Detective Di Renjie: The Mysterious Dynasty

Chapter 330 The Truth of the Matter (Part )
In the hall, Yuan Tiangang was called by his name again by Zhao Ji. He was horrified and wanted to escape underground.

Zhao Ji looked at Yuan Tiangang with some amusement, and said with thorns: "Just this morning, you told me in person to carry out your plan, kill His Majesty and the Crown Prince, put the blame on Prince Li Dan, and then eliminate all the unnecessary Li clan members..."

"By then, I will be the only one left in the lineage of the Li family. I can coerce a loyal Li Tang official like you to nominate me as the successor, am I right?"

When Di Renjie heard what Zhao Ji said, he became furious and glared at Yuan Tiangang, as if he wanted to cut him into pieces!

Yuan Tiangang was already panicking under the stares of everyone, and could not help but take two steps back, trying to avoid everyone's gaze.

Zhao Ji sneered and pointed at Li Shouli, saying, "But if you replace me with him, the crown prince, or Prince Li Dan, wouldn't it all work the same way?"

"If I believed your lies, I would be used as a murder tool by you to kill the crown prince, Li Shouli, or even the emperor!"

"In the end, I became a traitor who killed the king and his parents, was unkind, unjust and unfilial, and everyone deserved to kill me. When Li Dan came out to clean up the mess, the throne would be easily captured!"

"I'm not wrong, am I?!"

Before he finished his words, Zhao Ji's figure flashed and he instantly approached Yuan Tiangang like a ghost, grabbed him by the collar and lifted him up.

Yuan Tiangang's face was filled with fear, and he waved his hands repeatedly at Zhao Ji: "No... no... keep your word, I'm not lying to you. Ten years ago, Li Dan was also involved in getting me imprisoned in Hanguang Temple. I have an irreconcilable hatred for him, so how could I collude with him?"

"Keep your word, believe me, I am sincerely helping you. If you change your mind now, everything will not be too late!"

Zhao Ji sneered and was about to taunt back, but Li Shouli suddenly shouted, "Enough! Yuan Tiangang, stop cheating!"

Li Shouli took a deep breath and sighed, "Now that things have come to this, I don't need to hide it any longer! Over ten years of hatred between two generations, it's time to put an end to it today!"

Zhao Ji and Di Renjie couldn't help but look at Li Shouli, waiting for his next words, while Yuan Tiangang's eyes were filled with fear.

Li Shouli saw Yuan Tiangang's fearful look, sneered, and asked Zhao Ji, "Shouxin, do you know how the snake spirit came about?"

Zhao Ji paused for a moment, then nodded and said, "I have heard that more than a decade ago, Yuan Tiangang, with the help of Jingkong, Huan Bin and other close associates of Prince Yong, gathered together a group of exiles such as Xiao Qingfang, Kui Wenzhong and Brother Jinghui to establish the Snake Spirit, aiming to restore the Li Tang Dynasty and eradicate the chaos of the Wu family."

"It was also at this time that I fell into Yuan Tiangang's hands. However, Yuan Tiangang went back on his words and acted two-faced. Not only did he not revive the Tang Dynasty, but he personally designed the Luohe stele offering incident and pushed the Wu family to usurp the Tang Dynasty..."

Li Shouli glared at Yuan Tiangang with hatred, and then said, "Yes, that's right. After this incident, Jingkong, Huanbin and others will naturally not be able to reconcile with Yuan Tiangang."

"So, they wanted to use you and me to eliminate Yuan Tiangang, reorganize the Snake Spirit, and get it back on track! But Yuan Tiangang was favored by the Wu family at that time, and the mansion was heavily guarded. Jingkong and his plan to save you failed repeatedly."

Di Renjie then continued, "Huan Bin is a Qianniu Guard, so they must have used this status to contact you easily. You are living with the Prince of Xiang's relatives, so naturally you were able to contact the Prince of Xiang."

Li Shouli did not deny it. He closed his eyes and sighed, "That's right. At this time, the Wu family is rampantly persecuting the Li family. Internal guards like Yuan Tiangang and Xiao Qingfang are rampant..."

"Duke Huang's family was brutally exterminated at this time... As a result, Prince Xiang felt that his future was in danger, so he and the snake spirit immediately hit it off. The tunnel was actually built for Xiu Lai to escape, so that everyone could have a way out when the Wu family was about to kill them."

Being touched on the sore spot, Kui Wenzhong was inevitably sad, and Xiaohui beside him also shook her head and sighed. Li Shouli continued: "But with this path, I can often go in and out of the palace and act secretly. I soon gained the support of Huanbin, Jingkong and others, and also won over many Li exiles like Wenzhong."

"With their support, I came up with a plan to fight poison with poison and kill with a borrowed knife. I reported the matter of the snake spirit to the inner guards and used it to eliminate Yuan Tiangang!"

Yuan Tiangang was being stared at by Zhao Ji and dared not move. He couldn't help but reveal a resentful expression when he heard this.

"Humph! But you didn't expect the miraculous changes in the Luo River. I survived. When you, an ambitious person, heard about this, you became greedy!" Yuan Tiangang said sarcastically.

Li Shouli heard Yuan Tiangang's ridicule and rarely refuted: "Yes, when people are greedy, it's like a river bursting its banks, it's out of control."

Kui Wenzhong also sighed: "I still remember that we were arguing at that time. Many people said that it would be better to kill Yuan Tiangang directly. However, Jingkong and Huanbin heard about the Luohe stele offering, so they had delusions and bewitched Your Highness, causing trouble until now..."

Upon hearing this, Di Renjie shook his head slightly, seeming to be quite emotional.

Li Shouli also shook his head upon hearing this: "You can't blame them, it's my fault. Since then, I have been focusing on developing my own power, trying to break away from the Prince of Xiang and form my own faction!"

"Prince Xiang is also cunning and treacherous. He doesn't want to get too involved with a traitorous organization like the Snake Spirit, so he goes with the flow, hides in the back, and lets me do what I want."

"So, with Xiao Qingfang's status as the Grand Master of the Inner Guard Palace as a talisman, the Snake Spirit expanded rapidly. We fought with Xiao Qingfang but could not defeat him, and we have been entangled for many years."

At this time, Hu Jinghui slowly opened his mouth and said, "All the way to Youzhou and Pingzhou, you and Xiao Qingfang were defeated once, and your vitality was greatly damaged. In addition, the ten-year period has expired, so you have united again because of the miraculous events in Luohe!"

Li Shouli could not deny it and nodded, "Yes, after several fights, we already know that Di Gong and Shou Xin are difficult characters, so we decided to kill them with a borrowed knife."

"First, we will rescue Yuan Tiangang by beating the mountain to scare the tiger, and then gradually lure Di Gong and Shou Xin to lead the army to wipe out Xiao Qingfang. By then, all the snake spirits will be under my command."

"Yuan Tiangang has been imprisoned for ten years and has long been a lonely man. He is completely powerless to resist and will only allow us to control him... I can first trick him into revealing the mysterious date of Luo He, and then kill him to vent my hatred!"

"Alas, who would have thought that things would come to this point... I tried to kill someone with a borrowed knife, but the old thief Yuan Tiangang almost succeeded!"

Upon hearing this, Yuan Tiangang snorted coldly, seeming to be very disdainful of Li Shouli's plan.

"Li Shouli, you are still a little immature if you want to fight me. You are the first one and I am the fifteenth! You want to kill Xiao Qingfang and me by borrowing a knife, so we can naturally give you a taste of your own medicine!"

"But I don't understand, how did you and Di Renjie see through my plan? How did you know Xiao Qingfang is not dead?"

Zhao Ji glared at Yuan Tiangang again and sneered, "You guys have changed your tactics. You didn't even use a human skin mask. Instead, you used a substitute who looked very similar to Xiao Qingfang and had been hidden for many years. But the Xiaomei sisters are the people she trusts the most, and they have heard about it a long time ago."

"What's more, when the Snake Spirit headquarters was cleared out, most of Xiao Qingfang's close associates, such as Xiao Jing, escaped, which aroused our suspicion even more! The woman in white in Qianyifang this morning was actually Xiao Qingfang in disguise!"

(End of this chapter)