Chapter 143: Windfall
Early the next morning, Li Hongyu got a good news that Chen Aniu lost a mess in the casino last night, not only lost all his money but also owed a lot of debts, and left the casino in despair.
According to Li Hongyu's arrangement, Wang Tieniu sent people to monitor Chen Aniu inch by inch, wanting to see who he would ask for help, and it was obvious that he could not repay those gambling debts on his own.
If Li Hongyu didn't guess wrong, the person Chen Aniu went to find must be related to the Mingyue Pavilion case, otherwise, who would have nothing to eat and support to lend him such a large amount of money to pay off the debt, it is obvious that there is a close relationship of interest between the two, which will make the other party have to give him money.
Moreover, according to the current situation, the person Chen Aniu is looking for will be red-sleeved, and the possibility of others is very, very small.
Li Hongyu believes that Red Sleeves, who skillfully got rid of the suspicion of the Mingyue Pavilion case, must be involved in the case, as long as she is involved with Chen Aniu, then she will be found out by Li Hongyu from behind the scenes.
In addition to Chen Aniu, Li Hongyu is most concerned about the death of Han Tae's fiancée, and he vaguely feels that there is something hidden in it.
Obviously, Han Tae-kook will definitely not tell the secret here, so Li Hongyu can only hope to get some valuable clues from Wang Hongyun.
Wang Hongyun is now hiding in the town outside the city, and it is better for Li Hongyu to ask Fang Yun about him, after all, Fang Yun is Wang Hongyun's fellow countryman, if there is anything difficult to say, Wang Hongyun is more willing to talk to Fang Yun.
In the evening, in the restaurant where the appointment was made, Li Hongyu and Fang Yun met again.
"Brother Fang, have you found anything?" Li Hongyu arrived at the restaurant one step ahead of time, poured Fang Yun a glass of wine and asked quietly.
"Wang Hongyun doesn't know what Xu Tao has to do with Han Taw's fiancée, but he provided an important piece of news, Xu Tao has a concubine in the town where Han Tae's fiancée is located, and he often goes to that town to meet his concubine, but Wang Hongyun doesn't know who the concubine is."
After Fang Yun took a sip of his wine glass, he said meaningfully, "Coincidentally, after the death of Han Tae's fiancée, Xu Tao never went to that town to meet his concubine again!" ”
"You mean, that concubine of Xu Tao may be Han Tae's fiancée?" Li Hongyu's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he asked in a deep voice.
"It's not certain yet, but it's a bit of a coincidence." Fang Yun bowed slightly when he heard this, and replied with a serious expression, "Xu Tao is a wanderer, he is very good at women, and it is not impossible to have an affair with Han Taek's fiancée. ”
"Maybe Xu Tao tried to kill Han Tae's fiancée in order to hide this private affair, and then did not cause the phenomenon of sudden death, but this matter was learned by Han Tae, so Han Tae had to find a way to kill him." As he spoke, Fang Yun frowned and looked at Li Hongyu, so that the matter would make sense.
"Brother Fang, I think there is another possibility for the death of Hankook's fiancée." Li Hongyu groaned for a moment when he heard this, and slowly spoke, "Do you think it was Han Tae who killed his fiancée?" ”
"If Han Tae finds out that his fiancée is having an affair with someone else, it's a big deal to divorce the other party, there's no need to kill someone!" Fang Yun frowned when he heard this, of course he had considered this possibility, but he still couldn't believe that Han Tai would give up his future fame for the sake of a woman.
"Judging from the current situation, Han Taok has a good relationship with his fiancée, he is a high-minded and arrogant person, and if he finds out that his fiancée is having an affair with someone, he will definitely be very angry, and he may be able to act irrationally when he is emotional." Li Hongyu pondered for a moment and said to Fang Yun.
Fang Yun bowed slightly when he heard this, what Li Hongyu said also made some sense, the so-called impulse is the devil, with Han Tai's character, he may really kill his fiancée who cuckolded him in anger.
"One thing I've always wondered about is whether the people in her mother's family after the death of Hankow's fiancée ever suspected the cause of her death!" Then, Fang Yun looked at Li Hongyu with confusion, if Han Tae's fiancée was murdered, her family should be able to see that something was wrong, after all, it is difficult to have a way to kill without leaving a trace.
"If the scandal of her affair with Xu Tao cannot be covered up, then her family may hide it to prevent the scandal from being publicized." Li Hongyu groaned for a moment when he heard this, and replied with a serious expression.
"Brother Li, are you saying that her mother deliberately concealed the cause of her death for the sake of her family's reputation!" Fang Yun's brows suddenly furrowed deeper when he heard this, the so-called family ugliness should not be publicized, Li Hongyu's explanation is reasonable.
"Han Tae is a scheming person, so it is very unlikely that he will directly kill his fiancée, so it is likely that he poisoned him, and then created a false impression that his fiancée's family thought that she died because of the revelation of her private affairs, so it is natural to cover up the cause of death."
Li Hongyu got up and paced back and forth in the room a few times, then stopped and looked at Fang Yun quietly and said, "You said, is it possible that Han Tai's fiancée is pregnant, which led to the revelation of his affair with Xu Tao." ”
"Then Han Tae angrily killed and poisoned him, and his fiancée's mother's family took into account the bad reputation and publicized the matter to the public, so they concealed it and lied to the public that they had a sudden illness and died!"
Fang Yun's eyes couldn't help but light up when he heard this, he stood up and looked at Li Hongyu and said, in this way, everything will make sense, after all, Xu Tao and Han Tai's fiancée have had many fornications, which is likely to cause her to become pregnant.
"The maid ring next to Hankook's fiancée must know something, as long as she finds her, she may be able to figure out the truth of the matter." Li Hongyu bowed slightly when he heard this, and set his target on the personal maid who was serving Hankook's fiancée, if Hankook's fiancée was pregnant, she would definitely know.
"We're not from the government, even if we find that girl, she won't tell the truth." Fang Yun's brows furrowed, thinking that this matter was not very easy to handle, it was obvious that the close-fitting girl's tone would be very tight.
"We can test her to determine whether Hankook's fiancée is pregnant!" Li Hongyu knew that this matter was tricky, after all, they were not from the government, so he said with a deep groan.
"You mean to find a way to trick him into coming to Wuchang City?" When Fang Yun heard this, he immediately understood what Li Hongyu meant, obviously it was impossible for the two of them to go to each other for questioning.
"Brother Lao Fang went to inquire and see where she was now." Li Hongyu bowed slightly, and now he had to find a way to trick him into coming to Wuchang City.
As for how to "deceive" Li Hongyu, he also thought about it, if he wanted to achieve this goal, he still had to rely on the government, otherwise it would be difficult to let the personal maid come to Wuchang City.
In fact, Li Hongyu's method is very simple, that is, after inquiring about the whereabouts of the close-fitting maid, he bribed the ruffians in Wuchang City to deliberately steal a sum of money, and then was caught by the people in the yamen and framed the close-fitting maid as an accomplice who sold stolen goods, so that the people in the yamen would send someone with an official document to arrest the close-fitting maid.
In this way, Li Hongyu "tricked" the personal maid to come to Wuchang City, and then got the opportunity to test her, so as to find out whether Hankook's fiancée was secretly fornicating with someone.
"Okay, I'll find out about this with the students in their town." Fang Yun naturally guessed Li Hongyu's intentions, so he replied in a deep voice, to be honest, he also wanted to know if Xu Tao had an affair with Han Tae's fiancée, and whether Han Taw's fiancée was poisoned.
Originally, Li Hongyu thought that this matter would take a lot of time, after all, Hankook's fiancée's personal maid ring is in Changsha Mansion, which is a long way away from Wuchang Mansion.
But the next morning, to Li Hongyu's surprise, Fang Yun actually came to visit and brought the news of Hankook's fiancée's personal ring.
What Li Hongyu didn't expect was that Hankook's fiancée's personal maid was not in Changsha Mansion, but married into a village in a town outside Wuchang City two years ago.
After going back last night, Fang Yun privately found a student in the same town as Hankook's fiancée to inquire about the news, but he didn't expect that a student would know about Hankook's fiancée, his family lived very close to Hankook's fiancée's house, so he also knew more about Hankook's fiancée's house.
According to the recollection of the student, because Han Taok's fiancée's maiden family was a big family in the town, she shocked everyone in the town when she died, and no one expected that a good person would say that it was gone.
Not long after the death of Hankook's fiancée, her personal maid was married to Wuchang Mansion, and I heard that it was the meaning of Hankook's fiancée's mother's family.
The reason why he knew about this was because the family of Han Tae's fiancée who blocked the death gave the personal maid a lot of dowries, which attracted the envy and jealousy of many people in the town at that time.
As for why the personal maid married so far and gave a rich dowry, the student didn't know, but Fang Yun immediately guessed the intention of Han Tai's fiancée's mother's family to do this, it was obvious that they were thieves and didn't want the personal maid to stay in the town, so they sent it away.
"Brother Fang, it seems that God is helping us." After learning the news from Fang Yun, Li Hongyu said to Fang Yun with a solemn expression, "Maybe Han Tae's fiancée died unjustly, so a soul of injustice lingers, and he wants to reveal the cause of his death to the world!" ”
"Brother Li, what should we do next?" Fang Yun asked in a deep voice when he heard this, he also felt that this matter was too coincidental, I am afraid that the maiden family of Han Taek's fiancée would never have imagined that they would be self-defeating, making things even more complicated.
"Invite her to Wuchang City!" Li Hongyu's eyes flashed, and he looked at Fang Yun quietly and said, he couldn't wait to see the personal ring, which was undoubtedly the key figure in the cause of Hankook's fiancée's death.
"Brother Fang, there is one more thing to have Brother Lao Fang." Then, Li Hongyu remembered something and said to Brother Fang, "In the case of Mingyue Pavilion, the red sleeves who accompanied my second brother at that time had a big suspicion, I suspect that she helped Han Tai, I wonder if Brother Fang can inquire about the relationship between the two." ”
"I've already inquired in the past two days, and I heard from people who took the last township exam that Hankook and Red Sleeves didn't know each other three years ago, and the girl with red sleeves hadn't entered Mingyue Pavilion at that time, she was a show girl from Embroidery Village, and later she was sold into Mingyue Pavilion because of her father's gambling addiction, and then became the red card of Mingyue Pavilion."
Fang Yun pondered for a while when he heard this, and said, since Li Hongyu suspected that Han Tai had killed Xu Tao, then he naturally wanted to investigate the relationship between Red Sleeves and Han Tai, but he found nothing.
"Red Sleeves isn't the Qingqi of Mingyue Pavilion?" Hearing this, Li Hongyu couldn't help but be slightly stunned, looking quite surprised.
He always thought that Red Sleeves was a Qingqi person from Mingyue Pavilion, but he didn't expect it to be a halfway debut, which really surprised him.
The so-called Qingqi people are high-level prostitutes cultivated by Qinglou since childhood, and they have received all kinds of training since they were children, and their purpose is naturally to better please men.
"Red Sleeves is also a hard-working person, there is such a gambler father, otherwise he would not have fallen here." Fang Yun couldn't help but sigh when he heard this, but everyone in the Qinglou has a tragic life experience.
Li Hongyu bowed slightly when he heard this, and at the same time his brows couldn't help frowning, feeling that the direction of his investigation of Red Sleeves had deviated.
He previously thought that Red Sleeves would be bought by someone to help kill Xu Tao, so he asked Wang Tieniu to find out who Red Sleeves had been in contact with before the Mingyue Pavilion case, especially after learning that Han Tai might be the real murderer, let people check whether Han Tai had met Red Sleeves in private.
Li Hongyu has always had a doubt, he never understood why Red Sleeves would intervene in the case of Mingyue Pavilion, and a red card girl like Red Sleeves should not be short of money.
Now that he learned that Red Sleeves was sold into Mingyue Pavilion by his father, he couldn't help but become interested in Red Sleeves' life experience, and decided to start from Red Sleeves' life experience to investigate, maybe he could have unexpected gains.