The Unparalleled Farmer Girl - C386

Without waiting for the Master Li to say anything, a servant hurriedly ran over, “Master, it’s bad, the west yard is on fire.”

Bai Yixuan frowned, then carefully observed the Master Li’s expression. It was clear that this Master Li was truly shocked and afraid, and definitely not faking it.

Master Li looked at Bai Yixuan and asked, “What did you do to our courtyard?”

Bai Yixuan obviously did not know what had happened and could only look at Bai Yixuan. Bai Yixuan took a step forward and said, “Master Li, I have already seen the things in your courtyard, but we are from the government and we came here to solve the case. That is equivalent to proof, so does Master Li think that we did it?”

With a heavy wave of his hand, he immediately walked outside. Bai Yixuan and Bai Yihui followed closely behind, and just as he had expected, the small courtyard over the wall that Bai Yixuan had passed through earlier was set ablaze.

“Can the Master Li tell us what you know now? Or do you think that we won’t be able to find evidence if this courtyard is burnt?”

“You really didn’t burn it?” Master Li’s face was gloomy, he looked to be truly frightened, the surrounding servants were walking in and out trying to extinguish the fire, Bai Yixuan, Bai Yihui and Master Li stood together.

“Of course not, Master Li doesn’t believe it at all. The burning of your family’s courtyard must be related to your daughter Li Zhuyu’s disappearance. If you really care about your daughter, you better tell us everything you know.”

The Master Li seemed to be confused by the sudden huge fire and even though he had yet to react, his body was extremely honest. If not for the Attendant beside him supporting him, he would have already fallen to the ground.

“My lord, please come into the house, please extinguish the fire here.”

Bai Yixuan and Bai Yihui followed Master Li back to the previous place, and this time Master Li’s expression was no longer as impeccable as before, but instead looked extremely tired. Bai Yixuan knew that Master Li definitely knew something, but he did not say it because of a few reasons, and it was very possible that it was because of his little daughter.

“That Poppy was indeed planted by me, but it wasn’t of my race. It was Qiu Yongnian, I don’t know where he got this from, but he can use this flower to make an addictive drug, and people will feel comfortable eating it for a short time.”

“Does anyone else know about this?”

“Yes, there are a total of five people who know about this. Other than Qiu Yongnian and me, there’s still Lu Xuning, Zhang Qianyi, and Wang Xin. We were all students of the academy back then, but none of us managed to pass the examinations.”

“Did something happen that year?”

“Yes.” I really didn’t do anything in the past, and at most, didn’t report it to him. I had known Qiu Yongnian since we were young, and his father was a doctor, so I had a good relationship with him. Thus, I learned quite a few medicinal ingredients and medical techniques from him and his father. ”

Bai Yixuan and Bai Yihui did not speak. Li Dahe wiped his sweat and continued.

“Afterwards, when we went out to study, we met those three people. After the five of us failed the examinations, we prepared to start a small business, but we didn’t know what we had to do, so it was Qiu Yongnian who suggested to start a medicine business. We all agreed, but we didn’t expect that not long after, Qiu Yongnian would bring us to a mountain.”

“That was the first time I saw the Poppy, I never knew that there would be such beautiful flowers in this world, under the sunlight, those flowers were like shy and timid women, and they even had poison in them, only then did I know the true use of the Poppy, Qiu Yongnian told us we were going to make a fortune.”

In the beginning, we were indeed confused by the wealth that was brought in front of us. This Qiu Yongnian was indeed a person in the beginning, he sold all these things that were made from flowers to the people outside, namely those barbarians, he did not eat them or even let us eat them. But later on, Qiu Yongnian realized that he did not earn much from this, so he started to scheme against our own people.

“You agree?” Bai Yixuan sneered.

“This thing indeed had that effect, and at the beginning, we were hesitant, because when we agreed to do this thing with Qiu Yongnian, we already said that we definitely could not harm our own people and that we would have to sell it outside no matter what, but Qiu Yongnian had actually done this thing behind our backs, and Lu Xuning had actually gotten this thing, so when Qiu Yongnian wanted this thing, he could only cooperate with him.”

“Lu Xuning agreed?”

“Yes, Lu Xuning did not resist the temptation, but this thing is harmful to his body. No matter how beautiful the flower is, behind its beautiful back is a deadly weapon, I have not dared to touch it for so many years, but Lu Xuning was actually looking for a moment of freshness, or maybe it was something that bastard Qiu Yongnian did.”

“How long ago was this?”

“It’s something from thirty years ago. We were too young at the time, and now that I think about it, it’s just like the past. Because Lu Xuning caught this thing, he died once without knowing how, because I know what kind of person Qiu Yongnian is.

“He killed someone and you’re working with him?”

“If we didn’t cooperate, Zhang Qianyi and I would have died. At that time, because Qiu Yongnian got hold of this thing, he quickly concealed a large amount of wealth. I remember what happened at that time, he was practically going to be extremely resourceful in Bai Yi Town.”

“What happened next? What does it have to do with what happened now?”

“I don’t know what exactly is going on, but another thing happened. Back then, Wang Xin, who was the last of the five of us, was extremely disgusted with Qiu Yongnian’s actions, especially after he died. He even threatened to expose what Qiu Yongnian had done.”

“This person is a bit stubborn.”

“So what if you have backbone? People with backbone always need to have confidence. What’s the use of having backbone if you can’t even protect someone you can’t protect yourself?”

“What do you mean?”

“Wang Xin is dead, and his entire family is dead.”

“What did you say?”

“Actually, I don’t even know how Wang Xin died. It was said that a huge fire broke out in the middle of the night and burned Wang Xin’s eighty-year-old mother, wife and children to death. Not a single person in the family escaped, and Qiu Yongnian helped them collect their corpses.”

“Do you have evidence to prove that Qiu Yongnian did it?”

“No, I remember that big torch burned their entire family to ashes, but when we were collecting the corpses, Qiu Yongnian was actually counting the number of corpses there. I can still remember how creepy I was at that time.”

“And then.”

“After that, Qiu Yongnian also started to restrain himself, and it is possible that he also knew that this matter was getting out of hand. In addition, after this matter had been resolved, Zhang Qianyi and I became very close to him, so after it was over, we began to slowly distance ourselves apart.”

“Then why did you meet recently?”

“It’s because Zhang Qianyi is dead.”

“Dead?”

“Back then, I still chose to do the medicinal herb business. Qiu Yongnian’s wealth is already incomparable to the past, so he did many big business, I naturally can’t compare to him. I originally wanted to keep Zhang Qianyi to work in the medicinal herb shop with me, but he refused to do so no matter what.

“And then.”

“In the previous stage, this big brother of Zhang Qianyi suddenly found us and said that his big brother had died. Before he died, he kept muttering the names of Qiu Yongnian and I, and Qiu Yongnian went over to look for him.

“Then why didn’t you inform the officials?”

“Lord, how could we dare to report this to the government? If we did, wouldn’t the events that happened back then be exposed?”

Bai Yixuan didn’t say anything. Bai Yihui also coldly looked at Li Dahe.

That Li Dahe sighed and continued to speak, “Then I asked Qiu Yongnian if he was still doing this business after so many years. Qiu Yongnian said that he had washed his hands clean with gold, and on the other hand, the Poppy had been growing in my courtyard, so he insisted that I was the one who did it, but it was indeed not me.”

“Then why did you keep keeping that Poppy?”

Speaking of which, the lord might not believe it, but I do think that the flower is really pretty, and I definitely have never made that thing with that flower before. I usually lock the flower up, and only when I go back to the courtyard and look at the flower can I remember the absurd thing I did back then.

“Who do you think did it after the child disappeared?”

“Actually, I didn’t know about the opium poppy in the sugar block. If it was really just my child that lost it, I might have thought that it was Qiu Yongnian who made it. But Qiu Yongnian’s child was also lost, so I really don’t know who did it.”

Bai Yixuan asked, “Are you sure that you were the only ones who knew about this all those years ago?”

“I’m sure. After all, this is not a glorious matter and no one can spread it around, especially after they’re all dead, only Qiu Yongnian and I are left.”

“Since you left behind that sugar block, that means that this person definitely knows about what happened that year. You must have missed something.” Bai Yixuan pondered.’s expression was indeed very ugly, “Master, can my daughter still come back? I only have this one daughter.”

Bai Yixuan frowned and looked at him, then said, “Master Li, no matter what we ask you to do, you must cooperate with us. Furthermore, you must stay at home and never go out, we will leave two officials to guard your house.”

Only after Li Dahe thanked them did Bai Yixuan and Bai Yihui leave the Li Residence.

The fire had gone out, and without looking, it had burned everything.

“Xuan Er, can you trust the words of this Master Li?”

“You can believe it, but there may be places I don’t think I can believe it all.”

Bai Yihui looked at Bai Yixuan and asked, “Where?”