Hearing that Chu Zhi had gone to that fox spirit Qu Wannang’s place again, and that they were sitting around the table, eating together and talking happily, the unease and panic in Liu Shi’s heart gradually expanded.
Was that wild child, who was eyeing her property, going to join forces with the fox spirit to dig a hole for her?
Chu Zheng, the old dog, probably wouldn’t care about her, listening to the wind at his ear.
Thinking carefully about these things, Liu Shi’s palms were covered with a layer of sweat.
“Tao Mama, go and call Zhang Qing.”
Zhang Qing was the manager of her shop. When she married Chu Zheng, her family gave her two shops as dowry, which were not in the capital at that time.
After buying an official for Chu Zheng and transferring him to the capital, she sold the two shops in other places and bought one in the capital.
Then she bought a manor outside the city. These things were firmly held in Liu Shi’s hands.
Zhang Qing arrived quickly, and Liu Shi dismissed everyone, her face pale and gloomy.
“Can you find something on the market that can kill people from a hundred steps away without seeing blood?”
Zhang Qing wasn’t surprised. He had done a lot of dirty work for Liu Shi over the years.
The earliest was to keep an eye on Chu Zheng to see if he was secretly looking for women outside; later, it was to deal with the pretty maids who were killed in the mansion; and recently, he was asked to buy a lot of poison that sealed the throat with blood.
“This little one will look for it in the black market, and I will definitely find it. It’s just that the price…”
Liu Shi snorted, “Price is not a problem, as long as it’s easy to use.”
In fact, she knew in her heart that Zhang Qing said this because he was hiding his intention to report false accounts and embezzle money. After all, this was a matter of life and death, and if it happened, no one would survive.
So she would turn a blind eye to his request for benefits.
“Look for an antidote too, the kind that can cure a hundred kinds of poisons, and has immediate effect.” She wanted to protect herself.
“Yes.”
After explaining these things, Zhang Qing left, and Liu Shi supported her forehead and closed her eyes, originally just closing her eyes to rest, but she fell asleep vaguely.
In the dim light, a woman with disheveled hair appeared. Her lower body was bleeding, staining her legs red, but she pounced on her with her teeth and claws.
“Give me back my child!!”
She screamed sharply, as if she wanted to swallow her alive.
That face was exactly the same as Chu Zhi!
“Get out!”
Liu Shi screamed and dodged back.
She opened her eyes and realized that she was dreaming, but her heart was pounding.
That woman… Chu Zhi’s biological mother.
It had been sixteen years, and she had actually forgotten what the woman looked like. But after Chu Zhi came back, she remembered everything the moment she saw her face.
That woman was gentle and detached, and the place she liked to go to with her pregnant belly was the bookstore.
The books she bought were particularly obscure and difficult to understand, which she, who came from a merchant family, couldn’t understand even if she spent her whole life.
She hated that kind of person the most, but she also envied them.
And through the books she bought, she knew that she should have come from an extraordinary background, but she didn’t know why she was secretly raised in a place like Yelin Town.
Also, the poison that Tao Mama stuffed into her mouth when she was weak after giving birth was much stronger than the poison bought in the capital.
Did she die?
The more she thought about it, the colder Liu Shi’s back of her neck became!
Zhang Qing came and went, and Chu Qiaoqiao, who was not very noticeable in the third family, monitored the whole process.
The ten-year-old girl looked like a mole.
“Dad, Mom, that Zhang Qing came and went, with a sinister face and a calculating look, he is probably going to help aunt do evil again.
After my brother came back yesterday, he told us so many things, I think we can’t help but guard against it, who knows who she is going to harm.”
Zhao Shi covered her mouth and coughed twice, and looked at her husband Chu Rong. Neither of them were the kind of people who had ideas.
Or rather, the brains of the whole family added together were not as flexible as Chu Qiaoqiao’s, because the earliest thing that Liu Shi killed a pretty maid was discovered by Chu Qiaoqiao, who was only six years old.
Seeing that her parents couldn’t come up with an idea, Chu Qiaoqiao sighed speechlessly, “My brother said that big sister is the most powerful and big brother-in-law is the most ruthless, but they don’t bully unrelated people.
Chu Zixing wanted to harm my brother, but big sister and big brother-in-law saved him. You must be grateful and hold on to a strong thigh to prevent our family from being wiped out by villains.
So I decided to work with my brother to be big sister’s eyes and ears. I want to tell her what happened today.”
Chu Rong and Zhao Shi looked at her, “How are you going to tell her? Does the eldest girl know you? Why not wait for your brother to come back and let him go?”
“I have long legs and can run over there; I have a mouth and can introduce myself; my brother… is not as good as me at being a little spy.”
Chu Qiaoqiao did what she said, and ran away with her maid and old woman.
Zhao Shi sighed, “Ever since Qiaoqiao knew that sister-in-law killed the maid, I have been worried and scared all day long, telling our family to be honest. Who would have thought that the second brother and second sister-in-law would have murderous intentions again, and Chengcai almost…
Husband, we should think of a way. The children are right, find a backer. Our two old lives are worthless, but the children can’t have an accident.”
Chu Rong was the type who couldn’t even get a fart out of three sticks.
He glanced at the seven-year-old youngest son who was taking a nap in the compartment, and nodded, indicating that he was listening to Zhao Shi.
In the city, Chu Zhi, who originally just wanted to eat along the way, was coaxed by Lu Qiu and Qingzhi to the Suning Guard.
The huge mansion had an overall dark tone, exuding a taste of eating people without spitting out bones.
Ordinary people didn’t approach here, and even the nobles in the capital didn’t approach. Who knew if they would be pulled in by the hawks and dogs here and have a few crimes pinned on them at will.
They would go in whole and come out in bags.
“What do you mean by pulling me here?”
“Hehe, this subordinate said that Madam has high martial arts skills, and many brothers don’t believe it, so I invited Madam to show them some color.”
Qingzhi smiled sheepishly.
“Let them know that the difference between you and me is twenty of you, and you won’t feel embarrassed, right?”
Qingzhi choked, “Please don’t say that, Madam. Actually, it’s about the Black Robe Sect. The investigation has been particularly difficult recently. A large number of people have been caught, but they are all small fries.
The criminal officer has used all his abilities, but he hasn’t dug up any very useful clues.
Don’t you have connections in the Jianghu? Help me.”
“…”
Her casual sentence about Jianghu connections had miserably fooled Qingzhi.
They even started asking her for help in searching for evil cult bandits.
Chu Zhi really wanted to expose this lie and tell him the truth, but looking at his eyes that seemed to be about to cry at any time…
Well, if he really cried at this door, where would he put his face?
After entering the mansion, she directly asked Qingzhi to bring the map of the capital’s neighborhoods.
Except for the imperial city area, each neighborhood had different fixed market points. Normal things were traded in these, and abnormal things were also mixed in.
Especially things that the government didn’t allow were hidden deeper and the prices were higher.
“Enter the market and first look for the spice shop, block the front and back doors, and shout ‘Damn you, Unborn Mother’, and anyone who glares at you will be arrested without exception.”
The Suning Guard, who were surrounded in three layers and out, were speechless.