Do you know: I am Xu Jiazi

Chapter 545 Drawing the Bow at the Post Station [Thank you! Goodbye! I owe you 40k more]

Xingguofang,
The Duke's Mansion of Qi State,

The well-dressed doorman wearing earmuffs stood at the gate with his hands in his pockets. He looked at the pedestrians on the street in front of the door, raised his head and yawned, and then a puff of white air came out of his mouth.

When the boy took his hands out of his pockets and wanted to stretch,
"Xu~"

A carriage stopped at the gate of the Qi family.

Seeing this, the servant hurriedly called to the gatehouse on the side, "Steward, there are guests."

As he said this, he walked over and saw Liang Han stepping out of the carriage. The servant hurriedly bowed and said with a smile: "Hey! Sixth Young Master Liang! What happened to you today?"

Before he finished speaking, Liang Han in the carriage waved his hand to interrupt him and asked, "Is the young master at home?"

"Sixth Master, I am here."

"Ok!"

As he spoke, Liang Han stepped onto the horse stool, stepped down from the carriage, and walked towards the Qi family's gate.

When the Qi family's servant stepped forward to speak, the steward had already walked out of the gatehouse.

Listening to the conversation outside the door, he waved to another servant and said, "Go, hurry to the second gate and tell them."

After saying that, the concierge smiled and walked towards Liang Han, bowing and saying, "Hello, Liu Lang."

Liang Han nodded and walked quickly, saying, "What plans does the young master have for today?"

The gatekeeper smiled and replied, "Sixth Prince, the young master was supposed to learn painting from Long Mian today, but Long Mian caught a cold yesterday and felt unwell this morning, so he did not come to the Duke's Mansion."

"Oh! That means the young master has nothing to do today?"

"I still have some homework in the school."

"Ok!"

Liang Han nodded and walked faster.

Seeing Liang Han walking, the Qi family steward hurriedly accompanied him and said, "Liu Lang, do you have any urgent business?"

"I guess so. I was mainly worried that the young master would be late and miss out on such a grand event!"

"Oh!"

The concierge nodded repeatedly: "I wonder what the excitement is about?"

"Hard to say."

While talking with the servant, Liang Han quickly entered the second gate and walked towards Qi Heng's courtyard under the guidance of the trotting old woman.

Qi Hengyuan,

In the study,
On the large nanmu table in front of the bookshelf, all painting items are neatly arranged.

Qi Heng stood behind the table holding a brush, drawing on the paper with a smile on his face.

After painting a few strokes, Qi Heng stopped his brush, took a deep breath, his eyes full of memories.

As he recalled for a moment, the smile on Qi Heng's lips became more and more obvious. He continued to move the brush in his hand, and his eyes were full of love as he watched the details of the character gradually become fuller.

From Qi Heng's perspective, he could see that the painting was of a desk with an inkstone and a pen holder on it, a girl lying down behind the desk, and behind the girl were the pillars of the house, a rolled-up curtain, and a wooden partition.

Although Qi Heng is not very old, looking at the painting, it is obvious that he has some painting skills.

Looking at his work, Qi Heng nodded with satisfaction, wrote a few words on it, and then smiled.

But looking at the words on the drawing paper, the handwriting is completely different from Qi Heng's.

suddenly,

"Little father-in-law!"

Liang Han shouted from outside.

Qi Heng's face instantly showed some panic. After looking left and right, he hurriedly reached out and grabbed two pieces of drawing paper, trying to cover his own work.

But the painting had just been completed and the ink had not yet dried. Covering it with drawing paper would definitely ruin the painting, which made Qi Heng a little hesitant.

"Little father-in-law!"

When the voice sounded again,
Qi Heng frowned and covered his painting with the drawing paper in his hand, then opened the drawing paper and hurriedly smeared the few words he had just written with the brush.

Just covered.
Bu Wei's voice came: "Hello, Liu Lang! The young master is in the study! Come this way!"

"it is good."

As they were talking, Liang Han and Buwei pushed the door open and walked in.

Qi Heng was already smiling, and asked in confusion: "Liu Lang, what happened?"

"Young Master, I heard something important on the road just now."

Liang Han was halfway through his words.
Qi Heng came out from behind the table with an excited look on his face and said, "Buwei, hurry up, let Li Chong prepare the carriage!"

"Young Master, how about you take my seat?"

"Yes, yes! Let's go!"

As he said that, Qi Heng took the cloak that Buwei handed to him, put it on and walked out.

Previously, when Xu Zaijing beat up the general of Bai Gao army in Pan Tower, Qi Heng was in the mansion and did not see the scene.

Liang Han was just watching the aftermath outside Pan Building afterwards, and he didn't see how Xu Zaijing beat anyone up.

Later, when Xu Zaijing beat up the Prince of Yan and the children of the Bao family of Marquis of Ruyang and the Huyan family of Marquis of Jinghai, the two were still not present. They only heard Zheng Xiao or Gu Tingye puffing out their chests and talking about it proudly several times.

Liang Han was fine as he didn't know anything about the Prince of Yan's fiefdom, but Qi Heng was Chai Zhengzheng's cousin and knew something.

Further back,
As sons of dukes, they both knew very well about Xu Zaijing's achievements in Baigao!
This made the two young men full of vigor and vitality even more envious and curious, and they really wanted to see how Xu Zaijing would act in real life.

The voices of Qi Heng and Liang Han gradually faded away, but the drawing paper covering the painting on the table was slightly stained.

Qi's backyard,

Princess Pingning's place,
In the hall, Princess Pingning, who was arranging today's affairs for the housekeeper of the Qi family, raised her head and said:
"Going out? It's so cold, what is Heng'er doing out there?"

"Return to the Empress"

He bowed and said a few words.

"Brother Jing, a stubborn thief?"

Princess Pingning frowned and looked at Buweidao.

"Yes, madam, that's what the Sixth Young Master of the Liang family said."

Princess Pingning thought for a while and said, "Go ahead. When you go out with your master, you must bring four servants from the mansion who are good at fighting."

"Yes, ma'am."

When Qi Heng and Liang Han arrived at the gate of Qi's house, Buwei and four servants who were also leading horses like him trotted after them.

At the door, Liang Han looked at his own carriage, then at the Qi family's horses, and after a moment's attention, he whispered something to Qi Heng.

On the way to Beiliao Posthouse
The number of people following Xu Zaijing and Qingyun increased and decreased from time to time. After all, many of them had their own jobs and could not follow them all the time.

But overall, the number of people watching is increasing.

Xu Zaijing was not riding very fast, and from time to time idlers would trot past him and shout on the street ahead, attracting people to see the rare bustle of Bianjing in winter.

Of course, among those who were called out to watch, there were ordinary residents and wealthy people; there were also stubborn thieves and bandits who were well-informed and knew that Xu Jiawulang had a bounty on his head.

If Xu Zaijing was in the Marquis' Mansion, it would be very difficult for this group of stubborn thieves and desperadoes to get close to Xu Zaijing, let alone other things.

But at this time, Xu Zaijing was riding a horse and walking on the street, it was no exaggeration to say that it was a godsend opportunity!

So, when Xu Zaijing was walking on East Street, there were several suspicious-looking people peeking around.

The common people who were watching from time to time were also frightened by the dead or injured people being dragged behind Qingyun's horse, and did not dare to get too close.

And whenever someone wanted to get closer, Qingyun behind Xu Zaijing would shout a few times to ask the onlookers to stay away.

When Xu Zaijing turned onto Chongmingmen Street, he placed the long spear upright behind him and replaced it with a strong bow in his hand.

On the streets you can see many people riding horses or cars to join in the fun and looking around.

Among them were young men in bright clothes and strong men with unclear expressions. When they were still one street away from Bei Liao Posthouse, Qi Heng and Liang Han on horseback finally caught up.

The servants from the Qi and Liang families dismounted in the alley, walked quickly to the entrance of the alley, turned around and led Qi Heng and Liang Han's mounts two steps forward.

As they got closer, Qi Heng looked at the bleeding or dead thieves behind Qingyun and said with some discomfort on his face:

"Liu Lang, let's continue watching?"

Liang Han swallowed his saliva, turned his eyes away from the twisted and deformed legs of the "Sex Tiger", and said with a frown:
"Young Master, I think we should forget it. Go to the front and say hello to Brother Jing. Let's go to the Beiliao Posthouse and wait."

Qi Heng nodded and said, "Let's go."

If you don't want to fish with a cart, you have to pull the horse back and leave the crowd.

suddenly!

"Snapped"

There was a crisp sound of wood colliding.

"what!?"

Then there was a cry of surprise from the front. Liang Han, who was riding on a horse, turned his head and saw Xu Zaijing holding three feather arrows in his hand and drawing the bow sideways.

Before Liang Han could figure out what was going on,
"collapse."

The bowstring vibrated, and the arrow shot out like lightning, going straight into the street-facing window of a two-story wooden building on the left side of the road.

After shooting an arrow, Xu Zaijing ignored the wooden building and turned around. He quickly drew the bow again and shot the arrow at a roof behind him on the right without aiming.

"what happened?"

Qi Heng had already turned his horse around and looked in the direction of Xu Zaijing in confusion.

As soon as Qi Heng finished speaking,

"Snapped."

"Tattoo~"

Something fell from the roof to the right of the two men, and a sound was heard, sliding down along the tiles.

At this time, the onlookers finally reacted and turned to look at the roof in confusion, wanting to know what had happened.

After a few "click" sounds,
A crudely made crossbow and crossbow arrow slid down from the roof one after another, almost hitting the people watching below, causing a burst of exclamations.

"There's someone on the roof!"

Someone among the people watching from the surrounding wooden buildings pointed at the roof on Liang Han's side and shouted.

Hearing this, Qi Heng and Liang Han hurriedly looked up at the house on the side.

Afterwards, Liang Han excitedly held up his purse and shouted, "How do you get to the roof? Tell me, and there will be a huge reward!"

Seeing this, some people ran over and shouted, "Yanei, come this way!"

On the street, the yamen runners who were following behind saw Qingyun looking back in front of them, and quickly divided them into four people, two went to the second floor, and two tried to find a way to get to the roof.

After a busy procession, a strong man with an arrow in the neck was dragged out from the second floor of the wooden house by two yamen runners with blood on their bodies.

One of the two yamen runners was holding a strong bow and a feather arrow in his hand.

Ignoring the bleeding neck of the sturdy man, the two yamen runners tied him directly behind Qingyun's horse.

During this period, there were brave passers-by who picked up the sneak attack arrow that Xu Zaijing had just knocked down with his bow arm and handed it to the yamen runner of Kaifeng Prefecture.

The other thief on the roof didn't have to spend much effort before Liang Han, who jumped onto the roof, kicked him a few times and then sent someone to push him off the roof.

"boom!"

The body fell heavily to the ground.

Only then did the onlookers see that the thief was shot in the eye, with half of the long feather arrow sticking out from the back of his head.

After the bailiff tied the thief on the roof to a rope, he continued to walk forward.

Liang Han came down from the roof and walked to Qi Heng. At first, nothing happened. But when Liang Han wanted to step on the stirrup to mount the horse,
"Ugh~"

Liang Han held onto the saddle and began to retch.

Qi Heng's expression was also a little distorted. Listening to Liang Han's movements, he endured it again and again, but finally bent down and retched a few times.

"Liu Lang, let's cough, are you still following?"

Qi Heng took the handkerchief handed to him by Buwei, wiped his mouth and said.

"Follow us! We may have more troubles ahead. If we don't follow us, all our suffering will be in vain."

"Te!"

After saying that, Liang Han spat on the ground.

The two arrows Xu Zaijing shot just now were extremely powerful.

From the time he shot the arrow until he arrived near the Beiliao Posthouse, although he could feel several malicious gazes along the way, no one dared to attack him again.

The door of Beiliao Posthouse was closed.

In front of the gate, many people from Bian Jing who knew Xu Zaijing's destination had gathered.

Looking at the dead or injured thieves being dragged behind Qingyun's horse, everyone pointed and talked.

Doorway,

An official from the Great Zhou Rites Department who saw Xu Zaijing came over quickly and bowed to him, saying, "Wu Lang, this is the Northern Liao Posthouse. This is a matter concerning the diplomatic relations between the two countries. You cannot act recklessly!"

Xu Zaijing rode on his horse, looking at the flag flying high above the Beiliao Posthouse, and said, "I can't act recklessly, so they can offer a reward for me?"

The official from the Ministry of Rites was stunned and asked, "Wulang, what reward?"

Xu Zaijing waved his hand backwards, and without saying anything, Qingyun, who was riding a horse, drew out his sword and swung it down fiercely.

"bass"

Yan Shun looked at the hemp rope in front of him that was cut by Qingyun's knife, then glanced at Xu Zaijing and the officials from the Ministry of Rites in front of him, and hurriedly bowed and walked over.

"Snapped."

Yan Shun knelt on his knees and said, "Young Master, let me tell you something!"

Turning to look at the officials from the Ministry of Rites, Yan Shun said:

"Sir, there has been news in the past two days among the Wuyou Cave in Bianjing and the Green Bandits, saying that anyone who can kill or injure the Fifth Brother of the Xu Family will be rewarded handsomely, and the place to claim the bounty is the Beiliao Posthouse!"

The official from the Ministry of Rites clasped his hands and said, "Wu Lang, it is difficult to tell the truth from the nonsense of this thief, so you must not believe it casually!"

Yan Shun, who was kneeling beside him, bowed and said, "Yanei, I swear on my life that what I said is true. The few people who are still alive can also testify to this!"

Xu Zaijing smiled at the official from the Ministry of Rites and said, "Sir, please come in."

After going to the back to ask some questions, the official from the Ministry of Rites walked up to Xu Zaijing's horse with an unpleasant look on his face and said, "These are all the words of the thieves and bandits. Wu Lang, you..."

Xu Zaijing shook his head and said, "I don't care about that. Beiliao Posthouse must give me an answer today!"

Looking at Xu Zaijing's appearance, the official from the Ministry of Rites turned around helplessly and walked towards the Bei Liao Posthouse. After a conversation, the door of the Bei Liao Posthouse opened a crack, and an envoy from Bei Liao walked out.

Looking at Xu Zaijing who was stationed in front, the Northern Liao envoy bowed and said, "Young Master, what you just said is all nonsense. Our Northern Liao Posthouse will never do such a thing!"

Xu Zaijing sneered and nodded, saying, "Then what bounty is not issued by the Beiliao Posthouse?"

"Absolutely not! He issued a reward, but then announced his name. What's the purpose of doing this?"

The Northern Liao envoy questioned.

Xu Zaijing pulled out a sharp shovel arrow from the quiver in front of the saddle, drew his bow and aimed the arrow at the flag in the Beiliao Posthouse, and said, "What do you want? You want to disgust me. Do you think I can't do anything to you?"

Saying,

Xu Zaijing let go of the feather arrow in his hand.

"Doh."

The flag flying high in the Beiliao Posthouse was cut off by an arrow and fell upside down into the Beiliao Posthouse.

(End of this chapter)