After arranging everything, Li Zhongli stayed with the team at the fort gate, waiting for the soldiers and horses sent by the camp.
On the other side, only three of the Cui family's servants and long-term workers escaped and returned to the Cui family, and the rest disappeared halfway.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
A long-term worker who had escaped stood outside the door and beat the door of Cui's house hard. The other two people who escaped with him were also standing beside him.
At the same time, the two men did not forget to watch the direction of escape vigilantly.
"Who is it? It's so late, and you broke the door." The concierge heard the movement outside, put on a piece of clothing and walked out with a lantern.
"Lao Zhang, open the door quickly!" The long-term worker who knocked on the door heard the voice coming from behind the door. Not only did he not stop, but he knocked on the door harder and harder.
"Lie to Kangxi"
"Stop knocking, stop knocking, I'll open the door for you now." The concierge who called Lao Zhang slowly took off the latch behind the door, then took away the vertical bar on top of the door, and finally opened the door with his hands.
A lantern poked out brightly from the door.
The long-term worker standing outside the door pulled away the lantern that was almost touching his face with his hand, and walked inside.
The other two people were like him. When they saw the door of the house open, they immediately hugged and rushed inside.
"Hey, hey, hey, whoever of you is just barging in. Do you know whose house this is? Do you want your life?" When Lao Zhang saw several people rushing in regardless, he hurriedly stretched out his arms to stop them.
The long worker knocked away Lao Zhang's arm holding the lantern and said, "The bandits have entered the fort. I want to see the master."
Lao Zhang was suddenly stunned when he heard this.
Changgong and the other three of them passed by Lao Zhang and ran quickly into the yard.
"What a fucking disaster." After coming back to his senses, Lao Zhang patted his thigh, turned around and chased the three people who entered the house.
After taking a few steps, he stepped back again, reached out to close the door again, bolted the door, put the bar on it, and then chased them with the lantern in his hand.
It was getting so late, and basically everyone in the Cui family had rested.
The three people who came back met almost no servants of the Cui family along the way, except for the concierge Lao Zhang.
Although the Cui family's house is not small, it is still just a house. It is not as good as those wealthy squire families. The house only has two yards, and the long-term workers and servants usually work in the backyard.
It is not a secret at all which house the Cui family's master and several young masters live in. Anyone who has been to the backyard will know it.
Chang Gong, who was walking in front, came directly to the outside of the main house. Regardless of his superiority and inferiority, he raised his hand and pushed open the door of the house and walked inside.
As he walked inside, he shouted loudly: "Master, something happened, something big happened."
There are several rooms in the main house. In addition to the main room in the middle, there are an east and west room on the left and right sides.
In the east room lived the wife of the principal wife, and in the west room lived the concubine, who was also the biological mother of the second young master.
"Who is it? Why are you making such noise at night?"
Maybe it was because he was getting too old and slept lightly. Following Chang Gong's voice, Master Cui's dissatisfied voice came from the east room.
The long-term worker who heard the sound turned around and faced the east room. This time he did not dare to break in. Instead, he said urgently through the door curtain: "It's not good, sir, the bandits have come in."
"Nonsense, the rebels are in Xiao Song Ji, and the bandits are brave enough to attack Xiao Song Ji at this time." Mr. Cui in the room snorted coldly.
The long-term worker said anxiously: "It's true. Many long-term workers and servants of our family were killed. Now everything is in chaos on the west side of the fort gate."
Light came on in the east room.
Mr. Cui walked out of the house wearing only a single piece of clothing. He looked at the long-term worker outside the door and asked, "Can you tell me more carefully?"
Changgong didn't know much, because he was the first to escape when he saw the situation was bad.
Now that the master asked, he couldn't help but tell, so he exaggerated what he saw and stated some of his guesses as facts.
Master Cui's frown deepened.
After the long-term worker finished speaking, he said: "Go and find the eldest young master and the second young master. I want to see them both immediately."
The long-term worker agreed and turned around to find the two young masters.
Master Cui also returned to the east room.
Mrs. Cui, who was also in the east room, was already sitting on the bed with a quilt wrapped around her body. Watching Master Cui come back, she quickly asked: "What happened outside?"
"Have you prepared all the things I asked you to prepare last time?" Master Cui asked.
Mrs. Cui nodded and responded: "Everything is ready, do you want it now?"
"Bring it to me and give it to Wen'er later." Master Cui ordered.
"Just put it in the box. I'll go get it." Mrs. Cui lifted the quilt, got off the bed, and walked towards the only large wooden box in the room.
Mr. Cui stood in the house waiting for the other party to get something.
At this time, the concubine who lived in the west room was woken up and came to the east room wearing simple clothes. Looking at Mrs. Cui who was busy in the room, she said to Mr. Cui: "Master, what happened?"
"It's nothing, you go back and rest!" Mr. Cui waved his hand towards him, motioning for her to go back.
As a concubine, she was used to obeying. No matter how curious she was, she could only exit the east room and return to the west room where she lived.
However, she kept it in mind.
Although he returned to the west room, he stayed behind the curtain at the door of the west room, opened a gap, and secretly paid attention to what was going on in the east room.
When she saw her son Cui Guang coming in from outside, she hurriedly waved to her son.
Cui Guang glanced at the east room or the west room and took a few steps closer. He asked in a low voice through the door: "Mom, what's wrong?"
"Something happened. I heard from the long-term worker at home that bandits seemed to have broken into the bunker. Now your father has brought you here. Either he wants you to kill the bandits or he wants you to run for your life. You have to be careful." Master Cui's concubine explained in a low voice.
After hearing these words, Cui Guang gently nodded and said, "Don't worry, mother, I know what's going on."
After saying that, he came to the door of the east room, faced the east room and said, "Dad, did something happen to you for bringing the child here so late?"
The door curtain of the east room opened and Master Cui walked out.
Looking at the sturdy second son in front of him, Mr. Cui said seriously: "The long-term worker guarding the fort gate sent news that the rebels outside the fort colluded with the tenants and entered the fort. You are the best in martial arts in our Cui family. One, take the servants and servants at home and drive out the rebels who entered the castle, and the Cui family will be yours from now on."
"Didn't you say they were just bandits?" Cui Guang frowned, but was not dazzled by Master Cui's promise.
When the long-term worker found him, he asked a few questions and learned from the long-term worker that bandits had entered Xiao Songji's bunker.
"You damn bandit." Mr. Cui cursed and then said, "No matter how courageous the nearby bandits are, they don't dare to attack Xiao Songji at this time. They dare to enter the bunker at this time. Only the rebels outside .”
