"The slave family and Lord Tang are old acquaintances, about thirty years ago, when the slave family was only a teenager, just came to Chanjuan Pavilion, Lord Tang was only named on the gold list not long ago, and he was a master in the household department.

One day, the slave family accidentally spilled wine on a nobleman, and the nobleman was furious and threatened to discount the slave's legs, but fortunately, Lord Tang and several colleagues were present and helped the slave family solve the disaster, and the slave family was spared.

Since then, the slave family has been by his side because of the kindness of Lord Tang, and he has gradually regarded the slave family as a caring person, and often confides in the slave family about some matters. ”

After slightly calming Hong'er's emotions, she finally wiped her tears while telling the past between her and Tang Jiuguang.

It turned out that after the two met, Tang Jiuguang just began to make a fortune, and Tang Jiuguang, who had been suppressed in the officialdom for a long time, was gradually attracted by Hong'er's gentleness and thoughtfulness, and led her to be a confidant.

Tang Jiuguang has never been married to her, but he is willing to chat with her all night, and then slowly find himself in Hong'er's gentle comfort, and continue to work hard in the deceitful officialdom.

During this period, Tang Jiuguang wanted to redeem Hong'er several times, but Hong'er was worried about affecting Tang Jiuguang's career and never agreed, and this deformed relationship has been maintained for nearly 30 years.

This is also the reason why Tang Jiuguang insisted on giving Hong'er 1,000 taels of silver every month when his finances were extremely difficult.

"What happened to Tang Jiuguang in the last six months?"

Liu Haofei asked.

Hong'er shook her head: "Lord Tang never tells me about officialdom, just about family affairs, or about his feelings, and the slave family doesn't know what he has encountered."

However, he did encounter something terrible, became a little moody, once drank too much wine and even cried all night in front of the slave family, and finally asked the slave family if I would be sad if he died. ”

"Do you remember exactly when he had this change?"

Liu Haofei asked.

Hong'er pondered for a moment and said: "It seems that it was around the time of the imperial court's conquest of the Southern Dynasty, by the way, at that time, it was rumored that the imperial court was defeated in the Southern Dynasty, and that was that time. ”

Xu Rui and Liu Haofei glanced at each other and confirmed that the time of the accident should be the time of Jingyang's defeat, which was exactly more than half a year ago.

Hong'er continued: "Later, things didn't seem to be going well, and Lord Tang's mood became more and more depressed, about two months ago, he told me that he was in big trouble, and he didn't know if he could get through this hurdle.

I saw that he was discouraged and seemed to have completely lost the sharpness of the year, so I persuaded him to sleep well and sort it out from the beginning, there is no threshold in the world that cannot be crossed. ”

"Does he have any hints?"

Liu Haofei asked again.

Hong'er still shook her head: "He has a lot on his mind, but he never talks about specific people or things, in fact, he came to the slave family just to change his mood and talk about the guqin and music that we are all interested in." ”

Liu Haofei shook his head in disappointment: "What happened later? What else is abnormal? ”

Hong'er said: "About half a month later, he came to the slave family again, and he came in a hurry, like there was someone waiting for him outside.

He stayed for a short time, less than half a pillar of incense before and after, but he just stuffed a bag of things for me to keep safe, saying that he must not let others know, otherwise the slave family and he will lose their lives.

He also said that if something really happened to him, someone would come to me with his token, and give him the things at that time, and if the person who came did not have the token, he must not hand over the things. ”

Xu Rui was silent for a moment, then suddenly took out a warm jade pendant and said, "Is this the token you are talking about?" ”

Hong'er's pupils shrank, and she exclaimed: "That's it, this is the token of the son-in-law handed down by Lord Tang's ancestors, how can it be on you, are you the person Lord Tang said?!" ”

As soon as these words came out, not only Hong'er, but even Liu Haofei looked at him in shock, not understanding why he was able to take out this token.

Xu Rui sighed and said, "It's a pity that I'm not the person Lord Tang said he was, this is what I found on the murdered maid on the day the Tang Mansion was haunted."

At that time, I just thought it was strange that this jade pendant was worth a lot of money, how could a maid carry it with her, and why the murderer would take such a big risk to create that secret room murder in front of everyone.

Now it seems that she is Tang Jiuguang's backhand, I am afraid that she knows a lot of insiders, and it is no accident that she can avoid the murder case, the murderer must be to kill people and kill people, so he will perform that haunted show. ”

"What, the man is dead?"

Hong'er exclaimed, two lines of tears burst out of her eyes, and Liu Haofei on the side also changed his face slightly, and his face was very ugly.

Xu Rui nodded: "According to what you said, Tang Jiuguang should have realized that his life is short, so he will leave a back hand, now hand over the things to me, maybe we can find clues from it and give him justice." ”

Hong'er wiped the tears from her face, nodded, and stood up to untie her belt.

Xu Rui was stunned: "What are you going to do?" ”

Hong'er's face was slightly red and said, "That thing is too important, and the slave family has always carried it with me." ”

As she spoke, she tore open her belly pocket, took out two pieces of white cloth wrapped in a roll from it and handed them to Xu Rui, then quickly put on her clothes and fastened her belt.

Xu Rui and Liu Haofei naturally didn't have the heart to appreciate the moment of spring, their eyes were attracted by the two white cloths on their hands.

They unfolded the white cloth and took a closer look, only to see that the white cloth looked like a long scroll of paintings, with dense symbols written on it, like countless earthworms, and they couldn't understand it.

"It's ......"

Liu Haofei stared at the two white cloths suspiciously, but he still couldn't see the reason.

Xu Rui also frowned, and said lightly: "It's a code, the first piece of white cloth should be something like an account book, and the second piece is not very clear." ”

"How do you know that the first piece of white cloth is a ledger, and have you cracked the code on it?"

Liu Haofei said strangely.

"Because the code on the first white cloth changes the law very similar to a bookkeeping method used in the Xiaguan Shimen."

Xu Rui said lightly.

It turned out that although Xu Rui couldn't read the code on the white cloth for the time being, he found that the arrangement of those symbols was very similar to the double-entry accounting method of another world.

The so-called double-entry accounting method means that the occurrence of any economic business will cause at least two items of assets and liabilities to increase or decrease, and the amount of increase or decrease is equal.

Accordingly, each economic transaction should be reflected in equal amounts and registered in at least two relevant accounts at the same time.

This method of registering every economic transaction in two or more interconnected accounts for an equal amount is called double-entry accounting.

Some of the symbolic trajectories on the first white cloth are very peculiar, almost the same as the double-entry method of registering two or more accounts that are linked to each other for equal amounts.

Only then did Xu Rui conclude that the first piece of white cloth should be a ledger.

Liu Haofei originally wanted to ask more carefully, but because of Hong'er's presence, he had to suppress the curiosity in his heart first.

Xu Rui also felt that now was not a good time to study these two white cloths, so he put the two white cloths away and said to Hong'er: "I'll put away the things, don't worry, I will definitely try my best to solve the case of the Tang family's annihilation." ”

Hong'er nodded, thinking of Tang Jiuguang's tragic death, and couldn't help but wet her eyes again.

Xu Rui sighed and said, "You come with me now, once this matter spreads, you will become very dangerous, I will find you a safe place, and then send someone to protect you until the case is solved." ”

"Will anyone come and kill the slaves?"

Hong'er asked in shock.

Xu Rui nodded: "Anyone who has seen these two pieces of white cloth will be in danger, including me." ”

Hong'er's face changed slightly, and she nodded again.

Finally got the clues of the case, Xu Rui and Liu Haofei immediately took Hong'er and left Chanjuan Pavilion, and explained that the bustard kept it strictly confidential.

The old bustard was most afraid of accidents, so he naturally agreed, but no one paid attention, and when they left Chanjuan Pavilion, there were always a pair of eyes staring at all this in the dark.