Chapter 347: Chasing the Wind and Shadows
Lu Jinji lost his temper, and he didn't even have the heart to eat the meat that he had finally smuggled into prison, and repeatedly scolded the newspaper for being unscrupulous, and even made up such rumors. How do you know that some jailers are really upset when they hear it, so they said: "Master Lu, don't scold, the news in the newspaper is boiling, and it is said that something may not be groundless, even if this matter is a rumor, if you don't have a ghost in your heart, where are you afraid of him?" ”
Listening to the jailer's words, Lu Jinji seemed to be a little more relieved, but he still paced back and forth in the cell restlessly, muttering to himself.
"Yes, yes, I have a clear conscience, and I care about those rumors!"
But when he said this, his face became more and more wrong, and after a long period of uncertainty, he seemed to have finally made up his mind, and stepped forward to put the iron fence of the thickness of the cell's forearm, and shouted at the jailer:
"This brother, this brother, can you work again......"
The jailer seemed to be in a very good mood, and said with a smile: "Master Lu, what you said politely, and you still work hard, even if you have something to order." "The jailer, who was fed with silver, naturally responded to Lukingi's request, and told him that as long as it was not a violation of the regulations, let alone one thing, even three or four things would be fine.
"Can the labor brothers bring someone in?"
Hearing that Lu Jinji asked him to bring a living person in, the jailer's face immediately changed, and he waved his hand and shook his head again and again.
"This is not true, this is not successful, the villain does not dare, in case it is discovered, losing his job is a trivial matter, in case he is repeatedly held criminally responsible, who can the villain's wife, children and mother count on to go! No, no, no......"
The jailer kept refusing, and what he said was true, but Lu Jinji didn't accept this stubble at all, there was nothing in his eyes that money couldn't do, and he didn't dare, but the price of violating the regulations was not tempting enough.
"One thousand taels, one thousand taels of silver, as long as the little brother brings someone in, Lu will allow you another thousand taels of silver!"
"What? Extremely? ”
The jailer was dumbfounded, he rubbed his eyes and rubbed his ears for fear that he had heard it wrong, so he stammered hesitantly and asked, "Lu, Master Lu, you, what you said is a thousand taels?" At the same time, he exaggeratedly stretched out a finger and shook it in front of Lu Jinji's eyes.
"It's true, as long as you bring people in, a thousand taels of silver will be yours!"
One thousand taels of silver is for a small role like a jailer, even if he makes money and earns three lifetimes, he can't make so much money, no wonder he lost his temper, but he still confirmed it uneasily.
"Isn't Master Lu a fool?"
"What are you doing, Lu Mou will write a letter now, you can go to see this person by letter, and wait for him to pay a thousand taels of silver, how about bringing him to prison?"
With that, Lu Jinji opened the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone and splashed ink, and in a moment he wrote a letter, signed his name, stamped it with a seal, folded it, and handed it to the jailer. Although Lu Jinji was a prisoner, the government still gave him a certain amount of tolerance, allowing him to carry pen, ink, paper, and inkstones, and if necessary, he could record the crimes he wanted to confess to on paper one by one, but it came in handy.
The jailer was an old man who had joined the army when the Three Guards were in the town, and after settling in Taiyuan, he even brought his family members who were stranded in the north, and because he had no land, all his income was all dependent on the income of the jailer. And the jailer felt that he was assigned to the prison, became the cell leader, and did such a promising errand, although he was disappointed, he had to conscientiously keep his duty and be a good jailer for the sake of the family's livelihood. How could such a state of mind be able to resist the Lu family's silver money attack, and he didn't even have the strength to fight back in front of the silver.
The allure of a thousand taels of silver was too great, and even if he lost this errand because of it, the silver money he earned would be enough to live the rest of his life happily. Take 10,000 steps back, even if he goes to prison for this, so what? The old mother and wife can eat and wear without worrying with this money.
With this assurance, the jailer worked very hard to get things done, and immediately left the prison and went straight to the inner city. Originally, he couldn't enter the inner city with such an identity, but fortunately, the guards in the inner city were also old soldiers of the town guards, and they happened to know the jailer.
They were all old brothers who had been killed together in the sea of corpses and blood, and after a few words of greeting, the guard let the jailer enter the inner city without even asking what he meant. According to Lu Jinji's explanation, he came to Lu Mansion to find the gatekeeper of Xibianmen, asked him to secretly go to the housekeeper Lu Fu, and then handed the letter to Lu Fu himself.
"The jailer in the Lower Military Police Prison was entrusted by Master Lu to see Steward Lu, please pass it on!"
The janitor looked him up and down with cold eyes and went to the door, but the janitor came back to him in a moment.
"Steward Lu is not here, please come back at another time, if there is anything important, leave a message, and when Steward Lu comes back, I will let you know!"
"When will Steward Lu come back?"
"There is no fixed number!"
The jailer was anxious at that time, Master Lu's request was to bring people back before dark, and it looked like it was going to be dark, but he couldn't find the housekeeper named Lu Fu, and the thousand taels of silver to his mouth flew like this, who could be willing to change it? Then he asked without giving up: "Do you know where Steward Lu went?" I went to look for him below, there was really an emergency! ”
The gatekeeper asked coldly, "What's the urgency?" Just leave a message! Where did Steward Lu go, how could he repay someone of our status? ”
The jailer was worried, thinking that what he said was also reasonable, the role of housekeeper Lu in the Lu family was also above 10,000 people under one person, how could he tell a handyman guarding the door about his whereabouts? I just wanted to say something more, but I only heard a loud voice, and the gatekeeper had already closed the door and ignored him.
The prison officer's chest was cold, and it seemed that the thousand taels of silver in his hand were lost, so he had to go to the outer city in despair and despair, but when he was about to reach the south gate of the inner city, he heard a voice calling him from afar.
said that it was to call him, but it was because the entire long street was extremely deserted, and there was no second person around him.
"Brother, that brother wait!"
The jailer turned around in surprise and saw a short and fat middle-aged man panting after him.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, in Xia Lufu, I was forced by the shape before, and I was entangled in mundane affairs, so I had to see each other outside the house."
The short and fat man rushed to the jailer's side, and was busy apologizing, and he couldn't even breathe and asked, "Old, sir, what is the important matter with my brother?" ”
The jailer was overjoyed when he heard that it was Steward Lu, but he suddenly became alert, and asked with a straight face: "Please also show evidence that can prove that you are Steward Lu!" ”
The implication is that how do I know if you are real or fake, and if you are an impersonator, wouldn't you be tricked?
The short and fat man smiled embarrassedly, "Who doesn't know that this inner city is Lu Fu, your question is stumped!" ”
It just so happened that three Junjun soldiers passed by and greeted the Humpty Dumpty man, which made the jailer's hanging heart relax and show him Lu Jinji's handwritten letter.
Humpty Dumpty looked at it a few times, and his face became more and more gloomy, but he raised his eyes and said with a forced smile: "It turns out that the strong man has been taking care of the master all these days, please accept Lu Fu's worship!" "Please follow me to the outer city to get money!" ”
The jailer said in his heart, this person was obviously in the Lu Mansion just now, but he said that he was not there, if he did it intentionally, he was afraid that someone in the mansion would peep into the clues, and he couldn't help but shake his head when he thought of this......
Late that night, Lu Jinji met Lu Fu in prison, and the two talked for a long time, and the jailer listened clearly. He is not stupid, he can't avoid this moment, he wants to hear clearly what these two people are saying, in case it is a secret discussion that is unfavorable to the Three Guards, he will not hesitate to inform the gendarmes, after all, he is still a member of the Three Guards, and a thousand taels of silver cannot let him betray his conscience.
However, the center of conversation between these two people has always revolved around one person, that is, Zhou Zhijie. Lu Fu recounted the fact that Lu went to see Zhou Zhijie in person, and it took half an hour before he came out in a hurry, and no one knew what happened in the Zhou Mansion during this time. Later, he also personally bought the concierge of the Zhou family, and the news he learned was that Zhou Zhijie and the Lu family had done something wrong. Then, the rumor that Lu Dagongzi was the evil seed of Zhou Zhijie was very popular in Taiyuan City.
Lu Jinji was excited, and confirmed with Lu Fu several times, but the answers he got made his heart cold to the extreme. He sat down on the filthy floor of his cell, waving tiredly for Lu Fu to leave. Lu Fu couldn't help but tell Master Lu a few words, and then turned to leave.
The jailer was dumbfounded, Lu Jinji spent a huge sum of 1,000 taels of silver to make him take a huge risk to bring Lu Fu in, just to confirm whether his mother-in-law had misbehaved, this result is too incredible. According to ordinary people's thinking, the first thing we should do is to dispel rumors and set the record straight. Could it be that the jailer's heart moved, could it be that Lu Zhaolin is really Zhou Zhijie's evil seed? He glanced pitifully at Lu Jinji, whose face was full of dejection, which had never been seen even after all the humiliation he had suffered in the days he had been imprisoned.
He speculated that this Master Lu must still know some secrets that ordinary people don't know, and I'm afraid that after several confirmations, he finally confirmed his suspicions!
The jailer sighed, and shook his head secretly, he is also a poor man, his son who has been raised for more than 20 years, and what is even more ridiculous is that a few days ago, this old man Lu was still desperately trying to take the blame for that evil seed, the world is ridiculous, how ironic!
The next day, the case of Lu's father and son took a heavy turn, and Lu Jinji's previous rush to admit guilt was denied by him one by one, and even the demolition of the Zhang family's house was pushed to his son Lu Zhaolin.
Lu Jinji claimed that the house was originally Lu Zhaolin's favor, and all the evil deeds were personally operated by him, but it was just a fox and a fake tiger in his own name!
The subtleties of the turning point of the case, the people immediately understood, it seems that what the "Taiyuan Afternoon News" said may not be chasing the wind and catching shadows!