Not long after Zhang Rui came downstairs, the beautiful woman in cheongsam came to me with a pot of tea. After placing the tea in front of me, she took the initiative to pour me a cup and asked: "I heard Mr. Zhang call you Chen Yu, do you
How did you meet him?"
I smiled and said, "I only met him once."
The cheongsam beauty obviously didn't believe it. She frowned and said: "Since you don't want to tell me, I won't ask anymore. My name is Shangguan Hong. You can just come to me directly when you come to this teahouse in the future. I am Mr. Zhang's
Friend, his friend, also my friend."
I asked her if it would be free of charge if I came here to drink tea in the future.
Shangguan Hong smiled at me and said: "You are so stingy, I really can't see how you look like Mr. Zhang's friend. As for the exemption, I can't decide on the tea above the spiritual level, but the tea below the spiritual level
Famous tea, but I can take care of you drinking it as much as you want."
Shangguan Hong's words made me feel very uncomfortable. I understood what she meant. She felt that I was not worthy of being Zhang Rui's friend.
But I didn't refute anything. After all, my current identity and status are extremely inconsistent with this teahouse.
After pouring me a cup of tea, Shangguan Hong left.
And I picked up the cup of tea and smelled it. The aroma of the tea was not as strong as the cups of tea that Grandpa Mai had let me drink, nor was it as attractive.
I took a sip, and although it wasn't refreshing, it still made me feel comfortable.
The pot of tea was finished in a short time, but Zhang Rui never came up from downstairs. I got a little impatient with the waiting, so I thought of going downstairs to have a look.
Before I got up, I heard the sound of someone going upstairs. Soon Zhang Rui and the old man at the front desk downstairs went upstairs together.
Zhang Rui introduced me: "This is the official of the teahouse, Uncle Tang. He knows something about what happened twenty years ago. If you have anything, you can ask him directly."
After finishing speaking, Zhang Rui introduced to Uncle Tang: "Uncle Tang, this is the friend Chen Yu I was talking about. Please tell him what happened back then."
To be honest, I didn't expect that Zhang Rui and I only met once, and he would be so considerate in helping me. I am grateful to Zhang Rui in my heart.
After Zhang Rui introduced me, Uncle Tang looked me over carefully and said, "Your name is Chen Yu, are you the son of Chen Laizi back then?"
I said, yes, and then asked Uncle Tang: "Do you know about my father and Liu Shengfu? Can you tell me? With your Tang family's family fortune, you shouldn't need two ordinary people to do that."
Well, is there something hidden in this?"
After I finished asking these questions, I realized that these questions were too straightforward.
Sure enough, Uncle Tang's expression changed, and then he took off his glasses and said, "Do you suspect that our Tang family framed your father and Liu Shengfu?"
Listening to Uncle Tang's tone, he was already a little angry.
Zhang Rui wanted to reconcile, but as soon as he called "Uncle Tang", he was interrupted by Uncle Tang: "Master Zhang, don't talk. Haven't you noticed that this kid is not here to ask questions at all?
But he came here to investigate, and he suspected that our Tang family deliberately framed Chen Laizi and Liu Shengfu."
After saying that, Uncle Tang turned to me and said, "Your father Chen Laizi had already taken rewards from us back then. If we wanted to frame him, how could we easily give him those rewards? As for your father later on
What happened to Liu Shengfu has nothing to do with our Tang family, it is a matter of their luck."
Uncle Tang didn't say that, so I didn't think much about it, but after listening to these words, I vaguely felt that the unlucky experiences of my father and Liu Shengfu, and even their deaths, were probably affected by the tomb robbery arranged by the Tang family.
It has something to do with luck.
Thinking about it like this, I couldn't help but feel disgusted with Tang Fu Tea House.
Before I could speak, Uncle Tang continued: "Master Zhang, with all due respect, I don't think I need to say anything to your friend. What happened back then was very simple. Two gangsters, Chen Laizi and Liu Shengfu, came to our teahouse to steal
The things were discovered by the boss, and the boss saw the two of them as pitiful, so instead of punishing them, he even introduced them to a 'job', and it was as simple as that."
After saying this, Uncle Tang turned and walked downstairs. Zhang Rui didn't say anything else. Waiting for Uncle Tang to go downstairs, Zhang Rui said with an apologetic look: "I'm sorry, Fellow Daoist Chen, I couldn't help you."
I smiled and said, "Thank you anyway."
After saying that, I stood up and said goodbye, and Zhang Rui hurriedly sent me downstairs.
When I got to the first floor, I found that Uncle Tang who had just come downstairs had gone somewhere.
After seeing me out of the teahouse, Zhang Rui smiled slightly and said to me: "Chen Daoyou, the more the Tang family refuses to elaborate on what happened back then, the more they are hiding something. Don't worry, I will secretly help with this matter."
You investigate, and I will notify you immediately if there is any news. By the way, what is your phone number, and what is the phone number of that girl Xiaorou?"
I gave Zhang Rui my mobile phone but did not tell him Mai Xiaorou’s contact information.
In addition, I always feel that Zhang Rui’s motives are impure. The things he said about the Tang family clearly made me feel that he and the Tang family are not of the same mind. He probably wants to arrest the Tang family because of my father and Liu Shengfu.
little braids.
Secondly, he kept asking me about Mai Xiaorou, which made me think that Zhang Rui was so kind to me because of Mai Xiaorou.
After thinking about it, I feel that Zhang Rui is not that trustworthy. He is too complicated and has a lot of tricks.
Compared with him, my way of dealing with others is simply weak.
After leaving Tangfu Teahouse, I called Mai Xiaorou, and after we met, we took a taxi back to our residence.
When I got home, I told Mai Xiaorou about today's situation. She had the same idea as me. The Tang family was hiding something from us, and Zhang Rui was not of the same mind as we thought before.
He is a person with ulterior motives.
I asked Mai Xiaorou what to do next and whether we should continue to investigate this matter.
Mai Xiaorou thought for a while and said: "In this case, let's take some time to go to Maogou to see what the situation in that village is like, and then go up to the top of the mountain to have a look and see what was dug up by your father and Liu Shengfu.
Whether the grave is still there or not, there may be unexpected gains."
I nodded. I want to know the rights and wrongs of this matter more than anyone else.
However, Mai Xiaorou and I did not leave immediately, but arranged the time to the weekend so that my studies would not be delayed.
Everything was quiet these days when I went back to school. The weekend soon came. Mai Xiaorou and I took a taxi to Maogou early in the morning.
We have also checked some information in the past two days. Today's Maomaogou is very different from what it was twenty years ago. Twenty years ago, Maomaogou was a poor mountain village in the west of the city, but now Maomaogou has developed into a tourist area.
It is said that there is a temple built on the mountain, which is said to be a thousand-year-old temple, but in fact the temple was only built more than ten years ago.
Moreover, there is a large villa area near Mao Maogou, which is the famous Xicheng Huafu Villa Area. Because it is surrounded by mountains and rivers, the prices are ridiculously high.
Maomaogou has undergone earth-shaking changes compared to twenty years ago. It may be difficult for Mai Xiaorou and I to gain anything this time.
Soon we arrived at Maomaogou. There was a parking lot here. After getting off the car, Mai Xiaorou and I started walking up the mountain along a winding cement road.
Standing at the foot of the mountain, we can vaguely see the temple built halfway up the mountain, as well as the villa area not far next door.
Mai Xiaorou held my arm and smiled and said: "Looking at it like this, we're afraid it will be difficult to find any clues. The difference between this place and what Liu Shengfu described is too big."
I thought for a while and said: "Didn't Liu Shengfu say that he was imprisoned in a ruined temple at the foot of the mountain? The new temple now built on the mountainside is definitely not the ruins of the temple where Liu Shengfu was imprisoned. So let's not rush to the mountain first.
Go for a walk around the area and see if you can meet people from Mao Maogou Village and ask them if there is a ruined temple at the foot of the mountain."
Mai Xiaorou said that my brain was quite flexible, so she followed me around the foot of the mountain.
We actually met a few old people at the foot of the mountain. After asking about it, we found out that they were going to the mountain to offer incense, and that they were from Maogou Village. However, their old village was no longer inhabited, and now they all live in villa areas.
The new village not far away is full of two-story small buildings, which are very impressive. As for the special tours to be held in the old village area, they have all been requisitioned.
We asked the elders in the village again and asked them if they had caught a thief twenty years ago and locked him up in a ruined temple.
Almost all the old people said they had never heard of it.
And from their eyes, it couldn't be seen that they were lying. It seemed that they really didn't know about this.
I couldn't help but asked in surprise: "Is Liu Shengfu lying?"
Mai Xiaojudao: "From Liu Shengfu's description, I think the person who imprisoned him may not be a human being. Think about it, even if a normal person captured Liu Shengfu, how could he feed him snakes, rats, insects and ants? I
I think it’s probably the ghosts near Mao Maogou who are causing trouble. If that’s the case, it can explain why the villagers in Mao Maogou don’t know about it.”
Could it be that when my father and Liu Shengfu came down from the mountain, those who chased them were not humans but a group of ghosts?
This thing is getting more and more bizarre.
Although Mai Xiaorou and I didn't find out about Liu Shengfu's arrest, we did find out about the ruins of the ruined temple at the foot of the mountain.
There is indeed such a ruined temple in Maomaogou, five or six miles away from the old village of Maomaogou, but it was abandoned during the Republic of China.
Moreover, the ruined temple is located under a steep mountain and is very remote. Few people go there. The most important thing is that the ruined temple is haunted. It is said that when the Maogong ditch was developed, they wanted to make use of the ruined temple.
But then I gave up because of the haunting incident.
However, there were still people who went to the ruined temple to "explore" and came back safely without really encountering any ghosts.
Anyway, I think we should go to that ruined temple. It was probably the place where Liu Shengfu was imprisoned and eaten snakes, rats, insects and ants. (To be continued)