Konoha: This ninja is suspicious by nature

Chapter 189

Qiandao had lived in Meng Zong's mansion all year round and knew the location and structure of the house very well. He ran towards an ornamental lake in the backyard. This lake led directly to the mountain forest lake outside the mansion and was his only way to escape.

Stumbling all the way to the viewing lake, Qiandao plunged into the water.Beichen, who was behind him, jumped into the lake and opened the cover of the passage under the lake. Qiandao followed the water of the lake and flowed out of the mansion.

On the lake surface in the barren mountains, Qiandao stretched out his head and panted desperately, rolled up his wet clothes and climbed to the shore.

"Have you seen it all?"

The voice coming from behind made Qiandao's heart tighten. He turned around hurriedly and asked in a loud voice: "Master Meng Zong has been deceiving Master Lu and this country, right? Master Hongming has been wronged?"

Beichen held a sharp blade in his hand, slowly stepped forward and put the knife across Qiandao's neck, saying: "This country will soon be ours. Don't blame me, if you do, blame you for seeing something you shouldn't have seen."

Qiandao closed his eyes, feeling desperate in his heart. A stream of blood sprayed out, startling a group of egrets on the calm lake.

On Meng Zong's mansion, Meng Zong was giving orders to a group of well-dressed warriors.

"Guard the gates of the capital, and we must never let Qiandao escape from the country of birds. Strictly prevent people from entering and leaving Lord Lu's palace, and use the pretext of hunting down Hongming's remnant party to trace Qiandao's whereabouts throughout the city!"

The warriors nodded and accepted the order, and the leading warrior said: "Leader Beichen has already chased Qiandao, and I think he will be caught."

Meng Zong looked serious. The unexpected appearance of Qiandao made him put away his pride, "Qiandao is a native of the Bird Country. I'm afraid I won't be able to catch him for a while, but we must prevent him from seeing Master Lu and treat him as a human being." As a Hongming comrade, if you see them, shoot them without mercy!"

"Take your orders!" The warriors nodded and dispersed.

Meng Zong stroked his beard, thinking that as long as Hongming was beheaded and shown to the public tomorrow, there would be no trouble in this matter.

In the temple where ghost warriors haunt many times, there is a secret passage under the floor in the southwest corner, which leads directly to the back garden of the Daimyo Palace.

On a hot spring in the garden, a tall and graceful woman had just finished bathing, with silk and satin covering her smooth shoulders.

She tied her long purple hair into a short hairstyle, put on luxurious men's clothes, then took out a pocket watch that had stopped running, and murmured softly, "Brother and father, Ibis has avenged you, and tomorrow will be the time when the murderer beheads him. Please rest in peace"

At noon the next day, the streets of Lakeside City, the capital of the Kingdom of Birds, were crowded with people, and the stream flowed into the streets like sea water.

"The murderer of the ghost case turned out to be Lord Hong Ming!"

"I just said he was ambitious!"

"But I really didn't expect it to be him."

The civilians were talking a lot along the way. They had been looking forward to Hong Ming's execution today. They didn't care about the ins and outs. They only knew that the ghost case that made them feel uneasy all day long was coming to an end. It was all thanks to Lord Meng Zong.

The open space on the street has been set up as a place of worship yesterday. On the high platform in the center, Mr. Lu sits alone on the desk, flanked by guards and officers and soldiers. Meng Zong stands on the side, presiding over the public demonstration meeting.

Below is a circle of officers and soldiers guarding them, led by Onorou, who was recently promoted to captain of the Guards.The crowds of ordinary civilians were blocked by high iron fences and could only watch from a distance.

Hong Ming knelt in front of the stage, turned to look at Master Lu and Meng Zong beside him, and then looked at the surrounding civilians of the Kingdom of Birds. The resentment in his heart had long been covered up by worry.

"What should we do about the future of the Bird Country!" He looked up to the sky and sighed, but he still couldn't let go of the country he had devoted his whole life to.

Meng Zong held the file and said in a loud voice: "Hong Ming, an important counselor in the Kingdom of Birds, first coveted the position of daimyo and killed the late daimyo. In order to retaliate against Lord Heron, he killed his sister Princess Ibis. Now he has created a ghost. The samurai intended to assassinate Lord Heron, which caused the country to be in turmoil and the people to suffer. Such a crime is unforgivable, and he must be punished! Hongming has confessed to the above crimes, and will be beheaded at noon today to comfort the boss, Princess Toki, and the ghost. The souls of those innocent people persecuted by the samurai are in heaven!”

Meng Zong read in an impassioned and eloquent manner, and told all the people of the Bird Kingdom what Hong Ming had done. The people were so angry that they pointed at Hong Ming and cursed, wishing that he would be executed immediately.

"The time has come! Lord Lu, please order me!" Meng Zong put away the file, waved his sleeves and bowed to ask for his order.

"Kill!" Lord Lu said expressionlessly.

The rough and arrogant man who executed the execution drank a bowl of white wine, then pointed the knife at the edge of the knife and spit twice, and pointed the knife at Hong Ming's neck.

The knife was swung down hard, and Hong Ming's neck involuntarily shrank back, but it was firmly fixed by the shackles.The scorching sun was in the sky, but he was covered in cold sweat.

At the critical moment, a kunai shot out, flicking the big man's sword aside, "Keep someone under the sword!"

A green-haired man jumped into the execution ground, raised his hands to Meng Zong and said, "I'm sorry, Lord Meng Zong, I was run away by Qiandao."

Meng Zong was confused for a moment. Can such a thing be said here?Are you out of your mind?And why do you want to save someone under the knife?
Then he realized that something was wrong with the person in front of him. He was not Beichen at all. Meng Zong suppressed the uncertainty in his heart and pretended to be calm.

"Yesterday, Qiandao was found to be an accomplice of Hong Ming, and he was acting as an internal agent for me and Master Lu. Unfortunately, he escaped. I have arranged for manpower to investigate this matter."

Meng Zong took the lead in confirming Qiandao's identity as a criminal, and then pointed his big hand at Beichen, "Who are you! How dare you block the execution meeting! Are you a member of Hongming's party?"

Beichen said with a bitter look on his face: "Lord Meng Zong, didn't you ask me to hunt down Qiandao? Because he bumped into our conspiracy. Not only did you kill the boss and Princess Ibis, you also used the ghost case to frame Lord Hong Ming. The matter must not be spread across Qiandao, but I was unable to catch him because of my weakness, please forgive me."

"Nonsense!" Meng Zong said with an upright look on his face, "You must be a member of Hongming and Qiandao's gang. Someone come and take him down and kill him together!"

The changes before their eyes confused everyone present. What kind of trouble did this green-haired man come to stir up trouble?Are you so blatantly framing Master Meng Zong that we are blind?

But Lord Lu has doubts in his heart. Qiandao is his childhood sweetheart who grew up together. If there is anyone who is least likely to betray him, it must be Qiandao. How could he conspire with Hongming?

"Wait a minute!" Lord Lu stopped loudly.

Onoro, the captain of the Guards who wanted to move forward to arrest someone, looked at Master Lu's expression and then looked at Meng Zong questioningly.

"Xiao Yelang! Catch him quickly!" Meng Zong urged sharply, then turned and bowed to Master Lu, "Master Lu! This person is obviously an accomplice of Hongming and should be captured immediately!"

(End of this chapter)