The Republic of China Conspiracy Records

Chapter 36 Magpie Bridge Immortal (5)

Zhou Zhi'er seemed to have thought of this too, so her eyes lit up. Sure enough, she said, "Where is the craftsman, call someone to find him right away. I have something to ask him!"

Wei Rutao only said that she didn't believe Zhou Bo's words, and was about to persuade her, but she said again: "Father, if you know that you really want to go to Lang's house to talk to Xiuhong privately, will you tell others?"

Wei Rutao was stunned for a moment, and immediately realized: "That's right, since he said in front of the craftsman that he was going to Lang's house, it is absolutely impossible to do something shameful."

"So, he has other things to go to Lang's house. But why did he suddenly go to Lang's house?" Zhou Zhi'er said excitedly, "There must be something we don't know. At that time, Uncle Zhou was standing on the long ladder. , It’s easy to ignore the situation in the Mongolian Pavilion, but the craftsman is looking far away, everything in the Mongolian Pavilion is under his eyes, so as long as we ask him, maybe we can know what happened at that time!”

Wei Rutao saw that she had really found out the flaw in this matter, so he said to Zhou Bo repeatedly: "Then the craftsman, is he still in town? Go find him quickly."

Uncle Zhou didn't dare to neglect, and said: "Yes, I'll stay overnight at the hotel in the town, I'll invite him here." After saying this, he bowed to Wei Rutao, and quickly ran out of the hall.

Wei Rutao dismissed the other people in the hall, leaving only Zhou Zhi'er and her two maids.It wasn't long before Uncle Zhou came back with the craftsman, and I was secretly amazed that it was midnight, and Uncle Zhou was able to find him so quickly this time, so he couldn't help but said to Bu Ying: "How come there are such ghosts besides us ghosts?" Most of the people who stay up late at night say they are looking for someone and they will come right away?"

Bu Ying seemed to be choked for a while, and said after a while: "People who talk a lot like you are usually short-lived ghosts."

I was about to refute him, but Zhou Zhi'er had already started to ask the craftsman, so I had no choice but to swallow my words and listen to their conversation.The craftsman must have known about Wei Zhiyan, he wanted to express his condolences to the Wei family, but he dared not say anything.Zhou Zhier didn't bother to greet him, so she asked him straight to the point if she saw anything on the roof at that time, and why Wei Zhiyan suddenly said that she was going to Lang's house.

The craftsman tilted his head and thought for a while, and replied: "I was laying tiles on the roof at that time, and I didn't see anything, but when I was removing the tiles, I saw someone coming out of the side door from the corridor."

"That is to say, at that time, someone went to Zhiyan and then left?" Zhou Zhi'er and Wei Rutao cheered up at the same time, "Did you see who it is?"

"I didn't see clearly," the craftsman shook his head and said, "When I lifted the tile, the man just walked under the tile, so I only saw a back."

Zhou Zhi'er was a little disappointed when she heard the words, when the craftsman added: "However, it can be seen that the person is a woman."

"Then have you seen what clothes she's wearing?" Zhou Zhi'er hurriedly asked again.

"I'm blind, and I can't tell what kind of clothes it is, but at a cursory glance, the clothes on that man's body are very similar to those worn by the young mistress."

Although Zhou Zhi'er was dressed plainly, the material of the clothes was naturally different from that of the servants.The person who went to find Wei Zhiyan was a woman, and she was dressed similarly to Zhou Zhier. She must be the young lady of a wealthy family. Could it be that Xiuhong went to Mengguan to find Wei Zhiyan in person?

Wei Rutao and the others all thought of this, and immediately looked at each other in blank dismay, probably thinking that if this is the case, wouldn't the affair be confirmed?
"No, if it's really Xiuhong, it can only show that there is no personal relationship between the two of them!" Zhou Zhi'er glanced at the expression on Wei Rutao's face, and her tone was unquestionable, "It's like knowing that if you really want to go to Lang's family to talk to Xiuhong, Just like I wouldn’t tell Uncle Zhou, if the two really had an affair, Xiuhong would never go to the Meng Pavilion to find Zhiyan in person.”

"But now that Xiuhong is dead, it is impossible to know who the person who went to Mengguan to find Zhiyan at that time is." Wei Rutao felt a little sad, "Oh, if the master craftsman had lifted the tile earlier, he would have seen who that person was gone."

The craftsman hurriedly said, "Yes, it's my fault."

"It's just a mistake, how can I blame you." Wei Rutao sighed, then turned to Zhou Zhi'er, and asked, "Since we don't know who went to the Mongolian Pavilion to find Zhiyan, then how can we prove Zhiyan's innocence? ?”

"Since we know that someone has gone to the Meng Pavilion to look for him, let's go to the Meng Pavilion to have a look." Zhou Zhi'er said, "Maybe we can find some clues."

Wei Rutao learned that Wei Zhiyan might be innocent, so naturally he was a little impatient, and regardless of the night, he immediately ordered Uncle Zhou to light up the lantern, and rushed to the Mongolian Pavilion overnight, but Qiu'er suddenly claimed that he had some abdominal pain, no follow.

Zhou Zhi'er heard the words, so she ordered another maid: "Since Qiu'er has a stomachache, Ye'er, you can go with me."

The maid named Ye Er hurriedly responded, and the group of people lit up the lanterns and went out to the Mongolian Pavilion.But for some reason, the master and servant of the Wei family went out, but the craftsman did not follow them out, but stayed in the hall.Generally speaking, foreign visitors would leave before the master went out, but why did this craftsman stay in the Wei family, but the Wei family was anxious about the truth of the matter, did not notice this matter, and left in a hurry.

I felt strange, so I took another look at the craftsman, at this moment Bu Ying came to pull me, so I followed Wei Rutao and others together and went out.Outside the door, there were only a few songbirds singing about the moonlight, stopping and stopping, as if they were waiting for someone to sing, but they didn't get a response.Although the night was quiet, but for some reason, I always felt that someone was quietly following behind me.

Reminiscent of the feeling I had when I was outside Zhou Zhi'er's room, I felt a little horrified, thinking that besides me and Bu Ying, the two lonely ghosts, there would be no ghosts peeping at this matter, right?

The Mongolian Pavilion is not too far from Wei's house, and the group of people wandered around on the stone road several times, and soon arrived at the place.After Uncle Zhou pushed open the gate of the Mongolian Pavilion, I took advantage of the moonlight to get an overview of the entire Mongolian Pavilion.This is a small courtyard. Walking in from the gate is a courtyard, and at the end of the courtyard are two side-by-side houses.There is a corridor in front of the house, and at one end of the corridor there is a small side door leading to the courtyard. The woman who came to look for Wei Zhiyan probably went out through this side door.

After Zhou Zhi'er entered the Mongolian Pavilion, she looked around in the yard, and then followed Uncle Zhou into the hut where Wei Zhiyan usually rested.The hut is extremely simple, with only a table, a chair, and a bed. There are a few books on the table, which are nothing more than "Thousand Character Classics" and "Three Character Classics" taught in the Mongolian Museum. No one has ever been here.

When Wei Rutao saw the relics of his beloved son, he probably felt something in his heart. When Zhou Zhier looked around, he picked up a copy of "Children's Learning Qionglin" on the table. He was crying while crying.After a while, he wiped away his tearful eyes, maybe he wanted to see if Wei Zhiyan had made annotations on the book, so he opened the book, but as soon as he opened the book, he found a note inside.

He reached out and took out the note. The handwriting on the note was neat, like a woman's handwriting. I stood behind him and immediately read the words on the paper clearly.What was written on this paper was: "Zhiyan, I might get drunk at Lang's house, please come to the back door of Lang's house to pick me up, please?"

I was suddenly startled, it turned out that someone really asked Wei Zhiyan to go to Lang's house, that's why he appeared at the back door of Lang's house.And the woman who came to Wei Zhiyan turned out to be delivering a note to him.Since the paper said "take me home", then this person cannot be from the Lang family, so who would say such a thing to Wei Zhiyan?

I couldn't help looking at Zhou Zhi'er, Wei Rutao obviously thought of this too, couldn't help shaking his hands, and said in a trembling voice: "The one who told Zhiyan to go to Lang's house is you!"

Zhou Zhi'er was looking around in the house, when she heard the words, she turned her head and asked in surprise, "What?"

Wei Rutao held the note firmly in his hand: "No wonder the craftsman said that the girl's clothes look very similar to yours, so it turned out that you were the one who told Zhiyan to go to the back door of Lang's house and killed him in the end!"

"You... what did you say?" Zhou Zhi'er was shocked, "Are you crazy, dad? How could it be me?"

"Yesterday at nightfall, you went out. At this time, a woman came to the Meng Pavilion. Zhiyan went to Lang's house after seeing her. This note was clearly written by you, and you still said it wasn't you !" Wei Rutao was so angry that he felt dizzy for a moment, he staggered and leaned against the edge of the table, Zhou Bo hurried over to support him.

Ye'er, Zhou Zhi'er's maid, was also stunned, and shouted: "Master, there must be a mistake, how could it be that the young mistress killed the young master, this... this..."

She was so anxious that she couldn't speak, she seemed to have thought of something terrible, and her whole body was frightened, but Zhou Zhi'er calmed down at this moment, and said in her mouth: "Father must have misunderstood something, if you come at night I'm the one who wants to talk to Zhiyan, so why bother to write another note?"

I also nodded when I heard the words, she was right, since a note is needed to deliver the message, it means that the person passing the note is not convenient to come.If Zhou Zhier was the person who came to the Mongolian Pavilion to look for Wei Zhiyan yesterday, then she would not have left this note at all.

As Zhou Zhi'er said, she walked towards Wei Rutao, took the note in his hand, and her tone became a little harsh: "If someone really sends this note in my name, then Zhiyan's death must be another... ..."

As she spoke, she glanced at the paper with one corner of her eye, but unexpectedly, after reading the words on the paper, she couldn't say the word "strange" at the end, but her hands shook, and she seemed a little dazed. He looked at Wei Rutao, then at Ye'er, with a look of shock.

Seeing this, Ye'er couldn't help being startled, and asked timidly, "Young Mistress, what's wrong with you?"

After Zhou Zhi'er was frightened, she immediately looked dazed again, as if she couldn't believe it: "The words on this paper are indeed mine..."

Wei Rutao was furious when he heard the words: "You admit that you killed Zhiyan!"

"I just said that the words on this paper are indeed my handwriting, but this paper is definitely not from me!" Zhou Zhi'er hurriedly argued, "As for why this paper is my handwriting, I... I don't know clear……"

Wei Rutao asked suspiciously: "Then you should read carefully, the words on this paper are indeed your handwriting, or is someone pretending to be your handwriting?"

Zhou Zhi'er took a deep breath, looked at the note in her hand again, gritted her teeth and said, "It is indeed my handwriting, but I don't remember when I wrote such a note."

Wei Rutao stared at her and said: "You never wrote such a note, but the words on this paper are yours. How can there be such absurd things in this world? You went out at night yesterday, where did you go?"

Zhou Zhi'er opened her mouth to answer, but she didn't say anything, but stared at Ye'er for a moment, and murmured: "I...I can't say." She said loudly: "I did go out at night yesterday , but not to the Mongolian Pavilion. Father, Zhiyan is your son, but he is also my husband, why do you think I will harm him!"

Wei Rutao seemed to have aged a lot after discovering this note, and slowly said: "Back then your father and I disagreed on some matters. He opposed Yuan Shikai's proclaiming emperor and hoped that we would all participate in the war against Yuan, but But because the situation was too chaotic at that time, I didn't know where the situation would go, so I kept a wait-and-see attitude, so he left angrily, participated in the war against Yuan alone, and died on the battlefield later, could it be that you blame Wei for this Home?"

(End of this chapter)