Su Chenyu spent a very uneasy night. She got up at daybreak. As soon as Zhu found the old site of the Yin family, Su Chenyu and Baili Yanqing went to take a look.
Since the fire, the Yin family has been in ruins. Too many people died. Every night, there seems to be a sound of wailing hovering over the ruins, which is extremely ominous. Even the people around can't stand it and have moved away from this area, so this place looks particularly desolate.
At this moment, the sky was already slightly bright, and the faint light shining on the broken walls only added to the sense of desolation.
Su Chenyu sniffed the air and said, "It sounds like someone is burning paper money."
Baili Yanqing quickly found the pile of ashes. There were still some sparks of fire in the ashes, and the man had not gone far.
It rained yesterday and the ground was a little muddy. Judging from the footprints, the man was heading east. Su Chenyu and Baili Yanqing looked at each other and walked towards the east.
Not long after the two disappeared, a slightly hunched figure emerged from the weeds nearby. He wanted to walk west, but at this moment he heard a voice behind him: "Why are you in such a hurry to leave? As I recall, you are the old shopkeeper of the Jade Umbrella Pavilion!"
The old shopkeeper turned around and looked at the two people who should have left in disbelief: "How could you..."
"Your little tricks may fool others, but you can't fool us." Su Chenyu asked directly, "Aren't you the owner of Yusan Pavilion? Why did you come to the Yin family to burn paper money? What did you do to commit a crime?"
When Su Chenyu saw that the person who came to burn paper money was the old shopkeeper of Yusan Pavilion, he understood the deep meaning of what the old shopkeeper said yesterday.
"You've harmed the Yin family, are you getting your retribution?" Su Chenyu looked at the old shopkeeper. Under such a gaze, the old shopkeeper had nowhere to hide and knelt directly in front of the ruins: "I'm sorry to the Yin family..."
In the intermittent crying of the old shopkeeper, Su Chenyu and Baili Yanqing learned the truth of ten years ago.
This old shopkeeper was the shopkeeper of the Yin family ten years ago. Mr. Yin was a good manager and a kind person. He was very kind to the servants in the mansion and the shop assistants.
He always thought that he would work under Master Yin for the rest of his life, but when the Qian family placed a stack of banknotes in front of him, he was still shaken.
The Qian family came for the Yin family's secret recipe for making umbrellas. As the shopkeeper that Master Yin valued the most, he naturally knew all the production processes. He couldn't resist the temptation of money and told the Qian family the secret recipe, but he felt guilty and thought about resigning from Master Yin.
Before he could resign, the Yin family was in flames. So many people came to put out the fire, but the fire was not reduced at all. He knew that it was the Qian family who poured oil in advance. The Qian family not only wanted the secret recipe of the Yin family to make umbrellas, but also the lives of all the Yin family members.
It was because he was too greedy that he revealed the secret recipe to the Qian family, which led to the genocide of the Yin family.
After the fire, the Qian family not only bribed the county magistrate of Fufeng Town and took over all the shops of the Yin family, but he was also stopped by the Qian family. Either he would become the shopkeeper of Yusan Pavilion, or he would die.
In order to survive, he chose to become the shopkeeper of Yusan Pavilion.
At that time, all the people in Fufeng Town were praising the Qian family for taking over the Yin family's shop and allowing the former shopkeeper of the Yin family to stay.
The more business Yusan Pavilion did, the more afraid he became.
It was not until the former county magistrate of Fufeng Town was exterminated for corruption that he realized that the knife that had been hanging over his head for so many years was finally about to fall.
Soon, the young master of the Qian family became addicted to gambling and lost the secret recipe for making umbrellas. When the secret recipe was spread, Yusan Pavilion was suppressed by other merchants and its business plummeted. The master and his wife of the Qian family were bedridden, and the young master had disappeared without a trace.
The days passed by were getting worse and worse, but his heart felt more and more comfortable. When he died, would that be the day when his sins were atoned for?
A gust of wind blew away the pile of completely cold paper money ashes on the ground and splashed them onto the old shopkeeper's face.
The old shopkeeper just knelt on the ground in a daze, without wiping the ashes off his face, tears streaming down his eyes: "I have committed such a crime, how can I redeem myself..."
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