Hearing the shout, someone from the city tower poked his head out. This is the capital city, and a small governor is not on their radar, but if there is oil and water, that is a different story.
“I’m really sorry, the city gates are closed, we can’t open them without an order from your Excellency, you’d better wait until tomorrow morning to enter the city.”
“Your Excellency ……”
The county magistrate arched his hand, “I hope you will make it easy for me.”
The man on the city tower did not pay any attention to him.
The county magistrate hurriedly took out a silver ticket from his sleeve band, held it up high, and said again, “I also ask for your convenience, Your Excellency.”
Seeing the silver ticket, the man on the city tower’s eyes lit up and slowly led the two men down, asking them to open the city gate a crack. The county eunuch quickly came over and slipped the silver ticket in, and the man was satisfied, waving his hand to have the gate opened and let them in.
The magistrate got back into the carriage and urged the driver to go straight to the governor’s residence.
It was late at night and the city had been closed for the night, so the clattering of the horses’ hooves was particularly loud and alerted the patrols, who followed the sound of the horses’ hooves and stopped the carriage.
The magistrate screamed in his heart and lifted the curtain of the carriage, once again identifying himself.
Although he was dressed in official clothes, his hair was dishevelled and he looked in a mess. The patrolmen were suspicious and checked him carefully to make sure he was really the Governor of Qingyun before letting him go.
All the way to the entrance of the government office, the magistrate got down from the carriage and looked at the closed door of the government office with some hesitation.
The matter of Zhou Lin should indeed be dealt with, but it was not yet urgent. If he alerted the magistrate at this time, he might lose his black hat; but if he did not, the magistrate would certainly not give up.
He did not knock on the door, but went straight to the drum, picked up the drumstick and pounded on it.
Dang! Dang! Dang!
He used all his strength and the sound of the drum went out a long way.
The governor, who was asleep, was awakened, and he sat up with a spring, dressing as he ordered, “Go and see what has happened.”
The subordinate on night duty at the door answered and ran out quickly to see what had happened. Banging the drums indiscriminately in the middle of the night.”
The county magistrate put down his drumsticks and walked up to him, “I have something important to report to the governor.”
Only then did the underlings see that he was wearing official clothes and hurriedly led him in.
The governor was already fully dressed and was hurrying towards the front office. Halfway there, when he saw the county magistrate being led here by his subordinates, he stopped in his tracks, “What’s the big deal?”
He was aware of the situation in Qing Yun County, the county magistrate had been betting on the governor’s head, because the county magistrate’s brother-in-law was Jiang Tongzhi, he also did not intervene in this matter, and had been turning a blind eye. At this moment, when he saw the situation of the county magistrate, his first thought was that the county magistrate had been hunted down and killed.
“My lord, I have come to ask for help.”
As expected, the governor eased his mind, his face sinking, his face taking on a majestic look, “You are also of the seventh rank, so you should know what is urgent and what is slow. If I were to pursue this matter, your hat would be removed immediately.”
“No, Your Excellency ……”
The governor interrupted him again impatiently, “Well, it’s late at night, what can we say tomorrow, someone, send them out!”
……
The wounded guards had their wounds treated and piled all the bodies in the middle of the road, thirty of them, into a small mountain.
Song Wangyue was still sitting on a stool, and the seven guards stood going behind her, looking sternly in the direction of the town’s entrance.
A little more than half an hour later, a dull sound shook the earth and came this way.
Those who had waited for so long without hearing any movement and had the courage to come out to see what was going on had just opened the door when they saw the high splashes of dust floating above the entrance to the town and turned back in panic, closing the door tightly again.
At the entrance, dark and overwhelming, obviously more people than a moment before, the seven guards could not help but tighten their grip on their long swords and tense their bodies.
Song Wangyue, however, smiled, “What a big gesture.”
“Miss, you’d better go first, we’ll break off the rear.”
Looking at those people approaching, one of the guards spoke in a deep voice, there were only eight of them, they had just gone through that battle and used up a lot of physical strength, now the hand holding the sword was still a bit shaky, these were 60 to 70 people, or people from the army, they didn’t have the confidence to retreat in one piece.
“I only have two legs, I can’t outrun them.”
Song Wangyue’s voice was faint as she watched those people getting closer and closer, finally stopping in front of the mountain of corpses.
The man at the head of the group looked at the mountain of corpses in front of him, pain flashing in his eyes as he looked over, his gaze sullen as he stared at the few of them.
Song Wangyue returned his smile, “It couldn’t be helped, they wanted to kill us, so we had to defend ourselves, it’s not our fault.”
The man at the head of the group didn’t say a word, he just waved his hand and the men behind him dismounted and came over to move all the corpses carefully to the side.
Only then did the leader get down, and the rest of the men dismounted and stood behind him.
“If you all fold your arms and give up, I will leave your bodies whole.”
Song Wangyue smiled, her smile extraordinarily bright under the moonlight, “For these words, I will also leave you a whole corpse.”
The man at the head of the group narrowed his eyes, and with a wave of his hand, the men behind him attacked, the seven guards met them and were surrounded almost instantly.
In no time at all, a number of wounds were added to each of them, and one was even knocked to the ground as several of the men in black’s swords stabbed towards his body.
At that very moment, the swords in the hands of all the men in black, however, came out of their hands and rose high into the air.
Everyone was shocked by this scene and stared blankly at the swords floating in the air, unaware of what was happening.
Suddenly, the sword tips turned and stabbed towards these men in black, and before they could react, they were stabbed, and their eyes widened the moment they fell.
An eerie silence fell over the town, and the only sound heard was the thump, thump, thump of bodies falling to the ground.
The man at the head of the group reacted by unsheathing his sword and swept towards Song Wangyue.
Song Wangyue’s body leaned back and rolled to the ground. Just as she dodged one of his strokes, another one arrived, cutting through her clothes and brushing her shoulder with the tip of the sword.
The rest of the men in black also came back to their senses and swung their swords at the guards in a desperate attempt to attack them.
The leader of the group had blood in his eyes and his sword was so fierce that Song Wangyue was forced to retreat in disarray, unable to fight back.
The tip of the sword was in front of her again, and Song Wan Yue went to block it, but the dagger in her hand was shaken away! The sword pierced into her shoulder and blood spurted out, Song Wan Yue took the opportunity to sprinkle a handful of medicinal powder, the leader of the group hastily covered his mouth and nose, pulled out his sword and flew back.