Chapter 222: Not an enemy, but a friend
Chapter 222 Either an enemy or a friend
Chu Nanzhi poked her head out cautiously, and saw the carriage parked in the depths of a mountain road surrounded by peaks and mountains, surrounded by streams and streams, the environment was very quiet.
Li Ce looked around vigilantly, and first said to Chu Nanzhi: "Sister-in-law, the Niujia Village is ahead, but there seems to be something wrong, we seem to be being followed."
Chu Nanzhi looked at the road under his feet again, and calmly ordered: "Please don't panic, and speed up to enter the village, and make plans after arriving in the village."
Li Ce also carefully inspected the surroundings. Here, Tanxi River is interspersed with narrow roads. If there is a fight here, it will be his own people who will suffer. So he obediently shouted at everyone, and hurried forward.
After seeing the dilapidated thatched huts and some rotten beams in the village, Li Ce stopped everyone.
Chu Nanzhi led Peng Pai and Ma Laifu out of the car, carefully guarding against the movement around them.
As soon as I arrived at the entrance of the village, a gust of breeze came, and I smelled a familiar smell of rust, mixed in the rotten air, which was very unpleasant.
Chu Nanzhi stopped and took a deep breath, savoring the strange smell carefully, and then she was shocked: This is the smell she was looking for, and it was exactly the same as the taste in the posthouse food the day before yesterday.
Although it is mixed in rotting dead leaves and waste water, as long as the sense of smell is sharp enough, you can definitely detect the peculiar smell hidden inside.
The yamen servants smelled the disgusting smell in the village, quickly covered their noses, and diffused the surrounding air with their hands.
Peng Pai also pinched his nose, squinted his eyes and complained: "I didn't expect that eight years later, no one dared to move back to live in this village, and it stinks everywhere."
Ma Laifu rubbed the back of his head in bewilderment: "Cough, I remember that the last time Brother Zhu brought me here was clearly not this village."
"Could it be that other villages were also infected with the plague?"
Chu Nanzhi asked in confusion.
"That's not true."
Ma Laifu replied thoughtfully: "I remember Brother Zhu said that there was also a problem with the salt well in Majia Village. He said he wanted to check it out, so I went with him."
Chu Nanzhi asked again: "Where is Majia Village?"
Ma Laifu looked at a river outside the village, and pointed: "It should be in the upper reaches, not too far away."
Chu Nanzhi gazed at the river not far away, and asked casually, "Does this river flow into the village?"
"good."
Peng Pai nodded and said: "I heard that this village used to use water from this river for washing and cooking. The end of this river is in the west of the village, and the sealed salt well is also there."
"Then let's enter the village."
Chu Nanzhi looked around at the crowd and reminded: "Everyone, be careful."
A group of people tiptoed into the village, and the servants all clenched their waist sabers, ready to deal with emergencies at any time.
For a while, there were soldiers everywhere.
When everyone stepped into the village, they were moving and guarding carefully, when they suddenly heard a rustling sound of trampling.
Seeing this, Li Ce signaled everyone to stop and gather around Chu Nanzhi.
The trampling sound is getting closer, and the sound is getting clearer.
In just a short while, some men in black with sharp weapons came out from the abandoned huts and beams one after another, and surrounded them from all directions.
Li Ce took a closer look and saw that there were about twenty or thirty people. He couldn't help but sneered mockingly: "Only this few people dare to act wild."
While clenching his fists, he turned his head to look at Chu Nanzhi, and said with a smirk: "Sister-in-law, don't move, give me a chance to practice my hands, I haven't stretched my fists and feet for a long time."
"Be careful."
Seeing that he looked confident, Chu Nanzhi signaled to him very reassuringly, ready to appreciate this guy's skills.
But when Li Ce was about to move his muscles and bones with fists and hands, suddenly a burst of arrows roared from all directions unexpectedly.
"Alert."
Li Ce was stunned for a moment, and quickly drew out his sword to protect Chu Nanzhi, telling everyone to be careful.
Just when the first wave of arrows stopped, everyone looked up and found that all the people shot and killed were masked men in black.
"That's where it gets interesting."
Chu Nanzhi just sneered, and saw a tributary arrow continue to shoot accurately at the men in black who were about to come.
The scene fell into chaos again.
Chu Nanzhi looked sharply at the place where the arrow flew, and searched carefully, and found some figures faintly exposed on the top of the beams in the distance.
When the eyes returned to the man in black on the ground, all he saw were corpses lying on the ground in a mess.
Seeing that the man in black was shot to death, Chu Nanzhi hurriedly shouted to the crowd: "Keep alive."
Li Ce understood it, and quickly reacted in his mind. He took the big knife in his hand and threw it straight at a flying arrow. The light of the knife streaked across the air. Fall to the ground together.
Li Ce strode to the last surviving man in black, grabbed the man's trembling arm and threw it directly in front of Chu Nanzhi.
Chu Nanzhi bent down and was about to check, when she suddenly saw a fat unknown object being thrown straight over like a parabola from behind the hut.
Taking a closer look, he turned out to be a middle-aged man with a fat head and big ears.
Li Ce raised the big knife on the ground to chase the people behind the hut, Chu Nanzhi waved quickly: "No need, these people are not malicious, since they are not enemies, but friends, there is no need for us to provoke them."
"it is good."
Li Ce responded, leaned close to Chu Nanzhi, squatted down, and took a closer look at the middle-aged man who was thrown over, and couldn't help but shouted: "Kang Mingtang."
"Kang Mingtang?"
Chu Nanzhi also looked surprised: "Is it Kang Mingtang who is arguing with Sun Wuji?"
"It's him."
Li Ce grabbed the chubby Kang Mingtang angrily, and angrily said, "Are you sending these men in black?"
"Yes, yes, they are the nurses and dead soldiers raised by the grass people's family."
Kang Mingtang was covered in injuries, his nose was so bruised and his face was so swollen that he could hardly see his true face clearly.
Li Ce clenched his big fists and said angrily, "Okay, yesterday you were bragging in front of me that you were a first-class citizen in Haikang County, but today you dared to send someone to assassinate the county government official, tell me honestly, who will you be?" Instructed you to come?"
Kang Mingtang clenched his teeth, stroking his body that was about to fall apart, not daring to speak.
Li Ce picked up the shining big knife, and before he could threaten him, Kang Mingtang was so frightened that he was so frightened that he quickly replied with a bitter face, "I'll do it, I'll do it, the brawny man spares his life."
He was beaten up by someone fat, and then thrown here from the roof, how could he stand the man's iron fist.
(end of this chapter)