Chapter 95 Human Life
A group of men in black came up and surrounded the few people, but they did not fight immediately. Instead, the few people were somewhat happy to see the men in black.
Chen Yu said solemnly, "Because they know each other."
"Yes, it should be." Sanfu trembled, "I was scared at the time, so I didn't open the door. Then, I saw the men in black approaching, and when they let their guard down, they chopped their necks directly."
Those men were unarmed and were no match for us at all. Moreover, they were people we knew and were obviously not on guard.
"Then why didn't you report it to the police?"
"I was scared." Sanfu said in horror, "Then they cleaned up the bloodstains, changed their clothes and pretended to be guests who were staying overnight and knocked on the door to confirm. Fortunately, I was smart enough to pretend that I had just woken up and said that 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 also explains why when the police were later notified, they said that those people left in the morning and never came back.
Sanfu was afraid of retaliation, 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, "What are you doing at the mass grave?"
"First, I'm curious. Second, I need to confirm whether they are really dead. Their knives... look quite valuable."
Chen Yu didn't know why she cared so much about this case, perhaps because it was related to Qichang Mansion, or perhaps something was guiding her to investigate this matter.
In short, her intuition told her that this matter was not as simple as a few people who filed a complaint to the emperor dying inexplicably.
Chen 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 quickly waved his hands and said, "No, no, we can't go to a mass grave at this time of night. Can't we go tomorrow during the day?"
Si Xi continued, "Are we going to the mass grave? If we leave the city now, we will not be able to get back before the city gates close. We will have to spend the night outside the city."
It's not like Chen Yu had never slept outdoors before, so that wasn't a problem. The problem was that she didn't inform Xie Tingzhou in advance. It would be bad if he thought she was missing or something had happened to her.
Chen Yu thought for a moment and asked, "Which gate is closer to the mass grave?"
Si Xi said, "It is Chong'an Gate."
"Go wait for me outside Chong'an Gate. I have something else to do. Meet near the gate at 15:30."
Chen Yu walked to the door and turned back to point at Sanfu, "Don't think about running away. I know where you work and where you live. You can't run away.
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The daytime has become warmer since the beginning of spring, but the wind at night is still thin and cold.
Sanfu and Sixi went out of Chong'an Gate and hid in a sheltered place waiting for people.
"You said he was generous and would give benefits as long as he did his job. But what happened? After working all night, I didn't get any pay for my hard work?" Sanfu complained, rubbing his hands.
Si Xi took something out from his chest and waved it in the wind.
Sanfu's eyes were sharp. "This is... a banknote?! Let me feel it."
He had never seen a banknote in his entire life, and all he handled on a daily basis were small change.
Si Xi made a "hush" sound, put the banknote away, looked around, and whispered, "When have I ever lied to you?"
"But why didn't he give it to me?"
"Just because you are not honest." said Si Xi.
"Look at the young master. He knew you were lying just by looking at one thing. We can't fool him. If you really want to do things like me and follow the young master, you have to keep your ears open and keep your mouth shut. You must never do such sneaky things again."
Sanfu thought that if he could really follow the young master to do things, he would never have to worry about not having money, so why would he still be greedy for those little benefits?
"That's because we didn't have a way before." Sanfu said, bumping into Sixi's shoulder. "Who do you think that young man is? He's so generous."
Si Xi looked at him with a look of disappointment, "Just now I told you to keep your mouth shut, but now you start asking around. Even if you know something that the young master doesn't want you to know, you have to pretend you don't know."
"Then you know?"
Si Xi: “I don’t know.”
As he was speaking, the sound of horse hooves was heard at the city gate.
The two of them looked over and saw a dozen people on horseback surrounding a large carriage.
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, will he?"
"I just think he's unreliable. Who would go to a mass grave in the middle of the night..."
Suddenly there was a sharp whistle in the wind.
The two 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."
Chen Yu rode his horse alone and galloped over, reining in his horse in front of the two men, raising his horse's hooves high and then dropping them, and the guards behind him also rode their horses to catch up.
Chen Yu looked down at the two of them and said, "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 whistles through the valley, which sounds particularly creepy.
Even with an incense burner lit inside the car, it couldn't block out the stench of the rotting corpse.
Before, Chen Yu went back to inform Xie Tingzhou, but who knew that Xie Tingzhou wanted to come too after hearing about it.
Xie Tingzhou has many talented people under his command, Feng Yang is one of them, and he was a coroner.
Feng Yang handed Chen Yu a bottle, "This is for the master to smell, it's for removing odors."
Before Shen Yu could ask why she didn't give it herself, Feng Yang had already turned around and left to distribute notes to the other guards.
Mash garlic and ginger, mix them with vinegar, soak them in cloth and cover your mouth and nose. Although it smells bad, it can protect you from corpse stench and epidemics.
Chen Yu had no choice but to get on the carriage by herself. Her face was still covered with a veil soaked in spices, leaving only a pair of clear eyes exposed.
After Xie Tingzhou smelled the bottle, he could no longer smell anything.
Chen Yu said, "It's windy at night. Don't go down until you're fully recovered."
"You don't have to go either." Xie Tingzhou closed the lid. "There's nothing to see in a pile of corpses."
"I still want to go and take a look, maybe I can find something."
Xie Tingzhou knew he couldn't stop him, so he thought for a moment and nodded, "Let Feng Yang go, don't do anything."
Shen Yu nodded, opened the carriage door and prepared to get off.
Xie Tingzhou: "Come back."
Chen Yu turned around and caught the thing that Xie Tingzhou threw at her.
"Smell it." Xie Tingzhou said, "It will make you feel better."
Each guard held a torch, lighting up the mass grave as bright as day.
The bodies thrown away before the spring were frozen in the snow. When the weather warmed up and the snow melted, it began to rot and stink. Together with the bodies thrown away recently, the huge pit was almost filled up.
The scene was frightening.
Chen Yu looked at the corpse pit, and the sea of blood and corpses at Yanliang Pass appeared in her mind again.
Sanfu hugged a tree and vomited violently.
Si Xi stuffed two pieces of cloth into his nose and asked him, "Didn't you come here once?"
"I vomited like this last time, ugh—" Sanfu took the opportunity to say, "Soon, it will be fine once you finish vomiting."
The medicine was precious, and it cost thousands of taels of silver to make a bottle of it, so Feng Yang was reluctant to give it to them.
"Come here and take a look. Who are the people you saw?" Chen Yu said in a deep voice.
Sanfu wiped his mouth and went forward to check.
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