Chapter 56

After Yin Chengtao got the news, he almost jumped off the hospital bed.

He wasn't pleasantly surprised, but terrified.

He hurriedly summoned the second steward and asked in a low, stern voice: "What's going on, why did the foreigners who came to collect debts yesterday die in the prefecture government office? Was it done by Qi'er? By the way, where is he?"

The second steward was terrified and hurriedly said: "Old Master, it really has nothing to do with us. Second Young Master was inspecting the family's industries yesterday, and because it was too late, he didn't return to the city, so how could he have the energy to do such a thing? Also, even if we wanted to kill that group of foreign devils, there was no need to do it in the prefecture government office, and we killed the people in the church too."

Yin Chengtao's expression softened, and he also regained his reason, thinking it was so.

Thinking of this, he showed a smile after revenge and sneered: "Good, good, well killed. My son's revenge can be considered avenged."

Chen Family.

"What, Jason and the others were killed in the prefecture government office, and even the church was razed to the ground?"

Chen Mingxuan got the news, and his whole body swayed.

He felt a thunderclap explode in his mind, making him dizzy, and almost a mouthful of blood was about to spray out of his mouth.

The church was destroyed, and he lost his biggest backer.

Jason and the others were killed, and he also lost the ownership of that batch of equipment, only able to watch it cheaply go to the Yin family.

That was something he had managed to purchase from England through Father William with great difficulty.

Of course, this is not the most important thing.

The most important thing is that he suspects this was done by the Yin family, and the Yin family should also know the whole plan, which is why they slaughtered the church after killing Jason and the others.

Then, is it his turn next?

The Yin family even dared to kill foreigners in the prefecture government office, and could do it silently, so how could they let him go?

Thinking of this, he hurriedly said: "Steward Li, increase the guards in the mansion, and there must be people patrolling around my residence at all times. Also, get more dogs."

Steward Li obviously also thought of what Chen Mingxuan thought and nodded hurriedly: "Yes."

Chen Mingxuan asked again: "By the way, have you found the expert I asked you to find?"

Steward Li replied: "Old Master, I have already found him. He is an expert from the north, it is said that he sells arts on the street and can rub stones into powder with a pair of flesh palms. I was originally planning to visit him today to recruit him into our Chen Mansion."

"So powerful!"

Chen Mingxuan was pleasantly surprised and also a bit suspicious, hurriedly saying: "Go now, first confirm his ability. If there is no problem, then recruit him into our Chen family with all your might, even fifty silver dollars a month is fine."

"Alright, Old Master!"

Steward Li nodded and turned to leave.

Watching Steward Li's receding back, Chen Mingxuan felt a long sigh of relief in his heart.

As long as he recruits an expert, he doesn't have to worry too much about his own safety, and he can deal with the Yin family wholeheartedly.

In fact, he really wanted to go to the government to report the Yin family, but without evidence, the government couldn't possibly come to his door to make an arrest.

He couldn't tell the government that he colluded with Father William to deal with the Yin family.

Otherwise, the Yin family destroying the church would have no motive at all.

As for Chen Yanran's life or death, Chen Mingxuan never cared from beginning to end, because in his subconscious, the whole church was razed to the ground, so his daughter naturally couldn't survive.

And the matter of sending Chen Yanran to the church to be a saint was done extremely secretly, and the outside world didn't know about it at all.

Therefore, it was impossible for him to go to the church to look for his daughter's corpse.

What's more, according to Steward Li, many people were burned to ashes, and few complete corpses could be found, so even if he went to look, he probably wouldn't be able to distinguish them.

Chen Martial Arts Hall.

When the government constables came to the door, Chen Yucheng almost thought he had been exposed.

During this period, besides teaching apprentices every day, he spent other time thinking about future plans and making various arrangements, waiting for manpower to be in place to start an uprising at any time.

The government officials coming to the door at this time, it's no wonder Chen Yucheng thought he had been exposed at the first opportunity.

However, he was a veteran of a hundred battles, and he soon calmed down.

If he had really been exposed, then the ones coming to the door wouldn't be government officials, but the army.

Chen Yucheng cupped his fists: "Several lords, what is the reason for your visit?"

Facing Chen Yucheng, Constable Wang didn't dare to put on airs.

Because the other party is the master of Caohe Gang leader Shi Zhongkui, and also the number one expert in Shaoxing, so he said very politely: "Master Chen, this time we are here to understand the situation regarding two tragic cases."

Chen Yucheng was stunned: "Two tragic cases?"

Constable Wang has been a constable for over twenty years and has seen many people; he is best at observing people's expressions. Seeing that Chen Yucheng was truly confused, it seemed that last night's two tragic cases had nothing to do with him.

Early this morning, he hadn't even gotten out of bed when he was urged by the prefect to the prefecture government office, only then did he know that two tragic cases had occurred last night; not only were the four foreigners living in the prefecture government office killed, but even the church was leveled to the ground!

The prefect gave him three days to bring the murderer to justice.

Constable Wang was bitter in his heart, but he could only agree.

Through investigating the two crime scenes, he found that the murderer was a martial arts expert, skilled in knife techniques, and it was an extremely domineering knife technique; there were not many fist masters in the whole Shaoxing Prefecture who met the conditions.

Coupled with his investigation finding that Jason and Davis and the others went to the Yin family to collect debts yesterday, he set the Yin family as one of the suspect targets, and the murderer was most likely Chen Yucheng.

Actually, he had been to the Yin family to understand the situation, knowing that Yin Chengtao was bedridden and Yin Qi hadn't returned from outside the city, so he came to the Chen Martial Arts Hall to investigate first.

He originally thought that this matter was done by Chen Yucheng.

But when he spoke politely earlier, he secretly watched Chen Yucheng and found that the other party was truly confused.

Of course, this is just a preliminary judgment.

Constable Wang said: "Master Chen, you probably don't know yet, last night, the church was razed to the ground, all the missionaries and church members were killed, and even the church was burned almost clean. Not only that, the four foreigners living in the prefecture government office were also slit by the throat, the means were extremely cruel."

Chen Yucheng showed a look of shock, and then his face sank: "My Lord, what do you mean by this, suspecting that I killed them? I have no feud with the church, why would I kill them? And those four foreigners in the prefecture government office, I don't even know who they are."

Constable Wang didn't answer, but asked: "Do you know about the foreigners going to the Yin family to collect debts the day before yesterday?"

Chen Yucheng shook his head: "I don't know. Although I was a fist master in the Yin family and taught Yin Second Young Master for a few days, since I opened this martial arts hall, I have never been to the Yin family again, and it's impossible for the Yin family to specifically tell me about this matter."

Although he is a transformation energy grandmaster, he is a martial artist after all.

Like a great family like the Yin family, it's possible to let him be a guard.

Discussing major events with him is absolutely impossible.

Constable Wang nodded and said: "The situation is like this, the Yin family decided to buy a batch of equipment from foreigners, worth 850,000 silver dollars, but because the Yin family couldn't take out so much money, they sent Yin Xuan to Shanghai HSBC Bank to borrow money from foreigners.

But according to the foreigners, after borrowing the money, Yin Xuan fled with the money.

So, HSBC Bank sent people to the Yin family to collect the loan, and if they couldn't pay it back in one day, they would confiscate all the Yin family's assets.

For this reason, the Yin family master was so angry that he was bedridden.

Fortunately, Yin Second Young Master was there, he borrowed money from the Zhang family money shop and paid off HSBC Bank's money.

But the money was paid only yesterday, and the foreigners were killed in the prefecture government office."

Chen Yucheng flashed a ray of bright light in his eyes, and he nodded slowly: "So, you suspect this is the Yin family's revenge, so you asked me to kill them, but why destroy the church too?"

(End of chapter)