The Republic of China Conspiracy Records

Chapter 180 Meeting the Joyful Meeting (14)

"It's owned by the Six Arts Club." Zhou Xunshan was silent for a while, "it's just that the Zhou family is in charge of taking care of it, and head Hu is in charge of escorting it."

"I remember that Lin Yuxi told us in Donglin Town that Hu Xiaotian's father was the leader of a security regiment," I said to Zhou Xunshan, "so the regimental leader you are talking about is him?"

"That's right, it's Hu Xiaotian's father, Hu Dahai."

"Since the 10 taels of gold did exist, why do you say that it never existed from the beginning to the end?" Ji Mingmei asked.

"Because although the gold exists, it has never entered the security team's warehouse, so naturally it has never been stolen." Zhou Xunshan replied.

We were really confused by him, "Isn't the 10 taels of gold still there? Where did it go?"

"It's all spent." Zhou Xunshan said, "It was all spent long before it was 'stolen'."

"You...you are really generous!" A total of 10 taels of gold, which ordinary people can't spend in a few lifetimes, was actually spent by these three people. Ji Mingmei and I didn't know what to say for a while.

"If 10 taels of gold is spent on a family, it will naturally be too much to spend, but if it is used on a war, not only is it not much, it is even a bit stretched." Zhou Xunshan said quietly.

A war!Both Ji Mingmei and I shivered, but neither dared to ask him what kind of war it was.

Seeing that we didn't speak, Zhou Xunshan said to himself: "More than 20 years ago, the Six Arts Association planned to withdraw from interfering in the current situation. Do you know that?"

Ji Mingmei and I both nodded.

Zhou Xunshan then said, "At that time, there were as many people who agreed with it as there were those who opposed it. Those who agreed thought that the current situation was chaotic, but there was no fear of national subjugation. Therefore, the Six Arts Association should not intervene. We can intervene when the situation is clearer; Opponents believe that the Six Arts Association takes protecting China as its mission, and since the current situation is unclear, it should intervene to make it clear."

The opinions of both parties are actually reasonable, and naturally neither can convince the other.However, the few people who advocated quitting at that time were all very prestigious, and some wavering people naturally followed them, so the matter was settled.At that time, because the Six Arts Association was about to enter a dormant period, the funds raised before had to be taken back and kept properly.

At that time, the Zhou family was responsible for recovering the funds. After they collected the gold, Hu Dahai from the Hu family led his security team to take care of it.However, the two companies in charge of recovery and care are precisely the group of people who oppose withdrawal.It's just that they didn't express their attitude clearly, so everyone didn't know that they were actually opponents.

After the Zhou family and the Hu family met, they were unwilling to quit, so they discussed a way, which was to secretly use the gold for other purposes.At that time, in the fourth year of the Republic of China, Yuan Shikai brazenly proclaimed himself emperor, and various places launched a crusade. The Zhou and Hu families contacted the anti-Yuan armed forces in private, and invested the 10 taels of gold in the anti-Yuan war.

Later Yuan Shikai was forced to abdicate, and the 10 taels of gold played a huge role in it.But this is what the Zhou and Hu families did behind the Six Arts Association's back. How should they explain the whereabouts of the 10 taels of gold to the Six Arts Association?So Zhou's father and son and Hu Dahai discussed a way to "stolen" the gold.

In order to achieve the effect of confusing the real with the fake, they decided to let Zhou Xunshan be charged with "stealing money".After the incident, the Six Arts Club was shocked and ordered the Zhou family and Hu Dahai to recover the gold, but Zhou Xunshan did not say a word, and everyone had no choice but to let the security team detain him until he vomited out the whereabouts of the gold until.

In this way, Zhou Xunshan stayed in the county police prison for more than [-] years.And because his father couldn't absolve himself of the blame, he was only on the battlefield of the anti-Yuan war and died on the battlefield.This was a decision he had made a long time ago, because he did this behind the Six Arts Association's back, so he decided to use his own death to explain it.

This was the reason why his father insisted on going to the battlefield back then, and this was also used by those who wanted to.This was the reason behind the tragedy of the Wei family. Zhou Zhi'er was dissatisfied with her father's death on the battlefield, and all this was caused by the Wei family's advocacy to withdraw from the current situation, so Wei Rutao felt that she would be dissatisfied with the Wei family because of this.

All things are connected here again.

Zhou Xunshan narrated the earlier part of these incidents, and the later part about the Wei family was my own association.After listening to Zhou Xunshan's narration, Ji Mingmei and I remained silent.It's wrong for the Zhou family, father and son, and others to do things behind the back of the Six Arts Association, but their temperament of shedding blood for the country is really moving.

Moreover, the 10 taels of gold were used in the anti-Yuan war and eventually forced Yuan Shikai to abdicate, which is well spent.It's just that Zhou Xunshan "stole" the non-existent 10 taels of gold, but paid the price of being imprisoned for more than 50 years.He looks like he is only [-] or [-] years old at the moment, and his actual age may be younger than that.

The best twenty years of my life were wasted in prison like this.When I thought about this, I couldn't help feeling sorry for him, Ji Mingmei also thought so, sighed, and said: "No wonder you refused to tell the whereabouts of the gold, it's just that the prison has swallowed you for so many years , it is too unworthy."

"What's not worth it," Zhou Xunshan said indifferently, "Since the Six Arts Association has made a decision, we, as its members, should naturally obey; since we didn't obey, we should naturally pay the price. This is a matter of course, It doesn't change just because we did the right thing."

He spoke frankly, and we were all silent.Since he didn't know about the tragedy of the Wei family and other things that followed, we naturally couldn't ask him anything, so I said, "What about Hu Dahai, what did he do after he put you in the county police prison?"

I'm already inclined to believe that the Zhou family has nothing to do with the Wen and Wei families, but it's hard to say for the Hu family.What's more, Zhuo Yue has been here all these years, and Hu Dahai is the head of the security team, so maybe he has something to do with the Hu family.

"My father decided to die on the battlefield of the anti-Yuan war, and I was imprisoned here. We all paid the price for violating the decision of the Six Arts Association, except Hu Dahai. He 'asked' the whereabouts of the gold, so it was always here." Zhou Xunshan said.

But not long after, Hu Dahai went into the prison and told him that the bookcase in Donglin Cottage was stolen, and he was going to help find it.Therefore, although he didn't know about the Wen and Wei families, he did know about the theft of the Donglin Thatched Cottage.Afterwards, Hu Dahai never came back.

He heard from Hu Dahai's younger brother, Brother Fei Ren, that when Hu Dahai was helping to find the book case, he had a fight with a group of unknown armed forces and died in the fight.At that time Zhou Xunshan heard it, and he only said that Hu Dahai wanted to die with all his heart, and he was also paying the price for the gold matter.

Later, Brother Fei took over the security team. He didn't know the truth of the gold case, so he has been asking for gold's whereabouts all these years.This is not because he wants to seek personal gain for himself, but because he wants to give an explanation to the Six Arts Association.

"Yeah, he really did his duty for this matter." I sighed, a little hesitant, not knowing whether I should tell him what I was thinking.On the other hand, Ji Mingmei was a little surprised when she heard this, and asked, "Why did you hear this? You knew that the big pomegranate was chasing gold for the Six Arts Association?"

Hearing this, Zhou Xunshan also looked at me strangely, with two blushes on his face.My heart skipped a beat, his face suddenly turned rosy at this moment, this is not a good omen, and he hurriedly shouted to the next door: "You have heard what you should have heard, come here quickly! He...he was seriously injured!"

Ji Mingmei and Zhou Xunshan were startled when they heard this, and looked at me blankly.I smiled wryly, "This is what I guessed, it's not that I teamed up with them to deceive you."

As soon as he finished speaking, the door was pushed open with a "Yiya", and brother Fei walked in together with Wang Honger and others.What is even more surprising is that the "dead" Zhuo Yue was also among them.Both Ji Mingmei and Zhou Xunshan were stunned. Seeing him being speechless for a long time, they both turned their heads to look at me.

Brother Fei also sighed: "You actually saw it, how did you see it?" Zhuo Yue and Wang Honger also stared at me, waiting for my explanation.

"Blood." I said, "The blood outside the door is too fresh. If you want to pretend to follow those bloodstains, naturally you can only use fresh blood. But in this way, it cannot be arranged by Wang Honger in advance." Okay, because the blood arranged in advance has already changed color and solidified."

Since the blood was fresh, it was natural that someone arranged it on the spot.Since this person is not an accomplice of Wang Honger and Zhuo Yue, he can only be a member of the security team.In addition, after Zhuo Yue drove away, the security team had no time at all, but arranged horses and nails to stop our car here.

What's even more amazing is that Wang Honger also arranged an empty room here in advance as a retreat, as if he could predict that we would definitely be intercepted here.Adding up all these deeds, I didn't know that this was a double reed sung by the security team and them.

Brother Fat was stunned for a long time after hearing what I said.Before they could say anything, Ji Mingmei said angrily: "Since all this is just to find the truth about the gold case, why did you really shoot him!"

"They were afraid that I would still refuse to tell the truth, so they really shot me." Zhou Xunshan grinned suddenly, "If my life is dying, and there is this only blood relative by my side, then it is necessary to tell the truth. My whereabouts must not be allowed, otherwise Jin Jin will have to follow me into the coffin. Keke, this kind of thought is really meticulous."

We were all silent when we heard the words, Zhuo Yue and the others really calculated people's hearts to the extreme, but there is no way to blame them.Because their calculations are all to recover the "lost" gold of the Six Arts Association, and they are doing things for the Six Arts Association.

Although I only saw the strangeness after I entered the room, but I didn't say it immediately, and it could be regarded as "conspiring" with Zhuo Yue and the others to deceive Zhou Xunshan.Therefore, I felt quite guilty in my heart, moved my lips, and wanted to admit to him, but I couldn't open my mouth.

Zhou Xunshan managed to pull himself together, patted the back of my hand, and said with a smile: "10 taels of gold can disappear without any clues. This matter is too miraculous and weird. If it were me, I'm afraid I can't bear it." I have to find out."

He is dying, but he still speaks to comfort me.I couldn't bear it any longer in front of this only dear one, and suddenly two hot tears fell.Zhou Xunshan said softly: "Good boy, don't cry. I have been busy for half my life and have not done any important things, but I was very happy to know that there is such a good boy like you before I die. Alas, I have been really lonely these years. "

"When you recover from your injury, we will talk with you from time to time, okay?" Seeing that I was speechless, Ji Mingmei grabbed my hand and put it on Zhou Xunshan's.

I held his hand and felt it was getting colder and colder. I couldn't help feeling panicked, and hurriedly said to Brother Fat: "Hurry up and send him to be treated!"

Brother Fei hurriedly responded, and was about to call someone in to send him out, but Zhou Xunshan said in a low voice: "It can't be cured, it can't be cured."

He has been trapped in a cage for these years, and his health is not good. He has already exhausted his energy from the escape and running all the way, and he was shot again. At this time, he finally ran out of fuel.I looked at his face that was full of vitality, and felt like crying without tears.

Zhou Xunshan glanced at me, and said in a low voice: "I'm not going to make it. I've been thinking about what kind of epitaph I want to leave for myself in prison all these years. After much deliberation, I still feel that it is not satisfactory, and now I finally think about it." , you can engrave this sentence on my tombstone - Zhou Xunshan, born in the 19th year of Guangxu in the former Qing Dynasty, died of loneliness."

Regarding the loneliness of these years, he only said these few words, and did not sigh too much, because loneliness is beyond words.A person who wanted to write an epitaph for himself before he was born, and thought about it for more than [-] years, the feeling of this is really unimaginable to others.

He was originally a kind and passionate young man, but for the ideals and ambitions in his heart, he was a hostage in lonely hands for more than [-] years.I imagined the pain he had kept silent for so many years, and my heart became more and more bitter.At this moment, I felt that Zhou Xunshan's hand suddenly loosened, and his five fingers spread out feebly.My heart skipped a beat, and when I went to see him again, I saw his head tilted and his whole body slid sideways.

(End of this chapter)