Chapter 182 Jade Ornament,

The back gate of Qingyang County is relatively desolate, the moat is between a mountain and the city gate, the back gate has always been closed, and no one is guarded, but it is not difficult to cross the city gate.

After Ye Xing and the others came to the moat, they found that there were already some officials protecting the corpse, and when they saw Ye Xing coming, they hurriedly gave way, and on the bank of the river, there was a corpse lying there.

The corpse was swollen by the river blister, but he could still recognize the deceased at a glance as Jia Youqian, his fat body looked even more obese at this time, and looking at his situation, there was no pain,

Ye Xing leaned over to inspect the corpse, but when he finished examining it, he didn't find any scars on Jia Youqian's corpse, not even a trace of it, except for Jia Youqian's sleeve was torn, and there was a piece missing,

Ye Xing was a little puzzled, and then he used a silver needle to check whether Jia Youqian was poisoned, but the silver needle pierced all over his body, and nothing was found, Jia Youqian was not poisoned and died.

So it is ruled out that Jia Youqian was poisoned and thrown into the moat.

"Who found the body?" Ye Xing got up and looked at everyone and asked,

At this time, a farmer-like person came to Ye Xing, but he was nervous and didn't know what to say.

"You found out." Ye Xing asked with a smile, he didn't want this person to be too nervous,

The farmer nodded: "Yes, this morning I was going to the opposite mountain to chop firewood for the winter, when I passed by the moat, I found that there was something floating on the river, I was curious, so I took a closer look, when I got closer, I found that it was a corpse, I was startled, and when I saw the appearance of the corpse, I found that it was Master Jia, and the yamen issued a notice early in the morning, I thought of here and prepared to go to the county office, but I met several friends of Lord Ye on the way, so I led them here." ”

After the farmer finished speaking, Di Xiaojie and the others nodded again and again, indicating that what he said was the truth.

Ye Xing nodded, then looked at the moat in a daze, and after a long time, he asked everyone: "What do you think is the difference between this moat." ”

The people looked at the moat, but they didn't notice any difference in it.

"The topography of the moat is from the top down, and its source is in the mountains to the northwest." Ye Xing said this sentence with a smile, and when Ye Xing said this, everyone was shocked,

If the topography of the moat is like this, then this place must not be the first scene of the crime, and Jia Youqian's body is likely to flow here from upstream.

So when they all thought of this, Ye Xing asked a few officials to guard Jia Youqian's body here, and then he himself led people upstream, the road around the moat was not very easy to walk, so they walked very hard,

At this time in late autumn, the reeds on both sides of the moat have turned white, and the reed poles are broken in the water when the wind blows, giving people a sense of desolation.

The autumn wind was blowing, making people feel cold, and Ye Xing regretted a little that he didn't wear one more piece of clothing when he came out.

They didn't go very fast, because they had to look for clues nearby, and they searched all the way, until they came to a strange place, and there was a strange place in that place, and there was a cave on the opposite hill, and the cave was halfway up the mountain, and the mountain was near the moat, and it was not easy to enter the cave.

There are many pine trees on the mountain below the cave, and there is a piece of cloth hanging on one of the pine trees, and the cloth is shining in the sunlight, and Ye Xing They can see it clearly, and the cloth is the piece that Jia Youqian is missing.

Everyone was a little excited when they saw this, so Ye Xing said to everyone: "Hua Zhimeng, Ai Fei'er and the two of them will go to the opposite cave with me to have a look, Di Xiaojie and Xu Ruoxuan, you will take everyone to search around here to see if you can find any useful clues." ”

Di Xiaojie and the others nodded, and then Ye Xing led Hua Zhimeng and Ai Fei'er to the other side of the river.

The cave is about more than twenty meters high, but this is not difficult for Ye Xing and them, the three of them are all masters in light skills, more than twenty meters is not a problem, after they tread water, they flew towards the cave,

Ye Xingfei jumped up and stepped on a pine tree, and then the support of the pine tree jumped up again, and he stepped on the hillside and jumped to the cave.

When the three of them came to the cave, they began to search.

The cave is not very deep, the entrance of the cave can accommodate two people side by side, Ye Xing found that there are some footprints at the entrance of the cave, looking at the shape and size of the footprints, it should be two people, Ye Xing asked Ai Feier to measure these footprints, and then checked again,

The two of them were supposed to be facing each other, and then one of them took a few steps forward, and then the footprints began to mess up,

And when Ye Xing saw this, he began to speculate about the situation at that time, Jia Youqian died in the moat, so it can be known that there must be someone here at that time Jia Youqian,

Jia someone was asked to come here, and then talked to that person, Jia Youqian walked a few steps forward, but was pushed down the cave by another person, fell into the moat and died.

These seem obvious, but when Ye Xing thought about it carefully, he found something that didn't make sense, first of all, Jia Youqian didn't know martial arts, although twenty meters was not high, but to let a person who didn't know martial arts come up, it was like climbing to the sky,

Hua Zhimeng also thought of this situation, she looked at Ye Xing and asked, "If Jia Youqian fell from here, how did he get up." ”

"Is there a place leading to this cave, and you can go up from below?" Ye Xing replied tentatively,

So the three of them hurriedly looked for other clues, but they searched the cave inside and out, but found no other exit.

There is only one exit, and there is a piece of cloth on Jia Youqian's clothes on the tree under the entrance of the cave, so it can be confirmed that Jia Youqian did fall from here at that time, but how did he get up?

Ye Xing was puzzled, and Hua Zhimeng and Ai Fei'er couldn't find any clues.

After Ai Fei'er finished measuring those footprints, he kicked the soil on the ground with his foot, and when he did so, he suddenly shouted with some surprise: "Brother Ye, look, there is a jade ornament under the soil of this cave." ”

Ye Xing hurriedly came to see, because the cave does not see water all year round, so the soil inside is very loose, and it is normal for one or two things to be buried under the soil, Ye Xing took out the jade ornament and took a closer look, and found that this was a man's ornament, which was hung around his waist.

Judging from the extent to which the jadeite ornament was buried, this jadeite ornament was not buried for a long time, but I don't know how this jadeite ornament was thrown here, and whether it has anything to do with this case.

For a while, doubts arose, making people scratch their heads,