"Miss, Steward Xu sent someone to see Mi Sihan, asking... Miss, how should we respond?"

Qiu Wen sighed. Although the matter was still unresolved, she was no longer willing to tolerate the Qiu family.

"Go and tell that person to just do as Steward Xu says."

"Yes, Miss."

Over the years, Luo Xue has witnessed the suffering Qiu Wen has endured in the mansion. If the Qiu family really did something like the substitution of the prince for the illegitimate child, then who can the young lady turn to for so many years of grievances?

The Qiu family will definitely be involved, and they can't escape it.

Once Xu Nian got confirmation, he started taking action. Of course, the Qiu family couldn't be without some shady dealings; after all, if you wanted to find something, you could always find something illogical.

Then the Qiu family was doomed.

The officials arrived very suddenly, taking Master Qiu away, followed by Madam Qiu, and then gradually taking away many members of the Qiu family, both masters and servants.

Minor offenses like petty theft will land you in jail, while serious crimes involving murder will result in death.

Among them was Master Qiu, who was responsible for the deaths of people.

It's an old case, actually. Back then, Master Qiu was just a waiter at a restaurant. He was quite handsome, and he got involved with the restaurant owner's daughter.

The restaurant owner only had one daughter. It wasn't that he didn't want to have more children, but rather that he couldn't have any more after his daughter was born.

Because of this, the restaurant owner, who originally planned to expand his business, only focused on one restaurant, because he felt that since he had no son to inherit it, he was content with just managing it well.

However, since she was his only daughter, he still loved her dearly.

They also planned to include the restaurant in her dowry, so that their daughter would have a source of income in the future.

The restaurant owner saw many people on a daily basis, especially since the restaurant was a mixed bag of people, and he knew all sorts of people without being told, so he never thought of finding a husband for his daughter.

Therefore, he naturally disapproved of his daughter's affair with the waiter at the restaurant. However, Master Qiu went to extremes by bribing someone to defile the restaurant girl during their elopement. As a result, the restaurant owner suffered a stroke from the shock, and he expressed his willingness to marry the restaurant's daughter without holding a grudge.

That young lady was naive and love-struck; she actually believed it. As a result, not long after their marriage, the restaurant owner died of a stroke, and not long after, the young lady from the restaurant accidentally fell into the water.

At the time, Master Qiu had a good attitude and made proper arrangements for the descendants of the restaurant family. Master Qiu was only a teenager at that time.

Two years later, at the age of twenty, he married the young lady of the Zhang family, who is now Mrs. Qiu.

Then, relying on the restaurant and the Zhang family's connections, he started to build up his business.

But it's not that easy to get ahead. Master Qiu only really got ahead in the year or two after Qiu Wen was born, as if someone was helping him behind the scenes.

The Qiu family gradually gained a reputation in Cangzhou's business circles.

The old cases that Xu Nian investigated included the murder case of a family in the restaurant years ago.

The investigation is ongoing and it has been confirmed that the stroke and subsequent death of the restaurant owner, Tong Bo'an, were all orchestrated by Master Qiu. Furthermore, the alleged accidental drowning of Miss Tong, his first wife, was also a result of his planning.

Furthermore, back then, Madam Tong, unable to bear the blow of the successive deaths of her husband and daughter, also passed away.

Of course, besides this one incident, Mr. Qiu has done many immoral things over the years in order to develop his business, and now they have all been exposed.

Madam Qiu's side was even worse. In the backyard, as long as one didn't delve too deeply, things inside were really hard to explain. Anyway, there were many things going on.

Not only Madam Qiu, but also the concubines in the Qiu family's inner quarters were naturally not cleaned up.

Some of the servants in the Qiu family were also corrupt, and Xu Nian took this opportunity to deal with them all if he could find any clues.

The entire Qiu family is now together again.

The Qiu family fell into ruin overnight, even worse than the Zhang family. After all, the Zhang family still had people, but the Qiu family had neither people nor money left.

The prefect's wife and her daughter were also paying attention to this matter, after all, Qiu Wen was also a member of the Qiu family.

"Mother, who did the Qiu family offend? Why are they being treated so badly? And what about Wensi Bookstore?"

It's no wonder Wang Shu asked that question. She's already married, and now Wensi Bookstore is opening branch after branch, which has become her main source of income. If something happens to Qiu Wen, what will happen to Wensi Bookstore? Where will her large sums of money come from?

It's not that no one wants to copy her approach, but most of those ingenious ideas came from Qiu Wen herself. Besides, she's not cut out for business, so naturally she hopes Qiu Wen is doing well.

She had no reason to refuse a good deal like getting money without lifting a finger.

The prefect's wife said, "Don't worry about this. I'll ask around for you. Actually, this matter shouldn't affect Miss Qiu. Don't forget what I told you last time. If I'm not mistaken, Miss Qiu must have gotten close to a powerful person. She won't be so easily dealt with."

Wang Shu was not as resolute as her mother, and she was still somewhat worried.

"But Mother, I've heard from the Qiu family that it's basically beyond saving."

The prefect's wife knew perfectly well that the Qiu family was beyond saving, but the key was the scale of this affair, which she found extraordinary. The prefect was already at the pinnacle of power in the Cangzhou government, yet the Qiu family had fallen so quickly. No one but those who changed the training of the troops could have accomplished this.

The prefect's wife once ran into Qiu Wen at Wu's Department Store and saw her with Zhang Tingyu. It just so happened that the prefect's wife had once hosted Bobo and the others, and she had also met Zhang Tingyu once before, so she remembered it.

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