"Since the crows are dead, let's go back." Seeing the last ray of sunset gradually disappearing in the west mountain, and the surrounding trees gradually become dark, Pei Li couldn't help but say.

"Did you scare you?" The Grand Governor Sima Dekan snorted coldly with a chuckling on his face.

Pei Li was not angry by this ridicule. At the age of forty, although he was over the age of 40, he was named the governor of the King of Jin's palace, but in fact he was not the only one in Kuzhen for his bravery. He was born in the Pei family of Hedong and had a brilliant literary talent, but became the personal guard of the prince King Jin. He was ten years older than King Jin and had followed King Jin to fight many times. However, there were not many people who really stood in a tragic and disgraceful corpse like this. "A group of dead people is not worth wasting time."

"Oh, although the dead can't speak, they can also tell us a lot of useful information." Sima Dekan said coldly: "Who are these men in black, why do they appear here, and who are the ones who killed them? Do we know these?"

"Maybe it's just a fight between the world, bandits, horse bandits, and water bandits, all are possible. Such things happen every day, and it's not surprising." Pei Li said casually. "No matter who these dead people are."

The escort officers of the royal palace who were accompanying him saw the two Shangguans having a dispute again, and they couldn't help but shake their heads secretly. After coming out of the Yangzhou General Administration, the two of them disliked each other along the way, but they didn't expect that they would start to look at each other so quickly. Governor Yang Wei quickly spoke out: "Maybe we can check the scene first, maybe we can find some clues. Maybe these men in black are the mysterious men in black who sneaked into Yangzhou when the King of Jin received a report."

Yang Wei moved out of King Jin, Sima Dekan and Pei Li both glared at each other and stopped arguing.

"These crows are all dead." Pei Li pointed out, "I think I should go back to Yangzhou immediately and report this matter to King Jin and hand it over to King Jin to deal with it."

When Sima Dekan heard this, his eyelids flipped and glanced at the dim forest. "The most important thing now is to confirm the identities of these dead people. If these people are really mysterious men in black who discovered the mysterious men in black who sneaked into Yangzhou before, then we should find out as soon as possible who killed them. This is Yangzhou. It is our dereliction of duty to die here suddenly. Governor Pei, aren't you scared?"

Sima Dekan could see Pei Li's tight pursed lips and his strong black cloak that could be suppressed by his strong black cloak. Pei Li was born in the Pei family of Hedong. He was already a shogunate assistant to Yang Guang, the Duke of Yanmen County, at that time in the Northern Zhou Dynasty. He has been with the King of Jin for twenty years. This qualification is not something that can be provoked casually. However, he felt that Pei Li was not just angry at him today. In addition to his anger, Sima Dekan vaguely noticed that he had some hidden uneasiness. It seemed that his heart was really nervous and a feeling of fear.

Sima Dekan also had a vague feeling that he was not a Jin king's assistant, Shu Zuo, like Pei Li, he was a real military general. His family was also considered a family of military generals. His father was once the governor of the Northern Zhou Dynasty. However, his father died early and his family was poor when he was young. At that time, he was lonely and weak when he was young, and could only rely on being an apprentice to the butcher and killing pigs to support his family. Later, after a monk Shi Can, near his family, had an affair with his mother, he took him home to raise and educate him, and taught him to read and read. This allowed him to grow up and inherit his father's business and become a soldier in the palace. Later, because of his outstanding performance, he entered the palace city and became a servant. He was transferred to the Jin palace and became the current governor, and he was in charge of a two hundred guard. He was from the martial family and when he was young.

Experience made him stronger and made him look down on Pei Li in his heart. He could become the governor of Kuzhen by relying on his family background and his poems and books, and became more and more dissatisfied. With his own efforts, he finally became the governor of the Grand Commander and commanded 200 guards, but Pei Li was just a sour scholar, but also added the position of governor of Kuzhen. You must know that the official of the royal palace with the word Kuzhen is not only equivalent to a personal guard. Kuzhen must be from a famous family, but also has various talents. He usually inspects the guards of the school, and also has important powers such as the Dian Wenhan and the Military Machinery. In other words, Pei Li's governor of Kuzhen is much more powerful than him, the governor of the Grand Commander.

Sima Dekan was only eighteen years old this year and had become the Grand Governor of the Royal Palace Guards. It was already amazing. Speaking of which, it was also because of his father's shade to become the Grand Governor at the age of eighteen. However, he relied on his father's shade to become the Grand Governor at the age of eighteen. However, he entered the government army with his father's shade, but his achievements today were definitely inseparable from his own efforts. He once defended the Great Wall border at the age of fifteen. He first crossed the wall north and fought against the grassland Turks with his army, and he was once soft in his limbs. Now he was funny when he looked back. However, in the two years on the border at the Great Wall, he had the experience of going out to inspect the grasslands more than a hundred times. He had long been fearless in the wild grassland outside the frontier. Logically speaking, this small woods outside Yangzhou in the south of the Yangtze River, with more than ten dead bodies, would not make him nervous.

However, there are some exceptions today. Standing in this wooded woods full of corpses, the evening breeze always makes him feel terrified that his hair stands up.

Since receiving the order from King Jin, their 50-man cavalry team left Yangzhou City overnight, tracking and advancing for three days, searching for the men in black who suddenly sneaked into Yangzhou. There was no trace for a few days, but today, they suddenly saw the corpses of black clothes. Eighteen men in black were all lying quietly in this woods, and had already disappeared.

The men in black who could be valued by the King of Jin were definitely not ordinary people, but they were all killed here at this time. Yangzhou is the territory of the King of Jin. The King of Jin is in charge of Yangzhou and commands the forty-four prefectures of the Jianghuai River. Now that people of unknown forces are invading, the matter is already quite a matter. But now this group of people have been killed here unconsciously, and this matter is becoming more and more complicated.

Sima Dekan felt it, and Pei Li felt it even earlier. At this moment, Pei Li felt that he was being watched by a cold look, but he had observed carefully for a long time but found nothing. He wanted to turn his head and return to Yangzhou City immediately. However, it was difficult to say such words, especially in front of Sima Dekan, who had never dealt with him.

He looked at Yang Wei, who was also a governor, but he did not have the word Kuzhen, so he was just an ordinary royal family, commanding fifty guards. However, Yang Wei was also from a noble family. Among the top clans of the Great Sui Dynasty in the prosperous and leaves of Hongnong Yang family, he was the eighteen-year-old branch of the branch. This handsome 18-year-old young man, who was the same age as Sima Dekan, was born in the founding year of the Great Sui Dynasty. He had two black eyes and elegant manners, but his body was a little thin.

He had always had a good relationship with Pei Li, but he had always been with Sima Dekan. At this time, he was riding the strong black river war horse, much higher than Pei Li riding a smaller Khitan horse. He was wearing black deer leather boots, black cloak, and black bright light armor. He was originally an attendant of the emperor in Daxing City, just like Sima Dekan, and it was less than half a year since he joined the guard of the Jin Wangfu in Yangzhou. However, with his background and experience, the word "Kuzhen" would be added to the title of governor.

The most dazzling outfit on his body was naturally the 18-year-old horse lance. It was a three-year production period, and the various materials were extremely expensive. It was made by Master Yuwen, the most famous horse lance master in Daxing City. It was much taller than anyone else. It was thicker and mighty, and it was outstanding. "I bet that this horse lance is absolutely worth hundreds of gold!" More than once, the guards of the royal palace were very envious of the horse lance when they were drinking. Pei Li knew very well that the top horse lance made by Master Yuwen himself,

The value of 100 gold is definitely not low or high. In fact, the most valuable thing about this spear is not the horse spear itself, but the most valuable thing is the horse spear made by Master Yuwen himself. All of them are fine products and are sought after by princes and nobles. It is a novice in Yuwen that can make a horse spear, which fully demonstrates the prominent identity of Yang Wei, a distant relative of the royal family. However, Yang Wei does not take this horse spear too seriously and often lends him to his friends in the guards. Therefore, although he is new, he is very popular among the guards.

"The King of Jin asked us to investigate the whereabouts of the men in black, and we have found them now." Yang Wei received Pei Li's gaze and said, "Now they are dead, and it seems that no one will escape. It is not the most important thing for whom they killed these people. It is better to take these corpses back and cover them up first. For the next move, we will follow the instructions of King Hou Jin."

Sima Dekan felt thoughtful, frowned slightly, and looked up at the darkening twilight.

"Governor Yang, check with me carefully to see if there are any clues. Maybe we can find out the identities of these men in black, or who killed them."

Sima Dekan and Yang Wei were transferred to the Jin Palace and both served as attendants in Daxing Palace. However, what many people didn't know was that before they entered Daxing Palace as attendants, they had the experience of guarding the borders on the Great Wall for two years. Although Yang Wei always looks like a handsome young man now, when they were at the border, they actually lived a very difficult life, eating raw meat and drinking blood, eating wind and dew, and wandering around outside the border for most of the month. The two young governors were both experienced officers.

"There are eighteen people in total, both men and women, sixteen men and two women, all under forty years old." Yang Wei said.

"Their bodies were all scattered, and even these people didn't have weapons on their hands."

Sima Dekan nodded, "The weapons of these people are right beside them, with horizontal swords, long swords, and bows. But no one picked up the weapons. Look at this person, he has a stringed crossbow machine at hand, but he has never picked it up at all."

"This is so strange!" Even Pei Li couldn't help but speak in surprise at this time. "They didn't have the power to fight back?"

"To be precise, these people didn't react until they died!"

"Will this not be the place where they died, but the place where they were thrown away after death?" Pei Li became more and more uneasy.

Yang Wei turned on a corpse, looked at the pool of red and black blood stains on the ground, and shook his head, "No, this is the place where they first attacked."

"Maybe they were sleeping and then raided!"

A gust of evening breeze blew, and the branches rustled. Pei Li's war horse was digging the soil with his hooves in a hurry. "Governor Yang, who do you think killed these people? Sima Dekan's brows became more and more frowned, and his hands were pressing the hilt of the horizontal knife tightly.

"Maybe it's a horse thief!"

Sima Dekan asked: "Did you hear any powerful horse thief appear near Yangzhou during this period?"

"No!" Yang Wei understood Sima's words. Since the Sui Dynasty sent 520,000 troops to destroy Chen in the ninth year of Kaihuang, and Jiangnan rebelled in the tenth year of Kaihuang. After Yang Su and Shi Wansui pacified Jiangnan, the King of Jin was in charge of Yangzhou, commanded the 44 prefectures of Jianghuai and pacified Jiangnan. In recent years, Jiangnan had already surrendered. Although there were still some bandits, there were only some small-scale thieves. No bandit could catch this mysterious force that suddenly sneaked into the suburbs of Yangzhou, and could kill them silently. Ordinary bandits had no ability, and only from the scene, after these people were killed, they had never been passive, and those weapons were still there.

"If the thief is not gone, if it is a bandit, there are no one who kills people and takes property. These men in black have good equipment, but they don't take any of them. This is abnormal."
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