Jiapingguan Chronicle

"Master Shen, although the request I am making next sounds a bit excessive, I still want to ask you, do you know and understand the meeting and chat between Zhou Niang and Hui Niang? What did they say? Do you know everything you have done?"

"Are you..." Shen Zhonghe thought for a moment and looked at Jin Jing who asked the question, "Do you doubt the two of them?"

"It's not that I doubt the two of them, but that Hui Niang. I even have a bold guess now." Jin Jing sneered, "She did not die in that attack, but faked her death and changed her identity. Just hide next to you.”

"My lord, why do you have such an idea?"

"To be honest, it's not just my brother, I also have this idea." Jin Miaomiao looked at the others, "What do you think?"

"Hui Niang's identity is questionable." Shen Cha nodded, agreeing with Jin Jing and Jin Miaomiao's statement. She looked at Shen Zhonghe, "Master Shen said before that Hui Niang and her family have always made boats their home. , so how long did it take for her to adapt to life on stable land? This point is very important. I wonder if Lord Shen has paid attention to it. Also, although Lord Shen hastily mentioned the matter of rescuing people, But Er Niang told us before that Master Shen was seriously injured in this naval battle. Hui Niang was grateful for your life-saving grace, so she has been taking care of you while you were recovering from your injuries. Only the two of you can They have been in love for a long time. But what Er Niang said is completely different from what you said. We have no way to judge who of you two is telling the truth." She raised her eyebrows slightly and said with a smile, "Master Shen, now , Do you still want to cover up for Hui Niang?"

Shen Zhonghe looked at everyone, then at Shen Cha, and sighed heavily.

"I'm not trying to cover it up for her. Although I once had doubts about her identity and origins, there's no point in pursuing these things since she's gone, right?"

"How could it be meaningless?" Shen Jiu held his chin and held out a finger, "You said she was dead, but you want to see her alive and her body after death. Have you really seen Huiniang's body? ?No, right?"

"Yes, they said that after the attack, the carriage overturned and Hui Niang fell off the cliff. But the bandits were so vicious that they had no way to search under the cliff. They could only escape in a hurry and ran back to Xijing City to follow me. Report." Shen Zhonghe sighed softly, "Afterwards, I also went to the place where the incident occurred and sent people to search under the cliff, but a lot of time has passed and I found nothing."

"You see, that's how it is, right?" Shen Jiu spread his hands and shrugged, "I don't know whether she is alive or dead, so how can you judge that she is dead? What if she is still alive now and is by your side, you say Isn’t it particularly scary?”

Shen Zhonghe looked at him, nodded slightly, and then looked at Shen Cha next to him. He didn't speak, just lost in thought.

"Don't know what to say?"

"No." Shen Zhonghe thought for a while and said, "I haven't thought about your statement before. I also thought that she might not be dead, but I couldn't find it no matter how hard I searched, and then I gave up. He sighed softly, "I have always felt that although Hui Niang has some problems, she will not harm me. After all..."

"What exactly?"

"There's no need to put yourself in danger, right?" Shen Zhonghe spread his hands, "They couldn't have planned it when they met the Japanese pirates. I did doubt her identity, and I also asked the Japanese pirate leader about their identity. It means that no matter who passes by, they will be robbed." "That means the targets are random, right?" Xue Ruitian nodded, "This is understandable. Japanese pirate attacks cannot be planned, but everything after that is You can plan, can’t you?”

"What the Marquis means is..."

"It doesn't mean anything. I was just thinking that if they hadn't been attacked by Japanese pirates, they might have created the illusion of being attacked."

"why?"

"Fishing!" Shen Haolin picked up the tea cup and looked at Shen Zhonghe, "Mr. Jiang fishes, and those who wish will take the bait. In fact, what Hui Niang wants is not necessarily your care, but also the care of others. It's just that if she happens to meet It’s just you.”

"Are you sure that there is something wrong with her?"

"Master Shen, please forgive me. Now that we've reached this point, I'm afraid no one will believe Hui's mother-in-law's family background." Shen Cha lightly knocked on the table and gave Shen a call from Hongye's table next to her. Jiu took a few snacks and put them in front of him, "I'm afraid Mr. Shen himself has a lot of questions, right? As we just said, Liang Jieque's change started when you left the Southern Border Army. In fact, if you think about it carefully, Think about it, she is not dissatisfied with you, nor does she want to silence you, but she is targeting Hui Niang and Hui Niang's children."

"Why do you say that?"

"Master Shen, you can think about it carefully. The relationship between you, Liang Jieque, and Tuesday Niang was originally good, but after the appearance of Hui Niang, the relationship between you has changed a lot, and even... You are like your own Liang Jieque, who wants to murder you and want the entire Shen family to be buried with you. Don't you think there is something wrong with this?

"That's right, the so-called blood debt should not be directed at you. She probably knows some things she shouldn't know, knows Hui Niang's origins, and doesn't want her to be around you, so she said such things." Shen Haolin looked at it. He looked at Shen Zhonghe and said, "You said she was drunk? When she was still in the south, did she often drink? Was she often drunk?"

"This is also something that I find very confusing. She only gets drunk after coming to Xijing City. When she was at home before, she was never drunk at all." Shen Zhonghe paused for a long time before saying slowly, "My father I once said that the best drinker in the family is Aunt Liang. She can drink a thousand drinks without changing her complexion. It would be a miracle if she could get drunk."

"It can be judged from this that she probably pretended to be drunk on purpose, and wanted to use her drunkenness to remind you that this Hui Niang is not a good person."

Shen Zhonghe didn't speak, he just looked at the table in front of him silently. Looking at the change in his expression, everyone knew that the fact he had wanted to avoid for so many years would eventually have to be faced. This is not only a matter of time, but also a matter of emotion.

"Okay!" Shen Zhonghe nodded, "I admit that what you said is correct. I have also thought about the suspicions you mentioned, but I don't have any evidence, so I..."

"Master Shen, it doesn't matter. We can slowly look for evidence, and we can even follow these clues to slowly find Hui Niang's whereabouts. Of course, the premise is that she is indeed still alive."