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Chapter 219 Zhao Shixi has made a meritorious service!

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    Zhao Hao and his party returned to the Zhao Mansion in Chunsong Hutong.

    Although the east courtyard has been vacated, they still consciously continue to live in the west courtyard without any intention of occupying the magpie's nest.

    ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Everyone was exhausted after helping Zhao Jin with the work for the past two days. It was getting late when we came back, so they all took a shower and went to bed.

    Only Zhao Shixi couldn't sleep.

    Amid Tian Lei's snoring, he sat on the big bunk with his legs crossed, looking at the now empty east courtyard, feeling lonely and cold.

    He wanted to use a poem to express his state of mind at this time, but he couldn't help but regret it when the time came to use it. After holding it for a long time, he could only think of "the moonlight is bright in front of the bed, but it is probably frost on the ground."  Just look up at the bright moon and lower your head to think about your hometown.

    ¡°Then he got hungry¡­

    This guy has been having trouble the past two days. He hasn¡¯t eaten much since last night.

    He put on his cotton-padded jacket, put on his cotton-padded shoes, and crept out.

    Tonight, the moon is dark and the wind is high. Dark clouds in the sky cover the sun. How can there be any moonlight on the ground?

    Only then did Zhao Shixi realize that he had even used Jingyesi wrongly

    At this time, a light and crisp bird call suddenly sounded from the shadow behind him.

    He quickly took out a ¡®mud whistle¡¯ from his sleeve without thinking and blew it too.

    This is what the Qi family soldiers use to communicate with each other at night.

    Because Japanese pirates like to disguise themselves as soldiers and camp at night, Qi Jiguang came up with this solution.

    ¡°He gave all his soldiers these cheap children¡¯s toys.  It is stipulated that they must carry it with them when patrolling the camp at night and distinguish between ourselves and the enemy according to the agreed signals.

    Gao Wu followed the regular Qi Jiajun requirements for the men in Caijiaxiang, so he naturally matched them.

    Zhao Shixi felt that it was ridiculous to face a powerful enemy like this.  But after being whipped once, he had no choice but to act in accordance with military regulations.

    ??~~

    Hearing the signal from his own people, a man from Caijia Lane emerged from the shadows and asked him in a low voice.  "What are you doing out here?"

    "Pee."

    "Get away from me and go to the hut."

    Zhao Shixi curled his lips and walked towards the back yard with his neck scrunched up.

    The west courtyard is a courtyard with three entrances. The front is the sedan hall, the second largest entrance is the main courtyard where the master lives, and the third entrance is the back room where the servants live.

    There are five large north rooms in the main courtyard, as well as two east and west wing rooms. Zhao Hao and the others cannot live in one room each.  The guards also lived in the main courtyard, so that they could more easily protect the young master and his family.

    However, Gao Wu was still very conscious and allowed his subordinates to use the kitchen, latrine and warehouse in the backyard so as not to affect the quality of life of the young master's family.

    At this time, the courtyard was quiet, and the servants had already fallen asleep

    Zhao Shixi was not here to relieve himself at all.

    He went straight into the kitchen, opened the cupboard in the dark, and accurately found a Nanjing salted duck. It didn't make any movement at all. His movements were so skillful that it made people feel distressed.

    Then Zhao Shixi leaned against the still-warm hearth, tearing apart the duck legs and eating them, with tears streaming down his face.

    He felt very pitiful and lonely, and wanted to go back to his happy hometown

    When he was feeling sorry for himself and hurting himself, Zhao Shixi suddenly choked.

    With his eyes widened, he watched the warehouse door opposite the kitchen open

    There¡¯s nothing to eat there, so who would go in there in the middle of the night?

    Zhao Shixi didn¡¯t want to meddle in other people¡¯s business because he was also committing crimes himself.

    But the military regulations that Gao Wu had engraved on his mind with his whip dictated his hands to throw away the duck legs, took out the 'Mud Scream' from his sleeve pocket, then held it in his mouth, and blew it three long and two short.

    According to the regulations, this means a thief.

    The bird's cry was very clear, and it soon alerted the man who was watching the night in front.

    He hurriedly blew the mud in three long and two short blows and screamed, while holding the iron rod tightly and following the sound, he quickly came to the backyard.

    In the warehouse in the back courtyard, a figure was rummaging through boxes and cabinets. He also heard the chirping of birds outside.

    How can any bird sing in the middle of the night?

    He was so frightened that he hurried out to check, and happened to meet the man on night watch.

    ¡°Who is it?!¡± the man on night watch shouted.

    The man was so frightened that he turned around and ran away. The man on night watch immediately chased him while shouting to catch the thief.

    The thief must be a habitual thief, very agile, and has already figured out the retreat route.

    With a few moves, he dodged the iron rod of the man in Caijia Lane, and then he ran towards the west courtyard wall!

    Although the wall is two feet high, there are ropes hanging from it.??, that was his companions responding to his retreat.

    The companion was leaning on the high wall, watching the people in the alarmed house pouring out one after another, waving to him anxiously.

    The thief used all his strength to sprint up, then grabbed the rope and climbed up the wall quickly.

    The man from Caijiaxiang caught up with him, jumped up with all his strength, and tried to grab his leg, but his fingers only touched the sole of the thief's shoe

    Seeing that the thief was about to escape, he heard the sound of a bowstring crashing to the ground.

    Immediately afterwards, there was a whooshing sound, and the man in Caijia Lane looked at the thief as if he had been hit hard, his body tilted, and he fell straight down from the wall.

    Hearing the sound, the fellow thieves on the wall suddenly raised their heads and saw a young man in the distance, holding a crossbow at a level and having already re-stringed the bow.

    With a swish sound, another arrow was shot, grazing the scalp of the thief on the wall and flying past.

    The man was so frightened that he no longer paid attention to his accomplice who was shot on the ground and shrank his head and disappeared.

    ??~~

    When Zhao Hao heard the sound and put on his clothes and came over, he saw the men in Caijia Lane surrounding Zhao Shizhen, praising him without words.

    Zhao Shizhen held a high-backed crossbow and smiled shyly.

    "Did you shoot it?" Zhao Hao looked at Zhao Shizhen and then at the unique crossbow, and his scalp went numb for a while.

    He didn¡¯t know before that this harmless little nephew actually had a crossbow hidden away.

    But now is not the time to worry about this. Zhao Hao turned to the thief again and asked in a deep voice:

    "Are you dead?"

    "No, I was shot in the buttocks and passed out." The man from Caijia Lane carried the man over.

    Zhao Hao looked at it and found no impression, so he ordered: "Waking him up."

    It was too cold outside, so he went back inside to wait for news.

    ??~~

    In the twelfth lunar month of winter, when a basin of ice water was poured down, the thief got up from the ground with a howl, but the arrow wound on his butt was affected, and he let out an even more violent howl.

    The arrow wound brought great convenience to the interrogation. As soon as the man in Caijia Lane shook the arrow shaft, the thief was so painful that he wanted to die.

    "Tell me, what are you here for?" A sharp-tongued man named Cai Ming asked on Gao Wu's behalf.

    "We are here to steal things, you should be rich" the thief replied hurriedly.

    "Fuck your motherfucker!" Cai Ming spat thick phlegm and swung the arrow shaft hard.

    "This is a third-grade official's house and you are here to steal it? Don't you want to live? Even if you don't want to live, what are you looking for in the warehouse in the backyard? Is there anything valuable in there?!"

    "How do you know if you don't look for it?" The thief said, "If you don't go to the front, you can't go to the back."

    "I think you are just dishonest!" Cai Ming twisted the arrow shaft hard, causing the thief to faint from the pain.

    The man in Caijia Lane woke him up with cold water and continued the interrogation, but the culprit turned out to be a tough guy. He was in so much pain that he refused to move

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