Seeing that they were incorrigible, Xie Yushu and the others did not hold back and drew their swords to fight back.
Judging from the looks of it, the leader was the most powerful, while Qu Xiaodie, who was the most skilled in martial arts on Xie Yushu's side, took the lead and started fighting the leader. Xie Yushu relied on her agility in close combat to fight one by herself. Liu Qiang was strong and ruthless, and his movements were nimble, so he could also fight one by himself. The last one was fought by Nanxing and Xie Tianqi, two novices.
Although the opponent had rich combat experience, they could only fight to a draw against Xie Yushu and her group of oddballs who were born from different environments!
Qu Xiaodie learned practical martial arts from her father, and her fight was evenly matched. Xie Yushu, on the other hand, had undergone modern special forces training, and her moves were fast and accurate, without any fancy moves. Every move she made would injure someone. If the other party had not also fought on the battlefield, they would probably have been killed by Xie Yushu long ago.
As for Liu Qiang, he was a skilled fighter since childhood. After several months of training at the yamen, he improved even more and had a fierce determination. He was willing to risk injuring his opponent even more than himself, and soon he actually gained the upper hand!
Although Nanxing and Xie Tianqi were a bit inexperienced, they had excellent teamwork. If one attacked from the front, the other would help from the side; if one attacked from the left, the other would finish off the enemy from the right. So they didn't suffer any losses.
The fight was at a stalemate for a while, but perhaps the opponent wasn't prepared to fight to the death, because after being slashed a few times, their momentum suddenly crumbled, and they called for a halt as soon as they saw blood.
"Stop! We were wrong! We were blind! We're not fighting anymore! We're not fighting anymore!"
Xie Yushu and her group had all sustained some injuries, and the outcome of the fight was uncertain if they continued, so they simply stopped. However, since they had already started, they couldn't just let them go back like that, otherwise they would be exposing their strength. She preferred the strategy of playing dumb to outmaneuver the enemy.
Liu Qiang and his group clearly shared this idea, and said coldly.
"You can't just leave whenever you want now!"
"So what do you want? If we continue fighting, it will only result in mutual destruction!"
"Hmph! I'm not afraid of death. My head may fall off, but I'll be a hero again in eighteen years! But my sister isn't someone you can just kill as you please!"
"Exactly! Do they really think we're easy to bully!"
Xie Tianqi also called out.
The leader was caught in a dilemma. He thought killing a village girl would be easy, but he didn't expect her to be so formidable. Are all young people these days so powerful?
The key point is that he just wanted to repay a favor in exchange for his freedom. He really didn't want his brothers to lose their lives, but the other party seemed ready to fight to the death, which made him sweat profusely.
Xie Yushu certainly didn't want to risk her life. Seeing the leader's tense face and frustrated expression, she spoke up.
"You've come to kill me. If I just let you go, wouldn't I be asking for trouble? If you offer me terms that will put my mind at ease, we don't necessarily have to fight to the death!"
Upon hearing this, the men's eyes darted around, and they whispered a few words among themselves. The leader of the group said...
"I can give you information about the person who killed you, okay?"
"Oh, so you've already betrayed your master?"
“We brothers have protected her for years, and we’ve taken the hits for her. We’ve almost repaid our debt of gratitude. I thought that this time, I would take your place and kill you for her sake, so I could resign.”
However, there's nothing we can do if the mission fails, and we've already taken several knife wounds while doing it; we can't risk our lives like this!
"But I'm not interested in news about your master! I'm only interested in whether your departure poses a threat to me!"
“Well, I can kill the girl who came with us. She's Chu Mingzhu's trusted maid, the one who always gives Chu Mingzhu advice. The idea to kill you was hers. Let her go back and tell Chu Mingzhu that you're actually quite capable. Next time, it might be a martial arts assassin who comes to kill you. If we keep her here, even if we break ties with Chu Mingzhu, we definitely won't go back to report!”
From now on, we brothers will live under assumed names and won't appear where we shouldn't be. How about that?
"The result you mentioned..."
The man in the lead made a throat-slitting gesture.
"Alas! It's a pity I don't want to hear about the yamen solving some unidentified female corpse case! I especially don't want to cause panic in the nearby villages!"
Xie Yushu didn't want to cause trouble. If a body were discovered, the authorities would inevitably investigate, which would cause a huge uproar and be detrimental to them. So she directly rejected the idea!
The group whispered amongst themselves again, and finally said...
“You’ve just experienced a severe drought here, so there must be many young men who haven’t found wives yet. Surely we can help them find a family!”
Although this maid is wicked, she's useless and has someone watching her; she definitely won't escape!
"Thank you for your hard work!"
This is a good idea. If they dare to go back and report, I can send Green Willow over.
At that time, Green Willow, a maid from a high-class family, lived a more comfortable life than a young lady from a humble family, but was married off to a peasant from the countryside. She would definitely hate them to the core and would be willing to risk mutual destruction to take a bite out of them!
As for whether Chu Mingzhu would give up on Lvliu, she bet she wouldn't. Everyone around her knew a thing or two about their master's unspeakable affairs. Lvliu wasn't stupid, and Chu Mingzhu wouldn't risk her reputation.
Xie Yushu relented, and both sides put away their knives, bandaged themselves up briefly, and Xie Yushu went home. Liu Qiang, Qu Xiaodie, Nanxing, and Xie Tianqi followed the group to find Green Willow.
Liu Qiang was familiar with this area and knew that there was a Majiawopu more than 30 miles away from Xiejiacun. There lived a man named Ma Erlai who was a notorious scoundrel. He was lazy, greedy, and always had a penny to his name. His family was dirt poor. He would exchange a few copper coins for wine. No girl in the neighborhood was willing to marry him. He was over 30 and still a bachelor. He was desperate for a wife. Those people knocked out Green Willow, who was still arrogant towards them, and sent her to him that very night.
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