The crowd screamed in shock.
Su Yumei also quickly closed the door, and when she turned around, the teahouse owner and waiter had already disappeared.
Other guests in the inn were also running.
Li Man grabbed Fang Genghou and pushed him behind the empty counter. He also sat on the ground.
Su Heng stepped forward: "Brother, why don't you go together?"
"I'm waiting for my boss." Li Man said.
"Let's go together," Su Yumei said, "something might happen."
"I'm waiting for my boss." Li Man still said.
"Sister, let's go." Su Heng said.
Su Yumei looked at her brother, and then at Li Man, who was sitting on the ground with his legs outstretched.
"I, I'll stay," Su Yumei said, "I think I'm of some use, maybe I can protect them."
Su Heng frowned and sighed softly: "That's it, I'll stay too."
He went over to straighten a table and chairs that had been knocked up in the chaos, and sat down.
Su Yumei also went over, straightened the bench opposite him and sat down.
There were many pitiful cries for mercy coming from outside, and the noise became more and more chaotic. Su Yumei looked back, feeling anxious and worried.
"I'd better go take a look." She stood up and said.
A piece of old and faded thick cloth was covered in front of the window and used as a curtain. It was really dirty, with blood stains and traces of snot on it. Su Yumei really didn't want to touch it. She walked to the door and opened it a crack.
But I saw that the gangsters were all controlled and knelt in a row. They looked like they had been beaten badly. They were covering their waists, arms, and stomachs, and they kept begging for mercy.
A soldier came on horseback and said loudly: "Don't be surprised, everyone! We won't rob or rob you, we are just passing by. We will never touch your property or hurt your hair! Don't be afraid!"
He pulled the reins, ran to the other side, repeated the meaning of these words loudly, and then ran to the next place, shouting back and forth.
Gradually, people came back with their bundles, and some travelers from the inn poked their heads out.
Su Yumei plucked up the courage and opened the door. She saw a large army riding on horseback from behind, and a young girl walking beside the army, talking to someone.
Several veterans gathered around Xia Zhaoyi. They had too much to say, endless grievances and endless grief.
Su Yumei was stunned, then turned back to the teahouse and said softly: "Miss Ah Li is back. She is talking to the soldiers. It seems that they are old friends whom she has known for a long time."
"An old friend?" Li Man got up from behind the counter, "An old friend of our boss?"
"Um."
Li Man knew that Xia Zhaoyi came to Wanshanguan this time to meet old friends.
But why are there so many old friends?
Ignoring it for now, Li Man turned back to the counter and pulled Fang Genghou up: "Come out!"
As the army approached, the first group of soldiers and horses that came on horseback turned back from the front.
Song Qingtang reined in his horse and stopped, and ordered the four gangsters who had rushed back to kneel with their companions over there.
It was not difficult to find these criminals at all. There was blood everywhere on their bodies, and when chasing them, they kept asking others if they had seen them.
One of them was fished out of the water, and the other was hiding behind the weeds on the roadside.
The gangsters came back and knelt down, shaking with fear and swallowing their saliva.
Song Qingtang got off the horse and came over and said, "Ah Li, you think how to deal with it."
"I don't like dealing with this," Xia Zhaoyi said, "You do it."
Song Qingtang looked at a soldier behind Xia Zhaoyi: "Zhang Ji, come here."
Xia Zhaoyi turned around.
The soldier who was named was slightly stunned. He immediately got off his horse and raised his hand to salute Xia Zhaoyi: "Second Miss."
He walked forward slowly and looked at the row of gangsters on the ground.
After a pause, Zhang Ji looked at Xia Zhaoyi: "Second Miss, if you leave it to me, can I handle it in any way?"
Xia Zhaoyi glanced at Song Qingtang and nodded to Zhang Ji.
Zhang Ji saluted her again and turned to the gangsters.
His eyes swept over the blood on the gangster's body, and then looked at the broken body in the distance that had been hacked again and again with a knife.
Zhang Ji asked: "Who chopped up that corpse?"
None of the gangsters responded, they all lowered their heads, and several were so frightened that they could hardly breathe.
"Don't tell me?" Zhang Ji asked.
"It's him!" A man on the roadside pointed to a man among the gangsters, "I saw it with my own eyes, it's him!"
"It's not me! It's not me!" the man shouted hurriedly.
"That's him!" Another person stood up.
"I saw it too, it's him!"
"Thank you very much," Zhang Ji said, "Excuse me, has anyone else chopped up this corpse?"
"there is none left."
"He's the only one!"
"The others ran after him and chopped him down!"
Zhang Ji nodded and looked at Song Qingtang: "General Song, hang this man up and dry him to death. The others will be beheaded immediately."
The gangsters were shocked, raised their heads and begged for mercy in panic.
Among them, there was also one who was being hunted and kept shouting that he had been wronged.
"You are not innocent at all," Zhang Ji said, "You are a gambler and you deserve to be hunted down. And when you were hunted down, you kept pushing innocent people on the roadside towards the knife edge. You are also a murderer."
"No, the little one is wronged! The little one is the victim!"
"General Song." Zhang Ji looked at Song Qingtang.
Song Qingtang nodded and said to Xia Zhaoyi, "Ah Li."
"Um?"
"I only have six subordinates, and now you are the leader of the Xia Family Army."
Xia Zhaoyi understood what he meant and looked at Zhang Ji: "You have decided, it's up to you to give the order and pass it on."
"Yes!" Zhang Ji raised his hand to salute and turned around to give the order.
All the gangsters shouted for mercy. Some of them were so frightened that they got up and ran away. They were no match for these battle-experienced soldiers.
Except for the man who was named and hung, all the other gangsters were escorted to the open space where they had gathered to gamble, next to the broken body.
Several people cried and struggled, and were forced to kneel down.
The tall soldier drew out his sword, and following Zhang Ji's command, the sharp blade slashed down without hesitation.
Blood spattered three feet, a dozen heads rolled down, and the blood was like thick slurry, covering the floor.
Many people nearby turned their heads and covered their eyes, and a woman covered her mouth and screamed.
The only surviving man was so frightened that he peed his pants and fell limply to the ground.
Two soldiers carried him, wrapped his limbs with thick hemp ropes, put him into a large bamboo basket found nearby, and hung him out of the mountain vent.
The man kept begging for mercy, crying and fussing, to no avail, and even had a smelly rag stuffed in his mouth.
Zhang Ji then ordered the heads to be hung up, and the corpses to be tied to large rocks and thrown into the river.
After finishing all this, Zhang Ji shouted to the crowd around him: "If anyone asks what happened to these heads and corpses, tell the truth about everything today!"
"When we return, if this person's body is not on this bamboo basket, then we will destroy all the inns and teahouses nearby!"
"We will pass by this place frequently in the future. Those who do evil will be punished severely!"
There was silence all around, no one dared to say a word.
After Zhang Ji said this, he saluted Xia Zhaoyi and turned back to the team.
The soldiers went back with him.
Their faces were expressionless throughout the whole process, and they seemed to have never killed anyone.
Someone discovered that the beautiful and slender girl never blinked. Faced with so many falling heads, she remained calm at such a young age.
Xia Zhaoyi turned around at this time and looked towards the teahouse.
Li Man, Su Yumei, Su Heng, as well as the guests who heard the news and came back to see the situation and the teahouse shopkeeper, all stood at the door, looking at her in surprise.
The tied-up Fang Genghou was also there. His eyes were wide open, his face was pale and bloodless, and he began to be afraid of who he had offended.
Previously, she said she was Li Xiao's unmarried daughter-in-law, but it didn't take long for Fang Genghou to discover that it was false.
It seems that her identity is not the woman of a leader and general, she is the leader herself.
And, since she can kill without mercy and instantly get rid of these gangsters, including the men he brought out before, then why does she keep him?
"Is there anything to eat?" Xia Zhaoyi looked at the shopkeeper and asked.
The shopkeeper nodded and said hurriedly: "Yes...but..."
"Go to the teahouses and inns nearby. I want all the food," Xia Zhaoyi said. "You have to clear out all your stocks for me. Not even a grain of rice is left. I will pay double the amount."
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Li Man has been following the girl for a while, and this is the first time he has heard her be so domineering.
Seeing that the shopkeeper on the side did not respond, Li Man immediately scolded: "What are you doing standing there in a daze? Get out of here!"
"Okay, okay..." the shopkeeper said hurriedly, "I'll go right now, the little one will go right now!"
He immediately took his companions away.
This is a double offer, but you have to buy it short. I don’t know if it’s a good thing or a bad thing.
This chapter has been completed!