When Mr. Zhuang heard the bad news, he staggered and fell backward.
Jiang Tong supported her and choked with sobs: "Mom, don't scare me."
"I just saw him a few days ago. Although he has lost weight and is not in very good spirits, but... why did he suddenly disappear?" Ms. Zhuang cried, "My son, what should your mother do?
"
Zheng Shuyu and Mu Siyu looked at each other.
The eyes of both of them were very sad.
"Miss Jiang, help Auntie go in first!" Mu Siyu said.
Jiang Tong also saw those people peeking outside, and endured grief as he helped Mr. Zhuang into the yard.
Mrs. Zhuang cried heartbrokenly and was about to faint from crying. Jiang Tong helped her into the room and comforted her while crying, but it still didn't help.
"Mom, there are still guests outside. I'll go greet them first, and later... my daughter will come to accompany you. Mom, you have to take care of yourself, you still have a daughter!"
Jiang Tong came out and saw Mu Siyu and Zheng Shuyu sitting at the stone table.
"Miss Jiang, we shouldn't bother you again at this time, but your brother's affairs must be clarified, and we can't let his death be in vain. Can you tell us everything you know?"
"My brother is gone, but the murderer is at large, and I won't accept it. I'm just a weak woman, and I can't find my enemy. But you can ask whatever you want. As long as I know something, I will tell you the truth."
"What happened to your brother?" Mu Siyu asked.
Jiang Tong said: "Two months ago, my brother met two people... They drank too much that day. When my brother came back from a hut, he found that one of them had violated my sister-in-law and killed her by mistake. My brother was frightened.
I was so drunk that I got into a fight with him. The man was so crazy that he grabbed the scissors in the basket and wanted to stab my brother. When my brother ducked, the scissors stabbed the infant child..."
"Beast!" Zheng Shuyu said angrily, "That child..."
"No more." Jiang Tong said, "My sister-in-law and children are gone. My brother went crazy and accidentally killed that person. At this time, the other person woke up..."
"What did that man say?"
"He said that my brother had killed someone. If he didn't want to be arrested by the government, he should avoid the limelight. He knew a place where my brother could hide first. He also said that as long as they disposed of the body, the one who was killed would be killed.
The person who died was an outsider, and no one found out what happened here. If he doesn’t tell, my brother doesn’t tell, my mother and I don’t tell, no one knows about it.”
Mu Siyu and Zheng Shuyu looked at each other.
They all noticed something was wrong.
This is similar to those fraud cases.
If Mu Siyu guessed correctly, the 'dead' person might not really be dead, but it was just a trap they set up to lure Jiang Zhong in. Now they investigated, and the other party's people found the paper bag
If the fire breaks out, kill people and silence them. There must also be something wrong with that temple, where all the monks suddenly disappeared.
"Where are the bodies of your sister-in-law and child buried?"
"They died in vain, and we didn't dare to do anything about it, so we simply chose a cemetery and buried them."
"Your brother's body is still in the Yamen. He needs to do an autopsy first. He will not send it over until there are no problems."
"I see."
"Do you have anything left by your brother at home, such as any books, letters, account books...anything with writing on it?"
"I'm going to go look for it in my brother's room."
"I know I shouldn't bother you now, but this matter is very important, and those people have harmed many people. Your brother is not the first nor the last victim. We want to find some clues, whether we can find those people or not
, at least make some effort.”
"I will take my mother back to my hometown later." Jiang Tong said, "My brother often said that if he had not met Boss Mu, he would still be in jail or working as a coolie somewhere. He had been a shopkeeper and was called master by others.
, he received respect and admiration. He said that this kind of life was something he had never thought about before, nor dared to think about. Everything he had was given by Boss Mu."
When leaving Jiang's house, Jiang Tong's words kept ringing in Mu Siyu's ears.
She didn't deserve such a high opinion from Jiang Zhong. If he hadn't met her, Jiang Zhong might have been unknown, but at least he could have saved his life. She gave him some things and took away some things from him.
"These account books should be the account books for doing business with those two people."
"This is the money Jiang Zhong invested in them." Mu Siyu said, "Jiang Zhong believed the slander and gave all his money to those two people, claiming that he was doing business with them."
Dream Home is her store. Jiang Zhong is loyal to her and cannot take the money from her store, so he invests all his hard-earned money.
This is also the reason why Jiang Tong and Mr. Zhuang have a difficult life.
However, what he didn't know was that the other party planned to plot against him. Not only did he try every means to gain his trust, he also arranged for people to sneak into Dream Home and devour her store step by step.
"Boss Mu, shopkeeper Zheng." Qin Wenhan got out of the carriage, "I was going to find you. I examined Jiang Zhong's body and found a piece of paper in his stomach."
Because Jiang Zhong died not long ago, the paper was swallowed whole, and the ink stains on it have not disappeared.
"What did you write?" Mu Siyu asked.
"It says an address." Qin Wenhan said, "It's not in Suzhou City, but in Dian Jade City. If you want to find out what it is, you have to send someone to check it out."
"If nothing else is found, send Jiang Zhong's body back to the Jiang family!" Mu Siyu said.
"I'll tell the Yamen."
"One more thing." Qin Wenhan lowered his voice and said, "A group of children were found in the basement of the temple. Some are beggars and some were deceived, but they are not local."
"There is indeed something wrong with that temple." Zheng Shuyu said, "What kind of evil organization is this? It not only deceives people, but also abducts and sells them."
"I'm afraid it involves more than that." Mu Siyu said, "The people behind the scenes are not simple. Otherwise, how could such a thing be made so big? His minions are everywhere."
"The surname is Qin!" A voice shouted angrily.
Then a woman jumped out of the carriage and cursed at Qin Wenhan: "I asked you why you broke off the engagement so readily. It turns out that you are not clear with other women."
Mu Siyu looked at this face and curled her lips.
She and Zheng Shuyu looked at each other with mockery in their eyes, and it was obvious that they both looked down upon this unruly daughter of the prefect.
Qin Wenhan only frowned slightly, and soon returned to his usual elegance and demeanor: "Miss Jin, I wonder how I made you unhappy?"
"You...you broke off my engagement and you still have an affair with another woman." Jin Wanrong glared at Qin Wenhan.
"Ms. Jin, have you forgotten that you don't want this marriage?" Qin Wenhan smiled, "Also, these two are my business associates. Please don't talk nonsense and ruin their reputation."
"Miss, they were sitting across from us in the inn that day." The maid pointed at Zheng Shuyu and said, "Didn't the beggar recruit? It was said that a woman gave them money, and they came to threaten the lady."
