Chapter 222: The Aftermath of Liu Ming’s Death
Aunt Niu almost couldn’t help but vomit.
But she thought of how her only son had died under mysterious circumstances. She controlled her physical reaction and forced herself to swallow Cold Fragrance Number Two.
After drinking Cold Fragrance Number Two, she very conscientiously rinsed the bottle with purified water and drank all the dregs.
Mother Song had already left.
Father Liu sat by Aunt Niu’s side and said to her, “My child’s mother, I will teach you how to circulate your cultivation method and how to cultivate. Later, I will accompany you to pick out a good Pet Beast. I know you look down on me for being useless.
But Xiao Hua is right! Without evidence, who can prove that our son was definitely harmed by Song Jun.
Xiao Hua can only use her identity to strive for more benefits for us.
Xiao Hua’s life is not easy either. My brother is not capable, and her maternal relatives are not capable. She also had a very unpleasant falling out with Tiantian before, and even if she wants to repair it now, it’s difficult. Fortunately, Tiantian still acknowledges her as her mother, otherwise, her life would be even harder!
Now that we have money, we can bring our daughter-in-law back. With money, our daughter-in-law won’t abort our son’s only offspring.
I’ve already decided, no matter if this child is a boy or a girl, I will cultivate her with all my might.”
Aunt Niu glared hatefully at Father Liu.
But looking at the entire box of Energy Stones, she could only sit on the ground and weep silently.
Finally, she made up her mind and said to Father Liu, “This shop cannot be sold. You know how good this location is. Even just collecting rent would be a huge profit.
I’ve decided, we’ll rent out this shop, and this Industry will be kept for my grandson.
The rent each month will go to our daughter-in-law as living expenses to raise the child.
Ask your sister Xiao Hua to find me a job! I, this person, am still used to working honestly. Neither of us has a talent for business; we’re not cut out for it.
No matter how the shop’s business is, it won’t be loss-making, but you! You bring those bad friends to the shop every day to eat and drink for free!”
“Those are my friends, and more than half of them are our son’s friends!”
Father Liu was very displeased.
Is this his fault?
“Our son is dead, and you’re still talking about him. Do you have any conscience at all!”
Aunt Niu accused Father Liu.
Father Liu fell silent.
The two of them eventually compromised and voluntarily withdrew the case.
But that doesn’t mean the matter is over.
Father Liu and Aunt Niu thought that if they had enough Power, this matter would still be brought to light.
If they were both ordinary in Talent and had no opportunity, then this matter would just have to pass, and the living must go on.
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Song’s Bar!
The bar opened by Song Jun, it’s just that simple and unpretentious.
The name is just that simple.
If he could have included Song Tiantian’s name, he would have loved to call it Song Tiantian Bar!
Although the name is not grand, and the name is strange, just by looking at the name, one knows who the backer behind this bar is.
The bar opened by Song Jing next door is called “Listening to the Wine Tower.”
In Song Jun’s opinion, the name is even stranger.
But the business is still quite good, very prosperous, making a lot of money, and stealing a lot of business from Song’s Bar.
Moreover, Song Jing has some Relationship with the Song Family, but Song Tiantian’s family did not invest in this bar.
However, investing in the Song Family has benefits, such as the newly built outer city. Nowadays, people are building houses in the outer city, and there aren’t many people in the inner city.
So, if Song Jing wants land in the outer city, she can’t get it, but he can easily get a large piece of land to build a super luxurious Entertainment Venue.
This is not just about selling alcohol.
KTV, chess, and card games can all be arranged.
Song Jun secretly felt fortunate in his heart that his decision to have Father Song invest was not wrong.
Song Jing is a capable woman, but she is short-sighted and too selfish, unwilling to give out even a little bit of Shares.
Although Song Jun’s bar business is better than Song Jing’s, it can’t withstand the high Expenses, and his Dividends are not much, so he doesn’t earn as much as Song Jing.
But with this land approved, Song Jun is very confident that the money he will earn in the future will be something Song Jing can never catch up to in her lifetime.
This Entertainment Venue will definitely be unprecedentedly profitable.
As the major shareholder, Father Song naturally has to invest money. Song Jun came here today to find Father Song and ask him to contribute some money.
“Uncle, there are no Entertainment Venues in Qingshan City right now. This club will definitely be unprecedentedly popular. We’ll be picking up money then. Don’t be reluctant to spend it.”
Song Jun persuaded Father Song.
Father Song’s face was stern and not good.
He glanced outside. No one was in his office. He deliberately locked the door before saying to Song Jun, “Do I look like a stingy person? No matter what, you can’t just kill someone. Liu Ming’s parents have withdrawn the case, and I helped you by giving them a large sum of money.
I don’t want a repeat of this. If Tiantian finds out about this, she will definitely be very unhappy. She hates it the most when people break the Rules.
Moreover, this time it’s such a big case as murder.
If Ranran wasn’t busy, and if I hadn’t told Xiao Hua not to bother Ranran about this matter, Ranran might have investigated it herself.”
“Uncle, how can you suspect me? I didn’t kill Liu Ming. I had some conflict with him, but our families are relatives. I wouldn’t harm his life. Although Liu Ming is ungrateful, and Tiantian helps him so much, he still speaks ill of Tiantian everywhere and uses his position to constantly pass information to those who spread rumors in the city.
I couldn’t stand it, so I just secretly warned him once or twice. No matter what, I wouldn’t take the initiative to kill someone.
Besides, during the days Liu Ming died, I was busy with business at the bar every day. Where would I have the time to harm him? I have witnesses.
Uncle, you gave money to the Liu family, isn’t that indirectly saying that I killed him?
You’ve harmed me. This matter should have been investigated by Ranran sister.”
Song Jun refused to admit it to his death.
There was no evidence for this matter, so he would never admit it, nor would he ever admit it.
Moreover, Liu Ming was not killed by him; he hired someone to kill him.
This matter cannot be blamed on him.
Liu Ming was looking for death every day and even incited many people to cause trouble at the bar.
After learning that his Relationship with Song Jing had broken down, he eagerly tried to please Song Jing every day, but she completely ignored Liu Ming.
No matter how bad Song Jing’s Relationship with him was, they were still cousins.
Moreover, Liu Ming’s character was indeed trash, his ability was Useless, and his heart was malicious.
Few people were willing to associate with such a person.
But he really couldn’t stand having such a venomous snake constantly watching him from behind, his hateful gaze almost turning into substance.
Song Jun initially wanted to endure it, thinking that beating Liu Ming up to teach him a lesson would suffice.
But Liu Ming’s state was terrifying. When he was beaten, he desperately begged for mercy, kneeling and kowtowing with such speed, but after being beaten, he didn’t change his ways.
Song Jun was creeped out by Liu Ming’s gaze. In his perception, he felt that Liu Ming didn’t have the guts to do that.
He thought about it and finally decided to go all the way.
That’s why Song Jun had someone kill Liu Ming.
When Song Jun was doing these things, he specifically put away his Identity Token and placed it in his Pet Beast Space.
After all, this was not defending the City Wall. Doing so was first to protect the Identity Token.
Second, the Identity Token automatically tallied Points. Song Jun was afraid of any other functions, so out of caution, he put the Identity Token away.
This is also an unspoken rule that everyone follows when doing bad things; generally, they will put away their Identity Token.
What if this Identity Token could tally murders!
Song Tiantian only learned of Liu Ming’s death two days later.
Song Tiantian checked, and the System did not detect any direct evidence of Song Jun killing Liu Ming.
Identity Tokens can be monitored, but in most cases, many people prefer to put their Identity Tokens into their Pet Beast Space, making monitoring impossible.
Therefore, if the other party doesn’t wear their Identity Token when harming someone, the System won’t detect it.
Liu Ming’s mental state had already deteriorated. Because his life was not going well, he was gradually becoming like Song Jiaojiao.
Song Tiantian actually felt that she had treated Liu Ming quite well, taking him into Secret Realms twice and giving his family the same Treatment as Song Jun’s family.
But Liu Ming himself was not ambitious, and his family was not as good at making Money as Song Jun’s parents.
This led to the Liu family becoming increasingly impoverished.
But Song Tiantian felt that none of this was her fault.
The System could sense Liu Ming’s hatred.
The System produced a detailed list of everyone in Qingshan City who hated Song Tiantian the most.
Liu Ming ranked first on the list.
Song Tiantian had even saved Liu Ming. If she hadn’t arrived in time, both Liu Ming and Song Jun would have died.
Song Tiantian felt it was inexplicable.
Liu Ming’s hatred for her was so intense.
The person who killed Liu Ming hid their Identity Token when harming him.
However, Liu Ming’s Identity Token was never hidden.
Although Liu Ming hated Song Tiantian, he always kept his Identity Token on him, treating it almost like a protective charm, never putting it away.
And he continued to provide hatred.
He was like the most devout fanatic.
Every night before sleeping, he would curse Song Jun and Song Tiantian at his Identity Token, continuously providing emotional Mental Power.
The System couldn’t perceive how deep Liu Ming’s hatred for Song Jun was because it could only absorb the emotional Power from Liu Ming cursing Song Tiantian.
However, it also had a certain level of intelligence, and it felt that Liu Ming hated Song Jun even more.
This was because Liu Ming’s greatest desire every day was to bring down Song Jun, and he thought about how to harm Song Jun every day, never giving up any opportunity.
For Song Tiantian, he could only continuously provide intense hatred.
Originally, the System wanted to monitor Liu Ming intensely, but Song Tiantian said Liu Ming was a Useless Person and told the System not to waste energy on a Useless Person.
Moreover, the System would only know who killed Liu Ming if it paid attention to Liu Ming at the moment he was killed, because the System could detect people around Liu Ming.
Now, the Identity Token only shows that Liu Ming was killed by a Fierce Beast, and before his death, he had extreme hatred. This hatred was not directed at Song Tiantian or Song Jun.
The problem is that the System was not paying attention to Liu Ming either.
However, it could be determined that the person who killed Liu Ming was not Song Jun.
The other party must have used some means to deliberately torture Liu Ming, leaving him half-dead, and finally, Liu Ming was killed by a Fierce Beast.
This is why Liu Ming had such intense hatred before his death.
Song Tiantian was too lazy to investigate the truth of this matter. After all, Qingshan City had an Enforcement Team, and Huang Xiaohua was in charge of it.
Leng Qing had already been promoted to Great General of the City Defense.
Huang Xiaohua was still righteous and not very stupid. Cases that came to her would be investigated thoroughly.
Song Tiantian felt she should trust Huang Xiaohua.
At least her performance in front of Song Ruyu last time was not too bad.
However, in this case, Father Liu and Mother Liu voluntarily withdrew the case. Once the case was withdrawn, Huang Xiaohua could not continue investigating.
Huang Xiaohua was responsible for all cases in Qingshan City and was very tired; she was busy all day long.
She couldn’t afford to investigate every case that felt slightly off.
She was overwhelmed with large and small cases every day.
There were nearly a hundred cases a day.
Half of these were theft cases, and the other half were neighborly disputes.
Although she could delegate these cases to her subordinates, she still had to review them.
Huang Xiaohua actually preferred to be a City Guard; she felt it was simpler.
Standing on the City Wall every day, daydreaming, was very relaxing.
If Fierce Beasts came, they would just be killed.
No need to use her Brain at all.
She once aspired to be a Law Enforcement Officer, but the Pet Beast Center at that time didn’t have the conditions, and there weren’t enough staff. She had to guard the City Wall, only to discover that there was such a relaxing Job in the world.
But Song Tiantian had spoken with Huang Xiaohua.
If righteous people like her chose to be lazy and not be Law Enforcement Officers, then in the future, even fewer people would be willing to be Law Enforcement Officers.
If she were to be lazy, others would definitely feel tired and also be lazy, and then these cases would forever be buried.
Huang Xiaohua was initially full of confidence, and Song Tiantian also gave her a Salary of two hundred Points per month.
Although there were no Energy Stones, Huang Xiaohua could earn Energy Stones from outside.
Huang Xiaohua was reluctant to exchange Points for Energy Stones.
Two hundred Points, for Qingshan City without a Beast Tide, was also difficult to earn.
If it were in the past, even if Father Liu and Mother Liu withdrew the case, Huang Xiaohua would have definitely continued to investigate to the end.
But now, Huang Xiaohua had to admit that she had degenerated; she was simply spread too thin.
In the past, in Qingshan City, she was only responsible for one case, and other cases were assigned by her Leader. She only needed to investigate that one case.
But now, Huang Xiaohua vaguely understood that being a Leader was not easy either.
She used to scold her Leader for not managing things, but now she realized that there were an extraordinary number of things to do. If you want to manage things, you have to work yourself to death.
And her grandfather only mocked her, saying that she had no backing now and that Song Tiantian was using her like a Workhorse.
Huang Xiaohua felt that her grandfather was still young and could actually work together, but her grandfather adamantly refused to take office.
He refused to be the Director of the Law Enforcement Bureau or the General of the City Defense.
