Chapter 52: Confusing
Xie Yun'er is not from Tan County. Her family originally lived in Yong'an County, next to Tan County.
Xie Yun'er's father, Xie Zhiyan, was originally a scholar, but he failed many times. However, his family was dilapidated and unable to support him to study, so he gave up writing and started business when he was in his thirties.
Unexpectedly, Xie Zhiyan repeatedly failed to be the first in his studies, but he could start a prosperous business. Under Xie Zhiyan's management, the Xie family's business is thriving.
Xie Zhiyan has changed from a scholar to a businessman, but the life of a large family has become better. The Xie family's house is getting bigger and bigger, and it seems to have become a nouveau riche in the eyes of the neighborhood.
Yong'an County, where the Xie family is located, is Xia County. Xie Zhiyan has traveled south and north to do business, has seen a wide range of worlds, and his mind has come alive.
At the end of last year, Xie Zhiyan was a little complacent, and he had the idea of going to a big county town to develop. He plans to open his business in Tan County and let his family enjoy happiness in the "big city".
Xie Zhiyan is a man who cares about his family, and he is even more fond of his only daughter Xie Yun'er. His business has not yet spread out in Tan County, but he first bought a house in Tan County.
Who would have thought that Xie Zhiyan's dream of entering the city would become a lifeline for the family! Their whole family encountered bandits on the way to Tan County!
Thirty or so people naturally couldn't sit still in the face of more than a dozen bandits, and the fighting and chaos gave Xie Zhiyan's family of three a chance to escape.
Xie Zhiyan and his wife took Xie Yun'er to distance themselves from the bandits in the woods. But Xie Yun'er's mother had already been stabbed, and she definitely couldn't escape. And Xie Zhiyan has been tired of socializing all these years, and he can't escape from his physical well-being.
Fortunately in the midst of misfortune, Xie Zhiyan found a strange rock, and the vines on the stone covered a stone crevice. Xie Zhiyan hurriedly hid Xie Yun'er in the middle of the stone crevice. The stone crack was very narrow, and Xie Yun'er was able to hide it because of her soft body.
However, Xie Zhiyan and his wife could not escape no matter what, and the two of them did not tie their hands and arrest them, but did their best to create life for Xie Yun'er! The couple ran a few steps and pretended to fall, deliberately shouting in place: "Child, run, run, don't look back!"
The bandits who caught up did not immediately kill Xie Zhiyan and his wife. They sent some men to search for the escaped children, while the bandit leader pressed Xie Zhiyan and his wife to ask if they still had any wealth.
Xie Zhiyan thought that he could break his fortune and avoid disasters, so he told the thieves all the places where he hid money.
The thieves are naturally not so kind, and Xie Zhiyan's destruction of wealth and avoiding disasters can only be wishful thinking.
Xie Yun'er still remembers her mother's last words: "Please don't chase, don't chase my child, please." Let her go, don't chase her!"
And Xie Zhiyan saw that the bandits wanted to kill people, so he could only start talking nonsense: "I still have treasures, silver, and gold! Don't kill me, I'll take you to find it!"
The leader of the bandits also seemed to know how much money such an ordinary merchant had, and he didn't give any room for maneuver at all, and the long knife came out of its sheath with a bang.
Xie Yun'er heard a cold and disdainful voice: "It's okay for you to cooperate." Well, I'll leave you a whole corpse!"
After that, I only heard two pops, and the long knife pierced my heart, and Xie Yun'er's parents were killed!
Xie Yun'er didn't know how long she had been in the crack of the stone, and she had fainted a few times. All she knew was that when she went out, it was as if she had lost her soul, or even any consciousness.
She saw only a trace of blood in the place where her parents were killed, but she could not find their bodies. Walking along the main road, you can only see some blood stains and ruts on the mountain road, but you can't see a dead and alive person, and naturally all the belongings of the Xie family disappeared with it!
She walked into Tan County on foot like a walking corpse. With perseverance, he lives by begging. When she was begging to go to the countryside near Yinling, she suddenly heard that there was a sect called the Invincible Sect that was selecting disciples. So she pinned all her hopes on this illusory Jianghu sect, and paid almost everything a child could do in order to become an inner disciple......
Liguan Bai naturally has the ability to take his disciples to eradicate the bandits, but the question is where are these bandits?
According to some of the geographical features described by Xie Yun'er, it can be preliminarily concluded that the location of the Xie family's attack was in a place called Xiafengkou.
And Wang Qiyi, who is quite familiar with the surrounding environment, insists that there are no bandits at the mouth of Xiafeng!
In fact, there are very few bandits along the way from Yong'an County to Tan County, only two or three shares, and they are all near the midpoint of the connection between the two places. Xiafengkou is only more than 40 miles away from Tan County.
This made Liguan Bai dumbfounded. Her ability to be an assassin is good, and her ability to kill people is also top-notch! But the problem is that a veteran assassin who doesn't know who to kill, how can she take revenge?
Liguan Bai felt that it was okay to let himself do it, but it was very annoying to use his brain. So she pulled Guan Chang, Wang Qihe, and Song Xiong together to find a way, after all, one person is short, and a bunch of people can be longer than anyone else, even if it is not long......
Guan Chang asked Xie Yun'er: "Yun'er, did you report to the official or mention this matter to others along the way?"
Xie Yun'er replied with tears in her eyes: "At that time, I was already scared stupid, and I forgot that I could still report to the official." And those bandits are all masked, I don't know what they look like, and after that, I look like bad people, and I don't dare to ask for help. ”
Song Xiong shook his fan, nodded and said, "Thanks to Yun'er's silence, otherwise it may not be a good thing to be heard." If the wind reaches the ears of the bandits, I am afraid that she will be in trouble immediately. ”
Guan Chang asked Wang Qihe again: "More than 30 lives, such a big thing, doesn't the government know?"
Wang Qihe's eyes rolled, and after thinking for a moment, he replied: "These days, we haven't heard that the government has issued a sea fishing list, and no one has mentioned the murder of Xiafengkou. No one seems to care about the life and death of the Xie family!"
Wang Qihe repeated it again, "Xiafengkou, Xiafengkou?"
Guan Chang asked, "What's wrong with Xiafengkou?"
Wang Qihe shook his head and said, "I passed by the Xiafeng Pass when I was walking the dart, and the terrain around this place is not suitable for hiding bandits. ”
Guan Chang frowned and asked Xie Yun'er if she had any relatives in Tan County, and the latter shook her head blankly. The Xie family has distant relatives in Yong'an County, but they have not been in contact with each other for a long time, and they have no relatives at all in Tan County.
At this moment, Liguan Bai suddenly thought of something, she looked at Xie Yun'er with burning eyes, and asked, "You said that you didn't see any corpses in the place where the incident occurred?
Xie Yun'er nodded and said, "I searched around the mountain road, but I didn't find anyone, and the blood on the ground was also covered with mud." ”
A cold light appeared in Liguanbai's eyes, and the jade hand slapped heavily on the table, and shouted: "This group of people is not a bandit!"
Guan Chang looked at her and asked curiously, "How do you know if they are bandits?"
Liguan Bai replied very calmly: "Because I have killed several waves of bandits! Of course, I know some of the bandits' styles. Could it be that your bandits in Ye Country are different from the bandits in our Jing Kingdom?"
Wang Qihe also nodded at this time and explained, "What Senior Sister said is reasonable. The bandits are fierce and want others to be afraid of themselves. They will even kill people for the sake of territory, declaring that the area is theirs. The thieves only did the work of robbing houses and houses, so they didn't bother to collect corpses. Even if some thieves want to stop the government from investigating the case, they will directly burn their bodies and destroy their traces, I have never seen such a cover-up trace!"
Song Xiong snapped his fan shut, looked at everyone, and then said, "If such a large family disappears out of thin air, it is actually difficult not to attract the attention of the government. And now Yong'an County doesn't know, Tan County doesn't know, and passers-by haven't found it. If it weren't for Xie Yun'er who escaped death, I'm afraid no one would know about it. Don't you think the timing of this gang of people is too good?"
Hearing him say this, everyone understood a little in their hearts!
This incident was not a robbery by a bandit, but a premeditated crime. That gang of gangsters had already targeted the Xie family, stepping on the opportunity for them to move, and making the entire Xie family evaporate!