"It's over, the strongman is coming this way!"

"What can I do?"

Han Xiaoxuan, who was sitting at the top, was already as pale as earth at this time, and the lady on the side hurriedly said: "The messenger has been out for half an hour, and the fire here is so big, why hasn't the county government sent troops to the rescue!" ”

"Hey!" Han Xiaoxuan sighed: "This Xiangzhou is not a major frontier in the northwest, how many soldiers can there be?" The Great Song Dynasty has been peaceful for a hundred years, that is, there are a few box soldiers and archers, and they have never practiced in Ping, and there are only some rotten armor blunt soldiers in the treasury, and they don't know how many thieves there are in this night, how dare they come to the rescue? In my opinion, don't count on them! ”

"Xianggong, are we just going to die here?" Speaking of this, Mrs. Han couldn't help but hide her face and cry bitterly. Just when he was at a loss, the housekeeper on the side said in a low voice: "Master, according to the villain's view, the only way to save his life is to give up his wealth at the moment, and those robbers are just for money, and they will throw out a little bit of wealth later, so that they are satisfied!" ”

Han Xiaoxuan was like a drowning man at this time, even if there was a life-saving straw, he was about to nod his head in agreement, but he heard someone next to him say in a deep voice: "No!" In this way, it is like fighting a fire, and the fire is getting worse. Those robbers are insatiable, how can they give them their money for nothing when they are satisfied, but only fuel their arrogance and make them even more rampant? ”

Han Xiaoxuan looked back, but it was a sturdy young man with rough hands and feet, wearing a coarse cloth robe, and it seemed that he should be a tenant of the Han Mansion. The young man was only sixteen or seventeen years old, of medium stature, with ordinary appearance, two eyes, one big and one small, at first he looked a little funny, but his expression was resolute, and the whole person seemed to give people a sense of loyalty and reliability, and he carried a wooden box in each hand, which must have just been carried by the side and heard before interjecting.

Seeing that the person in charge was just a tenant who interjected, he couldn't help but say angrily: "Yue Fei, is this a place where you can interject?" Don't go to work yet! ”

"Wait!" Han Xiaoxuan heard that the tenant named Yue Fei was not as vulgar as ordinary people, and his heart couldn't help but move, and he asked in a deep voice: "If you can't make money with them, then what do you think?" ”

Yue Fei put the two wooden boxes on the ground, bowed and saluted: "Master, these bandits are just greedy for profit, and they don't know the truth about the situation in the house, as the villain sees, I will ask the steward to bargain with the bandits on the door later, and lead out the bandit leader, and the villain can shoot the thief head in secret, and then let everyone make a chorus to make a noise, the thieves are just some rabble, the leader is shot, and he doesn't know the truth in the house, he will definitely lose his heart, and he will be able to turn the crisis into safety." ”

The steward hated Yue Fei for interrupting his words, wiped his face, and sneered: "Yue Fei, you have to boast, if you don't shoot later, you provoke the robbers to rush in, and hurt the golden body of the lord and lady, can you afford this responsibility?" ”

Yue Fei smiled slightly, and replied calmly: "Can or can't, there is no evidence, just try it!" ”

Han Xiaoxuan looked at Yue Fei, and then looked at the steward, Yue Fei's composure gave him a little confidence, and he said to the little servant on the side: "Take all the bows in my treasury, and take two pots of good arrows." ”

After a while, the little guy took three bows and two pots of arrows, Yue Fei stepped forward to test the bow power, chose one, took another pot of arrows and hung it on his body, turned around and bowed to Han Xiaoxuan, and asked, "The villain dares to give advice to the master." ”

Han Xiaoxuan's gaze swept across the courtyard, and finally his gaze stayed on a lantern on the rockery pavilion about seventy steps away, he stretched out his finger and pointed to the lantern and asked, "Look at the lantern with the word 'Han' written on the gazebo on the side, can it be shot?" ”

Yue Fei didn't answer, he took out a feather arrow from the quiver, put on the string, and pulled a full bosom as soon as he exerted his strength, and relaxed the string with a little aim, only to hear a whooshing sound, and the lantern in the distance rose a ball of fire and burned, obviously knocked over the lamp inside by the arrow.

"Good eyesight, good arm strength, good means!" Han Xiaoxuan couldn't help but praise, although he has average archery skills, but he has also seen the world, his bows are all first-class goods, and the lowest bow power also has a stone, according to the Song Dynasty military system, the army has a third-class bow, from one stone to eight buckets, and those who can wear armor and open a stone strong bow are elite soldiers. This Yue Fei is only sixteen or seventeen years old, he can shoot a strong bow of more than one stone, shoot a lantern from seventy steps away, and he is also a first-class sharp soldier in the northwest border army, and he doesn't know when there will be such a person in his own family, but he is lucky.

"Thank you for the compliment, it's just a fluke!" Yue Fei put down his bow, bowed down and said, "The villain still has something to ask for, and I hope the master will agree." ”

Seeing Yue Fei using such a method, Han Xiaoxuan had great confidence in his suggestion, and his mood couldn't help but improve, seeing Yue Fei talking like this, he thought he was asking for a reward, and hurriedly smiled: "Yue Fei, don't worry, if you repel the bandits, I will have a heavy reward." That's it, two hundred yuan of Mo copper coins, how about it? Enough, right? "At that time, the Great Song Dynasty was Chengping, a liter of rice was only three or four cents, and the copper coins of Zumo were a few points more, and these two hundred yuan were enough to buy seven or eight acres of good land, which was indeed a very rich reward.

Yue Fei's expression was a little stunned, he hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed to Han Xiaoxuan, got up and said, "The villain thanks Master Xie for the reward, but what the villain asked for just now is not this." The villain dared to love the old man to move the women and children in the yard to the backyard first, and then extinguished all the lights, so as not to be spied on by thieves in the courtyard. Later, when the villain shoots the thief's head, he will ask the men in the courtyard to make a noise in unison, shouting, 'The official army is coming!' 'Break the thief's guts! ”

"Good, good! It's up to you! The more Han Xiaoxuan looked at Yue Fei at this time, the more satisfied he became, secretly thinking that if it wasn't for the attack of the bandits this time, how would he know that there were such brave and resourceful talents in his family, he stood up, patted Yue Fei's shoulder gently, and said with a smile: "Yue Fei, if you kill the thief with your heart, my Han family will never treat you badly!" ”

"Thank you, sir!" Yue Fei stood up and walked towards the courtyard wall.

Outside, Zhang Chao sat under the tree, lazily watching a few of his subordinates instruct the people to make ladders and ramming rods from the materials in the warehouse. Just now, the low walls in the outer courtyard of the Han Mansion are just down, you can cross them by finding a few bamboo poles or something, and the courtyard walls of the inner walls of the Han Mansion are not so simple, but it doesn't matter, look at the appearance of those rats in the house, as long as you set up seven or eight ladders, lean on them and pour them in. Thinking of the wealth and glory in the legendary Dayjin Hall, Zhang Chao couldn't help but grin.

Just then, a minion ran over and shouted, "Chief, chief! Someone in the Han Mansion shouted! ”

"Shouting?" Zhang Chao frowned and asked, "What did the thief bird shout?" ”

"The people of the Han Mansion said that they wanted to talk to us, as if they wanted to pay for the lives of the people of the Mansion!"

"Phew! Lao Tzu opened the door of the house, and the things inside were mine, so I still need to buy them from them? Zhang Chao spat out, thought about it and called his subordinates: "Wait, you go and talk back, just talk, anyway, the ladder hasn't been made yet, it's good to stabilize them for a quarter of an hour!" ”

On the corner tower of the inner courtyard of the Han Mansion, the steward was crying with a sad face, shouting loudly to the outside world under the light, and from time to time he looked back at Yue Fei who was hidden in the darkness more than ten steps away. At this time, he couldn't help but secretly regret why he had to take over the work of shouting, he was not wearing it now, but the strongman below had bows and arrows, and he would not be able to say it later, and a burst of arrows would come up, and he would be the end of the meat sieve. Thinking of this, his voice trembled a little again, and his whole body seemed to be swinging.

"The people above have something to say, I, Zhang Chao, are here!" Suddenly a voice came from under the wall, and the steward shuddered, and cautiously poked his head out to look out, and saw a big man standing under three or four torches, looking towards him. He hurriedly laughed and said: "It turned out to be Zhang Yingying, the villain has heard the name for a long time——"

"Less nonsense!" Zhang Chao interrupted the steward's words: "What the old man came to do this time is money, you say, how much silver and copper are you willing to pay to buy the surnames of the people in your house?" If it's less, don't blame the old man for being in a hurry, rushing in and cutting them all in one! ”

The steward shuddered, and almost fell off the wall, and suddenly remembered the words of Fang Cai Yue Fei in his mind: "You just have to talk to him, delay the time, and wait for me to shoot the thief leader with one arrow!" Thinking of this, the man in charge took a deep breath, carefully stood up straight, and shouted: "But I don't know how much money Zhang Yingying wants to give up, the money in the house is limited, but as long as you can take it, you must not dare to shirk!" ”

"Phew, the famous Anyang Han Family Dayjin Hall will have no money, are you a three-year-old child?" When Zhang Chao said this, he pulled out his waist knife and pointed at the corner tower and shouted: "There are 100 brothers we came this time, each of them needs 200 yuan for drinks, and 30% of the Fenggong, if it is less than half a penny, I will come in and get it myself, don't blame me for waiting for spicy hands at that time!" As soon as the words fell, Zhang Chao suddenly screamed, and he fell to the sky.

"The boss has been shot!"

"There's a dark arrow!"

The butler on the corner tower was pondering how to answer, when he suddenly heard a scream from outside, and then he exclaimed, and his heart couldn't help but be overjoyed, and he hurriedly leaned down and shouted below: "Beat the drum and shout: 'The officers and soldiers are coming'!" ”

In the open space outside, several bandits looked at Zhang Chao's body lying on the ground in amazement, a feather arrow shot from his mouth into the back of his head, although his hands and feet were still twitching, as long as he had eyes, he could see that he was hopeless.

"Everyone, open this bird Han Mansion and avenge the leader!" A small leader of the bandits just drew his sword, he only heard a whooshing sound, looked up to the sky and fell, saw that there was already an extra feather arrow on his throat, the throat was still a loud sound, others hurriedly helped him up, the man pulled out the arrow hard, and just scolded in his mouth: "Thief!" He couldn't catch it in one breath, turned his head and died.

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