Xu Ke was still in shock but Jiang Pengji seemed much calmer.
"What trace of a fight?" She passed over the water bags she was carrying to Xu Ke and told him, "Give the orders to the guards to pick up some wood branches and set up a cooking pot to boil the water. Once it cools down we can pour it back into the water bags. The water in the brook is not guaranteed to be clean, so it would be better to boil it…"
Xu Ke quickly picked up the water bags and he found two strange faces in Jiang Pengji's troop. Xu Ke responded, "The guards who were looking for branches came back to report that there were several wagons ahead on the road that had no one in them. There are quite a few dead bodies laying next to them. They did an examination and found out there were some furious fights not long ago. Laoye was worried it was caused by bandits hiding in the woods."