The Republic of China Conspiracy Records

Chapter 160 Poppies (9)

"That's right, it's just a stack of blank papers. Have you seen them?" Lin Yubin repeated again, "These blank papers are useless to others, and there should be no one asking for them. So if my father-in-law took them home, maybe he would buy them right now." It's unknown in his room."

Yuan Haowen swallowed his saliva, and said in a low voice: "Is there a plum blossom painted on this red sandalwood bookcase with white paper?"

"That's right, have you seen it?" Lin Yubin was overjoyed, "Where is the bookcase right now, bring it to me quickly!"

Yuan Haowen moved his lips, but he didn't go to get the bookcase, but took a deep breath, "I don't know if the paper in this box is rice paper or some other precious paper, you tell me, I'll ask someone to buy it and send it to Lin's house." yes."

He said the wrong words, Lin Yubin immediately said anxiously: "You...what did you do with that stack of papers!"

"At that time, the child was practicing calligraphy and ran out of paper, so he went to his grandfather's room and found this bookcase. He wrote... on all the paper in the box. At this moment, I don't know where to throw it away."

The more Lin Yubin listened, the more terrified he became, and his whole body trembled. Yuan Haowen continued, "At that time, I was afraid that these papers would be useful, so I asked my father, but he...he said that these papers were useless, the children Write it and write it..."

Before he finished speaking, he heard a "gudong", Lin Yubin closed his eyes, and passed out from anxiety.

We were all shocked when we saw this, Mrs. Lin hurried forward to support him, and I also helped him up.Mrs. Lin kept shouting anxiously: "Yu Bin! Yu Bin!"

It took Lin Yubin a while to slowly open his eyes, but he still couldn't regain his senses, and said in a daze, "Those papers...all...all gone..."

He looked like he wanted to cry but couldn't cry, Yuan Hao asked puzzled, "It's just a stack of papers, no matter how precious it can be, I will compensate you."

Lin Yubin stood up from the ground as if someone had suddenly taken him out of his wits, and said to Ji Mingmei and me, "Let's go back to Lin's house, I have something to tell you."

"Mr. Lin knows me?" I heard his tone suddenly familiar and close, and couldn't help asking.

"When the robbery happened in the Lin family, the old man in the Lin family was Mrs. Wen." Lin Yubin replied.

Ji Mingmei and I were taken aback when we heard the words, and suddenly realized that the Lin family is also a member of the Six Arts Association!Before Ji Mingmei and I recovered, we heard Lin Yubin say to Mrs. Lin: "Your father is newly mourned, so you can stay at home to take care of me. Since the Yuan family doesn't welcome me, I will go back to Lin's house with these two guests." went."

Before Mrs. Lin could answer, Yuan Haowen said in a gloomy voice: "My father should not have stolen books from the Donglin Cottage, but two books are not worth a life. In any case, the Yuan family will take back his life for him." .”

He still believed that Lin Yubin had planned to kill Yuan Chumo. Mrs. Lin looked at her brother and then at Lin Yubin with an expression of wanting to cry but not tears.Lin Yubin sighed and said, "Whether you Yuan family believe it or not, I did not kill your father." Then he turned to us and said, "Let's go."

His expression was gloomy, as if he collapsed after hearing the whereabouts of the white paper.We walked out of Yuan's house together with him, I thought to myself, no wonder the person behind that horned beast knows me, it turns out that the Lin family is also a member of the Six Arts Association.And what about the fake iron plate found in the thatched cottage?
We informed Lin Yubin of our name again on the way, and then I handed the iron plate out of my pocket, handed it to Lin Yubin, told him that it was found on the bookshelf of the Donglin Cottage, and said: "The old man was also in the Cottage at that time. , that the stolen book is related to the Six Arts Club?"

Lin Yubin took the sign, glanced at it casually and said, "This is fake. Do you two have the real sign?"

I nodded, and took out the badge on my neck from my collar.Lin Yubin handed the fake one back to me, pointed to the one on my neck and said, "Take it off."

I was startled, but obediently took the sign from my neck and gave it to him.Lin Yubin took it, then turned to Ji Mingmei and said, "Give me yours too."

Ji Mingmei was stunned: "How do you know I have one too?"

"Since your surname is Ji, you must have come from Ji's family in the book department. The 20-year period is coming soon. Since Ji Youjie asked you to come out with him, he will naturally hand over the sign to you." Lin Yubin replied, suddenly feeling more and more emotional. Feeling depressed, "Originally, the Lin family was also a member of the book department."

"Originally?" Ji Mingmei and I were even more surprised.

"The Lin family was expelled from the Six Arts Association 20 years ago." Lin Yubin replied, taking over Ji Mingmei's plaque, and then putting the two plaques together, there was only a slight "click", and the two The two signs were actually glued together, and they fit together perfectly, as if they were all in one piece!
"This... these two signs are made of magnets?" I was extremely surprised, Ji Mingmei probably didn't know about this beforehand, and she was as surprised as I was.

"No." Lin Yubin replied briefly, "The material of this brand is extremely strange, maybe it came from outside the sky. It doesn't adsorb to anything, but there is a strong adsorption force between the same material, so it can't be done at all. Fake."

"I understand, no wonder the organization uses it as a token. But there are six pieces of this brand, what can the six pieces be used for?" I finally met someone who knew the secret of the Six Arts Association, so I naturally asked him.

"The combination of the six plaques is a complete seal with the seal of the Six Arts Association on it. All decisions made by the Six Arts Association will not take effect until this seal is affixed." Lin Yubin said, "Especially for the appointment of the leader, it is even more necessary to Stamped on a special kind of paper."

"Special paper?" I couldn't help shivering when I thought of the book case stolen by the Lin family 20 years ago, which contained a stack of blank paper.

"You guessed it right. This stack of paper is made with a special process. There are hidden watermarks on the paper. It looks like the paper used for some banknotes today. This craft has been lost for some time. Only the The mission of the Lin family is to protect this stack of paper. The original intention of Donglin Thatched Cottage was to collect it.”

Lin Yubin said with a sad tone, "Originally, the succession of a generation of leaders only needed a piece of paper, so that piece of paper could be used for hundreds of years. Old Mrs. Wen came here for that piece of paper, but after he took the paper away, the bookcase Then it was stolen. So the piece of paper he took away is now unique in this world."

He glanced at me as he said, "Is that piece of paper on you now?"

When I left Wen's house, the old man handed me a blank letter and told me that although it was a blank letter, it was more important than most letters in the world.Thinking about it now, there is only such a piece of paper left in this world, and it is indeed extremely important.No wonder Hu Xiaotian, Jindi, Ji Youjie and the others had that look on their faces when they saw this piece of paper.

Lost in thought, I reached into my pocket and took out the letter and held it in my hand.When Lin Yubin saw the letter, an extremely complicated look appeared on his face, and after a while he said in a low voice, "Hurry up and put the letter away, and keep it safe."

I put the letter back into my arms as I said, and Lin Yubin separated the two iron plates and handed them back to me and Ji Mingmei respectively.It is rare for me to meet a person who knows the secrets of the Six Arts Club and is willing to tell me. Naturally, I refused to let him go, and I kept asking him about the Six Arts Club along the way.

Lin Yubin was different from everyone I met before, he always answered my questions, I don't know if it was because he was expelled from the Six Arts Club, so he didn't need to keep any secrets, or there were other reasons.I just learned from him that the original Six Arts Association is divided into six parts, and the six parts are named after the six Confucian arts, which are rites, music, mathematics, archery, calligraphy, and imperialism.

Among them, the Ministry of Rites has the least number of people, and its function is mainly to determine the orthodox succession. Candidates for leaders must be confirmed by the Ministry of Rites before they can succeed.Mrs. Wen is the head of the ritual department, so only he is qualified to "pick" me off the tree;
The music club mainly maintains the organizational order, and the two brothers Guyin and Guyue belong to the club;
Several departments mainly focus on planning and controlling the current situation, and have always been hiding behind the scenes to make suggestions. Their leader is surnamed Jin, who is Jindi's father;
The Ministry of Shooting mainly focuses on influencing the regime by force, so most of the people in the Ministry of Shooting have always served in the government, such as Bu Ying and his father Bu Xiangkong;
The book department mainly focuses on controlling the trend of public opinion, so many people in the past dynasties have made their careers in printing books and writing.Up to now, many people are mixed in various newspapers and magazines.Ji Mingmei's family is the person in charge of the book department;
The last one is the imperial department, whose function is mainly to supply weapons and tools, and is in charge of the Hu family, who was born in Hu Xiaotian.

Each of the six departments holds a Meteorite Iron Plate, and each has industry and energy under its name, but no one can mobilize it without collecting all six iron plates to form a seal.Ji Mingmei must have known about these things a long time ago, but she didn't tell me in detail, so until now, I didn't have a rough understanding of the Six Arts Club as a whole.

The responsibility of the Lin family in the past was to protect the blank paper, so after the book case was stolen, the Lin family was expelled from the Six Arts Club.When Lin Yubin talked about these things, his tone was low. When we asked him why there was a fake iron plate in the thatched cottage, he couldn’t explain why. He just asked us to take him to the place where the iron plate was found.

We followed him all the way back to Lin's house. Steward Lin must have gone to the printing workshop and was not at home, so Lin Yubin took us straight to Donglin Thatched Cottage.After arriving at the place where the iron plate was found, Lin Yubin frowned and said, "I just sorted out the books here a few days ago, and I didn't find the iron plate."

"So, this iron plate should be left by the person who bought the book behind the scenes." I said aloud, thought for a while, and then told the matter that someone wanted to bribe the second lady and agreed to use the iron plate as a mark.Lin Yubin was also surprised and said, "Since this person can enter the thatched cottage by himself, why does he still have to bribe others to steal books?"

In fact, there is a reasonable explanation for this matter, that is, as Yuan Haowen said, the person behind the purchase of the book is Lin Yubin, whose purpose is to kill Yuan Chumo.Then this iron plate belongs to Lin Yubin, so it is not unusual for it to appear in the thatched cottage.That's why I didn't dare to take out this iron plate in Yuan's house, otherwise Yuan Haowen would insist that Lin Yubin was the murderer.

I told Lin Yubin everything I knew, and learned that the murderous horned beast was indeed protecting the books in the thatched cottage, and the mayor stole the books out of the thatched cottage after Yuan Chumo missed stealing the book.

Lin Yubin was silent for a while, then suddenly said: "Do you know where the bookcase was hidden at that time?"

Ji Mingmei and I both shook our heads.

Lin Yubin raised a finger, pointed to the beam and said, "That horned beast is hollow, and the middle can just fit a book case."

It turns out that the book case was placed in the horned beast, so the person who stole the book actually stole the book "from" the horned beast?

"After the Lin family reported to the police, it was the mayor who came to search for the suspects." Lin Yubin said, "At that time, the mayor obviously searched everyone but did not find the bookcase. Now I think it was the mayor who used the search. Name, took over and took the bookcase out of the Lin family."

This is exactly the same as Yuan Chumo's method of stealing books in the thatched cottage again, so——"So the horned beast killed the man, in fact, repeating the theft 20 years ago, revenge for these two people who took the bookcase from him!" I thought Here, I couldn't help being surprised.

"That's right!" We didn't tell Lin Yubin that there was someone behind the horned beast, so he looked a little weird, "Now it looks like the horned beast found out who stole the bookcase, and then came back alive to kill people .”

"But the horned beast wants revenge, but Mr. Yuan needs to enter the thatched cottage again. And Mr. Yuan was instigated to reappear, so who could this person be? Could it be the horned beast itself?" I asked him tentatively. .

"The person who was deeply affected by this incident back then, besides our brothers, was Guanshi Lin. He was kicked out of the Lin family because of this incident, and he didn't come back until not long ago." Lin Yubin mused, "The timing is really a bit strange. Coincidentally, Yuan Haowen's question is actually reasonable."

At that time, it was indeed Steward Lin who brought us to the thatched cottage, and the book we bought in the book shop was also printed by the printing house he was in charge of. Speaking of which, he was indeed the most suspicious person.But the problem is that he didn't go to the thatched cottage with us at that time, how to kill Yuan Chumo?
"Steward Lin has been expelled from the Lin family for many years, why did you suddenly allow him to return to the Lin family?" I asked Lin Yubin.

"Uh, this..." Lin Yubin looked a little embarrassed, coughed lightly, and the words he said were a little vague, "Maybe the two of you know it too, I have one in Xiyuan Town, cough... there is a confidante, There are some things that are inconvenient for the family to do, so he was sent back to the Lin family..."

He actually asked Steward Lin to return to the Lin family because of the outer room in Xiyuan Town.Ji Mingmei and I were also a little embarrassed when we heard this.There is nothing wrong with this statement. It is naturally inconvenient for others to know about his dealings with the outside room, and Manager Lin must be grateful to him for returning to the Lin family. It is just convenient for him to do these private things for him.

(End of this chapter)