The Golden Age Chapter 361: The eyes behind the window

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This village is not small, and Qin Xiao estimates that there are still 30 or 40 households in the village before it gets close.

This is a relatively large village in Xiling.

There is a pond at the entrance of the village. When I walked across the pond with a horse, I saw that there were several people at the entrance of the village. One saw Qin Xiao and others coming, and immediately reminded his companions that the others did not speak immediately, and looked towards Qin Xiao with a look. They are all weird.

Qin Xiao is young and handsome, so he naturally stepped forward and said, "Excuse me."

A few people didn't speak, but just looked at Qin Xiao. Qin Xiao saw that the other party was not enthusiastic and a little embarrassed, but he also knew that a few strangers suddenly came to the village.

"While we were on the road, a companion fell ill." After all, Qin Xiao had been in the Jiazi Supervisor. He smiled and said cleverly: "It's getting late too. I want to spend a night in your place. Some hot water to rest your feet, and a few of you can do it for your convenience."

Someone saw Qin Xiao and several people with knives on their bodies, looked at each other, and one asked: "Who are you?"

"We are darts." Qin Xiao had already thought about what to do.

"The village does not accept outsiders. If you walk 30 miles east, you will be the county seat." One person said: "There is nothing to eat in the village, so it is not easy to keep people."

Qin Xiao could also see that although these people were wearing cotton-padded jackets, they were very shabby, with patches sewn on them, and their faces were yellow and thin. They seemed to have not enough to eat all the time, wondering if the people in Guan were so poor.

He didn't talk nonsense, took a silver ticket and handed it over, still smiling: "We don't live in vain, this is twenty taels of silver, please accept it."

Twenty taels of silver is certainly not a small amount.

The villagers' eyes lit up, like a hungry wolf seeing the prey, Qin Xiao suddenly felt something wrong in his heart.

Although the love of money is commonplace, these few people have not concealed their desire for silver, and there is really no concealment at all.

One person reached out and took it, saying: "I am the security chief in the village. There is an empty house over there, no one lives. You can live in, but you will leave early tomorrow morning." The dilapidated house pointed at it. Before Qin Xiao could speak, the man said again: "Remember, don't go out at night. There are dozens of strong men in the village, so I'm not afraid of you."

Qin Xiao's heart is amused, and he thought to himself that if these people are really evil, even if there are dozens of strong men, they won't be afraid here.

After the villagers dispersed, Qin Xiao greeted a few people to the dilapidated house, tied the horses, and entered the house. A musty smell penetrated into the nose. The house was impoverished and there was no furniture. Fortunately, the two There are still beds in the room.

Qin Xiao lights up the lamp, but hears Yuwen Chengchao suddenly say: "Do you smell blood?"

"The smell of blood?" Several people were surprised. Han Yunong looked around, then suddenly walked to the wall and squatted down. Qin Xiao went over with the oil lamp, but he had already seen that there was blood on the wall. However, the blood stains have dried up, and it is obvious that they have been processed by someone, leaving not much blood stains.

"There are also here." Yuwen Chengchao whispered.

A few people looked over and saw Yu Wen Chengchao picking up a stone from the door, and there was blood behind the door panel.

"There is blood on this stone." Yuwen Chengchao took it and handed it to Han Yunong. After Han Yunong took it, he saw that the stone was not big, but there were many edges and corners, and two corners were stained with blood. Has dried out.

He got together

I went to smell it, wiped it with a finger, his face solemn: "The time is not long, at most it is only half a month."

"There have been fights, and even ... murders." Yuwen Chengchao said softly.

Du Hongsheng was weak. Although Qin Xiao thought the room was weird, he helped Du Hongsheng into the room first. The bedding on the bed was torn and dirty, and even gave off a strange smell, and he couldn't find new ones for a while. For the bedding, I can only say: "My lord, I am wronged. You should rest first. I will go to other villagers to see if there are any beddings to buy."

Du Hongsheng weakly said: "No, I have worked hard for you." He couldn't support it, so he lay down on the bed.

Qin Xiao went to the back to find firewood, set up a fire in the house, and said to Du Hongsheng: "My lord, I'm going to boil some hot water." When he got outside, he saw Han Yunong and Yuwen Chengchao still checking in the house. He asked: "Lieutenant, is this weird?"

"Very weird." Han Yunong often handles cases in Xiling. At this time, he couldn't help but survey the scene, and Yu Wen Chengchao held an oil lamp to light it.

"This house has been processed, but there are still remnants left. It can be concluded that there have been murders in this house." Han Yunong was very sure: "I checked the path of blood stains, from the room to the door, if If the judgment is not wrong, at the time of the incident, the fight should have started in the room. Someone wanted to escape, but he was seriously injured in the room. Someone was chasing after him. It is still uncertain whether the person rushed out of the house, but The person who wants to escape has been under attack."

"Did this happen recently?"

"Not more than half a month." Han Yunong frowned: "If a murder case occurs, it should have been reported to the officer. The scene of the crime cannot be dealt with immediately after the incident. Unless it is an official who has already come and takes the prisoner away, The villagers dealt with it, but did not clean it up."

Yu Wenchengchao whispered: "Du Wei, the villagers in this village are a little weird. When we came into the village, did you find that several villagers were hiding behind the windows and peeking at us, their eyes looked. ..... I can't describe it easily, it's just weird and eerie."

"I also found out." Han Yunong said: "But I thought it was outsiders entering the village, they are wary."

"Will there be outsiders who lived here before, and then the villagers made money and killed them and killed the outsiders?" Qin Xiao remembered the greedy look of the villagers when they saw the bank notes. Weird.

Han Yunong shook his head and said: "There is no evidence, we can't wear hats randomly. But this village is indeed a bit weird. When we entered the village, everyone was not out of the house, but adults, there should always be children outside in the village. Play, can you see children?"

Both of them shook their heads.

"Let's be more mindful, be careful." Han Yunong said: "Rotate on duty at night, and we will leave as soon as daybreak."

The actual people also know that even if the villagers here have malicious intentions, with the skill of three people, it is more than enough to deal with these villagers.

Qin Xiao arrived in the kitchen, but fortunately there was a yellow wooden bucket, but there was no water in the tank, so he greeted Han Yunong and went out to fetch water from the pond.

The sky has darkened. Qin Xiao walked past a few houses with a wooden barrel, deliberately slowing down, and looking at both sides from the corner of his eye, he found that he was staring at him behind the window, and he was in the deserted place. In the village of Qin Xiao, being stared from behind the window, Qin Xiao felt that his hairs were erected and he was uncomfortable

Serve.

Go to the pond to fetch water. When he came back, with those eyes still staring at him, Qin Xiao quickened his pace and returned to the house, relieved.

"What's wrong?" Seeing Qin Xiao's nervousness, Yu Wencheng couldn't help asking.

Qin Xiao smiled bitterly: "You are right, they are hiding behind the window looking at me, I have goose bumps on my body, and my heart is beating very hard."

Yuwen Chengchao smiled and said: "Don't be afraid, we have knives in our hands, I don't believe they dare to attack us."

Qin Xiao went to the kitchen, first washed the pot, then boiled half a bucket of hot water, and found two old rice bowls. After washing them, he carried the wooden bucket to the room and fed Du Hongsheng half a bowl of hot water. water.

Han Yunong took the dry food. Zhang Rang prepared enough for several people. It was enough to eat for half a month. Qin Xiao first fed Du Hongsheng a little bit. Then he sat down with Han Yunong and ate hot water. Dry food.

"How about Master Du?" Yu Wencheng asked.

Qin Xiaodao: "It should be overworked, and a good rest is not a big problem."

"That's good." Yuwen Chengchao said: "Master Du is a civil official. This continuous bumps is really not easy."

Han Yunong sighed: "If it weren't for the two of you, Master Du and I would have lost our lives." There was a trace of shame: "Fan Ziqi has trained so many cavalry in Xiling secretly, but we know nothing about it. , It is incompetent."

"The captain does not have to blame himself." Yuwen Chengchao smiled bitterly: "I am from the Yuwen family, and even our Yuwen family doesn't know anything about it."

"The Fan family is in Fan County, and the Kunlun Guardsmen are his people. They have been secretly communicating with the Wutuo people." Qin Xiao said: "Their swords are very sharp. I heard that it is the fine iron from Wutuo's side. Ore forging. There are many mines in Fanjun, and they secretly build armored weapons, which are covered by the Fan family. How can we know?"

Yuwen Chengchao said: "But I don't know how many dead wing cavalry there are. Now estimates, it is likely to have reached a thousand."

"At least that's the number. On New Year's Eve, there were three hundred cavalry in Turtle City, and there were only a lot more in Fenggan Mansion City." Qin Xiao said: "That night, Heiyang City had at least two hundred people, so Counting, there are still a thousand dead-wing cavalry. Without this capital, Li Tuo would not dare to act rashly." Then he smiled bitterly: "When I and Zhong Lang Jiang arrived in Fan County, Fan Ziqi gave money again, and again. At that time, I thought he had really taken refuge in the court. The granary in Heiyang City stored a large amount of food. I really thought it was for the general. Now I want to come, it is their own rations used to supply the rebels."

Han Yunongdao: "Although the Fan family is not weak, they have to build weapons and equipment, and they need to store food. The number of cavalry trained secretly will not be too many. With their family background, they can't support a large number of cavalry." /

"But now that Xiling is controlled by them, the Zhen family's wealth will be taken away by them, and all the wealth donated by the Yuwen family will also fall into their hands." Qin Xiao frowned and said: "In addition, the Xiling family Fear of the knives in the hands of the Fan family, they will inevitably donate money. With these silver in their hands, they will quickly recruit soldiers and buy horses, and even buy a large number of weapons and equipment from Wutuo."

Yu Wen Chengchao clenched his fists with a cold expression. At this moment, he heard a stern cry from outside, like a ghost howling, all three of them were embarrassed and stood up at the same time.