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Chapter 17 Changes in the Hat Gutter
Not long after Zhang Rui went downstairs, the beautiful woman in cheongsam came to me with a pot of tea. After putting the tea in front of me, she offered to pour me a cup and asked, "I heard that Young Master Zhang called you Chen Yu, you How did you meet him?"

I smiled and said, "I only met him once."

The cheongsam beauty obviously didn't believe it, she frowned and said, "Since you don't want to tell me, I won't ask any more. My name is Shangguan Hong. If you come to this teahouse in the future, just come to me directly. I belong to Mr. Zhang." A friend, his friend, is also my friend."

I asked her, is it free for me to drink tea here in the future?

Shangguanhong smiled at me and said: "You are so stingy, I really can't see that you are like Zhang Shao's friend. As for the free order, I can't decide the tea above the spiritual level, but the tea below the spiritual level Famous tea, but I can let you drink as much as you want."

What Shangguan Hong said made me feel very uncomfortable. I understood what she meant. She felt that I was not worthy of being Zhang Rui's friend.

But I didn't refute anything, after all, my current identity and status are extremely inconsistent with this teahouse.

After pouring me a cup of tea, Shangguan Hong left.

But I picked up that cup of tea and smelled it. The aroma of the tea was not as rich as the few cups of tea that Grandpa Mai had made me drink, nor was it as attractive.

I took a sip, and although I couldn't say I was refreshed, it still made me feel at ease.

The pot of tea was finished in a short time, but Zhang Rui never went upstairs. I got a little impatient waiting, so I thought about going downstairs to have a look.

Before I got up, I heard the sound of someone going upstairs. After a while, Zhang Rui and the old man at the front desk went upstairs together.

Zhang Rui introduced to me: "This is the official of the tea house, Uncle Tang. He knows something about what happened 20 years ago. You can ask him directly if you have anything."

After finishing speaking, Zhang Rui introduced to Tang Bo: "Tang Bo, this is the friend Chen Yu I was talking about, please tell him what happened back then."

To be honest, I didn't expect that Zhang Rui and I only met once, and he would help me so wholeheartedly. I am grateful to Zhang Rui in my heart.

After Zhang Rui's introduction, Tang Bo looked me over carefully and said, "Your name is Chen Yu, the son of that old Chen Laizi?"

I said yes, and then asked Uncle Tang: "Do you know about my father and Liu Shengfu? Can you tell me that with the family business of your Tang family, you shouldn't need two ordinary people to do that?" Now, is there something hidden here?"

After I finished asking these questions, I realized that these questions were too straightforward.

Sure enough, Tang Bo's expression changed, and he took off his pair of glasses and said, "You suspect that our Tang family framed your father and Liu Shengfu?"

Hearing Tang Bo's tone, he was already a little angry.

Zhang Rui wanted to reconcile, but just as he called out "Tang Bo", Tang Bo interrupted: "Young Master Zhang, don't talk, didn't you realize that this kid didn't come to ask questions at all. He came here to inquire about the crime, because he suspected that our Tang family deliberately framed Chen Laizi and Liu Shengfu."

After finishing speaking, Tang Bo turned his head to look at me and said, "Your father, Chen Laizi, had already taken the rewards from us back then. If we wanted to frame him, how could we easily give him those rewards? As for your father later What happened to Liu Shengfu has nothing to do with our Tang family, it's their luck."

Uncle Tang didn't say that, and I didn't think too much about it, but after hearing what he said, I vaguely felt that my father's and Liu Shengfu's unfortunate experiences, and even their deaths, were probably affected by the tomb robbery arranged by the Tang family. It has something to do with luck.

Thinking about it this way, I couldn't help feeling disgusted with Tang Fu Tea House.

Before I could speak, Tang Bo continued: "Young Master Zhang, with all due respect, I don't think I need to say anything to your friend. What happened back then was very simple, that is, Chen Laizi and Liu Shengfu came to steal from our teahouse. The thing was discovered by the boss, and the boss looked at the two of them pitifully, instead of punishing them, he even introduced them to a 'job' to do, the matter is as simple as that."

After saying this, Tang Bo turned around and went downstairs. Zhang Rui didn't say anything else. Waiting for Tang Bo to go downstairs, Zhang Rui said apologetically, "I'm sorry, Fellow Daoist Chen, I didn't help you."

I smiled and said, "Thank you anyway."

After I finished speaking, I got up to say goodbye, and Zhang Rui hurriedly sent me downstairs.

When I got to the first floor, I found that Tang Bo who had just gone downstairs had gone somewhere.

After sending me out of the teahouse, Zhang Rui smiled and said to me: "Chen Daoyou, the more the Tang family refuses to talk about what happened back then, the more they are hiding something. Don't worry, I will secretly help you with this matter." You investigate, if there is any news, I will notify you immediately, by the way, what is your phone number, and what is the phone number of that little girl."

I gave Zhang Rui my mobile phone, but did not tell him Mai Xiaorou's contact information.

In addition, I always feel that Zhang Rui's motives are not pure. When he said the words of the Tang family, it obviously made me feel that he and the Tang family were not of the same mind. He probably wanted to arrest the Tang family because of my father and Liu Shengfu. braids.

Secondly, he kept asking me about Mai Xiaorou, which made me feel that Zhang Rui was so kind to me because of Mai Xiaorou.

After thinking about it, I feel that Zhang Rui is not so trustworthy. He is too complicated and has a lot of tricks.

Compared with him, my way of dealing with people is simply weak.

After leaving Tangfu Teahouse, I called Mai Xiaorou, and after we met, we took a taxi back to our residence.

When I got home, I told Mai Xiaorou about today's situation. She thought the same as I did. The Tang family hid something from us, and that Zhang Rui didn't have the same heart with the Tang family as we thought before.

He is a man with ulterior motives.

I asked Mai Xiaorou what to do next, and whether to continue to investigate this matter.

Mai Xiaorou thought for a while and said, "Well, let's take the time to go to Maogougou to see what's going on in that village, and then go up to the top of the mountain to see what your father and Liu Shengfu dug open. Whether the tomb is still there, maybe there will be unexpected gains."

I nodded, I want to figure out the right and wrong of this matter more than anyone else.

However, Mai Xiaorou and I did not leave immediately, but arranged the time until the weekend, so as not to delay my studies.

The past few days when I went back to school, everything was quiet, and it was soon the weekend. Mai Xiaorou and I took a taxi to Maogou early in the morning.

We also checked some information in the past two days. The current Maomaogou is very different from 20 years ago. 20 years ago, Maomaogou was a poor mountain village in the west of the city. A temple was also built, which was said to be a thousand-year-old temple, but in fact that temple was only built more than ten years ago.

Moreover, there is a large area of ​​villas near Mao Maogou, which is the famous Huafu villa area in Xicheng. Because it is surrounded by mountains and rivers, the price is ridiculously high.

Compared with 20 years ago, Maozigou has undergone earth-shaking changes. It may be difficult for Mai Xiaorou and I to get something out of this visit.

Soon we arrived at Maozigou, where there was a parking lot. After we got off the car, Mai Xiaorou and I started walking up the mountain along a winding concrete road.

Standing at the foot of the mountain, we can vaguely see the temple built on the mountainside, and the villa area not far from the next door.

Mai Xiaorou took my arm and said with a smile: "Looking at this, I'm afraid it will be difficult for us to find any clues. The difference between here and Liu Shengfu's description is too great."

I thought for a while and said, "Didn't Liu Shengfu say that he was imprisoned in a ruined temple at the foot of the mountain? The new temple is now built halfway up the mountain. It must not be the ruins of the temple where Liu Shengfu was imprisoned. So let's not rush up the mountain. Go around and see if you can meet people from Maozigou Village, and ask them if there is a ruined temple under this mountain."

Mai Xiaorou said, your brain is quite flexible, and followed me around the mountain first.

We really met a few old people at the foot of the mountain. After asking, we found out that they went to the mountain to offer incense, and they were from Maomaogou Village. It’s just that their old village is no longer inhabited, and now they all live in the villa area. The new village not far away is full of two-story small buildings, which are very grand, because the old village area has been requisitioned for any special tourism.

We asked the old people in the village again, and asked them if they had caught a thief 20 years ago and locked him up in a ruined temple.

Almost all the elderly said they had never heard of it.

And from their eyes, it can't be seen that they are lying, as if they really don't know about it.

I couldn't help being surprised: "Could it be that Liu Shengfu is lying?"

Mai Xiaoju said: "Based on Liu Shengfu's description, I think the one who imprisoned him may not be a human being. Think about it, even if a normal person captures Liu Shengfu, how can he do something like feeding him snakes, rats, insects and ants? I I think it is very likely that the ghosts near the hat ditch are responsible, if so, it can explain why the villagers in the hat ditch don't know about it."

Could it be that when my father and Liu Shengfu came down the mountain, it wasn't people who chased them, but a group of ghosts?

This thing is getting weirder and weirder.

Although Mai Xiaorou and I did not inquire about Liu Shengfu's arrest, we did inquire about the ruins of the ruined temple at the foot of the mountain.

There is really such a ruined temple in Maomaogou, five or six miles away from the old village of Maomaogou, but it was abandoned during the Republic of China.

Moreover, the ruined temple is located under a steep mountain and is very remote. Few people go there. The most important thing is that the ruined temple is still haunted. It is said that when the hat ditch was developed, it was intended to use the ruined temple. But later, because of the haunted thing, I gave up.

However, there are still people who went to the ruined temple for "expedition", and they came back safely, without really encountering any ghosts.

Anyway, I think we should go to that ruined temple, which is probably the place where Liu Shengfu was imprisoned to eat snakes, rats, insects and ants.

(End of this chapter)