Fu Mingrui signaled Wang Quan to leave, and his stern eyes swept over Lu and the Huang family members in the courtyard outside the hall: "Huang Zong hired Zhang A Bing to play tricks here to scare away the craftsmen and newcomers. Why did Huang Zong make others afraid to live in the Huang family's old house? This official suspected that there was something wrong with this house. So he searched the house overnight and found the two skeletons you saw in the hall. After the coroner's inspection, these two skeletons were buried for more than 50 years. Fifty years ago, Huang Ye had just disappeared and the Huang family still lived in this house. Huang family ancestor, do you have any impression of these two skeletons?"
Mrs. Lu did not look or speak, but continued to recite the scriptures.
"This old woman is quite powerful." Yi Jixuan and Fu Mingsui 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 had just returned, had no idea what was going on. "Brother, can you even try a case involving bones like this?" Fu Minghui's face was filled with disbelief.
Fu Mingsu laughed: "Third brother, haven't you heard a lot of rumors about your second brother? Let alone the bones, even if there is no body, your second brother can find it out!"
"Ah~~~" Fu Minghui immediately showed admiration, "So the case of the coffin trial that I heard about is true!"
"Is it still fake?" Fu Mingsu smiled and raised his hand to gently touch Fu Minghui's forehead. Fu Minghui touched his forehead and smiled shyly.
Fu Mingrui waited patiently for Lu's answer, but it was obvious that Lu didn't answer. Fu Mingrui smiled lightly and looked outside the hall and into the courtyard: "Does anyone among you have any impression?"
Everyone looked suspicious. Most of them had grown up in the new house, so they didn't know much about the old house.
"Knowing the truth but not reporting it is a crime of harboring someone!" Wang Quan shouted at the door, "We are giving you a chance!"
Suddenly, three old slaves, almost sixty years old, came out tremblingly, and knelt down together.
"Sir, we have something to report."
"explain!"
The two old servants looked at the one in the middle. The one in the middle plucked up his courage and said, "Fifty years ago, our parents were servants in the Huang family. Later, we also became servants in the Huang family. I heard my father say that... Old Madam..." Several old servants looked at the calm Lu in the hall with timid eyes and lowered their heads hurriedly, "He has killed people..."
"You are a bunch of heartless slaves!" Huang Zong's second brother was immediately furious, "How dare you frame our ancestors!"
"Silence!" The bailiff stepped forward immediately.
Fu Mingrui continued to look at the three old slaves solemnly: "Who was killed, do you know?!"
This time the three old slaves all shook their heads: "We don't know."
Fu Mingrui thought for a moment and then asked, "Then do you know who was staying at the Huang residence back then? Probably... only sixteen or seventeen years old?"
Sixteen or seventeen? Fu Minghui couldn't help but be a little surprised. That means she was about the same age as him. He was a little curious and asked Fu Mingsu, "Brother, why did you ask this question?"
Fu Mingsui pointed at a smaller skeleton on the ground and said, "That smaller skeleton is from a boy of about sixteen or seventeen years old."
Fu Minghui couldn't help but be surprised, and when he looked at the skeleton again, he felt a little more emotional. They were of the same age, he was a major general, and he was already a pile of bones.
The three old slaves looked at each other and tried hard to recall.
Suddenly, one of them remembered: "Oh! I heard from my mother that the old lady's foster brother lived in the Huang residence. At that time... he took Master Huang Ye as his teacher. When he came... he was only about twelve years old. A few years later... he seemed to have fallen into the river and drowned... He was about sixteen or seventeen years old at that time..."
"Oh~~~~~ I remember now. My mother also said that brother was handsome. Oh, I remember his name was... Young Master Lu Jingting, right?"
"Yes, yes, yes, my father also said that the master liked him very much and taught him as his successor... Not long after the young master died, the master became an immortal..."
Several elderly people over fifty years old finally pieced together some scattered gossip they had heard from their parents, and like a jigsaw puzzle, they gradually pieced together a living person.
Fu Mingrui was secretly surprised. He didn't expect that he could get some clues. But he couldn't be sure whether the skeleton on the ground was Lu Jingting.
"Sir, this is all we know. We don't know anything else." Several old slaves really couldn't remember anything. They were only in their teens at that time and had not yet become slaves of the Huang family. They didn't know much about the Huang family.
Fu Mingrui was already 70% certain about the situation at this time, but there were still many missing links. For example, why did Huang Ye disappear shortly after the death of the young man Lu Jingting
Moreover, judging from the remains they found, the boy did not drown, and Huang Ye did not become an immortal. There are still many things that do not match up. However, Fu Mingrui knows that there is one person who knows clearly, that is, the ancestor of the Huang family who has been chanting sutras.
Fu Mingrui gave Zhao Cheng a look, and Zhao Cheng immediately brought a tray covered with a blue cloth.
Fu Mingrui looked at everyone solemnly: "One of the skeletons we dug out was a young man around 30 years old, and the other was a boy of 16 or 17 years old, which is consistent with the age of the Lu Jingting you mentioned. And around the skeleton of the young man we dug out, there were many things he used during his lifetime, such as his clothes." Fu Mingrui pointed to the piles of rags in the hall.
"Shoes, hats, belts, jade, four treasures of the study, and one special thing..." Fu Mingrui pointed at Zhao Cheng. Zhao Cheng lifted the blue cloth, and immediately, an exquisite jade and gold and silver appeared in front of everyone. Everyone was immediately surprised.
"I am curious about who owns this seal, so I used it to print the words on the paper yesterday. It turned out to be..." Fu Mingrui picked up the rice paper on the table. There was a red seal on the white rice paper, and it was the four words "Huangshan Taoist" on it.
"Grandfather!"
"Great Grandfather!"
The people outside immediately cried out in astonishment, each of them dumbfounded! The rumors that the Taoist priest of Huangshan had become an immortal instantly became a joke in front of this seal. It turned out that their ancestors had not become immortals at all, but their bones had never been buried and were hidden in the old house!
Fu Mingrui turned to look at Lu: "Ancestor of the Huang family, this seal... you should recognize it."
Mrs. Lu stopped counting the beads, raised her eyelids slightly and looked at Fu Mingrui: "Sir, it was more than fifty years ago. I can't remember clearly. You said this was my husband's seal, so it was my husband's seal. After my husband became an immortal, I searched for this seal for a long time. Today, thank you for helping me find it." Mrs. Lu smiled faintly. Her face was old, but her eyes were unusually bright and energetic.
Fu Mingrui suddenly realized that he had underestimated this old woman. He had never expected that this old woman could withstand more shock than her grandson. For an old woman of this age, if she only said that she was old and confused and didn't remember anything, no one would doubt it. (To be continued)