"Brother, can I buy all of these? Is this enough?" Chen Shou was extremely anxious. Lan Qin had told him that someone was plotting to harm this family, and that he should pick them up and leave immediately, without delay.

After saying this, Chen Shou took out a money pouch from his pocket, the one Cui Niang had given to Lan Qin. This pouch of silver was estimated to contain seventy or eighty taels.

Old Cui glanced at it and quickly waved his hand, saying, "There's no need for so much. However, I haven't even collected my grain yet. How are you going to take it with you?"

Chen Shou was almost in tears. He sighed silently. Faced with such a simple and honest mountain man, he could only say, "How about I stay here for the night and tell you all about it? We'll leave tomorrow."

The Cui family warmly welcomed Chen Shou into their house, and naturally, they didn't forget the coachman. Cui Lao Er went to fetch the coachman and take him to their home. Cui Da Niang instructed her two daughters-in-law to light a fire and cook for Chen Shou and the coachman. The coachman wanted to sleep, so they found him a bed and he went to rest. After all, he had been driving all afternoon and was tired.

Chen Shou began by talking about Cui Laoda and Cui Laoer, starting with Cui Niang's situation, explaining why she hadn't left the palace, then mentioning the concubine, Cui Niang's recent experiences, and finally explaining why he had come to fetch them.

Three men were inside the house, while the women were cooking in the kitchen. Outside, the mountains and fields were silent.

However, in the darkness of twilight, several people dressed in black could be seen walking along the mountain path. They had arrived on horseback, and now they had tied their horses at the village entrance before entering the village.

The village dogs smelled the stranger and started barking at their doorsteps. Everyone was busy eating around the table, oblivious to the stranger's presence.

After Chen Shou finished speaking, the two burly men fell silent. They had lived in this mountain village for over twenty years and were quite simple-minded; they had never experienced such a complex life and could not imagine that their sister would live in such an environment.

“Brother Cui, Second Brother Cui, you should pack your things tonight. We’ll leave first thing tomorrow morning. I’m afraid if you don’t leave now, you won’t be able to leave. Aunt Cui is most worried about you right now,” Chen Shou said.

The men in black had already arrived outside the Cui family's gate. The leader gestured for everyone to cover their faces and heads, then said, "Our master said that taking only Elder Cui and Madam Cui is enough. As for the rest, kill them. They can't escape anywhere else anyway."

"Understood!!" The five or six men in black were all skilled martial artists. How could a simple wooden gate and a mud wall that was almost half a person high stop them?

In the kitchen, Grandma Cui, her two daughters-in-law, and her granddaughter were adding water to a pot. They had just killed two chickens and were stewing them in the pot. The granddaughter sat next to her grandmother, adding firewood to the stove.

Two men in black approached the kitchen, looked through the window, identified Aunt Cui, exchanged a glance, kicked open the half-closed wooden door, and rushed inside.

At the same time, four men in black jumped into the room where Chen Shou and the other two were talking, and a massacre was about to begin.

It all came so suddenly that no one was prepared. Eldest Cui used furniture to defend himself, while Second Brother Cui had already been stabbed. Chen Shou trembled with fear.

The coachman was sleeping so soundly that he was actually the first to be killed; his throat was slit in his sleep.

These men were highly trained assassins; they had already thoroughly investigated the household and quickly killed anyone who wasn't their target.

"Who are you people? How dare you kill someone in broad daylight?" Chen Shou trembled. He knew in his heart that compared to these people, they were like lambs to the slaughter.

"Is Cui Niang from your family? If you have to blame someone, blame her for offending someone she shouldn't have." The man in black stared coldly at the three people huddled in the corner.

When Cui Laoda saw the menacing approaching menacing people, just as Chen Shou had said, his family was now under the executioner's blade. It is said that when people are in dire straits, they will unleash astonishing power.

"Second brother, Brother Chen, let's fight to the death! It's either them or us who die today!" Although Cui Laoda was just a farmer, he was also a bloodthirsty man.

The three men each grabbed a stool and used it to fend off the attacks of the men in black. Gradually, they were actually able to defeat them. Perhaps this was a case of fighting to the death. The fourth brother, one of the men in black, was not gaining any advantage.

Gradually, the fight spread from inside the house to outside. Suddenly, screams erupted from the kitchen; it was the voice of Cui Lao Er's wife.

"You are not human, those are the old, weak, women and children." Cui Lao Er tried to save his wife, but gave the other side an opening and was stabbed in the back.

The leader of the men in black said, "Keep those you want to keep, kill the rest."

Chen Shou was greatly alarmed. Taking advantage of the opportunity to lean back against Cui, he said urgently, "Brother Cui, if you can leave, leave quickly. These people are all skilled in martial arts, and we are no match for them."

Seeing his brother stabbed and his mother, wife, and daughter in the kitchen, their fates unknown, Brother Cui had no will to live. Driven to madness, he raised a stool and said to Chen Shou, "Brother Chen, you must leave. I'll fight them to the death."

Perhaps it was his desire to die, for they fought for quite a while, and the men in black couldn't subdue the three of them. The fighting finally alerted the other villagers, who gradually arrived carrying fire sticks.

The men in black had intended to finish their mission quickly and quietly, but now that they had alerted the villagers, they had no choice but to leave.

The leader of the men in black whistled, and just as quickly as they had arrived, they vanished.

Several bold villagers, holding fire sticks, looked towards the commotion in the Cui family's courtyard. They saw Cui the eldest son rushing into the kitchen crying, Cui the second son lying on the ground, and a stranger also sitting on the ground, panting.

In the kitchen, Aunt Cui was seen holding her granddaughter, who had already died, and crying bitterly. The eldest daughter-in-law and her daughter-in-law had their throats slit, dying instantly with a single sword stroke.

The strong smell of blood mingled with the aroma of chicken wafting from the pot. Old Cui rushed to Old Lady Cui, shaking her arm and crying, "Mom, Mom!!"

The village head was woken up from his warm bed. A serious murder had suddenly occurred in the peaceful mountain village, and the whole village was in an uproar.

The village doctor, who arrived at the scene, ordered his men to quickly carry the bodies into the house to stop the bleeding. The bodies of Cui Laoda's wife and daughter, as well as Cui Laoer's wife, were also carried out and placed in the yard, all covered with white sheets. The groom's body was also discovered and carried out.

Chen Shou glanced at the coachman and sighed inwardly. If he hadn't met him, the coachman might have been alright.

"Eldest son of the Cui family, who exactly did you offend? How did you suddenly attract such a great disaster for no reason?" the village head said with a regretful expression.