Jiaohua

Chapter 1132
"Second Miss!" Gao Zhou came back and presented the scroll, "It has been signed."

Xia Zhaoyi picked it up, looked at it a few times and put it away: "You did a good job."

Gao Zhou was happy: "Second Miss Xie praises you!"

Xia Zhaoyi was not in a hurry to leave, and raised his eyes to see the soldiers and horses retreating slowly in the distance.

Xia Junnan came behind him: "Second Miss, they really left."

"As long as there is a court, there must be a game of power," Xia Zhaoyi said slowly, "There are more than 8000 people, and the commander who led the army this time cannot afford to lose."

"Second Miss is smart, she can subdue others without fighting, and she still has enough affection!"

"It's a war," Xia Zhaoyi smiled lightly, "Everyone has worked hard this time, and when their ransom money arrives, we will buy all the villas and houses for everyone."

"Don't don't!" Xia Junnan hurriedly said, "Second Miss, if you buy Zhuangzi's house, everyone will run away!"

Xia Zhaoyi's smile became brighter, and he pulled the reins and turned around: "There will always be a day when you will be disarmed and return to the fields. Let's go and return to the city."

The sky is getting darker and darker, and the lights on the outskirts of the village are lit up, and the near and far are like stars.

The suburbs of the city have been particularly lively these past few days. There are often troops running back and forth, even at night.

When there were still two large villages that could enter Hengxiang, near the ancestral hall outside the village, I suddenly heard a terrified scream, it was still a girl.

Xia Zhaoyi immediately reined in his horse, and the soldiers and horses following behind stopped.

Without waiting for Xia Zhaoyi to speak, Zhan Ning said first, "Second Miss, I'll take someone to have a look."

"Be careful in everything," Xia Zhaoyi said.

Zhan Ning led three soldiers forward, crossed a wide stone bridge, and disappeared behind the lush shade.

The screaming also provoked many nearby villagers, all of whom ran over. Seeing that there was an army here, some people dared to say hello.

"Second Miss!" Zhan Ning came back quickly, "It's two corpses! One was buried in the ground wearing the armor of the Hengxiang guards!"

"What about the other one?" Xia Zhaoyi asked.

"Ordinary cloth."

Xia Zhaoyi immediately got down: "Take me there."

The girl who found the body was terrified and crying.

The corpse was dug out from the ground by wild dogs. She happened to pass by with a lamp, and walked away after smelling the stench. Unexpectedly, she saw such a scene.

Zhan Ning and the others had lit a torch. Under the light of the fire, the two corpses had just begun to rot, and there were many bugs on their bodies.

There was a soldier in armor buried outside, Xia Zhaoyi looked at the one inside, and suddenly paused, it was Cao Yu.

"Give me a wooden branch." Xia Zhaoyi looked at Xia Junnan.

Xia Junnan went to chop immediately.

Xia Zhaoyi untied Cao Yu's clothes with a wooden branch, and a strong stench made many surrounding villagers vomit.

"Don't make noise! ​​Be quiet!" Xia Junnan whispered to them.

Everyone covered their mouths with their hands, and watched from a distance that the girl deftly lifted the dead man's clothes with a wooden branch.

The body inside the clothes was covered with worms, but the old and new wounds on the corpse showed how much torture and hardship the deceased suffered during his lifetime.

"It's pitiful to die like this." Zhan Ning said holding a torch.

"Not pitiful," Xia Zhaoyi said, "He is full of sins, and he deserves to die."

"Second Miss knows him?" Zhan Ning was surprised.

"Dragon and Tiger Hall, Cao Yu," Xia Zhaoyi's voice remained calm, "The horse bandits in Zhaoyun Mountain."

"It really deserves it!" Jenning said.

After Xia Zhaoyi checked carefully, the fatal wound should be the knife on the neck.

She looked at another corpse.

The armor was dilapidated, and the knife on the neck was deeper than Cao Yu's wound, almost cutting off his head.

Xia Zhaoyi took a few glances, then looked up at the ancestral hall.

A very simple ancestral hall, nothing too special.

"Come here." Xia Zhaoyi said.

"The last general is here!" Xia Junnan, Xia Chuan and their left and right lieutenants responded at the same time.

"Dig the ground three feet to see if there are any other corpses, and pay attention to whether there is an entrance to the secret passage within a radius of half a mile."

"Yes!" Everyone said.

The soldiers did what they said, and began to borrow tools nearby.

Some villagers offered to help, and Xia Zhaoyi agreed.

More villagers stood outside the open space and watched, looking at what the soldiers were digging for a while, and then looking at the girl standing next to the corpse and looking down at the corpse.

A large group of burly men obeyed such a thin and slender girl and let her give orders. Before this, they had never seen it before.

This is that Miss Ali, the orphan of Duke Dingguo's mansion, an incomparably honorable nobleman in the prosperous age!
"Second Miss, there is a discovery here!" A soldier suddenly shouted.

Xia Zhaoyi immediately walked there with the left and right guards.

Under the light of Zhan Ning's fire, what appeared was not a corpse, but bones.

Xia Zhaoyi squatted down on one knee, provoking the wooden branches in his hands, there were four in total, and it looked like they were buried mixed together.

"These should have been dead for a long time," Jenning said.

"At least two years." Xia Zhaoyi said.

"How did Second Miss know?" Zhan Ning was curious.

"This kind of weed grows very slowly," Xia Zhaoyi picked up the branches in his hand, "They have broken through the ground, but their roots are under the corpse."

"Second Miss, water has been dug out!" Xia Junnan shouted not far away.

Xia Zhaoyi immediately led people there.

We dug down three feet deep here, and yellow water kept coming out, turbid and dirty, completely different from the stream near here.

"What kind of water is this?" Zhan Ning frowned, "It seems to be rust?"

Suddenly, this area collapsed slightly.

Xia Zhaoyi and others stepped back, and the guards stood in front of Xia Zhaoyi while retreating.

"No, get out of the way." Xia Zhaoyi signaled them to back away, looking at the pit that was still oozing yellow water.

More and more yellow water came out, and at the same time, the pits collapsed more and more.

Suddenly, there was a sudden collapse, and the earth pit about half a foot long and wide collapsed completely, turning into a big black hole.

Zhan Ning carefully stuck out the torch. Under the hole, it happened to be the edge of a stone frame.

Half of it is concrete stone wall, half is yellow turbid stagnant water.

Without waiting for Xia Zhaoyi to speak, Xia Junnan said, "Second Miss, I'll go and chop a long wooden branch!"

Soon, he came back with a wooden branch more than ten feet long, and inserted it towards the side of the yellow water.

Not long after, the wooden branches reached their ends, and the water was still there.

Xia Junnan pulled back the wooden branch and asked the guards to cut it again, tied the two branches together, and tried again.

This time it came to the end very quickly, and the total depth was two feet.

"It's so deep!" said Janning.

"This puddle is really strange," Xia Junnan looked at Xia Zhaoyi, "However, there should be no secret passage here."

Xia Zhaoyi glanced at him, then looked back to the puddle.

After a pause, Xia Zhaoyi said, "Keep digging, just dig here."

Her subordinates never questioned her orders.

Everyone responded and continued to dig.

(End of this chapter)