Chapter 399 Digging the Coffin

Nothing special happened during the entire meal, so after seeing off the guests, Du Jingyi returned to Qiwuyuan first.

When she finished coaxing the children to take a nap and returned to the main courtyard, Gu Shaoyu had already sat down inside. He had changed into a more convenient outfit and seemed to have returned to his old self.

"General."

"You're back?"

"Um."

The conversation between the couple was very simple, but when Du Jingyi approached, he saw some dense messages, all of which were recorded.

Then he asked a question with some surprise.

"What's this?"

"All the daily records of Gu's collateral relatives."

"The general wants to investigate the people in the seventh room?"

Hearing Du Jingyi's words, Gu Shaoyu looked up at her, then smiled with a bit of complacency and said.

"Madam is really smart. It's just that the people in the seventh room will be dealt with last. Madam, come and see, the third room has a lot of problems."

After Du Jingyi sat down, he began to read carefully. The thick stack of documents talked about the situation of the third room. Compared with those extreme relatives who just wanted to make money and be happy, these people in the Gu family were obviously much smarter.

There were all kinds of people, including those who enclosed land in disguised forms, bought and sold slaves, and those who falsified accounts to evade taxes.

"I can't believe that people from the third room have such abilities?"

Du Jingyi now admitted that she had underestimated him. In her opinion, the Seventh Old Master was much more difficult to deal with than the Third Old Master. However, she did not expect that the Third Old Master's accounting problems were much worse than his face.

"The people in the third house aren't that smart. I think it was my third cousin who helped me."

Thinking of what the other party said at the table today, Gu Shaoyu couldn't help but chuckle. Sometimes he was really puzzled. How come these people still didn't use their brains after so many years, and their perception of themselves was always full of inexplicable arrogance.

How could he not see that he wanted to provoke and pretend? "The third cousin of the Gu family is indeed quite capable. I have dealt with him several times as Yan Zhiqing. I have never met him, but I can see that he is quite capable. The general wants to suppress the third branch and ask them to ask the third cousin for help? And then follow the clues to find out the real reason?"

"That's not quite what I meant."

Before Gu Shaoyu had time to continue explaining, he heard a voice coming from outside.

"General."

Du Jingyi felt the voice was somewhat familiar, and when he turned around, he saw Liu Xun suddenly appeared behind him, so he shouted in surprise.

"Why is Mr. Liu here?"

"I greet the young lady."

Du Jingyi nodded in greeting. Naturally, she didn't think that Liu Xun's sudden appearance was to greet her, so she looked at her husband next to her. Could it be that he had some plans? Sure enough, when seeing Liu Xun appear, Gu Shaoyu was much calmer than Du Jingyi, but there was also a little more nervousness in his tone that was difficult to detect.

"Did you find out?"

"I found it."

Du Jingyi was quite confused by the riddle between the master and servant.

What are you checking? Could it be that my husband had already started to take action against the third wife?

Just when she wanted to hear what was found out, she was so shocked by the following words that she couldn't utter a word.

Liu Xun's face looked extremely ugly, and he was even a little hesitant, but Gu Shaoyu did not allow him to delay and asked directly.

"The skeleton isn't Grandfather's? Is it?"

"yes."

Now that things have come to this, Liu Xun could only tell the truth.

"After receiving the general's order, I led my men to dig a tunnel underground and opened the old marshal's coffin. After comparing the wound on the left leg bone, we confirmed that the skeleton inside was not the old marshal's."

"What??"

Du Jingyi was shocked. What did he mean that the skeleton inside was not the old marshal's?

Besides, why would a general let his subordinates dig up his grandfather's grave? And do it secretly?

Countless thoughts popped into my mind at once.

Could it be that Marshal Gu is not dead? Compared to Du Jingyi's shock, Gu Shaoyu next to him was much calmer, but under this calmness there was also some suppressed anger. Then he asked a question, and his tone had become extremely murderous.

"Have you found out where your grandfather's bones are now?"

"No information is available at this time. The people in the Seventh House hid it very well. If it weren't for the general's accidental discovery, I'm afraid no one in the world would have investigated it."

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"Keep investigating, and look more at the interactions between my third cousin and the people from Southeast Asia. Maybe he has something to do with them."

"Yes, I understand."

After saying this, Liu Xun disappeared into the room like the wind, and Du Jingyi swallowed his saliva and then said anxiously.

"General, what happened? Why are you suddenly digging up my grandfather's coffin?"

Gu Shaoyu adjusted his breathing in silence. After he calmed down completely, he looked at Du Jingyi, with hatred and sadness in his eyes. Then he told him his plans for the past few days one by one.

"Do you remember the day your grandmother was buried and the scene of opening the grave?"

"Remember."

"When my third uncle and his family were clamoring to not allow the coffin to be closed and buried together, I wondered if there was something we couldn't see after the coffin was opened, so they were obstructing us. So I took a close look that day."

"I was there when my grandfather was buried. I buried the coffin myself. I placed black stone and colorful sand unique to Cezhou in front of the coffin. I wanted my grandfather to rest in peace. But when we dug it up that day, I didn't see these two things. So I knew at that time that someone must have disturbed my grandfather's tomb."

As Gu Shaoyu spoke, Du Jingyi was terrified.

What benefit would it bring to them to disturb the tomb of the deceased Marshal Gu?

"But at that time, everyone was waiting for an auspicious time to bury my grandmother, so I took advantage of the situation and pretended nothing had happened. Then I asked Ni Yang to send a message to Liu Xun and asked him to investigate secretly."

"But didn't the general say that he would have the secret agents left by grandfather investigated thoroughly? Why didn't he use them?"

Du Jingyi's words hit the nail on the head. Gu Shaoyu gently touched her hair and continued.

"If you were my seventh cousin's grandfather, and you had been running the business in Jinling City for so many years, wouldn't you have discovered the existence of hidden agents? If you couldn't, then what would be the best way?"

"Draw the snake out of its hole and catch it all in one fell swoop."

Gu Shaoyu nodded. Du Jingyi's words were very correct. Then he went over the people on the list in his mind before continuing.

"So, instead of letting him find out the hidden forces behind the scenes by beating me up, I might as well pretend to be a fool and use Liu Xun's power to investigate first, so that he can focus all his attention on dealing with my forces in the open."

I have something urgent to do today, so I can only update twice. I will make up for what I owe you tomorrow～～Sorry, sorry～～

(End of this chapter)