Qiu Yi was very simple, seeing that there were still unwashed blood stains on Song Xiaofei's clothes, she cried anxiously and asked, "Young master, are you injured?" Now what? ”

Song Xiaofei saw that the girl did not doubt her identity, so he asked her to explain in detail.

It turned out that during the Xianfeng period, Wang Tingzhen's department rose up in Xiangcheng and occupied Xinxingji, Shangdian and other places in the east of Xiangcheng City, Yuan Baozhong organized a group to practice confrontation and annihilated them all, Wang Tingzhen's family of more than 20 people was killed, and Wang Tingzhen's younger brother Wang Tingzhen escaped this catastrophe in foreign business. Recently, a new casino was opened in Xiangcheng, which was opened by Wang Tingli, Yuan Shichang often went, lost very badly, and owed a lot of debt. Wang Tingli arrested him into a small black house and beat him violently, and learned that he was the son of the Yuan family, and now it is the Midyear Festival, Yuan Baozhong now took dozens of family members to the original Liu's hometown of Shangshui County, Henan Province to worship the ancestors, and the guards in the village were empty, so they summoned the remnants of the thieves and forced Yuan Shichang to deceive and open the gate of the village, capture Yuan Zhai, and avenge the destruction of the door fifteen years ago.

Song Xiaofei asked Qiuyi how many thieves there were in Yuan Village.

Qiu Yi said: "I don't know the exact number, but I heard that there are hundreds of thieves. ”

Song Xiaofei said: "Let's secretly go back to Yuanzhai and find out the situation." ”

On the way back to Yuan Zhai, Qiu Yi introduced the situation of the Yuan family to Song Xiaofei: the Yuan family is now in the same house for five generations, Yuan Shikai's eighty-year-old great-grandmother Mrs. Guo is the oldest, at that time the society paid attention to filial piety, she was highly respected, she was the spiritual leader of the whole family, the Buddha was kind, everyone respectfully called her "old lady", Yuan Shikai's biological father Yuan Baozhong, now presides over the housekeeping as the eldest son of his generation.

After about a stick of incense, Song Xiaofei and Qiu Yi arrived near Yuan Village, where they hid in a dense reed bush halfway up the mountainside to peek at the situation after Yuan Village fell.

Yuan Zhai is a square stone waist village, the solid and thick stone wall is built around the village, the wall is more than ten meters high, six high turrets are erected at the corner, each other is the trend of the horns, it is like a small city, and the periphery also digs a long moat.

At that time in Henan, the remnants of the Twist Army were capricious, and the self-defense forts like Yuan Zhai were quite popular, and there were more than 100 places in Xiangcheng alone, all of which were the residences of the gentry and landlords, and Yuan Zhai was the largest of them.

Song Xiaofei vaguely saw that the gate of Yuan Zhai was closed, and there were five or six people wrapped in black turbans on each turret to watch the wind, and they were holding bright knives in their hands, guarding the earthen cannons.

Although Song Xiaofei was born in a military academy, he had no guns or cannons at hand at this time, he was at a loss, Qiu Yi took Song Xiaofei's hand and ran in the direction of Shangshui County: "Let's hurry up and find the master, maybe he has a way." ”

After noon, in the middle of the official road leading to Xiangcheng in Shangshui County, two new carriages drove slowly, one in front of the other. The official road was about five or six meters wide, and the intellectuals in the groves on both sides couldn't stand the heat, and they kept shouting, which made Yuan Baozhong, who was returning from worshipping his ancestors in the carriage, even more upset, and his left eyelid had been jumping since he came in the morning.

Four guards on horseback slowly opened the way in front of the carriage, and one of them held a bamboo pole with a flag hanging on it, embroidered with the word "Yuan" in the big bucket, flying up and down in the air with the wind, hunting and hunting. Behind the two carriages, there were about thirty or so family members, carrying wooden boxes containing sacrificial supplies. The late summer sun is very scorching, and it can tan a layer of skin. The family members were tired from the long journey, and some of them were so thirsty that their lips cracked, and they were holding bamboo tubes and looking up to drink water.

After walking for more than an hour, the team traveled to a sparsely populated place, and a gust of wind whistled past the sedan chair, and the horses ridden by the four family members suddenly raised their heads and roared, and no longer walked forward. The procession behind the carriage also stopped.

Yuan Baozhong was about to ask what was going on, but a guard quickly turned his horse's head and stepped forward to report to Yuan Baozhong: "Master, it's not good, there are bandits!" ”

Yuan Baozhong is about fifty years old, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, slightly fat, wearing a narrow-sleeved robe with slits at the front and back. He organized a regimental training in Xiangcheng, experienced a hundred battles, heard the urgent report of the family, and opened the curtain in front of the carriage without changing his face, and found that the leader of the bandits was actually a girl in black, who was only seventeen or eighteen years old.

The girl was Su Yun, and shouted into the carriage: "Yuan Baozhong, get out of the car and die!" Next year, it will be your sacrifice! ”

Yuan Baozhong stepped out of the carriage with his hands behind his back, and an M1847 revolver was hidden in the sleeve of his robe. This revolver was invented by the American Colt in 1835, 381 mm long, weighs more than 4 catties, the caliber of the gun is 10.16 mm, the revolver chamber, and can use the fire cap to fire five bullets. After Yuan Jiasan died of illness in 1863, the revolver was given to Yuan Baozhong, who was in charge of the housekeeping, as an heirloom of the Yuan family.

Su Yun's eyes were red, and he reported to his home, saying, "God has eyes, Yuan Jiasan's evil thief is actually sick and dead." The Father pays the debt of the Son, and you take your life! ”

Yuan Baozhong had a dark face, and took a few steps forward, the effective range of his revolver was only sixty meters, and he needed to get closer to win, he scolded Su Yun: "Bold thief, dare to call my uncle by his name." ”

Su Yun sneered: "Thief Yuan, now Yuan Zhai is in our hands. Your son who returned to Xiangcheng was also intercepted and killed by me halfway, if you know each other, surrender quickly, I can spare the old man and child of your family. Otherwise, I will arrest you back, and kill you all over the house, regardless of age or age. ”

When Yuan Baozhong heard this, he was so anxious for his family that he was so angry that he almost fainted, and Su Yun shouted behind him: "Kill, avenge King Shuntian!" ”

More than a hundred twisters with knives and forks rushed over. The Yuan family is a family of group training, and all the family members have a tradition of practicing martial arts. After a while, there was a scuffle between the two sides, and wails were everywhere on the official road.

Su Yun also patted his horse to fight Yuan Baozhong, and the two guards of the Yuan family, Jia Ding, rode forward to stop Su Yun, and without fighting for two rounds, she was beheaded under the horse, and the pungent smell of blood filled the air.

"What a quick knife technique!" Yuan Baozhong was shocked, thinking to himself, although this woman is young, but she is good at kung fu, it seems that she can't fight hard, he turned around and retreated, hid the revolver in his arms, and took advantage of the chaos to turn over a dark horse. Su Yun saw that Yuan Baozhong wanted to run, so he chased after him, Yuan Baozhong deliberately tightened the reins of the horse, ran slowly, estimated that Su Yun was within the firing range, and suddenly took out the revolver from his arms, "bang", pulled the trigger, and white smoke came out of the muzzle.

The revolver was too long, and Su Yun had already noticed that Yuan Bao had a firearm hidden in it, and she turned to one side, and the bullet passed by. At that time, the bullet of the revolver, although the penetrating power was not strong, but the sand burst into the shell, and the broken shrapnel flew into the flesh of the white horse, and Su Yun's front legs of the horse were raised, and he roared to the sky.

Taking advantage of this gap, Yuan Baozhong raised his horsewhip and rode away quickly on a black horse. Su Yun tightened the reins of the white horse to chase after him, and a dart was shot, hitting Yuan Baozhong's left leg. Yuan Baozhong didn't care about the injury on his leg and continued to run for his life.

Two more family members caught up to protect Yuan Baozhong, Su Yun carried a knife, and in a blink of an eye, he cut them to the ground, and then chased Yuan Baozhong.

Yuan Baozhong didn't run far, and a yellow horse galloped over in front of him, and when he looked closely, the people who came turned out to be Song Xiaofei and Qiu Yi. Song Xiaofei found a pawnshop in the city to buy Qiu Yi's silver bracelet and bought this horse. When Qiu Yi saw Yuan Baozhong, he shouted: "Master, it's not good, Yuan Zhai has fallen into the hands of thieves." Young Master Shikai and the others were also intercepted and killed by thieves halfway, but fortunately, he escaped from death because of his fate. ”

Yuan Baozhong covered his bleeding leg and said, "Girl, I know." Misfortune is not a one-way street, I was also ambushed by thieves halfway, and there are pursuers behind me, so we will go back to the city to discuss the long term. ”

Song Xiaofei saw Qiu Yi shouting master, and knew that this person was Yuan Shikai's biological father Yuan Baozhong, at this time Su Yun rode a horse to catch up, he took a knife he had just picked up, stepped forward to block, leaving only a back of Yuan Baozhong, Yuan Baozhong was in a hurry, and he didn't think much about it, and reminded Song Xiaofei worriedly: "Weiting, you have to be very careful, this thief woman's big knife is extraordinary." ”

Su Yun's long knife was horizontal, and he slapped the horse and stepped forward towards Song Xiaofei's head. Song Xiaofei had already prepared, and dodged, but the neck of the poor yellow horse under the seat was split by a knife, the major artery ruptured, and a stinky blood spurted out of the horse's neck.

Song Xiaofei got up from the ground, patted the dust on his body, and deliberately spoke to provoke her, so as to take the opportunity to capture her, and said: "What a ruthless lady, you want to murder your husband!" ”

"Who's your lady? Go to hell! Su Yun saw that Song Xiaofei was disrespectful, and he was furious in his heart, and rushed towards Song Xiaofei with a long knife again.