Chapter Seventy-Four: A Case Within a Case
Chun Yu approached Mrs. Qin's downstairs, but she also hesitated, just went upstairs like this, it was too reckless, this is the hostess's residence. However, he had nowhere to look for Qihua and Ruoyun, and there was no trace of the huge manor.
He stood there, and suddenly felt as if there was an aurora flashing in front of him, so bright that he couldn't take his eyes away. He instinctively closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, there was a beautiful woman standing in front of him. He was like in a dream, too surprised, and stumbled when he spoke: "You——, you-"
Qihua held a torch in his hand, his charming eyes flickered, and he looked at him with a smile and did not speak.
Chun Yuji's most unbearable thing is her charming eyes, every time such a scene appears, he doesn't dare to look directly, a heart seems to turn into a spring water, rippling, rippling in a circle.
He giggled dumbfoundedly, his lips twitching but he couldn't speak.
Qihua said angrily: "Why don't you speak?" ”
Chun Yuji looked embarrassed, and his speech was still stumbling: "Why, why are you here?" What about Ruoyun? ”
Qihua said: "After I rescued Ruoyun from the county jail, I returned here. Ruoyun is willing to go with us. She said that she had something to explain to the little lady before leaving, so she went upstairs. ”
Chun Yuji relieved himself and asked curiously, "How did you rescue Ruoyun?" ”
Qihua looked relaxed: "The county prison guards are really slack, and they didn't take much effort. ”
While the two were talking, a maid beside Mrs. Qin hurriedly came and said, "Madame, please go upstairs." ”
Chun Yuji glanced at him and Hua, and followed the maid upstairs.
Little Madam Qin sat in the room with a lonely expression. Ruoyun sat opposite, saw them come in, and got up to greet them. Chun Yuji and Qihua met with Little Lady Qin and sat beside Ruoyun.
Everyone was speechless for a while, and after a while, Mrs. Qin Xiao said, "You rescued Ruoyun, and I thank you for her." "Say goodbye, bow and bow.
Chun Yuji and Qihua returned the courtesy, and there was silence again.
Ruoyun coughed lightly and said, "I told my wife, I'll go with you." ”
Little Madam Qin was silent for a moment and said, "This is your home." ”
Ruoyun's expression was sad: "This is still my home." ”
Little Madam Qin seemed a little embarrassed, and said hesitantly: "I have already told you just now, I, I have never wanted to harm you and your Ah Weng. I have been married to you for so many years, and he has treated me very well, how can I harm him. ”
"yes, what about Ma Gui?" A grim voice came from the doorway.
Everyone looked towards the door together. There was a person standing at the door, dressed in a dark black suit, and masked with a black cloth.
The man slowly pulled down the black cloth on his face.
"Uncle Tan." Ruoyun shouted in surprise.
Uncle Tan smiled and nodded, his eyes were full of love, but as soon as he turned his face, his gaze became grim. He coldly threw a cloth bag in front of Little Madam Qin.
Little Madam Qin was shocked when she saw this cloth bag, and then stared at Uncle Tan with a puzzled expression.
Uncle Tan said: "I don't recognize it, or wonder how it came into my hands." As he spoke, he stepped forward and shook the cloth bag open, and a pile of jewels rolled out of it.
With a hint of sarcasm on the corner of Uncle Tan's mouth, he said, "You must recognize these things." ”
Ruoyun leaned over to take a look at it, and said softly to his Hua: "It's all some little lady's jewelry and gold and silver objects at home." ”
Qihua glanced at it and smacked his lips disdainfully. Chun Yu recalled the scene he saw by the river a few times, and then suddenly realized.
"Where's Ma Gui?" Little Madam Qin asked eagerly.
"Dead. I killed him. Uncle Tan's expression was cold.
"Ma Gui is dead?" Little Madam Qin's lips trembled, and her face became more and more pale.
She closed her eyes tightly, and two lines of tears welled up in her eyes, "Dead, he's dead." He staggered, tilted his head, and fainted
Everyone panicked when they saw Little Madam Qin fainting.
Chun Yuji was a doctor after all, so he stepped forward to take a closer look, called Qihua to bring water, and moistened it with a silk towel and applied it to her forehead. After a while, Little Madam Qin slowly woke up, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
Qihua took a soft pillow, helped her lean, and fed her some water.
Chun Yuji coughed lightly and was about to speak. Qihua blinked, motioning for him not to speak yet.
The room was silent, only Mrs. Qin was heard sobbing in a low voice, and gradually, she stopped crying, her eyes stared ahead, as if she was thinking about the distant past: "You all want to know what Ma Gui has to do with me, right?" ”
Everyone was silent, she couldn't help sobbing again, and choked up: "Ma Gui, Ma Gui is my previous husband Jun Jiangchuan." ”
As soon as these words came out, everyone was stunned and in disbelief.
Qi Hua's eyes widened and he stared at Little Madam Qin in a daze: "What's the matter?" ”
Little Madam Qin lowered her head and wept silently, and it took a long time to calm down and tell her hidden feelings.
It turned out that Jiang Chuan was imprisoned on death row in the county prison at that time, and there was also a gangster in it, who was also beheaded at the end of the year. When the brothers heard the news, they gathered a crowd to rob the prison.
They were all thieves who did not care for their lives, and the prison at the border was not very strong, and the jailers could not withstand it, so they dispersed in a hurry. The thieves who robbed the prison opened the death row, and Jiang Chuan escaped with the thieves.
The county prison was robbed of death row inmates, and a cadre of the county government was to be investigated by the imperial court for dereliction of duty, so serious that he abandoned the city. The county guard was afraid, so he discussed with the county to hide the matter, and at the end of the year, he found a few thieves to be beheaded as death row prisoners, and the outside world knew the mystery.
After Jiang Chuan escaped from prison, he had nowhere to go, so he followed the thief to the Western Regions. Soon, the thief was killed in a fight, and Jiang Chuan was exiled to the Western Regions, plowing the fields for a living. Later, with some savings, he started a small business, and over the years he had also accumulated some money.
Finally homesick, he experienced the vicissitudes of life in the Western Regions, and his appearance changed a lot, and it was estimated that no one in the mainland could recognize him, so he changed his name to Ma Gui and returned to Yangzhou.
"How you got in touch." Qihua asked.
"One time I went to East Street and was recognized by him. Later, he came to the manor to look for me. ”
"Coincidentally, I was bumped into by Ruoyun." Uncle Tan sneered.
Little Madam Qin nodded.
"So you're going to murder Ruoyun." Uncle Tan's tone was full of anger.
"I didn't think about murdering her, no. Just didn't want her to tell her father. ”
"So you designed the witch cup to make her father stop believing her." Uncle Tan's expression was indifferent. Little Madam Qin bowed her head and was silent.
"But after the witch cup, you still can't help but murder her." Uncle Tan said resentfully.
"I didn't hurt her, and I didn't know until later." Little Madam Qin leaned forward slightly, and shouted hoarsely.
After a while, she calmed down a little, wiped away her tears, and continued: "That day, Jiang Chuan came to me to ask for money, Ruoyun happened to be standing in front of the window, he thought he was seen again, so he became murderous. I also somehow kept my mind restless that night, so I asked Xiaoyan to go to Ruoyun to have a look, who wanted Ruoyun to hang the beam. When I arrived, the servants had already untied her, and she was completely out of breath. The owner was very sad and couldn't bear to see it, so he quickly pretended to be buried and buried it. Later, Egawa told me that he sneaked into Ruoyun's inner room that night, first lit incense to stun her, and then hung her on a beam. ”
Chun Yuji interjected: "Fortunately, Xiaoyan went in time, otherwise he would have suffocated to death after a long time." ”
Ruoyun's face turned pale when he heard this. Qihua hugged her and comforted her in a low voice.
"Did you make an appointment with Jiang Chuan and go with your jewelry?" Uncle Tan was silent for a while, and then asked.
Little Madam Qin nodded, her face ashamed.
Uncle Tan sneered: "Jiang Chuan didn't want to go with you at all, he just wanted your jewelry." Today, when he got the jewels, he was about to sail away, and I stopped him to bring him back, and there was an argument,——, and then he died. ”
Little Madam Qin lowered her head, was silent for a moment, and then said intermittently: "Originally, I also wanted to give him some money, so I didn't communicate anymore. But Jiang Chuan said that he found Da Lang and asked me to go with him. I already had Xiaolang, and the owner treated me very well, so I didn't promise him. He kept coming and asking for money. Then the owner died, and he came to force me again. I thought that I had no one to rely on, so maybe I could only go with him and be reunited as a family. I packed up some jewelry and asked Xiao Yan to send it to him first, who would have thought that this would be the result. "After that, it's sad.
Chun Yu sighed to himself a few times, thinking, but whenever there is greed, the so-called grievances and so-called family affection have also become a means of accumulating money. His gaze swept over everyone and fell on Ruoyun, and he couldn't help but feel sad,
At this moment, there was a thud on the stairs outside the house, as if someone had fallen.
The maid waiting at the door took a look, turned around and said, "It was the little goose who came and slipped on the stairs." Before long, Xiao Yan, Mrs. Qin's personal maid, knelt at the door and kowtowed, "Madam, I, I'm back." ”
"Got it, you go down and rest."
Xiao Yan straightened up in response, and suddenly, her expression changed suddenly, her eyes widened, she pointed forward, and shouted in horror: "He, he." ”
Everyone was stunned when they saw this, and looked in the direction of her finger, it was Uncle Tan who was sitting in front of the desk in a strong suit.