Jiapingguan Chronicle

Chapter 2263 No More Regrets 10.0

"Your Highness, do you mean to kill them blatantly in broad daylight?"

Xiao Fengqi's face was filled with shock. He couldn't believe that such a thing would happen in Daxia, in the prosperous Jiangnan. He always thought that such things usually happened in remote areas.

"What's so strange about this? Decades ago, there were many similar incidents in Linhuang Prefecture." Mr. Jiang chuckled. "To assassinate the head of a family in the street and expose the internal struggle of the family to outsiders, the nobles of Linhuang Prefecture are not shy at all, right?"

"Your Highness is right, but..." Xiao Fengqi sighed softly, "In the hearts of people like us, Jiangnan has always been very beautiful, with beautiful scenery, and the people who live there are well-educated, polite and elegant. I didn't expect it to be so unexpected, so I was a little surprised when I first heard it."

"This is generalizing. There are gentle gentlemen everywhere. Similarly, those who are always shouting for war and killing can be seen everywhere, right?" Mr. Jiang sighed, "The first assassination was led by the Yao family. After all, Xiaonan was the one who offended the Yao family in the first place. They were actually angry that someone had offended them on their territory."

"Second Grandfather meant that he didn't kill you just to save face at first. He didn't have any other ideas, so he didn't kill you. He just wanted to teach you a lesson. But later, he found out that you were investigating the salt administration, so he killed you." Seeing Second Grandfather Jiang nod, Shen Cha touched his chin, thought for a while, and continued, "In fact, when I heard Master, Yan Bo and Qi Bo tell this story before, I always had a question."

"Do you have any questions?"

"Second Grandfather was ordered to investigate the Jiangnan Salt Administration. Naturally, he had to hide his identity and conduct the investigation in secret in the early stage. But Second Grandfather only brought two guards with him. Isn't he a little too weak? Even with the help of Grandpa Liu, distant water cannot quench immediate thirst. They can save you and the elders of the Xiao family in case of assassination, but if they are not nearby, wouldn't it put you in danger? The opponent is in the dark, and you and the elders of the Xiao family are in the light. Your every move is under their control. Once they want to deal with you two, it will be easy."

"I had more than two guards around me at the time. As I said before, the people sent by my brother were also following me in secret. Unless their lives were in danger, they would not show up." Master Jiang looked at Merlin, "It's the same as Xiao Linzi and Xiao Wu. In addition to protecting my safety, they were also responsible for secret investigations. For example, some places that were inconvenient for me to go to and things that I couldn't get were all thanks to them."

"Something that cannot be obtained?" Shen Cha thought for a moment, "Second Grandfather is referring to the Xiao family's inconsistent account books and their black accounts?"

"Indeed, there are other evidences, which can directly sentence the Yao family and even half of the big families in Jiangnan to death. Neither Xiaonan nor I can get these things by legitimate means, so we can only find another way." Mr. Jiang smiled, "In addition to the people sent by the emperor, we also have people arranged by the inn. The guys in the inn are also good at kung fu, and they are more than enough to deal with the thugs in Jiangning Mansion."

"It's impossible for Senior Li to watch you get hurt." Shen Haolin looked at Master Jiang, "Otherwise, he won't be able to explain himself."

"That's true." Master Jiang smiled at Shen Cha and said, "So, I never worried about danger, but I didn't expect that I underestimated the enemy. After finding out that we were not just here for fun, but our purpose was to investigate them, they killed us. In the second and third assassinations, in addition to the Yao family, there were also Yao's relatives, the Gu family. But the Gu family is not a business family, but a serious scholar."

"Scholars?" Xiao Fengqi was stunned. "A scholarly family would keep assassins? Such a combination is indeed a little unexpected." "Indeed, no one would have thought of it." Master Jiang sneered, "But this is the fact, and these assassins don't look like people from Daxia, Liao or Jin. Each of them is dark, short and skinny. I don't often go out, and that was my first time traveling far away, so I couldn't recognize where they came from. However, the guards around me said that they have no sect or school, and should be specially trained assassins, used for assassination."

"This is even more bizarre." Shen Cha touched his chin, "It's possible that the Gu family is just a gimmick, and the real owner of this group of dead men is not them."

"That's unclear." Master Jiang shook his head gently. "After these people failed to kill us, they all committed suicide one by one to avoid falling into our hands."

"But the Gu family is still there. After the Jiangnan Salt Administration case broke out, the Gu family, as in-laws, would also be arrested, wouldn't they?"

"It should have been like this, but the night before the Yao family was arrested, the Gu family and three other families in Jiangning Prefecture that had close ties with the Yao family were set on fire, leaving no one alive."

"This is the consistent style of the Qinglian Sect. In times of crisis, they kill people to protect themselves." Shen Cha nodded. "Don't talk about the Yao family. The Ning family has been dedicated to the Qinglian Sect, but didn't they also end up like this?"

"What the general means," Xiao Fengqi thought for a moment, "is that once someone is no longer useful or threatens your safety, you will get rid of him as soon as possible?"

"Yes!" Shen Cha nodded. Seeing Xiao Fengqi looking thoughtful, she and Shen Haolin looked at each other and said, "What did Master Xiao think of?"

"In recent years, Linhuang Prefecture, not just Linhuang Prefecture, but many prefectures in the Kingdom of Jin have reported some very bizarre cases, and in all of these cases, entire families were murdered, but the murderer was never found. Now it seems that there is more or less some clue."

"Second Grandfather," Shen Cha looked at Second Grandfather Jiang, "When the elders of the Xiao family went back to clean up the internal strife in the family, did the small family also encounter such an experience?"

"I don't know about this." Mr. Jiang looked at Xiao Fengqi, "Does Mr. Xiao know?"

"Let me think about it." Xiao Fengqi quickly recalled the files he had read in his mind. After a while, he shook his head gently. "At least I don't remember it, but according to the Qinglian Sect's style of doing things, there should be some. I will check it out when I go back. If I find it, I will send a message to the general. No matter what, we have to pull these nails out. We can't continue to give them the opportunity to stir up trouble."