Chapter 60: A Boatload of Dead People
Zhao Dahai saw Yan Lie crying bitterly, he was a big old man, and he was not good at words. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Chu Mo brought the guards and the servants, and grabbed a small boat to look for people in the river, but found nothing.
On the Yan family's side, when Hauni and Luyi just collided with the boat, they wanted to pounce out of the cabin to pull Yan Ning, but when the boat hit the cliff, the two didn't hold anything, one hit his shoulder, and the other was hit by his waist. Now I don't care about the injury, I look at the river and cry vigorously.
Yan Xuan and Sister-in-law Li stood on the side with several servants of the Yan family, anxious, but they didn't know what to do.
Meng Liang and Meng Xiu looked at Feng Ping, hoping that he could say a few words of persuasion, or come up with an idea.
But Feng Ping looked at the big ship in a daze, not knowing what he was thinking.
Zhao Dahai looked around, looked at the matter in front of him, rubbed his hands on the side, and didn't know how to persuade him.
"It's so good, how did you hit the cliff?" He simply asked the reason first.
"General, our ship was originally doing well, but the merchant ship behind it suddenly collided, and the ship lost its direction and hit the cliff." The boat boss hurriedly said.
At his words, everyone turned their heads to look at the merchant ship.
After stopping for so long, the ship didn't move at all.
Yan Lie stopped crying and raised his head, his face was flushed, and his eyes were a little swollen. In the heavy rain, he wiped the water from his face, "Go and arrest the people on that boat, the master is going to kill them!" "I saw that the big ship that had just hit my own ship was still behind, and even the bow was still connected to the stern of my own ship.
"That's not right, why is there no sound at all? It's been a long time, and no one has come out. Meng Xiu shouted.
Actually, other people also felt that something was wrong.
The merchant ship was silent, there was no sound, no one came out, and what had just appeared was strange, like an empty ship out of thin air.
"Go up and take a look, thinking that if you can't hide, you'll be fine?" Yan Lie didn't think much about it, he only felt pain and regret in his heart, and he wanted to smash everyone, take the lead, and jump directly on the bow of that boat.
The others felt that the situation was not right, and they were afraid that he would be in danger, so they hurriedly followed.
When a group of people got on the ship, they saw that the deck of the merchant ship in front of them was empty, and there was a faint thick smell of blood coming from the wind.
Yan Lie had already bypassed the deck and ran to the cabin, everyone followed, and saw Yan Lie standing at the door of the cabin in a daze.
Looking at the scene in front of them, everyone gasped.
Rao is boatmen are all big men, and a few of them have already screamed in fright, and some even sat on the ground.
This cabin is full of dead people!
There are old and young, dressed differently, and they are all killed by a knife in the throat!
The blood of these men stained the ground of the ship's cabin red.
The boat is full of dead people, and no one is driving the boat, how can this boat avoid the dangerous shoals of the river?
"Look at these footprints!" Meng Liang pointed to the helmsman and shouted, everyone saw a person lying down under the helm.
From the rudder to the window of the cabin, there is a footprint.
Meng Liang walked over and saw blood stains on the window of the boat, which should be traces left by his feet.
From the rudder to the window, there are at least twenty or so steps, but there is only one footprint. It shows that this person actually jumped out of the window from the rudder and left, which is by no means something ordinary people can do.
Among these people, several people in the Yan Mansion have been in the border pass, and they have seen a lot of corpses and blood seas, so they are naturally not afraid of the dead, and even their faces have not changed.
Zhao Dahai was born in the army, and of course he and a few soldiers under his command are not afraid of the dead.
Zhao Dahai looked around, then lowered his head again, pointed to a man wearing a dark short shirt who fell on the side of the rudder and said, "This person should have been killed just now, and there is still residual warmth on his body!" ”
Indeed, the blood of the others was dark red, and it was obvious that he had been dead for a long time, but only that person, the blood on his body was still bright red, and he was even bleeding out.
"Meditation, the deck side on the second floor has been tampered with!" Feng Ping shouted and ran on the merchant ship, just now everyone rushed to the merchant ship, he felt that something was wrong, ran back to the big ship to see, and sure enough, he found something abnormal.
He hurriedly came over, wanting to tell Yan Lie, rushed to the door of the cabin of the merchant ship, and saw the dead people here, and he was also stunned, "These...... Who are these people? Why are they all dead? ”
Zhao Dahai was the first to react to his words, "Mr. Feng, what did you just say?" What was done by someone? ”
"It's the side of our ship." After Feng Ping finished speaking, Yan Lie had already turned his head and pushed everyone away and ran towards the big boat.
Zhao Dahai stomped his feet, pointed at a few soldiers and said, "A few of you, stay here and don't allow anyone to get on the boat again." He walked out of the cabin and called the captain of the ship and ordered: "Call all the boatmen of the two official ships to the shore, and do not walk around, do not leave!" Otherwise, you will be punished as a suspect! ”
After giving the order, he hurriedly caught up with Yan Lie and Feng Ping and walked towards the second floor of the big ship.
The captain of the ship did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly gathered the boatmen of the two ships and let everyone go to the shore.
Zhao Dahai walked up to the second deck of the big ship, and when he saw Yan Lie, Feng Ping, and the two Yan Mansion guards all gathered around the side of the stern deck, he stepped forward to check.
"General Zhao, look at the side of the ship. At that time, when Miss Yan was unsteady, she grabbed the plank of the ship to stabilize herself, but the plank broke. You see that the planks on the side of the ship are about two inches thick, and the half-inch of the inner side is neatly broken, and the last half inch has broken marks. The planks here have obviously been tampered with. Feng Ping pointed to the gap where Yan Ning fell into the water and explained in detail.
Zhao Dahai only felt a headache, who wanted to murder the girl of the Yan family? A little girl, what is the reason for being murdered? Even if Yan Lie was killed, he wouldn't feel strange, but Yan Ning, he really couldn't figure it out.
When the girl just fell, she was pulled by Chu Shizi. Later, the rope that Chu Shizi pulled suddenly broke. When Hauni and Luyi heard the exclamation, they rushed out of the cabin, and saw the rope breaking and Chu Mo and Yan Ning falling into the water together, and hurriedly added at this time.
"There's a knife light! I saw that there was light flying by, and the rope would break! Chu Mo's little servant Qinghe also shouted.
Everyone pulled up the rope to check, and sure enough, the break of the rope was very neat, and it was cut by a sharp object.
"General, I just counted the shipwrights and found that there are four people missing!" A soldier ran up and said.
Zhao Dahai is a general, not a magistrate who tries cases, he would rather fight with someone than fall into this fog. Still, he had to run down and ask. Halfway through, I thought of Feng Pinglai, this person who looked like a white-faced scholar, just spoke in a clear manner, maybe he was a good questioner, "Mr. Feng, please go and have a look with me." ”
Feng Ping didn't shirk either, nodding and keeping up.