Chapter 76: Knowing the Taste, Knowing the King
The east wing was Fu Tiancheng's room and the scene of the crime. Fu Shu didn't believe there were no clues at all.
There were several guards standing at the door of the room. They were not county government officials. They were wearing the same clothes as the guards Su Yue had brought before. They must have been his subordinates brought from the capital.
When one of them saw Fu Shu, he cupped his fists and saluted: "Miss Fu, are you here for something?"
"Can I go in and have a look?" Logically speaking, the crime scene has not been fully investigated and others will not be allowed to enter.
When Fu Shu saw someone guarding him, he didn't have much hope in going in.
"Young master has told me that if you are Miss Fu, you can check wherever you want." The guard's expression was serious, but his eyes were respectful: "Little Su Fan, if Miss Fu has any orders, just call me."
"Thank you Master Su for me." Fu Shu nodded and walked into the house.
The originally solemn room looked very cold, and the blood stains on the floor beside the desk had gradually turned dark red before they were cleaned.
Fu Shu's nose felt sour as he recalled the time he spent with Fu Tiancheng.
Putting aside those inappropriate sadness, she cheered up and carefully looked at how this room was different from before.
Apart from the blood stains on the ground and the knocked over coffee table, only the hidden compartment under Fu Tiancheng's desk was destroyed. The Fu family cookbook "Tiancheng Taste" used to be inside, but now it is empty.
Three generations of the Fu family's ancestors were royal chefs. Each ancestor recorded their life's experiences and research on the dishes, which became the Fu family's family recipes. Originally, the recipe was just called the Fu family recipe, but it was passed down to Fu Tiancheng's generation.
Then it was renamed "Tiancheng Taste".
It turned out that Fu Tiancheng was the most talented and beautiful person among the generations of the Fu family. He was extremely talented and had studied cooking for less than six years before he became the head chef of the imperial kitchen and won the love of the late Emperor Xuan Zheng.
Currently, nearly half of the recipes in the records of "Tianchengwei" are his amazing creations.
Fu Tiancheng himself has a free and uninhibited temperament, and he is quite unrestrained. Moreover, he is the only one left in the Fu family in this generation, so he just changed the name of the recipe to "Tiancheng Taste", which is both Fu Tiancheng's Tiancheng and Tiancheng Jiawei.
meaning.
Fu Shu walked into the desk and looked at the broken secret compartment. It was on the lower left side of the desk. The desk was symmetrical from left to right. The hidden compartment didn't look out of place at all.
Wait, since it is symmetrical... Fu Shu reached out to the lower right side of the desk and groped carefully. Sure enough, she touched a groove. She pressed hard, and another hidden grid popped up on the right side of the desk.
Inside the secret compartment was a stack of papers. Fu Shu took them out and found that they were a deed of sale.
The deeds of sale of Putao, Fu An and Aunt Wang are all in it.
What also surprised Fu Shu was that except for Qi Zhijie and Xiao Yuge, the bonds of sale of Fu Tiancheng's seven apprentices were also included in it.
After thinking about it carefully, she understood.
Fu Tian was nearly fifty years old, his wife died early, and he was the only daughter in the family who was ignorant of worldly affairs and was weak.
He was responsible for promoting the Fu family, but he was also afraid that if something happened to him, his daughter would not be able to suppress all the disciples, so he asked all the disciples to sign a deed of betrayal.
No wonder Fu Tiancheng's disciples were either lonely or homeless, all because of the painstaking efforts of this loving father.
As for Qi Zhijie and Xiao Yuge's deed of betrayal, no need to think too much, they must have taken it away themselves.
Otherwise, why would he dare to say that he would start his own business just after Fu Tiancheng died, but he was just bullying Fu Shu into not knowing about the selling contract, and they took the things away themselves.
When the incident subsided, they went to cancel their slave status, which was not a happy life!
No wonder the secret compartment on the left is wide open, while the one on the right is hidden. It turns out that it is for fear of others discovering it.
As for why they didn't take away all the deeds of prostitution and destroy the corpses and traces? They certainly didn't dare. It was okay to take what was theirs. It could be said that they were stolen later. It is a crime of theft.
If even the grapes and the others were taken away, the suspicion of murder would never be cleared away.
Fu Shu can now confirm that these two people are the murderers of his father. However, it is too far-fetched to prove that the two men committed the murder based on this contract alone, and some direct evidence is needed.
She took the deed of betrayal out and handed it to Su Fan: "Brother, please go to the county office and give this to Mr. Su. I said that the Fu family has lost the deed of betrayal of two servants. Please make a replacement."
Now that the case is pending, Qi Zhijie and Xiao Yuge will definitely not dare to cancel their slave status. They are still servants of the Fu family in the Yamen records.
Now that Fu Tiancheng has gone, Fu Shu is the new head of the family and is eligible to renew the deed of betrayal.
Su Fan responded, told others to guard him, got up and went to the county government.
Fu Shu, on the other hand, took Fu An and the medicine he bought to the house of Sixth Junior Brother Liu Shouren: "Junior Sixth Brother, Senior Sister will send you some medicine."
When Liu Shouren saw her coming in, he glared angrily: "Who is using you to pretend to be kind! If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have been beaten at all!"
It's a pity that he was lying there seriously injured and had no momentum at all.
Fu Shu put the medicine on his bedside and sat down beside him, looking sad: "Junior brother, what are you talking about? I have been weak since I was a child, and I have had little communication with you brothers, but I ask myself:
There's nothing wrong with everyone, and we love our little junior brother so much, so how could we bear to go and harm you? If you hadn't said anything about separating the family, how could I have..."
Liu Shouren frowned when he heard her words. It was indeed as she said. This senior sister was in poor health and had a reserved temperament, but she also cared about these senior brothers.
He was also the youngest among all the disciples. Whenever he made a mistake and was punished, Fu Shu would always plead with Fu Tiancheng. This sentiment was true.
But then he thought again, and he immediately felt angry: "After talking so much, it's not because I don't want to separate the family!"
Fu Shu looked troubled and murmured: "Junior brother, what do you mean by this? Don't say that you are just my father's apprentices, not members of the Fu family. Just say that several of the brothers are slaves, so there is no separation of families."
Liu Shouren's eyes widened, his mouth opened, and he asked loudly: "What! Do you know?"
Fu Shu lowered his eyes, and then showed a somewhat embarrassed smile: "I didn't know this at first, but fortunately my second senior brother understood that I was alone now, so he told me about it, and also gave me the deed of betrayal that my father asked him to keep.
Gave it back to me."
Liu Shouren looked even more shocked: "You lied! How could the second senior brother do this!"
The second senior brother obviously told them that Fu Shu didn't know about it at all. As long as they worked together to separate the families, and then secretly stole the deed of sale and canceled their slave status, they could start their own business. How could he tell Fu Shu?
Leave this matter alone!
"Why am I lying? The second senior brother said that his father had canceled his slave status a long time ago. I also read the deed of sale. Indeed, there is no one from him, not even the younger junior sister. I guess my father couldn't bear to have a girl like Yuge become a slave.
I didn't ask her to sign in the first place." Fu Shu said with a bitter look on his face: "It's a pity that the second senior brother and the younger junior sister also want to start their own business. Now that Tianchengwei is here, we are the only ones left..."
After listening to her words, Liu Shouren was so angry that his eyes were about to split: "Qi Zhijie, he is trying to please his master and sister behind his back, but he obviously wants us to help him divide the family and get the property, and he is treating us like monkeys!"
"Junior brother, Second Senior Brother is not such a person, you have misunderstood him..." Fu Shu argued in a low voice.
Liu Shouren pointed at her angrily: "You idiot, you were fooled around by Qi Zhijie! Idiot, idiot!"
Fu An saw him scolding his young lady, and immediately became angry: "How dare you, you are just a servant of the Fu family, and you dare to insult the master of the family, see if I don't beat you!"
"Forget it." Fu Shu stopped Fu An and said lovingly to Liu Shouren: "Junior brother, you have suffered. I know you are in a bad mood. I won't care about what happened today. Just take good care of your injuries and remember to take medicine."
Turning around and going out with Fu An, Fu Shu's misery and cowardice were completely gone. He twitched his lips sarcastically: "Let's go to Second Senior Brother's place."
Her guess was indeed correct. Qi Zhijie used the fact that she didn't know about the selling contract to instigate others to separate the family.
Chapter completed!