The safety and comfort of traveling through farming

Chapter 192

"Hey, you guys, wait..."

When Fu Shi learned of Fu Lei's whereabouts from the old coachman and was about to catch up, a middle-aged aunt stopped him.

This aunt was the one whose leg was crushed by Fu Lei that day. After she called Fu Shi to stop, she looked around and said in a low voice, "The boy you are looking for probably has an accident..."

Ping'an Village is located in a remote area with no towns nearby. The nearest prosperous places are Liushu Town, [-] miles away, and Qingfeng Town, about [-] miles away. Therefore, the villagers here have to get up early if they want to go to the market.

Four days ago, several villagers from Ping'an Village went to Qingfeng Town to go to the market in another ox cart in the village.When they set off, it was still dark, and there were no lanterns to illuminate it. The coachman was used to this route, and he could drive to the destination with his eyes closed.

After leaving the village for a while, the carriage jolted violently and nearly turned the carriage over.The driver thought he had hit a rock or something in the middle of the road, worried that the wheel was damaged, so he stopped cursingly and went down to check.

As a result, he found a man lying on the ground behind the bullock cart, a dead man, and his cart ran over that man, crushing his chest!
The coachman was frightened to death, thinking that he had run over someone, and the riders were also frightened, got out of the car and ran towards the village screaming, only then did they realize that there were not one, but three dead bodies on the road. Tool!

"They don't want to get into trouble. If this kind of thing gets involved, they can't speak clearly. Those three people are not from our village, nor from Heishi Village next door. They don't know anyone... They dare not go to the yamen After reporting the crime, they dug a hole on the hillside by the side of the road and buried those three people..."

Fu Shi's face sank, and Nian Zu and Li Yousi were also nervous.

"The person we are looking for is also among those three?"

The aunt shook her head and said, "I asked them, the three who died were not young, and some of them were around 30 years old."

"That's good." Fu Shi breathed a sigh of relief.

The aunt went on to say: "However, the person you are looking for, he got into the car with a boy of the same age, and the villagers found a burden at the place where the body was found..."

She was a little embarrassed when she said this, and after looking around again, she whispered: "I have seen it, it is the one that the other kid recited that day."

In other words, even if it wasn't Fu Lei or Lin Bajin who died, they were also involved in the incident that led to the sudden death of those three people.

If something happened on the road and someone died, Lin Bajin couldn't still stick to his plan of running away from home. Even if he insisted, Fu Lei couldn't continue to mess around with him. Fu Lei would definitely go home and ask for help.Now five days have passed, and they haven't returned home, which can only explain one problem-they can't go home!

Fu Shi clenched his fists tightly. He wanted to see people in life, and he wanted to see corpses in death. No matter what he said, he had to find them!
In this way, the identities of the three dead people who got into trouble together with Fu Lei and Lin Bajin, or the identities of the three dead people who caused them to get into trouble are especially important!
"Sister, where is the hole you mentioned that the villagers dug?"

The aunt pointed: "Go straight along this road. I heard that it is about five miles."

"Thank you!" Fu Shi cupped his fists and apologized before leaving.

The aunt stopped him again and said: "What I told you, you must not tell others that I said it..."

In fact, her husband was among those who found the body, and Lin Bajin's burden was also brought home by her husband, but everyone agreed to keep this matter in their hearts, and no one was allowed to say anything. go out.The reason why she said it was because Fu Lei generously gave her five coins.

"Don't worry." Fu Shi nodded. After turning around and walking a few steps, he came back and gave the aunt a piece of silver as a token of gratitude.

The aunt happily followed up, thinking happily, good people are rewarded!
The three of Fu and Shi rode forward, and after a quarter of an hour they arrived at the place the aunt said, and found the pit dug by the villagers.

"This..." Nianzu was dumbfounded, and turned his head to ask Fu Shi: "Uncle, is that aunt teasing us? There is nothing in this pit!"

Fu Shi walked around the pit, squatted down and squeezed the mound of the pit with his hands, thought for a while and said: "She didn't talk nonsense, there must have been people buried in it, look at the soil next to it Look at the pit, the dark places are stained with blood..."

Fu Shi stood up, walked slowly back to the road, and found the place where the carriage ran over someone, and found several places near the place where the blood had soaked into the soil, which had turned darker in color.He carefully checked the surrounding traces, and unsurprisingly found a blood-stained road, a drag mark, and three pairs of footprints in the farmland beside the road.

He drew conclusions based on the clues available.It was here that Fu Lei and Lin Bajin got into trouble.The trouble resulted in the deaths of three persons, three escaped and one was seriously injured.The murderers couldn't be Fu Lei or Lin Bajin. They didn't have the ability to kill three people and seriously injure one while surrounded by six people, so Fu Lei and Lin Bajin should be among those who escaped.

He only hoped that the injured person wasn't Fu Lei, because judging by the amount of blood on the ground, the injured person probably lost at least half his life!
"Nianzu, go back and gather all of us and stand by at the head of Ping'an Village. Yousi, follow me, let's go along this road..."

Li Yousi lived alone in the mountains for two years, and he mastered a lot of things without a teacher. Judging from the direction of the traces, the three people must have entered the mountains, and it is much more useful to bring Yousi than Nianzu.

"Uncle, I'll take someone to wait? Don't you continue to look for it?" Nianzu asked puzzled.He was also worried about Fu Lei and desperately hoped to find him as soon as possible.

Fu Shi explained: "It's not that we don't want to look for it, but we have to look for it in another way. In short, you wait with someone first, and I will check with Yousi first. After I figure out the situation, I will go back and meet you."

Fu Shi thought about it again, and there was another possibility—Lin Bajin lost his luggage, and the two of them had nothing to do with it, but the chances were too slim, who would throw away his luggage when he ran away from home? ? !However, just in case, he also decided to send a few people along the way to continue searching.

"You tell the fourth captain to ask him to send five people to continue searching along this road. If nothing happens to them, someone must have seen them along the way. If no one within fifty miles has seen them, Just let them come and join me, no, let them go straight home."

"Okay, I see, let's go!"

There are two villages nearby, Ping'an Village and Heishi Village.Although the villages are separated by a few miles, it is impossible for the villagers of the two villages not to know the people in the other village. If they did, the name of the village where the bodies were found should have informed their families instead of burying them quietly.

But the three who died were apparently also locals, since they were dug up shortly after the villagers buried them.

For this kind of "local people" that the local villagers don't know, Fu Shi can only come to one conclusion, the three people who died are local bandits!

He was worried that Fu Lei and Lin Bajin had entered the den of thieves now, and he had to investigate the situation of the den of thieves before he could decide how to deal with it.Now that he has a family and a house, he can't afford the risk of stabbing a hornet's nest. Besides, he can't be too careful with the bandits who go to Daqingshan.

Fu Shi took Li Yousi to follow the blood and drag marks all the way into the mountain, and successfully found the cave where Fu Lei and the others had rested.

He also found out that the "three people who escaped" were divided into two groups and went in two different directions.There is only a pair of footprints in one direction, indicating that a person walked this road, and the footprints on the ground are very shallow and have traces of dragging, which means that this is the direction in which the injured person left.

Fu Shi breathed a sigh of relief, the injured person was definitely not Fu Lei or Lin Bajin.He knew Fu Lei well, and he had a good impression of Lin Bajin. Even if the two of them had a conflict because of He Lian, neither of them would let the other act alone under such circumstances, and team up with strangers by themselves. go the other way.

Looking at the direction Fu Lei and Lin Bajin left, the footprints of the two teams are one in front and one behind, which shows that both of them have the ability to act on their own and can move forward without the help of the other party.There are also many chopped branches along the way, indicating that they have at least one weapon in their hands, and it is a long-handled sharp weapon-it is better to break the branches with your hands than to open the way with a dagger.

The most important thing is that after Fu Shi followed all the way, he found no traces left by others, that is to say, Fu Lei and Lin Bajin had no stalkers behind them, and they were safe.

After figuring out the situation, Fu Shi felt even more confused. This place is not far from Rongshu Village. Why hasn't Fu Lei returned home yet?
Could it be that he encountered a beast in the mountains?Fu Shi thinks it is unlikely, although it looks like there is no one here, but it does not belong to the inner circle of Daqingshan, the possibility of encountering a beast is very small, unless they keep moving towards the inner circle...

"Uncle said that the mountain is a big place, and it's not easy to find it. It may take several days, so let me come back and report the news, so you don't have to worry."

Nianzu got Fu Shi's order, brought a few people back to report the news, prepared hunting gear and dry food, and then went to join the main force.They must be prepared for long-term combat.

He Tao asked worriedly: "The mountain is so big that there isn't even a map. Can you find it?"

"Uncle found a few people in Ping'an Village as guides. They are all good hunters in the mountains all the year round, so it should be fine."

"Okay, tell him to be careful..." He Tao felt that he had asked a very stupid question. No matter what, Fu Shi would definitely look for it. It was impossible to give up without making any efforts. The second uncle and the second aunt were heartbroken because Fu Lei's whereabouts were unknown.

"By the way, have you told your second grandpa Fu? They are all worried to death."

"As I said, Second Grandpa went to look for Lizheng after hearing this. He said he wanted to find some people from the village and go into the mountain from our direction to see if he could meet Uncle Lei and the others in the middle."

After Nianzu packed his things, he left to join Fu Shi.

Only then did He Tao stand up slowly, and walked to the playhouse with her waist in her arms.She was worried that what Nianzu brought back was bad news, so she sent He Lian to take care of the twins. Now that it was confirmed to be good news, at least not bad news, she updated the information with He Lian.However, she didn't intend to tell He Lian everything she knew, because Fu Lei and the others hadn't figured out the reason for the fighting before they entered the mountain, and it involved ferocious bandits. If He Tao hadn't warned him seriously Fu Shi, said that they are not allowed to hide anything between them, Fu Shi did not intend to let Nianzu tell her.

"Brother Lei and Lin Bajin went into the mountain, and they probably got lost in the mountain. Your brother-in-law has already brought someone to look for it, and the second uncle has also brought someone up the mountain to look for it."

He Lian accepted this explanation without any doubts, because before that, when Fu Shi and the others went to the mountain to find the Qingshan people's village, they had lost their way and turned a big circle in the mountain, walked countless wrong roads, spent ten days The itinerary dragged on for nearly 20 days.It's just that she had thought a lot in her heart, and even guessed that Fu Lei had no bones left. When she suddenly heard the reason of "lost", she had an indescribably weird expression.

"I don't know when I'll be back..." She rubbed her sore temples and complained, "I really don't know what he's thinking, Lin Bajin ran away from home, what did he do with him?"

He Tao smiled and said nothing, she really didn't know what to say, but anyway, He Lian didn't expect to get an answer from her, she muttered and complained, He Tao didn't doubt at all if Fu Lei was in front of her , I will definitely be stunned by her direct reading!
(End of this chapter)