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Chapter 21 Reasons

The king of kings was constantly rushing out.

He Lanbing hurriedly stopped Wang Yuanwai and said, "Prince, don't be anxious first. This matter must be discussed for a long time. Otherwise, not only will you not avenge Wang Qiang, but you may also have to take the lives of the two elders. You must know that the other party is an Eastern Factory!"

Wang Yuanwai shivered, and he was so impatient. After thinking about it carefully, He Lanbing was right. He should not be reckless, but he should think twice before acting. Then he fell down on the chair, holding the bloody clothes, and whimpering.

Situ Ce said: "Old man, how did Wang Qiang be taken away by Dongchang? Can you tell us? Maybe we can give you an idea."

"Are you..." Wang Yuanwai was still worried and looked at them with tears in his eyes.

He Lanbing said with a tight voice: "We are really Wang Qiang's friends. This morning we learned by chance from someone else that Wang Qiang was tortured to death in the East Factory, and his body was buried in the Lungou Gate outside the eastern suburbs of the city. So when I went to Lungou, I found a corpse, but it was beyond recognition. We recognized the clothes on him, so I came to tell you about this."

"That corpse is beyond recognition?" A glimmer of hope suddenly rose in the old woman's heart, "Maybe it's not our Qiang'er!"

Situ Ce sighed in his heart that he had already compared fingerprints, and he was sure that, and he had to dispel the idea of ​​the two elders so that they could ask the Jinyiwei to incite a fight in the nest and give Wang Qiang an explanation of his death.

Situ Ce suddenly remembered the dark scar that was suspected to be a birthmark found in the armpit that the deceased had not been injured during the autopsy. Without thinking, he said, "Your son Wang Qiang, has there ever been a birthmark under his right armpit?"

"Yes!" the two elders said in unison.

"That's it. Although the corpse buried in the Lungou in the east of the city was beyond recognition, the clothes were from Wang Qiang, and there was also a birthmark under his right armpit! It should be Wang Qiang, undoubtedly."

The light of hope in the eyes of the two elders dimmed.

Situ Ce sighed and said, "We also hope that this corpse is not Wang Qiang's. However, the news we received is very accurate. Wang Qiang was tortured and killed by Fanzi in the East Factory. Dongchang buried the corpse in a chasing trough. This news would not be wrong, otherwise we would not dare to rashly tell the two elders about such news."

The old woman's eyes were like a fire of hope fell into the water. She sneered and completely wiped out. She also sat on the stool with a depressed cry, and she asked with a sob: "Where is my son's bone buried in the chasm?"

Situ Ce explained in detail the specific location of the corpse burial.

He Lanbing said: "Old man, the matter has come to this point. How to avenge Wang Qiang's revenge is the main thing. We also believe in the injustice of Wang Qiang's death. Only by finding the real murderer to bring it to justice can Wang Qiang be justified. Otherwise, if he dies in vain, even if you recover his corpse now, you can't handle the funeral for him. So, let's think about what to do later."

The old woman nodded and said to the king: "Yes, master, they are right. We must not let Qiang'er die like this in vain! We must seek justice! These two are Qiang'er's friends, and they kindly come to report to us and help us out with ideas. What should we do?"

"What can I do? Dongchang! In Zhenhai County, the yamen cannot control them, so I can only go to the capital to file a lawsuit. What else can I do?"

Situ Ce said: "Old man, let me first talk about how Wang Qiang was captured by the Dongchang and what the crime was. Only then can we think about how to deal with it."

Speaking of this, Wang Yuanwai's eyes were about to spit out of fire. His skinny hands clenched the bloody clothes and said, "What's the point of not worrying about being punished! Dongchang forced the shit basin to my son's head! My son was so unfair..." As he said that, he began to cry again.

Helanbing and Situ Ce sat silently, without saying much.

Wang Yuanwai and the old woman finally stopped crying. Wang Yuanwai wiped his tears and whispered: "Two months ago, a few Dongchang newspapers came to my fur shop. They wanted to buy fur and said they wanted to make a credit. They often took credit in my shop. They had already sold fur for five or six hundred taels of silver. Although our business is relatively large, they always sold for credit like this. Even if it is a mountain of gold and silver, they still have to be emptied. What's more, they have to sell fur for one hundred taels of credit at a time. My son couldn't help but laugh and said, "Official, the store is small and profitable. Can you settle the previous debt first and then credit?" Unexpectedly, just this sentence will cause a huge disaster!"

He Lanbing said: "This is right. Five or six hundred taels of silver are sold for credit. No one can stand it. The account should be cancelled first and then credit. He cannot be unreasonable even if he East Factory."

"When did they make sense?" Wang Yuanwai said hatefully, "My son said this, and the leader later found out that it was a stubborn person. He sneered and threw the fur in his hand on the ground, turned around and left. The other swearers also cursed and followed him out. I realized that the momentum was wrong, so I quickly chased him to pay for it, saying it was okay, the old man from Dongchang went to the store to sell things in credit, which was worthy of us, even though it was credit. But the stub was just sneered, shook me away, and left."

Situ Ce said: "What is this first name?"

"I heard that everyone called him Liu Zhangtou, but I didn't know the name. He was thick and strong. By the way, the edges of one eye seemed to be rotten, and he cried in the wind."

"Well, you continue."

"After Liu Zhangtou and the others left, I always felt that the momentum was wrong, so I wanted my son to go out to hide for a few days, but my son didn't listen and said that he was not wrong. He was not afraid of the shadows and refused to go out to hide from the wind. Alas! He wanted to listen to me at that time, why did he..."

Speaking of the sadness, Mr. Wang sobbed and cried again. After a while, he gradually stopped. He continued: "The next day, my son and I were in the store. Two men rushed in, holding a fur in his hand, and hit my son's face. He cursed, saying that I bought this fur from my house. I found a worm when I took it back and found a hole. I was going to return it. I picked up the fur and looked at it. It was really my family. It was just a fur sold on credit in the East Factory. It was a top-notch product. There was no worm-eater at all. They were deliberately looking for trouble. I also recognized these two people as rogues on the street and had never offended them. I didn't know why I came to my house for bad luck."

Helanbing sneered: "It must have been sent by the East Factory."

"Yes! I guessed it at that time!" Wang Yuanwai said fiercely, "I was thinking of calming things and sacrificing money and eliminating disasters. So I agreed to return the goods and took ten taels of silver to them at the original price. Unexpectedly, they said that they gave them 1,000 taels of fur goods and asked us to pay him 1,000 taels! - How could there be a fur goods worth 1,000 taels? I took out all the fur goods in my stock, which was worth 1,000 taels! So I laughed and asked if they remembered it wrong. Unexpectedly, the rascal raised his hand and slapped me, making my teeth fall off and fell to the ground in a ditch. My son was so angry that he rushed to him to argue, but he was beaten up by both of them and smashed my shop. The fur goods were thrown into the ditch at the door and stepped on it."

Helanbing said angrily: "Why don't you report to the official?"
Chapter completed!
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