Zongwu: Aspiring to be the mastermind behind the scenes

Chapter 72: The Death of Shangguan Feiyan, The Small Building on the Mountain

This house is ordinary, nothing special about it.

Sun Shou winked and was about to have someone push the door open, but the door unexpectedly opened on its own, and an honest-looking man walked out and said, "Sir, everyone, please don't do anything. The person you're looking for is in my room! Please don't do anything!"

"In your room?"

Sun Shou said: "Let them out!"

The man was stunned and said, "Master, she can't get out."

"Why can't you get out?"

"She's dead..."

"What? Dead?!"

Three or four people flew over, and Huo Tianqing asked anxiously, "Who's dead?"

Half a minute later, inside a residential building.

The honest man hid in the corner, looking at everyone timidly.

Sun Xiuqing, Xia Feng, and a female warrior from the Jewelry Pavilion came out from the inner room and said, "He is indeed dead, but it was not due to the palm power of Chief Steward Sun, but to a poison needle."

"Poison needle?" Huo Tianqing was shocked.

"Yes, it was stuck in the back of the neck. Someone must have shot it from behind. The poison killed him instantly!"

Xia Feng said: "Also, we found a disguise mask on her face."

Sun Xiuqing quietly came to Dugu Yihe and whispered something.

Dugu Yihe looked shocked.

Just now, he asked Sun Xiuqing to pay attention to Princess Danfeng's toes when examining her.

Because he had always kept it hidden, the method of identifying King Jinpeng's identity was to look at his toes.

The royal family of the Jinpeng Kingdom probably had a special bloodline from their ancestors, which was passed down, and every descendant of that bloodline has six toes.

It was he who verified this point and confirmed that the previous fake Golden Peng King was fake.

However, after checking, Sun Xiuqing found that this person did have six toes.

This really confused Dugu Yihe.

This person is pretending to be Princess Danfeng, but she is actually a descendant of the Jinpeng royal family.

In other words, her identity as a princess is fake, but her identity as a royal is real.

This complicated situation made Dugu Yihe confused for a while.

When Huo Tianqing heard the bad news, his mind went blank for a moment.

Sun Shou remained calm and asked the honest man, "What happened before?"

"Reply to the uncle."

The honest man said, "Just after noon today, my family members were out and I was alone at home weaving straw mats. Suddenly, a man rushed in, holding the woman, and asked me to give him the inner room and boil water.

He was a martial arts master, so I had to obey his orders. I boiled some water and brought it to him. He opened the door, took the water, and then closed it.

Before I left, I heard a thud in the back room, followed by a crack. I summoned my courage and yelled twice. When I opened the door, I saw the back window had been smashed in. The man was gone, and only the woman was lying on the bed.

I leaned over to take a look, and she...she was already dead.

I didn’t dare touch her, and then… and then you came…”

"I see."

Sun Shou stood up and said, "Since the woman who killed the boss is dead, I will not pursue this matter. Huo Tianqing, let's settle our grudges and never do this again."

He took out a silver ingot from his bosom, handed it to the honest man, and said, "I'm sorry for disturbing you today. Here are ten taels of silver as compensation. You must give it to your family and don't be greedy."

The honest man froze, revealing an expression that an ordinary honest man would never show. Then he took the silver and said, "Thank you, sir. I listen to my wife the most and won't hide any private money."

“Haha… let’s go!”

With a greeting, he took everyone away.

Seeing this, Lu Xiaofeng also clasped his fists to the honest man, then called a group of people and left.

However, the two groups did not take the same path.

Return to Qingfeng Temple.

Lu Xiaofeng said, "Master Huo, we are all here for the same thing. Why don't you tell me your story?"

Huo Tianqing laughed bitterly and said, "I think you have guessed it. I was the one who planned to kill Yan Tieshan and take over the Jewel Pavilion. And Princess Danfeng... no, Shangguan Feiyan, she is my accomplice!" "Master!"

Everyone in the Tianqin Sect was shocked.

Huo Tianqing ignored them and went straight to talking about his own affairs.

From his initial reluctance, to his initial plan to join the Jewelry Pavilion, to his meeting Shangguan Feiyan, changing his original intention, and formulating new plans, he told everything in detail.

After listening to this, Lu Xiaofeng said, "Master Huo, this may sound harsh, but in my opinion, you are not the real proposer of this plan. On the contrary, you are the executor."

"is it?"

Huo Tianqing said this, but his tone was three parts melancholy, three parts regret, and four parts unwillingness to believe.

As someone who had experienced it personally, Lu Xiaofeng could guess the answer to the question, so how could he not guess it now?

He just didn't want to believe it.

He was unwilling to believe that Shangguan Feiyan had come to influence and control him from the very beginning.

Because this not only means that you become a puppet in the hands of others.

It also means that all the love and true feelings that Shangguan Feiyan showed to him during this period were fake.

Lu Xiaofeng said, "But now, the entire plan has completely failed, and Shangguan Feiyan's death was caused by a sneak attack with a poison needle from the back window. This is clearly murder to silence her.

The person who did this is probably the real mastermind behind the whole incident, the person behind Shangguan Feiyan!"

Huo Tianqing asked, "But... Feiyan is dead now. How can we guess who that person was?"

"I can guess!"

Lu Xiaofeng asked, "The first question is, who spent two hundred thousand taels of silver to ask Sikong Zhaixing to steal Princess Danfeng?

This person must be related to this incident and must be a wealthy man who can come up with 200,000 taels of silver.

The second question is, who are the other three people who took away the Jinpeng Kingdom treasure and have never shown up since the beginning?

Huo Tianqing gritted his teeth.

"Huo! Hugh!!!"

Huo Xiu was a very mysterious figure in the martial arts world. People only knew that he was a very skilled martial artist, but no one knew where he learned his skills. People also knew that he was a wealthy man, but no one knew where his money came from.

But now, some people know.

"Huo Xiu built a small building on the hill behind the Jewel Pavilion and stays here for two or three months every year."

Huo Tianqing said: "It is said that there are 108 kinds of mechanisms in that small building, and no one has ever been able to enter.

Perhaps, that is the legendary Qingyi First Floor!"

Everyone walked towards the mountain.

On the way, a figure in white quietly joined the team.

When we reached the top of the mountain, there was indeed a small building with a big word posted on the door.

push!
Huo Tianqing said: "There are many traps here, be careful!"

Lu Xiaofeng pushed the door open and walked in, unharmed.

There's a fork in the road ahead with a sign saying 'Turn Left' on the wall.

Lu Xiaofeng turned left directly.

Huo Tianqing asked, "Aren't you afraid of falling into a trap?"

Lu Xiaofeng said, "No, Huo Xiu is just that kind of person. He will post the most correct answer right in front of people. If people don't believe it, they will fall into the trap."

Huo Tianqing didn't believe it, so he threw a stone towards the corridor on the right, and arrows flew like rain.

There is a dead end in front of the corridor on the left.

There was a sign saying 'Stop' on the wall.

Lu Xiaofeng stopped in front of the wall, and everyone else was stuck there, so they stopped for a while.

After a moment, the sound of a mechanism was heard, and the wall lifted up by itself, revealing a passage leading downwards.

Huo Tianqing frowned and asked, "How do you know Huo Xiu so well?"

"Forehead……"

Lu Xiaofeng was silent for a moment before he said, "He and I are friends."

(End of this chapter)