There was no need to go to Jimen Pass to do anything, Ye Mao simply stayed in Ningling and guarded his father's grave, he built a shed in front of his father's grave, lived in it every day, and asked his son to bring him food every day.

And Li Xin's return to the southwest was not a big deal, so he simply stayed in Yejiazhuang to stay, after all, at this time, most of the people of Meihuawei were looking for him all over the world.

It is worth mentioning that after this incident, Shen Gang strictly investigated the dark personnel who followed Li Xin back to Beijing this time, there were only twenty or thirty people in total, and the scope was not very large, and he quickly found out two or three spies who communicated with the imperial court.

It's a terrible ratio.

The entourage that followed Li Xin from the southwest to the capital was no more than twenty or thirty people, and these were all Li Xin, or Shen Gang's most trusted people, and one percent of these people were bought by the imperial court, so it can be seen that this dark department under Li Xin has been infiltrated very seriously, and even there will be many problems in the southwest.

In the face of this kind of problem, there is naturally no kindness and mercy, Li Xin didn't even meet face-to-face, so he asked Shen Gang to deal with these two people, and all the people who have friends with these two people in the dark department must be investigated inside and out, and the entire dark department must also conduct a thorough investigation.

To be honest, when Shen Gang knelt in front of Li Xin and put the results in front of him, Li Xin was still a little angry.

This dark department, he began to slowly raise in the dark from the third year of Taikang, although it was later handed over to Shen Gang to take care of, but at the beginning of the formation, he personally formed, most of the selected personnel bought some children from the tooth shop, or orphans adopted from Shantang, all the people in the entire dark department except for Shen Gang, before the others entered the dark department, the age was from eleven to fifteen years old.

Li Xin raised them for three or four years, and they barely had some use.

Up to now, it has been more than ten years since the formation of the dark department, and in the past ten years, at least three or five hundred people have grown up in the dark minister, and it is not an exaggeration to say that Li Xin raised them, but even so, this hand that Li Xin hid behind his back was still seriously corrupted by the imperial court.

Shen Gang half-knelt in front of Li Xin, bowed his head and said, "Master Hou, the more than 20 people who accompanied us have all been sent back to Jincheng by their subordinates, and their subordinates will redeploy people from Jincheng to protect the safety of Lord Hou." ”

The Marquis of Jing'an was expressionless, and snorted: "Most of them are children brought up by you, and the people who came to Ningling with me were also hand-selected by you. ”

Shen Gang immediately knelt on his knees and said in fear: "My subordinates are derelict in their duties. ”

"After today, my subordinates will definitely investigate the traitors in the dark department, and there will be another spy of the court, and my subordinates will come to see him!"

The Marquis of Jing'an was expressionless, and slowly spoke: "You tell them that if you take the initiative to complain, you can still have a way to live, otherwise I can buy them from the tooth shop, or I can kill them." ”

Shen Gang immediately bowed his head.

"My subordinates understand."

"Go ahead."

Li Xin closed his eyes and said slowly: "Keep an eye on the capital, if there is any major matter in the imperial court, send it to me immediately." ”

"Yes."

Shen Gang said this and slowly exited Li Xin's room.

After the big man walked away, Li Xin also got up and left the room, combed his hair briefly, changed into cloth clothes, carried a pot of wine, and walked towards the ancestral tomb of the Ye family.

The ancestral tomb is not very far from Yejiazhuang, and it didn't take long for Li Xin to see Ye Mao's reed, the new Chen Guogong, who was sitting in the reed, holding a military book, studying carefully.

Li Xin walked over, sat opposite Ye Mao, and said with a smile: "The little grandfather back then also knew that he studied seriously, and Master Ye had a spirit in the sky, and most of them would be gratified by it." ”

Ye Mao put down the military book and slowly exhaled a breath.

"It's just a relief from loneliness."

Ye Mao was a little bully when he was a child, he never couldn't be idle for a moment when he was in his teens and twenties, and he jumped out very much, basically no one except Ye Sheng could restrain him, and it was even more difficult to let him sit down and read a book, and now although he is in his thirties, let him meditate here for three years, it is still a little difficult for him.

"You don't have to get used to it, and you don't have to force yourself to live here."

Li Xin sat down and stretched.

"If you sit here, Senior Brother Ye may not be better off in heaven, you should be filial, but you don't have to stick to the rules."

Ye Mao sighed slowly.

"As Uncle Shi said, just ask for peace of mind, I didn't accompany my father much when he was alive, and now I'm idle, so I'll spend more time with his old man and grandfather here."

Li Xin put the wine in front of Ye Mao and said, "It's cold in winter, take a sip?" ”

Ye Mao shook his head.

"You can't drink alcohol in mourning."

Li Xin glanced at him, raised his head and took a sip.

At that time, when Li Xin first came to Ningling, Ye Mao accompanied him for a drink, which was regarded as a drunken solution to a thousand sorrows, but since then, this black-faced big man has strictly adhered to the rules of filial piety, and does not drink alcohol or eat meat.

When the two of them were chatting under the reeds, a group of more than a dozen fast horses galloped over from Ningling County, the first one was a thin man in his forties, he was dressed in green clothes, and lived in a place hundreds of steps away from the ancestral tomb of the Ye family, and then walked towards the ancestral tomb of the Ye family on foot.

Ye Mao stretched out his head and glanced out of the reeds, and immediately got up and walked out, facing the middle-aged man.

Li Xin had his back to the door, looked back at this, got up from the futon, and greeted him.

Ye Mao bowed respectfully to the middle-aged man.

"Fourth uncle."

Li Xin also arched his hand and said, "Senior brother." ”

The person who came was naturally the Hanzhong general Ye Lan, because he was in Hanzhong and couldn't get out, so even after receiving the news of his eldest brother's death, he didn't come back from Hanzhong, and now almost two months have passed since Ye Ming's death, and the fourth child of the Ye family finally rushed back from Ningling.

He bowed back to Li Xin, and then looked up at the grave behind the two, his eyes a little red.

"The eldest brother was seriously ill, and I couldn't come back to see him until the eldest brother left, and I didn't come back to see him for the last time."

Ye Laosi had tears in his eyes.

"I'm sorry for my big brother."

He staggered and slowly walked towards Ye Ming's grave.

Li Xin and Ye Mao both got out of the way, not blocking his way, and the two of them looked at Ye Lan's stumbling back, and they both felt something in their hearts.

Ye Mao was silent for a while, and then asked, "Uncle Shi, shouldn't the fourth uncle lead troops in Hanzhong at this time......

"You ask me, how do I know?"

Li Xin looked at Ye Lan's back and sighed slowly.

"Most of them are the Son of Heaven, and they don't feel at ease with Senior Brother Ye anymore."