The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

The men in black formed a semicircle and slowly approached the steps. The steel knife in their hands shone dazzlingly under the light of the lantern torches.

Everyone in the Su family was unafraid, holding the wooden legs of tables, chairs and benches that had been broken off in the house, and Xiao Zhuzi was holding a long whip for driving in his hand, and waited intently.

A man in black uttered a cry, rushed forward, flashed the steel knife in his hand, and slashed at Zhang Long's head on the left side. Zhang Long swung his chair leg to block it, and only heard a "Gada", Half of the one-foot-long round table leg was left, and the two of them were taken aback at the same time. Zhang Long reacted, kicked the man in black in the belly, and immediately flew away like a cloud and fog, falling Roll around on the ground.

Zhu Laizi saw it clearly, although he was horrified by the opponent's strength, he also saw the opponent's weakness, and shouted: "Give it to me, the guys in their hands can't stop the steel knife, we have a knife, and we are afraid that he will attack with bare hands." What are you doing? After today’s work is over, the reward will be doubled.”

One sentence aroused the viciousness of the local ruffians, and they stopped being cautious, and rushed up shouting and waving their knives. For a moment, there was chaos with swords, lights and swords, and the two gangs fought together.

Relying on the strength of martial arts and the height of the steps, Su Jin beat and kicked the gangsters who rushed up, but there were too many opponents, and they kicked one after another, and they met each other. There was only a small part of the wooden thing in his hand, and it couldn't be used as a weapon at all.

But the other party's swords were fierce, and those who kicked down got up reluctantly and rushed up under Zhu Manzi's kicking and cursing. After the tea time passed, the eight people on Su Jin's side stood up and fought to the heart of it all. , Hearing a muffled groan, Xiao Zhuzi was stabbed on the arm, blood was pouring out immediately, he threw down the big whip that accompanied the driving for more than ten years, covered the wound and retreated.

Su Jin looked anxiously, he hated himself for not being able to help at all, although he was not powerless, but the other party was chopping randomly with a shining steel knife, this was the first time he had encountered such a posture, if it was an ordinary fight , his brick skills can come in handy, but at the moment he can only stare blankly and worry.

After a while, Ma Han was also stabbed in the thigh, but he gritted his teeth and limped on. As the fight continued, the people on both sides showed no mercy. Although the gangsters are fierce with knives and knives, but at the moment they used some more vicious tricks. Several people attacking one at the same time, not to mention, it is even more shameless to use knives. Offset the opponent's geographical advantages, and any place that can be cut without climbing the steps is their attack target;

And the Su family is also merciless, with their toes towards the heart, carotid artery, and joints. Every time they hold a person, they will snap and break the wrist bone or directly bend the elbow to break the arm alive. The hooligans also seriously injured six or seven of them, losing their combat effectiveness.

This kind of fierce fighting aroused the ferocity of the local ruffians, all of them were red-eyed, and as soon as they were kicked down, they rushed up with knives. For a while, the killing, shouting and scolding in the courtyard were loud and spread for several miles. outside.

The surrounding people got up and looked out one after another. When they saw the battle, they immediately closed the doors and windows, bolted the doors and windows, and no one dared to show their heads again. The guards at the gate of Nancheng were also alarmed. Thinking that some robbers had entered the city, they hurriedly led five or sixty people towards the place where they were shouting to kill, but they were stopped halfway, and it was Xiao Hu who stopped them.

Seeing that his opponent was strong, Xiao Hu knew that this matter would not be settled for a while, but this place was too close to the South City Gate, and sooner or later the defenders would be alarmed, so he came to block him halfway ahead of time; Xiao Hu knew everything well, and the two of them said politely, pointing their heads in the direction of shouting and asking: "Master Hu, what's going on?"

Xiao Hu patted him on the shoulder and said, leaning into his ear, "Qi Ye has something to do over there, I didn't expect to alarm you, it's all right, I'll have it in a while."

Dutou hurriedly said: "Master Qi is here? Then Dutou will go and see if he needs my help."

Xiao Hu hurriedly stopped him, reached out his hand and took out a silver ingot from his waist and stuffed it in Dutou's hand, saying: "Our affairs are bothering Dutou, Dutou please take the brothers back to rest, the business here will be over in a while."

Na Dutou quickly put the silver ingot into his arms, and said with a smile: "Do you really need Ben Dutou's help?"

Xiao Hu cupped his hands and said: "I don't dare to trouble you, the seventh master will come forward, and the matter will be resolved soon, so you can go to sleep steadily, and tomorrow morning, I promise, Nancheng will be as clean as washed by water. "

Na Dutou laughed and said: "That's the best, Ben Dutou is also feeling a little sleepy, so let's take my leave, and everything will return to the original in the morning."

"Don't worry, Mr. Dutou, I guarantee that it will be the same as before." Xiao Hu laughed.

All the heads laughed, and led the soldiers to turn around.

Xiao Hu scolded Zhu Manzi for being an idiot. If he hadn't touched the wrong door and let the other party take precautions and sneak in, then Su Jin and the others would have turned into lifeless flesh long ago. Trouble, not only alarmed the officers and soldiers guarding the city, injured so many brothers in my family, but also killed a few more people for no reason.

Xiao Hu hurried to the courtyard with his head depressed. Suddenly, he found that the sound of weapons clashing in his ears had disappeared, the sound of shouting, cursing, and fighting had disappeared, and the surroundings were completely silent.

Is it solved?This Zhu Manizi really has two brushes, and he subdued those sturdy gangsters in about half a stick of incense time by turning his body. Really capable.

Xiao Hu was happy, and quickly came to the courtyard. The scene in front of him was a bit weird.

A group of black-clothed ruffians in the yard formed a circle with knives, clay sculptures and wood carvings, pointing inside, but no one made a move. Xiao Hu felt annoyed, hurriedly pushed aside the two people standing in front of him, and looked inside. Look, I was so angry that I almost vomited blood; I saw that young man named Su Jin put his arm around Zhu Manizi's head and neck, and held a bright steel knife on Zhu Manizi's neck with his other hand, with a half-smile on his face.

Xiao Hu never imagined in his dreams that everyone was so quiet, it was a trick to cast a mouse, and his boss was taken, so who would dare to step forward.

It turned out that Su Jin saw that the situation was too unfavorable, and if he continued to fight, he was afraid that his side would suffer a big loss. Now it was too late to escape from the backyard. Several people on his side were injured. Those who injured their arms were fine, and those who injured their thighs would escape no matter what. It couldn't be dropped, so a bold idea came up.

He found a gap, leaned into everyone's ears and said, "It's not the way to go on like this. I have a way, don't you think it will work?"

Wang Chao panted heavily, touched the blood on his face and said, "My lord, please give me instructions, and the little ones, please follow my lord's orders."

Su Jin said: "Okay, there are so many of them, and we are exhausted after taking turns to come up, and they dare to kill, but we can't kill people indiscriminately, if this continues, sooner or later we will all be slaughtered by them, originally I wanted to delay until the government was alerted The yamen servants or the defenders of Nancheng came, but now it seems that there is little hope."

One of Yan Biyun's companions said: "It seems that they are colluding together. This is a turmoil, and half of the southern city is in a commotion. Why don't they know?"

Su Jin nodded and said: "Let's ignore this for now, the right way is to find a way to escape now, be careful!"

Su Jin shouted, Zhao Hu reacted very quickly, and kicked a man in black who was swinging a knife at the accompanying man.

Su Jin made a long story short, and hurriedly said: "Capture the thief first, and capture the king first. Let's rush out and capture the leader standing by the millstone. Will they dare to do anything?"

Wang Chao said: "Good strategy, my lord, this is a plan to draw salary from the bottom of the pot. My lord ordered, let's go together."

Everyone agreed repeatedly, Su Jin stared at the battle situation, and waited for the opponent to retreat in a round and was about to replace another group of people, and shouted: "Come on!"

Nine people rushed out from the steps, the leader Wang Chao and Zhao Hu grabbed two steel knives and chopped down several people, approaching Zhu Manizi in an instant.

The hooligans didn't expect that the opponent would dare to take the initiative to attack. They were caught off guard and hurriedly dispersed to both sides, as if to make way for a passage; Zhu Manzi reacted quickly and ran away with a steel knife. He didn't even move his fingers, he flew towards the ground with his legs in the stirrups, and then he rushed to the front of the Dynasty and got behind Zhu Manizi.

Zhu Manizi's steel knife hovered above him, Su Jin didn't dare to be negligent, and resorted to a cuju tackle stunt, both feet fell to the ground with a hook shovel, and kicked hard on Zhu Manizi's ankle, Zhu Manizi was like a dough bag The ground will fall.

Zhu Manizi got up and ran, Su Jin turned over, picked up the knife that had fallen to the side, stretched out his hand to grab Zhu Manizi's clothes and pulled it back violently, the steel knife was instantly across Zhu Manizi's neck, these few strokes were clean Neatly, he dropped the eyeballs of Zhao Chao and others to the ground with a clatter. He didn't expect this gentle and weak-looking young master to be so agile.

Su Jin panted slightly, the steel knife in his hand trembled slightly, and said to himself: "Damn, this body is so useless, it makes me gasp even after such a small movement."

In fact, Su Jin didn't know that it was caused by his nervousness. Su Jin insisted on exercising every day in this era, and his body was already the kind of muscle that grew between the bones. His foot was knocked over by someone, and he probably won't be able to get up for half a month. This is the first time Su Jin has experienced such a moment of life and death. It is inevitable that his hands and feet will feel weak, and his heart will feel weak, but he doesn't know it and blames it on his weak body. That's all.

The situation was reversed, and although a gang of ruffians quickly surrounded them, no one dared to do anything; even Xiao Hu arrived, but he was helpless.