Chapter 55

Chen Yanran's voice sounded in Yin Qi's ear: "These people were all brought here by those church members through various means; the women were first provided for their lust, and after they got tired of playing, they would be sold; these children were also, the lucky ones could be sold to a family, the unlucky ones would have their hands and feet broken and be thrown onto the street to beg."

"Beast!"

Yin Qi said coldly, his killing intent boiling in his heart.

He now really regretted killing those people with one knife, letting them die too quickly.

"Everyone don't be afraid, we are here to save you!"

Yin Qi stepped forward, carrying his knife to cut off the iron chains on the cages one by one, and soon rescued a group of women and children.

Only then did they calm down a little, crying with joy.

"Thank you, thank you, hero!"

"It's just that our innocence has been destroyed, can we still go back?"

"Woo woo, why, why didn't you come earlier, why?"

The women cried.

Either crying with joy or crying with sadness.

Seeing the adults crying, the children also started crying, making the basement instantly full of crying sounds.

Yin Qi's heart was agitated, but he also felt very troubled.

In this era, women value innocence very highly, even if they were innocent, having been missing for so long, if they went back, they would be gossiped about, which can be said to be a point of no return.

Chen Yanran said: "Sisters, don't be afraid. You can't go back, and I can't go back either. Why don't we support each other and look out for each other?"

Yin Qi's eyes lit up upon hearing this, and he cast an appreciative look at Chen Yanran, saying: "This is a good idea. Miss Chen, I'm afraid there is still quite a bit of money in this church. You take the money and leave quickly, find a place to hide first. As for these children, send them back later, don't rush, so as not to be caught and interrogated by the government."

Hearing this, the women also stopped crying.

They couldn't go back, and they weren't willing to commit suicide; since that's the case, it's better to live together.

Chen Yanran took everyone away; she knew where Father William hid the money.

Yin Qi opened one wooden box after another, all filled with opium, over three hundred boxes.

Facing this opium, Yin Qi also had a headache.

This thing can't be burned, and it can't be moved, but it can't be left like this either; it's very easy for the government officials to find it, and then it will definitely flow into the market.

"Then it can only be buried. I hope the government officials won't search too carefully."

Although this is a basement, the passage is not hidden.

Yin Qi intends to destroy the passage and bury it.

As long as the government officials don't search carefully, perhaps they can escape a disaster.

Half an hour later, Chen Yanran took the women and children away from the church.

Soon after, Yin Qi also left.

It was already past five o'clock in the morning, and in another half hour, the sky would start to brighten.

In fact, the raging fire in this church woke up many residents nearby, but they just watched from afar and continued to sleep on their own, even humming a few lines happily.

The church has done many evil deeds, and I don't know how many people hate them to the bone; it's better if they all burned to death.

When he returned to the steam engine factory again, the sky was already slightly bright.

On the way, he had already thrown away the knife and night suit, and soaking in the river, no one would find them.

The steam engine factory was quiet, and everyone was in a deep sleep.

With the help of the faint light, Yin Qi checked the harvest this time; not only did the capital come back, but he also got the promissory notes for 700,000 silver dollars from HSBC Bank, and in fact, he also got this steam engine factory.

Jason is dead, so this equipment naturally belongs to him.

As for the Chen family.

When Chen Mingxuan gets the news tomorrow, I'm afraid he will be like a frightened bird, how could he still have the heart to jump out and ask for the equipment back.

"It's a time when money is needed, so I won't repay the Zhang family money shop for these 500,000 yet."

Yin Qi thought secretly.

For one thing, he still needs a lot of money next, so there is no need to rush to repay the loan;

For another, repaying the Zhang family money shop immediately would easily make people think that he did it, otherwise how could he repay the money so quickly.

The silver notes and promissory notes were kept close to Yin Qi's body.

As for the revolver, he found a place to hide it.

This thing is too conspicuous and shouldn't be taken out for the time being.

Prefecture government office.

Backyard!

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The violent knocking on the door woke the prefect who was still sleeping with his concubine.

"Who is it!"

The prefect was awakened, his anger rising, and he shouted outside.

"My Lord, something terrible has happened, something terrible has happened, the four foreign lords have been killed!"

"The four foreign lords have been killed!"

The prefect was instantly shocked and sat up.

He was covered in cold sweat, a look of terror flashing in his eyes.

In order to fawn over the four foreign lords, he specially took out the courtyard used to entertain high-ranking officials, but he didn't expect them to be killed in the prefecture government office; how could he bear such a mistake?

A few minutes later.

The disheveled prefect rushed to the scene and saw the four foreign lords tied to chairs, all with their throats slit, their bodies completely stained red with blood, and the blood on the ground gathered into a large pool.

Looking at such a tragic crime scene, the prefect felt a chill.

At this moment, another panicked voice came from outside the house: "My Lord, something terrible has happened, something terrible has happened."

Something terrible has happened again!

The prefect felt his heart jump, having a feeling of wanting to jump, and hurriedly asked: "What happened again?"

The person swallowed and said with a trembling voice: "My Lord, the church has been slaughtered, and it has also been almost burned to the ground by a fire!"

"You... what did you say, the church has been slaughtered?"

The prefect felt the world spinning and almost fell, but fortunately, someone helped him in time.

He couldn't care about dizziness, and asked hurriedly and angrily: "What exactly is going on, how could the church be slaughtered for no reason, and why did no one come to report the case last night?"

Thinking of these four killed foreigners again, the prefect had an intuition that the thief was specifically targeting the foreigners.

After the sky brightened, Shaoxing Prefecture returned to its bustle.

At this moment, two sensational pieces of news spread like a storm, shocking everyone:

"What, the church was slaughtered last night? Haha, great, this group of foreign devils should have met with retribution long ago!"

"Four foreign devils were killed in the prefecture government office last night? Hiss, which hero did this, it's too bold."

"God, could this be done by the same person."

"Well killed, that group of church members are as damnable as the foreign devils!"

The killing of foreign devils was something the common people were happy to see, and many even set off firecrackers to celebrate.

The forces in the city were shocked.

I don't know who it was, but they were so bold, not only destroying the church but also running to the prefecture government office to kill people, simply daring to heaven, slapping the prefect in the face in public.

"What, the ones who died in the prefecture government office were the foreigners who went to the Yin family to collect debts yesterday?"

Zhang Fenglai got the news and was quite frightened.

The Yin family was schemed against by foreigners, and then the foreigners were all killed; if he didn't believe that this matter had nothing to do with the Yin family, he would die. But why did the Yin family destroy even the church?

Thinking of this, he was secretly puzzled again.

After all, as far as current news is concerned, the Yin family has almost nothing to do with the church, except for Yin Qi beating a church member some time ago, but such a small conflict, how could it lead to a disaster of extermination.

(End of chapter)