Chapter 1129: Chapter 1129: A Smile That Pierces Through Chapter 1129: Chapter 1129: A Smile That Pierces Through The fire at Zuixiang Restaurant was not an accident, and the news quickly spread to the old Gu Family residence, where Gu Chengxiang and Mrs. An both ca to ask what happened.
After all, Mrs. An and Gu Chengxiang, the two elders, couldn’t be of any help, could they? Speaking too much would only worry them, so Su Yunjin didn’t tell Mrs. An and Gu Chengxiang too much, only remarking that the County Magistrate had already arranged for an investigation and all they needed to do was wait for the results. Mrs. An, being a woman, was easily fooled.
Mrs. An believed whatever Su Yunjin said, didn’t she?
Gu Chengxiang was not as easily fooled as Mrs. An and did not fully believe what Su Yunjin said, however, he did understand the good intentions of his daughter-in-law. Knowing that she ant well and didn’t want to trouble him and Mrs. An, since they were getting old and truly couldn’t do much to help, Gu Chengxiang did not press for details either.
After the last incident, Mrs. Zhang did not dare to provoke Su Yunjin and her family again. She heard that their Zuixiang Restaurant had been deliberately set on fire.
Mrs. Zhang secretly felt schadenfreude.
They deserved it.
Not only did she find Su Yunjin and her husband distasteful, but it seed there were many others who also disliked the couple. If she couldn’t handle Su Yunjin and her husband herself, there would always be soone else to do it for her.
Mrs. Zhang felt vindicated, and Gu Changshun, who had lain in bed for over half a month with a waist injury, had finally recovered. During that half-month, Gu Changshun harbored a burning resentnt against Su Yunjin’s family.
Now hearing that the fire at Zuixiang Restaurant was arson,
Gu Changshun also felt vindicated.
Mrs. Zhang and Gu Changshun both took pleasure in the disaster, feeling that the burning down of Su Yunjin’s shop served them right. Gu Ya suspected Xingyu Winery, but fearing alerting them too soon without concrete evidence, did not call in the governnt officers. Only with solid proof would Gu Ya summon the officers from the Governor’s Office to catch Fan Wu and Liu Kui in one fell swoop.
Shopkeeper Sheng of Xingyu Winery sensed that sothing was amiss and, through observation, although the people Gu Ya had brought acted inconspicuously, Shopkeeper Sheng nonetheless distinctly felt that he was being watched.
Knowing he was being targeted, Shopkeeper Sheng did not dare to keep the two individuals in his back courtyard any longer. If outsiders were to barge into the shop and arrest them, he would not be able to wash his hands of his association with the two, even if he had ten mouths.
He had to get rid of those two from the back courtyard.
Shopkeeper Sheng pondered how to remove the two from the back courtyard.
Outside, Gu Ya gradually confird that Fan Wu and Liu Kui were indeed at Xingyu Winery, and he had not directly gone there to arrest them before.
That was because Gu Ya only suspected, not completely certain. Now that he was fully certain, he naturally would not give the two any chance to escape.
Gu Ya first arranged for Wang ng to summon the governnt officer, then he himself brought several people to Xingyu Winery. Shopkeeper Sheng had just been planning how to get rid of the two from the back courtyard.
Unexpectedly, Gu Ya suddenly arrived.
His heart skipped a beat.
Shopkeeper Sheng knew indeed that he was being targeted.
Despite the panic inside,
Shopkeeper Sheng was an old fox after all.
On the surface, he remained calm and collected.
“Master Gu, I am not sure why you have brought so many people to my shop?” Shopkeeper Sheng’s deanor was watertight, betraying none of the guilt inside him.
Gu Ya sneered coldly, his laughter chilling and penetrating, “Shopkeeper Sheng, why do you think I’ve brought so many people to your place? Don’t you know?” Shopkeeper Sheng once again felt guilty. Before Gu Ya stated it explicitly.
He planned to pretend to know nothing.
“Master Gu, you are joking. How could I possibly fathom your thoughts?”
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