The Republic of China Conspiracy Records

Chapter 128 The Sapphire Case (7)

The note stated that the "killer" was from the Zhao family, but in fact he probably wasn't.The biggest possibility is that he is actually the one who set us up, maybe even the one who threw the note.He kept his back to us in the medical hall, and only showed his side face when he "killed".

So speaking of it, we don't know what he looks like at all, and naturally we can't find it anywhere.So in this matter, we have no room to defend ourselves.The more I thought about it, the more frightened I became, until I was sweating profusely.Ji Mingmei also figured out the key points, and her face turned pale immediately.

Because it was her idea to jump into the courtyard to peep at that time, she still had a look of self-blame on her face and looked at me apologetically.I shook my head slightly at her, indicating that the matter had nothing to do with her.The mayor didn't wait for us to say anything, and let Xiangyong escort us all the way back to the town hall.

When the shop owner saw us being escorted away, he was shocked from ear to ear, and chased us all the way out of the shop, as if he was going to rob us.I told him that we had some misunderstandings with the town office, and it was good to make it clear, and asked him to help us reserve the room and take care of the luggage left in the store.

The owner of the store is warm-hearted, although he has some doubts, he still agreed to us.I said it lightly, but I knew that I would be in deep trouble this time, so I couldn't help but feel heavy.When we arrived at the town hall, the mayor yelled at us and asked us to confess our accomplices.It's just that he has a naturally funny face, and although he speaks harshly, it looks like he's trying to make us laugh.

Although Ji Mingmei was also full of shock and worry, she couldn't help laughing when she saw his face.Seeing this, the mayor became more annoyed, his tone became more severe, and his appearance became more ridiculous.Ji Mingmei said to him apologetically: "I'm really sorry for the mayor, I... I just want to laugh when I look at your face, please don't be offended."

The mayor was about to get angry, but she said hurriedly and aggrievedly: "I haven't been out much since I was a child, so I don't know that there are people like you who get angry like you - people will be scared when they see sticks, have you ever seen someone who is afraid of Sixi meatballs?" of?"

These words sounded very reasonable, and Sixi Wanzi also knew that he could not play the role of intimidation, so he couldn't find words to refute her, so he could only walk away.Before we leave, let us reflect on it, and come back to us after he has finished taking care of Mrs. Wu and Zhou.

When Sixi Wanzi left, the two of us stared at each other again. I knew she was pretending to be a fool just now, but she actually wanted to fool the mayor first, otherwise we would have nothing to say.Now that the mayor is gone, Ji Mingmei frowned and said, "We have been tricked, what should we do now?"

"Now it seems that there is a bigger secret hidden behind Wu Hanxiang's death, and everything that happened now is because of it. So the most important thing we should do is to find out what happened back then." I said Sighing, "But now that we are in prison, where can we go to investigate?"

"Now that you know what to do, go out and investigate." Ji Mingmei eagerly said, "That Sixi Ball locked us up indiscriminately, so let's escape!"

"If we just escaped, wouldn't we be convicted?" I shook my head and said, "Besides, the windows are closed, and there must be guards outside. How can we escape?"

Unexpectedly, before I finished speaking, I heard the window creak and opened a crack by itself, as if to refute me.I thought to myself, this is really fresh, I have lived for so many years, I never thought that one day I would be refuted by a window.Ji Mingmei was overjoyed when she saw this, and hurriedly said: "Look, the windows are helping us escape from prison, so hurry up!"

I turned my head to look at her, Ji Mingmei didn't look at me either, she just pulled my sleeve and wanted to go with me.I stood there motionless, Ji Mingmei stood still and looked at me, and I looked back at her.Things are so weird right now, no matter how dull I am, I can still see something unusual.

Just as she said she was going to escape from prison, the window opened a crack by itself. If the window wasn't her accomplice, then her accomplice was naturally someone else.Reminiscent of the fact that the mayor was sent away so easily just now, it was not the mayor's intention to arrest us back to the town hall, but someone's order.

Ji Mingmei saw this before me, so she proposed to escape from here.And who can tell the mayor what to do, and who can be seen by her at a glance?

"Bu Ying, if you don't come out again, I'll go over and pour the footwashing water on your head." I angrily shook off Ji Mingmei's hand and said to the window.

The window was silent for a while, and then suddenly a Jiangyang thief's face poked out from outside. His face was full of beards and his expression was serious. Without opening his mouth, he seemed to be asking someone for money or life.When I saw him poking his head in, I naturally knew who the not-so-good person the shop owner was talking about was.

It turned out that the person who stole the sapphire from the medical hall and mortgaged it to the shop owner was actually Bu Ying.And the reason why Ji Mingmei knew he was coming before me was because he was also the one who threw the note at us.Ji Mingmei recognized his handwriting, that's why she followed the instructions on the note and dragged me to peep inside the medical center.

It's just that we didn't expect that our voyeurism would make us an accomplice in Wu Zhou's death, but Bu Ying probably didn't expect this.He will not set us up, since he was the one who threw the note to us, then the murder scene we saw in the hospital at that time was not someone acting, but it happened in real life.

But since Wei Langzhong was really killed, why did he appear in the end as if nothing had happened?

Now that I straightened things out, I naturally understood that the person who was investigating the Qingyu case back then was none other than Bu Ying.And it was precisely because of his appearance that Mr. Zhao was so worried that he even did not hesitate to kill someone for it.

At this time, Bu Ying jumped in from the window, his hands and feet were skillful, and he looked like a good sneaker.After he landed, I asked, "Are you investigating the death of Wu Hanxiang 19 years ago? How could this matter be related to you?"

"Do you know what 'Thief Blossom' is?" Bu Ying didn't answer my question, but asked me first.

The so-called "thief blooming" is actually an old bad practice.In the old days, in order to blackmail wealthy households, the government would often falsely claim that someone in the local area had stolen from their home, and then send personnel to the wealthy households' homes, claiming that the wealthy households were suspected of collecting stolen goods, and threatened to question them.

In order to calm things down, those unlucky wealthy households often have to spend a lot of money to manage them. When the money is enough, the government will announce that they have cleared their stigma.If any family does not remove any hair, it will often turn out to be fake in the end, causing a lot of restlessness, and some people even lose their families because of this.

I nodded, expressing that I had heard of such a thing, and then asked: "Is the Qingyu case related to 'Thief Blossom'?"

"That's right." Bu Ying said, and told us the events of that year in detail.Back then, the Zhao family's Fujia party was targeted by interested people in the county at that time, and they used the method of "thieves blooming" to deal with them.The person who was sent to Zhao's house was named Cheng Jie. When he arrived at Zhao's house, he opened his mouth like a lion and wanted to make Zhao's house bleed.

At that time, the Zhao family had no choice but to agree to him, but they asked him to give him a few more days so that the Zhao family could find a way to raise money.Because the amount of extortion was too large, it was reasonable for the Zhao family to fail to make up all the money in a hurry, so Cheng Jie agreed.But after a few days, Cheng Jie came to Zhao's house again, only to find that Zhao's house was putting up lanterns and festoons.

Cheng Jie was naturally extremely stunned, and thought that the Zhao family was beating gongs and drums to celebrate being blackmailed. After asking, he found out that this pretentiousness was not for him, but for Mrs. Zhao who wanted to take a concubine and marry a 17-year-old girl to enter the house. .

The Zhao family has been forced to this point, yet they are still in the mood to take concubines.Cheng Jie was naturally very surprised, but the Zhao family told him that it was because of the hemorrhage that the old man Zhao was very depressed, so he wanted to take in a concubine to appease his grievances.

Although the words meant this, the Zhao family naturally said it tactfully.Cheng Jie didn't take it seriously, so he asked them to take out the money.However, the Zhao family couldn't help but drag him into the banquet, saying that they would naturally give him the banquet after waiting for the banquet.Cheng Jie was in Zhao's house, so he was not afraid of them running away, so he just sat down as guests.

Unexpectedly, that night, the bride surnamed Zhou was robbed.At that time, the Zhao family was in chaos, and everyone was investigating who had robbed the bride. In the end, no one knew who had leaked the news, and the Zhao family learned that it was Wu Hanxiang who did it, so they flocked to the tofu shop.

When they arrived at the tofu shop, they found that Wu Hanxiang had already married the Zhou family.Naturally, the Zhao family couldn't swallow the bad breath, so they beat Wu Hanxiang to death on the spot, and then walked away.

Although Zhao's family killed someone, Wu Hanxiang blatantly broke into someone's house and robbed the bride, which violated public order and good customs, and the government could not hold him accountable, so the matter was left alone in the end.This matter was a sensation in the whole county at that time, and it was the talk of the folks after dinner for several years. It was not mentioned until recent years.

"Is there anything wrong with this?" I asked him after listening.Although he described it in detail, it is not much different from what we know so far.

"What's wrong comes later." Bu Ying squinted his eyes and said quietly, "That brother Cheng Jie suddenly disappeared after the Zhao family's wedding farce, and no one has seen him since then."

"He...where did he go?" I didn't expect the matter to come back to Cheng Jie, so I couldn't help being curious.

"I think he is dead." Bu Ying said seriously, "And it was the Zhao family who killed him."

"He has blackmailed a huge amount. The Zhao family can't bear the blackmail. It is possible to kill him, but do you have any evidence?"

"That's the problem. People in the county thought it was the Zhao family who killed Cheng Jie, but there was no clue. Cheng Jie just died like this, as if the world had evaporated."

"If the Zhao family kills someone, they must dispose of the body. The Zhao family is a wealthy family, and everyone's every move is under the nose of everyone. How could there be no clues when they killed someone. What did the Zhao family say back then?"

"The Zhao family said that maybe because Cheng Jie got a lot of money, he didn't want to go back to the county to share it equally with others, so he just left and disappeared."

"This statement is reasonable. Do you think there is no such possibility?" I looked at Bu Ying.

"It's just too reasonable." Bu Ying replied, because the Zhao family's words were too reasonable, so even though the county had doubts, they couldn't take any measures against the Zhao family.It didn't take long for the "thief blossoming" incident to be revealed, and many wealthy households who were victims jointly reported to the higher-ups, so the higher-ups sent people to investigate thoroughly, and all relevant personnel were held accountable at that time.

The Zhao family was also one of the victims, so the case of Cheng Jie's disappearance was closed on the basis of the Zhao family's excuses. After that, it became an unsolved case for more than ten years, and no one brought it up again.

"In this case, why do you conclude that the Zhao family killed Cheng Jie?" I asked, "How does this matter have anything to do with Wu Hanxiang's death?"

"The dossiers from that year showed that Cheng Jie carried a piece of sapphire with him wherever he went. The sapphire was not worth much, but it was said that it was left to him by his mother, so he carried it with him every step of the way."

"What, the sapphire buried with Wu Hanxiang belongs to Cheng Jie!" I cried out.

"That's why I concluded that Cheng Jie had already been killed, because that piece of sapphire was left to him by his mother, and he would neither give it away nor leave it easily."

"But even if Cheng Jie was killed, how could his sapphire be buried with Wu Hanxiang?" I remembered listening to the tone of Mr. Zhao and Lang Wei when I was eavesdropping outside the medical hall. Together.But Wu Hanxiang was obviously beaten to death by the Zhao family, and the Wu Zhou family had a feud with the Zhao family, what is going on?

"This is the problem. If Cheng Jie was really killed by the Zhao family, then this piece of sapphire should be on Cheng Jie's body, or fell into the hands of the Zhao family. How could it be buried with Wu Hanxiang?"

"Unless Wu Hanxiang's death back then had other reasons behind it, and it wasn't because of kidnapping!" I had a vague guess in my heart, so I told Bu Ying everything I heard in the hospital, "Old Master Zhao just happened to At the moment of "Thieves Blooming", you want to take a concubine, and the Zhao family seems to be with the Wu and Zhou family, so could it be that the Zhao family's reason for the snatching of the marriage back then was actually the purpose of Cheng Jie?"

"I think so too. What's the best way to deal with a dead body without anyone noticing it?" Bu Ying stared at Ji Mingmei and me, his eyes turned green, as if he had already thought of something. The method is ready to try us.

(End of this chapter)