The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

It wasn't completely dark yet, but the backyard of Xia's family was already so dark that we couldn't see the scenery clearly. Perhaps it was because the lush flowers and trees looked gloomy and gloomy, or perhaps the rain curtain blocked the light. In short, everyone had to try their best to keep their eyes wide open after landing. His eyes darkened.

Su Jin squinted his eyes and looked around, listening attentively. In addition to the sound of wind blowing flowers and trees and rain hitting plantains, there seemed to be faint sounds of fighting coming from somewhere, and his heart tightened suddenly.

"Have you heard that? There seems to be the sound of swords and swords colliding. Are we late?" Su Jin whispered hurriedly.

Wang Chao nodded and said: "I heard it too, but the sound seemed to come from the front yard. Miss Xia's family should live in the inner house in the back yard. It should not be far from here, and it must not have harmed the back yard."

Su Jin gritted his teeth and said: "It's not too late. Let's find Miss Xia first. Let's divide into two teams. I will lead one team, and Wang Chao Mahan will lead the other team. Search left and right."

Wang Chao agreed, and beckoned more than 20 people to disappear quickly on the left. Su Jin led the rest of the people along the right and walked along the wall. Soon after, the two teams met in front of a door. It turned out that this backyard It was just a backyard, and there was not a single house inside. Xia Song thought of the backyard as an urn for safety reasons, and entering the backyard did not mean that he could enter the inner house.

Su Jin frowned looking at the tall wall and the closed door, Wang Chao reached out and touched the door, cursing in a low voice: "It's an iron door, mother."

Su Jin was restless. This terrain was extremely unfavorable to him. If the guards of the Xia Mansion appeared on the wall at this moment, they would just use bows and arrows to ambush without melee combat. Xia Song was once the commander of the Northwest Army. , this pattern must have been designed by him.

Ma Han stretched out his foot to kick the iron gate, Chao Chao grabbed him and said, "It's useless, there must be some iron bolts on that side, so don't waste your efforts."

Ma Han said: "Then what should I do, the goddamn thing actually installed an iron gate."

Su Jin knocked on the door with his finger and listened to the sound: "This door is not made of pure iron, it should be a wooden door covered with iron sheet. It will definitely not open if you hit it hard, but if there is a sharp object, it can pierce the iron sheet. Take a dagger Come and try."

Chao Chao hurriedly reached out and pulled out the dagger from the boot shaft. With luck, he let out a breath and slammed the dagger towards the iron door. There was a grinding sound, and the sharp dagger pierced through the iron covering and inserted straight into the door. More than an inch deep.

Everyone was overjoyed, but soon they were all frowning again, Zhao Hu said: "It's useless, even if it can be inserted, it will take at least an hour to dig a passage through this door, and it will be too late."

Su Jin smiled and said: "Why dig open the iron gate, you see, this gate goes straight to the top and is flush with the top of the wall. You take out the daggers and insert them into the gate all the way up. Isn't this just a ladder to climb along?" Is it? But this is climbing on the edge of a knife, everyone be careful with your hands and feet. It is best to wrap your hands and feet with some turf leaves to avoid scratches."

Everyone admired it terribly, this method is really ingenious, this is the first time I heard of using a dagger as a ladder, but it must be feasible; so everyone took out their daggers one after another. Plugged into the top, even if the four of them have superior arm strength, their legs will be weak and their feet will be sore after a lot of work.

The last dagger was inserted about three feet away from the top of the door. Zhang Long was the last stick. He stepped on the face of the dagger with his boots, stretched out his hand to scrape the top of the door, and jumped up to the top of the wall. Everyone looked at each other and laughed. Follow the same pattern and climb to the top of the wall.

As Su Jin expected, the top of the wall close to the inner house is several people wide, and there are people who can hide there. However, the lower fence is also very simple, because in order to go up to the wall and guard, there are two steps built on both sides of the door, which is not only convenient for going up and down the fence, but also convenient for bolting the top of the gate.

Su Jin clicked her tongue secretly. This set can be used in her own house. The layout of the Wengcheng is already a wonderful thing. It is indeed a pioneering work to build the walls of the house as well as the city walls for defense and offense.

Standing on the wall, one can see a small building not far away standing alone among the trees. Needless to say, it must be Xia Siling's boudoir. From the two entrances, the sound of swords and swords clashing was very dense, obviously the battle was fierce.

Su Jin didn't have time to think about who was fighting with whom, and quickly went down the fence and rushed to Xia Siling's boudoir; there was no one guarding the boudoir, and everyone rushed in and broke into the building.

In the hall on the first floor, several servants were shaking together in panic. The sound of fighting outside had already frightened them a lot. Dozens of naked men in black suddenly broke into them, making them shout Xiaoyue cried again and again.

Su Jin raised his knife and shouted loudly: "Anyone who yells again will be chopped off immediately."

The servants immediately shut up, not daring to vent their breath.

"Where is Miss Xia?" Su Jin shouted.

"The good man... the good man, it's... upstairs." The old lady gritted her upper teeth and pointed her fingers upwards.

Su Jin shouted: "Search all the people upstairs and downstairs, tie up and gag all of them."

Chao Chao and the others yelled, and acted immediately, searched all the rooms downstairs, pulled out all the trembling servants hiding in the corners, tied their hands and feet, gagged their mouths, and threw them into the utility room behind .

Su Jin rushed upstairs and ran into two maids who heard the movement. The two maids were startled when they saw the stranger at first, and shouted: "Who is it? Why did you break into Miss's boudoir?"

Su Jin didn't answer, and shouted: "I'm tied!" The companion who followed behind jumped up and grabbed the two maids. The two maids yelled loudly. A few big mouths were pumped up, and suddenly everything was silent.

Su Jin lifted the curtain on the door and rushed in quickly; the corner of the clothes flashed in the darkness, and a figure went straight to the rear window. A black shadow flashed, and something hit him head-covering. Su Jin couldn't dodge and hit the door in front of him. He was dizzy from being hit, and blood slowly flowed from his forehead.

The thing rattled when it fell on the ground, it turned out to be a bronze mirror; Su Jin endured the severe pain, and when he opened his eyes, he saw that petite figure had already climbed up the rear window, and a sigh came, which was Xia Siling's voice.

"Ling'er, no." Su Jin exclaimed, and it was obvious that Xia Siling was going to commit suicide by jumping off the building.

Xia Siling's body trembled, and when she suddenly looked back, she couldn't believe her eyes.

"Brother Su, is that you?" Xia Siling murmured, tears welling up in her eyes.

"Of course it's me. I'm here to save you. You've suffered." Su Jin smiled.

Xia Siling's eyes turned white and her body went limp and she was about to fall down. Su Jin quickly stepped forward and hugged her off the window sill, comforting her softly.

"Is this slave dreaming? I think it's the thieves from outside who came in, slave..."

"Of course it's not a dream. Look at my forehead. Can a dream be so real? You really have a lot of strength. I'm still dizzy from the bronze mirror."

Xia Siling hurriedly struggled to get up, wiped the blood on Su Jin's forehead with a silk scarf, stretched out her mouth and kissed Su Jin's forehead wound, and said, "It's my fault, brother Su punished me."

Su Jin whispered in her ear: "Okay, I will punish you not to leave me again in this life, and serve me for the rest of my life, okay?"

Xia Siling nodded with tears, buried her body in Su Jin's arms and sobbed endlessly.

There was a sound of footsteps on the stairs, Wang Chao hurried upstairs, Xia Siling quickly got out of Su Jin's embrace, and bowed shyly to Wang Chao.

Chao Chao clapped his hands in return, and said loudly: "My lord, Ms. Xia, she has been saved, should we go now, I'm afraid of having long nights and dreams if we stay here for a long time."

Su Jin came to the front window porch and looked down at the fighting place in the front yard. Under the heavy gray rain, he saw figures jumping around the entrance of the second entrance, and there were screams from time to time, so he asked Xia Siling Said: "What's going on here? You don't quite understand what was said in your letter. Who is trying to harm you?"

Xia Siling gritted her teeth and said: "Father invited the group of people who were in the nursing home in the outer house. In the past few days, I feel that their intentions are wrong. The leader named Yan San even broke into the inner house to tease me with words a few days ago, and I Before he left, Dad said that in July, the emperor will be drafted, and he will send my family to the palace, but my family is desperate, so I have to find a way to ask someone to send a message to you to save me."

Su Jin stretched out his hand to caress her shoulder and back to comfort her, pointed to the place where the fight took place and asked, "You mean Yan San and his gang are going to turn against each other, so it's the guards of your family who are fighting with them?"

Xia Siling said: "It should be so."

Su Jin turned his head and said to Wang Chao: "Yan San's group should be the gang of killers that Uncle Lu said he invited to deal with us. Since they are here today, it's better to settle the matter once and for all, and settle the old and new accounts together."

Wang Chao scratched his head and said, "Is the young master going to help the Xia family guards defend against the enemy?"

Su Jin smiled and said: "I'm full. Let's sit and watch the dog bite the dog. After one is killed and the other is injured, we can reap the benefits and tell the brothers to set up a net on the first floor. I guess the nurses are not from Yan San's gang. Opponents, after Yan San and the others break in, don't be merciless, and greet you to death."

When Wang Chao regained his spirits, he knew that the young master was not a master who stole and ran away. With such a nosy personality, he was also a master who would take revenge. If he didn't kill Yan San and the others today, how could he do it? stop.