57 A general with a broken family

Jiang Xiao Ting knew that this was the smell of burnt corpse oil, and Shangguan Yong also knew it. Rushing to the front of his house, Shangguan Yong looked at the ruins of his house and the corpses that were being carried out. He felt a sweet taste in his throat and spat out a mouthful of blood.

Everyone in the family is dead? Shangguan Yong, who could not accept this, stepped forward. If he did not see An Jinxiu, Shangguan Rui, and Shangguan Ning corpses, he would not believe that his family had been destroyed.

A burnt black hand was revealed outside the pile of rubble. Shangguan Yong walked in front of the hand. Although he could no longer see the original appearance of the hand, but Shangguan Yong could see that it was a woman's hand. Thinking back to the appearance of An Jin's hands, Shangguan Yong found that he could not recall what they looked like. Was this his little wife? Shangguan Yong did not dare to continue thinking about it.

"Big brother!" Just as Shangguan Yong knelt down in front of the pile of rubble and wanted to use his hands to pull the owner of this hand out from under the rubble, a few people ran up from behind. One of them called out to Shangguan Yong softly and hugged him from behind.

Shangguan Yong was completely unaware that someone was hugging him, and he used all his strength to pull himself up from the ground. He just wanted to know if this person was actually An Jin.

"Big brother!" The person holding Shangguan Yong became anxious, he raised his hand wanting to hit the back of Shangguan Yong's neck, he wanted to knock Shangguan Yong unconscious before taking him away.

Shangguan Yong fiercely turned his head, his big fist instantly arrived in front of this person's face.

"It's me, brother!" The man didn't let go, he just kept up with Shangguan Yong and shouted in a low voice.

"Who are you?" Shangguan Yong asked, seeing the man's face clearly, but he could not remember who it was.

"I'm Qing Nan, I'm Qing Nan!"Qing Nan caught up with Shangguan Yong and shouted, "Don't you recognize me?"

Qing Nan? Shangguan Yong's brain paused as he thought, shouldn't Qing Nan be in the army outside the Xiang An city, why would he appear in front of him?

Seeing Shangguan Yong's dazed look, Qing Nan forced back his tears and smiled, saying: "Eldest Sister-in-Law, Little Rui and the rest are fine. Big Bro, we got here a step earlier than you, you follow me, I'll take you to see them."

"Are you serious?"

Looking at Shangguan Yong's ecstatic expression, the people standing behind Qing Nan all turned their faces away, unable to bear to look anymore.

However, Qing Nan could still laugh, and said, "Can I talk nonsense about this? "Big brother, let's go. Don't let sister-in-law wait for us too long."

"Who are those people over there?" Some bailiffs of the justice courts noticed Shangguan Yong presence and asked loudly before walking over with the other bailiffs.

One of the people standing behind Qing Nan hurriedly went up to stop the constables and said, "Honored officials, we are here to visit relatives, and arrived in the capital just an hour ago. I didn't expect that this place would be burnt like this, Master Guan, our relatives and families have all been burnt down and we haven't even found them. Where are we going to find them?"

The bailiff looked at him and saw the sadness on his face. It did not seem like he was pretending, so he said gently: "There are a lot of dead people here today. We have yet to figure out a number. The injured have all been sent to several infirmary in the south of the city. You can go there to look for someone first. "

"Ai," the man bowed to the bailiff and said, "Thank you, sir."

The bailiff looked at Shangguan Yong who was still kneeling on the ground and sighed, saying: "You don't need to care about the corpse, our government will take it." It's not safe here, you guys should hurry up and leave. "

Qing Nan forcefully pulled Shangguan Yong up from the ground and whispered: "Big brother, this is not a place for us to stay. Let's go quickly!"

After Shangguan Yong stood up, he suddenly grabbed Qing Nan's lapel tightly and said: "Take me to see your eldest sister-in-law and them."

"Alright," Qing Nan did not let go of Shangguan Yong's hand and said: "Come with me, I'll bring you to see your wife and little Rui Zi."

"My lord," a head of the justice courts brought two yamen runners with corpses to the front of Wei Xi Sheng.

Wei Xi Sheng took a look at the corpse's charred face. Two rows of teeth were not burned black, and once the lips were gone, the two rows of teeth bared themselves, looking like ghouls." What happened to the body? " Wei Xi Sheng asked.

"My lord, look." The yamen showed the throat of the corpse to Wei Xi Sheng and Jiang Xiao Ting.

The corpse's face was charred, but its body was only covered in burning oil, a dark yellow color. Both Wei Xi Sheng and Jiang Xiao Ting saw that the corpse had a knife cut in the throat.

"What kind of person would dare to do this in the capital?" Jiang Xiao Ting asked Lord Wei Xi, "Killing people in the capital without batting an eye, is there still any law?"

Wei Xi Sheng had the yamen take the body away. He had thought more deeply than Jiang Xiao ting. The Shangguan family had been exterminated. In order to conceal the evidence, the murderer didn't hesitate to burn down the entire street. If it was just for money, the murderer wouldn't have done such a thing. Shangguan Yong was under General Zhou Yi, and Zhou Yi was currently in Xiang An city. If Shangguan Yong followed Zhou Yi, then today's matter would have nothing to do with the messenger King Xin's conspiracy.

Jiang Xiao Ting looked at the bitter expression on Wei Xi Sheng's face and said, "Say something!"

"This isn't a place to talk," said the man as he waved his hand at Jiang Xiao Ting. "This matter is too deep, so we should report it to His Majesty first and wait for the imperial edict."

Jiang Xiao Ting fell silent as he heard this. They were all loafers of the capital, so there was no need to be too direct with some of their words. They could understand what he was saying.

Wei Xi Sheng looked around him, it was a complete mess. There were people everywhere, but he didn't know if the culprit was still in the crowd." Ming Huo has already been extinguished, "Wei Xi Sheng told Jiang Xiao Ting," Let's enter the palace during the night.

"This is the Shangguan family," Jiang Xiao Ting said. "Should we send someone to the An Mansion branch?"

"I'm afraid that His Majesty already knew about this fire. If the Residence of An truly cared about this daughter of theirs, they would have sent people to watch long ago," said Wei Xi with a sneer. "We don't need to fawn over here. Let's go."

Jiang Xiao Ting shouted loudly as he followed Wei Xi Sheng out.

Qing Nan dragged Shangguan Yong from the south of the city to the north, finally entering a small tavern.

There were several wind lamps hanging from the eaves of the backyard of the inn, they were swaying in the wind, the candles flickered left and right, causing Shangguan Yong to be confused. "Where are your sister-in-law and the rest of them?" he asked Qing Nan.

Qing Nan and a few of her brothers stood side by side in front of Shangguan Yong. At this time, Qing Nan could finally stop pretending to smile.

Looking at the faces of his brothers that were filled with sadness, Shangguan Yong already knew the answer, but he still deceived himself and asked Qing Nan: "Where are they?"

"Big Brother, I'm sorry," Qing Nan said. "Eldest Sister-in-Law, Little Nephew, Little Rui, and Ning'er are all gone."

Shangguan Yong raised his hand to hit Qing Nan. Since his family was not here, why did this man pull him here?

Qing Nan said, "Big Brother, give me a good beating."

Shangguan Yong raised his hand, looking at Qing Nan for a long time, "Hit you, will they come back to life?" Shangguan Yong suddenly asked Qing Nan.

Qing Nan shook his head.

Shangguan Yong turned around and walked out of the courtyard.

"Big brother!" This time, a few people rushed forward and hugged Shangguan Yong.

"Big brother, we've already asked around, the fire was started at home," Qing Nan followed up and shouted. "No one came out alive at home. By the time it started, sister-in-law and the others were already dead!"

"This is impossible!" Shangguan Yong used brute force, shaking off a few of their tugs and dashes as he dashed out of the yard.

Qing Nan was thrown to the ground by Shangguan Yong, he could not catch up with him anymore, so he sat on the ground and followed up to Shangguan Yong by shouting: "This time, shouldn't you be thinking about revenge?!" If you're dead too, who's going to avenge them? "If you don't take revenge, how will you meet with your wife in the future?!"

Shangguan Yong halted his steps for a moment, then ran out.

"Are we going to chase him or not?" The few people in the courtyard didn't know what to do.

Qing Nan jumped up from the ground, touched his face and said, "It's good that he's not crazy. Let's follow him and don't let him be targeted. "Let's go!" Seeing them still standing there in a daze, Qing Nan shouted at them, "Who can be more sad than him at this time?!"

A few people chased after him out of the inn, and Shangguan Yong's figure was nowhere to be seen on the street.

"He must have gone back," Qing Nan urged the people behind him as he ran towards the south of the city. "All of you, hurry up!"

By the time Qing Nan and the rest had caught up to the old alleyway on the south side of the city, the two alleyways' entrances had already been sealed by the bailiffs of the justice courts.

"Our home is inside," Qing Nan said to the bailiff, who had stopped him from entering the alley.

"This alley has been sealed," the bailiff said as he pushed Qing Nan backwards.

"I can't even go home?"

"Where is your home?"

In the ruins of an alley, there was not a single intact house.

Qing Nan was at a loss for words. He immediately shouted at the bailiff, "Aren't there so many people in here?"

"I don't care about the people inside," Although the bailiff kept pushing Qing Nan around, his attitude wasn't bad. He said to Qing Nan, "This is the order from the superior, I have no choice, let one person in and it will be our dereliction of duty, don't make things difficult for us."

"It's not over yet," Qing Nan still hadn't given up. When he wanted to argue with the bailiff again, a brother pulled his clothes and said, "Look at our left side."

Qing Nan looked to their left, separated by five or six people. A tall man stood there. His clothes were ordinary, but his eyes were very bright. It was obvious that he was an expert in internal energy.

"There are a few more behind us," the brother said to Qing Nan. "Could they be the culprits?"

"Damn," Qing Nan whispered, "If you ask me, how would I know?"

"Keep your fucking voice down," the brother said. "The boy's looking at us."

Qing Nan said, "Let's go first."

"Then Big Brother is still inside!"

"Aren't these people unable to enter as well? "What are we afraid of?" Qing Nan turned and squeezed through the crowd. "Let's go first."

"What if these people follow me?"

"Follow?" A fierce look flashed across Qing Nan's eyes. "Then we will avenge our eldest sister-in-law!"

The people running around in the old alley didn't notice a man kneeling in front of the ruins of Shangguan's house.

Shangguan Yong had looked at the place where the corpses were kept, the corpses after they were burned were incomplete, it was hard to tell if they were alive or not, he did not know if there were his family members there or not, but looking at these corpses, Shangguan Yong's heart died and all the blood in his body seemed to be frozen. He even doubted if he was still alive in this world.