There is an additional solitary grave on the outskirts of Qifeng County.
There was no one left in Huang Cheng's family, and the body could not be kept in the yamen forever. Bai Yu could only arrange the funeral together with the "yamen servants".
"Huang Cheng is also very pitiful. His old mother died of illness, his wife and daughter remarried, and he was living with the Lord for thirty taels of silver a month. As soon as he had hope for life, he was murdered."
"I don't know any Killer of a Thousand Swordsman could be so ruthless and have such a big hatred."...
The former government officials sighed while burning paper. After all, they were brothers who had escorted the exiled prisoners together, and now they were working together with the adults, so there was a sense of affection.
Bai Yu silently spilled a glass of wine in front of the grave. He knew the murderer, but he couldn't do anything about the murderer. It would be better not to know, and he would feel uncomfortable.
...
So it went for a while.
The workshop still produces liver perfume day and night.
Several branches in the imperial city are still doing brisk business, and large amounts of money are flowing into their accounts.
Huang Cheng's death was gradually forgotten.
Bai Yu thought that since Huang Cheng died, no matter how big the hatred between the young Jin Yiwei Qianhu and Huang Cheng was, it should be settled.
However, Bai Yu was wrong.
A bad news came. There was a government servant named Fang Xian who was making perfume in the workshop during the day. When he got home at night, he was stabbed through the heart with a sword. When his wife woke up the next morning, she found that the quilt was full of blood. Her husband had not moved.
He fainted from fright and reported the crime in panic.
Bai Yu rushed over, looked at the scene with his reconnaissance eyes, and discovered a thread-like red light.
He followed all the way, and it was exactly the same as last time. The thread-like red light spread into the inn, stopped for a moment, left Qifeng County, spread to the imperial city, and finally spread into the palace of the capital commander.
Bai Yu asked the shopkeeper if the guests who stayed at the hotel last night were the same young man who stayed at the hotel last night.
The shopkeeper told him definitely, yes.
Bai Yu frowned.
Young people in fine clothes guard thousands of households!
He came to Qifeng County during the day and killed people at night. Because the city gate was closed, he stayed in an inn for one night. When the city gate opened the next day, he left Qifeng County and returned to the palace of the capital commander in the imperial city.
The route of the two crimes did not even change. It was so rampant!
Killing Huang Cheng, I can still barely understand, it may be because of some grudge, it is a vendetta, but after a while, I killed Fang Xian again, what does this mean?
Last time it was a sword to seal the throat, this time it was a sword to pierce the heart. Do the two different killing methods have any special meaning?
The people killed twice in a row were all government officials who had returned ten years ago. Why is this?
Instead of killing all the government officials in one night, they killed them one at a time. Why?
This is no longer a simple vendetta, it seems to be killing people with some special purpose...
Bai Yu was filled with doubts. He couldn't help but think of his visit to Lin Ping'an some time ago. More than two hundred exiles were not building the imperial tomb at all and were missing.
Government servants were killed one after another...
The exiles are missing...
Bai Yu felt chills all over his body, feeling chills running down his spine, as if there was a sickle in the darkness, deliberately harvesting the lives of those who returned ten years ago.
The government officials looked pale and vaguely understood.
"Sir, I feel like this murderer is coming for us."
"If you don't kill others, you will kill those of us who returned ten years ago. Why is this happening?"...
Who can bear to be killed every once in a while?
In a daze, it seemed like I was back to that terrible night in the Bajiao Pavilion, where the big white-headed bugs were infested and everyone was in danger.
"Don't panic, everyone."
Bai Yu pressed his hands.
He himself was actually panicking...but as the leader of these people, at least he had to appear calm on the surface.
Bai Yu said, "Fang Xian and his wife slept together. The murderer only killed Fang Xian and did not harm his wife. From this, it can be seen that your family should still be safe."
The government officials were speechless. This may be a blessing in the misfortune. Fortunately, the murderer was not so sad and crazy that he killed the whole family.
Bai Yu continued, "For everyone's safety, please don't walk at night, don't take remote roads, and don't be alone. I will ask the Marquis of Jinnan to dispatch a group of guards to protect everyone. In addition,
I will also spend a large sum of money to hire martial arts experts to protect everyone."
Seeing that the adults had thought so carefully, the government officials felt a little more at ease.
Bai Yu felt heavy in his heart and was not optimistic.
According to the observation of the reconnaissance eye, the young Jin Yiwei Qianhu's "energy level has reached Xiaohong" and is extremely powerful.
If Qianhu, a young Jin Yiwei, wants to kill these government servants, it will be useless no matter how many martial arts experts are invited to protect him. Bai Yu can only do his best.
The situation was critical, Bai Yu did not dare to neglect, and immediately rode straight to the imperial city and arrived at the Jinnan Hou Mansion.
When he met the Marquis of Jinnan in Nuange, Bai Yu directly told the Marquis of Jinnan that the "core employees" of the Tianxiang Yulu workshop were killed one after another. He suspected that someone was targeting Tianxiang Yulu and asked the Marquis to send him some guards.
The Marquis of Jin Nan was in charge of the "security" of Tianxiang Yulu. He immediately became serious upon hearing this and ordered him to conduct a strict investigation and sent dozens of elite guards to him.
Bai Yu hurried back to Qifeng County with dozens of guards.
He assigned tasks to the guards, with an average of three guards protecting one yamen servant, and required them to follow them at all times.
In addition, Bai Yu posted a recruitment notice and hired dozens of martial arts masters with huge sums of money. In name, it was to protect the Tianxiang Jade Dew Workshop, but in fact, it was also used to protect the government officials.
Of course, the most important thing is himself... Bai Yu will certainly not forget about himself, the captain of the bodyguard, and the two most capable martial arts players hired with huge sums of money to protect him.
After doing this, Bai Yu felt a little more at ease.
"Even if the young Jin Yiwei Qianhu wants to kill someone, it won't be as simple as the previous two times."
It's not like he never thought about killing Qian Hu, a young Jin Yiwei, to strike first.
However, a young and promising person like Young Jinyiwei Qianhu, who has a bright future, cannot commit the crime of killing these humble government servants. There is no motive for killing at all. This is definitely not for personal reasons. There is probably a "truth" hidden behind it!
Moreover, this "truth" may also be related to the disappearance of more than two hundred exiles!
Because these government officials really have no characteristics, and there is nothing worthy of the dignified Jinyiwei Qianhu personally killing them. The only characteristics are that they are "people who returned ten years ago", just like those exiled prisoners!
According to the decision of the court, more than two hundred exiled prisoners were supposed to be sent to build the imperial mausoleum, but they disappeared. The court did not react at all to such a big matter. Apparently someone covered up the whereabouts of more than two hundred exiled prisoners!
This is not something that the young Jinyiwei Qianhu can do alone. There must be a huge hidden force controlling this matter behind the scenes.
Therefore, the young Jinyiwei Qianhu is just a "scythe" for the hidden forces behind the scenes. Even if Bai Yu breaks the sickle, it will not solve the problem. It may even anger the hidden forces behind the scenes and do even more crazy things.
He should not act rashly until he understands the truth about why the government officials and exiles "deathed".