The corpse of the chief servant was lying in the withered grass outside the lake embankment. Bright red blood gurgled from the neck, staining a large area of withered grass. Gu Yingxiu was wearing a green coat and green skirt, and she was holding a bloody ritual knife in her hand.
Standing next to the bleeding blood, it seems like a shocking image painting.
Of course the three healthy servants on horseback didn't know what the Impressionist works were, but the knife the Seventh Lady expressed her determination strongly impacted their hearts, making them no longer dare to ignore or question the Seventh Lady's words, at least this time.
There was no time to do so. There was no time to grieve for the dead companion lying on the haystack. The three healthy servants took out the sabers in their hands, turned their horses' heads and galloped towards the lake embankment.
Even the three healthy servants knew in their hearts that the bandits who were chasing Lin Fu were sent by the Second Young Master to avenge their shame. If they wanted to save Lin Fu here, they would definitely offend the Second Young Master. However, it was the lesser of two evils.
At least for the time being, the second young master has no worries about his life, and his family will not be affected.
Watching the three healthy servants galloping down the lake embankment, Gu Yingxiu seemed to have exhausted all her strength and fell down on the pile of hay. Regardless of the blood spattered all over her body, she rested her hands on the hay and stared at the lake.
Looking down the embankment.
The maids and women were all frightened and looked at Gu Yingxiu with pale faces. They usually knew that the seventh lady was a powerful person, but no one could imagine that she would be so clean and decisive today and kill a servant who did not obey her orders.
Then they forced others to go down the lake embankment to rescue people. Gu Yingxiu fell there, the ground was cold, the maids and women were supposed to help her stand up, or hand her a show card, but at this time everyone
Everyone was stunned, even Gu Yingxiu's personal maid didn't dare to come forward to serve him.
Although Mrs. Zhao was extremely shocked when she saw the Seventh Lady murdering someone, she, like the Seventh Lady, was both concerned about the safety of Lin Fu under the lake embankment and her son who had not yet appeared. Seeing that the four escorting servants refused to listen to the Seventh Lady,
Madam ordered her to go to help, and she wanted to kill them. Even though she thought in her heart, Zhao was still strongly shocked when she saw the Seventh Madam killing one person with her own hands. She walked over, helped the Seventh Madam up, and looked down the lake embankment together.
of wilderness.
The three healthy servants rode down the lake embankment, and were still four to five hundred paces away from Lin Fu. However, the way Lin Fu and others entered the village was blocked by the Dongyang Mansion cavalry, and their retreat had been blocked by the chasing bandit soldiers.
Able to restrain the enemy and dismount, kill these thieves and drive them back.
Gu Yingxiu could tell that Zhou Pu and the two foreigners who appeared in the Luoma Market yesterday were both brave, but there were seven bandits chasing them. Seeing Lin Fu almost being thrown off his horse when he reined in the reins, Gu Ying
Xiu was worried about whether Zhou Pu and the two foreigners could protect Lin Fu from harm and come here to support him.
The next development of the situation far exceeded Gu Yingxiu's imagination.
Gu Yingxiu saw Lin Fu fell off his horse, rolled on the ground and then stood up like a normal person, shouting loudly to the Dongyang Prefecture cavalry blocking the entrance to the village. They were far away, and Gu Yingxiu couldn't hear Lin Fu clearly.
He was shouting something, and he guessed that he was telling the cavalry blocking the road into the village that they had just saved Gu Wuchen's life after spotting the assassin in Shiliang County at noon yesterday.
The Dongyang Prefecture cavalry were unmoved, and they didn't have enough manpower. What if the other party tried to trick them into killing another one by surprise? However, they saw a cavalryman returning to the village, probably asking the Gu family to come out for verification.
Zhou Pu and the two strangers dismounted. The stranger who was holding a bow to interfere with the pursuers threw the bow and the remaining three arrows to Zhou Pu. Zhou Pu took the bow and arrows.
He drew his bow and nocked an arrow, and held two arrows in his mouth. The foreigner's archery skills on horseback were already good enough. When he saw him handing over his bow to others, the seven chasing bandits were naturally careful.
They became cautious, rushed to the edge of the riding bow range, got off their horses, led the horses forward, and hid their bodies behind the horses' sides as they rushed forward.
Zhou Pu did not hesitate. He shot an arrow first and hit a horse in the neck. While the horse was hoofing up and neighing in pain, he quickly shot a second arrow and pierced the chest of a bandit. Gu Ying
Xiu had also seen the local warriors perform archery, but he felt that Zhou Pu's archery skills were unparalleled among the local warriors in the forest.
But at this time, Zhou Pu only had one arrow left in his hand, but there were six people on the other side. The three servants she forced to rescue had not yet ridden their horses and walked forty or fifty steps away. Gu Yingxiu knew that Zhou Pu might be brave alone.
Although she was not afraid of these six bandits, she was worried that Zhou Pu would not be able to protect Lin Fu when he only had half the opponent's manpower. These bandits did not care even if they killed people in front of the Dongyang Mansion cavalry, which showed that Lin Fu was determined to kill Lin Fu.
How strong.
But at this moment, there was the sound of horse hooves coming from a distance. Gu Yingxiu was shocked. Could there be rogue bandits chasing after her? There were far more than seven or eight bandit soldiers raised privately by Lin Xuzong. They were standing high on the lake embankment.
Looking down, she saw two fast horses running towards this direction from the northeast and northwest corners. They were all equipped with bow bags and quivers on their backs. Gu Yingxiu felt her heart go cold. Zhou Pu and the two
Foreigners may not be able to handle the six bandits fully, let alone the visitors who came with bows and arrows. However, the four people who came from behind quickly approached the six bandits and dismounted a hundred paces away, taking out the Biqi from their horses.
The bow was a hard bow that was one-third longer, pointed at the horns, and fired at the six bandit soldiers who were besieged in the middle. About half a bag of arrows were shot each, and each of the six rogue bandits had an arrow in it.
Five or six arrows fell to the ground and could not get up again. Blood flowed all over the ground.
The changes in front of them shocked the people watching on the lake embankment and at the entrance of the village. The three servants who were rushing to rescue also reined in their horses at a distance, not knowing whether to enter or return.
Gu Yingxiu understood what was going on. Lin Fu made it clear that he was trying to trap and kill the second young master Lin Xuzong and several privately raised bandit soldiers. Did he say on the carriage last night, "Wait for him to come and kill him, and then send another one."
"A gift to Sister Yingxiu."
It happened in a very short time, and no one from the Gu family showed up at the entrance of the village to identify Lin Fu and others. The Dongyang Prefecture cavalry saw Lin Fu and the others' powerful methods of trapping and killing the bandits, and couldn't help but become nervous. Naturally, they were even more prepared to wait and see.
They approach the village.
Gu Yingxiu saw Lin Fu patting the dust on his body, clumsily climbing onto his horse, and riding towards this side with Zhou Pu and the six strangers.
Lin Fu rode up to the lake embankment, and got off the horse a little clumsily. When he saw the corpse lying on the withered grass, he seemed to know what happened on the lake embankment just now, and said directly to Gu Yingxiu: "Why did the seventh lady come to see you?"
Mr. Gu’s?”
Gu Yingxiu wanted to stab him in the chest, her heart almost jumped out of her throat just now. Lin Fu turned a blind eye to the corpse lying on the hay pile, but Gu Yingxiu had to hold back the nausea after the murder and forced herself to follow calmly.
The three healthy servants, maids, and mothers-in-law lectured: "Who dares to stand idly by when a disciple of the Lin family is killed? He, Zhao Neng, is an example! When you go back, you will say that he was killed by thieves for Lin Xiucai, and his family can still
Do you know that I will receive financial support from my family? Aunt Zhao, help me back to the car, I have a headache from the cold wind."
Aunt Zhao was still a little worried about Zhao Hu's safety, but she could not reveal in front of others that the Seventh Madam and Lin Fu had arranged to meet at Huyan. She could only help the Seventh Madam into the carriage first.
The three healthy servants, maids, and women dared not say a word, so they just carried the body into the carriage in front and tied the empty, unridden horse to the back of the carriage.
Although the imperial decree required that the masters not arbitrarily lynch their servants and prohibit killing without reason. In fact, in villages where clan power was rampant, lynching was an important means of frightening the servants and clan members. Even if lynching hurt their lives, they would not be prosecuted.
When he went to the government, he redressed the grievances of these servants very fairly. The master who killed the servants without any reason was only sentenced to three years of exile.
There was an emergency today. The servant with the duty of guarding disobeyed the order and refused to rescue the master. If he was killed by the master, even if he reported it to the government, it would only be a fine of silver.
The Gu family finally appeared at the entrance of the village, it was the middle-aged guard who appeared next to Gu Wuchen yesterday.
When he heard the news that the assassins had gathered together and came to plunder, Yang Pu was shocked by the audacity of these assassins, so he sent the cavalry sent by Dongyang Mansion to protect them to stop them at the entrance of the village. He could not let the assassins enter the village and harm the Gu family, while he stayed behind.
Gu Wuchen was by his side to protect his safety. Not long after, the Dongyang Prefecture cavalry sent someone to report that someone claimed to be Master Gu's savior and was being besieged by seven or eight people who thought they were assassins. Yang Pu suddenly thought of the tea scene last night
Lin Fu, who saw through the assassin in the hotel, couldn't let Gu Wuchen take risks at the entrance of the village, so he hurried to the entrance of the village. If Master Gu's savior was surrounded by thieves at the entrance of the village because he stood by and watched, not to mention the guilt in his heart, if word spread, Gu
Your Excellency will become a laughing stock in the officialdom: who would treat his savior like this?
Yang Pu looked at the seven bandits who had been killed by arrows in the field. The battle had ended before he arrived. There were still three horses lying on the ground, one horse was dead, and the other two horses had been hit by arrows and were bleeding.
There were a lot of horses on the ground, their hooves were scratching the ground, white mist was coming from their noses, and they were almost dead. Several other horses had already fled far away, and the Dongyang Prefecture cavalry also sent four people to catch them separately.
They saw Lin Fu riding a horse and slowly descending the lake embankment behind Gu Yingxiu's carriage, followed by a group of knights.
"Uncle Yang," Gu Yingxiu saw Yang Pu coming to the entrance of the village. She asked Zhao to lift the curtain and said to Lin Fu, "Uncle Yang went to Yanjing with my second uncle twenty years ago..."
Lin Fu had heard people mention Yang Pu before, but he didn't recognize him when they met yesterday.
The Yang family has been a servant of the Gu family for four generations. Yang Pu was a martial arts scholar in Shiliang County when he was young. However, martial arts in this dynasty was not as good as literature. If you take the Chinese scholar examination, you will get fame if you are a literary scholar. If you are a martial arts scholar, you will go to the army.
Only by accumulating military exploits can you gain fame. Twenty years ago, Yang Pu did not think about joining the army to gain fame and escape his lowly status. Instead, he accompanied Gu Wuchen to attend a meeting in Yanjing, and stayed with Gu Wuchen in Yanjing for twenty years.
"Lin Juren, I'm really sorry just now. I have a heavy responsibility to protect Master Gu. I hope Lin Juren can understand." The leader of the Dongyang Mansion cavalry is a Yunqi deputy lieutenant from the Dongyang Mansion Soldiers and Horses Division.
Military attache, he also knows that what he did by excluding people from the village just now is very offending, and now he comes to apologize.
Lin Fu didn't say anything. Wu Qi, who was riding behind him, snorted coldly: "Maybe we look suspicious and are not worthy of your trust, so I won't stop and disturb you." He cupped his fists at Lin Fu and said, "Lin Xiucai,
We’ll see you later.”
It is not necessary to say something harsh, but Wu Qi and the others were eager to escape and return to the hiding place, so naturally they had to say something harsh. Wu Qi, the crow, and the other five people all turned their horses and galloped away. Yang Pu followed
Lieutenant Yunqi of the Dongyang Prefecture cavalry all wondered why these people were so difficult to serve. But they were at fault. Seeing Wu Qi and the others riding their horses in the distance, they forgot to retain them.
Lieutenant Yunqi looked at Wu Qi and others walking away, and thought in his heart: fast horses, hard bows, good riding skills, and his behavior is suspicious. But he will not say this to bad luck. Which rich family has it these days?
I didn't have any private soldiers, so I thought it would be fine if Lin Juren didn't get angry and left.