Chapter 45: Two Stewards
Zhu Yixiang is afraid that these hairy children who don't know the height of the sky and the thickness of the earth will really cause any trouble, and the officials are okay to say, although they look fierce and vicious, they are all locals, and they will not be too embarrassed by them, if they really provoke Jinyiwei, there are no children under the hands of Blood Yama!
He was in weak health, and it was impossible for him to help these people dig the ground for clues, so he picked a handful of fruits, carried them in his clothes, and sat down in the pavilion to greet them, saying, "Little friend, come to my brother's place to eat fruit, and ignore them!" β
When the children heard this, they made grimaces at the fierce officials, and they all flocked to Zhu Yixiang's side, and the children chattered like a flock of sparrows, and they finished dividing the handful of fruits with seven hands and eight feet, and Zhu Yixiang saw that these fruits were delicious in color, and tasted one, only to feel that they were sour and abnormal, and their teeth were about to fall out, but those children ate with relish.
While eating, they asked Zhu Yixiang, "Beautiful brother, where are you from?" Are you from Uncle Sun's family? Do you know how Young Master Sun's illness is? β
Zhu Yixiang felt strange in his heart, looking at the clothes of these children, they were not rich families, but Sun Yuanwai was one of the few rich people in the county, so the little young master Sun should live a life like brocade clothes and jade food, how to know these hairy children, so he asked: "Do you know little young master Sun?" β
"Of course we know, we always play together, but some time ago, the housekeeper of the Sun family said that Young Master Sun was sick and couldn't play with us!"
Zhu Yixiang was shocked, just now these children said Uncle Sun, he thought it was the housekeeper of the Sun family, the poor entered a big family, signed the deed of sale, and had to follow the surname of the main family, but at this time they said that the housekeeper of the Sun family, obviously this Uncle Sun is not a housekeeper! Hurriedly asked: "Who is Uncle Sun in your mouth?" β
"It's Uncle Sun, the owner of this big mansion!" The children looked like they were right, and they were clearly not lying.
Hearing this, Zhu Yixiang felt a very discordant feeling in his heart, in fact, from the time he was wandering around the Half Moon Villa just now, this disobedience was faintly strange in his mind.
If he just didn't understand why Sun Yuanwai had a lot of money and a prosperous and healthy life, but he wanted to rob the army, now he didn't understand why a Jiangyang thief who robbed the army was not a bad guy at all!
First of all, the layout of this Half Moon Villa, the mansions of wealthy families in the south of the Yangtze River are generally high-walled and deep houses, isolated from a small world, the outside of the house is a bustling and noisy world, and the inside of the house is the peach orchard in the hearts of literati and scholars, and even the Qingteng Book House of the famous scholar Xu Wei is not exempt from vulgarity. The beginning of the river is in the garden of Half Moon Villa, the garden and the inner house are separated by a wall, probably for the safety of the house, the garden is open to the public, and the travelers passing by and the farmers in the fields can rest in the garden of the Half Moon Villa, and the children nearby can even pick fruits here.
Many times, from a very insignificant detail can be seen a person's character, the house is arranged like this, it can be seen that the owner here is upright, gentlemen and frank, not to mention the kind of person who is full of empty talk and isolation, to flaunt his high level, if this grandson is really a robber of the army and the ocean, how can he have such a mind!
Arrest and solve the case quickly and talk about evidence, but Zhu Yixiang is a writer, and he relies more on feeling. Although he found the evidence pointing directly to this Half Moon Villa, he understood the shock and disbelief that Pan Zhixian had when he heard that Half Moon Villa was a den of bandits, and even tried his best to refute Sun Yuanwai when the evidence was conclusive. Seeing this scene, Sun Yuanwai said that he was a Jiangyang thief, who would believe it?
Zhu Yixiang asked the group of children again: "What kind of person is your Uncle Sun usually?" β
Several children ate the sour fruit, their little faces wrinkled, and they sucked saliva and said vaguely: "Uncle Sun is usually good, he will always bring out delicious food for us to eat, when my mother is sick, Uncle Sun is also the doctor invited by Uncle Sun for my mother!" β
Another child answered, "Yes, yes! Uncle Sun also taught us to read! But Uncle Sun hasn't taught us since he got sick! β
"Sick? What disease? β
The boy shook his head, "I don't know, once I saw Uncle Sun coughing up blood!" β
Coughing up blood? Looks very sick! Later, you can ask the county doctor and ask, "When did you get sick?" β
"It's been more than a month! I haven't seen Uncle Sun much since I got sick! β
The other child secretly tugged at the talking child, his face a little strange.
Zhu Yixiang noticed him, smiled at him, and asked very gently, "Little brother, is there something wrong with you?" β
The child pouted with a round little face, pursed his mouth and hesitated for a while, and whispered: "My mother said that there is an infectious disease in this Half Moon Villa, and several people have died!" β
Zhu Yixiang frowned, infectious disease? "What infectious disease? Are there any sick people in the nearby villages? β
The child shook his head, "My mother said, our family makes coffins, and in the past two months, Half Moon Villa has ordered more than ten coffins from our family!" Later, my mom wouldn't let me come here to play, so I came here secretly this time! β
One of the children hit the boy on the arm: "Don't talk nonsense, no one in our neighborhood is sick!" β
The child wrinkled his little face and said hurriedly: "I didn't talk nonsense, this is what my mother told me, and I also saw that the housekeeper gave my father a lot of money to prevent my father from talking about the dead!" β
More than a dozen people died in two months, and this matter is not right no matter how you look at it! If it's really an infectious disease, it can't be contagious only in this Half Moon Villa! Then he asked, "Then do you know where Uncle Sun has gone?" β
The children all shook their heads, "I don't know, it seems that the door was locked suddenly, and we never saw Uncle Sun again!" β
There was something strange about it, as if it was a mess that made him confused! After thinking about it for a while, I couldn't think of a reason, so I gathered the big and looked at the lotus flowers in the pond in a daze!
At this time, there are no lotus flowers, and there are only large patches of withered lotus leaves left in the pond, and those children look at him as they look at the lotus flowers, and they all look into the pond, and one of the children says, "Big brother, do you want to eat lotus seeds?" We've wanted to eat for a long time, too! β
"Then why don't you pick it? Is it Uncle Sun who won't let you? β
"In previous years, at this time, the old housekeeper would ask people to pick these lotus pods and give us some, but this year, the old housekeeper is gone, and the new housekeeper will not give it to us!" A child pouted.
When Zhu Yixiang heard this, he was shocked as if he had been struck by lightning: "The new housekeeper? β
Zhu Yixiang's voice suddenly raised, and several children were frightened, and they looked back at Zhu Yixiang in confusion, not knowing why this beautiful big brother had such an expression.
Zhu Yixiang grabbed his hair, and the blocked section of his mind was reopened, and suddenly there was a feeling that there was no way out, and the willows and flowers were bright and the village was bright, and he eased his mind and asked, "Does the new housekeeper have a scar on his face?" β
The children nodded, "Yes, there is a scar too!" β
The new housekeeper, Half Moon Villa has been dead in two months, and the owner and little master of the villa are sick at the same time, these are probably not coincidences, Zhu Yixiang seems to have found the key to open these mysteries, grabbed his hair, and didn't have time to care about these children, got up and went back to Half Moon Villa, and asked an official who was digging the ground: "Did you find anything?" β
Seeing that it was Zhu Yixiang, the official replied impatiently: "I didn't find anything!" β
Zhu Yixiang bit it, the real villa is indeed too clean, I know that there is a problem here but I can't find anything! "Look carefully, I don't believe that there are no clues!" said a word angrily and hurried into the inner house.
The official who was digging the ground just now glared at Zhu Yixiang's back viciously, saw him walk away, and spat in the direction he left, "A butt seller, something!" β
Now almost everyone in the county knows that the relationship between Zhu Yixiang and Lu Qianhu is unclear, but even if they sell their butts, they sell them by their ability, they dislike it behind their backs, but they can't say anything! But this kid is not looking for trouble with this half-moon villa, who doesn't know that this grandson is a famous good man in Fengle County, and on weekdays, these officials and officials take the benefits of other people's grandsons, but at this time they want to dig the ancestral house of the Sun family! It's all a bad idea from this Zhuyi Lane, it can be seen that this ass seller is really not a good thing!
Zhu Yixiang hurriedly wanted to find Lu Yan, and the corner of the corridor happened to bump into Pan Zhixian, Zhu Yixiang was weak at this time, and was pushed by Pan Zhixian's stomach, and the whole person sat on the ground backwards. Pan Zhixian hurriedly stepped forward to help him, "Oh, Brother Zhu, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, why are you like a papier-mΓ’chΓ©?" β
Zhu Yixiang was not in the mood to argue with him at this time, so he asked angrily: "Why don't you say that the dead scarface is the new butler of Half Moon Villa?" β
Pan Zhixian was confused by his question, thought for a while and said: "I haven't been to this Half Moon Villa for more than half a year, is there a new housekeeper in Half Moon Villa?" β
"Haven't you been to Half Moon Villa? Don't know the housekeeper here? β
"Of course I know the housekeeper here, he's quite old! There's still a scar on his face, but he looks kind, what's wrong? Isn't it dead? β
Zhu Yixiang gritted his teeth and said, "Pan Zhixian, didn't you look at the corpses lying in the county office?" β
Pan Zhixian said embarrassedly: "Ouch! It's not a blur of flesh and blood, it's too scary, and he still has nightmares after fighting those corpses, and I have nothing to do to look at those corpses to find guilt, and besides, this case has your brocade guard, and you don't need me! β
Zhu Yixiang sighed, "Hey! If you had taken a look at it at the time, it might have saved you a lot of trouble! Saying that, Zhu Yixiang got up from the ground, patted the soil on his clothes, and said to Pan Zhixian: "You send someone to inquire where the old housekeeper here is from, and go find this old housekeeper!" β
"Huh?" Pan Zhixian was obviously a little confused, "Isn't it the old housekeeper of Half Moon Mountain Villa who died?" β
Zhu Yixiang shook his head, "No, this matter is very strange, wait until the old housekeeper is talking!" By the way, is Senho-sama still ahead? β
Pan Zhixian said, "I just left, I don't know where this Qianhu adults went, you ask the others!" β
Zhu Yixiang walked around the Half Moon Villa, but didn't find Lu Yan, but felt that the Half Moon Villa was very clean, and it didn't look like someone had lived in it, so it can be seen that this gang of robbers is a veteran among the robbers, and it is really not easy to find some clues.