Chapter 105 Crows in the Mass Grave (8000)

"Open conspiracy?" Yun Zihai frowned upon hearing this, not understanding what Xu Bai was planning.

"Going there secretly, and coming back secretly, when the other party already knows the inside story, you can only see what others let you see." Xu Bai pointed at the corpse on the ground and said, "If the Ye family really has connections, they would have been on guard when you caught him."

"If we go there blatantly, the other party will also be on guard." Yun Zihai pondered.

Xu Bai walked in front of Yun Zihai, raised his hand and patted his shoulder, with a teasing tone: "Who are you?"

Yun Zihai was stunned, not understanding what it meant to say such a thing at this time.

But he saw that Xu Bai's words were full of meaning, so he said that he was Yun Zihai.

"Wrong!" Xu Bai raised his index finger and shook his hand: "You are the governor of Yunlai Mansion. You are the one who has the final say in Yunlai Mansion. You can investigate whatever you want. Even if you go to his female family and spend a night there, they dare not say anything because you are the boss here."

Yun Zihai: "..."

Hearing this, he seemed to understand and gradually understood what Xu Bai meant.

He is the governor of Yunlai Mansion. The entire Yunlai Mansion must obey his orders.

He is now investigating the case, which is clearly for the purpose of investigation. If the Ye family dares to block it, they can be punished according to law.

"Great, Brother Xu." Yun Zihai said that Xu Bai's idea is really good.

Xu Bai held down the impatient Chu Yu and said, "Then let's go now."

Opportunities are rare and will never come back. Seize the time to avoid more trouble.

Since the other party has already made a move, they must not only accept it, but also try their best to return it and give the other party a big fight.

The two discussed for a while, and then they did not stay any longer, and headed directly to the Ye family.

…

There was a new lord in Yunnan Prefecture, and he took over Yunlai Prefecture in the form of self-government. This was not only widely known among the people in the Jianghu, but even the common people knew about it.

Since Xu Bai said that he would go there openly, Yun Zihai did not hide his identity, and the two of them walked towards the Ye family so swaggeringly, causing the pedestrians around to turn their heads and look sideways.

Yun Zihai said just now that the Ye family was not far from the government office. After walking for only a few minutes, they had already arrived at the gate of the Ye family.

Xu Bai stood at the door, looked up and down, and secretly said that they were indeed a family that made a fortune by war.

Just the two stone lions at the door, from the perspective of carving craftsmanship, are the work of masters, and they must have cost a lot.

At the door, two servants were standing on duty.

Xu Bai and Yun Zihai followed in a swagger, and Chu Yu followed behind them, who was cowering. Of course, she was particularly eye-catching.

Yun Zihai wanted to call Liu Er back, but Xu Bai stopped him. After all, it was not good to expose too many people, so he let Liu Er hide in the dark.

When the two servants saw Xu Bai and others approaching, they looked at each other. One of the servants came out and bowed to Yun Zihai, saying, "I meet Mr. Yun. I wonder what Mr. Yun has to do with the Ye family?"

After all, he is the master of a mansion, and the dignified mansion commander, so the servants naturally know him.

However, what puzzled the servants was why the master of Yunlai Mansion suddenly visited the Ye family. This was a bit strange.

"I am here to investigate the case. There is no need to notify. Just open the door." Yun Zihai put his hands behind his back, held his head high, and looked very authoritative.

In a big family like this, if someone comes to visit, they need to report it. The servant will go back to the house and find the person in charge of the house. If they know the person, they will bring the person in. If they don't know the person, they will not let the person in.

At this moment, hearing Yun Zihai say that he is here to investigate the case, the servant took a step back, with a surprised expression on his face, and turned his head to look at his companion, not knowing how to deal with it.

The Ye family is a very low-key family in Yunlai Mansion. Although it is a wealthy family, it is not arrogant and domineering on weekdays. Now someone said that they want to investigate the case, and it was the Lord of Yunlai Mansion, so they were at a loss.

This is also the first time they have encountered such a situation, and they can't make up their minds.

"Who is more important, the Lord of the Mansion or the Lord of the Ye Family?" Xu Bai asked.

The servant nodded without hesitation and said, "Of course the Lord of the Mansion is more important."

This is very obvious. In Yunlai Mansion, who else is more important than the Lord of the Mansion? If you really want to say that the Lord of the Mansion is more important, it is probably because he has lived too long and has no hope in life, and wants to be buried in the ground from now on.

"Then why are you still talking nonsense? Open the door quickly, or I'll accuse you of something." Xu Bai said.

After this reminder, the servant shuddered, and realized that he was stunned just now and did not understand the relationship between the main and the secondary.

The servant did not dare to continue to dawdle, turned around and pushed open the door in front of him, bent down and lowered his head, indicating that he had no intention of resisting.

Another servant also did the same action, without any intention of disobeying.

After the door was opened, there was a front yard inside, which looked extremely vast.

This area must have cost a lot of money. When Xu Bai was in Sheng County, his escort agency was not as big as this yard.

The threshold at the gate is also surprisingly high, almost reaching the knees. If you want to cross it, you have to spend time and effort.

Don’t look at it as just a small threshold, there are many tricks inside.

The high threshold of the house is an architectural habit since ancient times. The thresholds of many wealthy families are very high, representing "high-class families".

In the Great Chu State, there are many requirements for thresholds.

It represents the dignity and status of the owner. When the ministers enter and leave the king’s door, they need to walk sideways and must not step on the threshold. It is the etiquette between the monarch and the ministers, and the distinction between the superior and the inferior.

The height of the threshold among ordinary people is divided into several types. It can be five inches, taking the number of five in the five elements; it can be three inches and six points, taking the same number as the days of a year; it can be one inch and two points, taking the same number as the months of a year.

Now it seems that the high threshold used by the Ye family is probably to show a unique identity.

After crossing the threshold, they entered the front yard, and led by the servants in front, they arrived at the back yard in a short time.

There was no one in the front yard until they finally saw the people of the Ye family after entering the back yard.

"There are people in the world who look so strange." Xu Bai said subconsciously.

There were people coming and going in the back yard, men and women, old and young, but they all had one thing in common.

Ugly.

Really ugly!

Although not so ugly that there was no limit, each person was ugly in his own way, which was simply unbelievable.

The Ye family used to be corpse carriers, so they needed to be ugly to do it. Xu Bai didn't know how they passed on this excellent gene. Anyway, he had never seen a normal-looking person.

These two servants were considered normal. After all, they were just hired by the Ye family to guard the gate, not members of the Ye family, so their appearance was much more normal.

Xu Bai and Yun Zihai walked in, naturally attracting the attention of the people around them, and a woman in her forties walked over.

Just now, Xu Bai felt that everyone was ugly in a unique way, and this woman was the same.

It was hard to tell where she was ugly, but she looked very ugly in every place.

"Hello, Lord Yun, and this Lord and this girl. I wonder what you are doing here at the Ye family?" The woman bowed slightly, very politely.

The servant hurriedly introduced: "This is the eldest lady. She happened to be at the mansion, so she came here."

The eldest lady was naturally the wife of the head of the Ye family.

"I have something to do, so I went to find your head of the Ye family. I have some questions to ask him." Yun Zihai said.

The eldest lady knew Yun Zihai's identity very well, and she didn't dare to offend him. She quickly asked the servant to take them to the guest room and went to find the head of the Ye family.

The servant took Xu Bai and the others to a luxurious room, served them a pot of good tea, and then said goodbye and left.

Chu Yu looked listless, as if she was not interested in everything around her, but was full of strong interest in the previous cell.

After all, she was born in the royal family, and she had seen all kinds of wealth and splendor. All of this was too ordinary for Chu Yu, and even a little poor.

On the contrary, the novelty made Chu Yu more interested.

The few people did not drink tea, but waited patiently. After less than half an incense stick of time, there was a noisy sound outside, accompanied by several screams.

"Something happened." Xu Bai and Yun Zihai looked at each other, and took the lead to walk out and look at the situation outside.

Outside, many people from the Ye family were running in one direction, as if something big had happened.

"Let's go and see."

Xu Bai and others did not say much, and followed directly behind, rushing in that direction.

...

The Ye family was very large, and it took several minutes to reach the destination.

It was an extremely luxurious house. Judging from the decoration, it cost a lot of money to build it.

At this moment, there were crowds of people, surrounding the house in three layers inside and outside.

From the outside, there was nothing strange, but he could hear some crying.

"Get out of the way!" Yun Zihai frowned and shouted, causing everyone around to turn their heads.

The people of the Ye family naturally recognized Yun Zihai's identity, and they did not dare to block him in the middle. They made way for Yun Zihai and his men to enter.

The door of the luxurious house was open, and the eldest lady was kneeling on the ground, crying and wailing. Xu Bai walked closer and heard the sound of crying.

"Why are you so upset! If you have anything to say, you can talk about it together!"

"If you leave, the burden of such a big family will fall on me. How can I bear it?"

"Why do you want to abandon our entire Ye family? Why do you want to go alone!"

The sound of crying and wailing continued.

After Xu Bai walked closer, he saw a body lying on the ground.

There was a knife stuck in the chest of the body, which was obviously a fatal wound, and blood was pouring out of the wound.

There was nothing unusual in the house, and there was a letter not far from the body.

The letter was open, and it was obvious that the eldest lady had read it.

Xu Bai bent down and picked up the letter on the ground.

At this time, the eldest lady saw Xu Bai and the others coming, but she didn't say anything and cried there.

Xu Bai opened the wrinkled letter, read it up and down, and frowned more and more deeply.

[I sent people to attack the government magistrate without authorization, which is the greatest evil. I only ask for death to keep the Ye family safe. ]

It was just a simple sentence, but it described the cause and effect of the matter clearly without any delay.

"Take a look." Xu Bai narrowed his eyes and handed the letter in his hand to Yun Zihai.

Yun Zihai took it, and when he saw the content on it, his expression was exactly the same as Xu Bai's.

The two looked at each other, and saw the same emotion in each other's eyes, and then shook their heads together.

Very fake!

Not only very fake, but also ridiculously fake.

With just this little content, all the blame was put on the head of the Ye family. Everyone knows the ins and outs of this.

"It's one thing to be fake, but don't you think it's a provocation?" Xu Bai said.

Yun Zihai nodded.

This kind of fake content can be seen by any smart person, but the other party still does it. Obviously, it is a provocation to them.

The meaning is also very simple. I just want to make such a fake move just for you to see. You have no clues and can't find me, so what?

"It seems that our guess is right. The Ye family is at least related." Yun Zihai said.

As soon as I came here, I found that the head of the Ye family was dead, so the Ye family must be related, otherwise he would not be silenced, or the head of the Ye family knew about this matter.

"It's useless to guess. We need someone who knows the inside story." Xu Bai looked at the eldest lady and smiled.

As the saying goes, the person next to the pillow knows the inside story best, and the eldest lady of the Ye family seemed to have some meaning in her crying just now.

The eldest lady was still crying and shouting. The conversation between the two fell into her ears, and it seemed that it had no effect on her at all. She cried very hard.

Yun Zihai felt very troubled. How could he bring the other party back to the government office when he was crying like this?

Since he was going to interrogate, he naturally couldn't do it at the Ye family. If the other party came to silence him again, the consequence would be that all clues would be cut off.

"I'll do it." Xu Bai smiled, squatted down in front of the eldest lady of the Ye family, and then whispered a few words.

These words were spoken very quietly, and only the eldest lady of the Ye family could hear them.

As Xu Bai finished these words, the eldest lady of the Ye family stopped crying immediately, then looked up at Xu Bai, wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, and stood up with difficulty.

After standing up, she walked a few steps to the door and announced that she would go to the government office to cooperate with Lord Yun in the investigation, and asked them not to panic and do it as before.

The whole process was smooth and there was no delay at all. It was completed in an instant.

Chu Yu opened her mouth slightly, and several eggs could be stuffed into it. She looked at the scene in front of her in disbelief.

Just a few words brought back a person who was crying so hard.

She was very curious about what he said.

Chu Yu wanted to get close to Xu Bai, but when she saw Xu Bai was busy with work, she put away her curiosity and hid behind Xu Bai like a cat.

She wanted to ask but didn't dare to ask, as if she was being scratched by a cat.

"Let's go." Xu Bai said, "It's important to go back to the government office first."

With Xu Bai's words, everything became very smooth. The eldest lady of the Ye family followed them and left the Ye family directly and rushed to the government office.

After the eldest lady of the Ye family gave the order, the people of the Ye family didn't dare to say much, and they all did what the eldest lady of the Ye family said.

When they returned to the government office, it was already afternoon.

The eldest lady of the Ye family had been following behind, saying nothing all the way, but now there were fewer people, and Yun Zihai and Chu Yu became curious.

"Master, what did you say to her just now?" Chu Yu pulled Xu Bai's sleeve, tilted her head, and asked curiously.

Although Yun Zihai didn't say anything, the expression in his eyes couldn't lie. He was also very curious about what Xu Bai was talking about.

"I told her that now that the head of the Ye family is dead, the Ye family is a big family in Yunlai Mansion, and it can't be divided by others. As long as Lord Yun is here, all this will eventually belong to the eldest lady, as long as the eldest lady cooperates." Xu Bai glanced at the eldest lady of the Ye family and said with a hint of playfulness.

If there is an eldest lady, there will naturally be a second lady, a third lady, and a fourth lady.

Although the eldest lady of the Ye family was crying and looked sad just now, the content of her crying was really not simple.

In just a few words, she took over the burden of the Ye family. As for whether this burden is heavy or fragrant, who can say for sure?

And what Xu Bai said was equivalent to telling the eldest lady of the Ye family that as long as she cooperated, she would be able to truly make it legitimate. With the support of the prefect of Yunlai Mansion, everything would be a natural outcome.

Yun Zihai: "..."

Why do I always feel that I have been a cover for Brother Xu recently.

Suddenly, he was assigned another task, and he had to escort the eldest lady of the Ye family.

"Brother Yun, do you think I am taking advantage of you?" Xu Bai said with a smile.

Yun Zihai waved his hand quickly and said, "Of course I don't have this idea."

He really didn't have this idea, he was just complaining.

"In fact, I do this for your own good." Xu Bai said mysteriously: "You just entered Yunlai Mansion and you don't even have any manpower. What do you need most? You need people. The Ye family is also a big family in Yunlai Mansion. It is a great thing for you to have them by your side to help you, but all this is a transaction."

Xu Bai didn't say the rest, but Yun Zihai had already figured it out clearly.

Helping the eldest lady of the Ye family at this time, and when the eldest lady of the Ye family takes power, she will help him in return. All this is a fair and reasonable transaction.

Yun Zihai thought of this, and was quite moved to grab Xu Bai's hand, saying: "Brother Xu, I didn't expect you to think so much about me. Yun is ashamed. It is my blessing to meet Brother Xu in this life."

He was really moved, without any falsehood, and it was all sincere.

Xu Bai: "..."

He actually had one more sentence to say, which was to help Yun Zihai recruit the Ye family, just as a byproduct.

But looking at Yun Zihai's inexplicably moved expression, Xu Bai felt that it was better not to say this sentence, after all, everyone would be embarrassed if he said it.

Chu Yu was beside her, took out the small notebook she always carried, and started to write it down again, muttering while writing it down.

"Old and cunning, old and cunning..."

Xu Bai was stunned, then grabbed Chu Yu's ear with his backhand and dragged her closer.

"It hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts..." Chu Yu shouted five words of pain in one second.

"Change it. Foresight and wisdom."

Chu Yu opened her eyes wide and looked pitiful. Under Xu Bai's coercion and inducement, she finally crossed out the two words and replaced them with new words according to Xu Bai's instructions.

She was aggrieved while changing it.

"I'm so angry. I wrote the truth."

It was safe along the way and there was nothing unusual.

When they returned to the government office, Xu Bai and Yun Zihai took the eldest lady of the Ye family to a room.

The eldest lady of the Ye family was very honest throughout the whole process and did not resist at all. After all, what Xu Bai said to her before made her think differently.

"Tell me all the secrets you know. Don't hide them. This official will see it." Yun Zihai sat on the chair, looked directly at the eldest lady of the Ye family, and said seriously.

"I know that the master has been very abnormal recently. From time to time, he locked himself in the house and refused to see anyone." The eldest lady of the Ye family sorted out her emotions and told everything she knew.

According to the eldest lady of the Ye family, the head of the Ye family has become extremely abnormal since some time ago. He no longer appears in front of everyone. Except for eating, he stays alone in the room most of the time and does not see anyone.

And as time goes by, everyone finds that the head of the Ye family has become extremely haggard, as if he has not slept for several months, and he is visibly tired.

As a head of the Ye family who can beat ten people, this is the first time he has such an image. Although everyone is puzzled, no one dares to ask, after all, in the entire Ye family, the head of the Ye family still has the final say.

The eldest lady of the Ye family did not dare to ask, but hid this doubt in her heart.

Until not long ago, the head of the Ye family suddenly found her and gave her a brocade bag, asking her not to open it unless she encountered a major change, otherwise she would always carry it with her.

There is a special seal on the brocade bag, and once it is opened, it will be seen by others.

Although the eldest lady of the Ye family was curious, she thought that she must establish an image in front of her own head, so she never opened it.

It was not until something big happened today that she remembered this matter, and she felt more and more absurd in her heart.

As she spoke, the eldest lady of the Ye family took out the brocade bag and put it on the table, pretending to be very honest.

Xu Bai picked up the brocade bag, looked at the special seal on it, and opened it easily with a slight force of his fingers.

After he saw the contents clearly, his brows slightly frowned, stretched out his thumb and index finger, and took out a fist-sized paper ball from the brocade bag.

Through the back of the paper ball, you can still see the writing on the pen and ink. Obviously, this ball of paper is full of things.

Xu Bai opened the ball of paper, which was filled with dense small characters. After he finished reading the contents, he handed the paper to Yun Zihai.

"Take a look, this matter is quite complicated."

Yun Zihai finished reading and was about to put it away when he saw Chu Yu looking at him curiously.

Helplessly, Yun Zihai could only hand the letter to Chu Yu again.

As Chu Yu looked down, her eyes opened wider and wider, and her black and white eyes were filled with shock.

The letter said that not long ago, a man in white came to the head of the Ye family.

The man was wearing white clothes and had a piece of white cloth covering his eyes, as if he couldn't see anything.

At that time, the man told him that he needed to do something, and this thing was also very simple.

As long as he put a lot of mirrors on the way when the new governor arrived, he would be safe.

Otherwise, the whole family of the Ye family would be slaughtered.

The head of the Ye family believed it, because the man in white showed extraordinary strength, and that strength made the head of the Ye family feel trembling in his heart.

He did so, but the more he did so, the more uneasy he felt.

During this period, the man in white came to the Ye family twice. After communicating, the head of the Ye family found out the clues.

He discovered the identity of the man in white.

When the two were communicating, the man in white accidentally exposed the skin on his sleeves, and there was a special tattoo on that skin.

The tattoo of the corpse carrier!

Corpse carriers are not only found in the Ye family, but also in many other places. This is a tattoo that is unique to corpse carriers.

Every profession has its own unique and strange features, and corpse carriers are no exception.

The reason for this tattoo is that this profession is very unique, and a unique tattoo can help to avoid evil and bring good luck.

The tattoo is a ghost head with wide eyes.

The ghost head is evil, and evil can suppress evil!

But it is this tattoo that makes the head of the Ye family feel more and more confused. After all, their profession requires ugly people to do it.

Although the man in white is blindfolded, he looks like a suave young man from his exposed face.

How can a good-looking person become a corpse carrier?

When the head of the Ye family was confused, he went to check the classics about their profession. Don’t say it, he really found it.

In their profession, there really has been such a unique person.

That is an extremely secretive branch, and even corpse carriers, few people know about it.

If the head of the Ye family had not had this book in his hand, he would not have known so much.

This business is called corpse cannibalism.

Why is it called corpse cannibalism?

All of this is, of course, related to the characteristics of corpse carriers.

They do the job of transporting corpses all over the world, but the most likely thing to happen is the mutation of the corpses. When they become weird, they will produce terror.

Some corpse carriers, affected by the evil spirits of corpses, will lose their way on the road.

Those with good luck can get out in three to five days, while those with bad luck may be trapped for more than ten or twenty days, or even forever, until they die, and everything will disappear.

Over time, the food and water they carry will gradually become scarce.

When a person has no food and water, he will feel severely hungry, and a hungry person will never be able to resist the temptation of food.

So, they set their sights on the so-called corpses.

Nothing can be set as a precedent, and this is also the case with their business. Since that precedent was set, they have discovered the benefits.

After eating corpses, the cannibals can actually extract the evil spirits from them for their own use and strengthen themselves.

And they can use this as an auxiliary to practice another business, which will produce a terrifying speed of practice.

But there is also a limit. The more you improve, the stronger the corpse you need.

Eating corpses became known to everyone.

At that time, the corpse carriers also discovered their unique branch, and then a war broke out.

What the cannibals did was to betray the concept of this business.

The corpses were originally the customers of the corpse carriers, but they ate their own customers. In this case, they were despised by the entire industry.

What's worse, they joined forces with tomb robbers to do some dirty things.

That war lasted for a long time.

The cannibals themselves had just emerged, and naturally they could not withstand the impact of an old business. They soon disappeared and have basically not been seen since then.

As for why he looks so handsome, this is the effect of being a corpse eater, not this branch, and the head of the Ye family can't explain it clearly.

And in this letter, until the end, it finally talked about a particularly important clue.

Mass grave.

If the man in white has any hiding place, it can only be in the mass grave, and the probability of other places is very small.

Corpse eaters have this characteristic and also have constraints.

What they do is to absorb evil spirits.

If they don't eat for a long time, they will be disturbed by this evil spirit, and then they will die soon.

So the mass grave is the most suitable place.

The content of the letter ends here.

Xu Bai touched his chin and said, "It seems that I have to go and take a look."

"It's better to go on the first day than to choose a day. Let's go tonight." Yun Zihai nodded.

Since there is a discovery, then hurry up and rush over to see the situation.

"What should we do with this person?" Chu Yu looked at the eldest lady of the Ye family and asked.

"Let her go home directly. Let's go and do the important things first." Xu Bai said.

Yun Zihai nodded repeatedly to show his agreement.

Then they asked the eldest lady of the Ye family to go home, and then they rushed to the mass grave of Yunlai Mansion without stopping.

...

The mass grave of Yunlai Mansion is located in the western wilderness.

The mass grave is where many dead people have no graves, so they just find a place to bury them randomly, and the directions of the graves are different, so this kind of place is called "mass grave".

Of course, the government also put the unidentified bodies of murder cases there, and over time, there are more and more graves buried here.

Not to mention living people, even an animal would not pass by here at ordinary times, which seems gloomy.

Especially at night, people passing by this place even have to go a long way to avoid getting embarrassment and getting into bad luck.

At this moment, due to a series of events, it was already late at night. When Xu Bai and his team arrived, the moon was already hanging high in the sky, shining with white silver light.

The moonlight was bright, but it looked extremely gloomy when it was sprinkled on this mass grave.

"Quack... quack..."

A strange bird call came. In the woods, on a dead tree, a black crow was standing on a branch, curiously looking at Xu Bai's people.

The most terrifying thing at night was the crow's call, which was unpleasant and weird.

From the outside, the mass grave was still the same as before, without any abnormality. After Xu Bai and his team came closer, they stopped.

Xu Bai narrowed his eyes, looked at the crow on the tree, and said: "Brother Yun, it seems that we have been discovered as soon as we arrived at this place."

Yun Zihai followed Xu Bai's gaze and finally stopped on the crow.

On the tree, the crow tilted its head and actually spoke human language...