Wishful Things

"Young master, wake up!"

"It's out of water!"

A servant called urgently.

Xu Mingshi, who was deeply in a dream, suddenly opened his eyes. Although his mind was not fully awake, the word "walking water" imprinted in his mind was enough to make him sit up instinctively.

The window paper was reddened by the flames, and the smell of burning had already penetrated.

He hurriedly grabbed a coat and put it on, and the two attendants escorted the boy out of the bedroom.

The moment he stepped out of the door, Xu Mingshi looked at the fierce fire in front of him, and quickly asked, "Is there anyone in that room?"

"Young master, don't worry, it's just a utility room, no one is there!"

Xu Mingshi breathed a sigh of relief, but doubts surfaced in his mind immediately: "Since no one lives in it, how could it suddenly catch fire..."

Not to mention that it had just rained heavily in the evening, and the surroundings were still wet. The fire was burning so vigorously, which made people feel strange...

The fire licked the damp eaves and made a "sizzling" sound. The strong smell of burnt gas mixed with wet things was extremely pungent, and bursts of black smoke rose up, making people almost unable to open their eyes.

Although no one lives in the utility room, it is connected to several other houses. In addition, this is the residence of Xu Mingshi, and the man in the next yard is Zhen Guogong. In order to prevent the fire from spreading, the guards at this time The soldiers were busy carrying water to put out the fire.

"quick!"

Seeing the people walking back and forth in the noisy and busy courtyard, Xu Mingshi thought of something, and his eyes suddenly changed.

This fire... I'm afraid someone did it deliberately!

--grandfather!

The boy hurried down the stone steps and ran out of the yard.

The two followers hurried to follow.

Xu Mingshi obviously wanted to go to the courtyard next door, but he was stopped halfway.

Under the light of the fire, the surrounding area was a strange orange.

"I'm going to see my grandfather!" Xu Mingshi recognized Jin Yi, and hurriedly said: "This fire is strange, I'm afraid someone deliberately took this as a distraction, and wanted to take the opportunity to harm grandfather!"

Looking at the eager young boy, Jin Yi's eyes flashed with relief, and he said, "My lord, be at ease, and just wait here with peace of mind."

"Why don't you let me go?" Xu Mingshi was burning with anxiety.

"This is the confession of Vice General Qin." Jin Yi seemed to be referring to something in his words: "Vice General Qin is by the Duke's side, and the young master only needs to ensure his own safety."

Meeting these eyes, Xu Mingshi gradually calmed down a lot.

He roughly understood...

Even though he was extremely worried, he knew that this was not the time to make trouble.

While the flames were stirring, the boy looked towards the direction of the courtyard next door.

"How could it suddenly catch fire..."

Outside the hall, two soldiers guarding the door, one on the left and one on the right, were also looking at the direction of the fire.

Another soldier frowned slightly: "Could it be..."

Halfway through the conversation, his eyes suddenly changed.

The sound of firefighting was mixed and noisy, and most of the sound from the roof tiles was covered, but within a short while, a black shadow descended from the sky.

"There are assassins!"

The soldier shouted and drew his sword to block it.

When the visitor flew down with a crossbow in his hand, two cold arrows flew towards the soldiers.

"Be careful!"

The two of them hid, one of them managed to dodge, and although the other didn't hurt his vitals, his arm was still grazed by the small arrow.

This pain is not strong for soldiers who have experienced many battles, but the strange thing is that after the arm is scraped, there is a numbness that spreads from the wound to the whole body quickly!

"clang!"

The long sword in the soldier's hand fell to the ground uncontrollably. Seeing the assassin attacking again, the other man rushed to protect his companion.

And at this moment, with a "bang", suddenly there was the sound of the window lattice being knocked open!

As soon as the window lattice was knocked open, two black shadows leaped in. The two had a clear goal, and one of them shot a cold arrow in the dark, straight towards the direction of the bed!

However, when the short arrow was about to approach the bed curtain, it was stopped by the broad-backed sword that suddenly appeared——

"Who dares to assassinate the general!" Qin Wugao shouted, attacking the opponent with a big knife in his hand with murderous intent.

The man in black shrank his pupils and leaned back to avoid it.

"Bang!"

The knife brought down the screen together with a loud noise.

Yun Liu also flashed out from the darkness, and chopped off one of the arms with the long knife in his hand.

At this time, another group of people in black rushed in from outside the hall!

In the chaotic fight, Qin Wu and Yun Liu were outnumbered and unable to cope, so one of the men in black took the opportunity to raise his long sword and stab at the couch!

The sharp sword stabs down, but there is no feeling of touching flesh and blood——

The man in black immediately opened the soft quilt, only to see that there were actually two pillows in the bulging quilt!

Surprise and anger appeared in the pupils of the man in black, and he said to his companion, "There is no one on the bed! You have been tricked!"

Hearing this voice, both Qin Wu and Yun Liu were surprised.

This is the Li nationality language!

These assassins turned out to be from the Li tribe?!

"There are people staring at him all the time, there is no way Xu Qiwei will leave this courtyard! He must still be here, find him for me!"

"If I don't take Xu Qiwei's life today, I swear not to retreat!"

"Kill this thief, death is worth it!"

The men in black spoke all the Li language, with deep hatred in their tone, and they didn't flinch even though they sensed that they were tricked.

While talking, several people have already got out from the window lattice.

Seeing this, Yun Liu nodded to Qin Wu.

Qin Wu immediately took out the bone whistle and blew it.

The whistle is the number, Jin Yi will lead people to surround the whole yard when he hears the sound——

When the few people talked about the rumors in the army with King Yan in the evening, they were already on guard, but they never thought that it would come so quickly, and everything happened tonight!

But when he heard that there was a fire in the courtyard next door, he immediately became suspicious and transferred the general to another place.

With such an arrangement now, deliberately lax defense is just a trick to lure these people to show up-since they will come sooner or later, it is better to stop them with one move, so as to avoid further twists and turns!

But at this time the snake has already come out of the hole and revealed its true face, so there is nothing to wait and see and delay!

"These people's words are extremely fierce, and they don't have the slightest intention of fleeing when they see the situation is wrong. They have the tendency to never give up until they achieve their goals. You must protect the general!" Yun Liu said to Qin Wu.

Qin Wu nodded and strode out.

The dozen or so men in black roamed around the courtyard quickly, like black hounds frantically looking for their prey.

Suddenly, there was a speech in the Li ethnic group——

"People are here!"

In a study room directly opposite the bedroom, the man in black just rushed in, but flew out quickly, let out a scream, and fell heavily under the stone steps.

King Yan, who was wearing a rough servant and short sword, came out of the darkness with his sword and blocked the door.

Xu Yun was also holding a knife in his hand, and was guarding in front of the low couch at this time, but the knife in his hand was leaning against his body - nothing else, the old man's knife was too heavy to lift it.

At this time, several men in black sniffed the scent and came over.