Chapter 789 Yan Baobao Unleashes Her Power (First Update)
Gu Xiaoshun sat up abruptly.
He moved quickly, but not heavily, and made almost no sound.
He winked at Gu Yan, "I'll go check it out. You wait here for me."
Actually, Gu Xiaoshun is a year younger than Gu Yan, but Gu Yan has always been the one who is sickly and weak, and Gu Xiaoshun has gotten used to protecting him.
Gu Yan shook his head, indicating that he didn't need to look anymore and should go and wake up his master's wife and the others.
good.
Gu Xiaoshun silently agreed in his mind, and without even putting on his shoes, went barefoot to the room of Master Nan and Master Lu.
As he passed through the main room, he could clearly feel the other party trying to pry open the door. However, Master Lu was, after all, the most skilled craftsman in Zhao Kingdom, and the modified door latch he had made was not so easy to pry open.
Of course, it's possible that they might get fed up with prying and resort to force, such as kicking it open.
Gu Xiaoshun needed to hurry.
He shook Nan Shi Niang awake.
Startled awake in the middle of the night, Nan Shi Niang was about to speak when Gu Xiaoshun covered her mouth.
I learned this move from Gu Yan.
It's really useful.
Nan Shi Niang was a seasoned veteran. When Gu Xiaoshun woke her up in the middle of the night and covered her mouth to prevent her from speaking, she only blinked before realizing that something was wrong.
She kicked Master Lu, who was sitting next to her, awake.
"What's wrong? What's wrong?" Master Lu asked, looking completely bewildered.
Nan Shi Niang glared at him and whispered, "Keep your voice down! Someone's coming!"
Master Lu immediately became alert.
Nan Shi Niang always had to get up once or twice during the night, so she slept outside.
Master Lu gently stepped over her and got off the bed, picked up the axe on the table and walked towards the door.
Nan Shi Niang quickly put on her shoes and an outer garment, and went to the main room with Master Lu.
Click.
After a slight click, the latch was finally pried open.
The door was pushed open from the outside, and a man in black stepped in.
However, what awaited him was a gleaming axe.
That man was lucky to be a skilled fighter; an ordinary thief would have been cleaved in two with a single axe blow.
He hurriedly took a step back, trying to avoid Master Lu's axe. He managed to dodge it, but his clothes were ripped open and his belt was broken.
Upon seeing this, the other four men behind him quickly drew their swords from their waists.
One of them pulled him away and thrust his sword at Master Lu!
Nan Shi Niang's eyes turned cold: "Trying to hurt my man? Dream on!"
With a flick of her finger, three crabapple blossom needles shot towards that person!
The man quickly withdrew his attack on Master Lu and instead swung his sword to deflect the hidden weapon.
He deflected two shots, but one still hit his arm.
A sharp, unusual pain shot through his arm. He frowned, his face contorted in a grimace, and exclaimed, "Poison!"
Nan Shi Niang launched another round of hidden weapons, this time not only the Tanghua needles, but also her darts coated with deadly poison.
Gu Xiaoshun wasn't idle either. He took out his newly made mechanical box and threw it at the group of people in the yard!
"Xiao Shun!"
Master Lu quickly closed one of the doors and used his axe to block Gu Xiaoshun and Madam Nan from his side.
Several loud bangs were heard, and the door was riddled with holes.
Master Lu broke out in a cold sweat and said to Gu Xiaoshun, "Next time you make a hidden weapon, can you make one that won't hurt your own people?"
Gu Xiaoshun scratched his head: "Oh."
He made many, but the only one that wouldn't hurt him was given to Gu Jiao.
The rest are indiscriminate attacks.
That one was the newest; he hadn't tried it yet.
"I thought we'd finally succeeded," he muttered.
Nan's wife and Master Lu worked together to deal with the five people in the courtyard.
Looking at the black-clad men sprawled on the ground, Madam Nan frowned in confusion: "Only five came? I thought there were six just now, judging from their breathing..."
"ah--"
A scream came from the backyard.
The men's expressions changed, and they dashed towards the backyard!
When they arrived at the backyard, they saw Gu Yan holding a stick in both hands, with a man in black lying on the ground, knocked unconscious by him with the stick.
Everyone: "..."
"You...you knocked him out?" Gu Xiaoshun asked in a daze. This was simply unbelievable.
Gu Yan puffed out her chest proudly and said, "That's right!"
Gu Xiaoshun couldn't help but give Gu Yan a thumbs up. "Brother, from now on I'll look at you in a new light."
“However,” Gu Xiaoshun frowned, “you knocked him out, what were you yelling about? I thought he had done something to you!”
Gu Yan, holding the stick, said, "This looks more imposing."
Gu Xiaoshun: "..."
Gu Yan's successful sneak attack was purely because the person stepped into a trap in the backyard and inhaled the sleeping drug that was sprinkled from the eaves.
As they were talking, a whooshing sound suddenly came from the front yard, followed by fireworks exploding in the sky.
Master Lu threw an axe, knocking the still-struggling man in black unconscious!
Looking at the fireworks overhead, Madam Nan said gravely, "It's a signal! They're gathering their comrades nearby! We can't stay here! Leave immediately! Don't pack your things!"
Possessions are a small matter; escaping is the most important.
Gu Yan rushed into the house, took the golden lantern that Gu Jiao had brought back from the lantern festival, and left the rest behind.
Nan Shi Niang went back to her room, dressed herself properly, and took out several masks.
Even though I'm not packing, I still have to bring along any spare change.
Master Lu carried her hidden weapons and poison on his back.
"Don't forget this! This is the antidote for Changqing!" Madam Nan took the medicine bottle from the table and put it into her bosom.
Meanwhile, Gu Xiaoshun and Gu Yan went to call Mr. Meng.
Unfortunately, Mr. Meng was sleeping too soundly, and even a thunderbolt couldn't wake him.
"Ugh, I'm fed up with you!" Gu Yan exclaimed in exasperation. "Xiao Shun, you carry him on your back!"
"I'll do it!" Master Lu walked into the house and handed the basket on his back to Gu Xiaoshun. "You two go and prepare the carriage."
"Okay!" Gu Xiaoshun replied.
He and Gu Yan went to the stable, led the horses out, harnessed them to the carriage, and opened the back door.
Master Lu carried the sleeping Grandpa Meng up on his back.
Gu Yan and Gu Xiaoshun also sat down.
Nan Shi Niang sat on the outer seat of the carriage and grasped the reins: "I'll drive! I'm more familiar with the terrain of Shengdu!"
After putting Grandpa Meng in the carriage, Master Lu came out and sat down with her: "I'll watch over him for you."
“Alright then.” Madam Nan did not refuse.
It was the dead of night.
A horse-drawn carriage drove out of Willow Lane and sped away down the quiet street.
There is no curfew in the outer city of Shengdu, but at this hour there are not many carriages wandering the streets, so their carriages would be very conspicuous.
"Go where there are more people!" Master Lu said.
"Where are the crowds?" Mrs. Nan asked instinctively.
“Tianxiang Pavilion!” Gu Yan said, lifting the curtain.
Tianxiang Pavilion, the place where Gu Chengfeng performed, is now only a place where the street stays awake all night and is always bustling with customers.
That's the best place to go.
Nan Shi Niang turned the carriage around and headed towards Tianxiang Pavilion.
"Quick! They're over there!"
Upon hearing the assassin's voice, Madam Nan gripped the reins tightly: "Oh no! They're catching up!"
This time it wasn't just five men in black, but a full ten.
Ten assassins leaped across rooftops and followed the loud hoofbeats and heavy cartwheels at breakneck speed.
They gradually drew closer.
"I see the carriage!"
"Go! Remember, capture the two younger ones alive! Kill the rest without exception!"
"yes!"
The men in black split into two groups, five on the left and five on the right, and began to surround the carriage.
With a gesture from the leader, the group used their lightness skills to leap into the air in the night, drew their longswords, and cleaved open the carriage.
The horse was startled, and with the sword's energy severing the reins, it fled in panic into the night.
At that moment, no one cared about a single horse.
The crowd surrounded the collapsed train carriage.
"Who did it?" the leader demanded fiercely. "I told the two younger ones to be spared! What if they're killed?"
Everyone lowered their heads.
The leader pointed to the man in black beside him: "You, go and take a look!"
"yes!"
The man in black who was called out mustered his courage and stepped forward, using his longsword to pry open a collapsed section of the carriage wall, only to find that the carriage was empty.
He turned around and said, "Boss! They've escaped!"
The leader narrowed his eyes: "They can't have gone far, split up and chase them!"
Have they left?
Inside a small, closed shop, Mrs. Nan asked in a low voice.
Master Lu slowly poked his head out from inside the wall, peered out, and said, "It seems they've left."
"Phew." Madam Nan leaned against the wall and breathed a sigh of relief. "The aura of this group is different from the ones from before. They are suicide squads and are difficult to deal with."
Gu Yan's expression suddenly became somewhat strange.
Gu Xiaoshun noticed his unusual behavior and asked, "Are you alright? Is your chest hurting again?"
"No," Gu Yan shook his head, "I just feel... there's danger!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a sword aura slashed through the air.
Master Lu and Madam Nan each held a child and stepped aside.
The sword energy struck the ground, and an innocent water vat was caught in the crossfire, shattering instantly.
Old Mr. Meng, who was tied to Master Lu's back, was jolted awake by the sudden movement.
However, the next second, his head hit the wall and he was knocked unconscious again.
Master Lu: Did you bump into something just now? But I don't feel any pain.
I think I updated too quickly...
(End of this chapter)
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