Lin'an Never Night

Chapter 76: Simple and Brutal Yang Yuan
When Yang Yuan asked him about his origins and identity, he had actually determined in his heart that he was not an enemy.

Occasionally, there was the sound of weapons colliding outside the back wall. Yang Yuan knew that his elder brother who had warned him must be there.

Therefore, while asking, he had already pulled away and wanted to rush to the back wall.

The word "Lu You" came out of nowhere and Yang Yuan staggered.

"Little brother, are you okay?"

Lu You thought he was exhausted and subconsciously wanted to reach out to help him, but just as he stretched out his hand, he stopped again.

After all, the enemy's situation is not very clear yet. If he stabs us unexpectedly, it will be a loss.

Yang Yuan steadied himself and looked at the man under the moon in surprise.

Shanyin Lu You?

Is this the Lu You I know?

Outside the back wall, Li Lin regretted it after he rushed out.

There was actually a river behind the wall. Although there was space for activities outside the wall, it was not connected to the wooden bridge about 70 to 80 feet away on the right, nor to the stone steps leading to the water of another household on the left.

While he was hesitating, Yang Che climbed onto the top of the wall and swooped down like a vulture.

Li Lin had no choice but to draw his sword to meet the enemy.

"Ding ding ding ding..."

In a split second, the weapons of both sides had clashed for more than a dozen rounds, causing sparks to fly.

After more than a dozen stab wounds, Li Lin's body was covered with knife wounds.

Although the visibility under the moonlight was not as clear as during the day, both sides fought desperately and were evenly matched in momentum.

However, the speed of reaction, the use of swordsmanship, and the amount of force used during a fight can easily widen the gap between the two.

In the more than ten rounds of fighting, Li Lin almost hurt Yang Che at least four times, but it was only a close call.

Yang Che chopped, hacked, chopped and stabbed seventeen times in total, and nine of them hit Li Lin.

If Yang Che had not wanted to stay alive and avoided his vital points, Li Lin would have died.

When Yang Yuan heard the name of Lu You, he was greatly surprised and wanted to ask for clarification, but there was the sound of swords and spears outside the back wall, so now was not the right time.

"Okay, I heard the noise and came out to catch the thief, let's..."

Yang Yuan turned his eyes and saw the crossbow on the ground: "Is this a crossbow?"

Lu You said: "That's right!"

The Song Dynasty was a very strange era, and the court gave people the impression of a weak scholar.

However, the martial spirit among the people of the Song Dynasty was extremely strong.

In the early Northern Song Dynasty, there was a law prohibiting civilians from carrying crossbows, but it was abolished after the middle period.

People were allowed to make not only hidden bows but also crossbows, but they were not allowed to make powerful crossbows like the "Shenbi Bow".

During the Song Dynasty, civilian associations were allowed, such as the "Fujian Baowu", which had more than 5,000 people armed with spears and sticks, and was a very powerful civilian armed force.

The size of Hunan's township societies, both in terms of numbers of people and equipment, is almost comparable to that of Fujian's baowu.

As for the "archery clubs" in various places, they are quite large in scale.

They nominated people with wealthy family wealth and strong martial arts to serve as leaders of the community, calling them "the head of the community, the deputy head of the community, and the recorder."

In daily organization and training, members were required to "carry bows and hoes, and carry swords and chop wood"; the rewards and punishments they established were "stricter than those set by the government."

There were no such semi-military civilian organizations in Lin'an, but there were crossbow clubs, mainly for crossbow enthusiasts to learn, train and compete, a bit like a modern "shooting club."

There are currently seven or eight clubs in Lin'an City, including the Water Shooting Crossbow Club and the Bow and Crossbow Shooting Club.

Yang Che, who originally planned to get Yang Yuan into the Imperial City Division, had asked him to study crossbow at the "Sheshui Crossbow Club" for three months.

Yang Yuan bent down and picked up Lu You's crossbow.

Looking in the moonlight, I saw that the arrow was already on the string.

While Lu You was chasing, he loaded the crossbow.

However, he was in the last one, and he also knew that capturing the spy alive was far more useful than a dead one, so he was afraid of making a mistake and did not dare to shoot.

Seeing Yang Yuan picking up the crossbow, he couldn't help but ask worriedly, "Can you use it?"

"Understand a little!"

Yang Yuan responded, then pointed his crossbow at the ground and walked towards the back door.

With a push of the door bar, Yang Yuan opened the gate. Outside the gate, there was a stone staircase leading into the water, with two stone piles on the left and right.

Yang Che and Li Lin were just like the three masters of Hong Family Iron Wire Fist, Wu Lang Bagua Stick and Twelve-Way Tan Leg in "Kung Fu", standing on the stairs of Pig Stygium Village to compete in martial arts.

Li Lin used the trick of "having an affair" and Yang Che used the trick of "changing the sky and the earth".

The two of them froze there and looked at Yang Yuan together.

Yang Yuan stood at the door and said lazily, "Brother, do you want to live or die?"

Yang Che said: "Alive."

"okay!"

Yang Yuan raised his hand and shot an arrow.

"Swoosh!" The arrow shot out and hit Li Lin's thigh. The tip of the arrow pierced through the flesh and pierced his thigh.

Li Lin cried out in pain. This "cheating woman" had her body leaning outward with her center of gravity at the front.

This time he could not stand up and fell down with a thump, hitting the half-submerged stone steps.

Lu You was staring at the scene from behind, is it so... simple and crude?
"Don't come over here!"

Li Lin fell on the stone steps and started swinging the knife in his hand wildly.

He struggled to his feet, his feet submerged in the water.

There is an arrow stuck in my thigh muscle and I can no longer use any strength.

Li Lin knew that he would not be able to escape today, and he could not help but secretly develop the determination to die.

Yang Che stood on the pile of stones without moving, but said coldly: "Li Lin, you can't escape, why don't you surrender?"

"Surrender? Ha, ha ha..."

"If you can atone for your sins, it may not be a capital crime."

"Now that I've been captured, it would be more painful if I didn't die than if I died..."

Li Lin smiled bitterly and suddenly turned his wrist.

Yang Che's eyes narrowed, and he shouted urgently: "No..."

He swung his sword to challenge Li Lin's weapon, but was already a step too slow.

Li Lin turned his wrist and slid his hand to grasp the half of the knife. The tip of the knife was about one and a half feet long, and with a "puff" sound, it pierced into his heart.

Yang Che stopped dejectedly. The knife had pierced his heart and he would not survive.

Li Lin stared at Yang Che under the moonlight, and suddenly laughed grimly:
"Some lids cannot be opened. I...will wait for you in the underworld!"

Li Lin fell to the ground and died.

In the moonlight, the blood beneath his body looked like a pool of ink gradually spreading in the water.

At this moment, a "clang" sound was heard from the front room. It was the sound of the door being closed.

Father Song is attending Mr. Qu's dinner tonight, and he had already told his daughter to close the restaurant early.

Knowing that he would come back late, Luxi left the door open for him, with one door panel not installed.

Old Man Song came back in the dark and was now installing the door panels.

At the backyard door, the three people were at their most alert. Although the sound was not loud when it reached here, they still heard it.

Yang Che frowned immediately.

Li Lin is dead, but the news of his death cannot be spread now.

Li Lin and Ju Huaguan should have a single-line connection.

Given the conditions of information dissemination in that era, as long as the news of Li Lin's sudden death did not spread, and with the cooperation of the city's shipping officials, it could be concealed for a short period of time.

Otherwise, once the great merchant Juhua Temple is alarmed, this line of inquiry will have no way to be followed further.

Thinking of this, Yang Che immediately said to Yang Yuan: "This person's identity is important, don't let too many people know, second brother, close the door!"

Yang Yuan immediately understood what his elder brother meant, and quickly closed the backyard door and bolted it.

Seeing that Lu You hadn't reacted yet, Yang Yuan hurriedly pulled him and hurried back to his room.

As the two of them approached the door, Old Man Song swayed slightly and walked into the yard...

(End of this chapter)