Chapter 0065 Lanchen Hotel
After returning home from Jiubaozhai, I took out the broken jade that fell from Mr. Ye.
The texture of this piece of jade is very pure blood jade, and it is half the size of a palm. It can be said to be extremely rare.
It’s a pity that the jade has been shattered.
I took a pen and paper and traced all the patterns on the jade, hoping to see if I could figure out some of the secrets of this life-saving jade.
Then he picked out the largest and most complete piece from the broken jade, which was probably slightly larger than a coin.
I thought about it again and again, and it seems that if the rune structure is arranged more delicately, it is not impossible to use such a large piece of blood jade to refine the Cynomorium Jade Talisman.
So for the next two days, I stayed at home and concentrated on studying the Suoyang Talisman. Except for eating, I didn't go downstairs at all.
The third day is a day suitable for funerals. Both the He family and the Zhu family chose to hold funerals today. I only attended the He family's side. When I returned home, it was already past nine o'clock in the evening.
Feeling a little sleepy, I stopped fiddling with the Suoyang Talisman and remembered the "Tushan Notes" I brought from Wuliang Mountain. I have been too busy to read it these days, so I took it out and used it as a bedtime reading.
But just as I opened the first page, I was interrupted by a phone call.
To my surprise, the person on the other end of the phone was Wang Ruoyu’s father, Wang Shounian. He asked me where I lived and said he was going to visit me in person to discuss something important.
I thought about it and didn't refuse, so I told him the address of a nearby coffee shop.
Wang Shounian arrived very quickly. As soon as I sat down in the cafe, he came with a follower.
As soon as he saw me, his face was full of smiles, and he kept calling me "Mr. Xiao Chen" and "Master Xiao Chen" on the left and right. He also apologized for what had happened before, saying that it was all the Wang family's fault.
I didn't buy his tricks and said with a smile, "Boss Wang, if you have anything to say, just tell me."
“Well…” Wang Shounian rubbed his hands and said a little embarrassedly: “I really do have something I want to trouble Mr. Chen with.”
As he spoke, he made a gesture, and his follower immediately and respectfully handed me a card, saying that there was one million in it.
"Don't get me wrong, Mr. Chen. This is the reward that our Wang family should pay you!" Wang Shounian said quickly.
I was puzzled: "How can I say that? I have never taken on any case from your Wang family."
Wang Shounian sighed heavily and said, "We were deceived by that Wu. If it weren't for Mr. Chen's help, our Wang family would have been doomed..."
Before he could finish, I interrupted him with a smile, "It's not almost, it's already beyond redemption."
Wang Shounian's face froze, but he managed a smile and said, "After all, Mr. Chen's kindness is something that we, the Wang family, will always remember. This one million is just a small token of our gratitude!"
Seeing that I didn't make any comment, he rubbed his hands again, smiled and said, "It's just that I have a difficult matter right now, and I would like to trouble Mr. Chen to persuade Ruoyu for me."
It turns out that ever since the secret of the "Five Ghosts Bringing Wealth" was revealed, Wang Shounian and his son have been in trouble.
Over the years, due to the backlash of the fortune-making technique, the younger generation of the Wang family has been in decline, and it seems that only Wang Ruoyu can still support the Wang family.
As a result, Wang Ruoyu wanted to sever ties with the Wang family. How could Wang Shounian and his son not be anxious?
After much discussion, they decided to hand over all the power of the Wang family to Wang Ruoyu to see if they could help the Wang family escape the disaster, or at least avoid the extinction of their family line.
But Wang Ruoyu was determined to break off all ties with the Wang family, and after all his attempts to persuade him failed, Wang Shounian came to me.
When I heard about this, I agreed without much thought.
Wang Shounian was overjoyed and bowed to me repeatedly.
I took the bank card with one million yuan in it, then remembered something and asked him about the old man Sun in the Wang family's old house.
Wang Shounian was stunned, and after a moment of recollection, he said, "This old man Sun... I don't know his origins either, I only know that when my grandfather was alive, he was quite close to him."
"This guy... looks a bit scary. No one dares to deal with him. He has been looking at houses in the old house for many years."
At this point, Wang Shounian was a little confused, "Mr. Chen, what did you ask about Old Sun?"
I said I was just curious and asked casually.
Wang Shounian breathed a sigh of relief and said, "That's good, that's good."
I found what he said a bit strange, so I asked another question. Then I learned that after digging Zhu Shouwen out of the ground that day, Wang Shounian felt that the old house was unlucky, so he simply ordered people to raze it to the ground.
Since the old house was gone, there was no need to guard it, so Old Sun finally left with his lantern. He had no relatives or friends, and no one knew where he went.
After Wang Shounian left with many thanks, I went back to the room and was about to flip through "Tushan Notes" again, but Wang Ruoyu called again. She gave me an address and asked me to go over quickly, saying that there was something urgent.
When I looked at the time, it was almost ten o'clock. I didn't know where all this trouble came from.
The address Wang Ruoyu gave was at the Lanchen Hotel, where she booked a room to stay temporarily.
The name of this hotel sounded familiar to me, but then I thought, isn’t this the home of the young master Xu who died in Yujiangnan last time?
When I took a taxi over and knocked on the door, it was Zhu Xiaomei who opened the door. Wang Ruoyu was sitting on the sofa with his legs crossed, looking very annoyed.
As soon as she saw me come in, she immediately shouted, "That bastard Zhang Xun is dead!"
I was stunned. "Dead?" This surprised me greatly. "Did you kill him?"
Wang Ruoyu glared at me and said, "What are you thinking about? Would I kill a madman?"
It was Zhu Xiaomei who recounted the whole story in general.
It turned out that after hearing that Zhang Xun had gone crazy, Wang Ruoyu did not completely believe it and had been asking someone to secretly keep an eye on the Zhang family's movements.
Today, the two of them had been busy with Zhu Shouwen's funeral. Until recently, the person in charge of keeping an eye on the Zhang family suddenly came to report that there was a big mess in the Zhang family and that Zhang Xun had died in his room.
The man took advantage of the chaos to sneak in and inquire around, and he said that Zhang Xun's death was very horrific, as he had stabbed his throat with his own fingers. By the time someone found him, the guy had been dead for a long time.
"Also, I heard from that person...that Zhang Xun's room was very strange, and there was no bloodstain . I think, this is very similar to the one in Yu Jiangnan..." Zhu Xiaomei's voice became lower and lower, and by the end, she was trembling slightly.
I inquired more carefully and found out that the person who was in charge of keeping an eye on the Zhang family was quite experienced and had done quite thorough research.
It sounds like Zhang Xun's way of death is indeed very similar to that of Xu Shao from Yu Jiangnan.
"I sent someone to inquire about it. Two people died in the past few days..." Wang Ruoyu said this and added, "They died in a rather strange way!"
One is the financial director of Rongxin Department Store, whose surname is Meng, and the other is a young man named Zheng, whose father is a fur goods boss.
