The captain of the government troops shouted, "Close the gates of the government office! Search everywhere for the assassin! A reward will be given for whoever captures him!"
The officers and soldiers immediately rushed to various parts of the government compound in groups of three or five.
At this moment, the emperor's brother-in-law, who was sitting on the grand chair, looked like a fleshy lump, his head tilted to the side, and blood was flowing down his arms and legs in a torrent, the blood meandering down the three steps.
When the soldiers left, the three burly men looked flustered, gripping their broadswords tightly and glancing around nervously.
At this moment, gusts of cold wind blew by, making their scalps tingle.
At this moment, several people rushed out from the backyard, shouting, "Your Majesty, something terrible has happened! The storerooms have been emptied, the entire backyard is on fire, and the ladies are in complete chaos!"
They shouted and ran to the emperor's brother-in-law's chair. Looking up, they were so frightened they fell to the ground, stammering, "Emperor, Emperor, Emperor's brother-in-law, you, you, you..."
Before he could finish speaking, his eyes rolled back and he fainted.
Seeing the chaotic scene of the constables, Li Lanzhen didn't want to stay there any longer. However, if she showed herself now, the three burly men would spot her. Therefore, Li Lanzhen didn't act rashly and needed to find a reliable and safe way out.
Just as she was pondering how to get out, suddenly, a rumbling sound came from the backyard: several horses, mules, two cows, a flock of chickens, ducks, geese, and two large, fat pigs...
Li Lanzhen immediately perked up, stood up from the space, and laughed heartily.
"How stupid of me! I never thought that such a grand mansion as the Imperial Uncle's residence could possibly be without these things. I didn't even bother to find them and put them in my spatial storage. Now that they've been delivered right to my doorstep, I might as well take them!"
She burst through the air at the speed of a 100-meter sprint, rushing into the herds of horses and cattle...
She opened her arms and immediately sent all the horses, cows, donkeys, and mules she encountered, along with the carts they were harnessed to, into her space.
She kept running, chasing, and catching the livestock and poultry that rushed towards her.
The three burly men standing around Uncle Guo only felt a gust of black wind sweep by, and then they saw the horse, the ox, the donkey, and the mule disappear one by one...
Then, the chickens, ducks, and geese disappeared; whatever the dark figure touched vanished; and finally, the two large, fat pigs also disappeared…
At this moment, they were truly terrified. Usually, they followed the emperor's brother-in-law, bullying men and women, seizing other people's property, murdering people, and committing all sorts of evil deeds. Especially after Prince Rong left Youzhou City, and until news came from the capital that Prince Rong had ascended the throne as Emperor Yuan of Jin, the emperor's brother-in-law became even more unscrupulous in plundering the people and wantonly harming them...
At this moment, that black whirlwind must be God coming to take their lives!
They were terrified when they saw the Imperial Brother-in-law slumped in the armchair, looking like a grotesque mess, as if struck down by God, his limbs gone, like a fleshy lump.
I wonder how Heaven will take their lives?
They stood frozen in place, watching as the dark figure darted about rapidly. Instantly, all the poultry that had run to the front yard disappeared, and then the dark figure vanished like a black whirlwind.
Li Lanzhen was also very bold. She thought that the disappearance of living things in front of them would be shocking. So she seized the opportunity and harvested a batch of livestock, poultry and vehicles that she wanted.
Once inside, I sat down to rest for a while. I was so tired, yet also nervous, excited, and thrilled!
She sat there thinking about how to leave the Imperial Brother-in-law's mansion. After a while, she decided that she would still run to the city wall, climb over it, and then leave the city overnight.
Just as Li Lanzhen was leaving the burly men who had been captured and tortured by the emperor's brother-in-law, she thought for a moment, then waved her hand and put all the men lying on the ground and hanging from the trees into her spatial storage.
Li Lanzhen decided to take them out and find a place that could help them, and then let them go; their lives would be in their own hands.
She continued running towards the courtyard wall, and when she got there, Li Lanzhen was dumbfounded—the wall was too high!
He's at least 1.8 or 1.9 meters tall, if not two, so he can't get out on his own.
It's impossible to find a dog hole, and the yard wall is so high, and it's impossible to just put my hands on it and climb over. What should I do?
If I don't leave quickly, those people will come looking for me once they realize what's happening.
Suddenly, she remembered the large stone in the space, so she placed a large stone at the base of the courtyard wall, stepped on it, then placed another stone on top, and so on, stacking three stones in this way. Then, she used her hands to support herself on the courtyard wall and climbed over it.
With a "thud," she landed outside the courtyard wall.
Li Lanzhen immediately lay down, not daring to move again, because outside the courtyard wall was a street, which was also brightly lit at the moment.
She landed here, where there was a row of big trees, which concealed her figure well.
She lay there for a while, thinking about which direction she should go.
This is the eastern part of Youzhou City, while the dog hole in the city wall outside Youzhou City is in the western part.
So she has to go from the east side of the city to the west side, but now it's fraught with danger.
Li Lanzhen knew that if she didn't leave the city under the cover of night, the yamen runners in Youzhou City would search even more thoroughly the next day, making it even more difficult to leave the city then!
With that in mind, she prepared to sneak along the wall towards the west side of the city.
When she encountered a wall, she would walk along its base; when she didn't encounter a wall, she would run along the alley.
As Li Lanzhen passed by a clinic, she placed all the burly men who had been captured and tortured, which she had put into her spatial dimension, at their doorstep.
Then she pounded on the clinic door a few times, and heard a creak as the door opened. She quickly ran away.
Li Lanzhen hid and ran, stopping and starting, and it took her more than an hour to finally reach the dog hole next to the courtyard wall in the West District.
Compared to the chaotic noise of Dongcheng District, Xicheng District was relatively quiet. She sat against the courtyard wall for a while, catching her breath.
Then, she squatted down to prepare to move the straw over the dog hole; once she crawled out of there, she would be free.
When Li Lanzhen picked up that bundle of thatch and squatted down to try to crawl out, she was dumbfounded.
The dog hole is gone! It's actually gone!
The dog hole has been bricked up and completely blocked!
Li Lanzhen couldn't even kick it open!
She wondered how the dog hole had become like this after they came in. Could it be that the yamen runners discovered them when they came in and then blocked it up?
What are we going to do now? Getting out of Youzhou city through the gates is impossible!!
We can't stay here for long!
Since the dog hole was blocked and covered with a bundle of straw, it was a trap to lure people who frequently came in and out of the hole, and then capture them.
Li Lanzhen looked around warily but didn't find any government officials.
She thought that these people must have been transferred to the Imperial Uncle's residence to do official business.
Bei Lilanzhen quickly placed the bundle of straw back onto the blocked dog hole, just as it was originally.
Just as she was about to leave after blocking the road, a pair of hands reached out from behind and tightly grabbed her basket.
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