Yishan County is located on the border of Bagui, and is at the junction of Lingnan and Qianzhou. It is like a long dragon entrenched in the north and south. Its terrain is so steep and magnificent that it is breathtaking!
It had just rained and it looked a little gray at this moment.
The group was walking on a slightly muddy road, with some holding umbrellas and some holding knives.
One person jogged from a distance, ran to a man in an official robe and stopped, and then whispered: "Sir, according to the report, all 25 people who fought yesterday have been found, three of them died last night, and six others were seriously injured. The rest of them had different degrees of injuries everywhere. Now everyone is being taken to Napo Village, waiting for the adults to fall..."
The man who listened to the report from his subordinates was named Nong Hongzhi, who was about thirty years old and was the magistrate of Yishan.
Although Nong Hongzhi was a scholar, his eyebrows were calm and his breath was strong. He held an umbrella with his right hand and his left hand was pressed on the lancet at his waist without moving too much.
After listening to his subordinate's report, Nong Hongzhi was slightly silent for a moment before asking, "How far is this place in Napo Village?"
The person who reported the report made some calculations in his mind and said, "According to the subordinates, Napo Village should be six miles away."
"Then let's go and have a look!" Nong Hongzhi said, and then breathed a deep breath. He had just taken office as the magistrate of Yishan not long ago. At this moment, such a big case occurred in the county, which was really a headache!
The six-mile journey is not too far, but because it had just rained, the soil on the road was soft and hard to walk on, so it took a group of people about an hour to arrive at Napo Village.
The official guarding in Napo Village had already seen a group of people walking from afar. He was waiting outside the entrance of the village and welcomed: "I welcome the Governor General!"
Nong Hongzhi waved his hand and said, "Okay, don't mess with these false gifts! What's the situation now?"
The official who was greeting the official led the way and said, "Among the twenty-five prisoners, many of the injuries worsened because they did not receive timely treatment. In addition to the three people who died on the spot last night, five people died today! Four of them were seriously injured during the fight and had not been treated in time until today. The other one fought with someone again this morning, but was defeated because of the injury and was beaten to death on the spot!"
Nong Hongzhi's face suddenly sank after hearing the report from his subordinate Guanmao, and his tone became stern and asked, "Why not treat me?"
The official official saw that Nong Hongzhi was so angry that he could not help but lower his head slightly, but said: "Reporting to the master, it's not that we don't want to treat him, but that the people in the martial arts world are too cunning, and that the villagers in Napo Village are ignorant of the importance, ignore the overall situation, and do not understand right and wrong! The whole village belongs to the same clan. We just wanted to go in and arrest people this morning, but we were stopped outside the entrance of the village and refused to let us enter the village to check it no matter what! If someone hadn't fought again at noon, we were worried that things would change and forced in, otherwise we might have been stopped by those villagers at the entrance of the village at this moment!"
Nong Hongzhi didn't want to listen to him shirk responsibility, so he glanced around for a few times and asked, "Where are people now?"
The official officer immediately led the way: "After our day of arrest, the remaining seventeen criminals were temporarily taken to the Land Temple in Napo Village. As for the dead bodies, they were temporarily placed in the woods outside the Land Temple."
A group of people led by the official to the Tudi Temple in Napo Village. The Tudi Temple is located on a small hillside, and at the foot of the mountain is a dense forest. Under the shade of the trees, dead bodies are either wrapped in coarse cloth or swept by grass, and they are placed in a row. Flashes of bloody stench spread out from the hillside, making people feel like vomiting.
Nong Hongzhi covered his mouth and nose with his sleeves, walked to the corpses and looked at them, and asked the official officer beside him, "Can you confirm the identities of these people?"
When the official standing beside Nong Hongzhi heard this, he immediately replied: "Report to the adults, the corpses wrapped in straw mats on the right were villagers of the village during their lifetime. The ones covered with coarse cloth on the left were refugees who fled! Because no one recognized the bodies of these refugees, we tore a piece of cloth from their robes and covered their faces. According to our inspection, we found that the five fingers of these people, especially the thumbs and index fingers, had a thick calluse. After the body died, there was still a part of the body that had not yet dissipated true energy. Therefore, we infer that these people should be people in the martial arts world."
Nong Hongzhi nodded and turned around and walked towards the Land Temple on the hillside.
The official next to him said, "The remaining seventeen prisoners have been controlled and have been rescued by the doctor, but..."
"Just what?"
Nong Hongzhi glanced at him, then walked into the Land Temple.
The official officer immediately followed and said, "I don't know that although the mountains in the county are rich in precious medicines, these precious medicines are mostly poisonous substances with strong medicinal properties. In addition, beasts everywhere in the mountains are full of poisonous miasma. Even if we just pick some ordinary medicinal materials that can drive away cold and replenish blood, it is very difficult! Therefore, although we can take out some medicinal materials to treat these people's trauma, if this person's injuries are too severe, or the number of injured people is too large and there are not enough medicinal materials, we cannot treat them..."
Nong Hongzhi walked into the land temple and saw a group of people tied to the left and right sides. The two sides were glaring at each other. If someone untied the rope tied to them, I am afraid that both of them would fight to the death again!
Nong Hongzhi took a deep breath of cold air, and a ray of blood mixed in the air made him cough a few more times.
Look at the scars and blood stains on these people! It is said that the people of Yishan County are strong. As Nong Hongzhi, who has just taken office as the magistrate of Yishan County, finally saw it well!
Someone said, "Sujing, Lord Nong is here!"
Nong Hongzhi walked into the innermost part of the Land Temple, glanced at the two waves of manpower several times, and was silent for a moment, without any intention of letting them go, but asked directly: "You twenty-five people fought yesterday, and there were only seventeen left today! I am curious, why did you fight like this?"
Although the two waves of people were all murderous, Nong Hongzhi was at least the magistrate of Yishan County. The villagers of Napo Village still gave the parents some face. After a moment of silence, some villagers looked up at Nong Hongzhi and said, "Report to Master, this is the matter..."
Chapter completed!