There is a land temple near Qingliu Pass, which has long been abandoned and overgrown with weeds. Ye Yu followed Wang Zhutou into the temple, and then under the recommendation of Liu Yuanshan, Ye Yu met with the new magistrate Yang Zheng.

"You are Ye Yu?" Yang Zheng, who was in his thirties, put his hands behind his back and looked down at Ye Yu with interest.

"Xiaomin exactly!"

Yang Zheng first glanced at Ye Yu, then nodded and spoke; "County Lieutenant Liu didn't mention you in front of this official! Before this official came to Qingliu County, he had heard a little about you! ”

Ye Yu glanced at Liu Yuanshan, and then solemnly saluted: "I can be remembered by adults, and the people are afraid!" ”

"Although he is alone, he can start from scratch; Although he is rich, he can be benevolent and righteous, and it is really difficult for the official not to remember it if he wants to be such a young descendant! Okay, now that you have official business, you can step aside for the time being, and then talk to you when the official is at leisure! Yang Zheng still has a flat face, which makes people unable to see joy, anger and sorrow.

Then Ye Yu retreated to the side in a witty way, but he didn't leave there. Although he doesn't know anything about investigating cases, he should have a long experience since he came.

Besides, many things are one law and ten thousand laws, although I didn't get in-depth into the subjects of case analysis and investigation in the military academy, I also watched a lot of police and bandit film and television dramas.

Ye Yu listened quietly on the side, and also looked around the scene of the crime aimlessly. He reported the situation of the deceased to Yang Zheng and Liu Yuanshan, and the scribe behind him recorded the autopsy.

Although the identity of the deceased is not known at present, it is believed that he was between seventeen or eighteen years old. With a simple shirt and thick calluses on his palms, it can be seen that this young man's family background should be ordinary people.

The sleeve of the left arm has been torn off, and a black birthmark the size of a copper coin appears on the elbow of the dark arm. When Ye Yu saw this birthmark, his pupils couldn't help but dilate slightly, and he lost his mind for a short time.

Then he slowed down, and then his gaze fell on the man's abdomen. At this time, the clothes on his abdomen had been lifted, and Ye Yu clearly saw the blackened blood marks on the side.

Then the corpse was carried out by the officials, and the others also retreated with Yang Zheng. Because Liu Yuanshan and Yang Zheng wanted to go to the county government to handle the handover procedures, the two left the Land Temple first.

When Ye Yu walked out of the Land Temple in a wheelchair, a breeze suddenly blew in his face, which made him shiver, and the cold wind of late autumn was really chilling.

And just when he inadvertently lowered his eyes, he found that on the back of his right hand on both knees, a yellow petal was falling. This made him feel a little surprised, and his heart said that this desolate land temple must have flowers.

But even if there is, now that all the flowers in the late autumn season have withered, what flowers will bloom at this time?

Ye Yu looked around for the source of the petals, and finally saw a tall shrub on the west side of the courtyard.

This shrub is three or four meters high, Ye Yu pushed his wheelchair to the front, looked at it for a while but didn't know the name of the shrub, so he twisted his eyebrows and asked She Dongcheng behind him: "Dong Cheng, this is ......"

"Oh, this is the yellow locust tree, this season is the time when the locust flowers bloom!"

"Oh? I have only seen white locust flowers, but I have never seen yellow locust flowers...... "He grew up in an orphanage in later generations, and he has only seen white locust flowers in orphanages, so it is the first time he has seen yellow locust flowers."

She Dongcheng immediately raised his head, looked at the yellow locust tree and said, "Big brother, don't you know, in addition to the yellow and white colors of this locust tree, I heard that there are red locust flowers overseas!" ”

Ye Yu turned his face sideways when he heard this, and smiled curiously: "You know a lot!" ”

"Ahem, I also heard from a beggar!" She Dongcheng was a little embarrassed by what Ye Yu said, so he scratched his head and smiled embarrassedly.

"Oh? Dong Cheng, aren't you fooling me? Ye Yu was stunned when he heard this, and said in his heart, how could this beggar know about overseas.

She Dongcheng saw that Ye Yu didn't believe him, so he patted his chest and said solemnly: "Big brother, what I said is true, I saved a beggar three years ago, and then I learned about these overseas things during the chat......

"Do you know this person's name and where he is now?"

"Well, I don't know about this, and I didn't ask ...... at the time."

When it comes to overseas, a sprout in Ye Yu's heart is slowly growing. He wanted to ask some more details, but seeing She Dongcheng's appearance of not knowing everything, he could only sigh slightly in his heart, and he didn't ask any more.

His gaze returned to the yellow sel-petals on the back of his hand, and after Ye Yu looked at the petals for a moment, his eyebrows frowned slightly, as if something was haunting him.

After muttering for a while, he motioned to She Dongcheng to push him out of the Land Temple.

After returning home, Ye Yu locked himself in the study and thought about it for a long time. Looking back on today's experience, it is really colorful, because of a bet and Liu Qianyu played a hooligan, and then because of the Qingliu Pass incident, he withdrew from the so-called scribe gathering in advance.

But what puzzled him the most was whether the culprit of the murder in the Land Temple was related to the man in black who helped him in the first place.

Ye Yu has never let go of his doubts, he doesn't understand why this man in black of unknown origin helped him in the first place. Is it just to use his hands to eradicate the bandits in Yuping Mountain? But this explanation is also too far-fetched.

Imagine if the map is handed over to the government, how can it not break the truth of Yuping Mountain. Could it be that it was just as Yuepo Pavilion said that night, just to ask if he had a birthmark on his left arm?

A series of puzzles and doubts made him irritable and couldn't think of the reason, so he put the mystery aside afterwards. But today's incident in the Land Temple made him take out this mystery again.

But the more this happened, the more he felt that the matter was becoming more complicated. These clips of the past, replaying in his mind like a movie, seem to have captured something.

……

The dim light shook the fire as the cold wind blew in from the broken window lattice.

This is a courtyard that has been abandoned for a long time, but the ruins of cobwebs are lit by the flickering lights, and it can be seen that this was once a dart hall for a dart game.

At this time, there were more than a dozen people standing in this dilapidated dart hall, one of whom was kneeling on the floor with his hair scattered, I don't know if it was caused by the swaying lights or his body swaying, and the shadow reflected by the lights was trembling.

Everyone standing in the dart hall was silent, and they all turned their eyes to the thin man sitting in the center. And under the light, this thin man is She Dongcheng.

She Dongcheng glanced at Rhubarb who was kneeling on the ground, and now he had learned the whole process from Rhubarb's mouth, and he was very angry at Rhubarb's betrayal, so he escorted Rhubarb here after he came back.

Because this is the place where they once gathered, and they also worshipped in front of the statue of Guan Gong here.

"Do you know the consequences of betraying your brother?" She Dongcheng scolded in a cold voice.

"Boss, Rhubarb, I didn't betray my brother!" Although Rhubarb's body trembled with fear, there was still disbelief in his words.

"Say it again!" Hearing this, She Dong Cheng got up, pointed at the rhubarb and asked angrily.

Rhubarb swallowed his saliva in panic, and then raised his head calmly and said, "Boss, from beginning to end, my Rhubarb only recognizes you, as for that Ye Yu is not our brother, let alone betrayed!" ”

Bang!

As soon as Rhubarb's words fell, She Dongcheng kicked him out two meters away, causing Rhubarb to spit blood, and he tried to get up several times but had no strength.

She Dongcheng took a few steps to the front, squatted down and said sharply at the rhubarb: "Do you recognize it as your business, but I She Dongcheng admit it!" I warned you that day in Toad Pond, but you still don't repent. Now that you have done such a dirty thing, do you still have the face to say this? ”

Although the fat man on the side wanted to dissuade him, after learning what Rhubarb had secretly done, he also felt that Rhubarb's betrayal was unforgivable.

He came to the front step by step, and said with a complicated expression at Rhubarb: "Rhubarb, you are really too much this time!" Even if you don't treat the owner as a brother, but in the case of Yuping Mountain, the boss was almost killed by the bandits, and in the final analysis, it was not because of your betrayal? ”

"I ......"

"Enough!" She Dongcheng didn't want to listen to Rhubarb anymore, so he waved his hand and interrupted: "Since you have done it, you should accept the punishment!" Fatty, you know what to do! ”

"Boss spares his life...... Boss spare your life! Rhubarb was in tears at the moment, when they were in front of the statue of Guan Gong in this dart hall, they had made an oath that if they betrayed, they would cut off their hands and feet as punishment.

The fat man couldn't bear to persuade him: "Boss, Rhubarb is just a moment of confusion, so you can spare him......"

She Dongcheng carried everyone behind his back, silently for a moment, then took a deep breath, closed his eyes and said in a deep voice: "Don't talk nonsense, use torture!" ”

“…… Be! ”

"Dong Cheng, forget it!" Just as the fat man turned around reluctantly, ready to inflict heavy punishment on Rhubarb, Ye Yu's voice came from outside the dart hall.

Then everyone took advantage of the moonlight to see Qiulan pushing Ye Yu into the dart game. Seeing this, She Dongcheng hurriedly greeted him, and looked at Ye Yu with a complicated expression: "Big brother, this matter ...... it"

"Forget it, I have already said before that this matter will not be pursued. Besides, now that you and I are living well, why bother about this! I was worried that you wouldn't listen to my orders, so I hurried over! Ye Yu waved his hand, signaling that She Dongcheng didn't need to say anything.

"Thank you!"

She Dongcheng was silent for a moment, and finally the corners of his mouth trembled slightly, and he said two words very gratefully. Ye Yu nodded comfortingly, then patted She Dongcheng's arm, and didn't say anything more.

She Dongcheng then followed Ye Yu's previous instructions and did not torture Rhubarb, but expelled him from the Ye family's caravan and was not allowed to appear in Qingliu County.

This kind of punishment is equivalent to no punishment for Rhubarb, and now he has ended up with two different people, and it is difficult to get along in Qingliu County.

Instead of worrying about it every day, leaving Qingliu County is not a good thing for him.

After dealing with the rhubarb matter, Ye Yu glanced sideways at Qiulan, and then said to She Dongcheng: "Let the fat man send Qiulan back, and you will go to Zuichun Mansion with me!" ”