Half River Autumn Moon and River Spring [Rat and Cat]

"Unlucky?" Yan Bei frowned falsely, and asked again, "Why is it unlucky?"

Seeing that there were no other customers in the shop, the shopkeeper smacked his mouth and said: "That village was fine at first, but in the past few years, many young people in the village have disappeared. It is said that they have gone out to make money. It's normal to want to find a way out, but none of the people who have gone out have come back these years, hey, this is a bit abnormal, no matter how you say it, there will always be one or two who can't stand it for a year or so The people who come back to visit relatives or something? But no, there is no one! In the current village, it is either an old man who has no power to restrain a chicken, or a yellow-mouthed child who doesn't understand anything. It's strange. Very good!"

The two of Zhanbai glanced at each other, the situation was exactly the same as what Yan Bei said before.

Yan Bei continued to ask: "How could it be? Don't their family members know where they went?"

The shopkeeper said: "It's just that no one knows about it. They just said that they went to make a lot of money, and then a more intrusive thing happened a few days ago... that is, one of them came back, and it seems to be the village chief." son of..."

"Come back? Shouldn't that be a good thing? How did you infiltrate people?"

The shopkeeper sighed and said, "Then it would be a good thing to return to Zhao intact, but this... well, the one who came back here is no longer a complete person..."

"Not...a whole person?"

The shopkeeper gestured a few times with his hands: "Broken legs, no hands, blind eyes, tongue cut out, and madness. It is said that they were found in the mountains, and the government sent someone to send them back. I can't speak. Seeing everyone is like a mad dog, and my own father doesn't even recognize him, tsk tsk tsk, tell me, is it miserable?"

"Why? Didn't the government send anyone to investigate what's going on?"

"Check it out! Speaking of our county magistrate, he's still a newcomer, and it's a big deal in a small place like ours. The new official took office three times, and he's the one who leads the yamen himself. After going from house to house to inquire about the case for a few days, even a commoner like me, who has never seen an official in half his life, is familiar with him."

Zhan Zhao said: "Oh? The county master came out to handle the case in person? This is really rare!"

"Isn't that right! But this kind of evil case, probably won't find any results, and in the end, it won't be settled. This Mr. Li, I think he is just acting as a facade to set up a plea for the people. The impression of a good official with a high moral character."

"Master Li?"

"That's right, it's our newly appointed county magistrate, Li Cheng's heir, Master Li." The shopkeeper thought for a while and felt that what he said just now was inappropriate, and hurriedly said, "I have a predestined relationship with the others, so I'm lying A few words from Mr. Li, you guys, don’t take it to heart, just treat it like I’m talking nonsense, and don’t talk nonsense to outsiders.”

Yan Bei said: "Don't worry, shopkeeper."

"Hey, why do you have guests so early today!"

There was a shout from the door, the shopkeeper looked up, and immediately waved: "Oh, my little brother, you are really my own brother, you just came now, hurry up, go to the back kitchen and help your sister! "

"Alright, let's go right away!" The waiter in the shop was very quick.

The shopkeeper had a second thought, and hurriedly greeted again: "Come back, let me ask you something, do you know who 'Ye Hong' is? Hong is a stream of clear water!"

The shop waiter turned his head, his eyes rolled around: "Ye Hong? Brother-in-law, are you talking about the new Ye Hong, Mr. Ye?"

The shopkeeper's high-five was like enlightenment: "I said it sounds familiar! That's right, it's him!"

The shop clerk scratched his head: "You asked him what he was doing, isn't he already dead?"

Hearing this, the three of them looked at Ye Hong one after another, but they saw that Ye Hong didn't seem to hear what the waiter said, his eyes were fixed, and his mouth kept chattering.

The shopkeeper waved the waiter to go to the back kitchen to help, and then turned around and said to a few people: "Just now my brother-in-law said something that reminded me, could it be that the person who asked was Master Ye who unfortunately fell off the cliff a few days ago?" ?”

"Falling off a cliff? Master?"

"Yeah, it's a pity to say that Master Ye and Mr. Li are said to have been classmates for many years, and the two of them came to our Mojiao to take office together. Tsk tsk, he is a high-spirited and handsome young man. He should have a bright future, but the future When investigating the case in Grave Village for a few days, Mr. Ye accidentally slipped off the cliff. The Luojiang River is below. The river is turbulent and has many eddies. That's basically the end of the game, hey, you say, how pitiful!"

"After falling into the water, didn't the government send someone to look for it?"

"Why didn't I find it? Mr. Li is looking for it day and night like crazy, but the Luojiang River is not an ordinary river. Most of the corpses have been washed away."

Speaking of this, the shopkeeper suddenly heard a commotion at the door, he hurriedly got up and took a look, he patted Yan Bei's back so familiarly, and said, "Look at what I said, Master Li brought someone to investigate the case again." Already!"

Zhan Zhao, Bai Yutang, and Yan Bei heard this, and looked towards the door together, only to see a handsome young man walking in with a few strong men dressed as officials, the young man at the head had bloodshot eyes, his face was exhausted, But the clothes are very clean and refreshing. At first glance, he looks like a well-educated person. He is so elegant and handsome that people can't help but take a second look.The officials behind him also had dark eye circles, presumably the result of not having a good rest for many days.

When the shopkeeper saw the young man coming in, he hurried over to salute and said, "Caomin join Master Li."

Mr. Li raised the shopkeeper's arm, indicating that he doesn't need to be polite, and then he was about to speak, but his throat seemed to be hoarse, and he couldn't make a sound. Apologetically, he said, "I'm sorry, Shopkeeper Sun, my throat is a little hoarse, cough, cough, I still want to ask if there is any news about our master... or about the grave village case... cough cough..."

It turned out that the shopkeeper's surname was Sun, and after chatting for so long, Yan Bei forgot to ask for his name, which made Yan Bei a little embarrassed.

Shopkeeper Sun said: "You guys have worked hard to investigate the case these days, why don't you go to the shop and have a cup of tea and have a rest."

Mr. Li just waved his hand to refuse, but the shopkeeper Sun suddenly changed the subject and said: "Ah, by the way, speaking of Master Ye, the guest officials who just came to the shop are also inquiring about Master Ye. What acquaintance?"

After speaking, he pointed to Zhi Zhan Zhao and the others.

Yan Bei thought to himself, the shopkeeper is really...too enthusiastic.

Mr. Li looked at them when he heard the words. He just glanced at them casually. Suddenly, Mr. Li opened his eyes wide as if he saw something shocking. Then he opened his mouth slightly, wanting to say something. The whole mouth trembled uncontrollably, and then the whole body began to tremble slightly.

The few officials behind him didn't respond when they heard the shopkeeper's words, but when they saw Mrs. Li's attitude was a bit wrong, they all turned their heads to look at Zhan Zhao's table. Seeing this, everyone suddenly had different expressions!

It took a long time for Mr. Li to cry out, "Ye..."

He swallowed hard, his throat was so uncomfortable that he almost vomited: "I knew it, I knew it, you are not dead yet!"

After saying that, he stumbled over and hugged Ye Hong who was still dazed on the stool.

But none of the officials behind him followed, they just stood there frowning, and some even held their sabers calmly, as if they were vigilant.

After Ye Hong was suddenly embraced by someone, he finally came back to his senses. Seeing a man hugging him with red eyes, his face turned pale: "You... who are you?"

Master Li raised his head, wiped his face and said, "Ah Hong, it's me, look, it's me!"

Ye Hong stared at him blankly, and said after a while, "Do you know who I am?"

"Ah Hong, you...what's the matter with you? How come, why even I..."

Yan Bei said: "Lord Li, when we found Mr. Ye, he lost his memory and couldn't remember anything except his own name."

It was only then that Mr. Li noticed that there were other people sitting beside Ye Hong. He paused, took a deep breath, got up and said, "Thank you for saving my master, Li Cheng, magistrate of Xiamojiao County, Heir, there is no repayment for the grace of saving life, please accept my worship first."

Zhan Zhao hurriedly supported Master Li who was about to kneel down, and said, "My lord, you are an official of the imperial court. Wouldn't kneeling like this be a curse to us!"

Master Li looked up at Zhan Zhao and the others, and saw that these three people were outstanding in appearance, they looked like dragons and phoenixes among them at first glance, and he stopped forcing them to salute.

Ye Hong stared at him, and slowly asked, "Tell me, who are you?"

Mr. Li looked back at Ye Hong with soft eyes. He brushed Ye Hong's beard and hair on his forehead with a smile, and said, "It doesn't matter if you don't remember. Let's get to know each other again from now on. My surname is Li, my name is Chengsi, and my name is Li." Yi Yan, you went over and called me Sanxing. You and I were classmates for ten years, and came to Mojiao after the middle school. I became the county magistrate of Mojiao, and you are my chief bookkeeper."

Ye Hong began to mumble the words "Li Chengsi", and Zhan Zhao heard them clearly. It turned out that these three words were also what Ye Hong kept repeating when he was in a daze.

Seeing this scene, the officer at the side frowned slightly, and asked shopkeeper Sun, "Shopkeeper, what's going on?"

"This... Boss Zheng, the villain doesn't know too well. The portrait of Master Ye you gave earlier is indeed different from this young master's body shape, and the villain didn't recognize it all at once! Thinking about it now, the face There is a bit of a resemblance, but how could Master Ye be so thin?"

The person called Zheng Butou didn't say a word, but slightly relaxed his grip on the handle of the knife.

"Guys, this is not a convenient place to talk, can you follow me back to the yamen? You saved Master Ye, out of love and reason, I should treat you well."

"Master Li, you are welcome. Since Mr. Ye has already found a place to come, we will not disturb your reunion, let alone we still have..." Yan Bei was about to reject Master Li's invitation, when Zhan Zhao suddenly interrupted, " Mr. Li's kindness is hard to refrain from, it just so happened that we just came to Mojia, we are not familiar with the place, we want to find a more stable place to stay, it would be the best if we could live in the yamen temporarily, it's too much trouble."

Yan Bei swallowed the rest of the words in embarrassment, thinking to himself, what exactly does Master Zhan want to do?Why don't you go to the yamen instead of doing serious things?He looked at Bai Yutang as if asking, and Bai Yutang smiled and poured him a cup of tea.