Records of the Lost Cases of Helaitang in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 49 The Secret of Lan Gu
The eldest sister in bean green clothes said to them: "Little junior students, wait for me and I will get you something."

The eldest sister had big feet and walked very fast. After a while, she came over with a bamboo basket.The basket contained half a basket of Dingsheng cakes with gauze, pink and white cakes with vermilion seals, and a pot of Perrin tea.

Seeing the fragrant pastries, I swallowed unconsciously, only to realize that I was almost too hungry.The three of them thanked each other without saying anything and just stood under the ginkgo tree and enjoyed it.

The eldest sister in bean green silk clothes was a little embarrassed and said, "You want to go to the rich man's house to sing, but I can't help you. I only have one bite to eat."

She seemed to have thought of something and said: "The house you are talking about, Mr. Sun, still lives at the top of the west market. It is better not to go to this house to ask for rewards. Their family has very strict rules, and the past two years have not been very good."

Wang Cai became more energetic and said: "Sister, you know Mr. Sun's family. Isn't life in Mr. Sun's family difficult?"

The eldest sister in bean green silk clothes said: "Before I got married, my natal family lived in Xishishao, but I had never been in Mr. Sun's big house. At that time, Mr. Sun's family lived next door to my natal family, and their family's Lan Nu She often played tricks with me. A few years later, Lan Gu's father-in-law and mother-in-law died of the epidemic. As Master Sun was the patriarch, he took her to the mansion."

Lan Gu, everyone’s hearts tightened.

Wang Hengshun said: "As an orphan, I grew up with my uncles and sisters in the mansion, and Lan Gu is enjoying the blessing."

The eldest sister in green said: "Master Sun has no daughters. He only has two sons. The one who won the scholarship is named Sun Huiyuan, and the other one seems to be named Sun Huiqiu."

Wang Cai smiled and said: "By analogy, that Lan Gu must be called Sun Huilan."

The eldest sister nodded and said: "It's really called Huilan. Huilan came back to see me once or twice. She is very thin. She only said that the rules are strict and not loose at all. She has to do the manual work at three o'clock every day. Her uncle and grandson I have to go to Beijing to take the exam every three years, and in the Spring and Autumn Period I have to go to prefectures and cities to hold literary conferences, but I have to bring a lot of my ancestors' property with me, so the family is very hardworking."

"Later, when she got a little older, the Sun family wouldn't let her go out to visit the old neighbor's house. I made an appointment and married her on Dongjie, and I never saw Hui Lan again."

It was indeed Cymbidium.

Wang Heng asked: "That Langu, is she also married?"

"If she was fine, she would be married now. However, she fell ill and died two years ago."

"Lan Gu is dead!"

Wang Heng was shocked and opened his mouth wide. He glanced at Wang Cai and saw that he was also shocked.

The eldest sister said: "Lan Gu was a virgin. The coffin stayed in the mansion for a few days and then was buried. If I hadn't happened to ask the family members about her, I'm afraid no one would have known that she had died of illness. Seeing that her funeral was desolate, I even went to the grave to pay homage.”

This is really an unexpected gain. If the real Sun Huilan is already dead, then who is on the household registration card?
The three of them thanked the eldest sister again and again sincerely, and then said goodbye.

Went to the teahouse under the covered bridge, asked the waiter to lead the carriage, and the three of them rushed west to Zhoucheng.

On the way, Wang Heng told Yueting about the glimpse of Sun Huilan's household post in the study room of Nanyuan Villa. Yueting was naturally surprised.

Wang Cai said: "If you think about it carefully, there are so many flaws exposed today. I should be rewarded at least once."

Wang Heng said firmly: "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. The countryside is very closed and gossip can't spread."

Wang Cai cupped his fists towards Yueting and said, "Today's trip was almost in vain, all because of Brother Yueting's beauty trick."

"Beautiful men are trying to trick him." Yueting broke out in a cold sweat and uttered a few slang words. He was a child of his old family and had always been very polite in his speech. Now he thought he was getting impatient.

The others all laughed, Yueting drove the car in a muffled voice. He seemed to have thought of something, but remained silent.

Wang Heng guessed what he was thinking, and said: "The case investigated here must be related to my eldest brother, Mr. Yuchen. The more clues it seems, the more necessary it is to find out." Yue Ting said sadly: "It sounds like it is Sun. Juren gave the household registration of the clan girl who had died of illness to Mr. Chen Yu. Mr. Chen Yu prepared Lan Gu's household registration for Master Huiyun. Now that Master Huiyun is dead, he can no longer use it. The key to the case lies in Lan Gu. What is the use of my aunt's household registration card for Master Huiyun? Knowing this, I'm afraid the case will be solved."

The return trip took a long time. When we entered the city at the east gate, we encountered a large group of officers and soldiers who were still searching for the gang that had robbed the prison.

Wang Cai lowered his voice and said: "I can't praise the Yamen's style. If the people who were robbed yesterday were all broken up and left the city, they would have rushed out. Now that Hangzhou Prefecture has arrived, the Yamen is still checking at the city gate. It's really funny." I also."

Wang Heng asked in confusion: "Is there a possibility that the Yamen's police officers were just bluffing and didn't really want to find the robbers?"

Yueting said in astonishment: "That mysterious sect's hands and eyes can reach the sky."

Thinking of being caught by that group of nagging people and almost dying, everyone felt their scalps tighten and their hairs stand on end.

It's not too late to return to the Wang family mansion. The sunset is melting gold and the afterglow is shining.

The three of them divided into two groups and each returned to their own residence.

Wang Heng, who had been running around for days, had no time to read and write, so he polished a vat of ink and just wrote fifty characters. When the little girl came to send a message to Mrs. Zhu to invite him to have dinner with her, she happily went to Baoxia. hall.

Mrs. Zhu always invited him to dinner once every three or two days, and there was nothing important to explain, just a short talk.Wang Heng was a fairly sensible person, he was still young, and Mrs. Zhu treated him very kindly.

Seeing a dish of soy sauce duck and a dish of smoked fish on the dinner table, Wang Heng knew that they were specially added for him. Mrs. Zhu's taste was light, and she only used some fresh seasonal vegetables in hot weather.

After dinner, Mrs. Zhu knew that he had gone to his old house in Liuhe today, and casually asked the clan elders how they were doing.

Wang Heng said: "The third uncle is very confused. I asked him what year Jiajing was today. He couldn't find the application form for him to be a scholar. How could he go to Nanjing to attend the Autumn Festival? He got anxious and cried and laughed. of."

These words were actually spoken the last time he returned to his old house in Liuhe, but the third uncle's memory was always good and bad, so no one took him seriously.

Mrs. Zhu smiled and said: "He is 75 years old, so Qiu Wei has to carry him."

Wang Heng said again: "Seventh uncle is devoted to being a matchmaker and the only daughter of Zhao Huangqin in Qiongxi Town, her natal family."

Madam Zhu was surprised and said: "Where did the emperor Zhu of this dynasty come from?"

Wang Heng said: "From the previous dynasty, he was a relative of the Southern Song Dynasty emperor."

Mrs. Zhu even laughed out loud.

Wang Heng said: "Seventh uncle said that although the royal family has passed away, the wealth is real. There are one thousand acres of high-quality paddy fields, seven hundred acres of mulberry fields, a wine business, a raw silk shop, and a village meeting every year. It's all made by his family, and it's almost like walking sideways in Qiongxi Town. I refuted it, because there are a few brothers above who are not married, and it is really not etiquette to get married before the brothers."

Mrs. Zhu nodded and said: "To get married, you have to be a girl from someone else's family. As long as the girl has good character, there is no way she can covet other people's property."

Obviously, Mrs. Zhu is very interested in such homely gossip.Only when ordinary people are with ordinary people can they have topics of conversation.

The eldest brother has passed the Xie Yuan exam. Like his uncle, he is a man of outstanding intelligence. Taoist Tanyang should be the same.

"Swing and row, there are beautiful flower sheds along both sides of the river. Good flowers fall in the middle cabin, and wild roses fall in the stern shed." Thinking of Tanyang Taoist, this song echoed in Wang Heng's mind for no reason. Folk songs come.

(End of this chapter)