When Bai Li and his wife rushed to Niu's house, they happened to meet Gao Zhan accompanying a doctor out of Niu's house. Looking at each other, Gao Zhan motioned for them to wait for a while with a glint in his eyes, and then stood at the door of Niu's house and talked to the doctor.

"How to"

The doctor shook his head lightly and said, "That's all it takes for the past two days." The calf hasn't been found yet."

Gao Zhan nodded.

The doctor sighed heavily and said, "Little Niu, this child has always been filial, and he will never leave his grandmother and go by himself." It was not easy for his grandmother to take care of him from such a little bit to the young man he is now. You also saw the situation just now, the calf and grandma are sick like that, but the calf is still thinking about it. If this boy doesn't come back, his grandmother will die. ”

"Don't worry, uncle, we will definitely try our best to find the calf."

"How can this good calf disappear, isn't he on an errand in the Yamen, this person can still be lost in the Yamen."

"Uncle, please, I'll send you back first." Gao Zhan's expression was a little embarrassed.

"No need, I know the way home, I can go back by myself. You are a friend of the calf, you will temporarily help him take care of the grandmother, this person is old, and when he is about to leave, he can't leave people. I have a lot of things to do at home, and if there are fewer things, I'll stay and take care of them. I also watched the calf grow up, and I felt uncomfortable. ”

"Don't worry, uncle, we will definitely find the calf."

"Uncle believes in you." The doctor patted Gao Zhan's hand twice, "Uncle knows you, you are the best catcher in our Huaxi Town, you said that you can find the calf, then you will definitely be able to find it." They're your friends, don't give them away, I'll just go back myself. ”

Seeing the doctor walk away, Gao Zhan walked up to Bai Li and his wife and asked, "Did you all hear it?"

"I heard it, the calf was gone, and it was missing in the yamen. The calf's grandmother was sick and seemed to be very sick. ”

"Yes" Gao Zhan nodded, "At first, we all thought that the calf was worried about his grandmother's condition and secretly returned home, but it wasn't until we found out that the calf's portable saber was that we realized that something was wrong." ”

"The calf cares about his saber very much, and he will never leave the saber in the county government selfishly, unless something happens to him."

"It was the saber that Maverick's father used to use, and the handle was engraved with their family's surname, Niu. Since the death of Father Niu, the saber has been kept in the treasury of the Yamen, until the calf arrived at the Yamen, and Master Xin asked me to take out the saber and hand it over to the calf himself. Since the day Maverick got his saber, the knife has never left him. He even had to hold him when he slept. We went to the prison first, questioned the prisoners who were still being held in the prison, and confirmed the time when the calf left.

According to our calculations, the calf disappeared at the distance from the prison to the county government gate, and the place where he was found to have fallen with his saber was only a hundred steps away from the county government gate.

You and Mr. Bai also know this distance, and there is nothing else around except for the house and the courtyard wall. We walked along that road many times and found nothing suspicious. The county government searched inside and out, but I didn't find the calf. We also asked the brothers who were guarding the yamen, but they did not see the calf coming out of the yamen, nor did the calf return home, nor did he come to visit his grandmother. He just disappeared inexplicably, gone. ”

"Has anything like this happened in the yamen before?"

"No, nothing so strange has ever happened." Gao Zhan shook his head, "It's because it has never happened that Master Xin feels that something is wrong, so I asked me to go to Baifu to find Mr. Bai, and I want to ask Mr. to help calculate and see where this little cow went." ”

"Husband, can you figure it out" Bai Li turned his head to look at Bai Ze, "If you can figure it out, help them." ”

"Yes, Mr. Bai, the calf is a good boy with integrity, and he shouldn't have anything wrong. There is also Granny Niu, she is kind and charitable, and has done good things for the villagers for a lifetime, she can't be a good person without good rewards, and she can't even look at her favorite grandson. Mr. Bai, count me Gao Zhan begging you, can you help their grandchildren. ”

"A plum tree was planted in the place where the calf disappeared"

"Mr. Plum Tree asked about Plum Tree"

"Have you ever planted it?"

"I heard the old man in the yamen mention that when the cattle were about to catch, he planted a green plum. Oh, this cow catches fast is the father of the calf. He was only a teenager when he was a fast catcher, and unlike a calf, he practiced martial arts all year round, and his physique should be similar to mine. One year he went out on an errand and came back with a green plum tree. Everyone thought it was rare, so they asked him to plant the green plum tree in the courtyard of the yamen, that is, near the place where the calf saber was found. ”

"Is that green plum tree alive?"

"It should be alive, I heard the old man in the government mention it, saying that the tree was very good when it was first planted, although everyone has never seen what the green plum tree looks like, but Niu Yu quickly swore that the green plum tree he planted would definitely be able to bear fruit. They joked with him that if the plum tree bore fruit, they would give him a copper plate. It is said that the green plum tree was so beautiful that it looked like a beautiful girl from a distance, so that everyone liked to run under the tree when they had nothing to do, imagining what it would be like to make plum wine from the green plums that grew from that tree. ”

"Did the green plum tree bear fruit?"

"Probably not. According to the time calculation, the green plum tree was only a small sapling when Niu Yu Kuai brought it back, and it grew up after Niu Yu Kuai's careful care. The old man in the yamen said to us a very strange thing, he said that people raise trees, trees raise people, and people and trees flatter each other. If it weren't for the fact that the cattle were about to die, the green plum tree might have been able to bear fruit. ”

In other words, the green plum did not bear fruit, at least not before the cow catches the fast, that is, the calf's father has not borne fruit. What happened to the green plum tree, I remember that I have been to the Yamen several times, but I have never seen any green plum trees. ”

"Dead, withered." Gao Zhan sighed and said, "After the accident of Niu Catch, the green plum tree died for no reason, and everyone said that the green plum tree knew that Niu Yu was about to be gone, and followed him away." I heard the old man in the government say that on the night when the cow was about to be buried, a dry thunder suddenly fell from the sky, and it happened to hit the green plum tree, and the tree was cut off by force. Everyone was saddened, so they uprooted the green plum and put it in front of the grave where the cow caught it. After that, the old man didn't say anything, and we don't know. That green plum tree should be dead, why did Mr. suddenly ask about this tree, could it be that this green plum tree is also related to the disappearance of the calf?"