At dusk, Li Yanqing took Zhang Ying and Zhang Bao back to his house, Sisi and Qing'er were not there, and the mansion was a lot deserted, especially the maids in the inner house were only two people left, and it was really quiet at night.

As soon as Li Yanqing walked into the door, Yang Guang hurriedly greeted him and said nervously: "Qiqi official, there are people watching us outside." ”

Someone was actually watching, Li Yanqing was slightly stunned, and asked again: "How did you find out?" ”

"Someone reminded us!"

Yang Guang handed a note to Li Yanqing, who unfolded the note, and there were only four words on it, 'There is surveillance outside!' ’

The handwriting was crooked, Li Yanqing frowned, who wrote this to himself?

"It was given to me by a child this afternoon, so I searched everywhere and found two ships moored under the Yunqi Bridge, and there were men in black on board, who kept staring at our gate."

Li Yanqing's mansion is about sixty steps away from the Yunqi Bridge, there is a mooring place under the Yunqi Bridge, and there are often boats docked there, if there are two boats that have been parked there, it is not surprising, the key is that there are people in black, which makes Li Yanqing immediately think of Baoyanzhai in Yujie, could it be that the black-clothed people who set fire to the shop are the same people?

It is said that the mastermind of burning Baoyan Zhai is Liang Fangping's cousin Liang Zhi, and today the emperor of the Great Dynasty has issued an order to remove Liang Fangping from all his duties, and ordered Dali Temple to arrest him into the capital to ask for guilt, how can Liang Fangping not hate himself to the bone? Liang Zhi did have a motive to attack himself.

Li Yanqing also didn't care about the person who wrote the note for the time being, he would call Zhang Bao and Zhang Ying to also tell the two of them that Yang Guang had found something suspicious, Zhang Bao and Zhang Ying were suddenly shocked and angry, "Since they don't want to live, then fulfill them!" ”

Li Yanqing waved his hand, "Don't worry, listen to my arrangement!" ”

The three of them immediately quieted down, and Li Yanqing said to them: "We have to do everything to deal with, although we only have four people, it is enough to use it properly, Yang Guang is responsible for peripheral surveillance and timely transmission of news to the mansion, Zhang Bao and Zhang Ying are in charge of the atrium, cut off their retreat, and I will deal with the inner house." ”

"You can go to Baoyan Zhai to borrow some manpower!" Yang Guang suggested.

Li Yanqing shook his head, "Let them find out that we are prepared, I'm afraid they won't come." ”

"What about the domestic servants in the house?"

This is a difficult thing to do, there are still eight domestic servants in the house, Li Yanqing pondered for a moment and said to Zhang Bao: "You arrange for them to go out to stay at the guest house, don't leave through the main gate, go through the back door, and leave directly through the back door of Fayun Temple." ”

"I understand the lowly position, so let's arrange it."

Zhang Bao left, Yang Guang and Zhang Ying also went separately to deploy, Li Yanqing returned to the inner house, he prepared the sword, bow and arrow, and took out twenty flying knives from a box, put them into a leather bag, he took the weapon and walked quickly to the highest pavilion in the inner house, from here you can see everything around.

It was the beginning of February, and the night was still very early, and after a while, the night fell quietly, and the two ships moored at the Yunqi Bridge still did not leave, these were two medium-sized passenger ships, which could accommodate twenty people in the cabin, but all the windows were draped, and the situation in the cabin could not be seen.

There were a total of thirty black-clothed men in the two ships, all of them equipped with sharp blades, waiting for night to fall and sneak into Li Yanqing's mansion.

Although assassination has always been a taboo in the struggle of the imperial court, because it will cause harm to each other, and civil officials are very cautious in this regard, if there is a dog jumping off the wall in a hurry, it is difficult to avoid it by any means.

After Liang Zhi received the news that his brother was dismissed from his post and questioned for his crimes, he knew the seriousness of the problem and had to abandon his official position and hide, and all the destruction of his wealth stemmed from Li Yanqing's supervision in Zhending Mansion, which made him hate Li Yanqing deeply.

It took Liang Zhi two days to find Li Yanqing's residence before, and at this time, he had no scruples, so he conveyed a reward order to his subordinates, got Li Yanqing's head, and rewarded each of them with a thousand yuan.

The night is getting deeper, at the time of the second watch, most of the people in the capital have fallen asleep, and the area around the Yunqi Bridge is also silent, only the cooing sound of the night owl is constantly heard in a small forest in the west, and from time to time there will be a night owl fluttering out of the woods and rushing to the ground to forage for the night mouse.

At this time, there was movement under the Yunqi Bridge, and one after another the black-clothed men rushed out of the cabin and jumped ashore, moving quickly and agilely.

Thirty-four men in black gathered around, and the leader of the men in black whispered to them: "I repeat, today's goal is a hard idea, there are few people who can't kill him, everyone concentrates on killing him, and then ask for money and women to do whatever you want." ”

After speaking, he ordered the four people to guard the periphery, and with another wave of his hand, thirty men in black quickly rushed towards Li Yanqing's mansion.

Yang Guang hid in a big tree on the outskirts of the grove,

Seeing it very clearly, he immediately imitated the rhythmic cooing of the night owl and transmitted the message to the house.

In the mansion, Zhang Ying ran to the pavilion and whispered to Li Yanqing: "Yang Guang has news outside, the other party is going to make a move." ”

Li Yanqing nodded, "Act according to the plan!" ”

Zhang Ying turned around and ran away, Li Yanqing drew an arrow and put on the bowstring, at this time, thirty black-clothed people had rushed to the outside of the mansion, they used the way of taking a ladder, from the west wall into the mansion, and quickly ran to the backyard, each carrying a sharp steel knife, several of them also carried fire sickles and flints and other things, once they killed the target, they would set fire to the house.

The house was also unusually quiet, the thirty black-clothed people did not meet a single subordinate, but it was not surprising, at this time everyone was sleeping, and the thirty black-clothed people were divided into three teams, and rushed to the backyard from the east, west, and south directions.

In a few moments, the first man in black climbed through the east wall into the backyard, and below was a cluster of bushes, and he jumped on the bushes, but before his body could hit the ground, an arrow lightning struck, an arrow pierced his head, and by the time his feet hit the ground, he had become a corpse.

Li Yanqing quickly drew his bow and arrows, turned to the west, and the second and third arrows were shot at the same time, only to hear two screams, and the two people who climbed in from the west wall were killed by one arrow.

He turned suddenly, drew his fourth arrow, and without hesitation, shot it to the south, and a man in black who had just emerged from the roof to the south screamed and rolled down from the roof.

"Not good! There was an ambush. ”

The leader of the men in black was outside the western wall, he screamed, but saw that two of his men had rolled down from the wall and fell in front of him, both of them shot an arrow through the center of the eyebrows, and the powerful arrow shot into the head a foot, so that the leader of the men in black trembled, this kind of archery simply made him tremble.

"Wait!" He shouted, and several men in black who were about to rush up the fence were stopped by him.

"Get cover and get in!" The leader of the men in black knew that rushing in this way was a live target, and he had to find cover, and he saw a firewood house in the garden twenty paces ahead, with the roof and walls exposed above the wall, and the back window open, and he waved his hand and ran towards the firewood house with seven of his men.

Zhang Bao was lying in ambush behind a Taihu Lake stone opposite the firewood house at this time, he held a short steel spear in his hand, gritted his teeth, and restrained his urge to kill.

At this time, Li Yanqing had changed his strategy and concentrated on dealing with the black-clothed man on the roof in the south, he shot four arrows in succession, shooting all the four people on the roof who had turned over the ridge, and frightened the other five people in the south not to show up again, so he turned around and concentrated on dealing with the black-clothed man in the west.

There were ten people in the west, two of whom had been shot and killed before, and in the gap between Li Yanqing and the black-clothed man in the south, the other eight had climbed over the wall and entered the back garden, and quickly outflanked the pavilion.

Li Yanqing sneered, he was condescending, these black-clothed people ran around their waists and thought they could dodge their arrows, he simply used a series of arrows, arrow after arrow, each arrow had one person screaming and falling to the ground, and five people were shot in an instant, and the other three were so frightened that they turned around and fled.

Li Yanqing didn't care about them, handed them over to Zhang Ying, he quickly pulled out a rocket from the rocket pot next to him, took out the fire fold from the iron can on the ground beside him, and blew it violently, the fire fold ignited, and he immediately ignited the rocket.

Li Yanqing stretched out his bow and set up an arrow, and shot an arrow into the window of the firewood room, which was a trap he had laid, which was full of dry grass sprinkled with fire oil, and the firewood room burst into flames, and the firewood room suddenly screamed, and the seven black-clothed people hiding in the firewood room suddenly panicked, and the leader of the black-clothed men shouted, "Rush out!" ”

He kicked open the firewood room, rolled forward and jumped out, but unfortunately it was useless in any position, the cold light flashed, a sharp arrow had pierced his heart, and the leader of the men in black screamed and died instantly.

The other six men in black were already panicked, rushed out desperately, and were shot by Li Yanqing's continuous arrows to kill three people in one go, at this time, Zhang Bao had jumped on the wall, roared, and pounced on the remaining three, the firewood room was lit as a signal, Zhang Bao and Zhang Ying killed from hiding at the same time.

Li Yanqing's gaze turned to the south again, there was no one on the roof, he squinted his eyes, stared at the house, and his intuition told him that someone had sneaked into the room.

At this time, the fire in the east wing flickered, Li Yanqing did not hesitate to shoot an arrow at the bright light, the sharp arrow passed through the window paper, shot into the house, there was a scream in the house, and the fire was extinguished again.

Li Yanqing saw that Zhang Bao had killed the two of them and was fighting fiercely with the last person, and Zhang Ying's roar was also heard outside the west wall, he should have intercepted the three people who fled from the west.

Li Yanqing simply pulled out his sword and ran into the house, just entered the house, only to feel a strong wind coming from behind, Li Yanqing had already taken precautions, he turned sideways sharply, dodged a sneak attack from behind, the sword in his hand quickly stabbed back, the speed was incomparably fast, and a sword pierced the chest of the sneak attacker.

Almost without thinking, he pulled out a dagger from his waist, the cold light flashed in his hand, the flying knife shot out, a scream came from the corner of the house, the sharp knife fell to the ground, and another sneak attacker hiding in the corner of the house was shot by the flying knife.

At this time, he heard a slight noise behind another door, he turned around suddenly, a sword pierced the wooden door, there was a terrible scream behind the door, and at the same time there was a sound of a long knife falling to the ground, Li Yanqing did not take a closer look, from the feel and position of the long sword into the body, he knew that the person behind the door had been assassinated, he stood still and listened for a while, there was no movement in the house, he rushed out of the house and ran to the west.

Zhang Bao had already killed the remaining three people and was assisting Zhang Ying in the west, Li Yanqing ran to the wall, only to see Zhang Ying and Zhang Bao appear on the wall at the same time, "Yushi, the black-clothed assassins have all been killed!" ”

Li Yanqing nodded, "Go and put out the fire!" ”

At this time, the firewood house has been engulfed in flames, but there are no houses and big trees around, the fire is not big, and it will not spread. With a bang, the roof of the firewood house collapsed, and most of the open flames were covered by the rubble of the roof, and the two hurriedly fetched water from the pond hall to extinguish the fire.

Li Yanqing searched around the backyard again, and he quickly estimated in his heart that in just a quarter of an hour, they had killed about thirty men in black, and if the other party came as a whole number, then there should be none.

At this time, he suddenly heard a painful groan from inside the house, and there was still a living mouth in the house, Li Yanqing turned around and strode towards the house.