Lao Lu let out an "ah" and opened his eyes angrily: "Okay, you thief!" The lord treats you well, you, why are you ungrateful...... Yi ...... "Before he finished speaking, his body went limp, and he fell to Jin Xiangyu's feet. Poor Lao Lu was loyal, parasitic as a slave for decades, and in an instant, three souls went to the city of vain death, and became a ghost under the knife. Jin Xiangyu wiped the blood from him with a sharp knife, picked up the lantern on the ground and shone it, and pushed Lao Lu's body into the river. Then he raised his whip, shouted "huh", and drove the carriage towards a jujube grove.

At this moment, the jujube grove was too quiet, even the sound of the wind disappeared, and the dark air with a fishy smell diffused from time to time with a few strange bird whimpers and crows, and the lantern in his hand flickered like a ghost fire. As the saying goes, don't do bad things, don't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door, at this time, Jin Xiangyu was covered in hair, and he burrowed into the woods, as if he had entered a dark swamp brewing death, and walked in for more than ten steps, not daring to go in again. found a thick and strong tree, tied the reins firmly to the trunk, and quickly drilled out, trampled the lantern under his feet, kicked it into the river, ran back to the Li family compound, pretended to have nothing to do, and came to the front hall as if nothing happened, and saw Li Shanren sleeping soundly on the Taishi chair. The Li family's compound was shrouded in pre-dawn darkness, and he didn't know where to go to sleep, and Jin Xiangyu thought to himself that now was a good time to set fire. He quietly retreated, crept to the stove room, stirred up a spark in the embers of the stove with a match, lit a torch, and raised the torch through the narrow corridor connecting the stove and the front yard, and went around the front hall to the front yard. The firewood pile in the yard has already been piled up, as long as the torch is stuffed into the firewood, the fire will take advantage of the wind, and a fire will ignite. He squatted down and was about to stuff the torch into the pyre, but when he saw a faint red light shining in the sky, he had an extra heart, got up and came to the courtyard gate, sprinkled a soak of urine into the door, and quietly pushed open the courtyard door to investigate. I saw that under the dark sky, there was a fire swaying in the sky. "Isn't it 'red hair' here? God help me! Jin Xiangyu thought excitedly, and at this time, the watchman appeared out of nowhere, panting and muttering: "'Red hair' is here!" ”

"Is it really 'Red Hair'?" Kim Sang-ok grabbed him and asked.

"Yes, you can't be wrong with that!" He ran away with a statement.

Jin Xiangyu was overjoyed. At this time, Li Shanren vaguely heard movement in the yard, got up and walked towards the yard.

"'Red Hair' is here!" Redhair's coming! Jin Xiangyu saw that it was too late to light the fire at this time, so he simply shouted, and a shout suddenly startled all the people in the compound.

After the Gengzi Incident, the Boxers were killed by both the imperial court and foreigners, and they were wiped out. Subsequent new bandits, under the banner of the Boxer Rebellion, marched day and night, raiding houses and robbing houses, and everywhere they went, the people were terrified and the gentry were afraid. Those who can't avoid it will obediently donate wealth and treasure to donate grass and food; There are also those who resist stubbornly, that is, they are violently killed. Because the bandits wore red clothes, wrapped their heads in red cloth, and sometimes simply wore their hair and spread their hair, they were called "red hair". Hearing the housekeeper shouting that "Red Hair" is coming, Li Shanren was shocked, grabbed him and asked, "Did you see it with your own eyes?" ”

"Master, look at ......" Jin Xiangyu pointed to the sky illuminated by torches, "This posture is exactly the same as last year's troublesome boxers, and they are crossing the river!" Li Shanren looked at the sky, and saw that the sky was really different from usual. Normally, at this time, the sky was still dark, and the fields outside the courtyard were so quiet that the sound of water flowing under the ground could be heard, but today, the sky shone red, implying a restless commotion.

"Master forgot? Last year's boxer crossing the border was also a sight! ”

Li Shanren muttered to himself: "It seems to be true!" You go to the entrance of the village to investigate again, and find out the truth and report back quickly! Jin Xiangyu thought to himself, there was no need to run to the entrance of the village, he could see the movement of the village entrance on the roof of his house, so he said: "Go back to the master, the villain will find out on the roof." Li Shanren said: "Look at me I'm also confused, you can go and check it quickly, and report the details as soon as possible." Jin Xiangyu nodded in agreement, but walked to the courtyard door, pretending to be anxious to protect the courtyard, checking whether the courtyard door was bolted, but secretly pulling the door latch open.

At this time, the servants and the family all surrounded them, and Li Shanren instructed them: "The copyist will follow me to the backyard!" "The servants and housekeepers have also experienced war, and they understand that the bandits are like locusts, and they think that the old man ordered the thieves to copy the guys for self-defense, so they looked around for hard weapons, and the whole compound was in chaos, Li Shanren hurriedly stopped it, and ordered that as long as the hoe and shovel and the flat pole were enough, everyone went to look for it separately. Jin Xiangyu climbed on the roof and looked towards the entrance of the village, there were villagers pouring out of the village to flee in the dark, and the fire was faintly revealed in the distance, and it was determined that it was the "red hair" coming, and he hurriedly turned around and returned. Seeing that Jin Xiangyu was back so soon, Li Shanren hurriedly asked, "How did you see?" Jin Xiangyu said: "Just now I went up to the roof to look at the entrance of the village, and countless villagers poured out of the village, rushing around in chaos, and the same was true of the boxers crossing the border last year, it was really 'red hair' coming." ”

Jin Xiangyu originally had a prominent family background, his father was originally an important minister of the imperial court, and the Boxers entered Beijing during the Gengzi period, burned countless people in one night, the sky was red, and the Jin family was also ransacked. At that time, he was nineteen years old, stripped naked and tied outside the door of his home, and saw that his family's belongings, ancient books and collections were burned, and his family was all killed. Therefore, as long as Jin Xiangyu saw the red sky, he knew that the bandits were coming. At this time, he gave full play to his imagination and said without thinking: "Red clothes and white blades are wading across the river!" ”