Chapter 837: Night Raider

"Get up." Gong Shufeng was the first to notice. He sat up from the sackcloth

and shook his brother who was still in a coma.

"What happened?" The latter asked vaguely, covering his head, "Is anyone

here?"

"I don't know, but you'd better be careful." Gong Shufeng replied in a low

voice. Those who are still riding horses in the countryside at this hour are

definitely not ordinary people.

If they were thieves, they would generally not do anything to a refugee group

of several hundred people. One is that you cannot grab anything of value, and

the other is that it is easy to damage your subordinates. But this is only a

general situation. Who knows if there will be accidents. Once the crowd runs

away and stampeded, it is definitely not wrong to be prepared first.

Gong Shufeng looked towards the dark north \- with the help of the faint

moonlight, he could vaguely see a group of people approaching. Many of them

held torches, and in terms of scale, there were also as many as a hundred

people.

By this time, most of the people had woken up.

As homeless people, they have an instinctive response to this situation. Young

and strong men pick up self-defense sticks and pitchforks to meet the

direction of the approachers, while women, old people and children gather in a

group, anxiously waiting for the danger to pass.

However, when these people approached dozens of steps, Gong Shufeng took a

deep breath. The opponent's armament can be said to have everything, not only

wearing armor, but also a bronze helmet on his head, and a crossbow hanging

around his waist. The clothes and trousers under the armor are also neat and

tidy.

Robbers do not have such configuration!

"Who are you? What are you doing?" Someone asked boldly.

"I'm the steward of Tuntianzhuang," shouted a horseman over there, "Master is

very merciful and willing to take in you guys, pack up now, and go with us

immediately!"

Tun Tianzhuang?

shelter?

These words caused a commotion in the crowd.

"Where is Zhuangzi?"

"Do you want hundreds of masters?"

"Why don't they come during the day?"

While everyone was shouting, Gong Shufeng smelled a trace of unease.

He noticed that the torches were spreading out, which was clearly a siege. If

they just came to collect people, why did they bring so many well-armed

servants? If it is to protect the steward and maintain continuity, a dozen

people are obviously enough.

At this moment, a slight strumming sound entered Gong Shufeng's ears.

His expression changed suddenly, and he pushed his younger brother under him,

"Get down!"

The sound he was all too familiar with \- it was the tremor of the bowstring of

the mechanism!

However, the arrows were not aimed at the young men in the front row, but the

old, weak, sick and disabled in the middle. Only a series of whizzing sounds

were heard, and screams and howls broke out in the crowd. In the blink of an

eye, dozens of people fell to the ground, and their lives and deaths were

unknown.

"Take it." The steward ordered.

The cavalry swarmed up from all directions and rushed into the crowd with tall

horses, cutting the refugee group into pieces in an instant. In the face of a

well-equipped enemy, sticks and pitchforks are simply unstoppable, and with

their relatives being attacked, everyone's will to fight is so low that it

can't be lower, and they will be completely broken up in one encounter.

The battle only lasted for less than twenty breaths before it was over.

Even because they were surrounded by the other party in advance, few of the

hundreds of refugees even escaped.

Everyone was forced to kneel on the side of the road, waiting in terror for

their fate.

It seems that it is not the first time that these people who claim to be from

Tuntianzhuang have done this kind of thing. They skillfully separated the

refugees, and then picked out the young and strong men with intact hands and

feet, and took them to the side alone.

Seeing this, Gong Shufeng already knew exactly what the other party was going

to do.

The people in the farm village want to take these people as slaves!

This is absolutely unreasonable, even if it is a homeless person, no one can

take it as a personal thing. This is not only to prevent local forces from

getting bigger, but also to avoid the act of plundering and robbing people

from being too naked and arousing public grievances. If you want to obtain

slaves, there is only one legal way, and that is to buy and sell through the

official authorized person, and you must have a contract to sell yourself.

"This person has a good skeleton and a very straight face. He may be able to

sell for a good price if he pulls it to Gao Guo." A man with a pointed mouth

and monkey cheeks commented after stalking Gong Shufeng, "A-class goods, take

them away alone."

"Yes!" Two servants immediately grabbed his arm and pulled him out of the

crowd.

Gong Shufeng was so anxious that the sweat on his forehead was about to come

out. He thought that the biggest risk in traveling by land was robbers and

bandits, but he didn't expect to encounter such a bizarre thing! If this kind

of thing were put in Xu country, it would definitely be a crime of looting the

family and annihilating the family.

There should be Privy Council officials stationed in Huiyang City!

Are they not afraid of being liquidated after leaking the news?

"You're doing this \- it's illegal!" Gong Shufeng couldn't help but said.

He is not really worried that he will be sold into slavery. As a public loser,

he has too many ways to prove his identity to those in power. What he was

really worried about was that he could not fulfill the old lady's entrustment

after he was exposed, which would delay the family affairs.

The other party ignored him at all, and looked directly at the next person.

"What's the matter with this person... Could it be that he has an epidemic?"

The man looked at Gong Shujin a few times, "He's sick, he's not a good guy,

and he's young, so he can't do much work. Hmm... let's solve it on the spot.

."

"Wait, that's my brother, where are you taking him?" Gong Shufeng yelled, "Let

me go!"

A family member raised his fist and slammed him in the abdomen.

"Shut the ** up!"

The other person brought hemp rope, "Tie him up, this guy is not weak."

"Be careful, don't hurt the first-class goods." The man in charge of the

identification frowned, "Just cover your mouth with that piece of cloth, don't

do it."

Seeing that Gong Shujin was about to be taken away, Gong Shufeng couldn't take

care of that much anymore.

With a sudden luck, he pushed the two servants a few steps away with a

shoulder to the left and right.

This is the power that the Feeler gives him.

"You stop for me—" Gong Shufeng let out a low voice.

"Bold!"

"How dare you resist!?"

The few family Ding who followed the man quickly pulled out the long sword

from his waist.

"I am a member of the Privy Council, and so is that person." Gong Shufeng

lowered his voice~www.mtlnovel.com~ and stared at the other side and said,

"Now I have something important to do, so I must act in secret. , it's better

not to get in the way of our actions. Let's go now, and we can pretend it

never happened."

"Privy's House?" The sharp-mouthed man looked at Gong Shufeng for the first

time.

"The commander of Huiyang Mansion is called Wu Qingping, a four-ranked man

with a hundred blades, right?" The latter said word by word, "If you don't

believe it, you can contact the city and ask the Privy Council to send someone

to confirm your identity."

This is absolutely information that refugees do not have access to.

Of course, this fourth-rank Hundred Blades didn't know him, but as long as he

was a person who felt anger, the Privy Council would not sit idly by.

Speaking of which, Gong Shufeng is also gambling. He bet that the other party

didn't dare to really trouble a privy government Bairen, but let him and Gong

Shujin go away with the idea that one more thing is worse than one less thing.

In that way, he still has the possibility of continuing to go to Jinxia \-

although the twists and turns have greatly increased the possibility of

exposure.

The sharp-mouthed man did show a look of suspicion and fear in an instant. He

stopped the servant who was about to take Gong Shujin away, and after a moment

of hesitation, he said to the two, "You wait here for a while, and I will ask

the housekeeper for instructions."