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Chapter 22 Night Attack (Double Update on the List)
The fragrance of newly planed wood boards filled the room. The Captain's Mansion, which was originally like a haunted house, took on a new look at this time, and the mud walls were blocked behind the boards.The tables, chairs and even the quilts on the table were all new. Zhao Chengping lay on the bed with his hands behind his head, thinking about meeting Wang Ji tomorrow, and fell asleep unconsciously.

Silent night.

Several black shadows jumped into the captain's mansion, they quietly approached the bedroom, pushed the door lightly, but didn't push it open, and saw a thick wooden bar across the door from the crack of the door.

One of them pulled out his waist knife and lifted the wooden bolt from bottom to top, and the wooden bolt fell to the ground with a loud noise.

They rushed into the house quickly, but saw Zhao Chengping sleepy-eyed, sitting on the bed and looking at them:

"You come to assassinate me so late, is there overtime pay?"

Several people exchanged glances, did not answer, raised their knives and slashed at Zhao Chengping. Zhao Chengping raised his hand and threw the quilt covering his body towards them. The quilt covered their sight. The pain came from the head.

The quilt fell, and three people were covered with blood, and their bodies fell limply to the ground.

Zhao Chengping held the Eight Immortals Table in his hand, looked at the remaining three people, and said with a sneer:
"Who else?"

The three men swung their knives and went up again, Zhao Chengping slammed the table on the ground, the table board was shattered, he waved two table legs to meet them.

The level of these three people is far behind that of the Xianyang Forbidden Army. Zhao Chengping shook his head, dropped the table leg in his hand, and looked at the masked assassin writhing on the ground, whimpering in pain.He pulled off their masks one by one, looked at their appearance carefully, sat by the bed and asked:

"Who sent you here?" Zhao Chengping kicked one of them.

No one cares about him.

He put his toes hard and pointed at the weak spot of one of them: "Hurry up and say it, I still want to sleep."

The man howled loudly: Lord Wang, Lord Wang sent us here. "

"Master Wang? Wang Ji?"

"Yes Yes……"

"I'm new here, and I haven't even seen his face, so I want to kill him?" Although I guessed it was him, I didn't expect him to be so anxious. It seems that he has something special that he doesn't want people from Xianyang to know.

Zhao Chengping looked at them and said coldly:
"I was wondering what gift to bring to meet the Lord Magistrate. Now that I think about it, how about using your heads? It can also give him some military merits."

After hearing his words, the six people cried loudly: "My lord, don't want it, we can't do anything about it. There are old and young in the family, and they all count on us to support their families."

"Then, if you come to assassinate me, how much money will Mr. Wang give you?"

"No...no..."

"You still have to sacrifice your life when you have no money? I don't believe it."

One of them said: "Really not, Mr. Wang said that the King of Qin had promised him not to ask the officials of Hedong County about taxation for three years, but now he suddenly sent a person to be the county guard. He must want to intervene in the affairs of Hedong County. Let us kill the adults, and when the time comes, it will be said that the adults died of a sudden illness, that is."

"What shameful thing is there in Hedong County?"

Those people, you looked at me, I looked at you, they all lowered their heads and didn't dare to say anything.

Zhao Chengping smiled: "If you don't tell me, I know it too. It's nothing more than taking money that shouldn't be taken and meeting people who shouldn't. Go back, don't come, I want to sleep a little longer."

To let them go like this?They couldn't believe it, they still knelt on the ground and didn't dare to move.

Zhao Chengping said helplessly:

"Go away, are you still waiting for me to invite you to breakfast?"

Only now did they really believe that Zhao Chengping didn't want to take their lives, so they ran out of the house.

The room was in a mess, the tables and chairs were broken, the cups and cups were shattered pottery, the quilt fell on the ground and was chopped several times, the cloth pieces were chopped up, the stuffing inside was exposed, and there were pieces of hemp. There is wool... It was only then that he remembered that it was after the Tang Dynasty that cotton entered the Central Plains.

Fortunately, the Central Plains area is still in a tropical jungle climate at this time, and the Yellow River elephant is still playing happily in Henan. The late autumn night without quilts is not so sad.

Go to bed tonight, and wait until dawn to ask Wang Ji to get the debt back.

I lay on the bed with my eyes closed for a long time, but I didn't feel sleepy at all. The exercise just before going to bed was not soothing enough.

It seems that Wang Ji didn't know his deeds in Xianyang, otherwise, he should send someone with higher level, or let professional people do professional things.

Of course, there is another possibility. Wang Ji knew about his work in the school, but he didn't believe it, or he was reluctant to pay someone who charged more money.

"As a result, the matter was not done now, and the old man was revealed to others." Zhao Chengping was full of contempt, opened his eyes to see the sky outside, it was still pitch black.

He got up and went to find some water to drink, but found that there was a little reddish brown at the break of the quilt, which seemed to be stained.He stretched out his hand to widen the opening, and took out the contents to take a look, feeling sick for a while.

It was a blood-stained garment.

There are shameful packing clothes and black-hearted cotton in modern times, why did the Qin Dynasty have them? It seems that the time definition of the eight words "the world is declining and people's hearts are not old" seems to be pushed forward.

He wanted to throw the clothes on the ground in disgust, but unexpectedly found that there were many cuts in the clothes, but they all stopped at the front.

Laying the clothes flat, it was obvious that there was something blocking the blade on the chest.

square?It's a breastplate!

The owner of this dress is a soldier?

The Qin army on the battlefield did not have the hobby of bringing back the enemy's bloody clothes. They only brought heads or ears to record their merits.

If family members are burying dead relatives, they will also dispose of the clothes, and it is impossible for them to appear here.

Looking at the bloody clothes, Zhao Chengping thought of many possibilities, but was overthrown by himself one by one. It's a pity that his ability can't see the related events that happened through the objects.

Unknowingly, there was already light outside the window.

Can't sleep anymore... He rubbed his face with his hands, stood up, walked out of the room, looked at the flowers and plants in the yard, and stretched himself.

There was a well in the yard. He stretched his head to look in. The well was so deep that it was so dark that it was impossible to see if there was any water. He found a clod of earth and threw it in. There was no sound of water, nor did it touch the ground. The sound seemed to hit something soft.

Curious for a moment, he grabbed the well rope and slid down. After reaching the end, he discovered that there was a rotten male corpse underneath.

Zhao Chengping was taken aback for a moment, but fortunately, he is also a person with strong tastes. He has appreciated all the keywords on the Internet that are "absolutely don't search for money", so now his mood is quite stable.

"It's really a haunted house, I hope it's not a male chastity."

Seeing it and handling it personally are two different things, Zhao Chengping doesn't want to touch this carrion at all.If it smells like a dead body, you have to wipe your hands with coriander, but the coriander is still in the Western Regions, and it has to wait for Zhang Qian to bring it back.

Find someone else to handle it in a while.

When he came out of the well, he just heard someone knocking on the door, it was Liu Quan.

Seeing the situation in the room, Liu Quan looked dull: "What happened last night?"

Zhao Chengping smiled: "Master Wang sent someone to say hello to me."

"Then... what are your plans now? Do you still want to go?"

Zhao Chengping smiled: "Go, of course, how can you not visit when you get to the land?"

He went into the room and changed into a brand new official uniform, still carrying a bag of unknown things in his hand, and said to Liu Quan, "Let's go."

In the county guard's mansion, Wang Ji was joking with his concubine Ji, when he heard someone call Zhao Chengping to see him, he didn't even lift his head, he waved his hand: "No see, I just said that the officer is busy with military affairs..."

"No matter how busy the military affairs are, Mr. Wang can't treat money like dung, right?" A gentle male voice came.

Startled, Wang Ji raised his head and looked in the direction of the voice.A man with delicate features and elegant demeanor stood at the door: "Zhao Chengping pays his respects to the governor king."

"How did he come in!" Wang Ji was startled and angry, "Come here!" He shouted for a long time, but no one answered, he stood up, looked over Zhao Chengping's shoulder, and saw the guards at the door lying on the ground in disorder.

All the guards of the Sheriff's Mansion were carefully selected by Wang Ji from the army, and the man in front of him knocked them all down without a sound.

The news sent by the spies in Xianyang only mentioned that he was the empress dowager's favourite. On the day Zhao Chengping entered the city, Wang Ji also stood at the top of the city and took a look.

So just find a few people to teach him a lesson, give him a blow, and make him dare not comment on the affairs of Hedong County from now on.Unexpectedly, the person sent out hadn't returned yet, but Zhao Chengping came to the door instead, and he was unharmed.

(End of this chapter)