Shengshichun

Chapter 275 Find someone to replace you

Fu Zhen's mind paused for a moment.

The murder case in Baiyu Hutong basically came to a halt after being traced to Prince Rong's Mansion, because their main purpose of investigating this case was to determine how deeply involved Prince Rong's Mansion was in this case, and what the relationship between Xu Yin and Yongping's union was. Does this case matter?

So far, these are all very clear. Who the deceased is is indeed still a mystery, but without any clues, it is undoubtedly a waste of effort to stick to this point.

Therefore, Fu Zhen's main targets later were Xu Yin and the people in Prince Rong's Mansion.

Because of Liang Ning's death, one of them was the main culprit, and the other was an accomplice who indirectly promoted the result.

The identity of the deceased can only be answered through them after defeating this gang of murderers.

So in the following days, Fu Zhen didn't dwell on this matter at all. Now that she suddenly heard Mrs. Ning mention it again at this juncture, she felt a little disconnected in her thinking.

"Didn't my grandfather pass away before the murder occurred in Baiyu Alley? How are the two incidents related?"

Although the exact identities of the dead father and son were unknown, they were the people that Mr. Ning told Mrs. Ning to wait for in advance that night.

So Fu Zhen didn't expect that Mr. Ning's death would be related to this matter, but he knew that these two people were related to the Ning family.

Mrs. Ning said: "When your grandfather wrote to me, he told me that these two people had the mark of the phoenix. Coincidentally, both sides mentioned the man in black who was fighting at the dock when your grandfather fell into the water before he got sick. A phoenix pendant."

"Phoenix?!"

Fu Zhen's mind immediately flashed back to the fan Xu Yin mentioned that night under the eaves of the Xu family.

"How could it be such a coincidence that it's Phoenix again?"

"Where have you seen it?" Mrs. Ning raised her head when she heard the sound.

Fu Zhen took a deep breath and told her the whole story. "I didn't come back much a while ago. I was just busy with the affairs of the Chu family. But even now I don't know what the secret is in that fan? I can only wait until Chu Yu recovers from his injury and returns to Prince Rong's Mansion to see if it can work. The result is found."

Mrs. Ning immediately stood up: "What kind of phoenix is ​​it? Did Xu Yin ever say that?"

"No." Fu Zhen shook his head and pointed to the letter in her hand, "Is this letter in mother's hand the same letter that my grandfather asked my mother to receive those two people well?"

Fu Zhen actually asked Mrs. Ning about the whereabouts of this letter a long time ago, but Mrs. Ning said that she had lost it long ago.

Mrs. Ning took a deep breath, handed her the unfolded letter, and said, "Yes, this letter was sent by your grandfather before he died."

Fu Zhen quickly took it in his hand.

The content of the letter was consistent with what Mrs. Ning said. It did not mention the origins of the two men, but the following paragraph roughly described their age and appearance. It also mentioned that the man had a red crest mark the size of a copper coin behind his ear. , and drew a rough graph.

"When I received this letter, I didn't think too much about it, because after all, I had never met this person. Since there is a birthmark that can be used as a sign of confirmation, it is extremely reasonable for your grandfather to inform me in the letter.

"But who would have known that something like that happened right under my nose that night. Because it was dark and there was a distance between upstairs and downstairs, I couldn't confirm that they were the people I was waiting for. Of course, With the murderer’s methods, I have no way to rescue him.”

"Then what was the reason that caused the mother to remain silent on the matter?"

"That's the Mr. Feng I mentioned to you during the day." Mrs. Ning looked at her deeply, "Mr. Feng and your grandfather were close friends. He helped manage the Ning family's property when your grandfather was ill. After your grandfather passed away, He also helped to inventory the relics.

"About three or four months after the incident, he went to Beijing to hand over the accounts to me, and we met at Baihe Temple.

"After the accounts were sorted out, he mentioned the dock where your grandfather met with an accident."

"What did he say?"

"He said that on the night of the accident, someone was looking for a phoenix pendant. He suspected that your grandfather was affected and fell into the water because of this incident. He told me to investigate this matter."

After saying this, Mrs. Ning took a deep breath and continued: "It is a matter of my father's life and death. Of course I can't take it lightly. Although I was in dire straits in the Fu family at the time, it was really inconvenient to bother the Feng family with this kind of thing.

"So I asked him what kind of phoenix it was? He drew it for me with a pen and paper, and when I saw it, the shape of the phoenix was exactly the same as the phoenix mark your grandfather described to me in his letter. ."

Fu Zhen clenched his fists: "What a coincidence?"

"Who says it's not?" Mrs. Ning said deeply, "Your grandfather is such a wise and capable person. He has connections all over the country, both in the government and in the public sector, but he never revealed anything about this matter to me until the end. He insists that it was just an accident, which shows that he is afraid."

"Then how did Mr. Feng know about that phoenix pendant?"

"Because someone is inquiring about it in private. The Feng family is not weak. Everyone below knows that he has a good relationship with your grandfather, and someone will always spread the news to him."

Fu Zhen held his breath for a moment, then raised his eyebrows and said, "After the mother saw what Feng Pei looked like, did she ever go check it out?"

"Of course I didn't investigate further. Even your grandfather didn't dare to act rashly. How could I dare to touch this matter when I had no time to care about myself?

"I believe your grandfather never told me, and he definitely didn't want me to get involved in this whirlpool."

Fu Zhen looked at the scrawled writing on the yellowed letter paper and couldn't help but feel his throat tightening.

When she woke up a few months ago, Mrs. Ning was still struggling in the Fu family, and of course she had no energy left to take risks.

She picked up the letter, and the old man emphatically wrote in the letter that the person who came to Beijing would definitely help Mrs. Ning and the Fu Zhen siblings, and might even support Fu Yun. Now that I think about it, this benefit is probably for him. The reason why he made up his mind to let Mrs. Ning get in touch with the father and son.

But the old man never thought that his plans for his daughter and grandchildren would end up like that.

"This is naturally the reason why I have been hiding it from you." Mrs. Ning said, "The Pei family and the Liang family have achieved such great achievements with their own flesh and blood. I don't know the identities of those two people. I don’t know what the phoenix represents, but I know that my Ning family is as rich as the country. Although I am not an official, I am somewhat respectable in the Great Zhou Dynasty. But your grandfather would rather keep this secret than say it. It must be The stakes are high.

"It is really inappropriate for the Pei and Liang families to suffer losses due to their involvement in this dispute."

Fu Zhen's fearless temper that day was tightly restrained by these words.

When she mentioned this murder case, Mrs. Ning had already stated in the first half of the letter that Fu Zhen already had a certain understanding of the importance of these two people's identities.

Now with the addition of this phoenix-shaped mark and phoenix pendant, things will become even more serious!

Although one is a birthmark and the other is a jade pendant, but they are both related to the old man at the same time, then these two things must be concentrated on the same person. Isn’t the identity of the man who died in the White Jade Alley even more unusual?

It turns out that before he came to Beijing, someone was already secretly looking for him. In this case, Mr. Ning's strict arrangements can be understood.

If he hadn't been so cautious and hadn't even told his daughter the name of the other party, he might have been killed on the way to Beijing!

And the fan Xu Yin wanted to get from Prince Rong's Mansion turned out to be related to the deceased!

So who is this person who died? Why would Ning Bochi keep such a secret? Who is it that is secretly tracking down that phoenix pendant?

She looked at Mrs. Ning: "Has mother ever guessed who he is?" Mrs. Ning said slowly: "After all, there is no way to escape from the confines of the court."

……

Fu Zhen did not stay with the Ning family after all.

When he returned to the house, Pei Zhan had already washed himself and lay on his couch.

Before Fu Zhen could speak first, he looked over sideways and said, "Didn't we have a quarrel? Didn't we still want to go back to our parents' house? Why did we come back overnight?"

Fu Zhen picked up the cup and put it to his lips. Hearing this, he looked around: "Has Brother Jia been here?"

Pei Zhan snorted softly: "I really have you. When you go back to your own house and become a thief, you still blame me."

Fu Zhen took the cup and walked to the door: "Where is he? What did he tell you?"

"He came to me sweating profusely and asked me how I made you angry. I was puzzled. Usually when I talk to him, he is as tense as a string. You just lied like this. , when he returns to his parents' home, he can immediately come to me to settle accounts. Is he brave or timid?"

Fu Zhen tilted his head and thought for a while, then walked back and asked him: "Then how did you respond to him?"

Pei Zhan snorted again: "What can I do? Of course tell him, it's too late now, so I won't disturb your rest. I'll go over in person and apologize to you tomorrow."

At this point, he sat up again: "How was it? What did you gain?"

Fu Zhen dragged a chair and sat in front of him. "How do you know what I went to do?"

Pei Zhan stared at her with an expression that he knew her well.

Fu Zhen took out the letter from his arms and slapped it on the kang table next to him.

"Look at this first."

Pei Zhan stretched out two fingers, picked up the letter and glanced at it twice. Then he straightened up immediately: "When did this happen?"

"A letter from my grandfather to my mother six years ago."

Fu Zhen looked at him, and then told him the whole story. "My mother and I have the same idea. The person who was killed must have something to do with the court. He definitely cannot be an unknown person."

There are so many clues here, and the importance of the deceased is self-evident. And Mr. Ning would rather take this secret to hell than reveal it at all, which further shows that this man still has a very important position in the court.

"Now if we want to know the identity of this person, we can only start from King Rong, but King Rong is not an ordinary person, and we can't put a sack on him like Zhang Dazi!"

Fu Zhen clenched his fists.

"It doesn't have to be King Rong. Since Xu Yin spent so much effort to find that fan, he must know it." Pei Zhan looked at the phoenix pattern on the letter paper, "Now we can only start with this fan to dig out the truth coming."

"But we have to wait until Chu Yu returns to Princess Rong before we have a chance, right? And I just heard from Lu Chongyang this morning that Chu Yu can just stand on the ground. It will be several days before he can return to Prince Rong's Mansion. "

Pei Zhan pondered: "If he can't go back, then he might as well let the people from Prince Rong's Mansion get close to him."

"People from Prince Rong's Mansion?" Fu Zhen looked at him, "Do you think it's possible? Chu Yu is nothing to Prince Rong's Mansion. The only Princess Rong who liked him has abandoned him. Who will get close to him now? ?”

This is simply whimsical.

"Have you forgotten that Xu Yin promised Chu Yu to help him win the opportunity to return to Prince Rong's Mansion?"

"I haven't forgotten, but Xu Yin doesn't let go of rabbits. His purpose is to catch me. If Chu Yu doesn't tell me to go out, how can Xu Yin help him?"

After Fu Zhen finished speaking, he paused. Then she straightened her waist and loosened the arms around her: "In this way, as long as Chu Yu hands me over, Xu Yin can facilitate the connection between Chu Yu and Prince Rong's Mansion, and then we will have the opportunity to get in touch with him. This fan!"

"Since Xu Yin wants it, as long as he gets the fan, he will always find someone who recognizes it."

Pei Zhan pushed the letter back to Fu Zhen: "The dagger is in our hands. We have found the murderer through him. Now, we should seize this clue and decipher the identity of the deceased."

"Exactly."

Fu Zhen stood up unconsciously, and her surging mood prompted her to take a few steps forward quickly. "Having cracked the identity of the deceased, maybe Xu Yin's secret can also be exposed."

If Xu Yin is really just from a declining family in the small town of Tanzhou, then he should be working hard to pursue an official career as he said when he killed Liang Ning, and should not be involved in so many dangerous things.

"I'll go find Chu Yu right now!" She turned around and looked back.

If you have to do this, then go for it.

Exposed in front of Xu Yin, he will go straight back and forth in the future.

Pei Zhan then got down: "No need! If you are exposed, won't we suffer a loss?"

"What else can we do?"

"Find someone to take your place!"

"Replace me?" Fu Zhen paused, "Who are you looking for?"

"I."

Fu Zhen said: "How is this possible? And what's the difference if you go up or I go up?"

"I have had harsh words with Xu Yin earlier, and I have no friendship with him at all. He has also stared at me, and also doubted me and Miss Liang. These are all facts that have already existed. With him There is no need to maintain superficial friendship.

"I was at the scene when he assassinated Chu Yu. I can deceive him on this point, and there is nothing wrong with everything you arranged at the Chu family.

"The key point is that after Chu Yu handed me over, even if Xu Yin regarded me as a thorn in his side, there was nothing he could do to me for the time being.

"As long as we can get that fan before him, nothing is worth worrying about."

(End of this chapter)