"Now that the crows are dead, let's go back." Seeing that the last afterglow of the sunset was fading into the West Mountain, and the surrounding trees were gradually darkening, Pei Li couldn't help but speak.

"Did the dead scare you?" Grand Governor Sima Dejiao snorted coldly with a chuckle on his face.

Pei Li was not angered by this ridicule, he was over forty years old, although he had the title of the governor of the Jin Dynasty's palace, but in fact he was not ranked as the king of Kuzhen, he was born in the Pei family, a wealthy family in Hedong, and became the personal guard of the prince King Jin. He is ten years older than King Jin, and he has also followed King Jin on many expeditions, but there are not many people who really stand in a miserable wolf corpse like this. "A bunch of dead people, it's not worth wasting time."

"Oh, the dead man can't speak, but he can tell us a lot of useful information." Sima Dejiao said coldly: "Who are these men in black, why are they here, and who are the people who killed them?" Do we know that? ”

"Maybe it's just a vendetta in the rivers and lakes, bandits, horse bandits, water bandits, it's all possible, such things happen every day, it's not unusual." Pei Li said a little casually. "It doesn't matter who these dead people are."

Several of the palace guards who accompanied them saw that the two officials were arguing again, and they couldn't help but secretly shake their heads in their hearts, coming out of the Yangzhou Governor's Mansion, these two people didn't like each other along the way, but they didn't expect that they would start to needle each other again so soon. Governor Yang Wei hurriedly said: "Maybe we can check the scene first, maybe we can find some clues, maybe these people in black are the mysterious people in black who sneaked into Yangzhou after King Jin received a report before." ”

Yang Wei moved out of King Jin, and Sima Dejiao and Pei Li both glared at each other and stopped arguing.

"These crows are all dead." Pei Li pointed out, "I think I should go back to Yangzhou immediately, report this matter to the King of Jin, and hand it over to the King of Jin to deal with." ”

Hearing this, Sima Dejiao's eyelids rolled and swept his eyes at the dim woods, "The most important thing now is to confirm the identities of these deceased, if these people are really the mysterious black-clothed people who were discovered to sneak into Yangzhou earlier, then we should do our best to find out who killed them." This is Yangzhou, and the sudden death of this group of mysterious black-clothed people here is our dereliction of duty. Pei Dudu, aren't you scared?"

Sima Dejiao could see Pei Li's pursed lips and the anger he had suppressed under his heavy black cloak. Pei Li was born in the Pei family, the great lord of Hedong, and as early as the Northern Zhou Dynasty, he was already the shogunate of Yang Guang, the prince of Yanmen County at that time, and now, he has been following the King of Jin for twenty years, and this kind of qualification is not something that can be provoked casually. However, he felt that Pei Li was not just angry at his provocation today, in addition to his annoyance, Sima Dejiao vaguely sensed that he had some kind of hidden uneasiness, and his heart seemed to be really nervous, and there was a feeling that bordered on fear.

Sima Dejiao also vaguely felt the same way, he was not a Jin king's staff like Pei Li, he was a real general. His family is also a family of military generals, and his father was the governor of the Northern Zhou Dynasty. However, his father died young, and his family was poor when he was a teenager. At that time, he was lonely and weak, and had to support his family by apprenticeing a butcher and killing pigs, and later the monk Shi Cang, who was near his home, had an affair with his mother, took him home to raise and educate him, and taught him to read and write. In this way, when he grew up a little, he was able to inherit his father's business and become a government soldier. Later, because of his outstanding appearance, he entered the palace as a waiter, and was transferred to the Jin Palace, where he accumulated officials to the current Dadu Governor, commanding a guard of 200 people. The background of the martial arts family, as well as the experience of his youth, made him stronger, and also made him look down on Pei Li in his heart for not being able to lift his hands and shoulders, and he could become the governor of Kuzhen just by virtue of his background and poetry, books, and songs, and he became more and more dissatisfied. With his own efforts, he finally became the governor of the capital, commanding two hundred guards, but Pei Li was just a sour Confucian, but he also added the position of the governor of Kuzhen. You must know that the subordinate officials of the royal palace with the word Gakuzhen are not only equal to personal guards. Ku Zhen must be born in a famous family, and have a variety of talents, usually inspect the school guards, and also have important powers such as the Counselor Wenhan and the Senator Military Aircraft. Speaking of which, Pei Li's Kuzhen Governor is much more powerful than him, the Metropolitan Governor.

Sima Dejiao is only eighteen years old this year, and he has already become the governor of the palace guards, which is already very impressive. Speaking of which, it was also through his father's shadow that he became a metropolitan governor at the age of eighteen. However, he relied on his father's shadow to enter the government army, but today's achievements are absolutely inseparable from his own efforts. At the age of fifteen, he once guarded the border of the Great Wall, and the first time he crossed the wall to the north, he also had limp limbs when he accompanied the army to conquer the steppe Turks, and now he can't help but think it is funny. But in the two years at the border of the Great Wall, he had the experience of patrolling the grassland more than 100 times, and he had long been fearless in the wild grassland. It stands to reason that this small forest on the outskirts of Yangzhou, Jiangnan, with more than a dozen dead bodies, will not make him nervous.

Today, however, there are some exceptions, standing in this grove full of corpses, the evening breeze always makes him feel a hair standing on end.

Since receiving the order of the King of Jin, their cavalry team of fifty people left Yangzhou City overnight, and for three days they continued to track and advance day and night, searching for the black-clothed people who suddenly sneaked into Yangzhou. For a few days, they didn't find any traces, but today, they suddenly saw this group of black-clothed corpses. Eighteen black-clothed people, all lying quietly in this grove, had long since lost their breath.

The man in black who can make King Jin pay attention to him is by no means an idle person, but at this time, he was all killed here. Yangzhou, this is the territory of the King of Jin, the King of Jin sits in Yangzhou, and dominates the 44 states of Jianghuai. Now that someone with unknown forces has broken in, it is already a big matter. But now that this group of people has been killed here unconsciously, this matter has become more and more complicated.

Sima Dejiao felt it, and Pei Li felt it earlier. At this moment, Pei Li felt that he was being watched by a cold gaze, but he carefully observed for a long time, but he found nothing. He wanted to turn his horse's head right now and return to Yangzhou City immediately. However, it was difficult to say such words, especially in front of Sima Deji, who had never dealt with him.

He looked at Yang Wei, who was also a governor, but he didn't have the word Kuzhen, so he was just an ordinary palace leader, commanding fifty guards. However, Yang Wei was also born in an aristocratic family, and in the leafy Hongnong Yang family's top gate valve of the Great Sui, he was the eighteenth of the branches of one of the branches. This is a handsome eighteen-year-old young man, the same age as Sima Dejiao, born in the founding year of the Great Sui Dynasty, with black eyes and elegant manners, but his body is a little thinner. He has always had a good relationship with Pei Li, but he has always been okay with Sima Dejiao. At this time, he was riding on the sturdy black Hetao war horse, much taller than Pei Li, who was riding a smaller Khitan horse. He wears black deerskin boots, a black cape, and black bright light armor. He was originally the emperor's attendant in Daxing City, like Sima Dejiao, and he joined the guard of the Jin Palace's palace in Yangzhou for less than half a year. But with his background and experience, it won't be long before the word Kuzhen will be added to the title of governor.

The most dazzling line on his body is naturally the Zhangba horse lance, which takes three years to build, and all kinds of materials are frighteningly expensive, and it is also made by Master Yuwen, the most famous horse lance master in Daxing City. In his hand, he is much taller than a person, thick and mighty, and outstanding. "I bet this lance is definitely worth a hundred gold!" More than once, the guards of the royal palace were very envious of the good horse lance when they drank. Pei Li knows very well that the top horse lance created by Master Yuwen himself is definitely worth only a hundred gold, in fact, the most valuable thing about this lance is not the horse lance itself, the most valuable thing is that Master Yuwen personally shot the horse lance made by Master Yuwen, all of which are high-quality products, and the princes and nobles are vying for it. Being able to let Master Yuwen novice build a horse lance fully illustrates the prominent identity of Yang Wei, a distant relative of the royal family. However, Yang Wei did not cherish this horse lance too much, and often lent him to his friends in the guards, so although he was new to the guards, he was very popular among the guards.

"King Jin asked us to track down the whereabouts of the man in black, and we have found it now." Yang Wei received Pei Li's eye signal, and said loudly: "Now that they are dead, it seems that no one will escape." At the moment, who killed these people is not the most important thing, it is better for us to bring these corpses back to their lives first, and listen to the orders of King Hou Jin for the next step. ”

Sima Dejiao frowned thoughtfully, looking up at the fading twilight.

"Governor Yang, you check carefully with me to see if there are any clues. Maybe we can find out who these men in black are, or who killed them. ”

Before Sima Dejiao and Yang Wei were transferred to the Jin Palace, they both worked as attendants in Daxing Palace, but what many people didn't know was that before they entered Daxing Palace as attendants, they also had two years of experience in the Great Wall together. Don't look at Yang Wei now, he always looks like a noble son, but when they were at the border, they actually lived a very hard life. The two young governors, both experienced officers.

"Eighteen in all, both men and women, sixteen men, and two women, all under forty." Yang Wei said.

"Their bodies were scattered, and they didn't even have weapons in their hands."

Sima Dejiao nodded, "These people's weapons are all around, horizontal knives, long swords, and bows, but none of them have picked up weapons, you look at this person, he has a winding crossbow machine at hand, but he has never picked it up at all." ”

"This is so weird!" Even Pei Li couldn't help but be surprised at this time. "They can't fight back?"

"To be exact, these people didn't react until they died!"

"Could it be that this is not the place where they died, but that they were dumped here after their deaths?" Pei Li's heart became more and more uneasy.

Yang Wei opened a corpse, looked at the puddle of blood on the ground that had stained the ground black, and shook his head, "No, this is where they were first attacked. ”

"Maybe they're sleeping, and then there's a surprise attack!"

An evening breeze blew, the branches rustled, and Pei Li's war horse was cramped and uneasy to dig the soil with its hooves. "Yang Dudu, who do you think killed these people? Sima Dejiao's brows furrowed more and more, and his hand pressed the handle of the horizontal knife tightly.

"Maybe a horse thief!"

Sima Dejiao asked: "Have you heard of any powerful horse thieves appearing near Yangzhou during this time?" ”

"Nope!" Yang Wei understood Sima's words now. Since the ninth year of the emperor's reign, the Great Sui sent 520,000 troops to destroy Chen, the emperor opened the emperor ten years after the Jiangnan rebellion, Yang Su and Shi Wansui pacified the south of the Yangtze River, the king of Jin sat in Yangzhou, ruled the land of the 44 states of Jianghuai, and pacified the south of the Yangtze River. In recent years, the land south of the Yangtze River has long been surrendered, although there are still some bandits and thieves, but there are only some petty thieves, there is no way that the thieves can be in the suburbs of Yangzhou, all at once this mysterious force that suddenly infiltrated here, and can kill them silently. Ordinary thieves have no such ability, and only from the scene, after these people were killed, they were not passive at all, and those weapons were still there.

"Thieves don't go empty, if it's a thief or a thief, there is no one who kills people without taking property, these men in black are very well equipped, but they don't take the same, this is too abnormal."

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