"Clang."

In a dilapidated village not far from Donghu Village, which is composed of countless wealthy families around Donghu Shuize, there was a sound of metal falling to the ground.

The dilapidated village looked even more dilapidated because of the outburst of the Yellow River. If it weren't for the daily necessities of the common people still placed in the courtyard, it would only make people think that this was an abandoned ancient village that had long been abandoned.

And as the first sound sounded, the whole village began to hear one after another.

Wait until the sound of metal falling to the ground is over.

In the night outside the village, a long and long horn sound was also heard.

A group of Habayashi right guard officers and soldiers who had changed into common people's clothes looked at each other and then nodded.

"Donghu Village is rich and unkind!"

"Destroy Donghu Village and become the master of the country!"

The sound was so loud that the whole village was shaken. Even the big dogs guarding the village were so frightened that they lay in the corner and did not dare to move.

But in the entire village, except for the repeated calls from the officers and soldiers of the Habayashi Guards, there was no movement.

In the distant night, the long trumpet sound suddenly became faster and sharper.

The expressions of the officers and soldiers of Habayashi's right guard changed, and the content of their shouts also changed.

"Killed!"

"Dead people!"

"People from Donghu Village started killing people!"

"He killed someone..."

The officers and soldiers of Habayashi's right guard kept shouting, and after a few shouts, they quietly disappeared into the night outside the village.

At the same time, the same things were happening in the villages dotted with Donghuzhuang.

However, the reactions are much the same.

It seemed that these villages, which were obviously inhabited by people, had turned into deserted and lonely villages tonight.

only.

Everything is changing.

Bang.

In a courtyard whose walls had collapsed, the light of an oil lamp suddenly lit up behind the small window.

Then, the lights came on one after another.

Like stars in the night sky, they are scattered in the wilderness of Kaifeng Mansion.

Creak.

The rotten wooden door groaned, revealing a gap, spreading more light into the courtyard outside.

Suddenly, a black shadow blocked the light, but seemed to be pushed out of the door and into the yard by those weak but exceptionally bright lights.

He is a common man who has already put on clothes.

The legs of his trousers are still stained with the mud he brought back from the river today.

The man walked to the place where the noise was coming from in the courtyard, bowed his head and took a knife in his hand.

"It's a knife!"

A low cry came from the yard next door.

The man turned his head and saw everyone in the village getting up and walking out of the house.

In the dark night, someone made a sound of surprise.

"It's His Royal Highness the Emperor's Grandson! His Highness sent someone to deliver it!"

"When I was working on the river today, I saw His Highness the Emperor Taisun coming with someone!"

In the village, there began to be noisy noises.

But everyone is still hesitant.

Outside the village, the officers and soldiers of Habayashi's right guard, who had clearly left, quietly came over again.

Under a courtyard wall, an officer and soldier with the loudest voice raised his head.

"His Highness must have been involved in the matter, so he asked us to make our own decisions!"

"If someone is killed in Donghu Village, find out the murderer and bring it to His Highness. The Emperor's Grandson will definitely make the decision for us!"

As the officers and soldiers opened their mouths, the remaining officers and soldiers shouted again.

"Destroy Donghu Village and become the master of the country!"

"Destroy Donghu Village and become the master of the country!"

One sound after another, one sound louder than the other.

Gradually, the people in the whole village, armed with swords and guns in their hands, also joined in the shouting.

Gradually, the voices of the people drowned out the voices of the officers and soldiers.

Finally, the officers and soldiers of Habayashi's right guard truly left quietly.

And the people in the village, armed with swords and guns, also walked out of their homes one after another, and under the starry sky, they took the first step towards Donghu Village.

And those people who did not have swords and guns also picked up manure forks, hoes, hatchets, etc. in their yards.

The people moved.

…

And in Donghuzhuang.

The families who owned almost the entire area around Donghu Village, from Zhongmu County in the west to Kaifeng Fucheng in the east, were all stunned.

The man who is the master of the family has vowed to produce a family with two rankings of Jinshi in the next subject. He also holds a knife in his hand and looks at the people outside the gate of the mansion with some surprise, at the people who have stopped in the night in the distance.

crowd.

The imperial court did not ban swords and guns, only crossbows and other sharp weapons.

Originally, the man had become ruthless and vowed to chop down a few people to establish his power if these mud-legged people dared to rush to the door of his house, so that these mud-legged people would know who was the biggest in Donghu Village.

Just now?

The mud-legged men who had been shouting all the way, holding torches, actually stopped far away in the night.

The man pricked up his ears and his expression suddenly changed.

Those 'mud-legged men' were actually shouting into the air, shouting about killing people, killing people, and so on.

These people are not idiots!

The man's expression changed drastically.

Just when he was about to take action, he saw those people in the dark began to flee.

flight!

After thinking for a while, the man felt that this word was the most appropriate.

Bang.

The steward of the house, who hadn't noticed the strangeness yet, looked at the mud-legged people receding like the tide, and finally his whole body went limp, and after taking a long breath, he fell to the cold ground.

"Finally retreated, finally retreated..."

There were even younger members of the clan holding swords and long knives, hiding the fear previously on their faces, revealing expressions of disdain and domineering.

"A mud-legged person is a mud-legged person. The thunder is louder and the raindrops are lighter. He deserves to be poor for the rest of his life!"

"Oh!"

No one noticed that the owner's face was even more ugly than before.

To the side, not far away, from another family that had lived in Donghu Village for generations, several stewards and servants came over.

"Young men are here on the orders of the master of the family, and want to remind your family."

"Something's not right tonight."

The steward who rushed over from the neighboring residence of Donghu Village had just finished speaking when, in the distant wilderness under the dark night, a far greater momentum suddenly erupted than before.

"Close the door quickly!"

"Take the bamboo fork and put it on the wall!"

The middle-aged head of the family's eyes trembled, and he immediately turned around, dragging a member of the clan who was still clamoring for mud-legs earlier, but was now stunned by the noise in the wilderness, and ran towards the gate of the house.

The steward who had just rushed over to remind me took a look at the mud-legged people who had already rushed out of the night. His legs were trembling. He wanted to turn back but did not dare to go through the night. Finally, he swarmed with the people here.

They squeezed into the mansion gate.

In the darkness, on the only road leading to Donghu Village away from the surrounding villages, Zhu Yunxi, protected by many guards in golden robes, surrounded by Zhu Gaochi, Zhu Shangbing, Gao Guang, Pei Benzhi and other officials, quietly stared at the brightly lit Donghu Village in front of him.
To be continued...