The people in the other houses were not as caring as she was. When the men returned to their tents, their wives asked them what happened.
They could only tell the truth that Xia Jing came back from suppressing the bandits this time and had a great harvest.
This made Mrs. Jifang feel very upset and she couldn't sleep well all night.
At dawn the next day, they got up early, and before setting off, they went out looking for someone to share their gossip with.
"Second sister-in-law, where are you going?"
Not long after the third lady, Mrs. Fu, came out with her maid, she saw the second lady, Mrs. Wen, walking in front. She called out and hurried after her.
The second lady stopped when she heard this, turned around and said with a smile: "It turns out to be the third brother and sister. Where do you want to go when you get up so early?"
In fact, everyone knows it well, they just don't want to pierce the window paper.
The third lady looked around at the surrounding tents, and when she saw no one came out, she leaned closer and said softly: "I heard from the third master that there was such a big commotion last night because the mother-in-law came back with the bandit suppression team. I am here."
I want to go to the outskirts of the camp to take a look at the seized supplies, second sister-in-law, how about we go together?"
"I also heard what the second master said, how about we go and take a look?"
"Walk!"
The two sisters hit it off immediately and walked happily to the outside.
The two of them arrived at the outskirts, but found that they had arrived too late.
A lot of people had already gathered around the place where the supplies and carriages were piled up last night. The four sisters-in-law and four younger brothers and sisters in the mansion had already arrived, as well as the nephews, nieces and daughters-in-law, family members of the Hou family, and the maids and wives. All in all, the crowd was already packed.
The nobles living in the splendid heap have never seen the real trophies returned from the battlefield. Everyone gathered around to see them in wonder.
The third lady asked: "Second sister-in-law, you said that the mother-in-law is now focusing on the vast world outside the mansion. If she goes to Lingnan in the future, will she still take care of the middle-aged servants in the mansion?"
Ordinarily, an ancestor like Xia Jing should have handed over the middle school of the mansion to the eldest daughter-in-law to take care of it.
But Prince Qian's Mansion is a special existence, because the ancestors in the mansion are senior but young, so the middle minister of the mansion is still in charge of the original owner.
Later, the original owner was buried, and the palace's middle-income family naturally fell into the hands of the eldest lady. Now that Xia Jing has been on the run since she was reborn, she has not even realized this problem.
"Who knows." The second wife didn't want to mention this issue, because no matter how good the middle husband was, it was not their turn to take care of the second and third bedrooms.
She felt that she could not feel the pulse of the mother-in-law who climbed out of the coffin.
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Pankou Village in Rong Town was completely raped, and no one in the family of more than 700 survived.
When the governor of Jingzhou received the news, he couldn't believe it.
Who is so crazy in their own territory?
Based on the news he received in recent days, he slapped the table with his palm.
"That's unreasonable!"
They eat him and are still protected by him in his territory. These people are simply audacious and dare to cause trouble blatantly and kill!
He sent his subordinate Yuan Canjun to the scene to check the actual situation.
Yuan Mingxian received the order, took his troops and hurried to Rongzhen.
Entering Rongzhen, you can clearly feel that the streets are deserted. Even if you occasionally meet a pedestrian, you are always in a hurry. Some even bowed to them timidly and ran away.
He was obviously frightened by the tragedy in Pankou Village!
Of course, Pankou Village is a den of bandits. The most important reason why they can live like normal villagers in Rong Town is that they don't eat grass from the den.
They robbed passing caravans, or they directly led the bandits to other places to rob, and then robbed the supplies and transported them back in the form of caravans.
So in Rong Town, people who are not from the real Pankou Village don’t know that this is what they do for a living.
Everyone thinks that the people in Pankou Village are united. The village has organized a caravan to carry goods. Seeing that they are wealthier than other villages, the people nearby are quite envious of the people in their village.
It's just that the weather is unpredictable, and how could we have imagined that one day the whole village would be wiped out!
Sure enough, money is the root of all evil!
Some bandit in the mountains must have noticed that their village was relatively wealthy.
There is money to be made, and the bandits would be stupid not to rob.
Entering Pankou Village, everything is in a mess.
Along the way, the village was full of dried blood stains that had not been cleaned up.
You can imagine how tragic the situation here was at that time.
Everything you see is shocking!
In a village of more than 1,000 people, except for the more than 300 people kneeling at the entrance of the village, there were no roosters or dogs in the village. This shows how crazy the team that raided the village was!
If Xia Jing knew what Yuan Mingxian was thinking at this time, she would definitely roll her eyes and give it to him.
The battlefield is either you die or I live.
These bandits deserved their fate.
He also didn't want to think about how many lives were taken by these bandits. A small bandit den could accumulate so much wealth, and how many innocent souls died at their hands.
Many houses were burned down, and the torches must have been accidentally lit during the fight. Otherwise, if the intruders really wanted to burn down Pankou Village, they would not be able to burn down just a few or a dozen houses.
Yuan Mingxian smelled the smell of blood and walked to the courtyard with relatively high walls. Digging three feet into the ground was not enough to describe the scene in the courtyard at this time.
“The search was so clean!”
"Tsk!"
The eyes of the bandits kneeling at the entrance of the village were a little dull. They couldn't accept what they saw in front of them, and they couldn't recover for a long time.
It wasn't until Yuan Mingxian walked up to them and coughed heavily that they turned their eyes a few times and looked at him warily.
After noticing the visitor's clothes, he relaxed again.
"Yuan Canjun."
Yuan Mingxian responded lightly and asked, "Have you found any clues?"
Although the governor had a guess in his mind about who did this, he had no evidence for the time being, and even if he had evidence, he couldn't tell the bandits for the time being.
The bandit leader is a one-eyed man. He said with a look of hatred: "We have no clues for the time being. If I know who did it, I will go to the ends of the world to avenge him! I will kill him with a thousand cuts and make him fat."
, cut his whole family into pieces and fed them to wild dogs, dug up the graves of his eighteen generations of ancestors, and then whipped the corpses!"
Yuan Mingxian's mouth twitched wildly after hearing this. This was the first time he heard such refreshing and cruel words.
He asked again: "What about the damage to the village?"
The one-eyed man looked dejected when he heard this, "It's all gone, even the iron pot in the kitchen was stripped bare!"
"Where were you people on the night of the sneak attack?"
Mentioning this matter, the one-eyed man's eyes flashed with joy and fear, "This disaster came unexpectedly. In the past few days, I took more than 300 brothers to rob roads in the next county next door."
Who would have thought that when they rob others, someone would fuck them up!
When he saw Yuan Mingxian pursed his lips tightly and said nothing, he asked, "What do you think of this matter, sir?"
Yuan Mingxian glanced at him, "Your Excellency was very angry when he found out about this matter. He specifically asked me to bring someone to investigate. He doesn't have any clues yet."
"Who in this land of Jingzhou has such great power and can massacre a village of 700 people in one night? Don't you have any doubtful power?"
The one-eyed man obviously did not completely believe Yuan Mingxian's words.
How could a dignified governor of a state not know that there was such a force within his own territory?