Chapter 159 Poppies (8)

Mrs. Lin tugged at him and said anxiously: "Brother, don't say those ugly words again, making others laugh at you."

"The one who died was also your father!" Yuan Haowen shook off Mrs. Lin's hand, and said sharply, "If you want to sever ties with the Yuan family from now on, I won't force you, just go back to the Lin family to make a big deal. Let's celebrate your father's death at the table."

These words were so ruthless that Mrs. Lin was stunned when she heard that, she couldn't answer the words for a while, she just shed tears in a daze.Ji Mingmei and I were also very surprised. After hearing Yuan Hao's question, we concluded that it was Lin Yubin who killed Yuan Chumo.Ji Mingmei hesitated for a moment, but still asked: "I heard that when Mr. Yuan died, Mr. Lin was in Xiyuan Town and met you. Why do you think he killed Mr. Yuan?"

"Who knows what kind of blindfold he used?" Yuan Haowen was still very angry in his words, "My father went to Donglin Caotang to steal books. This matter is indeed true, so there is no need to be taboo. It's just that you can't think of it. This is behind his back. The person who went to steal the book is his good son-in-law!"

He said that the person who asked Yuan Chumo to steal books from Donglin Thatched Cottage was actually Lin Yubin!
Lin Yubin is the head of the Lin family, and Donglin Thatched Cottage belonged to him. Yuan Haowen actually said that he asked Yuan Chumo to steal books from the thatched cottage.These words are too sloppy, so Lin Yubin's face was full of helplessness, and he smiled bitterly and said to us: "I paid someone to steal books from my library, do you believe this?"

Yuan Haowen sneered and said, "Edging my father to steal books from the thatched cottage is just your way, your real purpose is naturally not in this, but to avenge your elder brother, for the robbery in Donglin thatched cottage 20 years ago! "

I remember that the second wife once mentioned that there was a robbery case in Donglin Cottage 20 years ago, which caused the original head of the Lin family to leave home.At this moment, hearing Yuan Haowen mention it again, he couldn't help but look at him.Yuan Haowen sneered repeatedly, and quarreled with Lin Yubin again while talking.

Mrs. Lin was blocked by Yuan Haowen's words, she couldn't say anything, she just stood aside and wept. Seeing this, Ji Mingmei and I went to persuade Yuan Haowen and Lin Yubin respectively.Fortunately, ordinary people have some respect for city patrolling horses, so Yuan Haowen didn't speak harsh words to me. Instead, he raised his head and said: "Mr. , murdering Yue-zhang in disregard of human relations, is it intolerable!"

"But when Mr. Yuan was killed, it was when you met Mr. Lin. How could Mr. Yuan conclude that he killed Mr. Yuan?" I also have doubts.

"When my father was at home the day before yesterday, a beggar came to see him. Seeing that he was in contact with the beggar, I was afraid that he would do something bad, so I hid and eavesdropped, but I heard the beggar My son asked him to go to the Lin family to steal books, and said that someone would pay a high price to buy them after he got them, but my father actually agreed."

Yuan Haowen sighed and said, feeling a little depressed, it's a bit embarrassing for Yuan Chumo to agree to such a thing.However, he didn't hide it because of this, but spoke bluntly, which made people a little awe-inspiring.He told us that the beggar made an agreement with Yuan Chumo that when he got the book, he would go to a teahouse in the town and find a seat by the window, and someone would be there waiting for him to deliver it.

After Mrs. Yuan Shao eavesdropped on this conversation, she was shocked and anxious, but she didn't dare to hold her father accountable and stop her father-in-law.Unfortunately, Yuan Haowen went out to meet with friends the day before yesterday and was not at home, and after he returned home yesterday, the young lady told him about it.Yuan Haowen was shocked when he heard this, and looked for his father everywhere but failed.

Because a day had passed by then, he immediately rushed to the agreed teahouse, thinking that no matter what, he would stop his father from stealing the rare books of thatched cottage.Unexpectedly, when he arrived at the teahouse, he found that the person sitting there was actually Lin Yubin.He was guilty and short of breath at that time, he only thought it was a coincidence, so he greeted him vaguely and left in a hurry.

At that time he left in a hurry, neither invited Lin Yubin to sit at home, nor asked him what he was doing in Xiyuan Town.In the afternoon, my younger sister, Mrs. Lin, sent someone back to report the funeral, saying that my father suddenly appeared in Donglin Thatched Cottage and died there, and asked him to take people to bury the body quickly.

Yuan Haowen was struck by lightning when he heard the news, so he hurriedly took people to Lin's house, and Mrs. Lin told him what happened.Yuan Haowen naturally knew why his father appeared in Donglin Thatched Cottage, he was guilty and didn't dare to say anything, so he brought Yuan Chumo's body back first.

Not long after he got home, people from the Donglin Town Office came to the door when it got dark, asking him if he had met Lin Yubin today.He answered truthfully at that time, but the people from the town office told him that the time they met was exactly the time Yuan Chumo was killed, so his testimony immediately cleared Lin Yubin of suspicion.

It wasn't until then that he felt that something was a little strange.Because he asked Mrs. Lin, she was not the one who brought my father into the thatched cottage, otherwise she would not have dared to let Steward Lin bring me and Ji Mingmei there.In this case, the family motto of the Lin family is that the Yuan family is not allowed to enter the thatched cottage, so how did Yuan Chumo appear in the thatched cottage quietly?
Reminiscing that the place where he met Lin Yubin today was actually the teahouse that Yuan Chumo had agreed with the book buyer, even the specific table was exactly the same.And his meeting with Lin Yubin turned out to be evidence of Lin Yubin's innocence.At this moment, he was already thinking a little bit, and what the young lady said made him even more suspicious.

The young lady said that at that time the beggar asked Yuan Chumo to go to the thatched cottage to steal books, and Yuan Chumo agreed without hesitation, and he was quite proud, saying that he had stolen books from the thatched cottage 20 years ago, but the Lin family didn't notice it. Until now I thought it was done by someone else.At that time, the young lady wanted to save face for her father-in-law, so she didn't tell Yuan Haowen what she had said.

It wasn't until Yuan Chumo died in the thatched cottage, and the cause of death was strange, that the young lady told Yuan Haowen what she said.She suspected that Yuan Chumo's repeated stealing of books might have really angered the horned beast, so she died at the claws of the horned beast.But Yuan Haowen didn't think so at all after hearing this.

He also knew about the theft in thatched cottage 20 years ago.At that time, the head of the Lin family was still Lin Yubin's elder brother Lin Yuxi, and it was precisely because of this theft that Lin Yuxi felt that he was dereliction of duty and was not worthy of being the head of the family anymore, so he handed over the position of head of the family to Lin Yubin, and went out alone, vowing to find him. This book, and has since disappeared.

A book that can make the head of the family blame himself so much is naturally extremely important.At that time, there were three guests at Lin's house, one of them was an old man, one was surnamed He, and the other was Yuan Chumo.After the Lin family was stolen, Dang even kept a few guests and asked someone to report to the town office.

It was inconvenient for the Lin family to search the guests, so the town office naturally did not have this concern, so they searched the people in the Lin family one by one, and checked all the things they brought with them, but found nothing.According to the Lin family's family rules, Yuan Chumo was not allowed to go to the thatched cottage, and as far as the Lin family knew, he had never been there, so they ruled him out of suspicion at first.

As for the remaining two guests, the Lin family seemed to have great trust in the old man, saying that he would never have taken the book away, so the biggest suspicion naturally fell on the guest surnamed He.But nothing was found on him, and the Lin family pleaded bitterly, saying that if he took the book away by accident, please take it out, and the Lin family would not take it seriously.

But the guest surnamed He still insisted that he did not steal the book, so Dang even left angrily.Because there was really nothing found on him, the town hall couldn't force him to stay, so it had to let him go.Lin Yuxi has disappeared all these years, maybe he just went after this guest surnamed He.

At that time, the guest surnamed He came to visit the thatched cottage because of its reputation. It was Lin Yubin who agreed to his request and asked Manager Lin to take him to the thatched cottage.So after the incident happened, everyone in the Lin family demanded that Lin Yubin and Steward Lin be held accountable.But Lin Yuxi put all the responsibility on himself, saying that as the head of the family, he should be responsible for this matter.

At that time, Lin Yubin had just got married and had a wedding banquet with Mrs. Lin. It was probably because of this that Lin Yuxi took the initiative to take responsibility and left home to pursue the stolen book.However, Steward Lin was expelled from the Lin family and did not return to the Lin family until not long ago.At that time, everyone focused on the guest surnamed He, but who knew that the person who actually stole the book was Yuan Chumo who was the first to be ruled out of suspicion.

After Yuan Haowen learned of this, he connected the matter of Steward Lin's return to the Lin family with the matter of Lin Yubin's appearance in Xiyuan Town, and immediately came to a conclusion—the Lin family knew that the person who stole the book was Yuan Chumo , so lured Yuan Chumo to go to thatched cottage to steal books again, and killed him there.

The person Ji Mingmei and I saw in the thatched cottage was Lin Yubin, but at the same time Lin Yubin appeared in Xiyuan Town and was seen by him.Yuan Haowen believed that the purpose of this was to exonerate Lin Yubin. Although he didn't know what was the key to it, he insisted that it was a cover-up.

"Needless to say, although my father came from a scholarly family, he is not short of food and clothing, but somehow he is fond of petty theft." Yuan Haowen's face turned pale, "I have begged him many times to stop doing such corrupt things. He has promised many times, but he can't change it."

Because this matter involves family scandal, the Yuan family has always kept it secret.Until Yuan Chumo was wandering in the market a few days ago, he couldn't help but stole a small object in a shop, and was caught by the shopkeeper on the spot.Because the object was not worth much at all, and the Yuan family is a local rich family, the master of the Yuan family could do such a thing, so this matter caused a commotion at that time.

At that time, Yuan Chumo tried his best to argue that it was because of his negligence that he forgot to check out. Later, Yuan Haowen paid a lot of money to compensate the shopkeeper, so the matter settled down.Yuan Haowen believed that it was at that time that the Lin family learned that Yuan Chumo had a problem with stealing, and that the theft of the Lin family was probably related to him, so they asked someone to come to the door to test it out.

And Yuan Chumo just calmed down the matter of the previous few days, and agreed to steal the books from the thatched cottage, and proudly admitted that he was also responsible for the missing books in the thatched cottage 20 years ago!What happened back then caused Lin Yuxi to leave home for [-] years and did not return, and the price was terrible, so Yuan Haowen insisted that it was Lin Yubin who wanted to avenge his brother.

After hearing Yuan Chumo's words, Lin Yubin's face sank, and he let out a long sigh, "The impact of what happened back then on my Lin family is far beyond your imagination. But what happened back then was done by my father-in-law, and I I only found out after hearing you talk about it today, and the words that deliberately lured him to the thatched cottage came from this."

"Since I don't know, why did Steward Lin suddenly return to the Lin family?" Yuan Chumo's face was ashen, "If the Lin family hadn't confirmed what happened back then, why would he accept him?"

"It wasn't that the Lin family brought him back, but he came to the door himself and said that these years had been difficult and he wanted to return to the Lin family to help." Lin Yubin explained, "He was originally a collateral branch of the Lin family, and what happened back then has passed so For a long time, I couldn't refuse him emotionally or rationally, so I agreed to him."

It turned out that Steward Lin returned to the Lin family not long before we came, I thought to myself, the timing is really a coincidence.Besides, he was also the one who led us to the thatched cottage at that time, so it's hard to say whether there is any connection between them.

"That's all I said. If you insist on not believing it, there is nothing I can do." Lin Yubin's expression was exhausted, and he didn't want to argue with Yuan Haowen any more, "By the way, since the book stolen from the Lin family was taken by the father-in-law, this book was published in the My Lin family is of great significance, please return it."

Yuan Haowen's face turned green and pale for a while, and he answered after a while: "I don't know where he put the book." He paused for a while, and then added, "I don't know what was stolen from the Lin family back then. What book, I'll go back and look for it, and if I find it, have someone send it back to the Lin family."

Lin Yubin glanced at me suddenly, "Actually, it's not a book, but a red sandalwood bookcase with a stack of blank paper inside. Have you ever seen it?"

"What the Lin family lost was a stack of blank paper back then?!" After saying this, not only Yuan Haowen was shocked, but even our eyes widened.

I remember that the second lady once said when she was in the book printing house that she guessed that the book that was stolen at that time was not trivial, and it was related to the fate of the entire Lin family.Lin Yubin also vaguely mentioned that the Donglin Thatched Cottage was built just for that book.That's why the Lin family paid so much attention to the theft of the book, and Lin Yuxi has been away from home for twenty years because of this.

And now Lin Yubin said, this such an important book is just a blank sheet of paper?
(End of this chapter)

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