At this time, the entire Yuqi Tower had become quiet.
You may not think that this place is a brothel, but in fact, in ancient times, even a "nightlife place" like a brothel would be noisy until around midnight at most, and no one would be able to get high any later.
Of course, Hong Wei is still energetic at the moment.
A few hours ago, when he finished chatting with the madam and sent the latter out of the room, he announced that he was tired and wanted to rest early, so he would not let the girl accompany him tonight.
As soon as the madam heard this, she knew that he had taken the bait, so she pretended to be confused, made a promise and left.
After that, Hong Wei couldn't wait to start preparations.
By this moment, he had already changed his clothes, packed his luggage, picked up his sword and was ready to set off.
From the preparations he made before going out, it is not difficult to tell that he planned to run away from the second floor directly after committing the crime, so as to save the step of returning to this room to pick up the baggage.
I have to say that his judgment is quite correct - for any criminal behavior, one more step will increase the risk of being caught.
After all, Hong Wei is a veteran, and he still has this experience; in addition, he also knows very well that after "picking flowers", a person's body will be a little weak and the mind will become dull within a certain period of time. At this time
It is easiest to get caught, so the sooner you get away from the crime scene after the incident, the better.
To make a long story short, when he felt that the time was almost up, Hong Wei opened the door and left the room. After closing the door behind him, he tiptoed along the corridor towards the west wing of the second floor.
This distance is not far, it is almost like walking from the classroom to the toilet on the other floor when you were in elementary school... With Hongwei's lightness skills, even if he doesn't make any sound, he can still reach it with just a few steps.
When he arrived at the door of the west wing, he stretched out his hand and pushed the door open without doing anything like "punch the window paper first and let some smoke in".
Because for a master like him, it is too easy to subdue a weak woman. He doesn't need to use anything like smoke at all. He just needs to quietly approach the opponent, cover the opponent's mouth quickly, and then stab the opponent with the sword.
Just put one on the neck and it's all done.
In those days, if an average woman encountered such a battle in the middle of the night, ninety-nine percent of the time, her mind would go blank, her whole body would become weak, and she would be unable to scream even if she wanted to... Then Hong Wei would bluff and scare her again...
, the opponent basically obeyed in fear and with tears; as for those who were bold, strong-willed, and refused to obey, when he saw that he could no longer scare the opponent, he would just knock them out.
Gu——
At this moment, in the darkness, Hong Wei pushed the door lightly, but felt it was blocked immediately, and the sound of wood tapping came from behind the crack in the door.
He wasn't too surprised by this, it was nothing more than the door being bolted from the inside.
Although the doors of most brothels are not locked from the inside even at night, based on the Madam's previous description of the "Zhi'er" girl, it makes sense that this room would be locked.
"Ha..." Hong Wei smiled when he saw this, because the door, which was bolted from the inside, made the Madam's story seem more real.
So, becoming more and more anxious, he immediately mobilized his inner strength, grabbed the door latch through the door panel, and removed the latch.
In order to avoid misunderstanding here, I have to make a digression: Actually, this door... does not have to be opened this way. It is the most difficult way to open it.
Generally speaking, anyone with a relatively simple design like this, using a small wooden wedge to bolt the door from the inside, can open it with a relatively thin weapon that can fit into the crack of the door, and a little patience.
, it’s just that it will take more time.
Hong Wei no longer had that patience, so he used a more laborious but more time-saving method.
However... as we mentioned before, it is easy to release internal force to the outside, but it is difficult to use internal force to absorb and move external objects; therefore, don't look at it, he just moved a small piece of wood through a not-so-thick door panel.
, just these few seconds of action made him exhausted.
Of course, Hong Wei was now in a state of ecstasy and could no longer care about that. After he successfully opened the door and entered the house, he closed the door again and walked toward the house with the help of the faint moonlight that spilled into the house from the window paper.
Soon, he walked around a screen and saw the bed.
It was at this moment that he realized belatedly that there was a strange fragrance in this room, and the further he walked in, the more obvious the fragrance became.
He took another closer look and found an incense burner placed next to the girl's bed, about three steps away, with white smoke rising from the burner.
In the past six months, Hong Wei has also smelled all kinds of fine incense, and he even recognized the smell of ambergris, but compared with the fragrance in front of him, those in the past were much inferior.
This fragrance seems to be very strong at first, but it is not pungent at all. The more you smell it, the longer and longer it feels, leaving you with an unfinished feeling.
"Haha... the strange fragrance matches the beauty, wonderful, wonderful..." Hong Wei muttered this in his heart, and went to the bed with a lewd smile.
At this time, his expectations for this "branch" had been raised to an unprecedented height. He hadn't seen anyone yet, but just looking at the bulge and the slightly undulating quilt, he already felt his mouth was dry.
Dry, flushed face and ears.
This feeling...he had not seen for a long time. When he first started working as a flower picker, he was pursuing this excitement.
It was in this state of extreme excitement that Hong Wei opened the quilt, and then...he saw a mollusk wriggling under the quilt, to be precise - a pile of flower branches.
From a certain perspective, this also explains the name "Zhi'er".
This scene left Hong Wei stunned on the spot. For a moment, he even suspected that he was dreaming.
What's even weirder is... It stands to reason that these seafood are piled here. Even if they are wrapped in quilts, they should smell fishy when they are opened. But at this moment, Hong Wei's nose still only has that strange fragrance, and there is no fishy smell at all.
Didn't smell it.
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Finally, after being stunned for about three or four seconds, Hong Wei came to his senses. When he exclaimed, he quickly covered his mouth and nose, then took a few steps forward, kicked over the incense burner, and moved towards the scattered incense burner.
I stepped on the incense on the ground a few times, stamping out the sparks inside.
Unfortunately, his response was too slow. When he thought about it, he began to feel weak all over and dizzy.
"What the hell! How dare you plot against me!" Hong Wei, realizing that he had fallen into the trap, immediately opened his voice and yelled.
Before he finished his roar, a distinctive burst of cheap laughter came from outside the house: "Hahahaha! Hahahahaha..."
After Sun Yixie laughed a few times, his tone suddenly changed, and he cursed: "You are a gangster, a thief who picks flowers, and you are worse than a pig or a dog... but you have the nerve to call others a fool? Today I, Sun Yixie, will do it for you."
Do the right thing!"
"Huh! It's just you?" Hong Wei snorted, immediately pulled out his sword, strengthened his inner strength, and sprinted towards the door.
Unexpectedly, before he could step out from behind the screen, dozens of crossbow arrows covered him like rain.
"Tsk!" Hong Wei reacted promptly. He just heard the sound of wind through the screen and saw the shadow of the arrow, so he immediately stopped and rolled, and kicked over a table in the room to block it in front of him.
Tuk-tuk-tuk-tuk...
After a breath, the crossbow arrows pierced the screen and stuck on the floor, the wall, and the overturned table in front of Hong Wei.
"I definitely can't do it alone." The next second, Sun Yixie's mocking words followed the arrow, "But with the addition of all the officers, soldiers and agents from our Hangzhou Prefecture, I think it will be more than enough.
"
"You fart!" Hong Wei also scolded, "If I hadn't been careless and you used poisonous smoke to plot against me, even if you blocked a hundred people at the door today, I would still have killed you all!"
"Ha!" Sun Yixie heard the words and sneered, "What do you mean a plot? Who plotted against you?" He said, gradually raising his tone, "I tell you~ this smoke is the unique secret recipe of Yuqilou
, it’s what you mentioned about ‘forcing a girl to submit’ when you were chatting with the madam today… I’m kind-hearted and brought it to your amusement.”
His words sounded sarcastic, but the truth also revealed a message, that is - I know every word that Hong Wei said to the madam today.
Thinking further from this, it is not difficult to guess that Hong Wei's every move in the past few days is all under Sun Yixie's control.
Previously at the construction site of the "West Lake Elegant House", Sun Yixie did not set an ambush for Hong Wei directly. The biggest reason was because he did not have enough information at hand: at that time, in addition to the opponent's martial arts skills, Sun Yixie had no idea about this "blackmailer"
He knew almost nothing and had no idea whether the other party had any accomplices. In addition, the construction site was surrounded by open terrain and close to the lake, making it too easy to escape. Therefore, Sun Yixie did not take action, but chose to use a delaying tactic.
Try to lock down the other party's identity first and then make calculations.
This is called - until I have the strength to kill you, everything is a misunderstanding.
But now, Sun Yixie has found out who Hong Wei is, and even knows his psychology, personality, and even many of his daily habits. If this doesn't count him, then Brother Sun shouldn't mess with him either.
"You sharp-tongued boy..." But it was impossible for Hong Wei to deduce the above-mentioned things at this moment. He was dizzy and angry, and he was trapped in such a small space.
The only door was blocked by a crossbowman, so all he could think of was to escape first and then say, "I'll count you as the winner today, we'll see what happens in the future!"
After saying these cruel words, he flew up, raised his sword and struck at the window on one side of the room, preparing to jump out of the window and escape.
unexpectedly……
"Ah!" Hong Wei was only halfway through this continuous movement when he was surprised to find that outside the split window... there was a net, and it was an iron wire that was extremely tough and difficult to cut with an ordinary sword.
net.
This net was undoubtedly specially made for this room. The net pattern is almost the same as the shape of the window panes in this room, so it will not be exposed when the moonlight comes through.
锔——
After Hong Wei's sword broke through the window, he used the remaining force to strike at the net without even breaking any of the net wires. This alone...had already made his arm numb.
"I hired some of the best blacksmiths and weavers in the city, and mobilized dozens of my skilled fishing net weavers to drive this net out overnight. Isn't it a little tough?" Sun Yixie said at the door.
Seeing the thing being bounced back, he immediately smiled and said, "As far as I know, your sword is not a precious weapon, so I'm afraid you won't be able to open this window for a while."
Hong Weixin said: If I hadn't been hit by the poisonous smoke and my whole body was weak, even if I didn't have a precious weapon in my hand, I would still be able to tear open a hole and run away.
Thinking about it makes him very angry, but it's useless...
In the blink of an eye, following Sun Yixie's mocking words, another round of arrows rained from the direction of the door.
This time, without the obstruction of the screen, the crossbowmen could aim more accurately.
Hong Wei had just been bounced from the window at this moment, and his footing was not stable. In addition, the poison on his body took effect faster after he exercised, making him more and more weak... Under many unfavorable factors, he hurriedly swung his sword to block.
He blocked the attack, but only the vital parts of his body were protected. He was hit by an arrow each in his left calf and left shoulder.
"Hmm -" Within a few seconds after being hit by the arrow, Hong Wei knew that the arrow was also quenched with poison, because the pain from his two wounds was almost immediately replaced by a gradually spreading numbness.
At this moment, Hong Wei really started to panic.
Originally, he thought that even if he couldn't kill all the people who ambushed him, just escaping would still be safe, but now the situation was quite pessimistic.
But he is not yet desperate, because he knows there is another way...
Bang, bang, bang...
Obviously, in this era when houses were mainly made of brick and wood, most warriors knew the routine of "leaving or entering a room by destroying the floor or ceiling"; unlike the walls filled with bricks, the upper and lower floors of the house at that time
Both sides are easier to damage.
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After the sound of the board breaking, there was the sound of the sword tip hitting the iron plate.
Obviously, Sun Yixie must have thought of everything Hong Wei could think of at the moment - if he hadn't been fully prepared, Sun Yixie wouldn't have let the madam set up a trap for Hong Wei.
Today, the west wing of the second floor is a "bird-killing cage" specially built for Hong Wei. As long as he goes in, it will be poisonous smoke, iron nets, iron plates, crossbow arrows, spiritual attacks... one by one.
Huan Di came up to greet me. This was done by calculation and unintentionally. No matter how powerful you are in martial arts, you will still die.
"Ah? This..." Seeing that he couldn't get out from the floor, Hong Wei finally showed an expression he hadn't shown for a long time.
Fear, an emotion he had not experienced for a long time, visited him again.
Since he quickly became a first-class master due to an unexpected encounter, this was the first time that he felt that his life was under a major threat.
It was only then that he discovered that he was not that powerful after all - it didn't mean that as long as he didn't meet the top masters in the world, he could face any situation with confidence.
It turns out that as long as they are well prepared, even a group of close to ordinary people can kill a martial arts master without any damage.
"Wait... wait!" When the third round of arrow rain came, Hong Wei stumbled back behind the table, "Sun Shaoxia! We have something to talk about!"
"I have nothing to say to you." Sun Yixie replied coldly without even thinking about it.
"Sun Shaoxia, I can repay you in full... No! Double the amount!" Hong Wei said, "I only have a few hundred taels left in my bag now. You can give me some time for the rest..."
Tuk-tuk-tuk-tuk...
Before he could finish speaking, another volley of crossbow arrows came.
Since this round was a concentrated shooting, the table in front of Hong Wei was immediately filled with holes. Several arrows had even poked half of the table through, and the table was about to break into pieces.
"Is it a matter of money between you and me?" At this time, Sun Yixie said again, "In order to catch you, I have already spent more than what I gave you, and I still care about the little in your hand.
Son?" He paused and then said, "Today, I just want you and everyone in the world to know that... a guy like you... who dares to run wild on my land, Sun Yixie, will be a bad person.
What will happen!"
After saying this, the next volley was fired.
After all, the table in front of Hong Wei could no longer withstand it, and several more arrows pierced through the riddled tabletop and pierced Hong Wei's torso and limbs.
"Ah! Ah -" Hong Wei began to scream, "No... don't kill me... I will capture you without any help! Sun Shaoxia! Grandpa Sun! Please spare me! Spare me!"
At this moment, he seemed to have changed back to the person he was before he was twenty-five years old, back to that timid and fearful ordinary citizen.
He regretted it.
He couldn't help but have this thought flashing through his mind: If he had not fallen because of desire, but stuck to the moral bottom line and continued to be a good person, maybe he would not have ended up like this.
But it was too late. He had already committed too many sins and owed too much blood debt.
For criminal gangsters and flower-picking thieves like Hong Wei, when a bounty is offered, the reward is always "life or death" because the government also knows that such people are difficult to catch. If the government requires that they be captured alive, or the reward for being captured alive is higher.
, but it will increase the possibility of his escape.
Therefore, the officers and soldiers who came here today were ordered to "die at ease". All they had to do was take the body back. Even if the body was incomplete, it didn't matter. It was just like taking the head back.
To take a step back, it would be fine even if Hong Wei's corpse was cut into thousands of pieces... Anyway, Sun Yixie had already confirmed his identity before that, and the government was fully confident.
So...
Amid Hong Wei's pleas, the officers and soldiers holding crossbows at the door slowly made some openings, allowing the team of officers and soldiers behind them who had been waiting in the corridor for a long time, holding long guns, to enter the room...
After these soldiers with long weapons entered the house, they formed a formation, kept a distance, surrounded Hong Wei, and approached him step by step.
At this moment, Hong Wei was injured in many places on his body and had been poisoned by at least two kinds of poisons. He had no strength to resist. He looked at the gun heads getting closer and closer to him, his face turned pale with fright, and he shouted in despair.
Howling hoarsely.
Until he was stabbed to death by random gunshots until his flesh and blood were mutilated and he stopped moving. The miserable lingering sound seemed to still be echoing on the beam.