The steward specially arranged to guard the ancestral ho, who does not indulge in luxury, but how can he be so extravagant?
However, with mountains high and the emperor far away, Xu Yin has purchased a large amount of land here, and without any relatives to supervise and manage, it’s not unusual for a steward to take so cuts for himself.
Apart from these silver coins, there was nothing else in the pouch.
Xu Yin, full of suspicion—could the people he personally arranged to co really be so clean?
Jiang Lin felt a little confused.
The bed creaked, and Zhou Yi muttered in his sleep and began to turn over.
Jiang Lin hurriedly hid behind the bedpost.
When the bed settled down, he peeked out again. By this ti, the moonlight had already shone into the room, revealing even the outlines of areas not directly lit.
Zhou Yi, having turned over, took the quilt with him, revealing one end of the grass mat he had just been pressing on, which was lifted as if sothing was hidden beneath it.
Jiang Lin stepped forward, quickly reached with his left hand, and a round carved copper token was in his grasp.
Under the moonlight, the carvings on the token were imdiately revealed to the eyes!...
"...Who goes there?!"
Amidst his astonishnt, a hoarse shout ca from the bed!
Jiang Lin quickly turned his head, only to see Zhou Yi had already sat up and swiftly lit the tinder beside his hand!
Jiang Lin quickly stuffed the token into his bosom, leaped through the window, and landed in the courtyard!
"Soone! Intruder!"
Behind him was Zhou Yi’s hoarse shout, and two brothers guarding the courtyard gate imdiately ca up to assist Jiang Lin.
After exchanging a few hand signals, they all dashed toward the previously planned escape route!
The direction of the kitchen was closest to the road out of the village, Liu Quan and the others had already rushed over upon hearing the commotion!
But just as they converged, several samurai suddenly leaped out from the side, instantly blocking their path.
As soon as they engaged, seven or eight more people ca from the other side, effectively surrounding them!
"Retreat!"
Jiang Lin signaled towards the woodshed and simultaneously pulled out a tinder to throw at it!
The brothers understood, each lighting and throwing their own tinder towards the shed!
The woodshed caught fire on all sides, with the lamp oil previously poured fanning the flas, which roared fiercely and blocked the samurais pursuing them!
The area by the shed was usually the entrance used by the servants, where the grain and vegetable carts passed, thus the gateway was wide; as long as they broke through this door, they could successfully escape!
But outside the range of the fire, under the seemingly unremarkable brick wall, a row of iron bars higher than the walltop rose from below!
The bars surrounded them on all sides, so rather than calling it an iron fence, it was more like an iron cage without a roof!
"They even set up a chanism!"
The unexpected situation made everyone grit their teeth and curse!
Normally, with the six of them, they would have a way out, after all, such a lineup could even scale a city wall!
The crux was that the flas from the burning woodshed were rapidly spreading towards them, and it would take ti to escape from the iron cage; the consequence being, even if they managed to break free, they would risk being burned!
"What do we do?"
The brothers all looked at Jiang Lin. In this short ti, the samurais who had been blocked started circling the fire to pursue from the other side!
Jiang Lin gritted his teeth: "You go first, I’ll hold them off! As many as can go!"
As he spoke, he stuffed everything he had into their hands: "Give all of this to the General and Young Madam, without a single mistake!"
"Lao Jiang!"
"No more nonsense!..."
"No! Look over there!"
One brother held him back while pointing at the side behind him, his eyes wide open!
Jiang Lin quickly turned around, seeing a man holding a stick beyond the iron cage. The fiery light illuminated his scarred face, making him look hideous and terrifying like a demon from hell!
"It’s him?!"
Jiang Lin was shaken. This was the ugly house servant carrying the teapot during the day!
While he was astonished, the house servant strode towards the iron cage, and once underneath it, he suddenly tossed the stick through the bars towards Jiang Lin!
Jiang Lin instinctively caught it, only to see the house servant point at an iron ring on the corner of the cage, before giving him a deep look and swiftly disappearing into the night behind him!
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