Jiaohua

Chapter 1502: Given to a powerful official as a concubine

Amid everyone's hostile gazes, Xia Zhaoyi smiled at them gently, then turned and left with Zhan Ning, Xia Zhi and Zhao Ya.

After walking more than a hundred meters, Xia Zhi said, "Second Miss, we made them angry, could it be because of the military uniforms we are wearing?"

Xia Zhaoyi nodded: "Maybe."

Zhao Ya said: "Their news didn't come that quickly, so they couldn't have guessed that we were the Xia family army. In other words, they mistook us for the Daping army?"

Zhan Ning continued: "Then why do they hate the Daping Army so much? Is it related to Dani's death?"

Xia Zhaoyi stopped and looked at the oxcart driver who had walked away in front of him: "He has a small token hanging on his waist. Did you see it?"

"Is that a token?" Xia Zhi said, "I thought it was a safety amulet from the temple."

Xia Zhaoyi said: "After Chu Zheng defected, all the original passes of Yong'an were discarded. The one hanging on his waist is the latest Yong'an City Gate Pass, which can be used throughout Daping and is more useful than the pass paper."

Xia Zhi and the others were stunned at the same time, and then looked towards Dani's new grave over there.

"That's very strange," Zhao Ya frowned. "This city gate pass is obviously for the rich and powerful. If the person who ordered the driver to deliver Dani's body here is a rich and powerful person, then why is it such a simple ox cart?"

Zhan Ning said: "Also, why do they hate the Daping Army?"

Xia Zhi immediately said, "Second Miss, I'm going to catch that driver and give him a lecture!"

"Don't make it too hard on him," Xia Zhaoyi said, "He's just a guy running errands for a living."

"Ok!"

Xia Zhi and Zhao Ya hurried after the driver. Xia Zhaoyi sat down on a nearby stone pier. The wind blew across the fields, and several black wild boars actually ran through the long grass twenty steps away from them.

Zhan Ning looked around and said, "Second Miss, there is a well over there, would you like some water?"

Xia Zhaoyi shook his head: "I'm not thirsty, you go and drink some water, and bring some back for Xia Zhi and Zhao Ya."

"Okay!" Zhan Ning took off the water bag he was carrying, "Then I'll go."

After Zhan Ning left, Xia Zhaoyi sat here alone. As she looked around, her eyes unconsciously turned to the hill again.

About half a mile away, those fellow villagers left one after another, leaving only Dani's white-haired parents and her brother.

At this moment, the brother seemed to sense something, turned around and looked at her from a distance.

"Damn!" Zhan Ning's voice suddenly came from behind.

Xia Zhaoyi looked over and saw Zhan Ning running back in a hurry with a shriveled water bag in his hand. "No, no, Second Miss, the well is very deep, and there are corpses floating in the water. They are all corpses that have been eaten by insects! At least five, and their clothes look simple, they should be ordinary people!"

Xia Zhaoyi stood up and looked towards the well.

Zhan Ning said uncomfortably, "It stinks, it really stinks, but you have to get close to the well to smell it."

Xia Zhaoyi said: "You said it yourself, the well is very deep."

Her voice sounded heavy. Zhan Ning was slightly stunned and walked over slowly: "Second Miss, you are not happy."

Xia Zhaoyi smiled lightly, "There are people dying in the well over here, and old people burying their children over there. There are new graves all over the hills. If I am happy at this moment, am I still a human being?"

Zhan Ning looked guilty: "Second Miss, I made a mistake."

"You care about me too." Xia Zhaoyi said with a smile.

Zhan Ning put the water bag back on his waist and returned to her side silently.

Xia Zhi and Zhao Ya caught up with the driver, but they did not bring him back. Instead, they stopped far away in the countryside to talk.

After a long time, the white-haired old people in front of the grave in the distance were ready to leave. The brother bent down to pack his things and went over to support his old mother.

They left along the other side of the mountain road, looking at Xia Zhi, Zhao Ya and others as they walked.

Even at such a long distance, Xia Zhaoyi and Zhan Ning could clearly sense their anger.

As they walked, the brother turned around again.

Zhan Ning looked at the gaze that his brother was looking at him and said, "Alas, poor man."

After they left, Xia Zhi and Zhao Ya finally came back.

The ox cart driver led the old ox and went in the opposite direction from them, taking another road far away from the village.

"Second Miss, I spent some money and asked clearly," Xia Zhi said solemnly, "You will never guess how this Miss Li died. That place is called Gekou Township, and Miss Li is a famous beauty in Gekou Township. Three months ago, Zhu Zhe killed Han Changhou and went to Yong'an to collect the reward. He robbed wherever he went and asked about beauties everywhere. When he passed by this place, he kidnapped Miss Li and several other beautiful girls. He kidnapped them to present them to those powerful officials in Yong'an!"

Zhao Ya continued, "Miss Li was given to Sun Ziyi. Sun Ziyi's original wife, Guo, hated these concubines and would beat a few of them to death every now and then. That's how Miss Li was beaten to death! Every time she killed someone, Guo was afraid that Sun Ziyi would scold her, so she would always blame others and pretend to send people to send the bodies back to their homeland. Oh, and Yan Qinglin helped her. Many times, Yan Qinglin cleaned up the mess for her!"

"So that's how it is." Xia Zhaoyi said.

Xia Zhi looked up at the hill and said, "Those new graves on the hill are where Zhu Zhe killed people when he led his troops here."

Zhan Ning gritted his teeth and said, "Fortunately, the Zhu family army was destroyed by us. This can be regarded as revenge for those innocent people who died in vain."

Xia Zhaoyi narrowed his eyes slightly and looked up at the graves.

Especially the line to the highest peak, which should have been the outline of the hill, is now filled with grave mounds and tombstones, as well as tall, fluttering spirit-calling flags.

Xia Zhi and Zhao Ya looked at each other and fell silent.

After a long while, Xia Zhaoyi looked at Zhan Ning and said, "You said there is a rotten corpse in that well?"

"Ah."

"So, the bodies in the well were thrown in recently, not three months ago," Xia Zhaoyi frowned, "Were these bodies thrown in by locals?"

"What well?" Zhao Ya and Xia Zhi asked at the same time.

"Over there," Jenning pointed. "I wanted to go to that well to get some water, but when I got there, I found several rotten corpses in the well."

Zhao Ya looked towards the well and asked, "Could it be that we have come across a murder case?"

Xia Zhaoyi stood up and said, "This doesn't make sense, let's go and take a look."

Zhan Ning followed closely: "Second Miss, why do you say it is unreasonable?"

"Because there are many new graves here, if it was a deliberate plan, the bodies could be buried everywhere. They shouldn't be thrown into a clear and bright well."

Zhan Ning was stunned and asked, "You mean, bury their bodies in those new graves?"

Xia Zhi nodded: "That makes sense. The soil of a new grave is easy to dig. It's a very simple thing! The perpetrators have already dumped the bodies. They definitely don't want people to know that these people are dead, so burying them in the soil is definitely the best."

Xia Zhaoyi continued, "If it wasn't premeditated, but was an impulse killing caused by greed, this is even more unreasonable. This place has suffered from the war, and the population has suddenly declined. Even if there is a conflict between people from the same hometown and village, it is difficult for them to have the idea of ​​killing each other."

Xia Zhi nodded again: "Indeed, that's what we saw in the North. When faced with a disaster, the villagers will only help each other and work together. No matter how big the grudges were before, they will not make things difficult at this time. There are some people with violent temperaments, and they can't feel any sympathy for others' suffering. But such people are rare, which is unreasonable."

After walking to the well, Xia Zhaoyi looked at the wellhead in front of him with a serious look.

You really have to get close to smell the odor, which is even worse than the rotten smell on the ox cart just now.