Daming King of Punishment

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The crowd looked at the woman again and cried for a long time until the woman stopped crying herself.

After more than an hour, although they understood the cause of the incident, what happened later was what Song Wuya and the others wanted to know more.

"Sister-in-law, you said they were all dead before, how did you know about this?"

Seeing that the woman had stopped crying, Song Wuya hurriedly asked.

"I listened to those who escaped." The woman said bluntly.

"There are still people who escaped?" Hearing this, Song Wuya exclaimed, "Then where were they captured?"

"They were first arrested in the county prison, and then escorted to other places." The woman answered Song Wuya's question, telling what she knew. "They were escorted on the way to Huai'an Mansion. I don't know exactly where they are. But the man said that it was in a mountain. I think this is the only mountain in Huai'an Mansion that can hide people."

Having said this, the woman raised her hand and pointed over there.

But Song Wuya and the others looked around, and there was no mountain at all.But they didn't ask, maybe because the mountain was not high, and they were in the courtyard at the moment, blocked by the courtyard wall and roof, so they couldn't see it.

"Then were they captured and killed in the mountains?" Song Wuya continued to ask.

What the woman said made him feel curious. If he really just wanted to kill someone, then why did he go through so much trouble?Wouldn't it be enough to just kill them locally?Why do we have to arrest all these people, and then drag them into the mountains to kill them?

This is something Song Wuya can't figure out at the moment, after all, they don't quite know the inside story.

"En!" The woman nodded with certainty: "That's what that man said. He said that there are dead people everywhere in the mountains, men, women, old and young. And the death conditions are miserable, so they were thrown directly into the mountains. The smell is not good. .”

"What about the person who escaped?" Listening to the woman's words, Song Wuya felt that she didn't know too much, at least compared to the person who escaped after being arrested, she didn't know much. many.

"Dead." Unexpectedly, as soon as the woman opened her mouth, another one died.

Such an answer made Song Wuya very helpless, and he even wanted to laugh, after all, he asked this woman about other people and all the results he got were dead.

"Dead!" Bai Zhuo stared in disbelief and said, "How did he die? Didn't he all escape?"

"I'm sick!" The woman took a deep breath and said.

After saying this, the woman looked sad, as if this person's death also made her very sad.

"Did he die? Then what disease did he have?" Song Wuya continued to ask, still refusing to give up.

The woman shook her head, indicating that she didn't know what disease it was.

"I don't know what the disease is, but the whole body is covered with pustules, which is very scary."

As for the condition of the man who escaped back, the woman only knew this.

After asking this woman so much, Song Wuya and Bai Zhuo had nothing more to ask.What they want to inquire about can be regarded as inquiring.

In this almost deserted village, Song Wuya and his party had been delayed for nearly two hours.Most of the time, they watched the woman vent their emotions.

It's getting late now, and they haven't eaten at noon, and they are already hungry.

Seeing that it was getting late, this village might not be suitable for them to settle here, and they naturally couldn't go back to Shanyang County, so they could only bite the bullet and continue to go in the direction of Huai'an Mansion.

"Thank you sister-in-law for telling us this. When we return to the capital, we must report everything that happened here to the officials in the capital, and let them come to justice for you."

Before parting, Song Wuya could only use such words to comfort the woman.

Although this is not a lie, after all, they can be regarded as high officials in the capital, and they are also imperial envoys appointed by the imperial court.Their purpose of coming here this time is to investigate this matter.But after saying it, both Song Wuya and Bai Zhuo felt extremely heavy in their hearts.

After all, it was too late for them to realize this, too many people had died innocently.But where they are now, and why they died, no one knows yet.

After saying goodbye to the woman, leaving the village, and heading towards Huai'an Mansion, Song Wuya and the others saw the mountain to the south.

The mountain is not high, indeed they did not see it in the courtyard.From a distance, the top of the mountain is green, and it can be seen that the mountains are densely covered, and it is a place where secrets can be hidden.

That mountain is not close to the official road, but closer to the south of Huai'an Mansion.

Although it looked like this from a distance, they didn't know exactly what it would look like when they got close.

It was getting late today, and it was obviously impossible to get to Huai'an Mansion before night approached.

"Brother Wu Ya, do you think what the woman said is true?"

Sitting in the carriage, after leaving the village, Bai Zhuo asked suspiciously.

Obviously, he had doubts about the woman's words, and what he doubted was naturally the escaped person that the woman said later.

"Brother Bai, what do you want to say is true and which is false?" Song Wuya asked Bai Zhuo.

Bai Zhuo immediately said: "The woman said that there was a person who escaped back and got seriously ill. His body was full of pustules and he died soon. Tell me, is this person who escaped real? Why do I feel that this is a bit false? What? Could it be that the forest is really full of dead people, filled with a rancid smell?"

Just as Song Wuya thought, this is indeed what Bai Zhuo suspected.

But for this, Song Wuya has no doubts: "I think this is very likely to be true, after all, judging from the death toll reported by the Huai'an government, if so many people died in the same place, there are indeed corpses all over the mountains and plains .And if so many people died at the same time in a short period of time, if they rotted together, it would indeed stink."

"Brother Wu Ya, I'm not telling you that this is impossible." Bai Zhuo immediately frowned after hearing Song Wuya's words: "I mean, could we have fallen into a trap?"

"Trap? Where do you start with this?" Song Wuya was also taken aback by Bai Zhuo's words.

"If we leave the capital, we will definitely be noticed by Guanshan Restaurant. And what happened in Huai'an Mansion, we have suspected it from the beginning. Guanshan Restaurant. Now that we have entered Shanyang County, what do you think? Will they not know our whereabouts? And those yamen servants did not continue to chase us out, maybe it can also be explained that they were afraid of the methods of the guards and did not dare to chase us. But don't forget, the guard at the gate of the city The guards didn't stop us in any way, as if they wanted to let us go on purpose. Just after we left Shanyang County, we came to this village. The woman kept saying that the government came several times. We didn't find them, why did the child appear and lure the woman out as soon as we arrived? Isn't this too coincidental?"

"Bai Zhuo, you are too careful!"

After he finished speaking, Situ Wen gave him a blank look: "The woman and child look like mother and child, and the woman is definitely a peasant woman. Why do they have to set a trap for us? If it is really a trap If so, then their purpose isn’t just to tell us the truth, is it?”

Situ Wen didn't quite agree with Bai Zhuo's conjecture, and felt that Bai Zhuo was trying to measure the heart of a gentleman with the heart of a villain.

Not only did Situ Wen say that, Xiaohuan also helped Situ Wen.

"That's right, Bai Zhuo. Her husband has died, and she doesn't even have a single relative around. Why does she need to set a trap for us?"

After the two women said so, even if Bai Zhuodang was defeated, he didn't know how to refute, so he could only look at Song Wuya eagerly.

"Could it be that Guanshan Restaurant did it on purpose to lead us to that mountain?"

Ever since he was criticized by Bai Zhuo before, Song Wuya tried his best to adjust himself so that he could return to his original self.But now facing Bai Zhuo's question, Song Wuya naturally didn't refute it directly, but pondered it a bit.

He felt that Bai Zhuo's words were not unreasonable, but it was hard to say whether it was a trap, but it was reasonable to have such considerations.

"That's right!" Hearing Song Wuya's words, Bai Zhuo almost jumped up in displeasure, patting his thigh with excitement.

"It is indeed possible. However, during the conversation with that woman, I did not find anything suspicious. But the question you mentioned, Brother Bai, still needs to be paid attention to. Perhaps this may really be a trap." Song Wuya expressed his thoughts pertinently. "Before I came here, I have already said that our every move may not escape the eyes and ears of Guanshan Restaurant. But now, we have just arrived in Shanyang County and encountered such a thing. Did Guanshan Restaurant intentionally And why, this is not at all. But it’s better to be careful in everything, let’s continue to investigate and see the situation before making a decision.”

"Look, why am I judging a gentleman's belly with the heart of a villain?" Bai Zhuo got the support of Song Wuya, and immediately gained confidence, and said proudly to Situ Wen and Xiaohuan: "It's still Wuya. Brother Ya is savvy and knows what I mean by saying that. Unlike you two, it's completely a woman's opinion, that is, you have more sympathy than us."

Bai Zhuo's proud words only got Situ Wen and Xiaohuan's eyes in exchange.

The two of them were too lazy to argue with Bai Zhuo, so they gave him a hard look and didn't say anything to him, which made Bai Zhuo extremely embarrassed.