The Republic of China Conspiracy Records

Chapter 167 Meeting the Joyful Meeting (1)

"Do you know why mosquitoes are cuter between flies and mosquitoes?" The man sat in the shadow and asked suddenly.His voice is a little weird, it seems a little jerky, like a child who is just learning to speak, and some words are not accurate.

He used the word "more", so it means that flies are also cute, but mosquitoes are even better.In the dark, a mosquito heard that he was admiring him, and couldn't help being elated, singing and dancing around him in mid-air to show courteousness, looking for an opportunity to reward him with a sweet kiss.

This is the first time I have encountered such a question, so I thought about it seriously for a while, and then replied: "Because mosquitoes are more to your liking?"

Ji Mingmei almost laughed out loud when she heard this, she tugged on my sleeve quietly, and said in a low voice: "Hee hee, you are so bad, you call me a toad!"

"Huh?" I really didn't expect to come here.But if you think about it carefully, you really like flies and mosquitoes and like to hide in the shadows. What is it if it’s not a toad?So I widened my eyes and took a closer look at the man sitting in the shadows, wanting to confirm what kind of ambiguity this fellow had with Toad.

That person probably didn't hear our whispers, so he was still talking to himself, "Flies and mosquitoes are extremely annoying, but flies are not easy to hit, so they are even more annoying. And as long as you have the heart, mosquitoes will always hit you." Get—no matter how hateful a thing is, if it's easy to kill, it's cute."

Ji Mingmei and I looked at each other, I don't know why he suddenly said these words to us.The mosquito who was staying with him was heartbroken when he heard this, and buzzed sadly, trying to escape from him.At this time, the man suddenly clasped his palms together in the air, as if applauding what he said just now, but he just slapped the mosquito to death.

He gently caressed his hands, turned his head and smiled at us: "Look, isn't it much cleaner?"

Needless to say, just now when he slapped him, I felt pleasure in my heart, even the two bites on my hand felt a little numb.This kind of feeling that revenge is not easy, really makes people feel at ease.But what the hell is he talking about with us all this time?

"Cough," I cleared my throat, and said to him, "We are here to inquire about your neighbor Zhuo Yue. I see that there is a lock on his door, and he probably went out. Do you know his whereabouts?"

"Oh, he ran away." The man responded, with a rather casual expression, "He seems to be a little panic these days, restless. I asked him, and he said that someone would come to look for him in a few days. I have to run quickly. I think, maybe he did something to offend others. Ah..."

He said as if he suddenly thought of something, and said thoughtfully, "The people he mentioned are you, right? Are you here to seek his bad luck?"

"Let's ask him about something." As I replied, I wondered how Zhuo Yue knew that we would come to him.Could it be that just like Lin Yuxi, he also met us somewhere?
Regarding the Donglin Town matter, Lin Yuxi finally took all the sins to bear in exchange for the reconciliation between Mrs. Lin and the Yuan family.However, although the matter of the Lin family is over, the matter of the Wenling landslide remains unsolved.Ji Mingmei and I thought that we could no longer know about the Wenling landslide in Donglin Town.

Unexpectedly, after reconciling with Mrs. Lin, Yuan Haowen suddenly mentioned something.After Yuan Chumo passed away, he checked the letters left by Yuan Chumo, and found many letters of unknown origin.These letters all used Yuan Chumo's theft of books as an excuse to coerce him to go to Wenling to participate in the landslide.

The Yuan family is a wealthy family, so Yuan Chumo naturally wouldn't go to Wenling by himself, so he has been asking a servant from the family to go all these years.This matter was shameful, so he told the servant to claim that his name was Lin Yubin and he lived in Donglin Thatched Cottage.That's why the boatman told us Lin Yubin's name when we were in Tantou Town.

After hearing Yuan Haowen's words, we suddenly realized that the person we were looking for was Yuan Chumo, not Lin Yubin.Yuan Chumo was also coerced by people using his weaknesses, so he participated in the Wenling Landslide, which is exactly the same as Wu Hanxiang, Mrs. Qi and others.Naturally, we all think that the person who wrote the letter behind the scenes is probably Hu Xiaotian.

And just when we were about to leave the Lin family, Yuan Haowen suddenly stammered out something again, which immediately made us pause again—Yuan Haowen said that one of Yuan Chumo's letters A letter from more than 20 years ago pointed out that Yuan Chumo had a bad habit of petty theft, and then his tone changed sharply, threatening him to go to Donglin Thatched Cottage to steal a bookcase, otherwise his bad habit would be made public.

The original intention of Yuan Haowen's remark was to clarify that Yuan Chumo's theft of the book was not out of his original intention, but was coerced by others, so as to ease the Lin family's resentment towards the Yuan family.He also guessed that the reason why Yuan Chumo entered the thatched cottage for the second time to steal books was probably because he mistakenly thought that the person who asked him to steal books was the letter writer 20 years ago.

Otherwise, knowing that what happened 20 years ago was such a big deal, how could he dare to do it again 20 years later.In order to explain this matter, Yuan Haowen stumbled, for fear that the Lin family would not believe it.But when Ji Mingmei and I heard this, we all trembled, terrified.

Because Yuan Haowen's words did explain why Yuan Chumo would enter the thatched cottage again to steal.And according to what Yuan Haowen said, the theft of Donglin Thatched Cottage was not accidental, but a complete conspiracy!
The person who wrote the letter threatened Yuan Chumo to steal books from the thatched cottage with his bad habits, which triggered a series of events after that, and then threatened Yuan Chumo to participate in the Wenling landslide.Therefore, the theft of the thatched cottage, the Wenling landslide, and the tragedy of the Wei family are actually in the same line, and they are all part of the plan of the people behind the scenes.

Now the purpose of the people behind the scenes is becoming more and more obvious—the book case was stolen, and the letter on my body was the only piece of paper that could appoint a leader; "The next" is also the only one who can take over as the leader.

So the purpose of the people behind the scenes is to ensure that I take the position of leader of the Six Arts Association.Ji Mingmei's father, Ji Youjie, was right. This man had been waiting for me to grow up before causing the Wenling landslide.The series of things he did was to ensure that no one can compete with me again!
Both Ji Mingmei and I have basically confirmed this idea, although if all this is true, the whole thing will look very ridiculous.Because in order to send me to the position of the leader of the Six Arts Association, they also created the tragedy of the Wei family.And the Wei family is my birth family, and to support one person has harmed his whole family. This is a paradox that cannot be explained in any way.

There must be some unknown conspiracy involved, which also plunged Ji Mingmei and I into even greater doubts.But to our surprise, the letter to Yuan Chumo 20 years ago was actually signed, and the person who wrote the letter was the Zhuo Yue we are going to visit now.

And this Zhuo Yue was the last of the four names mentioned by the boatman at that time!
After he single-handedly caused the theft of the thatched cottage, he personally participated in the Wenling landslide.Therefore, he is the most critical person in these two matters.As long as he is found, the truth about the theft of the thatched cottage and the Wenling landslide can be found out, and even the tragedy of the Wei family can be revealed.In view of this, we naturally asked for Zhuo Yue's letter to Yuan Chumo.

However, neither Yuan Haowen nor Mrs. Lin knew about our relationship with the Lin family, and the fact that the Lin family is a member of the Six Arts Association has always been known only to the direct descendants of the Lin family.At that time, Lin Yubin died and Lin Yuxi was missing, so Yuan Haowen was unwilling to give us the letter.Fortunately, some of the elders of the Lin family knew about the Six Arts Association, and explained our relationship with Donglin Cottage to others, and Yuan Haowen handed over the letter to us.

After reading the letter, we suddenly discovered that participating in the Wenling landslide under the name of "Lin Yubin" was also a request of the person who wrote the letter.It's as if the person behind the scenes deliberately left the clue of "Lin Yubin", and then revealed it to us through the mouth of the boatman, guiding us to Donglin Town.

This is exactly the same as the people and things we met before. Everyone has been instructed. If you come across us to inquire about something, just tell us everything...

It's just that what we didn't expect was that this Zhuo Yue was different from everyone we met before, and he ran away before we arrived.But this escaped person is the most important thing. Now that there are so many people, where should we find him?
"Then do you know where he went?" I still didn't give up, and asked after chasing the man.

"I don't know." The man replied casually.When we were disappointed, he said again, "But Zhuo Yue doesn't have much place to go. He is a hunter. He has a hut in the mountains, and sometimes he stays there when hunting is late. I guess he might Hide there."

"Do you know the direction of his hut?" I was overjoyed and asked him hastily.

"I know that. We have been neighbors for a long time, and he invited me into the mountains several times," the man smiled and smacked his lips again, "I shot several wild pheasants. You know how wild pheasants are delicious. Take out the contents of the stomach, then wrap a layer of mud on the outside, without pulling out the hair, throw it into the fire and burn it. Wait a few hours for the fire to harden the mud, pull it out, and pick up a stone to remove the mud The shell was smashed open, and the fur fell off, and a scent escaped from the inside. Whew..."

The man took a deep breath, raised his hand and wiped his mouth, it seemed that the wild pheasant had gotten out of his words, and was actively devoting himself to get into his mouth.I laughed dryly and said to him, "Be careful."

"What?" the man wondered.

"Your hand," I gestured with my hand, "you just slapped a mosquito."

"Ah!" The man was taken aback for a moment, and then he came to his senses, hurriedly spit on the ground, and then wiped his hands vigorously on his body.The so-called mosquito is still meat no matter how small it is. Ji Mingmei and I saw that he was willing to spit out the meat that reached his mouth, and we also felt great respect in our hearts.

The two of us were holding back our laughter, when there was a sudden sound from the next door, like someone falling.Next door is Zhuo Yue's residence, only a wall away from here.But, isn't Zhuo Yue missing? Why is there still someone in his family?Ji Mingmei and I both said "Hey" and asked that person, "Is there anyone else in Zhuo Yue's family?"

"It used to be, but now it doesn't." The man spat out his mouth dry, and his tongue was sticking out again, looking like he was hunting for prey, and the little passers-by who passed by him avoided him.

"Who else is there besides him in his family?"

"It's gone, he was the one who made the sound just now. Oh, he has been at home these days, but I asked me to help him lock it outside, making people feel that he is not at home."

Ji Mingmei and I were dumbfounded when we heard that, it turned out that Zhuo Yue had been at home until just now!

We all stared at the man, and the man smiled, "Otherwise, why am I talking so much with you? You don't have to look at me like that, this is also Zhuo Yueyang's, saying that if someone comes to look for him, Seeing that there is a lock on the door, he will naturally come to ask me, let me keep you steady, and he can wait for the opportunity to escape after hearing the movement from the next door."

It turned out that although Zhuo Yue knew that we would come, he didn't know when we would arrive at all, so he came up with this way to ask his neighbors to warn him.I thought that I was only separated from the truth by a wall just now, but I let him escape from under my nose, and I was a little anxious.

The man was still chattering, "We've been neighbors for so long, I'm always embarrassed to refuse such a small favor, right?"

"It's you big-headed ghost!" Ji Mingmei said angrily, "Do you know what he did and help him?"

"It can't be murder and arson." The man smiled, "I think he has to leave for a few days every year these years. It is said that killing someone and setting fire will not take 20 years?"

(End of this chapter)