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Chapter 5 The Legend of Sparrow Village

"What is this 'Bird Homing'?" Meng Shaohui asked curiously.

"It's an extremely absurd and boring legend in the village." Wei Dongsheng replied impatiently.

"legend?"

"Yes, the older generation of villagers in the village know about it, but now the young villagers don't know much about it. Also, that kind of silly legend may have deceived people in the past, but now if someone believes it, it is called a ghost. What?" Wei Dongsheng said disdainfully.

"Brother, it doesn't matter whether others are interested or not. The most important thing is that the old man is interested. Now he has given us a year to find the secret of 'Bird Homing'. We don't even know whether the legend is true or not. Let alone looking for it, if we can't find it within a year, then we won't even get half of it!" Wei Yannan complained.

"That's right, police officer, this will must be a fake, it must have been forged by the villagers. You see, all the content in it is beneficial to the villagers. After all, the old man is also our biological father. How could he make such a will that is not good for his own children? What about a will that benefits outsiders?" Wei Xiluo said.

"That's right, police officer, you must make the decision for us and test the authenticity of this will for us!" Wei Beigui also said.

"Ms. Feng, you are Wei Qiuyuan's wife and have lived with him the longest. What do you think of the handwriting of the will?" Meng Shaohui ignored Wei Qiuyuan's children and turned to Feng Yao to ask.

Feng Yao glanced at the four children, and then replied calmly: "Based on what I know about Qiu Yuan, the will should be true."

Although she knew that the four children were all staring at the will, and she knew that her words would definitely cause dissatisfaction among the four, but as a mother, Feng Yao did not speak for her children because of this, and she seemed to feel that her children were making trouble for no reason. Some sad.

"Impossible, absolutely impossible!" Wei Dongsheng roared angrily, "My second mother, it's easy for you to say that, you directly own 10% of the Mahjong factory's shares, so you don't have to worry about anything, even if your two My son won't get the inheritance in the end, so I don't have to worry about living with your shares, but Yannan and I have to drink the northwest wind!"

"That's right, would you generously spend money to support the two of us and your children in name only? Even if you were willing, would that 10% of the shares be enough to support us? So I said, the stepmother will always be Stepmother, she only thinks about herself and her two sons, how can she think about our children who are not her own!" Wei Yannan sneered.

"I'm just telling the truth, the will is indeed in your father's handwriting." Feng Yao said aggrievedly.

"Big brother, second sister, what you said is too much! To put it bluntly, what can I do with the 10% of the shares that my mother got? Do you really think that the mahjong factory can still make a lot of money like before? ?” Wei Beigui asked rhetorically, not to be outdone.

"No, each of us knows how much money the mahjong factory can make a year. Now that the competition is so fierce, business is becoming more and more difficult to do. In addition, if the old man dies, some customers will inevitably run away. By then , 10% of the shares are just for fun, in fact, we all know that the shares of the factory are just a 'long-term meal ticket' in our hands, and the real estate is the real estate with the money left by the old man." Wei Wei Xi Luo also said without showing any weakness.

"Okay, each of you can say nothing to me." Meng Shaohui stopped them from continuing to quarrel. He was not interested in their time-wasting conversation at all. After seeing that they had calmed down, he continued: " I can ask a handwriting expert to verify the authenticity of the will now, but it will take some time, during this time, I would like to hear the legend about the 'birds returning to their nests' mentioned in the will."

After speaking, Meng Shaohui handed over the will to the handwriting experts who came with him, and asked them to take it to the back room for verification.And he stayed in the living room, trying to find out what the so-called "birds homing" legend was all about.

"Actually, I also heard from my father about this 'bird homing', and when he was alive, he was always looking for the secret of 'bird homing' in the village, but no one ever knew what 'bird homing' was. " Wei Dongsheng recalled, "There are two theories about this 'sparrow returning to its nest'. First, some villagers said that in the late Qing Dynasty, a villager from Sparrow Village was forced into the palace and became a eunuch because of his life. When the coalition forces invaded Beijing, he took advantage of the chaos and stole a batch of priceless jewels from the palace and fled to Sparrow Village. Before he died, he buried the jewels somewhere in Sparrow Village and wrote a poem called The poem "The Sparrow Returns to its Nest? Another theory is that in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, there was a mahjong master named Sun Fei. He was sure to win every bet. This unique skill is called 'Bird Homing'. He compared mahjong tiles to sparrows and himself to Nestle, which meant that whatever tiles he wanted, he would get them in his hand, but all the money he won was used to help those at the time. Those poor people, many people wanted to worship him as a teacher at that time, but he didn't accept it, because he was worried that those unscrupulous gamblers would use the skills they learned to gamble. Later Yuan Shikai died of illness, the political situation was chaotic, and most of the gambling houses closed down , Sun Fei also washed his hands in a golden basin, came to Sparrow Village incognito, and lived a simple life. It is said that he spent most of his time at home studying Buddhism, which is why the poems in "The Sparrow Returns to the Nest" look similar to It is related to the Buddhist scriptures. Before he died, he wrote the poem "Bird Returning to the Nest" and asked the villagers to engrave it on the tombstone for him. The secret of mahjong skills, and then the villagers engraved the poem on the stone tablet at the entrance of the village, hoping to attract more people to help unlock the secret, but unfortunately, it is still a mystery.”

"Then which of these two statements is closer to the truth?" Meng Shaohui asked.

"It seems to be the second type! My father has studied the secrets of this for decades, and found that if it is a so-called treasure, it must be buried somewhere in the village, but he searched every corner of the village. Not only did not find a place where there might be treasures, even the so-called tomb of the eunuch was not found. However, the credibility of the second type is relatively high, because there is indeed a tomb on the mountain of the village, which is the tomb of the eunuchs in the late Qing Dynasty. It was first built, and the owner of the tomb is called Sun Fei, and there is a temple in the village called the Temple of Birds. A pile of Buddhist scriptures brought back by villagers a long time ago." Wei Dongsheng said.

After listening to Wei Dongsheng's narration, Meng Shaohui felt that Wei Qiuyuan's will was indeed very strange. If there were indeed some unknown secrets hidden in the poem "Birds Returning to the Nest", Wei Qiuyuan spent decades to find it. , but now the four children are required to find out the secret within a year. What is the purpose?In order to fulfill a wish during his lifetime?But even so, there is no need to bet on inheritance!If the four children haven't solved the secret of "Bird Homing" within a year, it means nothing. Using this method to force the children to fulfill their wishes is too risky.Another possibility is that Wei Qiuyuan knew the secret of "Bird Homing" a long time ago. He was worried that the distribution of the inheritance would cause disputes among the four children, so he came up with this plan to allow the four children to compete fairly. Naturally, the inheritance can be guaranteed. But this method also has risks. It took him decades to find the secret of "Bird Homing", but it took his four children to find it within a year. It seems a bit difficult.

At the same time, handwriting appraisal experts also had results on Wei Qiuyuan's will. By comparing it with the handwriting in the account book written by Wei Qiuyuan himself, the handwriting was completely different from the strength of writing, the structure of strokes, and the degree of continuous strokes. Unanimous, it is certain that the will was written by Wei Qiuyuan, there is no doubt about it.

"It's impossible, brother, it's absolutely impossible." Wei Yannan excitedly shouted at Wei Dongsheng, apparently very dissatisfied with the handwriting expert's conclusion.

"Have you checked it out?" Wei Xiluo asked.

"By comparing the handwriting in the will and the account book, the starting, running, and receiving are all completely consistent. We have checked it very clearly." The handwriting expert replied.

"Isn't it possible that someone imitated it?" Wei Beigui asked his own question.

"Everyone's writing habits are different. If it is deliberately imitated, in the process of writing the font, it is inevitable that the strength of the pen, the structure of the font, and the characteristics of the cross-connection of strokes will be too rigid due to imitation. However, from Mr. Wei Qiuyuan In his suicide note, the above characteristics are very natural, and for example, the apostrophe that appears the most in the suicide note, such as the apostrophe at the top of the word "queer" in "Bird Returning to the Nest", the apostrophe of the character "人", and "found" The bottom strokes next to the word "finding words" are written evenly and forcefully, and the angle of inclination of each character is almost the same as that of the same characters appearing in the account book, so we can be sure that this suicide note is definitely not deliberately imitated It came out." The handwriting expert briefly introduced the inspection process and at the same time affirmed the inspection results.

"Don't worry, these are all experts in handwriting identification. There must be no problem with their identification. Of course, if you are still not at ease, you can seek legal solutions through the court. If you want to make trouble in private, what are the consequences? It should be clear." Meng Shaohui said seriously.

"Old man, you still have to make trouble like this after death, do you really treat us as your own?" Wei Dongsheng roared angrily.

"That's right, shit, most of the shares in the mahjong factory have already been owned by the village, and now they don't even want to leave us the money. It's really not a thing." Wei Beigui cursed angrily.

"Then what should we do now? That's what the old man's will was written in, and it's been verified. It's true. If we don't do what the will says, we'll be the ones to sue, and we'll be the ones who will suffer in the end!" Wei Yannan said.

"Second Sister, even if we search for the bird's nest according to the will, do you think we can find it? We have been looking for the old thing for decades, but we don't know if we can find it. Now we are only given a year's worth of money." Time, how do we find it? And we are not allowed to leave the village. Whoever leaves the village within a year will be deemed to have automatically given up the inheritance. What is the difference between staying in this hellish place for a year and going to jail?" Wei Xi fell. whining.

"Don't talk about it, since the rice is cooked, it's useless for us to say anything, just do what the will says!" Wei Dongsheng had lost his temper at all, so he could only say helplessly.

Looking at the hateful faces of the four people when they faced the inheritance, they actually called their father an "old man". Is family affection really worthless in their eyes?Money is really so important to them?
Meng Shaohui shook his head, turned around and left this place of right and wrong. At this moment, he seemed to understand why Wei Qiuyuan made such a strange will. Maybe he never thought of leaving the inheritance to these four unfilial children. He knew very well that if he left the inheritance to them easily, he would be ruined by them sooner or later. Whether you get the inheritance or not, you can't blame anyone.

But these are all hypotheses, after all, no one knows exactly what Wei Qiuyuan thought when he made his will.What Meng Shaohui is more interested in now is the secret of "Bird Homing".

Judging from the content of Wei Qiuyuan's will, if his four children cannot find out the secret of "Bird Homing" within one year, then all his inheritance will be donated to charity through the law firm, and the shares of the mahjong factory will be in addition to Except for the 10% given to Feng Yao, the remaining 40% will be owned by Mahjong Village. In this case, Mahjong Village will own 90% of the shares of the mahjong factory. It can be regarded as a pension left by Wei Qiuyuan to his wife.If anyone can really benefit from this will, it is undoubtedly all the villagers in Sparrow Village.

Could it be that some villagers had known the content of Wei Qiuyuan's will in advance, so they had a wrong idea, killed Wei Qiuyuan, and wanted to plot his inheritance.If this is the case, then the most important issue is the secret of "the bird returning to the nest". Unless it is sure that Wei Qiuyuan's four children can not find the secret of "the bird returning to the nest" within a year, then the villagers can truly Owning almost all the shares of the mahjong factory means that he can get rid of the people of the Wei family and maximize his benefits.

Although this kind of speculation is a bit absurd, it is not impossible. In the face of money, Wei Qiuyuan's four children can turn against their biological father, and even call their father an "old thing". In order to get more benefits created by the mahjong factory , and killing Wei Qiuyuan is also possible, not to mention the analysis of the murder scene, the murderer is most likely to be an acquaintance, and the acquaintance also includes every villager in Sparrow Village.

(End of this chapter)