"Let's get down to business, did you encounter anything on the road?"

"Yes, I met my junior brother Tang Tieyu, and he ...... They also came to kill me. ”

"Was it sent by Liu Xi?"

"Eight or nine is not far from ten."

Listening to what Tang Qingshuang said, Lin Xi's eyes lit up after a short period of contemplation: "If the person was sent by Liu Xi, doesn't this mean that Liu Xi knows that you are coming to the capital?" ”

Tang Qingshuang patted his head: "That's right!" How I didn't figure it out! Broken ......"

"Alright." Lin Xi comforted: "It's okay, anyway, things have come to this point, and there is nothing he can do if he finds out." ”

Speaking of this, Lin Xi grinned and said, "At least, we're all safe now." ”

"Laugh and laugh, I heard your voice at the door." Before Lin Xi's laughter stopped, Wang Dan pushed the door and walked in.

"Wang Ge Lao! See who's coming? ”

Wang Dan was startled at first, and then excitedly shook Kou Zhun's hands, "Brother! What are you doing here? ”

"I miss you, come and see you, can't you?"

", then why don't I go to Jingbei to see you, did Lin Xi let you come?"

Kou Zhun glanced at Lin Xi: "Lin Xi told you?" ”

"Didn't tell! Who could it be that he didn't call you? ”

"Haha...... I really didn't expect that our brothers would meet again in this inn! ”

"Alright, alright...... Don't laugh, seriously, something big has happened! Wang Dan gathered everyone together and whispered, "Just now, hundreds of corpses were found on the side of the canal outside the city. ”

"What? Hundreds of corpses?! Hearing this, everyone's nerves tensed.

Wang Dan nodded: "Yes, according to Cao Gongyan, who lives nearby, this morning, the ground on the side of the canal suddenly exploded and collapsed, revealing hundreds of corpses buried below!" I'm here to ask you to come and have a look, and it just so happens that Brother Kou is also here, so let's go together! ”

"Me?" Kou Zhun asked, "I...... After all, he entered Beijing without permission, so it's not easy to show his face, right? ”

Lin Xi smiled: "Hey, hey--Anyway, Liu Xi knows that you have entered Beijing, so it doesn't matter if you show up a little!" Besides...... Isn't that out of town? How can it be regarded as entering Beijing without permission? ”

The three of them looked at each other and smiled, and finally, under the leadership of Wang Dan, went out of the city.

When everyone rushed to the mouth of the canal, the bizarre thick fog unexpectedly dissipated. They also saw a scene that they will never forget-

The officials of Kaifeng Prefecture gathered here, carried the body on a stretcher, and the two of them left in an orderly manner.

The crowd didn't know how long they had been carrying it, but what they could see was that the corpses on the ground were still piling up like a small mountain, far more than they had imagined.

Yang Huaizhen saw everyone from afar, stretched out his hand and patted the officials beside him, and walked over together.

"Elder Wangge." Yang Huaizhen gave up, but unexpectedly saw the seemingly familiar figure behind Wang Ge Lao.

Yang Huaizhen looked behind curiously, but almost exclaimed: "Kou-"

Yang Huaizhen, who blurted out, hurriedly covered his mouth and straightened up pretending to be nothing: "Elder Wangge, this is the magistrate of Kaifeng Mansion, who is responsible for counting and placing these corpses. I met him at the city gate, and when I learned about it, I came with him to see it—you name it. ”

The magistrate arched his hand, and immediately took out a notebook: "Lord Hui, we have dug up a total of 1,126 corpses on the bank of the canal, of which 39 have been eroded by the flowing water and are seriously damaged;

Considering that some of the burial pits have water seepage, some of the corpses may have entered the canal with the flowing water, so the actual number of buried corpses may be more than the exhumed corpses;

More than 800 of the corpses have been extensively decomposed, and it is preliminarily inferred that the time of death should have been more than half a month;

However, the physical condition of these bodies can still be identified - 782 bodies were killed by crossbow arrows, and another 315 bodies were killed by sharp weapons such as swords. ”

"Hmm......" Wang Dan nodded thoughtfully: "What else?" ”

"And -- we found scars of varying degrees on the bodies of more than 700 people, most of them in the arms, abdomen, and thighs, and these injuries are definitely old wounds."

"Gone?"

"Uh...... Nope. ”

"What about gender?" Wang Dan asked.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, the elder forgives me, the little one forgot about it - except for a few that are really hard to identify, all the corpses are men."

Wang Dan pointed at the young pusher and smiled lightly: "You kid is good, you are careful enough." ”

"Xie Ge Lao compliments."

Wang Dan waved his hand: "Go down, after this case is concluded, the reward will be indispensable to you." ”

"Xie Ge Lao."

The magistrate retreated with interest, and was busy directing the officials to transport the corpses.

Yang Huaizhen came over in shock and shouted in a low voice: "Kou Xiang! How did you come to Bianjing? ”

Wang Dan hurriedly pushed him back: "It's a long story, I'll tell you this slowly...... We're here to see the burial site. ”

Yang Huaizhen said with a sad face: "Ouch, you don't know, when I first came, the corpses were all down there, just in the pit over there!" Oh my God, I really didn't expect that I would be able to see such a horrible scene without going to the battlefield...... The corpses were stacked on top of each other, and the stench was terrible...... I'm afraid ordinary people can't accept it when they look at it twice! The most terrifying thing is that more than 1,000 people have been dead for more than half a month, and no one knows about it! Fu Yin just went back to Kaifeng Mansion to check the file, and I don't know if I found anything to check it......"

Kou Zhun shook his head heavily: "There will be no results after checking - more than a thousand people died, it is normal to say that I can't hear the wind in Jingbei, but you haven't heard any wind either?" ”

"It's here! Everything is normal in the capital, even the people in Kaifeng Mansion say that there has been no report of missing persons for half a month! ”

"Lin Xi, Lin Xi?" Xi Jingyao looked at Lin Xi's sluggish appearance, and waved her hand in front of him worriedly: "Lin Xi, are you okay?" ”

"Ah...... I, I'm fine! I'm just thinking about it......"

Seeing Lin Xi's strange appearance, Kou Zhun also asked curiously, "Xiao Lin, do you have any ideas?" ”

"I ......" Lin Xi hesitated, but still said what was in his heart: "I want to go and see the corpse." ”

"Look at the corpse?" Ling Yebai gasped: "What are you doing looking at the corpse?" ”

Lin Xi glanced at the two girls, smiled and said, "Are you two afraid?" ”

"Nonsense! I'm not afraid......" Xi Jingyao said with a little weakness.

"That'...... If you want to see it, we'll go with you. ”

Yang Huaizhen also persuaded: "I think the matter of these corpses will be solved by the servants, it is indeed ...... It's scary. ”

The corners of Lin Xi's mouth twitched, "If the murderer is even afraid of the dead, then I would have scared myself to death." There are some details that I see myself much better than handing them over to others. ”

Yes, are murderers afraid of the dead?

However, when Lin Xi really came into close contact with these rotting corpses, his heart was indeed a little shaken.

The peculiar smell of corpses rushed straight into everyone's nose and stimulated everyone's brains.

However, Lin Xi, who came here, was completely irreversible, even so, he had to look through the corpse carefully.

Lin Xi looked through several corpses for a long time, as if he was looking for something.

"Lord Yang—"

Yang Huaizhen squatted beside Lin Xi and asked, "What did you find?" ”

"All the corpses I saw had been shot with crossbow arrows. If I'm not mistaken, the Great Song Forbidden Army was equipped with crossbow arrows. ”

Yang Huaizhen thought for a moment: "Yes, that's right. Even in the Great Song Dynasty, not everyone can be equipped with crossbow arrows, and only the forbidden army has this treatment. ”

Yang Huaizhen looked at Lin Xi's face, and his heart sank suddenly: "You don't mean it...... The people killed by the forbidden army? It can't be! ”

"Shhhhh......h ”

"Then you can say whatever you want to say!"

"The key problem is not in the fatal wound, but here it is – you see."

Lin Xi lifted the corpse in front of him and turned the corpse over in front of Yang Huaizhen: "Look at this old injury, is it familiar?" ”

"It's like...... It's not a wound from a sword......"

Lin Xi sighed speechlessly: "Nonsense, if the sword is stabbed, I will still use you to take a look?" ”

Yang Huaizhen patted his head and suddenly realized: "Oh! I remember, this is a spear! ”

"That's right. I've just seen it, and this kind of valgus wound is undoubtedly a gunshot wound. I've just seen more than one corpse with this kind of gunshot wound - knife wounds are common, but not everyone can have gunshot wounds. You say, what kind of people are generally exposed to gunshot wounds? ”

Yang Huaizhen thought about it for a long time, and suddenly seemed to think of something, and suddenly gasped.

"Shhh......h

"If you have anything to say, we'll go back and talk about it."

Everyone followed Lin Xi back to the inn with a puzzled expression.

As soon as the door was closed, Li Qingyou couldn't wait to ask Lin Xi: "I said that you sold guanzi here all the way, and asked you not to say anything, what did you see?" ”

Lin Xi said helplessly: "I was afraid that you would say it with a big mouth, so I didn't tell you." ”

"Then you can always talk now, right?"

"Of course, of course...... I examined a dozen corpses and found that they all had old wounds picked out by spears. Therefore, according to my deference, these people must not be ordinary people near Bianjing, but soldiers who have been fighting the enemy all year round! ”

"Soldiers? It can't be! Wang Dan exclaimed: "There are no other armies around Bianjing except for the forbidden army!" ”

"How many forbidden troops are there around Bianjing?"

"Excluding the Song-Xia border and the domestic counterinsurgency forces, there are almost 400,000 forbidden troops in the entire Gyeonggi, and there are even fewer around Bianjing...... The standing army was 20,000 and the defending army was 3,000. ”

"The defenders?" Lin Xi's eyes lit up.

Li Qingyou asked, "Do you doubt that the 1,000 people who died were the defenders of the city?" ”

Lin Xi raised his eyebrows at Li Qingyou, and then turned his head and said, "Elder Wangge, it looks like we may need to go there and have a look." ”

"Where to go?"

"Barracks."