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Chapter 1813 Half a Jade Pendant

Miss Du said angrily, "You are talking nonsense! Did you instigate Guo Kai?"

Mr. Xiao Du defended himself: "I don't even know who Guo Kai is!"

Feng Jiuxiao outside the door said: "This was taken from Guo Kai, how dare you say you don't know it?"

Mr. Xiao Du was startled and immediately turned around and said, "That letter was not written by me!"

But when he saw that the young man in white had opened his palms and it was empty, he was stunned!

Miss Du’s face became increasingly gloomy!

Feng Jiuxiao had a blank expression on his face. "What else do you have to argue about?"

Miss Du's eyes were about to spit fire. "That's right! Do you still want to quibble?"

Hawkeye and the others also sighed secretly: I didn't expect that Master Du was so smart, but he made such a low-level mistake after all his calculations! I think he must have been overwhelmed by the pressure and lost his mind!

The young man in white clearly didn't mention what he took from Guo Kai, but Master Du actually mentioned the secret letter! Who would believe him if he said that the letter was not written by him?

Miss Du looked at the sweaty Mr. Du and said coldly, "What else do you have to say?"

Mr. Xiao Du couldn't help but sigh! He had nothing to say!

If the young man in white had not put too much psychological pressure on him, he knew to himself that he would never have fallen into such a disaster!

He closed his eyes and sighed, "It's true that everything is determined by fate and we have no control over it!"

Pang Shiwu sneered: "Who the hell do you think you are? Stop moaning! Just answer whatever I ask you!" Damn, my brother just told me the story of Xiang Yu a few days ago. When Xiang Yu committed suicide at the Wujiang River, he also sighed, "It is heaven's will that I die, not my fault in war." This little greedy, lawless, murderous official of Shu actually wants to learn from the Overlord of Chu?

Mr. Du slowly opened his eyes, his face calmed down a lot, as if he knew he was going to die, and he had figured out everything. "Xiao Huan, I heard that your Du family has a huge treasure house, did you know about it?"

Miss Du said coldly: "I don't know!"

Mr. Du continued calmly, "I once overheard a piece of news that the Du family has a treasure. There are not only countless gold and silver jewels, but also natural treasures such as thousand-year-old ginseng and ten-thousand-year-old ganoderma lucidum, and even immortality elixirs made by Taoist masters! If you can find the treasure, you can not only gain wealth that rivals that of a country, but also have the opportunity to achieve immortality..."

Pang Shiwu sneered, "Damn it, human greed is really insatiable! Not only do they want to make money, they also want immortality?" Zeng Yong said: "This is human nature, greed is insatiable!"

Mr. Du's eyes were dull and lifeless as he continued, "Then I began to contact Guo Kai secretly. Of course, I contacted him through an intermediary, that is, the three of them! I asked Guo Kai and his men to pretend to be bandits and rush into the Du Mansion to control Old Master Du and his men, and force them to hand over the Treasure Map!"

Miss Du's eyes were blazing with fire, "Then why did you kill someone in the end?"

Mr. Xiao Du said leisurely, "Because they are too stubborn! Everyone says they don't know the Treasure Map... even if you use some tricks on them..."

Miss Du's eyes were as sharp as knives, and her fists were shaking. "So you just killed them? Poor my grandparents, they are almost eighty years old! My father and mother are not even fifty... My cousins, the oldest is less than twenty, and the youngest is less than three years old..." As she spoke, her eyes turned red, and she couldn't say any more!

Feng Jiuxiao suddenly said: "Mr. Du, tell me, is there a possibility that this Treasure Map does not exist at all?!"

Miss Du and Mr. Du were both startled!

Miss Du's eyes flickered, she glanced at Feng Jiuxiao and said, "I think this is possible! And it's very likely! Otherwise, it's impossible for me not to know any clues at all!"

Mr. Xiao Du was a little confused, "Is it true... that there is no Treasure Map?"

Feng Jiuxiao said: "I believe that Guo Kai's torture methods are definitely not much worse than those of the jailers in the prison! Under torture, no one in the Du family revealed any valuable information. This shows that it's not that they are so stubborn, but that they don't even know that such a thing exists!"

Mr. Xiao Du's pupils contracted, "You mean... this news... is fake? Is it a scam set up specifically for me?" In fact, his obsession has begun to waver!

Feng Jiuxiao said calmly: "Where did you get the news about the Treasure Map?" Mr. Du immediately fell into memories, and after a while he said: "I heard it from the servants of the Du Mansion! That day, two servants were whispering. They thought there was no one around, so they spoke very bluntly. Unexpectedly, I heard it! The general content of their conversation was that one of the servants once inadvertently overheard the conversation between Old Master Du and Old Madam Du, and it seemed that the secret of the Treasure Map was mentioned..."

Feng Jiuxiao asked: "Where are the two servants now?"

Mr. Xiao Du shook his head, "I don't know!"

Feng Jiuxiao said, "I think these two people have disappeared! By the way, I heard that there is a Zhang family in the court that seems to be a feud with the Du family. The two sides have been fighting for many years. Do you think there is a possibility that the two servants are actually pawns planted by the Zhang family in the Du family?"

Mr. Du looked horrified, "Impossible?" Miss Du also widened her eyes and fell into deep thought!

Feng Jiuxiao stared into Mr. Xiao Du's eyes and said, "Then tell me, why is it impossible?"

Mr. Xiao Du did not dare to look Feng Jiuxiao in the face, and quickly looked away, saying guiltily: "I don't know! I think my martial arts skills are not low, those two servants can't lie in front of me, they can't deliberately stir up the topic when I just happened to appear! My Qinggong is good, and ordinary people can't hear my footsteps at all!"

Feng Jiuxiao said: "You don't have to be a martial arts expert to be able to plot against you! You think that those two people have low martial arts skills or even no martial arts skills, so they can't hear your footsteps, can't find your whereabouts in advance, and can't reveal the information of the treasure map to you at the right time, then you are wrong!"

"Am I wrong?" Mr. Xiao Du was a little unconvinced. He thought that although he was not a man of the underworld, he thought that he had a lot of life experience. Being criticized by the young man in front of him for his lack of underworld experience, he was slapped in the face!

"You're a little dissatisfied, right? Then let me tell you! If they had arranged their people in every corner of the Du Mansion in advance, no matter where you went, their people would have communicated with each other in some special way and informed you of your itinerary at any time. Then, your every word and action in the entire Du Mansion would be exposed to the sight of others. No matter where you go, you are under their surveillance!"

Miss Du also found it incredible. If it was true, then these people were too terrifying! She couldn't help but ask, "If what you said is true, then our Du family was full of their people at that time, forming an invisible surveillance network. No matter where he went, he was under the surveillance of others. Moreover, in order to increase the probability of success, they set more than one encounter trap. If he missed one, there would be another one waiting for him?"

Feng Jiuxiao said: "Yes, that's what I mean! There are traps at every step, and it's hard to guard against! He accidentally heard the secret information. This situation seems accidental, but it is inevitable!"

Mr. Xiao Du felt like he had fallen into a bottomless abyss, exhausted and with nowhere to exert his strength! Although what the young man in white said was just a possibility, for some reason, he felt that this possibility was very high, and it might even be the truth! He felt more and more uneasy!

Feng Jiuxiao glanced at Mr. Du, and then burst out with an explosive sentence: "I suspect that you are originally from the Du family! Someone maliciously spread rumors that you are not a descendant of the Du family, instigating discord and causing your Du family to kill each other! Where is the person who allegedly revealed the mystery of your life experience now?"

Mr. Xiao Du was stunned. "Are you talking about my aunt?"

Feng Jiuxiao said: "Yes! When and under what circumstances did this person meet you? And what evidence did she produce to convince you that you and she are a family?"

Mr. Xiao Du said, "It was last March. I went to the southern part of Sichuan to handle official business. It was raining heavily on the way. I ran into her in a dilapidated temple. I went into the dilapidated temple first, and she went in later."

"How many people was she at the time?"

"one person."

"How did she know you were her nephew?"

"I took off my clothes and warmed myself by the fire, and the birthmark on my shoulder was exposed!"

"And she spotted the birthmark at first sight and recognized you as her nephew?"

"That's right. I didn't believe it at first, and just waited and watched. Unexpectedly, she took out half of the jade pendant, and then said that I also had half of the jade pendant, and said that the two halves of the jade pendant could fit together. I was shocked at the time! I took out the jade pendant, and she also took out the jade pendant. The two jade pendants really fit together, and when put together, they became a complete Panlong jade pendant!"

Thank you Yudong for your strong support and encouragement!

January 2025, 12