After the whole family was swept away, I lay down flat

Chapter 372: Defeating the Enemy

Haitang hurried home on horseback.

The weather is not very good today, the atmosphere in the city is a bit tense, and there are not many pedestrians on the road. As she galloped along, she didn't have to worry about bumping into anyone. It's just that the four Zhou family soldiers who followed were a little surprised that her riding skills were so good, and they lagged behind a little. But the other courtyard was not far from the Hai family, and they arrived in a short while.

From a distance, Haitang saw that the front of her house was calm as usual, and the passers-by did not show anything strange. However, the carriage parked in front of the house looked familiar. At first glance, it looked similar to the one she had glimpsed outside the courtyard just now. Fenxiang seems to be the car that Mrs. Thursday took Zhou Xuejun in when she took Zhou Xuejun out. There is a person sitting in front of the carriage, who is one of the accomplices of the middle-aged man in blue. He is currently holding the reins and observing the movements around him. He should be on sentry duty. Hearing the sound of horse hooves galloping towards him, he immediately turned his head and looked back.

Haitang didn't slow down her horse and rushed past the carriage. Although the sentry looked alert, he had never seen what Begonia looked like or what she was wearing when he was outside the courtyard just now. Therefore, he did not recognize the person at this time. He saw her running past on horseback. , thought she was just passing by, and just when she breathed a sigh of relief, she heard a scream coming from behind. Before he could turn around to see what was going on, something tightened around his neck, and he was lifted up by a strong force and fell heavily to the ground.

He was strangled until his eyes protruded and his throat crackled, but he couldn't shout a word. He could only use both hands to grab the riding crop around his neck.

Haitang controlled the reins and reined in the horse. Looking back, she saw that the sentry had been strangled out of breath. She just jumped off the horse and took back the riding whip with a slight pull on her hand. The man had just been strangled half to death, had just gotten rid of the riding crop, and lay on the ground before taking a breath. He was still dazed, and he had already fallen into the hands of the Zhou family soldiers who arrived later.

Passers-by were initially startled by Haitang's men, but when they saw the Zhou family's soldiers arriving, seemingly on the same side as Haitang, they immediately calmed down. Some people pretended not to have seen anything and quickly left the scene, while others stepped forward and asked the Zhou family soldiers if they could help.

Haitang did not participate in their conversation. After she took back her riding whip, she immediately looked into the carriage and saw that there was no one inside. She guessed that Wu Qiong was probably taken away by the middle-aged man in blue.

Where did they go? Did you go to Hai's house?

Haitang turned to look at the front door of her house. She couldn't see anything strange, and there were no unusual noises in the house. If it weren't for the carriage parked in front of the door with someone on guard, she would have thought that the middle-aged man in blue and his accomplices had fled here with Wu Qiong, so they abandoned the carriage and fled.

But since they left the car and the people, they must have gone somewhere nearby temporarily and will come back after the incident is completed. They took Wu Qiong with them to threaten her as a hostage!

Wu Qiong was just a little girl who had just arrived in Chang'an. Apart from her relatives, the Zhou family, who could the Sun family's minions threaten her with? Since they were at the door of the Hai family, it goes without saying that they were looking for their cousin Xie Wenzai, a former student of the Wu clan!

Haitang remembered what Zhou Xuejun said about Mrs. Gui's report to the Sun family's minions, and guessed that the latter must have threatened Xie Wenzai to hand over Jin Jiashu to save Wu Qiong.

Haitang sneered, thinking how many people are there in this group of Sun family minions? Even with Wu Qiong as a hostage, and the Hai family house is not big, if they dare to enter, can they guarantee that they can bring the hostage out unharmed?

It’s not like there is no force within the Hai family. They are not afraid that they will become the turtle in the urn!

However, although Haitang had confidence in her second uncle and brother, as well as the two guards left behind by the Zhou family, she did not dare to guarantee that no one at home would be harmed. I don’t know how the middle-aged man in blue got in. Why does the outside of Haijia look so normal? It would be easy for her to knock on the door and go home, but she was afraid that there would be an enemy guarding the door, and anyone who entered would be stabbed. Even if she could escape, it would be of no use to the current situation. While she was thinking, the soldiers of the Zhou family had finished interrogating the sentry and came over to inform her of the latest situation: "Their leader is called 'Cai Ye', and he came to visit Mr. I sent a few people to get a long ladder from the house next door, and planned to climb to the top of the wall and go directly into the back house to find someone."

Haitang was startled and immediately thought that her neighbor Chen Qianhu and his wife had settled down in Shanxi and had only sent a letter home two days ago to let their children go. The Chen family had already agreed with the Hai family that they would rent out the front two rooms of the house to Xie Wenzai. For this purpose, they would move some furniture and sundries to the back two courtyards. As for the old things that are no longer needed, the housekeeper temporarily piles them in the alley between the two houses, waiting for them to be transported out of the city and discarded. Among them is the old long ladder used by Chen Qianhu's family when they were guarding the border town. The ladder was originally used to allow the men in the family to climb up the wall and participate in killing the enemy when the enemy entered the city. It was long enough for people to climb up the wall of the Hai family. Because of the safety risk, Hai Changan complained to Uncle Cui last night and planned to tell the Chen family today that the long ladder should be cut off.

Could it be that before Hai Changan had time to chop down the ladder, the Sun family's minions took advantage of it? !

Haitang quickly walked around to the west wall of her house. Before she entered the alley, she saw a figure flashing past in the alley. Feeling alarmed in her heart, she quickly kicked off her feet and jumped to the side. In a flash of silver light, a dagger stabbed out of the alley, just passing by her shoulder.

She grabbed the wrist holding the knife with her backhand and pinched the numb hole hard. The opponent's hand went numb, and before the dagger came loose, he raised his leg and kicked him hard. Haitang avoided his legs and followed the force to push the person to the ground on the road. The person's legs were hanging in the air and he was unable to control the castration. He almost fell to the ground and was chewing mud. He finally stopped and was about to turn around and fight back. , two Zhou family soldiers held knives to their necks, and they didn't dare to move.

Haitang ran to the base of the wall, and sure enough, the old long ladder of the Chen family was erected and rested on the wall of the Hai family, almost on the west side of the small building in the front yard. Judging from what she observed upstairs in the front yard when she first returned to Chang'an, people with more flexible hands and feet who could climb up the wall from here should be able to jump to the west window sill on the second floor with a little effort, and then step on it. He grabbed the roof of several old men's rooms in the West House and jumped into the courtyard.

But if a visitor wants to take this route to enter the Hai family's inner house, he has to climb over the wall of the second courtyard. Whether he jumps from the wall to the second courtyard or jumps in by borrowing the roofs of two small setbacks, there is no way he can do it. It doesn't take much effort. It's just that those who do this will never escape the eyes of the two Zhou family guards.

There was still no big movement in the Hai family's house, but Haitang didn't dare to ignore it. There was no one on the wall at this time, but there were recent boot prints on the long ladder, which showed that someone had climbed over the wall and entered. I just don't know how many people went in, whether they were armed, and where they touched at this time.

She turned to the Zhou family soldiers and said, "I'll climb up the ladder. Immediately move the ladder away after that to cut off the villain's escape route and prevent them from climbing over the wall and escaping!"

After saying that, she tightened the knife on her waist, coiled the riding whip with her left hand, stepped on the ladder, and quickly climbed up the wall of her house. Her movements were so fast that the Zhou family's soldiers were stunned, and they didn't even have time to get out. Sound blocked.

Thinking that there were still minions of the Sun family in the house, they did not dare to speak loudly. They only saw Haitang jumping lightly on the wall and then disappeared. After that, they did not hear any sound of falling or crushing roof tiles. , guessing that she had landed safely, she just moved the long ladder away and lowered it to the ground.

They immediately turned around and ran out of the alley, meeting up with the reinforcements who had arrived after hearing the news, and were preparing to enter Hai's house to arrest people.

(End of this chapter)