Chapter 190 Why is there another child?
Wei Qingyan sat down opposite the old shopkeeper and said, "I am a guide who helps the dead resolve their grievances and free themselves from demons.
If you, the old man, have the heart to watch the Qin family die one by one, you don’t have to believe me.”
Shopkeeper Cao looked at his crippled leg and took a deep breath.
If he had the heart, he would not have come out to see them today.
But deep down, he was still worried, so he asked, "So, you are helping the Qin family?"
Wei Qingyan nodded, "You can say that."
Shopkeeper Cao lowered his head, as if thinking about something.
Qin Sixian begged, "Old shopkeeper, my father passed away just over ten days ago, my third brother has lost his life, and my mother is in a coma. The imperial physician has already asked us to prepare for the funeral.
You are willing to conceal this for my father, so you must have a close relationship with him. Please, for the sake of our friendship, tell me the truth. In such a short period of time, the Qin family has already bought three coffins. The Qin family cannot afford this."
His mother's look made him feel uneasy, but Wei Qingyan's words just now were like a heavy blow to him.
The Qin family will be wiped out!
Not a single one left!
Shopkeeper Cao looked at Qin Sixian and asked, "Do you really believe in ghost grudges?"
"I have to believe it. You must have known that my father's coffin was sent to Furong County by eighteen warrior monks, right?"
"Yes, I know."
Manager Cao finally admitted it.
He had been paying attention to the Qin family. How could he not pay attention when the Qin family suddenly hired so many bodyguards?
As they are all escorts, although there is competition among them on weekdays, most of the time they stick together.
Although the Qin family paid hush money, it was not difficult to find those bodyguards to find out the situation.
"Do you really want to know the truth? Even if it brings disaster to the Qin family?"
There might be ways to deal with man-made disasters, but this resentment was life-threatening. He could only watch his loved ones die or get sick, with no other options.
Qin Sixian quickly made his choice and said with a wry smile, "Is there a greater disaster than the extermination of your entire family? Please tell me."
Shopkeeper Cao sighed heavily.
He had promised Shen Changshan with his life that he would never reveal a single word to anyone.
Can.
He glanced again at Madam Qin's face, which was shrouded in black air.
Finally, he said, "Last year during the first month of the lunar year, your father went to Furong County and asked me to meet him halfway. He had anticipated that someone would ask about the relocation of the graves in the north that year."
Wei Qingyan's eyes moved slightly.
Why did Shen Changshan predict this day last year, or what did he do last year?
This point is very important, Wei Qingyan made a note of it in his mind.
Shopkeeper Cao sighed again, "I did hide some things for him. In fact, it wasn't your father who went with us to the north to move the grave.
That man disguised himself as your father and came with us to the north.
Your father showed up on the day of the tomb relocation. He personally collected the remains of the three members of the Shen family and handed them to me, asking me to send the remains to Furong County. Then he left.
It was still the man who disguised himself as him, and he returned with us disguised as him.
When we were still a day away from Furong County, the man drugged our food and wanted to kill us.
My leg was injured that time. It was your father who showed up, stopped the man, got the medicine from him, and saved us.
But I am not grateful to him. He was in cahoots with that man, but I didn't expect that your father would kill that man in return.
Because of this incident, more than a dozen black-clad assassins came the next day.
I just realized that your father killed that man to let the master behind the assassins know his determination to protect us.
Your father had leverage over the other party, and he used that leverage to protect the Ping An Escort Agency.
Although I am a rough man, I can tell good from bad. When I go out on a escort mission, I will meet all kinds of people. If I really come across someone's secret, it is not impossible that I will be silenced.
But your father saved us and protected the Ping An Escort Agency for decades. I must remember this favor."
His face was filled with shame. "I finally made a mistake."
"No, you didn't say anything wrong. You helped us to resolve the grievances with Shen Changshan, which is also a repayment for his kindness."
Wei Qingyan comforted the old shopkeeper.
Qin Sixian also said, "Miss Chang is right. You told us the truth and saved our entire family. This is a great favor."
Shopkeeper Cao forced a smile.
Wei Qingyan confirmed, “So, Shen Changshan knows martial arts, right?”
"Yes." Shopkeeper Cao nodded, "But I was no match for that man. Although I caught him off guard and killed him, he stabbed me in the abdomen."
"Father actually knows martial arts?" Qin Sixian murmured.
Wei Qingyan glanced at him, handed the talisman paper back to Madam Qin, and continued to ask the old shopkeeper, "What is the handle in Shen Changshan's hand?"
Shopkeeper Cao was silent for a moment, "He brought a child back from Fengzhao. From what he said to the black-clad warriors, the child has an extraordinary background.
If anything happens to us, the whereabouts of the child will be revealed by the people he arranged in Fengzhao."
"He brought it back himself?"
Wei Qingyan's eyes narrowed.
The person who took away Prince Feng Zhao was a man in black with excellent skills. Xiao Zhian followed the clues of the man in black and found the capital of Wei.
I never heard that there was anyone else accompanying him.
"Yes, when he appeared, he was holding a swaddling cloth in his arms, and there was a girl with him."
Why is there another girl?
Wei Qingyan frowned slightly, feeling that this child was not the one taken away by the man in black.
"Do you know where the child was placed later?"
Shopkeeper Cao shook his head and said, "When the assassins came to silence me, I knew how serious this matter was. I wished I could stop hearing about it. How could I pay attention to it?
It wasn't until last year when Lord Shen came to me and asked me to take care of someone for him that I saw that child again."
"If we count by age, the child is already 23. Why does he still need care? Is he sick?"
"That's right." Shopkeeper Cao nodded. "That child is born weak, with his lower limbs and intelligence like a six-year-old."
"How did you know that the child was the one he brought from Fengzhao? Where is the girl who came with him back then?"
Wei Qingyan's mind raced, trying to connect the news he received today with the past.
"I don't know, it was Master Shen who told me that the girl who took care of the child died of illness.
He couldn't bring the child home, so he gave me 10,000 taels of silver, and the child's future life was entrusted to the Ping An Escort Agency."
"Is that child currently in the Ping An Escort Agency?"
"My second son and his wife spent a few years in Jiangnan when they were young, so I told others that the child was born when they were in Jiangnan.
Since my health was not good, I have been raising him in Jiangnan. Now that the child has my surname Cao, Lord Shen said that since the surname has been changed, the name should also be changed, so he was named Yi Zhao.
Yi Zhao?
Recalling Feng Zhao?
"Manager Cao, we want to see the child." Qin Sixian said suddenly.
I learned from my great-uncle earlier that the person my father felt guilty about was the white-haired Prince Rong, so the child he brought from Fengzhao should also be Prince Rong.
How come another child appeared? How many children did the father take away from Fengzhao back then?
Qin Sixian's eyebrows were twitching, and he was eager to know whether this child raised in the Cao family had white hair.
If Cao Yizhao also has white hair, does that mean that the child his father said sorry to in his drunken words is not Prince Rong?
If it wasn't Prince Rong, my father would have one less charge of confusing the royal bloodline.
A 23-year-old man, with handsome features but a somewhat silly look, was sitting in a wooden wheelchair and was pushed over.
To Qin Sixian's disappointment, Cao Yizhao had black hair.
Wei Qingyan was always certain that Shi Yu was the Crown Prince Feng Zhao, so she never let this extra child mess up her thinking.
She was just wondering whose child Shen Changshan, who was not a vicious person, would bring to Wei. The moment she saw Cao Yizhao, she had a new idea.
"Old man, do you still remember what that girl looked like?"
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