Zhou Dacheng and Nangong Yue set a good time and left with joy.
At this time, the sky was completely darkened, the quiet outside the post, and the soldiers camping outside seemed to have rested.
Days of boat rides made Nangong Yue fall asleep quickly, but Zhou Dacheng was so excited that he didn't sleep in the middle of the night, and it was still not bright the next day, so he took Mo Xiuyu to Nangong Yue happily.Seeing Zhou Dacheng's energetic appearance, Bai Hui and Thrush could not even see that he did not rest well last night.
After breakfast, Nangong Yue, Zhou Dacheng and Mo Xiuyu and their entourage took a few guards from the palace, a total of nearly ten people, and rode all the way to the southeast. The rear camp was almost quick after they left. It's fried---
"It's too shameful!" the thin, tall soldier named Lao Chen said indignantly.
"That's right." The dwarf soldier beside him kept busy, "We are going to Yanding City to deliver medicine, and we are not accompanying the younger brother to the mountains and water!"
Lao Chen sighed: "I used to think that Mrs. Zhou was loyal and loyal to Shizi Ye, and he was also a man of good spirits. He is a man of iron and bones, and now it seems that it is not necessarily. It is still a few old sayings that I know well. Heart, I've only seen people's hearts in a long time!"
"That's right. And Mo Xiaowei is also so hot." The other two soldiers on the side also stepped in to interject, and one said sarcastically, "Look at me, I'm afraid there will be some toss along the way..."
"We are just little soldiers, where can we control..."
"Since there is rest, then rest is."
"..."
The soldiers gathered together in twos and threes and whispered to each other's ears. These gossips and gossips of nature were not heard in Nangong Yue's ears. They were galloping all the way according to the map drawn by Yi Cheng.Little Grey Fly followed them behind in the air for a while and then flew in front of them again.
The mine naturally does not happen to be on the edge of the official road, so everyone can only pick those trails and walk through a small forest for a while, then jump over a stream, and around a field...
The road goes through twists and turns, and the horse's speed is naturally limited.
About half an hour later, a small slope covered with wild grass and shrubs appeared in front of it. At the end of the small slope, a continuous mountain range could be seen vaguely.
Zhou Dacheng slowly called down the speed, and so did others.
Lily couldn't wait to point to the mountain road ahead: "Is the mine over there?"
Zhou Dacheng took another look at the crumpled map in his hand, and while nodding, he pointed to one of the mountain roads in front of him: "It should be the mountain to the south, there is a village nearby, I think it is not difficult to find..."
Xiao Hui made a loud cry in the air and flew straight ahead, seeing that it was flying in the direction that Zhou Dacheng had just pointed out.
Upon seeing this, Baihui and Lily exchanged a look, and they were happy.
It looks like Xiao Hui has been here here in all likelihood, so to speak, the ore it brought back yesterday may really come from the abandoned copper mine.
"drive!"
The group continued to race horses and gallops, and the horseshoes flew.
After driving over the small slope, the mountains in front were getting closer and clearer. After a while, Lily pointed to the front and shouted excitedly: "That village is here!"
When the village arrives, it means that the mine is here!
She caught a horse's belly, and was about to rush ahead, but was stopped by several voices at the same time: "Slow!"
The voices of Nangong Yue, Zhou Dacheng and Mo Xiuyu just overlapped. The three looked at each other and immediately understood that they were talking about the same thing.
However, they stopped Lily, but it was too late to stop Xiaohui.
Little Grey had spread his wings and rushed to the entrance of the village, screaming in the air and turning around in circles, scaring away all the birds that were parked on the tree.
"Qua-Quat -"
The black ink crows screamed loudly and fluttered away with flapping wings.
Seeing so many crows gather here, Lily realized that something was not right.
Since ancient times, the crow has been regarded as an unknown sign, not only because its appearance and sound are uncomfortable, but also because it often appears in places that represent death. After all, it is because the crow eats carrion.
There are so many crows gathered at the entrance of this village. Could it be that there are dead people inside doing funerals?
Lily speculated in her heart, but then immediately overturned this guess.
If there is a funeral, how could this village be so quiet?
be quiet……
Thinking of this, she felt more and more wrong.
Yes, this village is too quiet!
Although they are still some distance away from the village, there is no sound in the village, no cooking smoke, and no figure is seen, which is really unreasonable!
Lily thought about it, how could the other people present think of it.
Zhou Dacheng clasped his fists and said: "Sister Princess, would it be better to bring a few people over to see it?"
Nangong Yue responded. Zhou Dacheng took Ren Zinan and two other escorts to the village entrance first. The remaining Mo Xiuyu and several escorts left Zhou Ningyue to protect.
Nangong Yue watched Zhou Dacheng and his party go away, watching them slowly dismount the horse, and then dismounted at the entrance of the village and walked into the village...
All around quietly, only the horse under the crotch occasionally made a snort, and the crows dispelled by the little gray seemed reluctant to leave, still lingering nearby, or hovering in the sky or perching on the branches...
The rough crows came intermittently and vaguely...
What makes these crows nostalgic?
Nangong Yue, Bai Hui and Lily were even more uneasy. After a while, Zhou Dacheng's figure appeared at the entrance of the village again. Seeing him safe and sound, everyone was slightly relieved.
Zhou Dacheng got on the horse and rode over.
Lily's nose moved, and she turned to Bai Hui and said, "Cousin, do you smell a smell?" It was a more disgusting smell than rotten eggs.
As Zhou Dacheng approached, the stench became more and more obvious.
Nangong Yue naturally smelled it, frowning.
This is the taste of death!
She groaned in her heart, something terrible happened in this village...
At this time, Zhou Dacheng had reached a few feet away, and his dignified complexion could not be ignored by everyone.
"Concubine Shizi," he solemnly clenched his fists, "All the people in this village are dead! ... It seems that they have been dead for at least three or four days. The subordinate asked Alan to check them in the village to see if they could What clues did they find..." They still have military services on this trip, and it is estimated that they still have to notify the government office in the nearby town to come and thoroughly investigate the case.
Zhou Dacheng has been on the battlefield, and he has seen a lot of bloody and violent scenes on the battlefield. Although he is not used to it, he has also seen a lot of strong winds and waves. .
It was just that it was on the battlefield, where the two armies confronted each other. At that time, man had abandoned his own nature and became a weapon in the war.
Regardless of whether the weapon's original intention was aggression or guarding, the soldiers on the battlefield were not the same people on weekdays, nor were they really themselves.
But the village just now is different. There are ordinary civilians, all of whom are free from chickens, men, women and children, even babies... all of them are brutally killed.
This should be said to be "slaughtering village"!
Who can actually do such a cruel thing!
Zhou Dacheng thought, could not help clenching his fists.
That's definitely not what ordinary people do, because the murderers are simple, neat, and ruthless when they start their hands. The ordinary people who have not been stained with blood on their hands can never give up such ruthless hands.Moreover, the women who were killed were all neatly dressed and not insulted, which meant that the gang of murderers were extremely disciplined, which also greatly increased their danger...
The thought of a gang of ruthless gangsters lurking around here, Zhou Dacheng was restless.Although he is fearless, if he hurts the princess of the world, even if he has nine lives, he cannot afford to lose it!
"Concubine Shizi, let your subordinates escort you back to the post first." Zhou Dacheng suggested anxiously and worriedly.
Nangong narrowed her eyes and pondered for a moment, "Chou Dacheng, take me to see..." If the nearby mine really has silver mines, and this village was "coincidentally" slaughtered by the village, let her I have to wonder whether there is a connection between the two.
People die for money and birds die for food. This is the same principle that lasts forever.
Digression
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The Concubine Chamen Concubine (text/Nan Yi): A girl from a family of ordinary merchants, dressed in men's clothing, step by step, finally transformed into a generation of royal merchants, carefully planned, and concentrated on the layout only to return to Kyoto again, unveiled The conspiracy behind the Ye's massacre.