Chapter 95 Human Life

A group of men in black came up and surrounded the few people, but they didn't fight immediately. The few people were happy to see the men in black.

Shen Yu said in a deep voice, "Because they know each other."

"Yes, it should be." Sanfu trembled, "I was afraid at the time, so I didn't open the door. Then, I saw the men in black approaching, and took advantage of their relaxed vigilance to directly cut their necks."

The few people didn't bring weapons, so they were no match at all. Besides, they were people they knew, so they were obviously not prepared.

"Then why didn't you report to the police?"

"I was scared." Sanfu said in horror: "Later, they cleaned up the bloodstains, changed clothes and pretended to be guests who stayed overnight to knock on the door to confirm. Fortunately, I was smart and pretended to have just woken up. They said they didn't accept guests at night, so they left."

In other words, Sanfu was the only one who saw the scene that night, which can explain why the police said that the few people left in the morning and never came back after reporting.

Sanfu was afraid of being retaliated, so he didn't dare to tell the truth.

"Later, I went to the mass grave outside the city and saw the bodies of those people."

Shen Yu frowned, "Why did you go to the mass grave?"

"First, I was curious, and second, I had to confirm whether they were really dead. Their knives... looked quite valuable."

Shen Yu didn't know why she cared so much about this case. Maybe it was related to Qichang Mansion, or maybe something was guiding her to investigate this matter.

In short, her intuition told her that this matter was not just as simple as a few people who filed a complaint to the emperor died inexplicably.

Shen Yu put the dagger back into her waist, clapped her hands, stood up and said, "Come on, take me to the mass grave."

Sanfu was terrified and waved his hands and said, "Going to the mass grave in the middle of the night, no, no, no, it's late at night, can't we go tomorrow?"

Si Xi continued, "Going to the mass grave? If we leave the city at this time, we will definitely not be able to get back before the city gates close, so we can only spend the night outside the city."

Shen Yu had slept in the wild before, so this was not a problem. The problem was that she didn't tell Xie Tingzhou in advance. It would be bad if he thought she was missing or something happened.

Shen Yu thought for a moment and asked, "Which gate is the mass grave closest to?"

Si Xi said, "It's Chong'an Gate."

"You go wait for me outside Chong'an Gate. I have something else to do. Meet near the gate at 15:30."

Shen Yu walked to the door and turned back to point at Sanfu, "Don't think about sneaking away. I know where you work and where you live. You can't run away."

...

The daytime is warmer after the beginning of spring, but the wind at night is still thin and cold.

Sanfu and Si Xi left Chong'an Gate and hid in a leeward place waiting for people.

"You said he was generous and that as long as he worked hard, he would get benefits. But why didn't he get any hard work pay after working all night?" Sanfu complained, rubbing his hands.

Si Xi took something out of his chest and waved it in the wind.

Sanfu's eyes were sharp, "Is this... a silver note?! Let me touch it."

He had never seen a silver note in his life. What he could handle on weekdays were small silver coins.

Si Xi made a "hush" sound, put the banknote in his pocket, looked around, and whispered, "When did I cheat you?"

"But why didn't he give it to me?"

"You're not honest." Si Xi said.

"Look at that young master. He knew you were lying just by one thing. People like us can't fool him. If you really want to work with the young master like me, you have to keep your ears and mouth shut. You must never do such sneaky things again."

San Fu thought that if he could really work with the young master, he would not worry about not having money. Would he still covet those little benefits?

"That's because there was no way before." San Fu said and bumped Si Xi's shoulder, "Who do you think that young master is? He is so generous."

Si Xi looked at him with a look of regret, "Just now I told you to keep your mouth shut, but now you start asking around. You have to pretend you don't know what the young master doesn't want you to know, even if you know it."

"Then you know?"

Si Xi: "I don't know."

As he spoke, a sound of horse hooves came from the city gate.

The two of them looked over and saw only a dozen people on horseback, surrounding a large carriage in the middle.

The heavy city gate slowly closed behind the team.

Si Xi was a little anxious, "The city gates are closed, the young master won't come out, right?"

"I just think he's unreliable, who would go to the mass grave in the middle of the night..."

A sharp whistle suddenly came from the wind.

The two of them looked up at the same time, and saw a huge falcon flying across the sky, its wings covering half of the moon.

"Oh my god!" Sanfu shouted, "What a big bird."

"That's an eagle."

Shen Yu rode a horse alone and galloped over, reined in the horse in front of the two of them, raised his horse's hooves high and dropped them, and the guards behind him also rode up to catch up.

Shen Yu looked down at the two of them, "You lead the way, go to the mass grave."

The mass grave is a few miles away from Chong'an Gate, in a valley.

Surrounded by mountains on three sides, the night wind whistled in the valley, which sounded particularly creepy.

The incense burner lit in the car could not block the stench of the corpse.

Shen Yu went back to inform Xie Tingzhou before, but Xie Tingzhou wanted to come after hearing about it.

Xie Tingzhou has many talented people under his command, Feng Yang is one of them, and he is a coroner.

Feng Yang handed Shen Yu a bottle, "This is for the master to smell, it can remove the odor."

Before Shen Yu asked why she didn't give it herself, Feng Yang had already turned around and left to distribute the notes to other guards.

Crush garlic and ginger and mix with vinegar and soak them in cloth to cover your mouth and nose. Although it smells bad, it can resist corpse odor and epidemics.

Shen Yu had no choice but to get on the carriage by herself. She still covered her face with a face towel soaked in spices, leaving only a pair of clear eyes exposed.

Xie Tingzhou smelled the bottle and suddenly could not smell anything.

Shen Yu said: "It's windy at night. You haven't recovered yet, so don't go down."

"You don't go either." Xie Tingzhou covered the lid, "There's nothing to see in a pile of corpses."

"I still want to go and see, maybe I can find something."

Xie Tingzhou knew he couldn't stop him, so he thought for a while and nodded: "Let Feng Yang go, don't do it."

Shen Yu nodded, pushed open the door of the carriage and prepared to get off.

Xie Tingzhou: "Come back."

Shen Yu turned around and caught the things Xie Tingzhou threw in the air.

"Smell it." Xie Tingzhou said, "You will feel better."

The guards each had a torch, lighting up the mass grave as bright as day.

The bodies thrown before the spring froze in the snow. When the weather warmed up and the snow melted, it began to rot and stink. With the bodies thrown recently, the huge pit was almost filled up.

The scene was terrifying.

Shen Yu looked at the pit, and the sea of ​​blood and corpses in Yanliang Pass appeared in her mind again.

Sanfu hugged a tree and vomited wildly.

Si Xi stuffed two pieces of cloth in his nose and asked him, "Didn't you come here once?"

"I vomited like this last time, ugh--" Sanfu took the opportunity to say while vomiting, "Soon, I'll be fine after vomiting."

The medicine was precious, and it took thousands of taels of silver to make such a bottle of medicinal materials, so Feng Yang was reluctant to give it to them.

"Come and identify them, who are the people you saw?" Shen Yu said in a deep voice.

Sanfu wiped his mouth and stepped forward to check.