Chapter 323 Mung Bean Soup

Wang Shang was given another cold stare and completely lost his temper.

"Good good."

He raised his hands to beg for mercy: "Go on, keep talking."

The beautiful lady laughed.

"This person is already dead. I don't know why. Even if our people want to investigate, we can't find out what's going on in a dead person's mind."

As soon as Jiao Niang finished speaking, Wang Shang became furious.

"Then what are you talking about with me?"

Wang Shang looked unhappy, feeling that he had been fooled by Jiao Niang.

"Do you think I have free time? When you joke, you don't even consider the time or the occasion. Is now the time to joke?"

"Do you know that this matter is likely to arouse Jiang Anning's suspicion?"

"What are you doing?"

"He talked about irrelevant things and didn't consider how to dispel Jiang Anning's doubts, so as not to cause trouble and bring himself into big trouble."

Wang Shang scolded: "Do you still have any brains?"

"Can't you even tell the priorities?"

"I really don't know how you got to this position in the first place!"

"No brains at all!"

The girl, who had been smiling and joking with others, "Look at you, you're so anxious again", was scolded without any reason and her smile was a little ruined.

Her face gradually darkened.

"Can't you just listen to what I have to say?"

"Am I stupid?"

"Are you that much smarter?"

"Why would Jiang An Ning be suspicious? Isn't it because you are busy with your plans?"

"If you had planned carefully, how could you have ended up like this?"

"You spend every day finding faults in yourself, yet you have the nerve to tell me these nonsense!"

Jiao Niang looked unhappy and she no longer tolerated other people's bad habits.

"We are just like grasshoppers in the same boat. If I die, you won't be much better off."

"Let's stop blaming each other and passing the buck here."

"Do you really think that if you can decide who is right and who is wrong and put all the blame on me, the Lord will let you go when he really wants to investigate?"

"Stop dreaming!"

She rolled her eyes at the man, mocking his naivety.

"Even if I still have a chance to survive, you, the commander who is in charge of everything, are bound to be blamed."

"I can't do anything."

Jiao Niang sneered: "Those who can only rage helplessly are often the most useless of the useless!"

"you!"

Wang Shang's eyes turned red with rage, and he pointed at Jiao Niang angrily, as if he was going to step forward and strangle her neck.

"What do you mean, you you you you you!"

"What? You can't win the argument, so you want to fight me? Come on, come on, come on! That's all you can do!"

Jiao Niang was not afraid at all: "Just strangle me to death, it just so happens that I don't want to do this anymore!"

"Come on, come on, strangle me!"

"Strangle me to death, and then if you want any gossip in the future, just go find it yourself! Just find out whatever you want to know, and there will definitely be no nonsense."

Jiao Niang stuck out her neck, looking very unconvinced.

Wang Shang was speechless after being criticized by others.

But you can't really kill someone.

At this moment, seeing Jiao Niang's arrogant and shouting appearance, he became even more angry.

"Can't talk anymore?"

Jiao Niang sneered: "You don't dare to kill me, right?"

"Have you figured out what your current situation is?"

"Calm down?"

She looked at the person and said, "Can you listen to me carefully?"

Wang Shang took a deep breath and said, "Okay, go ahead!"

He looked like he was saying, "I wonder what else you can come up with."

Jiao Niang sneered with even more disdain.

"Where was I just saying?" His tone was very bad.

Wang Shang clenched his fists and gritted his teeth, "Speaking of Madam Qiao's first husband, because his mother spent all her money on her brothers, he poisoned the mung bean soup in an attempt to poison his mother."

The girl said "Oh".

"I really don't know why Madam Qiao's first husband would want to poison his own mother."

"After all, as you said, the money has been spent. Even if you kill his mother, you can't get the money back."

"It would be more cost-effective to kill his brothers than to kill his mother."

"After all, if his mother died, the brothers would definitely split up."

"By then, there will be no chance for his mother to get back the money she spent on his brother!"

Jiao Niang spoke slowly, and Wang Shang almost lost his temper again.

"and then?"

He clenched his fists and gritted his teeth.

"Then we all felt very strange, but since the person is already dead, there is no evidence. We can't call the dead person up to testify with our omnipotent hands and eyes."

The lady fiddled with her nails: "It's just that this matter is too abnormal. We all found it strange, so we deliberately investigated it."

Wang Shang took a deep breath and endured it again and again: "What are the results of your investigation?"

"No results."

Jiao Niang looked at him with a look that said "Don't you understand what I'm saying?" and rolled her eyes at him with disdain.

Wang Shang’s fists became stiff.

"But we did find another interesting thing."

Jiao Niang seemed to be deliberately trying to anger people. She went around in circles and refused to say what Wang Shang wanted to hear.

"what's up?"

"After Mrs. Qiao's first husband died, she was going to return home."

"Because I know people's ability to make money, and Madam Qiao has also promised that as long as her family lets her go back, she is willing to pay 500 coins every month."

"Looking at these five hundred coins, the Qiao family feels that it is a little too little, but after all, no matter how small a mosquito leg is, it is still meat. Moreover, this piece of meat is a big piece of fat meat for them."

"The Qiao family naturally agreed."

"But I didn't expect that after the burial of Madam Qiao's first husband, the Qiao family, who had originally promised to treat her well, suddenly went back on their word."

Wang Shang frowned: "Suddenly regret it? Why?"

He felt that none of these people were normal.

It's all ridiculously horrible.

Of course, what he was more afraid of now was that Jiao Niang would spread her hands and say that she didn't know either.

For this reason, the way he looked at Jiao Niang was a little different.

Be on guard against death.

Jiao Niang rolled her eyes at him: "What's that look in your eyes?"

"It's as if I'm going to trick you."

“It’s really unpleasant to watch.”

Wang Shang sneered: "That's because you have a criminal record. I'm worried that you will talk nonsense to me here, and in the end you will say some irrelevant nonsense without any key and effective information." "You made me waste my time here!"

"If it's still like this, then I might as well go find Jiang An Ning as soon as possible, show my face in front of others, and do her a favor. If a fight really breaks out, at least give me a chance to defend myself because I helped her."

Jiao Niang chuckled: "Look at what you said."

"It's as if I were deliberately playing a trick on you."

Wang Shang glared at the man. Although he didn’t say anything directly, his meaning was very clear: Isn’t it?
He was extremely unhappy.

In the end, he was still worried about having to rely on others to help him get information and do things, so he didn't say anything.

You can't really kill all your men, right?

Wouldn't that make him a general without any troops?
"It's not hard to guess. Even if our people haven't investigated it, we can roughly guess it."

"For a person like this who does not do anything without profit, he agreed to let the people go back because Madam Qiao was willing to give him an extra 500 coins a month as a tribute. But he suddenly changed his mind and disagreed. What else could it be?"

"It must be because someone else offered a higher price?"

Jiao Niang had an expression that said, "You actually asked me such a simple question, are you crazy?"

Wang Shang:......

Sooner or later, he will teach this infuriating woman a lesson.

He gritted his teeth and suppressed his temper: "Someone offered a higher price? Who?"

Just as Jiao Niang was about to speak, she was interrupted by Wang Shang: "Don't tell me again, you don't know either!"

"how is this possible?"

"You have too little confidence in me."

Jiao Niang rolled her eyes at him: "Who else could it be?"

"They are just those people from Madam Qiao's in-laws' family."

Wang Shang frowned: "Those people from Madam Qiao's in-laws' family?"

"Why would they spend money to force Madam Qiao to stay? Could it be that they want her to remain faithful to her husband? How could they be willing to spend this much money?"

"of course not."

Jiao Niang: "The world is bustling with people, all for the sake of profit. The world is bustling with people, all for the sake of profit."

"Mrs. Qiao's in-laws were willing to spend a lot of money to keep Mrs. Qiao in their family. It must be because they can get greater value by keeping her."

"Do you know who this Miss Qiao's second husband is?"

Jiao Niang looked at Wang Shang and asked.

Wang Shang seemed to be thinking about something, and then he was extremely shocked: "Could it be that he is Madam Qiao's husband's younger brother, Madam Qiao's brother-in-law?"

"clever!"

Jiao Niang sneered, looking down on this family.

"It's not like there haven't been cases where a man marries a widow after his brother dies."

"It's just too insulting to ignore Madam Qiao's wishes and treat her like a commodity, sending her back and forth."

"However, the Qiao family refused to let Madam Qiao return home. They even went to court to make a scene, hoping to use secular pressure and rumors to force Madam Qiao to surrender."

"It's hard for an honest official to settle family disputes. At times like this, the government will inevitably try to smooth things over."

"Mrs. Qiao couldn't bear the pressure. She felt that her life had been full of ups and downs. More importantly, she was defrauded by her first husband and was now penniless. Even if she wanted to take out money immediately to lure the Qiao family into agreeing, she was powerless."

"If she had had a little extra money at the time, enough to get by for a while, she wouldn't have ended up in this situation where she wants to leave but can't."

"She even thought about jumping from one fire pit to another."

"As long as we can escape from here, stay away from all these rotten people here."

Wang Shang frowned: "Jump to another fire pit?"

Jiao Niang nodded and said, "Mrs. Qiao once planned to become a concubine for a passing merchant."

"As long as I can leave here smoothly and get legal status."

"But I never thought that my husband's family would find out, and together with the Qiao family, they came to my house and beat up the passerby, thus cutting off my plans for an heir."

"Later, the story about Madam Qiao became completely known."

"Not to mention the passing merchants, even in Jiang'an County, no one dares to come and ask for marriage."

"I'm afraid that by then, those two scoundrels will blame me."

Jiao Niang shrugged her shoulders and said helplessly, "So, there is no other way! Madam Qiao can only stay."

Wang Shang frowned, feeling that things would not be that simple.

"Then how did this Madam Qiao's second husband die?"

Jiao Niang blinked, touched her nose, and couldn't help laughing twice.

"He drank mung bean soup and was poisoned."

"???"

Wang Shang stared at the person with wide eyes as if he was hallucinating.

"How did you die?"

"He was poisoned by drinking mung bean soup." Jiao Niang deliberately slowed down her speech and repeated it twice with clear pronunciation.

Wang Shang frowned: "Is this a coincidence?"

Isn’t that too much of a coincidence?

There had been a precedent in the family where someone was poisoned to death after drinking mung bean soup. This family didn't say there was any taboo, but another person was poisoned to death.

"Then who knows."

Jiao Niang shrugged: "Anyway, the investigation result given by the government is that the death was an accident."

"As to whether it was an accident or retribution from some evil spirit, that's a matter of opinion."

She chuckled: "However, it's interesting to say that Mrs. Qiao's third husband was also poisoned to death by drinking mung bean soup."

Wang Shang:......

They have a pot of mung bean soup that they drink for a whole year, right?
Being poisoned all the time?

"Oh, yes, I almost forgot to mention that the reason why Yang Qing dared to provoke Madam Qiao was because Madam Qiao's mother-in-law, the mother of her three husbands, also drank mung bean soup and was poisoned to death."

"Otherwise, considering how noisy that family is, Yang Qing might not have the guts to provoke them."

Wang Shang frowned: "Wait a moment!"

"What did you just say? The mother of Mrs. Qiao's three husbands?"

"Is Madam Qiao's third husband still from that family?"

The lady hummed, "Yes!"

"Mrs. Qiao's second husband was poisoned to death by drinking mung bean soup, just like her first husband. Then, she was forced by her husband's family and her own family to marry another younger brother of her first husband, just like before."

Jiao Niang smiled and said, "Didn't I say it before? The main reason why Madam Qiao compromised is that she was penniless."

"Originally, she planned to quietly save up some private property while marrying her second husband, in preparation for cutting ties with these people in the future."

"It's just that things don't always go as planned. Plans never change as fast as they should."

"Mrs. Qiao had just been married to her second husband for less than half a month. She hadn't had time to save money and prepare to flee, but her second husband died of poisoning after drinking nine bowls of mung bean soup."

Wang Shang frowned: "Wait a moment! Wait a moment!"

“How many bowls of mung bean soup did you drink?”

Nine bowls?

The keenness accumulated over the years made him realize that something was wrong instantly.

“How big is the bowl?”

Jiao Niang groaned, raised her hand and measured it: "According to the records, it is about this big."

Wang Shang looked at it and was even more surprised.

What kind of good person can drink nine large bowls of mung bean soup in one breath?
"Are you sure that Madam Qiao's second husband died of poisoning from drinking mung bean soup, rather than being forced to die from drinking mung bean soup?"

Jiao Niang nodded: "Sure! The files of the government office can't be fake, right?"

"That is a capital crime."

"Besides, they are just two ordinary people. If they die, they die. Why would you take the risk and tamper with the files?"

"And the autopsy report by the coroner did say that there were symptoms of poisoning, with a large amount of mung bean residue remaining in the stomach."


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