Chapter 4 Ghost Hunting (1)

Fortunately, the commander-in-chief has compassion and has promised that Hu Zi will be considered dead in battle and will receive a pension. His family will also be exempted from taxes for three years. With this money, the orphans and widows of Hu Zi's family will have a better life in the future!" Ma San said with regret and shook his head.

"Yes, Commander, you are really kind to us brothers!" Chen Changlin agreed:
After he finished speaking, the third person in the mourning hall, the sturdy Feng Biao, said to his dead comrade in the coffin: "Huzi, the commander is so kind to you. When you get there, you must pray for him to recover from his illness as soon as possible!"

"It's rare that you have this kind of heart, Feng Biao!"

After Feng Biao finished speaking, a voice came over, and then a sturdy figure walked in from outside the mourning hall.

"Boss!"

Seeing the visitor, Chen Changlin, Ma San and Feng Biao hurriedly greeted him.

Ye Tie, who came over with a lunch box, nodded at the three of them, then looked at Feng Biao with appreciation. Facing his boss's praise, the honest Feng Biao scratched his head, smiled, and didn't know what to say.

After paying respect to Wang Hu's body, Ye Tie handed the lunch box in his hand to the three people in front of him and said with a smile: "You must be hungry. I asked the kitchen of Liu's house to make some food for you. Eat it while it's hot."

Hearing that there was food, the three of them, who had been starving for a long time, immediately opened their lunch boxes and began to wolf down their food. After eating for a long time, they saw Ye Tie standing aside without moving his chopsticks, so Ma San immediately looked at Ye Tie and wanted to make way for him.

But before he could open his mouth, Ye Tie saw through his thoughts and waved his hand, saying, "I've already eaten at Liu's mansion."

Upon hearing this, Ma San nodded and continued to work. The food Ye Tie brought them was quite good, with large chunks of braised meat, which was quite rich for soldiers like them.

After eating for a long time, Chen Changlin finally finished his meal. He sat on the bench, stroking his belly and said with some sadness: "I have been in the palace for half a year, and I don't know when I can go home..."

Hearing Chen Changlin's words, Ye Tie's expression flashed with a strange color, and then he said calmly: "The war in Gongdu is over. It won't be long before we can go back."

Ye Tie's words were undoubtedly a big surprise to the three people present. They all smiled. The honest Feng Biao immediately interrupted and said:

"That would be great. My mother wrote to me last time and said she would find a wife for me and wait for me to return..."

As Feng Biao was speaking, he suddenly felt an extremely strong sense of sleepiness, which made him unable to open his eyelids. The next second, he fell on the table and fainted.

The last scene he saw before he fainted was Chen Changlin and Ma San, who were also lying on the table like him, without any movement.

Looking at the three men who were drugged by him, Ye Tie sighed helplessly, and then personally took off the weapons that the three men carried. After doing this, Ye Tie walked out of the county government office and waved his hand. Suddenly, from the dark night, Ye Mingsheng's other two personal soldiers, Ye Ju and Ye Changling, came out with a carriage.

"Go back and tell the young master that it was a success!" Ye Tie said to Ye Ju with a serious expression:

Ye Ju, who understood the rules, clasped his hands without asking any questions and immediately ran towards Liu's mansion under the cover of night. After giving instructions to Ye Ju, Ye Tie and Ye Changling, who stayed behind, loaded the three people who were knocked unconscious in the mourning hall onto a carriage and drove out of the city.

In the study room of the Liu Mansion, illuminated by candlelight, Ye Mingsheng sat on the armchair with his eyes closed like an old monk in meditation. Not only was he waiting for good news from Ye Tie, but he was also thinking deeply in his mind.

Besides the original owner himself, there were only nine of his personal soldiers who knew about the two crimes of the original owner embezzling money and killing bandits and claiming credit. In other words, one of these nine people was a spy from the Supervisory Office!

Among these nine people, Ye Mingsheng first ruled out the suspicion of Ye Tie, the captain of the personal guards. The reason was very simple. He could not think of any reason why Ye Tie would betray him.

Ye Tie is not only his relative, but also has no way to inherit the family business because he is a bastard's son. So before becoming the captain of his own personal guards, he had been wandering around outside and had been a "hero" in the green forest for a period of time. It was through his connections that he helped cleanse his identity and allowed him to enlist in the imperial army, serve as a soldier, get paid, and start a family.

Ye Tie is also a grateful person, and has always been loyal to the original owner. He was in charge of some of the original owner's shady things. If he wanted to harm the original owner, he could have done it long ago. There is no need to wait until now...
Apart from Ye Tie, the only people who knew about these two things were Ye Dong, Ye Kui, Ye Changling, Ye Ju, Ma San, Chen Changlin, Wang Hu, and Feng Biao.
The first four people, like Ye Tie, are all members of the Ye family who are related by blood to Ye Mingsheng. In this world with strong clan concepts, it is possible that they will betray Ye Mingsheng to the Supervisory Office, but the possibility is undoubtedly much smaller than that of others.

After all, if Ye Mingsheng framed them and their relatives, they would inevitably be implicated, so even for their own sake they should not betray Ye Mingsheng.

Therefore, Ye Mingsheng boldly assumed that the suspicions of these four relatives were ruled out, so the remaining four people were Ma San, Wang Hu, Chen Changlin, and Feng Biao!

Although it is a hypothesis, it does not mean that Ye Mingsheng has no evidence. By recalling the memories in the original owner's mind, he discovered the most crucial point!
On the day when the original owner committed suicide out of fear of crime, he was secretly summoned for a talk and threatened by a captain from the Supervisory Department named Jia Liang. Jia Liang revealed many details of his previous life's crimes.

However, most of these situations were about the original owner killing Japanese pirates in Xiaoli Town and using the pirates' heads to pretend to be a Luobei person and kill the pirates to claim credit.

As for the fact that the original owner embezzled money during the battle of Wanfeng Prefecture, although Jia Liang also mentioned it, he only mentioned it in passing without elaborating.

The original owner naturally did not notice this detail, but after Ye Mingsheng recalled his memory and discovered this matter, it immediately attracted his attention.

In order to keep the two things of killing the bandits and taking credit for the crime secret, the original owner did not have all his personal soldiers involved, but instead divided them into two groups, with Ye Tie and other Ye family personal soldiers responsible for taking credit for the crime, while Ma San and other personal soldiers from other families were responsible for killing the bandits and taking credit for the crime.

Therefore, based on all the information currently in hand, Ye Mingsheng can basically conclude that the traitors are Ma San, Feng Biao, and Chen Changlin.

(End of this chapter)