Before Master Shen could speak, he heard footsteps coming. A woman walked into the house and served tea to Nie Chen and Master Shen.

The woman was wearing a varnish on the road, making people unable to see her face clearly.

Nie Chen looked at Zi Yuan: "Thank you, the fourth sister."

Zi Yuan nodded and took A Jin out of the house. The court dealt with the criminals in Taiyuan. Although Yan Hao made contributions later, he killed someone after all. No matter what his intentions were, he would eventually help the evildoer. Even if he finally saw it clearly and turned around, he could not make up for his mistakes and could not escape the consequences of being rectified.

After she sent Yan Hao's body back to Shanxi for burial, she came to join the public and lived in a daze for half of her life. In the future, she just wanted to do something that she thought was meaningful.

Zi Yuan turned around and retreated.

Master Shen picked up the tea and unknowingly got half a cup of tea. He began to answer Nie Chen's question: "I asked Yan Chan to investigate the case and the second uncle learned about it. The second uncle scolded me for asking someone to investigate the matters of the Shen family without authorization. The second uncle also made people find out that the fifth uncle in the clan had already colluded with the pirates of the Xiu family. The fifth uncle privately set up a house in Quanzhou Prefecture, with a house deed and a land deed as evidence.

Uncle Wu questioned that clanology was nothing more than trying to suppress their reputation so that the entire Shen clan could be held in his hands.”

Nie Chen said: "So you don't want to check it."

Mr. Shen nodded: "Since this is the result, it will be harmful to the Shen family if they continue to investigate."

Nie Chen finally understood why the eldest lady was so wary of the Shen family. This second master of Shen seemed smart but had no idea and was easily convinced.

Nie Chen said: "Then have you talked to Yan Chan?"

"I said," said Mr. Shen, "I told Yan Tan that we would not investigate. The fifth uncle's case had a result. I also told Yan Tan that the case was settled so that he could go to Dali Temple to join the company safely. Unexpectedly, Yan Tan refused to give up. Yan Tan said that even if the fifth uncle did collude with pirates, who took the risk to kill the fifth uncle? What purpose was it? There are many similar doubts in this case.

I gave Yan Shen a list at that time. The people on it were all children of foreign surnames who went to school in the Shen clan. Yan Shen said that those children of foreign surnames had big problems and asked me to give him some more time. He would find more clues and give me an explanation."

Nie Chen admired Yan Tan's character in his heart. Miss Yan Tan and Lord Wei also wanted to ask for the truth. Unfortunately, Yan Tan met a soft boy like Mr. Shen Er.

Nie Chen couldn't help but say, "How did the second master think about it at that time? Do you think Yankan is troublesome?"

Mr. Shen paused for a moment and finally nodded: "Yan Shen made it difficult for me to do this in front of my second uncle. I have resented him and felt that he had misread the wrong person. Yan Shen was holding the secret of the Shen family and wanted to take advantage of the power of the Shen family to fight for the career."

After saying this, Master Shen lowered his head sadly. He regretted letting his younger sister interact with Yan Tan, warning Yan Tan to continue investigating like this, so that they would not let Yan Tan meet his younger sister in the future.

Nie Chen said: "Yan Shen went to the northern Xinjiang and was plotted against him and lost his arms. You should always believe that what Yan Shen said is true, right?"

Mr. Shen Er's lips buzzed: "I thought so, but the yamen investigated that the Tatars were the Tatars who harmed Yan Shen. Tatars often appeared in northern borders. Yan Shen met Tatars who pretended to be bandits, so they ended up like that. I told Yan Shen not to investigate anymore. It is no wonder that Yan Shen became like this."

Nie Chen held his hand. He wanted to drive Mr. Shen out now. No matter how much money the Shen family gave, he didn't want to take the order. The eldest lady was thinking carefully and mentioned him in advance. People in the market only looked up clues. It was the court's business to discuss the crime. The key at the moment was to control more information from the Shen family.

Feeling Nie Chen's unkind gaze, Master Shen's hand shook slightly: "I know now that I'm wrong. Yan Gan is right. We are too stupid and don't know that we are plotting against others."

Mr. Shen Er said that his shoulders collapsed, and his whole body became particularly depressed. His annoyance towards Yan Chan and those things back then completely defeated him.

Nie Chen said: "Who found evidence that Mr. Shen Wu colluded with the pirates?"

Mr. Shen said, "It was my second uncle who asked the manager Cao Huai to take someone to investigate. When Cao Huai was in Zhending to investigate the fifth uncle, he learned that a woman had come to Aunt Wu with a child and said that the child was the descendant of Uncle Wu. Aunt Wu didn't believe that Uncle Wu would raise the outdoor room, so he beat the woman out. The woman did not get any benefits and took the child away from Zhending. Cao Huai looked for the woman and the child around, and found out along the way that the woman had gone to Quanzhou.

Quanzhou is so big that there is no trace of a woman in a while. Fortunately, my second uncle’s friend helped me and found the woman. So I found the house and land that my fifth uncle hid in Quanzhou.”

Nie Chen's eyes were like a stern: "Who is your second uncle's friend?"

Mr. Shen was a little hesitant. If it weren't for this time, he wouldn't want to involve anyone else: "It's my younger sister's husband's family. Mr. Zhang has worked in Guangzhou Maritime Warehouse for many years and has some connections along the coast..." It was also because of this that the Zhang family and the Shen family moved closer, so that their brother-in-law would come to the Shen family to visit. After meeting the younger sister, Zhang and Shen families, they got married.

Nie Chen endured the excitement in his heart and tried not to look inside, so as not to be seen by Master Shen Er.

Since Master Shen Er answered his questions, Nie Chen said: "What do you want the people in the market to help you find out?"

Mr. Shen took out a document from his arms: "This is the list I gave Yan Gan back then. Yan Gan said that there was something strange about the people above, but Yan Gan did not find any evidence at that time, and I had no intention of asking these things. I didn't know who Yan Gan was talking about. I would like to ask you to help me check the details of these people.

Both Cao Huai and Ding were arrested, and the court did not find any confessions from them, and perhaps they could find clues from others."

When Mr. Shen saw that Nie Chen was willing to accept the list he handed over, his hands trembled slightly, as if he saw light again in the darkness.

Nie Chen put away the list and stood up: "You go with me to do the clerk," he said this and paused slightly, "But we have taken over your business, you'd better not mention it to anyone. Your Shen family has a suspicion, and those people know that they will do it in advance, so we can't find anything."

"I won't tell anyone," said Mr. Shin Er, "I came out at night to beware of being discovered."

"Someone is still staring at you at night," Nie Chen said lightly, "Someone asked, you said that people in the market are afraid of trouble and refuse to take over."

Mr. Shen nodded: "I understand."

After completing the document, Mr. Shen Er left a hundred taels of silver notes and hurriedly left. Mr. Shen Er walked out of the alley, turned to see the small courtyard of the people in the market. He felt a figure standing there at the door of the yard, and the figure thought of Yan Shen.

When Nie Chen returned to the main house, he saw Miss Gu sitting on a chair and drinking tea.

"Miss." Nie Chen handed the list to Gu Mingzhu.

Before this, Gu Mingzhu also asked people to check the Shen clan studies. Since the time of Shen Jung-kuo, many people have studied in the Shen family, and they cannot check them one by one for a while. Now that this list has been available, the scope of investigation has been narrowed.

Gu Mingzhu said: "Check whether anyone of these people has any contacts with the Zhang family." From the time when the fifth uncle of the Shen family was killed to the Zhang family to get married to the Shen family, he seemed to have been plotted step by step. The Zhang family has been in Guangzhou for a long time and has taken over the ship manager of the Xiu family fleet. I wonder if he knows whether he knows the Zhang family.

If the Zhang family and Tan Dingfang had collusion in private, Zhang would explain that it would be understandable to introduce Tan Zigeng to Hehua Hutong.

It seems that the next step is to carefully check the Zhang family.
Chapter completed!