"Excuse me."
The student shook his head repeatedly, looking at Hua Zhi with eyes that were scorching bright, "I heard the noise before, but I didn't dare to go out. I wonder if there is anything I can do for Master Taifu."
"Don't do anything. I'll wait here for someone to rescue me." Hua Zhi didn't want to find someone to rescue Yu Mu and Jia Yang, but at this time almost everyone was hiding. Any abnormal appearance of anyone would arouse their suspicion. Given their mentality of preferring to kill the wrong person rather than let him go, none of the people in the room could survive.
She could only wait.
At this time, there was a movement outside the house. Hua Zhi stopped the young man from approaching and climbed onto the door to look out through the gap. Several Chaoli people followed and without hesitation followed the bloodstain and climbed over the wall.
Hua Zhi only hoped that these people had not been taught by the wise man and could be fooled. Otherwise, if there was no bloodstain on the other side of the wall, they would have returned.
Fortunately, after waiting for a while, no one came back along the way.
Hua Zhi slid down to the ground again. After being nervous, her heartbeat seemed to jump out of her mouth. She covered her chest to slow down, then stood up and bowed to the student, "I am grateful for saving my life."
“I don’t deserve it.” The student quickly moved away, his face a little red due to excitement, and he glanced at people secretly from time to time.
Of course, there were students who looked down on Hua Zhi for being a woman in the court, but there were also quite a few who worshipped her madly. Young people have rebellious hearts and they feel that they are different from others, and Hua Zhi's unconventionality was exactly what they liked and even admired.
Obviously, the person in front of him is one of them.
Hua Zhi never cared about trivial matters, and she didn't have time to think about it at this moment. She stuck to the door to keep an eye on the situation outside at any time, and habitually escorted the old and the young to a safe place. "Take your family to the house next door, be as careful as possible, and move quickly."
"No need. There are so many families living here. They won't know that you are here, Master Taifu."
"But they can slaughter every household." Hua Zhi's tone was cold. "If they come back to find me, I can only leave on my own initiative, and none of you who have kept me here can escape, so please leave immediately and don't take anything with you. The Hua family will compensate you later."
The student looked back at his family, hesitating whether to listen or not. If he left like this, he would be despised by others in the future, and he would not be able to get over it. He understood clearly that the Grand Tutor was doing this to protect his family, and she did not want to bring harm to innocent people.
"Since you are educated, you should know how to do things within your ability. You can't help me with anything by staying here. Leave immediately."
The student blushed, nodded his head and returned to escort his family out of the house.
Hua Zhi was about to continue looking outside the door when she saw the student running over again, holding a cake in one hand and a glass of water in the other. He put both of them in Hua Zhi's hands and ran away.
Hua Zhi looked down for a moment, seemed to smile, picked it up and took a big bite. Zheng Zhi asked her if it was worth it to suffer like this for those unworthy people, but in addition to those disgusting people in Daqing, there was also the young man just now. He knew that saving her was dangerous, but he still saved her and gave her food and drink. This is the greatest warmth that a stranger can give to people. There is this one person like her, and countless others she has not met. How can they not be worthy of protection
After finishing a piece of cake, she finally regained some strength. She checked the wounds and was lucky that except for the wound on the back of her shoulder which was deeper and still bleeding, the other wounds were just superficial injuries. Her body really couldn't take it. This must be a punishment for her for having lived too well for the past fifteen years and not being active.
She tore off the lining and used her mouth to help bandage the wound. The action made her breathless. She lay down to endure the pain. Before she could rest, she heard noise outside, so she hurried to the door to look.
It was almost dark at this time and the men had already lit torches. They were seen with their heads down picking at the bloodstains on the ground. They then climbed over the wall to take a look, then climbed back and pointed at several nearby houses as if to confirm something.
Hua Zhi felt a chill in her heart. She didn't expect that after waiting for so long, she would get the worst result.
"Hua Zhi, I'll count to three. If you don't come out, I'll set this whole place on fire." His voice was loud and clear, and the other party was completely exposed.
"three!"
Hua Zhi took a deep breath, grabbed the dagger and opened the door. Under the firelight, she walked down the stairs step by step. Compared with the Chaoli people, her petite body seemed as tall and majestic as her shadow at this moment.
Even though they were hostile, the other party couldn't help but sigh at this moment, "As expected of Hua Jingyan's descendant, he has his spirit."
"Daqing speaks well."
Hua Zhi's words successfully made the other party's face darken. The Chaoli tribe had its own language before the establishment of the country, but in the first hundred years after the establishment of the country, they oppressed the Central Plains people and treated them like livestock, while at the same time they were impressed by the brilliant civilization of the Central Plains. As a result, even after nearly two hundred years since the fall of the country, they still speak authentic Central Plains dialect, and they can no longer speak Chaoli dialect well.
Hua Zhi's words made them extremely embarrassed. The man who had spoken before no longer had a good face. He waved his hand and everyone surrounded her. Before they could move, Hua Zhi moved first. She raised her hand and threw something out. Anyway, they couldn't run away. One death would be a scapegoat, and two deaths would be a profit!
The Chaoli people had suffered from poison before, and subconsciously thought that she was throwing poison again, so they quickly retreated, but saw Hua Zhi following them, stabbing the man closest to her with her dagger quickly and fiercely. The man raised his knife to block, but Hua Zhi had already changed the angle and cut across. It turned out that the previous move was a feint. The man's lower body was unstable due to retreating, and he was dazzled by the feint and lost the initiative. He could only watch the dagger cut through his jaw. After the severe pain, his head tilted back uncontrollably, and this time, half of his neck was cut off.
Hua Zhi's moves were too powerful to stop, and she was about to fall into the group of enemies. She didn't care about much else, and swung her hand again. The dagger crossed and cut across the chest of one of them, leaving a flower of blood, while the enemy's knives also chopped at her from all directions.
Hua Zhi had nowhere to hide, and she didn't have the energy to hide anymore. An inappropriate thought even flashed through her mind. She hoped that her face would not be ruined like Shaoyao's before, otherwise even her grandmother would not be able to recognize her. Yan Xi... should be able to recognize her.
She felt a sharp pain in her leg and instinctively rolled to the side. The enemy's knife was chasing after her, and at the critical moment, the sound of breaking through the air was heard.
It was an arrow, Hua Zhi identified it immediately!
She rolled several times, listening to the sounds of arrows, whips, swords and spears. She let go of her strength and pressed her whole body to the ground. She really... had no strength left.