Nanming Engineer

Chapter 68
Wang Huan and the other three ran for their lives in the wind. They were not familiar with geography, and they ran around in this poor slum area like headless chickens. The alleys are as numerous as a maze, and they all look the same. After running for a while, the three of them are still circling in circles.

The shouting and shouting behind them were getting closer and closer, and the three of them became more and more anxious. Once they were overtaken by the pursuers, it would definitely be more than just begging with severed arms and legs. Anyone who kills them will definitely be chopped up alive.

After running through an alley, a three-way intersection appeared in front of him. Chen Ergou stopped, grabbed Wang Huan and said, "No, it seems like I have been here just now."

He pointed to the door of a house on the side of the road and said, "There is a stone lion here. I still remember it. It's unmistakable. We ran past here just now."

Xu Goudan gasped heavily, put his knees on his back and said, "This place is so messy, it's like a maze, we're lost!"

Wang Huan frowned and looked around. What Chen Ergou said was correct. In his memory, he could also recall that he had indeed passed by here. It seemed that he ran towards the alley on the right just now.

Wiping the sweat from his head, Wang Huan said in a hoarse voice: "This time we will take the middle road, and walk quickly."

He took the lead and ran into the alley in the middle. Chen Ergou and Xu Goudan followed quickly. On both sides of the alley, there were high walls with red bricks and black tiles, which seemed to be the outer walls of some wealthy family. Everything in the alley was quiet. There wasn't even a single figure, only the footsteps of three people echoed.

After running for a while, a high wall suddenly appeared in front of him, which was connected with the walls on both sides. There was no way out. This was a dead end!

The three of them turned pale and stood in front of the wall. Wang Huan regretted it. Why did he choose this path just now? Wasn't this looking for death?He turned around and wanted to go back, but he heard noisy shouting and cursing not far behind. Someone was shouting: "This way, these three bastards are running this way!"

Hearing this voice, the three of them understood that the back road was blocked and they couldn't go back, but Xu Goudan shouted: "Look, there are doors on both sides!"

There was a small door under the walls on both sides at the end of the dead end. The red lacquered door was tightly closed. Chen Ergou said hurriedly: "This should be the side door of the house. Let's knock on the door quickly to see if we can be let in."

He and Xu Goudan rushed up and knocked on the door vigorously, but there was no sound inside the door, even though their palms turned red, no one answered.

Wang Huan stopped the two of them and said in a deep voice: "Stop shooting, it's useless. This is the side door of the backyard of a wealthy family. Usually no one is here. No one will answer you even if you shout at the top of your lungs."

Xu Goudan said with a cry: "What should we do? Are we just waiting for them to catch us?"

Wang Huan looked around, looked up again, and saw that the high wall was built of blue bricks, nearly a foot high, covered with black tiles, and it was very beautifully built. The other end of the wall must be lived by a rich or noble family, and his heart skipped a beat. Liang, said to Chen Ergou and Xu Goudan: "Let's climb over the wall, it must be the residence of the nobles over there, those wicked beggars don't dare to disturb, it's safe to go in."

Xu Goudan said anxiously: "But wealthy families have martial arts guards. If we climb over the wall like this, we will definitely be treated as thieves and beaten to death with sticks."

Wang Huan shouted: "I don't care about that much anymore. If you don't go in, you will be stabbed to death by the villains behind. Two evils are the lesser! This fence is very high, Ergou, can you do it?"

Chen Ergou said proudly: "Just look at me, I have climbed countless walls like this in Yangzhou City, and I will definitely not miss."

He took two steps back to leave a run-up distance. Wang Huan and Xu Goudan stood on both sides, leaving the middle open. Chen Ergou spit in the palm of his hand, rubbed it twice, refreshed himself, and stared at the high wall. At the top, accumulate strength on both feet, and shout out: "Ha!" Run vigorously, rushing to the high wall like an arrow off the string, with the help of momentum, one foot touches the wall, and the person stands on the wall Pi, the other foot immediately followed, as if walking on a wall, a few steps up to the top of the wall, the one-foot-high wall was as easy as flat ground under his feet, he put his hands together, turned over and jumped, and the whole person sat on the top of the wall .

This set of movements was so smooth and tedious to say, but only took a second or two to do, that Wang Huan and Xu Goudan looked up in a daze.

Chen Ergou said anxiously to them: "What are you doing standing still? Come up quickly."

Xu Goudan imitated Chen Ergou's movements, and also took a run-up, and then wanted to jump up the wall, but because of his lack of waist strength, his feet fell to the ground with a "paw" before taking two steps on the wall.

Wang Huan estimated that his skill was not much different from that of Xu Goudan. He sighed secretly and squatted down obediently, letting Xu Goudan stand on his shoulders while Chen Ergou held him. He pulled him up, took two final steps, and jumped up hard when he reached the bottom of the wall. He stretched out his hand and grabbed Xu Goudan's leg. Chen Ergou, who was sitting on the top of the wall, pulled hard, causing beads of sweat on his forehead. Straight up, they pulled both of them up.

As soon as the three of them reached the top of the wall, they saw silhouettes of people at the entrance of the alley. The pursuers had already caught up. They saw a piece of grass inside the wall and there was no one around. They quickly turned over and jumped down, landing on the grass.

The voice outside the wall became louder. A group of men with knives and sticks rushed into the alley, only to see an empty dead end. The men looked around and saw the few footprints on the snow-white wall at a glance.

One of the leading men looked at the climbing marks on the wall and cursed fiercely: "You bastard, you are very agile. You can climb over such a high wall."

A sackclothed man beside him replied darkly: "It's useless, we can't catch them, and the three bastards don't even think about getting out alive."

The leading man frowned and said, "How?"

The man in sackcloth said: "Inside the wall is the back house of the magistrate's yamen in Xiangyang prefecture, and all the nobles of the Qing Dynasty lived there. It would be strange if they were not killed as thieves when they entered."

The leader suddenly understood, and said happily: "Since this is the case, then we have settled this matter, and it is useless to wait here any longer. Let's go back and report to the leader."

A group of people left noisily. After a while, the alley returned to calm. Except for a few black footprints on the wall, it was as if nothing had happened here.

(End of this chapter)