But her, and her, these two people, do you know who they are?
They're indeed Silver Armored Guards, but they were sent by Qian State to our Lord Zheng, though Lord Zheng will neither take them as concubines nor accept them, they already bear his mark.
Xue Three waved his hand,
and continued:
"First castrate them, then chop off their limbs, feed them to the dogs."
"Yes."
"Yes."
"No, Lord Xue, Lord Xue, I beg you for one more chance, Lord Xue, Lord Xue, Lord Xue, ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!"
Xue Three turned his back, took a mint leaf from the box, and slowly chewed it,
"Don't blame me for being ruthless, someone who can't even control their own hands and feet will only get everyone killed on a mission.
The bodies can be dragged out later, don't wash away the blood, tonight I'm sleeping here, I can only sleep soundly with a bit of a bloody smell."
...…
The next day,
Zheng Fan noticed Ke acting a bit strange during breakfast.
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing, my lord."
"Lost your voice? Caught a cold?"
"Perhaps I enjoyed the coolness too much last night."
"Go see the doctor at the pharmacy later."
"Thank you for your concern, my lord."
"Hmm."
Zheng Fan picked up a stick of fried dough, tearing it to dip in soy milk, when Fanli hurriedly arrived:
"My lord, something happened outside the northern city."
"The northern city?"
What could happen facing the snow plains?
Zheng Fan couldn't bother to continue eating, got up and left the residence with Fanli.
Riding on a Pixiu, they exited the northern city gate, and soon arrived at a location less than five miles from the northern city wall of Snow Sea Pass.
All around, there were already many Snow Sea Pass cavalry patrolling.
Here, there were hundreds of bodies wearing Jin people's clothing, stacked up very high and neatly.
The lowest layers were men, the middle were women, and on top were children's bones.
Stacked from small to large, forming a pyramid.
This was probably discovered by the patrol scouts who went out in the morning and reported it.
Just then, Liang Cheng rode back from the north, with Xue Three on horseback alongside him.
When Liang Cheng rode up to him, Zheng Fan lowered his voice and asked directly:
"What's going on? Didn't I tell you to pause the setup?
Even if you were setting up, you could have just made it look like something, but killing so many for framing?"
Liang Cheng immediately understood his lord's meaning and explained right away:
"My lord, this has nothing to do with me, I didn't do it."
Xue Three replied:
"My lord, these people are not from our Snow Sea Pass, look at their clothes, although they're Jin people's garments, they're mostly tattered; I believe they escaped back from the snow plains.
Specifically, I have already sent someone to a nearby small tribe of wild people to investigate, where I've developed a contact recently, so we should be able to get some intel."
Zheng Fan nodded at this.
Though the main force of the wild people who breached the pass had been mostly destroyed in Jin land, the large population and wealth they initially plundered were already driven back to the snow plains before Lord Zheng's assault on the Snow Sea Pass gate.
So, there's a large number of Jin people slaves on the snow plains now.
As Xue Three suggested, these stacked bodies should be those Jin people previously taken back to the snow plains.
It didn't take long, because the small wild tribe was nearby, and this time not only came the informant, but also the head of the small tribe himself.
Clearly, the contact within the tribe that Xue Three liaised with was arranged by this chieftain.
This small tribe is called the Hailan Tribe, with a population of only one or two thousand, adjacent to the Snow Sea Pass line.
Because it is so close to the Snow Sea Pass, this tribe is the most afraid, hence the chieftain maintains contact with the Yan people inside Snow Sea Pass through "informants."
But this time, he must have known something major happened, so he came personally, no longer daring to just send an informant to pass the message.
"Chieftain Hailan Yanggu of the Hailan Tribe greets Lord Zheng, wishing you prosperity and celestial protection."
Zheng Fan still rode on the Pixiu, his head slightly lowered after receiving the salute, then pointed to the stacked Jin people corpses,
and asked:
"Who killed them."
Zheng Fan asked very directly.
"Reporting to Lord Zheng, it was the people of the Naman Tribe who killed them last night, and it was they who stacked the corpses up."
"Naman Tribe?"
Zheng Fan squinted slightly, saying:
"Sounds somewhat familiar."
"Reporting to Lord Zheng, the head of the Naman Tribe was conferred as the Naman King by Yan State, and is..."
"Pa!"
Sitting on the Pixiu, upon hearing this, Zheng Fan whipped directly down, striking the face of Hailan Yanggu, leaving a bloodstain on his face.
Hailan Yanggu dared not complain, or even cried out in pain, but immediately kneeled down, kowtowing continuously, while shouting:
"The Naman Tribe was originally a medium-sized tribe on the snow plains, with a tribe population of more than twenty thousand, archers nearly eight thousand; recently, it has expanded rapidly due to absorbing several tribes whose warriors perished in Jin land.
These Jin people slaves, no, these Jin people, escaped from the Naman Tribe last night, trying to flee back to the Snow Sea Pass, but were chased and shot here by the Naman Tribe's cavalry."
"Then why stack them up?" Zheng Fan asked.
The Naman Tribe, if not mistaken, their chief should have been present when a peace alliance was declared here, which is why the tribe's name sounds familiar to him.
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