Chapter 182 Jade Pendant.

The back gate of Qingyang County is relatively desolate. The moat is between a mountain and the city gate. The back gate is always closed and unguarded, but it is not difficult to cross the city gate.

After Ye Xing and the others arrived at the moat, they found that some government officials were already protecting the corpse. When they saw Ye Xing coming, they quickly made way, and there was a corpse lying on the river bank.

The body was swollen from the river water, but it was still possible to identify the deceased as Jia Youqian. His fat body looked even fatter now, and judging from his condition, he did not appear to be in any pain.

Ye Xing leaned over to inspect the body, but when he finished the inspection, he found no injuries on Jia Youqian's body, not even a trace, except that Jia Youqian's sleeves were torn and a piece was 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 was pierced all over his body and nothing was found. Jia Youqian was not poisoned and died.

Therefore, it is ruled out that Jia Youqian was poisoned to death and then thrown into the moat.

"Who discovered the body?" Ye Xing stood up and looked at everyone and asked.

At this time, a man who looked like a farmer came to Ye Xing, but he was so nervous that he didn't know what to say.

"Did you discover it?" 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 cut firewood for the winter. When I passed by the moat, I found something floating on the river. I was curious, so I took a closer look. When I got closer, I found that it was something floating on the river. It was a corpse. I was shocked. When I saw the appearance of the corpse, I realized that it was Mr. Jia. The government office had issued a notice early in the morning. Thinking of this, I prepared to go to the county government office. However, I encountered someone on the way. I arrived at a few of Mr. Ye's friends, so I brought them here."

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

Ye Xing nodded, then looked at the moat in a daze. After a long time, he asked everyone: "What difference do you see about this moat?"

Everyone looked at the moat, but they didn't notice anything different about the moat.

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

If the topography of the moat is like this, then this place is definitely not the first scene of the crime. Jia Youqian's body is likely to have flowed here from upstream.

So when they all thought about this, Ye Xing asked several government officials to guard Jia Youqian's body here, and then he led people upstream. The road around the moat was not very easy to walk, so they had a difficult time walking.

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

The autumn wind was blowing loudly, making people feel cold. Ye Xing regretted not wearing more clothes when he came out.

They were not walking very fast, because they had to look for clues nearby. As they searched all the way, they came to a place with strange terrain. There was something strange about that place. There was a cave on the mountain opposite. The cave was halfway up the mountain, and the mountain was next to it. Moat, it is not easy to enter the cave.

There were many pine trees on the mountain below the cave, and a piece of cloth hung on one of the pine trees. The cloth shone in the sunlight, and Ye Xing and the others could see clearly that the cloth was the missing piece of Jia Youqian's body.

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

Di Xiaojie and the others nodded, and then Ye Xing led Hua Zhimeng and Ai Feier across the water to the other side.

The cave is about twenty meters high, but this is not a problem for Ye Xing and the others. The three of them are masters in Qinggong, and it is no problem to be more than twenty meters high. After they stepped on the water, they flew towards the cave.

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

After the three of them arrived at the cave, they started searching.

The cave is not very deep, and the entrance can accommodate two people walking side by side. Ye Xing found some footprints at the entrance of the cave. Judging from the shape and size of the footprints, they should be two people. Ye Xing asked Ai Feier to measure these footprints, and then Then check again.

At that time, the two people should be facing each other, and then one person took a few steps forward, and then the footprints began to become confusing.

When Ye Xing saw this, he began to speculate on the situation at that time. Jia Youqian died in the moat. This means that there must be someone here who was Jia Youqian.

Jia was invited here by someone, and then he talked with that person. Jia Youqian took a few steps forward, but was pushed down the cave by another person, fell into the moat and died.

These seemed 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 is not high, but for a person who doesn't know martial arts to come up, But it's like ascending to heaven.

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 somewhere that leads to this cave and you can come up by walking from below?" Ye Xing answered tentatively.

So the three of them hurriedly looked for other clues, but they searched the cave inside and out, but could not find any other exit.

There is only one exit, and there is a piece of fabric from Jia Youqian's clothes on the tree under the entrance of the cave. This can confirm that Jia Youqian did fall from here, but how did he get up?

Ye Xing couldn't figure it out, while Hua Zhimeng and Ai Feier couldn't find any clues.

After Ai Feier finished measuring the footprints, he kicked the soil on the ground with his feet. When he did this, he suddenly shouted with some surprise: "Brother Ye, look, there is an jade pendant under the soil in this cave." ah!"

Ye Xing hurriedly came to see it. Because there was no water all year round in the cave, the soil inside was very loose. It was normal for one or two pieces of things to be buried under the soil. Ye Xing took out the jade pendant and looked at it carefully, and found that This is a men's accessory, worn around the waist.

Judging from the degree of burial of the jade pendant, this jade pendant was not buried for a long time, but I don’t know how this jade pendant was left here, and whether it has anything to do with this case. What about relationships?
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