CHAPTER XX

The corpse of the leader of the healthy servant was lying in the dead grass lying on the outside of the lake embankment, bright red blood gushing out from the neck stem, a large patch of dead grass red, Gu Ying's sleeves and green jacket and green skirt, holding a blood-dripping ritual knife in her hand, stood next to the leaking blood, like a shocking impressionist work.

Of course, the three servants on horseback did not know what an impressionist work was, but the sharp blow of the Seventh Lady's expression of her determination struck their hearts so strongly that they did not dare to ignore or question the words of the Seventh Lady, at least not at this time. There was no time to grieve for the dead fox of his companion who was lying on the dry grass, so the three servants all drew their sabers in their hands, turned their horses' heads and galloped towards the lake embankment.

Even if the three healthy servants knew in their hearts that the rogues who chased and killed Lin Jian were all sent by the second son, they wanted to save Lin Jian here, and they would inevitably offend the second son, but the lesser of two evils, offending the second son at least temporarily did not have to worry about his life, and it would not affect his family.

Watching the three healthy servants pull their horses and hooves down the embankment, Gu Yingsleeve sat on the dry grass pile as if he had exhausted all his strength, regardless of the blood stains all over his body, and stared at the lake embankment with his hands on the dry grass.

The maids and mothers-in-law were all frightened, looking at Gu Yingsleeve with a pale face, they usually knew that the Seventh Lady was a powerful person, but no one could imagine that she would be so clean and decisive today, and the servants who did not obey her orders and then forced others to go down to the lake embankment to save people. Gu Yingsleeve sat there, the ground was cold, the maids and mothers-in-law were going to help her stand up, or hand her a Xiudun, but at this time, everyone was stunned, and even Gu Yingsleeve's personal maid didn't dare to step forward to serve as if it had taken root under her feet.

Zhao was shocked when she saw the Seventh Lady killing, but like the Seventh Lady, she was concerned about the safety of the forest under the lake embankment and her son who had not appeared until now, and she couldn't wait to kill them when she saw that the four escorted servants refused to listen to the Seventh Lady's order to go down to help save their lives. Even if he thought in his heart, but seeing the Seventh Lady with a sword in his hand, the Zhao family was still very strongly impacted; She walked over and picked up the Seventh Lady and looked out at the wilderness beneath the lake's embankment.

The three healthy servants rode their horses down the lake embankment, four or five hundred steps away from Lin Tie, and Lin Tie's road into the village was blocked by the Dongyang Mansion cavalry, and the retreat route had been blocked by the Kou soldiers who had caught up, so they could only dismount and kill these thieves.

Gu Yingsleeve could see that Zhou Pu and the two strangers who appeared in Luoma City yesterday were both brave, but there were as many as seven rogues who pursued them, and seeing that Lin Lian almost threw off his horse when he was reined, Gu Yingsleeve was worried about whether Zhou Pu and the two outsiders could protect Lin Lian from harm and support him to come here to support.

The next development of the situation was far beyond Gu Yingsleeve's imagination.

Gu Yingsleeve saw Lin Tie fall off his horse, rolled on the ground and stood up like no one else, and shouted loudly at the Dongyang Mansion cavalry blocking the entrance of the village, this side was far away, Gu Yingsleeve couldn't hear what Lin Tie was shouting, guessing that he probably told the cavalry who blocked the entrance to the village was they who had seen through the assassin in Shiliang County at noon yesterday and had just saved Gu Wuchen's life.

The cavalry of Dongyang Mansion was unmoved, and they were not manpowered, what if the other party tricked them into killing another one by surprise? However, I saw a cavalry returning to the village, and probably went to ask the Gu family to come out to verify.

Zhou Pu and the two strangers dismounted, only to see the original stranger who was holding a bow and interfering with the pursuers in the back threw the riding bow in his hand and the only three remaining arrows to Zhou Pu, Zhou Pu took the bow and arrows, pulled the bow and arrows, and put two arrows in his mouth. The stranger's archery skills on the horseback were good enough, and when he saw him hand over the bow to the others, the seven rogues who were pursuing him naturally became cautious, rushed to the edge of the range of the horse, turned over and dismounted, and led the horse forward, hiding their bodies behind the horse's side and rushing forward.

Zhou Pu did not hesitate, first / shot an arrow, shot into the neck of a horse, and while the horse was neighing in pain, he shot a second arrow extremely quickly, piercing the chest of a rogue. Gu Yingsleeve has also seen the villagers perform archery, but he feels that Zhou Pu's archery skills are unmatched by the villagers in the forest.

It's just that at this time, Zhou Pu only had one arrow left in his hand, but there were six people on the other side, and the three healthy servants who forced her to rescue had not yet ridden their horses forty or fifty steps away. Gu Yingchong knew that Zhou Pu might not be afraid of these six rogues alone, but she was worried that Zhou Pu would not be able to protect Lin Lian's thoughtfulness when he had only half of the opponent's manpower. It doesn't matter if these rogues kill people in front of the Dongyang Mansion cavalry, which shows how strong the determination to kill Lin Jian is.

But at this moment, there was the sound of horses' hooves running in the distance, Gu Yingsleeve was shocked, could it be that there were still rogues chasing after him? Lin Xuzong's privately raised Kou soldiers were far more than seven or eight people, standing on the lake embankment and looking down, looking at the two fast horses from the northeast and northwest corners rushing towards this side, wearing bows and quivers on the back of the horses, Gu Yingsleeve felt half cold, Zhou Pu and the two outsiders may not have a full grip on the six rogues, not to mention that the people who came were carrying bows and arrows. However, the four people who came from behind quickly approached the flanks of the six rogues and then turned over and dismounted, took out a hard bow from the horse's back, which was one-third longer than the riding bow, and shot at the six soldiers who were actually besieging in the middle.

The changes in front of him surprised the people on the lake embankment and at the entrance of the village, and the three healthy servants who were going to rush to the rescue also reined in their horses from a distance, not knowing whether it was better to return or enter.

Gu Yingsleeve understood what was going on, Lin Lian made it clear that this was trapping and killing the second son Lin Xuzong, a few privately raised Kou soldiers, could it be that he said in the carriage last night, "Wait for him to come and kill him, and then give a gift to Sister Yingsleeve".

The time that happened was very short, and no one from the Gu family had yet appeared at the entrance of the village to identify the identities of Lin Lian and the others, and the team of Dongyang Mansion horsemen couldn't help but get nervous when they saw Lin Lian's powerful means of booby-trapping and killing the Liukou, and naturally they were even more vigilant to prevent them from approaching the village.

Gu Yingsleeve saw Lin Jian patting the dust on his body, clumsily climbing onto the horse, and riding his horse towards this side with Zhou Pu and the six outsiders.

Lin Jian rode up the lake embankment, and he also got off the horse a little clumsily, and when he saw the corpse on the dry grass, he seemed to know what had happened on the lake embankment just now, and said directly to Gu Yingsleeve: "Why did the Seventh Lady come to see Master Gu?" ”

Gu Yingsleeve wanted to stab him in the chest, and his heart almost jumped out of his throat just now. Lin Jian turned a blind eye to the corpses on the dry grass pile, but Gu Yingsleeve had to endure the nausea after the killing, and forcibly calmly lectured the three healthy servants, maids, and mothers-in-law: "The disciples of the Lin family are in trouble, who dares to stand by and watch, he and Zhao Neng are role models!" After going back, you said that he killed the thief for Lin Xiucai, and his family can still get the family's pension, do you know? Aunt Zhao, help me back to the car, I have a headache from the cold wind. ”

Aunt Zhao was still a little worried about Zhao Hu's safety, but she couldn't leak the fact that the Seventh Lady and Lin Jian had made an appointment to meet at Huyan in front of others, so she had to help the Seventh Lady into the carriage first.

The three servants, the maids, and the mother-in-law did not dare to say anything, so they only carried the corpse to the carriage in front of them, and tied the empty horse that no one rode behind the carriage.

Although the imperial court decreed that the lord's family should not arbitrarily lynch servants and forbid unjustified killing. In fact, in the villages where clan power is rampant, the village tyrants and clans all use lynching as an important means to deter servants and clansmen. Even if the lynching hurt his life, he was brought to the government, and the government was very fair to avenge the servants, and the master of the servant who killed him for no reason was only exiled for three years.

Today, the matter is urgent, and the servant who has the duty of guarding disobeys the order and does not rescue the master's family, and even if he kills the master's family with a knife, even if he sues the government, it is only a fine.

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The Gu family finally appeared at the entrance of the village, and it was the middle-aged guard who appeared next to Gu Wuchen yesterday.

Hearing the news that the assassins had gathered guests to gallop and plunder, Yang Pu was shocked by the audacity of these assassins, so he asked the cavalry sent by Dongyang Mansion to escort them to the entrance of the village to intercept them, and he could not let the assassins enter the village to harm the Gu family, while he stayed by Gu Wuchen's side and guarded his safety. It didn't take long for the cavalry of Dongyang Mansion to send someone to report that someone claimed to be Lord Gu's life-saving benefactor, and was besieging the seven or eight people who thought they were assassins. Yang Pu instantly thought of Lin Binding, who had seen through the assassin in the tea hotel last night, and he couldn't let Gu Wuchen take an adventure at the entrance of the village, so he hurried to the entrance of the village. If Lord Gu's life-saving benefactor was surrounded and killed by thieves at the entrance of the village because of his inaction, not to mention the guilt in his heart, if it came out, Lord Gu would become a laughing stock in the officialdom: Who would treat his life-saving benefactor like this?

Yang Pu looked at the seven rogues in the field who had been shot by arrows, and the battle had ended before he arrived. There are three horses lying on the ground, one horse is dead, the other two horses have been hit by arrows, bleeding a lot, their hooves are on the ground, their noses are spraying white mist, and they are about to die, and several other horses have fled to a distance, and the Dongyang Mansion cavalry also sent four people to catch them.

I saw Lin Jian riding a horse and slowly descending the lake embankment behind Gu Yingsleeve's carriage, and a team of knights followed behind.

"Uncle Yang," Gu Yingsleeve saw Yang Pu coming to the entrance of the village, asked Zhao to lift the curtain, and said to Lin Lian, "Uncle Yang went to Yanjing with my second uncle twenty years ago......

Lin Jian had heard Yang Pu mentioned before, but he didn't recognize him when he met yesterday.

The Yang family has been a servant in the Gu family for four generations, and Yang Pu was a martial artist in Shiliang County when he was young, but the martial arts of this dynasty are not as good as literature, and the examination of Chinese Xiucai and Wenju people will have meritorious fame, but in the examination, Wu Xiucai and Wuju people will have to go to the army to accumulate military merits to have meritorious fame. Yang Pu did not think about joining the army to make a name for himself and get out of his lowly status twenty years ago, but accompanied Gu Wuchen to Yanjing to attend a meeting, and stayed in Yanjing with Gu Wuchen for 20 years.

"Lin Juren, I was really sorry just now, I have a heavy responsibility to protect Lord Gu, I hope Lin Juren can understand." The leader of the cavalry of Dongyang Mansion was a lieutenant of the cloud cavalry under the battalion of the Soldiers and Horses Division of Dongyang Mansion, and he also knew that the practice of turning people away from the village just now was very offensive, and he also came to make amends at this time.

Lin Jian didn't speak, and Wu Qi, who was riding on a horse behind him, snorted coldly: "It's probably because we look suspicious and don't deserve your trust, so I won't stop bothering." Chao Lin clasped his fists and said, "Lin Xiucai, we will meet later." ”

It is not necessary to say something ugly, but Wu Qi and they are in a hurry to get out and return to the Tibetan horse, so naturally they have to say something ugly, and the crow Wu Qi and the other five people all turned their horses' heads and galloped into the distance. Yang Pu and the deputy lieutenant of the Dongyang Mansion cavalry Yunqi both wondered why these people were so difficult to serve? But they were at fault, looking at Wu Qi and them riding their horses far away, they forgot to keep them.

The deputy lieutenant of Yunqi looked at Wu Qi and the others who were far away, and thought in his heart: Fast horses and hard bows, good at riding, are suspicious. But he won't say this mildly, which big clan doesn't have some private soldiers in his hands these days, and he thinks that Lin Juren will just leave if he is not angry.

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