The Republic of China Conspiracy Records

Chapter 11 Ruan Lang Returns (10)

Master Wu's family only hesitated for a while at the town office, and admitted that he was in the Luo family mansion that day, which also surprised us, but he still defended: "I went to find Xiaoshan, and he opened the door to let me He went in, and we stayed together the whole time after we went in, and he can testify for me."

I said: "I'm afraid he can't testify for you, he wouldn't even tell you that you were at his home that day. Since he is so loyal to you, what he said for you is naturally not credible."

Master Wu's family was surprised: "He won't say that I was at Luo's house that day?"

I said: "Don't you believe that he will show loyalty to you like this? It's a waste of his affection. He told you that story, right?"

Master Wu's forehead began to sweat, and he said, "You mean the black silk knot?"

The mayor said sadly: "You really know. Everyone in the town is surprised why you haven't gotten married when you are nearly forty years old. Given your family background, no woman in this town can't get married? That's all, since you like that girl , married her, even though the age difference is big, she has no father and no mother, and no one objected, why are you... going to kill her? She is two months pregnant Yes, for the first time you didn't want to marry her, and let her be ashamed. She was lucky enough to be a fake death. Since you found out that she was a fake death, you should feel guilty and treat her well. It’s really worse than beasts for the Ruan shopkeeper, it’s not as good as beasts.”

Master Wu's eyes widened upon hearing this, and said: "She is already two months pregnant?" Then he asked: "Who are you talking about?"

I said angrily: "Stop pretending, the thing in Ruan Lang's bag belongs to the girl who hanged herself before he came to town. Don't you know that she already has She was pregnant for two months? That's right, she forced you to marry me, but you didn't agree, and she was disheartened, so she didn't tell you about it. Now that you know, do you regret it?"

Master Wu's family looked devastated, and said: "Sure enough, it was her. No one in the town has heard that a girl from the family was killed, so I guessed it was her. It really is the same as the plot in the story. Didn't you hang yourself up and die?"

Even now he still refuses to admit it, so I said angrily: "Isn't it you who put that thing in Ruan Lang's bag? It's as if you just knew about it now."

Master Wu's family was surprised and said: "You said I killed that girl?"

I said: "Who else could it be but you? The only ones in Luo's house that day were you and Luo Xiaoshan's mother and son, and the three of you all know this story. Let's not say whether Luo's mother and son will harm Ruan Lang, at least in your own home." To do this kind of thing is to pour dirty water on yourself. I don't think anyone is so stupid. And you, in fact, didn't know that Ruan Lang would be called into the backyard by Mrs. Luo. You went to the owner of the shop first and found his The bag is not in the store, and you can't wait there for long, so you leave there, but you accidentally find his car in the backyard of Luo's house, so you pretend to go to Luo Xiaoshan, and take the opportunity to put the thing in Ruan Lang's bag. It wasn't your intention to do that at home, it was an accident, right?"

Master Wu's family looked at me as if they had seen a ghost, and shouted: "You are talking nonsense. I didn't know about it from the beginning to the end. You want to save those two children, so come and wrong me."

The mayor interjected: "Sir, do you have any evidence to prove that he is the murderer? Although I believe what you said, I'm afraid I won't be able to incriminate others just by words."

I looked at Master Wu's house and said: "That day, Ruan Lang went out to sell goods, and I was also outside writing letters from home. The strange thing is that it took a whole day to write, and I never had time to go back to the place where I lived except for dinner. , I have traveled so many places from north to south, but I have never encountered such a good business in one place."

The mayor was puzzled and asked, "Why did you suddenly mention this, sir?"

I said: "The person who wrote the family letter on behalf of me told me that they could write their family letter or not. In fact, they didn't plan to write it. The reason why so many people wrote it was because someone paid them to write it. People are kind, so it doesn’t matter if you write it, I just wrote it, so I don’t have time to go back to the place where I live all day.”

The mayor came back to his senses, and said: "Sir, if you don't go back to your residence for a whole day, and Mr. Ruan is normal, you may go back to live there, put down your package and then go out..."

I said: "That's right, that person originally planned to put things in the store owner's place, so he must send me away who may be there at any time, and the kind-hearted person who paid for someone to write a letter from home is Master Wu." Home!"

Master Wu's family suddenly became agitated, and shouted: "You are talking nonsense, I paid them to write family letters, not to drive you away."

I sneered and said, "It's not to drive me away, is it really because of kindness?" I wouldn't believe his nonsense.

Master Wu's family was stunned, and said: "It really has nothing to do with any thoughts, but... It's related to a gamble."

The mayor asked, "What kind of gambling? With whom?"

Master Wu said: "I just made a bet with people, betting whether the number of people who will go to Xuncheng Madai to write family letters within one day is odd or even."

I sneered and said, "There are still people who use this to bet. Who did you bet with? What is the bet?"

The corners of Mr. Wu's mouth moved, but he didn't say anything. I said, "Can't you say it? Let me tell you, you bet with Luo Xiaoshan, and the bet is the field, right? I went back to the shop that day I did hear Luo Xiaoshan gritted his teeth and said, if there is anything he dare not bet on, he can bet on it, presumably this is what he was talking about, if he didn’t want to bet before, you provoked him, that’s why he said this Speaking of which, right? You coaxed him to bet with you on this matter. At that time, you thought about borrowing his hand and asking him to write a family letter for someone else, so that I would be dismissed. But he never thought of this. One section, so you have to pay for others to write the family letter yourself, am I right?"

Master Wu slapped the table and said angrily, "It's wrong, it's all wrong! You think you're smart!"

I was told by Luo Xiaoshan that I was smart before, and now that he said that again, I couldn't help but get angry, and said: "I was all wrong, then you tell me the truth, you put all your effort into killing people, the smarter you are, the more you deserve to die!"

Master Wu's house was dripping with sweat, I stared at him closely: "You said it."

He shook his head in despair, but said, "I can't say."

The mayor sighed: "I didn't know there was such a section in it, Mr. Wu, if you have nothing to say, I'm afraid you are really suspected, and you will be wronged in the town office, and the three of you will be brought together by the town. Send it to the county to find out."

Master Wu's family said in horror: "You want to send me to the county?"

The mayor said: "Do you have anything to say? Why did you ask Luo Xiaoshan to gamble in this way? Whether you admit it or not, in fact, you have sent your husband away for a whole day. If you don't have the intention, what's the matter?" would do such a thing?"

Master Wu's family gritted their teeth, and after a long while, they still said: "I can't say." He is still pretending, the mayor also shook his head, ordered Xiang Yong to come in, looked at him, and then sighed at me Said: "Who knew that this matter would become more and more complicated, but I can't figure it out. He and Ruan are strangers, why do you want to hurt him?"

I said: "I'm afraid he didn't want to kill Ruan Lang before he killed the girl, but he wanted to find a scapegoat after killing the girl. He also remembered that the girl came back to life after death, which was just in line with the story, so he followed the story. That thing was put in Ruan Lang's bag."

The mayor suddenly realized, and said: "Since he has heard this story, he must have told that girl, so the previous inference about Luo Xiaoshan can naturally be transferred to him as it is."

I nodded and said, "That's right, the ugliness of people's hearts has come to this." The mayor also sighed, sighing that the world is going down and people's hearts are not old, but he still said to me: "Although we have a lot of inferences about this matter, what is the truth? How to decide, we still have to send all three of them to the county for public trial, and then there will be a result."

I said: "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter if they are all sent to the county, Ruan Lang will speak for Luo Xiaoshan."

The mayor's eyes lit up, he lowered his voice, and said thoughtfully: "Purchaser Ruan will speak for him, could it be that Mrs. Luo... Luo Xiaoshan and Merchant Ruan are brothers?"

But this is not what I should say, so I didn't answer him, and the mayor didn't ask.I said, "I still have something to ask Luo Xiaoshan."

The mayor said: "Okay, let's go together."

When we walked into the yard, Ruan Lang called me through the window: "Sir, have you found the real murderer?" He should have seen Xiang Yong coming out with the help of Mr. Wu's house, so he would guess that he was the murderer.I said to him, "I just think it's possible for him, but I'll send you all to the county to find out what the truth is."

Ruan Lang happily said: "Mr. thinks it is, then it is." I ignored him, and the mayor walked into the room where Luo Xiaoshan was detained. When he saw us walking in, he sneered contemptuously again. Good words: "Now it seems that we may have wronged you, so don't be angry. As for the fact that you stabbed me with scissors, I don't care about it with you. We have something to ask you, and you have to answer it carefully. "

Luo Xiaoshan said coldly: "What's the matter?"

I asked, "You made a bet with Mr. Wu's family, right?"

Luo Xiaoshan said: "Yes."

I said: "How do you bet? Is it a bet that the person who asked me to write a letter to my family on that day is an odd number or an even number?"

Luo Xiaoshan said: "Yes."

I said, "Who won?"

Luo Xiaoshan was silent for a while, and then said: "He won." After thinking for a while, he added: "I didn't want to bet at first, but I lost many times, so I inevitably wanted to win once, so I bet with him."

Luo Xiaoshan didn't want to gamble at first.I asked him: "He paid his own money to write family letters. Even though he won, he was still cheating. Do you know that?"

"We didn't agree that we couldn't do this when we bet." To my surprise, he was very calm. "So he didn't count as cheating. Since I'm going to win him, I can afford to lose." Said, I also admire him a little bit, although he is a prodigal son who gambles with others, he is also a responsible person.

"Since he can ask someone to write a letter home, why didn't you do it? Isn't it obvious that he must lose?" I asked him.

He curled his mouth and said, "What's the use of writing so many letters during the day? I just need to ask you to write one at night, and I can change the odd number into an even number. It's just that something happened later, so I didn't have the chance to ask you to write it. So lose."

I was taken aback, it turned out that he was planning this, and I said to the mayor: "The matter is generally clear, I have some private matters that have nothing to do with this matter, I want to ask him, I don't know..."

The mayor hurriedly said: "Sir, please do as you please, I'll go first." He said comforting Luo Xiaoshan: "Don't worry, if this matter really has nothing to do with you, nothing will happen in the county." Then he got up and left.

Luo Xiaoshan looked at me and said indifferently: "I don't see any private matters between us."

I said: "It's not between us. Ruan Lang said that you told him that his father died unexpectedly, and your mother also admitted it. Do you know who killed his father?"

Luo Xiaoshan said: "I don't know, but there is one person who is very likely."

I said, "Who?"

Luo Xiaoshan asked back: "Why are you asking these questions?"

I said: "If the evidence is convincing, I hope you will report him instead of seeking revenge on someone."

A mocking expression appeared on Luo Xiaoshan's face again, and he said, "I can't see that you are so kind to him. That person is also locked up by you now."

I was taken aback: "Master Wu's family, did he kill Ruan Lang's father?"

Luo Xiaoshan said disdainfully: "Otherwise, why do you think he would harm Ruan Lang?"

I was even more surprised, and said: "Didn't he blame Ruan Lang because he needed to find a scapegoat for killing that girl?"

Luo Xiaoshan was stunned, and said, "Why do you think so?"

I asked back: "Could it be that he really killed that girl to blame Ruan Lang? He killed Ruan Lang's father and wanted to blame Ruan Lang. What kind of hatred does he have with Ruan Lang's father? Except for your mother, no one in the town mayor knows that his father has been to Luolian Town, this is impossible, he and Ruan Lang have never even met before."

Luo Xiaoshan turned his eyes to the window, and said quietly: "It really seems impossible that a person in a small town hidden deep in the mountains would have such hatred for a peddler who happened to come to the town for no reason." He turned He turned to look at me and said, "But if you know one thing, you will take everything for granted."

I couldn't help swallowing, knowing that he was telling me something secret, I couldn't help but nervously said: "What's the matter?"

Luo Xiaoshan grinned and said, "Master Wu likes my mother."

I was dumbfounded, and repeated: "Master Wu, do you like your mother?"

Luo Xiaoshan laughed at himself and said: "Otherwise, my age difference with him is almost 20 years, why did he get so close to me? He didn't want to please my mother through me."

Things finally came to light.More than ten years ago, Mrs. Wu's family fell in love with Mrs. Luo, but at this moment, Ruan Lang's father appeared. Mrs. Luo fell in love with him at first sight. Master Wu's family would definitely not have a good impression of him, and they might have done something to hinder the two of them at that time.Mrs. Luo and Ruan Lang's father were not together, but they did not marry into the Wu family, but married into the Luo family.Mrs. Wu's family can't forget their love for Mrs. Luo, so they never married.Later, another shopkeeper surnamed Ruan came to the town, who turned out to be the son of the shopkeeper more than ten years ago. Old and new grudges welled up in his heart, making him do such insane things.

Everything really worked out.

(End of this chapter)