On the seventh day after the Gao family was ostensibly exterminated, Mu Changyan asked An Zheng to take people to the Gao family's compound to search again, after all, those soldiers' raids on the Gao family looked like a wind sweeping away leaves, but many of the Gao family's secrets may still need to be carefully discovered. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info An Zheng felt that Mu Changyan had deliberately kept himself away from Tianji Palace recently, and An Zheng couldn't figure out why.

Perhaps, is Mu Changyan really dead? I just want An Zheng to protect Xiao Qidao.

No one knows how many secrets are hidden in the Gao family's compound. In order to let Du Thin and Thin and they all have more experience, An Zheng took them all with him.

Although the Gao family compound occupies a large area, the size is a bit outrageous. But whether it's architecture or decoration, the low-key one makes people feel like they may be in the wrong place. At this time, part of the troops in charge of the guard in the Gao family's compound were the troops transferred from the military department, and the critical positions were all captains of Qianji. The elite of the elite of these almost disbanded armies, each of them still maintains a low-key and introverted style, calm and terrifying.

However, Captain Qianji's impression of An Zheng is very good, after all, if it weren't for An Zheng's military department, he might have been served by the Queen Mother.

Du Shou looked around as he walked, and couldn't help but shake his head: "This place is big and empty, like the school field of the military department, is it that the Gao family can't even bear to plant a few trees?"

This sentence reminded An Zheng, and he stopped and looked around. The courtyard of the Gao family is really too big, but most of the places are paved with extremely flat and solid open space, only a few small gardens have some flowers and plants, and there are no famous species, they are all ordinary flowers and plants that can be seen casually in ordinary people's homes. Such an empty courtyard is either because there are a large number of people who practice regularly, or because there is another purpose.

However, the Gao family had no less than a thousand thugs in Fanggu City, and there was no doubt about the scale of the assassins when the Gao family attacked Tianji Palace. And if you count all the guys and thugs in the Gaojia Casino in the entire Yan Kingdom, I am afraid that it will be at least more than 10,000 people. Therefore, the courtyard is so empty, most of it is because there are too many guards and thugs of the Gao family who need to practice and refine their bodies.

An Zheng walked to a clearing, squatted down and sniffed, and a smell of lime entered his nose.

Of course, there is nothing to doubt about this, with a mixture of lime and earth to tamp, the ground will be harder. But An Zheng always felt that something was wrong, so he turned around and beckoned: "Send a team of people over and dig down from here." ”

Before long, fifty or sixty sturdy soldiers with shovels began to dig down. Du was also curious about what An Zheng had found, so he asked for a shovel from a soldier and dug it down. These people are well-trained and have a lot of physical strength, and it didn't take long to dig more than a meter deep. After one and a half meters, the color of the soil becomes whiter and whiter, and the lime content should become higher and higher. Digging a few dozen centimeters down, the shovel can actually crash out of the spark.

"No, there's a layer of crushed stone underneath the lime. ”

Du Slender wiped a handful of sweat and climbed up from the bottom of the pit: "Maybe it is the foundation laid by the Gao family when they first built the yard, right? The stones are different in size and very thick." ”

The cat squatted on An Zheng's shoulder and barked softly towards the bottom of the pit. It rubbed An Zheng's face, as if it was a little scared, and it seemed to be a little disgusted.

An Zheng handed over the good master to Qu Liuxi, and he jumped down. Squatting on that layer of stones, An Zheng looked at it carefully, then took out a stone and looked at the sun again: "The time for the stone to be buried in it is not more than two years, and it is definitely not buried when the Gao family just built the yard." The big mansion of the Gao family has been in Fanggu City for at least a hundred years, and there are things underneath it, and it has not been buried for more than two years. ”

"Move all the stones away!"

An Zheng gave the order, and the soldiers began to carry the stones up and pass them out. These soldiers are strong and curious, so they work very hard. The thickness of the stone layer is more than half a meter, and after two years of extrusion, it is not easy to cut out. It took dozens of strong men half an hour to clear out a piece of land as large as a radius of three or four meters. But underneath the stone layer, there is another layer of lime.

Everyone was inevitably a little disappointed, maybe this was just the Gao family's renovation of the ground in the courtyard two or three years ago, and there were no secrets below. An Zheng asked for a shovel and scraped the layer of lime, and found that it was only a few centimeters thick, and there was something strange underneath. He scraped the lime layer open, and everyone's hairs stood on end in an instant.

Remains.

An Zheng went up and ordered more men to be mobilized. Then send someone to the Ministry of War and Tianji Palace to report, and let the Ministry of War and Tianji Palace send people to come and keep an eye on it. In another half an hour, five hundred elite soldiers were transferred from the military department, and one hundred and ten guards from the Tianji Palace also came, and some people were mobilized from the criminal department. Before the matter was decided, Anzheng did not hire migrant workers.

Wang Kaitai came from the military department, and An Chengli came from Tianji Palace, the two of them were also old acquaintances, and they were still chatting all the way, but after seeing the scene in the pit below, their faces turned a little pale.

Seven or eight hundred people dug all the yards, and there were several large pits under the stone layers, densely packed with corpses, at least more than a thousand. The years in which these corpses were buried are also different, and after An Zheng looked at it, he found that the earliest corpses could be almost ten years old, and the latest ones were no more than half a year. And among the thousands of corpses, there is not a single adult man. It's either a woman or a child.

"!"

Du Shou Slender threw the shovel aside, hugged his head and squatted down: "Gao family, these beasts!"

Gu Qianye and Qu Liuxi were already standing to the side hand in hand, their eyes were red, and they didn't dare to look at the dense corpse below. The latest corpses are decomposed, but vaguely recognizable. More than half were the remains of young women, and the other half were children no more than 10 years old.

Wang Kaitai's eyes were about to pop out: "There are a lot of missing cases in Fang Gucheng every year, Fang Gu Mansion has been investigating for years, and the Criminal Department has also been investigating for years, but there are no clues at all. It's all here...... Fuck it, what the Gao family is doing!"

An Zheng covered his face with a cloth and went down again to check. In this regard, even the best work of the Yan State Criminal Department is not as experienced as him. Not long after, the commander of the Punishment Department's cavalry, Toru Tai, also came, and after seeing the corpse below, his face also turned pale.

After asking for a piece of cloth to cover his mouth and nose, he jumped down and squatted beside An Zheng: "Did you find it, all the corpses that can see the wounds are in the same position." ”

An Zheng snorted: "Someone gouged out his heart." ”

Tantai Che slowly breathed a sigh of relief: "For more than ten years, more than a thousand people have been dug out of their hearts and buried in this courtyard, what are the Gao family planning to do?"

"Sorcery. ”

An Zheng stood up: "Some people say that taking a child's heart and eating it raw can prolong life." ”

Yutai was stunned: "Isn't this fucking nonsense!"

"Or ......"

An Zheng's eyes flickered: "Or, the Gao family has a demon beast, which is a child killed to feed the demon beast." ”

"Why are there so many young girls, the corpses here are all young girls except for the children." ”

An Zheng shook his head, even if he had been in charge of the Ming Law Division in Daxi for so many years, he had never seen such a bad and cruel thing. What the hell has the Gao family been doing all these years, killing so many people.

"The disappearance cases reported by the Criminal Department and Fanggu Mansion are not so many even if they add up to ten years, and there are obviously many people who have been taken captive from outside Fanggu City. What are the people of the Gao family planning to do? Aren't they afraid of retribution if they do such evil deeds?"

An argued: "If the punishment of the wicked is pinned on retribution, the wicked will live more comfortably." ”

He turned: "Dig up all the open space in the yard!"

The soldiers and the officials of the Fanggu Mansion of the Criminal Department began to move, and everyone's hands were trembling while digging, and no one wanted to dig up the corpses again. When those children died, the oldest was afraid that they would not be more than ten years old. This kind of sin, even the Buddha would send down the wrath of Vajra. Still, they saw more corpses. Three more places for the burial of corpses were found in the courtyard, and although there were not as many corpses dug up as the previous pit, there were at least two or three hundred. The corpses were a little older, and Anzheng judged that they were fifteen to ten years ago.

"So this started about fifteen years ago?"

Tan Tai Che frowned: "Go back and investigate carefully, what happened to the Gao family fifteen years ago, so that they began to kill people so frantically. ”

An Zheng suddenly thought of what Zhuge Chouyun said not long ago, about raising withered blood vines in the ancient tomb. But it was quickly denied by An Zheng...... Zhuge Chouyun said that the best thing to raise withered blood vines to guard the tomb is the slaughter of the entire clan. No matter how domineering the Gao family is, they don't dare to do something like that. And these corpses are obviously not of the same race, and no family can withstand such a catastrophe as the loss of all the children and young women in more than a decade.

An Chengli felt his stomach churning, and he didn't want to stay in this place for a second: "That...... I'll go back and tell the king first, it's better to hand over this matter to the Criminal Department for a thorough investigation. ”

After saying that, he turned and walked away, almost running.

Wang Kaitai was silent for a while and said: "This matter cannot be publicized for the time being, once it is leaked too soon, the imperial court will not be able to withstand the anger and impact of the people." Especially the Criminal Department and Fanggu Mansion. ”

Xu Zhengsheng, the prefect of Fanggu Mansion, who had already rushed over, nodded hurriedly: "Yes, yes...... If it is really publicized now, Fanggu Mansion will be surrounded by people. ”

An Zheng glanced at the direction An Chengli left, and then looked at Xu Zhengsheng: "Lord Xu, have you ever heard that something happened to the Gao family fifteen years ago?"

"Fifteen years ago?"

Xu Zhengsheng knew that this matter was too big, and he didn't dare to be negligent, so he thought carefully for a while: "Xia Guan remembers that more than ten years ago, it seems that the eldest son of the Gao family, that is, the eldest brother of Gao Yuanhu, had an accident? Oh yes, it seems that the old lady of the Gao family came forward in person more than ten years ago to search for famous doctors. In addition, the people sent out by the Gao family almost went to Daxi and more than a dozen other countries, and they also went to Cangman Mountain to look for ancient medicines. ”

An Zheng nodded, this could be the cause of the death of these children and young women?

And at this time, An Chengli was not in the Tianbao Palace, and there was only one Nie Qing left by Mu Changyan's side.

Nie Qing, who was standing behind Mu Changyan, originally had a blank face, but after An Chengli walked away for a while, a terrifying light suddenly appeared in his eyes. He grabbed Mu Changyan's neck from behind, and then slapped Mu Changyan on the back of the head with a palm. Mu Changyan didn't even react at all, and was knocked out by Nie Qing.

Nie Qing took out a small jade bottle from his arms, poured out a very disgusting worm, and then stuffed it into Mu Chang's cigarette mouth.

Then he took out another cloth bag, and when he opened it, there was a row of silver needles inside. Nie Qing stood there, using a needle on Mu Changyan's body with an expressionless face. His movements are fast, but stiff. In just a few minutes, all those silver needles entered Mu Changyan's body, and from the outside, there were almost no traces.

In Nie Qing's eyes, an extremely evil brilliance flickered, making people shudder.