Across the Market

Chapter 182

Xie Tong lowered his eyes and thought for a while, but he didn't lie to Mrs. Chen, he just said truthfully: "I suspect that the salt used in Jingbin Building is private salt, so I want to check with Master Xiao personally."

Chen said in horror: "How is this possible? This is impossible! The master has always followed the rules in business, and it is impossible for him to do those illegal things." In a moment of excitement, Chen coughed suddenly, and she reached out and patted her chest, calming down. After a while, he said, "This must be the work of Quan Erfu. Now that the master is suffering from a strange disease, he is the one who controls the Jingbin Building. It must be him who did it." Chen said excitedly, "Even... I even suspect that the master's illness...the master's illness has something to do with him."

Xie Tong raised his eyebrows slightly when he heard the words, Zhu Fu ran over to support Mrs. Chen, and asked: "Madam, don't worry, talk slowly if you have something to say. Do you know anything?"

With tears in Chen's eyes, she looked at Zhu Fu with tears in her eyes, then grabbed her hand with both hands, and suddenly knelt down and said, "Master...Master, he...he really fell ill. Now he listens to everything. The second rich Quan even said that he would give the Jingbin building to the second rich Quan in the future. I don’t know what happened to the master, what kind of drug did the second rich Quan give him to make him look at his nephew like this, But he doesn’t care about his own son.”

Zhu Fu tried his best to help Mrs. Chen to sit up, and she simply sat beside her, comforting: "Madam, don't worry, this Mr. Xie is from the capital, although he is not an official now, but he still has some If you have something to say, speak slowly, Mr. Xie will not just sit idly by."

After speaking, Zhu Fu turned his head to look at Xie Tong, who glanced at her with black eyes, but didn't speak.

Only then did Chen say: "Actually, when the second rich Quan came to join us, the master was not happy because he knew in his heart that this distant cousin came all the way for his property. Shen'er is like this now, and in the future Our old couple left, and he couldn't inherit the family business at all, so his relatives on the other side moved their minds. When Jingbin Building was in trouble, Quan Erfu did stay with him until the end, but the master knew it because he knew His motive was just to increase his salary every month, and he didn't mean to let him take care of the Jingbin Building. But for some reason, since the end of last year, the master gradually let go of the whole thing, Jingbin The matter of the building was left to Quan Erfu to decide, and even after Quan Erfu changed the people in Jingbinlou, he didn't care about it, and his health deteriorated day by day, until now."

Xie Tongdao: "Who invited the doctor who took the pulse of Mr. Xiao?"

"Quan Er Fu was busy inviting them." Chen Shi said, "Later, I was worried, and secretly asked Huifang's sister-in-law to invite doctors, but those doctors couldn't see why, they just prescribed some soothing medicine. medicine."

Xie Tong nodded lightly, and asked again: "What are the symptoms of Mr. Xiao when he usually gets sick?"

Mrs. Chen wiped her tears, stopped crying, and said in retrospect: "At first, he just couldn't sleep all night, tossing and turning, and then it gradually became serious. Whenever he got sick, he would hold his head and cry again. They yelled again, and sometimes they even hit their heads against the pillars, saying that they didn’t want to live anymore.”

Xie Tong's pupils constricted, and he immediately got up and said, "Madam, take me to see Master Xiao, please hurry up."

Chen Shi stood up in a daze, seeing Xie Tong's serious face, she nodded repeatedly and said: "Okay, Mr. Xie, please come with me."

Mrs. Chen led Xie Tong and Zhu Fu to go to the back. The small house of the Xiao family consisted of two two-storey buildings at the front and back, connected by a spacious yard in the middle. There was a moon gate on each side of the yard. To the outside of the moon gate, It was a low house, where the Xiao family piled up sundries.

In the front is the place where several servants of the family live, and in the back is the place where Xiao Jingbin, his wife and son live.

The servant girl, Xiao Lian, was standing at the door of the room, and when she saw Mrs. Chen coming, she hurriedly greeted Mrs. Chen.

"How is the master?" Chen asked, while reaching out to push the door.

Xiao Lian said: "The master fell asleep after taking the medicine, and the slaves have been waiting outside the door, and they didn't hear any movement inside." Responding to the words, she followed Mrs. Chen into the house.

The room is spacious and bright, with simple furnishings, but everything is available. A man is lying on the large flower-carved wooden bed in the center of the room.

Zhu Fu followed Chen's approach, looked at Xiao Jingbin who was sleeping soundly, and saw that he was so thin that his cheekbones protruded high on both sides, he couldn't believe it.

When Xiao Jingbin went to invite her last time, although she was thin, she was still not like this.

Today's Xiao Jingbin looks like an opium smoker, not normal.

Zhu Fu looked at Xie Tong, seeing that he was also frowning and looking at Xiao Jingbin who was lying on the bed, he couldn't help but quietly elbowed him and asked, "What disease do you think he has?"

Xie Tong glanced at Zhu Fu, shook his head lightly, and then frowned deeper.

(End of this chapter)