The Republic of China Conspiracy Records

Chapter 132 The Sapphire Case (11)

"Wu Hanxiang's corpse is right in front of your eyes." I said without waiting for Mrs. Wu Zhou to speak.

"It's here?" Bu Ying was very surprised, "Where is it?"

"It's in the coffin." I pointed to the coffin.

The mayor also showed a look of astonishment on his face, and said dumbfounded: "Isn't Wei's wife in the coffin? Could it be that Mr. Wei secretly lifted Wu Hanxiang's body out to be buried with Wei's wife? This... this..."

"This is incredible, isn't it?" I continued, "In fact, there is no Wei's wife in the coffin, but only Wu Hanxiang!"

"Where did Wei's wife's body go?"

"Her? She has been buried in Wu Hanxiang's grave for 19 years!"

"The more you talk, the more confused I become." Ji Mingmei said angrily, "Wu Hanxiang has been dead for 19 years, and Wei's wife just died. Why did the coffins of these two people exchange each other?"

"That's why Wei Langzhong was killed by Mr. Zhao, but he can still appear in front of us." I took a deep breath, stared at Wu Zhoushi and said word by word, "Because the person who died 19 years ago It's not Wu Hanxiang, but Wei's wife. Wu Hanxiang was alive until he was killed by Mr. Zhao last night!"

"You mean, the murder of Mr. Zhao we witnessed last night was actually Wu Hanxiang." Ji Mingmei was stunned, "So when we come again, Wei Langzhong can appear in front of us alive?"

"That's right." I nodded and said, "So these years, there have been two 'Guard Doctors' in Heshang Town. They both wore bamboo hats and veiled their veils. When one went out, the other pretended to be ill in the hospital Wei's wife, so no one knew the truth. The person who led us to the cemetery was none other than Wu Hanxiang."

"So, we clearly met Langzhong Wei three times, but he only admitted to seeing us once or twice. That's because it was not Langzhong Wei who saw us for the first time, but Wu Hanxiang!" Bu Ying also turned around at this time. Come on, "So these years, no one has pretended to be Wu Hanxiang and went to Wenling, because he has always been alive!"

"This can also explain why the Wu Zhou family and the Zhao family are clearly enemies, but they seem to be together. Because of the robbery incident back then, Wu Hanxiang was actually an accomplice of the Zhao family, and they jointly covered up Cheng Jie's death .”

"What about Wei's wife's death?" Ji Mingmei also understood, "Why is Wu Hanxiang buried in Wu Hanxiang's grave instead of Cheng Jie?"

"I have to ask Wu Zhou's about it. Now that Wei Langzhong and Wu Hanxiang are gone, the only ones in this world who know the truth back then are probably only her and Mr. Zhao." As I said, I turned to Wu Zhou's.

"It was Mr. Wei who killed her." Wu Zhou didn't hide anything, "It was because Mr. Zhao saw him kill his wife when he came to look for him back then, so he was also involved in this matter."

"But, why did Langzhong Wei kill his wife?" Ji Mingmei asked with her eyes wide open, puzzled.

"Why?" Wu Zhoushi laughed silently. The smile was actually gentle, but somehow we all shuddered. "If you are asked to take care of a person who has been ill for a long time, how long can you not get bored? One or two years? Or three or five years?"

It turned out that after taking care of his sick wife for many years, Wei Langzhong finally got bored and wanted to kill her.Unexpectedly, when he was making a move, he was bumped into by Mr. Zhao who came to the door.So Mr. Zhao took his handle and let him participate in Cheng Jie's death.

Wei Langzhong's killing of his wife is undoubtedly a human tragedy.Just as Wu Zhou asked, who knows how far another person can do it?It is always easy for people to be strict with others and lenient with themselves, easy to say bold words, but difficult to do petty things.We thought that his fate was even changed because of this. Although we hated his crime of killing his wife, we couldn't help but sympathize with him.

"Perhaps you all think that Mr. Wei took good care of his wife for several years, and he became murderous because he couldn't be dragged down." Wu Zhou glanced at us, and his tone was still gentle, "If that's the case, although I still despise him, I don't care. Don't feel contemptuous, after all, even if you can do some things, you can't ask others to do the same."

"Isn't that the case?" I heard her words were wrong, and asked with some hesitation.

"Of course not. One of the favorite words of Lang Zhongwei in his life is the heart of a doctor and his parents. But in the second month of his wife's illness, he couldn't help touching her—well, the reason why he didn't It took a month to do it because he was also infected at that time and was busy protecting himself, and when he recovered from the illness, he predicted that he would be dragged down, so he hurried to do it."

We all shuddered, and then gasped.This guard's cold nature is really creepy.Killing someone because he couldn't be dragged down, and killing someone because he foresees being dragged down are two completely different things.The former is somewhat out of helplessness, but the latter is purely out of shame.

We were all in shock, and no one spoke for a moment.After a while, Bu Ying licked his lips and asked: "At that time, Mr. Zhao broke Wei Langzhong's murder, so he was also involved in Cheng Jie's death. But what did he want Wei Langzhong to do? If Just to cover up Cheng Jie's death, using Wu Hanxiang's 'corpse' is enough, what else do you need him to do?"

"I'm not sure about that. Our original plan was to bury Cheng Jie's body in Han Xiang's grave. But then Mr. Zhao changed his mind and took Cheng Jie's body away. In the end, because Wei's wife's body could not be disposed of, she was buried in Hanxiang's tomb."

The Wu Zhou family said that their original plan was to bury Cheng Jie in Wu Hanxiang's grave, and then let Wu Hanxiang go away, and then let the Wu Zhou family leave after a while to reunite with Wu Hanxiang.But it was during this time that Wu Zhou's father became ill, and she couldn't leave Heshang Town.

So what Mr. Zhao told her at the time was that the reason Wei Langzhong was brought in was to allow Wu Hanxiang to have a cover.Because Wei Langzhong had a pit on his face, he could just appear wearing a bamboo hat and a veil, so that Wu Hanxiang could pretend to be him in the same attire without leaving Heshang Town.

Since Wu Hanxiang doesn't need to leave, the Wu Zhou family can naturally stay and take care of his father.Although according to what Mr. Zhao said, it was all for the consideration of her husband and wife, but Wu Zhou did not fully believe what he said.Because if this is the case, it is enough to bury Cheng Jie's body and Wei's wife in the grave together, so why take Cheng Jie's body away?
But although she suspected that Mr. Zhao had ulterior motives, she didn't ask him.And because Wu Hanxiang was not buried in the grave, she never visited his grave in these years.

"In that case, why did you suddenly go to the cemetery last night? What do you want to do?" Bu Ying asked her.

"In Heshang Town, Wu Hanxiang had been 'dead' for 19 years, but in the past two days, people came to inquire about him one after another. So he was a little strange, as if someone knew he was not dead. It didn't take long for Qingyu to reappear suddenly, and he I faintly feel that it seems that what happened back then has been revealed."

The people she said came to her door one after another to inquire about Wu Hanxiang were naturally me and Bu Ying.In fact, the reason why we inquired about Wu Hanxiang was because we didn't know that he had "died" at all, but to Wu Hanxiang's ears, it seemed that we knew the truth.

It was because of our appearance that Wu Hanxiang mistakenly thought that someone wanted to re-investigate the death of Cheng Jie back then.The sapphire was Cheng Jie's personal possession, but it appeared in his coffin once. If someone were to re-examine the events of that year, they would definitely link Cheng Jie's death with him.And as long as the two are connected, it is inevitable that Wu Hanxiang's coffin will be lifted again.

So when Wu Hanxiang saw us at the tofu shop, he led us to the cemetery.His original intention was to let us lift the coffin out, and we will not be able to lift the coffin so quickly, so he was able to take advantage of our unresponsiveness and let Wu Zhou first remove the woman's clothes in the coffin in the name of moving the grave. The debris was picked up.

In this way, even if the coffin is finally lifted out, it is impossible to identify whether the skeleton inside is male or female, and no one can say that Wu Hanxiang is not dead.His series of actions were originally intended to cover up the truth of the year, but unexpectedly they were self-defeating, making us suspicious of the matter who knew nothing about it.

Because of this, Bu Ying went to re-check the files of the year, and went to the medical hall to steal the sapphire, which finally aroused the panic of Mr. Zhao. In order to keep the truth of the year, he killed Wu Hanxiang to silence him.Poor Wu Hanxiang tried to cover up the truth for Mr. Zhao, but in the end he got himself killed.

Mrs. Wu Zhou went to the cemetery last night to pack the clothes in the coffin, but what she never expected was that we rushed to the cemetery suddenly and told her that Wei Langzhong had been killed.At that time, she knew immediately that the murdered person was not Wei Langzhong but Wu Hanxiang.

Now that Wu Hanxiang was dead, she naturally had no intention of caring about the clothes in the coffin, and returned home in a daze.The next day, she went to the hospital and confirmed that Wu Hanxiang was the one who died. She wanted to go to Zhao's house to question Mr. Zhao, but Mr. Zhao shut the door on her.

She persisted in guarding the gate of Zhao's house, thinking that Mr. Zhao might be forced by the town's public opinion to come out and scold her.Unexpectedly, Mr. Zhao was not moved. She had no choice but to come to the hospital.Because when Mr. Zhao killed Wu Hanxiang, Wei Langzhong not only did not stop him, but covered him afterwards. In fact, he was an accomplice, so she attacked Wei Langzhong in a fit of anger.

She was kind to others all her life, and she always spoke softly, and Wei Langzhong believed that he had nothing to do with Wu Hanxiang's death, so he didn't pay much attention to her, so she stabbed him in the chest unexpectedly and killed him on the spot.

"Since Mr. Zhao wanted to kill people to silence him, why did he only kill Wu Hanxiang instead of Wei Langzhong?" The mayor was still a little puzzled.

"Because he and Wei Langzhong are the real grasshoppers on the same boat." I said, "Both of them are people who have really killed people. Once the matter is exposed, neither of them can escape, so they feel at ease with each other. But Wu Hanxiang and his wife just cooperated with them and did not kill anyone, even if the matter was exposed, it was only complicity, and it was easy for him to reveal the truth in his mind."

Wu Zhoushi listened to me with a calm expression.I glanced at her and said again: "Besides, Wu Hanxiang is a 'dead' person, even if he is killed, no one will find out."

"But Wu Hanxiang is an insider, isn't Aunt Wu?" Ji Mingmei retorted, "Since he killed Wu Hanxiang, isn't he afraid that Aunt Wu will reveal the truth?"

"Why aren't you afraid?" I replied, "Do you think he didn't intend to kill her? I speculate that after he killed Wu Hanxiang, he actually went to look for Mrs. Wu Zhou right away, but he didn't expect Mrs. Wu Zhou to be in the cemetery at that time." , and the mayor and others chased after her. He may have been waiting in the dark, hoping to attack her after we all left. But what he never expected was that Bu Ying stayed there to watch her .He has no choice but to leave."

"So, I still have to thank you all. If you hadn't accidentally protected me, I'm afraid I would have died by now." Wu Zhou bowed slightly to us, with a dignified and generous demeanor, not at all like he had just killed someone.

Since she did not deny the murder, the rest of the matter was naturally much simpler.The mayor ordered the villagers to clean up the body of Mr. Wei, and opened the coffin to have a look. There was indeed a man lying in it. He was dressed the same as Mr. Wei, but there was no pit on his face. He presumably was Wu Hanxiang up.

After confirming the coffin, we took Mrs. Wu and Zhou back to the town hall, leaving two people to guard the hospital.On the way back to the town hall, we asked Mrs. Wu Zhou again, why she and Wu Hanxiang cooperated with the Zhao family to kill people because they had nothing to do with the Zhao family and Cheng Jie.

Mrs. Wu Zhou was silent for a moment and told us that her natal family Mrs. Zhou had also been used to "thieves blossoming" by someone, and the person in charge was Cheng Jie.At that time, the Zhou family did not want to be blackmailed for no reason, so Cheng Jie made the slander of the Zhou family come true, and sent Zhou's father to prison.

Under the pressure of the situation, the Zhou family had no choice but to bow their heads to Cheng Jie and sent him a large sum of money, and only then did Zhou's father be rescued from prison.But at this time, her mother was so worried that she let go on the eve of Zhou's father's return.When Zhou's father came home and learned that his wife had passed away, he was devastated, but he had nothing to do with Cheng Jie.

Sadly, the Zhou family moved out of their original residence and came to Heshang Town.Unexpectedly, Cheng Jie also came all the way to Heshang Town, intending to do the same to the Zhao family.Zhou's father saw Cheng Jie walk into Zhao's house, so he went to persuade Zhao's family to soften up because of the lessons learned from the past, otherwise disaster would happen overnight.

(End of this chapter)