Chapter 158: Doubt(1/2)
Lin Chenyao looked at her for a while, as if thinking about what she said before. After a while, he said, "Didn't you say she suspects that Deng Guozhu has anything to do with the murderer who killed her? Why did he say it has something to do with pirates?"
Chu Xinyu said: "I said before that it was an acquaintance who colluded with pirates and put medicine to make their family unable to resist. Moreover, her acquaintance has something to do with Deng Guozhu, so I investigated Deng Guozhu. As long as he found out that he still has contact with that acquaintance, he could have evidence to catch the other party, or perhaps with these things, he would arrest the robbers and pirates and other things."
Lin Chenyao asked her again: "Who is the acquaintance? Isn't it very convenient to check this acquaintance?"
"She said it was a girl she had saved, and asked her to live in her house and treat her like her own sister. But in the end, she colluded with pirates and let their family be ruined in the sea. As for her so-called sister, she didn't know where she is now, so I went to check Deng Guozhu to see if he had any contact with that sister."
Chu Xinyu told him everything he knew, but just concealed that the girl's sister in the dream had returned to Beijing to recognize her relatives and occupy her identity.
She could not reveal this important information to Lin Chenyao, because when she said it, Lin Chenyao would definitely guess, and maybe she thought she was making up stories. The death of the girl in the dream was similar to that of Mr. Fu San and the others. As long as the relationship between Deng Guozhu and Xu Zhilan was found out and he was asked to prove Xu Zhilan's identity, Xu Zhilan could no longer escape.
Chu Xinyu thought, suddenly thought of an important question and said, "By the way, I want to ask you a question."
"explain."
"Is Mr. Fu San killed by the pirate Hu Tianba? Did Miss Fu Er say that?"
This is the question she had always had in her mind after hearing the rumors. How could Xu Zhilan collude with those people? If they are caught, will she not confess her?
"That's right." He was also present at that time. He heard from Fu Yinghua that because Master Fu San has been attacking Hu Tianba and has captured some of his brothers and threatened him to surrender, Hu Tianba deliberately retreated for half a year and found out that Master Fu San brought his family back to Beijing. He intercepted Master Fu San's ship halfway and killed him to avenge some of his dead brothers.
Hu Tianba has the mentality of hating officials of the court. He does not like the people in the government, so he hates Master Fu San to the core. Therefore, no one doubts that Master Fu San was killed by Hu Tianba.
But when Chu Xinyu heard Lin Chenyao admit it, she was heartbroken. No wonder they never found out the result, because she knew very well that it was not Hu Tianba who killed her and her parents and sisters. If Xu Zhilan said it was Hu Tianba, it would definitely not be him. Xu Zhilan brought out Hu Tianba's purpose, she wanted to cause trouble.
This woman is so hateful!
That day, she also heard Fu Yingwu mention Mr. Fu San's affairs at the Duke of E's mansion. She knew that their family had never given up looking for the murderer, but Xu Zhilan was simply misleading. Hu Tianba disappeared before their family was killed, and she also knew a secret that Hu Tianba would not kill her family.
Now she has another task. If she wants to expose Xu Zhilan's true face, she has to find Hu Tianba to confront her. However, no one has seen Hu Tianba's true face. Maybe it's really like what Lin Chenyao said, find the girl who painted the portrait and asked.
Chu Xinyu pointed to the portrait and asked him: "What is this girl's name? Or can I help find it."
Lin Chenyao raised his eyebrows slightly, "Her name is Wanfang. You may go in and out of brothels, how do you find them?"
Chu Xinyu was stunned, then knew what he was referring to, and said angrily: "You can't find her, or you have changed your path and become a good person."
Lin Chenyao's eyes suddenly turned dark. Why didn't he expect that she could not be found in the brothel song and dance workshop, or she was not in those places at all.
"When did your people say someone saw her appear in Jinjing?"
“A year ago.”
Chu Xinyu said, "After so long, anything can happen." What she feared the most was whether this girl Wanfang would be silenced...
Silence?
She suddenly remembered something and raised her eyes to ask him: "How many people know about looking for Wanfang?"
"Apart from you, I am my subordinate."
When Chu Xinyu heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, if Xu Zhilan knew about it, he might have sent someone to kill her and silence her. Then he said, "Don't let too many people know about this, especially those from the Fu family."
"Why?" Lin Chenyao looked at her with a deep look.
"The fewer people know, the safer they are. Think about it, their family is determined to find the murderer, but they have never achieved their wish. Now I don't know if this clue can be found. If they can't find them, they are disappointed again, why not wait until they find it and tell them."
Lin Chenyao said: "It's too late. This matter was provided by Fu Guanzhang. Although he has not returned home since he came back, it is unclear whether he will tell it out after he goes back today."
Chu Xinyu remembered the situation when he saw Fu Guanzhang today and pretended to ask inadvertently: "Why haven't he been home?"
"He was attacked and poisoned for pursuing Hu Tianba's whereabouts. He temporarily lived elsewhere to recuperate."
Chu Xinyu asked nervously: "Then is his poison clear?"
No wonder he looked pale and seemed to have been sick. It turned out that he was poisoned. Why would someone attack him? Could it be Xu Zhilan? Otherwise, who would have killed Hu Tianba if he checked Hu Tianba’s whereabouts?
Thinking of this possibility, Chu Xinyu's face became ugly, and her hands clenched her fists in her sleeves. It seemed that she was very comfortable with her identity, which hurt her parents and her brother!
The hatred for Xu Zhilan deepened a little further.
Lin Chenyao was observing her face. When he heard her nervous inquiry, he felt a little irritated. He looked away but did not see her face suddenly becoming gloomy.
"You seem to care about him?"
Chu Xinyu was stunned and immediately calmed down his emotions and denied: "I don't know him, so I care about anything, I just ask casually."
"Is that true?" Lin Chenyao looked at her with a weak look, "Why would you ask him to borrow money if you don't know him?"
Chu Xinyu looked at him in shock. How did he know? He sent someone to follow her?
As if she knew what she was thinking, Lin Chenyao said, "It was him."
When he returned home, Fu Guanzhang happened to come to find him. He threw a piece of paper in front of him, but he didn't pick it up. Fu Guanzhang said angrily: "Look at what kind of woman you are about to marry? Vanity, money worship, shameless!"
Fu Guanzhang didn't care about that little bit of money. He was just not worth it for his sister. He wanted Lin Chenyao to know what kind of person he was protecting? Is it worth it to hurt his sister's heart for such a woman?
His book boy Jin Yuanbao picked up the paper, glanced at it, widened his eyes, and handed it to him. He took it and realized that it was a loan note. Chu Xinyu borrowed him 150 taels of silver.
Lin Chenyao knew that Fu Guanzhang was not concerned about money, but he still asked Jin Yuanbao to pay back 150 taels of money to Fu Guanzhang. No matter why Chu Xinyu borrowed his money, she was his fiancée, and there was no reason to owe other men silver.
Fu Guanzhang did not ask for silver, but once again warned him viciously that if he did not withdraw from the marriage, he would not contact his sister again, and then left.
It was not that Chu Xinyu spent money on it, but that she actually asked other men to borrow money.
Why don’t you tell me if you are short of money? Ask other men to borrow money, they will lose face, as if he abused his fiancée.
Thinking of this, Lin Chenyao took out a small stack of silver notes from his arms and placed them on the table, "Please pack it."
Chu Xinyu saw that each piece was 1,000 taels, and there were at least ten pieces here, more than ten taels. She didn’t send Qian Han, why did she need so much silver? Then she turned dark and said, “What do you mean?”
Lin Chenyao said, "Aren't you free of money?" He didn't want someone to throw the loan note to him next time to scold her.
"Who said I don't have any silver?"
"Then why do you ask Fu Guanzhang to borrow money? Don't you know that he is Fu Yinghua's brother?"
"He happened to be here, and I borrowed it when I saw it was your friend again, otherwise why would you think I would ask a man who had just met to borrow silver?"
When Chu Xinyu said that he had borrowed Fu Guanzhang from his friend, he seemed to be feeling better, "You can take these silver notes, and don't ask me about the man I thought I would borrow money."
"I have silver myself, so I don't want yours." Chu Xinyu explained: "What's more, I asked him what I borrowed because I didn't bring enough silver to go out today." After that, she stuffed the silver notes on the table back to him.
Lin Chenyao held her hand and said, "This is your place. If it is not enough, you can use it." After that, he picked up the scroll and jumped out of the window.
"Hey, wait..." Chu Xinyu chased after him, but his figure had disappeared.
She originally wanted to ask him if the poison on Fu Guanzhang's body was cleared and when he would have another painting, but he flashed too fast and left before he could speak.
Chu Xinyu looked at the direction of his disappearance and slowly recalled what Lin Chenyao said to her. They were looking for Hu Tianba, what if Hu Tianba couldn't find it?
Hu Tianba has disappeared for so many years, and Xu Zhilan is not stupid. If you dare to use him to frame him, you must be sure that others will not be able to find him.
Xu Zhilan is cruel and ruthless and does not leave any silence. If she guessed it was right, then Hu Tianba might not be alive or be under house arrest.
Otherwise, with the strength of Duke E and Lin Chenyao, it would be impossible for me to find it after searching for four years.
Then how did she tell them the news?
All night, Chu Xinyu couldn't sleep. When he got up the next day, there was a faint shadow. When Zhu Bo was dressing her up, he had to apply some powder to cover her.
When dressing Chu Xinyu, Zhubo Shen said mysteriously: "Girl, I want to ask you, will silver fall from the sky?"
Chu Xinyu said: "Of course not. Don't take any of it if it falls down. I don't know if anyone has been poisoned."
Poisoned? Zhu Bo's face turned pale.
"What's wrong?" Chu Xinyu asked.
Zhu Bo didn't say anything, so he rushed to the study and carried a box over.
Chu Xinyu saw that wasn’t it the box where she put the silver bill? What did she carry it out for?
Zi Ling came in with breakfast and saw Zhubo bringing a lit candle, a basin and a holder, so she asked her what she was doing?
Zhu Bo didn't say anything. She opened the box, picked up the silver notes inside, threw them into a basin, picked up the candle and lit the silver notes.
Chu Xinyu immediately stopped her and said, "What are you doing?"
Zhu Bo said: "These silver notes may be poisonous. Fortunately, you didn't touch them, girl, otherwise..."
When she saw it yesterday, there were only five silver notes, but today there were more than a dozen more. The silver notes would not come in by themselves. I must not know who put them secretly. Maybe she would be smeared on them. She should be careful not to lose her life because of greed for a little money.
Chu Xinyu held his forehead and said, "I put it in."
"Where did you get so many silver notes overnight?"
Zhu Bo didn't know that Lin Chenyao came last night, and he didn't know that these silver notes were given to Chu Xinyu. She wondered when she saw so many silver notes in the box, so she asked Chu Xinyu if the silver would be lost in the sky.
Chu Xinyu answered her like that just to make her understand that there is nothing to get for nothing, and you must be more cautious in everything, and don’t fall into other people’s plans because of a moment of greed.
As a result, this misunderstanding came about.
Chu Xinyu said: "I asked Lan Yi to go to the money shop to get it."
Zhubo knew that Chu Xinyu had opened an account in the money shop, which was the silver that Shao Sanniang gave her. She knew that she had made a mistake and her face turned red.
Zi Ling bent over there almost laughed and bent over.
At this time, Danqing walked in and said, "Girl, cousin is here."
When Zhu Bo heard this, he immediately put the silver note back into the box and carried it into the study.
Chu Xinyu frowned, what else did Yang Lianxin do?
To be continued...