The Concubine's Conspiracy: Rebirth of the Poisonous Concubine

Chapter 268
The cottage, which was still noisy a few days ago, has already become a mess. On the ground, stubble and broken billets are everywhere, and there is a strong smell of burning in the air.

The entire cottage has already been turned into ruins, and there is no one there.

No, not even a breather.

"It seems that we are one step late. They have already fled first."

Nangong Jingchen looked sullen, looking at the collapsed houses and the deserted cottage, his joints were creaking, it was so hateful that they were allowed to escape.

Tingyun Mountain was already vast, so finding them now would be much more difficult.

"Even if you escape, there's no need to burn down the whole cottage, right? Don't you think it's strange? Look, there's a stone platform over there. There's also a big tree."

Ding Minning glanced at the stone platform on the edge of the courtyard not far away, walked over, inspected carefully and said: "This stone platform was shattered by the force of the palm, and there are sword marks on it, the marks are deep, and there are also on the tree. There should be many people in this courtyard, if they walk, they will definitely leave footprints."

"But apart from our footprints, we can't see other people's footprints. It seems to have been cleaned by someone."

Ding Minning glanced at the soil on the shallow depression beside it, and frowned slightly: "The color of this loess is darker, obviously someone laid it on it, but because it is far away from the wooden house, it has not been roasted by the fire. If they really want to escape, why do they need to lay new soil in these places?"

Nangong Jingyu lifted his robe, squatted down reluctantly, and dug up the new soil with his hands. After digging twice, he stopped and looked at the dark red soil under the new soil.

With five fingers twisted, he grabbed a handful and put it on his nose and sniffed lightly. He frowned immediately: "This is blood, it's human blood. They didn't cover up the footprints, but to cover up the blood. Let's look for it and see if there is any blood left." Nowhere else, there was blood."

A group of people split up and acted.

"I have it here too!"

"I also found blood here, not a lot."

"I also have..."

Nangong Jingyu stood up, looked at the ground that had been dug up in several places, walked to the wooden house, and looked at the fallen beams, "It seems that there was a fight here, not only the blood on the ground, but also the burning There are also many sword marks on the scorched beams, and the earth was filled and the houses were burned to cover up these marks."

"Brother Qi means that someone attacked the cottage before us, so sister and the others are in danger?" Luo Ling'er swayed, and her face turned pale instantly.

"They may have been in danger."

Nangong Jingchen frowned and said: "Perhaps this is the way these robbers are hiding their eyes. They knew that we would lead troops, so they set up this puzzle in advance to confuse us. Anyway, they didn't see the corpse. I don't believe it. Those 200 people would have been killed so easily."

"Besides, didn't Ling'er say that among them there are still a few top-notch masters, how could the entire village be slaughtered so easily? This is too coincidental. There are so many coincidences in this world. I... "

"Senior sister, come here quickly."

Before Nangong Jingchen finished speaking, a woman's scream came from the backyard.

Everyone rushed to the backyard. The woman stood in front of the rock, her face turned pale, and she pointed to the front, her face full of shock: "This, is this the corpse of those bandits?"

Behind a hidden rock in the backyard, a huge deep pit was dug out.

There was a strong smell of kerosene in the deep pit, and the pit was filled with countless charred corpses, all stacked together, and turned into black coke, leaving only the skeleton.

A few people cleaned it up, and there were too many corpses, more than 100.

"This, it's them, these are the bandits who robbed our convoy, but how could they all be dead, how could they all be dead..."

Luo Ling'er muttered to herself, looking at a burnt shriveled head dug out from the loess, her face was full of shock and disbelief.

"What's the matter with Ling'er, how did you conclude that they are these bandits?" Nangong Jingchen's face was extremely gloomy at this time, if it is true that these scorched human bones are all those bandits, wouldn't it mean that Jie The people who took the money were a group of men in black who flew from the sky.

I don't know who it is, and there is no clue about it coming out of nowhere, let alone recovering the relief money.

How does this make him confess to his father?

Luo Ling'er was awakened by Nangong Jingyu's angry shout. With a pale face, she pointed to the head that had not been completely burned and the scar on that person's head, and said, "I know this person. The leader of the bandits who attacked me that day, I wanted to escape first, go to rescue soldiers and then rescue my sister and eldest sister, but unexpectedly, they are all dead..."

"Then sister and the others, wouldn't they be even more dangerous..." If all the bandits were dead, wouldn't the rest of the people who were captured be killed too?
Luo Linger's face turned pale.

"If we want to know whether they were killed or not, we have to clean up all these corpses. We have too few people, and this is too slow. We have to call in rescuers."

Nangong Jingyu looked at Nangong Jingchen and said, "Brother Sihuang, what should we do now? Why don't Ling'er and I stay here to sort out the bones, and let Miss Ding dispatch officers and soldiers to help before protecting Brother Huang. What do you think, Brother Huang?"

"That's fine, so much official money, I think they won't be able to transport it away for a while. I'll go back and send troops to search the mountains. I will trouble the emperor here. If I can't find the relief money, the king will I also have no face to explain to the victims of the disaster in the three mountains and five counties."

Nangong Jingchen said angrily, with guilt and self-blame on his face.

"Brother Huang, be careful all the way."

Nangong Jingyu's gentle face was also full of worry. He turned his head to look at Ding Minning, with a serious face, and said in a gentle voice, "Miss Ding, I'm sorry to trouble you."

"My lord, you are welcome."

Ding Minning escorted Nangong Jingchen to dispatch troops with a female disciple of the Shimen.

And Nangong Jingyu and Luo Ling'er, together with the remaining nine female disciples of Luoxia Sect, dug up the corpses in the deep pit, and the surrounding pits were filled with skeletons.

Some of them can still be pieced together completely, while others have been crushed below and fell apart a long time ago, and it is impossible to piece together a humanoid skeleton.

It took a full two hours, several torches were lit, and more than a dozen people managed to move all the skeletons out of the deep pit. At this time, there was no clean place on everyone's bodies.

"There are eight female corpses inside, but it is impossible to identify who they are. Judging from the height of the bones, six of them are obviously girls, and the other two should be old mothers who accompanied them." Nangong Jingyu looked at the corpses on the ground , sighed faintly.

At his feet, about eight corpses were pieced together.

Apart from their group, they didn't see any women in the cottage that day, so obviously, there was only one possibility left.

Luo Ling'er wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes and the black ashes on her face, sobbing non-stop: "That means that Big Sister and Fifth Sister might be here too?"

Nangong Jingyu was silent for a moment: "It's also possible that they escaped."

Having said that, Luo Ling'er cried even more fiercely.

"Junior Sister, don't be sad, the prince also said, maybe they might still be alive." One of the women tried to persuade her, and handed Luo Ling'er a handkerchief.

"Senior Sister Minjun is right. If no other corpses are found in one day, then there is still hope. Maybe, my sister and eldest sister are really still alive. Maybe they are still waiting for us to rescue them."

Luo Ling'er took the handkerchief, wiped away her tears, and there was a glint of hope in her eyes, she guessed: "But if it's true, if my sister and eldest sister escaped unharmed, then where did they go? Yes, was it taken away by the man in black?"

The voice was full of deep doubts.

Nangong Jingyu thought for a moment, but shook his head, and said: "This is unlikely, most of them are not good at martial arts, and the goal of the man in black is obviously to give money. This time, the father took out as much as 60 taels of money." , packed a total of more than ten boxes, and it is already very difficult for them to transport the relief money, if they bring so many women with them."

"This is tantamount to adding burdens to themselves, which is more likely to expose them, so they should not do this."

If they did that, they couldn't have left no trace.

It is also impossible to escape without a trace so quickly.

"However, if they are alive, where will they go? If they are alive, they will see people, and if they die, they will see corpses. We can't find people, and we can't even find corpses. The eldest sister and fifth sister, plus the maids around them, have a total of twenty How many people. Seven people died, and there are still more than a dozen people left, it is impossible, so just relying on rumors?"

Luo Ling'er was so anxious that she burst into tears, so many people had died, and they were all burnt to charcoal so they couldn't be identified anymore, even if she wanted to know if Luo Xian'er and Luo Wuyou were in it, she couldn't do it.

Nangong Jingyu sighed, and said, "At least, it is impossible for the robbers to take them away. As for the cousin and the county master, there are only two possibilities, either they took advantage of the chaos to escape, or they were killed by those The vicious gangsters were killed elsewhere. I hope...they can escape this disaster."

"Cousin Ling'er, don't worry. I've checked. The coffin is not there. It must have been burned, but we haven't found the bodies of Mrs. Lan's mother and her son. From this point of view, they probably escaped unharmed."

Nangong Jingyu's eyebrows were full of worry, but he was thinking quickly in his heart.

Luo Wuyou, Luo Xian'er and others were all taken away by bandits, and the cottage was attacked for no reason. They are a group of weak women who have no strength to restrain chickens. One can imagine how difficult it will be to escape!
What's more, in this cluster of mountains, even if they were lucky enough to escape the pursuit of the men in black.It may not be possible to go out.This probability is too small, almost only one in ten million!

In the end, what happened here and where are they now.

If they are found, can they find some clues to the robbery of the relief money?

(End of this chapter)