Chapter 51: Murder with a Knife
The moon was still shining brightly, but the shadow of the moon was gone, and only the sky was covered with black fog, which became more and more eerie and terrifying.
The whistling in my ears was the sound of the wind and the hooves of horses, the giggling of a group of people, and the words were vulgar and unusually proud.
Ruan Mingjiao woke up in the carriage, her eyes were dark, her mouth was stuffed, and her hands were tied with extremely thick ropes behind her back.
She was scared for a while, but she kept reminding herself to calm down, and kicked to the side tentatively, and a soft thing next to her immediately let out a muffled grunt.
She breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately, she was not alone, and she could be a lot more stable with the wind, no matter what she did, someone would answer her.
Congfeng was kicked by someone, and then he woke up in a daze, and his eyes were also dark, and he was tied up in the same posture as Ruan Mingjiao, but he was really a little aggrieved by such a big man.
He still remembered that he was beaten in the back of the head before he passed out, and when the man tied him, he found out that he had tied up the wrong person, but he was also a girl, and he didn't care so much and tied him up, and the man didn't forget to complain about what the girl ate and looked so big.
The rope behind him was also untied from Feng Xiang, and he reached out to untie the strip of cloth in his mouth and the black cloth in front of him.
They were specially trained when they were children, and they were tied up by people and thrown in the lake to ask for help, and they were left by Yan Zheng when they could untie the rope and swim ashore at the specified time, and they would not drown if they couldn't untie it, and someone was watching from the side, and once they found that they were drowning, they would immediately rescue them, so this rope couldn't tie him up at all.
As soon as he opened his eyes, he was a little dazzling, and after a lot of adaptation, he saw the slightly dim car in front of him, and when he saw Ruan Mingjiao, he was stunned, and then stepped forward and said in a suppressed voice: "Don't be afraid, the county lord, my subordinates will untie it for you." ”
Ruan Mingjiao had already relieved herself when she heard his voice, and saw her nodding from the wind through the candle flame, then turned her back and exposed her tied hands, and untied the rope from the wind, Ruan Mingjiao was able to stretch and then took off the cloth stuffed in her mouth and the obstacle in front of her.
After a little adaptation, the corner of the curtain was untied, and the scars were very fast, and they were already out of the city and heading to Yizhou for half an hour. There seems to be a lot of people around the horses, and it seems that Scar has made enough preparations this time, and they are running for her.
Congfeng on the side thought she was worried, and comforted her: "Don't worry, the county lord, we and the others will follow behind, and as soon as we arrive in Yizhou, someone will answer."
"Hmm." Ruan Mingjiao nodded and lowered the curtain of the handcar, and simply leaned back on the wall of the car to think about it.
I don't know if Bai Ran has gone up the mountain, if he controls those people in Huajingzhai, Scar will not be able to escape.
Inside the Yanchun Building.
Fang Ming and the others were sitting in danger, not daring to come out, watching Yan Zheng get on the horse and gallop away.
For no other reason, Feng Yuan'er pulled Liu Niang to the front, the building was dim, and there was a noisy sword sound from the intersection of weapons, which frightened her and the two of them hurriedly hid, and when this battle passed, the lights in the building were turned on again, and they saw Ruan Mingjiao disappearing.
Liu Niang immediately did not calm down, her eyes were flustered and she was about to hide, she was caught by Feng Yuan'er, the dispute between the two attracted everyone's attention, Yu Lao Bustard hated iron and steel, and drank it several times and didn't stop it.
Joining the army Qizhou only then drank and brought the two up, Liu Niang looked flustered, her eyes were wet with moisture, and I was pitiful, and shook her head vigorously and said It's not me, it's not me.
Yan Zheng's eyes were stunned, and he realized that something was wrong, and shouted, "What's the matter?" ”
Feng Yuan'er was so frightened by his drink that she trembled, then lowered her head and said in a panic: "Yes, it was the slave family who found out that Liu Niang was sneaky, so I asked her to clarify, and found the powder bag of the medicine from her hand." ”
She took a few steps forward, and when Liu Niang was unprepared, she took out the crumpled paper ball in her hand and showed it to Yan Zheng: "My lord, you see this is it." ”
"It's not me, it's not me." Liu Niang roared and couldn't help crying.
Yan Zheng took the paper ball and smelled it slightly, then felt pungent, grabbed Liu Niang's shoulder, and asked, "Who did you give the medicine!" ”
As he spoke, he raised his eyes and glanced at the people around him, all of them looked calm and unusual, and the uneasiness in his heart became more and more intense.
With this sound, he pulled back Liu Niang to his senses, his eyes were cold as if they were quenched with poison, "I, I got in the county lord's tea, I didn't mean to, I regretted it afterwards, I don't know if the county lord drank tea, I didn't mean to, my lord spares my life!" ”
After she finished speaking in a panic, there was only one kowtow left to beg for mercy, Yan Zheng was stunned, pushed the person away, her eyes were scarlet and angry, "Pull this poisonous woman down for me, and I will deal with it when I come back!" Prepare the horses! ”
Fang Ming and the others immediately reacted, and asked people to drag Liu Niang down, while letting people prepare horses, Yan Zheng was flustered and trembled. There was a burst of tinnitus in his ears that he couldn't hear what the person next to him was saying, and his limbs were as uncomfortable as ten thousand ants eating his bones, and he trembled all over, but he tried his best to calm down, turned over and galloped away with a whip.
And in the building, Feng Yuan'er was even more frightened and paralyzed in place and didn't dare to move, she thought that Liu Niang was just using kitsch medicine to fight for a future for herself, but she didn't expect her to be so bold and dare to calculate the incomparably respected county lord.
She couldn't help but think that if something really happened to the county lord, let alone a good future, they would not even be able to live in peace.
The wind blowing in the mountains blew the clothes of the people hunting, and Bai Dye and his party had arrived at Panlong Mountain in this day and night, and took advantage of the moonlight to arrive at Huajing Village overnight.
There was silence in the stockade, and when they came, they had already settled the guards on the road, and there were guards patrolling all over the stockade. Bai Dye led three or five people to solve the guards, lit the torches, and everyone scattered.
The originally quiet cottage instantly resounded with the screams of the crowd, and the people in the sleeping Huajingzhai were interrupted from their dreams, and a group of well-trained guards rushed up the mountain at some point, and each fierce god led them up with people.
Thinking about the sound of people's panic in the mountain stream, they were pushed to the platform in the stockade, surrounded by a group of fierce guards with knives, wearing official uniforms, and some children were already frightened to cry when they saw this battle, hiding in their parents' arms and sobbing.
"Who are you?"
There was a bold one who used the torch to see the people around him clearly, led by a man in white, and asked loudly.
Bai Ran glanced at him, and took out the token from his arms, "I am a special envoy of the imperial court, and I have come to suppress the bandits at the behest of His Majesty and Lord Yushi, and I will not kill you if you disarm them, and if there are those who resist, you will be killed!" Take! ”
"What about them? What do you want to do when you arrest us! Li Cailian hugged the baby in her arms, realized that something was wrong, and asked boldly.
When she asked, it also attracted everyone's attention, obviously their big boss had gone down the mountain, and this group of people from the government did not protect the people under the mountain, but they actually came up the mountain.
"Are you Li Cailian?" Bai Ran looked her up and down, the woman's face was delicate and calm as usual, but when he asked, she subconsciously dodged and didn't reply.
As soon as he waved his hand, several people stepped forward to arrest Li Cailian, and the people around him also seemed to realize something, and several men immediately stood in front of her to block them, and asked loudly, "What do you want to do?" ”
Bai Ran ignored him, just looked at Li Cailian through a few people and said: "Madame, don't worry, we won't hurt you, just ask Madame to come with us, the big boss has embarked on the road of no return and has been used to rob the county lord, but he is too miscalculated, the power behind the county lord of Pingyang is huge, and I am afraid that your village will not be easy at that time." ”
Li Cailian frowned, her body was stunned, obviously she didn't know, Scar only told her that it was a provocation by the government, and the whole army was going to go up the mountain, and he had to go down the mountain by surprise to frustrate the spirit of the government, but he didn't think that Scar would rob the county lord from her.
She thought that as always, they had been so many years old, how could Scar suddenly want to rob the county lord. If someone has a heart to investigate what happened to them back then, the scar is tantamount to pushing himself and the cottage into the fire pit, and these people who escaped death back then were to pick up a life, and now it is difficult or impossible to escape.
She thought for a while, as if she had made up her mind, bypassed the men in front of her, and glanced at them, who also seemed to be a little hesitant, and then heard Li Cailian say: "I'm fine, don't conflict with them." ”
She knew the general situation, and Bai Dye didn't care, so she asked Li Cailian and the little baby in her arms to go down, and with a wave of her hand, she asked people to take the others down the mountain together.
Before he had time to tidy up the cottage, while the cottage Li was searching for stolen goods, someone dug up a box under an empty place. As soon as he pried it open, the box turned out to be gunpowder, and the soldier saw that the fragments of the torch had fallen into the box. The soldier shook his hand and dropped the box, and the box behind him exploded just two steps away.
The sound shook the sky, breaking through the sky, between the lightning and flint, illuminating the entire Panlong Mountain like day, unusually clear, the earth shook, and the sky was full of debris of unknown things.
Bai Ran had just walked a few steps when there was a violent vibration behind him, a ringing in his ears, and his back was like a brazier burning like a blazing fire behind him.
His eyes were stunned, and he looked back at the place where the sound of the explosion occurred, and behind him was already a ruin of sparks, and by the frequent explosions began to occur on all sides, the shaking of the ground became more and more intense, and he almost fell to the ground with a tremor under his feet.
They have been tricked, this is a lure to the enemy! Someone wants to get rid of the people of Huajingzhai with their hands.
There were cries and screams in my ears, and the sound of screams was mixed with thuds, and the heavens and the earth seemed to be in a hell, there were people rushing to run, children who were separated from their parents were crying in fright, and some people were still running one moment, and the next second they were shattered by the explosion under their feet.
The fierce wind blew a bloody smell mixed with gunpowder, and he immediately reacted and took the child in Li Cailian's arms, pulled Li Cailian, and ordered everyone to disperse the crowd down the mountain as soon as possible.