AWB Chapter 133 Shang Rou's Background is Not Simple
Chapter 133 Shang Rou's Background is Not Simple
Lu Zhao suddenly turned his head and said to her meaningfully, "I have found some clues about the matter you asked me to investigate."
He deliberately kept Yuan Qing in suspense and did not continue.
Yuan Qing saw through his thoughts at a glance and asked, "And then?"
"Let me ask you, who do you think is related to that problematic village?"
He asked this question for a reason. Yuan Qing went over the matters concerning Pingjin Mansion in his mind.
She suddenly thought of something and asked in surprise, "Is it a merchant?"
Lu Zhao nodded in appreciation, handed her a piece of evidence dug out from Pingjin Mansion, and said, "This is what I learned from some villagers in that village. If you look carefully, you will find a very interesting truth."
He didn't say it explicitly, but instead asked Yuan Qing to figure it out himself.
Yuan Qing took the paper and looked at it.
The text above is very messy, including the villagers' confessions, a partial list of people who died of illness, the relationships between the people involved, and a simple map of the residences of the deceased.
This is indeed a very detailed piece of evidence.
She compared them one by one with the information in her mind.
When I thought about it carefully, I found that these things all follow certain patterns.
"They..." Yuan Qing paused, "are they all related to a Zhuangzi?"
The first, third and fourth were originally Zhuangzi’s servants, while the second and sixth were their family members.
As for the fifth one, although she seems to have no connection with Zhuangzi, her residence is near Zhuangzi.
This just shows that the causes of their deaths are inseparable from this Zhuangzi. If we know who the owner of Zhuangzi is, perhaps we can find the hidden connection.
Yuan Qing looked at it again and again, "You didn't write down the time when they started to get sick."
Lu Zhao sat up slowly and pointed to the words on the paper. "Isn't it written there, 'No entry'?"
"Does 'not allowed to enter' mean that you can't find it, or that you can't enter?"
Lu Zhao rubbed his wrist and sighed, "We can't get in. They seem to be hiding something. Once we asked to enter the village, they refused to let us pass. They also guarded the entrance to the village day and night. They were also very secretive about the condition of the deceased, so it was difficult to investigate."
He lay down again and put his arms behind his head. "If we want to get to the bottom of this matter, we can either rely on the strong intervention of the government, or send people to infiltrate and investigate quietly."
"This situation..." Yuan Qing rested his chin on his hand and thought, "It is somewhat similar to Yuzhou."
Lu Zhao suddenly turned his head and said, "I haven't asked you about the situation in Yuzhou yet."
Yuan Qing spread his hands and said helplessly: "Like you, there has been no major progress.
I originally thought that I could go back to Jiangzhou to recuperate and stay in Yuzhou for a while longer, and then leave when An'er is stable, but unexpectedly this happened at the last minute, so I had to change my plan."
Lu Zhao propped himself up, moved closer and said, "That Zhuangzi is indeed under Madam Shang's name, there is no doubt about that.
In addition, I also found some more confidential information, but I didn’t write it down because I was afraid it would be leaked.
I heard from some people that the place where the strange disease first appeared was that farm. They had worked in the farm and occasionally had dealings with those dead people.
After the incident, everyone in the village was in a panic. Mrs. Shang did not dare to make it public. She only asked a close doctor to go to the village to treat the patient. After confirming that there was nothing serious, the matter was slowly suppressed.
Madam Shang sent a group of trusted people to look after the manor again. Since then, no one in the manor has fallen ill again, but people in the surrounding villages have started to get strange diseases one after another, and they can't be cured. "
He lowered his voice quietly, "It is said that Madam Shang and her servants have not returned home for several nights, and some people have seen thick smoke billowing from the back mountain.
What's even more bizarre is that Shang Rou, who was imprisoned in the manor, also fell ill for no reason. No one knows who fell ill first, her or Shang Zhe.
But ever since Shang Rou escaped from the manor, Madam Shang has sealed off the manor and has never sent anyone there again."
These words contained so much information that Yuan Qing was shocked.
"According to you, this matter is aimed at Madam Shang, or Shang Ming?"
Lu Zhao said: "Isn't this the initial guess?"
"It's different," Yuan Qing shook his head. "There is a fundamental difference between things starting with merchants and things starting with merchants. The focus is different, and the purpose is also different.
After what you said, I feel that I have some clues."
"How to say?"
“From Shang Rou’s perspective, we have already confirmed that she hates Madam Shang, so it makes sense for her to use this illness to get Madam Shang, or even the Shang family, involved.
But in fact, this matter is beyond her control, unless she has been hiding it from the outside."
She asked, "Why did the disease start in Madam Shang's manor? Why did the disease appear in Yuzhou, which is separated by three states, Beicheng, Yanzhou and Jiangzhou?"
Lu Zhao tapped his palms on the table, his eyes narrowed slightly, "Merge the two into one."
"That's right," Yuan Qing pressed the paper on the table, "At first I was always curious about Shang Rou's background, and I thought about all the assumptions.
But if she was originally trained in the Dark Village, then everything would be connected."
Whether she returned home halfway to recognize her relatives, or she framed Madam Shang by claiming she had lost the disaster relief money, or she knew about the strange disease in advance and wanted to drag Madam Shang into it, there is only one explanation for all these -
She is a secret agent.
Only a secret agent can get the upper hand and be ahead in everything.
Come to think of it, in her previous life, the entire merchant family was killed, perhaps because she was the hidden agent, doing things for those people.
She suddenly remembered the word "Master" that she had called out when she was doing some simple hypnosis on Shang Rou in the Shang Mansion.
Could this master be some high-ranking official in Anzhuang?
It’s just a pity that she doesn’t have any video footage of that person.
Fortunately, she had figured out Shang Rou's background. If she kept her, maybe she could unravel the mystery and find out who was behind it.
"Alright," Yuan Qing stretched his body, "We still have to continue investigating, but you don't have to intervene for now. Once we locate the place where the incident happened, I'm sure I can dig out something."
Lu Zhao followed her with his eyes and raised his long neck, "You despise me."
Yuan Qing leaned forward, rested his hands on the edge of the table, and said, "Master Lu, have you forgotten what situation you are in now? There are tens of millions of eyes on you. How dare I let you investigate? That would be like handing evidence to others."
Lu Zhao was choked and didn't want to talk anymore.
When she reminded him of this, he immediately thought of the miserable days that he was about to face. He felt irritated and fanned himself even more vigorously.