Outside on the west side is a huge pond, which once belonged to a wealthy family. Wei Desheng felt more at ease because of the pond. They have been running the business for so many years, and this yard can be said to be the size of half a town. It is all their territory. It will take some time for those people to attack from the east, and it is unrealistic to deploy manpower in all four directions.
On the west side where there is the pond, they shouldn't have been heavily guarded.
There were continuous loud noises behind him, and the loud noise just now was not the end, but just the beginning. As he ran, he felt the ground was shaking and moving, so much so that even with his mental strength, he couldn't help running even faster. Soon he climbed up the courtyard wall in a few steps and flipped over.
Sure enough, there was a sparkling surface under the courtyard wall. Wei Desheng breathed a sigh of relief. He has always been good at swimming. When he was young, he served in the army in the coastal areas of Fujian. He was already accustomed to swimming. This pond was quite large, but it was not a problem for him.
Wei Desheng heaved a sigh of relief and landed lightly. Suddenly, he felt a sharp pain in his eyes and could not open them because of the bright light.
He subconsciously covered his face with his hands, and was a little confused. When he took his fingers away, his face turned completely pale as paper. What sparkling light? What he saw just now was clearly a mass of heads! Now these people almost all held torches, lighting up the place as if it were daytime. He suddenly realized that he had been fooled!
Seeing the loud noise in the front yard, a cautious person like him must have walked in the opposite direction. Others had already calculated it long ago and brought people here to wait for him!
"Lord Wei?" A cool female voice sounded, like a ghost in the dark night.
Wei Desheng looked in the direction of the sound, and the soldiers in front of him all made way. A young girl walked out from behind them, looking at him with a smile.
The girl looked no more than fifteen or sixteen years old. She was wearing a goose yellow riding suit. Her expression looked even colder under the torch. At this moment, she tilted her head to look at Wei Desheng for a moment and chuckled.
Wei Desheng got goosebumps all over his body because of her smile. His personal guards were also stuck on the wall, neither wanting to get down. It was not that they did not want to get down, but the archers standing in the distance were watching them covetously, with their bows already drawn. If they dared to move, they would be shot like hedgehogs in the next moment.
Su Yao raised his hand slightly, and soon someone drove a group of people over.
"Lord Wei, do you know these people?" Su Yao smiled. "Look, the flood really washed away the Dragon King Temple. These people are wearing the uniforms of the Yunnan Guards and sneaking around the Chu family's old house, claiming to be patrolling. I thought, they are Lord Wei's men, how come they are patrolling our Zhaotong, don't you think so?"
What else can Wei Desheng say
He was completely confused.
He thought the plan had been successful and Xiao Heng and the others had been killed in the explosion. But now that he saw these people, he realized that what plan was successful? They were the ones who were being plotted against!
I'm afraid they have been waiting for them to take the bait and seek their own death.
But he was still the general of the area. Although he had been tricked and was at a disadvantage, he quickly reacted and lowered his head with a sullen face: "I don't know what you are talking about."
"It doesn't matter if Lord Wei doesn't know." Su Yao had already expected that he would not cooperate, so he chuckled and said, "Who are you? I'm sure there are people who know better than you. Don't worry."
She raised her hand, and immediately a large group of people came forward and blocked Wei Desheng and his group tightly.
Su Yao said calmly, "Sir Wei, a wise man knows how to deal with the current situation. You should know how much gunpowder it takes to blow up your yard like that, right? The fact that we have so much gunpowder shows that we have put in a lot of effort. You'd better cooperate with us, otherwise the more than 400 archers here may not agree. I know you are a veteran, and the guards around you can definitely defeat ten of them, but... bows and arrows have no eyes, don't you think?"
Wei Desheng was really impressed by this girl who was younger than his daughter, and took a step back without saying a word.
At the same time, several bodyguards behind him moved and rushed straight towards the soldiers who were coming up to capture Wei Desheng.
Su Yao's expression immediately turned cold, and he raised his hand without hesitation: "Shoot!"
Almost as soon as she finished speaking, the archers in the distance immediately released their arrows, and several people on the wall fell down.
Wei Desheng was desperately protected by several bodyguards, and he also took a knife to block the attacks, so he barely avoided getting injured. But he also knew that the game was over - the other party had already blocked all the escape routes, and was well prepared, and would shoot arrows without any hesitation. He did not dare to gamble that these people would definitely take him alive, and after weighing the pros and cons, he still did not make any move.
He shouted, "Stop!"
Su Yao raised his eyebrows and raised his hand expressionlessly, and the archers all withdrew their archers.
Seeing that they had stopped struggling, the guards around Su Yao rushed forward, threw Wei Desheng to the ground, handcuffed his hands behind his back, and forced him to stand up.
When passing the front yard, Wei Desheng saw the houses that were bombed beyond recognition and people groaning everywhere. His face darkened and he couldn't help but said to Su Yao in front of him: "Girl, you are so cruel, aren't you afraid of retribution?"
I don’t know what’s going on, why this inexplicable woman suddenly appeared.
Where did she come from
Judging from the way these soldiers obey her every word, she must be of high status, but I haven't heard of any princess coming with the crown prince... If she is the daughter of a high-ranking official, she doesn't look like that..."
He couldn't guess Su Yao's identity.
Su Yao looked at the houses and the injured people with some surprise, and met Wei Desheng's eyes with a smile. Although she was smiling, for some reason, Wei Desheng felt that her smile carried an invisible pressure and endless coldness, and he couldn't help but look away.
Su Yao waited until he looked away before chuckling, "It's really strange, Lord Wei, the fire in the prefectural government office was set by your people, right? At that time, why didn't you say that there would be countless casualties? Tonight, there was also an explosion of explosives like this in Chu Fengyuan of the Chu family. Wouldn't there be casualties? Why is it that what you can do is cruel when others do it?"
She stared straight at Wei Desheng and frowned: "So I can tell Lord Wei that I am not afraid of retribution, because if you repay evil with kindness, how can you repay kindness?!"