The news of Xue Dingjie's arrival in Yang's Mansion soon spread, and there was a famous arrester from Si Xing Temple who wanted to come to the door and was rudely kicked out. The sergeant with the short bow warned him in a cold voice that if he broke through again next time, he would be stabbed into a sieve.

Jin Wuwei, who was originally guarding near the Yang Mansion, was also nowhere to be seen at this time, and the entire mansion was now strictly guarded. Guogong can have 800 private soldiers, all of whom are elites selected from various armies, and some are veterans of the battlefield. Standing there without moving, it is murderous, and people who are waiting for it do not dare to approach at all.

Because of the use of battlefield heavy weapons such as the eight-ox crossbow, the new Xia official Shangshu asked the empress whether to go and take it back, but the empress rejected it. Xue Dingjie is the military saint of the Great Zhou Dynasty and the last face of the Great Zhou military. There must be a reason why such a character uses the Eight Bull Crossbow.

"Zhen Guogong wants to protect his granddaughter, there is nothing wrong with it, don't say much."

The empress had naturally made her attitude clear, and the officials in the court naturally kept silent.

The matter gradually calmed down, and although the murderer was not caught, the Yang Mansion finally rested for a while. Ever since Xue Dingjie came, no one has been dying. This also made the hearts of the people in the Yang Mansion settle down a little.

……

Luo River.

A grain ship was slowly swimming on the river, and the top of the sail had been erected with the Panlong flag and the military flag of Zuo Xiaowei.

This is the grain ship escorted by Zuo Xiaowei, and the grain in the ship is transported from Huainan Road to the capital. The gods have huge granaries, and even on weekdays, they need to be full of food for emergencies, not to mention that Mobei is still at war.

The ships that escorted things were often the most heavily guarded, and even the most vicious water thieves would not dare to do so.

There were only fifty people on board, and although it was a large ship, it was loaded with food, so it could not carry too many people. However, a few people are enough, and some strong crossbows are placed on the ship, and even if someone dares to sneak attack, it can be defended for a while. Besides, there are really few ministers who dare to rush the grain ship.

Today, there is an exception, when I was on a grain ship that was going straight, I saw a small boat on the straight course, slowly and leisurely on the water towards the grain ship.

No matter how the sergeant at the bow waved his flag and ordered the boat to get out of the way, the boat rushed towards the grain ship like a stunned young man.

The sergeant told the lieutenant about this unusual situation, and the lieutenant looked into the distance with a lookout glass, and then said coldly: "Leave it alone, hit it!" ”

This is to find death, the grain ship is very strong, such a ship needs to be slightly modified to be used as a military ship. Most of the grain ships in the army are now retired from the large warships of the former Qin period, although they are older, but they are not something that these small shrimps can withstand.

The grain ship did not deliberately increase its speed, and rushed over smoothly.

As they got a little closer, the sergeants on the ship had good eyes, and they could see at a glance that something seemed to be bobbing back and forth on the sails of the small boat.

"Is that a dead man?"

A sergeant's eyes suddenly widened, and a rope hung from the beam of the sail and put it around the man's neck. It was a corpse, bobbing back and forth as the ship floated.

The lieutenant immediately made a decision, took a few sergeants with good water nature, and swam over with a knife in his mouth.

There was silence in the cabin, and the whole ship was dead silent, and no sound was heard.

Sensing that something was not right, the lieutenant told the sergeant behind him to follow and walked down the cabin.

The ground was slimy, and because it was easy to swim, several people wore straw sandals. The straw sandals clung to the ground and made a strange noise.

The sergeant leaned on the ground and observed, then suddenly stood up and said to the captain, "It's blood." ”

The ship seems to have been intercepted, with all the people on board dead, and the captain even found a horrific dried corpse in the bow on the other side.

The dry corpse was supposed to be a woman, and the thin shirt on her body was still draped, but because the body had shrunk significantly, the thin shirt appeared a little wide.

The lieutenant quickly reported the incident, and the dead bodies on the ship were identified, most of them were Lingnan merchants who had come to the capital.

Some of them sailed south, but only one of them became a dried corpse.

Judging from the time, these people have not been dead for a long time, at most more than a day, but this corpse is really a little weird. As soon as the news came out, it immediately aroused the vigilance of Si Xingsi.

After examining the body, the headhunters of Sixing Temple deduced that this was the work of Rudong, who killed people in the Yang Mansion.

And this corpse, after being confirmed, came out to be Yang Yi's concubine before his death, Nian Cui.

This news was not blocked, and for a while, it spread in the capital, and finally even evolved into a rumor that there were blood-sucking monsters in the capital. If it weren't for the fact that the Shendu Mansion quickly arrested a few rumor-mongers and put them in prison, I don't know when this news would have spread.

However, even with strict control, there are many fewer people who dare to sneak out in the middle of the night. Some people close their doors and windows before dark, and some naughty children play in the streets, and their parents will slap their butts hard and drag them to their homes.

"Rudong hasn't stopped yet, she will kill everyone in the Yang Mansion."

Tang Yun's eyes kept glued to the map on the table, which was the map of the entire capital. There is one in Fangtu Shendu Mansion, Cui Fatzi can't take it out, this is still an imitation, and King Yan went to the empress to ask for it.

All the places where the dead are marked.

Now the entire Yang Mansion is under the protection of Xue Dingjie, and it is impregnable. Even if Rudong knows some illusions in the Western Regions, it won't be of much use.

But those concubines who escaped were different......

Tang Yun's eyes froze, and he suddenly shouted to Cui Fatzi on the side: "Quick! Call your people to record the whereabouts of Yang Yi's concubines! ”

Cui Fatzi was eating watermelon, and he was frightened by the sudden sound, and the melon in his hand fell directly to the ground.

The Shendu Mansion moved very quickly, because he always paid attention to the affairs of the Yang Mansion, and leaving so many female dependents from the Yang Mansion was naturally inseparable from the eyes of the Shendu Mansion.

Someone has already recorded their whereabouts, Cui Fatzi is very idle all day long, and his subordinates are very reliable.

After a while, Cui Fatzi walked in with a gloomy face, followed by a small official, holding a stack of official documents.

"Brother Tang, something bad is wrong!" Cui Fatzi said in a trembling voice.

Of the sixteen women who left from the Yang Mansion, at this moment, ten of them were confirmed dead.

It's only been a day since they left.

"These ten people are all preparing to leave the Shendu and go to other places. The vast majority were killed halfway. The technique is the same as before, the blood is sucked out of the whole body. ”

Cui Fatzi handed over a document with the results of the autopsy of the Shendu Mansion.

There are two documents, one is the examination of the pestle, and the other is the inference of the catch.

Tang Yun read all the official documents, and suddenly his eyes froze.

He seems to have discovered the pattern of killing people in winter.