The Republic of China Conspiracy Records

Chapter 134 The Sapphire Case (13)

It seems that without direct evidence, Mr. Zhao cannot be taken down.A few of us exchanged glances, thinking so in our hearts.Although the words were dead, Mr. Zhao's attitude was still polite, and he asked the old servant to send us out, and the old servant responded with an open mouth.

He believed that we were going to come to blackmail him, so he was a little reluctant, even the wonderful front tooth was protesting, and following us didn't look like seeing off guests, but like seeing off the plague god.He wanted us to leave as soon as possible, so he walked so fast that it was hard to catch up, but he forgot that he was pulling a pair of cloth shoes full of flaws.

So after walking a few steps, he stepped on his left foot and stepped on his right foot, and fell on the ground. It seemed that this posture was much more friendly than before.In fact, Ji Mingmei has a very good heart, and when she saw this, she quickly turned around and helped him up, saying, "You didn't break it, did you?"

The old servant had a very clear sense of enemy and friend, and proudly shook off her hand to express that she would not be aided by the enemy, and then checked her front teeth lovingly.Mr. Zhao said warmly on the steps: "These shoes are so worn out, let's get a new pair. If it's just to save some money, it won't be worth it if you break your body at that time."

The old helper grinned and said, "So that my husband can know that this is the last pair of shoes my deceased wife made for me. I always feel a little bit reluctant to throw them away, not to save some money."

Mr. Zhao nodded when he heard the words, and said nothing more, but Ji Mingmei raised a small face and said: "Master is really a person who attaches great importance to emotions."

The uncle snorted, raised his head and pointed his chin at her, proving that he was not only emotional, but also had big nostrils.After hearing what Ji Mingmei said, I suddenly thought of what Wu Zhou said before. She said that when Mr. Zhao took Cheng Jie's body away, he deliberately took the sapphire from the body, and seemed to hate that sapphire.

Since there is no unreasonable love in this world, naturally there is no unreasonable hatred.Because the cloth shoes were made by his deceased wife, the old helper still refuses to throw them away even when they are worn out.So Mr. Zhao, why do you hate that piece of sapphire?
This idea came to my mind, and after I left Zhao's house, I couldn't wait to tell Bu Ying and the others.Ji Mingmei was also puzzled after hearing this: "Yes, why does he hate that piece of sapphire?"

"I know." Bu Ying said seriously, "No matter why Mr. Zhao hates that piece of sapphire, it shows a problem - he knows the owner of the sapphire."

"That's right." I also said, "And this master is not referring to Cheng Jie, otherwise Cheng Jie would have been killed, what's so disgusting about a piece of sapphire? The reason why he stripped the sapphire from Cheng Jie was because Cheng Jie His death cannot wipe away his hatred for Master Qingyu!"

"I remember Bu Ying said that because the sapphire was left to him by Cheng Jie's mother, he never left it with him." Ji Mingmei said in surprise, "So, Mr. Zhao knows Cheng Jie's mother!"

"And he has a deep grudge against her." Bu Ying quickly analyzed, "So Cheng Jie was killed on the surface, because he wanted to play 'thief blossom' on the Zhao family, but the real reason is probably not Not this, but something to do with Cheng Jie's mother."

"That's right." Even though all the previous things have been overturned in this way, I still can't help being excited, because we are probably getting closer to the truth. "Based on age calculations, the age difference between Cheng Jie and Mr. Zhao is not very big, so the estrangement between his mother and Mr. Zhao will not be caused by the relationship between men and women."

Ji Mingmei tilted her head and looked at us for a while, then suddenly said: "Back then, the Zhao family asked Cheng Jie to come to collect the money in a few days, but when Cheng Jie came, Mrs. Zhao wanted to take a concubine. Do you think there is any reason for this? "

"It's because the Zhou family was also Cheng Jie's victim, so the Zhao family proposed to involve the Zhou family to cover up the murder. Do you think there are other reasons?"

We didn't think about the connection between taking a concubine and Cheng Jie's mother, but Ji Mingmei seems to have thought of something.She is a woman, and it is unknown that she is more sensitive than us in this regard.

"If the estrangement between Mr. Zhao and Cheng Jie's mother was not caused by the relationship between men and women, what would it be?" Ji Mingmei frowned and said, with a small flower blooming between her brows, "If you just need a There are many ways to cover up Cheng Jie's death with a dead body, but why did the Zhao family choose to take a concubine? Do you think this is because the Zhao family wanted to stimulate Cheng Jie?"

"Stimulate Cheng Jie?" I asked in surprise, "What kind of stimulation will Zhao's concubine cause Cheng Jie?"

"What if Cheng Jie's mother was kicked out by the Zhao family?" Bu Ying said, staring at me.

I didn't turn the corner for a while, why was Cheng Jie's mother kicked out of the house by the Zhao family?When I realized it, I was stunned: "So Cheng Jie and Mr. Zhao may be brothers!"

The mayor listened to us for a long while, and at this moment he couldn't help but say: "I heard you say that, but I remembered it. Back then, Mrs. Zhao did have a concubine, who was quite good-looking and gave birth to a son. , but suddenly the mother and son disappeared. This happened decades ago, so if you didn’t mention it, I really can’t remember it.”

We couldn't help shivering when we heard the mayor say that.This almost confirmed our conjecture that Cheng Jie's mother was Mrs. Zhao's concubine, but she was kicked out of the Zhao family.A few years later, Cheng Jie gained some power, and when he came back, he wanted to play "thief blossom" against the Zhao family, perhaps because he wanted to vent his anger on his mother.

Maybe Cheng Jie's mother did something that made Mr. Zhao worry, so after he recognized Cheng Jie, he became murderous towards him.Not only that, he also deliberately arranged for Mrs. Zhao to take a concubine in order to humiliate Cheng Jie—the Zhao family didn't want your mother back then, but now the Zhao family is welcoming newcomers.

We don't know Cheng Jie's state of mind at that time, but he must be extremely angry.When Wu Hanxiang broke into the Zhao family and snatched away the Wu Zhou family, maybe he was not without satisfaction, but what he didn't know was that even this robbery was a dead end specially arranged for him!

We all shudder when we think of this.Whether Cheng Jie came to blackmail the Zhao family, or the Zhao family planned to kill Cheng Jie, it was actually a human tragedy.And what happened in the Zhao family back then that would make Mrs. Zhao drive his son out of the house?Also, did Mrs. Zhao know about the killing of Cheng Jie?

"Then what are we going to do now?" Seeing that we were all silent, the mayor couldn't help asking.

Bu Ying, Ji Mingmei, you look at me, I look at you, and suddenly we said in unison: "Sapphire."

After we spoke, we walked towards the hotel at the same time, and the mayor hurriedly followed after seeing this.When we arrived at the hotel, the owner had already closed the door because it was too late, so we knocked on the door again to wake him up.The owner of the store saw that I was taken away by the mayor in the morning, but now he appeared with him, followed by Bu Ying, and was speechless for a while.

It was Bu Ying who pledged the sapphire to him before, and he believed that Bu Ying was not a good person. Seeing that we were hanging out with him at this time, he thought we were all in the same group. His expression was quite complicated for a while, and he probably wanted to report to the authorities, but Thinking about the fact that the mayor, the official, has also joined the group, he suddenly doesn't know what to do.

We hurriedly explained to him that what happened in the morning was a misunderstanding, and we didn't care to talk to him about anything else, so we asked him to take out the sapphire.Because the sapphire was used by Bu Ying to pay for the meal, so he settled the meal at that time and took the sapphire back.After getting the sapphire, we walked out of the hotel, and Ji Mingmei said, "What about now?"

I scratched my head and looked at Bu Ying. At that time, we only thought about getting the sapphire first, but didn't think about what to do after getting it.

Bu Ying pondered: "To prove that Mr. Zhao killed someone, the most direct evidence is to find Cheng Jie's body. Back then we didn't know that he and Cheng Jie might be brothers, so we didn't know how he would deal with the body. Now that we know, then Cheng Jie's body is probably in the Zhao family's ancestral grave."

Yes, if Cheng Jie was an outsider, he would never be able to enter the Zhao family's ancestral grave, which was determined by the strict clan concept.That's why we never thought of it here before.But since Cheng Jie is also from the Zhao family, as long as he is buried in the ancestral grave, the effect will be the same as being buried in Wu Hanxiang's grave.

"However, since Mr. Zhao already knew that Cheng Jie belonged to the Zhao family, and could use the corpse of the Zhao family to cover up his death, why does Wu Hanxiang need to come forward?" I still have some doubts.

"It must be because no one in the Zhao family died at that time, and he didn't want to let the Zhao family die, so he decided on Wu Hanxiang's idea." Bu Ying said, "But when Wu Hanxiang 'died', someone suddenly appeared in the Zhao family. died, so he took the body away again."

"So at that time, did anyone in the Zhao family die?" I asked the mayor.

"Yes." The mayor's face was strange, "Grandpa Zhao passed away within a few days after being robbed. At that time, the Zhao family said that he was in a hurry because of Wu Zhou's being robbed. He vomited blood that night and died within a few days. gone."

So Cheng Jie's body should be in Mrs. Zhao's coffin right now.As long as we open the coffin of Mrs. Zhao, we can prove all this!
But that being said, it is quite difficult to open Mrs. Zhao's coffin.Because the Zhao family is a big local gentry, unlike ordinary people like Wu Hanxiang, moving his coffin is digging up the Zhao family's ancestral grave.This is a mortal enmity, and no one dares to make such a move lightly.

So we know that we can prove Mr. Zhao's murder by opening Mr. Zhao's coffin, but in fact we are still helpless.After staring wide-eyed and small-eyed for a long while, Bu Ying asked, "Can't you do anything?"

We all looked at him, Qiqi shook his head.Bu Ying said: "Great, I have a solution."

"You're not going to find someone to pretend to be a tomb robber to dig up the Zhao family's ancestral grave, are you?" I couldn't help feeling a little nervous when I thought of his style of doing things, and couldn't help but remind him, "If this is the case, even if you are in the coffin of Mrs. Zhao If Cheng Jie's body was found, Mr. Zhao may not admit it, and may even beat it up, saying that the tomb robbers put the body in."

"Do you think I'm such a stupid person?" Bu Ying's eyes were deep.

"Like." I opened my mouth and said.

Bu Ying got angry for a moment, and after moaning for a long time, he said: "Hmph, I don't have the same knowledge as you, you will know how powerful I am when I show my wisdom."

He was drooling, opening his mouth as if asking us to count how many teeth he had.We watched for a while and didn't see him showing his wisdom, but we saw his wisdom teeth showing.Ji Mingmei raised her small face and asked innocently: "Cousin, cousin, where is your wisdom, is it all in your little eyes?"

Bu Ying was immediately discouraged when he heard the words, ignored her, and said in grief and indignation: "Mr. Zhao hates sapphire and took it off Cheng Jie. Can we understand it as Cheng Jie's mother's relic, so it represents Cheng Jie's mother. Although Mr. Zhao buried Cheng Jie and Mrs. Zhao together, he didn't want Cheng Jie's mother to enter the Zhao family's ancestral grave."

What I said actually made sense, Ji Mingmei and I looked at each other in surprise, then nodded at the same time.

"In this case, what if he knew that Cheng Jie's mother was also buried in the ancestral grave?" Bu Ying narrowed his eyes and said.

"However, Cheng Jie's mother was not buried in the ancestral grave." The mayor said strangely, "She disappeared with her child many years ago, so it is impossible to be buried in the Zhao family's ancestral grave."

"What if Cheng Jie took his mother with him?"

How could a person bring another person with him, so the mayor was speechless and unable to utter a word.After hearing this, I was thoughtful. Cheng Jie's mother had never shown up for so many years, and I thought she was gone when Cheng Jie came to Zhao's house.In this case, if Cheng Jie carried something that could symbolize her with him, wouldn't it mean that Mr. Zhao also buried her with Mrs. Zhao?

"Hair knotting symbolizes the ceremony of husband and wife. As long as Cheng Jie's mother's hair enters the coffin, it means that she and Mrs. Zhao have completed the joint burial. What if Cheng Jie brought a bunch of his mother's hair with him?" Bu Ying continued. Said, "This strand of hair doesn't have to really exist, but we have to convince Mr. Zhao that the strand of hair does exist."

Mr. Zhao refused to put even a piece of her sapphire in the ancestral grave. If he found out that she was buried with Mrs. Zhao or that he did it himself, what kind of reaction would he make?
(End of this chapter)