The Republic of China Conspiracy Records

Chapter 165 Poppies (14)

Lin Yuxi has been away from the Lin family for [-] years, and he has been contaminated with too much recklessness. I am a little worried about him.But it's getting dark now, if he really wants to do something, we can't stop him, so we have to go back to the hotel first.

There were bursts of weeping from inside the courtyard wall, it was the Lin family crying to mourn Lin Yubin.As a result, the night was tainted with the breath of death, and became darker and darker, as if adding some weight, which made people feel heavy.We returned to the hotel from the door of Lin's house, ate a few mouthfuls of dinner and went back to the room.

Then Ji Mingmei asked about the specifics of Lin Yubin's death, and I told her everything in detail.After Ji Mingmei learned that Lin Yubin was caught in a fire, the Lin family didn't notify the second wife immediately, and couldn't help frowning: "The Lin family treats the second wife too seriously, right?"

Who said it wasn't, Lin Steward immediately rushed to Xiyuan Town to inform Madam Lin that the Second Madam was in the town, but no one thought of telling her.It wasn't until I knew the news that the second wife also learned about it.She came from a bad background. Although she has been a low-key person all these years, everyone just thinks she is sensible, so it is impossible to say how much they value her.

"No." Ji Mingmei shook her head after listening to my words, "I'm not talking about the Lin family, but Lin Yubin. There is one thing that everyone seems to have never cared about, and this matter may be very important to the second lady. It's as big as the sky!"

"What's the matter?" I heard a little strange.

"Lin Yubin has an outer room in Xiyuan Town. No one thinks it's a big deal. Even Mrs. Lin didn't make a fuss when she found out. But have you ever thought about it? Lin Yubin's feelings are her only consolation. But Lin Yubin secretly raised a concubine outside, have you ever thought about the blow this incident will have on her!"

I was taken aback by what she said. I really never thought about it, and I'm afraid the Lin family wouldn't think about it either.It's true that the second wife has been neglected by the Lin family these years, but she cared about Lin Yubin's safety twice, and her feelings were sincere, which she couldn't pretend no matter what.

It can be seen that even if the Lin family treats her badly, even if Lin Yubin raises a concubine outside, she still has a deep affection for him, just like when she followed him back home.It's just that Lin Yubin failed to live up to this deep affection after all.

Both Ji Mingmei and I were a little embarrassed, and Ji Mingmei inevitably scolded the man for his infidelity and injustice, filled with righteous indignation, as if she was the one who was betrayed, she glanced at me while scolding.I felt like I was sitting on pins and needles by her, and I thought that Miss Ji is really amazing, she seems to be evolving at any time, and I don't know when she developed this special skill of hiding needles in her eyes.

She spoke angrily at this time, so I naturally didn't touch her bad luck.Unexpectedly, after Ji Mingmei poked a few holes in my body with her eyes, seeing me sitting upright and not saying a word, she couldn't help but cursed: "Why don't you talk, are you also thinking about how to raise a foreign room!"

To be fair, I don't even have an inner room, so logically it is impossible to keep an outer room.But Miss Ji obviously wouldn't reason with me at this time, so I had to cry and say with a sad face: "Look at the word "no money" engraved on my forehead, would you be willing to be my concubine instead?"

Ji Mingmei stared at me for a long while, then suddenly burst out laughing "puchi", came over and hugged my arm and nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, you can accept me."

My heart was trembling, I pulled my arm out of her hand calmly, and sat a little further away with a dry laugh.Ji Mingmei came up to her with a smile and said coquettishly: "Look, if you don't marry the inner room first, you won't even be able to support the outer room. Well, let's solve the inner room problem first. Hehe, what do you think of me? How are people?"

"It's rare to learn both internally and externally." I also teased her a few words, then quickly changed the subject, and discussed with her to go to Yuan's house tomorrow to see if Lin Yubin's death had anything to do with Yuan Haowen.We originally came here in pursuit of the Wenling landslide, but judging from the people and things we have come into contact with so far, it seems that no one can be related to it.

We all don't know why the boatman would say Lin Yubin's name before he died.But the facts about the Lin family are actually related to the Six Arts Association, and we all want to make it clear.

We had nothing to say all night, and after getting up early the next day, we set off for Xiyuan Town, afraid that Lin Yuxi would do something if we were a step too late.But what we didn't expect was that we saw Yuan Haowen hurrying towards Lin's house as soon as we got to the town.

The Yuan family wanted to take back Yuan Chumo's life, this was what Yuan Haowen said in person yesterday when he was at the Yuan's house.After Lin Yubin returned to Lin's house, Yuan's family cremated Lin Yubin's paper figurine, and Lin Yubin suffered a fire.Looking at these two incidents together, anyone would think that Lin Yubin's death had something to do with the Yuan family.

That's what the Lin family thought, but he was in a hurry to go to the Lin family at this moment, fearing that he wouldn't be able to please him.We followed him all the way to Lin's house. When we got to the gate of Lin's house, Yuan Haowen knocked on the door. Seeing that it was Yuan Haowen, the steward Lin who opened the door suddenly changed his face and said sharply, "What are you doing here!"

Yuan Haowen had a tyrannical tone towards Lin Yubin at Yuan's house yesterday, but now he swallowed his anger and said, "I'm here to mourn my brother-in-law, his death has nothing to do with Yuan's family, I'm here to say something..."

"So, there is no paper burner in Yuan's family to curse my husband?" Steward Lin looked at him with a strange tone and kept sneering.

Yuan Haowen wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said with difficulty: "It is true that the Yuan family burned the paper figurine, but this... this is just an act of venting anger, how can it be taken seriously?"

"Then Mr. Yuan's death has nothing to do with the Lin family, does Mr. Yuan believe it?" Steward Lin replied.

Yuan Haowen's face was turned green and pale by what he said, but he was speechless.After a long while, he said: "I want to go in and burn incense, and then go to the burnt study, I wonder if it is possible?"

Steward Lin refused without even thinking about it, but before he could say it, he saw Ji Mingmei and me appearing behind Yuan Haowen, and turned to us and said, "Are you two here to express condolences to my husband?"

I didn't come here specially for this, but at this time I had no choice but to nod.Steward Lin looked respectful, and stepped aside to let us in, but he just blocked Yuan Haowen.Yuan Haowen was extremely embarrassed, and Ji Mingmei and I walked to Guanshi Lin, and suddenly turned around and asked Yuan Hao: "Mr. Yuan suspects that the study was burned down, is there something strange about it?"

Yuan Haowen hurriedly said: "That's right. The heavens can learn from it. The Yuan family has not done anything except burning a paper figurine. There should be some other reason for the fire in the study."

"The Yuan family burnt paper figurines in Xiyuan Town, but they burned Mr. Lin to death. I don't really believe it." I said to Guanshi Lin, "If you ask Mr. Yuan to go to the study, you may find something. Of course, I It's presumptuous to say it, if the Lin family doesn't want it, just pretend that I never said it."

Steward Lin hesitated when he heard the words, and replied: "I can't make a decision on this matter, I'm going to ask my wife for instructions."

"You go, you go." Yuan Hao asked hurriedly after hearing the words.Steward Lin glanced at him, then apologized to us, closed the door again, and went to inform Mrs. Lin.

We stayed at the door with Yuan Haowen, and I asked him: "Mr. Yuan, I would like to ask, who came up with the idea of ​​burning Mr. Lin's paper figurines?"

"No one did it," Yuan Haowen said with a wry smile, "I concluded that my father's death must be related to the Lin family, so I lost my head and did such a wrong thing."

"In other words, rule out the possibility that someone else instigated you, and then took the opportunity to kill Mr. Lin and push it on you?"

"Should...well, I don't know." Yuan Haowen looked a little hesitant, seeing me staring at him with piercing eyes, he hurriedly added, "The possibility of someone instigating me can be ruled out, but the possibility of others taking the opportunity to kill cannot be ruled out. .”

"However, I heard that the time when you burned the paper doll was almost the same as the time when Mr. Lin suffered the fire. If someone took the opportunity to do it, and he didn't know in advance that you were going to burn the paper doll, how could he sneak into Lin's house at the same time? Mr. Lin to start?"

"This... I don't know either." Yuan Hao asked cold sweat on his forehead, and his expression became more and more depressed. He must have expected that the Lin family would never believe that he was innocent.

The matter has not been clarified yet, so I can't comfort him. I just said: "I hope you can find something on the ruins of the study later, so that you can clear yourself of suspicion."

While talking, the door was opened again.Mrs. Lin was wearing mourning all over her body, holding a broom in her hand, and angrily cursed as soon as she opened the door: "You still have the door of the Lin family on your face!"

As she spoke, she hit Yuan Haowen on the head with a broom, but Yuan Haowen turned his head away.Mrs. Lin was about to give chase, and I hurriedly said: "Mrs. Lin, since Brother Ling wants to see the ruins of the study, why not let him take a look. You are both the daughter-in-law of the Lin family and the daughter of the Yuan family. If he can really prove that this matter has nothing to do with him , isn’t it the best outcome for you?”

Mrs. Lin slapped her hand when she heard the words, and I saw her expression was extremely troubled.On the one hand is the husband of the husband's family, and on the other is the elder brother of the natal family. If it is confirmed that Lin Yubin's death is related to Yuan Haowen, she is actually the one who suffers the most.

Seeing that her movements were stagnant, Ji Mingmei took the opportunity to take the broom off her hand, handed it to Steward Lin, and ordered: "Okay, take us to the study to have a look."

Seeing that Mrs. Lin was silent, Steward Lin really pushed the door open, turned around and walked in.I patted Yuan Haowen on the shoulder, signaling him to come with us quickly.Mrs. Lin looked at his figure walking in, with complicated expressions on her face, she finally sighed and followed us.

The ruins of the study are still as we saw yesterday, and have not been cleaned up.Yuan Haowen walked back and forth on the ruins a few times, picked up some things and asked Manager Lin like we did yesterday, then frowned and said, "Why does it smell like garlic?"

In fact, this garlic smell is much weaker than when we came yesterday, and it is not so pungent, but there is still some faintness.I answered for Manager Lin: "It may be that someone has sprayed the flowers and plants with garlic water. Mr. Yuan may not know that garlic water can kill insects on flowers and plants."

"I know, I also use this method to kill insects at home. But the smell of garlic water usually doesn't last more than a day, and it will evaporate soon. This study has been burned down. Is there anyone still spraying garlic water?" Yuan Hao asked turning his head. Ask Lin Guanshi.

Steward Lin shook his head in bewilderment, and then asked someone to ask at home, but the answer we got surprised us all.Because the helper in charge of taking care of the flowers and plants in the Lin family said that not only did no one spray garlic water today, even yesterday.So the smell of garlic is not from the garlic water.

So where does the smell come from?

The few people present looked at me and I looked at you, but they couldn't tell why.But apparently the Lin family didn't take this matter to heart, Yuan Haowen just thought the garlic smell was strange, as for other things, he couldn't tell why.So this matter was temporarily let go.

The Lin family couldn't see anything when they saw Yuan Haowen, and their faces immediately turned ugly.But at this time, I thought of another thing. Lin Yubin went to the bookstore yesterday to ask the whereabouts of his second wife, Lin Yuxi. Why did he come to the study after leaving the bookstore?At that time, he was eager to inquire about Lin Yuxi's whereabouts, so he probably didn't have the heart to read.Then what is he doing in the study?
When I saw the second lady yesterday, she was in pain, so we couldn't ask her about these things.Now I remembered again, and asked Lin Guanshi: "Where is Second Madam?"

I thought that the second lady should be guarding Lin Yubin's spirit at this moment, but Mrs. Lin replied that the second lady was heartbroken for Lin Yubin's death, and she cried to death in the mourning hall yesterday, and passed out again not long after going to the mourning hall today up.The family saw that she was too distressed, so they sent her back to the room.

Just as he was speaking, there was a sharp scream outside the courtyard, as if someone was suffering from great fright.The scream seemed to escape from the throat of the speaker, and hit our ears in a panic.We were all startled, and Mrs. Lin was even more surprised: "This is the second lady's voice, she...what's wrong with her?"

As soon as we talked about the second lady, she made such a horrified cry, obviously something happened.So Manager Lin hurried over there, and we all followed behind him.The residence of the second lady is very close to the side courtyard of the study, and it is just around the corner after coming out of the side courtyard.

As soon as we arrived at the door of the second lady's residence, we saw a wooden cat get out of the window, and then jumped onto the courtyard wall, and then jumped onto the roof.

Ji Mingmei, Lin Guanshi and I were surprised at the same time, if the horned beast appeared here, then Lin Yuxi would naturally be there too.It turned out that he didn't go to Xiyuan Town to find Yuan Haowen, but came to find the second wife!

(End of this chapter)