Shengshichun

Chapter 50 The one who can’t wait any longer

In fact, Fu Zhen didn't want to dig too much into anything. He just calculated that when the incident happened, it was not long after Mr. Ning passed away and Mrs. Fu was starting a life of dire straits.The Fu family had already lived in this house at that time, so why did Mrs. Fu, who was supposed to rest in the Fu Mansion in the middle of the night, appear in that inn?

As expected, Mrs. Fu frowned, as if she was deep in thought.

Then she lowered her head and drank the soup slowly.Then she stopped and raised her eyes to look at Fuzhen: "Zhen'er, let me ask you something, are you really still the same Zhen'er that I am?"

It was Fu Zhen's turn to be stunned.

The mother and daughter just stared at each other, as if neither one wanted to speak first.

But after a while, Mrs. Fu, who was still a mother, gave in first.

She lowered her eyes, picked up the spoon, and scooped up the chicken soup in the bowl.

His movements were so slow and steady, as if his chest was filled with stones.

"As you said, my meeting with Miss Liang was indeed very unusual." Just as Fu Zhen was chewing on the meaning of her words, Mrs. Fu had already spoken, "Before your grandfather passed away, he left me a He said that one of his old friends might come to me for help soon, and asked me to do my best to help him.

"He also said that the person who came here has a very good background. If I can entertain this old friend for him, he will treat me and your father in the future - we didn't know what kind of person your father was at that time -

"In short, your grandfather said that if you help this person, he will definitely repay us in the future, whether it is your father's official position, your medical treatment, Jia Geer's studies, or even his future and the entire Fu family! All helpful.

“Of course I was ordered to do so, and in early August of that year I received a letter.

"The other party was very polite. The letter just asked me to book an inn for him. He made an appointment to come to Beijing before the Mid-Autumn Festival.

"The night I met Miss Liang was August [-]th, at the inn I had agreed with that person.

"Because that person said he would arrive in Beijing in the next two days, and I wanted to entertain them well, and just after your grandfather passed away, the big shopkeeper from Jiangling came to Beijing to deliver the account books.

"In order to avoid your father and your grandmother sorting out these account books and preventing them from fishing in troubled waters, I specially brought the account books there and opened a room next door to read the accounts and wait.

"That night, just as I turned off the lights and prepared to rest, I heard a sudden movement in the alley downstairs. Then I saw the young lady from the Liang family in distress under the window. I took care of her and let her go up. I moved upstairs, that's how I got to know her."

Fu Zhen said: "How did mother know that it was Miss Liang's family?"

Mrs. Fu raised her lips slightly towards the night sky: "That lady is not an ordinary person, she has killed the enemy in battle. Looking at the entire Zhou Dynasty, how many women can be as chic as her?
"And she often rides a horse on the street. She shines so brightly. Of course I have seen her before."

Fu Zhen continued: "Since it was late at night, the light in the alley must have been dim. My mother was upstairs, but she recognized her. She must have been watching her upstairs for a long time, right? I don't know what kind of movement was in the alley at that time, so that Mother put down the account book and didn't look at it, but she looked downstairs for so long?"

Mrs. Fu muttered: "There are dead people downstairs."

She brought the soup to her lips, but stopped drinking. Instead, she looked straight at the ground: "I heard a child crying downstairs. At first, I thought it was a child crying in the night next door, but when I heard the cry again, It only rang twice and then stopped suddenly. I felt something was wrong, so I looked down through the half-open window.

"Just in time, I saw someone attacking two people, one big and one small, under the moonlight. The knife was raised high, but he was very skillful in doing it. He didn't dare to move. He could only watch the two being killed. People fell to the ground.

"Although I have never personally experienced this kind of thing in the past, your grandfather has been traveling around for many years, and the shopkeepers in the family are often traveling outside. I have heard a lot of such murderous things. Although I was shocked, I was not at all confused. “I just wanted to wait for the murderer to leave and call someone to report to the police, but at that time, I saw another person coming below, it looked like a girl who came here accidentally.

"——Just because I saw that she was a girl who shouldn't walk alone late at night, I took a closer look. There weren't many women like her in Beijing, and I quickly guessed her identity with my quick skills.

"She was there checking on the deceased, and then someone else came at the end of the alley. When she raised her head and looked around for shelter, I saw her face - and there was no doubt that I waved her to the window.

"The next day, I thought that this matter would spread all over the city, but there was no news at all. Everything in the alley seemed like I was dreaming.

"If it hadn't been for the news that Miss Liang died in Baihe Temple three days later, I would have thought it was a dream!"

As she said this, Mrs. Fu's voice became slower and lower.

At night, the atmosphere in the room seemed to have returned to that night.

Fu Zhen silently added a spoonful of soup to her, and then asked: "After Miss Liang left, did mother return home?"

"No." Mrs. Fu looked at her with a frown, "I really wanted to leave in the middle of the night, but the group of people Miss Liang was avoiding were actually different from the previous group. Their costumes were completely different.

“The two men who committed the crime earlier were well-dressed and could not see their faces because of their headscarves, but there were about a dozen of them in the subsequent group, all wearing black clothes, black trousers, and headscarves.

"Ms. Liang only stayed for a moment and left from the front yard of the inn, but those people didn't leave. They cleaned up the scene and seemed to be looking for something. Until dawn, they almost searched the entire alley. , so I had no choice but to leave. And I never had the chance to leave the store in the middle of the night."

How dare she show up after Fu Zhen went to Mrs. Fu's window that night?Naturally, he left quickly.

So she almost knew the first half of what Mrs. Fu said, but she didn't know the latter part until now.

People who came later were still looking for things, most likely looking for the dagger.

Then the next day it was not the people in black who came looking for her, but Xu Yin who found her head——

The twists and turns in this are intriguing.

If they were determined to get the dagger, it was entirely possible that they found the alley where Xu Yin lived at that time and found Xu Yin because of the one-by-one investigation.

It just so happened that Xu Yin found out about this through Liang Ning the night before and saw the dagger, so that was why he repeatedly asked about the whereabouts of the dagger.

Thinking of this, her heartstrings suddenly moved: "Did the person mother was waiting for finally come?"

"No." Mrs. Fu looked at her with bright eyes, "They never came again.

"Because they died in the alley that night."

"..."

(End of this chapter)