OBS Chapter 292 Shadow
Chapter 292 Shadow
Yu Lei, the governor of Dengzhou, was a workaholic.
During his tenure, he personally took care of everything and would review everything first.
Although the local customs and people in Dengzhou are relatively good and the officials are relatively loyal to their duties, the official business to be handled within three weeks can almost pile up into a small mountain, which is quite outrageous.
However, Li Cunxi still had to open them one by one to see if there were any files related to wealthy families.
The five people investigated until dark, but they still couldn't find any clues.
In the evening, servants from the governor's mansion brought food, and the men ate it all up quickly. Then they continued to work hard and began to investigate the various problems inside.
As the hour of midnight approached, several people finally could not bear to read any more. They dropped the files in their hands and retreated to the main hall to drink tea.
As for the remaining majority of the files, several people couldn't bear to read them at all.
After complaining for a while, they felt it was a waste of time and just focused on eating cakes and drinking tea, and would continue the investigation later.
Li Cunxi was worried about asking other people in the governor's office to check these files. If there were accomplices of the mastermind among them, they would be easily fooled.
Mi Qing, who also did not sleep, asked the cook to prepare a midnight snack, and then came to the main hall with a list.
"Li Shaoyin, according to your instructions, all the officials promoted within three weeks of Yu Lei's death are on this list."
"These include all the government offices in the state, officials at all levels, and even recruited government servants."
"However, according to my investigation during the day, some of these people may have special backgrounds, but none of them have anything to do with the Chen family or the Bainiao Company."
Listening to Mi Qing's explanation, Li Cunxi and others gathered together, holding the list and reading it from top to bottom, row by row.
When he saw that the first name was "Mi", Li Cunxi knew why Mi Qing said that these people might have special backgrounds.
It turns out that the first one is a relative of Mi Qing, and he must be Mi Qing's family member. Behind him is the chief historian Deng. How could this relationship not be special?
After carefully looking through the book from top to bottom, Li Cunxi still couldn't find anyone with the surname Wu, Chen, or Yu.
None of these three most special surnames in this case can be found on this piece of paper.
"Then who has he met?" Li Cunxi casually handed the list to Wu Yanhao and asked.
"Here is another list." Mi Qing took out another list from his arms and handed it to Li Cunxi in a proper manner.
This list records in detail who Yu Lei met and who he had dinner with within three weeks of his death.
In order to prevent Li Cunxi from not understanding, acquaintances and strangers were specially marked on it.
Those who you see each other every day are acquaintances.
The rest are strangers.
The first person ranked in the acquaintance column is Gao Chi, Gao Biejia. In this era when the job of Biejia is equivalent to that of Changshi and the official position of Biejia basically does not appear, the second in command in the state is usually the Changshi. Gao Chi goes against the times and serves as Biejia, which is contrary to Yu Lei.
According to the above records, the person who ate the most with Yu Lei in the three weeks before his death was Gao Chi.
Further back are the officials from other provincial governor's offices.
In this list, whether strangers or acquaintances, Li Cunxi did not find anything wrong with anyone.
As for why he had dinner with Gao Chi more than ten times within three weeks, and had dinner with Mi Qing and Peng Hai nearly ten times, Li Cunxi could only classify it as everyone eating together, so each meal was counted once.
After handing the list to Wu Yanhao with a tired heart, Li Cunxi could only pin his hopes on the pile of files that he had not yet finished reading, hoping that Yu Lei could leave some clues.
At the same time, an uninvited guest in a black robe came to the Yu family's mourning hall.
The man calmly lifted his hood, revealing his big bald head.
Wu Duo glanced at Yu Yin who stood up silently. He did not speak to Yu Yin immediately, but burned incense for the deceased according to the rules.
After paying homage to the deceased, Wu Duo looked at Yu Yin.
"How have you been these days? Are you okay?" Wu Duo asked lightly.
"It's okay, my knees are a little sore from kneeling for so long. But fortunately, my father's debt has been paid off, so I don't have to worry about paying back such a large sum of money in the future." Yu Yin replied very calmly.
The two looked at each other silently until the thick clouds once again blocked the moonlight.
The dim candlelight in the mourning hall swayed in the breeze, and the shadows of the two people were infinitely elongated under the candlelight, looking lonely and desolate.
"Your father's death was his own fault. Even if his debt is not repaid, I never intended for you, a child, to pay it back."
"Yes, you really didn't intend to let me pay the child back alone, but you can choose to let others pay it back."
"You have helped me, so I shouldn't ask you for this debt... Your father and mother passed away too early, and I don't know how much money they left for you. If it's not enough, find a chance to come see me late at night, and I will ensure that you have enough food and clothing."
"Aren't you afraid that I will kill you?"
"Why should I be afraid of you killing me?"
"Don't you know what caused my father's death?"
"I know, but I'm not afraid of you killing me because there is no evidence to prove that I did it, and... you don't want some things to be found out, right?"
Yu Yin stiffened his neck and glared at Wu Duo, but Wu Duo remained calm.
The two of them just stared at each other like that until Yu Yin looked away and looked at the two coffins placed together.
Wu Duo couldn't help but look at the two coffins, and kept saying:
"Remember what you said, and don't change it. From now on, we won't meet again until Li Cunxi leaves Dengzhou."
"Their deaths were caused by Yu Lei's acceptance of bribes, and Mrs. Yu hanged herself to death for love."
"We didn't do anything, so we are all clean. Li Cunxi will never find even a trace of clues... I'm leaving."
Yu Yin stared blankly at the two coffins.
As the saying goes, the ups and downs of life happen in a moment, but now that there are ups, there is a high probability that there will be no downs.
With Wu Duo's departure, the mourning hall in the Yu Mansion fell silent again.
A figure hidden in the darkness witnessed the meeting between the two, and followed Wu Duo away after the conversation ended.
After watching Wu Duo enter the Bainiao Trading Company, the black shadow watched for a long time in the darkness. After confirming that Wu Duo had no intention of moving elsewhere, he sneaked into the darkness and returned to the main hall of the Governor's Mansion quietly.
At this moment in the main hall of the Governor's Mansion, Li Cunxi, Wu Yanhao, Li Yuanfang, Hu Jinghui, Lu Dayou and Zhao Hai were all looking through the files together.
After the black shadow entered the main hall, he clasped his fists towards the six people and said:
"My lords, more than half an hour ago, Wu Duo, the owner of the Bai Niao Trading Company, went to the Yu Mansion and had a conversation with Yu Yin. After instructing Yu Yin, he returned to the Bai Niao Trading Company."
"I came back specially to report the news."