When Zhang Xing heard Li Er's suggestion, he agreed with it very much.
If we allow that group of people to continue killing without restraint, the others will definitely retreat, and then our plan will fail miserably.
"Yes, yes, yes, Li Er is right. We must force those people out. We have blocked them on the second floor of Qingfeng Pavilion. That place is small and disadvantageous to us. We cannot play the advantage of our large numbers. Instead, it becomes their advantage. We must force those people out."
The others nodded when they heard this, and the stewards immediately took action, pouring kerosene around the Qingfeng Inn and building piles of firewood.
These people never considered the guests who were still hiding in the inn.
When the fire started, the guests and waiters in the inn fled.
The people from Baishantang also slowly retreated and surrounded the three inner and three outer floors of the inn.
At this time, the ghost-faced man and his group on the second floor looked at the blazing fireworks downstairs, and everyone covered their mouths and noses in discomfort.
"Sir, they are trying to force us to go downstairs."
"Sir, what should we do now?"
Once they go downstairs, their advantage will be gone.
No matter how powerful they were, two fists could not defeat four hands. If they had not gone downstairs, they would have been burned to death.
There are two roads, you can only choose one.
The ghost-faced man didn't hesitate at all and directly ordered, "Charge out."
"yes."
A group of twenty people broke through the second-floor window and jumped directly onto the main street.
The people from Baishan Hall who had been waiting here for a long time rushed over like a cat smelling fish.
"kill!"
Shouts of fighting and killing resounded throughout the entire street. The street, which was supposed to be under curfew, was filled with fighting. The surrounding merchants and residents listened to the noise outside and hid in their homes, not daring to come out.
Some brave people secretly opened the gate and looked out, and saw a sea of blood and corpses on the street, bright red blood flowing all over the ground, and the smell of blood was in their faces.
Many people were shocked by the bloody scene and closed the gates in panic.
"Master, what's going on outside?" a young woman asked curiously.
The man closed the gate and kept adjusting his breathing. After a long while, he spoke, "Shh, keep your voice down. There's a lot of killing going on outside."
"Did any bailiff try to stop us?" the woman asked in a low voice.
Normally, the situation outside should have alarmed the yamen runners long ago.
"Don't ask any more questions. Take your children and hide in the cellar. Don't come out."
There are many families like them.
They didn't know what was going on, but the only thing they could do was to protect themselves and avoid getting into trouble.
While the people from Baishan Hall were fighting with Guimian and his gang, Su Xiaozhong pried open the door of the warehouse by himself. When the heavy wooden door was pushed open, a rotten smell hit him in the face.
The air began to flow, and the musty smell in the warehouse was slightly removed.
Su Xiaozhong walked to one of the wooden cabinets and opened it. Various fabrics were piled in the wooden box. He walked to the next box and opened it. Various spices were placed inside.
Su Xiaozhong was not interested in any of these. He continued walking down to the depths of the warehouse, where there was a desk with writing brushes, ink, paper, and an inkstone, as well as a small box.
He opened the small box and found a thick stack of banknotes inside. He picked up the banknotes and took a quick look. They were all large-denomination banknotes. There must be at least tens of thousands of taels in such a small box.
Su Xiaozhong naturally put the silver and money into his arms. At the bottom of the wooden box, there was a token that looked like copper but was not.
He played with it carefully for a while, then put it in his arms.
Su Xiaozhong searched the warehouse carefully but did not find the account book he wanted, and was a little disappointed.
As soon as one foot stepped out of the warehouse, the other foot stopped inside the warehouse.
Su Xiaozhong suddenly turned around and stared at the table in the deepest part of the warehouse.
He retracted his foot, walked back quickly, went to the table, squatted down, and felt around on the table, but still had no clues.
Did I guess wrong?!
Su Xiaozhong sat on the armchair, one hand on the desk and the other on the edge of the armchair, stroking his fingers slowly, his eyes slightly narrowed.
His eyes wandered around the entire warehouse.
He searched Baishan Hall inside and out, and the only possible place where the account books could be kept was this warehouse.
When the head shopkeeper came here before, he would often enter the warehouse.
Where will it be placed?
Su Xiaozhong looked up at the sky, then down at the ground, his gaze paused suddenly, he stood up, pushed the armchair away, lay down under the desk, and tapped on the floor tiles around the desk with his fingers.
Finally, we locked on to one of the floor tiles. When we knocked on this tile, the sound was obviously crisper than the other tiles, so there must be a hollow space underneath.
Su Xiaozhong tried to move the floor tile, and it took him a long time to find the right way to open it.
Sure enough, the bottom was hollow, with a black wooden box placed in the middle.
Su Xiaozhong opened the wooden box, and inside was a thick account book and a list of names of bribery.
Su Xiaozhong put the things in his arms, put the wooden box back, and closed the warehouse door.
He returned to the backyard and carried out a corpse that had been prepared long ago from the woodshed. The corpse was the same height as him and of the same age.
He threw the body into the house where he lived and then sprinkled kerosene on the Baishan Hall.
After everyone had prepared everything, they took out a tinder from their arms and threw it onto the kerosene. In an instant, a big fire started. The flames were fierce and spread all the way to the entire courtyard.
He calmly pushed open the door to the backyard, and saw a carriage parked outside.
He got straight into a carriage.
There were no patrolling yamen runners in Linzhou Prefecture today. Su Xiaozhong drove the carriage left and right, and finally stopped at an unused courtyard.
This is where he will stay temporarily tonight and he will leave Linzhou Prefecture early tomorrow morning.
While Su Xiaozhong was leisurely doing things according to his plan, the area around Qingfeng Inn was a scene of purgatory.
It must be said that the fighting power of those twenty people was extremely strong, and they frightened the people of Baishan Hall. However, no matter how powerful they were, they could not withstand the human wave tactics of Baishan Hall.
At this time, there were only six people still standing out of the twenty. These six people all had scars on their bodies and looked exhausted. Each of them had reached the end of their strength.
Zhang Xing looked at the corpses on the street, then looked at the people in front of him. He felt a chill in his heart, yet he couldn't help feeling fortunate.
Fortunately, they listened to the second shopkeeper's advice and brought in people from various gangs in Linzhou Prefecture.
Otherwise, with just the one hundred people in Baishan Hall, they would probably end up in a miserable defeat.
Li Er had been following Su Xiaozhong's orders carefully. Seeing that the six men were still standing, he frowned.
These people are really hard to kill.
Zhang Xing shouted to his brothers, "They are already at the end of their strength. Brothers, come together and kill them to avenge the chief shopkeeper."
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