After Wang Yi killed Butler Yu, he turned around and killed matchmaker Chen again, and then walked to Qianjia. When Chen Yatou saw it, she handed Qianjia, who had fainted from crying, into his arms, then walked to a guard and lowered her ears.

"Go and call the base and get Wu Xiao ready!"

The guard nodded and turned around and disappeared into the night.

The magistrate of Haicheng, He Jie, was chatting with his wife at the back house. Suddenly, he heard the yamen runners coming to report that someone fired a gun in the city. Soon after, he heard that someone had killed someone. He Jie had no choice but to summon people and go to find out.

However, Master Lu blocked He Jie's way and said, "Sir, it's not too late to go later."

“Why?”

The two of them walked to the corner habitually, and Master Lu whispered: "I have received the reward just now. Both parties who were involved in the accident are of great origin. On one side are the Yu family and the Tong butcher, and on the other side are the Da Shang!"

Naturally, the butcher of the children was not allowed to go to the table, but when he heard the Yu family, he was stunned. When he heard the Da Shang family, he felt a little sad. The Yu family was a family of officials, and even he, the magistrate, had to give in to him, three points in Haicheng. And Da Shang... he couldn't afford to offend himself!

"How could they have a conflict?" He Magistrate He wondered, thinking that the two families who were indisputable were still getting together.

"It is said that the butcher of the boy wanted to marry his daughter to the eldest son of the Yu family to celebrate the joy."

"This has nothing to do with Da Shang?" County Magistrate He wondered.

"It's a big deal, it's a big deal... Adults don't know! The married Tong family daughter is a student from the Dashang school, and she signed a full contract to sell her body. She is always with the chairman of Dashang, but she is a very popular figure. In their group, it's just a matter of the same. Anyway, the major managers are just cursing her. This time the girl came back from school and was deceived by her family. Later, the girl's mother committed suicide by taking poison because she didn't agree to the marriage."

County Magistrate He took a breath and thought to himself that this was a life.

Master Lu continued, "The matter is not over yet. Da Shang sent someone to check the girl's house, but it happened to be the case! You also know the blood of those people. The Butler Yu who went to arrest the person was broken by Da Shang's gun on the spot. The matchmaker Chen was also killed. The Tong family did not fall behind. Not only did the family be confiscated, but the house was lit."

County Magistrate He calculated that these are three lives inside and outside.

"That's what happened to three people?"

Master Lu shook his head and sighed, "Four! Just half an hour ago, the eldest son of the Yu family died."

Magistrate He was shocked and could not speak for a long time.

Haicheng, Yu family!

The mourning hall has been set up, and a group of monks, Taoists and lamas have begun to recite scriptures to save the dead souls. Two married women sat in front of the coffin. One woman was in her early fifties and had a majestic demeanor. The other woman was in her thirties, with red eyes and frosty face.

"Mother-in-law, you can't just let it go!" the young woman said in grief. "They took my son's life!"

The middle-aged woman sighed, shook her head, but didn't say anything. Now the eldest son of the Yu family has lost a man. Her husband died in the battle with the Taiping Army. Her eldest son died of smoking big cigarettes for three years. She finally left a grandson, but she was still a fool. Now she is also angry. The other couples pretended to be sad on the surface, but in fact they had their own plans in their hearts. The only hope lies with their second son, but the other party is a big Shang. Others don't know the strength of the big Shang, don't you still know it?

"Mother-in-law, what are you still hesitating..." the young woman cried.

"You can't move!" The woman finally spoke. "In the past two years, you have also started to butlers. We have had contacts with other companies around us. Not to mention anything else, we are just unable to deal with the Zhang family in the nearby Bajiaotai. If we include the entanglement of interests behind the entire Da Shang, it will be cut off the way for people and wealth. Last year, General Chongshi, Shengjing, was angry to death, who doesn't know that the Da Shang Insurance Team was the move. But who dares to say one more and discuss it?"

"Mother-in-law!"

The middle-aged woman shook her head and said, "It took only nearly a thousand people to destroy the entire Wanjia Kiln. No official army has such ability. However, the big merchants and the long-haired thieves. They did not touch the interests of most of the big families unless there was a mine on the land. Even so, they generally did not use the most intense means. On the contrary, they continued to distribute their interests."

"Mother-in-law, do you mean?"

"Da Shang is not scary, what is scary is the person who controls him!"

"Mother-in-law, I don't understand."

"If the Da Shang killed the landlords and divided the land like the thieves, they could indeed win the support of the peasants and the people, but on the other hand, don't forget that the current era is different from before. The farmers cannot make muskets and artillery, but in the face of war, they rely on muskets and artillery. In front of muskets and artillery, no matter how many peasant soldiers are, they are just prey to be slaughtered. Where can we build muskets and artillery? Large factories, but people are needed in the end. If the people's attachment to the land, and Fengtian itself is so vast and sparsely populated, even if there are countless mechanical equipment, who will help him work and who will start working!?"

"So, are we rich families helping him?"

The middle-aged woman looked at her daughter-in-law and said, "What if I don't help? This is not the time of the Holy Master. If I can stay in seclusion, if I want to deal with the big merchants at that time, as long as we unite and distribute the land, the big merchants will have no way out. But now... even if the big merchants collapse, there will be a second big merchant. Even if the big merchants of the Qing Dynasty die, there will be a big merchants from foreigners. By then, we will not be the sharers of interests, but the slaves of the foreigners."

After hearing this, the young woman looked at her mother-in-law in shock. Although she had been taking over the housekeeping business for several years, the word "Mother-in-law" was far less powerful and intimidating than before. The woman even thought that she was far better than her husband and mother, but now it seems that her mother-in-law sees herself thoroughly, and she just doesn't want to fight.

The middle-aged woman looked at her daughter-in-law and said leisurely: "Yingkou, Dashiqiao, Haicheng, Panshan, Anshan, Liaoyang, Shengjing, and even further away from Lushun, Kaiyuan, Dandong, Chaoyang. Now most families have chosen to cooperate with Dashang. It is precisely because they have seen the current situation clearly that we cannot survive by farming alone, and foreigners will not let us survive. And those families who cannot be ignored, even if Dashang does not deal with them, the nearby families will gradually annex them after they develop with the help of Dashang."

"That's what my mother-in-law wants? Let's forget about this?"

The middle-aged woman looked at her daughter-in-law, then slowly stood up, walked to her, reached out to caress her hair, and gently stroked her hair. She said softly: "I know that our Yu family has treated you badly over the years. My son is not good at doing anything, smoking big cigarettes, playing with women, and finally getting married with you, but because of the smoke, she is still a fool to have a baby."

When the young woman heard this, she seemed to have suddenly opened up the painful past for many years and burst into tears.

"But you shouldn't be striking at Da Shang. The girl is a Da Shang family. We snatch people and go to sue, we will ignore it... Let's not talk about this, even if the girl really comes to cheer for my grandson, you and I know in our hearts that my grandson's illness was from the poison of his father. It can be said that the disease became blind. Many miraculous doctors asked for it said that there is no medicine to cure it. Could it be that a girl can really get rid of it?"

The young woman shook her head and couldn't speak.

"If you want to hate, you hate my son! He killed my grandson! If you want to hate, you hate foreigners. It was the smoke they brought that killed my good son."

"Mother-in-law!"

"If you kill an ordinary family, your mother-in-law will know that you are depressed and will let you do it. But Da Shang is different! Once you attack them, no matter whether you are beaten to death or not, our Yu family will be buried with you. If this continues, I will not only be sorry for your dead father-in-law, but also for your husband and son."

The next day, when Wang Yi left Haicheng with Chen Yazhi, Tong Qianjia, and Qianjia's mother's body, Haicheng magistrate He Jian and the Master Lu both breathed a sigh of relief. As far as everyone expected, the case was finally dealt with as the firecrackers. Several gunshots were said to be the sound of firecrackers in the fire. As for the dead Butler Yu and Chen's matchmaker, they naturally died in the Tong family fire. The Tong family and Chen's matchmaker's family disappeared without a trace since then. Some said that they were ordered to be exterminated by the magistrate, and some said that they were sent to Nanyang.

Qianjia didn't care about the whereabouts of the child butcher. Although she was very sad about her mother's death, after a while, she finally came out with Wang Yi and Shen Yazhi's company, and her life returned to the laughter and joy of the past.

However, one thing was beyond Wang Yi's expectations, that was, the Yu family took the initiative to apologize and donated a large area of ​​land in Gongchangling to ease the tension with Dashang. Later, the middle-aged woman from the Yu family came to apologize to Qianjia in person, and Wang Yi then withdrew the arrangement of the Dashao in Haicheng City and finally did not take action against the Yu family. From then on, the Yu family's mother-in-law also occupied the relationship with Dashang. Although both sides could not be allies, they also began to cooperate with some businesses. While the Yu family's mother-in-law earned a large amount of silver, they also took advantage of the cooperation with Dashang to maintain the position of the master's family. The head of the Yu family was inherited by the second son of the Yu family's mother-in-law, and it was considered a stable life.

In the blink of an eye, the Spring Festival is coming. Chen Yatou is talking to Qianjia about a strange case that shocked the Qing Dynasty last year - the unjust case between Yang Naiwu and Gebi. Wang Qichu didn't know who Gebi was, but later when he heard about Yang Naiwu, he realized that Gebi was Xiao Baicai.

It feels quite wonderful. When I saw the top ten tortures of the Qing Dynasty starring Weng Hong and Wu Qihua, I still think about it now. Wang Yi even maliciously made an impulse. He wanted to catch Xiao Baicai and see if he was as famous as he was.

Of course, he just thought about this and then forgot about it.
Chapter completed!