Chapter 17: Into the Tiger's Den at Night

In the sound of the chain, a ghost claw with a chain entered through the window, and when Qin Xiaoyou had not yet landed, the claw head grabbed Qin Xiaoyou's back with a "poof", and grabbed Qin Xiaoyou out again like an eagle catching a chicken.

"Filial piety!" roche shouted, and chased out of the window, reaching out and grabbing the chain with both hands, trying to pull her husband back from the brink of death.

Without warning, a big hand with black hair on his back grabbed Roche's wrist with a "bang", and before Roche could react, he spun Roche around like a broken sack and smashed it to the ground.

"Wife!" Qin Xiaoyou, who was dying, was stunned, and just let out a heart-rending sound, another stout old man in black who was like a whirlwind had suddenly appeared in front of him, and stomped on Qin Xiaoyou's chest with a foot in the thrilling sound of bones shattering under the dark night sky.

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Less than half an hour had passed, and a large number of Sacred Sword Mountain Villa Zhuangding had already swarmed in, surrounding the Qin Mansion to the ground. The person at the head is not tall, has a round face and no beard, and is dressed as a cyan servant, it is Sun Yu, the butler of the Holy Sword Villa.

Beckoning his son Sun Peixian to be on guard, Sun Yuyi was bold, jumped up directly from the horse, and kicked the door of the hidden Qin Mansion open with a "bang".

The sight surprised Sun Yu.

Qin Xiaoyou and his wife Luo were both lying on the ground, and the door of the living room of Qin Lou was wide open, and from the outside, you could see that the black lacquer frame in the hall had been overturned, and the precious jade was shattered to the ground.

Clearly, someone was trying to search for something important, and that was why they abandoned these valuable jades. As for the criminals Xiao Ting and Xue Nianci that Sun Yu wanted to arrest on this trip, as well as Qin Xiaoyou's daughter Qin Yufei, they were all gone!

Sun Yu knew that he had fallen into a trap carefully designed by others.

The Holy Sword Villa had already received a secret report and knew that Qin Xiaoyou's true identity was one of the members of the secret organization "Red Silk Guard" that the emperor founded and abolished in his early years. This time, Sun Yu wanted to take the opportunity of Qin Xiaoyou harboring the murderer to eradicate this hidden danger for King Shuntian in one fell swoop, but he didn't know that the prisoner was not found, and Qin Xiaoyou and his wife had died inexplicably. If this is known by the court forces behind Qin Xiaoyou, it will inevitably bring a bloody storm to the Holy Sword Villa, and even speed up the pace of the confrontation between the two forces in the current dynasty.

However, Sun Yu only showed a sneer at this, looked up at the gloomy and dark night sky, and said lightly: "It seems that the sky is going to change!" After speaking, he didn't scruple that he would be regarded as a murderer if he left, leaving the corpse of Qin Xiaoyou and his wife, and leading people to roar away.

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It was already noon, the sky was still shrouded in rain, and an unexpected heavy rain began to fall in the second half of the night until now, and there is still no tendency to stop. The temperature suddenly became bone-chilling, as if to announce the majesty of late autumn.

What is even more solemn than this autumn rain is that in just one early morning, the portraits of Xiao Ting, Sun Shaoyang, Sima Long, Chai Shaoning, and Xue Nianci were plastered all over the large and small market towns and villages around the Daimyo's Mansion.

In this terrifying atmosphere, a young man dressed in green clothes, with a tiger's head and a tiger's brain, and the same as the head of Xiao Ting, the main culprit in the arrest portrait, appeared in a wine shop next to the official road outside the north gate of the Daimyo's mansion.

The young man was already drunk at this time, but he still carried a jar of wine on the table and poured himself a drink, and kept muttering to himself: "Am I wrong? Is it that I understand it wrong?" suddenly slapped himself a few times while speaking, and said while beating: "It doesn't matter if you are embarrassed, you dare to offend the second sister." Beat you self-conscious idiot!" After speaking, tears flowed in his eyes and he said: "Don't you know Nianci? I like you, I have liked you since I saw you from the first time, I don't want any sister, I don't want you to be my sister!"

The young man was crying and crying, and suddenly slapped the table and scolded, "Do you only have a jar of wine in this shop? Why don't you bring wine over?"

But the answer was more than a dozen men who pounced on him with ropes and sticks.

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When night fell again, the raindrops in the air finally thinned out, and when the wind blew, the rain and mist wrapped around people's faces, and it was cold to the heart.

Just as the autumn rain was about to stop, two black shadows streaked across the waterlogged pavement and appeared under the towering exterior wall of the Holy Sword Villa on the other side of the road.

The two of them look fierce, one handsome, and they are Sun Shaoyang and Chai Shaoning, who got rid of Lu Yushan and the officers and soldiers.

Chai Shaoning's strange soldiers stood out, and his sword injured Meng Haoshan, which was a result that Lu Yushan's side did not expect at all. Under the shock, there was a big lack of main force, and his strength was greatly reduced, and Sun Shaoyang took the opportunity to take Chai Shaoning and Sima Long to highlight the encirclement.

The three of them escaped from Qiaojia Town, hid in the forest, and were thinking about how to find Xiao Ting after dawn, but they unexpectedly heard the news that Sun Yu had washed the Qin Mansion in blood and captured Xiao Ting and Xue Nianci.

The three of them were taken aback, but then when they saw the notices posted everywhere to arrest Xiao Ting, they suddenly became suspicious of the news in their hearts.

The government will not offer a reward for a fugitive who has been arrested, but it is not ruled out that Xiao Ting fell into the hands of Sun Yu after the government posted an arrest notice.

Sun Shaoyang quickly made a decision, asking Sima Long to immediately return along the road he came from and pass the news to Ouyang Yu and the others, while he and Chai Shaoning sneaked into the city to explore the Holy Sword Villa at night and secretly investigate the whereabouts of Xiao Ting and Xue Nianci.

Therefore, the two of them avoided the night sentry of the official palace patrolling the city all the way and came to the wall of the Holy Sword Villa.

At this time, the heavy rain has stopped, and the night is dark, which is suitable for night walking. Sun Shaoyang gestured to Chai Shaoning, and the two separated left and right, each finding a secluded place to jump into the wall.

Although there are many families in the Holy Sword Villa, no one can detect the existence of these two people.

Chai Shaoning ignored the many night watchmen in the courtyard, and ran up to the roof of a high house in front of him like a phantom, and bowed down to observe the situation of the road mansion.

The Holy Sword Villa established by the Heavenly Thief Lu Xiufeng covers an extremely vast area, Chai Shaoning looked at it at a glance, the high-rise buildings in front of him were towering layer by layer, house by house, wall by wall, tree shadows and flowers, I couldn't tell how many heavy courtyards there were?

Chai Shaoning was dazzled, and simply ignored the southeast and northwest, and swept towards the place where there were lights and human voices.

It's been a long time at night, and there are still plenty of people in the road, which is very lively.

As one of the members of the disgraced Heavenly Thief Gang, Lu Xiufeng has long been cut off from his former family, so the Lu family is actually not prosperous. However, Lu Xiufeng's father and son raised a lot of minions, and the charity of Lu Yushan's sage sword was extremely well disguised, dividing many courtyards in the villa, and establishing families for those loyal servants, making the holy sword villa look like the scale of a family.

Chai Shaoning bypassed many pavilions and eavesdropped on the conversations in several houses, although from time to time he would involve all kinds of things that happened near the Daimyo's Mansion in the past two days, but he didn't get the slightest news about Xiao Ting and Xue Nianci.

Chai Shaoning gradually became anxious in his heart, and just thought about whether he wanted to take the risk of arresting and torturing people, when he suddenly heard the voice of a girl under the corridor: "Cui Mei, come on, everyone must avoid this table of wine and food, the owner of the village and the guests have important matters to discuss, but they can't let him wait for a long time." ”

Another girl's voice said urgently: "I was too cumbersome when I came out, I didn't take the tray, and I didn't want this soup to get hotter and hotter." Good sister, you go first, don't let the owner get angry when he can't see people, and I'll come later. ”

The girl from before said yes and walked quickly.

Chai Shaoning was overjoyed when he heard it. Although the five of them became fugitives, the incoming Ouyang Yu people were even stronger. If he captures Xiao Ting and Xue Nianci, maybe he will ask the two of them to ask for details about Ouyang Yu, and then he can find the place where Xiao Ting and Xue Nianci are being held, and wait for the opportunity to rescue them.

Thinking of this, Chai Shaoning floated up from the porch with a sigh of relief, fell like a shadow behind the girl in front of him, and entered another compound in Zhuangzhong through the side door.

This compound occupies a wide area, the front half of the courtyard is an open space, the terrain on the inner side rises one person high, the edge is built with a stone, and the white marble carved stone fence is built, enclosing a platform that is not high, but very imposing.

A large hall sits on this platform.

The bluestone corridor at the entrance of the hall stretches out all the way, from the platform stone steps down to the courtyard, and extends to the courtyard gate, which is connected with the blue brick floor laid in the door opening. There are more than a dozen big trees on both sides of the bluestone road, and the rain on the trees is blowing and the dead leaves are scattered when the wind passes, multiplying the cold and autumn bleakness.

Chai Shaoning comprehended the power of Lu Yushan and Sun Yu and others, and did not dare to get too close to the door, so he hung his figure under the eaves in the corner of the hall, and hid in the shadows under the eaves to eavesdrop on the conversations of everyone in the hall.

As soon as he hid his body, another maid who served soup happened to walk into the hospital.

Waiting for Yahuan to enter the room, Chai Shaoning put his head against the wall so that he could hear the voice in the hall as clearly as possible, but he didn't know that his eyes inadvertently found a small crack at the top of the window paper in front of him.

Because the location of the crack was too hidden, the servants of the road house could not find it for a while, so it was not repaired in time.

Chai Shaoning was secretly happy and adjusted the angle of his body so that his eyes could see the people in the hall through the gaps.

Looking in from dark to bright, Chai Shaoning clearly saw a large round table in the middle of the living room, Lu Yushan was the first, Sun Yu and his son on the left, Qiao Zhenhai on the right and apprentice, on the opposite side of the guest seat, on the side facing Chai Shaoning's position, Meng Haoshan, the swordsman outside the gate, was holding his left hand wrapped in a thick cloth and muttering curses there.

Sun Yu's father and son sat with Lu Yushan as servants, apparently their servant status was only used to confuse outsiders.

Meng Haoshan is worthy of a generation of murderers, he broke half of his palm, and he actually attended the reception banquet held for him by Lu Yushan as usual, although this banquet was delayed overnight due to the pursuit of Chai Shaoning and others who escaped unexpectedly.