Ye Qingwan glanced at Lin Xiuyan indifferently and snorted, "I don't need your protection. Hmm, these people are all soldiers. They're not simple."
"Judging from their posture, they're going to massacre the Lin family. Lin Xiuyan, where did your Lin family get such a powerful enemy?"
Before Lin Xiuyan could answer, she frowned and said, "The Lin family has made such a big commotion, yet the local officials stationed there have not responded. This is not normal."
A thought popped into her mind: "Could it be that the officials and bandits are in cahoots?"
Lin Xiuyan gave her a thumbs up and said, "Your Highness is amazing! Although I have no evidence, I can guess that this was Zhou Chenyang's doing."
Ye Qingwan sneered: "Zhou Chenyang? That emperor's lackey?"
Lin Xiuyan nodded and briefly explained the feud between her and Zhou Chenyang.
After listening, Ye Qingwan looked at Lin Xiuyan with pity: "You have so many bad romantic prospects."
Lin Xiuyan wasn't angry, she just said, "My charm is too great, there's nothing I can do about it."
Ye Qingwan: "..."
She glanced at Lin Xiuyan and asked, "Aren't you scared?"
Lin Xiuyan replied, "Of course I'm scared, but I want to live even more!"
"Whoever wants my life, I'll take theirs first!"
Ye Qingwan looked at her with some surprise, seeing that her almond-shaped eyes were deep yet bright, full of fighting spirit.
Ye Qingwan chuckled softly: "I didn't know what it was about you that my brother saw in you before, but now I do."
"With your personality, you and my brother are a perfect match. I'm determined to have you as my sister-in-law."
Lin Xiuyan: "..."
What is all this about?
The shouts of battle outside grew closer, and another wave of attacks began.
Lin Xiuyan had no time to pay attention to Ye Qingwan and continued to lead her men to fight the enemy.
Although tonight is their home game and they have made many preparations, there are too many enemies, and they are stronger than them.
After several waves of fighting, more than ten servants had been either killed or wounded.
Ye Qingwan rolled up her sleeves and took over the position of a seriously injured servant to help defend against the enemy.
Lin Xiuyan glanced at Ye Qingwan; she quite liked Ye Qingwan's personality.
In her previous life, Ye Qingwan died early. If possible, she wants to save Ye Qingwan in this life.
Of course, that's assuming she survives tonight.
Although they now have the upper hand, they are too few in number and there is no one to fill the vacancies left by the injured servants.
Given the current situation, if the men in black launch a few more waves of attacks, they will most likely be unable to hold them off.
Once they break into the inner courtyard, losing their weapon advantage, the vast majority of them will die!
Lin Xiuyan clenched her fist!
The Lin family mansion had been under siege for a long time without success, and the leader had brought hundreds of men, most of whom had been killed.
The scene before him was far different from what the leader had expected, so he sent someone to inform Zhou Chenyang.
When Zhou Chenyang heard this news, he was somewhat incredulous: "What do you mean the Lin family was prepared?"
"What do you mean the Lin family has extremely powerful weapons? They're just merchants, where would they get such powerful weapons?"
He sent a thousand men into the city to rob tonight, and the other robberies went very smoothly. They killed many people and obtained a considerable amount of silver.
However, he suffered a major setback at the Lin family mansion.
He transferred the most people to the Lin family mansion, a full half of them, but so far they have not been able to breach the inner courtyard of the Lin family mansion. This is simply intolerable to him!
The messenger replied, "It's true. If Lord Zhou doesn't believe it, he can go and see for himself."
Zhou Chenyang looked coldly toward the Lin residence, where the sounds of battle were still deafening.
His facial muscles twitched. So much time had passed; if he still couldn't take over the Lin family mansion, his plan would be considered a failure.
He took a deep breath and said, "Most of the houses in the Lin family mansion are made of wood."
"Pass down the order: use fire to burn everyone in the Lin family mansion to death!"
The messenger glanced at him, responded, and left.
If Zhou Chenyang had more time, he wouldn't have wanted to resort to such tactics.
Because there are many valuable things in the Lin family mansion, they would all be destroyed in the fire.
But now that things have come to this, he can't worry about that anymore. (cascoo.net)
Only when everyone in the Lin family is dead can he confiscate all of the Lin family's assets to fill his huge void.
Although the Lin family mansion had a lot of silver, the most valuable thing was the Lin family's property.
He wants everyone in the Lin family dead tonight!
The ferocity and greed in his eyes were undisguised, like that of an ugly, large rat.
Just then, Liu Tianwen rushed over and said, "City Lord, something terrible has happened! Something has occurred at the City Lord's Mansion!"
Zhou Chenyang frowned: "What could possibly happen at the City Lord's Mansion?"
Liu Tianwen replied, "A group of men stormed into the city lord's mansion, killing everyone they saw and looting everything they could find!"
"After they finished looting, they even set fire to the city lord's mansion!"
Zhou Chenyang was taken aback. He turned his head and saw that a raging fire was indeed burning in the direction of the city lord's mansion.
He roared in fury, "Who dares to rob the city lord's mansion!"
After he finished speaking, he was about to lead his troops back when Liu Tianwen stopped him, saying, "It's too late to go back now!"
"That group of people were extremely vicious, just like real notorious bandits!"
Zhou Chenyang's face instantly turned extremely ugly: "A notorious bandit? Where did this notorious bandit come from? Someone must be impersonating him!"
Liu Tianwen looked at him and said, "Even if someone is impersonating someone, there's nothing we can do about it!"
"Right now, our people are all looting in the city. Under these circumstances, we can't mobilize the troops from the city lord's mansion to surround and suppress them."
Because if they were to besiege each other, they would likely turn on each other.
Zhou Chenyang gritted his teeth and said, "If we don't mobilize troops to encircle and annihilate this situation that happened tonight, how can we explain it to our superiors?"
"Not to mention, the Prince of Pingnan's mansion was already looking for trouble with us!"
His original plan was to first use his troops to loot the place, and then lead the troops from the city lord's mansion to hunt down the so-called bandits.
Since the robbers were impossible to catch, they used the prisoners in the jail as robbers and killed them all.
This way, they could both silence the witnesses and give an explanation to the Prince of Pingnan's mansion.
But the person who suddenly appeared out of nowhere completely disrupted his rhythm!
Liu Tianwen knew he was telling the truth, so he said, "I always felt that those people were after the city lord."
“They are too dangerous. I will lead the men to surround and wipe them out, while the city lord can continue to stay here and oversee the situation.”
Zhou Chenyang knew there were still many things to deal with and he couldn't leave, so he agreed to Liu Tianwen's plan.
Upon returning, Liu Tianwen immediately mobilized troops in Chongqing to suppress the so-called notorious bandits.
But just as he arrived at the city lord's mansion with his men, an arrow struck his neck, pinning him to a nearby tree.
Liu Tianwen stared wide-eyed at the person who shot him, and it turned out to be Lin Xiuyan's etiquette teacher!
Standing beside him was the heir of the Prince of Pingnan, who had been staying at the city lord's mansion a few days earlier.
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