latelenovela Chapter 671: Something Happened to the Kong Family
Chapter 671: Something Happened to the Kong Family
"It's okay, I'm not sleepy yet."
"Well, Fubao is here to wish us a happy new year, so how can I go to sleep? Godfather hasn't given you the New Year's money yet. It's okay, you can sleep at night. Godfather will be back for three days this time, so you have time to rest. There's no need to rush now."
Both father and son are stubborn.
He was afraid of disrespecting the Jiang family and being impolite, so he refused to go to bed.
But she couldn't persuade Jiang Fubao, so she pulled one with her left hand and another with her right hand.
He dragged the father and son into the house.
She didn't return to the main room until they promised to have a good sleep.
Dong Qingyuan gave her a thumbs up.
"Fubao is awesome!"
"Hey, godmother, let me show you the nails that my second and third sisters and I painted a few days ago." Jiang Fubao smiled and took her arm, and started talking about women's aesthetics.
The two of them look so close, just like mother and daughter.
But as Jiang Fubao's biological mother, Zhang Yanzi was not jealous at all.
Someone loves her daughter, and she is happier than anyone else.
The couple sat next to Zhang Jinlan and Jiang Shoujia, drinking tea in silence and listening attentively.
It was almost noon and neither the father nor the son woke up.
It seems that I am very sleepy at home.
"It's really strange. Why haven't Mingxue and the others come yet? It's almost time for lunch. How could they not come? Why didn't they call a servant to come and tell them?" Zhang Jinlan's voice was filled with some doubt. She looked outside. There was no one else in the yard except the servants passing by.
The meals in the kitchen are ready.
However, no one from the Kong family came. If there was something wrong, they should have sent a servant over to tell them.
You know, the Dong family prepared meals for several more people.
"It's strange, Grandpa Gan, please send someone to take a look. I don't think something is right." Jiang Fubao said.
My godfather and godmother are in business and they know etiquette better than anyone else. It is impossible that they told our family they were coming to pay New Year's greetings but then didn't show up at noon.
Therefore, it is very likely that something happened, and it was very serious, so he didn't even have time to send someone to tell them.
Sure enough, quarter of an hour later, the servant sent by Dong Wei came running back with an anxious look on his face.
"It's bad, it's bad, something terrible has happened to the Kong family."
With just one sentence, everyone sitting in the room stood up.
Everyone had an anxious look on their face.
It's the New Year's Day and yet one thing is not resolved yet, another thing arises.
"What happened? Tell me quickly! What happened to the Kong family?" Zhang Jinlan was the most anxious. After all, her eldest granddaughter was married to the Kong family. If something happened to the Kong family, the first person to suffer would be her eldest granddaughter.
Coincidentally, the eldest granddaughter and grandson went back to the Kong family together in the morning.
Thinking of all the bad news, Zhang Jinlan's voice trembled.
"Someone was causing trouble at Kong's Restaurant, saying that his mother had eaten at Kong's Restaurant and died after taking a nap at home. This person dragged a coffin here early in the morning to cause trouble, saying that the food at Kong's Restaurant was poisonous and killed his mother, and he wanted the Kong family to pay him 500 taels of silver.
She is just an old woman. Regardless of whether she was really poisoned, even if she died, she would not be compensated so much. It is simply a deliberate extortion. There are many men in her family, all of them are strong and healthy, so the Kong family is unable to escape now. The police have already called the coroner..."
The servant's voice sounded very angry.
He was probably also irritated by the man who was extorting money. He was halfway through his speech when two people dressed as officials came in from outside.
Interrupted the servant.
"Tell me what's going on!" Dong Qingyuan asked the officer in a stern voice.
The servants had just arrived and might not understand much, but the police had arrived early, so no one knew what happened better than them.
"To answer Madam, on the day before New Year's Eve, an old woman from Zhoujia Village outside the city came to the town with her family. It was said that someone introduced a widower in the town who was seriously ill and was anxious to marry a wife to bring good luck. It was said that someone had calculated that the wedding must be on the first day of the new year. When the old woman heard the news, she sold her little granddaughter for five taels of silver.
Afterwards, she bought some New Year's goods and was about to go back to the village. When she passed by Kong's Restaurant, her grandson insisted on going to Kong's Restaurant for dinner. Unable to persuade him, the old woman took her family to Kong's Restaurant to eat a bowl of shredded pork noodles. Her grandson didn't finish the soup, and the old woman felt sorry for the money, so she picked up the bowl and drank the soup. As a result, she went home and died after taking a nap...”
The officer did understand what had happened, and he spoke every word seriously.
"That's not right. He drank the soup the day before New Year's Eve and died after sleeping all night. Then why didn't he make trouble yesterday? And only one person died?"
Jiang Fubao frowned and asked loudly.
"Yes, only one person died, which is strange. But the coroner confirmed that the old woman died of poisoning. As for why he didn't come yesterday, the man explained that he was afraid of causing trouble during the New Year and offending others, so he kept the funeral a secret and waited until today to make trouble."
The officer looked at Jiang Fubao and explained to her.
"No, that's not right. Logically speaking, if the noodles were poisonous, it wouldn't be possible for only one person to die. What happened to the child who ate the noodles?" When Jiang Fubao heard that the noodles were for the old woman's grandson, he thought that this so-called grandson was a child. If he was sensible, he would not make a fuss about going to the restaurant to eat.
How many people in the village can afford to eat in a restaurant?
Even the cheapest shredded pork noodles are enough to go to a bun shop outside and buy several meat buns.
Isn’t it more fragrant than shredded pork noodles?
"Well, he's not a child, he's already about twenty years old. He looks like he wasn't well taken care of in the womb, so he's a little, uh, a little stupid, different from ordinary people. As for him, I asked a doctor who lives nearby to check him out. He showed no signs of poisoning and is in very good health. So, I came here to ask you to make a decision."
When the officer heard Jiang Fubao talking about the child, he couldn't hold it in anymore.
He continued to explain.
Then Meng Bujiu was mentioned.
"I'll go call him now. Fubao, you are a good doctor, you can go and take a look later."
No matter how much Dong Qingyuan loved her son, she couldn't delay her work. She left the main room, and after a while, Meng Bujiu and Meng Zhili came over.
They changed their clothes and washed their faces.
After catching up on some sleep, even though they didn't get enough sleep, their complexions looked much better than in the morning.
"Go ahead, we'll talk about other things on the way. Don't delay."
I guess Dong Qingyuan said this while they were washing their faces.
Meng Bujiu already knew what had happened, so he just raised his chin towards the officer and motioned him to follow him.
"I'll go too." Jiang Fubao followed. She was really worried. This matter was too strange and full of loopholes.
Besides, she didn't believe that the noodles from Kongjia Restaurant were poisonous.
Who would poison a poor guy living in the village for no reason?
Enough?
But the coroner came, which means the person was really dead and was really poisoned.
So, it was a frame-up?
Jiang Fubao didn’t know, so she wanted to go and take a look. She must not let anything happen to the Kong family.
Not to mention that the eldest sister married Brother Mingxue, even if she didn't, Kong Yuanbao and Wan Xian were still her godfather and godmother, and they were family.