Before Zhang Yuanshan could speak, Chen Shoucai continued, "I need a dozen of my men to go down to the bottom of the lake with me. I wonder if Your Excellency can allow it."
After hearing this, Zhang Xiaowen was furious. "Chen Shoucai, don't go too far! What? Do you want to take your men and escape under the pretext of diving into the bottom of the lake?"
Chen Shoucai felt guilty for a moment, but then he straightened his back and said confidently, "Sir, you can see that this lake is surrounded by stone walls. How can I escape? Besides, I am seriously injured. How can I run?"
Seeing that Zhang Yuanshan didn't say anything, Chen Shoucai continued, "Sir, if you are really worried, then you can send this sir to go down with us. In this way, you will also feel relieved, right?"
As he spoke, Chen Shoucai pointed at Zhang Xiaowen.
The air froze at this moment. Zhang Yuanshan didn't say anything, and no one else dared to say anything either.
"Hmph!" Zhang Yuanshan snorted coldly. He waved his hand casually and said coldly, "That's it. I'll only give you a cup of tea. If you can't find the treasure at the bottom of the lake, I'll throw you to the dogs!"
"Yes, sir!" Chen Shoucai's brows were beaming with joy, and he raised his sleeve to wipe the cold sweat from his forehead.
That was a close call!
Zhang Yuanshan almost scratched his neck.
He raised his eyes slightly and quickly glanced at Zhang Xiaowen's coffin face. Humph, he is just a dog under the emperor's seat, but he dares to ride on his head repeatedly!
If I don't teach him a lesson, people will think that he, the leader of the Black Wind Village, is easy to bully!
The Jinyiwei received orders from Zhang Yuanshan and untied the bandits designated by Chen Shoucai.
Zhang Xiaowen looked at Chen Shoucai coldly, "Haha, you won't cry until you see the coffin! You can just wait to be chopped into pieces and fed to the dogs."
After saying that, Zhang Xiaowen took a deep breath and jumped into the lake.
Chen Shoucai sneered, "Hmph, it's not certain who will die."
He turned his head and looked at the bandits standing behind him, "Brothers, we must salvage gold, silver and jewelry for Lord Zhang this time and prepare a big gift for him!"
"Yes, Chief!" the bandits echoed loudly.
The bandits who had just gone down to the lake to investigate with Zhang Xiaowen instantly understood what Chen Shoucai meant.
After Chen Shoucai gave his brothers instructions, he was the first to jump into the lake.
“Plop~”
The bandits also followed Chen Shoucai into the lake, one after another, like dumplings being dropped into the water.
The bandits led by Chen Shoucai followed closely behind him, and the Jinyiwei led by Zhang Xiaowen also followed closely behind Zhang Xiaowen.
Chen Shoucai dived into the bottom of the lake many times, so he was very familiar with the lake.
He deliberately led the Jinyiwei away from the shore, and when they sank into the center of the lake, Chen Shoucai suddenly raised his hand and made a gesture. At that moment, a dozen bandits quickly pulled out sharp daggers from their boots and surrounded Zhang Xiaowen and five or six other Jinyiwei tightly.
Zhang Xiaowen and five or six other Jinyiwei were horrified. They never expected that Chen Shoucai would attack them at this moment.
They habitually reached for their waists, trying to draw the swords hanging at their waists, but unexpectedly they touched nothing.
It turned out that they had left their swords on the shore when they went down to the lake, but after being angered by Chen Shoucai's few words, they had all left their swords on the shore.
Chen Shoucai sneered, and then raised his hand again to make a gesture. The bandits immediately began to attack Zhang Xiaowen's Jinyiwei.
The mountain bandits had a large number of people, and their swimming skills were much better than those of Zhang Xiaowen and other Jinyiwei. Therefore, it didn't take long for the mountain bandits to kill the Jinyiwei in a cruel way by slitting their necks.
Among them, Zhang Xiaowen's death was so horrific and particularly terrifying.
His tongue had been brutally cut off, but the tendons had not been severed. The bloody tongue hung above his chin, swaying, as if telling of the great pain he had endured in his life.
His ears and nose also did not escape the fate, they were also cut off by the bandits and scattered alone. His eyes were also dug out by the bandits and were now floating up slowly with the ups and downs of the lake.
His body fell in a pool of blood, blood gushing out from his cut neck, dyeing the surrounding lake water a glaring scarlet.
His eyes were wide open, and the eye sockets that should have been filled with eyeballs were now empty, which looked particularly strange and terrifying. His face clearly showed an expression of extreme pain and astonishment, as if he had encountered unbearable fear and torture. His mouth was slightly open, as if he wanted to scream with all his might, but it seemed as if he was restrained by an invisible force and could not make even the slightest sound.
Every muscle on his face seemed to be frozen at that moment, forever freezing the pain and astonishment before his death.
This bloody scene is so horrifying and terrifying.
When Chen Shoucai saw Zhang Xiaowen's miserable condition, the anger in his heart finally dissipated a little.
Humph, let Zhang Xiaowen look at him with that contemptuous look, with his nose sticking up to the sky, and curse him endlessly. His nose, eyes, and tongue are all gone, and let's see how Zhang Xiaowen can still be so rude!
Chen Shoucai pushed his leg up and kicked Zhang Xiaowen's body upwards.
Afterwards, Chen Shoucai led the bandits to dive to the bottom of the lake.
When he saw the empty bottom of the lake, he wanted to die.
The large wooden boxes that originally filled the bottom of the lake were now empty, with nothing in them.
He did not give up and led his men to search the entire bottom of the lake. But the result was the same: there was nothing at the bottom of the lake. The dozens of large wooden boxes filled with gold, silver and jewelry that he had sent to the bottom of the lake disappeared, not even a piece of silver was left.
Chen Shoucai felt weak all over, and the last bit of hope in his eyes disappeared like a phantom. Instead, he was filled with endless despair.
He really became a complete pauper, a pauper with nothing.
This realization made Chen Shoucai lose all desire to live. He seemed to have lost all his strength and slowly floated up.
Seeing this, the bandits panicked and hurriedly chased after Chen Shoucai, dragging him back to the bottom of the lake. Then, they laboriously led Chen Shoucai to swim to a cave at the bottom of the lake and fled in a hurry.
Stone cave on the shore.
Zhang Yuanshan, who was waiting on the shore, realized that something was wrong. They waited on the shore for a long time but did not see any signs of Zhang Xiaowen and others.
Suddenly, a Jinyiwei pointed at the lake and shouted, "Sir, please look quickly. There seems to be a person on the lake!"
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