Chapter 33: Kang Dacheng is killed
In a cemetery in Jingdezhen, Shen Luojun knelt in front of the tomb of his master Yu Shinian and vowed to find the real murderer for his master to avenge his father and son.
After worshipping, Kang Damao helped Shen Luojun up, and the two left together.
After the two left, a familiar figure came out of the woods, and the man was carrying a basket of sacrifices in his hand to worship Yu Shinian, and it was sneaky to worship the dead, just because he was none other than the murderer who killed Yu Shinian, and he was also the mastermind behind the burning of Kang Damao and Shen Luojun in the study.
With the death of Yu Shinian, the Jingdezhen folk kiln has no future, and can only survive, and the high imitation cheats have completely disappeared with a fire in Yufu.
After the affairs of Jingdezhen were properly arranged, Kang Damao took Shen Luojun and three small followers back to Zhenjiang Mansion, Shen Luojun returned to Shen Mansion first, Kang Damao returned to Kang's house with three people, and the four of them were stunned as soon as they arrived at the gate, only to see that the gate of Kang's house was covered with white cloth, and the lanterns in front of the door were wrapped in white cloth.
Something went wrong?
When the family at the door saw Kang Damao coming back, he immediately knelt on the ground with a puff, crying silently.
Kang Damao didn't have time to ask more, he rushed straight into the hall, only to see Xiaohua wearing a filial piety robe and kneeling in front of the spirit with all the maids kneeling in front of the spirit to burn paper, and Xiaohua's mother also sat in front of the spirit and cried, and everyone in the hall cried even more miserably when they saw Kang Damao come back.
Kang Damao saw that it was the eldest brother Kang Dacheng on the spiritual tablet, he was suddenly stunned, he didn't stand firm and almost fell to the ground, but fortunately, Erhu and Abao quickly supported his body.
Kang Damao's heart was broken at this time, he didn't believe that his eldest brother died like this, he staggered to the coffin, looked inside, and it was the body of the eldest brother Kang Dacheng lying inside, Kang Dacheng's face was pale at this moment, there was no trace of blood, the whole person was hard, and it seemed that he had been dead for a few days.
I think the eldest brother always took him to play when he was a child, and the eldest brother who was bullied by other children will definitely stand up for him to seek justice, every time he gets into trouble outside, the eldest brother is punished for him, and now the eldest brother is gone, but I didn't expect that the last hurried goodbye turned out to be a farewell, and since then the two brothers have been separated by yin and yang.
"Brother Kang, you're finally back." Xiaohua came to Kang Damao in a filial piety robe and cried and said.
"How did my eldest brother die?" Kang Damao asked with a gloomy face.
"Brother Dacheng died too strangely, I suspect that he was killed by someone, and he has not mourned until you come back." Xiaohua wiped away her tears, and said with a firm look in her eyes, when Kang Damao came back, she felt that she had a backbone in an instant.
"I must find out about this matter to avenge my eldest brother, and you will come to my study to discuss it in detail later, and I will hand over this family to you when I leave, I just want to ask you, why didn't you send someone to inform me when my eldest brother died." Kang Damao asked word by word, his words were sharp, and his eyes were even sharper.
Xiaohua suddenly cried again when she heard Kang Damao say this, she looked up at Kang Damao stubbornly while crying, she bit her lip and said: "Why didn't I send someone to inform you, the first time I sent a steady family to inform you, the second time I sent two people, but I didn't see you come back for a long time, even they didn't come back, I guess they were killed." ”
Hearing Xiaohua say this, Kang Damao gritted his teeth and clenched his fists, it seems that someone deliberately wanted to kill people and kill them, and even the person who sent the letter did not let go.
Kang Damao put on a filial piety robe and knelt in front of the spiritual position to burn a few piles of yellow paper for the eldest brother, as the saying goes, the eldest brother is like a father, and the eldest brother deserves his kneel, if it were not for his eldest brother, he would not have come to Zhenjiang Mansion and would not be killed.
"Xiaohua, I misunderstood you just now, I apologize to you, I want to know how my eldest brother died now, have you found any clues in the past few days?" Kang Damao pulled Xiaohua and sat down and said sincerely.
"Brother Dacheng used to help take care of business in our 'Kangjing Shengshi' porcelain shop, and I heard from the guy that one day there were three groups of people in the store, including Shen Yuhai, the porcelain king of Zhenjiang Mansion, Huang He, the owner of the grain village, and a group of people wearing strange clothes with long knives, and they couldn't understand the speech, and then they seemed to quarrel in the store, and smashed the porcelain in the store, and Brother Dacheng and they were beaten by those with long knives." Xiaohua said seriously recalling.
"And then?" Kang Damao asked.
"Later, those people were leaving, but I heard from the guy that Brother Dacheng seemed to have discovered some secret between them, and he went out alone after dinner that night, and never came back." Xiaohua frowned and said slowly.
"And where was my eldest brother's body found?" Kang Damao's face was gloomy, this should be a murder.
"It's in an alley, but it's not far from Shen's house." Xiaohua finally said the key to Kang Dacheng's death.
"Shen Mansion? It's Shen Mansion again, Shen Yuhai. Kang Damao clenched his fists and slammed the table, he thought about it and asked, "Have you reported to the official?" ”
"I reported to the official on the same day, but the government didn't find any human and physical evidence, just let me wait for news at home, these bastards." Xiaohua gritted her teeth angrily as she spoke, she went to the county government several times but was not taken seriously.
Kang Damao and Xiaohua talked for a long time in the study, and then Xiaohua came out first to preside over the overall situation in front of the spirit in the hall, and it was not until the evening that Kang Damao came out of the study, his eyes were bloodshot, his face was pale, and he felt a lot older in an instant. Kang Damao summoned Xiaohua, Linglong, Erhu and Abao to go to the alley where the eldest brother Kang Dacheng died.
Since the body was found there, clues must be found, and now it is night, and he wants to follow in the footsteps of his eldest brother to see what the murderer's purpose is, and why he wants to kill him, an honest eldest brother.
Kang Damao walked in front, and the four people behind him carried four lanterns, and soon came to the alley where Kang Dacheng's body was found.
Several people carried lanterns in the alley from beginning to end and swept it several times, but they did not find any suspicious clues on the walls or the ground of the alley.
So, a few people went out of the alley, Kang Damao raised his eyes and saw that there was another black dead alley opposite the exit of the alley, which looked more terrifying than this alley, Kang Damao had a faint premonition in his heart, the eldest brother was likely to be led there to be killed, this feeling is particularly strong.
He didn't have time to think about it before he led the four of them towards the dark alley.
Several people carried lanterns and searched the floor and walls of the alley for a while, but when they reached the end of the alley, they still found nothing.
Suddenly, Kang Damao stood still, he only felt as if he had kicked something under his feet just now, he immediately beckoned everyone to come and look for it, but it turned out that Abao really found a fine snuff box made of porcelain in the corner of the wall.
Kang Damao took the snuff box and held it in his hand, when he saw this snuff box clearly, his face was pale, his face was gloomy and scary, this snuff box was no one else's, it was the thing that Shen Yuhai was carrying, it was he who killed the eldest brother.
Could it be because of the grievances between the two families that Shen Yuhai deliberately designed to kill the eldest brother? This Shen Yuhai is unforgivable.
"Look, there seem to be words on the bluestone on the ground." The careful Xiaohua wiped the dust on the ground with her hands, squatted down and said.
At this time, several people gathered the lanterns one after another, and the handwriting on the ground was faintly visible, because this was the end of the dead alley, so few people passed by, and the handwriting on the ground was still faintly preserved.
Kang Damao squatted down and saw the handwriting, his heart suddenly pinched, twisted together, he covered his chest with one painful hand, and gently stroked the handwriting with the other hand.
The words on the ground are written backwards, Kang Damao remembers that when he and his eldest brother were children in private school, the eldest brother often wrote the font backwards to test his literacy, and the ground was written by the eldest brother at the last moment of his life by biting his finger with bright red blood, and the bluestone slab was impressively written: "Porcelain smuggling", four bloody reverse writing.