I was killed by domestic violence, and I went crazy with barrage

Chapter 350

The high priest looked at the second elder coldly: "Now you should know why I don't let you set your sights on Sang Jingwan's daughter, right?"

"I am doing this for your lives, and for my own."

"Are there intact eggs under the overturned nest?"

"I don't need to teach you this, right?"

"No matter how much I dislike you, you probably dislike me too."

"But now we have to accept a reality."

"We are all on the same boat now. We all prosper together and suffer together."

"If I have selfish intentions and want to harm you, I will also be harming myself."

"I'm not that stupid."

The high priest looked at the second elder coldly, as if asking silently: Do you want to be so stupid?
Of course the Second Elder wouldn't be so stupid.

Naturally, he understood what the high priest said.

only--

He just couldn't believe it.

How did things suddenly turn out like this?

"Then Jiang'an Marquis' Mansion has no objection to this? They just accepted it? Don't they hate Sang Jingwan to death?"

"What does that count now?"

"How is this any different than swallowing a fly?"

Swallowing a fly might only make you feel disgusted for a while, but now, sewing wedding clothes sounds like a time-consuming and labor-intensive task.

What's more, it takes more than a dozen embroiderers three to five years to sew a wedding dress... Doesn't this mean that the Jiang'an Marquis's Mansion has to tolerate Sang Jingwan's daughter for three to five years?

This is much more uncomfortable than swallowing a fly.

"Objection? Unwilling?"

The high priest sneered: "Even if the people of Jiang'an Marquis' Mansion don't want to, what can they do?"

"Will their opposition be of any use?"

"Who cares about their opposition and their unwillingness?"

The high priest glanced at the second elder, as if laughing at his stupidity.

"Instead of worrying about whether the people in Jiang'an Marquis' Mansion are willing and able to tolerate and accept Jiang Anning, you might as well think carefully about what Sang Jingwan did back then!"

"So much so that after so long, the one in the palace still thought of her daughter and gave her this honor."

The second elder frowned: "What does the high priest mean?"

"What I mean is, could it be that Sang Jingwan left behind some tricks?"

The high priest's face darkened: "Or did he make some kind of connection? Did he leave someone's promise?"

"This is related to the question of, after Jiang An Ning knows the reason why Sang Jingwan was killed, if he holds a grudge against us, will he use this unknown force to do something to our Sang family?"

The second elder was awakened and said in a deep voice: "If that is the case, let's not talk about it for now. Will that unknown force deal a devastating blow to us? We will have no power to fight back and can only wait for death."

"The enemy is in the dark and we are in the light. We have no idea when they will suddenly attack us, which is enough to get us into trouble."

The most terrifying thing is knowing that someone wants to kill you, but having no idea who this person is or when they will kill you.

"Is there no way to get to the bottom of this matter?"

The second elder looked at the high priest hopefully.

The high priest sneered: "Are you counting on me now?"

He chuckled a few times, seemingly mocking the wanton insults that the Second Elder and the others had previously hurled at him.

The second elder is also flexible.

He immediately acted as if begging for mercy and seemed to be apologizing sincerely.

"I was blinded by my ignorance and offended the high priest! I was confused and my heart was blinded by greed."

"Can you please forgive me? I will send you the bottle of good wine that I treasure, how about that?"

The Second Elder had a very humble attitude, and the High Priest always knew that there was little sincerity in what he said.

It's just that this is a matter concerning one's life and property, so one has to pretend to surrender temporarily.

Such an apology really doesn't make any sense.

Anyway, when the danger is over, everything will just return to its original state.

When the time really comes when someone needs to be sacrificed in exchange for everyone's safety, the person who is currently being humble to you will inevitably be the first to kick you out.

After the high priest understood this, he no longer cared much about it.

"There's no need for wine."

"A gentleman does not take away what others love."

"Since it is the Second Elder's treasure, let the Second Elder keep it for himself."

The high priest said, "It is precisely because I have investigated and learned some information, and after careful consideration, I will make this decision carefully and come back to tell you."

"I didn't expect that this person who seemed so friendly on weekdays would lose the patience to listen to my second sentence after just one sentence."

"How can I continue to talk about this?"

"Even a clay figure still has some earthiness, let alone me, as the high priest of the Sang clan. I have worked diligently and conscientiously for so many years. Even if I have no merit, I should have some credit for my hard work."

"Why am I so untrustworthy? I am... not even qualified to speak a complete sentence?"

The high priest looked at the second elder coldly and snorted, "Second elder, tell me, shouldn't I be sad and angry about this matter?"

"Of course it should be."

The second elder naturally continued speaking along with what the other person said, with a flattering look on his face.

"We were indeed a little impulsive in this matter."

He tried to make amends, "But I assure you, we have absolutely no problem with you, High Priest. We were just frightened by what happened back then! We were really scared."

"So when we first heard you say that we were not allowed to look for Sang Jingwan's daughter, we couldn't help but wonder if what Sang Jingwan did back then would happen again."

"The Sang family is no longer the Sang family of the past."

"We can no longer bear the same setbacks as before."

"That incident in the past has already caused us great damage."

"After lying dormant for so many years, and recuperating, it has not recovered even one tenth of its former state."

"If what happened before really happened again, I'm afraid that our Sang family wouldn't have a single spark left."

The high priest did not respond.

The second elder couldn't sing on his own. After a moment of awkwardness, he acted as if nothing had happened and asked the high priest what he had discovered.
"...I really can't figure out what kind of news would make you so fearful."

The high priest did not deliberately keep the matter in suspense and make things difficult for the second elder.

I just called people in advance as a precaution.

"This may sound a little shocking, so I hope that the Second Elder will listen to it. Whether you believe it or not, please don't interrupt me, and don't say anything that might hurt my feelings."

"As for whether it's true or false, the Second Elder can investigate it himself afterwards."

After hearing what the high priest said, the second elder's heart, which was already tense, instantly rose even higher. He had a bad feeling in his heart.

"Sang Jingwan is very likely still alive!"

"what?!"

As soon as the high priest finished speaking, the second elder, who had originally promised, completely forgot what he had promised.

He exclaimed: "This is impossible!"

"This is absolutely impossible!!"

"How could Sang Jingwan still be alive?"

This was much more shocking than what he had just heard when the Jiang'an Marquisate was going to cooperate with Sang Jingwan's daughter.

"The jade tablet enshrined in the ancestral hall is what our Sang family has been using for nearly a hundred years since we became the Spirit Servant Clan. It is a means of judging the life and death of people in the clan."

"With this jade token, even if someone goes out and encounters an accident, the clan member responsible for guarding the ancestral hall will be able to immediately discover the problem and report it to the clan in time, and the clan will send people out to look for the person."

"You want to see people alive, you want to see corpses when you're dead."

"Even if only a ghost remains, the soul must return to its homeland."

"And over the years, the only lonely soul of the Sang family who is still wandering outside is Sang Jingwan who was expelled from the family!"

“But even if Sang Jingwan was expelled from the clan, her jade token is still in the Sang clan’s ancestral hall.”

"At that time, before the people from Marquis Jiang's Mansion came, we did receive news from the capital saying that Sang Jingwan had died. There might be changes, so we should be prepared and avoid it if possible."

"At that time, the people at the ancestral hall discovered that something had happened to Sang Jingwan's jade token, which coincided with the news sent from the capital."

"In this case, how could she still be alive?"

"Even if Sang Jingwan had faked her death in the past, it was only to conceal the truth and divert the anger of the nobles in the capital to the Sang family."

"She tried to use the nobles to wipe out the Sang family in revenge for the fact that we all tricked her into being a sacrifice."

"The jade tablet placed in the ancestral hall cannot lie to anyone."

“Those jade tablets were given to our ancestors by the immortals from the Imperial Master’s Mansion after the Sang family was selected as the Spirit Servant Clan!”

"No matter how capable Sang Jingwan is, she wouldn't use tricks to change something bestowed by the Imperial Master's Mansion, right?"

This is simply impossible.

The second elder refused to believe what the high priest said, that Sang Jingwan might still be alive.

The high priest rolled his eyes speechlessly: "Second Elder, have you forgotten what you promised me just now?"

"Didn't I tell you long ago that no matter what you hear, no matter how much you don't believe it, just keep silent and listen to what I have to say."

"If you have any doubts, you can check the truth yourself after listening to it."

"I will never interfere with your investigation or anyone else's."

"Believe it or not, it's up to you."

"Of course you can just trust the results of your own investigation."

"But can you let me finish what I'm saying first?"

The second elder had an ugly look on his face, but he also knew that right now, he could not afford to offend the high priest again.

Especially - he had just heard such shocking news.

Even if she wanted to investigate, she had to know where the high priest got the news.

If he doesn't even know where the source is, he won't know where to start investigating.

I can't find the source, and I'm just running around like a headless fly. I'm afraid I won't be able to find out the truth in this lifetime.

This is no different from looking for a needle in a haystack.

“Even you know that the life and death of the Sang family has always been entrusted to the jade tablet enshrined in the ancestral hall.”

"As long as the jade token exists, life will last."

"If the jade tablet is broken, the person will die."

"Am I not going to know?"

"Since I said this, I have my reasons."

"Why can't you just listen to me patiently?"

"It's not like you're going to be reincarnated anytime soon. Will you die if you listen to me for a few more words?"

The high priest became even more annoyed because he was interrupted repeatedly.

The second elder had no choice but to apologize again and humble himself and said a lot of nice words.

The high priest did not feel relieved at all, but became even angrier.

However, now is really not the time to argue with others about these things.

There is no need to worry about it.

He also saw through these people in the Sang family.

No wonder Sang Jingwan looked down on them back then.

So this is the root cause.

One by one, some of them couldn't understand what people were saying.

The high priest now even doubts that if these people from the Sang family were willing to listen to Sang Jingwan carefully back then.

Could it be that Sang Jingwan has some other method to crack the Sang family's once-a-hundred-years sacrifice?

Or, if these people from the Sang family had not deceived Sang Jingwan, but had made things clear to her and respected her choice, given Sang Jingwan's broad-mindedness and her sense of responsibility towards the Sang family, would she not have refused to become a sacrifice?

It is very likely that they are not needed at all, so there is no need for any further persuasion.

The deception of Sang Jingwan by these people from the Sang family was probably just self-righteousness and narrow-mindedness on the part of Sang Jingwan, who was full of enthusiasm and passion at the time.

It's totally unnecessary behavior.

Instead, he pushed Sang Jingwan out, incurring the other party's hatred and almost killing the entire family.

But I didn't expect that after so many years, these people still don't know the lesson at all.

As self-righteous as ever, his brain is like a decoration, so stupid that it's laughable.

The high priest glanced at the second elder and suddenly felt that letting him fend for himself might be the best option.

It's just - now that I've said it, if I don't continue to talk about it and satisfy these people's questioning, I'm afraid these people will do something stupid and earth-shattering.

That's it!

Just think of it as your own safety.

Besides, he had said it before... He and the Sang family were actually grasshoppers tied to the same rope, and sometimes it was not a matter of whether he wanted to or not, but he had to.

Allowing the Sang family to continue doing stupid things would be tantamount to disregarding one's own safety.

There was no need for him to put himself in danger just to satisfy his momentary anger.

"Where were we just talking about?"

The high priest rubbed his head and said, "You really made me so angry that I have a headache."

"I can't even remember what I wanted to say just now."

"Why don't you leave first? Let me calm down and reminisce about what I wanted to say to you before."