That evening, when the carpenter Ah Fu was about to eat, he suddenly saw a young man entering the shop with his servant.
Ah Fu hurriedly greeted him and asked with a smile: "What do you want to buy, little official?"
"Dad, are there any nice decorations here?"
"Yes, what do you think of this Buddha statue?"
"It's too big, are there any smaller ones?"
"Yes, yes, but the small ones are more expensive than the big ones, because the small ones are more difficult to carve. Please take a look at this..."
Ah Fu saw that this young man obviously didn't know much about his business, so he couldn't help but ask for a higher price.
But the other party simply looked at it and paid for the smallest Buddha statue in the store.
Ah Fu took the wooden box and packed the things again. When he looked up, he saw the servant standing behind the young man.
Because this servant looked so ordinary, I didn't notice where he had just gone.
Ah Fu didn't think much about it. He happily collected the money and went to the back to eat. He didn't realize that an ax was missing from the store.
…
Li Xia and Lin Zi walked through the alley and asked, "Can you call it a hand?"
Lin Zi weighed the ax in his hand and said, "It's a bit light, but it's okay... I said, this wooden knot is expensive to buy. I think the carpenter's skills are generally tight."
"Money for the axe."
"Ha, I thought I stole this axe."
Li Xia handed over the book in his hand and said, "Take it, I'll go over there and buy a cheap set of clothes."
"Yes, so as not to splatter you with blood..."
Lin Zi stood in the alley and waited for a while. Li Xia changed into coarse clothes and came out with a bag on his back. The two of them walked towards Galu's house.
"Don't be impatient after entering. Count how many people are there first, and then take action when you hear the clock tower ringing to announce the time. Don't kill women, children, or detained people, and leave no one alive. Move quickly, don't let them.
Run out the door and call someone."
"Will there be a patrol?"
"The sound of the bell lasts for half a stick of incense. Just kill it within half a stick of incense."
"oh."
"Galu hasn't come back yet. After we kill his servants, we'll wait for him at his house. Then you tie up the women and children first, gag them, kill Galu, and then let them go..."
As they talked, they returned to the high-rise mansion.
Perhaps because Li Xia had changed his clothes, his movement was no longer as smooth as before. Soon a patrolman came over and asked, "What are you doing?!"
Li Xia didn't panic, took out a token and said: "From the Military and Civilian Household, come and give some gifts to the nobles."
After saying that, he picked up the baggage containing clothes in his hands.
"Go ahead."
Li Xia then led Lin Zi to the door of Galu's house and clicked the knocker.
When someone opened it, Lin Zi whispered: "What should we do? The patrols behind us have been staring at us."
"Just to keep them watching." Li Xia said, "Don't panic, they will be far away when the bell rings."
Soon, the door was opened, and the concierge of the Galu family stuck his head out.
Li Xia took out the token again and said in Mongolian to come to Galu.
The concierge looked confused, probably because he could only understand a little bit of Mongolian. After Li Xia explained his purpose of visit again in Chinese, he asked them to go in and wait.
Lin Zi couldn't help but think to himself, people are just different. Some people began to study Mongolian desperately in the south of the Yangtze River. Some people have been working for the Mongolians for so long, and they still rely on gestures.
Before he entered the door, he turned around and glanced, and saw that the team of patrolmen at the entrance of the alley had indeed left...
As expected, Galu hasn't come back yet. The women he snatched are probably locked up in the backyard. There are only some servants doing rough work in the front yard. The aroma of roasting meat can be faintly smelled in the yard, and dinner is being prepared in the kitchen.
Li Xia and Lin Zi were waiting in the front yard, chatting with the servants about the situation in the house.
Lin Zi put his hands behind his back and held the ax handle under his robe.
"Dong~"
A long chime sounded, and it was already midnight...
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Night falls.
Jaru left China's courtyard half drunk. At night, other guards came to take his place and continue to protect China.
Thinking about the woman he had snatched today, Garu walked back to his house with brisk steps and humming a meadow tune.
There is a faint smell of blood in the air.
He sniffed, thinking that he might have stepped on the blood of those Han people while hunting during the day, and he still smelled of it.
I patted the door hard and it opened.
Galu strode into the front yard without even looking at the concierge.
Thinking of the feeling of touching the woman twice before going out, a lewd smile appeared on his face, and he couldn't wait to go to the backyard.
The courtyard door creaked and was closed by the servant behind him, and was bolted with a click.
Suddenly, Galu sensed a hint of danger, and he jumped quickly.
"ah!"
An ax hit his shoulder anyway, causing severe pain!
This time he was meant to chop his neck, but he avoided it in the flash of lightning.
Turning around, he saw that the guard was a man he had never seen before, charging towards him with an ax in his hand and a grin on his face.
Garu quickly pulled out his scimitar and slashed it down.
He is a strong man like a beast. Although he is drunk and injured in a sneak attack, he is not afraid of the opponent at all.
"Cang!" The scimitar struck the axe, and the two of them struggled.
The next moment, another figure rushed forward...
…
"Poof! Poof!"
Lin Zi had given up the ax and held on to Galu's hands.
Struggling, roaring... Galu's movements became smaller and smaller.
In the yard, the only sound gradually heard was the sound of daggers piercing into the body.
"Puff puff……"
"It's okay...it's okay..." Lin Zi whispered: "He's dead...he's dead..."
Only then did Li Xia stop.
He has probably killed seven or eight people since his rebirth. Before, he had a sense of separation, and he was just fighting for life and death. He couldn't say that he felt anything.
Only when killing Qiao Ju, you can see the opponent's eyes.
At that time, Li Xia's first three stabs were very fierce. Inexplicably, he felt a little angry because of the sentence "Raising a million soldiers to the West Lake". This is very strange, because he had no sense of belonging to the Zhao and Song Dynasties.
And when he covered Qiao Ju's eyes, he gave the knife in the end, but it was still gentle...
Tonight was different. This was the first time since Li Xia was reborn that he felt the joy of killing someone.
As he said, he killed some people to solve the problem. He could choose the one who grabbed a longevity lock and hung it around his neck, or he could choose the interpreter...
But in short, he chose Galu today. Besides his reason, he also had the desire to kill him.
Fifteen swords is like a hearty game.
Li Xia finally had cruelty in his eyes.
He put away the dagger, picked up Garu's body, and dragged it to the lobby.
"What are you standing there for? Keep working." He said to Lin Zi, his voice still calm.
"oh."
"Do you have my book with you?"
"right."
"Give it to me." Li Xia said again, "Go to the backyard, release those women, and let them go through the back door. Don't let them see me."
"good."
Li Xia dragged Galu into the lobby, wiped his hands, took what Lin Zi handed over, casually placed the small wooden carving on the table, and adjusted the angle.
He had read both books in the afternoon. He opened the "Collected Works of Lingchuan" and put it aside. He took a cloth dipped in Galu's blood and started writing on the wall.
…
"In the early years of Tianxing and the end of Jingkang, the country was destroyed and the family was destroyed."
"If you take over others like this, it is a common thing nowadays."
…
After writing this, several more "poof" sounds were heard in the hall, and then Li Xia put away the dagger again and continued writing.
He was not highly educated and could barely understand that Hao Jing's poem was about the destruction of gold in Mongolia.
But it doesn't matter, Galu's body is here, and this poem is enough to express that meaning.
…
"Don't you see, the two million families are all in ruins, and the city within eighty miles is in rubble..."
"The city is desolate and the country is destroyed, but there is still a ten-foot wall with thick iron thorns on the top of the wall..."