Chapter 148 Returning to the City

Chapter 148 Returning to the City

After the crisis was temporarily averted, Xie Wanniang carefully reviewed the situation.

The only people with a motive to kill her, besides her current wife who was her scumbag father, are the alien spies who noticed her frequent interactions with the military.

Between the two, she was more inclined to believe that the other party was a spy from another race.

The reason is simple: those who tried to harm her all had some foreign features.

Her current wife, the son of a scumbag father, probably doesn't have any connections in this area.

The remaining 10% possibility was that Xie Wanniang considered the possibility that she might deliberately bribe such people to harm her in order to clear herself of suspicion, so she didn't dare to say anything definitively.

Hearing her say that, Master Wang's heart skipped a beat. If those people were indeed spies from a foreign race, then this matter would be in serious trouble.

However, this is not entirely a bad thing for their county government. If Xie Wanniang's guess is true, then their county government can openly ask the military for assistance.

With that thought in mind, Master Wang was no longer in a hurry to have Xie Wanniang get the person back for him.

He asked Xie Wanniang, "Miss Xie, are you going back to the city?"

Xie Wanniang nodded, "Of course I have to go back."

She had someone hand over the seized carriages and horses to Wang, the clerk. Since Wang had come all this way, she couldn't let him go back empty-handed, so she decided to give the carriages to the yamen as evidence.

She said to the advisor, "I will take all my people with me, so that we can look out for each other."

Master Wang nodded repeatedly. Indeed, he desperately needed Xie Wanniang's people.

Not to mention the four battle-hardened veterans, Xie Wanniang herself, along with Atai and Haitang, were also formidable fighters.

In any case, if he and the constables who came with him were suddenly surrounded and attacked by a dozen or so people, they would definitely die.

Thinking about it this way, the last bit of resentment in Master Wang's heart disappeared. Xie Wanniang was right; their county government was indeed severely lacking in military strength. Who would willingly risk their life for a meager salary when they could live a good life?

Thinking that Xie Wanniang and the others were not only the parties involved, but also their protectors who ensured their safe return, Master Wang's attitude towards Xie Wanniang became even more polite.

After a quick packing, the group left the village.

To the surprise of Wang Shiye and his entourage, the four retired soldiers dressed as farmers not only each carried a long knife or spear, but two of them also carried their homemade wooden bows and quivers.

Master Wang glanced at them a few more times, thinking to himself that regardless of the four men's combat prowess, their equipment certainly looked impressive.

On the way back to the county town from the village, Xiaomei and Master Wang were on tenterhooks, seeing danger everywhere, while Xie Wanniang, Haitang, Atai, and the four retired soldiers were both vigilant and relaxed.

They are vigilant because they are constantly observing their surroundings and looking for suspicious people, while they are relaxed because they are confident in their own abilities.

They believed that even if another group was lying in wait on the road, ready to kill them and silence them, they had the ability to retaliate and kill them again.

Whether it was because the person behind the scenes couldn't temporarily mobilize more or more powerful men in black to deal with Xie Wanniang and her group, or because they still had some reservations about the government, in any case, Xie Wanniang and her group did not encounter any ambushes along the way.

The group returned to the county town safely. Xie Wanniang first went to the county government office with Master Wang, and then returned to her newly opened restaurant under the escort of Haitang and others.

She arranged for the four retired soldiers to stay temporarily in the front yard. Hao Yu, who rushed over after hearing the news, immediately decided to hire a few more people for her family after hearing the whole story.

Like Xie Wanniang, he also set his sights on retired soldiers.

So, on the day Jiang Yuan was ordered to come to Yi County with the team to cooperate with the investigation and protect Xie Wanniang, after Xie Wanniang and Hao Yu finished telling them about the case, they chatted with Jiang Yuan for a while, asked him about his situation in the military camp, and then proposed to hire a group of retired soldiers.

After listening to them, Jiang Yuan nodded in agreement without saying a word, "I'll personally go and choose the people."

The sudden attack on Xie Wanniang really gave him quite a fright. When Chang Yao received the three prisoners sent by Xie Wanniang, he immediately dispatched his most skilled interrogation officer and guards to deal with them.

The three survivors were severely injured by Xie Wanniang, and when they fell into the hands of Chang Yao's subordinates, none of them had regained consciousness.

In a way, this turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Xie Wanniang, who had no idea that these people had hidden small pills in their mouths, used too much force and prevented the three of them from even having the chance to commit suicide without removing the poison.

As for the six retired soldiers who sent the people there, because of the urgency of the situation, they didn't have time to communicate much with Xie Wanniang. Xie Wanniang told them to send the three survivors to the military camp immediately. They thought that Xie Wanniang had already had someone remove the wax pills that the three survivors had hidden in their mouths.

Xie Wanniang knew nothing about these things. It wasn't until Jiang Yuan specifically explained the matter to her that she belatedly realized that she had almost wasted her time.

With the capable assistants under Jiang Yuan and Chang Yao, Xie Wanniang no longer needed to rack her brains over the case. She put the matter out of her mind and began to busy herself with finding a shop.

Now that her restaurant business is on track, it's time for her to start looking for new ways to make money.

Following her restaurant and medicinal herb cultivation, Xie Wanniang plans to open a smaller clothing shop.

Embroidery is a skill that requires talent, learning, and a lot of repetitive practice. It's difficult for her to train enough outstanding embroiderers in a short period of time.

Well, her own embroidery skills are just so-so, and her embroidery master has also given her a lot of "don't teach" rules. Under these circumstances, even if she were given two or three more years, or even five or six more years, she still wouldn't be able to teach a truly skilled and outstanding embroiderer.

However, cutting and sewing are not difficult skills to learn. She can teach a few skilled workers in a short period of time to achieve a certain degree of assembly line operation.

Anyway, she wasn't targeting the high-end market. Her customer base consisted of people who traveled from place to place to make a living, whose clothes and shoes were easily worn out, but who didn't know how to mend them or had the extra time or money to have them custom-made by tailors.

These people's needs when buying clothes, shoes, and socks are not much different from hers, even though she is a girl and doesn't care much about dressing up: sturdy, comfortable, and well-fitting or comfortable. Meeting these three points is enough.

All those elaborate embroidery and hidden gold thread patterns are just flashy and impractical things that increase their purchasing costs.