Vol 5 Chapter 56: Don't let go
Fu Mingrui motioned for the royal power to step down, and his stern eyes swept over the Lu family and the members of the Huang family in the courtyard outside the hall: "Huang Zong hired this Zhang Abing here to pretend to be a ghost here, in order to scare away the craftsmen and newcomers, why did Huang Zong let him go?" Others dare not live in the old house of the Huang family? I suspect that there is something wrong with this house. So I searched the house overnight and found the two skeletons you saw in the hall. After inspection, these two skeletons have been buried for more than 50 years Fifty years ago, not long after Huang Ye disappeared, the Huang family still lived in this house. Old ancestors of the Huang family, do you have any impression of these two skeletons?"
Lu didn't look at it and said nothing, he still recited scriptures by himself.
"This old woman is really powerful." Yi Jixuan and Fu Mingsu whispered.
Fu Mingsu smiled coldly: "As long as Mingrui opens the court, there must be evidence!"
"Brother, what kind of case is this?" Fu Minghui, who just came back, didn't understand at all, "Second brother can try such a dead body?" Fu Minghui's face was full of disbelief.
Fu Mingsu chuckled: "Third brother, haven't you heard a lot of rumors about your second brother? Don't talk about the bones, even if there is no corpse, your second brother can interrogate him!"
"Ah" Fu Minghui immediately showed admiration, "So the coffin trial case I heard is true!"
"Could it be fake?" Fu Mingsu smiled, and raised his hand to lightly touch Fu Minghui's forehead. Fu Minghui touched his forehead and smiled shyly.
Fu Mingrui waited patiently for Shi Lu to answer, but obviously Lu Shi didn't answer. Fu Mingrui smiled slightly, and looked towards the courtyard outside the hall: "Among you, does anyone have any impression?"
Everyone looked suspicious. They basically grew up in the new house all their lives, and they really don't know much about the old house.
"If you don't report what you know, you will cover up the crime!" Wang Quan yelled at the door, "Our Lord is giving you a chance!"
Suddenly, three old slaves who were almost sixty came out tremblingly. Kneel together hand in hand.
"My lord, the little ones have something to report."
"Say!"
The two old slaves looked at the middle one together, and the middle one became more courageous and said: "Fifty years ago, our parents were servants of the Huang family, and later we were also servants of the Huang family. I heard my father say that But, say... old madam..." Several old slaves looked timidly at the calm Lu Shi in the hall, and hurriedly lowered their faces, "Killed people..."
"You heartless slaves!" Huang Zong's second brother was furious immediately, "How dare you frame our ancestors!"
"Silence!" Yacha stepped forward immediately.
Fu Mingrui continued to look at the three old slaves deeply: "Who did you kill, do you know?!"
The three old slaves shook their heads in unison this time: "You guys don't know."
Fu Mingrui thought for a moment, and then asked: "Then do you know who lived in the yellow house back then? About...only sixteen or seventeen years old?"
Sixteen or seventeen? Fu Minghui couldn't help being a little surprised, isn't he about the same age as him. He was a little curious, and asked Fu Mingsu: "Brother, why did Second Brother ask this question?"
Fu Mingsu pointed to a relatively short skeleton on the ground: "That small white skeleton belongs to a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy."
Fu Minghui couldn't help being surprised, and when he looked at the bones again, he felt a little more emotional. They are the same age, he is a major general, but he is already a pile of bones.
The three old slaves looked at each other and tried hard to remember.
Suddenly, one person remembered: "Oh! I heard from my mother that the old woman's godbrother lived in Huang's house. At that time... he was worshiping Master Huang Ye as his teacher. When he came... he was only about twelve years old. A few years later...it seems that he fell into the river and drowned...At that time, he was almost sixteen or seventeen years old..."
"Oh I also remembered, my mother also said that brother is handsome, by the way, I remember it seems to be called... Young Master Lu Jingting, right?"
"Yes, yes, my father also said that the master liked him very much and taught him as a successor... After the young master died, the master became a fairy..."
A few old people who are over half a century old finally put together some scattered gossip heard from their parents, and it was like a jigsaw puzzle, gradually putting together a living person.
Fu Mingrui was secretly surprised, but unexpectedly, he actually found some clues. But whether the skeleton on the ground is Lu Jingting is not yet fully determined.
"My lord, that's all we know. I really don't know about the rest." The old slaves really couldn't remember anything. They were only ten years old at that time, and they hadn't entered the Huang family as slaves. They didn't know that the Huang family had too many people. thing.
Fu Mingrui had a seven-point conclusion in his mind at this time, but there were still many links missing. For example, why did Huang Ye disappear shortly after the death of the young Lu Jingting?
Moreover, judging from the bones they found, the boy didn't drown and died, and Huang Ye didn't become a fairy either. There are still many things that are not right here. However, Fu Mingrui knew that there was one person here who knew, that is, the ancestor of the Huang family who had been chanting scriptures.
Fu Mingrui gave Zhao Cheng a wink, and Zhao Cheng immediately brought a tray covered under the blue cloth.
Fu Mingrui looked at the crowd deeply: "One set of bones we dug up was a young man in his thirties, and the other was a boy in his sixteenth or seventeenth year, which matched the age of the Lu Jingting you mentioned. There are many things that he used during his lifetime, such as his clothes." Fu Mingrui pointed to the piles of tatters on the hall.
"Shoes, hats, belts, jade, the four treasures of the study, and one special thing..." Fu Mingrui pointed at Zhao Cheng, and Zhao Cheng lifted the blue cloth, and immediately, a delicate jade, gold and silver appeared in front of everyone , everyone immediately looked surprised.
"I'm curious about who owns this seal, so I used this seal to print the inscription on the paper yesterday, and it turned out to be..." Fu Mingrui lifted the rice paper on the table, and there was a red seal on the white rice paper. It is the words "Huangshan Taoist".
"Grandfather, grandfather!"
"Grandpa!"
The people outside immediately exclaimed, everyone was dumbfounded! The rumors of Huangshan Taoists becoming immortals instantly became a joke in front of this seal. It turned out that their ancestors did not become immortals at all, but their bones were never buried in the ground and were hidden in the old house!
Fu Mingrui turned to look at Lu Shi: "The ancestor of the Huang family, this seal...you should know it."
Lu stopped the beads, raised his eyelids slightly, and looked at Fu Mingrui: "My lord, it happened more than fifty years ago. I can't remember clearly. If you say this is my husband's seal, then it is my husband's seal." After my husband became a fairy, this seal... I have been looking for it for a long time, today, thank you for helping me find it." Lu Shi smiled faintly, his face was old, but his eyes were extremely bright and energetic.
Fu Mingrui suddenly realized that he underestimated this old woman. Unexpectedly, this old lady was far more frightened than her grandson. For an old lady at this age, only Xiao said that she was old and confused, and she couldn't remember anything, so no one would doubt it.