It wasn't completely dark yet, but the Xia family's backyard was already so dark that it was hard to see clearly. Maybe it was because the lush flowers and trees made it look gloomy, or maybe it was the rain screen that blocked the light. In short, after everyone landed, they had to try to open their eyes wide to adapt to the sudden change.
His eyes went dark.
Su Jin squinted his eyes and looked around, listening carefully. In addition to the sound of wind blowing on flowers, trees, rain, and bananas, there seemed to be a faint sound of fighting coming from somewhere, and his heart suddenly tightened.
"Did you hear it? There seemed to be the sound of swords clashing. Are we late?" Su Jin whispered hastily.
Chao Chao nodded and said: "I heard it too, but the sound seemed to come from the front yard. Miss Xia's family probably lives in the back house, which is not far from here. It must not have harmed the backyard."
Su Jin gritted his teeth and said: "Without further delay, let's go find Miss Xia first. Let's divide into two teams. I will lead one team, and Wang Chao Mahan will lead another team and search left and right."
Wang Chao agreed and waved to more than 20 people and quickly disappeared to the left. Su Jin led the remaining people along the right and followed the root of the wall. Soon after, the two groups met in front of a door. It turned out that this
The backyard is just a backyard, there is not a single house in it. For safety reasons, Xia Song probably used the backyard as an urn. Entering the backyard does not mean that you can enter the inner house.
Su Jin frowned as he looked at the tall wall and the closed door. Wang Chao reached out and touched the door and cursed in a low voice: "It's an iron door, damn it."
Su Jin was anxious. Such terrain was extremely unfavorable to him. If Xia's guards appeared on the wall at this moment, they would just ambush them with bows and arrows without fighting. Xia Song was once the commander-in-chief of the Northwest Army.
, this pattern must have been designed by him.
Ma Han stretched out his foot to kick down the iron door. Wang Chao stopped him and said, "It's useless. There must be a few iron bolts on that side. Don't waste your efforts."
Ma Han said: "What should we do? It's ridiculous to install an iron gate."
Su Jin stretched out his finger and knocked on the door, listened to the sound and said: "This door is not made of pure iron. It should be a wooden door covered with iron sheets. It will definitely not be opened by a hard impact. However, if there is a sharp object, it can pierce the iron sheet. Take a dagger.
Come and give it a try.”
Wang Chao quickly reached out and pulled out the dagger from his boot. With luck, he let out a breath and pierced the dagger towards the iron door. There was a tooth-piercing friction sound, and the sharp dagger pierced the iron outer cover and inserted straight into the door.
More than an inch deep.
Everyone was overjoyed, but soon they all looked sad again. Zhao Hu said: "It's useless. Even if we can get in, it will take at least an hour to dig a passage through this door, and it will be too late."
Su Jin smiled and said: "Why dig open the iron door? Look, this door goes straight to the top and is flush with the top of the wall. Take out the dagger and insert it into the door all the way up. Isn't this just a climbing ladder?
Huh? But this is climbing on a knife edge, so be careful with your hands and feet. It’s best to wrap your hands and feet with some turf leaves to avoid scratches.”
Everyone was very impressed. This method was really wonderful. This was the first time I heard about using daggers as ladders, but it must be feasible. So everyone took out the daggers one after another. Four people from the dynasty, Ma Han, Zhang Long, Zhao Hu, took turns to go into battle and put the daggers all the way.
When the top is plugged in, even if the four of us have excellent arm strength, our legs will be weak and our feet will be sore after a lot of work.
The last dagger was inserted about three feet away from the top of the door. Zhang Long was the last one. He stepped on the dagger with his boot, stretched out his hand to scratch the top of the door and jumped up to the top of the wall. Everyone looked at each other and laughed, one by one.
Follow the same procedure and climb to the top of the wall.
As Su Jin expected, the top of the wall near the inner house is wide enough to accommodate several people, and there are actually stamps to hide people. It is precisely the pattern of the city wall that prevents invasion, allowing archers to hide behind the stamps to shoot arrows.
, lowering the fence is actually very simple, because in order to make it easier to climb up and guard the wall, there are two steps built on both sides of the door, which not only facilitates going up and down the fence, but also facilitates bolting the top of the gate.
Su Jin secretly clicked his tongue. This could be used in his own house. The layout of the Wengcheng was already wonderful. It was indeed a pioneering work to build the walls around the house like a city wall for both defense and offense.
Standing on the wall, you can see at a glance a small building standing alone among the trees not far away. Needless to say, it must be Xia Siling's boudoir. At the same time, the shouts of killing are also clearer.
From the second entrance, the sound of swords clashing was very dense, obviously the battle was fierce.
Su Jin had no time to think about who was fighting with whom, and quickly climbed down the wall and rushed to Xia Siling's boudoir. There was no one guarding the boudoir, so everyone rushed in and broke into the building.
In the hall on the first floor, several servants and women were trembling together in panic. The sound of fighting outside had already frightened them. Dozens of naked men in black suddenly broke in, making them scream.
The little one screamed and cried again and again.
Su Jin raised his knife and shouted: "Whoever screams again will be chopped immediately."
The servants immediately shut up and did not dare to express their anger.
"Where is Miss Xia?" Su Jin shouted.
"A good man... a good man, he is... upstairs." The mother-in-law knocked her upper teeth together and pointed upwards with her lower teeth.
Su Jin shouted: "Search out all the people upstairs and downstairs, tie them all and gagged them."
Wang Chao and others shouted loudly and acted immediately. They searched all the rooms downstairs and pulled out all the trembling servants hiding in nooks and crannies. They tied their hands and feet and gagged their mouths one by one and threw them in the utility room at the back.
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Su Jin quickly rushed upstairs and met two maids who heard the noise. The two maids were startled when they saw the stranger and shouted: "Who is it? Why did you break into the lady's boudoir?"
Su Jin didn't answer and shouted: "Tie him up!" The companion behind him jumped up and grabbed the two servant women. The two servant women yelled and yelled. A young brother who had just left the apprenticeship had no mercy and no mercy.
A few big mouths slapped it, and everything fell silent.
Su Jin lifted the curtain on the door and rushed in quickly; a corner of clothes flashed in the darkness, and a figure walked straight to the back window. Su Jin stepped forward quickly, stretched out his hand to grab the man's clothes, and in front of him
A black shadow flashed, and something hit him head-first. Su Jin couldn't dodge in front of the door. He was hit dizzy and blood slowly flowed from his forehead.
The object made a clanging noise when it fell to the ground. It turned out to be a bronze mirror. Su Jin endured the severe pain and opened his eyes to look, but saw that the petite figure had climbed up the back window. A sigh came from it, and it was Xia Siling's voice.
"Ling'er, no." Su Jin exclaimed, and it was clear that Xia Siling was about to commit suicide by jumping off the building.
Xia Siling trembled and suddenly looked back, she couldn't believe her eyes.
"Brother Su, is it you?" Xia Siling murmured, tears welling up in her eyes.
"Of course it's me. I'm here to save you. You're suffering." Su Jin said with a smile.
Xia Siling's eyes turned white and she was about to fall down. Su Jin quickly stepped forward and picked her up from the window sill, comforting her softly.
"Are the slaves dreaming? The slaves thought it was the thieves from outside who came in. The slaves..."
"Of course it's not a dream. Look at my forehead. How can a dream be so real? You are really strong. The bronze mirror hit me and I'm still dizzy."
Xia Siling quickly struggled to get up, wiped the blood on Su Jin's forehead with a silk scarf, stretched out her mouth and kissed the wound on Su Jin's forehead and said, "It's my fault, brother Su punishes me."
Su Jin whispered in her ear: "Okay, I will punish you not to leave me again in this life, but to serve me for the rest of your life, okay?"
Xia Siling nodded with tears, burying her body in Su Jin's arms and sobbing.
There was a thumping sound on the stairs, and Wang Chao walked up the stairs quickly. Xia Siling quickly got out of Su Jin's arms and bowed shyly to Wang Chao.
Wang Chao returned the gift and said loudly: "Master, Miss Xia, we have been rescued. It's time for us to leave. If we stay here for a long time, we are afraid of long nights and many dreams."
Su Jin came to the front window porch and looked down at the place where the fight was taking place in the front yard. Under the gray heavy rain, he saw figures jumping around at the second entrance, and screams could be heard from time to time, so he asked Xia Siling
He said: "What's going on? What you said in your letter is not very clear. Who is trying to harm you?"
Xia Siling gritted her teeth and said: "Dad invited the group of people outside the house to protect the courtyard. In the past few days, the slave family has felt that their intentions are evil. The leader named Yan San broke into the inner house a few days ago to tease me verbally, and I
Father, before he left, he said that in July the emperor would draft a draft and send the slave family to the palace. The slave family was desperate and had to find a way to ask someone to send you a message to save me."
Su Jin stretched out his hand to touch her shoulders and back to express comfort, pointed to the place of the fight and asked: "You mean Yan San's group is going to rebel, so the ones fighting against them are your family's guards?"
Xia Siling said: "That should be the case."
Su Jin turned to Wang Chao and said: "Yan San's group should be the group of killers that Uncle Lu said he invited to deal with us. Since they are here today, it's better to settle them once and for all, and settle the old and new accounts together."
Wang Chao scratched his head and said, "Are you going to help the Xia family guards defend the enemy?"
Su Jin smiled and said: "I've eaten enough to hold up. Let's sit and watch dogs bite dogs. After one is dead and one is injured, we can reap the benefits. He told the brothers to set up a net on the first floor. I guess the nursing staff are not Yan San's group."
Opponents, when Yan San and the others break in, show no mercy and risk death."
The dynasty was refreshed, and he knew that the young master was not a master who just stole people and ran away. He had such a nosy character, and he was also a master who was determined to retaliate. How could he do it if he didn't kill Yan San and others today?