The Republic of China Conspiracy Records

Chapter 142: Pointed Red Lips (6)

The two of them confronted each other for a few rounds while laughing, Ji Mingmei and I were both a little dazed.I glanced at Mrs. Qi out of the corner of my eye, and saw her face was calm, listening to Bu Ying and shopkeeper Qi's exchange of words, she had no expression on her face, as if she was listening to something that had nothing to do with me.

Just as they were talking, at this time, the three shopkeepers Feng, Chu, and Quan suddenly came in from outside the courtyard. Shopkeeper Chu held a letter in his hand, and before they arrived, he hurriedly shouted: "Brother! Brother!"

It wasn't too much of a surprise when they got closer to find us there.Shopkeeper Chu raised the letter in his hand, and said to Shopkeeper Qi, "It's over, it's over! This old Yan just died, and for some reason, the supplier sent another letter telling us that the supply for the next year will be reduced by [-]%! ...Didn't Lao Yan die in vain?"

"How could it be a death in vain?" Shopkeeper Feng said anxiously, "If Lao Yan hadn't died, then we would have to share [-]% of the goods with five people now, and now at least four people, it's a little better."

These words were also blatantly rejoicing that Lao Yan died well, and it seemed that it was exactly as shopkeeper Qi said, after Lao Yan's death, these people might clap their hands and celebrate at home.Seeing that the two spoke without any scruples, shopkeeper Quan hurriedly tugged on the sleeve of shopkeeper Chu who was standing next to him, signaling him not to hold back his words.

"What's the matter? What's the matter?" Shopkeeper Chu yelled, "Aren't you the one who was the happiest when you found out that Lao Yan died? Don't say you were happy, I was also happy. There's nothing to say, we didn't kill him!"

Shopkeeper Quan was stunned by his words, he looked a little embarrassed, forced a smile, and said to us: "I made everyone laugh!"

"I can't see a smile, I can't see a smile." Bu Ying smiled, "Looking at how shameless you are, I really believe that you didn't kill people."

"No, what do you mean?" Shopkeeper Chu was probably a little impatient, and jumped up immediately after hearing this, "You really suspect that we killed him? We haven't even touched his hair, aren't we? Did I tell you already!"

"Actually, if the person was poisoned by a few of you in partnership, then you won't be able to say a single word." Bu Ying still said with a smile.

Shopkeeper Chu wanted to say something more, Shopkeeper Feng also hurriedly pulled him, motioned him not to speak again, then turned to Shopkeeper Qi and said, "It's strange, brother, our products have been selling very well these years, the supplier's side There has never been any problem, why in the past few days, there are successive letters telling us to reduce the supply?"

"I heard that the neighboring county also wants to imitate Yanzhi Town and start the business of Yanzhi Street. Maybe the source of goods has been taken away there." Shopkeeper Qi pondered, "Now the supply of goods has decreased. How to distribute the reduced [-]% needs to be discussed again."

"How to distribute it?" Shopkeeper Chu laughed dryly, "Since Lao Yan is no longer here, naturally the remaining [-]% share will be shared equally among the four of us."

"Equal share?" Shopkeeper Quan laughed strangely, "Isn't that right? When Lao Yan was here, the result of our discussion was that whoever shipped the slowest last year would bear half of the reduced share, and the rest The other half is shared by several other companies. Now that Lao Yan is gone, you were the person who shipped the slowest last year, and you should bear [-]% of the [-]% reduction.”

"This is the result of the last discussion, how can it be used in this matter!" The shopkeeper Chu blushed and said thickly, "Just after this result was discussed last time, Lao Yan didn't know why. If this time According to the division method last time, maybe there will be death or not. No, it can't be divided like this!"

His tone was tough, but the other three just looked at him coldly.After a while, shopkeeper Feng said slowly: "Before he died, Lao Yan said that he can bet on this kind of division. I don't know if we will be as bachelors as him when it's our turn? It seems that he is still right. Come on, Lao Chu, you are not as straightforward as Lao Yan."

"So you guys all mean this?" Neither shopkeeper Qi nor shopkeeper Quan responded, and shopkeeper Chu suddenly became angry, "You want to manipulate me like Lao Yan, don't even think about it! I don't agree, I Let's see who can deprive me of my share!"

As he spoke, he angrily threw the letter in his hand at the three of them, then turned and walked towards the gate of the courtyard.The letter was blown by the wind, swayed in the air, and then slowly fell to the ground.The other three didn't pay attention either, they just yelled at the shopkeeper, "Old Chu! Old Chu!"

The shopkeeper Chu didn't listen, and walked step by step as if he wanted to crush the ground of the Qi family.Seeing that they couldn't call him back, the three felt a little helpless. At this moment, Mrs. Qi, who had been silent all this time, suddenly called out: "Old Chu!"

When shopkeeper Chu heard her calling him, he turned around and said angrily, "Are you also persuading me to accept this result?"

Mrs. Qi shook her head, and said softly: "I didn't agree to distribute the share according to your method, but I don't want to interfere with your brother's affairs, so I kept silent."

After hearing this, Lao Chu's expression became better, and he hummed, "It's still wise, sister-in-law."

"I have never interfered in your affairs, and I don't know that the relationship between your brothers has survived several quarrels over the years." Mrs. Qi sighed, "But men's affairs belong to men's affairs, and we women's family can't deal with it." I can’t be affected. I just made a few boxes of rose rouge recently, you can take a box back to your younger siblings.”

Shopkeeper Chu was a little impatient, "We sell rouge at home, what kind of rouge and gouache do we want, why does my sister-in-law make such rouge?"

"The rouge that I bought can't compare to making it myself." Mrs. Qi smiled, and slowly wiped her lips with her hands, as if she was evenly spreading the invisible layer of rouge.

Her actions were actually nothing unusual, but Ji Mingmei and I saw our hearts skip a beat at the same time, and we almost cried out.Because her movements are so much like the woman we saw in Caoxi Town.At that time in the attic, after the man put rouge on her lips, the woman wiped her lips like this.

Ji Mingmei glanced at me in shock, and I looked back at her, my heart spinning rapidly.Shopkeeper Qi and the others were the same group of people who killed people in Caoxi Town. Although Mrs. Qi was a few years younger than them, she was not much younger. Naturally, it was impossible for the dead woman to be reincarnated.

But why the movements of the two people wiping their lips are exactly the same, is it a coincidence?

Shopkeeper Chu and the others didn't see the woman wiping her lips at that time, so they seemed to have never heard of this scene, and they just suppressed their temper and said: "Then go and get it, I'll wait for you here."

"I don't know how your siblings fell in love with you because of your impetuous temper!" Mrs. Qi said angrily.

"I don't know how your eldest brother fell in love with you because of your gentle temperament!" Shopkeeper Chu replied.

"Bang, you're dead!" Mrs. Qi shouted.

At the same time she said this, everyone present was startled, and shopkeeper Chu himself was frightened out of his wits, tremblingly said: "Don't!"

After he finished yelling, the atmosphere at the scene suddenly became tense, but shopkeeper Chu did not suddenly fall to the ground like Lao Yan, and we all heaved a sigh of relief when we saw this.Mrs. Qi yelled this sentence at both Lao Yan and him. Lao Yan died, but shopkeeper Chu was safe and sound.In this case, it seems that Lao Yan's death has nothing to do with Mrs. Qi.This is just a coincidence.

When Mrs. Qi yelled that sentence just now, she probably didn't think much about it at all, but after she yelled out, she remembered Lao Yan's death, and she was frightened, her whole face turned pale.When she saw that shopkeeper Chu hadn't fallen to the ground, she felt limp and almost collapsed to the ground. Seeing this, shopkeeper Qi hurriedly supported her.

After she stabilized her body, she forced a smile towards Shopkeeper Chu and said, "I...I'll get you the rouge."

Shopkeeper Chu might have been really frightened, as if he had narrowly escaped death, his face was full of joy, his temper was no longer irritable, and he hurriedly said: "You...you go..."

Mrs. Qi turned around and walked towards the house in the courtyard. After a while, she took out the rouge and handed it to shopkeeper Chu.Shopkeeper Chu took it, turned around without saying anything, and continued walking towards the outside of the courtyard.We all watched him off from behind, and the shopkeeper and others didn't call him again.

We thought shopkeeper Chu would just walk out of the courtyard, but we didn't expect that at the moment he stepped out of the courtyard door, his whole body suddenly shook, and he rushed towards the ground on his back, as if he had been tripped by someone suddenly. like wrestling.When the people in the courtyard saw him fall to the ground, they all exclaimed.

Mrs. Qi's "gun" just now didn't kill him, but he fell to the ground when he was leaving the hospital, as if the bullet from Mrs. Qi's "gun" had been flying for too long before hitting him.This was beyond our expectation, Bu Ying was taken aback for a moment, and then he came to his senses and ran towards him quickly.

Seeing this, Ji Mingmei and I hurriedly followed behind him.When I ran over, I looked back and saw that shopkeeper Quan and shopkeeper Feng also had expressions of horror on their faces, and they were all looking at Mrs. Qi in unison.And shopkeeper Qi looked thoughtfully at the fallen shopkeeper Chu, not knowing what he was thinking.

As for Mrs. Qi, she had a dull expression on her face, trembling unceasingly standing where she was.When "beating" Lao Yan to death, she also showed extreme panic, but she didn't respond physically.Now she is also acting terrified, but Ji Mingmei doesn't hold her hand again to test her reaction.

So is she really terrified, or is she just showing us?
In any case, both Lao Yan and Shopkeeper Chu fell under her "gunpoint", which can no longer be called a coincidence.However, no matter whether it was Lao Yan or shopkeeper Chu, they were several meters away from her when they died. How did she "beat people to death"?

Bu Ying knelt down to check shopkeeper Chu, then got up and shook his head towards us, indicating that he was dead.We hadn't even spoken yet, when the shopkeeper suddenly said in a trembling voice: "Every time there is a letter to reduce our supply, one person will die, have you found out?"

Hearing what he said, it seems to be true.So it seems that this matter is not only related to Mrs. Qi, but also related to the supply in Yanzhi Town.

When Shopkeeper Feng heard what Shopkeeper Quan said, his face suddenly turned pale, and he forced a smile: "It's true, every time the supply is reduced, one of the five of us will die. In this way, the living will not have to lose a share gone."

Shopkeeper Quan swallowed his saliva, "But, if there is another letter..."

Before he finished speaking, shopkeeper Feng hurriedly pulled him, shopkeeper Quan swallowed the rest of the words, looked at shopkeeper Feng, and then said with a dry smile: "Since someone died again in the Qi family, we... Disturb the police investigation, go back first."

Shopkeeper Qi noticed the strange look on their faces, but calmly nodded and said, "Okay, I won't see you off."

Shopkeeper Quan and Shopkeeper Feng hurriedly bowed their hands to him, and were about to both walk out of the courtyard, when another person suddenly walked in from outside the courtyard.The man was quite panicked, and walked past the corpse without even noticing the fallen shopkeeper Chu. He didn't turn back until he entered the yard, and said in surprise, "Old Chu!"

After she cried out, we realized that it was Mrs. Yan who came in.She was at Yan's house to be the old Yan Shouling, but now she appeared at Qi's house. Shopkeeper Quan and Shopkeeper Feng both asked her, "What happened?"

"Old Chu... what's wrong?" Mrs. Yan asked hesitantly.

"Dead. The same way of death as Lao Yan." Bu Ying didn't wait for Shopkeeper Quan and others to answer, and said first, "Aren't you at home guarding Lao Yan's spirit? What are you doing here?"

Mrs. Yan seemed to have been frightened by something, she looked at Shopkeeper Qi and said, "Rouge suddenly appeared on Lao Yan's mouth!"

"What!" Shopkeeper Quan and Shopkeeper Feng said in surprise at the same time, "Who put the rouge on him?"

"No one painted him." Mrs. Yan panicked. "He was lying in the coffin, and suddenly his mouth became extremely red. I went to see him and found that...it looked like rouge mixed with blood!"

Blood rouge!

Ji Mingmei and I were greatly shocked at the same time. At that time in the attic in Caoxi Town, the man bit his own finger and used blood to smear the woman's lips.Now Lao Yan first died inexplicably, and then blood and rouge appeared on his lips.How can this not make people think of the man and woman in Caoxi Town?
Shopkeeper Quan and the others seemed to have thought of something, and their faces changed drastically.Shopkeeper Quan trembled all over, and murmured: "Caoxi Town..."

"What happened to Caoxi Town?" Bu Ying said abruptly, "Yanzhi Town was built on the ruins of Caoxi Town. I don't know what happened when it was rebuilt?"

"Nothing happened." Shopkeeper Qi said calmly, "The reconstruction went smoothly."

"Then why did Shopkeeper Quan suddenly mention Caoxi Town?" Bu Ying ignored him, but stared at Shopkeeper Quan.

Shopkeeper Quan saw that Shopkeeper Qi and Shopkeeper Feng had solemn expressions, swallowed his saliva, and replied, "It's nothing. What I want to say is that Caoxi Town will become the Yanzhi Town it is today, and no one would have expected it."

Bu Ying said "Oh", rubbed his nose and said, "The shopkeeper Yan was lying in the coffin, but his mouth was suddenly smeared with blood and rouge. Aren't you going to take a look?"

"Go." Shopkeeper Feng was actually extremely nervous, but he tried his best to cover it up, "Why is there blood and rouge on the mouth of the dead, we should all go and see, what does the elder brother say?"

Shopkeeper Qi nodded and said, "Of course I'm going to take a look."

As he spoke, he leaned over and picked up the letter that shopkeeper Chu had thrown on the ground, put it in his arms, and walked towards the gate of the courtyard together with Quan and Feng.Bu Ying looked at him without blinking, and he also looked back at Bu Ying, nodding slightly in greeting.The three of them passed by Shopkeeper Chu's corpse, but they didn't even look at Shopkeeper Chu on the ground.

(End of this chapter)