The morning dew is thin and hazy, the willow shore is a young warbler, looking around, the eyes are full of peach pink and pear white, the further south you go, the stronger the spring color. Groups of young scholars, dressed in light shirts and a spring fan, walked in the rotten spring, or chanted poems or did it right, and there were also female dependents who went out, soft sedan cars, and the fragrance of fat and flowers sprinkled all the way.

The two children crawling in the grass were obviously not here to step on spring, they were motionless, like two small wooden bodies.

They are waiting, waiting for the people who are going to wait.

Finally, the two cars came one after the other, the mules and horses were strong, the car was hung with glass lanterns embedded with silver wire, and even the car was inlaid with glass, and the laughter of a woman came from the open glass window, like the spring wind, soft and fragrant.

The two children came out of the grass and onto the road, their ragged clothes and dirty faces, standing among the grass and flowers, looking very incongruous.

The chariot shouted: "Get out of the way!" ”

Instead of getting out of the way, the two children knelt down in the middle of the road: "Xiaomin's family of fifteen was all killed by thieves, and the magistrate not only sent someone to kill the bandits, but expelled us from the village and was displaced. ”

After one child finished speaking, the other child lay on the ground and kowtowed, bang, blood, and blood oozed from the child's forehead, and he was still knocking.

The two mule carts slowly stopped, and an entourage came to drive the children, and the two children hissed and shouted: "Master Guan, save us, save us, we are about to starve to death!" ”

The entourage was tall and big, and the two children were even more thin and pitiful, and the woman in the car said coquettishly: "It's even more pitiful, they look very small." ”

Another woman said, "Yes, the whole family was killed, they were also driven out of the village, they had no relatives, no homes. ”

"My lord, let's go and give them a little money, by the way, and some snacks, so that they can fill their stomachs."

The two women were talking, but they were not coquettish as usual, but talking about poor people and poor things.

Finally, the man smiled and said, "Do you two want this official to take their case?" This official is not the Bafu patrol in the play, what if he takes the case? ”

"What are the eight governors and the four governors, they are all in the drama, where can they compare to you." Before she could finish speaking, the woman let out an exclamation, and then she laughed and laughed, and the man laughed and laughed freely.

The two children were still kneeling, blood dripping from their foreheads and into their eyes, blurring their vision.

Someone got out of the car, it was a maid, she was holding a plate of snacks, and the children looked at the snacks, but they didn't reach out.

"Eat, this is Dexiangzhai's dim sum, which ordinary people can't eat." The maid said softly.

"We don't eat, we just want to give it to the adults, and ask the adults to save us from fire and water." One of the children said.

The child, who had been kowtowing, finally stopped, he lifted a bloodstained face, and the maid screamed in fright, and the snack in her hand fell to the ground.

When the people in the car heard the sound, they looked out together, and saw that the child was at most eight or nine years old, and his forehead was covered with blood and dust, but he seemed to feel no pain, kneeling on the ground, moving forward step by step.

"Your Excellency, save me, Your Excellency, Please, Your Excellency."

The woman in the car was frightened by this scene and snuggled in the man's arms in fright, the man frowned and said unhappily: "Come on, drag that little cub aside!" ”

Another attendant passed by, dragging the child, and the child screamed and screamed, and the cry echoed in the spring mountains.

Suddenly, more than a dozen black shadows jumped out of the grass, like arrows off the string, shooting towards the cart where the man was.

A dozen people, a dozen knives, that's a knife to kill.

Under the warm spring sun, patches of cold light shimmered, and soon they were drowned in a large area of blood red.

The attendant who was pulling the child was stunned by the sudden turn of events, and before they could react, a dagger stabbed into his chest.

He lowered his head and watched in disbelief as his blood gushed out, his hand finally let go, and the child he was dragging calmly put away the dagger, and with his companions, ran forward, and soon disappeared into a spring light.

......

On the eighth day of the fourth month of the ninth year of Chongwen, Li Zhihuan, a squire of the military department, inspected military affairs in Jiangnan Province and died.

......

Inside the inn, Shen Tong listened to the shopkeeper talking about how the court official died.

"It's a pity that the two sisters of Xiaoyuelou are all rightly popular, and they were also hacked to death together, I heard that they were all chopped into meat puree."

When the guy went out, Xu An said: "I have heard of this Li Zhihuan, he is Mao Yuanjiu's cousin, and his wife is the maiden niece of the old Duchess Meng, and she is also a relative of the Yang family. ”

Mao Yuanjiu is currently the secretary of the ministry, and his wife Yang is Yang Feng's daughter-in-law, and the current sister of Yang Min, the protector of the country.

Li Zhihuan is Mao Yuanjiu's cousin, and he is married to the niece of Mrs. Meng, saying that he is not a member of the Yang family, no one will believe it.

Shen Tong asked, "Did he come to the south to inspect military affairs?" ”

Since Yang Jie died in the south last year, the imperial court has a jealousy of the southern guards, Li Zhihuan came this time, and he already had the intention of getting rid of him if he could win him over, and if he couldn't get rid of it, in turn, there were not a few people who wanted to get rid of him.

"There must be a lot of people who want to kill him, but this method of killing ......"

There is no living mouth, not one.

Even the mule pulling the cart died in a pool of blood.

Therefore, no one knows what happened at that time, and no one knows where that killing poke started.

Li Zhihuan had already taken precautions, and there were not only entourages but also guards around him, but those people were all dead.

"All dead by the sword? Hehe. Shen Tong smiled strangely.

Xu An didn't know why she laughed like this, he said, "I heard that they were all knife wounds, and they were cut." ”

Shen Tong didn't ask again, she didn't ask anything, and the next day, the three of them didn't stop and continued to go south.

Ten days later, they arrived in the town of Xiaqiao.

Only a few months have passed, and Xiaqiao Town is no longer as prosperous as it used to be.

They stayed in the inn, Xu An went around the street, and said in a deep voice when he came back: "We lived in Xiaqiao Town for two days that day, although this town is not big, but because of the wharf, there are many merchants coming and going, and there are many shops in the town, doing business for the guests from the south to the north, but just now I went out to see, it was ten shops and nine empty, many shops were under the door panels, and some were directly pasted with red paper for rent, when we came, there were still a lot of people coming and going on the dock, why were the shops in the town closed?" ”