A rush of footsteps could be heard coming from outside, and soon, there was a loud banging sound at the gate. Everyone knew that some people were hitting on the gate.
Qiu Shi couldn't even stand still as she had to lean against Mama Li so she wouldn't fall to the ground. Although she was from a martial arts family, she had never encountered anything like this.
Yuxi was also shivering with fear, except that she knew that right now wasn't the time for her to be scared. The more she showed how scared she was, the worse the outcome would be.
Deng Shuang steadied herself and said to the group of women who had bloodless scared faces, "Don't be afraid. They won't be able to open the gate." She had already observed the gate just now. It was solid and definitely would not crash at any time.
"But that's not really the case here," said Zijin.
Deng Shuang thought for a moment and then asked, "Is there any ladder?" She wanted to climb up the wall to see how many people were currently outside. In this way, they would have the bandits number in their mind.
They quickly moved the ladder used to find things in the storehouse to the yard. It was convenient that the warehouse was divided into two levels at this time of the year.
Deng Shuang climbed up the ladder and looked around for a while. When she came down, she told them, "I have made a visual inspection. There are about thirteen to fourteen people outside." She felt a huge relief. If there were thirty to forty people out there, she would have to think of a way to save her life right now rather than fight for it.
Yuxi was relieved when she heard the figure. There were more than 20 people in the yard, and they could fight them back if they had to. Yuxi said, "It's not good for us to have our hands tied up and just waiting for death here. We have to think of a way to solve these people."
Deng Shuang took a look at Yuxi. That was a big talk coming out from the mouth of Fourth Miss. As soon as she spoke, she said they had to deal with more than a dozen people outside. "How? The fact that these people dared to break into the State Residence is enough to show that they are daredevils who want money without caring for other people's lives." After a pause, she informed her, "Fourth Miss, these people have lethal weapons in their hands."
Yuxi knew that she could only assume the situation as a matter of fact, "Since they can't open the gate, they will climb over the wall." Although the wall was high, one could climb over it as long as one tried one hardest.
Deng Shuang said, "We can't stop all of them at once, but we can still solve the few that come in. Fourth Miss, we should utilise the advantage that we have." These men were so ruthless that they, women inside the yard, could only use their geographical advantage and their large number as a deuce.
Yuxi nodded.
Just as Yuxi thought, when the people outside saw that they couldn't break down the gate, they wanted to climb over the wall to get inside. Because of Deng Shuang's reminder, everyone inside was staring deadly at the walls on all sides. A maid with sharp eyes pointed to a direction and said, "There's someone there."
Zijin took a stick from a maid beside her. Then she smashed it on the thief at the top of the wall. She was very accurate, as people heard a scream, and then the bandit disappeared.
Yuxi did not expect that Zijin was not only strong but accurate too. However, the people outside were unwilling to give up, and not soon after, another one tried to crawl in.
Zijin was about to smash the man down when Yuxi stopped her, "Zijin, don't do it, just let him in."
Everyone in the courtyard thought Yuxi had gone crazy. The bandit was trying to get in, and you're not going to kill him? It was a pity that Zijin only listened to Yuxi and not anyone else. [+]
The bandit who had climbed up the wall was overjoyed when he heard Yuxi's words and immediately slid down the wall. Yuxi just looked at the man without fear and instructed Zijin, "Zijin, kill him." For Yuxi to have such boldness, it was also because she saw Zijin easily smash someone off the wall just now.
The bandit laughed and raised the sword that was still dripping with blood in his hand. Just as he wanted to speak, he noticed Zijin also raised a broadsword and advanced towards him with a slash.
With one blow from Zijin, the bandit's hand went numb, and his sword fell to the ground. He quickly reacted and wanted to pick up the sword back, but how could Zijin let him do what he wanted? At this moment, Deng Shuang went over and picked up the sword that laid on the ground.
The bandit didn't have any weapon left, and he met a savage woman with boundless strength. He felt that he had earned terrible luck. He retreated and called out, "Dage, come in and save me."
On the other hand, Deng Shuang and Deng Xue were looking at the walls in case anyone else tried to climb in.
The bandit dodged another slash from Zijin and shouted, "Dage, come in and save me. Skinny Monkey, come in and save me!"
The other bandits outside were startled when they heard the cry for help. "Dage, what should we do now? Do you want to continue to go in?"
The bandits’ leader looked gloomy as he pointed at the three big built men among them and said, "You guys go in." He didn't expect that there would be a hard stubble inside the courtyard.
Zijin quickly subdued the bandit.
This time, the bandit had been knocked to the ground and couldn't get up. As he watched Zijin walk towards him step by step, he felt that it was like death approaching him step by step. At that moment, he opened his mouth and begged for mercy, "Great Aunt, please spare my life." When the thief saw Zijin stopped in her tracks, he immediately said, "I beg Great Aunt to spare my life. I have to take care of both my ageing parents and also my children. I was also temporarily obsessed......."
Yuxi took Deng Xue's sword in her hand, went up to the bandit, thrust it into his heart, and then drew it out without looking at the blood gushing out as she turned towards Deng Xue. Yuxi didn't even see that the bandit's eyes were wide open when he died. He was dead but wouldn't close his eyes.
Qiu Shi's pupils shrunk. To her surprise, Yuxi had killed a person, and she even did it without any hesitation.
Yuxi returned the sword to the stunned Deng Xue, then faced the lifeless Zijin as she coldly said, "What situation are we currently facing now? Do you have to be merciful? If you once again act merciful to these people who kill others without even blinking their eyes, then we will be the ones who die."
Zijin's hand suddenly trembled, and with a feeling of remorse, she stated, "Miss, I'm sorry."
Yuxi was also scared. How could she not be scared when it was her first time killing a person? It was just that if she let this man go, it would only fuel the bandits' anger and discourage them, everyone inside the yard, from fighting back. These bandits were all daredevils, and once they had the upper hand, they wouldn't let them inside go, and surely, everyone would die. She didn't want to die. She didn't want to die like this. "Don't apologise, and don't show any more mercy in the face of those bandits. Otherwise, it will be us who'll die." After saying that, she said towards the dumbfounded group of people in the courtyard, "There are only ten or so bandits left outside, and there are more than twenty of us in this courtyard. Furthermore, Zijin and the Deng sisters have martial arts skills. Hence we don't need to be afraid of them at all. It’s them who should be afraid of us."
The group of people in the courtyard were encouraged by her talk. Of course, it was mainly because of Zijin's excellent martial arts and Yuxi's decisive way of dealing with these bandits like they were no more than so-so. As a result, they raised an unyielding fighting spirit in the hearts of all the people in the courtyard.
Yuxi looked at Qiu Shi, whose face had gone bloodless, and urged, "Eldest Aunt, go inside the house quickly! I will stay here." Qiu Shi was useless when she stayed in the courtyard, and it was better for her aunt to just go inside like Ye Shi.
When Mama Li heard these words, she was busy pulling Qiu Shi and said, "My Lady, let's go inside!" She also thought that it was safer to stay indoors than in the open yard. [+]
Qiu Shi was horrified when she saw Zijin start to fight the bandit, but she knew she could not enter the room. "I'm fine." As an adult, to leave Yuxi alone in the courtyard was an embarrassment for her to speak out.
When Yuxi saw Qiu Shi insisted on not entering the house, she did not force her. At this time, a maid called out, "Miss, someone has crawled in again."
Yuxi looked up at the wall, and this time, there were three people on top of it. She looked at the people in the courtyard and instructed, "Deng Shuang, Deng Xue, both of you have to deal with one of them each. Zijin, all you have to do is knock down the broadswords in the bandits' hands."
As soon as the three bandits fell on the ground, two fought with Deng Shuang and Deng Xue. After the swords in the two bandits' hands were knocked down by Zijin, four to five rough old women servants with thick arms and sticks in their hands swarmed up to the two bandits.
The rest of the ten bandits outside shivered when they heard other screams for help coming from inside the yard. Among them, a bald man asked, "Dage, are we still going to go in?"
Just after he was smashed on the head, and there was blood all over his head as he stated, "Dage, there is a woman in there who is extremely strong and looks like she has trained herself. There are also two other women holding swords who look like bodyguards."
The leader was just about to say he would go in when a corpse was thrown out of the yard. The person who had just inquired lost his voice when he saw what had been thrown out, "Dage, this is An Chun. Ah Chun has been killed by these people?"
The leader shouted to the courtyard, "As long as you release our brothers, we will immediately leave." Ever since they entered this backyard, it felt like they had entered an unmanned land. The women they had met before were as weak as chickens, and they were all soft. It was effortless to fight them off, but they didn't expect to encounter a stubble here. Even one of their brothers had been killed.
Yuxi sneered. Those words were clearly a test. If they really released the three bandits, those bandits outside definitely would not leave.
King Yan, the King of (Chinese-Buddhist) Hell
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Yuxi looked at the three dying bandits on the ground and said, "Give each of them a slash of your sword. Zijin, you throw them out." Only Zijin had this enormous strength to throw a person from this side to the outside.
The leader looked at the three corpses that had been thrown out. Two of the bodies had sword wounds, and the other with a deformed head. Moreover, the first one earlier had been stabbed with a sword. All the women inside this courtyard were vicious human beings. [T/N]
"Dage, what are we waiting for?" cried the thinnest one among them. "Kill them all without exception so that we can avenge Ah Chun and *Monkey Four." Wasn't it just a group of women, so just cut them all with a knife each.
The bandits' leader hesitated when he saw the bodies.
The bald man who Zijin had hit with a stick suggested, "There are a few female guards with high martial arts skills in there. The other twenty or so women are holding large sticks. Dage, if we can't loot here, let's go somewhere else. There's no need for us to die here." They broke into the State Residence just to seek money, and when they encountered a challenging situation such as this, they naturally did not want to risk their lives.
P/S (Author): O(∩_∩)O haha~, our heroine acted so bravely, and for sure, the pros must show how it should have been done!
Noob Translator's Musing
Hey, Yuxi may be ruthless, but she prefers directly cutting the source rather than being a victim. Prevention is better than cure.
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The Rebirth of Han Yuxi