Volume 1: Jiangnan's Good Dream Surrounds Heaven and Earth Chapter 113: A Contest of Wisdom

  Midnight, moon in the middle of the sky.

  Hualang was sitting in the courtyard, almost falling asleep, when he suddenly heard a commotion outside Qianshi Manor. The noise was loud and the footsteps were chaotic, indicating that there were many people coming.

  After hearing this, Hualang hastily rushed to the door to take a look and saw that on the distant main road, there were dozens of black-clad men rushing over quickly. Judging from their movements, they all seemed quite skilled.

  Things are critical, and Hu Lang hurriedly went to wake up Yin Wu and Zhan Zhao. Everyone sat in the living room, looking at each other, and Wen Meng asked somewhat impatiently: "What should we do?"

  Hualang thought for a moment and said: "They have many people and strong momentum, fighting them head-on is probably not possible. I think it's better to..."

  After Hualang finished speaking, everyone nodded in agreement and then went about their respective tasks.

  After a long time, a black shadow suddenly flew in from outside the wall. The black shadow came to the Qian's mountain villa and looked around everywhere, seeing no danger, it quietly came to the gate to open the door. At this moment, a long sword suddenly stabbed over. The black shadow didn't understand what was happening before it suddenly fell to the ground and died.

  Zhan Zhao glanced at everyone and then hid again.

  Outside, the thieves saw that the main gate was not open and the people they sent did not return. They were somewhat apprehensive in their hearts, but the temptation of wealth within the Qian Manor was too great. So, they sent a few more people to sneak into the manor one after another, but as soon as they came in, they were taken care of by Zhan Zhao, and no one else came out.

  The thieves outside saw this and discovered that it was not good. At this time, the leader of the thieves shouted angrily: "Damn it, rush in for me, I want to turn this mountain villa into a piece of ruins."

  Those rascals heard the boss's words and shouted loudly, carrying their weapons and rushing towards the mountain villa.

  The gate of the Qian's mansion creaked open, and then those thieves rushed in. However, as soon as they entered, many sharp arrows shot towards them, causing nearly half of the thieves to fall down at once.

  The more the bandits died, the less they were willing to give up. They charged even more frantically and desperately, but at this time, the Qian Mansion's arrows had been used up. After all, they were not an official army and did not have that many arrows. Moreover, once those bandits charged in, the bows and arrows lost their effect.

  At this time, the remaining thieves were only half left. Hua Lang saw this and felt that he could make a final effort, so Xian Zhao, Yin Wu Cuo and others flew up and killed one with a single knife, killing them quickly and mercilessly.

  It wasn't until the massacre began that things got out of control. Those bandits were killing everywhere, and some who had finished killing thought about rushing into Qian's mansion, grabbing things from the rooms and warehouses, and running away, so it wouldn't be a wasted trip for them to come here.

  The bandits dispersed, and the Flower Brothers had to disperse their forces to intercept and kill them, so it really took some time to eliminate these bandits.

  Fortunately, however, there were many experts on Hu Lang's side, and although the thieves scattered in all directions, they could not reverse their defeat.

  The leader of the thieves was even more so, thinking of escaping when Wen Meng's flying knife hit his leg, falling to the ground, wanting to escape but unable to.

  The leader of the bandits fell to the ground, and Yin Wu stood up immediately, with a knife pressed against his neck, shouting: "Tell your men to stand down!"

  That man was afraid of being wronged and a knife came down, so he hastily shouted: "Quickly stop, all of you stop."

  When the henchmen saw their boss being subdued, they were somewhat frightened in their hearts, so they all stopped, but although they stopped, they refused to wait for death and instead rushed out after stopping, after all, the boss had already been caught, and following the boss would only lead to death.

  Watching those scoundrels hastily fleeing, Hua Lang secretly smiled. Mountain bandits are just mountain bandits; sometimes they can't be relied upon. They can only share fortune with them, but not adversity or life and death.

  The mountain bandit leader saw his subordinates abandoning him and running away, disappointment and regret pressed on his heart, and then he burst into a loud scolding: "You bunch of bastards, ungrateful things! When you followed me to eat well, drink well, and play with women, why didn't you run away? Now that I'm in trouble, not only do you not save me, but you actually escape and abandon me..."

  The leader of the mountain bandits was scolding, when a small henchman suddenly turned back and retorted: "You talk big, but that time when there was danger, weren't we the first to go up? And when there were beauties, didn't you play with them first? You abandoned us, yet we still have some code of honor in our line of work!"

  That Naluo finished speaking, and without regard for others, desperately fled outward. Hualang and the others heard the conversation between the thief and Naluo, and couldn't help but burst out laughing. Neither side were good people, so how could they expect rescue from each other in times of trouble?

  The four of them scattered and disappeared, and soon the entire Qian family mansion fell silent again. The leader of the mountain bandits was still under Yin Wuchang's knife, and at this time he had already fallen to the ground in a state of paralysis. Hualang even suspected that if Yin Wuchang put down his knife, he might not even know how to escape.

  However, no matter what, such a cautious person like him would never conduct an experiment that has certain dangers.

  At this time, the sky was slightly bright, and outside the mountain villa, there was a piece of fog. Standing in the courtyard, one could almost feel the dampness of the fog. Huā Láng looked at the thief and asked: "How many more people do you have?"

  The thief was frightened long ago and now answers every question asked of him.

  "There were only about ten of them who managed to escape!"

  A dozen or so people didn't make a sound. The flower gentleman immediately continued to ask: "Where did you put the property that you robbed?"

  The thief heard that it was related to property and his eyes were a little dazed. He said, "Our big group of brothers, that money is not enough for us to spend! We've spent it all!"

  The young man's mouth corners slightly raised, he bent down and asked: "Really all spent?"

  "It's all gone, really!"

  The young man shook his head slightly and said, "What a pity! Your followers abandoned you and ran away. Now the money they robbed will also belong to them. What a pity!"

  The thief heard this and suddenly came to his senses. Now that he couldn't go back, wouldn't the hidden money all be given to those ungrateful people?

  The thief's heart suddenly became unbalanced, and he hurriedly said: "I'm saying, I'm all saying, just ask you to catch those ungrateful things and let them taste my kind of taste."

  The thief's taste was not good, Hu Lang smiled lightly and remembered the place where the thief said, and let Yin Wuchang and Zhan Zhao go to that place to take out the money. Those thieves escaped and must have thought of running with the money together, so they would also go to that place. There were only a dozen or so thieves, and Yin Wuchang and Zhan Zhao were enough to deal with them.

  With that, the matter was almost settled. Just as Yin Wuchang and Zhan Zhao were about to leave, a maid rushed up to Qian Tong in a panic and said: "Old... old master, the mistress... she's been killed by thieves."