"If there is anything useful for my mother, I can tell her at any time." Yang Ruoqing told Chen'er again to let Chen'er know that he was not alone in his struggle.

She is his support.

Chen'er smiled and nodded, and asked the secret guard to prepare a carriage, and the three of them left the restaurant together.

Chen'er followed the carriage on horseback, wearing a rain-proof hat on her head.

Yang Ruoqing and Xiaoyu were sitting in the carriage, and Yang Ruoqing gave Xiaoyu a few more words.

Then at the intersection ahead, she stopped the carriage, got out of the carriage, and headed towards Wa City.

Chen'er and Xiaoyu first went to the Yamen and met Mr. Huang.

Then, together with the county governor, Mr. Huang, we went to the homes of several deceased persons.

Because the cause of death was strange, the government intervened and did not allow the deceased's family to follow the burial procedures. Instead, the body was sealed with ice.

The crime scene was temporarily closed and officers and soldiers were sent to stay at the crime scene to guard it.

While Chen'er and Xiaoyu were busy finding out the situation one by one, Yang Ruoqing also found a lot of fresh and satisfying ingredients in Wa Market.

There are fat and big mandarin fish, tender beef, crayfish, eggs...

When I was about to leave, I saw an old lady over there carrying a basket and buying leeks. Next to the leeks were a few handfuls of purple-red leaf sprouts tied with twine.

Yang Ruoqing's eyes lit up, weren't those the buds of the Chinese toon tree?

Many people in Changping Village plant toona trees in the front and back of their yards, but there are never any edible ones.

While Yang Ruoqing was hesitating, several women gathered around the old lady's stall, all picking the buds of the toon tree.

Yang Ruoqing planned to give it a try, so she hurried over and asked for a small bundle for five cents.

The price is not low yet!

"How do you eat these toon tree buds?"

After buying a bunch and putting it in the basket, Yang Ruoqing asked the old lady.

The old lady said: "We blanch it in boiling water and eat it cold. It's good to stay up late with porridge."

A well-dressed woman next to her said: "The young shoots of the Chinese toon tree are fried together with eggs. It is so delicious. The head of the family and the children all like to eat it."

Toon scrambled eggs?

Okay, I'll try frying it for Chen'er to try when I get back. If it's good, I'll pick some and fry it for Bao Bao and Dazhi when I get back to the village.

Then promote it to restaurants and add a new dish.

Just when Yang Ruoqing was thinking about it and was about to leave, several unfamiliar men suddenly rushed over there.

"Auntie, if you still want to sell vegetables here, go home quickly. Your Abiao is going crazy again. He took a kitchen knife and chopped down trees in the yard."

"The old Chinese toon tree in your yard is about to be chopped down. No one dares to stop it. Whoever stops it will chop it down!"

When the old lady heard what the visitor said, her face turned pale with fright.

I didn't even care about the food and wine in the vegetable basket and the remaining bunches of Chinese toon, I kicked my little feet and ran towards Wa City.

The people in the back circle were pointing and whispering in the direction the old lady left.

Yang Ruoqing listened to a few sentences and understood the relationship between the characters.

It turns out that this old lady is the man who caused a quarrel with his wife and her two brothers in Wa City yesterday.

That man, according to the people around him, believed in some religion, and his whole person became confused.

When my son was ill and had a high fever, he was not allowed to see the doctor or take medicine. He was only given talisman water and other things.

My wife persuaded me, so I beat and scolded my wife. She couldn't bear it anymore, so she took her son back to her parents' home.

My brothers from my mother's side came to seek justice, but this man talked with everyone and showed no fear...

Yang Ruoqing suspected that this man must have believed in the Black Lotus Sect, so he was bewitched like this.

Because Xiaoyu said that it is popular within the Black Lotus Sect to give holy water to the believers on a regular basis and at designated points.

Those holy waters were blessed by her, a saint, but in the final analysis, Xiaoyu herself didn't even know what the holy water was.

Because the elders brought it to her every time, she only had to pick up a willow branch and gently stir it into the jar of water a few times, and then recite a few teachings of the Black Lotus Sect to complete the blessing ceremony.

She had never tasted the taste of the holy water, but she heard it from the believers below.

It is said that holy water can cure all diseases, it is fairy water...

As her thoughts turned around, Yang Ruoqing planned to follow up to find out what happened. Maybe it would be helpful to Chen'er and Xiaoyu in solving the case!

Yang Ruoqing followed the old lady and the others to the back door of Wa City and entered an alley.

At first glance, this alley should be the poor man's alley in Yecheng. It is long and narrow. The bluestones on the ground and the moss on the walls, as well as the red paint peeling off in large chunks,

They are telling the world everywhere that this is really an old alley.

Not far ahead, there is a courtyard with an open door. The courtyard entrance is such a good Feng Shui treasure from a good visual angle, but no one dares to stand in front of it.

The onlookers hid in front, behind, and against the wall, peering into the yard, but no one dared to go in and take a look.

In the yard, men's vicious curses and the sound of chopping down trees could be heard.

Bang bang bang!

Bang bang bang!

A large toon tree that looked to be quite old made an unbearable shaking sound in the sky above the yard.

When the neighbors saw the old lady coming, they all shouted to her: "Auntie, please go in and take a look. Your Abiao has been going crazy, and that old tree is about to be cut down!"

The old lady hurriedly entered the yard and saw her son, shirtless from the waist up, with a kitchen knife in his hand, chopping down the old toon tree.

He was slashing and cursing at the same time, as if he was quarreling with someone and trying his best.

The body of the toon tree was cut with traces of wood chips flying everywhere.

The son was splashed all over his head and face, but he remained unmoved and continued to chop with red eyes.

"Ah Biao, stop it, you can't cut it!"

The old lady clapped her thighs with both hands, bent her knees, and cried and shouted to her son under the tree.

But Ah Biao acted as if he couldn't hear it and was still chopping.

"Ah Biao, our family has no money now, and your wife has returned to her parents' home with her son." The old lady cried and continued loudly.

"My mother can only support me and my mother by picking some toon tree buds and selling them for a few pennies. Stop it. The kitchen knife is also curled. How can my stepmother use it to chop vegetables?"

Abiao remained unmoved by this.

The old lady was helpless, so she cried and asked the neighbors behind her for help.

Neighbors are shrinking back. Decades of friendship are not worth their lives.

Ah Biao is obviously crazy and possessed. If he were to chop it off with a kitchen knife, even the King of Hell would not be able to find anyone to judge him!

Seeing that no one had any intention of helping, the old lady was angry and anxious.

He bent down and picked up a stone from the ground, and threw it towards A Biao.

"Ah Biao, you stupid bastard, please wake up!"

This stone hit A Biao directly on the shoulder.
Chapter completed!