Chapter 105: Growing Suspicion (5)
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Shen Yinchen's words were something I didn't expect.
Originally, I thought that the reason why King Rui would kill the red calyx Niangniang back then was to hide the gold and silver food in the mansion in her tomb, but Huo Feng said that there was nothing in the tomb, if my previous guess was wrong, why would King Rui kill his favorite concubine and forcibly suppress her soul?
I think there must be some clue in this that I haven't noticed.
Think about it carefully, the people involved in the Yinshan case, the Red Calyx Niangniang, the group of tomb robbers of the Wen family, Shen Yinchen, the young master of the Shen family in Qinchuan, the craftsman who built the tomb for the Red Calyx Niangniang, and General Peng Zhen, and the thieves who killed Peng Zhen.
We are already very clear about the relationship between the first three, what is going on with the last three?
I held the jade flute and thought to myself for a while, and suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly looked at Lin Suwen and said, "Come with me now, the Wen family's place, we still have to go back." ”
"What?"
Shen Yinchen was very suspicious and asked, "Why is this?" ”
I looked at him and analyzed: "Don't you think it's strange, when those bandits in Yinshan were exterminated, why did they keep insisting that General Peng Zhen's death was not their doing, and if they took 10,000 steps back, even if they did it, they robbed the grain and grass, why did they burn the corpses of those soldiers?" ”
"What do you mean......"
Shen Yinchen frowned: "Something to do with those missing craftsmen?" ”
His brain is obviously better than that of my senior brother, and he can see the key without explaining in detail.
I nodded, and asked again: "Since Brother Shen has memories of Huo Feng before his death, do you know how his father disappeared?" ”
Shen Yinchen pondered for a moment and said: "Not long after the construction of the tomb 'cave' for the red calyx Niangniang, a team of workers came here, saying that there was a dignitary who wanted to build a mansion, and a large number of craftsmen were levied here to go to other places, because the wages were very high, almost all the craftsmen near Yinshan went to the field, but because Huo Feng was still young at the time and no one took care of him, his father did not participate, but one night, his father went out and did not come back. ”
"There are so many missing craftsmen, and this matter is so strange, did no one report it to the official at that time?"
"Of course I did."
Shen Yinchen "revealed" an expression without thinking: "It's a pity that the sea of people is vast, and they don't know where the people who introduced the workers come from, and where to find the missing people. ”
"What about the craftsman's family, haven't they ever looked for it?"
Shen Yinchen sighed and said, "So many people are missing, all of them are men, and the whole family is counting on them to raise them, why don't you look for them?" When Huo Feng's father disappeared, he was still very young, and he had no relatives and no reason, and he had to rely on his neighbors to help him even live, so he naturally had no ability to find people, but the other craftsmen's families had been looking for a long time, and they thought that eighty percent of those craftsmen had been deceived by someone and were sold into private mines as hard labor, and some people even mixed into several private mines to find them, and the result was ......"
"You also know that those craftsmen are missing, and most of the rest of the family are old and weak 'women' and children, guarding one acre and three points of land all day long, not to mention letting them go to other places to find people, and even rarely go out of the door, in the end, I asked someone to look for a few years, but there was no news, and gradually gave up, and then Huo Feng grew up, remembering the things of his childhood, and he also suspected that this matter was related to King Rui, so he would venture into Niangniang's tomb to investigate, but unfortunately he didn't find anything."
Hearing this, I was silent for a while, and then asked: "Huo Feng has been investigating for many years, and has not found any clues about the missing craftsman?" ”
Shen Yinchen shook his head.
"There are so many craftsmen who built the tomb, if they were all killed, it would not be easy to hide the corpses, and it would be impossible to transport them elsewhere for burial."
I slowly analyzed: "So, if those craftsmen are really exterminated, their corpses should still be near Yinshan, but in this place, there are people planting crops in the fields, and there are people digging bamboo shoots and picking tea on the mountain, and so many corpses are buried, it is impossible not to be discovered by the locals, and it is very likely that it is related to the matter of General Peng Zhen." ”
"But, according to your speculation, what happened to General Peng Zhen in this incident?"
I hooked my lips and smiled, "Have you forgotten, what is the origin of that Peng Zhen?" ”
Shen Yinchen was more familiar with the affairs of the court than Lin Suwen, so after thinking for a while, he reacted: "Xu Guogong? ”
I bowed my head silently, afraid that Lin Su would not understand, so I specially introduced it, and said: "Back then, Peng Zhen was just a firehead soldier under the command of Xu Guogong, and because of Xu Guogong's appreciation, he was gradually promoted, and even more, he later became a general of the powerful foreign countries, he was not just a simple acquaintance with Xu Guogong, the niece of Mrs. Xu Guogong, or Peng Zhen's wife, the two families have a deep relationship, and Xu Guogong is friendly with King Rui......
Speaking of which, I frowned, no, still no.
No matter how good Xu Guogong and Rui Wang are, no matter how grateful General Peng Zhen is to Xu Guogong, it is not enough for him to give up his future, hide for 20 years, and not 'reveal' his whereabouts.
There is no reason for the bandits to kill the craftsmen, and there is only one person who can make those craftsmen disappear, King Rui.
It is impossible for General Peng Zhen to willingly give up his high-ranking officials and hide behind the scenes for twenty years in order to deliver things to King Rui, so it is very likely that he is really dead.
According to my speculation, it was not Peng Zhen herself who died in Yinshan that year, but those missing craftsmen, who killed the craftsmen, disguised themselves as soldiers, burned them on the spot, and then hid the escorted military salaries and grass in the tomb of the red calyx Niangniang, and secretly sneaked into the fiefdom of King Rui, waiting for the opportunity to return.
But after twenty years, it is impossible for a person to hide for twenty years without coming out, and there is indeed nothing in the tomb of the red calyx Niangniang.
Seeing that I was silent, Shen Yinchen called me tentatively: "Brother Gu? ”
I looked at him: "Does Brother Shen know anything about Miss Yuqing?" ”
"Yuqing?"
Shen Yinchen showed a suspicious and confused expression, and shook his head: "I only know that she is Wen Ling's maidservant, and she has not been in the Wen family for a long time, and I don't know anything else." ”
I said again: "Actually, there is one thing, I think it's a little strange, if you ask Brother Shen, please don't be surprised." ”
Shen Yinchen nodded and said, "You say." ”
"Brother Shen wants to kill the people of the Wen family, why do you keep Yuqing?"
"Huo Feng's enemy is from the Wen family, Yuqing is just a maidservant, it has nothing to do with that incident back then, what should I do to kill her?"
In any case, if it weren't for Huo Feng's resentful spirit's persecution, Shen Yinchen wouldn't want to kill people in the end, so he was still a little unhappy in the face of my inquiry.
"After that, Brother Shen wants to kill Wen Zhao, don't you think that leaving her in the mansion is a bit in the way, will it hurt your business?"
Seeing that I kept asking, Shen Yinchen's expression was even more unpleasant, and he said angrily: "I said, she is just a servant girl, although I killed people, but all the people I killed were guilty thieves, in order to protect my 'life', I had to do it as a last resort, is it in the eyes of Lord Gu, I am indeed a person who cares about people's lives?" ”
Seeing that he was angry, I hurriedly said: "It's just strange that a girl in Yuqing dares to stay in the mansion where a murder has just occurred." ”
"This ......"
Shen Yinchen was speechless for a moment, and said sullenly: "Maybe the relationship with the Wen family is very good." ”
"But didn't Brother Shen just say that not long after Yu Qing first came to the Wen family, a new maidservant girl was still arranged by the master in such a remote position, how good can the relationship be?"
"Brother Gu is suspicious of Yuqing?"
Shen Yinchen thought for a moment and asked.
"In short......"
I took the jade flute in my hand and tapped it: "Let's go back to the Wen family first." ”
For Yuqing, I have always felt a little strange, if the reason why Shen Yinchen stayed in the Wen family was to hunt down and kill Wen Zhao, then what was the purpose of her stay in the Wen family, these days, from Yuqing, I got a lot of news about the Wen family's case, but according to her clues, it was all directed at Shen Yinchen.
Because I was in a hurry to solve the mystery of the Yinshan case, for the clues given by Yuqing, I only thought that God helped me, and I didn't think much about it at all, but now that I look back, I found that Yuqing was a maidservant, and there were too many suspicious places, from the beginning of the investigation to the discovery of Shen Yinchen, all this was too smooth, and the reason for the success was all because of Yuqing's reminder.
Once by coincidence, twice, three times, it is inevitable to be suspicious.
Fortunately, I have always been a suspicious person, and it is difficult to fully trust even those close to me.
As for Yuqing, whether she has anything to do with this matter, whether she is an innocent maidservant or a praying mantis catching cicadas, and the yellow finch hidden at the end can only be solved when she returns to the Wen family.
We bid farewell to Lu Weilou and asked him to take those officials and escort Shen Yinchen and Wen Zhao back to the city first.
Hearing that we wanted to leave, Lu Weilou was a little nervous, looked at the people around him, and said, "Brother Gu, where are you going, will I be with you?" ”
I kept an eye on it and replied: "Just now from Brother Shen, I roughly learned the location of the 'cave' of the tomb of the red calyx Niangniang, and there will inevitably be an incident, and then there are tomb robbers coveting the tomb 'cave' of the mother's mother, Lin Gongzi and I want to go back and guard it for the time being, and wait for the people of the court to send troops to take over and come back, Xiaolou, you can't ride a horse, come back and forth, it is inevitable to delay the trip, so let's go first." ”
"Another ......"
I paused and said, "When you return to Shengjing, if you have time, go to the Hongwen Pavilion and ask Lord Liu Bozhou and Liu to come over, saying that I have something to look for him." ”
"What's the matter, is there still a ghost haunting you?"
When Lu Weilou heard this, his expression became even more uneasy: "Then I'd better follow Brother Gu." ”
I can't help but despise him in my heart, what kind of ghosts are there, it is me and Lin Suwen who can't solve it, take 10,000 steps back, as far as Liu Bozhou's Taoism is concerned, even if he really encounters a powerful ghost, neither of us can deal with it, what is the difference between him and not?
smiled and patiently explained: "It's not true, it's just that near Yinshan, I met Lord Liu's old friend and wanted him to come and see him." ”
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