Zhu Yuanzhang in the cellar

Chapter 13 Suspicion Chain, This One is Even More Important

After briefly explaining what happened to Ji He, the living room fell into a brief silence.

But this silence did not last long.

Because Zhu Yunfeng knew very well that even if it was raining heavily and the mountain road was rugged, it would take no more than ten minutes to drive from Dingjiaao to Zhujiaping at a slower speed.

So he had to come up with a solution within ten minutes.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhu Yunfeng at this time and said calmly: "Have you thought of a solution?"

"Now we need to analyze the dilemma we are facing."

Zhu Yunfeng calmed down. He had never had such a burst of inspiration even when writing novels. He quickly started talking about the current situation.

He looked around at the two of them and said, "If Zhu Yuanzhang, who is suspected to be my ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang, kills someone, then Ji He and I will face two choices."

"Why is this so awkward?"

Ji Hyuk complained.

"Don't interrupt, first choice."

Zhu Yunfeng raised a finger and said, "Do nothing. Wait for the police to come and tell them the situation."

"Yes, we didn't kill the person, so what does it have to do with us?"

Ji He's eyes lit up.

"But they are inseparable. And if they really came from the Ming Dynasty and just walked away, we would be facing a corpse and it would be hard to explain."

Zhu Yunfeng scratched his head.

Ji He pointed outside and said, "Isn't there a witness outside?"

"If they dare to kill the first one, they are not afraid of killing the second one."

Zhu Yunfeng looked at Zhu Yuanzhang, and indeed saw Zhu Yuanzhang's meaningful face. He shook his head and said, "By then, we will be facing two corpses, and it will be even more difficult to explain."

Although with modern criminal investigation technology, such as comparing knife wounds, checking fingerprints, and detecting footprints, there is a high probability that they can be cleared of all charges.

But when the police entered the room, they saw two bodies and no one else except him and Ji He. So they would definitely take the man back for interrogation first, regardless of anything else.

Even if they are cleared of all charges by then, they will probably still be detained for a long time.

It's okay for him, at worst his novel will be discontinued, but Ji He will be miserable and even lose his job.

It is really a very troublesome thing for an ordinary person to encounter a criminal case and become a suspect.

Zhu Yunfeng didn't want to get into trouble, but unfortunately he got into trouble.

"Then tell the truth."

Ji He said.

"Why don't you go back to sleep?"

Zhu Yunfeng noticed that Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes were becoming more and more weird, and he winked at Ji He.

Ji Hyuk obviously didn’t notice this and continued to ask in confusion, “Is there something wrong?”

"To be honest, even if we hand over the stone tablet to the country, it's no big deal. Do you think they will give us a chance to live?"

The corner of Zhu Yunfeng's mouth twitched slightly, and he glanced at the knife in Zhu Yuanzhang's hand out of the corner of his eye.

Ji He was confused at first, but after a while he slowly came to his senses. He shuddered all over and said to Zhu Yuanzhang with a flattering smile: "Just kidding, just kidding, how could I betray the wise and powerful Ming Taizu?"

"Humph."

Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at him sideways and snorted coldly.

Zhu Yunfeng and Ji He looked at each other.

Now they both understood.

If the person in front of him is really Zhu Yuanzhang, and he used the stone tablet to come to the modern era, then a chain of suspicion emerges.

Zhu Yuanzhang already knew that modern science and technology was very advanced. When Zhu Yunfeng threatened him, he once said that a city military sub-district was enough to destroy the Ming Dynasty and a nuclear bomb could kill millions of people.

So he has already understood how big the gap is between the Ming Dynasty and the modern times.

If Zhu Yunfeng chose to tell the truth and hand over the stone tablet to the country, Zhu Yuanzhang would not think about win-win cooperation with the Chinese family, but would only wonder whether the modern country would send people to the Ming Dynasty to destroy their Ming Dynasty and drive their Zhu family out of power.

This is the first worry of those in power—worry about regime.

After all, whether in ancient times or modern times, the big fist is the real truth. Zhu Yuanzhang had a big fist, which was how he could hold the Ming Dynasty firmly.

But it is different with modern exchanges. Modern countries have big fists, and he becomes very weak. If there is no checks and balances, how can he ensure that his regime will not be lost in the face of powerful modern countries?

Through peaceful negotiations?

Zhu Yuanzhang was not naive to this extent.

Therefore, if Zhu Yunfeng chose the first option, handed over the stone tablet and told the truth to the police, what awaited him was not the medal given by the country, but the butcher knife in Zhu Yuanzhang's hand.

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't care whether Zhu Yunfeng was his descendant or not. He only knew that anyone who shook his rule was his enemy.

The best proof of this is the heroes who were later killed by Zhu Yuanzhang.

"So do we have any choice?"

Zhu Yunfeng smiled bitterly and said, "Now we can only choose the second option and keep this secret."

"How to hide it?"

Ji Hyuk asked.

"We don't have much time left."

Zhu Yunfeng stood up, thought for a moment, and said, "Mop the floor and clean up the blood first. The heavy rain can help us cover up the bloodstains."

"and then?"

"And then of course, the body was destroyed."

Zhu Yunfeng looked at Zhu Yuanzhang and said, "Send the person to Ming Dynasty. The police won't be able to find the body, so they can only treat it as an ordinary dog ​​theft case."

"What about the dog thief?"

Ji He jumped up from his chair, spread his hands and asked, "What about the man outside?"

Now there is still a suspect alive, and everything will be exposed when we return to the police station for the first trial.

"Yeah, what about that guy?"

Zhu Yuanzhang still looked at Zhu Yunfeng with a strange look.

Zhu Yunfeng showed reluctance, and after a moment he gritted his teeth and said, "Take them back to Ming together, and you can deal with it yourself, old ancestor."

"Hahahahaha."

Zhu Yuanzhang laughed loudly, stood up and said: "You are worthy of being a descendant of my Zhu family. You are really a hero. If you come to my Ming Dynasty, I will make you a member of the royal family."

"I don't dare go."

Zhu Yunfeng shrank his neck.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang was extremely good to his royal family.

But they are his own sons and they are treated the best, right?
However, he is Zhu Yuanzhang's descendant for many generations.

According to the genealogy, it should be the 27th generation.

Because their family belongs to the eldest branch of Zhu Cibei, every generation has its eldest son and grandson.

It is said that the eldest son’s family produces the younger generation, and the youngest son’s family produces the elder generation.

It is said that there is still a twentieth-generation "You" grandfather in the village, and the eldest branch of the family is much younger in generation.

The ancestor Zhu Cibei who fled that year was the eleventh generation grandson of Zhu Yuanzhang.

It has been 380 years and generations since the fall of the Ming Dynasty, so the relationship must be very close.

What's more, he once beat up Zhu Yuanzhang. It would be strange if he could have a good meal in Ming Dynasty.
"Even if we take the person to Ming, the question remains: where did the dog thief go?"

Ji He walked outside to the main room and looked out the window to see the van parked at the intersection. He hesitated and said, "Didn't we say that we have already caught the dog thief? We can't say that he ran away, right? What about the van?"

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Zhu Yunfeng looked at Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang was silent for a moment, then said, "Okay, I can be a dog thief."

"That's it."

Zhu Yunfeng nodded.

"But he must go with me to Ming as a hostage, and you must kill the other dog thief yourself."

Zhu Yuanzhang pointed at Ji He and then said, "I am not afraid to tell you that I have prepared fierce kerosene in the Ming Dynasty. If you dare to betray me, the first ones to go there will not be me and Lao Si. At worst, I will set fire to the pit and move the stone tablet, and die with you."

Now both sides are in a chain of suspicion.

If Zhu Yunfeng chose the first option of telling the truth, then Zhu Yuanzhang would have to kill people.

If you choose the second option, how can Mr. Zhu believe it?
What if Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di send the two dog thieves to the Ming Dynasty, and they come back pretending to be dog thieves, but Zhu Yunfeng and Ji He sell them out?
Therefore, hostages and letters of surrender were necessary to reassure Zhu Yuanzhang.

"The old man is indeed thoughtful. The flaming oil is already prepared. It seems that I have no choice but to get on board."

Zhu Yunfeng gritted his teeth and said, "But I can't kill people. We modern people have never killed anyone in peacetime. I can't live with it psychologically, and I will definitely be exposed in front of the police later. But I can help carry the body, so I will be an accomplice and it will be considered a crime of hiding. I can't escape anyway."

Zhu Yuanzhang narrowed his eyes and said, "How can I raise the descendants of my Zhu family if I don't kill people? Come with me later."

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Zhu Yunfeng looked at the knife in Zhu Yuanzhang's hand, took a long breath, gritted his teeth and nodded.

Then he looked at Ji He and said in dialect: "Chi Chi, the time for you to sacrifice has come. Follow them to Daming and stay there for a while. We will pick you up later." Ji He opened his eyes wide and pointed at himself and said: "I am Cao Fengzi, are you still a human being? Why don't you go?"

"I want to go too. You don't know me well. If I could go, how could I let you take risks? But the problem is that I'm the one who called the police. When the police come, will you go and talk to them or should I go?"

Zhu Yunfeng spread his hands and said, "Once people hear something wrong with the voice, they will immediately become suspicious, and then everything will be ruined."

Ji He's eyes slowly turned desperate: "I have to go to work later."

"Take a hammer class, take a leave, if this thing is over, we will be rich."

Zhu Yunfeng painted a big picture and pulled him to persuade him: "Do you remember the mentor's quotes we read together? Working hard to make money is so that one day in the future we can all say that it's great to be rich, instead of helplessly saying, if only we were rich."

"It sounds good, but I'm afraid of trying to get the skin of a tiger."

Ji He glanced at Zhu Yuanzhang, who had just wiped the knife and was glancing at them with a half-smile.

He doesn't understand the history of the Ming Dynasty, but he understands Zhu Yuanzhang.

The four major cases in the early Ming Dynasty caused rivers of blood to flow. It is said that more than 100,000 people were slaughtered. Will there be a good ending in the future if you cooperate with such a devil who kills people without blinking an eye?

"You don't have to worry about that. Everyone has their own value. He doesn't kill us because we are useful."

Zhu Yunfeng analyzed: "He definitely wants to change the outcome of the Ming Dynasty's demise and make it stronger, so he can't do without us. If we want to get rich, we have to rely on him. This is a win-win cooperation."

"you sure?"

Ji He was skeptical.

"Sure, and now we are in a dilemma. If you don't go, Zhu Yuanzhang will definitely choose to break up and kill us in order to prevent the stone tablet from being taken away by the state for research. You know what kind of person he is. He started with a bowl and ended with a country. From the end of the Yuan Dynasty to the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, hundreds of thousands or even millions of his men died. One more or one less of us won't make much difference."

Zhu Yunfeng went up to him, hugged him and whispered, "Don't worry, as long as things are done well, you won't be in danger. And if this is true, why would you still work? Just get a piece of Yuan blue and white porcelain from the Ming Dynasty, and we won't have to worry about the rest of our lives."

"Ah this."

Ji He thought of the Yuan Dynasty blue and white porcelain auctioned for hundreds of millions that he had seen online some time ago, and he was a little dizzy and said in a daze: "Okay, okay."

"start to act."

Zhu Yunfeng looked at the time. Four more minutes had passed, and now he had less than six minutes left.

Then the three of them stood up immediately.

Ji He went to the toilet to get a mop, while Zhu Yunfeng went to the backyard and together with Zhu Yuanzhang moved Zhang San's body into the house.

In fact, there was not much blood in the room. Li Si had a leg injury, and when he was dragged in by Zhu Di, blood flowed all over the room. Zhang San was killed in the vegetable garden in the backyard, and his blood flowed into the vegetable garden. Some weeds on the garden were stained with blood, but they were almost invisible after being washed away by the rain.

But even so, to be on the safe side, Zhu Yunfeng broke a clod of earth and spread it evenly on the bleeding area.

He didn't dare to turn the soil with a hoe, as the traces of freshly turned soil would be easily visible.

Sowing the soil is different.

Just cover it slightly and it will look very natural after being washed by rain.

Then they carried Zhang San's body into the cellar. Li Si, who was tied up, was terrified. Zhu Yuanzhang said to Zhu Di, "Bring him into the cellar."

Zhu Di gestured and asked, "Are you not going to kill him?"

“It will bleed.”

Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Yunfeng had already carried Zhang San's body in.

There was no light in the cellar, and it was pitch black inside. Zhu Yunfeng turned on the light in the cellar. Under the dim incandescent light, he said to Zhu Yuanzhang: "Ancestor, can you show me how to do it?"

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled, then dragged Zhang San to the side of the stone tablet and touched the protruding part of the stone tablet.

He saw a flash of white light in front of his eyes, just like the time and space travel in a science fiction movie. Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhang San, who was dragging him, disappeared in an instant, leaving Zhu Yunfeng dumbfounded.

"What are you doing in a daze?"

At this moment, Zhu Di had also come down. He threw Li Si into the cellar like a dead dog, then climbed down and said, "Drag him over."

"Oh."

Zhu Yunfeng woke up as if from a dream and dragged the frightened Li Si over.

Before he reached the stone tablet, it suddenly flashed again and Zhu Yuanzhang appeared in front of him again.

Now he believed it completely and stammered, "Are you really my ancestor?"

"Can I still have a holiday?"

Zhu Yuanzhang dragged Li Si over and said to Zhu Di, "Go and call the guy who is sweeping the floor upstairs."

Zhu Di shouted to Ji He, "Hey, come here."

"coming."

Since there wasn’t much blood in the room, Ji Hyuk had already finished mopping and had just washed the mop.

When I heard the shouting, I ran to the utility room.

Zhu Di waved his hand: "Come down."

Ji He muttered, "I still have to go to work."

"Chisang, Yuan blue and white porcelain."

Zhu Yunfeng also waved his hand, and a devilish moan sounded in his ears.

Ji He came down reluctantly.

The cellar was not big, and with five people coming in, it seemed crowded.

Zhu Yuanzhang said, "Fourth brother, wait here. I will take them there. I have something to tell your mother and eldest brother."

"it is good."

Zhu Di nodded.

Zhu Yuanzhang then held Li Si with one hand, and asked Zhu Yunfeng and Ji He to hold him, and reached for the stone tablet with his other hand.

"brush."

The space seemed to be fluctuating.

In the blink of an eye, Zhu Yunfeng felt that he had arrived in another place.

"Pfft!"

Before he could react, blood spurted out.

Zhu Yunfeng and Ji He were both dumbfounded.

Zhu Yuanzhang stabbed Li Si to death without blinking, and then handed the knife to Zhu Yunfeng and said coldly: "Now, immediately, stab him."

"I"

Zhu Yunfeng was stunned and speechless. Modern people have never seen such a scene.

But seeing the ferocity on Zhu Yuanzhang's face, he could only grit his teeth, took the knife and stabbed Li Si, who had been stabbed in the chest.

Before he could stab, another hand touched the hilt of the knife, and when he turned around, he saw it was Ji He.

Ji He said with a sad face: "Let's go together."

"Brothers!"

Zhu Yunfeng was deeply moved and had no choice but to accept this token of allegiance.

The two men held the knife and stabbed down together.

Anyway, I didn't know where I stabbed, so I gestured for a while.

They did not dare to attack Zhu Yuanzhang, because their skills were not what they could contend with.

They were able to control him by taking advantage of the terrain and numbers in the cellar.

As for the Ming Dynasty, if Zhu Yuanzhang was not killed immediately, he would be overwhelmed by countless guards as soon as he shouted.

So that's all they can do.

Soon, they cut more than a dozen cuts on Li Si's body.

The two of them panted heavily, and Zhu Yunfeng said with sweat dripping down his face, "Are you done?"

"Well, you go."

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and said, "Let him stay. I'll have someone deal with the two bodies and come back later."

"it is good."

Zhu Yunfeng glanced at Ji He, threw the knife on the ground, and had no choice but to leave.

Fortunately, it was Zhu Yuanzhang who killed the man, and the blood did not splash on his body, otherwise it would be difficult to explain to the police.

When I returned to my cellar, I was greeted by that tall figure.

Zhu Yunfeng looked a little embarrassed when he saw Zhu Di, so he asked him, "What's your name?"

"Zhu Di."

"Oh."

"Ok?"

Zhu Yunfeng responded first, then suddenly raised his head and looked at the young man with an even more surprised expression.

Okay.

This one is more heavyweight.

(End of this chapter)