Chapter 15: Blood Red (Part II)
In the second year of Tianbao, Shangyuan Festival, the snow has melted at the beginning of the year, and the day of the festival is very lively.
A man in black came to the Gu family's firecracker light shop. The shopkeeper drank a little wine, and when he was interested, he took his son Fang Rui to sell Kong Ming lanterns here, and when he saw the black-clothed man coming in, he still greeted him with a smile, saying a few festive words, and trying to be happy.
But the other party just nodded, picked up a red lantern, took the brush on the case, wrote the word 'rest in peace' on the paper lantern, dropped a gold nugget, and left the shop.
Shopkeeper Fang watched the other party leave, he frowned, although he was puzzled, but put away the gold nuggets, after all, people give gold nuggets, don't be in vain. He always felt that the font written on Kong Ming's lantern was a little familiar, but he couldn't remember it because he was drunk and confused.
Not long after, Wu Yue Aya bought the soldiers who were guarding the city and went out of the city. On the wild slope of Shili Village, she picked up the wine jar made by Lu Ziji in autumn and poured it into her stomach, lit the Kong Ming lantern with the word "rest" written on it, and let the lone lamp slowly rise, fly into the sky, and finally turn into a spark and disappear into the dark and cold night sky...
The snow covered the ground, and the wind was cold.
Captain Ram led hundreds of officers and soldiers to Shili Village, and at first saw that Shili Village had been burned down, and there were black house ruins everywhere, some of which were still smoking, and there was a miserable woman lying at the entrance of the village. Blood flowed hundreds of steps on the ground, and there were countless corpses. Shocked, and at the same time resentful, who did such a unconscionable thing.
Then he flew off his horse and ordered to investigate the situation in the village, and walked quickly to the village to investigate according to his sword.
After a while, I saw the horses and people on the ground who were dead in strange shapes, and the outfits of these people were obviously not from the village, they should be mountain bandits.
At this time, Wu Yueyan was hiding at the door to snoop when she heard the sound, and found that these people were wearing official uniforms and were not thieves, so she kept hiding at the door and watching.
She had already checked everywhere, except for herself, she had no life left, and she was almost killed, whether it was an old man like the Xie family or a child under the age of ten like the Fu family, all of them died tragically under the indiscriminate knives and guns of the mountain bandits.
"Report to the ram captain, all the old and young in the village have been slaughtered!"
"I already know which mountain bandits did it, these people failed to break into this house, they all died outside the house, and this house was also burned down, there is something strange, let's go in and see."
"Yes!"
Wu Yueya heard the sound getting closer and closer, so she stood up, and happened to look at the ram captain who entered the door.
"Who are you?" The little officer and soldier next to the ram captain were startled, pulled out their swords with a bang, and asked loudly.
"Lu family, Wu Yue Aya!"
The ram captain is quite strange, one is that this little woman is not afraid of so many dead people in this dead village, and the other is not fluctuating in the face of the sword out of the sheath, could it be that those people outside the house were killed by this woman, but such a weak woman is not like a master of the green forest, quite puzzled.
"Why are you alone?" Captain Ram stretched out his hand to block the sword of the officer and soldier next to him, and asked Wu Yueya.
"This is my home." Wu Yueya touched the little lynx that was warming in her arms and replied.
Seeing the person covered on the mat on the ground, combined with the woman's pale face and resolute expression, the ram captain couldn't help but frown, "It's your relatives lying on the ground?" ”
Wu Yueya didn't speak, nodded, and glanced at the corpse covered by the quilt on the ground, if Lu Mu didn't run out, maybe this wouldn't have happened, if she hadn't heard Ah Ya's cry for help, maybe, how could there be so much, Wu Yueya laughed at herself in her heart.
"Captain Ram, what should I do?" At this time, the officer and soldier standing next to him asked.
"Clean up the village, bury the dead villagers, and at the same time summon the story to Lord Assassin Shi to report the matter!" Captain Ram thought about it for a moment and made a decision.
When the officers and soldiers heard this, they quickly went out, leaving Captain Ram and Wu Yueya in the room.
"You have other relatives, it's better to wait with me to go back to Jingzhou City first, if there is a summons, it will be convenient."
"Except for those lying on the ground, I don't have any relatives, and Jingzhou City will go sooner or later."
After answering, Wu Yueya thought about it for a while, and then asked again, "Those bandits, I heard that you said that they were mountain bandits who gathered in the village, how do you plan to avenge the people of this village, how do you avenge me?" ”
"I can't be the master of this matter, but since it is a crusade against the mountain bandits, naturally I will lead the troops to go, and I will definitely get the hatred of the little lady back!"
When Wu Yueya heard this, she also had a little good impression of this general, and maybe she could follow this group of officers and soldiers to take revenge when the time came.
"It's just that I wonder why those bandits can't get even half a step close to this house."
Wu Yueya raised her eyes to look at the puzzled Ram Captain, and replied without hesitation, "There is a master who passed through the village and protected me, if it wasn't for that master who appeared in time, I'm afraid I would have died." ”
"I see, no wonder such a mountain bandit stopped here, it seems that he is a great master! Can you know his honorific surname, what is the title of the rivers and lakes? "Captain Ram didn't suspect Wu Yue Aya, after all, Wu Yue Aya was thin and young, so it was impossible to fight against these mountain bandits. Wu Yueya shook her head, indicating that she didn't know either.
After a busy morning, he finally buried all the dead people in the village, and Wu Yueya also descended to Lu Mu to bury her with the help of officers and soldiers, and set up a wooden monument.
Wu Yueya did not follow the officers and soldiers back to the city, and then refused the invitation of the Gu family. In the house, he changed into black clothes, put on a tattered hat, took a saber of a mountain bandit left behind without permission, and went into the city on his own.
Hundreds of miles outside the city, a group of bandits rested at the foot of a mountain, led by a big man with a bearded hat, who was gulping wine.
"Big boss, last night was really dangerous, the woman didn't know what secret weapon she used, after a string of explosions, the brothers all died, and they fell down, only shooting her with an arrow to slightly extinguish the fire in my heart!" Han Wuyi took a sip of wine and spit out the pus-filled wound on his arm, and the pain was so painful.
"Hmph, if you hadn't stopped X last night, X would have avenged the three masters! This wound is not like an ordinary arrow wound, it has only been festering for a long time! Look at it, wait until you return to the stockade and let the second master take a look for you. Yan Wolf took another sip of wine, exhaled a breath of heat, and touched the box containing gold nuggets beside him, "But the Cui family is refreshing, saying that five hundred taels of gold will give five hundred taels of gold, if it weren't for people living in the city, someone would really turn his house upside down!" ”
"Don't worry about the big boss, and when the righteous gathering village develops, we are not at ease and happy in the world! When the time comes, the big boss will be a small emperor on the mountain, and I will be the left and right prime minister of the big boss, which will be much more comfortable than the big emperor in Chang'an City! Han Wuyi put on his coat, stretched his arms with the swelling pain, and talked about the future.
In the wind, the group of mountain bandits embarked on their way home again.
The snow in the city has melted, Wu Yueya first looked for the Cui family restaurant to stay, twenty wen a night, went to the Cui family compound during the day to guard, staring at the Cui family's every move, so that after four or five days, the Cui family did not have too many suspicious moves, but many matchmakers stepped on the threshold of the Cui family, which is to get married.
Wu Yueya hid in the streets and alleys opposite the Cui family's compound, drinking sake in a small gourd, eating a hu cake that had already been cold, waiting, waiting, and unconsciously a few more days passed. Wu Yueya found that Cui Lie of the Cui family didn't go out much, and occasionally followed the shopkeeper of the Cui family to go out to deal with some things, and the man who was guarding the Cui family, Wu Yueya, also knew him, and accompanied Cui Miao and a group of gangsters to surround himself in the bazaar that day.
Wu Yueya's money has been used up, today is the Shangyuan Festival, and it is also the day when the Cui family Saburo marries, and the neighbors are rumoring that it seems to be Liu Tingshi's youngest daughter, and it seems that her name is Liu Chang'e.
It was getting late, Wu Yueya shook the ashes in the money bag, and she couldn't live in the restaurant after tomorrow. This time, a sedan chair was carried out at the door of Cui's house, Cui Hao and Cui Sheng rode on a horse tied with a green ribbon, and a group of Cui family's family members followed behind, and the scene was spectacular and lively.
Wu Yueya quietly followed not far behind her, and saw Cui Sheng on the horse with a radiant face, looking like this to marry the bride.
It was evening, the sky was slightly dark, the sound of firecrackers in the city was everywhere, and the most lively was the bonfire burning on the street in the square, many people threw dried bamboo into it, and the sound of firecrackers continued.
Cui Sheng's team passed through Fang Street, people came and went, carrying lanterns, adults holding children, daughters-in-law supporting the elderly, guessing lantern riddles, selling night goods, Nanfang was unusually lively on the night of the Shangyuan Festival.
Wu Yueya saw that there was a store selling Kong Ming lanterns next to her, so she stopped and looked at the store, this shop belonged to the Gu family, and now it was the shopkeeper and his son Fang Rui who were running in the store. No longer stayed, and continued to chase Cui Sheng's team.
Leaving Nanfang, I came to a grand mansion. There are eight lanterns hanging side by side at the gate of the mansion, which is very atmospheric, and this is the Thorn History Mansion. And Cui Sheng's welcoming team is stopping here, Wu Yueya, who is hiding in the shadows, listens to the sound of them knocking on the door and asking to see, this Cui Sheng seems to be a poet, and he said a lot of poems that are not very smooth, and he was finally released after some women in the door.
What made Wu Yueya feel strange was that Cui Sheng stood at the door, and as soon as the door opened, he was beaten by a group of women with fists and feet, and he was beaten with his head in his hands. The domestic servants who stood outside the door and watched the play shouted and cheered, as if they had scored a World Cup goal. After the fight, he sent wine again and asked Cui Sheng to drink. Cui Sheng pretended to drink, but poured the wine aside, and after being discovered, a group of women were chattering, Cui Sheng said that there was sweat medicine in it, and he couldn't drink it.
Wu Yueya watched quietly in the cold wind, and in the end, Liu Tingshi and his wife sent out a white and chubby woman and Cui Sheng, and released a wild goose, which can be regarded as marrying someone away.
Continuing to follow the team, he finally returned to the gate of the Cui family's compound, where two red and festive lanterns were hanging at the Cui family's gate at this time. According to the habit of the previous war, Wu Yueya put on black gloves, took out an Uzi submachine gun from the warehouse, opened the safety bolt, and then took a Halloween pumpkin grenade from her waist, pulled the string and threw it towards Cui Lie, who was going out to greet his son and daughter-in-law.
Yu Chiyang originally escorted Cui Lie out of the house, and also looked at the excitement, after all, the master's family got married, and it was the Shangyuan Festival, and he wanted to follow the light, but unexpectedly, a man in black with a hat rushed out of the roadside, threw out an object and threw it at Cui Lie, in the heart of the guard, he drew his sword and blocked it towards the flying object.
Another round of dried bamboo was thrown into the fire, and the sound of firecrackers shook the night sky. Yu Chiyang thought it was just a stone thrown by a scoundrel in the market, but he protected Cui Lie and blocked it with a sword, but he didn't let out an angry shout. However, it caused a loud bang, flashing an ever-expanding pumpkin ghost head, which is exactly the explosion effect of the pumpkin grenade. The force of the explosion overthrew him, and he was considered a first-class master, but he was blown half dead by a grenade, his arm was broken, he fell to the ground, and finally died of excessive blood loss.
Wu Yueya took advantage of this thunder to quickly come to Cui Lie, who was sitting on the ground in horror, and shot at Cui Lie's preparation, but was knocked down by a family member behind her, so she had to take a submachine gun and set off firecrackers to injure her family member.
At this time, Cui Lie reacted, this was someone attacking and killing him, and after getting up, he fled towards the courtyard while shouting for someone to protect him.
Cui Sheng, who was originally out of the sedan chair with the bride, first heard a bang, only to see that the earth and rocks suddenly flew in front of his house, as if a monster was born. And the chubby Liu Chang'e was so frightened that she dragged Cui Sheng to the ground and pressed Cui Sheng under her. Cui Sheng, who was under pressure at this time, couldn't get up, because the bride's size was comparable to that of her brother.
Cui Hao was similar, he was so frightened that he collapsed on the ground, and his crotch was soaked.
Some timid servants covered their ears and said that there was thunder, and the bolder ones found that there were people in black approaching Cui Lie, and rushed up to protect the master of the Cui family, and the other slower ones heard Cui Lie's cry for help, got up from the ground, and also rushed towards the black-clothed hats, but they didn't expect a few firecrackers to explode suddenly, and those servants who rushed in front were shot and fell to the ground wailing, and for a while everyone thought it was a demon law and did not dare to move forward, these servants were frightened, turned into frightened birds, and scattered in a hurry.
The surrounding Cui family servants fled, Wu Yueya saw Cui Lie running into the yard, and also chased in, knocked down two domestic servants who rushed out with wooden sticks with Uzi submachine guns, entered the inner house, and saw that Cui Lie had turned the corridor and ran into the depths of the house under the protection of the servants, so he had to continue to chase forward.
Wu Yueya turned the corner of the corridor and saw a servant holding a crossbow aimed at him, subconsciously bent down, narrowly avoided the arrow, raised the black rose revolver in his hand, and hit the opponent's arm holding the bow and crossbow with a shot. The crossbow fell to the ground, and the bullet leaned on its side and wailed.
Wu Yueya crossed the domestic servant and came to the garden of the inner courtyard, only to see several women seeing Wu Yueya wearing a hat in black burst into here, crying and shouting not to kill them, hiding in the pavilion in the garden. There were lanterns hanging around the pavilion, and Wu Yueya could see the situation in the pavilion clearly, including a servant hiding next to him.
"Where did Cui Lie go?" Wu Yueya came to the side of the pavilion and asked.
One of the women fainted when they saw Wu Yueya approaching, while the other women trembled like quails of an eagle, fearing that the murderer in front of them would kill them.
"Where did Cui Lie go?" Wu Yueya asked again, and at the same time knocked down the servants who came from the side with a shot, which frightened these women to crawl on the ground, after all, they had never seen the firearm in Wu Yueya's hand.
At this time, one of the younger women, holding the pillar, saw the man in black coming towards her, and with a sad face, hurriedly pointed to the garden path, and by this time the tears had already scratched the heavy makeup of the woman.
Wu Yueya walked towards the garden path, and there were colorful lanterns hanging on the stone pillars next to her, but she still couldn't light the path clearly to prevent a sneak attack, Wu Yueya took out a tactical flashlight and walked inside.
Walking through a few rockeries and a small pond, Wu Yueya found that there was a small room in front of her, this room was not big or small, and when she lit it with a tactical flashlight, a servant next to the house held a hoe and smashed it towards Wu Yueyan. Wu Yueya adjusted the qi in her body, because of the opponent's close attack, she had to block with the body of the gun and remove the hoe, and then pulled out the head of the gun and opened fire, killing the servant.
Wu Yueya walked around the house a few times, if you want to hide, you don't know where to hide, for the sake of insurance, Wu Yueya blew up the door with a grenade, and took a flashlight to shine inside, the space in the house is not big or small, and I saw Cui Lie and his servants, after entering the house and walking around, I heard a cry from under the floor, but was stopped by a few soft scoldings.
Wu Yueya lay on the floor, listening attentively, but heard a slight sobbing sound under the floor, Wu Yueya suddenly realized, good guy, really smart, this house is used for cover, and there is a dark room such as a cellar below, Wu Yueya sighed, the ancients were still quite wise.
Holding a gun to the wooden floor for a strong sweep, the sound of firecrackers sounded in the house, the people hiding below were obviously panicked, Wu Yueya threw a grenade at the hole that the submachine gun fired out, and exited the door by herself, boom, the fire wave in the house lifted the wooden wall, and there was a crackling sound of wood crackling.
Wu Yueya took the tactical flashlight and looked inside, there was indeed a secret room below, and there was a staircase going down, but it was only because of the impact of the grenade. The short staircase had been blown to pieces. Wu Yueya stretched out her leg and stepped on it, there was no big problem, it could still be used.
When he went down to the secret room, he heard a painful moan, Wu Yueya looked around, and found that the two servants had passed out on the side of the box and did not wake up, and they didn't know if they were dead.
And there are two places where the moaning sound came out, Wu Yueya looked at it one by one, first used a tactical flashlight to shine on a domestic servant, this servant's body was pressed under the board, obviously still alive, when she used the flashlight to illuminate this person's face, Wu Yueya was slightly surprised, she recognized this person, it was Li Si, who killed Ah Xue's father on the street but escaped the punishment of killing his head, Wu Yueya paused and shot at Li Si. Cui Lie, on the other hand, was leaning on the box, his hair was messy, blood was flowing from his forehead, he looked very embarrassed, and he was awakened by the sound of gunshots.
"Do you know who I am?" Wu Yueya walked in front of Cui Lie and lifted the hat on her head.
"You... You, you are... The little lady of the Lu family in Shili Village! Could it be..."Cui Lie's eyes were full of disbelief, the person in front of him shouldn't have appeared in front of him, the person in front of him should have been killed or taken away by the mountain bandits for the mountain bandits to play with, how could he appear here, how could he appear here, and there was that terrifying demon magic in his hand!
"I learned from the mouth of the mountain bandits that the Cui family spent money to slaughter the village in order to take revenge on me?" Wu Yueya's eyes were cold, and she turned the submachine gun in her hand and asked for a long time.
"I, you, you demon woman, almost want to cut off the root of my second son's life, and you wait for Shili Village to be a demon village, my son will go crazy, I won't slaughter you, it will be difficult to eliminate the hatred in my heart! If you keep you, you'll be harming others! Cui Lie's face was almost crazy, and he smiled proudly, but this smile looked very ironic on his messy face.
"I have a hatred in my heart, too! I'm not from here in the first place, since I'm here, I'm just going to live well, and it's okay to work hard, but you are a blessing, and you let your son harm the woman of a good family, and the person who provokes you will die, so if you provoke me, should you die? Wu Yueya raised her gun and fired a shot at Cui Lie's arm.
Cui Lie was shot and held his arm and rolled on the ground, like a dying wild dog, until Wu Yueya fired another shot, Cui Lie tore open his hoarse voice, "Please spare your life, don't torture me with witchcraft, this is my Cui family's underground warehouse, with the savings of my Cui family for two generations, ah, it hurts!" ”
Wu Yue Aya ignored him and fired another shot in his leg. Cui Lie rolled more violently, like an earthworm that was about to be sunburned in the desert.
"Ah, I use 10,000 taels of gold, 10,000 copper coins, and thousands of silk cloths here in exchange for my life, don't kill me with the gods! Ahh ”
However, the gun is ruthless, with a bang, Cui Lie is lying in his own vault forever, no matter how much gold there is, he can't buy back more than seventy lives in Shili Village!
Wu Yueya killed Cui Lie, took away some gold without inscriptions, took three copper coins by the way, left the Cui family compound with red lanterns and blood, and stepped into the wind that was about to leave