The Republic of China Conspiracy Records

Chapter 136 The Sapphire Case (15)

He suddenly took the initiative to talk about Cheng Jie's mother, of course we would not let go of this opportunity, Bu Ying immediately asked: "It was your mother who drove Cheng Jie's mother out of the Zhao family, wasn't it?"

"So you already know that Cheng Jie is also from the Zhao family." Mr. Zhao lost his mind, "Did my mother drive her out of the Zhao family? No, I drove them out of the house."

"Then why did you drive them away? Did they offend you?" Ji Mingmei stretched her neck and asked.

"I was only a child of six or seven years old at that time, so they have nothing to offend me." Mr. Zhao smiled weakly.He probably knew that his life was not long, so he started talking more, "Haven't you been investigating Cheng Jie's death back then? I'll tell you all."

He had kept this secret all these years, and perhaps he felt hard in his heart, so when he was dying, he was full of desire to confide. "Do you know that my mother is three years older than my father? Women, once they get old, they age very quickly. When I was six or seven years old, although my mother took good care of her, she was still more than ten years older than my father. age."

Mr. Zhao said that an old and lustful woman naturally cannot stop her husband from taking a concubine.Originally, concubines should be concubines, Mrs. Zhao has accepted her fate, no matter what her husband treats her, at least she is still the eldest wife of the Zhao family.No matter which clump of flowers old Mrs. Zhao lingered in during his lifetime, he would always be buried with her when he died.

This is the last dignity of a woman who is not loved by her husband. Only with the support of this dignity can she resist the teasing of loss and pain.But one day, her husband even wanted to deprive her of this last dignity.During a meal, he told Cheng Jie's mother that she was very kind and treated him well, so he allowed her to enter the ancestral grave after a hundred years.

Normally, concubines are not allowed to enter the ancestral grave.Even when Yuan Shikai became a great official in Xinjiang, because his biological mother was a concubine, he could not enter the ancestral grave in the end, nor could he be buried with his biological father.Therefore, it is a great recognition and honor for Cheng Jie's mother to say what Mrs. Zhao said.

But for Mr. Zhao's mother, this is the most embarrassing humiliation.When she was still alive, her husband didn't love her anymore, and now he doesn't even leave her with this posthumous pride.At that time, Mr. Zhao was young and had no idea what his father's words meant.

He only knew that after hearing this sentence, his mother's face suddenly turned pale like a dead person.She neither made noise nor protested, but calmly stood up from the dinner table, and then walked towards her room without saying a word.When the servants of the Zhao family found her hanging from the beam in the room, it was already too late.

The old lady Zhao told her son with her last breath, the world is shallow and only pays attention to appearance, you must live delicately so as not to be disgusted by others.Only then did Mr. Zhao know that his mother was going to die.And it was Cheng Jie's mother's pretty face that killed her.

When his mother died, Mr. Zhao didn't shed a single tear.Because his mother had also told him that if tears helped, his father wouldn't have left her alone for years.Mr. Zhao’s way of protesting against his father was a hunger strike. He was only six or seven years old at the time, but he gritted his teeth and didn’t eat for three whole days, almost following his mother.

He is the eldest son of the Zhao family, the hope and future of the entire Zhao family, and no one can replace him.So Mrs. Zhao was very anxious, and tremblingly asked him what he wanted, as long as the Zhao family had it, he could give it to him.The little Mr. Zhao shrank into a ball on the bed, said nothing, just pointed at Cheng Jie's mother and kept yelling: "I want her to go...I want her to go..."

Except for this sentence, he never said anything else.Mrs. Zhao had no choice but to send Cheng Jie's mother and son out of the Zhao family.Many years later, Mr. Zhao has taken over the Zhao family. At this time, Cheng Jie's mother had also passed away, and he himself held a position in the government.

Because of his mother's expulsion experience, Cheng Jie harbored resentment towards the Zhao family.He approached the Zhao family at this time, not because he wanted to blackmail the Zhao family, but to prove that he was capable of destroying the Zhao family.It was Mr. Zhao who received him at that time, and the two brothers actually recognized each other as soon as they met.

Cheng Jie gave Mr. Zhao two choices, one is to let the Zhao family bleed out once and spend money to quell the "thief blooming" incident, and the other is to move his mother's bones into the Zhao family's ancestral grave and bury him with Mrs. Zhao in the future.

Mr. Zhao's mother died because of this, so when he heard this sentence, blood rushed to his forehead.But he concealed it very well, pretending to think for a long time before deciding to spend money to eliminate the disaster, and let Cheng Jie come back in a few days.After Cheng Jie left, he was so angry that he felt murderous intentions towards Cheng Jie.

At this time, Wu Zhou's father came to remind him not to resist Cheng Jie.So Mr. Zhao came up with a plan, he could humiliate Cheng Jie again, and get rid of him silently.He went to Mr. Zhao and said that the Zhao family had been blackmailed and was about to fall into the abyss. He asked Mr. Zhao to cooperate and get rid of this person together.

At this time, the old master Zhao had already taken care of his affairs, and he didn't know that it was Cheng Jie who came, so he agreed to Mr. Zhao for the sake of the Zhao family.So the Zhao family, with the cooperation of Wu Hanxiang and Wu Zhou's, staged a farce of taking concubines.

When Cheng Jie came again, he saw that Mrs. Zhao wanted to take a concubine again.Thinking of his mother, he was greatly stimulated, and vowed to make the Zhao family pay a painful price.During the quarrel, Mr. Zhao took advantage of his unpreparedness to knock him down, and then killed him.

Originally, all of this was in Mr. Zhao's plan, as long as Cheng Jie was buried in Wu Hanxiang's coffin, the matter would be settled.However, things went wrong at this time. Mr. Zhao met Cheng Jie at the concubine banquet and thought he looked familiar, so he asked Mr. Zhao about it afterwards.

Thinking of his mother's tragic death, Mr. Zhao was so angry that he told him the truth.His actions meant to vent his anger on his mother's behalf, and he was confident. It was absolutely impossible for Mrs. Zhao to hand him over for Cheng Jie's sake.He guessed right, Mrs. Zhao really would not put his eldest son to death for a bastard who was expelled from the house.

But what he didn't expect was that Mrs. Zhao had been guilty of Cheng Jie's mother and son all these years, and now he learned that he had sent Cheng Jie to a dead end with his own hands. His mind was greatly shocked, and he vomited blood and passed out on the spot.Although Mr. Zhao has resentment towards his father, he can't just sit back and watch him vomit blood and remain indifferent.

So he went to the medical hall to find Wei Langzhong. Unexpectedly, when he arrived at the medical hall, he ran into Wei Langzhong killing his wife.When Wei Langzhong was caught by him, he became so vicious that he wanted to kill him together.Mr. Zhao was worried that his father had no intention of entangled with him, so he hurriedly told him that he could help him dispose of Wei's wife's body.

Just when Wei Langzhong was suspicious, he told Wei Langzhong the truth about Cheng Jie's death and told him that he could hide Wei's wife's body in Wu Hanxiang's grave.Langzhong Wei learned that Mr. Zhao also killed someone, and it was impossible to show him off, so he followed him to Zhao's house to treat Mrs. Zhao.However, Mrs. Zhao is already old, and he was shocked by such a strong force, so he will soon die.

Before he died, he said to Mr. Zhao with tears that he was sorry for Mr. Zhao's mother, and Cheng Jie's mother and son.Now that Cheng Jie is dead, he can't do it anymore. I hope Mr. Zhao can hide Cheng Jie's body in his coffin.Because letting Cheng Jie be buried in the ancestral grave with him was the only compensation he could give Cheng Jie.

This is the last wish of Mrs. Zhao, and the concubine can be buried in the ancestral grave, so Mr. Zhao agreed to him.It's just that he knew that the sapphire belonged to Cheng Jie's mother, so when he took Cheng Jie away, he deliberately untied the sapphire from the corpse.The vacated coffin of Wu Hanxiang happened to be filled with Wei's wife's body.

As for allowing Wu Hanxiang to pretend to be Mr. Wei and stay in Heshang Town, one is indeed to allow Wu Zhou to stay and take care of his father, and the other is to worry about letting Wu and his wife out of sight.But what he didn't expect was that Wei Langzhong even wanted that piece of worthless sapphire back then.

This also directly led to today, nearly 20 years later, we judged that there was something wrong with Cheng Jie's death by virtue of this piece of sapphire.And because Mr. Zhao was worried that the truth would be revealed, he finally went to kill Wu Hanxiang.

The origin of all this comes from a woman's struggle.She was neglected by her husband because of her aging appearance, but for a woman in the old days, her husband was her heaven.He asked her to endure the loneliness of being empty and the loss of being robbed of love, but she endured it.Until one day, he wants to deprive her of her last dignity.

She finally decided that she couldn't bear it anymore, and she expressed her resistance by dying.

Affected by his mother's death, Mr. Zhao has been very concerned about his appearance ever since.In fact, he doesn't need to use his appearance to please anyone, but he has to dress himself up to the point of being almost paranoid, and he can't forget when killing and being killed.It was a thorn in his heart.This thorn can't be pulled out or melted, and it will live with him and die with him from now on.

After Mr. Zhao finished telling his secret, he was very angry at the end, but the people from the Zhao family hadn't come yet.He looked at his blood-stained clothes, his eyes were dull, as if he was looking at something, but he couldn't focus.

We all felt sad.About his mother, this is the chapter of a woman's life.When she was writing the manuscript, she must have thought that the flowers always bloom and the moon grows round in the years, and people are also gods and beauties.But when she was writing, someone always came to touch her shoulder, making the strokes completely changed when she was writing.

In the past years, I don't know how many tragedies of this kind of big family have happened.At this time, I knew the ins and outs of the matter, and I agreed with Ji Mingmei's ambition more and more.When we all fell into silence, Mr. Zhao was obviously dying, the light in his eyes gradually dimmed, and he muttered suddenly for some reason.

He said: "Mom, don't scold me, my clothes are dirty..."

He was already 50 or [-] years old at this time, but when he said this, he looked like a child of six or seven years old, his tone was full of coquettishness, as if he was acting like a spoiled child to his mother.Our hearts jumped when we heard it, and when we went to see him again, we found that he had closed his eyes in the arms of the mayor.

He killed Cheng Jie and Wu Hanxiang, and he was not innocent, but at this moment we watched him close his eyes, and our hearts were filled with great sorrow.After a long time, the mayor let out a sigh of relief and gently put him on the ground.

The Qingyu case is now closed, but we are not happy at all.After a long silence, Bu Ying sighed softly: "It's not advisable for him to do this!"

We all ignored him, but walked towards Wu Zhoushi.Now that the Qingyu case is closed, we naturally have to ask her about Wu Hanxiang, and verify whether Hu Xiaotian instructed him to go to Wenling.The Wu Zhou family also listened to Mr. Zhao's narration just now, and their expressions were a little complicated at this moment.

We asked her if she knew that Wu Hanxiang went to Wenling Town every year these years.She nodded, I suppressed the anger in my heart, and said again: "Did Hu Xiaotian let him go?"

"Hu Xiaotian?" Wu Zhou asked in surprise, "We haven't seen each other for nearly 20 years, how could it be Hu Xiaotian?"

"Not Hu Xiaotian?" We were more surprised than her, "Who is that?"

"I don't know." Mrs. Wu Zhou replied, "Every year, a patrol horse sends a letter. The letter is for me, but the letter specifies that Hanxiang should go to Wenling Town, and together with a few people, send the According to the patrol horse who delivered the letter, each letter has been transferred several times, and he does not know who sent it. Only a few of us know that Han Xiang is still alive, and the person who sent the letter We don’t know where. We were afraid that the sender would reveal the matter, so we did what he said.”

It turned out that Hu Xiaotian never showed up, but sent a letter to instigate Wu Hanxiang.It is conceivable that these letters will not be written by him, so we cannot get evidence that he is the real culprit behind the Wenling landslide.

"Aunt Wu, since Hu Xiaotian likes you, can you guess where he is now? We have something very important to see him." Ji Mingmei said to Wu Zhoushi sincerely.

"Hu Xiaotian likes me?" Wu Zhou seemed to be stunned for a moment, "Who told you, why didn't I know?"

We were all stunned when we heard the words, Hu Xiaotian wanted to go up the mountain to become a bandit because of her, but he never told her.

This turned out to be a period of unrequited love that lasted for more than twenty years!
(End of this chapter)