Under the increasingly blazing summer sun in mid-May, two horses and a cart were slowly marching on the more shrunken and narrow official road, it was Sun Tu and his party, and they had already entered the territory of Qingzhou Mansion at this time.

However, compared with the state capitals that came along the way, the territory of Qingzhou has become more and more desolate and withered, there are many pedestrians on the road, and even the official road is particularly cramped, and sometimes there are wild wolves in the vicinity. Not to mention that compared to prosperous places like Tokyo and Gangju, even Jeju was much more lively than here, at least there was not a barren scene where there were no people for thirty or fifty miles.

This naturally surprised Sun Tu, Tang Feng and Ya'er, who had never seen such a scene, but Luda looked disapplieving: "Where is this, we have stayed in Weizhou City before, as long as we go out of the city gate, there is a wilderness outside, and it is normal to not see people for one or two hundred miles." ”

"That's different, Weizhou is already part of the northwest border of our Great Song Dynasty, and from time to time it will fight and fight with the Western Xia people, so it is naturally impossible for the people to go out of the city to stay. But this Qingzhou is still a lot of state cities away from the border of Liao, so they can't fly here to invade this place. Sun Tu's face sank when he said this: "So in the final analysis, it is better to find the reason from the government, or the local officials are tyrannical and make the people miserable, so they all flee to other places; Either that, there are bandits here, which also makes the people have no way to live. ”

"In that case, the burden on us to go to Qingzhou this time is really not light. Governor, have you figured out what to do? Tang Feng, who had replaced Sun Tu in the car, frowned deeply when he heard this, and asked very uneasily.

"Well, it's hard to say. Anyway, I was transferred to Qingzhou this time because some people didn't want me to live too comfortably, and it is said that the prefect of Murong in Benzhou has always been arbitrary and arbitrary, and his methods are strong, so it's not easy for us to be on an errand under him. Sun Tu smiled bitterly and shook his head, he had already gotten some information about his new boss from Cai Dezhang, knowing that this master was not easy to serve.

"I'll talk about it later, but now our most important problem is how to spend this night, it's going to be dark, and there is no village or town to settle down in. The Sprinkle family had already seen three wolves before, and if they couldn't find a place to live after dark, there would only be more wolves that would show up. Luda was more concerned about the difficulties in front of him, and touched his belly as he spoke: "I haven't eaten meat and drunk wine for two days, and I knew that dozens of miles of land here are deserted, and the Sprinkle family should have asked for more wine and meat when they were sharpened before." ”

These words relieved the originally heavy atmosphere, and Sun Tu even said jokingly: "Brother Lu, I can't agree with what you say, with your belly, even if we buy wine and meat early in the morning and bring it, I'm afraid that at this time, I will already let you sacrifice to the Five Organs Temple." ”

As soon as these words came out, Luda and Tang Feng both laughed out loud, and even Ya'er, who had been sitting quietly in the car and thinking quietly about her daughter's thoughts, couldn't help but chuckle, but after laughing, she looked deeply at Sun Tu not far in front of the car with a slightly resentful gaze.

At this time, the sharp-eyed Sun Tu suddenly perked up, pointed to the end of the road and said loudly: "Look there, isn't it a village?" It just so happens that we can spend the night there tonight, and we must be able to reach Qingzhou in two or three days. A few others followed his hand

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Counting on it, he found that the outline of a small village had been revealed, which made him feel very good, and he hurriedly urged his horse to speed up.

It's just that when he hurried forward again, and people could see the basic appearance of the village clearly, Ruda frowned uneasily: "No, it's almost dusk at this time, and it's time to eat, why can't there be half a wisp of cooking smoke in the village here?" ”

"It's a bit weird, let's be careful." Sun Tu also woke up immediately, and after making a look at Luda, the two of them had already lifted the reins, controlled the horses under their crotches and quickly rushed forward, and at the same time made a gesture for Tang Feng to stay where he was to protect Ya'er's safety.

The two horses had already cultivated enough spirit and strength for a few days to slow down all the way, and at this time they were urged to gallop up, and in a short time they had rushed to the entrance of the village, and seeing that there was still no movement in it, and there was no human figure in it, the two of them drew a knife from each other, and rushed to the village again. And they didn't take two steps, and their expressions suddenly changed, because they saw several pools of dried blood on the yellow mud path in the village.

The two of them stopped the momentum of the horses rushing forward, and then pressed their knives and walked slowly inside, and as they walked, they also called tentatively a few times: "Is there anyone in the village?" We were passing through and wanted to spend the night...... but the village was still deserted, and there was not even a dog barking.

Now they already had an answer in their hearts, Ruda jumped off the horse first, grabbed in two steps to a slightly depressed village house next to him, stretched out his hand and pushed, and pushed the door open, thus revealing the more tragic scene inside-

I saw that the small courtyard was splashed with blackened blood, and there were flies still buzzing and flying, and they were disturbed and scattered. The farm implements and firewood were all crooked, and the door of the house facing the door was also open, revealing a mess inside, as if it had been looted by bandits.

No, it's not like it's been looted, it's just been plundered by thieves!

Sun Tu had also come to a village house diagonally opposite at this time, and saw a similar scene, the only strange thing was that there were blood stains in these houses, but there was no body of the owner of the villager's house.

However, after a quick search by the two of them, this question was quickly answered, and in the last small courtyard of the village, there were actually thirty or forty corpses of men, women, and children, which were already stinking at this time, and there were countless flies and other flying insects constantly flying over them, making people's scalps numb.

Even people like Sun Tu and Luda, who have killed a lot of people and seen a lot of big scenes, were chilled after seeing this scene, and it took a long time to ease up.

"Is this the work of bandits somewhere nearby? It's really a ruthless method, and he actually killed dozens of people in the village......" Luda gritted his teeth with anger on his face.

"Yes, these bandits are really hateful, they robbed things and slaughtered the innocent people of the whole village so willlessly. No wonder there is no one in Qingzhou all the way, and there is no one in the desert for dozens of miles. Sun Tu also sighed: "And judging from the current situation, those bandits have been in this village for a while before, otherwise they wouldn't have deliberately piled up the corpses here." ”

The methods are brutal and inhumane. This is the judgment Sun Tu gave after seeing such a miserable scene, but he was in his heart

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In addition to his indignation, he always felt a little strange, the methods of these bandits were too different from the bandits he had known before.

But no matter what, I can only settle down in this village for one night today. Of course, Sun Tu has already made up his mind in his heart, as long as he has the opportunity to take office, he will avenge the people who died in this village!

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Qingzhou Mansion, the second hall of the prefect's office.

Yang Zhizheng knelt on one knee in front of the local prefect Murong Yanchao, and a few beads of sweat appeared on his forehead, because the pressure exerted on him by the other party was really not small.

Murong Yanchao was an official in his forties, with a square face and thick eyebrows, and he was looking at Yang Zhi condescendingly at this time, until he put enough pressure on the other party, and then said in a deep voice: "Yang Zhi, it's been two days, why haven't you seen Sun Du Prison him come to the mansion?" Do you know that this is a great disrespect to the Lord? If this official really wants to fall on him, this alone is enough! ”

Yang Zhi then spoke: "Futai forgives the sin, Sun Dujian mentioned before that he would delay some private matters for a few days, so he ......."

"Since he is a court official, he should be dedicated to the public, how can he have such a private thought? And the official has already given him a chance before, is three days not enough time for him to come here in time to see me? Or does he think of this official and want to cut my face? Murong Prefect immediately interrupted.

"Don't dare, Sun Dujian has no disrespect for you in the slightest, or is it ...... He must have been delayed by something on the way. Yang Zhi wiped the sweat on his head and helped explain again. He really regretted that he had to come to Qingzhou first, he knew that the other party would make a big fuss about such a trivial matter that was not even a fault, so it was better to follow Sun Tu slowly.

Originally, even if Sun Tu and them came to Qingzhou ten and a half months late, it would not be a problem, but Yang Zhi led the others to arrive first, but Murong Yanchao caught the explanation, so he pressed him several times, putting enough pressure on him. And how dare he, a military attache from the seventh rank, offend the civil officials of the fourth rank, he is naturally at a disadvantage.

Murong Yanchao sneered: "The official's patience is limited, I will give you another day, if the former Sun Dujian can't come to me tomorrow after dark, everything will be in accordance with the rules of the army." As soon as these words came out, Yang Zhi immediately panicked, he really didn't expect that the other party had already regarded Sun Tu as a thorn in the flesh before he had seen him, and he couldn't eradicate it.

He didn't know that as early as a few months ago, Liang Shicheng had already told someone about the contradiction between Sun Tu and himself, and asked him to find an opportunity to get rid of this person. As a loyal lackey under Mrs. Liang, Murong Yan is naturally going to do this errand with all his heart. Moreover, he also inquired about what Sun Tu had done before, and he understood that he should suppress the other party first when his foothold was not stable, so that he would have no possibility of turning over.

After sending Yang Zhi away, a subordinate suddenly ran over with a solemn look and handed over a piece of paper: "Futai, this is the only survivor of Naluojia Village's complaint, just three days ago, his village was attacked by a bandit of unknown origin, and all 43 members of the village were killed......

Murong Yanchao first took the paper with some impatience, but soon, a sneer appeared on his face, which may be another good excuse......

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