Chapter 90: The Dead
There was a pause in the footsteps outside the door, and suddenly the door was pushed open, and then with a muffled snort, the fire broke and went out, and the sound of steel knives entering the flesh was clearly audible. Wei Hei was quick with the knife in his hand, and it had already been solved in a moment, Wei Bai coughed twice and signaled Cao Hao not to come out, and then rushed out as well.
There are many shadows in the courtyard, and there are about five or six people who come, and the Wei brothers are encircled and entangled in one place.
Another man, who didn't care about the fight, went straight into the house, and suddenly noticed someone behind the door, and slashed with a knife.
Cao Hao's body flashed slightly, avoiding the other party's attack. The blade slashed at the door frame, and sawdust flew everywhere. The man drew his knife and wanted to attack again, but Cao Hao had already flown up his right foot, hit the man's wrist, and kicked his knife off.
The sound of the steel knife falling to the ground was particularly piercing in the middle of the night, and the Wei brothers were not worried about Cao Hao, and they all wanted to come here, but they were entangled and couldn't get out, so they had to let go of their hands and feet to fight, so as to get out as soon as possible.
Seeing that Cao Hao didn't have a sword in his hand, the man didn't put him in his eyes, stared at Cao Hao out of the corner of his eye, and leaned over to pick up the knife on the ground. Cao Hao took the opportunity to shake his left hand, and waved his right hand at the man's neck. The man heard that his palm was weak, and he didn't care, he only tilted his head slightly, not wanting Cao Hao to hide a dagger in the sleeve of his right hand, and this blow dagger was inserted into the back of his neck and stuck in the gap between the flesh and bones.
The man was in pain, roared angrily, and ignored the dagger behind his neck, and slashed at Cao Hao with a murderous steel knife.
Cao Hao did not dodge or dodge, but quickly rushed into the man's arms, grabbed his hand holding the knife, turned around and pinned his arm to his back, before the man struggled and kicked, quickly pulled out the dagger pierced in the back of the neck, and stabbed upwards diagonally.
Hearing a "flutter", a stream of blood erupted from the man's throat, and the dagger passed through his throat.
The man stood there as if he had been frozen. With the sound of "plop" and "plop" falling to the ground, Wei Hei and Wei Bai ended the battle there.
Wei Hei ran to Cao Hao's side, glanced at the man, and stabbed him with the tip of his knife, and the man fell straight to the ground, already dead.
Cao Hao also seemed to be frozen, witnessing killing people and killing people by himself are completely different things, he took a few deep breaths, calmed his rapidly beating heart, and reluctantly nodded at the Wei family brothers, signaling that he was fine.
When the Wei brothers saw it, they remembered that when they killed people for the first time, they were more nervous than afraid, and then they felt a little powerless.
Wei Hei took out the dagger from the man's neck, wiped the clothes of the corpse, and handed it back to Cao Hao: "Young master, there is a living mouth outside, let's ask!" ”
Cao Hao nodded, calmly took the dagger, and put it back in his arms. No one knew that his apparent composure was already turbulent in his heart. As he pierced the enemy's throat with that dagger, he was horrified to discover one thing, and that was that from the beginning of the fight, his heart was filled with murderous intent. I don't know if it was because they almost hurt Cao Song, or because they recognized this person's figure,—— it was actually the person who assassinated Uliji on the grassland. Perhaps subconsciously, he has regarded this person as a time bomb that endangers his life, after all, this person's accomplice has traveled thousands of miles to track Wen Xiu to extinguish his mouth, and maybe he will also be secretly eyeing him.
When they walked towards the "living mouth" that Wei Hei said, they were still disappointed. Although Wei Hei had already removed the man's chin in order to prevent him from hiding poison pills between his teeth or biting his tongue to kill himself, he didn't think that he had gotten another dagger out of nowhere and stabbed himself in the heart.
The Wei family brothers all looked solemn, if it was an ordinary thug, it was not terrible, but at the moment, these people were good, and they didn't have the slightest idea of greed, this was a "dead man" who had been trained by a special person.
Holding the fire fold, Wei Hei flipped over several corpses, flipped over two brass plaques on the two corpses, and handed them to Cao Hao at the moment.
Cao Hao couldn't help but tug at the corners of his mouth, he was a royal guard and a waiter of the sixteenth elder brother, he was very familiar with the waist cards of the major royal mansions inside and outside the palace, these two pieces were the waist cards on the eighth elder brother's mansion.
Wei Bai saw Cao Hao with a smile on his lips, knowing that he knew it, and hurriedly said: "Don't be in charge, this thing can't be taken seriously!" Who will carry this Rausch with him? There are many such things on the rivers and lakes, and when you go out to do errands, you will bring the weapons of the enemy family and the like, even if you can't do it at that time, if you throw that guy in the light and in the dark, the disaster will lead to the enemy. ”
Wei Hei nodded: "These two people fought against me just now, and they are the worst kung fu among this cadre. Obviously, there is no 100% certainty that he will retreat with his whole body, so he will bring this brand, and once he dies here, he can be framed and framed. ”
Cao Hao couldn't help but sympathize with the "virtuous king", and he didn't know how many layers were waiting for him. "The wood is beautiful in the forest, and the wind will destroy it", this sentence seems to be good, this eighth elder brother is unlucky and unlucky to be overfamous in "Xian", whether it is the prince or other princes who are worried about the throne, I am afraid that they will not be able to tolerate this brother.
The killing of Prince Wuliji on the grassland, on the surface, it was the prince who carried the black cauldron, but the suspicion in the secret was led to the eighth elder brother, who had always been-for-tat with the prince. And this time the Cao family encountered a gunpowder attack, if it happens, it will cause the Cao family to change, maybe they can fish in troubled waters; If things fail, just look at this brand, and that person will also think of ways to make the eighth elder brother get into trouble.
The fight in the courtyard caused the nearby dogs to bark, but because it was midnight, and the neighborhood was a common people's house, even if someone noticed that something was wrong, who would have the courage to come out and check?
Cao Hao and the Wei brothers asked if they wanted to know, but they ignored the two splashes.
A total of five of those killers came, and Wei Hei had the intention of burning the corpses to extinguish, but now it was the end of October, and the weather was dry, if it caused a fire, I was afraid that it would affect the people nearby. He checked it, slashed a few times at the wound where Cao Hao killed the man, and felt that there was no more mistakes, so he nodded to Cao Hao.
The three of them quickly left, disappearing into the endless night.
*According to the Wei brothers' inspection, the front and back gates of the Cao Mansion are guarded by the Shuntian Mansion at night, and they also have the intention of protecting the Cao family. After all, if the person who bought the murder is not found out, the safety of the Cao family will not be guaranteed. However, Cao Hao was not worried that they would find out about going out, because in the middle of the night, they had no intention of entering and exiting through the gate.
Back in Kwai Courtyard, the moment he lay on the bed, Cao Hao's eyes widened and he looked at the bed curtain. I really killed someone!! Moreover, he killed without a trace of hesitation, and he did not regret it after killing. Unconsciously, he slowly integrated into this society. Although he was just a small person in his previous life, and he would not defend the so-called "justice and justice" in a word, he never thought that he would kill people one day. There is indescribable powerlessness and sourness in my heart, and it is not very easy to live comfortably in this backward world with an unsound legal system.
The silence in the room was pressing, and Cao Hao suddenly felt lonely. Since the last time he was drunk and pulled amethyst nonsense, he didn't let people stay in the upper room for the night, so he was the only one in the empty few houses.
* The next time, Cao Hao did not get up as early as usual.
A few days ago, Cao Hao handed over a leave note to the master of the upper study had been approved, and the reason for taking care of the frightened younger brothers and sisters was also sufficient, and there was the signature of King Pingjun, so he was given three days off in the upper study.
Mao Zheng (six o'clock in the morning), Amethyst took Zhu'er and Cui'er to the upper room, and waited for Cao Hao to get up as if he had done it.
"What the hell does it smell like in the house, it's weird!" Zhu'er has always been outspoken, muttering quietly while lighting the incense burner.
Cao Hao didn't hear it, but his face turned red imperceptibly. After returning in the middle of the night, I thought about it for a long time, and it was not until three o'clock in the morning that I fell asleep in a daze. Then, it's endless dreaming. first dreamed of fighting and killing, full of all kinds of murderous scenes, and he became a killer during the Warring States period for a while, assassinating the monarchs of other countries; After a while, he became a military general of the Three Kingdoms, and he wanted to take people's surnames; After a while, he became a bandit who occupied the mountain as the king, and took the help of the little minions to block the road and rob. Then, it was a dream, hey, and the taste was indescribable.
Although Amethyst is a daughter's family, she is older, and when she saw Cao Hao's expression, she knew what to expect, and sent Zhu'er and Cui'er to find her mother-in-law to ask for bath water. When the two of them went out, she found a set of clean underwear and came in, handed it to Cao Hao, and turned around.
Cao Hao's face turned even redder, he quickly changed his clothes in the quilt, rolled up the dirty ones, hesitated, took out a cloth bag from under the bed, put it on a piece, and handed it to Amethyst: "When there is no one, find a place to burn it!" ”
Amethyst took care of Cao Hao's daily life, and the clothes, shoes and socks around him were all handled by himself, but he had never seen this cloth bag. She wanted to ask, but when she saw Cao Hao getting out of bed with her shoes on, she didn't want to say anything more, so she didn't open her mouth after all.
After a while, Amethyst asked, "Uncle, you can't stay old in the upper room." Among the four of them, you can choose the one you like to stay in the room! If you drink tea in the middle of the night, someone will call you. ”
The maid in the room? Or is it the person in the room? Amethyst asked this question at this moment, which made Cao Hao have to think of a crooked place.
Zhu'er and Cui'er were personally selected by the Li family in the southern mansion, not only good looking, but also supple surnames. In her opinion, these two should be the ideal candidates for her son's concubine to have a room. Be honest and know the roots, and you will not be uneasy in the future because of the favor grabbing.
Hai'er and Huan'er were picked up by Cao Zhong's family, and I am afraid that they also have the meaning of choosing a room for the little master, and they look very neat.
There are many maids who want to be concubines, but there are still maids who don't want to be concubines, and hairpins are counted as one. Since entering the Kwai Courtyard, she has become a model of prudence in words and deeds, and it is easy not to make do with Cao Hao. I really can't avoid it, and I just bury my head in things, and I will never laugh at half a sentence. Invisibly, he was like a pervert guarding against Cao Hao.
Cao Hao has lived two lives, where can this little girl's mind be hidden from him? Sometimes, I also feel angry and ridiculous, my face is full of goodness, where does it look like a pervert?
Huan'er has the best appearance among all people, but he is the youngest, only thirteen years old, and he usually acts and speaks with childishness, and he still understands the affairs of men and women.
What do you do with all this? Cao Hao came to his senses and shook his head hurriedly: "Don't worry, it's okay now!" ”
(To be continued)