Chapter 52: Village Massacre
"Do you have any guesses about their identities?"
Fang Huiwen felt that Zhou Yunshu was very similar to her husband. The two siblings would not make conclusions rashly unless they were certain about the matter.
"King Wei."
Li Jialan's eyes widened, "You mean Ji Sheng!"
"Um."
"But you've already divorced, haven't you? He, he..." Li Jialan looked at her daughter and hesitated for a long time before saying, "He doesn't want to divorce, he wants you to go back."
Zhou Yunshu laughed when she heard this, with a hint of sarcasm and mockery.
"Mother, Ji Sheng is a prince. It's one thing for Wei Zhong to stay with us to protect us, but the most important thing is to monitor us."
"Surveillance?"
The smile on Zhou Yunshu's face disappeared, and she continued, "Well, even though my grandfather and father were accused of treason by that villain Cai Chuan, the Northern Territory has always been under the control of the Zhenbei Palace. It's impossible for him to take over completely."
"And when the news of my grandfather and his men's deaths first arrived, there was no mention of finding their bodies. My aunt rushed to the northern border, and my grandmother planned to leave. I suspect the remaining Zhou army is just hiding. Ji Sheng's main purpose in sending people to follow us might be to see if he can find the Zhou army through us."
Li Jialan and Fang Huiwen shuddered after hearing what Zhou Yunshu said.
"But, you are..." Li Jialan shook her head. What's a princess? Not to mention that Zhou Yunshu is now the daughter of a criminal, but! "Xi'er is his only daughter."
Zhou Yunshu looked at Xixi who looked up at her when she heard her name, "Xixi is just his only daughter now."
In the future he will have a new princess and more women, and accordingly, he will have more children.
Zhou Yunshu, who has lived in modern times for nearly twenty years, can no longer accept sharing a man with other women, not to mention that she and this man have conflicting positions.
After being married for many years, Zhou Yunshu knew a little about Ji Sheng's ambition. He would not give up his ambition for the sake of love and blood relationship, and she would not betray the Zhou family and stand with Ji Sheng.
"We have different ideals and cannot work together. From now on, we will be two different people."
Li Jialan exhaled deeply and then nodded.
"What about Wei Zhong and the others?"
"Once we leave Luzhou, we'll find a chance to get rid of them."
After Zhou Yunshu gave instructions to Li Jialan and others, she went to find Feng Xujie in the evening.
In fact, she was already prepared for the possibility that Feng Xujie might tell Wei Zhong about their rush to Haizhou. After all, there was an agreement between Wei Zhong and Feng Xujie at the beginning.
Feng Xujie said to Zhou Yunshu: "I didn't say that."
"Third brother, you also know that Feng Kewen is hunting me. How dare I tell others where I'm going next?"
Zhou Yunshu nodded, "That's good."
When she was unsure about the identities of Wei Zhong and others, she had thought of taking the entire team to Haizhou, but now, in order to get rid of them, she had to give up this plan.
After the team hurried forward, at noon on the third day, everyone finally arrived at Shanxia Village at the foot of Anshan under the leadership of Manager Liang.
But when they saw the appearance of the village at the foot of the mountain, they were horrified and everyone held their weapons tightly and were on high alert.
I saw that the gate of the village at the foot of the mountain was wide open, and the bodies of the villagers on the ground looked like they had been trampled by horses. Some of their heads were crushed, and some were hung on the high walls with their eyes open.
The bodies of the villagers had not yet completely decayed, and were surrounded by countless flies and insects. They must have died about two days ago.
Shopkeeper Liang looked at the tragic scene in disbelief, "There are so many hunters in their village, how could the whole village be massacred?"
When Zhou Yunshu got out of the car, she put on the simple mask that Li Jialan and others had made for her.
Not only her, when Zhou Yunshu saw the tragic situation in Shanxia Village, she immediately gave an order for everyone to wear masks for protection to prevent the corpses from being exposed for too long and producing bacteria that could cause an epidemic.
"What should we do now?" The tragic situation in Shanxia Village was beyond Manager Liang's expectations. He had never thought that Shanxia Village would be massacred.
Those who can make decisions in the team have now consciously gathered around Zhou Yunshu.
Zhou Yunshu stood in front of the car and said to Wei Zhong beside her, "Brother Zhong, take 20 people and wrap them up tightly and go into the village to see if there are any survivors. If there are, rescue them. If not, pile up these bodies and burn them."
"good."
Wei Zhong was accompanied by Manager Liang, who had been to Shanxia Village twice before and could lead the way for Wei Zhong and the others.
When Manager Liang brought Wei Zhong and others into Shanxia Village and saw the miserable situation of the villagers, his eyes couldn't help but turn red.
Especially when he saw someone he knew lying dead on the ground, Manager Liang squatted down and closed his angry eyes, unable to hold back his curse, "Beast!"
Manager Liang, Wei Zhong and others carried the bodies as they walked, and checked every house to see if there were any survivors.
Not to mention any living people, there wasn't even a live chicken.
"Did the villagers of Shanxia Village offend anyone?"
It’s no wonder Wei Zhong asked this question. If they were really refugees, they would not leave any food in the farmhouse given their ruthless attitude.
Therefore, the people who massacred the village at the foot of the mountain could not be refugees, and those refugees who had not had a full meal for a long time would not be a match for these strong hunters.
"I don't know." Shopkeeper Liang shook his head. "The villagers down the mountain are simple and honest. They probably won't..."
Before Shopkeeper Liang could finish, Wei Zhong interrupted him in a deep voice, "I know who it is."
He pointed at a red robe near a well not far away and said sternly, "It's someone from the Red Lotus Sect."
Wei Zhong pulled out the red-robed man by the well, and the killed Red Lotus Messenger was one of the people who had clashed with them before.
After finding one, Wei Zhong and others then dug out six more bodies wearing red robes, including a woman wearing a red robe.
"What happened?"
Shopkeeper Liang looked at the Red Lotus girl who was being protected by the villagers at the foot of the mountain but still couldn't escape death. He frowned and said, "A candidate for the Saint? That's not right!"
The alternative saint would not wear a red robe at all.
"Why on earth are they entangled with the Red Lotus?"
"Shh..." Wei Zhong suddenly made a gesture, pointing to the kitchen next door.
Wei Zhong's two men tiptoed towards the kitchen and stopped immediately after hearing a slight sound.
The person who made the noise seemed to realize something was wrong and didn't dare to make any more noise for a while.
But Wei Zhong and others took advantage of the noise just now to look at the stove in the kitchen. After they lifted the iron pot on the stove, two children with gray and black faces were immediately exposed in front of them.
“Ahhhhhh!”
The two children screamed and waved the short blades in their hands. Wei Zhong took aim with his knife and kicked the short blade in the older child's hand away.
He looked at the child who had suddenly become mute and said, "Don't close your eyes when you attack."
"I remember you. You are Luo Xiaoshan, right?" Shopkeeper Liang asked excitedly.
Luo Xiaoshan didn't expect that the group of people opposite him who were wrapped tightly and looked ferocious would actually know him.
"You know me!?"
Shopkeeper Liang nodded and said, "Five years ago, my father and I came to your village to collect furs. At that time, you were just a little kid running around the yard."
Luo Xiaoshan's eyes turned red.
"Do you know what's happening in your village?"
Luo Xiaoshan probably knew that the person in front of him was not dangerous, so he wiped the tears from his face and pulled his brother out of the stove.
He looked at Shopkeeper Liang and sobbed, "I don't know either. I only know that the night before yesterday, a group of people in red robes rushed into the village and killed everyone they saw. My father saw that the situation was not good and there was no chance to send us to the mountain, so he stuffed us into the stove."
The hole in the stove was built to hide from bandits.
Shopkeeper Liang sighed deeply after listening to Luo Xiaoshan's words, and then thought that since their two children were able to survive, there might be other survivors in the village.
"Mr. Wei, there might be other survivors in the village. Let's look for them. Maybe..."
"Enemy attack!"
Before Manager Liang could finish his words, he suddenly heard loud shouts from his own people outside.
"cover!"
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