Chapter 73: Strange Things

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The sky is bright, and the opening drum of Penglai City has not yet sounded, and a group of panicked people have already appeared outside the East Gate Urn. The leader of the leader, with white hair and a cane, was the head of Beiguan Village, whose village was southeast of the city. Early in the morning, the two descendants got up early to go to the port wharf to carry the work, but they found a tragic scene halfway through. In Toad Slope, there are coagulated black blood stains everywhere, and on the side of the road, dozens of people's heads are piled into a Beijing temple. On the other side, you can see dozens of headless corpses that were originally piled up, but they were dragged and gnawed by wild beasts and scattered everywhere. When they found it, there were still a dozen wild dogs there engaged in a feast of gnawing on corpses, and when they saw them, they only looked up at them, and then continued, and they found that the dogs were all red in their eyes.

The scalps of the two posteriors were numb, and they almost fainted with fright. He stumbled all the way back to the village, calling the old village chief and the other strong men of the village. Everyone couldn't help but vomit after screaming at this terrible scene. After the worst, everyone didn't dare to delay, and rushed directly to Penglai City to report. As soon as the sergeant guarding the gate heard the old village chief's description of the appearance of the victim, more than 20 people, two carriages and other information, he quickly thought of Uncle Shi, the chief of Feng, who went out of the city after the closure of the city gate last night. Thinking that Changshi might have died in ambush outside the city last night, the man's face turned a little pale, and he hurriedly led a few villagers to report to Han Zhong, the boss of the city guards in the city.

Han Zhong is the town general of the 1,000 state soldiers stationed in Penglai City, Dengzhou, and also serves as the prison envoy of Penglai City's defense guard. As soon as he heard about such a big thing, he didn't dare to make the decision alone at the moment, and hurriedly sent his own soldiers to report to Cui Tingshi and Song Duyu Marquis, Bei Jia and others.

Hearing the news, every official in Penglai City who received the news did not dare to be careless, and quickly gathered in the Assassin's Mansion. Soon, Han Zhong transferred 300 men and horses to escort Cui Yunqing, Li Wei, Song Wen and other officials to Toad Slope. When looking at the pile of Jingguan with human heads, as well as the headless corpses that were torn apart by wild beasts and had no shape, more than half of the people, including Cui Yunqing and other officials, vomited on the spot.

Among the people, only Song Wen and Han Zhong were generals who had been on the battlefield, and their faces were frosty at this time, but they still maintained the appearance of officers. Song Wen stepped forward in person, commanding more than a dozen soldiers to move down the pile of heads one by one and identify them one by one.

After looking at seven or eight heads, Song Wen finally saw a familiar one, which was Feng Yanqing's blind face.

"Cui Yuanjun, Li Beijia, you all come over to identify it and see if this is Feng Changshi." Song Wen held Feng Yanqing's head in his hand and asked Cui and Li. The two of them only glanced at it, and they both recognized this head immediately, although it was a little scary after a night, but it was indeed Feng Yanqing's. "It's him." Song Wen asked again: "Can you be sure?" "I can be sure that this is indeed the history of Feng Chang." Song Wen said: "It's good to be confirmed." Someone came, immediately find Feng Changshi's body and put it up properly. In addition, the heads of the other people were immediately identified, and their bodies were found and buried. ”

Soon Feng Liang's head was also recognized, and the rest could basically be determined to be the two coachmen and twenty Goguryeo warrior guards who accompanied Feng Yanqing out of the city last night.

After the identity of the corpse was confirmed, the expressions on everyone's faces became heavier and heavier. Feng Yanqing is the long history of Dengzhou, as a state official, a dignified official in a scarlet robe from the five grades, he was actually killed outside Dengzhou City and threw his body into the wilderness, and even his head was cut off. Not only that, but all the valuable things were stripped of the unseemly corpses that had been gnawed by wolves and wild dogs, money, weapons, and even clothing, and each of them was left with only a pair of shorts.

"Do you know who did it?" Cui Yunqing asked with a frosty face, hearing that Feng Yanqing's uncle and nephew died, his first reaction was to be happy, and then he kept guessing who killed him. On the way here, he had two thoughts in his heart, it is said that the most wrong one with Feng Yanqing was him, Li Xiao and Yu Xuan and others. But he knew that although they were not in the right way, they would never use assassination. In addition to themselves, there are only two people he can think of who will kill Feng Yanqing, the first is Song Wen, and the second is Li Jing.

Song Wen came to Dengzhou as the confidant of the marshal, and it was impossible for him to be satisfied with only a small position of unity and the marquis of Yu. If it is sealed, it will definitely be a good thing for Song. What's more, as a general who returned from the frontier, Song does have strength and suspicion. And the suspicion of Li Jing is that he feels that Li Jing has clashed with the Feng family several times, especially Feng Yanqing's attitude towards Li Jing when he was in the restaurant yesterday. Although the possibility of Li Jing making a move is very small, Li Jing has a hundred men under him, and this possibility cannot be completely ruled out.

However, when Cui Yunqing really arrived at the scene and saw the tragic scene, he immediately denied his previous thoughts. Twenty-four people were all killed, and even the heads of the people were cut off and piled up in the city, and their bodies were clean. All of these actions were very similar to the methods of a bandit he had heard of.

Cui Yunqing and Li Xiao glanced at each other, and they both saw some doubts in each other's eyes. Although on the surface, all kinds of methods are very similar to the sea pirate town of Donghai near Dengzhou. But the more this is the case, the more they feel puzzled, although the strength of Zhendonghai's gang is not small, but they are pirates, and they rarely go ashore. Not to mention running to Penglai to ambush high-ranking officials of the imperial court like Governor Shi of Tangdeng.

Because of this, although both of them thought of Zhen Donghai, neither of them spoke.

Han Zhong, the envoy of the prison city, said on the side: "Looking at the way Feng Changshi and the others were killed, the method is very similar to the style of those pirates in the East China Sea of the Sea Pirate Town. It is said that in order to take revenge, Jin Donghae would sometimes cut off the heads of his opponents and build a fortress after killing them! ”

"Zhen Donghai?" Although Song Wen is new to Dengzhou, he has also heard of this famous pirate gang.

"Look around and see if there's a black post. If the legend is true, then as long as Feng Changshi is really committed by Zhen Donghai, then he will definitely leave a palm-sized post on the scene. Han Zhong explained.

Hundreds of soldiers began to search around, and after a few moments, someone shouted, "Found it!" ”

Everyone ran over, but a state soldier was called to find a wooden block the size of a tile at the previous man's head Jingguan. Everyone didn't know that there was such a thing in the road just now, so although it was placed there, it was trampled on the ground by the soldiers who moved people's heads. Han Zhong took the wooden card, wiped it carefully, and finally showed his true face after the worst appearance. In the middle of the wooden plaque, there was indeed a blood-red word 'town'.

Many people have already begun to shout: "It's really Zhen Donghai's shock word killing sticker, this thing was done by Zhen Donghai." Han Zhong looked at the crimson town on it and frowned slightly, he quietly glanced at Cui Yunqing and Li Wei, and then turned his head to look at Song Wen. At the end, he didn't say anything.

Soon, everyone had unanimously determined that Feng Changshi was indeed killed by the pirates of the Zhendong Sea. In particular, Feng Changshi was stripped naked, and there were still town stickers left at the scene, as well as the head of Jingguan, all of which made everyone firm that this matter was done by Zhen Donghai. Some people say that some time ago, the second boss of Zhendonghai was captured by the Chishan Town Army, and later was robbed by the thieves of Zhendonghai. Some people even mentioned that on the way to Dengzhou, Li Jing, a protégé of Cui Tingshi, the bandit he killed was invited by Zhen Donghai to save Yellowbeard. Later, Li Jing also personally encountered redbeard and other pirates in the East China Sea. This shows that Zhen Donghai has been active near Dengzhou for a period of time, and I don't know if these people in Lu Dao are purely encountered, or they have been running for Feng Changshi, in short, they did this thing.

After transporting the bodies of Feng Yanqing and others back to the city, Cui Yunqing and the others immediately reported the matter to the Qingzhou Marshal Mansion and Jingshi Chang'an.

On the other hand, Song Wen began to work very hard to get busy with the future affairs of Feng Yanqing and others. He not only personally organized Feng Yanqing's funeral, but also took great care of the Feng family's family, not only took out a large amount of money to give to the Feng family, but also promised in public that he must exterminate Zhendonghai for the Feng family and avenge Feng Yanqing. The women of the Feng family who were moved were excited and saluted again and again. Even the other clansmen of the Feng family who came in a hurry also subdued Song Wen's righteousness and thanked them one after another.

On the surface, Feng Yanqing was originally the No. 3 official in Dengzhou, and his position was only after Assassin Shi and Don't Drive. According to the example, Cui Yunqing originally planned that the state would be responsible for the funeral of the seal, but the Feng family did not appreciate it very much. Although Feng Yanqing died at the hands of bandits, Feng Cui's past disagreement was something that everyone knew. In this way, Cui Yunqing didn't bother to have a hot face but a cold buttocks, Song Wen was willing to take on the matter, so he simply handed it all over to Song Wen and ignored it.

Cui Yunqing actually knew in her heart what Song Wen meant by working so hard, and she did this just to show favor in front of the original Feng Yanqing's people, and wanted to take the opportunity to take over the power under Feng Yanqing's name. Although Cui Yunqing understood in his heart, Feng Yanqing's death was a little unclear, and he was also a little vigilant now. Second, Song Wen was originally a close confidant of the Jiedu envoy, and in the past, he and Feng Liang wanted to fight, and Song watched from the side. Now that it is sealed, Song will naturally come up. Third, Song Xiang Feng's original power was good, even if those people couldn't win him over, they wouldn't be reconciled with him, he might as well just sit back and watch the changes.

One thing Cui Yunqing is more concerned about now is that Yu Xuan has just left office, and Feng Yanqing will die immediately. Song Wen is so active again, could it be said that Dengzhou's rights are about to face a major reshuffle? Did Feng Yanqing really die at the hands of pirates, or at the hands of someone else? Song Wen was so active, did he only plan to close the old ministry of Feng, or did he have greater ambitions?