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Chapter 53 Assumptions

Sanhua thought that modern people's aesthetic concepts were different from his previous life, and that of a rare piece of sad jade, Li Guer and Shangguan Xiaowan saw corpses. It might be better if they hadn't seen the rotten corpse.

Bypassing this topic, Wang Hua asked: "What kind of person is that Ding Zhu? What family does he have? Or what happened before he was killed?"

Liu Shun shook his head. He had not been transferred to Bianzhou at that time. But his eyes were looking at the Hecheji, who was a member of Bianzhou and served in Bianzhou for three years. In addition to grassroots officials, the upper-level officials of Bianzhou who stayed in Bianzhou for the longest time, also happened to be in charge of household registration.

Heche Ji thought for a while and said, "I don't know much about Ding Zhu except his ability to make jade. This is because of his special environment. As a craftsman, the upper class look down on him, but as a relatively rich person, ordinary craftsman is not in line with him."

Wang Hua heard this and said that if he was not proficient in ancient poetry, his experience would probably be similar to Ding Zhu. This society is a master of craftsmanship, and he is inferior to others after all.

Hecheji said again: "So he is a withdrawn person and rarely interacts with others. In addition to a sister, Ding Zhu also had an older sister, but his sister died of illness because of his old age. He also had a wife, who was also dead. However, a concubine still lived in the world. In addition, his wife gave birth to a eldest son, who was very sensible. He just got married two daughters because he was not yet married. In addition, there was a son born to him by the concubine, who was still very young, but all of these people were buried in the fire that night. In addition to these families, there were some servants. A few servants who lived in the outer room escaped, but they didn't know what happened to the small building behind. The servants in the small building were also burned to death. But I really didn't care what happened to his family's murder. Mr. Wang, let's do this, I'll send someone to call Fang Zheng."

"Okay." Wang Hua replied.

The restaurant is on the street storefront of Xiuzhengfang, and the restaurant is brought here later.

A thin man in his fifties carefully saluted Wang Hua. The levels were too different. Seeing Wang Hua and Li Chongjun and others, he was very nervous, and even his actions were a little distorted.

Wang Hua smiled gently and said, "You don't have to be nervous, sit down and talk."

Fang was sitting on a chair, only half of it, and his butt was on his back.

Wang Hua asked again.

Fang was thinking for a while and said, "Ding Zhu is honest and is also very responsible in addition to making jade. But because he is too bored, I have no relationship with him. But because the fire lasted too long, I can't remember many things clearly. However, in the winter of the previous year, some strange guests appeared in his home from time to time. They looked a little noble. Ding Zhu himself seemed to have some thoughts in his heart and behaved strangely. However, if Mr. Wang wants to know the details, he can ask his apprentice. He accepted seven apprentices, except for one to Jingzhao and one to Yangzhou, and one to Yizhou further away. The other four apprentices are all in Bianzhou."

"Thank you for your reminder," said Wang Hua.

Fang Zhenglian said he didn't dare to stand up and said goodbye.

Wang Hua looked at everyone, and this time everyone knew that something must have happened, which eventually led to the killing of the entire Ding family. Moreover, the murderer had a certain connection with those strange guests. However, because the time was too long, the effect of this clue was also lost.

Wang Hua picked up the jade block again and said, "I don't know what happened. But this jade block may involve the entire case."

Everyone was confused. Although Wang Hua spent a lot of effort to explain it just now, it was mainly to let everyone understand that it came from the time of socializing between the Han Dynasty and its origin was extraordinary. But after all, it was a piece of jade, which was praised by Wang Hua and placed on the market. With this piece of jade, it could be sold for a hundred cents of money, which was a sky-high price. For this piece of jade, it was not worth destroying the whole family.

Wang Hua continued: "I just mentioned the pattern. It may be from the most brilliant craftsmen at the junction of the Han Dynasty. Let's look at the jade materials of this piece of jade. White is the most expensive, and yellow is the second most expensive among jadeware. White is the second most expensive, and white is the second most popular, and rice soup is the second most cold, and snowflakes and oil are the second most beautiful. The most expensive among topaz is the most expensive. When I was young, the emperor gave me a piece of millet yellow, which was the second most burnt jade pendant. Then the most expensive among green colors is the most beautiful, and if there are fine ink and star dots, or the color is the second most beautiful. Then there is green jade. The most expensive is the most beautiful, and the other is the most beautiful, and the other is the most beautiful, and the other is the most beautiful, and the other is the most beautiful. The next is the second most beautiful, but the other is the most difficult or the other is the most beautiful. The next is the second most beautiful piece of jade."

Everyone knows a little about the truth Wang Hua explained this time.

So I stared at the jade piece, and under the sunlight, it was so blue that it was dazzling and flashed with blue light. Except for the reasons that it might be buried under the ground, as Wang Hua said, there were some stains and pit points, and there was almost no trace of impurities.

Wang Hua said again: "The material of such jasper itself is also a rare piece of high-quality material. Therefore, its origin is even more extraordinary. Then I will talk about the reason why Zhao Dabao got it." Speaking of this, he turned his head and looked at the river craft machine and asked: "I have never seen the few coffins in Xiayu, but why is there no burial object in these coffins?"

Hecheji looked embarrassed. He hesitated for a while before he said, "That night the Ding family was in a big fire, and many neighbors participated in the rescue. This is the reason why the fire was extinguished, otherwise the weather would have been dry during that period and it might have caused a major disaster. But the neighbors are so active, and there is another reason. Because the Ding family collected a large amount of jade materials, Ding Zhu himself also collected many precious jade objects. So when the fire was extinguished, all these things were found out from the ruins and lost their whereabouts.

Even the government brought the yamen runners to stop it. Later, when his sister came to Bianzhou to bury the Ding family, she even went to the government to make trouble. But if the law did not blame the public, the government would have no choice. It is possible that his sister came in a hurry and did not bring much money. Therefore, his sister left the coffin, but there were no objects to bury her for death."

As he said that, he also looked at Wang Hua's face and never let the young man think that the people in Bian were corrupt.

In fact, Wang Hua disagreed. Human nature always has bad roots. Just like himself, he also has a good side and a bad side. When a person is poor, he will be short of his ambitions, and this will inevitably happen.

He didn't take it to heart and continued, "But although this piece of jade is a small utensil, it is very expensive, but why didn't anyone see it and it still appears in the coffin?"

Everyone shook their heads together.

Wang Hua also said: "If it is precious, Ding Zhu's consciousness has something bad happened, and the enemy is looking for it, and the concave and Kuang Shanxunshu's mustard umbrella, swallowing it and telling what kind of consciousness will appear in his stomach." If that happens, the murderer can't find the whereabouts of this piece of jade. Moreover, it is not impossible for its body to swallow it into his stomach. Then the body rotted, including the stomach, and all turned into vague flesh and blood piled up under the bones. Zhao Dabao went back to take a look at the autopsy, because the stomach and intestines melted, so he naturally didn't know that it was in the stomach of the deceased. But for this reason, it was in the blood and no one found it on the river bank.

Thinking of its origin, Li Guer and Shangguan Xiaowan finally stood up and lay on the railing and vomited desperately. No one else dared to continue eating.

After vomiting for a long time, Li Guer came back and saw Wang Hua still looking at the jade, screamed again, and then said, "Leave it to Lei Zhan."

Lei Zhan is one of the captains of the guards in their ranks.

Wang Hua understood her mood and wrapped the jade with a handkerchief and handed it to Lei Zhan.

Li Guer didn't think it was enough and said to Wang Hua again: "Wash your hands."

This hand has to caress her skin at night and must be washed clean.

Everyone's eyes showed an ambiguous look.

Wang Hua looked at everyone, then looked at Li Guer's fierce eyes, and had to stand up and walk upstairs to wash his hands.

But there is no way to eat this meal.

Wang Hua said again: "Let's go find several of Ding Zhu's apprentices."

"It's easy to find them. Ding Zhu's apprentices have excellent jade-making skills and are all hired by famous workshops." He Cheji said. Then he took them to the market in Bianzhou.

Although Bianzhou is also a prosperous prefecture, the scale of the market is obviously not as large as that of Luoyang and Chang'an.

Hecheji also knew about it, so he did not stop at all. He went directly to a shop called Zhongyunzhai. All of them sold all kinds of exquisite jade.

Ding Zhu's second and fifth disciples all made jade in Zhongyunzhai. After the future intention of the Heche Machinery, the boss of Zhongyunzhai said: "It was a coincidence. In the morning, they accepted a request, and then said goodbye to me and said they would leave for a few days. I didn't expect anything else, so I agreed."

Although they are both craftsmen, Ding Zhu's apprentices are at the level of elders and have certain freedoms to come and go.

Hecheji didn't care yet, and then arrived at Liu Jiexuan, a family of Liu Jiexuan, looking for Ding Zhu's third disciple. But as he heard the news, his third disciple also received a request in the morning and left Liu Yangxuan.

I felt something was wrong, so I immediately sent someone to find out where his apprentices were going. At the same time, I went straight to the workshop where the last six apprentices were. There was still the same news, and I received a request and left.

Everyone looked at each other. Could this case be related to his apprentices?

After a while, the yamen runner came in to report that Ding Zhu and his four apprentices came to the Bianzhou wharf one after another, boarded a boat, and went down the river. No one heard the news, and even their family members knew.

Li Chongjun couldn't help but ask: "Sir Wang. What happened?"

This is obviously a major case, but there is always a motive for the incident, either revenge, love, or money, but it seems that Ding Zhu has nothing to do with these things.

Wang Hua smiled. Although he didn't care when Ding Zhu's four apprentices left Bianzhou, he didn't care because he had made some arrangements long ago.

Then he said, "Didn't I just talk about the origin of this jade piece? I made a funny idea. If a message comes now, a national treasure appeared somewhere. National treasure? Everyone was stunned when they heard this. If it were neighbors, they would still believe it. At their position, it would be impossible to believe such rumors.

But Li Guer's eyes lit up when he remembered what Wang Hua had told him some time ago.

"Isn't it funny? I believe everyone will not believe such rumors. But rumors have noses and eyes, and when the Han Dynasty junctions, there were many regimes. One after another, if it was Wang Mang, or Emperor Gengshi, or Liu Yong, Gongsun Shu, Li Xian, Qin Feng, Zhang Bu, Dong Xian, Yanben, Tian Rong, who once dominated the country and mastered a large territory, felt something was wrong. Zhu scraped most of the property under his palm, buried them underground, and then waited for a chance to make a comeback. This treasure would play a huge role."

"Of course, you still don't believe it. But there are constantly precious objects produced at the junction of the Han Dynasty, such as jade, gold, etc., and they are still in front of you. What will you think?"

"Is this really the treasure really there?" Li Chongjun knew that Wang Hua would not be aimless. If there were many things in front of him, the suspicion would become a belief in the end. If there was really such a treasure, let alone the power of King Gengshi and Wang Mang, even the other princes, they also had mastered the territory of the Great Desert and controlled many property. These properties may be an astonishing number, even greater than the profits obtained by the merchants in Huazhou hoarding.

It is reasonable that the Ding family dragged into this matter and was silenced by the whole family.

"I don't know if this treasure exists. Now I'm just making an assumption. Moreover, this treasure has some mechanisms, which require treasure maps or treasure keys, and this treasure map or treasure keys are just this jade block. But for some reason, the jade blocks are separated. Ding Zhu happened to get the other half, and his wealth was touching. Faced with such huge wealth, Ding Zhu would also be moved. Therefore, some people came to ask for the jade disaster, and the two sides negotiated terms. There was no negotiation, which eventually caused the other party's murderous intent. When Ding Zhu felt something was wrong, he swallowed the jade block into his stomach."

"That's how he wants to do it?" Li Chongjun said again.

"Of course not. Although people die for money and birds die for food, they have no life left. How can they enjoy this wealth? Maybe there are other arrangements or reasons."

"Is this a real thing or a fake thing?" Seeing that Wang Hua said with a nose and eyes, Shangguan Xiaowan became half-believing and half-doubted.

"I don't know, before the truth is revealed, everything is possible, nothing is possible."

Li Guer turned around and said to Lei Zhan: "Lei Zhan, take out the Ming jade quickly."

If this time Zhuo is really there, this piece of jade will be very important.

Lei Zhan reached out to take it out of his arms, but his face changed.

"What happened?" Wang Hua asked.
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