The Republic of China Conspiracy Records

Chapter 124 The Sapphire Case (3)

"Because only Mrs. Wen is qualified to 'pick people' from the tree, but he has already been buried under the Wenling landslide." Ji Mingmei looked back at me and said, "So, you are the only one in this world today. Someone who can take over as leader."

"Then Hu Xiaotian created the Wenling landslide, didn't it strengthen my position instead?" I heard her say this, and I fell into deep thought, "If the root of the tragedy of the Wen and Wei families lies in the power of someone who wants to organize, then these They should be against me for years. But I have lived a good life all these years, what is this for?"

Ji Mingmei shook her head blankly, I glanced at her and then turned my eyes away, "Your father once said that the reason why the people behind the scenes spent 20 years to create the Wenling Landslide is because the people behind the scenes are waiting for you." I grew up. Now you say that only Mr. Wen is qualified to 'pluck people' from trees. If this is true, then there seems to be only one possibility."

"What?" Ji Mingmei still didn't understand, she looked at me suspiciously.

Needless to say, Ji Mingmei is an extremely intelligent woman, as can be seen from her words against the mayor just now.It is precisely because of her words that the mayor will go to investigate the matter of the man in the tofu shop again, and at the worst, he will be able to call Wu Hanxiang's widow to confront us, and then we will be able to ask a lot of things.

And this is the best response we can do right now.In other matters, she can respond calmly, but now that I have said this so clearly, she still doesn't seem to understand.When I saw this, I was also a little uncertain, whether she really didn't understand or was pretending to be stupid.

"Combining your father and your rhetoric, the biggest possibility is that the people behind the scenes are trying their best to send me to the position of the leader of the Six Arts Association. They even got rid of Mrs. Wen in order to rule out the possibility of other people becoming the leader." I said. Try to keep the tone as flat as possible, "But in this way, don't you think this is too ridiculous? In order to make me the leader, they not only got rid of the Wei family who gave birth to me, but also got rid of the Wen family who raised me !"

"Yeah, it doesn't seem to make any sense." Ji Mingmei also had a thoughtful expression on her face, "Why?"

"Unless there's something inside that I don't know about." I turned my head to look at her and asked softly, "Do you know anything?"

Ji Mingmei seemed a little guilty, she avoided my gaze, and whispered, "How do I know?"

I still stared at her, Ji Mingmei sighed, her tone was soft but firm, "What you said is really confusing, but I really don't know - can you believe that I won't hurt you?"

She turned her eyes away as she spoke, and looked at me calmly.I looked into her clear eyes and nodded involuntarily.

"I must follow you, you must also think that I have some purpose in your heart." Ji Mingmei said calmly, "You guessed right, I do have my purpose - I want to marry you."

I kept asking her why she had to go with me, but she refused to tell, but now she brought it up on her own initiative. I looked at her in surprise and listened to her continue.Ji Mingmei said: "We haven't been together for long, and you wouldn't believe me if I said that I fell in love with you long ago. But it's true that I want to marry you, not because of you, but because of myself."

Because of herself?I looked at her puzzled.

Ji Mingmei smiled at me, "When I was at Ji's house, my two aunts must have told you about me, saying that after I returned home from studying in the provincial capital, the first thing I did was to encourage them to leave my father and become independent and self-reliant." , go live your own life, don't you?"

At that time, the two wives of Ji's family did mention this matter, and they told me as a joke.But what does this have to do with her wanting to follow me?
"The Six Arts Association can affect the entire current situation. If you become the leader of the Six Arts Association, wouldn't it be possible for me to marry you to use the power of the Six Arts Association to vigorously promote the new idea of ​​equality between men and women?" Ji Mingmei said, her eyes sparkling .

I suddenly realized that it was because of this reason that she had to follow me.This kind of light in her eyes is only emitted when people talk about pursuit.Although she frankly said that she was using me, I was still moved by the light, and even a little in awe.

Life is a grassy life, and a person should have some pursuits, so that this life is not wasted.I didn't expect that she is cute and delicate, but she still has such a big pursuit.I was a little emotional, and solemnly said to her: "Even if you don't marry me, as long as I really become the leader, I will help you realize this pursuit."

"Really?" Ji Mingmei's eyes became brighter and she looked at me fixedly.

I nodded, and Ji Mingmei said with watery eyes: "You are so kind. I...I want to marry you even more! Do you know why?"

I was a little ashamed when I heard the words, and thought she was moved by my words, and was about to be moved by myself, when Ji Mingmei continued: "Because men are all liars! You can't believe what you say when you become a relative, let alone no I said it before we got married. I think it’s safer for me to marry you, at least if you don’t help me when the time comes, I can still cry, quarrel, and hang myself!”

Hearing that she almost choked to death, I glared at her resentfully.Ji Mingmei didn't take it seriously, she brought me tea and water with a smile, and handed me the other half of Yunpian Cake, pretending to be virtuous.I was really hungry, so I took the Yunpian Cake and ate it.

After a while, the mayor came back and said to us: "Okay. You can go." It seems that he has confirmed the matter of the tofu shop.I asked him: "Is there really a man in the tofu shop? Who is it?"

The mayor smiled and said: "I have wronged you two, forgive me. How can there be a man in the tofu shop? That is the doctor in the town. He went to see a doctor for Wu Hanxiang's widow, Wu Zhou, who went to the pharmacy to get medicine. Now, he will teach her how to make medicine at her home."

The presence of any man in a widow's house would cause gossip, but not the doctor.Ji Mingmei and I both nodded when we heard this.

"It's just that when the doctor came out of the house, why did he still wear a bamboo hat and gauze on his face?" I asked the mayor.

"Hey, the doctor had measles when he was young. Although he recovered, his face was full of pockmarks. He looked a little creepy, so he always wore a bamboo hat to cover himself when he went out, and he didn't take it off even in the house," the mayor said. "He likes to make fun of people by nature, so when you came to him, he saw that you were foreigners, so he guided you to Wu Hanxiang's grave. He didn't mean any harm, so don't take it to heart."

How could such a naughty joke be made like this? Although I felt a little offended, I couldn't say it directly. I hesitated and asked the mayor, "Well, has Wu Hanxiang really been dead for 19 years?"

"I remember that he died in the sixth or seventh year of the Republic of China. It was indeed eighteen or nineteen years ago." The mayor said and looked at us again. It's just a one or two-year-old baby, why would you come to him for something?"

I vaguely replied that someone introduced us to ask him about something, but didn't tell him what it was.The mayor didn't think much of it, he just said casually, "Is it the father's business?"

I smiled and replied: "Yes." Then I asked him again why he appeared on Wu Hanxiang's grave before. Could it be that Wu Hanxiang's grave was really dug up?

"No." The mayor said, "I have seen it, and the tomb is in good condition. But the strange thing is here, a piece of sapphire that was buried with Wu Hanxiang at that time appeared."

"Huh?" Ji Mingmei and I were a little suspicious, looking at the mayor, waiting for him to say something.

The mayor said that Wu Hanxiang had been dead for so many years, and he had no relatives, so most people had forgotten him.Unexpectedly, just yesterday, someone was unable to pay for a meal in the town, so he wanted to pay the bill with a piece of sapphire, saying that he would redeem it later.

The owner of the shop saw that it was a piece of jade, and it was worth the price of a meal, so he accepted it.Later that day, the owner of the store took out the sapphire and asked a customer who was dining in the store how much such sapphire was worth.But what he never expected was that the guest was Wu Hanxiang's neighbor.

When Wu Hanxiang passed away, because there was only Wu Zhou's wife left in the family, many things were done with the help of neighbors.At that time, the neighbor was one of the people who helped. He saw Wu Zhou put this piece of sapphire into the coffin for Wu Hanxiang to be buried with.

The sapphire that had been buried 19 years ago suddenly appeared in the hands of a stranger.The neighbor immediately felt something was wrong, and hastily told the owner of the store to keep an eye on the stranger, and if he came again, he must be kept. He went to the town office immediately and reported the matter to the mayor.

After the mayor heard this, he thought that someone had stolen and dug Wu Hanxiang's grave, so he immediately took two Xiang Yong to check.Unexpectedly, when they arrived at the cemetery, they found that Wu Hanxiang's tomb was in good condition, without any trace of being stolen.

After checking that there was no abnormality, he was ready to go back.Unexpectedly, not long after they walked, they heard voices from the other side of the cemetery, so they turned back and caught us right in time.It is also for this reason that he brought back Xiaoxiao who we thought was a grave digger.

Wu Hanxiang has been dead for 19 years, but the boatman said that he would go to Wenling with him for a period of time every year.Now the sapphire who accompanied Wu Hanxiang to the burial appeared again, but there was no trace of the grave being dug up. These two things can be called weird no matter what.

Ji Mingmei and I exchanged glances, we understood each other a bit, now there are only two possibilities that can explain this situation.One is that the dead Wu Hanxiang crawled out of the grave by himself. This is a phenomenon beyond common sense, and naturally cannot be explained by common sense, so there is no trace of the grave being dug up, but sapphire appeared outside the coffin.

One is that someone took advantage of people's unpreparedness and removed the sapphire from Wu Hanxiang's coffin before the burial. Since then, he has been going to Wenling with the boatman and others in the name of Wu Hanxiang.In short, there have been people impersonating Wu Hanxiang for the past 19 years.

We are naturally more inclined to believe the second case.It's just that the counterfeiters haven't shown their feet for so many years, so why did they use sapphire to pay off the debt in these two days.Could it be that this matter has something to do with our appearance in Heshang Town?

Ji Mingmei and I were a little surprised.I calmed down and thought about it for a while, and asked the mayor, "If Wu Hanxiang is alive, how old would he be now?"

"I don't know that." The mayor smiled, "But he was young when he died, so he should be about the same age as the two of you now."

"In this case, why did he die young?"

"I seem to have a little impression of this. But you have to let me think about it. I'm getting older, and I can't remember many things clearly." The mayor turned his head away, lost in thought.

Ji Mingmei and I waited quietly for him to speak. After quite a while, the mayor found the incident in his memory and said, "Oh, I remembered, Wu Hanxiang was beaten to death. I Let’s just say, there is no disaster and no disease, how can you die at such a young age?”

"Who beat him to death?" I asked quickly without waiting for him to continue expressing emotion.

"It was beaten to death by the Zhao family in the town." The mayor said, "At that time, the old man of the Zhao family wanted to take a concubine, so Wu Zhou's father sold Wu Zhou's family into the Zhao family. The old man Zhao was in his seventies or eighties that year. Oh, Mrs. Wu Zhou is only seventeen or eighteen years old, so she naturally didn't want to, she was crying all the time, and then Wu Hanxiang broke into Zhao's house on her wedding night and snatched her out."

"Is that why Wu Zhou followed him later?" Ji Mingmei's eyes lit up again when she heard such a thing, and she said, "I didn't realize that Wu Hanxiang could do such a thing."

"You haven't seen him before, how can you tell?" I said angrily, and turned to the mayor, "So Wu Hanxiang was beaten to death by the Zhao family?"

"Hey, from a big family, who can bear this? They won't be wronged if they are beaten to death, and no one will pay any attention to them before the officials." The mayor sighed a little, "Just before the Zhao family came to the door, Wu Zhou Wu Hanxiang and Wu Hanxiang worshiped heaven and earth and got married. That is, on the night of their marriage, Wu Hanxiang was beaten to death by the Zhao family, so Wu Zhou was actually a widow as soon as they got married. Alas, it is also pitiful. It has been so many years. "

"Ah?" Ji Mingmei exclaimed in surprise, "It turns out that Wu Hanxiang was beaten to death before he even entered the bridal chamber!"

(End of this chapter)