After Wang Yi killed Steward Yu, he returned and killed Mrs. Chen, and then walked to Qianjia's side. When Shen Ya saw it, she handed Qianjia who had fainted from crying into his arms, and then walked to a guard and whispered a few words.

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

The guard nodded, turned and disappeared into the night.

He Yan, the magistrate of Haicheng, was chatting with his wife in the back house, when he heard the official come to report that someone in the city had fired a gun, and not long after, he heard that someone had been killed. He Yi had no choice but to gather people and go to find out.

However, at this time, Master Lu blocked He Yan's way and said, "My lord, it's not too late to wait a while." ”

"Why?"

The two walked to the corner habitually, and Master Lu said in a low voice: "I have been rewarded just now, and the two sides of the accident are not small, on one side is the Yu family and the child butcher, and on the other side is the big businessman!" ”

The child butcher naturally couldn't go on the stage, but when he heard about the Yu family, He Zhixian was stunned, and when he heard about Dashang, his brain hurt. The Yu family is a family of eunuchs, and even he, the magistrate, has to retreat three points in Haicheng. And the big business...... I can't afford to mess with it!

"How could they come into conflict?" He Zhixian wondered, and said in his heart how the two families who couldn't beat the eight poles were still together.

"It is said that the child butcher wants to marry his daughter to the eldest young master of the Yu family, Chongxi."

"This has nothing to do with big business, right?" He Zhixian wondered.

"It's related, it's big...... Adults don't know! The daughter of the Tong family who married is a student of the affiliated school of Dashang, and she is the kind who has signed a full deed of sale, and she follows the chairman of Dashang on weekdays, but she is a red and purple character, within their group, it is simply a word, anyway, the major managers are stammering. This time, when the girl came back from school, she was also deceived by her family. Later, the girl's mother committed suicide by taking poison because she did not agree to the marriage. ”

He Zhixian gasped, thinking that this was a human life.

Master Lu continued: "The matter is not over yet, the big merchant sent someone to check on the situation at the girl's house, and the result is just in time for this incident!" You also know the bloody nature of those people, the housekeeper Yu who went to arrest people was destroyed by the people of Dashang with a gun on the spot, and the matchmaker Chen was also destroyed. Tong's family didn't fall well, the house was copied, not to mention, the house was ordered. ”

He Zhixian pinched his fingers, and these were three lives inside and out.

"So three people died?"

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

He Zhixian was startled and speechless for a while.

Haicheng, Yu family!

The mourning hall has been erected, a group of monks and Taoist lamas have begun to chant sutras to transcend the souls of the dead, and in front of the coffin sit two married women, one in her early fifties, with a majestic demeanor. Another woman was in her thirties, her eyes were red, and her face was frosty.

"Mother-in-law, this matter can't be left like this!" The young woman said indignantly. "They took my son's life!"

The middle-aged woman sighed and shook her head, but did not speak. Now that the Yu family has lost a man, her husband died in the battle with the Taiping Army, and the eldest son smoked cigarettes and died for three years, so it was easy to leave a grandson, but he was still a fool, and now he is also dead. The other rooms are pretending to be sad on the surface, but in fact, they also have their own plans in their hearts. The only hope is in his second son, but the other party is a big businessman, and others don't know the strength of big business, don't you know it yourself?

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

"I can't move!" The woman finally spoke. "In the past two years, you have also started to take care of the housekeeper, we have contacts with several other families around, not to mention anything else, just the Zhang family in the nearby Octagonal Terrace, we are difficult to deal with, if you count the entanglement of interests behind the entire big business. Last year, General Chongshi of Shengjing was angry with the 200,000 taels of silver, who didn't know that it was the hands and feet of the big merchant insurance team. But who dares to say more, talk about it? ”

"Mother-in-law!"

The middle-aged woman shook her head and said, "It only took nearly a thousand people to destroy the entire Wanjia kiln, and the officials and soldiers have no such ability." However, the big merchants are different from the long-haired thieves, they do not touch the interests of most of the big households, unless there are mines on the land, but even so, they generally do not use the most drastic means, on the contrary, they continue to distribute the benefits. ”

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

"Dashang is not terrible, what is terrible is the person behind him!"

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

"If the big merchants kill the landlords and divide the land like the long-haired thieves, they can indeed win the support of the peasants and the common people, but on the other hand, do not forget that the present era is different from the past, and the peasants cannot produce muskets and artillery, but rely on muskets and artillery to fight. In front of muskets and artillery, no amount of peasant soldiers is just prey to be slaughtered. Where can muskets and artillery be made? It's a big factory, but after all, it needs people inside. If you use the long-haired thief, with the people's attachment to the land, and Mukden itself is so vast and sparsely populated. Even if there are countless machinery and equipment, who will help him work, who will start the work!? ”

"So, we, the big families, are helping him?"

The middle-aged woman looked at her daughter-in-law and said, "What if you don't help?" This is not the time of the Holy Grandfather. If we can close ourselves off, if we want to clean up the big merchants at that time, as long as we unite and divide the land, the big merchants will have no way out. But now...... Even if the Great Merchants collapse, there will be a second Great Shang, and even if the Great Merchants of the Qing Dynasty die, there will still be the Great Merchants of foreigners who will be established. At that time, we will no longer be sharers of benefits, but slaves of foreigners. ”

When the young woman heard this, she looked at her mother-in-law in shock. Although she has taken over the family business for a few years, the word mother-in-law is far from the power and deterrence of the past, and the woman even thought that she was ten million times better than her husband and mother, but now it seems that the mother-in-law sees herself thoroughly, 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 farther Lushun, Kaiyuan, Dandong, Chaoyang, now most families have chosen to cooperate with big businessmen, it is precisely because they see the current shape clearly, just by farming, we can't live, and foreigners won't let us live." And those families who can't be seen, even if the big merchants don't clean them up, the nearby families will gradually swallow them up after they develop with the help of the big merchants. ”

"What does my mother-in-law mean? Forget it? ”

The middle-aged woman looked at her daughter-in-law, then slowly stood up, walked up to her, and reached out to gently stroke her hair. He said softly: "Over the years, I know that our Yu family has treated you badly, my son is not angry, smokes a lot, plays with women, and it is easy to have a round room with you, and because his body is poisoned by big smoke, he is still a fool to have a child." ”

When the young woman heard this, she seemed to open up the painful past of many years at once, and began to cry aloud.

"But you shouldn't be angry at the big businessman, that girl is a big businessman, we rob people, where to go to the lawsuit, we don't care...... Putting this stubble aside, even if the girl really came to my grandson to rejoice, in fact, you and I also know in our hearts that the grandson's illness came from his father's body poison, which can be described as terminally ill and blind. ”

The young woman shook her head, speechless.

"If you want to hate, hate my son! He was the one who killed my grandson! If you want to hate, hate the 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 knows that you are depressed in your heart, and it is up to you. But big business is different! Once we do it to them, whether we kill them or not, our Yu family will be buried with them. If this continues, I am not only sorry for your dead father-in-law, but also for your husband and son. ”

The next day, when Wang Yi left Haicheng with Shen Yazhi, Tong Qianjia, and the remains of Qianjia's mother, Haicheng Magistrate He Yi and that Master Lu all breathed a sigh of relief. Contrary to everyone's expectations, this case was finally handled as a fire case, and a few gunshots were said to be the sound of firecrackers in the fire, as for the dead housekeeper Yu and Mrs. Chen, they naturally died in the fire of Tong's house. The Tong family and Chen Miao's mother-in-law have disappeared without a trace since then, some people say that they were ordered by the magistrate to exterminate their mouths, and some people say that they were sent to Nanyang.

Qianjia didn't care about the whereabouts of the child butcher at all, although she was saddened by her mother's death, but after a period of time, she finally walked out accompanied by Wang Yi and Shen Yazhi, and her life returned to the joy and laughter of the past.

However, there was one thing that Wang Yi expected, that is, the Yu family took the initiative to apologize afterwards and donated a large piece of land in Gongchangling, so as to ease the tension with the big merchants. Later, the middle-aged woman of the Yu family came to apologize to Qianjia in person, and Wang Yi withdrew the arrangement of the secret knife in Haicheng City, and finally did not do anything to the Yu family. Since then, the mother-in-law of the Yu family has also taken advantage of the relationship with Dashang, although the two sides are not allies, but they have also begun to cooperate in some business. While earning a large amount of silver taels, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law of the Yu family also took advantage of the cooperation with the big merchants to keep the position of the main family. The head of the Yu family was inherited by the second son of the Yu family's mother-in-law, and he lived a stable life.

Time is in a blink of an eye for the Spring Festival, and Shen Yatou is talking to Qianjia about a strange case that shook the Qing Dynasty last year - the unjust case between Yang Naiwu and Ge Bi. Wang Yiyi didn't know who Ge Bishi was at first, but when he heard Yang Naiwu, he realized that Ge Bishi was a little cabbage.

It feels quite amazing, I watched the ten major tortures of the Manchu Qing Dynasty starring Sister Weng Hong and Wu Qihua back then, and now I still think about it. Wang Yi even maliciously came up with an impulse, he really wanted to catch the little cabbage and see if the deity was as good as his name.

Of course, he just thought about it and forgot about it.