The Republic of China Conspiracy Records

Chapter 123 The Sapphire Case (2)

Ji Mingmei and I both nodded, and I apologized with a smile: "The man in the tofu workshop is really strange, Wu Hanxiang is no longer alive, he told us directly, why did he lead us to the cemetery."

The mayor smiled and said, "Maybe that person wants you to inform Wu Hanxiang that his wall has been dug up."

Seeing that what he said was interesting, Ji Mingmei also smiled and said: "It turns out that the man is a thief, who just happened to be broken by us, so he tricked us to go elsewhere."

She was terribly frightened just now, but now she relaxed and smiled happily even though she arrived at the town hall.But I shivered when I heard this, because what the mayor said didn't mean that the man was a thief at all, but that the man had an affair with Wu Hanxiang's widow.

But since this is the case, how could and how dare that person instruct us to go to Wu Hanxiang's grave?So the meaning of the mayor's words is actually mocking us for talking nonsense.That is, he didn't believe what we were saying at all.Then the person we met in the tofu shop may have set us some tricks.

Sure enough, the mayor smiled and said after hearing Ji Mingmei's words: "After Wu Hanxiang died more than ten years ago, there was only one widow left in the whole family. Who is the man you saw walking out of the widow's house? "

I shuddered when I heard the words, there was a lot of gossip at the widow's door, Wu Hanxiang only left one widow, but we said that a man walked out of her room.These words belong to the innocence of dirty people. If some women who are stronger hear such words, some will even prove their innocence by dying.

Without solid evidence, ordinary people would never dare to say such things behind their backs.We were caught on Wu Hanxiang's grave, and now we say such things, although we are telling the truth, it sounds extremely shameless.Sweating slightly on my forehead, I swallowed and said, "Or... maybe that person is here to buy tofu?"

"Go to the widow's house to buy tofu at night, do you buy it and eat it now?" The mayor is still smiling, as if he often does this kind of thing.

"We're telling the truth. Why are you laughing all the time? Someone stepped on your armpits?" Ji Mingmei said angrily, "What's wrong with a man walking out of the widow's house? What if there are relatives in the house? We just say yes." A man talked to us, look at your expression, but you are saying that there is an unclear relationship between them, isn't it!"

The more she spoke, the angrier she became, with one hand on her waist, the other hand almost poked the mayor's nose, "Widow, can it stand up to your arrangement? Are you trying to force her to death! You... …frenzied!"

The mayor opened his mouth wide open at what she said. Looking at his expression, it seemed that someone had stepped on his face instead of his armpit.I listened in awe from the sidelines, thinking that this kind of housekeeping skill of turning right and wrong cannot be developed in a hurry, Miss Ji should have worked hard on it.

As Ji Mingmei spoke, she felt sad for the widow again, her voice sobbing, "He died a man at a young age, and it sounds nice to keep his body like a jade for more than ten years. Only you know whether life is hard or not, and you are still like this Arranging people..."

As she spoke, a few tears also jumped out of her eye sockets in due time and slowly slid down the bridge of her nose.I swallowed, and was overwhelmed with admiration for the few teardrops that came as soon as I called, and I almost couldn't hold back from yelling hello to her.

The mayor looked at Ji Mingmei in confusion, and then at me, wondering why he suddenly became a murderer.At this time, Ji Mingmei wanted to make persistent efforts, and he hurriedly said: "I, I... I'll go to the tofu shop and ask what happened to that man, so please don't talk about it anymore."

He probably felt that if Ji Mingmei continued to talk, he would have to die to apologize, so he escaped from the room where we were imprisoned.Seeing him go out, Ji Mingmei stared at the door quietly for a while, then turned her head and said to me: "Hey, is there anything to eat in the bag? I'm hungry."

I was still immersed in her accusation against the mayor, I didn't react for a while, I just looked at her blankly.Ji Mingmei walked towards me, took off the burden on my shoulders and flipped it casually, then found a piece of cloud cake and broke it in half, and said to me angrily while eating: "What are you doing standing up, go to the table Pour me a glass of water, I'm choking to death."

The tears on her face hadn't dried yet, but she was eating Yunpian Cake as if nothing happened, as if the one who shed tears just now wasn't her.My heart was trembling when I saw it, and I hurried over to pour a glass of water, and handed it to her respectfully.Ji Mingmei sat down at the table and raised both hands to me, indicating that she didn't have any free hands.

Seeing this, I moved the cup to her mouth again, Ji Mingmei bit the rim of the cup and took a sip, then let out a deep breath, and said with a smile on her face, "It's so nice of you to treat me."

"It's okay." I laughed dryly.Along the way, I have learned the tricks of this Miss Ji.This person followed me out from Ji's house, bringing nothing but a few changes of clothes, but there were so many changes along the way, seeing people talking nonsense, and talking nonsense, it was really shocking.

If her face hadn't changed all the time, I once thought that the Ji family had not only given birth to a daughter, but a litter.At this time, Ji Mingmei had enough to eat and drink, and she comfortably put her legs on the chair. I was hesitating whether to go up and help her beat her back, so I heard her say: "If the real culprit behind the Wenling landslide is really Hu Xiaotian, you What is his plan?"

Ever since I found out that Hu Xiaotian instigated the boatman and others to cause the Wenling landslide, I was about to go up to Hushan to question him, but Ji Mingmei said that the matter was one-sided by the boatman. There is no proof, if Hu Xiaotian doesn't admit it, then even if we find Hu Xiaotian, we can't do anything to him.

I thought it made sense, so I came to Heshang Town together with her. I wanted to find Wu Hanxiang and search for direct evidence that Hu Xiaotian was the main emissary.Unexpectedly, after arriving in Heshang Town, he suddenly found that Wu Hanxiang had been dead for 19 years.However, the boatman said that he and Wu Hanxiang created the Wenling landslide for nearly 20 years.

So this matter really doesn't make sense, but I have no time to think about it at this time, because my mind is full of what Ji Mingmei said to me before.When I was in Tantou Town, I was shocked and angry when I learned that the people from all the organizations I met were lying to me.In order to appease me, Ji Mingmei told me everything she knew about the organization.

She told me that this organization, which has been dormant for 20 years, is called the Six Arts Association, which is named after the Six Arts of Confucianism and is divided into six parts.It is said that the organization was established in the late Southern Song Dynasty by a group of Confucian scholars in order to save the country and survive. Its members included great Confucianists, aristocratic families, and giant merchants at that time, as well as traffickers and mountain monks. The composition was extremely complex.

After the Battle of Yashan, the Song Dynasty perished, and the Six Arts Association was transferred to the private sector. After hundreds of years of development, it has become stronger than when it was established. Its tentacles have penetrated into all aspects of society, enough to have a huge impact on the entire country.This was something that the people who founded the Six Arts Club did not expect. When people later discovered this, they couldn't help but feel scared.

Because of such a huge energy, no matter who is in the hands, it can stir up waves that turn rivers and seas upside down.If the master has bad intentions, it will cause great harm to the nation.In view of this, several leaders of the Six Arts Association met again to discuss how to put this giant beast in a cage.

They finally negotiated a result, which is to isolate the energy mastered by the Six Arts Association from the leader.The specific method is to cast six meteorite iron plaques, and each of the six departments will hold one. When the extraordinary period comes, the six departments will hand over the plaques to the selected leaders to uniformly deploy the energy of the Six Arts Association.

The industries and energies that the Six Arts Club belongs to only recognize brands but not people.So in normal times, no one can mobilize the organization because they don't have all six Meteorite cards, and the heads of various departments in charge of Meteorite cards can't make a profit from it.So for a long time, although the power of the Six Arts Association is getting stronger and stronger, the families in charge of the iron cards rarely have rich families, but most of them live in seclusion in the countryside.

In the late Qing Dynasty more than 20 years ago, it was a time of great changes in the family and the country.This is of course considered an extraordinary period, so the Six Arts Association became active and secretly supported many revolutionaries and passionate associations. I hoped that they could save the country from danger, but many of them later deviated from their original intention of saving the country and the people. Many disappointing things have been done.

At that time, the leader of the Six Arts Association was Wei Rutao. He was extremely disappointed by the chaos, so he called the main people in charge to discuss countermeasures, and proposed to temporarily withdraw from intervening in the current situation, and then respond according to the situation when the situation became clearer.At that time, Yuan Shikai was about to carry out the restoration work, which aroused public indignation across the country. The Six Arts Association would withdraw from intervening in the current situation at this time, which naturally aroused many opposing opinions.

But Wei Rutao's reputation was extremely high at that time, and Mrs. Wen also approved of his maturity, so the matter was settled.Wei Rutao returned the six meteoric iron cards in his hand to the ministries, and agreed that the ministries would gather again 20 years later to reassess the current situation.Since then, the six parts have been dormant in various places, and only Gu Yin and others are still running around, contributing their meager strength.

Because these people only participated in the current situation in their own names and did not involve the Six Arts Club, the organization did not interfere with them.When the tragedy of the Wei family happened, Zhou Zhier had a dispute with Wei Rutao. The reason was that the Six Arts Association withdrew from intervening in the current situation, which caused Zhou Zhier's father to participate in the anti-Yuan war alone, and finally died on the battlefield.

Wei Rutao felt that Zhou Zhi'er harbored resentment towards him because of this, so under the design of Xiuhong and Lang's family, she decided that she was the one who wanted to kill Wei Zhiyan, and finally caused the tragedy of Wei's family.

I have been searching for the true face of the organization all this time, but at this moment Ji Mingmei suddenly lifted the veil, which made me a little uncomfortable.When I think of my father and grandparents who shed blood for my country, I am naturally very excited.But what shocked me the most was that Ji Mingmei actually said that I was the new leader of the Six Arts Association.

And the purpose of Old Master Wen when he asked me to go on the road was to let me facilitate the 20-year agreement that year, and at the same time collect all the cards in the hands of the leaders of the ministries, so as to respond to the current situation again.Jindi, Hu Xiaotian and others I met along the way before actually all had a sign in their hands.

They were supposed to hand over the signs to me after they saw me, but for some reason, no one told me about it, let alone handed the signs to me.At that time in Plum Blossom Town, Ji Youjie showed surprise only after learning about this situation.

After thinking about it over and over again, he felt that something might have happened, so he immediately decided to hide it from me.Later, Ji Mingmei made a fuss about wanting to follow me, so he handed the sign to Ji Mingmei and told her that if I collected the other five signs, he would give her this one to me as well.

This is the real reason why he indulged Ji Mingmei's nonsense and agreed to let her go with me.

As for why I was the new leader, Ji Mingmei said that it was because Mrs. Wen "picked" me off the tree with his own hands, and this was the ceremony for the Six Arts Association to identify the leader.The implication of this ceremony is that those who are "picked off" grow from the land of China, have their roots in China, and take protecting China as their duty.

That's why when I left Wenling, the old man would tell me that if someone asked me about my origin, he would say that I "grew" from a tree.I was naturally very excited when I heard Ji Mingmei's words, not because I suddenly became the leader of the organization, but because I finally joined the ranks of my parents and could continue their unfinished business.

It's just that although Ji Mingmei told me most of the things, when I asked about the blank letter, she was a little evasive, I don't know if she really didn't know or she didn't want to say it.I thought that she violated Ji Youjie's instructions, just to appease my emotions, and my heart softened, so I didn't ask any more questions.

"Tell me, what is Hu Xiaotian's intention in planning the Wenwei family?" Ji Mingmei lowered her eyelids in thought, her long eyelashes covering her eyes, reminiscent of a weeping willow by a pond, "If you say he intends to A 20-year agreement, but no matter what, the position of leader is not his turn, so why did he do these things?"

"It's not his turn to be the leader anyway, why?" I asked, "Isn't it feasible to find a few more people from the organization to 'pick' him off the tree?"

"Impossible." Ji Mingmei replied, "Except for you, there is no other person in this world who is qualified to take over as the leader."

"Huh?" I looked at her in surprise, my eyes full of doubts.

(End of this chapter)