111 The trail is broken
Don't say how the Lei Mansion is, and don't say what Shen Tingjun is busy with now. It was only said that Sang Xuanyue and his party left the ferry quickly, and followed the address left by the nurse before.
The nurse and Uncle Wang's residence was in a small courtyard.
Although the yard is small, it is inhabited by three families. This made the already small yard even more crowded. In addition, the weather is fine today, and a lot of washed clothes, bedding, and shoes are dried in the yard, which is even more crowded with the already small yard, and it is wet everywhere, so that people don't even have a place to stay.
Uncle Li went to knock on the door, the nurse was chatting with Uncle Wang at this time, and heard someone in the courtyard calling her, saying that someone was looking for her, and the nurse didn't realize that Shi Sang and the others were coming, so she thought that the messenger from the yamen came to look for them and said the latest progress.
The nurse walked out while muttering, and told Uncle Wang in detail: "The doctor has said that you will rest for a year, and the wound is very deep." Don't look at the outside to grow well, it will take half a year to grow new meat inside. ”
Uncle Wang smiled, "I know, I know, don't talk about me, you hurry up and see if the messenger has interrogated something again." ”
"Don't rush, I'll go."
As soon as the nurse stepped out of the door with her front foot, she heard her surprised voice in the back foot room: "Lao Li, why are you here?" ”
When Uncle Wang heard this, he couldn't sit still anymore and hurriedly ran out of the house. When everyone saw each other, they all sighed. But now is by no means a good time to catch up, not to mention that there are two other families in this courtyard, and at this moment they are standing at the door to watch the excitement, even what they want to say, it is not easy for outsiders to hear.
Therefore, although the mother-in-law next door asked the nurse, "Yo, sister, are you your old acquaintance?" ”
The nurse just took a sip of her and told her to hurry back to the house and take her grandson. Then he hurriedly stood on tiptoe, and through the shadowy clothes and bedding, he rushed out of the door.
Uncle Li knew what she was looking for, so he smiled and said to the two: "The girl is also here, just waiting for you at the mouth of the alley." ”
When the nurse heard this, she ran out with her little feet, "Yes, this alley here is narrow, and you can pass a trolley, the girl came by carriage, and the carriage will definitely not enter the alley." ”
Uncle Li also has the heart to tell the nurse about the contact between the girl and Shen Hou, he is a man, and some words are not easy to speak, but the nurse makes the girl big, and some things are easier for the nurse to say. It's a pity that Grandma Wang is an anxious person, so she didn't wait for Uncle Li to say anything more, so she ran to the carriage with a smoke. Even Uncle Wang, he looked at Sang Xuanyue, who was standing next to the carriage and hugging the nurse tightly, he couldn't help but run a few steps, and quickly came to the front to greet Sang Xuanyue.
There are a large number of people living in the small alley, and now there are many families who have poked their heads out to see the excitement, Sang Xuanyue said, "I asked people to book a nearby restaurant, nurse, let's go to the restaurant to talk." ”
The nurse replied, "Okay." ”
Sang Xuanyue looked at Uncle Wang, who looked honest, and saw that Uncle Wang was much older than when he had seen it a few years ago. And I don't know if it was the previous fatal injury that hurt the root, but now although he has been raised for six months, Uncle Wang's lips are still a little white. And when he ran from the courtyard to the mouth of the alley, he was sweating all over his head.
Sang Zhuanyue felt very uncomfortable when he saw this, if it weren't for their brother and sister, why would Uncle Wang have fallen into this step.
She saluted Uncle Wang, and said with red eyes: "It's because of our brothers and sisters that you have suffered such a big injury, and you have been separated from the nurse for more than ten years." Uncle Wang, your kindness to our brothers and sisters is unforgettable, and I ask you to accept my worship. ”
Uncle Wang hurriedly waved his hand and said, "I can't do it", and the person hurriedly shrank back. The nurse hurriedly pulled up Sang and twisted the moon up, and said, "The old lady has the grace of life to your Uncle Wang, and the old saying says that the grace of dripping water is reciprocated, this is the grace of life, your Uncle Wang is to take out his life to fight, and you have to find the eldest son, otherwise you will not have the face to go underground to see the lord and the lady when you die." ”
Because more and more people gathered outside to watch the excitement, several people got into the carriage and went to the reserved restaurant.
When he arrived at the upper room of the restaurant, when Xiao Er had tea and retreated, Sang Xuanyue was busy asking how Uncle Wang's health was.
Uncle Wang only laughed and said, "It's okay, it's okay." ”
The nurse said, "It's hurtful, and the doctor said that it will be good to give birth for a year and a half." It looks good now, but this body sweats at every turn, and his energy doesn't look good. In the final analysis, you still have to raise it, and it would be good to raise more. ”
Uncle Wang said in a muffled voice: "Don't, being fooled, I, I'm fine." ”
Sang Xuanyue said: "Uncle Wang, don't care if my eldest brother can be found this time, you can't stay in Minzhou anymore." I mean, when we go back to Beijing this time, you will go back to Beijing with us to retire. ”
When Sang Xuanyue said this, Uncle Wang couldn't help but shout, "That's not good, that's not good, you have to find the eldest prince." ”
"Don't worry about the eldest brother, if you can't find the eldest brother this time, Uncle Li will stay in Minzhou in the future."
Uncle Li laughed beside him: "Yes, replace me." Old Wang, you have been loyal to your family for so many years, and now it is my turn. ”
Uncle Wang said in a whisper: "You are not idle, didn't you read those books in the old mansion before?" ”
"But my work is idle, and I can't compare to you being exposed to the wind and the sun, and you have to be anxious every day. If your body is still fine, I will not rob you of this job, but now that you are injured, you have to take care of it for a year, otherwise you will not recover well in the future, leaving a sequelae, then the girl and the young master will not feel guilty for life? ”
To put it mildly, they finally persuaded Uncle Wang, and several people finally shifted the topic to Sang Fuyue.
In fact, from the words and deeds of the nurse and Uncle Wang just now, Sang Xuanyue has already discovered that the whereabouts of the eldest brother are still unfounded.
If there is already a trace of the eldest brother, the nurse and Uncle Wang will designate that they will say: When the eldest son is found, everyone will go back to the capital together, and there will be no need to stay in Minzhou at that time. But since the nurse didn't say it, and Uncle Wang didn't mention it, that is, the matter of finding the eldest brother is a little unsmooth.
Sure enough, after that, the nurse said: "The girl should have seen me say in the letter that after the gangster who killed your uncle Wang was caught and sent to the yamen, she immediately came to Minzhou, right?" ”
Sang Xuanyue nodded, "Exactly." ”
The nurse sighed, her expression was very bitter, "I think so, otherwise if the girl saw the letter I went to the capital later, she would not have come to Minzhou." ”
"You sent a letter to the capital again? What is written in the letter? ”
The nurse hesitated, "This ......"
Sang Xuanyue saw that the nurse wanted to speak and stopped, and Uncle Wang was not ruthless with an obscure expression, and his heart immediately sank.
She said, "Nurse, tell me good news or bad news." Since I'm here, I've made up my mind that I won't stop if I can't find my eldest brother. Nurse, just say what you know, and I'll do the rest. ”
The nurse was shocked by the resolute expression on Sang Xuanyue's face, and immediately did not hide it, and could only inform her of what was written in the previous letter and the latest information in the yamen.
It turned out that since handing over the gangster to the yamen and handing it over to the servants for interrogation, the nurse and Uncle Wang seemed to be living at the yamen. They stayed outside the yamen all day, and when the officials in the yamen saw this, they had to step up the process of interrogation.
However, although the gangster spat out that he had received money from others before he came to Minzhou to kill the person who was looking for Sang Fuyue, he did not know who Sang Fuyue was, and who was the one who bought the murderer to make him kill.
It all started when he was still in his hometown in Huizhou. At that time he was just a gangster, and he had nothing to do all day, and suddenly one day he saw an old squire walking drunken on the road, and he immediately became ill-willed, and went to snatch the money bag from his waist. Although the clinker man looked drunk and ruthless, he still had the strength to resist when someone robbed the money, so the two fought, and the gangsters pushed the old squire against the wall in a panic. I thought it was a very simple robbery, but the next day he heard that the squire had been pushed against the wall and his brains had been knocked out.
Just when he was worried that someone would catch him and sue the official, the incident did not happen, but someone grabbed him as a handle and asked him to do something for her.
The nurse said: "The gangster didn't know who had taken his handle, and he thought that since he had been caught, he had to flee for his life." Unfortunately, the man who asked him to kill promised to give him a lot of money when the deed was done. ”
The wealth is moving, and because of this, the gangsters, who were only thinking about escaping for their lives, suddenly decided to finish the deal and earn some money first.
It's just to kill another person, and he's already killed someone anyway. Killing one is not much different from killing two or three, it is always a death sentence. Then it's better to kill a few more, and just be your own companion on the Huangquan Road. And most importantly, you can make money!
The gangster came to Minzhou as instructed, and the target he wanted to kill was all the people who were looking for Sang Fuyue.
He didn't know who Sang Fuyue was, and he didn't know who the person looking for Sang Fuyue was. This is a headless lawsuit, and people have nowhere to start. But it doesn't matter if you don't have anywhere to start, anyway, your purpose is to make money, and it's not your fault that you can't find the target person, it's just that the person hasn't appeared yet.
So, this gangster calmly took the money given by his employer to buy the murder and lived a free life in Minzhou City.
He even bought a house, started a business, married a beautiful daughter-in-law, and even took two concubines, and he also had both children......
It's been a very good day.
But just as he was about to lie down, the letter from his employer was brought in again.
In the letter, his employer reprimanded him for his incompetence. and clearly told him that the person who was looking for Sang Fuyue had already gone to Minzhou. He needs to find him and kill him, and if he's still slacking off, don't blame her for not remembering her old feelings. At that time, the news of his previous murder for money will be known to everyone, and his wife and children will be implicated or even sold, and even bringing himself will be a dead end.
This frightened this gangster, and he also knew that the murderer behind this was not as easy to fool as he thought. This buyer was really able to be ruthless at the critical moment, so the gangster finally had the motivation and was ready to do something.
Fortunately, he has not been in vain in Minzhou in the past few years, he has made friends with some of the characters of the three religions and nine streams, as long as he is willing to give up some money to go out, it is still easy to find someone.
Because of this, a few days later, the gangsters locked up Uncle Wang, and dealt a ruthless blow to Uncle Wang that night.
He also thought that Uncle Wang had been stabbed so many times that he could not die anymore. He even figured out how to ask his employer for the final payment. It's a pity that the next day he went to the yamen and waited for a day, and he didn't wait for the people in the yamen to release the revelation of the corpse to find his relatives.
It was also because of this that the gangster knew that Uncle Wang had saved his life. And this forced him to commit murder twice, three times......
The nurse told Sang Xuanyue all this, and then looked at the girl's solemn face, and the nurse said cautiously: "No matter how the people of the yamen torture them, the gangster can't reveal more useful things." It was the old slave who sent a letter to the girl, asking the girl not to come to Minzhou for the time being. Unfortunately, when the girl received her first letter, she came to Minzhou in a hurry, and she did not receive the second letter at all.
As the nurse said this, Sang Xuanyue moved her slightly stiff body. She said to the nurse, "There's a problem here. ”
"What's the problem?"
"It's the buyer who hired the gangster, can't you find any information about this person?"
The nurse shook her head, "I really can't find it." The gangster even handed over the letter from the murderer to the officers, but the officers said that it was not a person's note at all. ”
"So the clue is broken here?"
The nurse bowed her head and said cautiously, "The consciousness of the yamen is to dock with the yamen in Huizhou." Nothing else is certain, but the murder of the old squire and your Uncle Wang by the gangster is conclusive, and he will definitely be sentenced to death. ”
But what if he was sentenced to death, the whereabouts of his eldest brother are still a mystery, which is the most frustrating thing.
Seeing this, Uncle Wang suddenly said in a whisper, "The girl was in the capital before, and I didn't want to talk to the girl carefully." ”
Sang Xuanyue immediately cheered up, "Uncle Wang, what do you want to say, you just say it." ”
Uncle Wang said: "I told the girl before that I once saw a man who looked a little like a big prince, and that person was in the east of the city. I vaguely seem to have seen it twice, but if I wait any longer, I can't find the person who looks like a big prince anyway. ”
"However, since a person has appeared once or twice in a place, it is likely that there will be three or four times, and I believe that if we are patient, we can find that person. Maybe that's the eldest prince. ”
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After Uncle Wang and the nurse left, Sang Xuanyue sat in the room and was in a trance.
Su Jin brought her a meal, and she didn't want to eat it.
only asked Su Jin in a daze: "Su Jin, you say it's strange, it's not strange, five or six years ago, someone calculated that someone would come to Minzhou to find my eldest brother, doesn't this person have any magical powers?" ”
Su Jin knew that the girl didn't need to respond to anything at this time, she just needed to listen quietly.
"At that time, the eldest brother was traveling with his parents, and his parents were killed, and the eldest brother did not know whether he was alive or dead. At that time, many people said that my eldest brother was designated dead. Even the old people in the family were not optimistic about this matter, and persuaded me to let me see it. It's because I don't believe in this matter, so I didn't give my eldest brother a well-dressed grave from beginning to end, and insisted on letting people look for my eldest brother for ten years. To tell the truth, my eldest brother has disappeared for so many years, and even I can't hold on anymore, and even I almost feel that my eldest brother really died in that flood. But there is another person in this world, who thinks that my eldest brother is still alive in this world, as I do. ”
Is the real purpose of the black hand behind the scenes to kill all the people who come to find Sang Fuyue? No! His real purpose was to make Sang Fuyue impossible to be found.
What does this mean? It shows that the eldest brother must still be alive in the world, and the person is in Minzhou.
Sang Twisting Yue took Su Jin's hand and said excitedly, "Do you know Su Jin? I've never been so sure, my eldest brother is in Minzhou. I feel that I am getting closer and closer to my eldest brother, and I will find my eldest brother, who must be waiting for me in that place in Minzhou. ”
Su Jin hugged Sang Zhuyue and said, "That's right, as the girl said, the eldest prince must still be alive, and he is waiting for us to find him." Girl, we have enough spirits, and we will go to find the eldest prince from tomorrow, okay? ”
Sang Twisted Yue nodded chokedly, "Okay." ”
When Sang Twisting Moon fell asleep, Su Jin found Uncle Li and the others, and talked to a few people about the mastermind behind the scenes.
"It should be from Huizhou. But is there an enemy of our Sang family in Huizhou? ”
Uncle Li shook his head.
When it comes to Huizhou, the first thing he thinks of is the Zhou family. However, although the Zhou family is shameless, they have been thinking about various names over the years, asking the girl for money, but the Zhou family does not have the ability to predict the future. It is impossible for them to lay out in Minzhou as early as five or six years ago to kill the person who is looking for the eldest prince.
Again, the girl has been living under the nose of the Zhou family for the past few years, if the Zhou family has a heart, it should be easy to find out who the girl sent to find the eldest son outside. Wouldn't it be better to intercept Uncle Wang directly? Why bother waiting for the rabbit in Minzhou?
What's even more puzzling to him is that since he wants to prevent the girl from looking for the eldest son, this must be with the girl, and even more so with the Sang family. Since there are resentments, if this person knows the whereabouts of the eldest prince, why doesn't he directly kill the eldest prince? Can't, don't dare, or is it for some other reason?
In short, what this person behind the scenes did was really incomprehensible.
And the people behind this scene are really hidden, so deep that if he hadn't intentionally exploded, I'm afraid that in his lifetime, they wouldn't have been able to find out who he was.
How should this matter be handled?
For a while, not only Uncle Li was in trouble, but even Su Wen and Su Ying were at a loss.
However, they still have foreign help to turn to.
It's difficult to find Hou Ye, but I don't know if Hou Ye is not available now.
But no matter whether it is empty or not, Hou Ye has also instructed before that anything about the girl must be reported once a day. Later, let someone inform Hou Ye of this matter, as for whether Hou Ye has a better way to deal with it, it depends on Hou Ye's ability.
When Shen Tingjun finished today's business, met some people, and was about to rest after bathing, he saw Cheng Yi coming over with a letter in his hand.
He frowned slightly and asked, "Who wrote from who?" ”
Cheng Yi said, "Su asked someone to send it over, saying that it was not smooth for the girl to find someone." ”
Shen Tingjun's brows frowned even tighter when he heard this, he opened the letter, and then read it carefully.
He read carefully, but quickly, so that in the blink of an eye, he finished reading the few pieces of paper.
The letter was placed on the side of the table, thinking about this unbelievable case, Shen Tingjun's face sank slightly.
Just ask, is this interesting?
A person who has long had insight into Sang Fuyue's whereabouts, a native of Huizhou, has malicious intentions towards Sang Fuyue, but he does not kill Sang Fuyue. It doesn't make sense to say anything, but it happened.
If others face such a case, they may not know where to start, but Shen Tingjun is worthy of being the Dali Siqing who is in charge of Xing Prison in the world, how to solve the case, how to inquire about the case, he has his own way in his heart.
I saw that he picked up a pen and wrote many things on the good rice paper, and after he finished writing, he handed these papers to Cheng Yi and asked him to send them back to Su Wen.
But when Cheng Yi was about to retreat, Shen Tingjun called him again, and after calling Cheng Yi, he didn't make a sound, I don't know what he thought.
After a long time, Shen Tingjun still didn't make a sound, and Cheng Yi couldn't help asking, "Master, what else do you command?" ”
Shen Tingjun's original intention was to let Cheng Yi go to the yamen to say hello, but after thinking about it, forget it. It is not a good thing for her to let some people in Minzhou know that Sang Xuanyue has something to do with him, and it is better to go as a friend tomorrow.
He said, "Go down." ”
Cheng Yi didn't say how to hand the letter back to Su Wen, but said that it would soon be the next day, and as soon as Sang Xuanyue woke up, he saw Su Jin standing at the head of her bed with a tangled face.
Sang asked her in surprise, "You got up early, what are you doing?" Standing at the head of my bed, I thought there was a bad guy trying to sneak attack. ”
Su Jin didn't say anything else, just handed the paper in his hand to the girl.
Sang Xuanyue took it, and immediately saw the familiar handwriting on it. Only then did he ask her, "Has Master Hou been here?" ”
"Nope."
"And where did this thing come from?"
Su Jin said: "It was sent by someone around Hou Ye." As for who it was given to and how it got to her, I still don't say it.
Su Jin never expected that Su Wen would directly hand over this paper to her. Although she had already guessed that Su Wen and the others were Hou Ye's people, Su Wen was so good at hiding it? She is good, Xu is looking at the girl and the Hou Ye are hot now, and she looks at them with suspicious eyes several times. Su Wen guessed that she had already guessed their identities, so she didn't even have the desire to hide it.
The pieces of paper in Sang Xuanyue's hand were handed over to Su Jin by Su Wen. Su Jin felt a little hot after getting it, but when he saw what was written on it, he couldn't help but be moved. In the end, he rolled his eyes, then took the thing and handed it to Sang Xuanyue.
Sang Xuanyue looked at Shen Tingjun's trick for her.