"The village on the outskirts of Pingning Street in Chang'an City should be Qiu Er Village. Let's go there for clues. ”

Fu Zhiyan was three steps behind Gu Yisheng, and when he spoke to her, he didn't dare to look at her, for fear that the potential danger in his body would affect Gu Yisheng.

"Why are you so far away from me? I'm not going to eat you again. ”

Gu Yisheng turned his head to look at Fu Zhiyan, and said half-jokingly and half-expressing his worries.

"You haven't experienced it, you don't understand how terrible it is."

If there are no such variables, I am afraid that I will never be able to experience these people's livelihood and suffering, and I will always indulge in the love of my own parents and children.

Children are long, heroes are short-breathed.

If you want to choose one, you must discard the other.

Fu Zhiyan still maintained the distance between him and Gu Yisheng.

Walking slowly along the barren and overgrown hillside, soon I saw a large stone gate in the distance, which looked like the entrance to the village. Take a closer look, it is engraved with a few words that are clearly crooked and twisted - "Qiu Er Village".

The blood stains were like the traces left by the splashing boulders of a waterfall, and they were slanted and broken on the door.

Apparently not a natural death.

It's like a sign of a massacre.

When the two of them entered the village, they saw that the ground was densely packed with dead bodies, and occasionally some ants, cockroaches and other abominable insects crawled, and fat rats gnawed at human corpses, and the smell of fish seemed to be in a rotten salted fish shop.

"Fu Zhiyan, look at that person."

Gu Yisheng's eyes widened as he looked at a conspicuous corpse in a higher part of the village. Her hands were tightly intertwined, trying to probe forward, and she moved her steps with great care, as if she were "hopscotch"—but in the most complicated way, for fear of sticking to the unclean things around her.

The corpse had hideous scars visible to the naked eye—a huge passage through the heart, bubbling with black blood and mixed with bugs and stuff climbing up and down; A knife cut half of his neck, causing the man's body to lie on the ground in a very strange way, but his head was turned upside down, and the gouged out eye refused to close, as if accusing others of their crimes enough to make him die.

Only his hand, still pointing to the west.

Even so, his hand had been almost gnawed by the insects around him, and only bones remained.

"West, does he want to go to the west to get something?"

Gu Yisheng followed the direction that the corpse was pointing at, and planned to go over and take a look.

"Don't go over."

Fu Zhiyan saw that she wanted to walk over, and hurriedly stopped her.

"Say you're stupid, and you haven't studied hard, right? Over there, it is adjacent to Xiangfeng County in Xiliang, and after two passes, you will walk to the border. ”

Could it be that the victim came from Xiangfeng County?

There are also more or less wounds on the bodies of the people around them, and the wounds are like butchers cutting and burning meat.

It seems that there are a lot of people coming, and it is enough to slaughter the whole village.

The perpetrators are either high-ranking officials and powerful people, or they have a lot of money, otherwise they will never be able to hire so many people.

"The person you just asked me to see, I also took a closer look, and you saw that he was wearing a ring on his rotten bones, which is usually worn by the trustees of the village."

Fu Zhiyan pointed to the man's exposed hand bones.

Gu Yisheng took a look and found that in addition, this person was also wearing a hood on his head, and the silk scarf used as a bracket inside had not been completely destroyed.

This hat is an object of uniform official hairstyle promoted during the Empress's period, and it is often humped after being wrapped, and only officials of a certain rank are qualified to wear it.

"Then that means that even the escrow has been killed. Who will it be? It's so brutal! ”

Gu Yisheng was angry at the scene in front of him.

"As you can see, it is possible that this finger refers to a certain city or country in the West, and of course it does not exclude other places."

Fu Zhiyan looked around.

"Since you come here to loot and burn, you will inevitably leave traces."

Not far away, a broken knife stained with sludge and blood caught his attention.

There was a hole in the remnant of the knife, and a series of iron rings passed through it, which was a scimitar style used by the people of the Western Regions or the western counties, and it had a pattern that was difficult to see because it had been buried for a long time.

"That's the key."

Fu Zhiyan looked at the knife.

"We've got to figure out how to get it back."

Gu Yisheng looked at his eyes, of course he understood that this was to keep evidence, so he immediately ripped off a long hem of his clothes, gestured at the knife, and felt that it should be enough to wrap the knife tightly, so he handed it to Fu Zhiyan.

The back of the house was also full of dead bodies, but the people here were different from what they saw before—more like those who were planted in Gu Yisheng's fiefdom and were said to have starved to death.

The same lips are pale and emaciated, but there is pus and blood and yellow fluids on the sides of the mouth......

It seems that someone really maliciously transferred these sick corpses to frame Gu Yisheng.

His heart can be punished.

Even though the village has suffered from this disaster, it still shows the prosperity of that time.

In a house that had not been looted, the farm implements were neatly organized, and the waterwheels by the stream of the farmland were still running in an orderly manner—although the water that flowed down was not as clear as it used to be, and even scooped up a few scoops of blood at times.

If it weren't for these illegal incursions, the village would have been a scene of yellow hair hanging down and enjoying themselves.

"It looks like it's been a few days. According to the efficiency of the government, in such a place so close to the capital, such a thing should have been known by the saint a long time ago. How could it still be like this? ”

Gu Yisheng frowned, and glanced around suspiciously, expressing his incomprehension of this scene.

"It's a pity that the Holy One never seems to be aware of this." Fu Zhiyan shook his head, "The Holy Lord is the king of Yao Shun, if such a thing of people's livelihood and suffering happens, he will definitely not be unaware, and he will definitely take measures immediately, but right now, it is obvious that someone is deliberately concealing it......"

Gu Yisheng nodded, and said kindly: "Or, the person who reported it has been killed." ”

Fu Zhiyan looked at the book in his hand, "The Incurable Plague Sufferers in the Suburbs of Pingning, Chang'an", and agreed: "Someone is aware of the plague, which means that either before the massacre, the plague had already broken out, but the official who reported it was killed; Either that, at the time of the massacre, only a few people died, and the rest contracted the plague, and the officials later found out that they wanted to report it, but for some reason the booklet was lost. ”

Massacre of officials......

Massacring officials is a serious crime, and it is even more difficult to be found out, let alone the capital!

Unless......

Unless there are officials who protect each other and cover up each other's crimes.

But why are they doing this?