Jiaohua

The cat meowed again and jumped off the roof.

Xia Zhaoyi and Shen Lie leaned on the back of the main ridge, watching the branch that the kitten jumped to. The branch swayed, disturbing the moon shadow, and slowly returned to calm in the breeze.

There was no sound on all sides, the wind came from the plain, brushed the branches and leaves, and then passed by their ears, the whole old Jiang family house was so quiet that only the sound of insects remained.

Xia Zhaoyi raised his eyes to sweep away, turned his head and was about to divide the work with Shen Lie, looking for half of the house alone, when there was a slight movement not far away, making them look at the same time.

The sound was like a stone moving, or a mechanism turning. If Jiang Mengxing's house was not too quiet, it would be hard to feel it.

Shen Lie said: "Smartness is misunderstood by cleverness."

Xia Zhaoyi smiled lightly: "The safest place is the most dangerous."

The young man named Xiao Yin by Feng Wensheng was groping for the wheelchair in the dark when he heard a voice from outside the door.

Xiao Yin said badly to himself, and immediately carried Feng Wensheng into the wheelchair.

"Hidden weapon, hidden weapon!" Feng Wensheng shouted in a low voice.

As soon as the words fell, the door behind him was kicked open.

Xiao Yin quickly ran to grab the hidden weapon and hit the door. He fired three and six short arrows in a row. He backed up while hitting, and pushed Feng Wensheng's wheelchair into the secret passage with one hand.

The girl's crisp voice drank in a low voice: "Do you have a hidden weapon?"

Under the moonlight, a silver light suddenly flashed, Xiao Yin panicked and squatted on the ground, but it was a stone that fell.

He yelled that he had been fooled, but it was too late to get up, and the two people outside the house had already broken into the house.

Xiao Yin raised the hidden weapon and retreated back to the Shimen. The hidden weapon that was about to be launched again was kicked into pieces by Shen Lie. Xiao Yin tried his best to rush to the Shimen. Feng Wensheng had already activated the mechanism from the inside, and the closed Shimen rotated , brought his left leg in.

The severe pain of his left leg being crushed and flattened caused Xiao Yin to scream. Shen Lie and Xia Zhaoyi stretched out their hands to grab him out.

"Ah!!!" Xiao Yin cried out in pain while holding his half-flesh left leg.

The stone door was completely closed, Shen Lie said: "I'll go to light the lamp."

Soon the house was brightly lit.

Xia Zhaoyi leaned over to check Xiao Yin's wound. The bone of his left leg below the knee had been shattered, and the blood-stained trousers were in a mess and blurred.

Xia Zhaoyi looked at Shen Lie: "Find a piece of wood to plug his mouth."

Shen Lie nodded without any fuss, and the dagger that cut iron like mud directly cut a neat and smooth short piece of wood from the corner of the table.

He squatted down and stuffed the painted side into Xiao Yin's mouth, and the same sharp dagger in Xia Zhaoyi's hand immediately chopped towards his wound.

Just biting the wood, Xiao Yin roared in pain, his eyes were wide open, and his forehead was covered with sweat.

Shen Lie got up to tear off the quilt, handed it in time, Xia Zhaoyi neatly sprinkled the medicine powder he brought with him on the wound, and wrapped it with a single quilt.

Blood had been sprayed everywhere in the room, Xiao Yin cried out in pain, Shen Lie glanced at him, then turned to look at the closed stone gate.

"Ali, the mechanism is here."

Xia Zhaoyi looked at it and said, "Going down at this time, it's hard to tell the danger."

Shen Lie turned around: "If Feng Wensheng really has no arms, this downward wheelchair should be very troublesome for him."

Xia Zhaoyi lowered his head and looked at Xiao Yin, whose eyes were staring straight from the pain: "It's a pity that he is in such pain that it's hard to even ask questions."

Shen Lie glanced and landed on the desk, he went to pick up a few pieces of paper on the desk, his thick eyebrows raised slightly.

"Ali, guess what this is." There was a hint of sarcasm in Shen Lie's words.

Xia Zhaoyi looked over: "What?"

"Shen is familiar with the things that have been sent to me over the years."

Shen Lie held up the paper and faced her: "When we were in Xucheng Qianxue Mansion, we used to piece together together."

Xia Zhaoyi's bright eyes narrowed slightly, and the corners of his lips curled up mockingly: "What a coincidence you said this."

Suddenly there was a lot of footsteps outside, and the servants from the Jiang Xinlong and Jiang Xinyi brothers' house next door came running with torches.

"Who are you!"

"come out!!"

"Look at the ground! There's a dead man on the ground!!"

Xia Zhaoyi stood up and said, "He's not dead yet."

A burly servant shouted, "Come out!! Don't blame us if you don't come out!!"

"come out faster!!"

"Can't get out!"

They yelled fiercely, but they just yelled, and no one dared to enter.

From the angle of view where only a shadow can be seen in the room, the owner of the shadow came out at this moment. The man was leaning tall and straight. The luxurious cold jade is also like an ancient and hidden sharp sword, with a cold temperament, arrogant and arrogant, not angry but mighty.

Everyone looked at him together, and the leading men subconsciously took a step back.

Shen Lie glanced at them, and said coldly: "I am Commander Yan Jun, Shen Lie from Tanzhou, I only give you half a cup of tea time, call Jiang Xinlong and Jiang Xinyi over immediately, otherwise, I will level the whole Panxian mound."

When half a cup of tea was not available, the servant who ran to call for someone came back crawling and screaming, "General Shen, master, master and the others... ran away!"

Everyone was shocked and looked at Shen Lie with pale faces.

Someone plopped down on their knees: "General Shen, it's none of our business!"

"General Shen, please forgive me!"

A girl chuckled from inside the room: "However, a cup of tea has arrived, and Jiang Xinlong and Jiang Xinyi ran away directly. Now that Panxianqiu is not fair to you, General Shen is very embarrassed. Isn't it just a person who doesn't believe what he says?"

"General Shen, the younger ones are working here to earn a living. The younger ones have not offended the general!"

"General, spare your life, General!"

Shen Lie said: "Get up, don't kneel to me."

Xia Zhaoyi came out and looked at the returning servant: "Did Jiang Xinlong and Jiang Xinyi run in front of you after hearing about your intention to leave, or did they run away before you left?"

The servant stammered, "Yes, he ran in front of the villain."

"Which way are you running?"

The servant paused, stretched out his hand and pointed to the room: "Go, go to the northwest."

Xia Zhaoyi's bright eyes flickered: "It's strange, why did they run away in such a good way? If they just run away, the whole family will not want it."

"This, I don't know either."

Xia Zhaoyi smiled: "How simple, they must have a guilty conscience."

"Girl, but we are not thieves, we are not thieves."

Xia Zhaoyi smiled and said, "If you can help us..."

"Help! We help! We help you catch the thief!"

"I haven't finished talking yet," Xia Zhaoyi took out a bag of small silver and weighed it in his hand, and said slowly, "I won't bully you, nor take advantage of you. What I want to say is that if you can help I do things, and I pay you money, which is regarded as employment. But I don't support idlers, and now I need six people to copy the study and bedroom of Jiang Xinlong and Jiang Xinyi, and send all the movable things in it here. And don't be sloppy, I need you to dig three feet and search every corner."

"I still need eight people. Tomorrow morning, I will go to the nearby area to recruit about [-] people for me to dig through this Chiang Mansion."

"Someone needs to be responsible for organizing the cooks. There are so many mouths to eat."

"Also, once Jiang Xinlong and Jiang Xinyi run away, the family they leave behind needs someone to take good care of them."

Xia Zhaoyi spoke one by one, in a clear manner, with a clear division of labor. In the end, these Jiang's residences seemed to no longer be surnamed Jiang, and became her residences.

However, she pays.

All the servants listened with their ears upright and concentrated their attention. When she finished speaking, they all raised their hands and started to grab jobs.