"I opened this road and planted this tree. If you want to pass through here, leave money to buy the road!"
Zhang San held a steel knife and pointed it at Li Yuyan and Liu Yong, shouting and slowly approaching Li Yuyan and the others.
I didn't realize at all why there were only two people at the scene, but the rest were missing.
When Li Yuyan saw this, the corners of his mouth turned up slightly, revealing a sneer:
"Are you sure you want to rob us?"
"What nonsense! Hand over all the valuable things to me!"
Zhang San looked fierce and looked straight at Li Yuyan.
He seemed to be considering which one to rob first, after all, both of them looked very jeweled.
Li Yuyan looked at Zhang San's appearance and snorted in his heart, but still had a faint smile on his face:
"What if I don't?"
"court death!"
Hearing Li Yuyan's answer, Zhang San immediately became angry. He punched Li Yuyan, and at the same time, he swung the steel knife in his hand and hit Li Yuyan's head.
However, the next second, his hand holding the steel knife was shot by an arrow from a soldier ambushing in the grass.
"ah!!!!!"
Screams rang out, the steel knife in Zhang San's hand fell to the ground, blood continued to flow down Zhang San's arm, and the pain made his face instantly pale.
He covered the wound and looked at his right arm in disbelief. Where did the arrow come from?
The leader was attacked, and dozens of bandits immediately panicked.
They raised their steel swords and slashed at Li Yuyan and Liu Yong, but they found that they could not get close to them at all, and could not even touch the corners of their clothes, which made them even more panicked.
At this time, dozens of sharp arrows flew out from the grass, hitting the bandit's weak point with perfect accuracy.
Seeing his brother fall into a pool of blood one after another, Zhang San finally realized that these two people were not simple.
They are definitely not ordinary merchants, and they are masters pretending to be merchants!
So, he endured the severe pain and immediately fled the scene with his only remaining brother, preparing to go to the mountains to find reinforcements.
However, before he could take two steps, a cold light from behind penetrated his heart.
He opened his eyes wide and looked down at the sharp arrow that pierced his heart, his eyes filled with disbelief.
He closed his eyes unwillingly, and his body slowly collapsed on the ground until he completely lost all signs of life.
The leader was dead, and the rest of the minions dared to stay and fled in all directions. However, sharp arrows kept flying from the grass gave them nowhere to hide, and they all became hedgehogs.
"Brother Ninth, they are all dead, what should we do next?"
Liu Yong, who was originally not optimistic about Li Yuyan's plan, was severely slapped in the face again.
Now, he was convinced of Li Yuyan.
"Everyone put on their clothes, let's go up the mountain and catch turtles in the jar!"
Following Li Yuyan's order, the soldiers quickly took off the clothes of the dead bandits and put them on themselves, dressed up as bandits and pushed the cart towards the bandits' lair on the mountain.
The bandit's lair is at the Eagle's Mouth of the Eagle's Mouth Mountain. The terrain is steep and surrounded by cliffs. If you are not careful, you will fall to pieces.
This shows how difficult it was when the imperial court sent troops to exterminate the Yingzui Mountain bandits!
In the deepest part of Yingzui Mountain, there is an empty valley, and in the valley there is a village made of stones.
That should be where the bandits live.
Outside the village, several bandits on sentry saw someone pushing a cart up the mountain from a distance. Looking at the clothes the person was wearing, they thought it was the boss who had returned from robberies.
"The boss is back!"
Several bandits opened the gate of the village and ran down to greet them.
When Li Yuyan saw this, a sneer appeared on his lips.
Immediately, he ordered the soldiers to push the cart to a stop, then lowered the brim of his hat and stepped forward.
Several bandits on guard saw Li Yuyan coming out and waved to them, thinking that the boss wanted them to carry the loot.
So he quickened his pace and almost ran forward.
"Master, thank you for your hard work! I'm here to help..."
Before the few people who had just arrived in front of Li Yuyan had finished speaking, they felt a cold touch on their necks, and then they fell to the ground and lost their breath.
Looking at the fallen bandits, Li Yuyan showed a strange smile, and then continued to let the soldiers push the cart towards the village.
The bandits in the village thought that the boss was back, and they all came to welcome him happily.
But when they saw Li Yuyan and others clearly, their expressions changed instantly. These people were not the boss and the brothers of the village at all!
At this time, Li Yuyan no longer tried to hide it, he directly showed the sword in his hand and killed the bandit closest to him.
Although these bandits also know some kung fu, they are worlds apart from real soldiers.
Soon, they all fell into a pool of blood.
Li Yuyan looked at the corpse on the ground coldly and thought to himself:
"Girl, you don't have to worry about the bandits on Yingzui Mountain trying to bring bad luck to you!"
…
In the capital, Lin Xiao and Yu Xilin arrived at the entrance of Huxin Pavilion.
I saw many luxurious sedan chairs parked at the entrance of the Huxin Pavilion, which showed their affluence and proved how much they valued the Poetry Club.
Zhao Qian stood on the side of the entrance of Huxin Pavilion. When he saw Lin Xiao and Yu Xilin, he immediately greeted them.
He cupped his hands towards Lin Xiao: "Master Lin!"
"Master Zhao!"
Lin Xiao also bowed her hands towards him in return.
Yu Xilin also nodded politely towards Zhao Qian, but he did not have any good impression of Zhao Qian in his heart.
But since he was accompanying Lin Xiao to attend the poetry club, he would try his best to cooperate, but he would not show too much enthusiasm.
"Mr. Lin, it is an honor for me, Mr. Zhao, that you can come. Please come with me!"
Zhao Qian said a few polite words and then made a gesture of invitation.
Lin Xiao nodded, and then followed Zhao Qian towards the Huxin Pavilion.
Lake Center Pavilion, as its name suggests, is an all-wooden pavilion located in the middle of the lake.
There is only one corridor that leads directly to the pavilion, and the rest is an endless lake.
At this time, the pavilion in the center of the lake was already full of literati. They were shaking their fans, enjoying the gentle lake breeze, tasting wine, and reciting poems.
Several of these people knew Yu Xilin, and they spoke with contempt on their faces, talking about Yu Xilin behind his back.
"Hey, why is he here? Was it because the boy at the door was lazy and didn't stop him?"
"You can't say that. Maybe he bought the admission ticket and walked in seriously?"
"Does he have such spare money? Stop talking nonsense!" A fat young man said sarcastically, "If he really had such spare money, he wouldn't even use my sister's personal money to eat!"
This fat young man is called Chen Yun, and he is the second young master of the Beijing Tavern.
This group of literati originally looked down on him. After all, he belonged to a merchant family, which was no different from a lowly family.
Later, because his eldest brother obtained the imperial examination and became an official in the dynasty, as the saying goes, if a person achieves enlightenment, a chicken or a dog ascends to heaven, their family's status also changed from their original business status to official status.
These literati reluctantly accepted him.
Thanks again to [Jijia Xinxiang] and [Beiming Yuexuan] for the recommendation votes. I am grateful and touched! Thank you for your support!