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Chapter 85: The Death of Du Yuyan 4

After the servant wiped Du Yuyan's body clean, Yelu Qi and his followers carried out the previous incident again...

This time Du Yuyan closed her eyes and did not wake up again.

Du Yuyan was just 28 years old, and her face looked like an old man when she died, which was really difficult for ordinary people to distinguish.

Yelu Qi also had to do something about Du Yuyan's body, digging a deep pit and burying it on the spot.

Originally, Du Yuyan had already died in the Qin Mansion, so naturally no one cared about the so-called Princess Jing'an.

Only Qin Muyu was still thinking about letting Du Yuyan do things for her, but she didn't know that she had been tortured to death on her way to the Khitan.

...

Liu Qingyan, Lu Siguan and his group arrived at the scene again. When she came this time, she saw two people burning incense and worshiping in front of the ruins.

Seeing someone coming, the two of them quickly put away the sacrificial supplies that had been arranged on the ground and planned to leave.

"Wait a minute." Liu Qingyan shouted loudly.

She looked at the two people in front of her. She was dressed in rags and had a dry and rough skin. She could tell at a glance that these two people should be your farmer nearby.

Although the two heard Liu Qingyan's shouting, they did not stop, but accelerated their pace and walked even more urgently.

Seeing this, Lu Siguan felt that there must be something wrong with the two of them in front of him, otherwise they would not have been so sneaky, so he flew to the two of them with his light skills to block their way.

"Please stay, please stay. We have something to ask about." Lu Siguan said softly.

The farmer's face looked very nervous. Lu Siguan didn't say what he was asking. The two of them said directly, "I don't know, I don't know..."

The two of them bypassed Lu Siguan in front of them and wanted to leave, but were stopped by Lu Siguan.

Liu Qingyan and Nangong Yi behind him also slowly rushed up and asked, "Are you two locals?"

Liu Qingyan's question was that her face was much gentler than Lu Siguan, so the two nodded hesitantly and replied, "We are from the next village, and we don't know anything."

Liu Qingyan smiled and continued, "We didn't say anything, what do you know?"

As soon as Liu Qingyan said this, the two farmers stammered for a long time and couldn't speak, with their faces becoming more and more panicked.

Nangong Yi did not say a word and carefully observed the two of them.

After a while, the two farmers saw that they could not escape, so they spoke frankly, "We are just here to worship the dead people. We have nothing to do. Let us go."

Faced with the requests from the two farmers in front of him, Liu Qingyan was startled and then gradually became nervous, feeling that this matter was not simple.

"You two know us?" Liu Qingyan asked with a smile.

The two farmers shook their heads at the same time, "How could we mountain village men have the opportunity to meet the big men?"

"We didn't tell you our identities. How did we know that we are the master you mentioned?" Liu Qingyan was very curious about why these two people ran away when they saw her.

"A few of you dressed up and the voice you spoke just now, we knew that the three great masters must have come from the capital. Are the people from the capital not the great masters or what?" the farmer continued.

Liu Qingyan couldn't imagine that the two little farmers in front of her could determine that she was from the capital based on her clothes alone, and there seemed to be something strange here.

"Is there any difference in dressing in Beijing? I think it's similar to those of Meixian people?" Lu Siguan said first.

"The three don't know that although Meixian is small, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, but Meixian has a high official in the capital. Every year, many people from the capital come to this Meixian, so I can guess at the first glance that you are from the capital." The farmer's speech was no longer as nervous as he was at the beginning.

"I didn't expect that there would be you waiting for the farmer in this small countryside." Nangong Yi was also sighing.

"Then why do you run away when you see us? We don't eat people?" Liu Qingyan continued.

At this time, one of the farmers hesitated for a moment and finally spoke, "We have to force you, I have told you this, but you must not tell others that it was the two of us."

"We are the ones who keep our promises, so I promise you." Liu Qingyan stabilized their emotions first.

"Actually, we were worshiping a brother from a far-distance family. He was burned to death by a fire in his home half a year ago. The New Year was over a few days later. I thought that when no one came to burn some paper early in the morning, we were both dedicated and did nothing else." The farmer said softly.

The more these two people talked about it, the more confused Liu Qingyan sounded. It was nothing to burn paper money for their relatives. Why did they hide so much? Why were they so scared after seeing them?

More importantly, Liu Qingyan, Lu Siguan, Nangong Yi and others have never been here, let alone met these two farmers.

"It turns out that you are relatives of this family. We did come from the capital. We just met a beggar in the capital. She said that she lived here. She said that she had a fire in her house. We sympathized with her that she wanted to come here to repair her house." Nangong Yi said.

After hearing what Nangong Yi said, Liu Qingyan looked at him and was very curious. She was obviously here to investigate the case, so why did she say that?

Lu Siguan, who was standing by, certainly understood what Nangong Yi said, but did not reveal it.

After hearing Nangong Yi's case, the two farmers suddenly became enthusiastic and said with a smile, "So that's it. It turns out that I misunderstood three of them."

Liu Qingyan smiled, "I wonder how you two misunderstood us?"

The farmer looked around and saw that there was no one and walked towards Liu Qingyan for two steps, whispering, "I can't say this. It's a death to spread. It's better not to know the three of you."

"So that's it. It turns out that the beggars in the capital are still somewhat hidden. But since you don't want to say it, we will not ask anymore. It's just that we came here yesterday. The neighborhood is desolate and there are no farmhouses. I wonder if you can go to your house to rest and ask for a bowl of water to drink?"

Seeing that the farmers and the two insisted repeatedly, Liu Qingyan did not ask directly, but adopted a roundabout tactic.

These two simple farmers agreed immediately when they saw three people coming from the capital for their own relatives.

"We and my wife couldn't ask for it. It was getting brighter this day, and this place was also a place of right and wrong. It would be better to go to my house to talk." After that, the two farmers took Liu Qingyan and his party on the way home.

After about half an hour, I arrived at the farmer's house.

The farmer has no children at home, but these two depend on each other and their family is very simple.

"Sit down and rest for a while first. I ask my wife to cook water and make tea for several guests." The farmer said with a smile.

After a while, I brought hot water and made tea and said, "My family is poor, and I can only entertain a few people with vulgar tea. Don't just dislike it."

Liu Qingyan sniffed the fragrance of tea on the table, and then said with a smile, "It's still a rare thing for the tea from this farmer to smell much more fragrant. You two are so polite."

"I wonder what the beggars in the capital you mentioned look like?" The peasant woman standing beside her suddenly spoke.

Liu Qingyan then told the two farmers about the plaintiff's appearance. After hearing this, the two farmers hugged each other and cried.

"I said it, I told her not to bother with that matter anymore, but I just didn't listen. Now my family is destroyed. Oh... who can I tell you about this?" the farmer sighed.

Liu Qingyan then asked, "You seem to have a hidden meaning. I wonder what happened to this farmer's family, which made you so sad and angry?"

The two farmers had already talked to Liu Qingyan's family all the way home, so they were naturally not as distant as they were when they first met. In addition, those words had been held back in their hearts for too long, so when Liu Qingyan asked, the farmer spoke directly.

"It's so hard, it's really hard. The family was originally a good family, because the bullies in the county fell in love with his family's fertile land. He bought this fertile land from the landlord's house after taking the family's savings for twenty years. It's a pity..." The farmer said, wiping the tears from the corners of his eyes, and his face showed helplessness.

Liu Qingyan also experienced helplessness in this, and she understood what the farmer was thinking at this time.

"Don't be too sad, you two, it's already a thing of the past, let's talk about it slowly." Liu Qingyan said softly.

"It was because the bully in the county took a fancy to his family's fertile land and wanted to take it for himself, so he naturally refused. Then he was burned to death when he was sleeping at home one night, and his body was gone." The farmer continued.

Liu Qingyan had already known about this. She mainly wanted to ask the county magistrate and the bully, so she continued to ask, "Do you have reported to the officials for such a big deal? Let the government handle it?"

"Hahaha... I'm reporting to the official, of course, but this bully is not an ordinary person. They have distant relatives who are high-ranking officials in the capital. In the end, the government colluded with the bully, and the matter was suppressed. There was only an old woman in her fifties left in the family. Later, she disappeared. It should be the beggars she saw."

After hearing what the farmer said, the three of them were instantly angry, but in order to get more detailed cases, they still suppressed their anger.

"There is such a thing that has no kingly law in this Langlang Qiankun. Have you ever seen the two high-ranking officials in the capital?" Lu Siguan asked.

The farmers shook their heads, "But I have seen the butler of the high-ranking official family. Every time he comes to Mei County to deal with this matter, the Mei County Magistrate is very polite to him and always gives a lot of gold, silver and treasures to the man."

"Have you ever seen that housekeeper with your own eyes?" Liu Qingyan asked quickly. This question was too important to her. As long as there were people in the housekeeper of the Lu Mansion, Lu Guozheng colluded with the county magistrate to commit murder and appointment, it would be confirmed.

"I have seen it once, the third day after the bully set fire."
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