Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

As night fell, Bai Xiangu (Jingniang's attendant) brought in hot water, and Guo Shao sat on a stool to burn his feet. That Fairy Bai was not as fair as Jingniang, with freckles on her cheeks, and she was a bit older, probably over thirty years old.

Jing Niang opened the bamboo curtain on the back wall, took a stool, stood on the stool and stretched out her hand to try the wooden strip nailed on it, and then closed the bamboo curtain. She got off the wooden bench and turned around the room, looking down under the bed and up at the roof.

Seeing her silently doing trivial things, Guo Shao heard the whistling wind outside, and suddenly said, "Thank you, Jingniang." Jingniang gave him a cold look with an air of arrogance, and she didn't respond.

After a while, she said: "Bai Xiangu and I will sleep here tonight. The upstairs is not close to the ground and there is no moisture. Just take a blanket and a quilt. It is not a good thing to live alone when you are away from home. One more person and one more helper. You will not have an affair with Mrs. Li tonight? Doesn't it interfere with your business?"

Guo Shao was stunned: "How is it possible?"

Jing Niang said: "I don't think it's possible, then Mrs. Li can't live alone. If you want to have an affair with her in the middle of the night, it's easy to startle her family. If you are discovered, I'll see how you explain to Li Chuyun."

Guo Shao shook his head and said, "I never thought of doing that."

After the three of them washed up, Jingniang and Bai Xiangu really laid down on the floor and slept next to each other without taking off their clothes. Guo Shao was helpless and lay down on the bed.

The lamp did not go out, and the light was still weak after lighting two oil lamps. In the era without electricity, the nights were really very dark; if you were not in the city, the population density in the suburbs and countryside in this era was only a few tenths of that in modern society, and the nights were indeed deserted.

The sound of the wind and the unfamiliar environment made Guo Shao suffer from insomnia again. He felt that the quality of his sleep was indeed not good. As long as he was not very tired, he could easily stay awake. He tossed and turned like this, staying up for a long night.

I don't know how many days later, suddenly I heard a soft "click" sound from the rear window. The voice was very soft, and Guo Shao thought it was some animal that saw the lights on in the house and bumped into it, so he didn't pay much attention. Unexpectedly, there was another sound immediately afterwards, and the sound of "click" was not natural at all.

He immediately became alert. When she turned her head to look, she saw that Jingniang and Bai Xiangu also sat up gently. Jingniang's gaze shifted to Guo Shao, she stretched out her finger to the window, and put her finger to her lips to make a movement.

Guo Shao's expression froze, he looked into her eyes and nodded slightly.

Jing Niang lightly picked up a short sword and handed it to Bai Xiangu, and picked up a long sword herself. This girl is really very vigilant, she actually put the weapon by her pillow... Guo Shao didn't even have any precautions today, although he was in a bad mood in the afternoon, he didn't expect that he was a general with soldiers, and there was no danger in going out to play.

Guo Shao got up, and saw his bow, arrow, knife, and bundle lying on the chair next to him. Putting on his middle coat, he walked lightly to the chair, tied it with his belt, put the barrier knife on the belt first, and then took the bow and arrow in his hand. He raised his spirits, and the scene of Jingniang opening the bamboo curtain before going to bed flashed in his mind: the window was very high and narrow. Most of the rear windows in this era are like that, just a small hole for ventilation.

No one could climb in through that window.

Guo Shao looked up at the roof, but didn't hear any noise. He thought for a moment, then looked back at the door and the window beside the door. Stretching out his hand to beckon, Jingniang also turned her head to see his movements... He pointed at Jingniang and Bai Xiangu, and then pointed to the back of the door.

Jing Niang nodded, and walked towards this side slowly. There was almost no sound in the room, and the three of them prepared silently.

Guo Shao easily picked up a table outside, then turned it over and held the table facing the door, while the man half-kneeled behind the table, took out an arrow from the quiver, and waited silently.

The window behind him rang for a while and then stopped. Guo Shao didn't know what was going on, and Guo Shao looked back from time to time. At this moment, there was another sound suddenly, a "boom"... a smoking wooden barrel fell from the window behind the bamboo curtain!

"Not good!" Guo Shao hurriedly picked up the table and ran towards Jingniang.

"Boom!" There was a loud explosion, and the flames shot up into the sky and rushed straight to the roof. In an instant, the tiles and wood fell down, and there was a chaotic sound of ping-ping-pong-pong. White smoke quickly filled the air, covering Guo Shao and others in thick smoke.

"Cough cough cough..." There was a coughing sound amidst the gunpowder smoke. Guo Shao held his breath and hurriedly asked, "Are you alright?"

Jing Niang's voice said: "I'll open the door, don't go out yet, beware of danger!"

"Okay...cough!" Guo Shao responded.

But Jingniang and Bai Xiangu coughed for a while and couldn't open the door, "It seems to be locked from the outside!" Jingniang shouted. The room was full of gunpowder smoke, so Guo Shao walked over and felt that the wooden board was thicker, and the door opened inward: if you slammed it hard outside, the door board would be blocked by the door frame and it would be difficult to knock it open.

Guo Shao didn't hit the door, but shouted "Be careful by the window", dropped his bow and arrow, and hurriedly swung the table and smashed it on with a "bang". He smashed it several times in a row, smashing the wood and the window paper on the window to pieces. Thick smoke poured out immediately, and people shouted from outside. Guo Shao paused for a while, threw the table out, and immediately heard a "cracking" sound, his heart "thumped", and there was a crossbow outside.

The fire spread in the house, and the bed and roof were already burning in the white smoke like a thick fog. The smoke and thick smoke made it very difficult to breathe. Smoked inside for a while, it would be strange not to be choked to death.

Guo Shao touched a wooden shelf by the door, on which were several towels and a washbasin. He wet the towel, called Jing Niang, handed them two wet towels, and covered his mouth and nose with one. Then he lifted the wooden frame again and threw it out, and there was another "pop" sound of the crossbow being nailed to the wood once or twice. He also threw the stool out.

At this moment, a loud "boom" was heard suddenly, and the door panel was knocked open from the outside. Luo Mengzi's voice said: "Big brother! Big brother!"

Guo Shao was overjoyed and shouted: "Second brother, watch out for the crossbows outside!" He couldn't hold it anymore, he ran out from the door first, and then Jingniang and Bai Xiangu also ran out.

The soldiers immediately surrounded Guo Shao against the wall, Guo Shao said: "There is a table by the window, use it as a wooden shield!" After hearing this, Luo Mengzi found the wooden table with a broken leg on the ground and lifted it up.

Looking back, I saw that the house and the roof were full of fire and smoke, and the fire became more intense when the wind blew. On the contrary, the gunpowder smoke was quickly blown away by the wind. Guo Shao looked around and saw a few people with crossbows shooting towards them among the crowd rushing out of the door. Those people fired a crossbow arrow, turned around and ran away when it didn't work.

A soldier on Guo Shao's side drew his bow and fired an arrow, but unexpectedly there was a scream from the opposite side, and he shot a passerby who was running in panic.

"Second brother, take two people to the stables, don't chase them too far after dark! Lu Chengyong, you and two people go downstairs and intercept them at the door! Try to save as much as possible, and catch them!" Guo Shao ordered after seeing this, "Give me a bow!"

At this moment, he suddenly saw a bow aiming at him at a door. Jing Niang was standing in front of Guo Shao, he didn't think about anything for a while, and it was too late, so he subconsciously pushed Jing Niang. "Pa" sounded, and Guo Shao only felt a sinking under the left collarbone. He didn't feel anything at first, but soon the severe pain came. He didn't wear any armor, and he didn't even wear a coat, just a white jacket. The arrow pierced directly into the flesh, and the blood immediately dyed the white clothes red, and the color was very conspicuous.

Everyone was anxious, and Jingniang's face turned pale all of a sudden.

Guo Shao threw aside the soldiers who were running to the front, stared at the running man who had dropped his bow and arrows, and picked up his bow and set up an arrow. The wind was rushing... Guo Shao stared round his eyes, endured the pain, and calmed down, "Pa!" Sure enough, the fellow knelt down in response, as if he had been shot in the thigh.

"Go and catch people, don't kill them!" Guo Shao shouted.

But I saw a man downstairs running towards the door. Guo Shao shot another arrow and knocked him to the ground. After he exerted too much force, his left arm was so painful that it was useless, so he threw away the bow and arrow, and said, "Jing Niang, go and see what's going on with Li Niangzi!"

"Bai Xiangu go quickly." Jingniang said, then tore open Guo Shao's lapel, lifted it up to have a look, and said in a strange voice, "There is poison on the arrow."

"Damn!" When Guo Shao looked down, he saw that the skin near the wound was a little black and blue.

Jingniang looked up to see the direction of the fire, and pulled Guo Shao to the east, and saw a door was open, and a man and a woman came out in disheveled clothes. Without saying a word, she dragged Guo Shao inside.

"What...what do you mean!" the man shouted.

With a sound of "铛", the sword flew halfway out of the scabbard, slashed at the man's neck, cut the skin immediately, and a stream of blood flowed down. The man was so frightened that his body softened and he knelt down. Jing Niang shouted: "One more word, I want you to be killed!"

Jing Niang pulls Guo Shao into the room and finds a place to sit down. Her movements were fast and steady, with a cold look on her face. She first brought a lamp and put it on the table, then took out a short dagger from her bosom and put it on the table, looked into Guo Shao's eyes and said: "I'll draw the arrow first, you hold on..."

Before Jingniang finished speaking, Guo Shao was about to answer, when suddenly his shoulder hurt, and he inadvertently yelled: "Damn!" Cold sweat broke out on Guo Shao's forehead, his whole left arm was shaking, his face was pale, and he said, "Can you be gentle!"

Jing Niang didn't say anything, she just took off her coat, and while wiping his blood, she picked up the short sword and roasted it on the lamp. Guo Shao hurriedly pulled out his middle coat to look at the hole. Fortunately, the clothes were only torn by the arrows, and no pieces of cloth were directly broken into the wound. He picked up the thing he had pulled out again, looked at the bloody arrow clusters on it, and asked, "What kind of poison is this?"

Jing Niang said: "It should be arsenic, it can't kill people, it will be fine if you let the blood out."

Guo Shao asked, "Isn't arsenic for drinking?"

Jingniang said, "The easiest thing to find is arsenic. Where can I find other poisons?"

At this time, Guo Shao suddenly felt heat under his collarbone, and Jing Niang buried her head and sucked | Yun to his wound. Guo Shao hurriedly pressed her head: "Arsenic is a heavy metal arsenic, and it can't kill people even if you see blood. If you eat it, it will be dangerous."

"Yeah..." Jingniang spat out, ignoring him.