Qin Zeng wanted to kill Guo Qian easily, but it was meaningless.
The real eradication is for the Guo family to automatically exclude Guo Qian and no longer regard him as one of their own.
He ordered his subordinates: "Bring the people up."
Everyone looked towards the door, and a forty-year-old woman was led timidly into the room. ap.
She looked at everyone in the room, glanced at them randomly, then lowered her head and knelt down carefully, not knowing where to put her hands in embarrassment.
Chen Yan didn't know that Qin Zeng had such an arrangement. He asked, "Who is kneeling?"
The woman was wearing an indigo short muslin shirt, with a neat bun on the back of her head. She spoke smoothly: "Mr. Tian, a civilian woman..."
Guo Qian stared at Mrs. Tian with his eyes, thinking quickly in his mind, but he couldn't remember whether he had seen this woman before.
When Qin Zeng faced this commoner woman, his tone was much calmer and gentler, and he asked, "Is there anyone here whom you have met?"
Mrs. Tian cautiously raised her head and looked around the hall carefully before replying: "There is no one whom the common woman has seen."
Guo Qian breathed a sigh of relief, then became suspicious again.
Under the puzzled gazes of everyone, Qin Zeng took out a small portrait of a woman from his sleeve, unfolded it, and asked Tian, "What about this one?"
The portrait shows a middle-aged woman, standing in front of a mansion with her back turned, smiling. She has an upright appearance, and her eyebrows are curved and she looks very kind. Mrs. Tian only glanced at her and nodded: "A commoner woman has seen this person before... …”
Chen Yan also took a careful look at the portrait and saw that she was standing in front of the Guo Mansion. This gesture was obviously to leave a certain place and take the portrait as a souvenir.
Qin Zeng said, "Where is your home? Who else is there? When and where you saw this person? Please tell me in detail."
Everyone's eyes in the room were focused on Mrs. Tian, which made her slightly nervous. She said, "A common woman lost her husband early and has a son at home. She runs an incense and candle shop in Shixiangfang, Dongcheng. That day happened to be the Qingming Festival, so the common people My wife remembers it very clearly. The person in the portrait came to the shop to buy incense and candles..."
When Guo Qian heard the words "incense shop", his expression changed instantly.
But everyone in the room was looking at Tian, and almost no one noticed.
He glanced at everyone from the corner of his eyes, forcing himself to suppress his expression and not let the expression on his face reveal the secret in his heart.
Chen Yan spoke for Qin Zeng and asked: "Since it is Qingming Festival, there should be a lot of people buying incense candles, but why do you remember so clearly the woman in this portrait?"
Tian shrank his hands and said: "At that time, Dahu and I, my son, were making red date paste for making porridge. This woman had a kind face and seemed to be in a very good mood. She said she wanted to customize some incense candles and add the prepared ones. The spices went in. Because there were many people with such needs, I was relatively experienced and quickly negotiated the price and other matters with her. When she saw me making jujube paste, she said that adding some bitter almonds would make it less so. Tian Ni, she just happened to have some in her hand, so she took the initiative to give some to me... So, I asked her to sit down..."
The room was silent, and everyone was holding their breath to listen to her. Seeing that no one said anything, she had no choice but to continue: "I saw that she was kind-hearted, and I felt that I was in love with her. I wanted to invite her to be a guest often, but she shook her head and said that she She was going back to her hometown soon. I saw that she seemed to be looking forward to it, and her expression was full of excitement. I knew that she was going back to reunite with her relatives, so she was so happy. At that time, I cut a piece of red rope for her. She tied a lock of hair..."
People in the market have the custom of tying the hair of people traveling, which means that the trip will be auspicious and smooth. They should always be thinking about their relatives and friends, which means they are looking forward to seeing each other again.
When Qin Zeng saw that she had finished speaking, he showed the portrait in his hand to everyone and said, "The name of the woman in the portrait is Xu Fen. In the Guo Mansion, she is called Fen Niang, and she is the wet nurse of the Second Young Master Guo."
Everyone in the Guo Mansion naturally knows Fen Niang, because she is the daughter of the second young master, and is very popular in the mansion. Some time ago, the second young master gave her a favor and gave her a pension fund to allow her to return to her hometown to reunite with her relatives. People have also discussed this matter and felt very envious.
Qin Zeng's face was expressionless
His expression made Guo Qian extremely frightened, "So what? I just went to buy some incense candles. What does it have to do with today's events."
Qin Zeng said calmly: "It does have nothing to do with today's matter, but it can prove that you harbor evil intentions and assassinate your adoptive mother, Mrs. Guo Er."
Everyone was puzzled after hearing this, except Mrs. Guo Er, who suddenly felt a chill on her back.
She slowly turned her head to look at Guo Qian, her confused and shocked eyes made everyone present feel abnormal.
Guo Qing asked: "What's going on?"
Guo Qian also hurriedly defended: "Mother, these are all nonsense!"
Mrs. Guo Er looked at Guo Qian intently for a while and then said, "Come here, go get some incense candles from my room."
Guo Qian reached out and grabbed Mrs. Guo Er's sleeve: "Mother, don't you believe in your son?"
Mrs. Guo's second wife pursed her lips tightly, with a complicated expression on her face. It was clear that she was at war with others.
Chen Yan said: "Everything in the mansion has its own distribution. I wonder who is in charge of the incense and candles?"
The eldest wife of the Guo family has been watching. As the eldest sister-in-law, she can't comment on the affairs of the second wife. But when she was asked about it, she said openly: "The middle child in the house is shared between me and my second sister-in-law. , Incense and candles are in our main room. But I have never let anyone go to Tian’s shop to order incense and candles, and I have no personal dealings with Fenniang.”
She has always had a good relationship with her siblings, at least much better than Guo, who is her eldest aunt.
Mrs. Guo would also confide her dissatisfaction with Mrs. Guo to her sister-in-law on weekdays. Mrs. Guo often asked her husband to persuade her younger brother not to stick to Guo and her daughter for everything.
After something happened to Guo Chongli because of the hidden weapon incident, Mrs. Guo once cried to the eldest lady and discussed countermeasures together.
Chen Yan heard this and said, "In that case, the issue of incense and candles should not have anything to do with the people in the second room."
Guo Qian said impatiently, "Ms. Fen is old. I have taken care of me for many years. I gave her money to go back to my hometown to take care of myself. Those incense candles may be taken back to my hometown to give away, and this is her private matter. Even if She is my wet nurse, and I may not be involved in everything."
"Then Master Guo, do you know why Fen Niang lives far away from home and went to Dongcheng to buy incense and candles? And where did the precious spices in her hands come from."
Guo Qian did not hesitate and said: "I am not kind to her on weekdays. She still has some money in her hands. Since she is going to take it back to her hometown to give away, she naturally has to make some good things to take back. As for why she went to the east of the city, it is probably because The custom-made ones in Chengdong are cheaper.”
When Chen Yan heard what he said, he looked at Qin Zeng.
Qin Zeng glanced at Guo Qian lightly, "Then do you know where she is now?"
Guo Qian said: "Of course he has already left a long time ago."
"Did she really go back to her hometown?"
Qin Zeng signaled Chen Yan to pick up the portrait and pass it to everyone in the room for viewing. Everyone looked at it one by one. When Cui Chun arrived, he held the thin piece of paper with both hands, his eyes widened, and he seemed stunned.
