The Republic of China Conspiracy Records

Chapter 129 The Sapphire Case (8)

I was so scared by him, I hurriedly stretched out my hand to push his murderous face away, before I could speak, I heard Ji Mingmei say: "The best way to deal with the corpse is naturally to bury it in the grave The graves are originally for burying people, and naturally no one will dig them up after people are buried to see who is buried inside!"

"That's right." I also continued, "So it is likely that the Zhao family needed another corpse to cover up Cheng Jie's death, so they arranged it on purpose. If they put Cheng Jie's corpse in Wu Hanxiang's coffin If he is buried in the cemetery with Wu Hanxiang, no one will be able to find him again!"

This is the conclusion we came to after a comprehensive analysis based on the clues of Qingyu's appearance and the timing of Wu Hanxiang's death. The people who investigated the case 19 years ago didn't know about this, and wouldn't think of the connection between the two, so naturally they couldn't find out, which made the matter of that year an unsolved case.

"This can also explain why Cheng Jie's sapphire will become Wu Hanxiang's funeral, because not only Wu Hanxiang, but also Cheng Jie are in the coffin." Bu Ying also quickly continued, "But in this way, there are several things It doesn't make sense."

"The first is Wu Hanxiang's death." Ji Mingmei immediately said, "If the robbery was planned by the Zhao family, then Wu Hanxiang must nod for this matter-but the price is too high, how could Wu Hanxiang risk his life? cooperate with them?"

"Secondly, after Wu Hanxiang's death, why would someone use his name to go to Wenling for nearly 20 years to cause the Wenling landslide?"

Bu Ying didn't know the truth about the Wenling landslide, so I told him about it, and also about what I found out in Tantou Town.When Bu Ying heard that I already knew the truth about the Six Arts Association and about the six brands, his complexion suddenly became strange and unnatural, probably because he felt that he had deceived me, and he was a little uncomfortable facing me.

"You have a sign too, don't you?" I asked him.

He nodded, as if he wanted to say something, but he didn't say it.When I saw this, I said, "We'll talk about our matter later. The most important thing now is to find out the truth about Wu Hanxiang's death. Why did someone falsely use his name to go to Wenling after he died for nearly 20 years?"

"Let's go back to what happened back then." Seeing that the atmosphere was a bit awkward, Ji Mingmei hurriedly interrupted, "Now there is still a doubt about why Langzhong Wei got involved in this matter, and why did Qingyu appear in his hands? Of course, the most important thing is, why did Mr. Zhao kill him, but he can appear in front of us unscathed?"

"Just like the disappearance of Cheng Jie back then, there must be some kind of cover-up." I said, turning to Bu Ying, "Why did you appear in Heshang Town to investigate an old case more than ten years ago, and why did you drop the note that night? To us instead of going in with us?"

"I didn't come here to investigate any old cases." Bu Ying rubbed his chin and said abruptly, "I came to look for Mrs. Wu Zhou."

"What do you want her for?" I asked in surprise, "Finally you are going to achieve your life goal and become a thief?"

Bu Ying gave me a strange look, and slowly said: "Hu Xiaotian's lofty ideal is to go up the mountain and become a bandit. You know this, but do you know why he has such an ideal?"

"Didn't it mean that he was born into a wealthy family and was strictly restrained since he was a child, so he has a rebellious mentality?"

"No. In fact, it was because Wu Hanxiang snatched the Wu Zhou family from the Zhao family, so he wanted to go up the mountain and become a bandit." Bu Ying said every word.

"What... what does this have to do with Hu Xiaotian?" He connected these two irreconcilable things, I didn't turn the corner, and stared at him with wide eyes.

Ji Mingmei was also quite surprised, and urged Bu Ying to say: "What's going on, tell me quickly!"

Bu Ying thought for a while, and said: "Hu Xiaotian liked a girl when he was young, do you know that?"

Hearing what he said, I suddenly remembered something.When he was in Sanshan Town, Hu Xiaoshan led Hushan bandits to besiege Xiaoyang Village, forcing the village to hand over Xiuping.At that time, the patriarch asked Hu Xiaotian if he just watched Hu Xiaoshan messing around like this, and Hu Xiaotian answered him with one sentence.

He said: "Young people have never messed around. When I was his age, I liked the widow in the tofu shop next door but I didn't dare to say it. Now that I think about it, I only regret that I didn't snatch her back then."

I shivered suddenly, "The girl Hu Xiaotian liked back then was the Wu Zhou family!"

"How do you know?" Bu Ying was a little surprised, "You also checked Hu Xiaotian's past?"

I shook my head, and told them what Hu Xiaotian said in Xiaoyang Village at that time, "So Hu Xiaotian lived in Heshang Town back then, and he lived next to the tofu shop, so he could say that."

"Not bad." Bu Ying also said, and told us in detail what Hu Xiaotian did on the crane back then.Back then when Hu Xiaotian was on the crane, he knew both Wu Hanxiang and Miss Zhou.Both he and Wu Hanxiang liked Miss Zhou at the time, and wanted to ask someone to propose a marriage, but at that time the Zhao family suddenly came to the door first, and asked Zhou's father to marry Miss Zhou on behalf of Mrs. Zhao.

For some unknown reason, Zhou's father agreed to allow Miss Zhou to be a concubine to Mrs. Zhao.Hu Xiaotian was extremely angry at the time, but he didn't have the courage to run away with Miss Zhou.On the day of their marriage, Wu Hanxiang broke into Zhao's house and took Miss Zhou away.

Miss Zhou was grateful for his affection at the time, and she married him that night.Hu Xiaotian was very annoyed by this. Part of the reason why he always wanted to be a bandit was precisely because of this reason.Because bandits robbing marriages is a common occurrence in various places, he feels that if he is a bandit, he can go to Zhao's house to rob Wu Hanxiang first, and then he will be the one who will marry Miss Zhou.

Not many people knew about this at the time, only a few people such as Gu Yin and Jin Di knew about it.Later, on the night of Wu Hanxiang's marriage, he left Heshang Town, but he didn't let go of his desire to be a bandit.That's probably why Gu Yin asked him to go to Hushan to join the gang, which could not only satisfy his wishes, but also help in the investigation of the tragedy of the Wei family.

Only then did Ji Mingmei and I realize that Hu Xiaotian looked like he didn't care about anything, but he had such deep affection. Because he couldn't get what he loved, he wanted to go up the mountain and become a bandit.In fact, even if he became a bandit, it would not help. This is probably a kind of redemption for his weakness at that time.

Ji Mingmei felt a little sad when she heard it, and seemed to have a different impression of Hu Xiaotian.But I said to Bu Ying: "Since only a few people know about this past, how did you know about it?"

"Jindi told me." Bu Ying glanced at me.After leaving Jiaoling Town, I went to Meihua Town to go to Ji's house, but Bu Ying followed Jindi to Hushan, wanting to find out the details of these two people.

Bu Ying said that Jindi went to Hushan to find Hu Xiaotian, and the two talked about things back then.Hu Xiaotian slipped his mouth when he said that at the time, and inadvertently revealed that the Wenling landslide might be caused by man-made.Jindi was surprised when he heard this, because no one had questioned the Wenling landslide in all these years.

She chased after Hu Xiaotian and asked, no one knew about this matter, how could he know.It may be that she had some doubts about him in her words, so Hu Xiaotian refused to say any more.But Jindi refused to let go of this topic, so the two of them disagreed, and Hu Xiaotian actually injured her.

At that time, if Jindi hadn't seen the opportunity quickly and said that many people knew that she had gone to Hushan, she might have died there at that time.After Hu Xiaotian heard this, maybe he was afraid that he would really kill Jindi, so he had no room for excuses, so he didn't attack her, but he issued an order to drive her away from Hushan, and then he disappeared.

After Jindi left Hushan and returned to Sanshan Town, Bu Ying saw her injured in the dark, so he appeared and asked her what happened.Jin Di told him what happened on Tiger Mountain.At that time Bu Ying asked her if she knew where Hu Xiaotian might be going, and Jin Di told her about his liking for Miss Zhou back then, speculating that he might come to Heshang Town.

So Bu Ying followed Jin Di's words and found him.He didn't know that Wu Hanxiang had already died, so when he found the tofu shop, he also asked if Wu Hanxiang was at home.At that time, Wei Langzhong also walked out of the tofu workshop, and also guided him to Wu Hanxiang's grave.

After Bu Ying found out that it was a cemetery, he felt that something was wrong, so he went to the town office to inquire about the situation of the tofu workshop, and only then did he learn that Wu Hanxiang had already died.And that Miss Zhou back then has become the Wu Zhou family and has been a widow for 19 years, but she has never visited Wu Hanxiang's grave for more than ten years.

He felt that something was wrong, so he asked the mayor in detail about the details of Wu Hanxiang's death, but unexpectedly learned about the "thief blossoming" of the Zhao family.The Zhao family wanted to take the Wu Zhou family as a concubine at that time, and he felt that this was extremely abnormal, so he rushed to the county and checked the relevant files of the year in detail.

It was at that time that he learned about Cheng Jie and suspected that he had died at the hands of the Zhao family.Then he rushed back to Heshang Town and went to Wei Langzhong's clinic in the name of seeing a doctor. He wanted to ask Wei Langzhong why he directed him to Wu Hanxiang's grave.But at this moment something strange happened - Wei Langzhong acted as if he had never seen him before.

Bu Ying couldn't figure it out for a while, and after seeing the illness, he came out and walked around, then sneaked back to the medical hall, and found the piece of sapphire on the desk in the study.When he was looking at the file, he knew that Cheng Jie had a piece of sapphire with him, so he took it away.Then he ate at the inn and deliberately mortgaged the sapphire to the owner of the inn.

His original intention was to use sapphire as bait to make people related to this matter show up automatically.Unexpectedly, not long after, someone came to the town office to report the case, saying that Qingyu was buried with Wu Hanxiang.This moment immediately exceeded his expectations, and made him conclude that Wu Hanxiang's death was actually related to Cheng Jie's death.

For the past few days, he has been lying in ambush near the hospital, waiting to see who will come to Wei Langzhong to talk about Qingyu.Unexpectedly, at this time, he unexpectedly discovered that Wu Zhou went to the street to buy paper money at night, and Wei Langzhong had just returned from outside at this time, and Mr. Zhao also walked into the medical clinic with him.

Wei Langzhong once led him to the cemetery, and Wu Zhou bought paper money at this time, so he suspected what Wu Zhou would do at the cemetery in the middle of the night.He wanted to visit the cemetery, but he was afraid of missing the conversation between Mr. Zhao and Langzhong Wei.While hesitating, Ji Mingmei and I walked from the hotel to the entrance of the clinic.

He was overjoyed when he saw this, so he wrote a note with his pen and threw it to us, telling us to watch Mr. Zhao and Langzhong Wei, while he himself went to the town hall and asked the mayor and others to rush to the cemetery.He was also in Xiangyong, and it was dark at that time, so we didn't pay attention to him.

Later, when we saw Mr. Zhao's murder in the medical center, we rushed to the cemetery to inform the mayor.The mayor followed us in a hurry, but he didn't go with us at that time, but quietly hid aside, and continued to stay around the cemetery to spy on Wu Zhou's every move.

"So when Mrs. Wu Zhou was killed, you were there?" I hurriedly asked him, "Who killed Mrs. Wu Zhou? After Mr. Zhao left the medical center, he went to the cemetery to kill someone?"

"No." Bu Ying was a little embarrassed, and stroked his beard with his hand, as if sharpening a knife, "Actually, Wu Zhou did not die, and nothing happened to the cemetery. My name is the mayor. I actually wanted to play a joke on you by arresting you from the hotel. How about it, are you surprised or not?"

I opened my mouth wide when I heard this, and looked at him in disbelief, wondering what was wrong with this man's mind.Bu Ying was still complacent, and Ji Mingmei also had a look of disgust on her face when she saw this, but she also stared at her when she saw me, and smiled at me embarrassingly.I thought to myself that these two are really cousins, and they really have similarities in the matter of being unreliable.

The atmosphere was a bit tense for a while, and after a long time, I suppressed the desire to flatten Bu Ying's nose and let him explain what happened last night clearly.Bu Ying was surprised and said: "It's all right last night. Mrs. Wu Zhou heard that Wei Langzhong was killed, she seemed a little lost, and sat down on the cemetery. After a while, she walked back to the tofu shop by herself. No more graves to be dug."

Judging from Wu Zhou's performance, her lover should be Wei Langzhong.Wei Langzhong led visitors to Wu Hanxiang's cemetery twice, and urged Wu Zhou's to dig the grave late at night, which shows that there must be something wrong with Wu Hanxiang's cemetery.If nothing else happened, Cheng Jie should be in the grave.

But Qingyu appeared in Wei Langzhong's home, which shows that he was also a participant in the Qingyu case back then.That being the case, why did he remind us frequently and lead us to Wu Hanxiang's cemetery?

(End of this chapter)