The streets in Hedong District just started to get noisy, and when the neighbors were shouting to call Li Zheng to report to the police, the high-speed official boat had already carried the rescued girls through Tongji Gate. The river fork not far ahead was on the right.
Turn around and you will find the Shahe River leading to the Yangtze River.
The battery on the boat has been used up. If you want to go forward, you need to start the diesel engine. Because the noise is too great, once it is started, it cannot be stopped. It has to drive all the way to Flower and Bird Island. According to the plan made before,
Wang Yuanfang stopped the boat on the west bank of the canal, and Zhao Xin, Liu Sheng, and Wu Siyu got off the boat.
"Bon Voyage!"
"Be careful too, see you in Beihai Town!"
Everyone shook hands and said goodbye. After Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng disappeared on the shore, Wang Yuanfang started the diesel motor. The rumbling sound of the motor rang out, and now even the soldiers on duty on the city wall were awakened, holding up their hands.
The lantern leaned towards the outside of the city wall to check.
In the dark night, a white object that seemed to be a boat slowly sailed away from the shore, and soon moved away in the direction of the Sand River at an alarming speed.
"What is that?! Did you see it clearly?"
A Qing soldier rubbed his eyes vigorously. "It looks like a ship!"
"That's a water monster! What kind of ship can run so fast and make a huge roar?"
"Hurry up and report to your lord!" After the leader of the Qing soldiers finished speaking, he immediately ran down the city wall holding a torch.
Amidst the roar of the motor, the official speedboat flew on the Shahe River at a speed of more than 20 knots. Due to the bumps of the speedboat, the girls who were stunned in the cabin slowly woke up.
Tang Xiaoyouyou woke up. She raised her head and saw something emitting white light above her head. Then, a beautiful woman with short hair and a strange gray short dress appeared in her field of vision. She was standing in the cabin.
At one end, there seemed to be a door behind me. Looking around again, I found that thick dark cloth curtains were drawn on both sides of the cabin.
The woman smiled, walked up to the girls, knelt down and said: "Don't worry, we won't harm you. We won't let you be a village lady or a slave. We will help you as soon as we cross the Yangtze River.
Untie the rope. You all are good~" After saying that, she gently patted Tang Xiao's face twice.
Tang Xiao was so frightened that she almost fainted when the other party touched her face. After the anesthetic wore off, the strong discomfort made her very uncomfortable. But there was a sticky cloth-like thing stuck to her mouth, which made her vomit.
If it doesn't come out, it can only be retched.
Seeing that Tang Xiao's face turned blue, Liu Siting quickly tore off the tape on her mouth.
"Ugh~ vomit~" Tang Xiao turned sideways and retched for a long time. She didn't eat dinner and her stomach was empty. After vomiting for a while, she moaned: "Water, water."
Liu Siting stood up, took a bottle of water from the coffee table, and gave Tang Xiao a few sips before she slowly recovered.
"Are you hungry? I see that you have been vomiting for a long time and can't vomit anything out. Did the trafficker not give you dinner? I heard that you girls usually give you some porridge to eat? Look at how thin you are!"
Liu Siting held Tang Xiao's slender hand with a look of pity on her face. Then she took a piece of chocolate from the coffee table and was about to feed it to Tang Xiao. The little girl was in a state of shock and was unwilling to eat, so she lowered her head and said nothing.
After a while, he asked in a low voice: "Who are you? Where are you going to kidnap weak women like me?"
Liu Siting looked at the other party and said slowly: "We will not harm you, and we have no choice but to take you away. However, we don't have slaves there. If you go, you can become teachers and teach children how to read."
"Teacher? Teach children how to read?" Tang Xiao felt that the woman opposite was just talking nonsense. There were so many talented people, but the children didn't want them. She snatched a group of poor girls to become teachers. What a joke!
Liu Siting looked at the girl's expression and knew that she didn't believe it at all. Then she looked at the other girls who had woken up, and they were all close together, their faces still filled with fear.
"Are you lying to me? You will know when you get there. If you feel bad after going there, we can send you back."
Tang Xiao stared into the other person's eyes and saw only sincerity. She hesitantly asked: "Are you serious about this?"
"I will never regret it!" Liu Siting said firmly. At the same time, she said in her heart: "Even my little Hong and I can't go back, where else do you want to go, little girl?"
During the Qianlong period, most of the residences of Yangzhou salt merchants were located in Guangchumen in the north of the new city, and the same was true for the Wang family. At three o'clock in the night, Zhao Xin and the other three arrived at the entrance of Shuiguan in the north of the city.
Shen Jingdan had previously paid off the soldiers on duty here. According to the agreement, the water gate would not be closed tightly tonight, and a gap of about one meter high would be left under the water to allow them to pass.
The three people quietly entered the water next to the city wall, and plunged into it. Sure enough, there was a gap in the water gate, and the three people immediately entered the city from the water. After landing, the three people did not change their clothes and walked around, hiding their whereabouts along the way. , it took almost an hour to arrive outside Wang Jinglong's house. Wu Siyu, in addition to going out to pick out "thin horses" in the past two days, was walking back and forth on this road, comparing the drawings given by Shen Jingdan, and studying them carefully. The layout of streets and lanes on this road.
There is nothing to worry about when looking after a home. The most troublesome thing is the dogs! As soon as one starts barking, all the dogs in the surrounding alleys will soon follow. By then, even a fool will know that there is a thief in the house.
So Zhao Xin and the others' plan of action this time is to shoot and kill someone who calls the police or resists. After completing the goal, they quickly retreat to the gate of Tianning Temple, change clothes and run away. And all of this must be done before dawn Finish.
Climbing the wall, going up to the house and opening the door were already familiar. Wu Siyu climbed onto the roof from the right side of the Wang family's concierge. Ten minutes later, several "da da" sounds came from the yard. After a while, the courtyard door opened There were several soft sounds of metal touching, and after waiting for a while, the small door next to the main door opened, and Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng stepped in.
"Why so slow?" Zhao Xin asked Wu Siyu in a low voice.
Wu Siyu said nothing and pointed to the courtyard door behind him. Zhao Xin turned around and looked under the dim lantern light. There were three door locks hanging on the small courtyard door. I bet Wu Siyu had been busy looking for the key for a long time! The three of them helped Wu Siyu pull out a few locks. The servant's body was moved into the porter's room, the door quietly closed, and he continued toward the main entrance.
Different from later movies and TV dramas, the prevention system of wealthy families in ancient times was actually very strict at night. Before going to bed at night, the doors of a large house would be closed and locked every time they entered the yard. Therefore, at night, the door of a large house would change. It has become a layer-by-layer defensive fortress; it is simply impossible for just a few armed thieves to break through. Of course, except for a few masters who can climb over the walls.
According to the information provided by Shen Jingdan, there are more than a dozen invited nurses in the Wang family's inner house; in addition to people from the Cao Gang, it is said that among them are Gan Fengchi's apprentices.
"Gan Fengchi?" Zhao Xin had actually seen some information about this Qing Dynasty martial artist whose birth and death dates were unknown in history. The reason was those famous Hong Kong and Taiwan martial arts films. This Gan Fengchi is said to have worshiped Huang Zongxi's descendants
Huang Baijia was a teacher and did not return to his hometown until he was more than eighty years old. If calculated according to the birth and death dates of Huang Baijia, Gan Fengchi's current age should be between fifty and eighty years old.
Zhao Xin thought in a wicked way, wondering if there were any descendants of Gan Fengchi among the concierges Wu Siyu killed just now?
The three of them continued to use the ladder to climb up the wall. Unexpectedly, something happened at this moment!
"Who!" Someone on the roof suddenly shouted, and then stepped on the ridge of the roof and rushed towards Wu Siyu who had just climbed up the wall.
"I'll go! There's such a master!" Zhao Xin secretly screamed something bad. At this moment, Wu Siyu loosened his hands and his body fell to the ground. Unexpectedly, as soon as he landed on the ground, there was a "ding-dong" sound, and a cold light flew in the night.
It scraped the top of his head and hit the ground behind him. Immediately afterwards, a black shadow fell from the roof and struck Wu Siyu with a knife.
Wu Siyu was shocked and rolled on the spot, wiping the blade of the knife to avoid it. Before Zhao Xin could react, Liu Sheng had already pointed his gun at the black figure and pulled the trigger.
"Da da da."
"Crack! Plop!" The Yanling knife fell to the ground, and the owner of the knife immediately fell to the ground and died.
"I'll wipe it!" Zhao Xin was covered in cold sweat, and it suddenly broke out. It was really electric and flint just now, a critical moment. If he was hit by a knife, Wu Siyu would definitely be seriously injured. We really can't underestimate the ancients!
At this time, the inner courtyard had been alarmed, the lanterns in the corridor were lit up one after another, and more than a dozen people rushed into the courtyard as soon as they entered, either holding long knives or holding sticks to guard. Zhao Xin also took the risk. If he gave up halfway today, Shen Jingdan and his family would
Tomorrow will be miserable.
He turned the HK416 from behind to the front, pulled the bolt and loaded it, and then said to Wu Siyu and Liu Sheng: "Leave me up."
A group of servants and bodyguards in the courtyard were about to open the door and rush out when they saw a black shadow appear on the wall to the left of the main entrance. As the black shadow continued to rise, he was holding something strange in his hand
Also exposed.
"Da da da da~~~" The sound of continuous shooting with silencers was accompanied by the spray of white smoke, and screams sounded one after another. Seven or eight nursing staff and servants were shot and fell to the ground; a few were agile.
He quickly hid behind the pillars and the Taihu Stone in the courtyard.
"Who is a good man? Tell me your name. How much money you need can be discussed. Why do you need to be so cruel?" A nursing home leader hiding behind a pillar said loudly.
Zhao Xin didn't talk nonsense with these people at all. He pulled the trigger continuously in the direction of the sound, causing sawdust to scatter on the pillar. Then, he put down the gun, held up his hands, climbed onto the wall, and immediately stepped on it.
On the roof, Zhao Xin didn't care about the noise he made when stepping on the tiles, raised his gun and continued shooting at the corridor opposite. The two people hiding behind the pillars were unable to dodge and were shot one after another and fell to the ground.
At this time, Wu Siyu also jumped up the wall. Instead of going to the room, he jumped directly into the yard. A nurse came out from behind Taihu stones with a knife and stabbed Wu Siyu.
When fighting an enemy with a sword on the ancient battlefield, generally slashing with the sword would not kill the person, and stabbing the person is the most dangerous. This is why on the ancient Japanese battlefield, no one would fight with a samurai sword. First, the katana was chopping.
It is too fragile and can easily break the blade; the other is that the efficiency of killing enemies by cutting people is too low.
Wu Siyu caught a glimpse of a black shadow coming towards him from the corner of his eye. If he tried to retreat, he had no way to go. He shrunk, fell to the ground, rolled and hid. Although the posture was ugly, the effect was very good.
Seeing that he missed a single hit, the guard didn't hesitate to fight; he knew that there was someone on the roof, and if he tried to kill him again, he would be attacked from behind. Then he took advantage of the situation and twisted around, rushed towards the corridor of the east wing, and hid again
Behind a pillar.
Zhao Xin knew that there were not many bullets in his magazine, so he shouted "Change bullets" in a low voice, then took out a magazine and replaced it, and then inserted the removed magazine into the back of his chest.
heart.
Wu Siyu walked to the door of the courtyard with a pistol and unlatched the door, and Liu Sheng rushed in with a gun. Wu Siyu made a few gestures, and Liu Sheng then shot continuously at the pillars under the east corridor. Wood chips were flying, and the skill was
The good nurse huddling hard behind the pillar. But as Liu Sheng continued to approach, he could no longer hide behind the pillar.
Suddenly, the nurse felt as if a big hammer hit his back hard, and the force penetrated his chest directly; he couldn't control it at all and fell to the ground. Then he fell to the ground.
, a hot and burning feeling rose from behind; the nurse almost fainted from the pain, and just when he was about to scream, Liu Sheng shot him in the head.
After cleaning the first courtyard, the three of them rushed through the front hall and began to attack the second courtyard. Since the several guards just rushed out from the second courtyard, the door of the second courtyard was wide open at this time. The three people
After killing several servants holding sticks, he continued to rush towards the inner house. Wang Jinglong lived in the courtyard of Sanjin, and there should be only Mr. Wang and a group of panicked wives, concubines and slaves in the inner courtyard.
Zhao Xin rushed to the courtyard gate, hid behind a pillar, and fired at the wooden door indiscriminately, sending sawdust flying everywhere. Liu Sheng angrily cursed in a low voice: "Don't shoot indiscriminately!"
After saying that, he took off the long-handled steel ax tied to his back and slashed at the courtyard door full of bullet holes. After a few blows, the wooden door was split into a large hole; after a few more blows, Liu Sheng
He took a few steps back, rushed over with a single lunge, and kicked the courtyard door open with a flying kick.
Zhao Xin rushed outside the main house with a gun. Liu Sheng came over with an ax and slashed hard several times. The gorgeous carved wooden door soon became torn into pieces.
There were only a few maids left in the house hiding under the bed, and Wang Jinglong and his wives and concubines were nowhere to be seen.
Zhao Xin went up and pointed a gun at a maid and shouted: "Where is Mr. Wang?! Tell me quickly!"
The maids were so frightened by the evil aura of Zhao Xin and the others that they trembled all over, and soon, a sultry aura rose in the room.
"Holy shit! They were so scared that they peed. Tie them up and gag them." Zhao Xin said to Wu Siyu, then turned on his flashlight and searched around the house. Liu Sheng and Wu Siyu then took out plastic ties and tape, and tied up the couple.
The two maids were tied up with their backhands, and several rounds of tape were placed on their mouths.
Suddenly, Zhao Xin discovered that the maid's urine had flowed along the ground into the cracks in the bricks next to a cabinet. Looking around the cabinet again, there were obvious signs of dragging!
"There's a problem here! Help me." Zhao Xin said, and began to invite Liu Sheng to come over and move the cabinet together. The two of them pulled hard, and the cabinet did not move at one end, but the other end was opened ninety degrees outward.
, a slate with the same color as the bricks on the floor was exposed. There was a sunken iron ring on the slate. Liu Sheng pulled hard, and the slate was lifted, revealing the dark space below.
"Master Wang, don't hide, come out." Zhao Xin said in a low voice to the cave below.
After a while, there was no response.
"Hey! I still don't believe it." Zhao Xin turned on the flashlight and took a photo below. After a few steps, a skirt corner disappeared with a "swish".
"Master Wang, if you don't come out, we will rush in. Swords have no eyes, and it will be difficult to deal with injuries."
"Hero, spare your life! Hero, spare your life! I'll come out, I'll come out right now."
Under the strong light of the flashlight, a man wearing only underwear walked up the steps. This man looked to be in his forties, with a fat head and a few strands of beard. Immediately afterwards, several people with tears on their faces came up.
Women also came up, all crying.
"Are you Wang Jinglong?" Zhao Xin pointed his flashlight at the fat man and asked coldly.
"I am just begging you to spare my life. You can take all your belongings from home. I just ask you not to harm our lives."
Zhao Xin nodded and said in a pretentious manner: "Tie up these women and don't hurt them."
Liu Sheng rolled his eyes at Zhao Xin, and he and Wu Siyu worked hard again, tying up Wang Jinglong's wives and concubines and wrapping tape around their mouths.
"Since we say we have property, where is the money?" Zhao Xin asked Wang Jinglong fiercely.
"They are all in the cellar. Please forgive me!" Wang Jinglong knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing to beg for mercy. Soon his forehead was bruised.
"Keep an eye on him, I'll go down and take a look." After Zhao Xin finished speaking, he walked down to the cellar.
This cellar is not big, only about thirty square meters. The walls are made of large bluestones, and the floor is also covered with blue bricks. Under the flashlight, dozens of large wooden boxes are stacked against the walls on three sides.
Next. In the middle of the cellar are three rows of mahogany shelves, filled with various gold, silver and jade items, as well as several stacks of thread-bound books and dozens of pieces of porcelain.
Zhao Xin casually opened a box, which was full of white money. He opened another one, and it was full of piles of documents. He picked up one of them and saw that it was a land deed; this thing was of no use to him. He didn't care.
I checked them one by one, and then took out the jade pendant from my collar. A few minutes later, the cellar became empty.
Zhao Xin walked up from the cellar, raised his hand and shot Wang Jinglong in the head. Master Wang's wives and concubines were completely frightened by the sudden killing, and a young concubine was so frightened that she fainted immediately.
"Ta! Ta!" Zhao Xin fired two more shots at Wang Jinglong's head, and then said to Liu Sheng and Wu Siyu: "Withdraw!"