"On the second day of the first lunar month, Mr. Zhao and Ms. Zhao were summoned by Mr. Zhao to visit relatives with Mrs. Zhao on his behalf. Mr. Zhao and Mrs. Zhao were also going there, but Mr. Zhao was really uncomfortable due to his old illness, so he moved quickly. My whole body was sore, so I didn't go. Mrs. Zhao was worried that he would stay in Chang'an alone, so she stayed with her to take care of Mr. Zhao. The couple spent this year in Chang'an." Bai Zhu answered and said.
Liu Yuan sighed, followed Bai Zhu's words, and continued: "Because there are only two old servants in the same family, this year is very simple, and there is nothing to do. Mr. Zhao was really bored, so he came out to drink tea. "
Hearing this, Lin Fei raised his head suddenly: "When did it happen?"
Liu Yuandao: "From the third day of the first lunar month until...yesterday, it was the day to send off Lao Yuan. After sending off Lao Yuan, I also went to drink tea, and the sun never set."
This is the contradiction: Since Zhao Mengzhuo is suffering from an old illness and his whole body aches when he moves, why doesn't he keep it at home, but keeps running outside to drink tea? Since he can run, why let a pair of sons and daughters visit relatives on his behalf?
Of course, this may be an excuse for not wanting to visit relatives, but according to Mrs. Zhao and the old servant at home, Mrs. Zhao has a very good relationship with relatives, and there are many visits to relatives in previous years. "Between each other.
"Of course, it's also possible that Mr. Zhao was lazy for a while and didn't want to go out of the city." Bai Zhu and Liu Yuan still found a far-fetched but reasonable explanation for this. But when they asked Zhao Mengzhuo about his tea-drinking movements, But it's really hard to ignore the weirdness of it.
"From the third day of the first lunar month until yesterday, Mr. Zhao chose the Zhaixing Building for drinking tea." Bai Zhu said, "And I still go to the top floor. Since the place is not reserved, there are different places in the past few days. The young tea guest saw Mr. Zhao drinking tea there alone, and he was sitting next to the desk where the accident happened that day."
Lin Fei gave a "hmm", frowned slightly, and asked, "What are Master Zhao doing drinking tea alone?"
That's all they have to say! The two looked at each other, Liu Yuan turned his face away with some red eyes, and finally Bai Zhu said: "According to the tea guest, Mr. Zhao just drank tea and read casual books in those few days. , It seems to pass the time. Sometimes when I am tired from reading books, I will get up and walk around, and go to the window to see the situation downstairs."
Lin Fei did not speak, waiting for Bai Zhu to finish speaking.
"The two of us visited and inquired about the tea guests in those few days, and found that Mr. Zhao got up from reading books in the past few days, and the window he walked to was the window where he fell from the building that day," Bai Zhu Speaking of this, there was a trembling voice at first, and the trembling became even stronger, "According to this... Based on this, Liu Yuan and I speculate that Mr. Zhao's actions in those few days were very suspicious. ..."
"Step on the spot." Lin Fei spit out two words from his mouth, saying what Bai Zhu hadn't said.
Because he lowered his head and lowered his eyelids when he said this, the two of them couldn't see the real emotion in his eyes, but their tone was calmer than the other two.
So far, apart from the personal witnesses at the time of the fall, all the physical evidence pointed out one thing—that Zhao Mengzhuo's fall from the building was not as simple as being stretched out and pushed by others. The most powerful force of that fall under the watchful eyes of the crowd most likely came from himself.
If so…
"Why?" Liu Yuan murmured, turning his face away, "Master Zhao, why did you do this? He has a rich family, a pair of sons and daughters who are filial, loving with Mrs. Zhao, and will retire in two years and return to his hometown to become a rich man. No matter how you look at it, you shouldn't seek death!"
yes! Why? Zhao Mengzhuo resolutely chose to fall from the roof of the building, abandoning the rich man's life return plan that he had already outlined for himself, abandoning his loving wife, sensible and filial sons and daughters, why?
"Also, what exactly are Master Chang and others looking for when they flipped through Master Zhao's body that day?" Liu Yuan murmured, "What secret are they hiding?"
Listening to Liu Yuan and Bai Zhu muttering to themselves, Lin Fei closed his eyes and rubbed the space between his brows. Compared with the two of them, he still had a bigger doubt in his heart.
After returning to the mansion yesterday, his father and brother called him over and told him that the source of the dry stock in the Zhaixing Building in his grandfather's hand was from the dead General Yuan Qing.
General Yuan’s life was so simple and simple. If his grandfather hadn’t mentioned the matter of making stocks, who would have known that General Yuan would have such a golden mountain in his hands?
Guarding the golden mountain but not moving at all... Lin Fei never thought that General Yuan was a person who was greedy for pleasure, but for a person with golden mountains, General Yuan's daily life can be called harsh.
It is inappropriate to go too far in everything, too extravagant and greedy for pleasure; but like General Yuan... If General Yuan is the kind of person who does not seek foreign things in his bones, of course it is not unreasonable, but the General Yuan he sees every day , I will also save money, buy a favorite sword for myself, and buy some favorite jewelry for my wife.
It can be seen that General Yuan is also an ordinary person in terms of what people want.
So, he only uses his own salary, but the golden mountain guards it but doesn't even move it. Why?
Lin Fei picked up the teacup and took a sip. Not long after eating the plate of assorted golden rice, the taste of the broken golden rice still remained in his mouth. Tasting the remaining taste in his mouth, the brows that had just smoothed out twisted again : And...Wen Xuance.
He was still studying when Wen Xuance's accident happened. He only remembers that the incident happened so suddenly. It took only a short month from the dispatching to the investigation, and then to the Wen family's family copying and execution.
Where Wen Xuance, who has always been famous for his eloquence, seemed extremely dull when dealing with such life-threatening matters, and only repeated one sentence over and over again-he never harmed General Yuan, and never falsely preached imperial edicts.
This defense is really weak, and naturally it is useless.
For some reason, these seemingly loose and irrelevant things seem to be connected by an invisible thread. Moving his finger, Lin Fei subconsciously touched it into his sleeve pocket. The feeling of the tentacles was cold, and he knew it was a silver ingot without taking it out.
Or, to be precise, it was an official silver that was sent to him together with Ping An's mother and son.
Taking a deep breath, Lin Fei looked up at the case file under the official seal before his case—it was the file of the case of Liu Sanqing and others. Because Liu Sanqing had arranged everything properly, the case was closed quickly.
It was only the follow-up of this case that caused Lao Yuan to lose his life.
Rubbing the official silver in the sleeve robe, Lin Fei had an inexplicable premonition in his heart: Zhao Mengzhuo's jump may be the key to unlocking the truth of these cases.