Early Tang Dynasty: forge ahead

Chapter 306 Take action

This servant of the Wu family obviously had a strong psychological quality. Faced with this situation, he did not have any panic or nervousness. Instead, he was fearless and ferocious. He pinched Helan Minyue's throat. In order to increase his deterrence, he just made the little girl stand with her toes dangling. Once he couldn't bear it any longer, he would hang himself up, his little face would turn red, and his tears would roll down, forcing Zhao Chiman and Wang Fangyi to surrender.

Seeing this situation, Chen Qingsi also whispered: "The hostages are important."

He didn't know what the situation was, or what mistake this fake servant of the Wu family had made.

But because of the relationship between the two, Helan Minyue was here, and Zhao Chiman and Wang Fangyi would not get anything good.

Even if this matter has nothing to do with them...

Zhao Chiman and Wang Fangyi were neither reckless people, so they each took a step back and threw themselves into the trap.

This time the Wu family hosted a banquet for subordinate officials and scholars at Feiyun Tower. There was a lot of food and wine left at the banquet.

Yang Lao and Wu Shun looked down upon the food and wine, but the servants in the mansion were very fond of the delicacies and had already brought them in large and small bags in food boxes.

Not to mention the horses.

The carriages of the Wu family are all driven by high-quality horses.

It's just time for a cup of tea, and the horses and food are already prepared.

The servant led the horse and walked towards the Wu family servant with the food box.

But the servant of the Wu family shouted, "Stop."

"you……"

His hand suddenly pointed at Chen Qingsi, his eyes fell on the saber on his waist, and he shouted: "Let him deliver it."

In the flash of lightning, Chen Qingsi did not agree or show off. Instead, she pretended to be scared and took a small step back before forcing herself to calm down.

Zhao Chiman and Wang Fangyi suddenly changed their expressions and said in unison: "No!"

Zhao Chiman said sternly: "Cai Chenghua, don't push yourself too far. The food and horses are ready, so don't mess around..."

Only then did Chen Qingsi know that the other party's name was Cai Chenghua.

Cai Chenghua, however, had a ferocious smile on his face and proudly waved the hostage in his hand like a toy. He was also afraid of torturing the little girl to death, so he shook her a few times and let her fall to the ground.

A ten-year-old girl is like a piece of fish on a chopping board, she can be manipulated at will...

Helan Minyue was so frightened that she forgot to cry.

Grandma Yang screamed in anxiety, and was so frightened that she walked over.

Wu Shun didn't care about the manners of a Korean lady. He rushed to Chen Qingsi's side, took his arm and begged: "Chen Shilang, save my son, save my son."

Chen Qingsi forced herself to calm down and plucked up the courage to say, "Okay, I'll go!"

He took the food box and reins from the servant and walked towards Cai Chenghua step by step.

He still behaved timidly and walked slowly.

Cai Chenghua was a little anxious and cursed: "Hurry up, what's the ink mark?"

As he said that, his eyes glanced at Chen Qingsi's waist imperceptibly.

Chen Qingsi had been guessing the other party's intention, why Hao Hao specially asked her to deliver the food box, and only then did she realize that what he was interested in was the sword at her waist.

The Tang Dynasty was a martial art, and it was not uncommon for passers-by to carry swords.

But servants of the Wu family are definitely not allowed to carry swords.

Cai Chenghua pretended to be a servant of the Wu family and wanted to get through. Naturally, he had no self-defense weapons. Compared with letting Zhao Chiman, Wang Fangyi, or the military princes deliver boxes of food and horses, and then seize the sword, it is obviously easier for him, a scholar and a great scholar, to bully him.

In this era, it was common for scholars to wear swords. Most of them were for decoration. There were also many scholars who had superb swordsmanship and could compete with ten swordsmen.

However, Chen Qingsi has always known how to hide her incompetence and rarely shows off her martial arts. Although she is famous for a while, and her official reputation and talents are among the top scholars, her martial arts skills are not known to the world. The only time he publicly took action was when he held Si Jie Enemy Law hostage in the Si Jie Department, but no one would regard this attack as how powerful Chen Qingsi's own abilities were. Instead, he ignored martial ethics and took advantage of the opportunity to sneak attack while drinking.

It is reasonable for Cai Chenghua to think that Chen Qingsi is easy to bully.

Especially Chen Qingsi reacted quickly and deliberately showed weakness, making it even more obvious that the sword on his waist was just a decoration.

Chen Qingsi also speeded up his pace slightly. When he handed over the food box in his hand, he intentionally revealed the sword at his waist.

Seeing the weapon close at hand, Cai Chenghua couldn't hold back and reached out to grab the sword at his waist.

However, Chen Qingsi smashed the food box in her hand into Cai Chenghua's face and reached out to grab Helan Minyue.

A stern look flashed in Cai Chenghua's eyes. He was already angry that Chen Qingsi came out to ruin his good deeds. Without his intervention, he might have left Furong Garden by now. Now that he saw that the other party dared to resist, a fierce look came to his heart.

Between the knife and Helan Minyue, he decisively chose the knife.

As long as they have a knife in hand, Chen Qingsi and He Lan Minyue are hostages.

So Cai Chenghua dodged the flying food box and held the handle of the knife at Chen Qingsi's waist, while Chen Qingsi snatched the frightened Helan Minyue from Cai Chenghua's hand.

At the same time, Chen Qingsi kicked Cai Chenghua back two steps.

Cai Chenghua didn't have a knife in his hand, and he was scared to death. For some reason, Chen Qingsi's sword couldn't be drawn out of its sheath.

Zhao Chiman and Wang Fangyi reacted the fastest. They rushed forward like cheetahs. But soon they stopped...

In their astonished eyes, Chen Qingsi held Helan Minyue in her arms with one hand, and pulled out the Tang Dao from her waist with the other hand.

The bright Tang sword shone green and white under the red and yellow lights, but when two bright lights flashed past, Cai Chenghua's left and right arms were cut off simultaneously.

Chen Qingsi swung the knife with one hand to shake off the blood stains on the knife, and then sheathed the knife.

His left hand held Helan Minyue the whole time, pressing her head against his abdomen to prevent the other party from seeing this bloody scene.

After Chen Qingsi sheathed the knife, she fiddled with it with her thumb, and a small buckle got stuck on the knife's heel.

This is also the reason why Cai Chenghua cannot draw the knife.

There is a buckle on Chen Qingsi's scabbard. This buckle is not to prevent the knife from coming out of the sheath, but to prevent the knife from being inserted too deep into the sheath.

There is a pack of fire oil at the innermost end of his scabbard, so that he can use the bottom-pressing skill of killing Zuo Youxian at the critical moment, the flaming slash. But if you don't sheath the knife completely, it will easily come out.

Therefore, his scabbard has a buckle, which prevents the knife from being completely sheathed and spreading kerosene everywhere, and also prevents the Tang knife from coming out.

He has become accustomed to flipping the buckle with his fingers before pulling out the knife, and it does not affect his use.

Cai Chenghua didn't know it, but when he saw Chen Qingsi deliberately exposing the sword within easy reach of him, he fell into the trap by accident.

Cai Chenghua's hands were cut off, and he fell to the ground screaming heartbreakingly. Without the support of his hands, he couldn't get up for a while and rolled on the spot.

Chen Qingsi felt the little girl's body in front of her tremble slightly, squatted down, gave her a comforting smile, and whispered softly: "Don't be afraid!"

Helan Minyue hadn't come back to her senses yet, but she was holding on to his clothes with her little hands.

Chen Qingsi picked up the little girl and walked towards Wu Shun. He used his body to block the bloody scene throughout the process.

(End of this chapter)