Chapter 14: The Truth
Mu Tianxiang pushed open the door of the ancestral hall, and a black shadow flashed in front of her, which quickly made her think it was an illusion. But when she sniffed the sandalwood fragrance in the air carefully, she immediately understood what was going on.
So when she finished worshipping her ancestors, she shouted into the shadow behind the statue, "Uncle Jiang, how long are you going to stay here?"
She was sure that her guess was correct, and sure enough, after a while, a person slowly walked out of the shadows and walked straight in front of her.
Mu Tianxiang looked at Uncle Jiang in front of him, a middle-aged man in a coarse green shirt, with a beard at the corner of his mouth, although the beard was slightly thicker, his figure was slightly taller, and his eyes were slightly sharper, but in her eyes, this Uncle Jiang still felt very amiable.
"Miss, how do you know that there is someone behind the statue?" Jiang Bo stood in front of Mu Tianxiang, and did not dislike Mu Tianxiang's look, but smiled and hugged her fists, and asked curiously.
"Hehe, I saw a dark shadow when I opened the door, and then I saw that the pastries on the incense table were stolen and eaten a lot, so I thought that there was a thief hidden in our ancestral hall. Mu Tianxiang knew that Uncle Jiang took good care of himself and his mother on weekdays, so he had no scruples in front of him, so he covered his mouth and replied with a soft smile.
"Oh?" Jiang Bo twisted his bearded chin and asked with a look of surprise, "Then how did you come to this Tibetan place and the person who came here is me?"
"Uncle Jiang, you have recently hidden a lot of high-grade daughter red, right? This room full of wine is much heavier than this sandalwood fragrance. Mu Tianxiang shook his hand between the two, and the air smelled carefully, and sure enough, there was some smell of wine.
"Hahaha, it's good!" Uncle Jiang listened to Mu Tianxiang's words, immediately laughed, and said hello three times in a row, before he looked at Mu Tianxiang comfortingly, and nodded with satisfaction: "Sure enough, it is Ah Qiu's daughter, this ability to smell the fragrance and smell is as good as Ah Qiu's, presumably Ah Qiu's spirit in the sky is also very gratified." ”
"Uncle Jiang, why are you here?" mentioned Mu Wanqiu, a trace of grief crossed Mu Tianxiang's heart, and she changed the topic with a light cough, and asked in surprise.
Unexpectedly, after hearing Mu Tianxiang's question, Uncle Jiang's expression turned grim, and only then did he take away the authority that Xie Fugui wanted to take away from the house, including the shop, but he didn't expect that Mu Wanqiu had already left his hands behind and arranged for three people to help with it.
When he saw that good words and deeds didn't work, he began to think of ways to coerce and lure Jiang Bo.
"I'm afraid that he will jump off the wall in a hurry and kidnap Miss to threaten him, so I hid first, he can't find me, and I know that Miss You don't have real power now, so naturally it is impossible to fight Miss again. ”
Jiang Bo's idea was good, but he didn't expect Xie Fugui to go to Mu Tianxiang's courtyard to find him.
"I'm tired of Uncle Jiang. Mu Tianxiang blessed Jiang Bo and expressed her gratitude, but when she stood up straight, a pair of inquiring eyes fell on Jiang Bo, and some words came to her mouth, but she couldn't ask anything.
Seeing Mu Tianxiang's embarrassed expression, Jiang Bo thought about it, and probably guessed what she was thinking, his expression froze, and he knelt straight in front of Mu Tianxiang.
"Uncle Jiang, what are you doing?" Mu Tianxiang was startled by Uncle Jiang's movements, and when he came back to his senses, he immediately stepped forward to help him up: "Get up quickly." ”
"Miss, it's Uncle Jiang who can't stand you, if I can go over earlier that day, maybe Madame won't have an accident. Jiang Bo dodged Mu Tianxiang's support, knelt on the ground with a decadent and dejected face, and confessed to her.
Mu Tianxiang was stunned for a moment, glanced at Uncle Jiang, suddenly straightened up, stared at Uncle Jiang quietly, figuring out the meaning of his words, and after a while, he said lightly: "I have always felt strange when I woke up, I have the impression that Uncle Jiang's kung fu is not weak, why did there be such a big thing in the mansion that day, but you waited for your mother to have an accident before coming to the yard, even one step later than the shopkeeper Pei in the shop at the entrance of Dongjiekou, I hope you can tell me the reason?"
After asking, Mu Tianxiang clenched her fists tightly, waiting for Uncle Jiang to give her an explanation.
The yard was on fire that day, and after she was rescued by her mother and Yujin, because her mother was frightened, she didn't have any impression of the process of what happened at that time, and she didn't find anything abnormal.
What is more unexpected and suspicious is that the people in this house are obviously burning fiercely, and even the shopkeeper Pei who is far away on East Street can notice it, but it was not until the shopkeeper Pei rescued his mother that people came one after another to extinguish the fire.
This situation is as if everyone has discussed, and wait for the mother to really have an accident before coming to the rescue.
Mu Tianxiang clenched her teeth and held back her anger, if the truth was really as she thought, she would definitely pay for the blood debt of those who could not be saved when she saw death.
After a while, she heard Uncle Jiang sigh, and saw him take out a paper bag from his arms and hand it to her.
Mu Tianxiang didn't know why, and didn't reach out to pick it up, just stared at Jiang Bo suspiciously.
"I drank wine mixed with these things that day, and I didn't wake up until after the incident, when I was poured a basin of cold water by the shopkeeper Pei who rushed over, and I slowly woke up. It's just that when I got up again and entered the yard, it was already late. As Jiang Bo spoke, he suddenly smashed his fist to the ground in anger, looking annoyed and depressed.
Mu Tianxiang stared at the paper bag in Jiang Bo's hand, and only squatted down for a while, took it out of Jiang Bo's hand, and carefully spread it out.
There was only some white powder in the paper packet, and she leaned her nose closer to smell it, but there was no smell.
"What is this?" Mu Tianxiang asked Uncle Jiang.
"The slave didn't know, but after secretly investigating and investigating, someone saw that Ah Zhong, who had brought wine that day, had secretly ground some things into powder, which I found on the floor in the wine cellar. ”
"Then where is Ah Zhong now?" Mu Tianxiang immediately asked when he heard that there were other people's involvement.
"Miss, you forgot, Ah Zhong is the little maid in charge of cleaning in the yard of his wife, and he was not spared from that fire. Jiang Bo shook his head helplessly.
Mu Tianxiang then remembered that in the fire, including her mother, there were 5 maid slaves who did not run out, one of them was Ah Zhong who was cleaning the yard.
Mu Tianxiang couldn't help frowning, there were too many questions in this coincidence.
First of all, what is this package of powder and things, if Jiang Bojiu was indeed drugged by the slave named Ah Zhong, then what is his purpose? Was it instructed by someone or out of selfish revenge?
She remembered that she was also groggy at that time, and if she hadn't been drenched in water by her mother and woke up, she might not have escaped death.
Could it be that Ah Zhong was the one who drugged them that day? When and what kind of medicine could be so colorless and tasteless that it could escape her and her mother's sense of smell?
Second, how did their courtyard catch fire, and why did even Na Ah Zhong die in the fire?
A series of questions made her mind messy, and for a while, she didn't know what to do, and it wasn't until Jiang Bo said something to her later that she walked out of the ancestral hall.
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PS: Frost said sorry to everyone, because yesterday's Mid-Autumn Festival went home for the holiday, there was no network at home, so I used my mobile phone code word to transmit the text, but I came back today and found that half of this chapter was pasted less, and now hurry up and make up for it, I hope you will greatly mind the carelessness of Frost, continue to support me, forgive me, and send a super Mo Mo Da O(∩_∩)O~