Begonia slept on the village for one night, and when she got up the next morning, she found that it was snowing outside, and a thick layer of snow had been piled up on the ground in the yard, and it seemed that it had been raining for a long time.

There seem to be a lot of strangers coming to Zhuangzi, and they are quite busy coming and going. Many people went to look in the courtyard where the boy he had rescued last night lived, then turned away in disappointment, and then gathered in the front yard.

Brother Haijiao told Haitang: "The government has come, and there are old acquaintances of grandfather and cousin. They wanted to come to our family to ask the boy we rescued last night, but unfortunately the boy hadn't woken up yet. Now they're all talking in the front hall. ”

Haitang suddenly realized and hurriedly asked: "What clues can the government find?" Have you found any traces of the robbers? ”

Haijiao shook his head: "There are traces, but halfway through the chase, the clues are broken." Now I don't know where this group of people came from, and why they are targeting that family. After dawn, the officials checked the scene, and the murderers probably didn't want to rob, they didn't even take the boxes of gold. ”

Begonia was a little surprised: "Boxes of gold? Are you saying that the man who was robbed was traveling with boxes of gold? ”

The two hands of the reef compared the length of a foot square: "It is about such a large ebony box, the lock hanging on it has been broken, and the gold in it is scattered all over the ground, all of which are official gold ingots of first-class fineness, which just fill a box, which is almost two thousand taels, and when converted into silver, it is twenty thousand taels." That's a lot of money! ”

Is it reasonable that the robbers only killed people for such a large sum of money and ignored the gold ingots scattered around the corpses? It's just that I don't even bother to pretend. The murderer's purpose is just to kill people, not robbers at all! And their quality is quite high, they are very disciplined, and there are no individual members out of greed who quietly take a gold ingot or two, where is this like a rabble?!

Begonia couldn't help but marvel. Unexpectedly, the young man's family is quite rich, and I don't know if it attracted bad people because of this. But since he has money, why doesn't his family even hire a guard? only travels with his wife and children, and his heart is too big.

The Hai family also has boxes of gold, Begonia had seen it in her grandmother's carriage, it was also a wooden box more than a foot long, there were two boxes, the amount of gold was estimated to be a lot more than the victim's box, but they brought so many people! When Chenggong County had to be separated from the caravan with escort forces, Haixiya, the family, did not take it lightly because the next road was official, but specially found someone to borrow ten strong guards to come back before continuing to hurry. In comparison, the victim was really careless!

Haijiao told his sister what kind of investigation results the veterans in the government and Zhoujiazhuang had this night.

With the assistance of experienced veterans, the efficiency of the people in Chang'an Mansion is still very high. Now they have found a total of eight killers who killed people, all of them are dressed in black suits, wearing hats, black scarves, and knives in their hands, and they have horses, but the horses were not taken to the scene of the crime, but were left more than a mile away from the scene of the accident and guarded by special personnel. After the six killers had finished killing, they ran to the place where the horses were, joined the remaining two accomplices, mounted their horses and fled.

They went in the northeast direction, which was the direction of Chang'an City, and the main envoy or leader didn't know if it was in Chang'an City. The guards guarding the city gate did not notice anything unusual, but there was no guarantee that these eight people were not the city that had been reformed and then entered in batches. On the territory of Chang'an, there are too many young people who are powerful and carry weapons with them, and God knows if there are fierce killers among the people walking on the street?

Judging from the traces left by the killers, they are well-trained and have obvious military colors, but they are different from the style of the soldiers under the command of the Zhou family, but they don't know which side of the army came out. But no matter who they sent them, killing several people in a row on the Zhou family's territory is a provocation to the Zhou family, and the Zhou family must thoroughly investigate it to the end no matter what.

"Now the people in the surrounding area and the nearby garrisons have been mobilized. As long as those killers have stayed in the area, don't try to hide it from the eyes of the locals! ”

It is also a coincidence to say that during the day yesterday, there was a heavy snowfall around Chang'an, and the snow stopped near evening, and the killers robbed the road to kill people after dark, leaving clear footprints on the snow at the scene. The Haijia Brigade happened to pass by at that time and scared away the killers, and they didn't have time to confirm that the targets were all dead, let alone deal with the aftermath of the traces they left at the scene. They rendezvoused with their accomplices as fast as they could, and in the meantime, they sent another companion back to the scene to observe the situation, and fled again after exposing their whereabouts.

The snow left traces on their two escapes, clearly pointing out the direction in which they left. If it hadn't been for another heavy snowfall in the early morning, which covered up the traces of the aftermath, the veterans would have gone to the door long ago.

When Haijiao talked about this, he couldn't help but sigh: "The young man who was robbed was also lucky." If it weren't for the fact that our family happened to pass by at that time and scared away the killer, he might have been stabbed one more time and completely killed. Even if he hadn't been stabbed, he would have been crushed under the body and unable to move, and over time, his injuries would get worse, and when the snow fell in the early morning, he would be even more dead. ”

He suspected that there had been such a murder in his previous life, but at that time, no Hai family's convoy passed by, and the killer successfully killed everyone, and even more than that.

Hearing this, Haitang asked a question: "It is not surprising that experienced scout veterans or government officials will see from the traces on the snow that there are eight killers, with a military style, and they have left horses nearby. But how do they know what the killer is dressed for? When my brother and the guards went to chase the killer who had returned to the scene to peep at us, did they see what he was wearing? ”

But just because a killer is dressed like this doesn't mean that his accomplices are also dressed like this, right?

Haijiao smiled: "Of course, it's because someone witnessed them in action and bumped into them head-on!" ”

Coincidentally, this witness was his cousin Xie Wenzai's friend Zhuang Shitong who was a general judge in Chang'an. The day before yesterday, he went to a nearby friend's house for dinner, stayed for one night, and yesterday he went to the West Wuli Pavilion of Chang'an City to wait for the Hai family, and planned to accompany the old friend into the city, who knew that he didn't see anyone until dark, and it was too late to return to the city, so he had to return to his friend's house again to spend the night.

He was halfway along the road and happened to meet the group of killers fleeing the scene. His attendant held a lantern in his hand, and although the light was dim, it was enough to illuminate the figure of the person who came. The other party is holding a sharp blade in his hand and covering his face, so he doesn't look like a good person. Zhuang Shitong met the other party head-on, and was startled, and saw the other party slashing over with a knife.

Fortunately, the guards accompanying him were quite brave, not only blocking the knife for him, but also overpowering the opponent with their force value. Originally, he was worried that the gangsters would beat up his guards, and the latter would be outnumbered, but the other party seemed to be in a hurry to leave, and seeing that he couldn't help their master and servant in a short time, he quickly stopped and left. Zhuang Shitong heard the neighing of horses not far away, and the gangsters happened to be running in that direction, and soon there was the sound of horses' hooves in the distance, so he guessed that those people had ridden away.

When Haijiao mentioned this, he felt very happy: "Fortunately, our family took the wrong path at that time, and happened to scare away the group of killers." Otherwise, not to mention that the robbed family will not even be left alive, I am afraid that even this Lord Zhuang will not be able to save his life. With no one chasing after him, the killer wouldn't mind taking a little more time to kill two more. ”

Haitang raised his eyebrows: "Why does my brother look like he is afraid?" ”

Haijiao smiled bitterly: "Because ...... I recognize who this Zhuang Master is. ”

(End of chapter)