XXXVII. Escape
Minna stared at the knife at his waist tightly, leaning back against the wall, watching the officer get closer and closer, she didn't know where she got the courage, reached out and grabbed the black cloth bag next to her and threw it at the other party.
The officer flashed two bags one after another, and the gold coins in the bags touched the floor and the wall, and there was a crisp sound, which made his eyes light up, and he raised his hand to grab the next wave of bags, found the gold coins inside, and the corners of his mouth curled: "Actually use gold to hit people, the little mouse is really generous." After that, he shouted loudly to the subordinates outside, let them come down and move their belongings, and then continued to approach Minna, when he passed the big wooden box, he kicked the lid and saw that it was full of jewels, he smacked his lips: "Tsk, it really deserves to be the Xiao family firm, and it is really rich." ”
Minna bit her lip and held back the fear in her heart, she remembered the dream she had before, these gold and silver treasures were the things of those grandfathers in charge, they didn't like her, so she wouldn't stop them, but would they let her go? Glancing at the knife at the officer's waist again, she secretly observed the escape route.
A few tall soldiers descended into the chamber and immediately filled the space, their eyes shining as they looked at the pile of money bags full of gold coins and two large boxes of jewels. The officer glared at them and said coldly: "These things must be returned to the treasury, and your hard work will naturally be beneficial, but you are not allowed to take them privately." When the soldiers heard this, they shivered and hurriedly moved forward.
Minna was pushed out of the way, and she saw that the big men were only concerned about distributing the belongings they were going to move, and even the officer was keeping an eye on his subordinates, and no one noticed her, so she quietly moved to the side of the stone steps, and used the light body kung fu taught by her grandfather and the climbing skills taught by Uncle Qiao, and silently climbed the stone steps to get out of the secret room.
As soon as she saw that there was no one in the room outside, she was overjoyed, and rushed out, but when she reached the courtyard, she was greeted by a dark shadow, and she was hugged by a soldier, and another soldier shouted into the room: "Sir, we have caught a child!" ”
The officer's voice came from the ground floor of the room: "Don't let her run!" The soldiers answered in unison, and one of them found a rope of grass out of nowhere to tie Minna up.
Minna struggled hard, she couldn't be caught, if the officer came up, he would have cut off her head with a knife. She is small and weak, even if she has practiced a little martial arts, where is her strength comparable to that of a man in the prime of life? Her whole body was tightly embraced, her hands couldn't move, seeing that the straw rope was getting closer and closer to her, and finally tied to her, she was heartbroken, and kicked the soldier to the crotch with a strong kick, taking advantage of the other party's cry of pain, she lowered her head and bit the hand in front of her chest, and the soldier holding her screamed and threw her to the ground.
Almost as soon as she hit the ground, Minna got up, flashed past the soldiers who were about to pounce on her, and ran towards the front door. Unexpectedly, the soldiers who had been guarding in front heard the cries of their companions and rushed in, blocking her way. And the two people who had just suffered a loss also chased after them angrily.
Minna was surrounded by six soldiers in the middle, biting her lip tightly to cheer herself up, and all escaped under the claws of the demonic beasts, what are these ordinary soldiers? Moreover, she also learned swordsmanship.
The thought flashed through her, and she ran headlong into the soldier she had kicked him. The other party was still grinning in pain, and when he saw her rushing towards him, he was stunned for a moment, and at this moment, he was knocked to the ground by her, and then his waist was light, and the knife had been taken away by the little girl.
As soon as Minna got her hands on the knife, she drew it out and pointed it at the soldiers, gasping for breath and slashing at them, startling them all. At first, she was flustered, and she used the knife as a sword, so she swung it in a mess, and at the same time as she slashed into someone's body for the first time, the strange touch of the blade inserting into the muscle passed through the blade to her hand, leaving her stunned. A soldier took advantage of this moment to pounce, and she was so frightened that she slashed sideways, cutting a shallow bloody cut in the opponent's chest. The soldier screamed and hurriedly retreated, and several others were also slightly wounded, and they were amazed that the child could resist, and did not dare to step forward for a while.
The successes in repelling the enemy in quick succession gave Minna confidence and the knife in her hand becoming more and more orderly, and the soldiers had to draw their weapons to deal with the child. However, although Minna's skills were good, her strength was too small, and she had no experience in dealing with the enemy, so she soon fell behind, only adding shallow wounds to the enemy's body with a breath of qi, and then dodging their attack with her feet in the extremely thrilling sword shadow.
The people in the chamber had gathered around the edge of the courtyard at some point, and the officer stared at Minna closely, glancing at his subordinates. The soldier knowingly took a large piece of cloth from the room and put it over Minna.
Minna was exhausted at this time, but she still couldn't break through the encirclement and escape outside, and a shadow hit her head before she could react, and before she could react, she was already covered by a large piece of her head and face. She hurriedly waved the knife in her hand to break away, but a strong force came from behind, and she was thrown to the ground in an instant, and then there was a pain in her wrist, and the knife was gone. When the thing on her head was lifted, she realized that it was the curtain cloth she had found the night before.
The officer approached step by step, and Minna held back her desire to retreat and stared at him, but her body trembled slightly. The officer was condescending, looked at Minna, who was crushed to the ground by the two soldiers, with disdain, and said, "The little mouse also wants to dare to resist?" It seems that you are really not afraid of death. He glanced sideways: "What are you hiding?" Come out and recognize it, do you recognize this little ghost? ”
There was a chattering sound at the door of a room next to her, and Minna heard the sound and found that the two people were actually the ones she had seen. One was a petty officer who let her and her grandfather in after receiving a bag of gold coins at the city gate, while the other was a servant who was originally in charge of cleaning in the branch, and she only brought someone to remove all the things in the branch last night, why did she come here again?
The little officer glanced at Minna a few times, then bent down and sneered at the officer: "It's her, my subordinates remember, she followed a man with black hair and black eyes into the city, and said that she knew the people here very well. And the servant beside him also shrunk her shoulders and whispered: "The stewards call her Little Miss, call that man Lord Earl, and they all went out when you came yesterday when you came." ”
Minna glared at her fiercely, this woman had pretended to be so kind before, it turned out that it was all a lie! Not only did he snatch the things here, but he also brought people to trouble her and her grandfather! They didn't offend this woman, what is this for?!
The servant woman was furry by her eyes, and hurriedly said to the officer: "Master, I told you everything I know, can I go?" I didn't know about the secret room before, but it was a little strange to see that place when I was cleaning...... I've never been in...... And my brother he......" She glanced at the little officer, her eyes twinkling, as if she was worried about something. The petty officer, however, looked with greedy eyes at the boxes and baskets that the others had brought out of the chamber, the latter of which was now full of money.
A meaningful smile appeared on the officer's face: "Black hair and black eyes, an earl? still lives in the Xiao family branch...... I know who he is. He bent down and tugged at Minna's hair and asked, "The man who came with you is named Xiao Tianjian, right?" Where is he now? What do you want to do? ”
Minna just glared at him fiercely, refusing to say anything. The officer squinted his eyes and slapped him with his backhand: "Say it quickly!" Where is he?! ”
Minna's eyes were blackened by his beating, and her right cheek hurt so badly that she could feel something warm flowing out of her nostrils, and tears came down at once. But she still held on, gritted her teeth and didn't speak.
This man is a badass! She didn't want to be like that servant woman, and tell her grandfather everything when she was frightened by him.
But...... Why hasn't Grandpa come back yet? My face and body hurt to death! Grandfather! Where are you?!
I don't know if I heard the call in her heart, just when the officer was about to slap him again, a silver light struck him, and he found that he dodged in time, but one of the soldiers who originally suppressed Minna was instantly separated, and the other was quickly stabbed to death by a sword. Minna's shackles loosened, and she hurriedly got up, and was pleasantly surprised to find that her grandfather was standing in front of her: "Grandpa! ”
Xiao Tianjian looked at his little granddaughter's red, swollen and bleeding face distressedly, his cold eyes swept over the surrounding Nuojia people, and the sword in his hand moved and stabbed at them. Most of the soldiers were unable to dodge and soon fell, except for the officer, who barely had time to draw his sword. He is probably a soldier with excellent martial arts, even if he faced Xiao Tianjian, who was the number one swordsman in the whole continent, he survived more than thirty moves before he was stabbed by a sword. But his eyes before he died seemed to be a little proud, Xiao Tianjian suddenly became alert, looked around, only to find that two soldiers had fled, secretly screaming badly, so he turned his eyes to the trembling servant woman hiding on the side and the petty officer guarding the city gate.
Minna immediately picked up a pair of knives dropped by the soldiers when her grandfather made a move, ready to cooperate at any time, but in the blink of an eye, those people fell to the ground one by one, and became dead. When she was awakened by a woman's scream, she found that the servant woman and her cousin, who was a petty officer, had both fallen to death in the courtyard, bleeding everywhere, and Xiao Tianjian stared at them, saying in a cold tone: "Taking advantage of the fire to rob is already a betrayal, and you dare to betray the lord for glory?!" ”
Minna watched Xiao Tianjian casually wipe away a little blood on his face, and suddenly felt that the grandfather in front of him was a little terrifying.
What was she thinking? Grandpa obviously killed to save her.
There were shouts and chaotic footsteps outside, and it seemed that someone was coming. Xiao Tianjian took a sip secretly, quickly put all the treasures placed on the ground into the storage ring, picked up his granddaughter and climbed out of the back wall, and left the courtyard of the branch.
When the officers and soldiers who received the news arrived, all they saw was bloodshed.
Nuojia officials quickly issued a wanted warrant, for some reason, they did not directly name names, only said that it was a young man with black hair and black eyes, with a little girl with brown hair and green eyes, who was a dangerous person who had killed dozens of Nuojia soldiers.
This wanted warrant only adds a little trouble to the already chaotic situation in Nomonka. In just two days since the king's death, three princes have been assassinated, one dead and two wounded. When the king did not have time to leave a will to determine the succession to the throne, they were the most likely candidates to succeed to the throne. One of the wounded Prince Mario is a tough man, and in order to retaliate, his subordinates have done a lot of things, many ministers have been involved in assassination cases, and the removal of the knight is considered light, and there are not a few who have died, even the old courtiers who have served the king for three generations have not been spared.
Although they had ordered the expulsion of foreign people, they still did not dare to take it lightly, and ordered the whole city to be under martial law as early as possible, and anyone who wanted to leave had to pass through two fixed gates and be strictly interrogated by soldiers, and at the same time, the army personnel were also going door to door to search for suspicious people.
These news were all inquired about by Xiao Tianjian one after another. After he and Minna left the courtyard of the branch, they did not go far, but hid in another foreigner-owned shop on the same street. Changing out of bloodstained clothes and throwing them away reduced the possibility of being found to a certain extent, but Xiao Tianjian knew that the two of them could not stay in the city for a long time. It is easy to be spotted over time, and it is not easy to find food.
Minna raised her hands in favor of the decision to leave, she hated the city, she hated the country, and she couldn't wait to come back for the rest of her life. However, Grandpa's obvious physical characteristics made it more difficult for them to escape, and there were too few people with black hair and black eyes, even if they wore the clothes of the Nogar people and the headscarves of the Northlanders, it would still make people suspicious. As for herself, it's nothing.
In response to this, Xiao Tianjian originally thought that he could wear a wig or something, he had already had experience in disguise, but Minna had a better way.
A color-changing potion and a sex-changing potion made by the Grand Wizard Sennet!
There are still some potions left from the Toure Hills, and the rest are used by her as toys, but because they are used for play, the remaining color-changing potions are not very beautiful colors, including off-white hair, black-gray hair, **** green hair, brown eyes, gray-blue eyes and lime eyes and other six kinds of potions, and the sex change potion happens to be a bottle of female to male and a bottle of male to female.
Xiao Tianjian refused to become a woman even if he died, although he also admitted that it would be easier to hide. He just let his granddaughter become a boy, but Minna thinks that she has changed and has not changed, and it is the same whether she drinks or not.
In the end, both of them gave up the sex reassignment potion, only drank the discolored one, disguised as a man with gray and white hair and gray blue eyes and a **** little girl with green hair and brown eyes, both of them were wearing Nuojia costumes (stolen), carrying a small baggage, father and daughter were commensurate, and lined up to leave the city gate in the name of returning to their hometown.
Everything went smoothly, Xiao Tianjian got two identification certificates out of nowhere, which can be judged by falsehood, plus they chose to eat at noon, the soldiers were tired all morning, they were already dizzy, and they were not so serious when they were inspected, and they quickly obtained permission to pass.
Minna kept tugging at the corner of her grandfather's clothes until this moment to breathe a sigh of relief, and then immediately followed her grandfather out carefully, and the moment she walked into the city gate, her heart was almost jumping out with excitement.
At this moment, a shout suddenly came from the ranks behind them: "It's a spy!" Catch them! The crowd stirred.
Minna was startled, and hurriedly looked back, and found that the soldiers were not talking about herself and her grandfather, but two young men leading horses. They quickly drew their weapons hidden under the saddle and killed him, and then exchanged hands with the soldiers who surrounded them. They were quite good at it, and in the blink of an eye, they knocked down several people.
A soldier was kicked and rolled to Minna, and Xiao Tianjian hurriedly picked up his granddaughter so that she would not be harmed. He didn't know which country sent those two men, but the most important thing at the moment was his own safety.
However, when the soldier stood up, he inadvertently glanced at their ancestors and grandchildren, and immediately exclaimed, "These two are also spies!" Minna was startled, and then recognized him as the soldier who had stopped them as they entered the city that day. Although their ancestors and grandchildren have now changed their faces, as people who have been in close contact, they can still recognize their facial features.
Xiao Tianjian immediately drew his sword and stabbed it, and before the other soldiers surrounded him, he galloped out of the city gate, grabbed a horse on the side of the road, first lost his granddaughter, and then turned around and slashed a few swords from the pursuers, then turned over and galloped away.
Minna clung to the horse's neck, letting the wind whistle in her ears, and her mood gradually relaxed as they left the vast fields behind.
Finally escaped.
(Tickets, tickets~~~)