Border Cook

Chapter 633 Attack
But this girl was a kind person when she was alive and had never had any quarrel or dispute with anyone. And on the night when the body of this young girl was fished out of the well, something very horrifying happened in the village.

First, at night, some villagers heard very shrill screams outside, and the sound sounded long and dull, as if it came from a very deep place.

Then, the chickens and ducks raised in someone's yard began to become restless, pecking at each other, causing chicken and duck feathers to fly all over the yard.

Some people feel in broad daylight that there is an extra person in their home who is watching them all the time...

The plot of this script sounded very thrilling, especially since Lu Qiyan's storytelling skills were now even better than before. The sound effects of the cold wind he produced through ventriloquism were even more lifelike, which frightened Xia Mingyue so much that she broke out in a cold sweat and couldn't help but hold Lu Qiyan's hand in an attempt to get some sense of security.

Unfortunately, the plot of this story was very attractive. Xia Mingyue was looking forward to the following plot. She could only hold Lu Qiyan tightly and ask impatiently, "Then what, then what..."

"Then……"

Before Lu Qiyan finished speaking, loud shouts were heard from outside.

Extremely anxious, and mixed with screams.

Xia Mingyue, who had not yet withdrawn from the plot of the story, screamed in surprise. After a moment, she realized that it was the movement in the real world. Her face suddenly darkened, "What happened?"

"I'll go take a look." Lu Qiyan patted the back of Xia Mingyue's hand, "You stay here, don't go out."

"Yeah." Xia Mingyue nodded vigorously.

Lu Qiyan picked up the sword on the table, walked out of the door, told the guards at the door to keep guard, and then went to check what was going on.

Xia Yunji hurried over and said, "Brother-in-law, it was a group of masked men, more than a hundred of them, who first attacked with bows and arrows, then climbed over the wall and entered, fighting with us and the people of Jin Weiguo."

"Kill without mercy." Lu Qiyan gave the order in a deep voice, then raised his sword and headed towards the courtyard where Li Juncheng, Tao Kanglai and other envoys from the Jin Wei Kingdom lived.

Here, the number of masked villains was greater than Lu Qiyan had imagined, and they were extremely skilled and ruthless. Many Jin Weiguo guards had already fallen to the ground.

"Second Prince." Lu Qiyan shouted as he walked towards the house where Li Juncheng lived.

But when he rushed over, he found that although there were candles burning in Li Juncheng's house and a half-opened book on the table, there was no one in the house.

"Your Highness!"

Lu Qiyan came out of the house and called out again.

Seeing that there was still no response, Lu Qiyan took care of the nearest masked man while asking where Jin Weiguo's guard Li Juncheng was and whether he was safe.

"Thieves have broken in. General Tao is worried that the Second Prince is in danger, so he has escorted the Second Prince out through the corner gate!"

really.

Lu Qiyan's heart suddenly sank.

He ordered Xia Yunji to lead the soldiers of the Western Frontier Army to eliminate all these masked villains, while Lu Qiyan took a few people to look for Li Juncheng and Tao Ankang.

Although the snow on the roads along the way had been almost cleared, and it was late at night and the originally muddy roads had frozen again, there were still traces left on the road surface.

We followed the trail all the way until we reached a forest, but it disappeared without a trace.

It seemed to have disappeared out of thin air. Lu Qiyan frowned and looked at the disappearing footprints. After a moment, he suddenly realized something.

He asked his men to continue searching for suspicious persons nearby, while Lu Qiyan jumped on his horse, pulled the reins and walked back along the way he came.

All the way back to the villa, the situation was now basically under Xia Yunji's control.

The vast majority of the masked men in black were executed on the spot, while the rest were injured to varying degrees and began to flee in all directions.

Xia Yunji sent people to chase after them, aiming to catch these criminals in one fell swoop.

Xia Yunji knew that Lu Qiyan had gone out to look for Li Juncheng and Tao Ankang. Seeing Lu Qiyan coming back with a gloomy face, he suddenly felt uneasy, "Could it be..."

"Shh." Lu Qiyan put his finger to his lips, signaling Xia Yunji to speak in a low voice, and then pulled Xia Yunji into the yard.

He walked all the way to the deepest part and stopped only when he reached a small empty Buddhist temple in the villa.

"What is my brother-in-law doing here?" Xia Yunji was a little puzzled.

The small Buddhist temple here is the most desolate place in the entire villa. It is usually locked and no one goes in or out.

"Don't you think this is a bit strange?" Lu Qiyan said, "The masked criminals broke into the villa and launched attacks everywhere, but they didn't break into this place. It really doesn't make sense."

Such places, which are usually uninhabited, are logically the easiest places to hide, and bad guys should not miss this opportunity.

"Indeed." Xia Yunji nodded, agreeing with Lu Qiyan's point of view.

"Besides, you usually send people to patrol outside. Not to mention bad guys with bad intentions, even wild beasts cannot get close to the villa. Why did these people enter the villa so easily this time?"

Facing Lu Qiyan's question, Xia Yunji also showed a look of doubt.

Indeed, what happened today was very strange.

And when his men realized something was wrong, the masked criminals were already in the villa, as if they had suddenly emerged from underground...

Wait, people can’t come out from underground.

The reason why these masked villains were able to appear in the villa could only mean that they were there from the beginning!
These people... are from Jin Weiguo!
Among the Jinwei Kingdom’s envoys, some were extremely hostile to the peace talks and wanted to sabotage them…

Tao Ankang!
Xia Yunji drew out the knife from his waist with a swish, "Has Tao Ankang held the Second Prince hostage here?"

"That's right." Lu Qiyan nodded, and then shouted loudly, "It has come to this point, General Tao is still stubborn and stubborn?"

"General Tao, you must know that even if you held the Second Prince hostage, or even took his life, you would not be able to stop the Jinwei Kingdom from negotiating peace with the Great Zhou Kingdom. Instead, you would be charged with murdering the prince for nothing, and your entire family would be executed."

"You don't care about your own life, you're going to abandon the lives of your family members?"

"Family?" Tao Ankang's voice came from the darkness. After a burst of footsteps, Tao Ankang walked out of the corner with Li Juncheng. The dagger in his hand was against Li Juncheng's neck, and a tiny wound had been cut, with bright red blood flowing out.

Tao Ankang didn't care about it. Instead, he curled his lips and said, "I am the only one left in our Tao family now!"

"My Tao family is full of loyal heroes, and we died on the battlefield just for the day when we can crush your Great Zhou Kingdom and incorporate all of your Great Zhou territory into the Jinwei Kingdom!"