Wei Zhen took the servants back to Shangjiabao in Donglu Mountain, and saw that Shang Wensheng, whose gray eyes were almost cracked, had already died of anger.

The blood soaked through the bed, but there were no other new obvious wounds on Shang Wensheng's body, and Wei Zhen guessed that he should have broken and bled to death from old wounds.

And Chen Xiang and the other six people who were tied up by the five flowers, at this time, were also killed by people with swords and other sharp blades, and the corpses fell sideways on the open space in front of the bed, and the blood flowed all over the ground, which had solidified into purple and black - Wei Zhen walked in without paying attention, stepped directly into a pool of coagulated blood across the threshold, and stuck a kick.

Looking at the hideous and distorted faces of Chen Xiang and the others, it seemed that they were extremely surprised and shocked by their killing.

"No, no, when Su Lie and the others left with someone, the old man was so angry that he died, but Chen Xiang and the others were obviously still alive and well, why did they also kill someone at this time? Although I am old, my eyes are not flowery, and Chen Xiang was still talking to me at that time! Why did they die? An old man with a wrinkled face like tree bark, dressed in burlap, saw the miserable situation in the house, sat down on the ground, and said in despair.

"What are you deceiving the official?" Wei Zhen stared at the old man and asked, "Are you sure that when you entered Shangjiabao, you saw Chen Xiang and them still alive?" If that's the case, why didn't you loosen their ties at that time, but instead walked dozens of miles and went back to Lishui City to pass the official first? ”

Although the old man was flustered, his speech was quite clear, and he sat on the ground and cried:

"Lord Wei, you also know the old slave, when did the old slave dare to deceive Lord Wei? At dawn, Shang Biaozi ran into the city with three Mazi and two people, saying that it was the master's order to take some of the women and children back to Shangjiabao. At that time, I wondered in my heart, either I don't take it or I take it all back, how can there be a reason to take some people and keep some people? Besides, a place as big as Shangjiabao is not enough to live in so many people, it shouldn't be that there is not enough food to eat. I was suspicious at the time, so I quietly followed them to Shangjiabao, I didn't think that Shang Biaozi and San Mazi would pick up the women and children to Shangjiabao, and they didn't go in at all, and after meeting with Su Lie and them outside the fort, they went directly to the south. I realized that something was wrong, and when I walked into the fort, I saw that the old man had died of anger, and the coffins of the second son and his wife were still parked in the front yard, and Chen Xiang and several of them were tied up in the old man's room by Wuhuada, but they were all alive and well. Chen Xiang said that it was Su Lie and a few of their slaves and maids, complaining that the second son killed the young lady, and that the second son killed the homeless women and children, and the assassins broke into the fort, and they shrank in the west courtyard and dragged out and did not come out to kill - the master wanted to pursue them, so they rebelled and arrested them - although the master was not killed by them, he was also angry with them to death. Chen Xiang also said that Su Lie may have colluded with the assassins, and the assassins broke into the castle, probably to avenge the young lady - the old slave saw these situations, and he panicked, and he couldn't tell whether what Chen Xiang said was true or false, and he was afraid that if he released them, they would stab the old slave to death with a knife, so he could only run back to Lishui in a panic first, and find Lord Wei to uphold justice, who knows who broke in and killed them later? ”

Wei Zhen stared at the old man with a suspicious face, he was suspicious of his words, but after thinking about it carefully, there was no need for the old slave of the Shang family to deceive him in many details.

At this time, two officials walked in from the outside, and the report said: "Look at the traces of the carriage and horses, the fugitive slaves of the Shang family are fleeing in the direction of Yishan in the south, they have more than 40 horses, most of them have entered Yishan at this time, maybe they can only send people to Xuanzhou and Shezhou to help capture ......."

There were less than 200 archers in the county, and this was still a supernumerary state not long after the end of the war.

Even if these fugitive slaves are dragged down by fifty or sixty women and children, the thirty or forty sword and archer sent by the county may not be enough, and it is very likely that there will be unpredictable casualties.

The best way is to notify Xuanzhou and Shezhou, and these two states will send elites from the state camp to chase and flee into the mountains, so that they can be more sure.

Wei Zhen was stunned for a while, as if his mind was not on the matter of chasing and fleeing at all, his eyes turned to a feminine glance at the old slave of the Shang family who was still sitting on the ground, and said to the two officials behind him: "This old slave of the Shang family, what he replied to me just now is not true, the official suspects that he may have colluded with assassins and fugitive slaves, and he is afraid that he will not be able to tell the truth without punishment - you drag him down, first hit thirty boards, and see if he still tells the truth." ”

"My lord, he ...... this" The official hesitated to glance at the old slave of the Shang family, thinking that his body was bones, and after the thirty boards were beaten down, he still had half a breath left, so he couldn't be killed on the spot?

"Why, you doubt the official's decision?" Wei Zhen stared at the two officials and said, "Don't ask him first, when he is tortured, he still can't tell the truth, do you dare to deceive the official?" ”

"Yes." The official understood what Wei Zhen meant, ignored the old slave's crying, covered his mouth, and dragged his skinny and weak body to the next room to be tortured directly.

After a while, the two officials ran back and said: "The old slave of the Shang family has not been able to withstand the twenty boards, so he will not work." ”

"It's hateful,"

Wei Zhen's thin old face was slightly hideous and distorted at this moment, and he stood in the middle of the corpse and pondered for a while, and said,

"You drafted the document, and said that the county government received the old slave of the Shang family to report to the official before noon today, saying that after Lord Chen of Jinyun Division and Lord Shen of the Criminal Department left, Shang Wensheng noticed that there were slaves and maids in the house who colluded with the assassins, but before Shang Wensheng reported to the official again, those slaves and maids who colluded with the assassins were aware of it, and they preemptively counter-killed Lord Shang, and tied up the six people including Chen Xiang, who was unwilling to be a thief, with ropes and tied them in the room. After the old slave of the Shang family noticed this, he rushed to Lishui to report to the official, and the official led the officials to Shangjiabao and found that Chen Xiang and other subordinates were also killed, which was different from the old slave of the Shang family. The official suspected that the old slave of the Shang family had colluded with the thief, and the old slave of the Shang family could not withstand the torture and died of exhaustion - after the thief killed Shang Wensheng and the loyal servants of the Shang family, he may have fled to Guangde Mansion or Xuanzhou. You copy several copies of this document and immediately report it to the Jingzhao Mansion, the Criminal Department, and the Jinyun Division, as well as the government offices of Guangde Mansion, Xuanzhou, Shezhou, etc., asking them to assist in the pursuit of the master and the fugitive slave......"

The two officials didn't know what the old slave of the Shang family had said to the adult, and they actually asked the adult to be impatient to torture and kill, but they looked at each other and didn't say anything, just drafted the official document according to Wei Zhen's intentions, and after verifying that it was correct, they copied several copies and sent them to the government offices.

After dealing with these things, Wei Zhen remembered one more thing and asked the officials: "Shangjiabao has changed, and the night before yesterday I sent someone to Liyang to inform the eldest son of the Shang family, why hasn't the eldest son of the Shang family come back at this time?" ”

"The day before yesterday, I sent two people to Liyang to report the news, one of them came back early to tell that Shang Mengtong was not in Liyang, and took people to Dantu to meet the newly appointed Runzhou Assassin Shi, and the other person continued to rush to Dantu to report the news, which may have been delayed for some time on the way." The official said.

In these years, it was very inefficient to spread the message. For a distance of more than 200 miles, the county officials are used to playing tricks and sneaking around, and it is normal to delay for a day or two on the way.

"Send another person to ride a fast horse to chase the Dantu to find Shang Meng and report the letter," Wei Zhen said, "This official has to go back to the government office to deal with other matters first, if Shang Dagongzi or Jinyun Division or the Criminal Department send someone directly over, you will be responsible for answering the ...... first."

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From Shangjiabao to Runzhou Prefecture Zhidantu City, take the Chi Road of the east wing of Maoshan Mountain, and then go to the Yanling Port Transition is the fastest road.

The barren fields on both sides of the road make it hard to imagine that this is a thriving place in Gyeonggi, and the weeds that grow wildly in the summer almost submerge the road.

A fast horse galloped quickly on the gallop from south to north.

The messenger on horseback did not notice the stumbling rope hidden among the weeds, the horse stumbled, and his whole body was thrown out, and he fell into the mud for half a day and could not get up, and when he heard a small sound, he tried to pull out the saber on his waist, only to find that the leather belt around his waist was broken, and the saber did not know where it had fallen.

A masked man approached and laid the cold blade across his neck, so frightened that his hairs stood on end, and he did not dare to move, allowing another masked man to reach out and search for the letter from his arms.

The two men searched for the letter and the sabers that had fallen nearby, put away the tripwire, and left the officer and walked into the woods far from the gallop.

The servant barely raised his head, and saw that two horses were soon galloping out from behind the woods, and they were speeding away to the south.

After a while, after leaving the field of vision of the officials, the two rode their horses away from the gallop road and galloped towards the direction of the Maoshan Lei Chui Peak in the west.

Han Donghu and Su Lie were waiting in the dense forest at the eastern foot of Lei Chui Peak at this time, and when they saw the two galloping over, they came out to meet each other.

"Hu Ye guessed correctly, Wei Zhen really sent someone to deliver a message to the eldest prince, the letter is here," the two masked men only tore off the black cloth covering their faces at this time, revealing their true faces, it was the two fugitive slaves who followed Su Lie to rebel against the Shang family, and they handed the letter they searched to Su Lie, "We are illiterate, Su Ye and Hu Ye, what do you see written in it?" ”

In these years, even if it is the descendant of the Shang family, there are not many literate soldiers.

Before Su Lie sold himself to the Shang family, he was forced by his mother to study in a private school for three years, he opened the letter, and after reading it, his face changed, and he said in shock: "We left Shi Wensheng's wound collapsed, and we saw that we couldn't save it at that time, but Chen Xiang and they were good, who killed them?" ”

Han Donghu took the letter, skimmed through it, and said: "No matter who killed Chen Xiang and they killed their mouths, I want to be the same as Wei Zhen, who killed Uncle Shang by torture, after all the witnesses are dead, it will be convenient for them to muddy the water even more ......."

"Shang Hu, can you ask someone from Xuzhou to help us leave Jinling?" Su Lie frowned, looked at Han Donghu and asked.

He didn't care what Wei Zhen and the people behind the scenes who killed Chen Xiang and the others wanted to do, that was not something he could manage at this time, he was more concerned about how they could escape from the net!

If it was only seventeen or eighteen of them, it would not be difficult to bypass the checkpoints of the official mansion all the way and escape by sneaking out.

However, their families are small, there are less than 30 adult Ding Zhuang, and there are nearly 60 unarmed and weak women and children who are powerless, and the number is so large, it is more difficult to escape the pursuit of the government than to ascend to the sky.

They went around here to intercept the messengers sent by Wei Zhen, also to find out the movements of the government, so that they could more easily escape the pursuit.

"As far as I know, no one in Xuzhou is lurking in Jinling; I don't know, and I can't contact ......" Han Donghu guessed that the purpose of the people behind the scenes to muddy the waters might be to target Xuzhou and Qianyang Hou Han Qian, but he didn't have time to take care of it too much, and at this time, he felt more ashamed and responsible for the unknown fate of Su Lie and the others who were involved in him and their family......