The Death of Yuhuan (XI)
"I'm beginning to understand Du Xingye." Near noon, Xu Wei sighed, as if he had realized something.
Li Shaodong was eating a bag of hot buns from the kitchen. Before he could swallow the food in his mouth, he asked curiously, "What's going on?"
"I was inspired by you," Xu Wei took out two buns from his bag and handed them to Lu Fanye, "He is really an old scumbag."
"I thought about it for a long time before, and I always felt that it was a bit awkward to describe his gentleness as ruthless and ruthless. One is his adopted son whom he had raised for many years, and the other is his loving wife whom he had married for only two or three years. How could he not care about him at all?"
"It shows that he is cold-blooded." Li Shaodong chewed two bites of the meat bun, leaving a little oily shine at the corners of his mouth, "It's delicious."
"But when he was getting along with the second wife, he cared about her very much and would hug her and comfort her in the middle of the night. It seemed that he was also loving." Junior high school student Qi Xiaopei joined the discussion on adults' emotions.
"Xiao Pei thinks the same as I do," Xu Wei affirmed, "I also think there is love, but——"
"In his heart, the dead cannot be compared with the living, even if the living caused the dead."
Zhang Yuan said "Oh".
After listening to this, Li Shaodong thought about it carefully for a while before asking blankly, "Is there something wrong with your words?"
Xu Wei sat down and wanted to pour himself a cup of tea, but held back: "It's just my guess, for example."
"Du Qiong was trained by Du Xingye and might inherit the office in the future. He was killed by the second wife for such a poor reason, but Du Xingye did not pursue the matter at all."
Li Shaodong still looked confused: "So what does this have to do with the living and the dead?"
Zhang Yuan: "I guess what Xu Wei meant is that he valued Du Qiong and the Second Madam very much when they were alive, but once they were gone, no matter how big a mistake the living one made to the dead one, he would not be held accountable. The status of the living and the dead in his heart is very different."
"By analogy, the Second Madam died, and the Fourteenth Madam said to do the funeral, and Du Xingye didn't care about the old friendship at all."
This ritual is not for mourning, but for exorcising evil spirits.
Even in the past, few people treated their lost love like this.
"I didn't say it clearly," Xu Wei continued to explain, changing an example. "The old housekeeper took bribes and disappeared after leaving office. Didn't we guess that Lihua was the murderer? Du Xingye also didn't pursue her, even though Housekeeper Liu had worked in the Du Mansion for more than ten years."
"He even immediately let Lihua take over the position of housekeeper because she was very convenient to use."
"That's very cold-blooded. Will this help us solve the haunting?" Li Shaodong muttered in a low voice.
"A little bit, but the most important thing is that it can help us avoid getting involved in Du Qiong's mess," Xu Wei smiled. "If we really listen to Liu Xu and expose Du Qiong's affairs to Du Xingye, we will probably be the ones who are in trouble."
"It's best not to leave this plot."
"The person behind the scenes is so cruel." Li Shaodong gritted his teeth.
Zhang Yuan laughed dumbly: "Then who do you think is behind this?"
"Of course it's Rika!"
Zhang Yuan said nothing and looked at Qi Xiaopei: "Xiaopei, what do you think?"
Li Shaodong had already ruled out a wrong answer. Qi Xiaopei pursed his lips and thought hard for a while before answering affirmatively, "Fourteenth Madam."
"Why?"
She was encouraged by Zhang Yuan's eyes and tried to express her thoughts: "The Second Madam is dead, and the most favored one in the mansion now is the Fourteenth Madam. Sister Xu Wei said that she wanted to be the First Madam, but Lihua's role as housekeeper took away her power."
"So she wants us to clear Du Qiong's name, and then take advantage of the chaos to implicate Lihua behind the scenes - even if Mr. Du doesn't care about the dead, he won't allow a servant to murder his master. Once Lihua dies, no one can compete with her for power."
"By the way, the fact that the Second Madam killed Du Qiong can be clearly stated in front of the Marshal. It was fine if she avoided mentioning it before, but now that the person is dead and the matter has surfaced, I'm afraid Du Xingye's remembrance of her will be greatly reduced." Xu Wei added with a sneer.
"Killing two birds with one stone, she is the one who can do it after all."
Li Shaodong raised his hand like an elementary school student, unconvinced: "I have a problem! Lihua also has reasons to do this. In order to make the truth of Du Qiong's frame-up known to the world, she would rather expose herself than let him suffer injustice at all costs."
"Student Li is studious and inquisitive, so I'll reward you by letting you eat less buns," Xu Wei continued to take out buns from his bag and handed them to Lu Fanye who was drinking tea to relieve his greasiness, and the latter took them in silence.
"What you said makes sense, but you have to know that Lihua worked hard for two years to seek revenge, became a housekeeper, and successfully made the person who killed Du Qiong pay with his life."
"The revenge has been successful, and she has been with Du Xingye for more than a year. It's impossible that she knew Du Xingye's thoughts later than us, right? If she knew his weak points, she would also demand Du Qiong's innocence..."
Xu Wei pondered.
She said with a "tsk" sound, disapproving, "With her intelligence, even if she wanted to redress Du Qiong's injustice, she could have devised a more prudent way to do it slowly. There's no need to rush and have us go to Du Xingye to make a scene."
This is what she thought from Lihua's perspective.
"These people are so complicated." Qi Xiaopei sighed softly.
Xu Wei, however, felt relaxed and relieved.
Finally, I connected together the disjointed clues I collected a few days ago. Although only part of these speculations have been confirmed, the mission has finally made progress.
Liu Xu can serve as a witness that the Second Madam and Butler Liu killed Du Qiong. Next, as long as the relationship between Lihua and Du Qiong is confirmed, the grudge between these four people can be further proved.
As for the evidence, Xu Wei already has some clues.
In addition, in terms of the progress of investigating the truth about the evil spirit, after the operations of Lihua and Madam Fourteen, their suspicions were initially ruled out.
The copy will not leave players in a dead end. Since they have to search for a hidden evil spirit in the huge Du Mansion, it must be different from ordinary people.
Evil ghosts are formed by accumulated resentment. They usually bear injustice or hatred in their lifetime, so they turn into ghosts after death to wreak havoc on the world.
In layman's terms, it means that one cannot resist before death and can only seek revenge through supernatural powers after death.
But Lihua is different from the Fourteenth Lady. They did not succumb to fate. Instead, they moved up step by step with their own means and achieved their goals through hard work and planning.
The three dead people can also be ruled out. Taoist Jiang mentioned yesterday that the evil ghost is still in the process of forming. The housekeeper and Du Qiong have been dead for two years and do not meet the requirements. There is no ghost energy on the second wife's body.
Then the remaining important characters are ranked according to their degree of suspicion. The first one is Du Xingye, who has a strong ghost aura.
Lunch, dining room.
Mr. Du sat at the head of the table, without a female companion.
The players sat in a circle around him, and the table was still filled with delicacies from land and sea, and fine food and wine.
He and Lu Fanye drank and chatted, drinking one cup after another, and talking about current affairs.
Everything was no different from when I first entered the Du Mansion.
Halfway through the drinking session, Xu Wei was secretly trying to observe Du Xingye a few times, when the latter turned around and looked straight at her.
Xu Wei: ? Were you discovered?
For the first time, Du Xingye raised his glass towards her: "Ms. Xu."
Xu Wei was unsure, so he raised his own cup and clinked it with his. The rims of the cups collided with each other, making a clear "ding" sound.
"Mr. Du."
Du Xingye drank the wine in his glass and said, "I knew Miss Xu was very skilled, but I didn't expect her to dare to go down the dry well where the corpse was hidden. She must have practiced for this purpose."
It sounded like he was trying to find out her identity, so Xu Wei read out the prepared words, "Mr. Du, you are too kind. I just joined the school sports club during my studies. There is a sport called rock climbing, and I happened to be interested in it, so I learned a little more."
"As for hiding the corpse, it is just another substance in this world, just like me."
"Ms. Xu is truly a heroine!" He raised his glass again, gestured to Xu Wei, and drank it all in one gulp.
Lihua filled Xu Wei's empty wine glass.
Xu Wei: “…”
Grit your teeth and continue drinking.
The situation at the banquet suddenly changed. Du Xingye changed his offensive and attacked Xu Wei from Lu Fanye, grabbing every one of her.
Lu Fanye wanted to offer the wine, but he blocked it and said unhappily, “What does this mean?”
Xu Wei had no choice but to drink up one cup after another.
No wonder Lu Fanye was so drunk last time. The wine was not intoxicating at first, but there was a strong aroma of grains. After three or four rounds, his thoughts began to become fuzzy, his answers were incoherent, and he couldn't even hold the wine glass steadily.
There were three Du Xingyes in front of her, urging her to drink together.
Xu Wei was dizzy and only remembered pouring the liquid into his mouth mechanically.
"You can drink quite a lot." Du Xingye raised his glass again.
He didn't want to chat about anything this time, he just wanted to drink, one glass for every word, and he wouldn't be happy if I drank slowly.
Even the cup is too small.
Xu Wei was confused and squinted her drunken eyes as she watched Lihua pour wine for her.
This is the umpteenth cup of silence for my bladder.
Du Xingye looked over and supervised her drinking.
Just about to pick it up.
Lu Fanye snatched it away and drank it all in one gulp.
"She doesn't drink much, so I take her place."
Zhang Yuan immediately raised his glass and said, "Mr. Du, I toast you."
Li Shaodong and Qi Xiaopei also toasted in tacit understanding.
The players all stood up, holding the cups in both hands, with faces full of reverence and humility.
Du Xingye sat with his hands on the table, not saying a word.
He didn't answer.
“Bang!”
The hard object hit the table like a gavel, which frightened everyone present and made them sober up immediately.
Only the drunkard, who had been drunk to the limit, was still groping for his cup sluggishly. After failing to find it for a long time, he let out an "ah".
Du Xingye had no intention of entertaining the guests at this moment. The smile on his face froze, and his eagle-like eyes swept across everyone. He slammed the gun in his hand on the table, with the muzzle pointing directly at Lu Fanye, as if he was going to kill someone in the next moment.
There was complete silence.
Seeing that everyone was silent, Du Xingye smiled wildly, turned the muzzle of the gun and pointed it at Xu Wei: "Have you, my dear guests, forgotten where you are?"
How dare you disobey my wishes in the Du Mansion?
Lu Fanye lowered his head and said fearfully: "I dare not."
Having said that, he did not return the wine glass to Xu Wei.
Du Xingye sneered and pulled the bolt.
With a "click", the cold muzzle of the gun was pressed against Xu Wei's forehead.
Even if the latter was slow to react, he realized something was wrong at this moment. He shook his head left and right for a while, then began to retreat.
He took two steps back, but was forced to sit back down by Lihua's shoulder.
"Mr. Du..." Zhang Yuan spoke softly, his tone extremely humble, "But what did we accidentally do that was beyond our rights?"
"If so, I apologize first. We were the ones who offended you."
"Sorry, sorry..." Xu Wei nodded vigorously following her words.
Du Xingye remained silent.
Li Shaodong was also trying his best to help resolve the situation: "Mr. Du, Xu Wei is drunk and may not understand..."
"Bang!"
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