Big insects are tigers, and although they hunt in the mountains, tigers will consciously avoid such crowded villages. The tiger didn't think about it, so it took a few people here, but after being beaten by the villagers, it knew that this was not the place where it could hunt.

The merchant found a few low bushes and hid his goods, and walked forward with a firewood knife, and when he could see the village, the merchant was stunned by the sight in front of him.

The village was full of dead people, the red blood had turned a little black, and the smell of blood attracted the nearby predators, just now it was a lone wolf who wanted to come and have a full meal, and then was discovered by a white-fronted tiger here, who regarded this place as part of his territory, and saw that there were other animals who wanted to peek at its food, and the white-fronted tiger couldn't help but roar and warn.

When the merchant saw this scene, he climbed the ground and carried the goods to the nearest Huoshan County, and found the county government to report the case.

In fact, no one would know that there was a murder here, but when the merchant peeped a few times, he clearly saw that the fatal wounds on the bodies of those villagers were caused by weapons, which showed that these villagers were killed by people, not simply attacked by wild beasts. If the merchant doesn't report it, and when the time comes, he will be the first to be unlucky.

The county magistrate of the county government was also shocked when he heard that a village in the mountains had been slaughtered, and he did not immediately send a government official to check it, but sent people to the nearest capital city, Chuzhou, to seek support.

Yes, in the county government of Huoshan County, there are only a dozen or so officials, and these dozen or so officials can't all go to the mountains to check the situation, not to mention that there are still wild beasts entrenched in the slaughtered village, and the white-fronted tiger is not something that a dozen or so officials can deal with, so the county commander directly chose to ask for help.

From Huoshan County to Chuzhou City, it takes more than half a day to speed up the whip, and it takes about a day and a half to go back and forth at the earliest.

They followed the merchant into the mountain, including a patrol officer in Fucheng, who had 500 soldiers under his command, and brought 80 people out this time, plus more than 30 officials in the government office, as well as a few in the county town, and the team of hundreds of people directly attracted the attention of the Jianghu guests.

I made some money and got the news that the mysterious mountain village had been slaughtered. This Jianghu guest is none other than Guan Minglang, who has the nickname "Baixiao" on the rivers and lakes.

Guan Minglang is less than thirty years old, born in the Guan family in Longxi, but only a side branch, he has been both civil and military since he was a child, but he is unwilling to take the imperial examination of the imperial court, and then he is mixed in the rivers and lakes, and then the Guan family is "unlearned, embarrassed, and willing to fall" as the reason, removed from the family tree.

Since then, Guan Minglang has been flying high in the rivers and lakes, soaring into the sky and out of control.

Guan Minglang's reputation in the rivers and lakes does not come from his superb martial arts, but thanks to his wonderful pen, his favorite thing to write is the rumors and anecdotes on the rivers and lakes, and he is not making things up, but through his own investigation to draw a conclusion, which makes the people in the rivers and lakes very sought after, and even some of everyone's young ladies love to read the words he writes.

However, some people say that the Guan family removed him from the list, but it was just a trick thrown by the Guan family, in order to plant an "eye" in the rivers and lakes. After all, the second daughter of the Guan family is the favorite concubine of Emperor Taikang, she was named Ning Guifei in the Taikang Dynasty, and now the saint is from this Ning Guifei, of course, she should be called the queen mother now.

Guan Minglang learned that there were more than 100 people in this village deep in the mountains, and they were all mysteriously killed. This kind of beginning often involves old things, and he thinks this is a good subject, so he fell into the army of the government and followed him into the mountain.

When the government's team arrived at the village, the whole village had been plagued by wild beasts, and the dead bodies inside and outside the house had more or less traces of being eaten by wild beasts, and some of them were even mutilated. The secluded deep forest with this purgatory-like scene made many people vomit, and it was so dark that they vomited.

However, it may be due to the fact that these people have been dead for some time, and the white-fronted tiger has disappeared. However, the inspector divided the team of 100 people into ten groups and surrounded the small village, and if he found any signs of tigers, he had to shout loudly and wait until they were all together.

In this era, a white-fronted tiger with hanging eyes is no worse than a soldier of twenty people, not to mention those servants who have never seen wild beasts much, if they can still run when they see a tiger, they will be considered courageous.

This time, the team that came to the government brought only one servant, and at the signal of the inspector, he took his apprentice and began to conduct a preliminary examination of the corpses in front of him.

The initial examination was to see what the cause of death of these people was, and the work was carried out for two hours.

As expected, there were a total of one hundred and five people in the village, of whom eighty-three were adults and twenty-two were children, and except for the seven or eight corpses, which had been destroyed by wild beasts, the rest of the people were judged to have all died without exception by sharp weapons.

The bodies were moved to a flat field not far from the village. The vegetation on the ground had been cleared, and the corpses had been placed in the order in which they had been examined, and the mutilated corpses had been kept in one place as much as possible. Since the official status of Huoshan County was the lowest in the entire team, this kind of dirty work was not surprisingly assigned to them.

"Ren Tou'er, I think if we continue to toss so slowly, we will definitely have to sleep here at night, do you want to talk to those people in Chuzhou? Can you ......" said an old official with a face in his forties, to a middle-aged official in his thirties.

"What? Tian Dayou, I see that you are an old birthday star who hanged yourself and lived impatiently, right? Don't you see that those people in Chuzhou ignore us? I still licked my face and said let the family hurry up? "The one who spoke was the head of the government in Huoshan County, who had just turned 35 years old last year, with the surname Ren and a single name.

The official who was called Tian Dayou rubbed his hands, "Ren Tou'er, I didn't mean that, it's just that you see so many corpses, and they are all killed, if the murderer runs back again, we will definitely not be opponents." And there are a lot of beasts in the forest at night, you didn't see me and Fang Ergou just now, they didn't make up for human form. ”

"I don't know what you're talking about, but I can't speak. There are a total of five people from our county office, and they are all assigned to move corpses, and I feel the smell of corpses all over my body now. Ren Ping said while still smelling it on his body, and the smell was really not very good.

Tian Dayou sighed heavily, then looked around, and then approached Ren Ping and whispered, "Ren Tou'er, these people's identities must be unusual. I'm afraid that we will be implicated in the vendetta of the rivers and lakes, and those people in the rivers and lakes are not afraid of our servants' clothes. ”

"Lao Tian, what do you see?" Ren Ping obviously still believed in Tian Dayou's eyesight, so he immediately restrained his expression and asked in a low voice.

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