Zhao Ying nodded after hearing this.
She had heard Zhao Dehua talk about Jianghu anecdotes since she was a child, and she was very clear about these things, but she lacked experience and insight. Being told by Zhao Dehua, she could naturally understand.
“Then, what about the older one?”
Zhao Ying was most curious about Li Miao, who Zhao Dehua didn't even bother to be polite to. She couldn't wait to ask.
“Him? I can't see through him. But he's the most powerful.” Zhao Dehua said.
“You see, his breathing is natural, no different from ordinary people. He seems like an ordinary person who doesn't know Martial Arts.”
“But his posture, leaning to the side, puts pressure on his chest. Ordinary people would find it difficult to breathe, and their breathing would be a little more rapid than when sitting naturally. But listen carefully to his breathing.”
Zhao Ying closed her eyes upon hearing this and carefully distinguished Li Miao's breathing.
After a while, she opened her eyes and said in surprise, “Why is his breathing so light? It's not even as good as that little girl's, I almost couldn't hear it!”
“That's right. Ordinary people of the Jianghu, the higher their Martial Arts, the longer and more stable their breath. His breath is light and short, and you have to pay attention to listen to it since you were a child to hear it. If he takes advantage of the dark night and holds his breath and concentrates, you won't be able to find his position.”
“To achieve this, either he has practiced a type of Internal Energy I've never heard of, or his Internal Energy cultivation is Extraordinary and Refined, and he has already broken away from the general scope of people of the Jianghu.”
“Look at his hands again.”
Zhao Ying also put aside her careful thoughts at this time and treated this as a test, concentrating on observing Li Miao's hands with her peripheral vision.
“No calluses and no deformation. He doesn't play with weapons or hard skills.”
“His fingernails are neat and rounded, his fingertips are slender, and his middle finger is longer than his index finger. He's not practicing finger skills either.”
Zhao Dehua heard Zhao Ying's mutter to herself and shook his head: “Don't learn from me and look at the Young Man's way of thinking. You have to learn to find the most unusual places, rather than analyzing these useless things.”
“Look at what he's doing now?”
Zhao Ying replied strangely, “Peeling peanuts, what's wrong, Dad?”
Zhao Dehua said, “Silly girl, you only know that people are peeling peanuts, but you don't look at how they're peeling them.”
“He's peeling cooked peanuts, the peanut shells are crisp, he's been peeling for half a day, have you seen any debris on his hands? He pinches his hand, and the peanut skins all fall off, but the two halves of the peanut haven't separated, can the skill on his hands be simple?”
Zhao Ying, upon hearing this, chuckled: “Dad, I believed you when you said his breathing was different from ordinary people. But why are you talking so seriously about peeling peanuts? Maybe he's just particularly good at peeling them?”
Zhao Dehua also laughed: “Yes, I was thinking too much, a bit of a show.”
“But the three of them dared to share a room with us. The Young Man with good Martial Arts came up to greet us, but he lay still. He didn't get up when he saw so many of us come in. He must have something.”
“Walking the Jianghu, harmony is the best policy, and disputes of will are the Inferior. He just didn't look at me, but he also returned the greeting, so don't have any dissatisfaction with him.”
“Understood, Dad.” Zhao Ying replied with a smile.
The father and daughter talked for a while, and the fire warmed their bodies, and their moods gradually relaxed.
The group of people escorted the escort, and they had been tense and rushing all the way, and they were already a little tired. When they relaxed, Zhao Ying's head nodded, and her eyes were a little unable to open.
Zhao Dehua spoke, and asked a few people to stay up with him to keep watch, and the rest of the people didn't care about the dust on the ground, and just found a place on the ground and rested.
Li Miao and the other two also rested.
After the first half of the night passed, Zhao Dehua also felt a little tired, and estimated that the time was almost up, so he woke up a few people to change shifts to keep watch.
He also yawned, wrapped his coat, and closed his eyes, leaning against the box for the escort.
After a while, Wang Hai, who was lying down, sniffed his nose and opened his eyes in the darkness.
He didn't move either, and quietly stuck out his tongue, tasted the air, and savored it for a while.
“There's Incense Smoke. Someone wants to attack the group of people escorting the goods.” He silently made a judgment.
Because the quality of this Incense Smoke, it's hard to say whether it's good or bad, it's not enough to deal with a Commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard. If they were to attack Li Miao and the other three, even if the Villain was reckless, they would at least have to use the Miao Region's poison or the Tang Sect's superior Incense Smoke.
Using this level of Incense Smoke to deal with a Commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard is no different from sending a Visiting card before taking action.
There are only a few people in the room right now, either they are going to attack them, or they are going to attack the Tiger Might Escort Agency.
“It's late now, the Commander is probably too tired to sleep, he should have fallen asleep long ago.”
“I don't know the details of the person coming, it's really unwise to act rashly. I'll stay still first and see how the situation develops, and then make a plan.”
Wang Hai thought this way in his heart, and glanced at Li Miao, but was startled.
He saw that Li Miao was secretly opening one eye at this time, staring at the Tiger Might Escort Agency with great interest.
Li Miao was amused when he saw that Wang Hai was startled by him.
He had been in Yanjing for the past twenty years, and Wang Hai had been by his side since he came under him, and he had been deeply ingrained with his habit of the “Eight-Hour Workday System” schedule.
Little did he know that there were few holidays in the feudal era, and he had been working almost every day except for the New Year for these twenty years, and he had almost lived twenty years of workdays.
In these twenty years, he had been using the “Eight-Hour Workday System” to strengthen himself, and he had also been restricted by the “Eight-Hour Workday System” every day, which made him always feel tired as soon as the day fell.
That's right, his Golden Finger was called the “Eight-Hour Workday System”. Li Miao named it himself, which was very appropriate.
But, now was the first time he had been on a business trip in twenty years.
As everyone knows, the time spent on the road is not counted as working hours.
Not working, naturally, is not limited by energy. Li Miao was now running Internal Energy, and he was full of energy, and he was full of energy.
He couldn't wait to see his first real walk in the Jianghu, his first real chance encounter with a Jianghu Vendetta!
Li Miao and Wang Hai were silent, quietly waiting for the movement.
After a while, the arms that Zhao Dehua had embraced in front of his chest slowly slid down, and the originally orderly breathing became scattered, obviously losing his consciousness.
After traveling and being tired, the Tiger Might Escort Agency had long been tired. Zhao Dehua had kept watch for the first half of the night, and his fatigue had accumulated to the extreme. The people who changed shifts had just woken up from their sleep, and it was also the time when they were the least clear-headed.
Choosing this time to release the Incense Smoke, it was obvious that the person who took action had been observing nearby, and only then did they choose the most suitable time to take action.
After waiting for another while, a person walked in lightly from outside the door.
This person walked a few steps towards Zhao Dehua, and when they were about to reach him, they suddenly stopped and retreated quickly.
No movement.
Seeing that Zhao Dehua had no reaction, she didn't go forward either, but took out a small bag from her arms and threw it towards Zhao Dehua.
The small bag fluttered in the air.
Pa.
A large hand reached out, caught the small bag, and stuffed it into his arms.
“Humph! Old thing, I knew you wouldn't be so easily fooled!” The person said in a hateful voice, the voice was clear and pleasant, it was actually a young woman.
But her face was covered with a black cloth, and her appearance couldn't be seen.
“I've been escorting for more than ten years, how could I not know when it's most dangerous at night? Miss is also underestimating Zhao.”
Zhao Dehua stood up, his eyes flashing with light, and there was no sign of being unclear at all.
The other escorts were indeed poisoned by the woman's Incense Smoke, but Zhao Dehua was an Old Jianghu, and he slept with one eye open. He had noticed something was wrong as soon as the Incense Smoke was released into the room.
But as the old saying goes, there are only a thousand days of being a thief, but there are no thousand days of preventing a thief.
Zhao Dehua could of course wake up the other escorts while the Incense Smoke hadn't fully taken effect, but the person who took action would run away. With such a person hanging behind him, he wouldn't be able to sleep or eat in peace.
He was confident in his high Martial Arts, so he simply remained silent, pretending to be affected, and wanted to lure the person who took action to come over.
If the other party bumped in, he might be subdued by him, and there would be no Future Trouble.
But the woman was not a reckless person either, she retreated after reaching the limit distance where Zhao Dehua could take action, and almost made Zhao Dehua get up and take action.
Zhao Dehua had been thinking of continuing to pretend, but the shape of the small bag that the woman threw over was obviously a Hidden weapon that would explode into a cloud of poison when it touched the ground.
Zhao Dehua didn't dare to gamble on whether his Internal Energy could withstand the poison, so he had to reach out and catch the small bag.
But he also exposed the fact that he was not poisoned.
Now, it has become a one-on-one, open and aboveboard situation.
Zhao Dehua sized up the Masked Woman, and didn't expect a person with a similar figure.
So he frowned and said, “I don't know what Vendetta I have with you, Miss? Is there any Room for maneuver?”
He didn't ask the Masked Woman if it was for the Property they were escorting.
Although Wang Hai didn't look up to the Incense Smoke the woman used, it was also a good thing that ordinary people of the Jianghu couldn't get in touch with, and it was worth a lot. Zhao Dehua was almost tricked. If it was for money, there was no need to use such a good thing to deal with him.
And the woman's words seemed to know him, directly scolding him as an old thing, saying that she knew he wouldn't be tricked.
This was obviously not a great thief who saw the wealth and took action, but a person who came for him!
The woman didn't want to hide her purpose either, and sneered: “Old thing, are you old and confused?”
“If a few words of nonsense can resolve the Vendetta, why would I bother to take action against you?”
“If we don't fight, will you let me, this masked enemy, go?”
“If I really leave, can you sleep?”
Zhao Dehua sighed.
“Alas—Miss is right. The older you are in the Jianghu, the smaller your courage, and your blood is worn away, only thinking of settling things peacefully.”
“Miss is laughing at me.”
“Let's—see the real chapter with our hands!”
Before the words were finished, Zhao Dehua took a step and crossed a distance of one zhang, and threw himself forward!
He bent his fingers into claws, cut through the air, and grabbed straight towards the Masked Woman's eyes and the crown of the head!