After that, Fang Xiaoyu called the shopkeeper, arranged a room on the third floor, and invited all three merchants in.

After all, the partition wall has ears. The three of them were talking very quietly before, and Fang Xiaoyu could only hear it because she was strong in martial arts and had sensitive five senses, and the table of the three of them was also closer to Fang Xiaoyu's table, so she heard all their conversations.

But this does not mean that among the other six or seven table guests, there are no people with the same five senses as her, and there are some things that can not be rash and rash.

The other two were still a little squirming. After all, the first time I came into contact with this kind of person at the level of the princess, I was apprehensive. But when the businessman who admired Fang Jianzhang very much learned that Fang Xiaoyu was the concubine of General Fang, whom he respected, his eyes were full of excitement.

This was the daughter of the man he respected the most. Alive!

A few people sat down, and Fan Jin began to explain to Fang Xiaoyu what he knew.

"You haven't been back to the border city since?" Fang Xiaoyu asked.

Fan Jin shook his head and said, "I have been back a few times, but I have never entered the city, I just checked not far outside the city, and then returned here." ”

"Did you notice anything?" Fang Xiaoyuxin continued to ask.

Fan Jin's brows were furrowed, and his face was not good-looking. He looked up at Fang Xiaoyu's face and said heavily, "I have stopped outside the city for a short time, and I found that the guards outside the city are stricter than before. And pedestrians can only enter the city, but they have never seen anyone leaving the city. ”

"There are so many people in the border city, how can there be no one out of the city?" The other two frowned.

"Maybe it should be said that it is not that there are people who have not left the city, but only living people who have not left the city." Fan Jin's hand holding the tea trembled, and even his voice trembled a little.

What does that mean? Do you want to say that everyone who wants to get out of the city is killed? Tu Hongzheng was stunned.

"I don't know what's going on in the city. It's just that after Yuan Shu died, I took my whole family out of the city overnight. After that, I arranged the family here and told them not to go out lightly, and to talk about it until they had escaped the limelight. During that time, the family was frightened, and life was lifeless. So I went out on my own to find out some news. I went back to the gates of the border city, and saw that there were more guards than before. So I hid myself from a distance and kept an eye on it, but I saw only those who entered the city, but I never saw a living person come out of the city. I wondered if the border guards were trying to hide something. The gates of the city were sealed. Fan Jin's words were intermittent, like a running account. He told Fang Xiaoyu everything he had observed outside the city gate, hoping that the other party's laughter would be of some help.

"Later, I saw a few military masters in military uniforms carrying some straw mats out of the city at night, all of them at night. Because it's far away. I can't tell what's in the mat. I followed from a distance, but I didn't dare to get closer, until all the military masters had left, and I didn't dare to step forward when I saw that there was no one around. Fan Jin's face became more and more pale as he spoke, and he continued: "Those military masters dug a pit and buried all the straw mats that came out of the stage, and buried them in the mountains and forests that few people haunted. I can't see it at all. Just looking at the dress, it looks like a bandit. ”

"Bandits? If you kill the bandits, it will be a great achievement. In recent years, there have been bounties in the imperial court, and if anyone can exterminate the bandits in various places, they will have a reward for silver. If the guards of the border city can take down the bandits, why don't they cut off their heads and go to the government to receive the reward? On the contrary, in the middle of the night, he secretly took a straw mat and carried it out of the city to find a remote place to bury something? Cheng Youyou's whole little face was wrinkled together. She and Tu Hongzheng have been bounty hunters many times, relying on the bounty information on the court official list, they have won a lot of heads to receive silver, and she and Tu Hongzheng have traveled all over the country to seek medical treatment over the years, and sometimes they are tight on hand. I went to pick up a bounty, earned some money, and continued to seek a doctor. So she has a little understanding of the court's bounty.

Although Beiyan is a frontier land, it will be respected by defending the city. But the government does, otherwise how should people's livelihood develop? You can't rely on a group of big men who are fighting to do those trivial things, not to mention whether they have the ability or not, I'm afraid they don't even have patience.

Therefore, Beiyan must have an official of the imperial court. That means that the bandits' bounty is also valid in Beiyan.

However, the guards would rather carry the body out of the city and bury it hastily in the middle of the night than receive the silver. It's just so unusual.

Fan Jin smiled bitterly and said, "I thought that the real bandit was killed, and I didn't think much about it, but in the next few days, a few corpses would be brought out in the middle of the night every day or two, all dressed in the clothes of bandits, so I had suspicions." ”

Saying that, Fan Jin actually showed a trace of resentment, gritted his teeth and said: "Although there are mountains in Beiyan, and there are also bandits on the mountains, but because there are hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the border city, the bandits don't dare to set foot in the border city lightly. Even if you enter the city, you have to tremble for fear of being recognized, let alone wreak havoc and loot in the border city. But after a few days, at least a dozen corpses were carried out in the border city. I just thought something was wrong, until one day, when I dug up the burial place again, and saw a corpse dressed in bandit-like clothes beyond recognition, I felt cold and bitter all over my body, and I was so frightened that I quickly buried the body again, and then quickly fled outside the city and returned here. ”

"What's the difference with that corpse?" Fang Xiaoyu immediately thought of something.

Fan Jin bit his lip, his brows trembling and twitching.

"I recognize the corpse." Fan Jin waited for a long time before speaking again, and said, "Although that face has been cut off beyond recognition, there is some flesh and blood on it. The bandit's clothes were covered in blood, but I recognized the corpse. He was a man I knew, a rice merchant, who lived in an old house in the south of the city. Their family has lived in Beiyan for generations, and after experiencing that period of poverty, there is a group training left, if there are descendants in the family who can serve in the army or the imperial examination in the future, even if the family business is closed, they will definitely be sent to the officialdom and glorify the lintel. Therefore, when the grandson of the old man Mi's family wanted to join the army, no one objected, but the old man Mi happily told people everywhere that their family had a good reputation, better than him, and better than his son. Didn't expect ......"

Fan Jin shook his head, still looking scared.

Fang Xiaoyu's expression sank and said, "That rice merchant's grandson...... But one of the 50,000 elite soldiers my father brought out of the city? ”

Fan Jin nodded heavily and said, "His grandson has a good relationship with my brother-in-law. They are all good men who followed General Fang out of the city to meet the enemy. It's just that after that incident, Yuan Shu pretended to be dead and escaped, and finally escaped easily, so he only had time to go home and remind us that he died. My family and I were afraid of being implicated, so we fled overnight, not thinking to alert anyone else. So when I saw Old Man Mi's stone head, I was afraid that my legs were weak. Since then, he has never dared to approach the gate of the border city. ”

"The guards of Beiyan will kill people and destroy their mouths?" Tu Hongzheng gasped.

50,000 soldiers were stabbed in the back by their own men and died outside the city gates, while their families were brutally murdered? Do these people still have a little bit of humanity!

"Now that the body has been cut off beyond recognition, how can you recognize him as the rice merchant you recognize?" Fang Xiaoyu felt strange.

If it can be recognized, it means that the corpse should have some characteristics.

Sure enough. Fan Jin began to gesture with his own hand and said, "Old man Nami has six fingers, which are natural. But when he was young, he was addicted to gambling, and in the end he lost and was cut off. It was his right thumb that was chopped off, so his right hand did not have a thumb, but it did have two little fingers. And there are two moles on his wrists, one up and one down, one red and one black, which is very conspicuous and can be seen at a glance. The old man once joked that although he had an ordinary face. When he gets old, the wrinkles on his face may not be remembered, but if he sees his right hand, I'm afraid that everyone in the whole border city will know that he is Old Man Mi. ”

Saying that, Fan Jin was afraid that Fang Xiao would not believe it, so he continued: "It's not that there are people with six fingers, I have seen two. But there are six fingers, a broken thumb, an extra little finger, and two moles on the wrist, one red and one black, and one on the wrist, which may also appear on the second person. I'm sure. It must be Old Man Mi without a doubt. ”

Fang Xiaoyu was silent.

She used to live in the border city, so she still has some impressions of the terrain of the border city.

The border city has two gates. One is the city gate that Fan Jin said, the entry and exit of merchants and the entry and exit of the people on weekdays. It's all through this door. If there is grain and grass to come, it is necessary to enter through this door.

The other city gate is the junction between Dacheng and other countries. There was a large battlefield there, and at the moment it was being approached by human soldiers.

The two city gates, one in front and one behind, are the distance of an entire border city.

And the wars of this era have some unwritten rules. Like what. After the war, both sides had to clean up the battlefield as much as possible and carry away the corpses of soldiers from their respective countries.

Because a large number of corpses are piled up outside the city gates, it is easy to cause epidemics, and once the corpses are decomposed, it may cause the outbreak of various infectious diseases.

Therefore, when dealing with their own corpses, both sides are exempt from fighting. Just like the unwritten rule that two armies do not fight each other, when collecting the corpse, the other party must not take advantage of the situation to fight, otherwise it will be regarded as having no credibility at all, then, in the future, when this country fights against any country, the other country will tacitly use any means to deal with this country. So even if many people want to ignore the rules and fight a bitter slaughter, they are all courageous, at least until now, no country has dared to take the initiative to break this unwritten rule.

And Yuan Shu relied on the opportunity to be picked up to return to the city, and there was a forest outside the other city gate that could bury the corpses, and the corpses that had no family or lacked arms and legs and could not recognize people were all buried here.

Yuan Shu took advantage of the unpreparedness to escape by hiding a pile of corpses, he was afraid that he had already guessed the severity of this matter in his heart, and knew that if the guard general wanted to hide the crime of framing General Fang, then all those who knew and those involved had to shut up.

Yuan Shu has been smart since he was a child, and many things can be associated with many later steps through the current step. He was afraid that this matter would affect his family, so he fled back to the city and told his family to leave. But he had already suffered a lot of injuries, and he also helped Fang Jianzhang block three swords on the battlefield, and he was afraid that it would be the end of the crossbow to escape back to the city. In addition, mixed with a pile of dead people, the corpse decomposed and stinked, and his wounds were infected, so in the end, he could not be saved, and he died unwillingly.

Facts have proved that Yuan Shu's worries are by no means groundless. Although I don't know what happened in the city, if the corpse that Fan Jin said he saw disguised as a bandit was really the grandfather of one of the 50,000 soldiers who also joined the army, then it probably means that the guards of Beiyan are likely to dispose of all the people involved in it in order to conceal the responsibility for killing 50,000 soldiers. Including the families of the 50,000 soldiers.

Fan Jin thought of this, so he ran back in fright and didn't go again. The family escaped because they ran early. If they hadn't taken it seriously, and had refused to leave their family business in the border city, perhaps his wife and children, his father-in-law, and his mother-in-law, and himself would have been killed in vain under straw mats and dressed as bandits.

"Fifty thousand soldiers are dead, but they don't even spare their families?" Tu Hongzheng was completely furious. The death of 50,000 soldiers in vain already makes people angry and rush to the crown, and these 50,000 soldiers, which one does not have a few family members? Parents, wives and children, brothers and uncles, if all family members are still killed and exterminated, how can these soldiers have spirits in heaven, and they can still be reborn in bliss!

Although Fang Xiaoyu looked expressionless, the killing intent in his heart was already great.

His father and husband were betrayed by the country they were guarding. Betrayed by his own soldiers!

She empathizes with this pain!

Suddenly, a picture of intermittent and somewhat broken things flashed in my mind. The eyes were full of blood, the people whose faces were barely visible under the bloodstains, the female general with a gun, the people who fell one by one in front of them, the swear words that could no longer be heard, and the head of a person who was cut off by the female general's own hands, and the head of himself that was cut off by someone as you can imagine.

Fang Xiaoyu's hands began to tremble uncontrollably. Those scenes that had once been like nightmares suddenly appeared in front of her again, and her heart was like being pierced and pulled out by a steel needle. Bloody.

Her father lost 50,000 soldiers to let him escape. How similar is this qiē to the pictures in her memory?

Will her father be as miserable and heartbroken as she was before?

Will you be depressed or even unable to think about doing something stupid?

She couldn't have known how important Zhen Yuanjun was to her father. She couldn't be clearer about that kind of painful taste! (To be continued.) )