Chapter 248: Murder
γGentleman's Hall.γ, Gentleman's Hall!
In the living room, Xie Fan put a jade pendant in front of Liu Ningbo, Liu Ningbo was stunned, isn't this the jade pendant given to her by Master Jing'an and given to Situ Yue?
Grabbing the jade pendant, Liu Ningbo was excited: "What about Situ Yue?" Do you know where Situ Yue is? β
"Who is Situ Yue?" Xie Fan was puzzled, and Liu Ningbo's enthusiasm also cooled down, because the word on the jade pendant was not "Ping", but "Fan".
"You seem to know this jade pendant, don't you? It's just that the words on it are different, yes, the jade pendant engraved with the word 'Ping' is my brother's thing. β
Ordinary, it's really a brother.
"I'm here to find my brother's long-lost love."
Liu Ningbo was surprised, and then she heard an even more surprising story.
"Where is the person who gave you the jade pendant, can you take me to meet her? It's important and related to the last wishes of my brother, who has passed away. β
Take Xie Fan to Stone Mountain, where the spring floods green everywhere. The mountains are full of lush trees pulling branches and growing buds, and the vast tea plantations are like vast green deserts. The scattered rhododendrons are in full bloom, and they are dotted among the green seas ready to set the prairie on fire. The wisteria flowers on the wisteria trellis spread out in bunches like grapes, and the daffodils also bloomed all over the ground, one in the east and one in the west, scattered in the grass, like a few white gems on a green mat. After passing through the wisteria trellis, in the distance, I saw the husband and wife peak. A row of chic and sophisticated cabins under the couple's peak. Looking at that scene, Xie Fan was so excited that he couldn't speak. Seeing that Xie Fan stopped and was out of breath, Liu Ningbo only thought that he was old and physically exhausted, so he reached out to help him. Xie Fan patted her hand, and the two of them held each other and climbed to the top of the mountain.
"When you arrive at the Husband and Wife Peak, you can walk in the other direction for about half an hour to reach the Baiyun Temple." Liu Ningbo said to Xie Fan that this time when she went to Stone Mountain, she didn't plan to disturb Zhong Cuibai. For this mother-in-law, Liu Ningbo unconsciously felt timid and resistant.
Xie Fan nodded and asked, "What kind of person is Master Jing'an?" β
"I don't know very well, the first time we met, I heard that I was pregnant and gave me that jade pendant. I just heard Yiwei say that Master Jing'an has loved him since he was a child, and he is very kind-hearted, although his face is a little ugly. β
"Ugly?" Xie Fan was stunned. In my impression, Cuizhu is a beautiful embryo, and she looks very similar to Liu Ning, isn't it Cuizhu? His steps in climbing the mountain could not help but slack off and slow down.
Liu Ningbo slipped his arm and encouraged: "Uncle usually doesn't exercise, right?" You should also go climbing, running, or something after work, otherwise, why do you make so much money without your body? β
Xie Fan smiled, "That's right." Xie Fan thought to himself that he should always see Master Jing'an no matter what, whether it was Cuizhu or not, the jade pendant would never be wrong, it was indeed a token of the eldest brother.
Liu Ningbo couldn't have imagined that in this tea garden on the hillside, Zhong Cuibai was wearing a hat and picking spring tea. She straightened up from the waist-high tea trees and saw a man and a woman walking on the slope up the hill. Isn't the woman in the white dress the daughter-in-law Liu Ningbo? How could she snuggle up to another man so intimately?
Baiyun Temple is located in the bright spring light, shining brightly. Jing'an was chopping firewood in the open space in front of the temple. Suddenly, a man and a woman walked into the gate of the temple, she recognized Liu Ningbo at a glance, and at first glance she saw Xie Fan beside Liu Ningbo, and her wood-splitting knife fell from her hand. The gentle face gave her the illusion that it was the same similar face that smiled at her gently on the stone mountain years ago. I was sure of God, but I found that it was not. It's not difficult to find two people who look similar to each other in the world.
"Master Jing'an!" Liu Ningbo and Xie Fan had already walked to Jing'an, Liu Ningbo picked up the woodcutter on the ground and handed it to Jing'an, and called her suspiciously.
Jing'an came back to her senses at this time, and when she saw Xie Fan staring at her intently, she leaned over shyly and showed half of her face.
"Master Jing'an, do you remember me?" Liu Ningbo asked.
"Remember, you are Yiwei's daughter-in-law who just passed the door." Jing An replied timidly.
"Master Jing'an, I took the liberty to visit you today to learn about the origin of that jade pendant."
Hearing Liu Ningbo say this, Jing'an's face changed "brush", and he said, "What jade pendant?" β
"You forgot? It is the New Year's Eve in Baiyun Temple, the jade pendant you gave me and Yiwei is engraved with the word 'Ping'. β
"It's just an ordinary jade pendant, it's just a talisman, it's just a talisman, and it has no origin." Jing'an Zhiwu said, turned around and wanted to leave, looking at her hurried back and walking up the steps, the hem of the silk robe was undulating, Xie Fan shouted: "Cuizhu!" β
Jing'an stopped abruptly as if she had been shocked, her feet slowly retreated from the steps, and she turned to stare at Xie Fan in a daze, her whole face flushed, and her eyes were full of disbelief and uncertainty.
"You're Cuizhu, aren't you?" Xie Fan said with a smile, and then took out another jade pendant from his trouser pocket, the jade pendant was engraved with the word 'Fan', it turned out that the two brothers of the Xie family had received two jade pendants from their grandfather since they were children, and each had their own names embedded, Xie Ping, Xie Fan, just hope that their lives can be ordinary, "Big brother asked me to come to you." β
Liu Ningbo opened his mouth in surprise, Master Jing'an was actually Cuizhu, and the Cuizhu who looked very similar to her was really unbelievable. The face in front of her, which had been eaten by the fire, was no longer able to associate her with the beautiful green bamboo.
Leading Xie Fan and Liu Ningbo to sit down at the stone table in the backyard of the temple, Cuizhu lowered his head and asked very shyly, "Is Xie Ping okay?" β
"Big brother, big brother has passed away." Xie Fan said softly, and immediately, Cuizhu raised her face, her eyes were full of surprise, the whites of her eyes were quickly covered with red threads, and then a crystal liquid overflowed from her eye sockets.
"When?" Cuizhu asked in a muttered voice, her voice trembling slightly.
"It happened last fall, cancer."
Liu Ningbo saw Cuizhu's hand constantly twisting the corners of her clothes, and many tears hit the back of her hand, quickly turning into dry and wrinkled lines.
"Big brother left you a large inheritance, as well as your children."
Hearing Xie Fan's words, Cuizhu stopped the movements in his hand and raised his head for a long time. The scar on her face was so large that it distorted the features of her entire face, and it was a frightening-looking face if it weren't for the kindness in her eyes.
"I'm a monk, and I don't need anything outside of my body." Cuizhu replied softly.
"Then give your share of the inheritance to your eldest brother and your eldest brother's child, child, where is that child now?" Xie Fan asked, "Cuizhu, Ah Ling is dead, and the eldest brother only has such an only son." β
Cuizhu turned his gaze to Liu Ningbo, Liu Ningbo was taken aback, as if there was an hourglass leaking sand in his heart, and he only heard Cuizhu say: "Call Yiwei and your mother-in-law over!" β
When he went back to the cabin to find Zhong Cuibai, Liu Ningbo's heart was beating wildly. Master Jing'an turned out to be the outer room that Xie Ping raised in the southeast area, why did she ask Yiwei and Zhong Cuibai to see Xie Fan? Could it be that Yiwei is actually the child of Cuizhu and Xie Ping? Thinking like this, Liu Ningbo was too shocked. When he came to the cabin with Xie Fan, he didn't see Zhong Cuibai. The sun is just setting in the west, and she must have picked spring tea on the mountain and has not returned. The door of the cabin was locked, and Liu Ningbo could only lead Xie Fan to sit on the big stone in front of the house and wait. Looking up at the husband and wife peak, two stones, one large and one small, snuggled against each other and never separated, Xie Fan took out his mobile phone, turned on the camera mode, and took a photo of the stone.
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