"Third child, that's how you did it, I arranged an errand for you? Makes your big brother nervous, right? ”

When Master Zhou learned of the situation, he hurried to the scene and scolded Zhou Qingming.

After he finished scolding, he called the abbot of Fuguang Temple: "Master, what's going on?" ”

The abbot's face was abruptly slammed into ash by the fire, and he tried his best to hide the panic in his heart: "Master Zhou, we have never encountered such a situation in our practice, and the automatic burning of the treasure building is an unprecedented thing. ”

Master Zhou snorted angrily, "How much sesame oil money does our Zhou family donate in Fuguang Temple every year, and you are actually ineffective in doing things like this, and my son will not be able to rest in peace!" ”

When the abbot heard this, his heart became even more uneasy.

Master Zhou was angry, and if the Zhou family did not donate sesame oil money to the temple in the future, the income of the temple would be greatly reduced, and Fuguang Temple would face a hard life. For the sake of the rich livelihood of the temple, the abbot thought that he could not take the blame for this matter.

The abbot bowed and said: "Amitabha, Master Zhou, today is the fifth and seventh day of the eldest young master, and the Dharma for two hours is safe and sound, only when the third young master burns the scriptures, the fire breaks out, and the old man feels that the eldest young master is concerned and does not want to leave, so he burned the mourning hall with a yin fire." ”

The abbot took advantage of the strange fire to throw the pot metaphorically to Zhou Qingming.

Master Zhou groaned, "Are you saying that the eldest young master died unjustly?" Or is it that the third young master ......"

The abbot achieved his goal, and did not say anything about Master Zhao's words, and deliberately left blank space to cause more suspicion.

When Master Zhou returned to Zhou's mansion from the capital, Zhou Jinming had been dead for several days, and Mrs. Zhou told him that Zhou Jinming had been killed by a girl named Sister Su, and that girl had been executed by Zhou Qingming.

The second young grandmother Tan Suyun and the third young master Zhou Qingming, as well as the entire Zhou Mansion, can testify, and he believes this fact.

Hearing the abbot's words at this moment, I couldn't help but be suspicious.

Even if Sister Su killed her eldest son, why didn't she wait until he came back to be executed? Is there really something hidden in this?

After the flames were extinguished, only the black remnants of the mourning hall remained, and Zhou Jinming's spiritual position had been burned off in half, falling to the ground, and the statue had fallen into the water-stained dust.

Zhou Jinming's posthumous portrait is a photo of him when he was young, and half of it was burned by the fire at this moment, as if it was destined in the dark, and only half of his face was left in the posthumous portrait, exactly the same as when he was alive, one eye stared straight at Master Zhou, as if he wanted to tell some grievances.

"Qingming, call your second brother to my study!"

Master Zhou gave an order, Zhou Qingming couldn't help but feel frightened, and his eyes also touched half of Zhou Jinming's posthumous portrait, is it really the soul of the eldest brother who is unwilling to leave?

After Master Zhou left, the monks of Fuguang Temple also dispersed, leaving only the maids and servants to clean up the mess.

When Sister Su was cleaning, she carefully cleaned the dust in the mourning hall, carefully checked the traces of the scene, and felt that she couldn't see the phosphorus powder she put in at all, so she breathed a sigh of relief.

She originally wanted to rely on the rise in temperature to make the treasure burn automatically, but she didn't expect that the fire when Zhou Qingming burned the scriptures helped her, and it was just right to make the treasure burn.

She picked up Zhou Jinming's portrait, her eyes showed ruthlessness, and an imperceptible sneer flowed from the corner of her mouth.

"Young Master, you have a grudge, I have a grudge, don't resent me for burning your mourning hall, Zhou Qingming hurt you, I will let your other eye close too. This fire makes you unable to rest in peace, you can only blame you for the Zhou family, and it is your retribution for your shameless and filthy actions to me, the Zhou family has not been at peace since then, this is just the beginning of ......"

These words, she could only mutter silently in her heart, and at the same time imagined Zhou Qingming's tragic situation in Master Zhou at the moment

Master Zhou's study is simple and elegant, with dense books on the huge shelves, neat as new, and spotless.

The Zhou family has been in business for generations, and they are all goods without ink in their stomachs, and the study room is arranged like this in order to satisfy a sense of psychological satisfaction, making a fake pedant posture full of sweat.

The tea on the desk curled up a thin smoke, wafting in front of Master Zhou's fat cheeks, and he tasted a little tea before raising his eyes to look at the two sons in front of him.

Although Master Zhou has never read a book, but he is particularly fascinated by feng shui and the like, when the eldest young master was born, he met a fortune teller, saying that Master Zhou will have five sons in his life, representing the five elements, if these five sons are stable, the foundation of the Zhou family will go to the next level.

Master Zhou believed the fortune teller's words, and had planned to name his sons after gold, wood, water, fire and earth.

The eldest son of the original wife province is Zhou Jinming, and the current Mrs. Zhou is filling the house, giving birth to the second young master Zhou Chenming and the third young master Zhou Qingming.

Thinking of the fourth, Master Zhou frowned slightly, if he hadn't been drunk, he wouldn't have given birth to this evil seed, and he would have turned his back on the Zhou family without becoming an adult.

Aunt Song gave birth to the old five years old, who was still young.

Now that the eldest son has passed away, only Zhou Chenming and the third Zhou Qingming can help themselves in the house, although the two brothers are compatriots of the same mother, but their personalities have been very different since they were children, and they have been fighting openly and secretly.

The words of the fortune teller appeared in the ears of Master Zhou at this moment, the stability of the five sons can make the Zhou family more developed, as soon as Zhou Jinming died, such a strange thing appeared again, and he couldn't help but be suspicious.

After all, the eldest son Zhou Jinming became a human being and a ghost for the sake of the Zhou family, and he couldn't let him die with resentment.

"You have to remember that if it weren't for your eldest brother, the Zhou family might have ceased to exist, let alone become the richest man in Jinling, and your eldest brother of the Zhou family would have suffered a lot. You are also clear about what happened at today's water and land puja, your eldest brother is not at ease, Chenming, Qingming, should you tell me the truth about your eldest brother's affairs? ”

The second young master, Zhou Chenming, is steady and serious, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, handsome lines, and his face is somewhat similar to that of Master Zhou.

"In the days after my eldest brother's death, I was assigned by the lord of the clan to sort out the accounts of the tax paid by merchants at all levels in the province, and I never returned to my home, and when I knew about it, the girl who killed the eldest brother was dead."

Master Zhou quietly took another sip of tea: "Third child, you handled this matter, the abbot of Fuguang Temple said that your eldest brother was thinking about something, do you know?" ”

Zhou Qingming's feminine appearance is because he is similar to Mrs. Zhou, and when he heard Master Zhou's questioning, he pretended to be innocent.

"Dad, the girl who killed the eldest brother was executed overnight and thrown into the Yangtze River, her body may have been eaten by the fish and shrimp at the bottom of the river, I have avenged the eldest brother, there is nothing that the eldest brother can't let go?"

Master Zhou raised the doubts he had always hidden in his heart, "But I heard that you interrogated that girl, and when your eldest brother died, she confessed that your second brother had entered your eldest brother's room. ”

Zhou Qingming's face was slightly happy, "Dad, this is indeed what the girl said, I didn't believe it at the time, but the girl insisted that she saw the green bamboo pattern on the corner of the second brother's clothes." ”

Zhou Chenming's face showed slight displeasure, and he replied calmly: "Dad, the third child's words are really biased, I worked in the mansion of the lord of the clan that day, and I never came back at all, and the master in the mansion of the lord of the clan can testify for me." ”

Master Zhou nodded, "I have already investigated, and the master of the Fantai Mansion can indeed prove that Chen Ming did not leave the Fantai Mansion that night." What I don't understand is why that girl insists on you, and whether you have had a holiday with that girl before. ”

Zhou Chenming replied: "I've never seen that girl, and the third brother doesn't know what's going on, so I take the nonsense of a girl who killed the eldest brother seriously." ”

Zhou Qingming immediately refuted: "Could it be that the second brother thinks that I deliberately framed you?" ”

Zhou Chenming hid a needle in his mian, and said indifferently: "I don't think so, it's your own thought, a few days ago, my father was not at home, I was not at home, and the Zhou family is not all up to you." ”

Master Zhou couldn't help but feel unhappy when he saw his two sons fighting each other like this, and in order to find out the truth of the matter, he listened to their arguments.

Zhou Qingming didn't mean to give in at all, "Second brother, what do you mean by this?" Even if you have the master of the feudal mansion to testify, have you ever slept in the same room as the master? If you sneak out in the middle of the night, who knows? ”

Zhou Chenming smiled, "Third child, you can go to the Qinhuai River to write a story, you are very talented in making up plots, and it is not in vain that you are often nostalgic for the land of Qinhuai." ”

"Second brother, what do you mean? When have I ever been to that pickled place? ”

"No one in Jinling City knows about the third child, your romance in the Qinhuai River."

Master Zhou watched them quarrel like this, and they got to the land of fireworks, and the more he talked, the more he didn't like it, he really suspected that they were not brothers of the same mother, and he really couldn't bear it.

"Stop arguing! The Zhou family has descendants like you, are they worthy of their ancestors and ancestors? Old Man Zhou's beard was straight, he stared at his two sons, and felt that there would be no result if it went on like this, now that Zhou Jinming is dead, the stability of the Zhou family's foundation is the most important thing, Master Zhou interrupted them sharply, pondered for a while and said: "Last time I went to Beijing to meet the regent, I wanted to ask for an official and a half-post to glorify the lintel of our Zhou family, but I didn't expect such a thing to happen at home." Your brothers are so discordant, why did our Zhou family gain a foothold in Jinling? ”

Zhou Qingming explained: "It was precisely because of my father's request for an official that I quickly dealt with the eldest brother's matter and killed the girl, so as not to have a bad impact on the Zhou family and cause unnecessary trouble to my father's future." ”

"What the third said is right, this matter is like this for the time being. The regent said that he would give me news in a few days, and there has been no news after a month, and I will go to the capital in the near future, and I will have to help your brothers deal with the affairs of the family. Your eldest brother exchanged half his life for the glory of the Zhou family, since he is gone, let him go with peace of mind, your eldest brother's water and land festival will continue, and let Chen Ming organize the water and land festival from 57 to 77. ”

Master Zhou's arrangement revealed his distrust of Zhou Qingming.

Zhou Qingming's face suddenly turned blue.

Let Master Zhou be suspicious of dark ghosts, this is what Sister Su wants to achieve, only in this way can Zhou Qingming not be taken seriously, doesn't he want to get the wealth of the Zhou family? It's just that he can't get it.