"Did you find anything?" Lu Yun asked as he glanced at the horse area surrounded by fences.
The unexpected business rang in his ears, and the guarding soldiers were caught off guard and startled.
"When I return to Eunuch Lu, I haven't found anything yet." the soldier replied.
"Let's go take a look first."
"As commanded."
Lu Yun quickly walked in through the gate of the horse area.
Because something happened, all the staff in the horse district were asked to leave.
Most of the horses in the horse area are raised for farming, and a small number are needed by dignitaries in the capital. The horses are divided into stables.
The soldier led Lu Yun to a stable in the middle. There were four small compartments in the stable, but there were still three compartments with horses, and one compartment was vacant.
There was a lot of blood splattered on the wooden fence, the manger and the ground inside the compartment.
If just one horse was missing, it would be innocuous and at most an arrest notice would be issued. Lu Yun would not care at all.
But looking at the bloodstains all over the house, it was even worse than the scenes in the blood-stained movies in his previous life in America. This was enough to attract his attention.
"Master! I'm here."
Lu Yun looked back and saw a middle-aged man wearing silk and satin with a big belly running towards him panting.
"Eunuch Lu, he is the owner of Chengnan Ranch. Others call him Lao Liu."
"Two, two adults..." Lao Liu ran to them and stopped, putting his hands on his legs, bending over and breathing heavily.
The soldier turned and pointed at Lu Yun and said, "This is Eunuch Lu of Xichang. I will ask you something later. You must tell me everything I know. Do you understand?"
"X.Xichang?!" Old Liu's expression suddenly turned frightened.
Lu Yun was not in a hurry. After he had rested, he asked, "What do you have to say?"
"Return to Eunuch Lu!"
After learning that Lu Yun was from Xichang, the expression on Old Liu's face became extremely respectful and even a little flattering.
"This is what happened last night. Early this morning, the ranch found that the groom and the horses were missing. I sent people to the groom's house. His family said that the groom had not come back in the morning. I also searched the places where the groom often went, but there was still no trace.
Seeing a human figure." Lao Liu explained.
Lu Yun came out of the stall that was filled with the smell of blood. He carefully looked around the stables and asked, "Is he the only one on duty in the stables at night?"
"He was not the only one. There were also grooms in the stable next to him, but they said they didn't hear any strange noises last night." Old Liu recalled and shook his head.
"Looking at the blood on the ground, it's either the horse's or the groom's, or even both. When they suffered such injuries, they either screamed or the horse neighed, and the grooms couldn't hear it?"
The soldier was a little surprised and said, "Even if the groom and the horse can't make a sound, there are three horses here. They should be frightened and neigh, right?"
"That's what they said. Then I'll ask them again to see if they're lying." Lao Liu looked helpless.
"Eunuch Lu, what do you think?"
Lu Yun didn't say anything. He felt that the grooms must not have lied. If they really couldn't make a sound, it would not be impossible. For example, there was a barrier set up in the stables or other such reasons.
Similar to the faceless man's small barrier and the beekeeper's formation.
In fact, what Lu Yun wants to know more is, since there are other people in the riding area, why are the groom and the horse the target?
What's so special about them?
Flames were slowly burning in Lu Yun's eyes. He opened his golden pupils and carefully explored all suspicious traces here.
However, what is different from the past is that there is not even a trace of blood left here.
"That's strange." Lu Yun murmured to himself.
"Eunuch Lu, what did you just say?" Old Liu asked.
"nothing."
Lu Yun was thinking about these things, and he entered the compartment where the accident occurred without giving up. He squatted on the ground to check, and then he found that there were not only blood but also bloody meat flakes in a few straws on the ground.
There are only a few strands of bloody flesh, and it would be difficult to spot it unless you look carefully.
The soldiers had searched this place before and probably didn't see any meat, or maybe they did and didn't care.
These meat flakes were very small. Lu Yun looked at the meat flakes collected in his hands and he pondered.
"What's your surname?" Lu Yun asked coldly.
"ah?"
The soldier was surprised for a while. Seeing that Lu Yun was asking him, he immediately said flattered: "For Eunuch Lu, my surname is Wang. I have a seven-character name."
"Wang Qi, do you think these meat flakes are human meat or horse meat?" Lu Yun stretched out his hand in front of him.
Wang Qi carefully identified it for a while, shook his head and said: "If there is a whole piece of meat, I can still tell whether it is human flesh or horse meat. It's just a trace, I really can't tell."
Things seemed to have reached a dead end.
When Lao Liu saw that something was wrong in the atmosphere, he immediately tried to smooth things over: "Some wild beast probably came in, killed one person and one horse in a very short period of time, and then ate them. I don't think it's a big deal..."
"etc!"
Lu Yun seemed to be inspired by something: "Let's go see the other horses in the stable."
"good!"
"Please come with me."
Old Liu took Lu Yun around the stable and inspected every horse.
The horses stood shaking their heads from time to time to shake off the mosquitoes hanging around their necks, and flicking their tails from time to time, looking very leisurely.
Lu Yun's eyes narrowed, and he understood something in his heart.
"Get out."
There was no more discovery inside the stable, so Lu Yun and others had no choice but to walk out of the stable.
"Master Lu, I will go back and make an announcement right now, so that people will always pay attention to this place, as long as..." Before Wang Qi could finish his words, he was interrupted by Lu Yun.
"No need."
Lu Yun waved his hand and said with a smile: "It should be that some large beast accidentally got in. Just arrange for more people to guard it. No need to bother."
"This..." Wang Qi's eyes were filled with shock.
He instinctively felt that something was strange, but he had no choice. As the captain of Xichang, Lu Yun was countless levels higher than him, so he could only obey his words.
"I humbly obey my orders!"
At night.
Chengnan Ranch.
It's quiet here, much quieter than in the past.
After what happened during the day, everyone was panicked and asked for leave one after another. Only two grooms had to come on duty to make a living.
At this time, two grooms were on duty together in the stables. After all, such a terrible thing happened, and two people can be brave together.
"Do you think Lao Qin was really eaten by wild beasts?"
"Who knows? If the officials say whatever they say, what can we do if we become ordinary people?"