Thief Emperor

Chapter 49 Evil Ghost in Smoke!

"Second brother."

When a group of people were busy moving firewood, the clever Li Zheng secretly pulled Li Yun aside. He looked around and asked in a low voice: "What...what are you doing?"

Mr. Li had a blank expression on his face as he glanced at the sky which was about to set.

"What else can you do?"

He said in a hoarse voice: "These beasts want to set fire to the entire Hexi Village and burn it to the ground."

"this!"

It’s not that Li Zheng has never killed anyone.

He is a year younger than Li Yun, and is about eighteen or nineteen years old this year. However, when he was fourteen or fifteen, he followed his elders to work in the mountains. If he encountered resistance, he would never hesitate to fight.

Therefore, Li Zheng always felt that he was a bad person.

At the beginning, when Li Yun asked him to be a yamen runner, the simple-minded Zhang Hu thought that he did not want to be a yamen runner and bully the people, while Li Zheng, who felt that he was a bad guy, asked Li Yun if he could do it.

But even Li Zheng, who truly thought of himself as a bad guy, could not help but stand there in a daze, stunned after hearing what Li Yun said.

"Second brother, this is a village with hundreds of households..."

He murmured, "Even if some of them escaped, there are still about 100 to 200 people left..."

Li Yun also took a deep breath, his eyes a little cold: "Shouhou, you see, some people down the mountain are actually much more cruel than us on the mountain."

"Second brother."

Li Zheng pulled at the corner of Li Yun's clothes, and said in a low but resolute voice: "We can't do this, even if we have to quit our official duties! We can go back to Cangshan, but we can't do such unscrupulous things for the government!"

The skinny monkey looked at Li Yun and added his reasoning: "If you really do this, the son you give birth to will definitely not have an asshole!"

Village Chief Li pointed at his nose and said, "Do you think I would be willing to do this for them just because of a piece of shitty leader?"

"Then why are you asking us to carry firewood..."

Li Yun found a rock to sit on and whispered, "If all the people who came this time were from the village, I would have a fight with these bastards, but except for the three of us, the rest are Qingyang's yamen runners. How many of them would join us in turning against the government?"

"Moreover."

Mr. Li said in a low voice: "Even if we don't do it, they will find someone to do it. I just heard someone say that the state's government troops will arrive soon. There will be about 200 of them, all soldiers."

"It will be more straightforward if they do it."

"Now, we have no other choice."

Li Yun whispered, "After we light the fire here, we will put it out immediately. After the smoke starts, we will take advantage of the situation to mess up the situation and set off as many as possible."

The skinny monkey gritted his teeth and nodded. He looked at Li Yun, his voice trembling a little: "Second brother, before I went down the mountain with you, I thought we were the worst bad guys..."

Mr. Li said, "You have seen too little. When you see more, you will know that some people are so bad that they are rotten."

"I've seen several today."

"Sooner or later."

Mr. Li said coldly: "I want to release the pus in these bad guys' bodies!"

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At midnight, following an order from Guo Dianshi, fires were set on all four sides of Hexi Village at the same time.

Li Yun, along with a group of Qingyang yamen runners, stood guard at the east side of Hexi Village. After the pile of sparks was lit, Li Yun coughed, and the skinny Li Zheng immediately brought a pile of wheat straw and pretended to add straw to the fire.

Suddenly, he stumbled and fell on the fire with the hay in his arms.

And the grass in his arms was wet!
The flame was not big at the moment, and a pile of wet straw immediately covered the open flame, but the flame inside was not extinguished, and thick smoke immediately rose up!
Thick smoke billowed and spread quickly!
Li Dutou shouted immediately, "What are you doing? I told you to light a fire, but you're starting to smoke!"

"With so much smoke, you can't see anything! If the rebels escape from inside, can you afford it?"

He had a loud voice to begin with, and when he shouted this time, not only could the entire Hexi Village hear it, but at least half of the village could hear it.

As Li Zheng deliberately created smoke, the white smoke became thicker and thicker, making it almost impossible for people to open their eyes.

A moment later, a figure rushed out from the billowing smoke.

Li Yun took a deep breath, covered his mouth and nose and walked forward. When he was only two or three steps away from the figure, Li Dadutou tried hard to lower his voice.

"Don't worry, just keep running! If you can shake off the soldiers before dawn, you might be able to survive!"

At this moment, the figure was only two steps away from Li Yun, but because of the heavy smoke, the face could not be seen clearly. However, the figure began to speak, and his voice was hoarse.

"Li... Li Village Chief, it's really you." Li Yun also recognized the voice and was a little surprised: "Meng... Brother Meng Chong?"

He didn't expect that this person actually returned to Hexi Village!

Meng Chong strode forward and tried to grab Li Yun's collar, but Li Yun subconsciously dodged sideways and grabbed his arm directly, capturing him.

"What are you doing!?"

Li Dutou lowered his head and shouted.

"You...you are not the leader of the Cangshan Village!"

Meng Chong gnashed his teeth and said, "You are a government soldier. Where have you tricked our young people from Hexi to go?"

Li Yun frowned.

At this time, he didn't have time to explain too much to this person, so he could only whisper: "It doesn't matter who I am. If I wanted to harm you, you wouldn't even be able to get out of Shidai that day!"

"Your descendants are all in Cangshan. If you want to know whether I have lied to you, just stay alive and go to Cangshan, and you will know it naturally."

"Listen carefully!"

Li Yun pulled him over and whispered, "I'm in charge of guarding the east side for now. There's smoke now. Take the people in the village and run out from the east."

"This smoke won't last long."

"How far you can go depends on your fate!"

After that, he kicked Meng Chong on the butt and kicked him forward: "Go!"

Meng Chong turned his head to look at Li Yun in the smoke, gritted his teeth, got up and went to mobilize the villagers.

At this moment, Li Zheng was still desperately filling the space with hay, and the smoke became even thicker.

Many Hexi villagers left Hexi Village amid the thick smoke and ran desperately outside.

However, the smoke did not cover a large area, and soon the inspector Guo Han discovered that someone had escaped from the east. He flew into a rage, strode over, and yelled, "What are you doing? Why is there so much smoke?"

"The rebels have all escaped from you!"

"Where is your leader? Let him come to see me!"

Li Zheng, who was adding hay, did not even raise his head and answered directly: "We all saw someone running out, and in a hurry, we went into the thick smoke to catch him!"

Guo Han frowned and ordered, "Light the fire quickly, the smoke will go away when the fire starts!"

Li Zheng wiped the sweat from his forehead and said anxiously: "The grass is wet, not dry!"

Li Yun's voice was heard from the thick smoke: "Is that Guo Dianshi?"

"Guo Dianshi, I saw the leader of the rebels!"

"Come in and give me a hand!"

Guo Han was delighted and walked into the smoke without any suspicion.

After all, no one could have imagined that the captain sent by the Qingyang County Government was actually a bandit, and a petty and lawless bandit at that!

And if the bandit leader could be caught, even if he as the registrar did not get any credit this time, he would be atoned for his guilt.

After rushing into the thick smoke, Guo Dianshi followed the sound and ran towards Li Yun.

"Captain Li, where is the thief leader? Have you caught him?"

"I've captured you!"

Guo Han was overjoyed. He covered his nose and took two quick steps. Finally, he saw Li Yun's figure vaguely. He was about to speak when he saw Li Yun in front of him suddenly stood up and came close to him in just one step!
Then, Dianshi Guo discovered that the sword at his waist had been unsheathed and was held in Li Yun's hand.

His eyes widened, having already sensed something was wrong.

He wanted to speak out.

Li Yun's big hand had accurately covered his mouth, and then Guo Dianshi's own knife slid smoothly into his own body!

"No, there's an ambush!"

After shouting this, Li Yun quickly pulled out the knife from Guo Dianshi's body and cut his left forearm. Then he threw the knife to the ground and screamed in a sad voice.

"Guo Dianshi, Guo Dianshi!!"

(End of this chapter)