Chapter 9: Escape
The Meng family shops in the county town have all changed hands.
Although Meng Hao killed the culprit who killed her father and mother, all the deeds that Patriarch Meng got back before his death were legally valid.
Similarly, because he was in cahoots with him, he got the largest shop in Meng Qingze's house as a reward from him, and the deed paper in his hand was also legally valid.
When Meng Hao entered the city again after killing those homeless people, the grocery store that originally belonged to her father had already been transformed into the private property of the king's shopkeeper.
Meng Zhen had expected this, she didn't come to the shopkeeper Wang to get the shop back this time, she came to make this scum who betrayed her father pay for her blood debt.
However, what she didn't expect was that the shopkeeper Wang was not in the county seat at all.
Meng Zhen knew where the shopkeeper Wang's family lived, and she also knew which shop the shopkeeper had been working in her family, and even she investigated which tavern the shopkeeper liked to drink two sips of the house and which teahouse she liked to listen to people's stories the most, but she couldn't find the shopkeeper Wang in these places.
The strangest thing is that the family of the shopkeeper Wang never mentioned where the shopkeeper went to the king.
Meng Hao squatted in Wang's house for three days in a row and couldn't get any news, which made her very irritable.
Just when she began to think about whether she should arrest the mother-in-law or son of the shopkeeper Wang and torture him, the mother-in-law of the shopkeeper Wang, Han Shi, finally couldn't control her worries about the shopkeeper Wang.
It was the fourth night Meng Hao had spent on the beams of her house, and the family was about to go back to the house to wash and sleep, but Han suddenly called his son to her and the king's bedroom.
"Ah, you said that your father and he..."
Wang Wanyou, the only son of the king's shopkeeper, shouted in a low voice, "Mother! ”
Han's face was scornful, "Ah You, my mother is also worried about your father, after all, he is..."
"Mother!" Wang Wanyou was really annoyed now, he opened the window and looked around, for fear that there would be strangers in the courtyard who were eavesdropping on them.
Han felt that his son was a little too cautious, but thinking of what her husband said to her and her son before leaving home, Han still didn't dare to declare his dissatisfaction with his son's "fuss".
The shopkeeper Wang was a personal elf, and all the adult men in the Meng patriarch's family were either killed or disappeared, which made the shopkeeper Wang very frightened.
He had sent his men to confirm that the outcasts were alive as soon as he received the news, and when he heard that the outcasts had all turned to ashes and bones, he realized almost immediately that he too would be hunted down.
Like the Meng family, Shopkeeper Wang didn't know that Meng Zhen was extremely powerful and had already learned martial arts, but Shopkeeper Wang knew that Meng Qingze had a good relationship with Yan Zhenwu, so in Shopkeeper Wang's speculation, Yan Zhenwu became the real culprit behind the killing of Patriarch Meng and others.
Speculating on the "truth of the matter", the shopkeeper Wang regretted that his intestines were green - although the money was good, the premise was that he had to have his life to enjoy it.
If his life is gone, what will he do with all the plans to seize the property of the owner? Do you keep the paper money?
In the midst of the tide of remorse and fear, the shopkeeper Wang, who had been completely overwhelmed by negative emotions, made a major decision - to escape.
He handed over the grocery store he had just arrived at to his only son Wang Wanyou, not that he didn't want to run away with his son, but that he felt that "Yan Zhenwu" should not kill Wang Wanyou.
After all, "Yan Zhenwu" did not kill all the Meng family, and those who were killed by "him" were all involved in the murder of Meng Qingze's family.
The shopkeeper Wang couldn't afford to get the shop he had so much to do, so he decided to take a gamble.
If "Yan Zhenwu" did not stretch out the butcher's knife to Wang Wanyou's neck as he expected, then he would have picked up a shop for nothing.
If "Yan Zhenwu" decided to let Wang Wanyou "repay his father's debts and sons" because he slipped away, then he would only lose his personal wealth at most.
He is still young, and his son can still have another life, but the shop is not so easy to get.
The desire for the shop overcame his meager paternal love for his son, and the shopkeeper Wang finally left his only son in Ninghai County with a fluke mentality.
Wang Wanyou knew that his father actually had other ideas, because the shopkeeper Wang had always treated him well, and he was the only son of the shopkeeper Wang, so he thought that the shopkeeper was really planning for him wholeheartedly.
He obediently followed the instructions of the king's shopkeeper, pretending that nothing had happened, and never mentioning the whereabouts of the king's shopkeeper, as if there had never been a king's shopkeeper in their house.
However, Han knew Wang Wanyou better than Wang Wanyou.
Wang shopkeeper is an orphan, because of famine, war, he lost all his relatives, after coming to Ninghai County, he was bought by Meng Qingze's father home, to Meng Qingze as a scholar.
The Meng family is a family of benevolence, and the shopkeeper Wang lived a good life with rich food and clothing in the Meng family, and when he grew up, the Meng family married him to the Han family as a daughter-in-law.
Han is also an orphan who lost her relatives due to famine and war, she was originally a second-class maid who served beside Mrs. Meng, although she didn't know a few big characters, but she was handsome and diligent.
After the shopkeeper Wang married Han, Mrs. Meng let him out and became a guy in the shop.
Later, Meng Qingze took over from Mrs. Meng, and the shopkeeper Wang was soon slowly promoted by Meng Qingze to become the warehouse manager in the shop.
Later, with his own efforts and Meng Qingze's trust, the shopkeeper Wang gradually became a small shopkeeper and a big shopkeeper.
At that time, he had not yet taken over the Meng family's best grocery store, but he had already begun to treat himself as a character, not only was Han's nose not nose and eyes not eyes at home when he didn't know a few big characters, but he also learned from those rich squires who had fierce wives to secretly raise an outer room.
Meng Qingze and his family didn't know about these things, and the shopkeeper didn't dare to let them know, because the reason why he raised the outer room was that he was afraid that the concubine would be suspected by Meng Qingze of the origin of the money.
But Han, as his wife, knew these things, and she was able to make the shopkeeper Wang take care of her at the beginning, also because she threatened the shopkeeper Wang with Meng Qingze's two sons.
The shopkeeper Wang was afraid that she would go back to the Meng family to complain, so that he would lose Meng Qingze's trust and the position of the big shopkeeper, and Han was also afraid that her husband would really be rejected by the master's family, so after the shopkeeper Wang performed a "prodigal son turned back", Han did not continue to hold on to this matter.
Over the years, she and the shopkeeper Wang seem to be in harmony as husband and wife, but in fact, the shopkeeper has always been disgusted with her, otherwise she would not have been able to give birth to a son and a half daughter for the shopkeeper for so many years.
The days of sharing the same bed and different dreams have been too long, and the Han family has a kind of subconscious distrust and distrust of the shopkeeper Wang.
This is also why even with the repeated advice of the shopkeeper Wang, Han still couldn't hold back his desire to speak.