After returning to Zhou's house, Zhou Ping said with a straight face,
"Send these two bastards to the room to rest, give them medicine, and confine them for a month so that they can repent and be grateful to the Sheriff for his kindness!"
"As you command!"
Zhou Ping sat alone in the lobby, drinking tea and thinking about what Nie Chen said to him.
Several servants helped Zhou Long and Zhou Hu walk towards the inner courtyard. Zhou Long suddenly said,
"Ahu, let's go to a room with me to rest."
"Oh, okay, third brother."
The two people asked their servants to take them to a room. They both lay on the bed with their buttocks bare, and the maid gently applied medicine to them to reduce the swelling.
After everyone left, Zhou Long hammered the bed board angrily and said,
"Damn it! This naughty Nie Chen spanked us in public. This is not a spanking, it's clearly a slap in the face of our eldest brother. I can't bear this tone!"
Zhou Hu also said,
"Yes, third brother, I'm so angry. The key is that the eldest brother still speaks for him and wants us to be grateful to him. What kind of truth is this? He beat us, and we have to kneel down to say thank you, right?
We have had many fights before, but when have we ever been beaten like this? The more I think about it, the angrier I get, and I’m going crazy! "
"Our eldest brother was deceived by that Nie Chen and thought he was a good official. Just wait and see. This Nie Chen, who doesn't want eldest brother's money, must have a bigger conspiracy.
Maybe, he just cares about our family property! "
"Third brother is right. Our eldest brother has worked so hard to earn money. We can't give it to this Nie Chen in vain. He must be thinking about our family property and wants to swallow up all our money."
"But now the eldest brother is confused, thinking that he is a good official, so he will definitely take it lightly. If he is unable to guard against it in the future, he will definitely fall into his dirty tricks.
No, I can't let my eldest brother be fooled! "
"What, third brother, are you going to persuade the eldest brother?"
"Persuasion? Since when has Brother ever listened to what we have to say? Our words are useless.
It's useless to say it. Then, at night, we sneak into the county magistrate's house and kill the man named Nie. Won't this matter be over? "
"Huh? Kill the county guard? This..."
"What? Are you afraid? For the sake of eldest brother, for the Zhou family, and for the sake of making us both angry, do you think that Nie Chen shouldn't be killed?"
"You deserve to be killed! Brother, I listen to you."
"Okay, let's eat and rest first. Once we have enough strength, we can kill him at night."
"good."
The two brothers hit it off immediately and formulated the crudest assassination plan in history.
They ate and lay down on the bed to rest. It was not until dark, almost before the third watch, that they got up secretly.
Because they had never done anything like this before, they did not have night clothes, so they had to cover their faces with black cloth, took out two knives from under the bed, went outside and knocked out the servants, then climbed over the wall and rushed out towards the Sheriff's Mansion. passed.
The movements of the two people cannot be said to be sneaky, they are simply swaggering.
When they came to the back wall of the Sheriff's Mansion, the two people didn't know how to ask for directions, so they set up a ladder and quickly climbed up the courtyard wall.
"Do you know which room that Nie Chen is sleeping in?"
Zhou Hu asked Zhou Long in a low voice.
"Where could it be? The courtyards are all about the same size. He must be sleeping in the largest and middle bedroom. Didn't Liu Hu sleep there before? Let's go!"
The two people ran quickly along the edge of the courtyard wall towards the middle.
On a roof, Qi Huan and Qiu Ying were squatting in the dark, looking at the sneaky brothers, Qi Huan sighed.
"What's wrong? Why are you sighing?"
Qiuying asked curiously.
Qi Huan raised his head, looked at the moon, and said with shame on his face,
"I suddenly remembered that when I took people to rescue people in Qingfeng Village, I thought I did it flawlessly, and then I was surrounded.
At that time, my lord was probably just like me now, he was probably worried when he saw the people below who couldn't find a place to cover their heads and wander around.
I'm worried about the two guys below, but I haven't found a place yet. "
Hearing this, Qiu Ying burst into laughter and said,
"So that's how you went up the mountain. Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, the great commander of the Shadow Guard, unexpectedly such an embarrassing thing happened. I want to write it down and tell it to other brothers in the future."
"You don't need to tell me, the old people all know."
"Let's go, follow us and see if those two guys can find where the master lives."
"It should be possible."
The two people climbed over the wall and quickly ran inside.
Zhou and Long finally found the place where the master bedroom was.
They sneakily poked their heads out and saw that there wasn't even a guard outside. Zhou Long smiled and said,
"This Nie Chen is really a loser. He has just conquered the county, but I don't know how much I hate him. He doesn't even have a guard. He's really heartless."
"The more idiotic he is, the easier it is for us to succeed. Come on, go in quickly, chop him down, and don't make a sound. We will still have time to escape."
The two of them quietly opened the door, entered the bedroom in the dark, and walked towards the bed.
Through the moonlight through the window, they saw two bumps under the quilt on the bed. They thought they were Nie Chen and his mother-in-law who were sleeping.
So he quickly walked over, raised his sword, and slashed down.
However, even though the two of them slashed more than a dozen times, no blood spattered out, so they couldn't help but feel a little confused.
Zhou Long carefully opened the quilt and took a look, and was shocked.
It turned out to be just some cotton wool underneath!
"No! I was fooled!"
Zhou Long yelled, turned around and ran out.
However, as soon as the two people took two steps, they stopped.
They saw more than a dozen men in black standing in front of them, all holding repeating crossbows, with cold arrow tips pointed at them.
Other soldiers came in and lit the candlesticks with fire sticks, and the room quickly lit up.
"Lay down your weapons and surrender!"
A shadow guard said coldly.
Zhou Hu looked at Zhou Long and said,
"Brother, are we going to fight them?!"
"Forget it, can we kill Nie Chen with all our strength? He is not here, so we should surrender first and save our lives."
Zhou Long dropped the knife, and Zhou Hu also threw the knife down in desperation.
The Shadow Guard stepped forward and tied the two of them with ropes.
Only then did Zhou Long and Zhou Hu clearly see Nie Chen behind the Shadow Guard.
At this time, Nie Chen was holding a teacup and drinking tea.
Seeing this scene, Zhou Long's eyes widened and he cursed angrily,
"Nie Chen, so you are here! You are such a coward, let grandpa go and come and fight to the death with grandpa!"
Nie Chen sneered and said,
"Why should I fight to the death with you two?"
The two wanted to talk, but Nie Chen said directly,
"Come here, go and ask Mr. Zhou to come over. Tell him that I want to ask him for advice on what the crime should be and how to punish him for assassinating the county governor in the middle of the night."
"As you command!"
A shadow guard immediately ran out.
Zhou Long was furious when he heard this and said,
"Nie Chen, a hero does what a hero should do. If you want to kill or behead him, it's up to you. It's none of our big brother's business!"
