Chapter 10: The Thief
Xiao Ying happily passed by his father's room, saw that the door was still locked, and knew that her father might not come back again, she had long been used to it, and after entering her own room, she plugged the door and rested in bed.
In the haze, she felt a knock on the door, she was too sleepy, thinking that her father was back, but she didn't care, and continued to sleep.
Suddenly, a black shadow pounced on her, and Xiao Ying woke up from her dream, and a black man with a light veil was about to insult her.
"There are thieves!" Xiao Ying just shouted in fright, and the black-clothed masked man covered her mouth with a big hand, making her feel suffocated.
She struggled desperately, and in a panic, the kettle on the small table next to the bed fell to the ground and shattered with a clatter.
These noises just alarmed one person, it was Zhang Baihu who came back for the first time. He originally went to a village more than ten miles away to drill a girl's bed.
But when the two men were happy, they were asleep when a gang of thieves came to the village, and I don't know how many of them, and they were screaming and neighing, murdering, robbing, and setting fires, and the screams alarmed them.
The people in the village scrambled for their lives, and Zhang Baihu and his concubines also fled in a hurry.
Zhang Baihu Pegasus returned to the office, it was already the third watch, he didn't alarm anyone, let his subordinates lead the horse to feed, and went straight to his room.
As soon as he walked to his room, he heard his daughter's room shouting that there was a thief and throwing things, Zhang Baihu was furious, and this thief was too bold.
"There are assassins, catch thieves!" He shouted outside the door, and the knife rushed into the house.
The black-clothed masked man didn't see it well, so he quickly let go of Xiaoying and ran away. But Zhang Baihu blocked the way, and he cut it with a knife.
The black-clothed masked man has good skills, flashed to the side, Zhang Baihu slashed the air with a knife, and the black-clothed masked man also had an extra knife in his hand at this time, and he stabbed at this Zhang Baihu.
The two of them stabbed and killed each other in this room, Zhang Xiaoying had never experienced this kind of thing, so she was so frightened that she shrank in the corner of the bed and forgot to scream.
But the room was too narrow to withstand such a toss, and the tables were overturned, and the stools were overturned.
This movement was naturally not small, coupled with the shouting of Zhang Baihu before entering the house, which alarmed the soldiers on duty, and hurriedly shouted, "There are thieves, catch thieves, there are assassins...... and then the horn of the assembly sounded.
Lin Yi, who was sleeping, was awakened like a conditioned reflex, jumped up from the bed, didn't have time to put on his clothes, and rushed out of the door when the others in the room were still turning over and getting hysteria.
At this time, hearing a miserable scream coming from Xiaoying's house, Lin Yi thought of this direction at a fast speed, and broke into the door......
Zhang Baihu can also do martial arts twice, but over the years, he has neglected to exercise, and often goes to the village at night to drill women's quilts, and he is no longer able to do it when he is less than fifty years old.
And this masked man was fierce, three strikes and five divisions by two, and a knife stabbed into Zhang Baihu's abdomen, and Zhang Baihu fell in a pool of blood with a scream.
The thief heard the shouting outside, wiped his head and ran, just arrived at the door, and met Lin Yi head-on, the thief raised his knife and chopped, Lin Yi was quick and quick. Hit it with a knife, and when there was a bang, the thief's knife was blocked, Lin Yi flew up, and the thief was kicked to the window.
With a click, the window was smashed and the thief fell out of the window.
Then Lin Yi jumped forward and shot out, at this time he saw that a black shadow had run out of more than ten meters, Lin Yi was just about to chase, and Xiao Ying's cry came from inside the house.
"Daddy? …… Dad, are you alright? …… Save people, Medic......"
Lin Yi was worried about Xiaoying and Baihu, so he turned around and entered the house.
At this time, a few of the generals in the station also ran over, carrying torches, each carrying a knife and a gun, shouting and chasing the thief.
"Stop! Don't run ......"
Lin Yi picked up Zhang Baihu, who was covered in blood, and ran outside, as soon as he got outside, Wang Jian, the chief banner, came over with more than a dozen people, and a military doctor ran over with a medical box on his back.
Under the light of the torches, the military doctor hurriedly examined the wound and then applied medicine to bandage the wound. After finishing, he carried Zhang Baihu to his house.
Zhang Baihu's face was pale, and it took a long time before he slowly opened his eyes again, looking at Xiaoying and Lin Yi and others, his lips opened, and he wanted to speak, but he didn't say it after all, his eyes rolled and he passed away.
"Daddy?" ……
Lin Yi was crying on his father's corpse, Zhang Baihu's eyes were still staring, Wang Jian closed Zhang Baihu's eyes, Lin Yi persuaded Xiaoying if he didn't feel good in his heart, afraid that she would cry and break her body.
Xiao Ying threw herself into Lin Yi's arms and cried even more sadly, her shoulders trembled, and she couldn't cry. Lin Yi patted her on the shoulder and comforted her, saying that she would definitely find the murderer to avenge the Lord of Baihu.
Xiao Ying gradually stopped her grief.
At this time, all the soldiers and generals in the station came, and the dozen or so soldiers who were chasing the thief also returned, saying that the thief had run over the wall, and they had not caught up.
At this time, Lin Yi suddenly remembered that the thief was dressed in black and had a light veil, indicating that he did not dare to show his true face, so Lin Yi said that the murderer was likely to be someone everyone knew.
Wang Jian remembered that Lin Yi was reasonable, and immediately gathered everyone to roll call, only to find that only Zhang Hua was not there.
Wang Jian and Lin Yi led the people in the house to hold torches, searched around inside and outside the barracks, and did not find Zhang Hua's shadow, at this time the bed and him next to Dongsheng said that after Zhang Hua drank wine at night, he used the excuse to go to the toilet and did not come back as soon as he left.
Lin Yi knew that Zhang Hua was lustful, and at this time, Lin Yi's mind appeared again in front of him where Zhang Hua coveted Xiaoying's beauty many times, so he was even more convinced that the murderer was Zhang Hua.
Lin Yi, Wang Jian and others were ready to find a way to arrest Zhang Hua, ask the soldiers in the station, and inquire about his whereabouts.
At this moment, a person came in from outside, a little limp, with a blue nose and swollen face, and everyone saw that it was Zhang Hua.
"Good boy, do you dare to come back?" He Tao, Dongsheng, Li Qi, and Erhu surrounded Zhang Hua.
Zhang Hua looked innocent and looked at everyone, "What's wrong?" Is something wrong? ”
Lin Yi was in a hurry, a flash step came over, grabbed the collar of his clothes, and there was a sweeping leg underneath, and he threw Zhang Hua into a dog with a plop, and his intestines were so hung and broken.
Lin Yi lifted him from the ground again, "Say, what did you do just now?" ”
"I, I ......" Zhang Hua had a blue nose and swollen face, but now his nose was broken, and the blood flowed, but he was stumped.
"Don't tell the truth, Lao Tzu wiped you!" Lin Yi said the bright steel knife and put it on his neck.
"Okay, I'll say I'......" Zhang Hua didn't dare to be dishonest anymore, and told him about tonight.
It turned out that after he drank tonight, he was itching in his heart by the strength of the wine. Especially when he saw such a beautiful Xiaoying, who was inseparable from Lin Yi, he couldn't sleep.
He ran to the village more than ten miles away to get into the woman's bed, but he didn't know that there were thieves in the village at night and blocked him in the courtyard.
He ran over the wall, and the thieves chased after him, and he fell several times, and finally he hid in a dog hole, and only then did he escape the catastrophe.
When the thieves had withdrawn, he came out of the dog's hole and ran back.
Unexpectedly, during this period, such a thing happened in the office. Knowing that everyone suspected that he was the murderer, Zhang Hua shouted that he was wronged.
Lin Yi, Wang Jian and others thought that he was not honest, deliberately found excuses to make up nonsense and pretended, ordered someone to tie him up, and planned to cramp, peel off his skin, gouge out his eyes, and carry out heavy punishment.
Zhang Hua still shouted that he was wronged, he said that this thing must have been done by thieves, and it had nothing to do with him, and he didn't believe that you sent someone to a village more than ten miles away to understand the situation. If he was the murderer, would he dare to come back?
Lin Yi calmed down and felt reasonable, and sent two soldiers to the village on horseback to confirm that after these two soldiers came back, they were exactly the same as Zhang Hua said.
The thieves have retreated, the villages have been ransacked, the people have long since run out, the fire is raging, and the village is full of corpses.
And Lin Yi recalled, and you asked Xiao Ying to also recall and identify it, thinking that the murderer was someone else, because the black-clothed masked man who fought with Lin Yi in the house just now was shorter than Zhang Hua and fat.
In this way, they ruled it out, and in the end, Lin Yi and they locked up a person, and this person was Gao Yong, who absconded in fear of crime.
But this is only a suspicion, there is no evidence, only when there is a chance to catch him in the future, this matter has to be put aside for the time being.
Lin Yi, Wang Jian and others helped Xiaoying bury hundreds of households in Chang'an, and wrote to thousands of households.
Before the new head of the hundred households came, Wang Jian, the chief of the flag, acted as the deputy of the hundred households and was responsible for the affairs of the office, Lin Yi once again suggested that Wang Jianjian train the troops and repair the edges, and Wang Jian happily adopted Lin Yi's suggestion. They knew that their army would have to deal not only with the Tartars, but also with the thieves.