Scum Man Cannot Redeem Himself - chapter 162

Ning Qing vaguely felt the fire around, the smoke mixed in her breath.

She didn’t know what tripped him and they fell. He used his body to protect her, she did not feel the pain.

The fire around them had closed in on them, and she could feel that her surroundings were about to burn. She tried hard to clear her head, but her head didn’t seem to be working and neither did her body.

She was having trouble breathing and felt like death was approaching, but there was nothing she could do.

She heard him shouting for her to wake up.  He was pinned down. He told her to run, a few steps ahead was the exit.

The smoke was so thick that she couldn’t see his face. His voice was also extremely far away, as if from a distant space, clear but not real, as if floating in a dream.

He seemed to have given up shouting at her and shouted to the outside, Ning Qing was by the door, “Pull her out.”

After a while, someone came to pull her, and she wanted to take him away with her, because it was too uncomfortable to be there, not being able to breathe, and her skin was burning and hurting. But she had no strength at all, and barely pulled at the corner of his shirt, which he also pulled away.

She hazily saw fire on his body, so red and dazzling that it was frightening.

It took her more than an hour before she was completely clear. She slept in Chen Jili’s green brick house and was told that her yard was on fire. Sister Xiuping was badly burned, and Shen Ma was burnt to death.

She didn’t believe it. How could a good person just leave? She got up and stumbled out the back door.

Was that still her yard? Only the half-high wall of the courtyard was intact, the rest were burnt down, scorched black.

The courtyard’s door was still surrounded by people watching, and there were people from the government who came for the examination of the corpse. It was so black that it was impossible to identify the person as Shen Ma.

A day before she was alive and laughing with her, but she was gone.

Ning Qing’s brain was buzzing. Tears could not stop gushing out, as she suddenly remembered the strange-smelling meal the previous night.

She heard the officials say that the fire burned from the kitchen. Her and Shen’s Ma’s rooms were only one wall apart from the kitchen. And she couldn’t even wake up when it burned like that.

What else could it be, if not a deliberate murder?

She went to the officer and told him what she suspected. The official also found out that there was a sleeping drug in their food. Ning Qing immediately promised a heavy reward to the person who finds the person who set the fire.

Shen Ma was shipped back to Su City, and Sister Xiuping also returned to Su City for medical treatment. She had to cooperate with the government to investigate the case, so she temporarily stayed behind.

She looked at the ruins and suddenly remembered the dream. It was not a dream, but it was reality. The person who saved her was Chen Jili.

Then where was he? Why didn’t she see him?

She asked Nie’er. But with red eyes, Nie’er told her that Chen Jili was also burned. He was rescued but his clothes were burned, and did not know how he was.

Ning Qing’s heart rose to the throat, she did not dare to confirm how his injuries were.

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There were three possibilities to put Ning Qing to death.

One was the woman of Yuyuan, but Ning Qing had broken off relations with the boss as a matter of fact, there was no reason to harm her, unless someone felt that this was a blindfold cast by the boss, and still refused to let her go.

The second possibility was her competitors. Her appearance blocked the path of other people’s fortune. Someone spent a lot of money to take her life, they didn’t even care about Chen Jili and the flower flower boss’s faces.

The last possibility was Li Shansheng. She regarded Ning Qing as the thorn in the flesh, and had always felt that Ning Qing blocked her marriage, ruined her life. So when she and Chen Jili broke up, it was the right opportunity to retaliate.

And the key was to find the bhikkhunī who wanted water to drink.

Under the heavy reward, there were brave men. News from all directions came one after another, the speed of which made Ning Qing surprised.

Maybe it was because almost every family in the villages around had someone doing work in First Sight, and they were treating it as if it was their own business.

The third day of clues pointed directly to Fuqing City. Ning Qing simply accompanied the official to Fuqing City. She was anxious. Shen Ma’s death made her grief-stricken, if unable to find the killer, she couldn’t sleep and eat.

They got a clue that the bhikkhunī was a man dressed as a woman, just a small punk in Fuqing City. He took a commission to add a potent powder to the bottom of the water scoop, Sister Xiuping then used the water scoop in the bucket.

The fake bhikkhunī had been arrested by the officials and was interrogated. It was true that the people who specialize in doing dark work were difficult to find.

The main fake bhikkhunī received his commission and they got no other clue.

When they were at a loss, someone anonymously passed a letter over, which listed a few organizations specializing in secret work on Fuqing Road.

It was really a beam of light.

Officials immediately found those people on the list. Under several interrogations, they finally got information from one of them, saying that a merchant gave the job.

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