After the system ran, I took off with my family

Chapter 53 Entering the City and Arresting Hou Huairen

Hou Wu looked back and saw that the remaining two brothers were also lying in a pool of blood. He felt extremely regretful for underestimating the enemy.

On the hillside, Zhao Xiuyin and others saw that Lin An's family had subdued the thieves, so they hurried down, surrounded the Lin family, and only breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that they were not injured.

Lin Shuyue and Lin An took Hou Wu aside, and Lin An put a knife on Hou Wu's neck: "Who are you? Why do you want to kill us?"

Hou Wu covered his hands, his face was pale, and his scarlet eyes stared at Lin An and his daughter: "Stop talking nonsense, you can kill or shave as you like."

Lin Shuyue had sharp eyes. She spotted the token on Hou Wu's waist and stepped forward to pull it off. After taking a look, she handed it to Lin An, "Dad, it's that bastard official again."

Lin An took the token, staring at it in a daze, not knowing what he was thinking about.

When Hou Wu saw that his token was taken away, he struggled to get up, but was kicked down by Lin Shuyue.

Lin Shuyue stepped on his broken wrist, stared at Hou Wu and asked, "Why did he send you to kill us?"

Hou Wu was shaking with pain, but he still gritted his teeth and stared at Lin Shuyue.

"You won't tell me, right?" Lin Shuyue increased the strength of her footsteps and raised the corners of her mouth slightly. "If you don't tell me, then I'll have to go find him myself."

Without waiting for Hou Wu to struggle, a silver-white sword quickly slashed across his neck.

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Everyone gathered around the fire, and Lin An held the token in silence.

"Why did this dog official send people to kill us?" Li was puzzled.

Lin Shuyue glanced at his father and said in a deep voice: "The main target of the group of black-clothed men just now was my father, but my father and that dog official were strangers, why did he send people to kill my father?

The only explanation is that the news of the killing of the man in black was leaked last time, and that dog official knew that we killed his people."

"But we were the only ones from our village there that night, how could..." Lin Gang stopped talking, as if he thought of something, and looked at Lin Shuyue in horror.

Lin Shuyue nodded. "It should be that someone from our village was arrested and betrayed my father. Besides, the two people I killed just now seemed to be afraid to kill me and have been hesitating."

"What?" Several people exclaimed in unison.

Zhao Xiuyin looked towards the city with hatred, "You didn't listen to my advice before, and even betrayed you after being caught. You are a bunch of ungrateful wolves."

Lin Gang and his companions patted their chests, not knowing whether they should be glad that they had escaped or angry at those people's betrayal.

Li looked at her husband worriedly. Lin An was a very sentimental man. Now that he was betrayed by the villagers, one could imagine how he felt.

"Dad, I'm going into the city now. Do you want to come with me?" Lin Shuyue stood up, patted his butt and asked Lin An.

Lin An came back to his senses and shook his head, "You go ahead. My Qinggong is not as good as yours. You better be careful."

The Li family and others knew what Lin Shuyue was going to do in the provincial capital, but they didn't say anything, just told her to be careful.

At the hour of Chou, Lin Shuyue stood on the roof of a house and looked around.

Most of the houses in the city are made of blue bricks and tiles, neatly distributed in the four directions of east, west, south and north.

But what puzzled her was that, except for the government office in the east and two large houses in the south, the rest of the city was completely silent and without any lights.

I randomly looked at a few people's yards and saw that they were all in a mess, with a lot of dried blood in the corners. It seemed that these people had met with accidents.

However, from time to time, patrolling soldiers holding torches would walk through the streets.

Lin Shuyue first flew towards the two large houses in the south. She wanted to find out the situation in the city first.

In the study room in the front yard of the Ma family, a middle-aged man with thick eyebrows and big eyes, dressed in brocade clothes, frowned and looked at a young man next to him.

"Wenfu, the lackey of that man just now sent another message. If we are not willing to donate grain, he will attack us."

"Dad, why don't we just donate the food? Hou Huairen is extremely cruel. If he really does something, it will be too late for us to regret it.

Think about the people who resisted in the city ten days ago. I don’t even dare to think about that scene now..."

Ma Wenfu seemed to have remembered something horrible, and his plump white face was filled with fear.

Ma Jiabao rubbed his eyebrows. Of course he had not forgotten what happened ten days ago.

That day, the whole city was like hell on earth. The ground was flowing like a river of blood, and the bodies of old people, children, and women were everywhere.

The men knelt down and begged the officers and soldiers to spare their parents, wives and children. They said they would not run away and were willing to stay.

But the officers and soldiers had already gone crazy. They wielded swords and hacked at the powerless elderly, children and women. They even competed with each other to see how many people they had killed.

In order to keep their families alive, some of the grieving men used their bodies to block the soldiers, while others rushed towards the city gate, trying to open it and let their families escape.

Finally, they paid the price of their lives to open the city gates, and their families fled the city with tears in their eyes and grief in their hearts. Only by staying alive can they take revenge.

The reason for all this was that Hou Huairen indiscriminately arrested adult men in the city, which caused the people in the city to want to escape.

After coming back to his senses, Ma Jiabao felt a little heavy-hearted: "Wenfu, do you know that if we really donated grain, we would be in the same boat with that guy, and our family might even be destroyed?" His son was still too young and looked at things too one-sidedly.

Ma Wenfu's eyes flashed with excitement, and his voice could not help but increase: "Dad, but if the eldest prince wins, we can change our family status and our son can become an official."

Ma Jiabao stared at the blue bricks on the ground and thought about what his son said. The study fell into silence....

Outside the window, a figure quietly left.

Lin Shuyue used his lightness skills to fly towards the government office with a cold look in his eyes. No wonder there was no one in the city. It turned out that the people in the city were in trouble. This corrupt official deserved to be cut into pieces.

The government office was silent at night, with only occasional lights coming from patrolling soldiers passing by.

Lin Shuyue hid in the darkness beside the rockery, waited for the patrolling soldiers to pass, and then headed straight for the backyard with light steps.

She carefully observed the houses in the backyard and saw two maids standing at the door of one of the houses. Lin Shuyue guessed that the house was Hou Huairen's bedroom.

The little maid yawned and shook her head to make herself more awake, but... plop...the two maids fell to the ground.

Lin Shuyue dragged the two maids into the darkness, gently opened the bedroom door, and walked in quietly.

As soon as you enter, you will see the main hall for receiving guests. The main hall is covered with velvet carpets. On a high table made of golden nanmu wood lies a white jade plum vase, and next to it is a purple gold incense burner emitting a faint fragrance.

Lin Shuyue turned to the back of the screen. Behind the screen was a wardrobe, a bed, a table and chairs. All the furniture was very exquisite and elegant.

When she saw this, she thought of the refugees whose food had been robbed and the lives that died at the hands of Hou Huairen, and her eyes darkened.

Lin Shuyue looked at the bed and saw a middle-aged man with a green beard and a white face and wearing white pajamas, and a woman with fair skin and delicate eyebrows and eyes lying on the bed.

Lin Shuyue walked forward, grabbed the middle-aged man and slipped into the space. It would be easy to make noise if she interrogated him outside, so it would be more convenient inside the space. Anyway, she had no intention of letting this corrupt official go.

Hou Huairen was sleeping soundly when he suddenly felt dizzy....

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