Heavenly Dao Formula

"Get up." Gong Shufeng was the first to notice. He sat up from the sackcloth blanket and shook his sleeping brother.

"What happened?" the latter asked vaguely, covering his head, "Is anyone here?"

"I don't know, but it's better to be careful." Gong Shufeng replied in a low voice. It is definitely not an ordinary person who is still riding a horse in the countryside at this hour.

If they were thieves, they would generally not attack a group of refugees with hundreds of people. One is that you can't grab anything of value, and the other is that it is easy to damage your subordinates. But this is just a general situation. Who knows if there will be accidents. Once the crowd runs away and tramples, it is definitely not wrong to be prepared first.

Gong Shufeng looked towards the dark north—with the help of the faint moonlight, he could vaguely see a group of people approaching here. Many of them held torches, and judging from the scale, there were also as many as a hundred people.

At this time, most people have woken up.

As vagabonds, they already had an instinctive reaction to this situation. Young and strong men picked up sticks and pitchforks that could defend themselves and faced the approaching people, while women, old people and children gathered together, waiting anxiously for the danger to pass.

However, when these people approached dozens of steps, Gong Shufeng took a deep breath. The opponent's armament can be said to be everything, not only wearing armor, but also a bronze helmet on the head, and a hand crossbow hanging on the waist. The clothes and pants under the armor are also neat and tidy, and it doesn't look like he often sleeps in the forest.

Robbers don't have such configurations!

"Who are you? What are you here for?" Someone asked boldly.

"I'm the steward of Tuntian Manor," shouted a horse rider over there, "Master is very merciful and willing to take you in. Pack up now and follow us on the road!"

Tun Tianzhuang?

Take in?

These words caused a commotion in the crowd.

"Where is Zhuangzi?"

"Do you want a few hundred people?"

"Why don't they come over during the day?"

While everyone was shouting, Gong Shufeng smelled a trace of uneasiness.

He noticed that the torches were spreading around, which was clearly a sign of encirclement. If they were just here to collect people, why did they come with so many fully armed servants? If it is to protect the steward and maintain continuity, obviously a dozen or so people are enough.

Just at this moment, a slight sound of strings being played entered Gong Shufeng's ears.

His complexion changed drastically immediately, and he pushed his younger brother down under him, "Get down!"

He was all too familiar with that sound—it was the tremor of the mechanism bowstring rebounding!

However, the arrows were not aimed at the young and strong men in the front row, but the old, weak, sick and disabled in the middle. There was only a series of soft swishing sounds, and screams and wailing erupted from the crowd. In the blink of an eye, dozens of people fell to the ground, and their lives and deaths were unknown.

"Take it down." The steward ordered.

The cavalry rushed up from all directions, rushed into the crowd on tall horses, and cut the refugee group into pieces in an instant. In the face of well-equipped enemies, sticks and pitchforks are simply irresistible. In addition, one's relatives are attacked, and everyone's fighting will is so low that they can't be lowered.

The battle ended in less than twenty breaths.

Even because of being surrounded by the other party in advance, few of the hundreds of refugees even escaped.

All the people were forced to kneel down by the side of the road, waiting for their fate in horror.

And these people who claimed to be from Tuntian Village did not seem to be the first to do this kind of thing. They skillfully separated the refugees, and then picked out the young and strong men with intact hands and feet, and took them aside alone.

Seeing this, Gong Shufeng already knew exactly what the other party was going to do.

The people in Tuntianzhuang want to take these people into slavery!

This is absolutely illegal, even if it is a homeless person, no one can take it as a personal property. This is not only to prevent the local power from becoming stronger, but also to avoid the public resentment caused by the naked deeds of extortion. If you want to obtain slaves, there is only one legal way, and that is to buy and sell through government authorized persons, and you must have a contract of selling yourself to be recognized.

"This person has a good frame and a decent face. He may fetch a good price if he is brought to Gaoguo." A man with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks commented after following Gong Shufeng for a while, "A first-class product, take it away alone."

"Yes!" Immediately, two servants grabbed his arms and pulled him out of the crowd.

Gong Shufeng was so anxious that the sweat on his forehead was about to come out. He thought that the biggest risk of traveling by land would be robbers and bandits, but he didn't expect to encounter such an unimaginable thing! If this kind of thing was placed in Xu State, it would definitely be a crime of copying the family and exterminating the family. No matter how powerful the local wealthy family is, it would be impossible to be so disrespectful to the world, right?

There should be officials from the Privy Council stationed in Huiyang City!

Aren't they afraid of being liquidated after leaking the news?

"It's not legal for you to do this!" Gong Shufeng couldn't help but said.

He wasn't really worried that he would be sold into slavery. As a public loser, he had too many ways to prove his identity to those in power. What he was really worried about was that after he was exposed, he would not be able to fulfill the old lady's entrustment, which would delay the family's important affairs.

The other party ignored him at all and looked directly at the next person.

"What's the matter with this man... Could it be that he has an epidemic disease?" The man looked at Gong Shujin a few times, "He's sick, not a good guy, and he's too young to do much work. Hmm... Let's deal with it on the spot .”

"Wait, that's my brother, where are you taking him?" Gong Shufeng shouted, "Let him go!"

A servant raised his fist and hit him violently in the abdomen.

"You fucking shut up!"

Another person brought hemp rope, "Tie him up, this guy is quite strong."

"Be careful, don't hurt the first-class goods." The man in charge of the appraisal frowned and said, "Just cover your mouth with that piece of cloth, don't do anything."

Seeing that Gong Shujin was about to be taken away, Gong Shufeng couldn't care less.

With sudden luck, he pushed his shoulders left and right, and pushed the two servants away a few steps.

This is exactly the power given to him by the sensate.

"Stop for me—" Gong Shufeng snorted.

"Bold!"

"You still dare to resist!?"

Several servants who followed the man pulled out the long swords around their waists in unison.

"I'm from the Privy Council, so is that person." Gong Shufeng lowered his voice, staring at the other party and said, "Now I have something important to do, so I have to act in secret. If you don't want to be ransacked and beheaded afterwards, it's best not to hinder me The actions of the two. Now let's go, and we can pretend that this never happened."

"The Privy Council?" The sharp-mouthed man scrutinized Gong Shufeng for the first time.

"The head of Huiyang Mansion is called Wu Qingping, rank four and a hundred blades, right?" The latter said word by word, "If you don't believe me, you can contact the city and ask the Privy Council to send someone to confirm your identity."

This is absolutely information that refugees do not have access to.

Of course, this fourth-rank Bairen didn't know him, but as long as he was a person who was sensitive, the Privy Council would not sit idly by.

Speaking of this, Gong Shufeng is also betting. He bet that the other party would not dare to really bother a Privy Councilor Bai Ren, but let him and Gong Shujin go with the idea that more things are worse than less things. In that way, he still has the possibility to go on to Jinxia—although these twists and turns have greatly increased the possibility of exposure.

The sharp-mouthed man did show suspicion and fear for a moment. He stopped the servant who was about to take Gong Shujin away, hesitated for a moment and said to the two, "You guys wait here for a while, I will go and ask the housekeeper for instructions."