Chapter 16, Nine Dead Men
"No—not the five, the dead—four—over there."
Seeing this, the big tiger was also stunned, and even because of this change, his speech became stammering, and he looked anxious.
"And who are these five? Didn't you say that there were still a few boys left to guard the corpses? The county lieutenant in his official uniform asked with a frown.
Taiping County is not big, so many people died at once, as the county lieutenant in charge of the county's security management, he must have an explanation to the county commander.
Also, just from the injuries on the bodies of these black-clothed people, it can be seen that these people are not good stubble, who knows who they are, and how they can appear in Taiping County.
"Yes, what about the big brother and the kitten?" Dahu couldn't help but look around, seeing that these men in black died so miserably, he was afraid that what he would see next would be the corpse of his partner.
But in front of the county lieutenant, he didn't dare to walk away now, so he had to continue to stammer: "Boy...... Brat...... When you go to report the crime, they are still there, it will ...... The kid doesn't know. ”
"Spread out, and search around." When the county lieutenant heard this, he waved his hand and motioned for the officials he brought to search nearby.
When several officials heard this, they hurriedly scattered to search the scene.
Shen Mu didn't climb down the tree immediately when the group arrived, he needed to give the people from the government a time to buffer their thinking when they saw the scene.
At this time, a middle-aged man with an elegant appearance and an extraordinary temperament who came after the official messenger saw this, stepped forward, grabbed Dahu's shoulder and said, "Dahu, are you sure that Brother Mu and Niu Dan are guarding the corpse here." ”
The big tiger had a white face and nodded, even if his shoulder was scratched by this middle-aged man, he didn't dare to break free.
"What about them? What else did they say when you went to report to the police? Will it go somewhere else. "The middle-aged man's voice is warm, slightly magnetic, and typical of baritone.
But at this moment, his expression was also very anxious, and he spoke quickly.
"I ...... Big brother they ...... Didn't you say where to go? Could it be that you are going to catch rabbits? Big Tiger's mind turned, and he remembered that they had indeed said earlier that they would catch a few rabbits and roast them.
I remembered that a few of my friends didn't have much to eat for dinner, and I was afraid that I was hungry, so I might really go to catch rabbits.
Yes, I must have gone to catch rabbits.
"Caught a rabbit?" The elegant middle-aged man was a little dazed.
The elegant middle-aged man was followed by two followers, one thin and the other stout.
Seeing this, one of them hurriedly came up and said: "Big brother, no matter what happens here, it is those men in black who die anyway, since I haven't seen the eldest nephew, it means that the eldest nephew should be fine, let's look around here, we must see people alive, and we must see corpses alive." ”
As he was talking, he was knocked on the elbow by his companion, he immediately reacted, and said: "Big brother, don't worry, let's go around to find someone, even if we can't find it tonight, we will go back and mobilize all the brothers in the county to find it tomorrow." ”
When the companion next to him heard this, he smashed this guy's elbow again a little helplessly, didn't he see that his eldest brother's face was black, how could he tell the truth.
At this time, the words of comfort will not be said, can you stop saying it.
When the elegant middle-aged man heard this, he let go of his hand and said softly: "Big Tiger, if you still think of anything, remember to tell your uncle, and Uncle will take a few of your uncles first and look for them in the forest first." ”
"Lord County Lieutenant, Master Liu, there are still four corpses over there, just as this kid described." The two officials who went over there to check back returned.
"Let's go, go over and have a look." The master and the county lieutenant walked towards the place where the other four bodies were.
The two places were only twenty paces apart, and the two of them saw four other corpses in three or two steps.
"How did so many people die? Who killed them? And what about the boys who guarded the corpses? When the master looked at the four corpses that looked apparently dead for a long time, he looked around into the depths of the woods.
"Adults, I'm here." Shen Mu responded, and slowly climbed down from a tree above his master's head.
"Y-who are you?" Suddenly seeing someone coming down from the tree, the master was startled.
Seeing this, the two officials not far away also surrounded them.
"My lord, I am Shen Mu who stayed here to guard the corpse." Shen Mu hurriedly raised his hands, indicating that he did not have a weapon in his hand.
Later, I remembered that this was ancient and was not popular with this action.
However, this action can reduce the stranger's defense of himself at all times.
Sure enough, when the master saw this, he asked the two officials not to surround him anymore.
At this time, the big tiger, who was forgotten on the side and was in a daze, saw this and hurriedly pounced: "Big brother, it's great that you're okay, what about the cow egg and the kitten?" ”
"They're fine, kitten, Niu Dan came down to see the master and the county lieutenant." He shouted in the direction of a large tree not far away.
Then, everyone present saw that two more teenagers had climbed down from the big tree over there.
The big tiger recognized it as a cow egg and a kitten.
"What the hell is going on?" Through the light of the torch, the master saw that Shen Mu did have long eyebrows and clear eyes, which was somewhat similar to Boss Shen's appearance. Only then did he let his guard down and asked with a straight face.
"Lord County Lieutenant, Master. Please let the boy report, after the five of us found these four corpses in the forest today, Dahu went to report to the official, leaving us three boys here to guard the corpses, waiting for the arrival of the master and adults.
After it got dark, several people in black suddenly appeared, and the three of us saw that they were holding knives in their hands and covering their faces, and we didn't know who they were, and they were not good people at first glance.
Then, the five men in black who came from behind came to the fire, and whispered something to each other, and the younger one did not hear clearly, and then suddenly, one of them took the knife in his hand and slashed at his companion,
Then they themselves suddenly slashed at each other, and the boys were so frightened that they did not know what was going on, so they had to climb on the trees and not make a sound.
Soon after they finished slashing each other, the boy's legs were numb and he didn't dare to move, and at this time, the big tiger came with you. Shen Mu pretended to have a frightened expression, and described the ins and outs of the matter in a few words.
The kitten and the cow egg nodded along with him.
However, the county lieutenant's eyes had been on the four corpses here just now, and he didn't pay attention to the three men in black, but walked to the corpses of the big man in green clothes.
Then he personally lit the torch, and by the light of the fire, he carefully picked up the brocade guard saber of the Tsing Yi man, which was very likely to be an embroidered spring knife.
Because he lowered his head, Shen Mu couldn't see his accurate expression at the moment.
But the next moment, I saw that his hand trembled, and the blood-stained saber fell to the ground.