Chapter 37: Mass Graves
Three days later, the Tang Gate.
The eyebrows are like fine willows, the eyes are like the moon in the nine days, the nose is exquisite, and the lips are outward. If the shoulders are cut, the waist is as plain. Stretch the neck and show the neck, and the quality is exposed.
Wearing a pale yellow pomegranate skirt with a touch of plum blossom makeup on her forehead.
This is Tang Bao'er, one of the four jade girls in martial arts, the eldest lady in the Tang Sect, and Tang Yu's own sister.
It's just that today, she has lost her former youth and liveliness, her pretty face is covered with a layer of frost, and she walks lightly towards the inner room.
In the inner room, the grandmother of the Tang Sect was also worried, and the dragon head crutches on her were slowly pacing, but below her, there were gathered the large and small managers of the Tang Sect, and these managers were all indignantly discussing something.
"Grandma, I'm going to Jining!" Tang Bao'er's eyebrows tightened, and she walked in with an angry look.
Seeing Tang Bao'er come in, everyone bowed slightly to her and said, "Miss." ”
Grandma glanced at Tingting Yuli's inlay, and didn't speak, but her brows became more and more frowned, and she paced slowly with the dragon's head cane, and said: "Indi, don't be presumptuous, so many managers are here, discussing this matter, as the eldest lady of the Tang Sect, you should show the demeanor of the eldest lady, shouting, there is no little of the eldest lady's rules." With the way you are now, how will you rule the Tang Sect in the future?"
"Grandma, my brother has been killed, do I still have to pretend to be a turtle with a shrunken head? If I don't kill Xiaoyaozi, how will my Tang Sect gain a foothold in the rivers and lakes?" Tang Bao'er retorted angrily.
"Bastard, the Tang Sect can't help you now, grandma has her own opinions, if you want to mess around again, quit for me first. This anxious thing had already made Grandma angry, but now Tang Bao'er jumped out to make trouble for her, and her temper also exploded.
Seeing that her grandmother was angry, Tang Bao'er flattened her mouth, and tears flowed down involuntarily. Tang Yu is her own brother, her brother has been very fond of her since she was a child, and now she has been killed by a traitor, she vows to use the enemy's head to pay tribute to her brother. But now she is going to slash the enemy, but her grandmother is still angry at her, which makes her feel aggrieved.
The grandmother of the Tang Sect led such a large family, naturally she was not that reckless, although there was news from Jining that Tang Yu died at the hands of Xiaoyaozi, but she was a little uncertain about this matter in her heart, so she never made a decision.
Tang Gang, the head of the firearms room, stood up and said, "Grandma, Tang Kai sent back information that he and the disciples of the Wudang Sect had gone to hunt down and kill Xiaoyaozi, but some people were extremely cunning and let him escape, and now he doesn't know where to go." ”
"Grandma, just now Wudang Mountain also sent news, saying that Xiaoyaozi's disciple Xiong Qiang ambushed Wudang's disciples under the Evil Wolf Ridge, causing Yun Yan, the chief disciple of the Qingwei Palace Elder's seat, and his three junior disciples to all die, Wudang asked us to cooperate with us to annihilate Xiaoyaozi's master and apprentice in one fell swoop. Another manager also said.
"Grandma, in your opinion, how to reply to this matter?"
"I have asked Tang Tong to go to Jining to investigate the truth of Tang Yu's death, there should be news soon, wait for him to send back the news, and then make a decision. As the head of the Soul Snatcher Room, I have already asked Tang Tong to take the position, and the rest of the general managers have their own duties. ”
"Yes!"
After many managers retreated, grandma's brows frowned more and more tightly, although the evidence was ironclad, Tang Yu died in the hands of Xiaoyaozi, but what was Xiaoyaozi's motive for killing Tang Yu?
In Jining City, Xiong Qiang and Xiaoyaozi visited the suburbs of Jining City for several days, but there are large cemeteries in the suburbs of the southeast, northwest and northwest, but these cemeteries are not like the mass graves mentioned in Bu Mang's mouth at all, and they have not found any strange people here.
It wasn't until near noon on the sixth day that Xiong Qiang disguised himself as a woodcutter and saw an old man coming down from the mountain nine kilometers south of Qufu County, which is under the jurisdiction of Jining Prefecture. This old man is about fifty years old, his clothes are patched everywhere, and he is carrying a large bundle of firewood behind him.
"Uncle, where are you going to sell this firewood?" said Xiong Qiang, who was disguised as a woodcutter, with a simple smile on his face.
The old man glanced at Xiong Qiang, and felt that this person and him were also making a living all the way, so he also put down the firewood, and said, "Young man, looking at your outfit, you should also go to collect firewood, right?
"Oh, oh, I! I found a small hill in the mountain near my house, and I don't know when people were buried there, and it felt eerie, so I didn't dare to go there to collect firewood anymore, so I had to go a little farther and go to this mountain to get some firewood. Xiong Qiang said with a smile.
As soon as the old man heard this, he just took off the kettle to drink water, and stopped, and said with a different face: "Young man, there is also such a mass grave in the depths of this Jiulong Mountain, although there are not many graves, but it is also gloomy and scary, the old man and I also walked in by mistake, where the trees are high and dense, there are small mounds of dirt everywhere, and even the exposed white bones, it is really scary to death, in my opinion, nine times out of ten in this mountain are buried there after the death of those bandits and bandits who occupied the mountain as the king of the previous dynasty." What's even more frightening is that as soon as I walked in, it was as if I had been targeted by something, but no matter how I looked, I couldn't see anyone. ”
Looking at the frightened appearance of the old man, what he should have said was not a lie, which made Xiong Qiang also a little excited, maybe that place was very likely to be the mass grave that Bu Fang said.
Xiong Qiang pretended to be very surprised and frightened, and said, "Uncle, don't scare me, why are there mass graves everywhere! Where are the mass graves?"
When the old man heard this, he was a little unhappy, thinking that Xiong Qiang thought that he was lying to him. Busy stuffing the lid of the kettle, putting the firewood on his back, he looked at Xiong Qiang coldly, and said: "You young man, how can you treat kindness as a donkey's liver and lungs? Believe it or not, the old man is gone." ”
"No, no, uncle, you misunderstood me, I was really scared by the mass grave, it's not that I don't believe you, uncle, I have a few pennies here, you take it to eat a bowl of tea, when I apologize to you, please give me some guidance, where is that mass grave, lest I run around again and crash into that gloomy place." ”
Seeing Xiong Qiang's frightened look, the old man put Chai He down again, and did not take the money in Xiong Qiang's hand, smiled and showed a mouthful of big yellow teeth, and said: "It seems that the old man misunderstood you, okay!
got the exact location of the mass grave from the old man, and Xiong Qiang did not go directly to Jiulong Mountain, but returned to the small dilapidated house, preparing to go with Xiaoyaozi.
When night fell, Xiong Qiang and Xiaoyaozi appeared at the foot of Jiulong Mountain, and in a hidden place, they changed their night clothes and walked towards the location of the mass grave that the old man said. The mountain is full of tall trees, and the sun has set at this time, leaving only the bright twilight, and occasionally there are unknown birds that make an eerie strange call, especially those wild cats, which are like babies crying, and it is also terrifying to listen to.
But these are not enough to intimidate Xiong Qiang and Xiaoyaozi, who are both people who have walked countless mountains and forests at night, the two of them galloped in the mountains, and after about half an hour, they had already arrived at the periphery of the mass grave that the old man said, but the two of them did not enter rashly, and knew from Bu Fang's mouth that this mass grave was also guarded by people from a mysterious organization, and the old man also said that as soon as he walked in there, it was as if he was being targeted by something, and this thing that was staring at him should be those people from the mysterious organization。
The two of them lurked in a bush on a high slope, and from here they could see the mass grave, and although the moonlight was still bright tonight, it was covered with tall trees, and it was pitch black except for a few mottled fragments of moonlight sprinkled from between the branches and leaves.
"What are you going to do now? Shall we go to that mass grave and have a look?" Xiaoyaozi asked Xiong Qiang, who now felt that his disciple was getting smarter and wiser.
"Master, wait! If the mass grave that Bu Fang is talking about is this mass grave, then this mass grave may not be moving during the day, but there will definitely be movement at night. ”
"You're saying that these subordinates of the mysterious organization will appear?" said Xiaoyaozi.
Xiong Qiang nodded and said, "Of course, these people have been vigilant for a day, and they will definitely move their muscles and bones at night, who will run to this mass grave at night?"
Sure enough, when Xiong Qiang just finished saying this, there were really torches lit up in the mass grave, one group, two regiments, three regiments, four regiments, a total of four torches, and the fire of the torches also illuminated the surroundings of the mass grave, only to see that place, there were large and small protruding mounds everywhere, these mounds looked very messy, most of the tombs did not have tombstones, only occasionally a large mound, only a tombstone was inserted crookedly, and in the center of those tombstones, four men in black stuck torches in the soil on the side, sitting together and whispering。
"It seems that this is really the mass grave that Bu Fang said, and this mysterious organization really chooses a place, and chooses the depths of this Jiulong Mountain, which is really hidden enough. Xiong Qiang said.
"But how can there be a mass grave here? no one would bury the dead in such a deep forest, right?"
Xiong Qiang said: "According to the old man who collected firewood, this should be a mass grave that existed in the previous dynasty, this Jiulong Mountain used to be the world of bandits and bandits when the court was shaken, and after these bandits died, they were buried here indiscriminately, so there will be such a mass grave." ”
"I see! Hey, someone seems to be coming again. Xiaoyaozi said.