Jiaohua

Chapter 1008
In total, there are a total of six corpses, all of which are crossbowmen.

The body that was carried was wearing a black tunic. The fatal injury was not the first time the reporter said that he was shot through the neck by his own crossbow arrow.

The fatal wound was also on the neck, but it was not a crossbow arrow, but an extremely sharp knife, killing him with one knife.

Along with the corpse were his crossbow and quiver.

Wu Zuo just finished the body examination, and someone came to report the crime.

County magistrate Xu was overwhelmed. About half an hour later, the corpses of nine crossbowmen lay neatly in the lobby of the yamen.

"Will it be the last one?" County magistrate Xu looked at the newly delivered corpse.

"I don't know," Meng Xiaochuan thought for a while, "Expose these nine corpses to the sun tomorrow."

"Exposure?" County magistrate Xu was surprised.

"Wearing night clothes and holding a bow and crossbow, what kind of good people can they be?" Meng Xiaochuan said indifferently, "Whether it is them or those who killed them, they should be brought to justice. It just so happens that we need a sharp weapon to deter the hearts of the people, so as to revive them The government is so strict that they hang their corpses in the sun and use them to demonstrate."

County Magistrate Xu had no choice but to raise his hand: "Yes."

County Magistrate Xu went to make arrangements, but Meng Xiaochuan didn't stay any longer, and turned back to the back hall.

As soon as he returned, he quickly took out the map of Xucheng.

The location where the nine crossbowmen died was marked by him according to the approximate range said by those people, especially this brothel.

Finally, the entire range was settled, Meng Xiaochuan circled a spot, and fixed his gaze on the Four Seas Teahouse in Shiliudaofang.

County magistrate Xu arranged for the manpower to come back, and bowed to Meng Xiaochuan: "My lord, I have ordered you to go down."

"Let me ask you," Meng Xiaochuan sternly said, "Two guys from Sihai Teahouse died today behind Zifengfang Lane. Where are the bodies?"

"Corpse, the corpse was sent back by Lin Laijie and the others."

"In broad daylight, such a big murder happened on the street, and your men sent people back?!"

"My son! This, this, I will go to Lin Laijie immediately!"

"Lin Laijie is not your subordinate?"

"No, my son, no, yes, it's my subordinate," the county magistrate Xu stammered, "My lord, these days the yamen is full of those farmers who don't have eyes, they want to rebel, they want to blow up the sky! It was these troublemakers who targeted the princess before, think about it, my son, they don’t even pay attention to the princess..."

Meng Xiaochuan said angrily, "What are you trying to say!"

"That's right, the yamen is full of people, and the officials are too busy, and they are all overwhelmed, so they don't care about the future!"

Meng Xiaochuan sneered: "I see that you are very leisurely. After my son arrives at your Xucheng yamen, you serve tea and water at the front and back. How can you be a busy person?"

County magistrate Xu wiped his sweat and dared not answer.

"So, there is no body and no case has been established. If such a big incident happened, you just turn a blind eye and close your eyes, trying to fool it?" Meng Xiaochuan asked again.

"No, sir!" County magistrate Xu's knees softened and he knelt down on the ground, "It's all Lin Laijie, it's Lin Laijie! I'm going to ask someone to put him..."

Meng Xiaochuan kicked him away and walked towards the backyard: "Du Yong, Bai Jian, bring someone with me!"

The two guards responded and led others to follow.

Several fast horses left the courtyard behind the yamen and rushed towards the Four Seas Teahouse.

Due to today's street incidents, there are almost no people on the road, only rural farmers who can't go home get together and hold groups at the door of some non-closing inns or restaurants.

While running wildly, Bai Jian behind Meng Xiaochuan suddenly pulled the reins and looked up to the south sky.

Meng Xiaochuan felt something, and stopped in front of his horse: "What happened?"

The rest of the guards looked up one after another.

"My son," Bai Jian looked at Meng Xiaochuan, "There is a fight on the roof!"

"There is movement!" Du Yong also said.

"Go up!" Meng Xiaochuan said immediately.

All the shops in the row to the south were closed, and one of them was broken into by Du Yong. The upper floor of the shop was a private household, and the owner of the private household was shocked in his dream: "Who is it?"

Five guards hurried up to the top floor and broke through the roof on the beams and columns of the attic. A hundred steps away, three men were besieging a girl in white.

Three meters behind them, there were already two men lying down, one of whom was dying.

It is said that three people besieged one person, but it can be seen that the girl in white has the upper hand, but it seems that one is forcing three.

Seeing this, the guards immediately ran away.

When Meng Xiaochuan and others came riding on horseback, Xia Zhaoyi heard the sound of horseshoes, and she was not at all surprised by their appearance.

The roof is not as flat as the ground, Du Yong Baijian crossed a ridge, and suddenly heard a crossbow arrow coming.

The two quickly avoided, and a guard following them was caught off guard, and was shot in the ribs in an instant, and fell from the roof to the back house in Minxiang.

Du Yong and the others stared wide-eyed and looked at the girl.

It was confirmed that the crossbow bolt was indeed shot from the girl's arm crossbow.

With one against three, can you still kill others? !
What's even more damning is that they haven't even said a word to her yet. This is, killing anyone on sight?

Du Yong and others drew their weapons and ran.

Another crossbow arrow came, but Bai Jian quickly raised his knife to block it, and was almost shot. The rapid impact of the crossbow arrow made his arm numb.

As they ran, the distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer. On this side, Xia Zhaoyi finally found the right time, and rushed towards a man with a step like a dragon. His throat was cut in an instant with the dagger.

A lot of blood gushed out, and the other two men who were fighting hard lost another companion, and finally became timid.

After adding, Du Yong and others chased after him. The two men felt that it was meaningless to fight again, so they turned and ran away.

Xia Zhaoyi didn't give him a chance at all, and chased after him.

The two men are divided into two places, Xia Zhaoyi can only chase one of them.

Suddenly there was a strong wind, and a crossbow arrow shot from the front.

Xia Zhaoyi was agile and quickly avoided it.

The crossbow bolt was ten steps away from Bai Jian, and the tail of the arrow trembled and hummed in the night wind.

Soon, another crossbow arrow shot from another place.

Another crossbow bolt came from the third direction.

Under the clear night, the white clothes are very conspicuous, but the three crossbowmen fired several shots in a row, but none of them could hit the girl in white clothes.

When one of them set up another arrow, a terrible sense of crisis suddenly came.

The crossbowman immediately pulled out his dagger, turned back, and the dragon roared in the darkness, his eyes widened, and he saw himself flying high, and his headless body fell on the other side.

Shen Lie stepped across the vertical ridge, whistled with his fingers.

Xia Zhaoyi turned his eyes to look, under the night, a young man also dressed in white was standing on the roof facing the street, his figure was as tall as a bamboo.

Across the boundless night, they couldn't see each other's eyebrows clearly, only the light in each other's eyes, but Xia Zhaoyi seemed to understand what he meant.

The man she pursued endlessly was undoubtedly the luckiest moment in his life.

For the first time, Xia Zhaoyi gave up the easy prey, turned the direction without hesitation, suddenly stepped up a cornice, and jumped towards the ridge of the street where Shen Lie was.

The white clothes are as light as a fairy, and a rollover in the air, as light as a swallow piercing through a willow branch, landed on the horn of the roof dexterously.

(End of this chapter)