After being reborn, she became the richest man without being a queen

Chapter 171

"Thank you Er Niangzi for taking care of me these past few months." Kuangye cupped his fists and saluted, and said, "It's just that I have to go back to the Escort Bureau to make a living by myself, otherwise I would eat and drink for free with Er Niangzi, wouldn't I be taking advantage of my benefactor?"

"Uncle Kuang doesn't need to care about these little things." Shen Qingling got up and walked over, saying, "Brother Shao will leave Yangzhou in a few days, and there will be no one guarding the Shen family's house by then. It just so happens that Uncle Kuang can stay here." Doesn’t it make up for Brother Shao’s shortcomings?”

Shen Qingling's insistence on persuading him to stay, in the end, still moved the wilderness.

It's just that he made an appointment with Shen Qingling, and Shen Qingling would pay him monthly salary from the ordinary nursing home, and when he got the money, he would pay Ping Niang for housing and food.

"No, no, no." Ping Niang stood at the door at some point, and hurriedly waved her hands, "Oh, what's the matter, the house at home is empty and empty, what a big deal."

But the wilderness said solemnly: "Small water flows long, my wife is a gift of regeneration to me. If I rely on my daughter, I will brazenly disturb her for a long time. Wouldn't it be a wolf? I stay because I hope to share my worries."

Hearing that her father agreed to stay, Yuxiang was naturally grateful, and immediately knelt down and kowtowed to Shen Qingling.

Shen Qingling quickly helped Yuxiang up, and said dumbfoundingly: "I said before that I didn't treat you like slaves, it's true, do you think I have asked you to serve me recently? I bought a lot of maidservants at home, you and Yingxiu is different from them, you are sisters who can live and die with me, share joys and sorrows."

"How can this servant bear the importance of Er Niangzi?" Yuxiang's tears flowed down her cheeks.

"Of course I deserve it." Shen Qingling wiped her tears, and gently joked: "I said you are my sisters, but I am not talking nonsense, maybe you have gone through hardships with me in the previous life?"

Yuxiang pouted, laughing so much that her nose was bubbling.

About Shaoying's going to the Yellow River, Shen Qingling chatted with him for a while behind him, and finally decided to leave in three days.

On the day when Shaoying left, Shen Qingling specially hosted a banquet in Huai'an Pavilion, and waived the meal fees for the guests in Huai'an Pavilion. I shed tears several times.

However, as soon as Shaoying left, something happened in Yangzhou.

No, it's not actually an accident in Yangzhou, but an accident on Huainan Road.

An Yiwen was found hanged at home on Huainan Road.

The rest of the people in Anfu are alive and well, but no one knows the inside story, let alone the servants.

With such a big murder case, Ren Bingyi, the magistrate of Yangzhou, was of course very busy, but An Yiwen's death was just the beginning.

In the following days, officials on Huainan Road hanged 12 people in total. All of them were wives and concubines whose hands and feet were cut off. These people had no connection with each other, and some of them had never even met each other.

Originally, this matter had nothing to do with Shen Qingling.

Who knows who died last, it was Zhao Yi.

And Zhao Yi hanged himself with his belt in the private room on the third floor of Huai'an Pavilion after Shen Qingling invited him.His wife also disappeared in Yangzhou City, and one of his two children died.

Not that the murderer was kind.

It was Zhao Yi's youngest son who was also taken to the Huai'an Pavilion that day, and Ping Niang was holding him on his behalf, so he survived.

Most importantly, Zhao Yi was the only one among the hanged officials who died outside his home.

Although Shen Qingling was not suspected, she had to pay attention to her case. After all, if the case was not solved, her Huai'an Pavilion was affected by the murder case, and her business would not improve for a day.

"This child cries all the time..." Ren Shaochun covered his ears, squatted on the chair on Shen Qingling's right side, and stared sideways at Man'er in Pingniang's arms, "Are you hungry or tired? Take Pingniang with you, make a noise." It hurts my brain."

"Just stay here." Shen Qingling stopped writing and looked up at Ren Shaochun, saying: "Instead of letting Man'er go out, Shaochun you go out."

Ren Shaochun stared with his hips on his hips, and said dissatisfiedly: "I came here specially to help you. I passed by your Huai'an Pavilion No. [-] today, only to find that the business of the restaurant is so poor. There are so few people there!"

After hearing this, Ping Niang sighed, and explained: "It's not only because of Zhao Tong's death, but also rumors spread in the city that the murderer is a flower picker and has taken a fancy to the wives and concubines of these adults' families." , that’s why he took such a ruthless hand.”

Wow--

Man'er opened his mouth and wailed loudly.

Seeing her distressed, Ping Niang hurriedly hugged her up, paced back and forth in the room, carefully shaking her, and managed to coax Man'er.

"Most of the victims didn't know each other, they didn't connect with each other, and they didn't seem to have any similarities." Shen Qingling looked at the information on the deceased that she wrote down, and analyzed while thinking: "It's like serial murder, but it's more like a serial murder. It was a random murder."

"Random murder can't be done by kidnapping wives and concubines and cutting off the hands and feet of the heirs, right?" Ren Shaochun followed suit and began to think.

Children can be taught.

Shen Qingling cast admiring glances at Ren Shaochun, and then continued: "If it's a serial murder, then there must be something in common between these fourteen people that we haven't discovered so far. If it's just a random murder, then the murderer's ability Not unusual."

They are all government officials.

Even like Zhao Yi, who was born as a real general, it would be difficult for ordinary people to get close to him, let alone attack him.

Under such circumstances, the murderer could commit fourteen consecutive crimes without leaving any clues, which at least shows that the murderer's skills are better than ordinary generals.

"There are two other possibilities." Shen Qingling stretched out two fingers.

Ren Shaochun looked up at her and listened attentively.

"Either these murders were committed by different people, who deliberately imitated the former in order to achieve the purpose of confusion."

"Either among these fourteen people, there is only one person that the murderer wanted to kill. The reason why he committed fourteen consecutive crimes is to obscure his unique purpose of killing."

Hearing Shen Qingling's words, Ren Shaochun's eyes widened.

"Listening to Er Niangzi's words is like listening to ten years of sage books." He smiled and flattered.

dong dong dong.

There were hurried footsteps outside.

Yingxiu trotted into the study room, handed a blood-stained letter to Shen Qingling's case, her face was a little pale, "Second lady, just now the concierge said that someone lost the letter and ran away... Could it be... ..."

Could it be the murderer who came to the door?
Man'er is still at home!

"Relax." Shen Qingling patted Yingxiu's head, and said softly: "Soldiers come to block, water comes to cover up, I don't believe that a bandit can break into my Shen family compound? There are two more in the courtyard The cub is watching the wind."

Whoops!

Humph!

As if to prove Shen Qingling's words, Du Feng and Jun Yin, who were boxing in the courtyard, yelled loudly, punching vigorously.

(End of this chapter)