Chapter 223: Hidden Mysteries
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Zhu Tao was already dressed up in the evening because she was going to Mrs. Lu's appointment, and she sat bored in front of the dresser and looked at herself in the mirror, feeling that her hairstyle and clothes were similar to Liao Wanyu's, and she was very satisfied.
In fact, according to her disguise skills, clothing and makeup, and her figure and temperament, if you want to learn from Liao Wanyu, it is not impossible to have seven or eight percent.
But according to her past experience, everything must always be talked about, it is too similar, and sometimes it can backfire. Therefore, if there is no shadow of what she deliberately pretends to be at the moment, it makes people look as if they are separated by a layer of tulle, which is even more attractive.
Zhu Tao took one last look in the mirror, stood up and tidied up the hem of the dress, stomped on a pair of white leather shoes, opened the door and walked out of his bedroom.
Liao Wanyu was in a daze in the living room, holding a pocket watch that had always been small and delicate in her hand. This watch was almost lost yesterday, and the two of them looked back for a long time before finding it in the newly rented house.
Fortunately, they paid the rent at the time, and the landlord left the key, otherwise it would have been Liao Wanyu's anxious appearance, and I was afraid that I wouldn't stop if I couldn't find it.
"Could it be that Xie Du Jun from the north sent it?" Zhu Tao walked behind Liao Wanyu, propped her hands on the back of the sofa on either side of her, and looked down at her.
"It's my brother's." Liao Wanyu turned the pocket watch in her hand over, revealing the words engraved on the back of the gold case, "This is the day my brother was born, his father gave it to him." When he was a child, he didn't know his watch, and he played with toys, but he never left him. When I send him to the sea, he must leave it to me, saying that he will accompany me as if he were himself. β
"It's really enviable, and I also want to have a brother and sister with a good relationship."
Liao Wanyu opened the pocket watch and revealed a small photo inside the watch cover, "We haven't seen each other for several years, so I think Xiao Yu must have grown a lot taller." β
Zhu Tao looked at the child in the photo, about three or four years old, looking very smart, and remembered that he was lame, and couldn't help but feel a little pity.
The clock in the living room suddenly rang "dangdang", Zhu Tao listened to it ring five times in a row, straightened up and checked his clothes again, picked up the handbag next to the sofa and straddled his arm, and put a hat with a piece of hard gauze on his head, and finally mentioned the gift for Mrs. Lu, "I'll go first, I hope the people on Mr. Lin's side can have a harvest." β
Zhu Tao from the hotel to Mrs. Lu's house, to pass through the whole city, the banquet guest's house is near the sea, this season in the evening of the sea breeze, very comfortable.
Tonight's Lu house is very lively, tomorrow is not dark tomorrow, but the colored tungsten light bulb hanging at the gate has already been lit, Lu Annian, the owner of the Lu family, and his wife stand at the gate to greet the guests, Mrs. Lu saw the bamboo peach and left her husband, and greeted him quickly.
"Sister Qi is here, I've been looking forward to you for a long time."
Zhu Tao's pseudonym is Wei Qi, claiming that her fiancΓ© who was hiding at home ran out to relax, she is close to Mrs. Lu's family, and she likes her so much.
"Sister Jing, I brought you a gift, and I hope you don't dislike it." Inside the square box of the bamboo peach is a hat, and like the one on her head, it is also fashionable to hang this piece of hard gauze that can cover the face, which is said to be a popular style in France.
Women love clothes and accessories, and it is almost never wrong to give these things, Mrs. Lu took the box with a smile, handed it to a big girl standing two steps behind her, and then took Zhutao's arm and introduced her to her husband.
Lu An is nearly thirty years old, but he looks very old, especially the lines at the corners of his eyes, even if he doesn't smile, it is very obvious, after listening to his wife's introduction, he bowed his head slightly to Zhu Tao, and took the opportunity to look at the person quickly.
He heard his wife mention that he had made a new friend two days ago, but he didn't expect that it was such a beautiful new friend, he was about to say a few words of praise, who wanted to praise people's words before coming to his lips, Yu Guang saw the car that was driving not far away, and immediately said sorry, and hurriedly walked over to the car.
Zhu Tao and Mrs. Lu both turned around to look, and it turned out that it was Zhen Gu who came.
This person came much earlier than she thought, and it was okay, she would try to delay the person as long as possible, hoping that the people on Mr. Lin's side would have more time to inspect Zhen Gu's house.
The people sent by Lin Keji today are very famous in Luzhou, and no one knows what his real name is, everyone is just ugly and ugly.
This man looks like his name, ugly like a ghost, but he is very good at it, and it is said that his master was a person who could get close to the palace in the previous dynasty. The most important thing is that he can barely maintain a "chivalrous heart" in such an unclean business, and he never wants to patronize the poor people and ordinary people.
Zhen Gu is too close to the Japanese, and the second aunt's wife is still a Japanese, which makes his reputation in Luzhou develop in two extremes.
The pro-Japanese praised him for his knowledge of current affairs, while those who were anti-Japanese simply called him a traitor.
However, Zhen Gu himself doesn't seem to care much about this matter, for him, it's just a temporary use of the stronger Japanese, if one day the French or the British in Luzhou also become stronger, he doesn't mind changing partners.
Therefore, as soon as he heard that Lin Keji asked him to target Zhen Gu's mansion as a night detective, Ghost Ugly agreed without hesitation.
He is indeed a little curious about what a traitor's family looks like. Therefore, Zhen Gu left here, and he didn't even wait for the sky to be completely dark, he was already alone and touched in.
The house where Zhen Gu lives now is not big, just a small second floor with six or seven rooms, and the ghost and ugly climbed into the house through the unclosed window, and the light floor under his feet did not make a sound.
As if he were a ghost, the ghost walked silently in the corridor on the first floor of the house. He listened as he went, and judging from the sound of the voice, there should be no more than three servants left in the house at this time.
It is best to have fewer people, otherwise in this not too big house, suddenly meeting a domestic servant is also a headache.
He had helped Lin Keji to visit the house, and although he didn't know what Lin Keji was going to do, he had been specifically instructed to pay attention to whether anyone was being held, and if possible, it was best not to let people find out that he had been there.
Ghost Ugly owed Lin Keji's father a favor in his early years, so naturally he responded to what he said. So, he spent more than half an hour looking at all the rooms on the first floor, and when he was about to go to the second floor, when someone came down the stairs, he simply opened a window nearby and climbed out, and climbed up to the second floor with no more than two clicks of his hands and feet.
He first hid in this empty room, listened carefully to the movement in the corridor outside against the door panel, and after confirming that there was no one, he gently opened the door and looked at it, and then began to carefully inspect the second floor again.
The structure isn't quite right......
When Ghost Ugly walked into the last room on the west side of the corridor, he always felt that something was wrong with the layout on the second floor. It's like there's one room missing.
The ghost who had no harvest came out of the room and decided to go to the basement to take a look, he had just hidden in the dark and observed, and several servants in Zhen Gu's house lived in the basement.
He wanted to hear what they would talk about when their master was away.
There was a dim tungsten lamp in the kitchen, probably because of the smoke, the color of the lamp was dimmer than usual, and a fat woman in her fifties who looked like a cook had a plate of melon seeds in front of her, chatting with a girl of fifteen or sixteen.
"You've seen that nephew of mine, haven't you? Didn't I say, doesn't it look good? β
The ghost also thought that the cook was going to introduce her nephew to this girl, so she changed the angle through the crack in the door, wanting to look down on the girl's face.
"But you also said that he can't drive, so Mr. may not be willing to use him, right?"
The ghost remembered what Lin Keji had said, and understood that this cook wanted to keep the fat water from flowing into the fields of outsiders, and stuffed her nephew in to replace the previous driver.
"Didn't Mr. tell us last time, as long as you are honest and have a strict mouth, everything else is secondary."
The ghost ugly looked at the shadow of the young girl on the wooden door window and nodded, "Then you say, is what Brother Wang said before true?" β
The cook is old and has experienced a lot of things, so she seems to be very open-minded, "What is true or false, as long as Mr. Zhen does not detain us, then you remember, it has nothing to do with us what people outside say about him." β
Speaking of this, the cook paused, and the ghost ugly listened to her click the melon seeds through the door, and waited until the sound stopped, and then heard her continue, "Besides, we have been here for so long, and we have lived in the house to serve, when have you seen the person Xiao Wang said?" β
The young girl thinks about it and thinks it's very right, not only does she live here, but she also has to clean the house all day long, which piece of furniture in this house she hasn't wiped, if you want to say that she understands, she should be the person who knows best.
But it's not right, isn't it true that the gentleman's bedroom is not for him to enter?
"But Mr. 's bedroom, you and I have never entered, and the door is locked every time we go out, what if it is there?"
The ghost frowned when he heard this, he did meet a locked door on the second floor, in order not to be discovered by Zhen Gu, he turned through the window instead, and also went in to check around, but he didn't find anything?
Could it be that the pattern he thinks is wrong has something to do with the bedroom? Thinking of this, Ghost Ugly decided to go to the bedroom on the second floor to take a look.
He walked lightly from the basement to the first floor, as there was only one way in and out of the place, so he was extremely careful.
The ghost who returned to the bedroom on the second floor checked more carefully this time, but there were not many things in this bedroom, and there were almost no places to hide people.
He inspected the underneath the bed and the wardrobe, and finally landed on the half-man-high fireplace.
The ghost clown approached the fireplace, squatted down and reached out to touch the inner wall, but there was no black ash left behind by the charcoal.