Chapter 467: A Letter Explains Cause and Effect
There were many fewer fetters along the way, so I naturally accelerated the speed of the trip, and arrived in Fuzhou a few days later.
Today's Fuwang Mansion has been directly changed to Anlehou Mansion by Bailifeng, who went to Fuzhou in advance. Although Ye Yu didn't like the name of the marquis, he still had no choice but to bear it.
In the old palace, it was as good as before, especially the quiet Buddhist hall in the palace.
Fu King Zhao Zhuo rebelled and died, and his family and relatives should be implicated, but Ye Yu came forward to protect Liu Qianyu at the same time, naturally he also protected the princess Liu.
Although Ye Yu and the Liu family have no intersection, they are Liu Qianyu's aunt after all, and he must take due protective measures at the level of this relationship.
Therefore, the Liu family has always lived in the mansion, and now that Ye Yu has moved in, he still regards the Liu family as an elder.
Many trivial matters in Fuzhou, Ye Yu has asked Bailifeng to act as an agent in advance, and there are not many decisions on other important matters.
His function as a pacifier is to purge the rebellion of the rebellious party, but if it is taken seriously, it will be reduced to inferiority.
How could Ye Yu not know that this was a strategy by Zhao Yan to let him go away from the center of power in the capital, although he didn't understand why this father treated him like this, but coming to Fuzhou to purge the chaotic party was just an excuse.
Therefore, Ye Yu, who came to Fuzhou, honestly became a happy marquis, Fuzhou is a rich land, and this fertile land also has good conditions for the development of its own forces.
A month after Ye Yu arrived in Fuzhou, a letter was delivered to his desk.
This is a letter sent by Yue Chen from Shaoxing, which explains in detail the facts of the Fengqiao Town case. And after reading the facts of the case, Ye Yu was secretly embarrassed.
When he went to Jing'an Xuan that day to find the master of Jing'an Xuan to understand the mystery in the painting, Shen Tongwen once mentioned a person named Meng Lezhong. According to what Shen Tongwen said at the time, the person who asked for help from Miss Zhang Qiuyu was this Lang Zhong named Meng Lezhong.
As Shen Tongwen said, there is indeed a person named Meng Lezhong in Fenglin Town, and he did die of illness a year ago. But after some investigation, it was finally found out that Meng Lezhong was not dead.
Instead, he cut his hair and became a monk, and he became a monk of Hanshan Temple!
As for why Meng Lezhong became a monk after faking his death, this is all because Shen Tongwen did not tell the truth completely.
Because of the painting in Zhangfuyuan that day, Zhang Qiuyu handed the note in Shen Tongwen's hand, which did not have the name Meng Lezhong, but the note said that he Shen Tongwen asked for help.
It's a pity that this note didn't let Zhang Qiuyu get what he wanted, but caused the Zhang family to suffer a catastrophe......
Because Shen Tongwen was born suave and suave, and he is a versatile and elegant person, in fact, the two have long had mutual admiration.
Shen Tongwen also mentioned marriage to Zhang Huai, and Zhang Huai saw that Shen Tongwen was also young and talented, and the most important thing was that his daughter also liked it very much, so he agreed to the marriage.
However, just when Shen Tongwen was preparing for the marriage period, he learned from the note that Zhang Qiuyu privately passed that Zhang Huai wanted to marry his daughter to a high-ranking official in the capital as a concubine.
Shen Tongwen came to theorize several times, but was driven out by the servants of the Zhang family.
In the end, Shen Tongwen, who was ruthless, bought a medicinal herb called Tao Qianzi in Meng Lezhong's pharmacy.
Then sneaked into the backyard of Zhang's house at night and poured an appropriate amount of this medicine into the household well water.
The peach money itself is a highly poisonous medicinal material, and eating it by mistake will kill people if it is only three cents, and the symptoms after the poison are exactly the same as the plague, and outsiders can't tell the difference at all.
Therefore, the plague of the Zhang family more than a year ago was actually not a plague, but the poison of peach money.
Shen Tongwen is engaged in antique calligraphy and painting, and is very familiar with the Tu Haojin brothers of the county government. Shen Tongwen knew that this kind of thing was a plague for laymen, but it was nothing to hide for the county government.
Therefore, Shen Tongwen used the huge wealth of the Zhang family as a bait to pull the Tu Haojin brothers into the water, so that Tu Haojin, who was the magistrate of the county, completely covered up the matter for Shen Tongwen.
Tu Haojin also got his wish and occupied all the shops of the Zhang family, which can be described as a wolf bรจi taking what he needs.
The Zhang family was poisoned and destroyed, but only Zhang Huai's daughter Zhang Qiuyu survived!
This is not because Zhang Qiuyu's fortune is great, but because Shen Tongwen secretly transported the body back to his home afterwards, and gave Zhang Qiuyu the antidote to Tao Qianzi.
However, due to the delay of time and the toxicity of peach money, Zhang Qiuyu, who took the antidote, turned gray overnight, and made the skin pale and the sequelae of cold body temperature.
After waking up, Zhang Qiuyu, after knowing that his family died at the hands of Shen Tongwen, was going to go to court with Shen Tongwen, but the chronic poison in his body was controlled by others, and the county government government was in collusion with Shen Tongwen, so Zhang Qiuyu fell into despair.
In order to hide people's eyes and ears, and also to be able to take the Zhang family's mansion as his own in the future, Shen Tongwen staged an absurd ghost incident.
The occurrence of the ghost incident not only made the official uniform people avoid it, but even the rest of the people who wanted to fight the idea of the Zhang family's mansion also dispelled this idea one after another.
Even if the haunted house is luxurious, someone has to live in it. So this gave Shen Tongwen the opportunity to occupy the land cheaply.
But Ye Yu's sudden appearance completely disrupted Shen Tongwen's beautiful plan.
And the person pretending to be a fox demon is actually Shen Tongwen!
sneaked into the Zhang family's mansion that night, in fact, he already had the intention of killing Ye Yu, because he could see that Ye Yu was not afraid of ghosts and gods.
It's a pity that he miscalculated one point, that is, Ye Yu, who looks like a weak scholar, is so skilled.
He Shen Tongwen was conceited that his martial arts skills were not bad, but he was not Ye Yu's opponent, so he fled from the Zhang family's mansion in a panic unexpectedly.
As for Meng Lezhong in Langzhong, after learning that the Zhang family suffered from the plague and was wiped out, he always had doubts in his heart, because as Langzhong, he knew a lot about the plague, and the spread of the plague was only one family, and this kind of targeted plague was obviously a very strange thing.
As for the rumors that the Zhang family was punished by heaven, Meng Lezhong was even more skeptical.
Therefore, Meng Lezhong was very concerned about the destruction of the Zhang family, and found that the well water in the courtyard of the Zhang family contained a trace amount of peach money.
This discovery made Meng Lezhong immediately lock on to Shen Tongwen. Because the medicinal herb of peach money, like arsenic, is a kind of thing that is stored in pharmacies but rarely bought.
Therefore, as for who has bought peach money, Meng Lezhong is naturally more impressed.
Meng Lezhong wanted to report the matter to the county government out of integrity, but he was killed by the county government officials.
Not only that, but he was assassinated at night, and finally fell into the river after being stabbed twice.
After drifting along the river for a day, at the fork of the river in Hanshan Temple, he was rescued by the abbot of Hanshan Temple at that time. Shortly thereafter, the old abbot died of illness, and Meng Lezhong became the abbot of Hanshan Temple by mistake.
Xuan Jing, but seeking a tranquility, this may be a portrayal of Meng Lezhong's state of mind after becoming a monk.
And Ye Yu was depressed when he heard the sound of Xuan Jingqin's piano in Hanshan Temple that day, in fact, Xuan Jing still did not forget the truth of the Zhang family's extermination, but he could only become a monk to protect himself.
And Ye Yu was able to see Xuan Jing's abnormality, and the reason why he deduced that Xuan Jing was related to the Zhang family's extermination case was that the two people in the meditation room had a conversation with each other.
Because between the two of them, Ye Yu could clearly feel that Xuan Jing had conveyed another message to him, that is, the Zhang family's ghost theory was nothing more than nothing, and the mystery had to be explored to solve the puzzle.
And when Shen Tongwen mentioned Meng Lezhong's identity in Jing'an Xuan, this made Ye Yu suddenly think of Master Xuanjing in Hanshan Temple, who was dressed in clean monk clothes, but still exuded a faint smell of herbs.
If a person has been in a profession for a long time, there must be some unique symbol on his body. Meng Lezhong was originally a Lang Zhong who opened a pharmacy, and it can be said that he lived in medicinal materials all year round.
Therefore, this special smell that has been carried for many years is something that ordinary people do not have.
Just like when he Ye Yu's feet were crippled, Qiulan didn't pour a decoction into his stomach, and after a long time, he faintly smelled of medicinal herbs.
However, at that time, Ye Yuguan Xuanjing's body was not as healthy as a person suffering from a hidden disease, so the greatest possibility was that he was accompanied by medicinal materials all year round.
After Yue Chen's investigation, according to the clues provided by Ye Yu, Xuan Jing, a monk from Hanshan Temple, had already come forward to explain the reason, and Zhang Qiuyu, the female ghost hidden in the Zhang family's mansion, also officially went to court with Shen Tongwen.
It was precisely because of the testimony of the two that it was learned that the county Tu Haojin and Shen Tongwen pleaded guilty one after another.
Not only that, after the trial of this case, the long-standing backlog of many homicide cases in Yi'an County was also used to get a clear verdict one by one.
After reading the dossier-like letter, Ye Yu smiled: "I didn't expect that a ghost matter would involve so many civil cases, this Tu Haojin and Tu Caizhu brothers are really evil and harmful to the township!" โ
As he spoke, he looked up and saw that the messenger who delivered the letter had not left, so he wondered, "Is there anything else?" โ
"Back to the Hou Ye, this time the prefect also asked the little one to send one!"
"Oh, give it away, who?"
Ye Yu was immediately confused when he heard this, he was not short of manpower here, what kind of reputation did this Yue Chen do.
"Master Hou, it's a servant......"
"Servant?"
Ye Yu was speechless and wanted to refuse, but it was not easy to send someone over thousands of miles, so he shook his head and said, "Well, you will hand over the servant to the housekeeper in the house to arrange!" โ
"Yes, the villain is retired!"
After the messenger left the study, Ye Yu got up and came to the windowsill and stroked a guqin with his hand, which was given to him by Xuan Jing, the abbot of Hanshan Temple.
Ye Yu casually held up the body of the piano, but did not play, but suddenly held both ends with both hands, and his arms suddenly tried to break the body of the piano.
The sound of the strings breaking one after another was endless, followed by a click, and the xylophone broke in two.