The Republic of China Conspiracy Records

Chapter 143: Pointed Red Lips (7)

To be honest, there are a lot of cold-hearted people in this world, but it's really rare to see someone as ruthless as shopkeeper Qi and others, but they themselves seem to take it for granted.Where did this group of people come from, to be so heartless and ungrateful.

Looking at their behavior, they don't look like desperadoes, because they can only see ruthlessness, but not blood.Shopkeeper Chu's corpse was motionless, but it gave off the feeling that he was trying to get up and go with them.When I saw this, I suddenly remembered the scene when shopkeeper Qi and the others killed the man in Caoxi Town and threw his body outside the town.

That corpse was so lonely then, so longing to be back among the crowd.But it can't, because dead people can't do anything.Now that Shopkeeper Yan is dead, no one came to mourn him. Shopkeeper Qi and the others only thought about how to divide up the share he left behind.

Shopkeeper Chu also died, and his brother didn't even glance at him when he died.I don't know if they would have thought that they would end up in the same way when they threw the man's body out of town.With emotion in my heart, I also followed Mrs. Yan back to Yan's house together with Ji Mingmei and Bu Ying.

Shopkeeper Yan's coffin was placed on the mourning hall, and the coffin lid was not closed.Ji Mingmei was afraid, so she didn't go to see the corpse, so I went to the coffin with Bu Ying and others to look inside the coffin.

Inside the coffin, Lao Yan's face was pale, and his lips were as red as Mrs. Yan said.With a pale face and scarlet lips, she looked extremely strange.Lao Yan opened his lips slightly, as if he wanted to say something to us, but he couldn't say it.I only glanced at him, then quickly turned my gaze away.

Just when several people were a little panicked, the white banner on the mourning hall suddenly moved, and a person came out from behind the mourning hall.Everyone was shocked, and the shopkeeper almost jumped up on the spot.After the man came out from behind, he said timidly: "I have seen you uncles."

I took a closer look and realized that this person was a girl of seventeen or eighteen years old. Her face was pale and her eyes were a bit afraid to look at people. She must have a timid and weak personality.Shopkeeper Quan heaved a sigh of relief when he saw her, patted his chest and said, "It's Zhiyuan, I gave Uncle Quan a fright. When did you get home?"

"I got home this morning." Yan Zhiyuan whispered, "I knew my father when I got home..."

She looked sad, but she didn't cry.Shopkeeper Quan and others comforted her indiscriminately, but she still bowed and thanked them.Shopkeeper Feng seemed a little embarrassed when he saw this, and hurriedly said: "Don't worry, even though your father is gone, there are some of our uncles here, and they will always take good care of your mother and daughter."

Yan Zhiyuan shook her head, and said softly: "I discussed it with Auntie. After my father's funeral is over, I will sell the rouge shop of Yan's family and go to live elsewhere."

Shopkeeper Feng and the others were startled, and then overjoyed, they hurriedly said: "We can take over the store of the Yan family, anyway, we won't treat you badly."

As they spoke, the blood and rouge on Lao Yan's lips seemed to have been completely forgotten by them.Bu Ying and I saw that they were so mercenary that they were unwilling to cover up even a little bit, it was really an eye-opener.Annoyance flashed in Yan Zhiyuan's eyes, but she didn't show it, instead she thanked them in a low voice.

Seeing this, Mrs. Yan also said: "Since all the uncles intend to take over, let's make a document."

Shopkeeper Feng and the others couldn't wish more, so Dang even asked someone to fetch a pen and paper, drew up the documents on the mourning hall, and then pressed their fingerprints on each of them, and finally finalized the transfer of the store in the mourning hall.Several shops of the Yan family were taken over by Feng, Quan, and Qi. Feng and Quan were extremely excited, but only the shopkeeper Qi remained calm.

After finishing the paperwork, they hurried home to bring the money and finalize the matter, so they all left in a hurry.Now that the three of them have left, there is no need for us to stay in Yan's house, so we also left.

As soon as I left Yan's house, I said to Bu Ying: "The death of Shopkeeper Yan is a big problem. I feel more and more that it wasn't Shopkeeper Quan and others who murdered him, otherwise they wouldn't be so impatient in front of the police."

"That's right." Bu Ying said, "The deaths of Yan and Chu must have something to do with Mrs. Qi, but Mrs. Qi and the whole shopkeeper are not in the same group. Tell me, could it be that the Qi family and his wife are actually the ones?" Mastermind?"

Every time a letter came in telling them that supplies would be reduced, one person died.And the people who died were the ones chosen by them to bear the greatest share of the reduction.It sounds like the logic of this matter is that whoever's share is reduced the most will die.According to the current situation, the Qi family is undoubtedly the strongest.

In other words, no matter how the share is reduced, the Qi family will bear the biggest loss in the end.If there is another letter, shopkeeper Qi will be the last one to die.And the last person to die often doesn't die.Looking at it this way, it really looks like the Qi family couple is manipulating all this behind the scenes.

If Quan, Feng and others were all dead, the entire Yanzhi Town would naturally belong to the Qi family.

"It's really similar. But I have a different idea—don't you think that the timing of Miss Yan's return is too coincidental?" Ji Mingmei said suddenly, "Treasurer Yan left the day before, and she returned the next day. When I arrived at Yan's house, it felt like she knew her father had passed away, so she came back to attend the funeral. "

"Hey, it's true when you say that." I also pondered, "Besides, the mother and daughter of the Yan family were above the mourning hall just now, and they transferred all the stores of the Yan family. For such an important matter, they actually A decision was made in a split second, and it looked like..."

"It's as if they've thought it over long ago." Bu Ying continued, "The Yan family is planning to quit Rouge Town!"

The business in Rouge Town must have always been booming, so the shopkeeper Quan and others learned that the Yan family intended to transfer the store, and they couldn't wait to take over.Since the business is so good, why did the Yan family plan to quit?If the Yan family is really planning to withdraw from Rouge Town, then is the death of shopkeeper Yan related to this.And what does the shopkeeper Chu who died later have to do with this?
We discussed these things all the way, and before we knew it, we had reached the middle of the street.Bu Ying stabilized his feet, took a deep breath and said, "Such a big Yanzhi Street, what kind of financial resources do you think it takes to build it?"

"At least he should be rich and well-known." I replied casually, and I shivered as soon as I said the words, and looked at Bu Ying.

Bu Ying smiled, and said deeply: "Since shopkeeper Qi and the others have such financial resources, how can no one know their origins at all?"

"But haven't you checked it, but no one knows where they came from." Ji Mingmei frowned.

"I thought of a possibility." I said tremblingly, "People with such financial resources will definitely not be able to find out their origins. Since shopkeeper Qi and the others are unknown, it is very likely that Yanzhi Town was not built by them !"

"However, since the birth of Rouge Town, they have been operating it." Ji Mingmei wondered, "If it was built by others, how could such a large piece of property be handed over to others?"

"Have you forgotten the man and woman who died in Caoxi Town?" I also took a deep breath, "When we saw Caoxi Town, the town was already in ruins. Since it was a ruin, they appeared on the ruins what?"

"You mean, there were so many people in the ruins at that time, and they were actually rebuilding Yanzhi Town?" Ji Mingmei also said in surprise, "In fact, the couple are the owners of this property, and Manager Qi and others killed them. That's why I have mastered this street!"

"I suspect that shopkeeper Qi and others were actually hired by that couple to rebuild the town. But in the end, the employer died and his fortune was lost, and the hired person took over here grandly."

"At that time, shopkeeper Qi and others killed people because they were forced by the group of people outside the town. Who are these people, and what kind of hatred they have with that pair of men and women, it is also something that needs to be clarified."

"Unfortunately, you're only asking such a question now." I said to Bu Ying with some embarrassment, "Otherwise, you can go to the county to find out who was capable of building Yanzhi Town."

"Hey," Bu Ying said with a smile, "don't be sorry. Before I came, I asked the people from the county police station to investigate across the province who has the financial resources to build Yanzhi Town, and who has been in the past few years. unusual."

"It turns out that you have already considered this before you arrived in Yanzhi Town." I suddenly realized, and I felt a little respect for him in my heart.

"That's right, I just rushed over because I didn't have time to wait there at that time." Bu Ying said and took two steps forward, then turned around and said in surprise, "Let's go."

"Where are you going?" Since he had made arrangements, I asked him.

"Go to Shopkeeper Chu's house, the people from Chu's family should have moved the body back by now." Bu Ying replied.

"You saw shopkeeper Chu die in front of your eyes, what are you doing at Chu's house?" I wondered.

"Make up for Lao Chu. I see his ghostly appearance, with rouge on his mouth, he must not look better than Lao Yan, but I don't know if it can scare Lao Quan and his soul away."

"Ah?" Ji Mingmei and I were stunned at the same time, and then we both realized, "It turns out that the rouge on Shopkeeper Yan's mouth was put on by you!"

"Hmm." Bu Ying shrugged and said, "How about it, isn't the workmanship good?"

"It turns out that you went in with Mrs. Yan just to do this. Mrs. Yan agreed with you to do this?"

"If she doesn't agree, she won't report to the Qi family - I asked her to go. Don't be surprised, Lao Yan died after being forced to accept a reduction in share, and this matter has nothing to do with the other four families. So I told her that I wanted to seek justice for Lao Yan, and she agreed. If Lao Qi and the others really captured Yanzhi Town after killing people, they should be a little flustered at the moment. Don't look at them in the mourning hall just now. Bringing this up is out of a guilty conscience."

It turns out that Bu Ying had thought of what we just said a long time ago, so he thought of using this to force the shopkeeper and others to show their feet.In this case, we followed him to Chu's house.Sure enough, he also copied what he did in Yan's house, asking Chu's family to put rouge on Shopkeeper Chu's body, and told them to report to Shopkeeper Qi and other people's homes after nightfall.

After leaving Chu's house, I wanted to ask him where he was going, but Bu Ying told us to go back first, saying that he wanted to take a stroll in the street by himself.I was very surprised to hear: "This is a street selling rouge, what do you want to shop?"

"Actually, I have always liked rouge." Bu Ying said bitterly, "When I was young, I hid in my room and painted myself secretly, and was beaten by my mother no less than three hundred times. Now I come to this rouge street to buy some rouge for myself What happened!"

He saw that the hairs on my back started to stand up, and I hurriedly said, "Go! Go!"

Bu Ying gave a "hmm", and suddenly said softly: "Then I'm going, you go back to the hotel first, do you want me to bring you something?"

I shivered, and hurriedly pulled Ji Mingmei away, without looking back: "No need, just buy what you like."

Bu Ying didn't respond.After walking a certain distance, Ji Mingmei suddenly stopped and grabbed me, saying: "Come on, let's follow him and see what he is going to do."

I swallowed, and said with difficulty: "Why don't you brothers and sisters buy rouge together, and I... I'll go back to the hotel by myself?"

"What rouge to buy!" Ji Mingmei poked my forehead with a finger, "His mother indeed beat him more than [-] times, but never because of rouge. He just said that just because he wanted to get rid of us and do something by ourselves. This person is mysterious, and there must be nothing good."

"Ah?" I opened my mouth wide and was stunned, it turned out that I was deceived by Bu Ying again.

"Hey, what are you thinking about?" Ji Mingmei said angrily.

"I was thinking, since Mrs. Bu is so skilled, why did she only beat him more than three hundred times?"

Bu Ying left us to act alone, and we were naturally annoyed, so we went back to find him.Fortunately, he hadn't gone far, and there were so many people on the street that he didn't notice us for a while.Sure enough, Bu Ying did not enter the shops along the street, but looked around all the way, as if he was looking for someone.

Not long after, he seemed to have found something, and suddenly walked to the side.We followed his figure, only to find that he stopped beside a beggar.The little beggar was sitting lazily on the ground with a disheveled face.I don't know what Bu Ying said to him, but the little beggar suddenly looked frightened and kowtowed to him, as if begging him to let him go.

Ji Mingmei and I were a little confused, could it be that Bu Ying was so poor that he was blackmailing the little beggar, so that little beggar kowtowed to him and begged to let him go?Bu Ying stretched out his hand to support the little beggar, and said a few words to him, and the little beggar obediently responded.Then Bu Ying straightened up and continued to walk down the street.

Along the way, he kept dealing with beggars on the street, as if he was asking for something.Indeed, beggars often know the local troubles best. It seems that Bu Ying is asking them about Qi and Yan Zhu's family, but for some reason they want to get rid of us.After asking some beggars, he continued to walk towards the end of the street, and suddenly walked into a rouge shop.

(End of this chapter)