"Fortunately! You made a very wise choice. I will keep my promise to you, but you have to do the last thing for me. Now your action has failed. Even if you go back, I'm afraid If you are going to be silenced, why not just hide here and I will send someone to pick you up when I need you."
The man in black nodded and said: "My name is Gao Guang. If you can keep your word, I am willing to testify on your behalf that the Zhao family hired me to kill you."
Shao Xi stretched out his hand to help Gao Guang up from the ground, and said in a sincere tone: "You can rest assured on this. I am a person who makes every promise, and I will do what I say. I will not promise anything I can't do."
At this time, the whole yard stopped, and Sha Nu opened the door and walked out of the room. With the light of the oil lamp in her hand, she saw several dead people lying on the ground in Shao Xi's house, but they were surprisingly calm, not shouting like an ordinary woman at all, as if the scene in front of her had been expected.
Shao Xi was still a little surprised by the reaction of the gauze girl. An ordinary girl from the gauze shop would have no reaction to the murder. This only proved that she had seen too much and now she was no longer surprised.
So under what circumstances would she see such a tragic scene?
There is only one possibility that I can think of. Sha Nu's father was a person who was involved in the world when he was young, and judging from the movement skills he taught her, he was by no means an ordinary person. Maybe it was because her father took her around the world when she was a child and saw many scenes of killing, so she could face it with a calm mind now.
"You settle him first, and I'll go and clean up a few things in the room. After everything is settled, the two of us will set off tonight."
"Um."
Sha Nu didn't ask any more questions, just nodded, and then helped Gao Guang to arrange a room for him to rest, and also looked for some medicinal materials to heal his injuries.
Shao Xi returned to the room, dragged all the incomplete corpses out of the house, rolled them up in several mats, and placed them on a wooden cart. This process caused blood everywhere inside and outside. Shao Xi went to the well to fetch a few buckets of water and rinsed the house and yard thoroughly.
I just wanted to do it quickly before, but when I looked back and dealt with the aftermath, I realized that cutting off a person's head was such a disgusting thing. When I was cleaning up, I carried the two heads out and I felt goosebumps all over my body.
After working hard for a while, I finally cleaned up the house and yard. As for the corpses on the cart, I had to leave them there for the time being. This can be regarded as the "physical evidence" that the Zhao family murdered me!
After finishing sorting, Shao Xi entered Gao Guang's room and saw that Shaonv had put some blood- and qi-tonifying herbs on the table. She also took some clothes that her father had worn before his death and gave them to Gao Guang, asking him to change them later. Otherwise, wearing the bloody night clothes all the time would make people feel uncomfortable.
All this had been arranged, and Shao Xi once again asked Gao Guang not to leave Shafang until he arranged for someone to pick him up and take him to Yujiang City.
After Gao Guang nodded in agreement, Shao Xi took Shaonv out of the room and walked to the yard.
"Shanu, this time we have to mobilize troops and horses from three counties in Lingzhou. Although Shanling County and Wuyang County are the closest, they have to go to both ends and have more officials to deal with, so I will go there, and Liantai County is further away. If you have good body skills, you can go!"
The girl nodded and had no objection to Shao Xi's arrangement, but immediately asked, "I asked you yesterday, if I go to Liantai County, how can people believe that I am helping you mobilize troops? I am a civilian woman. How can anyone believe me without proof? You have to give me a token, right?"
"You're right. I've already thought about it. Just wait for me."
With that said, Shao Xi took out the "Respect and Acceptance Department" Supervisory History plaque and the imperial edict given to him by Xiao Changyi from his bag and handed them to Shaonv.
"When you arrive at Liantai County, take this 'Jingcheng Si' badge and tell them that you are acting on behalf of 'Jingcheng Si' and need to mobilize troops. If anyone refuses to listen to 'Jingcheng Si''s orders, you Then take out this imperial edict. With this edict, it is like a holy emperor coming in person. No one dares to disobey the order, otherwise they will be punished for the crime of deceiving the emperor, so they will definitely mobilize their troops to you. Remember to ask them to mobilize at least one thousand and five thousand troops. Hundreds of soldiers and horses, no less, must arrive at the back of Bailu Mountain in the west of Yujiang City before dusk tomorrow, and they will be stationed at the back of Bailu Mountain in the west of Yujiang City. I will let them wait for my orders for the rest."
"Well, I understand, then should we set off now, or should we wait until you come out from Yujiang City and go together?"
"Liantai County is far away. You don't need to wait for me to go first. Once the matter is done, you can go directly back to Shafang and wait for me to come back. I will go to Yujiang City to discuss with Cui Juncheng, Sun Junwei and others about the mobilization of troops and horses in this city. Maybe It will take some time.”
"Okay, then I'll leave now."
"Well, be careful along the way."
The two left Shafang together and used the "Qingping Crossing" movement technique at the same time. It didn't take long to arrive at the bank of Yujiang River.
After a moment of slowing down, the two of them jumped towards the river. Under the moonlight, the two figures were like two flying swallows playing in the water, flying across the river. They looked even more light and elegant in the sparkling waves. They reached the other side of the Yujiang River in just a moment.
When they got ashore, the two of them didn't say much. They just nodded and confirmed each other before splitting up. Shaonv rushed straight towards Liantai County, while Shao Xi rushed towards Yujiang City.
Putting down Shaonv, I just said that after Shao Xi rushed to Yujiang City, he was wondering where to enter the city.
It was midnight, and the city gate had long been closed. Without a very special warrant, it was impossible for the city guards to open the city gate. Besides, Shao Xi had sneaked back to Yujiang City secretly, how could he let the officers and soldiers open the city gate with great fanfare? The only option is to find a way to use the Dengyun Movement to cross the city wall and sneak into the city secretly.
Shao Xi rushed to the northwest corner of the city wall. There were few officers and soldiers guarding it, and the intervals between patrol teams were relatively long.
So, after waiting for a group of patrolling officers and soldiers to pass by, Shao Xi used the Dengyun Movement to jump up to the city wall. After kicking a few times on the city wall, he used his strength to jump up again. He only used his strength twice. People have already jumped to the top of the city.
Not daring to delay, Shao Xi ran to the other side of the city wall in a few steps, jumped from the city wall to the foot of the wall inside the city, landed on the ground, looked around to see if anyone had noticed, and then used his lifeless body technique to climb over the wall. Yueji rushed towards Cui Qi's home.
The whole process was neat and tidy, without any hesitation, and no one discovered his whereabouts.
It didn't take long for Shao Xi to arrive at the door of Cui Qi's house. He came to the door and knocked on the door in the rhythm of three one and two according to the pre-agreed code.
After a while, the wooden door opened, and it was still Lu Ju who opened the door. Shao Xi ducked into the door. Lu Ju looked around to see if there was no one outside, quickly closed the wooden door again, and took Shao Xi all the way to Cui Qi's study.
At this time, Lao Wu, Sun Jue, Mo Zhaohui, and Pan Sheng were all waiting for Shao Xi's arrival in the study with Cui Qi. They discussed together how to mobilize the city's troops and how to encircle and suppress the private army in Nanshan. The encirclement and suppression was completed. After that, how to seal the city and arrest people to eradicate the Zhao family's influence.
"Master, do you mean to kill all the assassins? Unexpectedly, the action was quite fast. We thought we would have to wait until the middle of the night!"
"Well, a few miscellaneous fish have been dealt with. I have kept the leader alive and have convinced him to be a witness for us and identify the Zhao family."
Sun Jue clapped his hands after hearing this and said, "It would be great to have a witness! Mr. Shao, you really have a trick, and you were able to convince the assassin."
Shao Xi looked at Lao Wu and then at Sun Jue in confusion. Why did these two guys seem to have nothing wrong with them now? Is it really just acting during the day? Isn't that acting too real? I almost even got deceived.
Cui Qi couldn't help but laugh when he saw Shao Xi's expression.
"It seems that even Mr. Shao was deceived by you two. He thought you two really wanted you to die. To be honest, I thought you two were serious at the time. I was really afraid that you two would fight to the death."
"Hahahahaha..."
Old Wu and Sun Jue laughed at the same time.
"Master Shao, Xiaguan and Master Wu are very close to each other. They both admire each other's character, so they have a tacit understanding when acting. How about it? Zhao Huajun would never have thought that the performance of the two of us today was performed specifically for him. A play.”
Shao Xi felt dumbfounded. He cupped his hands in front of the two people and said jokingly: "You two are really amazing people! Your level of anger is really beyond the reach of ordinary people. I don't know if Zhao Huajun believes it or not. Anyway, I believe it. I am right." I really admire you two.”
Several people burst into laughter again, and then they started talking about business.
"Lord Sun, you will take the soldiers and horses to the east of the city early tomorrow morning on the pretext of being pulled out for training, and then quietly transfer 1,500 to 2,000 soldiers and horses from among them, and you will personally lead them to the vicinity of Nanshan. Remember to do it in a concealed manner. , be sure not to be discovered. The other soldiers and horses were led back to the city by two adults, Mo Zhaohui and Pan Sheng, and were deployed at various strategic points in the city to prepare for the encirclement and suppression by various soldiers and horses. In addition, they arranged for men to ambush secretly in various places of the Zhao clan. The family's main residence is nearby for surveillance, and we are ready to seal off the city and arrest people at any time."
"I understand. I wonder what arrangements Master Shao will make when he mobilizes troops from the three counties of Lingzhou?"
Sun Jue, the man in charge of the troops, naturally wanted to understand the overall deployment of troops to avoid unnecessary omissions during operations.
Shao Xi naturally understood what Sun Jue was thinking, so he expressed his thoughts.
"If there is no accident, the soldiers and horses of Liantai County will arrive at the back of Bailu Mountain in the west of the city before dusk tomorrow, and will be stationed on the spot waiting for orders. Mr. Sun's soldiers and horses are in the east of the city, and I will rush to Shanling County and Wuyang County overnight. I plan to arrange the soldiers and horses of these two counties to the south. After nightfall, a three-party encirclement and suppression campaign will be carried out. The two adults in the city, Mo Zhaohui and Pan Sheng, will lead their soldiers and horses to encircle the city on the north side. In this way, the two thousand private troops will be surrounded on all sides. If we cannot annihilate them all, most of them will be destroyed and dispersed, making it impossible to gather them together again.”
"Your Majesty's arrangement is very appropriate. Then I will act according to your Majesty's deployment and encircle and suppress the private army from the east. There will be no mistakes."
Shao Xi shook his head and said: "It may not be as foolproof as you think. The Zhao family has been raising this private army for a long time. They must have thought that one day they might be surrounded and suppressed, so they must know a lot about the soldiers and horses in this county under Lord Sun's jurisdiction. , but at that time I will ask the troops from the other two counties to rush to the aid of Master Sun at any time."
"Master Shao has thought carefully. This encirclement and suppression will be done with twice the result with half the effort and will be successful immediately."
