Chapter 772

The beast I had seen last time was lazily lying in the corner.

In addition to Pingxi Hou Zhuangyan, the young marquis Zhuang Yunfei, and Zhuang Qiang are also there.

And on the ground in the middle of the courtyard, there are still twenty corpses, which are constantly emitting wisps of black gas, and their bodies are also decomposing rapidly.

These twenty people were none other than the twenty royal palace soldiers who were responsible for escorting the Netherworld Pill.

Pingxi Hou's solemn face was very unsightly.

Someone assassinated twenty palace soldiers in the palace, this is a slap in the face of the Marquis of Pingxi!

If the palace knew about this, King Yin would definitely blame him for the unfavorable behavior of the Marquis of Pingxi.

Although it is only twenty soldiers of the palace, it represents the face of the palace.

Therefore, it is understandable why Pingxi Hou's solemn face is so ugly.

Xiao Zhan didn't know what Pingxi Hou had called him for, so he stood next to him with the housekeeper Wu Yong.

Zhuang Yunfei and Zhuang Qiang also frowned, not knowing what they were thinking.

Not long after, a burly man in black armor walked into the courtyard, exuding the powerful aura of the Youhe Realm.

The burly man knelt on one knee and arched his hand to Pingxi Hou:

"Xie Jing, the commander of the government soldiers, meet the Hou Ye."

Pingxi Hou asked coldly:

"I heard that the person who snatched the Nether Pill has been caught, right?"

Xie Jing nodded, "There are two groups of bandits, one of which is a traitor in the government army, and they have been arrested."

"The other group of people, two young men, were also arrested by Zhuang Qianggongzi and brought back, and now they have been escorted outside the Hou Mansion."

Speaking of this, Xie Jing suddenly knelt on the ground with his legs, "Master Hou, there is a traitor in the army, this is my dereliction of duty, please punish the prince!"

Pingxi Hou glanced at Xie Jing coldly, "I will naturally punish you, but now, bring the bandits up first."

Xie Jing nodded, walked out of the courtyard, and after a short time, he walked into the courtyard with dozens of government soldiers and a hundred homeless people.

In addition to these 100 displaced people, there are two young people.

As soon as the displaced people saw the solemnity, they knelt directly on the ground, crying and begging for mercy.

The two young men stood there expressionlessly, without the slightest fear on their faces, but their eyes were full of dead ashes.

As for the hundred outcasts, there was indeed an old man who was kneeling on the ground with fear on his face and begging for mercy.

Xie Jing pointed to the old man and said to Pingxi Hou:

"Master Hou, this person is the father of the head of the seventh battalion of our government army, and the head of the seventh battalion was killed by me on the spot on the way to escape."

"On the day of the incident, he took ninety-nine homeless people, pretended to be government soldiers, and took the Netherworld Pill from twenty palace soldiers."

As he spoke, Xie Jing looked at the old man with a murderous face, and roared, "Why don't you come from the truth and tell Master Hou what happened that day!"

The old man was so frightened that his body trembled wildly, and he hurriedly crawled to the front, crying:

"Master Hou, I confess my guilt, it was my son who was obsessed with ghosts, so I took these homeless people to pretend to be government soldiers to take over the Netherworld Pill."

"But the Nether Pill really isn't in my hands."

The old man cried tears, pointed to the two young men, and shouted:

"It's them!"

"They snatched the Nether Pill from my hands again!"

Pingxi Hou's face was indifferent and he glanced at these homeless people.

Feeling the majesty exuded by Pingxi Hou's solemn body, these homeless people turned pale and trembled, and they didn't dare to say a word.

Pingxi Hou looked at the two young men with an expressionless face and asked:

"Who sent you to rob the Nether Pill?"

The two young men looked at each other, and one of them said:

"It's because we want that batch of Netherworld Pills, since we were arrested today, we also accept our fate, Master Hou can dispose of us."

Xie Jing directly pulled out his saber, and he was about to make a move

Kill these two people.

Pingxi Hou said slowly:

"Someone."

Then he saw a black shadow rising from the outside of the courtyard and landing in the middle of the courtyard.

This is a man wearing a black mask with only a pair of indifferent eyes.

Pingxi Hou waved his hand and said:

"Lock these people up and re-interrogate."

Xie Jing and the others all frowned.

They never knew that there were such people around Pingxi Hou.

Zhuang Qiang looked at Pingxi Hou and hugged his fists:

"Father-in-law, these people have done such a bold act, it is best to kill them in public to set an example!"

"Don't worry," solemnly shook his head, "I have my own arrangements for what to do with them."

A flash of worry flashed in Zhuang Qiang's eyes, but he didn't dare to say anything more.

Soon, two youths and a group of homeless people were taken away.

Only then did Zhuang Zhuang point to the twenty corpses in the middle of the courtyard and asked coldly:

"Let's talk about it."

"If you can kill people in my Hou Mansion, it is the soldiers of the palace who are killed, if King Yin is angry, I don't want to be the Hou Ye!"

Pingxi Hou looked at his son Zhuang Yunfei and asked in a deep voice, "Yunfei, what do you say!"

Zhuang Yunfei's face was solemn, "Investigate thoroughly!"

"But this matter can't be concealed after all, and you should immediately send someone to the palace to report, just say that a group of masters appeared among the exiles, robbed the Netherworld Pill, and killed twenty palace soldiers."

Pingxi Hou nodded, and looked at Zhuang Qiang again, "Zhuang Qiang, what do you think?"

Zhuang Qiang arched his hand, "Father-in-law, as Yun Fei said, he must not be able to let the palace know that these twenty palace soldiers are in our Pingxi Marquis Mansion."

"In addition, if you can kill people in our palace, the strength of the murderer must be very strong."

"We should be under martial law immediately."

Pingxi Hou let out an "um" and looked at Xie Jing, the commander of the government army.

Xie Jing exhaled a breath of turbidity, "Master Hou, the two sons are right, we should investigate thoroughly immediately, I will order that all the soldiers are not allowed to order, and they are not allowed to leave the camp without permission."

Pingxi Hou looked at Xiao Zhan at this time and asked in a deep voice:

"Xiao Zhan, from your point of view, how to deal with this matter?"

As soon as these words came out, the people in the courtyard all subconsciously looked at Xiao Zhan, and their eyes were full of doubts.

The matter of the Hou Mansion, why do you want to ask Xiao Zhan's opinion?

He hasn't been in office yet.

Could it be that Hou Ye attaches great importance to this Xiao Zhan?

Xiao Zhan didn't expect Pingxi Hou to ask himself.

He thought for a moment and said:

"The crux of this matter is, who killed these twenty government soldiers, and why did they kill these government soldiers?"

Pingxihou nodded, "What do you think it's for?"

Xiao Zhan said truthfully:

"It's nothing more than two reasons, one of them, someone wants to harm Hou Ye, and wants to make King Yin angry, so as to hold Hou Ye accountable, if this is the reason, someone must have reported the death of these twenty palace soldiers to the palace."

"There is another reason...... Xiao Zhan paused for two seconds, "that is, the truth of snatching the Netherworld Pill has not been caught, and it is still hidden in the Hou Mansion, killing these twenty Hou Mansion soldiers in order to completely cut off this clue."

As soon as these words came out, Xie Jing, the commander of the government soldiers, Wu Yong, the housekeeper, and Zhuang Qiang, the marquis of Pingxi, all flashed an imperceptible chill in their eyes.

Xie Jing snorted coldly, looked at Xiao Zhan and said:

"What do you mean by that, the person we caught is a fake? Did I catch it myself?"

"How dare I do such a thing to deceive the Hou Ye?"

Xiao Zhan shook his head, "I'm just surmising, Commander Xie doesn't need to panic."

"Who's panicking?!" Xie Jing glared at Xiao Zhan, "What do you mean, you want to say that I, Xie Jing, planned all this, right?"

Xiao Zhan shook his head, "I didn't say that, don't be angry, Commander."

Pingxi Hou looked at this scene expressionlessly, and looked at Xiao Zhandao:

"Keep talking."

Xiao Zhan nodded.

"Whether it's the first reason or the second reason, it's not really important."

"We can go directly to the palace and say that the real culprit has been arrested."

"I believe that the palace doesn't care if the people we catch are real or not, what the palace wants is just taking this opportunity to clear out the homeless people within the territory of all the Hou Mansion."

Pingxi Hou frowned solemnly, "So, you mean, this matter ends here?"

Xiao Zhan shook his head, "On the surface, this is the end of it, and I will investigate it in private, after all, if you dare to make trouble under your nose, Master Hou, the people behind the scenes are indeed too rampant."

Pingxi Hou suddenly smiled, "That's what I said."

Zhuang Qiang looked at Pingxi Hou with a smile at this time, "Father-in-law, Xiao Zhan's thoughts are similar to ours, I think it's better to let Xiao Zhan be in charge of investigating this matter."

"Now the only people who know Xiao Zhan are those of us who are present, and he is not serving in the Hou Mansion now, so it is only fitting to quietly investigate the truth of this matter."