Chapter 65: Killing Two Birds with One Stone
He knew what Bai Xia meant by what he hadn't finished.
He did not hesitate to choose a direction, clamped his legs firmly on the horse's belly, and with a whip he whipped, and the horse ran.
Horses running through the grass inevitably leave traces.
He ran some distance and then made a detour back onto the road.
Although this is not an official road, but there is a team of refugees passing by, all the traces have long been unsightly, messy, and he doesn't have to worry about the official mission catching up, because the bloodstains left by the two of them are too obvious, and anyone with a discerning eye can see the bloodstains extending towards the side of the road, and they will only chase in the direction of the bloodstains.
Solving Li Xiuyuan's fragile variable, Bai Xia let go of the horse and hid himself.
The horses of the officials are all trained, and even if they are not tethered, they will not run around.
Ah Cheng and Qin Hu chased the bloodstains all the way, seeing the bloodstains in front of them disappear, turning into the grass on the side, Ah Cheng raised his hand to stop, and the two stopped.
"The bloodstains are so obvious, it looks like someone is deliberately trying to lure us in"
Looking at the messy footsteps and bloodstains on the side of the road, Ah Cheng muttered to himself.
Qin Hu had been listening to Ah Cheng's command all the way, and now when he heard him say this, he couldn't help but ask, "Do you want to go back and report to the head?" ”
Since someone deliberately wants to lead them in, there must be an ambush there, if something really happens to the fifth and seventh children, the two of them will go in, but I am afraid that it will be a dead word.
Officials are also ordinary people, and they will also be afraid of death.
Qin Hu has a boring temperament, but he is not stupid, he doesn't want to do this kind of thing that can kill him.
It's a pity that Ah Cheng didn't think so, only to see him turn his head and glare at Qin Hu, and scolded: "Why are you so bold, no matter how big it is, you have to report to the head, since this person deliberately wants to lead us in, it means that he must be afraid of us, so he needs to set a trap to ambush us, which also shows that his strength is not good."
"Follow me, be careful not to step on the trap, our chance to make meritorious service has come," Ah Cheng said, as the pioneer rode into the grass, and sure enough, the blood was extending inside.
Qin Hu was scolded, and he had the heart to retreat, but he didn't dare to leave Ah Cheng and run alone, so he could only follow him hard.
The horse's hooves stepped down slowly, and Ah Cheng observed the ground and the surrounding environment, and made sure that there were no traps before driving the horse forward.
The marks on the side of the road became more and more obvious, the hay was scattered in all directions, and the traces of the fight stretched along the side of the road.
A large pool of blood mixed with hay appeared in front of the two of them.
A horse stood with its rope loose, snorting and flapping its tail from time to time.
"The Seventh's Horse"
Qin Hu exclaimed, after Ah Cheng was sure that there could be no trap here, he turned over and dismounted and came to the bloodstains, a large pool of bloodstains, all of which were human blood.
With so much blood shed, it is basically impossible for people to live.
After carefully examining the surrounding traces, Ah Cheng reproduced the scene here at that time in his mind, and the protagonist of the scene in his mind was the fight scene between Chen Wu and Bai Xia.
"Lao Qi is cautious, his martial arts are not proficient, and it is impossible to fight head-on with people"
"Lao Wu's martial arts are good, and he is fierce and ruthless, but he is most likely to make this move"
"In this way, the one who died here should be the fifth child"
Ah Cheng muttered to himself.
"Ah Cheng, look"
Ah Cheng inspected the scene, Qin Hu was not idle, he searched along the bloodstains, and finally found the slope on the left, and saw the bodies of Chen Wu and Chen Qi who were thrown under the slope.
Ah Cheng stepped forward quickly and also saw the corpse below.
"Let's go, let's go down"
The slope is a little steep, but you can go down with the branches and roots.
The two of them went down the slope and it took a lot of effort to come to the corpses of Chen Wu and Chen Qi.
Chen Wu's corpse was stripped of its clothes, leaving only a pair of underwear, and Chen Qi was in a similar situation to Chen Wu.
Ah Cheng crouched down to examine the body.
"It's all a one-shot killing, and the edge is the saber of the yamen"
"Everything on my body is gone"
Ah Cheng frowned, his face suddenly changed, and he asked Qin Hu, "Did the fifth brother bring a bow and arrow when he left the team?" ”
Qin Hu had a boring temperament, but his memory was good, and he nodded: "Yes, he brought a bow and arrows."
"Not good"
Ah Cheng thought of the smooth journey, and he didn't encounter a single trap, so his face couldn't help but change greatly, and he planned to leave with Qin Hu in his hand.
At this moment, two sharp arrows galloped from the slope, carrying a blazing wind, nailed to the chests of Ah Cheng and Qin Hu respectively.
The two arrows hit the position of the heart.
Ah Cheng opened his mouth, only to find a short figure standing against the light on the slope, although he couldn't see his appearance clearly, but it was very similar to one of the two children they found when they came.
Until he died, he didn't expect that the fifth, seventh, him and Qin Hu would die at the hands of a tiny doll.
Ah Cheng smiled bitterly, he should listen to Qin Hu and report the matter to the boss first.
Don't be greedy.
As he was thinking, he saw the figure on the slope raise his arm again, and the two feathered arrows wound up, let go, and let go bigger and bigger before his eyes.
"Poof"
The sound of a sharp blade sounding in his ears, he no longer felt the pain, his consciousness became more and more blurred, and finally he fell unwillingly.
Bai Xia, who shot two arrows in a row, saw the official messenger under the slope fall, and he did not rush down, but shot the arrow with a bow again, and two more arrows shot out and nailed them to the waists of the two officials.
Seeing that neither of them moved, she put away her bow and arrows, replaced them with a large knife, and groped her way to the bottom of the slope.
The two officials were too dead to die, so she slowly stepped forward, pulled out her arrows, wiped them and put them into the conversion pool, took their coats, and fumbled with the money bag.
These officials were all poor ghosts, and the four of them didn't even get a tael of silver.
Most of them are married to families, and there may be wives and children waiting for them to go back.
"I'm sorry"
Bai Xia muttered, took out the hoe and began to dig the pit, the dry and hard ground was not easy to dig, but she did not give up, holding the hoe and digging one by one.
When you come across a layer with a stone underneath, take out an axe, use the thick part of the back to smash the stone, and pick it up little by little.
It took a lot of time to dig the hole.
Three meters long, two meters wide, and one meter deep.
Four people, squeezed a little, but enough.
The bodies of several people were dragged into the pit and buried in the earth, leaving a huge mound in its place.
It was past noon, and she returned to the slope, where the three horses gathered together, meekly eating the blood-free hay beside them.
"Good"
Bai Xia stroked the mane of one horse, turned over on the horse, rode one, and led the two horses back to the avenue.
They walked a mile or two in the direction of Wu County, and then walked along the woods to return to the place where they had been stationed and rested on the first day.
Li Xiuyuan also returned here, heard the sound of horses' hooves, and hid vigilantly, he didn't want to be caught again.
So when Bai Xia arrived, all he saw was a lone horse scattered in place, and the horse's mane was still stained with some dark red blood clots.