C2812 There Was a Reason for It(1)
C2812 There Was a Reason for It(1)
"Steward Hu..."
One of the baby-faced young men was very excited when he saw Steward Hu. He shouted and was about to rush over, but he was stopped by another young man. Then... he raised his head and looked up, pretending to enjoy the sky!
"Look, the weather is so good today. There are so many white clouds in the sky!"
The man pretended to talk.
"Yes... Yes!"
The other man was surprised for a while, and then he realized what was going on, so he started to talk about it too!
"Brother, that seems to be a sick sentence. The white clouds are still clear for thousands of miles?"
He laughed and scolded the man.
"Who cares. The weather is good anyway!"
The two of them started chatting among themselves. However, they did not look at Butler Hu and Faang Cheng as if they were invisible.
Butler Hu looked at his two former subordinates gratefully before turning to Faang Cheng, signaling for them to follow him. Then, ignoring the two servants beside him, he passed through the small door and continued to carefully walk towards the courtyard in front of him.
"Your popularity... is not bad! It seems that you must treat these servants very well!"
Faang Cheng said to Butler Hu with a smile.
He had been expecting such an outcome, and he had no doubt that this Steward Hu had a very good character, and that, though he was a little weak and thought too much, he would be very kind to those who worked for him.
In fact, it was the duty of a chief to treat his men well!
"Fortunately, we are all working people. Why don't we help each other?"
As Steward Hu walked forward, he answered Faang Cheng's question as if it was the most natural thing in the world.
It was evident from the natural manner in which Steward Hu answered these questions that he was not showing off or deliberately making himself out to be a great and loving man, but that he was doing it from the bottom of his heart.
"Hmm, that makes sense!"
Faang Cheng nodded with a smile and continued walking with Butler Hu.
As expected, Butler Hu's prestige among the servants of the Hu Family was perfectly proven in the following period of time. On the way, though they had been very careful, they had met a few servants who were at work, some in the kitchen, some in the scullery, some in the shop, and all of them had made the same choice. They chose to ignore it!
They acted as if they did not see Butler Hu at all. Apart from the initial surprise at seeing him, they all acted as if they were blind and did not see Butler Hu and Faang Cheng swaggering past them. Not a single one of them made a fuss about capturing Steward Hu and taking credit for it to Young Master Hu!
Even Faang Cheng was a little surprised by this situation. He had a very practical idea! If the death of Old Patriarch Hu really had something to do with his son, Young Master Hu, then it would be impossible for him to continue being Patriarch. Then... Patriarch Hu would be the best candidate!
Only when Faang Cheng and the other two arrived at the courtyard did Butler Hu signal Faang Cheng and Yu Yien to stop in their tracks. He then pointed in the direction of a small room in front of them with a desolate expression on his face.
"The Old Patriarch was placed in that small room, and even until now, there hasn't been a single mourning hall built. This Young Master... is really too much!"
Without a mourning hall, the Old Patriarch Hu would have no place to place his soul. Wouldn't he have to wander alone in the wilderness? Just thinking about it made him feel very miserable. Steward Hu felt very uncomfortable in his heart!
Knowing what Butler Hu was thinking, Faang Cheng reached out his hand and patted his shoulder.
"Let's go!"
Faang Cheng said.
"Let's go and take a look at the body of Old Master Hu first. After we confirm what happened, we'll discuss how to deal with this Young Master Hu!"
As he spoke, Faang Cheng pointed at the small house that Butler Hu had pointed out earlier.
Steward Hu nodded heavily and volunteered to lead the way. He took the lead and walked towards the room where the corpse of the Old Patriarch Hu was kept!
Nobody stopped Steward Hu from doing anything in the house. As for that good-for-nothing Young Master Hu, no one knew where he had gone to fool around. Thus, Butler Hu brought Faang Cheng and Yu Yien directly to the room where the corpse of Old Patriarch Hu was kept.
The room was damp and dark, and smelled of mildew. The room was very small. There was only a bed, a table, and a chair. There were three people standing in the room. When Faang Cheng saw the surroundings, he could not help but frown. Then, he shifted his gaze towards the coffin placed in the middle of the room.
The coffin of Old Patriarch Hu was not made of any good wood. Instead, it was made of ordinary wood. It looked lusterless, and the wood was sparse. It was likely that after being buried in the ground for a few years, it would be damp and moldy, bitten by insects.
"This Young Master of your family is really stingy with his father!"
Yu Yien looked at the situation in front of him and could not help but sneer.
"Not only is he stingy, but he is also going too far! This kind of coffin, I'm afraid even the children of poor families would not give it to their parents to use! Even if the family is poor and suffering, I am afraid that after their parents die, they will grit their teeth and buy a better coffin for their parents so that they can be buried! "
Faang Cheng shrugged his shoulders helplessly and said with Yu Yien.
"That's right! Hey, Faang Cheng, I have a feeling!"
Yu Yien looked at Faang Cheng and raised a question of his own.
"What feeling?"
Faang Cheng looked at Yu Yien and asked curiously.
"I have a feeling that Young Master Hu seems to have some sort of hatred towards his own father. It's as if he's no longer unfilial! One should know that in ordinary rich families, even if their children were unfilial, they would still play tricks after the old man passed away. There would definitely be a solemn funeral. No matter if it was a coffin or a funeral, they would use the best things! But Young Master Hu didn't do that. He did all these things with a great sense of resentment, as if he was doing these disgusting things on purpose after his father's death to vent the resentment in his heart!"
Yu Yien told Faang Cheng everything he was thinking about and received Faang Cheng's nod of approval.
"What you said does make sense! Young Master Hu's actions were indeed filled with resentment and deliberate, as if... he was doing it on purpose for someone to see! But Old Patriarch Hu is his father. Who would feel sad and uncomfortable if he treated his late father like this?"
Faang Cheng also followed Yu Yien's train of thought and suggested some of his own ideas.
"But the patriarch has already treated this son well enough. I really can't think of anything that could make Young Master hate the old patriarch so much."
Steward Hu shook his head, showing that he really couldn't understand!
"These are only our conjectures, and we shall not know the real cause of Hu's death until we have opened the coffin and examined the body."
With that, Faang Cheng took a few steps forward and pushed the lid of the coffin in front of him. Perhaps it was because Faang Cheng had used too much strength, or perhaps it was because the material and quality of the coffin were too poor, but the lid of the coffin was easily pushed open, revealing the corpse of Old Patriarch Hu, who had been dead for three days!
The old man was still dressed in the same plain clothes he had worn when he died, not the same new ones that the old man should have worn when he died. Seeing this, Faang Cheng and Yu Yien looked at each other, confirming their previous thoughts. Butler Hu, on the other hand, clenched his fists as if he couldn't wait to rush out and beat Young Master Hu up.
"It seems that... your Young Master has a deep grudge against his father! In this situation, I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out that there was something wrong with Old Master Hu's death, or even that Young Master Hu killed his own father."
Faang Cheng, on the other hand, gave Steward Hu a vaccination to prevent him from finding out that there was something wrong with their Young Master. He would not be able to accept it for the time being. At the same time, he had already started examining the body of the Old Patriarch Hu!
Faang Cheng used his Spirit Power to investigate the cause of Old Patriarch Hu's death. As he did so, he suddenly frowned and turned his head to look at Yu Yien as if he had discovered something.
"What's wrong? Did you find something?"
Yu Yien asked anxiously.
"Tell me... How did your old patriarch die? Because he quarreled with his son about buying a house, he was so anxious that he fell asleep at night?"
Faang Cheng did not answer Yu Yien's question. Instead, he turned to look at Butler Hu.
"That's right! We did not think too much of it, and we took it for granted that he had died of a fit of anger at his son. Could it be... "
At this point, Butler Hu seemed to have realized the meaning behind Faang Cheng's words. His eyes widened as he looked at Faang Cheng suspiciously.
"All I can tell you is that the death of Old Patriarch Hu was not caused by any sort of anxiety! I found out that before he passed away, a large amount of Spirit Power in his body was lost, causing his body to be in a state of rapid loss of Spirit Power. Furthermore, Old Patriarch Hu was indeed old, and his body could not withstand such a huge loss of Spirit Power. So it is true that Hu died suddenly, but for an external reason, and that external reason was the real reason for his death! "
Faang Cheng told Steward Hu the true reason behind Old Patriarch Hu's death.
[Mi Gu]