The Republic of China Conspiracy Records

Chapter 24 Su Muzhe (8)

Steward Su struggled to hold her hand, trying to put her hand in Su Mu's.Su Mu looked at Murong, reached out and held her hand.Steward Su looked at the two of them, and suddenly tears flowed from the corner of his eyes. He cried softly and said to Su Mu, "Master, please stay with Young Mistress well, and don't disappoint Suber's death, okay?"

He obviously poured all his affection on the brothers of the Su family. He said this with tears at this time, with a look of begging in his eyes. The eyes of the people around him were hot when they heard the words, and I was also deeply moved. The picture in front of me Given the circumstances, it is naturally impossible for Steward Su to collude with Qiu Yehong to blackmail Su Mu.He and Qiu Yehong should not be in the same group. It is probably because Manager Su knew that there was information that was not good for Su Mu in the letter, so he snatched my burden, and the letter was snatched by Qiu Yehong in the middle.

Hearing this, Su Mu looked at Steward Su, and for some reason, a trace of panic gradually appeared in his eyes, but he quickly concealed this look, hesitated for a moment, and said softly, "I promise you."

Steward Su coughed up a mouthful of blood foam, but was very happy to hear Su Mu's answer, then glanced at the old lady Su, and murmured: "Old lady, I came to Su's house at the age of 26, and I have never done anything before. I'm sorry for the Su family, I've never done it before."

After Manager Su woke up, Mrs. Su kept shaking like a sieve for some reason, as if she had been greatly frightened. When she heard his words, her body froze, and she also shed tears and said, "Yes, you are in Su For more than [-] years, the Su family has been dedicated to their duties, it is the Su family... it is the Su family that has treated you poorly."

Steward Su murmured: "It's enough to watch the two young masters get married." He sighed softly, seemed a little satisfied, but also seemed a little regretful, then tilted his head, fell to the ground again, and died.

None of the people present spoke, and after a while, only a few women servants cursed Qiu Yehong in a low voice, and some words complained about the inaction of the town government, allowing murderers like Qiu Yehong to commit crimes in the town.The mayor couldn't help feeling embarrassed when he heard the words. At this moment, Murong, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said, "Perhaps... my sister-in-law wasn't killed by Qiu Yehong."

Everyone was taken aback when they heard the words, and turned to look at her one after another.Although Murong's face was calm, she was a woman after all, she was still a little timid when facing the corpse on the ground, she took her hand out of Su Mu's hand, turned her face away and said, "Everyone has rumored that Qiu Yehong killed my sister-in-law. She ran out of bath water, and only I know that's not how it is."

"But, I saw him come out of your sister-in-law's room with my own eyes." Old Madam Su said tremblingly, "If he didn't kill him, how could he come out of the room?"

"I don't know about this either." Murong stood up and bowed to Old Madam Su, "Daughter-in-law is just telling me what I know."

"What do you know? Just tell me." The mayor hurriedly said.

Murong looked back at Su Mu, and then slowly whispered: "Although my sister-in-law was going to take a bath in the room at the time, the kitchen didn't send water to her room until she died."

"It turns out that there is no water in the bathtub!" The mayor said in surprise, "Since there is no water, it is impossible for Qiu Yehong to drink it up."

"That's right." Murong said, "I asked the kitchen later, and it was absolutely true. Also, Qiu Yehong is not some kind of frog monster. I have a strange disease, and I always feel thirsty in my mouth, but it is limited to this, and there is no need to kill people."

"Eldest young mistress knew that he had this disease?" I asked.

Murong nodded: "He often comes in and out of my house, so I know he has this disease for a long time, it's just that it wasn't so serious before."

"Even if Qiu Yehong didn't drink all the water in the bathtub," the mayor said, "it doesn't mean he didn't kill him."

"I'm just saying that it's possible that he didn't kill the person. I'll trouble the mayor to find out about other matters." As Murong said, he suddenly glanced at Mrs. Su.

Why did she suddenly glance at Mrs. Su, I was startled, and suddenly thought of a possibility, did Murong know something.At that time, it was Mrs. Su who witnessed Qiu Yehong coming out of Qiu Tian'er's room, and she was the first to find Guan Shi's body.If Qiu Yehong had appeared at the scene of the two murders, then Mrs. Su had also appeared at the scene.

Could it be that Qiu Tian'er's death had nothing to do with Murong, Qiu Yehong and the others, but that the murderer was actually Mrs. Su?If so, it would also explain why the murderer was able to enter Qiu Tian'er's room before she took a bath, because Mrs. Su is also a woman, and she may also kill people in order to annex the Mu family's business.

It's just that when Qiu Yehong came out of Qiu Tian'er's room, not only Mrs. Su saw it, if he didn't kill him, why did he come out of Qiu Tian'er's room and kept hiding and refusing to see anyone?
If Qiu Tianer was killed by Mrs. Su, then Mrs. Su should be the same. Then why did Mrs. Su kill Mrs. Su? It was because she knew that he had robbed me of my burden and suspected that he was going to harm Su Mu, so she did it?

The mayor obviously thought of the same question, and exchanged glances with me in surprise, but didn't speak.At this moment, Murong said to Old Madam Su again: "Daughter-in-law asks mother, if such a big event happened in the family, whether to postpone the matter of adoptive son in Mu's family for a few days."

Old Madam Su's face was fluctuating, she naturally knew that Murong's glance just now had drawn our suspicion to her, but she didn't say anything, but sighed slightly, looked helplessly at Murong, and said in a low voice: "It was Su Mu, not Su Fu, who came to ask for a marriage back then, but I didn't stop it. Surely the young mistress is still blaming me?"

One sentence immediately disturbed the thoughts of the mayor and me. It is indeed possible that Murong deliberately led us to focus on Mrs. Su because of resentment in his heart, so as to clear himself and Qiu Yehong.

"Daughter-in-law dare not." Murong lowered his head and said, unable to see the expression on his face clearly, "I will ask mother to show me how to arrange things for tomorrow."

"Adoption of a male in the Mu family is a big deal," the old lady Su said slowly, "It's fine for my old lady to arrange the affairs of the Su family. Now that the young mistress is in charge of the Mu family, it is natural that the Mu family should be the most important thing. The young mistress has worked hard , Eldest Young Master naturally needs to help out, both of you can go to Mu's house tomorrow. I'll take care of Su Bo's funeral."

Both Su Mu and Murong wanted to say something more, but Mrs. Su waved her hand to signal that they don't need to say any more, then she called the helper at home to carry Steward Su's body to the bed, and walked out of the room herself, turning her head when she was about to leave , confessed: "Tomorrow's running water banquet, don't forget to invite the mayor and the gentleman who delivered the letter."

Murong responded to her, and Old Madam Su went out by herself.We stayed in the room, seeing that we had nothing to do, we all left one after another, Murong solemnly invited the mayor and me again, let us go to Mu's house for a banquet tomorrow.We all agreed to her, and then we left the Su family.

I was busy in the middle of the night, and I didn't feel sleepy for a while, so the mayor invited me to the town hall, obviously wanting to discuss tonight's affairs with me.I also had deep doubts in my heart, so I followed him to the town office. The mayor brought a jug of wine, filled it with a plate of peanuts, talked to me over a drink, and said with a wry smile, "I thought Murong would suffer tonight, who knows?" It's really unexpected that the one who died was Guanshi Su."

We discussed some questions in our hearts, but we couldn't answer them, so we had to stare and drink with our heads down.I retrieved the bag, drank a glass of wine and went to check the contents of the bag. The mayor sat across from me and looked at me.

Everything in the luggage is there, except that Su Mu’s letter is missing, but there is still a letter in the luggage, a blank envelope, a blank letter paper, but it is my most important thing.Fortunately, it was not lost. I took a long breath, checked it, and put it back in the bag.

Seeing that I was so serious about a blank letter, the mayor couldn't help being a little curious, and said, "Is this the letter that is of great significance that Mr. said? I don't think there is a single word on it."

I tied the burden and put it aside, recalled some past events in my heart, was a little lost in thought, and said with a smile: "It is indeed a blank letter, and it is indeed of great significance to me, but the reason for it is not enough for outsiders to understand. .”

When the mayor saw what I said, he stopped talking and talked about other gossip with me.We chatted for a while, until sleepiness came up, he invited me to sleep in the town hall, and planned to go to Mu's house with me for a banquet the next day.I thanked him, and took out the money to pay back the pen and paper money he gave me during the day, and then each fell asleep without mentioning it.

When I got up the next day, I went back to the hotel.The owner of the store saw that I ran out in a hurry last night. He didn't know what happened. He was going to the town office to report to the mayor. When he saw me coming back by himself, he let out a sigh of relief and found that I had brought back the burden. He hurried up to ask me what happened. thing.

A gentleman hides evil and promotes good. I don't want to tell everyone about the Su Mu family, so I reasoned that someone came back last night to return the burden. I found out and chased him out. The person left the burden on the way and was picked up by the mayor. I So I stayed overnight at the town hall.The owner of the store was also very happy when he heard that, and told me that someone came to find me to write a letter early in the morning, and left when I was not there.

Hearing this, I hurriedly put the pen and paper on the table, while chatting with the shop owner, I wrote two letters in the morning. When it was close to noon, the mayor came and asked me to go to Mu's house with him for a banquet.I packed up and went out together with him. When we arrived at Mu's house, Su Mu and Murong were indeed there. We didn't see Mrs. Su, so I must be at home to take care of Mr. Su's funeral.

The little boy who was adopted to Mu's family was chosen by Qiu Tian'er from close relatives. He was lively and cute. He laughed and played with a few companions in the yard, chasing and running. The whole Mu's family suddenly became lively. I stood in the courtyard You can feel that there is a sense of vitality bursting out.

The Mu family has not had a head for a long time, and Qiu Tian'er, who is in charge, is a widow, so his behavior is unavoidable. When I came to the Mu family a few days ago, I could clearly feel a sense of oppression, which makes people feel uncomfortable excited interest.Maybe Qiu Tian'er chose him because he liked this kid's liveliness and could sweep away the Mu family's lifelessness.

Su Mu and Murong invited the other guests to their seats, asked the Mu family steward to entertain them on their behalf, made a confession, and asked the children to go into the hall.The screen in the hall has been removed, and the mayor and I watched the ceremony in the hall, watching Murong guide the children to kneel down to the ancestors of the Mu family, and incense the tablets of the young master of the Mu family and Qiu Tianer, shouting He called his father and mother, and then wrote the child's name into the family tree, and pasted it on the side wall of the hall with red paper.

During this period, Su Mu had been quietly watching Murong's actions. I took a sneak peek at him and found that his eyes had been chasing Murong. Although his expression was peaceful and there was no disturbance on his face, I could see something wrong.This is definitely not the look that a malicious person would have. When I looked at Su Mu's eyes, I felt a moment of quiet beauty, as if these two people should be a pair by nature.

I have been traveling all over the world for so many years, and I have met many people. I know that some eyes cannot be faked, like Su Mu's eyes now. If he said that he wanted to kill Murong, I would not be able to believe him no matter what.I wondered in my heart, could it be that Su Mu really loved Murong deeply, that's why he ignored Su Fu's feelings and forcibly proposed to marry her, and there were no other factors in it?

(End of this chapter)