequently, Xu Jin let his father, Xu Dajiang, go out first, and Xu Jin himself bolted the courtyard door with the door bolt and climbed over the wall.

When climbing over the wall, Xu Jin looked at another courtyard separated by a few warehouses.

No lights, no movement.

But when he passed by in the afternoon, the door was open. Deng Hu's begging for mercy just now was so loud, they should have heard it.

After thinking about it, Xu Jin sighed and jumped off the wall.

Perhaps he was a bit soft-hearted.

But to completely cover up the clues, he really couldn't bring himself to wipe out the neighbors as well.

He wasn't that insane yet.

The man in green on the roof saw everything Xu Jin did on the wall.

"His actions still have a bottom line; he really is a treasure. Let's keep watching." His figure moved, and he chased after them slowly, but his figure melted completely into the darkness, so no one could see him.

The father and son hurried home in the night; perhaps it was too stimulating tonight, Xu Dajiang stumbled along the way and needed Xu Jin's support.

Fortunately, it went smoothly, and apart from encountering a few wild dogs, they arrived home smoothly.

Bolting the door, Xu Dajiang and Xu Jin sat leaning against the door, both breathing heavily.

After a while, they finally calmed down completely.

Xu Jin boiled hot water, burned all his and his father's clothes and shoes in the stove, took a hot bath, and changed into clean old clothes; only then did Xu Jin let out a sigh of relief.

The man in green, who had already moved to the roof of Xu Jin's old house, nodded as he watched Xu Jin's behavior, "Still cautious. Although there are many omissions, doing this well for the first time is not bad."

All possible traces of tracking had been wiped away.

Now, it depended on when the deaths of these ruffians were discovered.

Time is the best destroyer of traces.

The later they are discovered, the less likely they are to be tracked.

After such a toss, the two of them were starving, so Xu Jin directly took the two catties of old wine, peanuts, and the hard wheat cakes from home; the two of them ate a wheat cake, a peanut, and took a sip of old wine.

While eating, Xu Jin explained to Xu Dajiang the reason why he made a move.

Xu Dajiang was terrified, his eyes bloodshot, wanting to choose someone to devour!

Fortunately, Xu Jin listened for a moment, otherwise, the two of them would have been buried in the hands of this gang of ruffians tonight.

Little Jiang Er might have faced some inhuman suffering in the future!

He was so angry that he said he stabbed them too few times!

He let that gang of ruffians die too painlessly!

This old man, although he looked a bit cowardly and his legs were soft after killing someone tonight, he really dared to act when something happened.

And once he heard that someone wanted to be unfavorable to his children, he was like an angry lion.

After the wheat cakes and a few sips of old wine, Xu Dajiang seemed to have made a decision and said firmly, "Jin'er, you wake up at the fourth watch tomorrow morning and return to the Dao Academy early.

You didn't spend the night at home.

Remember, if this matter is exposed, it was done by me, and it has nothing to do with you.

You don't know about this!

Understand?"

"Dad!"

Before he could speak, Xu Jin first raised his wine bowl and drank with Xu Dajiang. He didn't usually drink much, but after killing someone today, drinking this old wine had a unique, refreshing, and fierce taste.

"Dad, if we are really tracked down here, then neither of us will be able to run.

Don't worry, no one can know that we did it.

They won't be able to discover it!" Xu Jin said.

"However, in the alley before we entered Deng Hu's house at dusk, we bumped into someone, and that person even looked at us twice," Xu Dajiang worried.

"He doesn't know us.

Besides, there are several families living in the warehouse alley, not just Deng Hu's," Xu Jin comforted.

This was also helpless.

Xu Jin and Xu Dajiang's original intention today was to repay the debt.

After repaying the debt, they would be light and free, one focusing on cultivation and the other focusing on making money to save for his son's wife.

Who would have thought that after the debt was repaid, this gang of ruffians would still want to wipe out his entire family and plot against Jiang Er.

Finally, Xu Jin told Xu Dajiang to show his face less in the commandery city recently, and when going out, wear a straw hat and trim his beard; he estimated that even if that person met him face-to-face, he wouldn't recognize Xu Dajiang.

Xu Jin also had to show his face less.

The two agreed, and Xu Dajiang, who had drunk more than half a catty of old wine, fell into a deep sleep. After serving him to sleep, Xu Jin wanted to sleep but couldn't.

He simply went to the courtyard to make up for his evening lessons.

Drinking Brilliance Style, Five-Battle Killing Fist, taking turns.

He didn't know if it was an illusion or what, but after killing someone today, Xu Jin's Five-Battle Killing Fist was exceptionally smooth, and there was even a hint of murderous intent revealed.

It was too late, and Xu Jin didn't use the remaining half-wisp of starlight on the Arena of Battle, saving it first.

After three and a half rounds of Drinking Brilliance Style, he felt exhausted, which should be the consumption of his spiritual power to the limit.

Only then did he go to sleep.

"Adding diligence and hard work, why do I like this kid more and more?" The man in green, who had been blowing in the wind on the roof for half the night, watched Xu Jin fall asleep, looked at Xu Jin's waist token silently, and then left, heading straight for the commandery city.

Since someone likes to impersonate a demon, let them see a real demon today!

Before dawn, the biological clock formed over these three months woke Xu Jin up on time.

He drank some water, tidied up, and prepared to wait quietly for the rosy clouds to appear to do his morning lessons.

While waiting, he suddenly remembered the paper pressed under the silver notes he got last night and took it out to look carefully.

After just a few glances, cold sweat broke out on Xu Jin's forehead.

Blood-Guided Star-Forging Art!

Evil art!

Demonic art!

(End of this chapter)