Volume 1: My Territory, I'm in Charge Chapter 58: This Unlucky Place

  "Second Master, could it be the bloodstains left by the flower artisans when they cut their fingers?" Zhao Xin said.

  "Maybe!" Zhao didn't say anything else, he also hoped so, but he didn't stop searching. Now that there were so many people gathered outside the mansion, he had to be careful, who knew if there was a hidden assassin among them.

  "It should be two people who jumped over from the west wall, and one of them is big and got seriously injured..." Zhao followed the bloodstains and found the starting point under the wall. He drew a circle on a pair of blurry footprints and said in a low voice.

  "Second Master, how did you know it was two people and that the bigger one was injured?" Zhao Xin asked puzzledly. He had been searching for half a day too, and found a few drops of bloodstains, but couldn't make out anything.

  "Look, the footprints are not large in size, indicating that this person is about five feet five inches tall. However, the footprints are very deep. Unless this person was a super obese man who jumped down from the wall, it would be impossible to leave such deep footprints. It means he was carrying someone on his back!" Zhao Ye said, comparing the size of the footprints with his hand.

  "Second Master, if he was carrying something on his back, wouldn't he have left footprints this deep too?" Zhao Xin said discontentedly.

  "Dummy, look at the two scratches on his back, obviously left by toes. From here, they turned into two footprints, which means the little guy couldn't carry the big guy anymore and had to piggyback him. The big guy was probably injured in the right rib!" Zhao Ke retorted with a smile.

  "Hum, you're really blind, where are you hurt? You can't even see the person, maybe it's your thigh that's injured!"

  "You say I'm stupid, and you're still not convinced!" Zhao Ke shook his head and patted Zhao Xin's shoulder. "If I were the injured big guy, and you were the little guy, and my left leg was hurt, how would you support me?"

  "Of course I'll be standing on your left side, with my arm around your left arm!" Zhao Xin said, pulling King Wang's left arm over his own shoulder.

  "Okay, you're right, but if it was my left rib that got hurt, how would you help me?"

  "Hmm..." Zhao Xin thought for a moment and said: "Then I can only stand on your right side, so as not to touch your wound!"

  "That's it! Zhao Zhan pulled Zhao Xin to stand on his left side, with his hand on his shoulder, and then pulled Zhao Xin's left hand under his own right ribcage. "What are you being shy about? You're not a little girl! This way, you can support me while walking, and your hand can also cover my wound, right?"

  "Oh, it's like that!" Zhao Xin replied hastily, quickly withdrawing his hand from Zhao Che's embrace and putting it behind his back, afraid that the king would grab his hand again.

  "So where will they hide after they come in?" Zhao Che didn't notice Zhao Xin's movement, and said to himself while looking around.

  "Second Master is an idiot, two people ran to our mansion and someone got hurt, they must be fleeing in a panic, being chased by others. Although the weather has warmed up now, it's still cool at night, they will definitely find a place that can block the wind and rain, and is quiet... "

  "Greenhouse!" The two people looked at the greenhouse and said, of course, the greenhouse can't be considered a garden view, it can only be built on the edge, and now it's no longer in use. The gardeners themselves are busy with their own affairs and won't go there.

  "Second Master, do you think they will still be there?" Zhao Xin asked.

  "I don't know, let's go and take a look!" Zhao Zhan said, pointing to the warm room as they walked not far from it.

  "Second Master, it's too dangerous, let's call the guards instead!" Zhao Xin said in a low voice, as if afraid of startling someone inside.

  "Whatever..." Zhao Ye nodded, but suddenly felt his scalp explode. He pounced forward and did a few somersaults before scrambling to his feet and diving into the flower bushes.

  "Halt! If you run again, I'll kill him!" A cold voice came from behind him.

  "Alas, I won't run anymore!" He didn't need to look to know that Zhao Xin, this 'fool', had been caught and was now a hostage. This unlucky place, every time he came here something would happen. Zhao Chen shook his head helplessly, raised his hands and turned around to say.

  "The little doll is quite clever!" Zhao Zhe only heard this sentence, and before he could see what the person looked like, he felt someone brush past him like a gust of wind, and his occipital bone was heavily slapped, with golden stars flashing before his eyes, and he was knocked dizzy.

  It was unknown how much time had passed when Zhao Xiao woke up, feeling a wave of heat on his body, knowing he must be in the warm room now. He slightly moved his hands and feet, fortunately only his feet were tied up. "Second Master, Second Master, where are you?" The voices of Gou Xi and others came from outside the warm room, they must have seen that he hadn't returned for half a day and had come to look for him.

  "Don't cry, go tell them 'You and that Second Master are playing here, let them go back.' If you say it wrong, I'll take the life of your Second Master!" Zhao Chu heard that this was the voice of his wife's mother.

  "Hmm!" Zhao Che heard Zhao Xin respond with a grunt, and he quietly got up, opened the door, and walked out. "Zhao Xin, once you leave, don't come back, stop getting in the way..." He silently prayed, his hand making an almost imperceptible movement to touch the gun, gently cocking it.

  He slightly opened his eyes to observe the situation, a person was lying with their back to him tens of meters away, with a grass curtain draped over them, breathing heavily, apparently it was that injured big guy. The woman was standing guard at the door, her right hand holding a flying dart, secretly looking outside the door.

  "Damn, she's a pro!" Zhao Che was able to tell from the woman's simple movement that she was well-trained. By sidestepping, she could observe the outside while also keeping an eye on the situation inside the warm room. However, Zhao Che didn't believe she could outrun his own gun. As long as Zhao Xin escaped to a certain distance, he would have the confidence to take her down in an instant. The injured one was just a piece of meat on the chopping board!

  The sky does not follow people's wishes, Zhao Xin is really 'stupid', without considering Wang Ye's mood at all, he stood ten steps outside the door and loudly shouted to Gou Xi, telling him that the kite was broken, Wang Ye was angry and let them go back first, he would play for a while. Then he came back obediently, making Zhao Chen lightly sigh.

  "Hey kid, you're awake, stop pretending!" The woman walked over and kicked Zhao Chu's foot, saying with a smile.

  "Damn it, you have dog ears, and you heard me sigh!" Zhao Chuang opened his hand holding the gun, pretended to pat the dirt on his clothes, turned over and sat up, tilted his head and said. This time he saw clearly what the other person looked like, in his thirties or forties, not handsome but ordinary, with a red scarf on his head, wearing a light blue long gown with bloodstains and stains all over it, with a wide belt around his waist, carrying a token bag, paired with mandarin ducks double knives, wearing a pair of thin-soled boots, dressed in the standard attire of a Jianghu person.

  "Your mouth is really stinky, looking for a fight!" The woman raised her hand and gave Zhao an ear slap, hitting him until his face was red.

  "Don't hit our Second Master, hit me instead!" Zhao Xin rushed forward and blocked in front of Zhao E, crying out.

  "Hmm, you still have some feelings for this kid..."

  "Zhao Xin, don't mind her, she'll be the one crying soon!" Zhao Cha said with a smile, rubbing his face. After several months of training, he had recovered quite a bit. Although he couldn't defeat his opponent head-on, he wasn't going to let that woman get the better of him either. He just didn't want to give his opponent the satisfaction of looking down on him.

  "Why is she crying?" Zhao Xin wiped away tears and asked sobbingly.

  "Look at that man, his face is flushed, breathing rapidly, limbs twitching, that's the sign of returning light, if not treated, I'm afraid he won't make it through tonight. Her husband died, can she not cry?" said Zhao Chuang, nodding towards the injured person lying on the other side.

  "Let your mother's fart, he can live to be a hundred years old. If he dies, I'll kill the two of you and bury you with him!" The woman was indeed anxious, her eyes welled up with tears as she drew out a knife and pointed it at them.

  "How about it? I didn't say wrong, did I? Now tears are almost flowing!" Zhao Yan not only wasn't afraid, but instead clapped his hands and laughed mockingly.

  "Second Master, don't say that..." Zhao Xin was so scared that he quickly covered Zhao Ye's mouth. "Auntie, you'd better go find a doctor to treat him right away!"

  "Heh heh, I'm afraid she's just stepped out of our gate and will be hacked to death by those people. The officials and her fellow disciples gathered at the entrance are all waiting for them!" Zhao now knew that the people outside were after these two, even if he used his toes to think.

  "Cough, cough..." Suddenly, a violent coughing sound came from that direction. The woman couldn't care less about arguing with Zhao Ze anymore and quickly squatted down to prop him up, "Master, you're awake..." she said excitedly.

  "Xiao Mei, who are they..." The man called the master of the house by his wife couldn't finish his sentence and suddenly started coughing violently again, with blood flowing from the corner of his mouth.

  "Don't choke him to death with his blood, let him lie on your legs!" Seeing Xiao Mei busy wiping him off, he hastily reminded her that Zhao Che was not out of any good intentions, but just wanted to distract her attention.

  "They've found us, one of them is probably the young master from the mansion, and the other is his servant!" Xiao Mei followed Zhao Che's instructions to lay Hanzi flat, and he indeed stopped coughing, his breathing also stabilizing.

  "Oh, how's the situation outside?" the man asked.

  "Last night I went out to take a look, there were still many people around, not only the Taoist priests but also the detectives from the Ministry of Justice and the Imperial City Guards had also intervened. However, it's still safe here, the guards in the mansion are quite skilled, they chased away those who tried to get in. The officials seem to be wary of this place, they just looked from afar and didn't dare to come close!" Xiang Mei said.

  "Hmm, tonight I'll hold them off, you find a way to break out and contact the various branches. We must get rid of that scoundrel!" The master of the door panted heavily as he spoke.

  "It's probably too late, there aren't many of your people left!" Zhao Chu added, fearing that the two would forget him, "If you're going to be the master, you'll have to get rid of his disciples and descendants who will seek revenge, unless that person is an idiot."