The Republic of China Conspiracy Records

Chapter 176 Meeting the Joyful Meeting (10)

"Didn't she just tell what happened back then?" Ji Mingmei still didn't give up, and looked at me with her face in her hands, "Our elder brother repairing books is the smartest, maybe we can solve the shocking case of that year in this prison gone."

Anyway, I have nothing to do, I heard what she said, and I couldn't bear to let her down, so I had to rack my brains to recall what Wang Honger said just now.Gold will not run away by itself. No matter how much it is, if you want gold to disappear from the warehouse, someone must go in and remove it.

Zhuo Yue's method of stealing gold was to first mislead the security team with blindfolds, making them think that the gold had been stolen, and then took advantage of the empty security team to go in and remove the gold.Although Zhou Xunshan stole far more gold than Zhuo Yue, the method he thought of using was almost the same, there must always be a time to go in and carry the gold.

If this time can be determined, perhaps half of the matter has been solved.I sat down by the bars of my cell and began to think hard.Zhou Xunshan stole the gold, but he kept it in the warehouse, which is also a suspicious point.But why did he stay in the warehouse?
The biggest possibility is that after he stole the gold, he has no ability to leave.

However, he could even move more than [-] jin of gold away without a sound, but he was powerless to leave himself?This is too much to justify.Unless——the gold was not carried away by him, but by his helper.And while his helpers were moving the gold, they had no spare time to take care of him.

But if this is the case, a doubt arises again.That is, in order to quickly remove 10 taels of gold, at least forty or fifty strong men are needed.And how did so many people quietly enter the locked and heavily guarded warehouse?

If forty or fifty strong men can come in and out at will, then what can't be done by one more person, why should he be left in the warehouse?No matter how I think about it, I feel that this is an incredible thing, and no matter how I explain it, I can be refuted by myself, so I just shook my head at Ji Mingmei, indicating that I can't think of anything.

Ji Mingmei was not disappointed either, she just smiled at me with a smile.She wasn't worried about being in jail at all. I knew she believed that Bu Ying could find us and clear us of the suspicion.However, the Buying people are currently in the provincial capital, and it is still unknown when they will arrive.

Since she is not worried, that is the best, so I also showed her a smiling face.At this moment, Ji Mingmei suddenly screamed, jumped up from the spot, and slapped her hands again and again.I was taken aback by her, seeing her left hand hitting her right hand, and right hand hitting her left hand, I thought she was a ghost, and she was trying to harm herself.

"What's the matter with you?" I asked her anxiously, but I couldn't make it through, and became more impatient.

"Ant!" Ji Mingmei twisted a small object from the back of her left hand with her right hand, and pinched it bitterly, "Suddenly bit me, it hurts so much, it scared me to death!"

I heard that she was just bitten by an ant, so I was relieved, but then I thought of something again, and after a moment of stunned, I hurriedly asked: "What did you mean to bite you?"

"Ant." Ji Mingmei looked at me inexplicably. "The ants in this prison are going to eat people. Look, they are so big that they are almost as big as the size of my fingernail."

"Ants!" I cried out, "It turns out that the gold was eaten by ants!"

Wang Honger and Ji Mingmei retorted at the same time: "Impossible, how can ants eat gold!"

"Of course ordinary ants can't eat gold, but there is a kind of ant that can!" I said excitedly, "I forgot which ancient book recorded it. There was a government office in the former Qing Dynasty. The thousand taels of silver disappeared, but no trace of theft was found. Later, a termite nest was dug under the corner of the wall. After the termite nest was put into the furnace and burned, silver was refined! Silver was actually eaten by termite colonies!"

Ji Mingmei and Wang Honger were stunned at the same time, and after a while, Wang Honger said in a trembling voice, "So, the 10 taels of gold back then were also eaten by termites? Someone specially trained termites to eat gold and silver!"

"That's right, didn't you say that the guard heard a strange noise in the warehouse at that time, as if something was gnawing on something. Now that I think about it, isn't this the sound of termites eating gold?" I took a deep breath and said to myself I was also very surprised that this thing I saw in the book, someone actually used it to steal gold, and it succeeded!

"So the 10 taels of gold disappeared, but Zhou Xunshan stayed in the warehouse." I continued, "That's because all the gold went into the stomach of the termites, but Zhou Xunshan couldn't hide in the stomach of the termites, he had to go out." Stay in the warehouse."

"Then, what about those termites?" Wang Honger tremblingly said, "The 10 taels of gold won't really feed the termites, right?"

"No, although termites can devour gold and silver, they can't digest them." I said with certainty, "The biggest possibility is that those termites have all been 'poisoned' by gold at this moment."

"So as long as you find the nests of these termites, you can find this 10 taels of gold!" Ji Mingmei also said in amazement.

"Not bad." As I said, I looked back at Zhou Xunshan in the corner.I'm quite sure that my guess is right, otherwise I can't explain why the 10 taels of gold just disappeared.I thought Zhou Xunshan would be touched when he heard his secret was revealed, but he still ignored it, as if he didn't hear what we were talking about.

This person has been imprisoned for more than 20 years without saying a word. Wouldn't he become deaf while becoming dumb?I looked at him suspiciously, then looked back at Ji Mingmei and Wang Honger.

Wang Honger could also see Zhou Xunshan from the opposite side. Seeing that Zhou Xunshan didn't respond at this time, his heart sank, "Even if this is true, he must lead the way to find the ant nest, right?"

This is natural, almost all the ant nests are hidden deep in the ground, if one does not know the exact location, who can find it, it is impossible to search the entire area for a hundred miles.Thinking about it this way, I suddenly understood why Zhou Xunshan was so calm, because even though we knew how he stole the gold, we still couldn't get it back.

Ji Mingmei didn't care about this, and said happily, "I'll just say Brother Xiushu is smart. Ahhh, I'm so amazing!"

I wondered: "What are you good at?"

"I know that you can solve this matter by pinching my fingers, isn't it amazing!" Ji Mingmei put her hands on her hips, quite high-spirited.

I was dumbfounded, and after a long while I said: "Amazing!"

It's a pity that we only worked hard in the middle of the night. As soon as it was dawn on the second day, Brother Fat walked in and yelled us all up.We had a hard day yesterday, and we didn't sleep for half the night. We just lay down at dawn, and we were all sleepy at this time.Ji Mingmei rubbed her eyes and saw that it was Brother Fat. She came to her senses and couldn't help shouting: "Hey, Big Pomegranate, we helped you find out the truth about the gold theft case back then!"

Brother Fat couldn't help coughing slightly when he heard the words, and hid a big pomegranate in his hand behind his back.Ji Mingmei giggled and said, "Don't hide it, you don't want to eat it for me."

Brother Fei thought for a while, and actually walked over and handed the pomegranate to Ji Mingmei.Ji Mingmei took it with a smile on her face, and started peeling the pomegranate right there, telling him our deduction last night while peeling.I thought he would be overjoyed too, but after hearing this, Brother Fei said indifferently: "Oh, I know what you are talking about. It comes from "Miscellaneous Notes of Lingnan."

Ji Mingmei's hands that were peeling the pomegranate paused for a moment, and said in astonishment, "You already knew about this?"

Wang Honger and I were also standing by the fence of the cell, both stunned at the same time.But I immediately said: "You know about this, but you can't find where the ant nest is, can you?"

"Not only do I know this, but I also know that gold cannot be eaten by termites." Brother Fat walked up to Ji Mingmei, "Have you peeled it off? Thank you."

As he spoke, he took the pomegranate from Ji Mingmei's hand, picked it out one by one, and stuffed it into his mouth, making Ji Mingmei's lungs explode with anger.Brother Fat spat out the seeds and said, "You don't even think about it, 10 taels of gold is more than [-] catties. How much gold can a termite swallow? How many termites do you need to swallow more than [-] catties of gold?"

We really didn't think about this problem, and when he said it at this time, all of us were ashamed.Brother Fat was still saying, "Besides, whether termites can eat gold is another matter. So don't worry about it."

"Then how did the 10 taels of gold disappear from the warehouse?" I didn't give up and asked.

"If I knew, would it be necessary to imprison him for 20 years?" Fat man said, spitting out the pomegranate seeds in his mouth angrily, "It was for the sake of detaining him that the security team took the initiative to take over the county police prison, and gave people to him for no reason. Served as a jailer for 20 years. The county policemen laughed at us behind our backs, bah!"

As he spoke, he took out another letter from his pocket, shook it at us, and said with a waned expression, "A letter from Zhuo Yue." As he spoke, he threw the letter to me.

I picked up the letter from the ground and opened it. As expected, Zhuo Yue said in the letter that the gold was in his hands. As long as the security team released Zhou Xunshan and Wang Honger, he would return the gold to the security team.Surprisingly, Zhuo Yue also said in the letter that we were innocent but imprisoned because of him, so he also asked us to be released together in the letter.

But he knew that we were here to trouble him, and he put us in the cell just to get rid of us, so why did he ask for us to be released together?That being the case, what did he frame us for?
I was really confused by him, after I told Ji Mingmei about this matter, Ji Mingmei was also at a loss.On the contrary, Wang Honger smiled and said, "Wouldn't it be nice to have a chance to go out?"

Brother Fat didn't wait for us to say anything, so he ordered the strong man to open the cell door.I touched my chin and asked, "Are you leaving now?"

Brother Fat also touched his chin, pondered for a while before answering: "Otherwise, I didn't prepare your breakfast either."

Since he let us go, Ji Mingmei walked out of the cell to me.Wang Honger also walked in, and said softly to Zhou Xunshan who was in the corner: "Xunshan, let's go."

Zhou Xunshan didn't listen, but turned around on the ground, changed his posture and continued to lie down.He really didn't want to go out.Both Ji Mingmei and I were speechless in surprise, and couldn't help asking: "Are you really not going out?"

"Zhuo Yue and I have been thinking hard for 20 years before we finally figured out a way to get you out. Are you really willing to stay in prison forever!" Wang Honger was a little angry, her tone trembling, "Even if you don't want to go out, I don't hesitate to risk my life for you, and you don't care about the relationship between husband and wife at all!"

"That 10 taels of gold, how many things can you do!" Ji Mingmei also wondered, "If you are in prison, what is the use of this gold? You don’t want to go out, so why did you steal it?”

Zhou Xunshan didn't even pay attention to Wang Honger, and naturally he didn't pay attention to her.Ji Mingmei was so bored, she turned around and asked Brother Fei: "Zhuo Yue said in the letter that we are innocent. Since he doesn't want to go out, can we go?"

Brother Fat covered the cell door, locked it again with a bang, and said with a gloomy face, "What do you think?"

Even if he wanted to let him go, he couldn't let him go. It seemed that he was also full of anger and worried that the 1000 taels of gold would not come back, so he gritted his teeth while speaking, "If you don't want to go out, you will die in prison for the rest of your life. Anyway, with the three of them accompanying you, you are not alone."

Both Ji Mingmei and I were heartbroken when we heard this, and hurriedly said to him: "This is really none of our business."

"I know." Brother Fat unexpectedly nodded, "It's none of his business, but he is neither willing to tell the whereabouts of the 10 taels of gold nor go out to ask Zhuo Yue to return the 1000 taels of gold. I just had to stay here with him."

(End of this chapter)