Chapter 4: Fallen Angel IV

What Qin Tai has to do now is to determine whether this Lucian is good or not, and if this fake Lucian is really good, he has to find a way to deal with this so-called Lucian. Lu Xian is the pseudonym of Xiao Lingzi, if this person is Xiao Lingzi, Qin Tai and the deceased Duan Xingao will desperately protect this Lu Xian. If this Lucian is no longer Xiao Lingzi, or if someone else replaces Xiao Lingzi, this fake Lucian will be exposed. Once this matter is exposed, Ge Hao will have the possibility of hiding his identity, and it is impossible to serve as the master of the yamen here. Because as the master of the yamen, the first and most basic condition is that he is a scholar with a certain reputation. Once Ge Hao's true identity is exposed, he will not even be qualified to participate in the imperial examination, let alone have fame. Even if you have already gained fame and held public office, you will be canceled because of falsification of your identity. At that time, Gelhao will not only not be able to use Lucian's identity to get ahead, but will also be arrested and tried for borrowing someone else's household registration.

Qin Tai was still a little hesitant in the end, he didn't want to make this matter public immediately. The first is because this matter is not easy to make public, which will implicate Duan Xingao, who has passed away. Once the matter is made public, the first person responsible is Duan Xingao, who handled the matter in the first place. At least Duan Xingao will be publicly blamed for this incident, and he will add a bad evaluation to his newly restored reputation. The second is that it is difficult to produce evidence in this matter. It wasn't here that Lucian's household registration was created, and he needed to go back to his original place to investigate. Qin Tai is not a public identity, and it is impossible to blatantly ask for clues. Even if the brocade guards there were willing to help, it was impossible to get a clue right away. With clues, it is also necessary to prove that Lucian is dead, and this Lucian is not the real Lucian. Even if Qin Tai himself handles this kind of thing, it is a little difficult, not to mention that it is even more uneasy to hand it over to others. Third, until now, Qin Tai didn't know whether Xiao Lingzi was dead or alive. If this Ge Hao didn't hurt Xiao Lingzi, and Xiao Lingzi was willing to do it, wouldn't Qin Tai really be too sorry for Ge for doing this? Therefore, Qin Tai needs to confirm one point, that is, whether Ge Hao has hurt Xiao Lingzi in the end. If this Ge Hao harmed Xiao Lingzi in order to obtain this identity, Qin Tai would definitely avenge Xiao Lingzi. If this Ge Hao didn't hurt Xiao Lingzi, or even if Xiao Lingzi took the initiative to give up this identity to Ge Hao, Qin Tai should let Ge Hao go. However, even if Qin Tai let go of this Ge Hao, he also needs to warn this Lucian that he can't do anything to be sorry for the people. No matter how you do things in the officialdom, it is your own business, and Qin Tai's bottom line is that you can't endanger the local people because of this.

In order to test this good thing, Qin Tai came up with an idea, a harmless way. The next day, a letter from my hometown came out. However, not only did this letter not come from Qin Tai's hometown, but it was forged by Qin Tai himself. Qin Tai is good at imitating other people's handwriting, which even Xiao Lingzi is not very clear, because this ability is only learned by Qin Tai in private. As for the old letters, papers, and marks along the road, etc., it is a trivial matter for Qin Tai, who is good at solving cases. Qin Tai's shopkeeper called "Yun Xiangsheng" brought a letter envelope from his hometown recently, and faked it on the envelope according to the information on it. The letter inside is much simpler, pressed under the pillow for half a day and then scalded with fire, it looks like an old piece of paper that has been around for some time.

This is a letter used to test whether this Lucian is good, and it is also a letter to test whether he is sorry for the little spirit. Qin Tai used a pseudonym to write to the so-called Lucian. Because this person can't write, he asked someone to write it for him, so I can't be sure how many people still know about it. This imaginary person is called Ma San, and he is a little girl that Xiao Lingzi met when he was a scholar in Qin Tai's house. The two of them were a friendship, but later because Xiao Lingzi and Young Master Qin Tai came out to work together, there was a little less contact. A few years ago, Ma San became a family, married a good wife, and was ready to invite Xiao Lingzi to drink the wedding wine, only then did he know that Xiao Lingzi was in Hubei. There happened to be a guy who came to his hometown, and when he went back, he brought a message to Xiao Lingzi for Ma San. Xiao Lingzi knew that after Ma San got married, he sent some gifts to express Xiao Lingzi's congratulations on this. Xiao Lingzi knew that Ma San had no culture and didn't know how to read, so he didn't write a letter to Ma San. However, he asked someone to tell Ma San that if he had anything to contact Xiao Lingzi, he would inform a person named Lucian. Xiao Lingzi told Ma San that his name is Lucian now, and he will be a big man in the future. Ma San also asked someone to send things a few times, all of which were some specialties of his hometown. The reason why Ma San asked someone to write the letter on his behalf this time was because Ma San's son was born. Ma San asked Xiao Lingzi to be his son's godfather according to what he said back then, and at the same time gave the child a better name.

There are two key issues in this letter, the first is that Ma San mentions the name Lucian, which means that someone knows about the relationship between Xiao Lingzi and Lucian. Trying to see if this Gel is worried about his identity being exposed. Then, according to Ge Hao's next move, judge whether he is a ruthless person, so as to determine whether he will have poisoned Xiao Lingzi. The second mentions the idea of naming the child according to the original agreement. If Gehr ignores it, it means that there is a ghost in his heart. If you reply to the letter in the tone of Xiao Lingzi, this is a thief. If he goes to someone to discuss, it means that he is not the only one who did this, and there are people behind him who are manipulating him. If Ge Hao went to Xiao Lingzi to confirm, it would mean that he did not harm Xiao Lingzi. This is a good way to test Ge's goodness, and it is also the most suitable method that Qin Tai can think of under the current situation.

Of course, this method also has a fatal drawback, that is, it exposes some clues. It will attract the attention of the other party, if the other party is a tight organization, it means that Qin Tai and the others will face the enemy's crazy revenge. Qin Tai is not afraid of hardship, let alone danger, now he needs to know the life and death of Xiao Lingzi, and he does not hesitate to expose himself in order to know the truth. So Qin Tai finally decided to do this, of course, he also told his wife Zhan Xiaoxiao and his cousin Qiu Xiaoqiu his thoughts. Everyone is ready, while paying close attention to Lucian's every move, and at the same time, preventing the other party from finding themselves and fighting back.

Soon after the fake letter was successfully produced, it was placed in the local Jin Chamber of Commerce by Zhan Xiaoxiao through secret channels. Even the people of "Yun Xiangsheng" don't know about this matter, this is to protect them, but also to keep them from revealing flaws. All the letters of the Jin Chamber of Commerce will be stored in a large room, and there are three baskets of different colors in the room. The blue basket holds the letters that need to go north, the yellow basket stores the letters that need to be sent south through here, and the black basket is the letters that need to be sent back to the west. These letters were specially managed, and they were separated every day and put into their own baskets, and some men handed them over to the Jin merchants who came and went from the south to the north to take them away. It is not only convenient and reliable, but also reflects the unity and cohesion within the Jin merchants. If there is a letter from the Jin merchant here, the person in charge of sending and receiving the letter here will put the letter next to the public bulletin board in the clubhouse. There are as many Jin merchants as there are here, and there will be a few cloth pockets hanging here. Every time you open an extra semicolon, there will be an extra cloth pocket, and each business only needs to remember the location of its own business cloth pocket. Every day, the shopkeeper will send a man to take a look here, and if there is a letter from his own business, he will get it back. If the business has its own letter to send, it can also be placed in its own cloth bag and indicate where it needs to be sent. Every day, people from the club will organize these letters and send them out. However, some of the more important letter shopkeepers will come to the club in person to deposit, and ask the people in the club to pay extra attention. The letters that are usually stored in cloth pockets are all personal letters sent by the guys here to their homes.