Dark clouds came in, covering up the already thin moonlight, and it was dark inside and outside the house.
The secret door closed with a long and rough friction sound, and the world fell into deep silence.
I don’t know how much time passed, but the mechanism hidden in the darkness was touched again. The sunken underground door was lifted up by the stone pillars on both sides. After being tightly closed, nothing seemed to happen.
There were very light footsteps outside, approaching from far away, and at least five people were walking in the darkness.
Despite the many traps, the girl must have fallen into the cellar, but they still did not dare to enter easily, holding their crossbows outside and pointing at the darkness.
One person plucked up the courage and tried to come in for inspection.
Another person pulled out a fire stick, and the orange light began to glow. The light became brighter and brighter, and the room became brighter.
Empty.
"Did it really fall?" one person said softly.
The girl's crisp voice burst into laughter: "What do you think?"
Everyone was shocked and hurriedly raised their crossbows and pointed them at the source of the sound.
Several arrows were shot towards the bed, and the girl rushed around the moment she made a sound.
The man at the front quickly turned sideways to point the crossbow arrow, and his wrist was forcefully bent. At the same time, the girl's other arm hit him in the face, and then his lower body was kicked away and he crashed into his companion.
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Several crossbow arrows were fired nearby, but their aim was completely off. Someone pulled out a dagger, but it was to provide weapons to the opponent.
The girl did not grab the blade, but used the force to strike and stab.
The six men in black who were fighting her in close combat not only had no numerical advantage, but they also couldn't take advantage of their strength and size.
The battle ended with the girl grabbing the wrist of a man in black, helping him accelerate forward and stabbing into his companion's body.
Five of the six men in black fell down. The last man in black, whose wrist was grabbed by Xia Zhaoyi, had his knees smashed by her at a weird angle and fell to the ground.
There was a soft sound of a thin whip in the air, and a thousand green silk snakes wrapped around the neck of the man in black, forcing him to raise his head.
"That Chen Youjian, Mr. Guo Guan, is his Chen, but this family's Chen?" The girl's voice in the dim light was as cold as coming out of the abyss.
The man was suffocated and his eyebrows were wrinkled: "Ah, pear!"
"You are waiting for me here tonight specifically to avenge Feishuang Pavilion?"
The man suddenly reached out to grab the dagger on the ground, intending to stab himself, but Qian Sibi around his neck was more flexible, leaving his neck with a "snap" and hitting the back of his hand.
Xia Zhaoyi said in a cold voice: "Don't force me to cut off all of your hands and feet, and then take you back and torture you to extract confessions. Whether the others will be healthy or barely alive for the rest of their lives depends entirely on your thoughts."
The man roared angrily, stood up and rushed towards her.
Xia Zhaoyi raised her toes, and the dagger bounced off the ground. She held it with her slender hand and stepped forward to meet it.
In the silence of the night, a sudden and tragic scream rang out from the old house of the Chen family, startling all the men at the door of the Chen family.
Everyone was startled and stared blankly at the closed door.
"Isn't the general a woman? Why did he become a man?"
"It was the cry of more than one man!"
"Mr. Pan, shall we go in?!" Several squires looked at Mr. Pan.
Pan Xiangzhang was dumbfounded and his legs were shaking.
The door became quiet at this time.
"General, general?" Mayor Pan shouted loudly.
"I'm here!" Xia Zhaoyi replied.
"Yes, yes."
"It's still a woman!"
"She didn't give an order, so we don't have to go in, right."
…
Mayor Pan sat back tremblingly.
The crowd was in a state of confusion, and those who had a place to sit took their seats and sat back.
For a long time, there was no movement inside. Suddenly, with a "squeak" sound, the door was opened from the inside.
Mayor Pan hurriedly led the village chief and the squires forward quickly.
The torch in the girl's hand was gone. There was a small oil ball lamp under her fingertips, and she was holding a small bundle in her other hand.
Under the torches of the crowd, the small bundle faintly reflected a human head, and the mouth, nose, mouth and face were clearly visible.
"This, this is a human head?!" One person pointed at the baggage and shouted in horror.
"Dummy head," Xia Zhaoyi picked it up and looked at it, "I was afraid of scaring you, so I wrapped it up specially."
As she said that, she looked at Mayor Pan: "Mr. Pan, I'm afraid you have to go in this time. There are five people who have been lurking there for a long time and want to assassinate me. I can't move them alone. Please bring someone with you."
Send them to the Chen Family Ancestral Hall and I will express my gratitude."
Mayor Pan raised his eyes and looked inside: "Here, here..."
"There's nothing here. I've been through it all. There's no killer anymore. Don't worry."
Mayor Pan and everyone looked at each other, they were so scared, where was the killer?
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Opening canals and sealing waterways is not an easy task unless there are enough people and hard work.
At present, the most powerful people in the capital's imperial palace in the south of the city are the number of people and their inexhaustible energy.
The soldiers brought enough tools when they went out of the city. If they didn't bring enough, they went to nearby places to "borrow" them.
They are used to doing whatever they want, and no one dares not to borrow them.
Thousands of people divided the work, digging canals and carrying mud. The countryside outside Hengxiang Mansion was lit up as bright as day by more than 600 torches.
Several bones in front of the Chen Family Ancestral Hall were picked up and pieced together according to human shapes. From time to time, people were discussing where this bone should be placed and where this piece should be placed.
Zhan Ning listened to their voices and kept looking toward the east anxiously.
Suddenly there was the sound of horse hooves behind him. Zhan Ning turned around and saw clearly the handsome features of the man leading the horse under the light. He suddenly stepped forward: "General Shen!"
Shen Lie tightened the reins and dismounted neatly. As soon as he landed, Dai Yu and the other six people who followed him also dismounted immediately.
Shen Lie's deep black eyes looked around, but he didn't see her.
"My second young lady went to the village to the east," Zhan Ning said. "It is said that this ancestral hall is the ancestral hall of the Chen family, and the Chen family is very strange, so the second young lady went alone and refused to let me follow."
"How long have you been there?" Shen Lie asked in a deep voice.
"It's been an hour."
Shen Lie thought for a while and looked at Xia Zhaoyi's mount: "She's not riding a horse?"
"Yes, the second young lady followed the mayor and others on foot."
Shen Lie turned over on Dragon Eagle and said, "Bring her mount here and I'll go find her."
Zhan Ning was delighted: "Yes!"
He did not dare to disobey the second lady's military orders, but General Shen was not from the Xia family army.
After wrapping Xia Zhaoyi's horse around the dragon eagle, Zhan Ning said, "Thank you, General Shen!"
Zhai Jinsheng and the others turned around to get on their horses, but Dai Yu immediately stopped him and lowered his voice: "It's troublesome!"
"Follow me," Shen Lie said.
Dai Yu pursed his lips and had no choice but to get back on the horse.
As it gets closer to midnight, the night wind gets colder and colder, making people unaware that it is a summer night in April.
Xia Zhaoyi left Xizhu Village and walked on the rural road.
There are crops on both sides, insects and birds are chirping in the fields, and from time to time the fragrant fragrance of orange flowers and gardenias wafts in.
While walking, Xia Zhaoyi stopped and looked towards the distant south.
