The Republic of China Conspiracy Records

Chapter 208 Divination Operator (12)

The three of us were silent for a while, and we could see the sense of powerlessness in each other's eyes.After a long time, Bu Ying said: "Seriously say that the third wife is his concubine, and that they have been together for ten years. This kind of rhetoric can only fool us for a while. If he really has a concubine, he has met him in the past ten years." There must be a lot of her people, as long as you ask someone to inquire, they will be exposed quickly."

I was still looking at the back of Zheng Zheng and the third wife when they left, and I responded casually: "What if Zheng Zheng has been preparing for ten years to make up this story, and it is true that no one has seen his outer room during these ten years? "

"It's not possible," Bu Ying and Ji Mingmei shuddered, and Ji Mingmei stared, "Is it so unbelievable?"

"Think about it, which part of this whole thing is not unbelievable?" I asked back, "Even if it is finally found out that this is a lie that was fabricated ten years ago, I will not be surprised. The really strange thing is that , how could your father get involved."

I said the last sentence to Bu Ying.Bu Ying pondered for a while, and replied: "I have something to tell you."

"Huh?" Ji Mingmei and I pricked up our ears.

"The letters Ruan Lang received were all written by my father." Bu Ying said, "I knew it was him when I saw the handwriting on those letters."

When he said this, I suddenly realized, no wonder he had such a strange expression when he read those letters.Ruan Lang was the son of Qiu'er, the servant girl of the Wei family at that time, but Bu Xiangkong wrote a letter to lure him to the provincial capital, and when the third wife learned of Ruan Lang's identity, she disappeared into that room together with him .

It seems that what is happening is still related to the events of the Wei family and Qiu'er.

At this moment, although the third wife has not admitted that she is Xiuhong, we have basically confirmed her identity.What is puzzling is that she said something to Ruan Lang before disappearing with Ruan Lang. She said: "You don't know me, but I know you. When you were young, I hugged you Woolen cloth."

At that time she falsely accused Wei Zhiyan of having an affair with her, causing Wei Zhiyan to be sunk to death. If it is said that she was acquainted with Ruan Lang's mother, Qiu'er, it is possible.But the problem is that when the Wei family tragedy happened, Qiu'er hadn't married, nor had she gone with Ruan Lang's father, Lao Ruan, so where did the child come from?

Since Qiu'er had no children at the time, how can it be said that Xiuhong once hugged Ruan Lang?What's more, the maid of the Wei family who colluded with Xiuhong and others at that time was Ye'er, and she did have children, namely Qiu Yehong and Qiu Tian'er I met on the way to deliver the letter.But even if Xiuhong remembered the wrong person and mistook Qiu'er for Ye'er, it wouldn't match what she said.Because Ye'er had no children when the Wei family tragedy happened.

All in all, when the Wei family tragedy happened, it was impossible for Xiuhong to hug the child of the Wei family's maid no matter what.But she just said that, what does it mean?
"This shows that after Qiu'er left Wei's house, Xiuhong went to visit her." We discussed for a while and came to a conclusion, Bu Ying said, "At least they met after Qiu'er gave birth to Ruan Lang." , this is in line with what Xiuhong said."

"And what does this mean?" Ji Mingmei also pondered, and then fell into shock, "We all thought that it was Ye'er who colluded with Xiuhong back then, but now it seems that Qiu'er is also with them! "

Ji Mingmei is right, only in this way can explain what Xiuhong said, and only in this way can explain why Xiuhong took away Ruan Lang.But Ruan Lang was sent by Bu Xiangkong in a letter. Could it be that Bu Xiangkong was also Xiuhong's accomplice?When I thought about it, I startled myself.

I don't know Bu Xiangkong well. Judging from all the current signs, since he took part in the rescue of Xiuhong with all his efforts, he must be suspected of what happened back then.But if he is really Xiuhong's accomplice, and his behavior is too obvious now, isn't he afraid that we will spot it at a glance?
So the current situation is that it makes sense to say that he is Xiuhong's accomplice, and it also makes sense to say that he is not.I was very confused for a while, Bu Ying heard Ji Mingmei say that Qiu'er was also Xiuhong's accomplice, and obviously thought of Bu Xiangkong, so he couldn't help hesitating, "It looks like my father... cough, seems to be Xiuhong's accomplice too ..."

He said so, so I naturally had no choice but to comfort him and express my thoughts.Bu Ying also felt contradictory when he heard this, so the three of us decided in the conflict that we would ask Bu Xiangkong about the matter after he appeared, and now we should find Ruan Lang first and then talk about other things.

Right now Yue Laoer was fainting in that room strangely, Bu Xiangkong was missing, and the only clue left was old man He, but he didn't know what happened to the old man now.We walked across the street where the teahouse was located towards He's house, but just as we walked out of the street, we suddenly saw a person, it was the wonton vendor.

At this moment, she was in a hurry, not knowing where to go.Bu Ying and I looked at each other, and suddenly followed us by coincidence. Seeing this, Ji Mingmei also hurriedly followed us.The wonton peddler hurried along the street for a long time, and then dodged into a residential house.

We were stunned when we saw this folk house, because we had just been to this place not long ago, and it was the residence of the former owner of the wonton hawker's house.When we found this place, a neighbor who passed by told us that the owner had gone out to seek refuge with his relatives and friends because of lack of livelihood, but now the wonton peddler opened the door and went in with ease.

After she entered, she turned around and closed the door, and we walked out from the corner, Bu Ying glanced at me, and said to himself: "Sneaky, it's either rape or robbery!" Then she walked over and kicked the door open .Ji Mingmei and I were taken aback, and by the time we realized it, it was too late.

After Bu Ying kicked the door open, he walked in loudly. Ji Mingmei and I hesitated for a moment, then followed in.We thought that the people inside would be shocked by our sudden intrusion, but as soon as we walked in, we heard a voice from inside, "Close the door casually."

Ji Mingmei was surprised, and immediately realized that the wonton vendor brought us here on purpose, so she turned around and closed the door behind her.In the room, the wonton vendor was sitting on a chair next to a table. After we all walked over, he pointed to the remaining chairs and motioned for us to sit down.

"Bu Xiangkong's son?" She asked after we all sat down.

"You know my father?" Bu Ying stared at her.

"I know you," the wonton peddler replied, "We've known each other for decades, and we're both members of the Six Arts Club—you know the Six Arts Club, right?"

"I know. Is the third wife Xiuhong, and you are rescuing her?"

"Yes. But I didn't know it before. It was Bu Xiangkong who told me not long ago that I found out that she was the one who caused the tragedy of the Wei family. We are not trying to rescue her." The wonton vendor gritted his teeth, as if he was with What kind of hatred does Xiuhong have?

"Then why have you sold a bowl of wontons at the back door of Qin's house every night for these years?" We all wondered.

"Me? I'm waiting for my husband, he's been away for a long time." The wonton vendor said sadly.

"Your husband is in the Qin family. Is he a servant in the Qin family?" We were even more surprised.

"He's not in the Qin's house, but I always feel that he will show up there one day." The wonton vendor replied, "He fell in love with the woman who was locked up in the Qin's house and left me. I don't know where he went , but I think, since the person he likes is in the Qin family, maybe one day he will come to her. "

"So, you just waited at the back door of Qin's house for ten years?" We were all a little dumbfounded.

"I don't have anywhere to go," said the wonton peddler with a blank look in his eyes. "I just want to wait for him to show up and ask him why he left."

"You waited for ten years, and you just wanted to ask this?" Ji Mingmei asked cautiously.

"He just left like this, shouldn't he give me an explanation?" The wonton vendor looked at Ji Mingmei with puzzled eyes, as if he was still a little apprehensive about his obsession with this.

"No, no, no." Ji Mingmei hurriedly waved her hands.When we saw this, we all sighed in our hearts. It seems that her ten years of waiting were really just for her husband to have an answer to her.As for what he would explain to her, she didn't seem to have thought about it at all.

In terms of appearance, she is just a very ordinary woman. Compared with a stunner like Xiuhong, she is naturally a heaven and a hell.She knew this very well, so even if her husband abandoned her for another woman, she just wanted an explanation.This is her only humble attachment.

"What's your husband's name?" I asked her casually, thinking that if we meet in the future, I should tell him, he owes his wife an explanation.

"His name is Zhuo Yue. If you meet him, please tell him that I'm waiting for him in the provincial capital."

"Zhuo...Zhuo Yue?!" Ji Mingmei, Bu Ying and I were stunned at the same time.

"You know him?" the wonton peddler wondered, then overjoyed, "Where have you seen him?"

Zhuo Yue conspired with Wang Honger, Fei Renxiong and others, and used me to extract the truth about the theft of 10 taels of gold from Zhou Xunshan Pass, and then admitted that he was the person behind the Wenling landslide, and finally found out the truth behind the Wenling landslide. He shot himself.Although he claimed to be behind the scenes, none of us believed it at the time.

At this time we heard from his wife that he was seduced by Xiuhong's beauty and even left his wife behind, so naturally he might do those things for Xiuhong.We had guessed earlier that there might be some kind of connection between him and Xiuhong, but it was not confirmed until now.

In this way, Hu Xiaotian's self-defense that he has nothing to do with the Wenling Landslide is quite credible.The wonton vendor was still looking at us expectantly, waiting for us to reveal Zhuo Yue's whereabouts, but I licked my lips, not knowing how to tell her about it.

Bu Ying and Ji Mingmei also looked at each other in blank dismay, the three of us were silent for a while, and finally no one told her the truth about Zhuo Yue's death.The wonton peddler didn't realize it, and was still asking: "Have you seen him?"

"Cough, I've heard of it, but I haven't seen it." Bu Ying rubbed his nose and changed the subject, "When did you and him separate?"

"It was about ten years ago." The wonton peddler heard that we had never met Zhuo Yue, and he couldn't hide his disappointment in his words, "We were all in the provincial capital at that time, but suddenly one day, a little girl took a A letter came to him and he left."

"Little...little girl?" We were all surprised.

"Yes, she was a little girl at that time, and now she has grown up naturally, and I saw her later. She sold herself into a book apartment because of a family accident, and she is quite famous in the provincial capital. Her name is Cuiping, have you heard of it?"

The person who delivered the letter to Zhuo Yue was actually Cuiping!Ji Mingmei, Bu Ying and I were all horrified, how could Cuiping have something to do with these things?

"Are you wondering why Miss Cuiping is involved?" said the wonton peddler. "In fact, when she delivered the letter, my husband and I were also very surprised. After we asked about the situation, we found out that Xiuhong was imprisoned." After entering Qin's house, she was not allowed to go out, so she asked someone to send the letter out of Qin's house in the name of writing a letter."

In fact, this letter was not sent to Zhuo Yue. The wonton vendor said that the letter was sent to Cuiping, because Cuiping was renting in the house that Xiuhong used to rent at that time.Xiuhong used the excuse that there were many memories of her years in that house, so she wrote a letter to the person who rented there.

The person who trapped her was an honest gentleman, he didn't check her private letters, and actually helped her send the letters.After arriving at Cuiping's residence, the sender confirmed that the residents here did not know Xiuhong, so he handed the letter to Cuiping.After Cuiping received the letter, she was puzzled at first, and then stunned.

Because after she opened the letter and read it, she found that the sender was the original tenant of this place. The tenant said that his life would not be long. Remembering the past when he rented here, he felt sad, so he generously donated his savings. she.However, when Cuiping wanted to take out the deposit slip after reading the letter, she found that the deposit slip was covered with paste, and some of it stuck in the envelope.

She was afraid of tearing the deposit receipt, so she found scissors and cut the envelope open.And it wasn't until this time that she discovered that there were words written on the inside of the envelope, and the sender had pasted the bank deposit slip into the envelope on purpose to ask her to cut the envelope open so that she could see the words inside.

The sender's mind was very ingenious. On the surface, it was a letter for Cuiping, but in fact the real letter was inside the envelope, and Cuiping needed to deliver it.The envelope is made of kraft paper, the color is dull and not easy to see through, and the traces of the words inside are light, so if the envelope hadn't been cut open, no one would have guessed that there are words inside.

This real letter is concise and to the point, where and to whom it is to be sent, and the deposit certificate attached to the letter is the right to send the letter.It was only then that Cuiping suddenly realized that it was no wonder that the sender wanted to give her a sum of money. It turned out that it was inconvenient to send the letter directly to the recipient, so she went around for a while.

Since she had received money from others, she really sent the hidden letter to Zhuo Yue according to the address on the letter.Zhuo Yue left the provincial capital after receiving the letter, and has never been seen since.The wonton peddler also read the letter at the time. Xiuhong said in the letter that she was trapped in the Qin family and that he needed to complete the things agreed with him at the beginning.

(End of this chapter)