Sister-in-law Xie didn't like Lu Jing's provocation, she shook her head and said, "The accounts of the house cannot be shown to outsiders casually."
When she said this, she was already prepared that this matter would go to Yuan Wai or the old lady, but she didn't expect that Lu Jing actually nodded when he heard this and said, "Okay."
After that, he stopped insisting, as if his previous request was just mentioned casually and he didn't take it to heart in the first place.
After chatting with Sister-in-law Xie, Lu Jing found a few more servants from the Zhang family, asked him a few questions, and then asked Yuan Zhang to resign.
He said that the cause of the second wife's illness had been found, but he still had to go back and think about how to treat it for a few days.
Zhang Yuanwai still politely sent Lu Jingli out of the door, then found the housekeeper and asked what Lu Jing had done in the house.
The housekeeper reported the truth to Zhang Yuanwai, including the people Lu Jing met and the questions he asked.
After hearing this, Zhang Yuanwai pondered for a moment and asked, "What do you think of him?"
The housekeeper thought for a while and said, "He looks a bit young, but he shouldn't be sent by the master's enemies to deal with the master. Moreover, I sent someone to Ma Mansion to find someone to inquire, saying that Taoist Yang did let Ma Bancheng's The old mother woke up and drank a bowl of porridge, she seems to have some skills."
Zhang Yuanwai nodded, "Please explain to the people below carefully and ask them to try their best to cooperate with Taoist Yang in treating the second wife, but they are not allowed to say anything they shouldn't. Oh, by the way, your cousin-in-law." You've done a good job, give her a lot of money as a reward."
After saying this, Zhang Yuanwai waved to the butler to go down.
On the other side, Lu Jing didn't go too far after leaving Zhang's Mansion. After confirming that there were no little tails behind him, he found a teahouse nearby to drink tea.
It wasn't until sunset and the teahouse closed that Lu Jing paid for the tea and walked out of the door leisurely.
Arriving at the west wall of Zhang's Mansion, Lu Jing knew that it would be difficult to get the accounts through negotiation alone when he was rejected by Sister-in-law Xie before, so he was considering waiting to climb over the wall after dark and look for it himself.
But firstly, he is not familiar with the environment in Zhang's house, and he doesn't know where the accounts are kept, nor which book he is looking for. Secondly, although his Qinggong has been practiced to a great extent, it is quite special and the speed is quite fast. , but it was too noisy and not suitable for such a thing.
So in the end Lu Jing changed to another method.
He decided to just stand here and wait for the account to fly out from the other side of the courtyard wall.
This thing sounds a bit ridiculous, but after Lu Jing stood on the wall for about half an hour, something really flew over from the other side of the wall.
Lu Jing reached out to catch it and looked under the lantern nearby. Sure enough, it was the Zhang family's purchase account book in recent months.
The things recorded in it were very fragmentary, so Lu Jing also looked at them for a while. He could see that some manipulation had indeed been done to the accounts, and there seemed to be some problems with the numbers in some places.
However, this was not the focus of Lu Jing's attention. He was not here to help Zhang Yuanwai catch moths. Lu Jing kept turning the accounts to the last page, but unfortunately he could not find what he was looking for.
So he frowned and turned over the account book and read it again. Although he still didn't see what he wanted to see this time, he found some new things in it.
Lu Jing closed the account book and stood in the shadow for a while, then threw the account book back to the other side of the courtyard wall, and then strode out of the city.
He remembered the crazy woman named Yueru, who said before that her child was buried in a mass grave in the east of the city.
So Lu Jing went to get a shovel first, and then headed towards the east of the city non-stop.
Mass graves, as the name suggests, are places where everyone is buried. Some people were even buried here just wrapped in straw mats.
If he had to dig each grave one by one, Lu Jing would probably be able to dig it for ten years.
Fortunately, most of the mass graves were old graves, and you could tell at a glance that Yueru's son was definitely not buried here. Lu Jing focused on the new graves that had just appeared within a month.
Even so, he searched for a whole night, but in the end he found nothing. Although some babies' bodies were also found during the period, most of them were girls and their age was not suitable.
Lu Jing looked up at the sky again and saw that the sun had risen from the east. He threw the shovel aside and jumped up from the grave pit again.
Now he was a little suspicious that the crazy woman named Yueru was playing tricks on him, but it seemed that he couldn't blame the other party, because they made it very clear at the time that her son told her in a dream.
It seemed that Lu Jing couldn't blame anyone for believing in her dream.
On the other hand, the man from Si Tianjian has not contacted him again, which makes Lu Jing feel a little strange.
But there was nothing more important than filling his stomach. Lu Jing had been busy all day long and didn't get much rest at night. Although he had a steady stream of internal energy to support him, he felt a little hungry and thirsty at this moment.
So he first found an inn, took a shower and changed clothes, and then found a stall selling tofu puddings and pancakes on the street, eating breakfast while thinking about his next move.
After eating a bowl of steaming tofu pudding and two fried cakes, Lu Jing felt that the negative energy he had just absorbed in the cemetery had been dissipated.
And he also had a new idea, and decided to visit He's butcher shop and Ma Bancheng's mansion again.
Since there is no way for Zhang Yuanwai to go here, it is better to change the target and take another look. Assuming that Yueru really has a son who was taken away, it means that the memory of everyone in the Zhang family is biased.
This is quite similar to Butcher He's situation.
However, unlike the Zhang family, Tufu He seemed to be the only one with memory problems. As for the situation with Ma Bancheng's mother Liu, it seemed at first glance that it had nothing to do with the other two things, but in Lu Jing's heart There is also a guess, which needs to be verified by going to Ma Mansion.
However, before that, there was something that worried Lu Jing, which was why the supervisor Si Tianjian sent to partner him this time had not contacted him again until now.
Lu Jing couldn't help but worry about the other party, so he called Gu Jing and planned to ask Gu Jing to bring a message to the other party.
But when Lu Jing went to the fortune teller next door to borrow paper and pen, the tip of the pen was fixed on the top of the paper and did not fall down.
Then Lu Jing slapped himself on the head, wondering if he was confused. He didn't even know who the supervisor was this time, so how could he ask Gu Jing to bring a letter to that person?
So Lu Jing sighed and returned the pen and paper to the fortune teller.
