Old Man Qian's iron spike pierced into the horse's neck, and a stream of blood spurted out.
The horse neighed and fell to the ground with great force, dragging the carriage with it out of control. The shaft hit the ground and broke with a loud crack, revealing the broken wood.
The servant driving the carriage fell to the ground and was unable to stand up for a long time. The carriage also wobbled to a stop and the people inside were in chaos.
Tie Laodie moved very quickly. When the carriage stopped, the servants in the carriage finally reacted and jumped out while cursing.
They saw Old Man Tie standing in front of them holding an iron spike dripping with blood. The girl had taken the opportunity to run away, cursing, and no one dared to step forward.
Someone looked at the leading slave and shouted, "Boss Zhu, what should we do now?"
The leading slave was the chief of the slaves in Xu Jie's mansion. Everyone called him Boss Zhu. He was highly trusted by Xu Jie, so no one dared to disobey him.
Boss Zhu's face flashed with sternness, "What else can we do? If we mess up, will the county magistrate let us go when we return?"
"Let's go all the way and kill this old man!"
After hearing this, several servants drew the daggers from their waists.
The people in the north are tough and brave. In order to guard against horse thieves, almost everyone carries a knife, and these slaves are no exception.
This short sword is more than one foot long and is easy to wear. It is too short for use on a battlefield, but it is sufficient for use in normal times.
A servant came forward with a dagger raised high, and seeing that Old Man Qian was still limping, he took advantage of the opportunity and stabbed Old Man Qian in the shoulder.
Old Man Qian had difficulty moving, so he had to use the iron spike to block horizontally. The ring-handled short knife chopped on the iron spike and sank downwards. Old Man Qian took the opportunity to block the opponent's arm with one hand, and the iron spike went up and pierced into the iron ring of the ring-handled short knife handle.
He twisted it and the iron spike circled the slave's wrist, and blood gushed out.
The servant screamed and let go, falling to the ground. Old Man Qian took advantage of the situation to grab the dagger, holding it in one hand and the awl in the other.
When Boss Zhu saw this, he laughed and said, "I was wrong this time. I didn't expect he was actually a martial artist."
"No wonder. At this age, he is still a blacksmith. Who hasn't been a bandit or a soldier? I'm afraid that my father-in-law was a Yellow Turban bandit in the past, right?"
Old Man Qian didn't answer. He stared at the few people fiercely, like a hungry wolf choosing someone to devour.
Seeing that several people were shrinking back, Boss Zhu shouted, "Come on together, attack from front and back, can he really do anything?"
After hearing this, the other people quickly surrounded him and stabbed at Old Man Qian with their knives. A fight broke out between the two sides.
Although the servants were numerous and powerful, they obviously had not practiced martial arts much. Instead, they were caught off guard and in a very embarrassing situation under Old Man Qian's counterattack.
Soon, Old Man Qian had several more wounds on his body and was on the verge of collapse. Several servants also fell to the ground, covering their thighs, screaming in pain, and unable to get up.
Boss Zhu shouted, "Old Qian, aren't you afraid of being arrested and questioned?"
"Put down your weapons quickly, there is still a way to survive!"
Old Man Qian held the iron spike horizontally and said coldly, "Boss Zhu, although I am a commoner, I also have a temper."
"The county magistrate won't let us live, so I'm still sticking my neck out for him to kill me, right?"
"After I kill you, I will go back and kill Xu Jie. At worst, I can just turn myself in to the government."
After hearing this, Boss Zhu laughed and said, "As expected, you were once a Yellow Turban bandit, full of banditry. I'm afraid you've ruined the envoy's plans, and you still want to live a good life?"
Old Man Qian sneered and said, "If I can survive after I kill Xu Jie, I will go to the envoy and ask who came up with this idea of robbing a commoner girl."
Boss Zhu was startled for a moment, then laughed and said, "You are not stupid, you actually guessed it."
"In that case, I can't keep you here."
He reached back into the carriage and quickly pulled out a three-foot-long ring-handled sword from under the seat.
Before everyone could react, Boss Zhu swung his knife and cut the neck of the rickshaw driver who was standing behind him and watching. The driver covered his neck, his throat gurgling, and he fell to the ground, twitched a few times, and then died.
This was beyond everyone's expectations. Several servants on the ground cried out in disbelief: "Boss Zhu, what's going on?"
Their minds went blank. Looking at the way Boss Zhu drew his knife, it was obvious that he knew martial arts!
What's going on?
Boss Zhu squatted down, took a few steps forward, and appeared in front of Old Man Qian!
Old Man Qian quickly raised his knife to block, but Boss Zhu kicked him out.
Old Man Qian spat out a mouthful of blood in the air, his body rolled heavily on the ground for several times, and even the short knife and iron spike in his hand fell to the ground.
Several servants on the ground were overjoyed and were about to struggle to get up, but with a "swish" sound, Boss Zhu had already stabbed one of them in the chest with his ring-handled knife.
The man screamed and died.
While the others were still not able to react, Boss Zhu stabbed the servants a few more times, killing them all.
He slowly walked towards Old Man Qian and said with a fierce smile, "No one will get in the way now."
"I have treated my father-in-law well. So many people are accompanying you on the journey. Just go and die in peace."
Old Man Qian didn't know that there was something wrong with Boss Zhu, so he struggled to grab the dagger and rushed towards Boss Zhu.
Boss Zhu sneered, raised his ring-handled sword, and one of Old Man Qian's arms flew into the air.
He took advantage of the situation and slashed down with his sword, cutting open Old Man Qian's chest.
Old Man Qian staggered a few steps, fell forward to the ground, and blood slowly flowed out from his body.
Boss Zhu stepped on Old Man Qian's vest and wiped the blood from the knife on his clothes, thinking that he had finally accomplished the task.
He looked back at the dead horse and cursed. He had originally wanted to ride away on horseback, but now he had to walk.
He was about to leave when his ear twitched suddenly. He quickly reached out his hand, scooped up the blood from the pool on the ground, wiped it on his face a few times, pressed the knife to his side, and fell beside the wheel pretending to be dead.
There was the sound of hoofbeats, and two horses were gradually coming closer in the distance. The two men on the horses saw the carriage and hurried over.
The two men jumped down to the ground, but it was Tian Yu and his spies who caught up with them.
When he saw the dead bodies everywhere, his heart skipped a beat and he quickly called the spies to check the bodies together.
The spy recognized Father Qian's clothes at a glance. He went over and turned it over, saying in a lost voice, "That's the man!"
He looked at the corpses around him again: "These are the servants!"
Tian Yu became alert, something was wrong!
He shouted, "All dead? No one is alive?"
The spy heard this and said, "The old man's granddaughter is not here!"
Tian Yu heard this and said, "Take a closer look!"
Tian Yu and the spy checked one by one, and suddenly found something wrong. They asked, "Why are they all stabbed in the chest?"
Before he finished speaking, he heard a female voice shouting from the bushes in the distance: "The murderer is pretending to be dead over there on the wheel!"
The next moment, Boss Zhu jumped up with a knife and slashed at the two men!
Tian Yu was extremely alert and lunged forward, barely avoiding the blade. The spy did not have time to dodge and was stabbed in the back. He screamed and fell to the ground, unable to stand up for a while.
Tian Yu drew out the long knife from his waist, turned around and slashed back. With a clinking sound, the two knives collided, and Tian Yu took the opportunity to turn around.
Boss Zhu yelled and cursed. He recognized the female voice in the bushes as that of Old Man Qian's daughter. He didn't expect that she would dare to come back and ruin his good deeds!
Otherwise, I would have successfully launched a sneak attack and escaped on horseback!
He didn't even answer, but swung the ring-handled sword and chopped towards Tian Yu like lightning.
Tian Yu concentrated and calmed himself, countering the opponent's fatal moves one by one and guarding against all odds.
He saw that the opponent's sword was dangerous and an idea flashed through his mind.
Death warriors!
Still a master!
Xu Jie is just a county magistrate, how could he hire such a person as his servant?
There is something wrong with this!
While he was blocking, Boss Zhu pressed on with his sword, but he just couldn't take down Tian Yu.
Boss Zhu was in a bad mood. The other side only defended and did not attack, which made it clear that they were trying to delay time!
The sound of horse hooves was heard in the distance, and Boss Zhu was distracted. Seeing this, Tian Yu began to fight back with his knife!
Over the past year, he had practiced martial arts with Taishi Ci and Zhao Yun many times, and his martial arts skills had already reached great heights. This time, Boss Zhu was unable to defend himself, and within a dozen rounds, he was stabbed in both arms and his sword fell to the ground.
Both of his hand tendons were cut, his hands drooped, and he retreated to the side of the carriage, panting and laughing miserably: "I really misjudged. I didn't expect to meet a master."
Tian Yu said coldly: "Just surrender and tell the truth."
Boss Zhu laughed miserably, turned his head suddenly and rushed forward, and the broken end of the shaft pierced his throat.
Blood gushed out of his throat and he fell to the ground motionless.
Tian Yu cried out in annoyance. He had not expected the other party to commit suicide so resolutely. Now all clues were cut off!
While Yuan Xi was talking with Chen Gui and Guo Jia in his mansion, he learned about what happened outside the city.
After hearing the whole story, he said to the girl beside Tian Yu, "Are you the granddaughter of old man Qian?"
Although the girl looked sad and angry, she held back her tears and nodded.
He said to the girl gently: "Don't worry, I will seek justice for you."
Yuan Xi said to Cao Xian beside him, "Take her to change her clothes and clean up first."
After hearing this, the girl knelt down on the ground, kowtowed several times, and followed Cao Xian.
Yuan Xi asked Tian Yu to sit down and said, "Guorang, you have worked hard. If you hadn't reacted in time, I'm afraid we would have been taken advantage of."
He turned back to Chen Gui and Guo Jia, "What do you two think?"
Seeing Chen Gui making a gesture of humility, Guo Jia said, "I'm afraid someone wants to alienate the relationship between Xu Jie and the young master and take the opportunity to stir up trouble."
"But I don't understand, if you kill Xu Jie, what will happen?"
"Death warriors are hard to come by, and expert death warriors are even rarer. Can you send out such a person just for Xu Jie?"
"If they just wanted to frame Xu Jie, there are plenty of ways to do it. Why would they go out and rob women, which is a very easy-to-expose tactic?"
At this time, Chen Gui said, "Perhaps the purpose of this assassin is not just to frame Xu Jie?"
"If the plan fails, we can frame the envoy. If the plan succeeds, we can use this opportunity to get close to the envoy and wait for an opportunity to assassinate him."
"Since he was a death warrior, he probably didn't intend to survive from the beginning."
"In other words, whether to take action or not is not the key. It is enough to make people think that Xu Jie wants to take action..."
"In this case, if anything happens to you, Jizhou will definitely hold you accountable."
"This Xu Jie is Xu You's nephew, and Xu You is the man of the Third Master Yuan..."
Guo Jia's body trembled, "Sir, you are amazing, this is very likely the case!"
"Ginger is still spicy with age!"
Yuan Xi and Tian Yu finally understood something and looked at each other, shocked at Chen Gui's ruthless ideas that were not in line with his name, and confused at the same time.
Who is so powerful as to reach out here?
Who is the biggest beneficiary of this?
However, everyone secretly rejoiced that what was originally a very well-planned conspiracy accidentally fell into the hands of Old Man Qian and his granddaughter. It can be said that it was God's will.