Tea Merchants of the Song Dynasty

Chapter 144 Fighting

This small dilapidated temple first experienced the baptism of wind and rain, and now it is also a bloody storm.

What should have been the most peaceful and harmonious place was forced to endure things that it shouldn't have endured.

The sound of swords clashing continued to reach Jiang Yin's ears, and she was extremely angry, both at the assassin and at her own incompetence.

Xiao Luo stepped forward and held her hand, comforting her: "Don't worry, my lady, we are many people, nothing will happen to them."

Even if their people are not strong enough, they still have Li Ji's people.

"I know." Jiang Yin took a deep breath, pursed his lips and waited anxiously in the carriage.

Li Ji's people are all elites, and we should trust them.

As time passed, the sounds of fighting outside gradually stopped. But in order not to cause more trouble, Jiang Yin refrained from getting out of the carriage.

After a while, Li Ji's slightly hoarse voice came from outside the carriage: "Is Miss Jiang frightened?"

He felt very uncomfortable. Since he met Jiang Yin, he had no idea how many assassination attempts Jiang Yin had suffered.

Hearing Li Ji's voice, Jiang Yin breathed a sigh of relief and quickly got off the carriage.

"No problem." She frowned slightly and said, "Are you injured? Who are these assassins? How come they can even chase us into a ruined temple?"

Logically speaking, the location of the ruined temple was very hidden. In addition, the rain had washed away many traces, so these people should not have caught up.

"They came here to avoid the rain and we met by chance." Li Ji paused and said, "They came for me. This time I have implicated you."

What he did in Huizhou caused Zhao Sheng to be jealous and retaliate against him.

Zhao Sheng thought he would take the evidence and the criminals with him, but how could he do as Zhao Sheng wished?

He had secretly sent the evidence and the criminals back to Tokyo. As for what would happen next, it all depended on what the government would do.

Jiang Yin shook his head and said, "If you want to talk about implicating others, I'm the one who implicated you more. So don't say these words."

She looked Li Ji up and down, and seeing that he was fine, she raised her foot and prepared to walk towards Wang Heng.

Li Ji quickly stopped the man and said, "Your people are fine. You should wait until they clean up the house before going over to avoid bumping into you."

His people would rather get hurt themselves than protect Jiang Yin's people. Not to mention the deaths, there were not many people who were seriously injured.

There were corpses all over the ground at this moment. The scene was too horrifying and not suitable for a delicate young lady to see.

Without waiting for Jiang Yin to speak, Wang Heng strode over to report the situation. Overall, it was similar to what Li Ji said, they were only injured but not dead.

Jiang Yin finally breathed a sigh of relief and had the mind to think about other things.

It was not Li Ji's turn to clean up the battlefield, so Jiang Yin tilted his head and asked him, "Are those assassins from Huizhou? Will there be any problems if we kill them all?"

Both of them are princes, one is from the official family, and the other is a prince of a different surname. Neither of them is easy to mess with.

"Don't worry." Li Ji said nonchalantly, "He dared to let people come, which proves that he can bear the consequences of this."

In the eyes of such people, human life is nothing. He believed that there would be more assassins chasing him on the road ahead.

Jiang Yin pursed her lips and said nothing.

Li Ji chuckled and said, "Is Miss Jiang afraid? Why don't you go first and I'll stop the people from behind?"

He suddenly realized that his insistence on following Jiang Yin was indeed causing inconvenience and danger to others.

If Jiang Yin wanted to go their separate ways, he wouldn't think anything of it.

"What if the assassin is ahead?" Jiang Yin said in a cold voice, "Forget it, it's already this time, I can only be safe if I follow you."

There were countless people following her, openly or secretly. Even if they didn't catch up for a while, at some point, they must have known that she and Li Ji were on the same side.

If she were left alone, she might not even have a way to save her life.

As she spoke, she walked to the Buddha statue in front of her, bent down, picked up the dusty offerings, wiped them clean and replaced them.

"Isn't it said that Buddha hates killing the most? Since he didn't stop the killing just now, he should at least bless us with a safe journey from now on, right?"

Jiang Yin muttered as he put everything back in place, doing another good deed.

Seeing this, Li Ji joined in to help collect things. By the time they were done, the battlefield in the ruined temple was also cleaned up, as if nothing had happened.

But the faint smell of blood in the air reminded people that something major had happened here.

With the assassination attempt on his mind, Jiang Yin no longer had the heart to continue sleeping. The others also began to help each other bandage their wounds.

Jiang Yin thought about it, then started to cook meat porridge with Xiao Luo so that everyone could have something hot to eat.

After all, it was pitch black outside, not yet dawn, and the wind and rain were still continuing, so they couldn't travel in the dark.

Finally, not long after they had drunk their porridge, they made it to dawn.

Although it was still raining, at least we could continue on our journey.

Jiang Yin and the others quickly packed up their things and continued on their way towards Mount Meng.

However, after a day and night of heavy rain, the mountain road became extremely rugged.