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【Chapter 17】Old things and old people are now murderous

After his emotions stabilized a little, she continued: "I will explain to you about the things that Mr. Lu today is not just trying to let you go of your knots that have been in your heart for many years."

Ning Nanyou showed a puzzled expression and looked at her silently.

Jiang Chengjia settled down and took a deep breath and asked, "Have you been checking the truth about Mrs. Gu's murder over the years?"

After hearing her suddenly ask this, Ning Nanyou's eyes slightly stagnated: "Why did you ask this suddenly?"

Jiang Chengjia replied: "Half a month ago, you promised Song Yang that he would ask him to interrogate Tao Chong alone about the death of his parents. Tao Chong told him... Song Yang's parents were killed by Song Zong because they refused to tell the place where Young Master Lu was hiding now..."

He was surprised and said, "How could Song Yang's parents know where Young Master Lu is? Could it be them?"

Jiang Chengjia nodded, affirming his guess at this time: "If... what Tao Chong said is the truth, then Song Yang's parents must know the truth about Mrs. Gu's murder in Wuling. It is very likely that Song Yang's parents rescued Young Master Lu from the bandits that year... Only now can they survive in the world..."

Ning Nanyou's expression slowly darkened, and he lowered his eyes and pondered: "I was not born when Mrs. Gu died. I rarely heard her affairs talk about her. But I knew that Mr. Lu missed her deceased wife very much. After the young Master Lu lost her trace, the Lu family searched for a year and gave up searching. But Mr. Lu did not give up. He ignored the opposition of the patriarch in the family and kept searching for the whereabouts of Mrs. Lu in private, and never gave up looking for the bandits who killed Mrs. Gu.

This was the only regret in his life. After the Chang Mengjun case broke out, he asked my uncle to continue to search for the bandits and the whereabouts of Young Master Lu. Later, when my uncle returned to Longxi, he told me the clues he found... Over the years, I have been unremittingly investigating the truth about Mrs. Gu's murder. Finally, in the sixth year of Jiankang, the spies sent by me found the traces of bandits that appeared in the Xindu area and followed this clue to the coast of Qingzhou. There, the group of people were captured.

Lu Xun had tried these people day and night, and learned from them that when Mrs. Gu was captured, it was not because they had made a temporary decision, but someone had spent a lot of money to hire them to hijack the ox cart that Mrs. Gu returned to Luoyang and ordered them to silence Mrs. Gu... But these bandits did not know who was behind the scenes who hired them to commit murder and killed Mrs. Gu? The rules of the world, the employer should not meet. This was indeed a rule that had been ruled a long time ago. Lu Xun tried all kinds of methods at that time, but could not get other clues from their mouths. Only then did he confirm that these bandits did not know who was buying the murderer behind the scenes.

Later, Lu Xun learned from the bandit leader that one of them thought that the baby under one year old in Mrs. Gu's arms was innocent, so he took advantage of their inattention and fled the bandit gang with Young Master Lu, who was less than one year old."

"In this way... this defected bandit... is likely Song Yang's father..." Jiang Chengjia continued his words.

Ning Nanyou nodded slightly, lowered his head, gently turned the ring on his thumb with his hand, thinking about the clues about this matter, and couldn't help but sigh: "But now, Young Master Lu is lucky to be found by you... We also know who one of the bandits who protected him back then? But the mastermind behind the hiring of murderers has no clue yet..."

Jiang Chengjia's eyes turned, and his face gradually became solemn: "Erlang, I want to buy the murderer. The employer who killed someone... I know who it is?"

Ning Nanyou looked at her. At first, he showed a look of confusion and exploration, and then a faint sense of resentment appeared in his eyes, and he asked her in a deep voice: "Who is it?"

The little lady in front of her crawled off his legs, took the bedding and hugged it in her arms, held her hands and said softly: "You Fufeng Fu... Sikong Fu Bo."

He showed a look of shock and said in disbelief: "You... are sure it's Sikong Fubo?"

Sure enough, Ning Nanyou was completely unaware of this matter.

Jiang Chengjia nodded and said, "Tao Chong told Song Yang... At that time, Song Zong received a letter written by Fu Bo, so he ordered him to find Song Yang's parents. In the end, it seemed that he had slaughtered the entire village in order to silence..."

Ning Nanyou's thoughts were a little confused. He shook his head at her and said, "But... Mrs. Gu and Fu Bo have met since childhood. They are cousins ​​who grew up together... When the news of Mrs. Gu's murder in Wuling reached Luoyang, Fu Bo stayed in front of her spirit for seven days and refused to leave... How could he hired a murderer?"

He refused to believe it, but he could not explain why Fu Bo wanted to write a letter to Song Zong himself, and ordered him to ask Song Yang's parents about the whereabouts of Young Master Lu. If he could not ask, he would silence him and even slaughter the village.

Jiang Chengjia calmed down, lowered his eyes, attached his hands to his knees, knocked habitually, and thought about it over and over again, and said, "Maybe... Back then, Mrs. Gu accidentally learned the unknown secret of Fu Bo and even the entire Fu family... If this secret was spread, the Fu family's general would be destroyed. Therefore, Fu Bo had to attack his cousin who grew up with him?"

"This is possible." Ning Nanyou kept turning the ring on his thumb, feeling a little irritable and uneasy.

When Ning Nanyou learned that Fu Bo might be the culprit behind Mrs. Gu's murder, he remembered something.

His uncle Cao Yong said that when Mrs. Gu returned to Kuaiji, two people followed the Lu family's fleet to Kuaiji. These two were Fu Bo and his father Ning Zheng.

He did hear that when the fleet crossed the river from Lujiang, Mrs. Gu had a fierce quarrel with Fu Bo, and Ning Zheng was also present. Could it be that Mrs. Gu was silenced after touching on some kind of interest cooperation between Fu Bo and his father?

Seeing that Ning Nanyou was in deep thought, Jiang Chengjia called out softly in his ear: "Erlang...what have you remembered?"

He nodded and said his guess just now.

This made Jiang Chengjia have a strange idea. For some reason, she always had a intuition that the ulterior motive secret that Mrs. Gu knew back then had some connection with the reasons why Ning Zheng and Deng joined forces with hundreds of schools to frame the four generals of Chang Meng's army, Yue Qi, Lu, Lu and Murong.

But the past is as scattered as a stone. She knew too few clues and could not infer anything at this time. It also caused the young man in front of her to fall into rounds of thought.

Jiang Chengjia comforted him, "I will order the spies from Qianji Department to carefully check what had a dispute between Mrs. Gu and Fu Bo and his father when they passed by Lujiang. If there is any news, I will tell you immediately."

Ning Nanyou was slightly stunned, turned his head, looked at the little lady beside him curled the corners of her lips, and smiled gently, the doubts and dullness accumulated in his heart gradually dissipated. He stretched out his hand, rubbed her little head, and said gently: "I'm Mrs. Lui..."

Jiang Chengjia smiled, leaned beside him, and remembered Zhao Fu, who was far away from the north. After thinking about it carefully, he decided not to tell him about Zhao Fu and Lu Shiqing for the time being.

She pulled the quilt and soon felt sleepy. Since she was pregnant, she has been sleepy often, especially in the past few days, she couldn't sleep well in the evening and became even more sleepy during the day. Jiang Chengjia wrapped her quilt and slowly lay down on the bed. Seeing Ning Nanyou still leaning on the couch, she was thinking about something in her eyes, so she turned over and hugged his waist and murmured: "Erlang...Don't think about it, it's time to take a nap."

Ning Nanyou lowered his head and saw her muttering in a daze, closing her eyes and muttering, she smiled softly, then lay down on the couch along with her, leaned slightly, and gently patted her back with her slender fingers, coaxing her to sleep.

After she fell asleep, Ning Nanyou carefully got up, got out of the gauze tent, sorted out the collar and robe, and kicked up his boots to go out.

Jiang Chengjia closed her eyes and slept so hard that she didn't know the world, but she still heard the sound of two creaking sounds in her ears opening and closing. However, because she had not had a good sleep for many days, she slept very heavily. Not long after, she was overwhelmed by the strong sleepiness.

The fatigue and sleepiness that had been over the years actually made her sleep until the sky was dark in the evening.

When Jiang Chengjia woke up, he saw that Ning Nanyou had long since gone to where he went.

She hurriedly lifted the gauze tent and glanced out the window. Seeing the sky was deep outside, she rubbed her eyes in a daze, got up from the couch, put on wooden clogs, pushed open the door and muttered.

Qianshan and Xiao Cui were guarding the door. When they heard the movement, they immediately turned to look at her standing in front of the house and said, "My lady, are you awake?"

She had just woken up, and her mind was a little confused at this moment. She looked at Qian Shan for a long time before she reacted and said, "Qian Shan? Why are you here?"

Qianshan and Xiao Cui laughed happily and said, "June asked me to guard the Queen. June said... The Queen has always been unable to sleep well these two days and nights, and she rarely had a good night's sleep this afternoon. She was worried that you would wake up and be hungry and thirsty, so she asked the two of us to come back from Dou Taijun and guard you in Fengyuan."

Jiang Chengjia was confused and said, "How long have I slept?"

Qianshan replied, "It's about two hours."

Jiang Chengjia was shocked and said, "Two hours! Isn't it... I'm going to have dinner?!"

She looked up at the sky again, and then she hurriedly pulled Qianshan and Xiao Cui to the kitchen next to Fengyuan.

Qianshan said laughing and crying: "Female...Female wait! If you want to go to the next stove... there is no need..."

Jiang Chengjia paused, turned to look at her and said, "Grandma and mother...now?"

Qianshan nodded and replied, "The two ladies have already had dinner now. They are now going to the Houzhuang for a walk..."
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