Hong Rong's continuous screams seemed particularly shrill amid the chaos in the Hong family.
At this time, many servants and maids of the Hong family were busy fetching water to put out the fire, but there were still guards of the Hong family who heard Hong Rong's cry and ran towards the backyard.
Yan Liqiang was also running. Below him was the roof of a house in the Hong family mansion, and under his feet were tiles and eaves.
Hong Rong hid behind the flower bed in the yard, which was a blind spot for shooting. He had to rush into the yard to get rid of Hong Rong.
The Hong family has already killed four people, so Hong Rong naturally cannot be let off.
Yan Liqiang was filled with murderous intent.
He carried a quiver of arrows on his back and held a horn python bow wrapped in cloth. He ran across two courtyards and a wall as nimbly as a cat jumping on the roof, and then jumped from the three-meter-high wall into the courtyard.
A guard of the Hong family was the first to rush into the yard from another door. The guard also saw Yan Liqiang. The two were ten meters apart. After a slight pause, the guard shouted and rushed towards Yan Liqiang with a knife.
Drawing the arrow, pulling the bow, and shooting the arrow - Yan Liqiang completed these three actions in one go. In the blink of an eye, the guard of the Hong family had only run three steps when the arrow in Yan Liqiang's hand had already pierced the guard's right shoulder.
The huge force of the bow carried the guard backwards, and then he fell heavily to the ground, completely depriving the guard of his combat effectiveness.
After he had advanced to the third level of the archery realm and felt that it would be difficult to advance to the fourth level in a short period of time, Yan Liqiang practiced the most in the archery these days, which was drawing the arrow and putting it on the bowstring. He was trying to complete the attack in the shortest time. At this time, his hard training these days finally came in handy. For an archer, the speed of putting the arrow on the bowstring, that is, the shooting speed of the bow, became the most critical factor in determining victory or defeat in close combat.
"Killer, killer is here..." In the yard, Manager Hong, who had just been frightened, screamed in the yard, stretching his neck like a chicken being killed, not knowing whether he was alive or dead.
Yan Liqiang shot an arrow, and the thigh of Manager Hong, who had been riding a rhino horse and looking down at Yan Liqiang a few days ago, was instantly pierced by the arrow. Manager Hong fell to the ground, his shouting turned into wails, and he rolled on the ground in pain, holding his thigh.
Yan Liqiang rushed into the yard quickly.
Hong Tao was still standing there blankly, looking at the bodies of Hong Chengshou and Hong Ding on the ground, with a silly smile on his face, as if he was stupid.
When rushing forward, Yan Liqiang had already aimed the arrow at Hong Tao, but the moment his empty eyes met Hong Tao's, Yan Liqiang turned the bow and arrow and shot towards the courtyard gate behind him.
The second guard rushed in and had just turned the gate when he was shot in the thigh by an arrow before he even saw Yan Liqiang. He fell to the ground with a scream.
Yan Liqiang's movements were as precise as an automatic rifle. Almost at the moment the arrow left the bowstring, he pulled his hand back and drew another arrow from the quiver on his back. He quickly put it on the bowstring and rushed to the side of the flower bed in two steps.
Hong Rong, hiding behind the flower bed, looked at Yan Liqiang with an extremely astonished look as he pointed a bow and arrow at him. His mouth was slightly open and his astonished eyes seemed to be saying four words - why is it you
Looking at Hong Rong's expression, Yan Liqiang knew that Hong Rong had also met Guo Shanfeng.
The two men were less than ten meters apart. Yan Liqiang loosened his hand and the arrow flew off the string. Hong Rong's head was like being shot at close range. The arrow pierced through the eye socket and exploded instantly. Blood spilled all over the ground and he died without a sound.
Another guard from the Hong family rushed in, but it was still useless. Yan Liqiang fired his bow, and the right shoulder of the guard was pierced instantly, and he fell to the ground.
"Everyone be careful... The assassin has a bow..." There was a chaotic group outside the yard. Until this time, Yan Liqiang killed all the people in charge of the Hong family. Those Hong family guards who were about to rush over only then realized what weapon Yan Liqiang was holding in the yard.
In this era, the two words "have a bow" sound just like "have a gun" to most people, and have a huge deterrent effect.
Listening to the screams of several people who were still alive in the yard, a group of guards crowded outside the yard. For a moment, no one dared to rush in. The outside of the yard was in chaos, and only someone was shouting, "Go get a shield, go get a shield..." "Go get a crossbow, get a crossbow..."
Of course Yan Liqiang would not wait for the Hong family's guards to rush in with shields and crossbows. After killing Hong Rong, he rushed towards the courtyard wall, kicked his feet on the wall twice, and had already climbed up the more than two-meter-high wall. Then he ran along the wall, onto the roof, and quickly ran towards the back of the Hong family's house.
The Hong family residence is located at the easternmost end of Liuhe Town. It is the outskirts of the Hong family's backyard, which is a small garden built by the Hong family. Outside the garden is the suburbs of Liuhe Town.
"The assassin is on the roof, the assassin is on the roof..." The Hong family guards below saw Yan Liqiang running on the roof, and while shouting, they chased after Yan Liqiang from below.
One of the guards also jumped onto the courtyard wall and tried to climb to the roof. Yan Liqiang shot an arrow and hit the guard in the thigh. The guard screamed and fell off the wall.
Just after he ran past two houses, Yan Liqiang suddenly felt a whoosh sound and felt a strong wind flying past him more than one meter away. Yan Liqiang was startled and looked back. He saw several guards from the Hong family pointing crossbows at him in a yard not far away. The arrow just now was shot by the guards from the Hong family with a crossbow.
Yan Liqiang didn't even think twice and turned around and shot an arrow. Before the Hong family guard holding the crossbow could load the second arrow into the crossbow, Yan Liqiang's arrow had already hit the guard's heart directly, piercing through the heart and killing him on the spot.
This was the first person Yan Liqiang killed in the Hong family tonight besides the Hong family members.
A guard nearby subconsciously tried to pick up the crossbow, but Yan Liqiang shot another arrow, nailing the guard's palm to the ground.
After the two arrows were shot, the several guards of the Hong family nearby were so frightened that they quickly ran away, not daring to even show their heads.
Yan Liqiang continued to run to the back, changing his voice as he ran, shouting in a hoarse voice, "The Hong family hired me to deal with the Yan family father and son, but later regretted and denied it, and wanted to not pay. This is too much. Today, I, Guo Shanfeng, came to the Hong family to seek justice for myself. This is the grudge between me and the Hong family. Whoever dares to stop me, don't blame me, Guo Shanfeng, for being ruthless and merciless..."
After hearing Yan Liqiang's words, the crossbow fell to the ground, but no one dared to pick it up. After all, there are not many people who don't care about their lives.
After one of the guards was killed, the guards and servants of the Hong family were clamoring and shouting in the yard, seemingly chasing Yan Liqiang, but the pace of many of them had quietly slowed down a lot.
Yan Liqiang finally ran to the Hong family's back garden, jumped down from the garden wall, and ran towards the wild.
A group of guards and servants of the Hong family chased out with torches, but before they had chased for a few dozen meters, an arrow suddenly shot from the front and hit the torch held by the guard in the front, and then shot off the hat of a servant behind him. The burning torch turned into a pile of sparks and exploded in the darkness. Many sparks splashed on the faces and hands of the people holding the torches and others, scalding the guards and servants next to them and making them scream. The servant whose hat was shot off turned pale, touched his head and the strand of hair that was blown away, and his feet inexplicably softened, and he almost couldn't stand...
Seeing the figure in front finally disappear into the darkness, the servants and guards of the Hong family slowed down their pace, swallowed their saliva, looked at each other, and dared not chase after him.
At this time, the fire and shouting from the Hong family mansion, as well as the rapid sound of gongs, gradually alarmed Liuhe Town...
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On the Yan family's side, Steward Lu stood in the yard, looking at the flames coming from the east of Liuhe Town and the noise outside. His face looked a little doubtful, wondering if it was the Hong family who was doing something weird.
…
While asking the two guards of the Lu family to be on guard, he asked Zhou Tiezhu to go outside to find out what was going on.
Half an hour later, Zhou Tiezhu came back and told him that there seemed to be a fire in the Hong family mansion and someone had died. Manager Lu's face became interesting...
"Manager Lu, you said Li Qiang hasn't come back yet, I hope he's okay!" Yan Dechang had walked out of the room slowly by himself and came to the yard. Looking at the fire from the Hong family's side, he asked with a worried look on his face.
“Well, Master Yan went out to buy something. Maybe he was temporarily delayed by something. Master Yan, don’t worry…” Steward Lu could only speak as calmly as possible and try to comfort Yan Dechang.
After they finished talking, they waited in the yard. They waited for more than an hour with anxiety in their hearts. Then they heard someone knocking on the door. A guard of the Lu family opened the door and found Yan Liqiang standing outside with empty hands.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they saw Yan Liqiang coming back.
Yan Liqiang's expression did not change, but rather he looked somewhat relieved. Seeing Yan Dechang waiting for him in the yard, he took the initiative to apologize to Yan Dechang, "I originally wanted to go to the mountain to pick some mushrooms for you, my father, but I didn't expect that it would get dark later and I got lost in the mountains. I wandered around for a while and even lost the basket and hoe I brought with me..."
Seeing Yan Liqiang coming back, Yan Dechang was relieved. How could he bother with him about the worthless things he had lost
"By the way, I just came back and met someone in town. I heard that something happened at the Hong family..." At the stone table in the courtyard, Yan Liqiang ate the still warm food that Wu Ma brought him, while looking at Manager Lu who was quietly sizing him up. "That Guo Shan Feng is indeed a desperate criminal. Although he is wanted, he has never left Qinghe County. I don't know why he suddenly ran to the Hong family tonight and started a killing spree..."
"What, Guoshanfeng?" Manager Lu was surprised. Just now, when he heard that something happened to the Hong family, Yan Liqiang did not come back. Manager Lu was still wondering whether Yan Liqiang had rashly gone to seek revenge on the Lu family today. Now, when he heard Yan Liqiang say that it was Guoshanfeng who did it, the surprise in Manager Lu's heart was completely written on his face.
"What's the matter? Did Manager Lu think it was someone else?" Yan Liqiang looked at Manager Lu with a smile.
"Cough... cough..." Manager Lu coughed twice and quickly shook his hand, "No, no, only a desperate criminal like Guo Shanfeng could do such a thing. The Hong family should be careful tonight..."
(End of this chapter)