Wang Xu stepped forward to greet Wang Shidao, and then the group quickly got into the carriage.

Wang Xu and Xiuxiu sat together, the little girl still lowered her head and sniffled, and the two looked at each other speechlessly.

Along the way, the carriage did not stop, and soon left the city gate.

Wang Xu got out of the car and looked at the terrifying scene in front of him with a calm face.

Dozens of corpses in various costumes lay neatly on the snow.

A bruised corpse, red lips, and a strangulation mark on the neck.

Outside the city gate, at the mouth of Yizhuang, the heavy snow shrouded the body.

In the midst of sorrow, the cold wind blows, and the cry looks forward to returning.

The people of the government pulled a long cloth to maintain order and block the crowd of onlookers.

Wang Xu stepped forward, and the soldiers on the side were stunned for a moment when they saw him, as if they knew him, and silently pulled open the white cloth to let him in.

Wang Xu saw his father and eldest brother standing in front of several corpses, looking sad, their bare hands clenched into fists, and they didn't say a word.

Seeing the patrol of the city that rushed quickly, his face was pale and his expression was frightened, as if he had thought of something.

Wang Xu secretly handed a dime of broken silver to the catcher next to him, "This brother, how did they die?" ”

Caught quickly touched the broken silver on the cuffs, and remained silent, "All of them were hanged, and they were found in that Yizhuang, and some were found directly in the nearby trees." ”

Wang Xu thanked him and asked more, "What about the corpses in Yizhuang?" ”

Zhu Kuai looked at him strangely, "Where is there a corpse in Yizhuang, the owner of Yizhuang disappeared a few days ago, or the case I investigated, everyone is gone, where is there still someone to collect the body." ”

Wang Xu's face remained unchanged, and he walked towards his father, gasping inside, turning over the river and the sea.

He thought of the corpse of the merchant he had seen this morning.

Spooky red lips......

The strong man who walked into Yizhuang to report......

Uncle Xu......

It's scary to think about.

He touched his chest, felt the familiar power of presence, calmed down, and silently made up his mind.

"Father, mourning."

Wang Xu said softly.

Wang Shidao didn't reply, and looked at the corpse on the ground for a long time.

"Alas......"

Wang Rubin sighed and patted Wang Xu on the shoulder.

The city guard pretended to look at it a few times, then handed over all the matter to the governor Li Jiaren, and left quickly.

At this time, Li Jiaren was discussing the case with several officials in the prefecture who were also in charge of the case.

After a while, the people in the torture room came and said that they would dispose of the body, and when the evidence was collected, the body would be returned to them and buried in the ground.

Wang Xu saw Xiuxiu crying next to a petite female corpse, looked up at the gloomy sky again, and couldn't help sighing.

"May I ask if it's Young Master Wang Xu?" One of the catchers came over and whispered, "Governor, please ask me a little later." ”

Wang Xu knew that he was under suspicion as soon as he thought about it, and looked up at Wang Shidao, who was silently mourning, Wang Rubin, "Okay, let's go." ”

On the way, Catcher Kuai passed by the corpse as usual.

"Brother, is it common for so many corpses to be felt?" Wang Xu took a closer look at the catch in front of him, he was only about seventeen or eighteen years old, but he was so calm.

"Not really, it's just that I followed my master to Huayang City not far away, and that is the real corpse everywhere, purgatory on earth, it's just terrible, once I see a lot of this kind of thing...... Alas......" The tone of the catcher revealed a vicissitudes that did not match his age.

"See a lot? Could it be that we have such a thing like this in the Northlands? ”

Zhu Kuai smiled bitterly and said, "It's already okay, I heard that it's even more ...... in the south."

During the conversation, they walked up to Governor Li Jiaren.

Li Jiaren, the head of the Li family, has a good relationship with Wang Xu's father, wearing an official uniform, a long beard, and eagle-eyed and thin lips.

"Virtuous nephew, some people said that they saw you come to Yizhuang this morning?"

Li Jiaren's face was full of spring breeze.

Wang Xu's face was sad, and he did not shy away from explaining what happened one by one, but he replaced the merchant and swordsman with his old friend.

"What you said is true?"

Li Jiaren frowned, and looked at Wang Xu who was full of grief.

"It's true, uncle, you have to believe me!"

Wang Xu deliberately looked anxious, stretched out his hand and was about to grab Li Jiaren's arm, but he saw Li Jiaren take a step back and dodge.

"Virtuous nephew, okay, it's okay, you go back quickly, don't let your father worry."

Li Jiaren inadvertently moved away a few steps further.

Wang Xu's heart sank, and he said a few polite words with a smile, and turned to leave.

This Li Jiaren definitely knows something!

Then I thought of the performance of the other party that I couldn't hide, and my heart was clouded.

Before leaving, the people of the government began to wrap the bodies one by one and bring them back.

The cries on the side of the lane did not fade with time, but grew louder and louder.

Wang Xu was followed by Xiuxiu, whose eyes were red, and it seemed that Yuyu's death was a major blow to her.

Wang Shidao was helped into the carriage by Wang Rubin, and the rest of the Wang family also followed one after another.

The carriages in front of Yizhuang drove towards the city one after another, leaving only the cries of orphans and widows in the snow constantly echoing.

Although it is not possible to put Wang Anping's family into the ground for the time being, the obituary in the early stage still has to be done.

Wang Shidao, as the head of the Wang family, convened a short meeting of the whole family, asked the housekeepers to publish the obituary, and then said a few words of comfort to everyone, and went back to the room to rest alone.

Wang Rubin went to the important merchants to express condolences instead of Wang Shidao, because this time it was not only the Wang family who had an accident, but also the entire Jincheng family.

As for the other men of the Wang family, they either went to the restaurant to anesthetize themselves and eliminate the panic in their hearts, or they went to the Qinglou to find the comfort of the pillow person.

The ladies went to the Niangniang Temple in the city together to ask for spiritual talismans and bless peace.

Wang Xu didn't have this thought, so he let Xiuxiu go back and rest while it was still early, and came to the Wang family's library alone.

After the past few days, he has already understood that the water in this world is too deep.

Ordinary people live with demons, and there is no obvious law in the middle, and if you accidentally touch something, you may die.

An ordinary person, if he wants to live a stable life, may really need a certain amount of luck and vigilance.

And he's clearly touched something now!

Wang Xu didn't stop all the way and walked directly to the library.

The library is very quiet, and the Wang family has developed to this day, and there are no young people who can still study hard.

He pushed open the door, and his vision dimmed to reveal only an elderly woman with a candle in her hand, cleaning the bookshelves.

The library is filled with the smell of books and rotten wood, and the red wood-cut shelves are filled with hardcover books.

"Give me the candlelight, and you can go out first." Wang Xu walked straight over and ordered.

He took the candle lantern and began to look for the customs and legends of Jincheng and part of the official history, wild history.

Wang Xu quickly found a bunch of them, and after sorting them out, he began to flip through them quickly by means of the light, and soon finished reading a chronicle of Jincheng's customs.

A few of them stuck in his mind.

"In the twenty-fourth year of Zhao Guangzong, blood rain fell in the sky in the Jinbian City, which lasted for three days, and all the people in the city went crazy, biting each other, and finally turned into dried corpses and died, and the whole city died!"

"In the eleventh year of Jin Gaozong, the Zhao family in the Jin border city disappeared overnight, and its mansion was already old the next day."

"In the sixty-fifth year of Wei Xuanzong, a plague broke out in the border city of Jin, and there was not one in the city that survived."

"Zhao, Jin, Wei, Wei."

Wang Xu's heart jumped, almost every dynasty, there will be a catastrophe in the Jinbian City, and it has been forty-two years since David founded the country.

He suppressed the throbbing in his heart and read another wild history.

"In the first year of David, the imperial court sent troops to Shaoyang to encircle and suppress the rebels, and thousands of people suddenly disappeared on the way, and in March of the same year, thousands of floating corpses were found in the Jing River, and the Jing River was renamed the Corpse River."

"In the twenty-third year of David, a strange figure suddenly appeared in Chaoyang City, and the people who saw it mysteriously disappeared within three days."

He thought about it and picked out David's current official history to examine it carefully.

"In the first year of defending the country, Liu Chengnian, the governor of Shaoyang, gathered troops to respect himself, and the imperial court sent 30,000 troops to attack him, and the soldiers came to the city, and the traitor Liu Chengnian killed himself in fear of the power of heaven."

"Twenty-three years of defending the country, bandits in Chaoyang City were infested, the city patrol was closed for three days and annihilated, and the governor of Chaoyang was martyred."

On the desk, Wang Xu looked at the bright yellow candlelight, his face was expressionless, and the light and shadow behind him opened his teeth and claws, like a demon.

He took a deep breath, as if he had returned to the time when people were swords and I was fish.

Wang Xu touched the things in his arms, got up without hesitation and put the book back in its place, then blew out the candle and pushed the door out.