With three puffs, the men in black fell three times.
The situation was reversed at once, and Xiao Zheng and his men quickly finished off the remaining men in black.
Not caring about the injury on his arm, he ran to Song Wangyue and sized her up, “Girl Yue, are you alright.”
“Fine.”
Xiao Zheng vigilantly looked up and saw no other black-clad figures and wondered, “Where are those people?”
Hearing him ask, Song Wangyue showed an incredulous expression, “They’re all dead, killed each other to death.”
Xiao Zheng froze.
Song Wangyue patted her small chest and said fearfully, “I was so close to being caught up by them just now, I thought I was dead, but I didn’t expect them to suddenly kill each other, so I was able to get my life back.”
“In, where?”
Song Wangyue pointed back, “Just over there.”
“You guys go take a look.”
The two guards responded and went away.
Song Wangyue sniffled, “Uncle Xiao, you’re injured.”
“It’s not a problem, a little skin scrape, a little medicine later and you’ll be fine.”
Song Wangyue smelled the strong smell of blood, surely it would not be as simple as a little scrap of skin.
“There shouldn’t be any more people coming after you, I’ll help you treat the wound first.”
Xiao Zheng knew she could heal, but he really wasn’t badly injured, waving his hand and looking around warily.
The two guards quickly returned and nodded towards Xiao Zheng.
Xiao Zheng found it unbelievable, “Could it be that they are not in cahoots and all want to capture you back and steal the credit, so they are killing each other?”
Song Wangyue nodded in agreement, “It’s possible.”
Only then did Xiao Zheng put his heart down. After treating everyone’s wounds, he went to the woods and dug deep pits to bury all the corpses in, and after doing all this, he sat back down by the fire again.
The original dry food had long since been roasted, so Song Wangyue re-roasted some more, and after everyone sat down and smelled the aroma, their stomachs all growled.
Xiao Zheng was a little embarrassed and his fair face turned red.
Song Wangyue took down the branch with the dried food on it, jerked it off and handed it to them one by one, asking Xiao Zheng, “Have you found anything?”
“It’s the Third Prince’s people.”
When he had buried the corpses just now, Xiao Zheng had someone check them carefully, and each of the men in black had a waist tag on them, engraved with the symbol of the Third Prince’s House.
“Expectedly, he is the only one who can go to such lengths, it seems he hates me to the core and wants to kill me even at the expense of using his secret power.”
Xiao Zheng’s dry food could not be eaten anymore.
“Yue girl, when you have buried the bodies of the Gu family, you can come back to the capital with me.”
In the capital, they, the Ding Guo Mansion, could protect her.
Song Wan Yue shook her head, “It’s safest for me to go back to Qingping County.”
Xiao Zheng did not understand.
Song Wan Yue said as she strung dried food onto the branches, “Back in Qingping County, if anything happens to me or my family, people will definitely think that it was the Third Prince who did it, and the Third Prince will also think of this, that’s why he sent people to rob me halfway, but if I go to the capital, I might encounter something, and when the Third Prince wants to get rid of me, it’s easy. ”
Xiao Zheng drifted off, “You’re right, uncle surprisingly didn’t think of this layer, let’s hurry up tomorrow and try to get back to Qingping County as soon as possible.”
The people ate their dry food and rested against a tree for the night. On the second day, before dawn, they set off on their journey, and ate casually at noon. After stopping at a small town in the evening, they rested for the night and continued on their journey on the third day, and entered Qingping County at noon on the fourth day.
Only then did Xiao Zheng’s tense nerves loosen up.
After so many days had passed, the matter of the Gu family had not yet faded away, and the streets were filled with voices of discussion.
Xiao Zheng was afraid that Song Wan Yue would have a hard time hearing this, so he told the coachman to speed up and walk through Qingping County towards the Song family village.
Along the way, Song Wan Yue was unusually silent.
Xiao Zheng protected the side of the carriage and walked out more than ten miles before he opened his mouth and asked, “Miss Yue, are we going to ……”
“Gu family.”
Song Wan Yue’s suppressed voice came out from within the carriage without the slightest hesitation.
The Gu family had already been burned to ashes …… , Xiao Zheng looked at the cart of skeletons and signaled the carriage driver to lead the way.
Two or three miles away, Xiao Zheng saw a burnt ruin, a continuous city, with no end in sight.
All these years they knew that Xiao’er was in Qingping County, fearful of attracting the emperor’s attention, none of them had ever come, and today was the first time they had seen the place where Xiao’er had lived for more than ten years.
There were villagers working in the fields, and when they saw a group of people escorting a carriage over, they looked over, and when they saw the carriage stop by the ruins of the Gu family and Song Wan Yue come out of it, someone immediately ran to tell the village chief.
The village headman of the Gu family village soon came over.
The news of the capital had long since spread, and when he thought that Song Wan Yue, a little girl, had taken down the Third Prince, he was sincerely impressed.
“Miss Song, if there is anything we can help you with, just say so.”
Song Wan Yue held the parcel wrapped around Gu Yi’s skeleton in her arms and pointed to the hill where Dr Yao had planted the herbs in the first place, “I want to bury all of the Gu family on the hill, I also ask the village head to help.”
That hill was not far from the Gu family’s village, to put it mildly, and the people of the village could see it at a glance if they went out of the village. The village chief had concerns, fearing that the village people would not dare to go out in the future, but that hill belonged to the Gu family, and even if the Gu family died, Song Wangyue had the right to decide.
“Good.”
“You are ordering one hundred and thirteen coffins for me, three of which are of good quality.”
The village headman froze slightly, he didn’t expect Song Wangyue to buy coffins for those underlings.
Song Wangyue took out three silver tickets of one hundred taels and gave them to him, “I only have this much with me, you can take it to pay the deposit first, I will have the rest sent to you by my family, thank you for your hard work.”
One hundred and thirteen coffins, all the coffin shops in the county didn’t have that many coffins combined, and they had to go elsewhere to order them, and they might not be able to buy all of them in three days.
Without the slightest hesitation, Village Chief Gu accepted the silver ticket, “Don’t worry, Miss Song, I’ll send someone to buy them.”
Song Wan Yue thanked him and carefully placed Gu Yi’s skeleton on the carriage pulling the skeleton, “I’ll go home first, I’ll also trouble you to send someone to keep an eye on these skeletons.”
The village chief responded, and when they had left, he had the wagon guarded, he went back to the village, gathered all the men at home, picked out a dozen or so astute ones and had them drive the ox cart to order the coffins, while the rest went to the mountains to dig the graves.
The carriage stopped in front of the house.
Song Wangyue opened the curtain of the carriage and saw at a glance that the gate was locked.
Thinking that the family might have gone to the fields, she got down from the carriage and asked Xiao Zheng and the others to wait at the gate while she walked towards the outside of the village, and had not gone far when Song Ming ran up and called out to her, “Yue, Yue’er.”
He had just seen a carriage coming from the courtyard and deliberately looked at it a few more times, and when he saw Song Wangyue coming up from the carriage and heading out of the village, he ran over to call out to her.
Song Wangyue stopped in her tracks
Song Ming’s fear of her was still there, and when he saw her turn around, he took a step back in a panic and swallowed, “You, your family have all gone to the county town, saying, saying that something happened to the people from the Weiyuan Dart Board, and your family have all gone over to help.”