Chapter 89
Erya glanced outside, just as her mother came in.Probably because Jian and Qing ordered two plates of meat and vegetables, which were worth the money. In addition, they happened to live in Mrs. An's house. If they were happy with the meal, the two bachelors might use their shop as a kitchen in the future.

Er Ya Niang began to tell them about the filial piety of the families in Renchi Lane. "Speaking of Mrs. An's family, our family used to have the facade of our house. After Lao An died, she was the only woman in the family. I don’t know how much the stewards have coaxed her, these heartless people, seeing that she is illiterate and her son is young, they are fooling around inside and outside, and a good family has been ruined."

"Alas, people's hearts are not as old as they used to be!" Jian Qing sighed. Zhao Er raised his head and glanced at her, his eyes full of ridicule, but Jian Qing didn't care.

"That's not the case."

Jian Qing could easily stimulate people's potential for gossip. Erya Niang also sighed without saying a word. She even dragged a stool across Jian Qing's table and said solemnly, "Their family background is not bad, and their children are pretty good too." She was very ambitious and won the imperial examination at a young age. She originally hired a girl from the Pei family in the west of the city to be her daughter-in-law. Unexpectedly, the child was fascinated by a flower girl on a boat on the Qinhuai River. The Pei family was not happy to know about this child. She also refused to marry and insisted on getting along with that flower girl. How could Mrs. An be willing? She scolded the child a few times, and the child immediately fell ill and died within two days. "

This is a typical case of beating a mandarin duck with a stick and forcing the mother to kill her son.

Jian Qing sighed and asked, "Why is this like this?"

She also couldn't say something like "Why don't you marry a flower girl?" No matter what era, there are limitations, just like the era she is in now, "Starving to death is a small matter, but being unruly is a big matter." If she spoke out, instead of being criticized, she might be beaten.

"How many tenants does Mrs. An have in that house now? I saw someone who is about the same age as my eldest brother, who has difficulty walking. How long have they lived there?"

"Oh, you're talking about Mrs. Yu and her mother-in-law? They've lived there for more than a year or two. Let me calculate, it's been at least three to five years."

"So long?" Jian Qing said in surprise, "I thought he rented it just a few days earlier than us. Has he been working in the dyeing workshop?"

"Not necessarily. The child from the Yu family works part-time, so his legs and feet are inconvenient, but he is diligent. His mother has been bedridden for many years, and he has always taken good care of him. He would rather be hungry than let his mother go without eating meat for a day. It is said that such a child is obtained by the mother who has cultivated the blessings for three lifetimes."

"His mother is ill in bed? What is her illness?"

"I don't know. It's an old problem. I can't get up. I feel dizzy when I get up. I can only lie down."

Zhao Er finished drinking half a kilogram of wine, his face was a little red, and he asked for another bowl of rice. He poured the leftovers on the table into the rice bowl without even leaving the soup, mixed it, and ate it. No grains are left.

Mrs. An's house is a square courtyard. The front porch has been renovated. Half of it is rented to Erya's family, and the other half is rented to a breakfast vendor. She wakes up early and stays late every day. At this moment, it is her family. When I fell asleep, the lights in the room had been turned off.

Yu Bai and his mother lived in the north wing. I heard that the three wing rooms were originally rented to two families. The other family was for a couple with a child. The husband was a salesman. Because he disliked Mrs. Yu who had been paralyzed all year round and the smell in the house, they left. He refused to share the house with the Yu family.

If Mrs. An is willing to lose this rent, she will have to pay it to the Yu family.If the Yu family refuses to rent all three wing rooms, the Yu family will be kicked out.

Yu Bai had no choice but to accept the money and rent an extra room and a half.Three rooms for two people would have been more spacious, but because Mrs. Yu also needed someone to take care of her at night, Yu Bai built a bunk below his mother's room to make it easier to take care of her.

At this time, Yu Bai's house was still lit with dim oil lamps.A hunched and busy figure is still reflected on the window paper.

There was a large piece of scarlet in the stove facing the door. Jian Qing had seen it in the blacksmith shop in Lingqiu County. At that time, the old blacksmith threw a piece of iron into the stove, and it was so red.

Jian Qing glanced at it, then withdrew her gaze and returned to her own room.

At night, Jian Qing lay on the bed, with her hands under her head, looking out the window at the darkness, and she was thinking about the case.

There were five victims in total. There was no doubt that each of them had been slashed on the back of the head. The outside of the blade was about half a finger wide. It can be initially concluded that the murder weapon should be the same one, with the blade at least forty centimeters long.This one.

Secondly, the three bosses all have connections with Sichuan and Sichuan. The boss of the silk and satin shop has been to Sichuan and Sichuan and talked with people from Sichuan and Sichuan. Needless to say, the boss of the herbal medicine shop often sends his chief shopkeeper to Sichuan and Sichuan to purchase goods. Someone from Sichuan and Sichuan brought medicinal materials, and the innkeeper personally sent the guests from Sichuan and Sichuan to Tianzijian, where they were finally chopped off with an axe.

"After cutting the axe, you quickly returned to the Tianzi Room, stayed there for a while, and then took advantage of the chaos to escape?" Jian Qing thought about it and felt something was wrong. Who was the person who went to the scene to inquire about the case that day?Has the guest in Tianzi Room been questioned?
Unknowingly, Jian Qing fell asleep.

Early the next morning, she went to Yingtian Mansion to check the files. When she arrived at the door of the Yamen, she heard someone calling her. Jian Qing turned around and saw that it was Xie Jin. She had forgotten this person, but she and Zhao Er The bedding for sleeping was donated by Xie Jin.

"Brother Xie? Why are you here?" Jian Qing hurriedly walked down the steps and greeted him.

"Next year, the imperial court will be in spring. Here, a few classmates are here. Let's get together and walk back to the Qinhuai River." Xie Jin was very interested.

"That's it. I would like to wish Brother Xie the best in high school next year!" Jian Qing held her hand and gave her sincere blessing.

"I don't dare to claim the top spot, but I should definitely win the high school championship!" Xie Jin was not modest.

"Brother Xie, why do you have to be so humble?" A voice interrupted. In the middle of winter, a young man came over waving a fan and said with a smile, "I remember that Brother Xie said the same thing half a year ago. What's the result? This time he won the first place in the provincial examination again. who is it?"

Jian Qing understood, and said "Ah" in surprise, and offered her hand to Xie Jin again, "My eyes are so stupid that I didn't recognize Lord Jie Yuan. I'm disrespectful!"

Xie Jin laughed and didn't take it seriously. He said to the young man waving the fan, "Brother Ye, why are you teasing me? We can still compete with each other in the spring of next year. Brother Ye is eight times better. Are you afraid that he can't beat Xie's scholar?"

Jian Qing was stunned, are all the top academics of this era so immodest?

Xie Jin introduced Jian Qing and the young man to each other, "This is the new man from Yingtian Mansion. He was Jian Qing, the eldest son of Mr. Jian Chongjian in Qingzhou. This is Mr. Ye Xian, the Ye family of the 'rich family'."

Jian Qing was extremely surprised. Could it be that the news of Ye Xiping's death hadn't reached him yet?Probably not, otherwise, Ye Xian would have gone back to attend the funeral, and it would be impossible for him to be so ambitious and still thinking about attending the Spring Festival.

If this is true, the fight between the feudal king and the emperor's grandson will be evident.

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