Chapter 136: Returning to the County to Report a Letter
"Yes!" Zhu You agreed, holding the bloody sword and staggering out of the woods.
Not long after, Zhu You came back from outside, and also brought a carriage over, and said to Liu Xiu: "My lord, most of the guards in the county have been killed, and there are only a dozen or so people left alive. But Chang Bin is not dead yet, he was just knocked unconscious."
Liu Xiu nodded, shook his head and said, "Let's work!"
Everyone started working together and loaded most of the corpses in the woods into the carriage. Deng Yu walked up to the stunned men, kicked them with his feet, and asked: "Lord, what should I do with these people?"
Liu Xiu rolled her eyes and said, "Just leave two or three alive!"
Upon hearing this, Zhu You stepped forward quickly and stabbed five people to death one by one with his sword, leaving three big men behind in the end.
The four people drove the carriage filled with corpses for a long distance and came to a wilderness. They stopped and began to dig holes in the ground to bury the corpses.
After everything was taken care of and no traces were left, they drove the carriage back and rearranged the scene.
Some of the corpses left in the woods were dragged out and placed among the killed officers and soldiers, while other corpses continued to be left in the woods. This was done to create two fighting scenes.
After the arrangement was completed, Yan Guang took a bucket of water and poured a bowl of water on the heads of each stunned officer and soldier.
Chang Bin was the first to wake up. He coughed twice, turned his head and spit out a mouthful of dirty water, and then slowly opened his eyes.
He had just woken up and his vision was still unclear. After a while, he finally saw clearly the people standing in front of him.
However, these people were neither human nor ghosts. They were covered in red from head to toe, all of them were stained with blood, and their clothes were in tatters.
Chang Bin looked around slowly, closed his eyes again, and asked in a hoarse voice: "Am I dead?"
"Master Chang is not dead." Liu Xiu said.
Chang Bin opened his eyes again, his vision became clearer. His eyes fell on Liu Xiu. After a moment, he shuddered and subconsciously touched his ribs, but his ribs were empty and the sword was no longer there. , he shouted sternly: "You are so brave! I am a thief under my sect..."
Before he could finish speaking, Liu Xiu interrupted: "Mr. Chang, I'm Liu Xiu!" As he spoke, he knelt down, took a handful of water from the bucket, and washed the blood on his face.
Chang Bin blinked and was stunned for a moment, then slowly frowned and looked at Liu Xiu in confusion.
Liu Xiu asked curiously: "Have you forgotten what happened just now?"
"Just now?" Chang Bin had a look of confusion on his face.
"Master Chang was knocked unconscious just now! By the way, the other officers and soldiers were also stunned!"
After Liu Xiu said this, Chang Bin suddenly remembered everything.
He clearly remembered that everyone in his party fell to the ground and fell unconscious one after another after eating the food cooked by Wang Yuan and others. He persisted until the end, but after receiving a kick from Wang Yuan, he also fell unconscious.
"Damn Wang Yuan! Where is he now?" As he spoke, Chang Bin became angry and struggled to get up from the ground. Zhu You and Gai Yan stepped forward, one of them took one of his arms and helped him. stand up.
Standing up, Chang Bin looked around, his mouth wide open involuntarily, and he was stunned on the spot. All around him were corpses, most of them were the corpses of the county guards, and there were also some corpses of Wang Yuan's men mixed in. .
Liu Xiu stepped forward, waved his hand to Chang Bin, and said, "Mr. Chang, Mr. Chang must hold on to what I'm going to say next."
Chang Bin looked at Liu Xiu and nodded blankly.
Liu Xiu slowed down his speech and said word by word: "When I was passing by here, I saw Wang Yuan's group killing the unconscious officers and soldiers. Seeing us, Wang Yuan's group immediately divided into They took two routes, one route besieged us, and the other route took Miss Yin away and ran towards the woods. After we defeated the besieging enemies, we chased them into the woods and were attacked again. In the end, we really couldn't I can bring Miss Yin back!"
After hearing Liu Xiu's words, Chang Bin's head buzzed and he almost fainted again.
Yin Lihua was a quasi-imperial concubine, so how could she be kidnapped during her escort? Not only could his own head be saved, but the whole family had to be executed along with him.
Chang Bin felt dizzy and swayed back and forth. If Zhu You and Gai Yan hadn't been supporting him on both sides, he wouldn't even have the strength to stand up at this time.
At this time, the other dozen or so surviving officers and soldiers also woke up one after another. Seeing the scene around them and seeing Liu Xiu and others, people shouted, picked up weapons from the ground, and started to attack them.
Chang Bin came to his senses and shouted to his subordinates around him: "Stop it!"
When the guards saw their immediate superior, Chang Bin, they were so frightened that they put down their weapons and looked at him with big eyes and small eyes. For a while, they didn't understand what happened.
Chang Bin asked: "Liu Xiu, tell me, which direction did Wang Yuan and others run with Miss Yin?"
Liu Xiu pointed in the direction of the woods and said, "Over there!"
Chang Bin waved to a dozen guards and said, "Hurry! Follow me and chase!"
"My lord, my lord -" Liu Xiu stopped Chang Bin in a hurry, shook his head and said: "With the state of my lord and my fellow officers and soldiers, let alone being unable to catch up with Wang Yuan and others, even if we catch up, what will happen?"
Chang Bin was stunned for a moment, then suddenly he looked up to the sky and laughed like crazy. After laughing for a long time, he sighed with a cry: "God is going to kill me! God is going to kill me..."
Liu Xiu said seriously: "My lord, in my opinion, you should quickly return to the county and report the situation to the prefect. The fault of Miss Yin's robbery this time is not all your fault. Moreover, you are the brother-in-law of the prefect. The governor will definitely try to save you!"
Chang Bin thought for a while and nodded repeatedly, feeling that what Liu Xiu said was reasonable. His brother-in-law would not just watch him being questioned by the court. With his mind, he would definitely be able to come up with a better solution.
He patted Liu Xiu and said, "You are all important witnesses. You need to go back to the county with me and tell my brother-in-law exactly what happened here!"
Liu Xiu and others had no objection and nodded in unison.
Chang Bin left a few officers and soldiers behind and asked them to go to Jiyang nearby to report the news and collect the bodies here. He took the rest of the officers and soldiers, as well as Liu Xiu and others, and hurried to the county seat.
They took two carriages, and the journey that originally took two or three hours took only more than an hour. It was already late at night, and the gate of the county city was closed, but with Chang Bin here, entering the city was naturally easy.
After successfully entering the county town, Chang Bin took Liu Xiu and others and went straight to the prefect's mansion.
When the people reported the news to Zhen Fu, Zhen Fu had already fallen asleep. After hearing the news that Chang Bin had returned to the city, Zhen Fu waved his hands impatiently and said incomprehensively: "I understand, let him come back tomorrow morning see me."
"But sir, it seems...something happened..." the servant who reported the news said cautiously.
Zhen Fu lay on the bed for a while, opened his eyes suddenly, sat up from the bed, and asked: "What happened? What happened?"
"Uh... Lord Chang didn't say anything, but looking at Lord Chang, he looks very embarrassed."
Zhen Fu sat on the bed, rolled his eyes, and immediately got out of bed. While dressing, he said urgently: "Let Chang Bin go to the hall and wait for me... No, let him go to the study!"
Chang Bin and Liu Xiu were invited into the prefect's mansion. They waited in the study for less than a stick of incense before Zhen Fu arrived. It could be seen that Zhen Fu arrived in a hurry and didn't even have any clothes.
Dressed neatly, just draped haphazardly on the body.
Seeing Liu Xiu covered in blood, Zhen Fu was startled. After careful identification for a while, he recognized Liu Xiu. He said in surprise: "Uncle Wen? You...why are you here?"
Before Liu Xiu could speak, Chang Bin plopped down, knelt down on the ground, kowtowed forward, with snot and tears streaming down his face, and said with a choked voice: "Brother-in-law, please help me! Brother-in-law, please save me -" As he spoke, he knelt down and knelt down.
The ground was filled with tears.
Zhen Fu was dumbfounded and didn't understand what was going on. He pulled Chang Bin twice, but failed to pull him up. Zhen Fu frowned more tightly, looked at Liu Xiu, and asked: "Uncle Wen
,What exactly is going on?"
Liu Xiu cleared his throat and said: "Sir, I came to the county this time specifically to thank you. Last time, I helped you pacify the Green Forest Army and was rewarded by you. My eldest brother and I have been coming to express our gratitude to you, and we are very happy.
I feel sorry for myself..."
Zhen Fu didn't want to hear this. Before Liu Xiu finished speaking, he waved his hand and interrupted: "Uncle Wen, let me ask you what happened to Chang Bin!"
Liu Xiu coughed dryly and said, "When we passed by Jiyang, we saw Master Chang being killed by a group of people. We went up to stop him, but the group of people ran away with Miss Yin."
"What are you talking about?" When Zhen Fu heard this, his eyes were as wide as bells. He took a step forward and grabbed Liu Xiu's collar. Looking at his expression, he seemed to want to eat someone.
He recommended Yin Lihua to Wang Mang, and he was also responsible for escorting Yin Lihua into the city, but now he was told that Yin Lihua had been kidnapped?
Liu Xiu lowered his head and whispered: "Yin... the young lady of the Yin family was... kidnapped by a group of thugs. I... although we stepped forward to stop them, but they were so numerous. We really
Couldn’t stop it!”
Zhen Fu looked directly at Liu Xiu. At this time, he really hoped that Liu Xiu was joking with him. But the fear and panic on Liu Xiu's face clearly told him that this was not a joke, but the truth.
He slowly let go of Liu Xiu's collar, turned around and kicked Chang Bin, who was kneeling on the ground crying, and shouted angrily: "Are you all fucking dead? Why didn't you stop it? Tell me, why didn't you stop it?
?”
Chang Bin was kicked to the ground, and then he got up again and continued to kneel down. He cried and said in a trembling voice: "Brother-in-law, we were all stunned beforehand, more than a hundred brothers, and,
And Mr. Hu, all...were all killed...wuwu..."
Zhen Fu put his hand on his forehead, shook his body, and took two steps back. He quickly held on to the wall to prevent himself from falling. He waited for a long time and asked: "Who did it...?"
Before Chang Bin could speak, Liu Xiu took out a wooden waist tag from his arms as if he wanted to offer it a treasure, handed it to Zhen Fu, and said seriously: "Sir, this villain picked this up at the scene!"
Zhen Fu took the waist badge, looked down, retracted his fingers, and held the waist badge with a rattling sound.
He gritted his teeth and said, "The Yin family! I knew how the Yin family could give up Yin Lihua so easily! If I don't kill all the Yin family this time, I will not be a human being!"
On the waist plate, there is a big word "Yin" engraved on it.
