In fact, Yun Yifeng hasn't had enough of this kind of eating, drinking, and studying cooking skills—at least he himself firmly believes that he is "studying" the idle life. The extravagance and lust make people degenerate. , Get a piece of land in Wangcheng, or any place with beautiful scenery, and concentrate on being a farmer.
But the thorny matter has not been resolved, and the Jiang family is still a big mess, so he had no choice but to put aside his plan of farming, and recruited dozens of Fengyumen disciples from several nearby cities to help search for clues up.
"These are all things related to the second uncle." Jiang Lingfei led everyone into a library. "Most of them are calligraphy and paintings from his lifetime, as well as letters and accounts, as well as other trivial sundries. I originally planned to wait for the third sister to return. When she was at her mother’s house, she would hand it over to her to handle it herself, so it was sealed very carefully.”
Yun Yifeng nodded: "Brother Jiang, don't worry, we will read it carefully and never damage it."
"Then you are busy, I have other things in my hands." Jiang Lingfei patted him on the shoulder, "Treat this place as your own home, and just ask the housekeeper to do something."
Finding clues is obviously very familiar to disciples of Fengyumen, so even though Jiangnan Mu wrote poems and painted paintings when he had nothing to do when he was alive. The room is full of "calligraphy", but generally speaking, because it is well preserved and organized, it is not a difficult task to read it, and a day has passed without knowing it.
At dusk, Yun Yifeng stood in the courtyard to exercise his muscles and bones, watching the sky covered with autumn red clouds inlaid with gold borders, the wind and clouds were surging and the waves were magnificent, and it had a taste of the Northwest desert. Not to mention, after leaving Yancheng for a long time, I really miss it a bit. When I went back, I was half dead, and I couldn’t indulge in riding a horse among the yellow sands of the desert to enjoy the scenery. If I have free time in the future... hiss!
Yun Yifeng covered his shoulders, turned around and looked at the irritable old man holding a rolling pin in the window, he couldn't laugh or cry: "Grandma, why did you hit me?"
The other party is the only old servant left in the Jiangnan pastoral courtyard. It is said that when she was young, she was a embroidered lady, and she married a bastard husband. She washed her face with tears all day long. I lived there for decades and never went out again.
The old woman scolded him with a fierce face: "Don't wear white, you look like a ghost, go and change your clothes, change!"
"Yes, yes, yes." Yun Yifeng dodged another rolling pin oncoming, and said casually, "I'll change tomorrow, how about a bright red one? It's auspicious and festive."
"Go change it now! People in white clothes are ghosts, and ghosts will kill people." The old woman was not so easy to fool, and poked him hard in the chest, "Just here, stab it with a knife, and it will be penetrated on the spot."
Yun Yifeng gritted his teeth when he heard that, how can a kind-hearted old man speak so bloodily. Seeing that she was still swinging the club back and forth like a grandson, Yun Yifeng wanted to coax the person to put down the "weapon" first, but the other party kept talking to himself: "I saw it with my own eyes, the one in white killed the green one." Yes, and threw the green clothes into the well, you, go and change your clothes!"
Yun Yifeng: "..."
Yun Yifeng probed: "Which well?"
"There is a big stone slab pressed into the backyard." The old woman approached his ear mysteriously, "Go and see for yourself if you don't believe me, I'm not lying."
Yun Yifeng frowned slightly. There is indeed a well in the backyard, and there is indeed a stone slab on it, which has been covered with moss. It looks like a thick, fluffy green pillar. It looks quite old, killing people... Just as he was thinking, Jiang Lingfei and Ji Yanran happened to come in from outside the courtyard. Seeing his thoughtful expression, they asked, "What's wrong?"
"Just chatting with the old man in this courtyard, she seems to have witnessed a murder." Yun Yifeng said, "Brother Jiang should send someone to look in the dry well, maybe we can find the corpse."
All right, such a thing popped up all of a sudden. Jiang Lingfei called a few servants and went down to dig out the mud. Sure enough, a white bone was curled up in a corner, and the finger bones were still dug in the cracks of the stone wall. It seemed that it had struggled for a long time before it died.
Ask the old woman again, but she can't ask anything, just repeating over and over again that the one in white clothes killed the one in green clothes, or else pointing straight at Yun Yifeng, saying that you look like you, looking like a luxurious Bodhisattva , speak kindly and gently, how can you kill someone, tell me, how can you kill someone
After examining the corpse, Mei Zhusong said: "At least it was a murder case ten years ago. The deceased was a woman. Her leg bones, arms, and ribs all had old injuries. It is very likely that she suffered serious injuries when she was an adult, and then died again. Re-growth, and depending on the state of healing, the doctor who saw her at the time was probably a quack doctor, which caused the bones to be so distorted."
"With so many old wounds on his body, he should be a quack." Jiang Lingfei said, "But Second Uncle has always been kind and cowardly, how could he know such a vicious friend, and he is still a guest at someone else's house, and he can't wait to start killing people? "
Yun Yifeng's heart moved: "It can't be... Miss Xie from back then, she killed the maid?"
He looks like a gentle and luxurious Bodhisattva who once lived in Jiang Erye's courtyard and has high martial arts skills. All these characteristics can be matched one by one. Moreover, she also had a dispute with her personal maid. If she insisted on analyzing, the phrase "Why should I be worthy of the general" is very likely to be her motive for killing people.
Naturally, all of this is just unfounded speculation, and it is also possible that other irascible people in the rivers and lakes murdered them, and then fled with their corpses, which has nothing to do with Xie Hanyan at all.
The three people in the courtyard looked at each other speechlessly, none of them knew how to start the investigation of the incident more than ten years ago. During the silence, a disciple of Fengyumen hurried to the backyard, saying that he had found a letter.
A letter written by Kong Zhong, Huainan's most talented scholar, to Jiangnan Mu ten years ago. The first few pages were all discussing poetry, and only scribbled down the last few lines. A few days ago, thanks to the blessing of the prince, I finally met the famous No. 1 beauty in Yuecheng. She is beautiful, but her stomach is empty, and her aura is far inferior to that graceful woman I saw when I visited your house last time, or to put it more bluntly, even that taciturn maidservant. How are the two of you, master and servant, or have you been taken back to Cangsong Hall by the fifth master and will not live with you, or have you sent them back to the southwest
Sending it back to the southwest makes it more likely that it is Xie Hanyan. Judging from the meaning in the letter, it doesn't necessarily mean that Jiangnan Mu's guests, it's more like Jiangnan Mu was entrusted by Jiangnan Zhen to help take care of the two of them.
Jiang Lingfei said: "Fifth Aunt has a mean personality and is good at jealousy. She is a powerful character. If it is because of this, Fifth Uncle will arrange guests to live in Second Uncle's courtyard temporarily, but it is also possible."
"Anyway, Fifth Master Jiang and Ms. Xie must know each other, and the relationship seems to be quite good." Yun Yifeng said, "But a few times ago we mentioned General Lu, Xie's family, and the old piano in Yaleju At that time, he pretended to be ignorant, very dazed."
From this point of view, the information from the emperor's side was more accurate, and the secret decree was sent in time, which cut off Jiangnan Zhen's way to be the master.
So far, there are only two clues that can be found.
First, Jiang Nanzhen and Xie Hanyan had a very close relationship. At least ten years after General Lu's defeat, Xie Hanyan brought his maidservant to Jiang's house as a guest, but Jiangnan Zhen deliberately concealed this matter.
Second, Xie Hanyan once had a dispute with the maidservant, during which he mentioned "Why should I be worthy of the general", and it is very likely that he killed the maidservant because of this and dumped her body in the well.
There are no old people to ask in the Jiangnan Pasture, so we can only start from Jiangnan Zhen.
Just relying on a letter that mentions the "Graceful Woman of the Southwest" obviously cannot be used as evidence, insisting that it is Xie Hanyan. Ji Yanran decided to take Yun Yifeng to Huainan in person.
Jiang Lingfei said: "I just took over as the head. Uncle Wu is still upset about it. He probably has to pretend to be sick for several months. You can rest assured, I will watch Cangsong Hall."
From Danfeng City to Huainan Wanli City, which is the hometown of that Confucian scholar, if he travels day and night, it only takes about ten days.
Feishuangjiao and Cuihua, one behind the other, ran out of a phantom of thunder on the official road, the wind blew past their ears, and they were in a very happy mood. Yun Yifeng waved his hand and raised his whip, causing the ink shadow under his crotch to speed up. Feishuangjiao felt itchy, and wanted to spread his hooves to catch up, but his master reined in slightly.
"Give it up." Ji Yanran smiled lowly, "Otherwise you can beat them again, and you won't have any carrots tonight, so I'll have to sleep on the floor."
Feishuangjiao didn't know if he understood or not, but he slowed down in cooperation and broke his strong waist for the carrot.
Just like that, Cuihua ran all the way in high spirits, Feishuang Jiao followed behind chewing carrots, and finally arrived at Wanli City in Huainan in the afternoon of one day.
Wanli City, the name sounds arrogant, but it actually takes less than an hour to walk from the east to the west of the city. Kong Zhong's home is also easy to find. There is a big willow tree with a crooked neck at the door, and the courtyard door is half-closed. Yun Yifeng knocked it lightly twice, and the wooden door creaked and opened by itself.
"Is Mr. Kong there?" Yun Yifeng asked.
After a long time, a hoarse inquiry came from inside the room: "Who is looking for me? Come in and talk."
The door of the bedroom was also open, and a man with gray hair was lying on the bed, his face turned pale, and his voice trembled: "Who are you?"
"We are from the Jiang family in Danfeng City." Yun Yifeng put the snacks and supplements in his hand on the table, "I passed Wanli City, so I came to see Mr. Kong."
"Jiang's family." The man sat up propped up and asked in confusion, "I haven't seen the people from Jiang's family for almost ten years. Why are you here suddenly?"
"Cough." Yun Yifeng said, "To be honest, we found an old letter from the study of Second Master Jiang Jiangnan Mu, so I want to ask Mr. Kong something."
Kong Zhong understood: "So that's what I said. You can ask, but in recent years, my memory is not very good, so I may not be able to explain clearly."
"Sir, read this letter first." Yun Yifeng took it out of his sleeve, "Do you still remember?"
Kong Zhong only glanced at it, then nodded: "This is indeed written by me."
Yun Yifeng asked again: "The graceful woman mentioned in the letter, do you know her true identity, and what is the relationship with Jiang Wuye?"
"Looking at her style of speech, she should come from a famous family." Kong Zhong tried hard to recall, "It's just that although she has a gentle appearance, she has a strong personality, and she seems to have some criticisms... against the royal family."