Chapter 104: The Truth Revealed
When Junko went to the front yard, she happened to meet the news coming back from outside. One of them confirmed our final guess.
The people sent out followed the few clues in their hands until they found out the ancestral home of Mama Liu, and confirmed from all sides that Liu was originally a homeless person who went north to the capital with her husband to find a way out. I don't want her husband to die in a foreign country, she came to the capital alone for two months and found out that she was pregnant, as her belly got bigger and bigger, she was a woman desperate and had to sell herself to find a place to live, just met Mrs. Li, who was also pregnant, Mrs. Li felt that she was pitiful, and Mama Liu's delivery date was before her, and she could be a wet nurse for her child after giving birth to a child, so she took Mama Liu in and arranged for her to give birth elsewhere in Zhuangzi.
Later, in order for Mama Liu to take care of her soon-to-be-born child with peace of mind, Mama Liu's child was handed over to others to take care of by Mrs. Li, and Mama Liu entered the Li family's mansion for decades after the confinement, and she also won some status.
Later, when the people sent out secretly and inadvertently found the little girl who was present when she gave birth to Mama Liu, they learned from her that Mama Liu gave birth to twins back then. It's just that because the mother-in-law who is responsible for taking care of the child is greedy for money and can't afford to pay back the money if she loses, she sent one of Mama Liu's two sons to be a eunuch, and the child was only thirteen or fourteen years old at the time. When Mama Liu found out, she ran to Mrs. Li's side to ask for justice, and Mrs. Li gave away the mother-in-law at that time, and then agreed to let Mama Liu keep the remaining child by her side, and give him some silver to do business when he became an adult.
It's just that Mama Liu has always felt that she is sorry for her ancestors and ancestors when her other child became a eunuch, so she only said to the outside world that she had a son, so the child who humiliated the Liu family in her opinion was rarely mentioned.
When Xiao Shunzi came back to his life, he said that he didn't say anything in front of Yinzhen. Because Yinzhen had a very bad face when he learned this information, he must have guessed something, and if he talks more at this time, he is afraid that he will cause trouble. "In this way, Mama Liu and the Li family have no major troubles, on the contrary, it stands to reason that she and her sons should be the confidants of the Li family, but why do I always feel that in addition to the facts I saw on the surface, I always feel that this matter is a plan of the Ming Xiu Plank Road to secretly Chen Cang?" I agree with Xiao Shunzi's idea, but there are still some doubts that I haven't figured out. "There's something that isn't written on the message back, but the minion thinks it might have something to do with what Gege was thinking. Xiao Shunzi thought for a while and said with his eyes narrowed.
I said "oh", waited for the following, and listened to him continue: "The message mentioned the time and place of Mama Liu's husband's death, which happened to be the day when Master Li stepped down and returned to Beijing with his family in three years, and according to the time, the two are afraid that they will meet on the road, so Mrs. Li took in Mama Liu not only sympathetic, but also because of some old acquaintances. "You mean, the death of Mama Liu's husband may have something to do with Fang Fujin's father?" I asked. "The slave is just guessing, but I'm not sure, and Mama Liu may feel that because Mrs. Li improperly used people to harm her son as a eunuch, she would shame her ancestors, so she couldn't say if she held a grudge. Xiao Shunzi said.
I thought about it for a while, and felt that there were both possibilities, so I asked, "What's going on in the front yard, and what should I do next?" "The people who searched the courtyard of Side Fujin also had results, and the bodies of the chamberlain and Mama Liu had been found in the wine cellar in the side of the courtyard of Side Fortune," Xiao Shunzi said.
This news shocked me and asked, "What, Mama Liu and that chamberlain are dead, how did they die?"
Xiao Shunzi sighed and said: "The results of the autopsy said that Mama Liu died of self-hanging, and when she was found, she was lying in a thin coffin, and her body showed signs of decay, and it seemed that she had been dead for a long time. As for the waiter who starved to death, judging by the degree of decomposition of the corpse, it must have been that he was imprisoned in the wine cellar on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, and then until he was found yesterday, he had not used food and died of starvation. “
Listening to Xiao Shunzi's description, I couldn't help but get goosebumps all over my body, although I didn't see that scene with my own eyes, but a chilling sense of horror rose from the bottom of my heart. "I think Mama Liu's corpse, as well as the death of the chamberlain, should have nothing to do with Fang Fujin...... I said. "He said that the thin coffin was very rough, and there were some nails and sawdust around him, which must have been made on the spot in the wine cellar, so Mama Liu should have died in the house, and then hastily retracted. As for the chamberlain, he did have the same face as the assassin that day, and I am afraid that this is how he can switch identities with the chamberlain to enter the palace at any time. On the fifteenth day of August, when he entered the palace, he had some conflicts with the chamberlain for some unknown reason, so he locked the chamberlain in the small wine cellar, but because he was arrested, the chamberlain could only starve to death without anyone noticing. Xiao Shunzi said. "Hey, it seems that this case will be closed in two days. What the truth is, we can only wait for the final results of the Criminal Department. "The reincarnation of heaven, retribution is unpleasant. My sigh came from the bottom of my heart, and I don't know if it was a sigh for the ubiquitous and wonderful consequences, or a sigh for the unpredictable right and wrong.
All the clues were threaded, and the Assassins were finally relieved when they heard that they had found the bodies of Mama Liu and the chamberlain.
The whole case was finally put together completely and clearly like a broken puzzle.
This matter starts from the year when the Li family of Fang Fujin was born. Mama Liu and her husband went to Beijing all the way to escape from the capital, but they didn't expect that when they approached the capital, their husband was sick and fainted on the side of the road, and they happened to meet Mr. and Mrs. Li who had returned to Beijing to recover their lives. When Mrs. Li saw that a woman was lonely and pitiful on the side of the road with her sick husband in her arms, she asked her to give her some broken silver. Seeing Mrs. Li's kindness, Mama Liu proposed to take a car into the capital to find Langzhong to treat her husband's illness, but Mrs. Li considered that her husband did not know what disease he was infecting, so he sternly refused.
Mama Liu couldn't take her sick husband on the road alone, and most of the carriages on the road were reluctant to carry their feet when they saw sick people, so although Mama Liu took the broken silver given by Mrs. Li, she couldn't treat her husband in time, so she could only watch her husband die before he survived that night. This incident planted a knot in Mama Liu's heart, and she subconsciously felt that it was all to blame for the fact that Mrs. Li and his wife did not save them when they saw death, although they gave them money, they were unwilling to give more help, so that her husband would die due to the delay of his illness.
Later, she buried her husband with the broken silver given by Mrs. Li, and went into Beijing alone, helping in a washing and dyeing shop, but she didn't expect that after two months, she began to have a pregnancy reaction, and the washing and dyeing shop saw that she was pregnant, and felt that a pregnant woman with a body could not do anything, and if something happened, she would have to bear the reputation, so she quit.
She was pregnant but lost her source of livelihood, so she had no choice but to put a straw sign on the side of the street to sell herself. happened to meet Mrs. Li, who was also a month pregnant.
Mrs. Li saw that there was an old acquaintance with one side, and when she learned that Mama Liu's husband had died, she took pity on her and took her back to the Li Mansion. Later, I heard the old man say that it was best not to live two pregnant women in a room, for fear of being collided with each other, so he placed her who gave birth first to the Zhuangzi outside to give birth, and also sent a stable woman and a girl to take care of her.
Eight months later, Mama Liu gave birth to twin sons. She looked at the child, and calmed down the knot in her heart for the Li family and his wife, feeling that Mrs. Li was kind-hearted after all, and she also thought of repaying the favor, so she happily agreed to go to Lifu to be a wet nurse after the confinement, and handed over a pair of children to the mother-in-law sent by Mrs. Li.
As the children grew up, the mother-in-law would occasionally take the two children to the Li Mansion to see Mama Liu, and Mama Liu saw that her two sons were healthy and lovely, so she became more and more dedicated to serving the Li family, who was a month younger than her children, which was regarded as repaying Mrs. Li's kindness.
But unexpectedly, when the child was 14 years old, someone told Mama Liu that one of her sons was sent to be a eunuch by the mother-in-law who took care of him, and he was exchanged for ten taels of silver to pay off gambling debts. This news is like a thunderstorm for Mama Liu, but the matter has come to this point, all she can do is find Mrs. Li. Mrs. Li said lightly: "That mother-in-law was originally good, but unfortunately she has been addicted to gambling all these years, and it is indeed useless, and I will let her family take her back later." As for your child, since she has entered the Ministry of Internal Affairs, maybe she will also have a good fortune in the future, and the ten taels of silver she got should have been yours, and I will add another ten taels and return it to you for her at that time. Thanks to you all these years, now Miss doesn't need you to take care of her, so you can bring the other child into the house to raise it, and you can do your best to be a mother to this child. ”
Mama Liu didn't expect that she thought that the big thing that destroyed the world would be disposed of so casually in Mrs. Li's eyes, and the twenty taels of silver seemed to be slapping her in the face, as if the person who sold her son was herself. So Mama Liu's heart was also cold, and the original knot in Mrs. Li's heart grew together with new resentment. Until one day, she overheard the housekeeper next to Mrs. Li chatting with people and faintly mentioned: "Mama Liu just raised a young lady, and she really thinks she is a character in the house." She thought that her son, who was a eunuch, was really sold because his mother-in-law was gambling and losing?...... Don't be stupid, how can that woman have the courage to do this without Madame's instructions...... Why? Because her son Toad wanted to eat swan meat, and when he was playing with Miss, he actually said that Miss was so good-looking, and that he would marry her when he grew up...... I happened to be bumped into by my wife that day, although I said that I was unscrupulous, but it was a disaster after all, so I let people deal with it. ”
When Mama Liu heard this, the new hatred and old hatred in her heart were like adding a fire to the dry wood that had been lit. So she thought of revenge, but she needed to wait for the opportunity, because she just wanted to take revenge on one Mrs. Li, but the entire Li family.
With such a thought, Mama Liu secretly sent her son out to practice martial arts in the name of learning business, and she went around to find out the whereabouts of the son who entered the Internal Affairs Office, and at the same time used the money saved over the years to open up the contacts in the Internal Affairs Office. Until the Li family was assigned to marry by Kangxi to the Yinzhen Mansion, her son, who was a chamberlain, was naturally arranged to the Li family.
Because it was Li's old acquaintance, her son became Li's confidant. Mama Liu is not in a hurry to take revenge, she teaches her two sons Taoguang to raise obscurity. At first, when the Li family first entered the mansion, the chamberlain even handed over the Li family's method of enveloping Yinzhen's heart, so that Yinzhen began to favor her, and this favor was ten years. But what Li didn't know was that the method used by this chamberlain was to kill. When the limelight of the Li clan began to cross the Chang Fu Jin, the chamberlain used various methods to openly and secretly instigate the Li clan to oppose the Wulanala clan. It seems that he is unhappy with the Li family, but in fact, it makes Yinzhen start to dislike and alienate her, but the effect is not good at first, and Yinzhen's indulgence of the Li family is more than he imagined.
So the chamberlain privately found someone to copy a waist tag and let his twin brother blend into the house. Mama Liu said to the outside world that her son had gone out to do business, but in fact, the two sons were in the Baylor Mansion, and in fact, the son who had not been purified usually hid in the wine cellar in the Li family's courtyard and lived a shadow-like life. And the other waited in the bright spot, waiting for an opportunity to move.
Later, when I entered the mansion, the chamberlain saw all kinds of differences between Yinzhen and me, and began to instigate the Li family to deal with me, this time he succeeded, Yinzhen himself was tired of the Li family, and with my relationship, the Li family fell out of favor. is also because of her fall from grace, which makes her more jealous and eager for quick success, wanting to get power in the house, and wanting to win more benefits for herself and her son.
In this way, the Li family was pregnant, and the chamberlain persuaded the Li family to take his mother Liu Mama into the house, and the family of three was finally reunited in the Li family's courtyard.
Until Li gave birth to Honghui, Degege entered the house and was favored, and then until the eldest son Honghui died, and then the news that Degege was pregnant came, and Mama Liu felt that the opportunity for revenge had come. So she continued to speak ill of Degege and threatened as a wet nurse, and then let Li gradually have the idea of getting rid of Degege, so the plan began.
It was indeed the Li family's idea to kill Degege and blame me, but it was the idea of Mama Liu and her sons to keep leaving flaws to follow, and even on the day Degege died, it was deliberate to lead people out of the mansion, just to make people notice Mama Liu and lead out of the Li Mansion. So on the surface, this case seems to be blamed on me according to the wishes of the Li family, but in fact, it is the Li Mansion that is really to blame. And Mama Liu and the two brothers also have a chance to get out.
After killing the other people in the Degege Courtyard, Mama Liu and the two brothers sneaked back to Baylor Mansion, still living in the small wine cellar in the Li family's courtyard, intending to leave together when the whole thing was over.
But I didn't expect that Mama Liu was sick at this time, and she was very sick. And Yinzhen actually released the news that Mama Liu was caught and wanted to trap the murderer. Of course, the two brothers knew that Mama Liu was not caught, but they couldn't go out to seek medical advice for their mother, so they could only watch their mother die of illness and hastily make a simple coffin to decorate the body.
The mother died, the source of hatred was gone, and the two brothers suddenly seemed to have lost their backbone. More than ten years of revenge all the way suddenly came to an abrupt end, and the final result was not even seen. As a result, the two brothers also had a disagreement. The chamberlain felt that his mother was dead, the shackles he had carried for so long were finally gone, the original son himself was already crippled, and there was no motivation to survive, life and death didn't matter to him, he wanted it all to end, no matter what the result was, he didn't care, at least the Li family had fallen out of favor, although it did not shake the Li Mansion, but the Li Mansion would inevitably be disliked after this incident, or fulfilled his mother's wish. However, his brother insisted on fulfilling his last wish for his mother, saying that he would take the risk of angering Yinzhen, making him angry with the Li family, and finally completely overthrowing the Li Mansion.
Because of this obsession, he chose to do it on the day of the family banquet, locked the waiter in the wine cellar, and said to him when he left: "If I come back safely, we will take my mother's body with us, and if I am caught, you will either find a way to live by yourself or die with us." Joining his father on Huangquan Road, a family of four can also have a reunion. ”
In this way, he chose to attack me, whom he thought was favored, and indeed succeeded in provoking Yinzhen to let him investigate this matter thoroughly. In the end, everything came out, and the truth was revealed. The Li family is guilty, the Li family is innocent, just because Mama Liu was blinded by hatred, she hitched a ride with herself and her two sons.
However, these are all confessions to the outside world, and the official of the Criminal Department privately described the interrogation situation to Xiao Shunzi and said: "The murderer finally said a word to the fourth master, and this must not be spread outside. The murderer said, "I've been hiding in the Lee courtyard for so long, how much do you think her son might be yours?"
The words that the official of the Criminal Department asked Xiao Shunzi to bring made me stunned all of a sudden, and asked in a daze: "He is talking about Hongshi...... , is it credible?"
Xiao Shunzi shook his head and said: "After the murderer said this, he bit off the root of his tongue and committed suicide, and in the end, no one knows whether he is dying, and he is going to pour dirty water on Fu Jin's body, or if it is true." It's just that the master's face was said to be ugly at the time, so he went to the side Fujin courtyard at night. But after staying for less than an hour, he came out, and then the people in the courtyard heard Fang Fujin crying. But whose child is the little brother, this master didn't dig deeper, and the slave didn't know. (To be continued.) )