The sad cry of the second sister-in-law finally awakened everyone's conscience, and the young Yun clan began to agree to go to the mine to find out.

More than a dozen young people took the lead in standing up to show their attitude, and many more watched from the sidelines.

"These people are really looking for death!". The Yun Clan Patriarch, who was standing on the sidelines, thought in his heart, not at all worried that these people would be able to collect evidence against him.

In his opinion, the end of these people can only be that they not only can't find evidence of their crimes, but also end up with a problem, and finally follow in the footsteps of their predecessors and die!

"Pity the identity of a Huiyuan, the future is great, don't study well in the capital to prepare for the palace exam, you have to come to a remote village to ask for trouble, is it really interesting to come here and pretend to be talented? Even if you guess what happened, you can't wait for the moment when the result will come out! It's a pity that a Huiyuan's fame, how good would it be if it was given to my son? ”。

The patriarch began to nag repeatedly, he remembered all the people who followed Li Ling today, and when the matter was over, he would definitely take revenge on these people!

"Go back, go back, don't mess around with them!". The patriarch gave the order, and the other clansmen followed him and reluctantly left.

However, the seeds of distrust have been planted in the hearts of the villagers, and if the patriarch wants to command anyone in the clan as easily as before, I am afraid that it will be impossible.

"Come, let's drink a few bowls of water first, so that you can reduce the chance of getting sick!" The widow called everyone to her house, took out two buckets of hot springs from the backyard and put them in front of everyone.

"Thank you, Wang, sister-in-law, let's drink water while learning about the situation in the mine, everyone is from the Yun family, and they are all young strong laborers, have you ever entered the mine, what is the specific situation inside?". Lei Zhutou beckoned the young man to drink water and asked about the situation in the mine.

The so-called knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent will not slack off in a hundred battles. It's better to ask about the situation inside!

"Hey! I know very well what is going on in this mine, and not only did I participate in the mining of the entire mine, but I also participated in the closure of the mine a few months ago! ”。 A young man in his twenties spoke.

Everyone knows each other, and Lei Zhutou naturally knows that he is the distant nephew of the Yun clan patriarch, who has been doing miscellaneous labor in the mine all the time, and he does not participate in mining, but is only responsible for passing the word for the patriarch and supervising the work of the miners.

What he said should be the most truthful and credible.

"To say, these two mines were not from the clan at all, but the private property of the Yun Rich Family!" When the young man saw that everyone was staring at him, and was anxious to know what was going on, he confided in him all the things.

The rich man's family is rich, and his family not only owns many fields, but even the mountains behind the village were bought by his family.

In the early years, Wang Gonggong had a good way of collecting wealth, and his subordinates learned from each other, and the people of Dongchang unscrupulously collected wealth to curry favor with the emperor and the factory governor, and the people of Dongchang even extended their minions to the poor mountains and rivers of the three surnamed villages.

They forced the ancestors of the cloud rich lord to buy the title deed of the mountain for two thousand taels of silver.

originally thought that spending money to buy a burden, but the elders of the cloud rich lord didn't take it to heart.

Who knew that a few years ago, it was suddenly discovered at the foot of the mountain that the ore in the mountain actually contained a small amount of silver ore.

The question of whether to hand it over to the state or to mine it privately troubled the cloud rich man for a long time, and finally decided to mine it himself.

After the patriarch of the Yun clan asked for twenty percent of the profits, he was busy helping the Yun Rich Lord recruit workers, one percent of the profits were kept for himself, and the remaining one percent was in the clan.

They recruited people on a large scale like this, and the matter was very troublesome, and the matter of the silver mine in the village of the third surname was also spread in the local area, and the matter finally alarmed the government.

After inspecting it, the special craftsmen of the Yamen faction left disappointed, these ores contain a large number of impurities, and they are not suitable for large-scale mining at all.

The people of the Yamen gave up, but the Yun Cai and the others were ready to mine as if they had obtained a treasure.

No matter how small a mosquito is, it's not meat!

After mining, they sold the raw ore to the state capital, and the profits were divided.

Three years ago, people began to die in the village, and the rich man was afraid that the matter would implicate him, so two years ago he sold all the fields and property here, and went to the capital with gold and silver, and this courtyard was sold to the widow of the king at a low price.

Before leaving, he bought all the shares in the mine with the title deed of Dashan to the patriarch.

The patriarch completely occupied the two mines, and when he was about to make a big effort, he encountered a problem, and the strong men in the village fell ill a lot, and there was a serious shortage of labor.

These two mines lasted for more than a year and were finally closed!

It just so happened that this young man and a few young men of the same clan were in charge of the aftermath!

"It's easy to open two mines, but it's hard to find the bodies buried inside! If the body is really buried on the spot, this kind of thing can only be done by a confidant, and it is not easy to find a place to bury it! ”。

The Yun Clan Patriarch only trusted a few people such as the housekeeper, and these people were all diehard loyalists of the Patriarch, and it was even more difficult to ask them to speak than to wait for the sky!

The mine was filled with fragments of various ores, some of which had not yet had time to be transported.

With just twenty or so of them, it would take a while to clean up the ore, let alone find the place where the corpses were buried.

And Li Ling will stay here for more than ten days at most, otherwise it will affect his palace test.

"What should we do, if we stay in it for too long, we are afraid that we will also catch the disease!" Thunder Catcher began to sigh.

The hot spring water can only suppress the disease in the early stage of the disease, and if the disease breaks out, I am afraid that these people will only die.

The young man regretted his recklessness a little, and instead of helping the second sister-in-law Yun, he took his own life.

"If so, if everyone is embarrassed, or just about to forget it, I took my son to Beijing to complain, if the government intervenes, will the matter be easier to solve?" Yun's second sister-in-law hesitated a little, don't burden everyone for her family feud, she will really feel guilty for the rest of her life.

"No, it's definitely not going to work, I guess as long as we leave for a little longer, Patriarch Yun will find someone to clean up the scene!" After all, Lei Zhutou is a servant, and he has naturally seen many similar cases, many times because the evidence cannot be brought to justice after the evidence is destroyed.

"What the hell are we going to do to do that?". Everyone is a little embarrassed, they can't do anything, do they really want to watch the guilty go unpunished?

"I think there's a way we can try it!" Li Ling said after pondering for a moment.

The mine is located at the foot of the mountain, and the ground is just some land, and the only thing that is difficult is that it is covered with stones, and how to get out of these ore residues is a problem.

Li Ling asked Lei Zhutou to find dozens of green bamboos, hollowed out the middle, and then sharpened one side.

After opening the closed hole, Li Ling had the bamboo inserted deep into the ground, and then cut off the bamboo in the middle, leaving only the bamboo flush with the stone-covered ground.

"Li Huiyuan, what is your purpose in doing this?" After everything was done, Lei Zhutou asked, can you know where the patriarch hid his body with just a few bamboos?

"You go find two dogs, they'll help us find the right place!" Li Ling commanded Lei Zhutou.

Li Lingyi reminded everyone that they understood the truth.

Bamboos dig deep into the soil, and they carry the smell that is buried underground.

Dogs have the most sensitive sense of smell, and they will look for a bamboo that smells abnormal. Underneath the bamboo, it is most likely the place where the body is buried.

"Wonderful, why didn't I think of such a good idea, so that we only need to choose one or several places to clean up with a purpose!". Lei Zhutou said with sincere admiration.

When the two yellow hounds were released into the mine, they circled around the bamboo.

Eventually, both hounds chose one of the bamboos, barking around it and trying to use their sharp claws to dig through the rocks on the ground.

"This is it, let's clean it up now!"

Finally having a goal, the group began to clear the stone above, and after clearing a two-square-meter open space, a few young men began to dig with shovels.

But before they could dig a few times, they revealed a hand bone!

"Wow". Yun's second sister-in-law cried on the spot.

This is the corpse of her man, and next to the bone of this hand is a jade wrench, presumably the flesh on the hand has been eroded before falling off.

This jade wrench is something that Yun's second sister-in-law's husband's family heirloom is, and she naturally knows it! ・

"Leave this place to the government!" Li Ling said lightly.

With this evidence, the government will definitely intervene!

After leaving a few young people to guard the entrance of the cave, Li Ling and the others returned to the village, and Lei Zhutou rode a fast horse to the nearby yamen to complain!

These people turned back so quickly, which made the Yun clan patriarch even more relieved, these young people were just fooling around, and they couldn't pose any threat to him.

Two hours later, he finally realized how stupid his idea was.

The difference between the county government came to the village, and after a few people arrived at the entrance of the cave, the others went directly to the Yun clan chief's house.

Without saying anything, these tiger-wolf-like servants arrested the patriarch and rummaged through the cabinets in his house, as if they were looking for something.

"What are you going to do? Let me tell you, I am close friends with Master Qian Gu of the county government, so you are not afraid that I will tell the county magistrate what you have done? ”。 The family was turned over in a mess, and the patriarch finally couldn't sit still.

"Found it, we've found the ledger of the mine!" One of the officials said loudly.

The patriarch almost fainted when he heard this, and in addition to recording the income and expenditure, the account book also described the process of his secret murder of the miners.

I thought that no one would check these account books, but I didn't expect that it was his self-confidence that hurt him.

What awaits him will be the sanction of the law. (To be continued.) )