Chapter 405 Assorted Golden Rice (6)

"On the second day of the first lunar month, Mr. Zhao and Miss Zhao were summoned by Mr. Zhao to visit relatives on his behalf with Mrs. Zhao. Originally Mr. Zhao and Mrs. Zhao were also going, but Mr. Zhao was really unwell due to an old illness and could not move at all. My whole body ached, so I didn't go. Mrs. Zhao didn't trust him to stay alone in Chang'an, so she stayed to take care of Mr. Zhao while the couple spent this new year in Chang'an." Bai Zhu answered.

Liu Yuan sighed, and continued what Bai Zhu said: "Because we are just two old servants in the same family, our life has been very simple this year, with nothing much going on. Mr. Zhao was really bored, so he went out to drink tea. "

Hearing this, Lin Fei suddenly raised his head: "When did it happen?"

Liu Yuandao: "From the third day of the first lunar month until...yesterday, it was the day to see off Lao Yuan. After seeing off Lao Yuan, I also went to drink tea, and there was no sunset."

This is the contradiction: since Zhao Mengzhuo has an old illness and his whole body aches when he moves, why doesn't he keep it at home instead of running out to drink tea? Since he could run away, why did he let a pair of children visit his relatives on his behalf?

Of course, this may be an excuse for not wanting to visit relatives, but according to Mrs. Zhao and her old servants at home, Mr. Zhao has a very good relationship with his relatives and has visited relatives frequently in the past years. All this is consistent with Zhao Mengzhuo's "old illness that he does not want to move." "They violated each other.

"Of course, it's also possible that Mr. Zhao was lazy for a while and didn't want to leave the city." Bai Zhu and Liu Yuan found a far-fetched but reasonable explanation for this. But when they asked Zhao Mengzhuo about his tea drinking, But it’s really impossible to ignore the weirdness in it.

"Mr. Zhao, from the third day of the first lunar month until yesterday, he chose the Star Building for drinking tea." Bai Zhu said, "And he always went to the top floor. Because the venue was not reserved, there were many people there these days. The young tea guest saw Mr. Zhao drinking tea alone, and he was sitting next to the table where the accident happened that day."

Lin Fei said "Hmm", frowned slightly, and asked, "What is Master Zhao doing there drinking tea alone?"

This is what they want to say! The two of them looked at each other, Liu Yuan turned away with his eyes a little red, and finally Bai Zhu spoke: "According to the tea guest, Mr. Zhao spent those days drinking tea and reading casual books. , it seems to be killing time. Sometimes when I get tired of flipping through books, I will get up and walk around, go to the window and take a look at the situation downstairs. "

Lin Fei said nothing, waiting for Bai Zhujiang to finish speaking.

"The two of us visited and interviewed the tea guests in those days one by one, 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 that day," Bai Zhu said At this point, his voice, which was originally trembling, became even more trembling, "According to this... According to this, Liu Yuan and I speculated that Mr. Zhao's actions in those few days were very suspicious. It is very possible... extremely likely It’s at…”

"Step in." Lin Fei uttered two words from his mouth, saying what Bai Zhu had not said.

Because he lowered his head and lowered his eyelids when he said this, the two of them could not see the real emotions in his eyes, but his tone was calmer than the other two.

At this point, except for the witness of the fall, all the physical evidence points to one thing - that is, Zhao Mengzhuo's fall was not as simple as being pushed by someone who stretched out his hand as everyone saw. The greatest force of the fall from the public eye most likely came from himself.

If so...

"Why?" Liu Yuan turned away and murmured, "Why would Mr. Zhao do this? He has a rich family, a pair of sensible and filial children, and a loving couple with Mrs. Zhao. In two years, he will retire and return to his hometown to become a rich man. No matter from which point you look at it, you shouldn’t seek death!”

"In recent years, Mr. Zhao has become more and more tactful and does not offend others. He obviously wanted to serve as the Minister of Dali Temple for the last two years and left the officialdom." Bai Zhu's voice was stiff, "Why did he do this? "

yes! Why? Zhao Mengzhuo resolutely chose to fall from the roof, abandoning the rich man's return plan that he had already prepared for himself, abandoning his loving wife, and his sensible and filial children. Why?

"Also, what were Master Chang and others looking for when they turned over Master Zhao's body that day?" Liu Yuan murmured, "What secrets were they hiding?"

Listening to Liu Yuandong Bai Zhu's muttering questions to themselves, Lin Fei closed his eyes and rubbed his eyebrows. Compared to the two of them, he had a bigger doubt in his heart.

After returning home yesterday, his father and brother called him over and told him that the stem stocks and stocks of Zhaixing Tower in his grandfather's hands came from the deceased General Yuan and Qing.

General Yuan lived such a simple life. If his grandfather hadn't talked about Gangu, 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 a golden mountain, the life General Yuan lived could be called harsh.

It is wrong to go too far in everything and to be too extravagant and greedy for pleasure; but like General Yuan... If General Yuan is a person who does not seek external things in his heart, it is certainly not unreasonable to be a simple person, but the Yuan he sees every day The general will also save money to buy a favorite sword for himself and some favorite jewelry for his wife.

It can be seen that General Yuan is also an ordinary person in terms of what people want.

Therefore, he only touches his own salary, but the golden mountain guarding him does not even move. Why is this?

Lin Fei picked up the tea cup and took a sip. Not long after eating the plate of assorted golden rice, the taste of the golden rice was still lingering in his mouth. Tasting the remaining taste in his mouth, his smoothed eyebrows twisted again. : And... Wen Xuance.

He was still studying when Wen Xuance's accident happened. He only remembered that the incident happened very suddenly. It only took more than a month from the incident to the investigation to the execution of everyone in the Wen family.

However, Wen Xuance, who has always been famous for his eloquence, seemed extremely dull when it came to such life-threatening matters. He only repeated one sentence over and over again - he had never harmed General Yuan, and he had never falsely conveyed imperial edicts.

This defense is really weak and of no use.

For some reason, these seemingly loose and unrelated things seem to be connected by an invisible thread. Lin Fei moved his fingers, and subconsciously touched his sleeve pocket. The tentacles felt cold, and he knew it was a silver ingot without taking it out.

Or, to be precise, it was an official silver coin that was sent to him along with Ping An's mother and son.

Taking a deep breath, Lin Fei raised his eyes again and looked at the case file that was pressed under the official seal in front of his case - it was the case file of Liu Sanqing and others. Because Liu Sanqing had arranged everything properly, the case was concluded quickly.

But the follow-up to this case caused Lao Yuan to lose his life.

Touching the official silver in his sleeve robe, Lin Fei had an inexplicable hunch in his heart: Zhao Mengzhuo's leap might be the key to unlocking the truth of these cases.