Chapter Twenty-Five: Fate Is Inevitable

Every festive season, this week, in order to enjoy Li Tengfei's favor alone, Jie'er did everything she could, instigating Li Tengfei to lock the concubines in the boudoir and forbid them to move around. Only she drank and had fun with her husband and a few cronies.

Li Tengfei also really loves this lady, otherwise he would not condone her and interfere with his own romantic and happy life.

It is said that many brothels and taverns and casinos in the city are all operated by the city lord's wife in secret.

For more than 20 years, the two of them have fought openly and secretly, and have collected countless gold and silver treasures, all of which are hidden in the rockery secret room of their house and inner house.

This treasure, like Li Tengfei's wife Zhou Jie'er, is often one of the most popular topics among the people in Guanping City, when they are leisurely. It is even rumored that the huge wealth is comparable to the total wealth of half of the city's residents, so it is no wonder that it will always attract people's attention.

Of course, it is difficult for everyone to settle down, and Li Tengfei, as the city lord, knows the rumors of the common people best. In addition to the necessary prohibitions, he sent his guards to patrol the streets, but anyone who talked about the city lord's mansion in public was immediately arrested and sentenced to death as an example.

However, the more secretive and strictly forbidden it is, the more it can arouse people's curiosity and confirm the authenticity of the rumors.

Therefore, the more you care, the more you will get others to pay attention. All kinds of rumors, like wildfires, spread more and more, spread more and more, spread more and more widely, and spread more and more crazy.

This made Li Tengfei upset, and every night in the dead of night, he couldn't sleep, for fear that someone would take risks and come to steal his family's treasures.

That night, Li Tengfei lay on the bed, tossing and turning and couldn't sleep.

"What's the matter, master?" Zhou Jie'er, who was lying next to him, stretched out her spring-like jade hand and touched his hand.

Li Tengfei looked at his wife Zhou Jie'er, and saw that although she was already the age of a half-old, she was well maintained, just like a young woman of twenty-eight years old, she was still so beautiful and moving, so he never got tired of looking at it. And the more I look at it, the more I like it, and the more I look at it, the more fascinated I become, but after all, he has reached an age where the years are unforgiving. was supposed to cater to him, but he was a little powerless, and he looked listless.

When Zhou Jie'er saw him like this, she couldn't help but raise her eyebrows, turned over and fell asleep to the side, sobbed, and said while crying: "I'm old, not as young as that Cuiling, the master doesn't like it anymore... I'm so miserable..."

Li Tengfei was even more upset by her crying, and he didn't dare to make his wife angry, so he hurriedly coaxed her: "Madam, you misunderstood, no matter how Cuiling is, it's not as good as you!"

"Hmph... One bite at a time... Everyone is dead, and you are still worried..."Zhou Jie'er turned around with a look of jealousy.

"I only have you in my heart, after all these years, don't you understand? Besides, didn't I just talk to her, and you threw her into a mass grave, is that where people go?" Li Tengfei was also helpless for a while, and sighed.

"Do you need to talk without clothes? You still say that you only have me in your heart... Woo..."Zhou Jie'er said and cried again.

Li Tengfei saw her crying again, so he took her in his arms and teased her for a while. Say: "Don't cry baby, it's not beautiful if you cry too much... We're talking now, and we're not wearing clothes!

"Hmph... Just your mouth is slippery..."Zhou Jie'er was amused by him.

"Alright... All right... I do have something on my mind today. ”

"If there is something wrong with the master, you can't tell me, I can also relieve your worries!" Zhou Jie'er stroked the back of his hand, exhaled like an orchid, and picked him with words as she spoke.

"In the past few days, Sha Xiong, the leader of the Sand Gang, has suddenly disappeared, and I suspect that he has either been captured or is dead. Li Tengfei stretched out his fat hand and grabbed Zhou Jie'er's little hand to cater to her.

Zhou Jie'er Jiao gasped and asked, "Could it be that someone from Heifengling did it?"

Li Tengfei said: "Now is an eventful time, and it is not excluded that there are other people. The leaders of the Black Wind Ridge are already lurking in the city, and I have already secretly sent people to monitor them, but I haven't found any unusual movements!"

"Didn't you say that you can't enter the Black Wind Ridge? Could it be that you found the location of the Black Wind Village?"

"No, none of the people sent have returned. But if they can't get in, they will come out, as long as you look at the people who come out, you can understand their movements!"

"This sand bear won't say anything! Zhou Jie'er seemed to think of something, and her expression became grim.

"That's what I'm worried about, alas... It would have been better if he had confessed earlier about the gold mine, and he would have saved himself from complications. Li Tengfei sighed again, and then said: "It's all your ghost idea, you have to lock him up in the secret room, didn't you say that there is a way to let him speak?"

"Hmph, blame me! I'm not here for you, that man has such a hard mouth, he doesn't say how to get in, and he says that there is no gold mine at all......"

"Alright, alright... It's already like this, it's useless to talk too much, I'm busy with official business, and the affairs of the house are thanks to you..."Li Tengfei finished speaking, and got up to find water to drink.

After drinking the tea, he climbed into bed out of breath, lay down again, and closed his eyes. Zhou Jie'er, who was left with a displeased face, fell asleep alone.

I don't know how long it took, Zhou Jie'er, who finally fell asleep, was suddenly awakened by a sound, and she pricked up her ears and listened carefully.

"Bang... Bang..."

The sound of a gong ringing from far and near, and you can faintly hear someone running and shouting, "It's on fire!

Zhou Jie'er immediately woke up Li Tengfei, and after a while, Steward Li's voice sounded outside the house: "Master, madam...... Are you awake?"

"Lao Li, what's the matter?" Zhou Jie'er hurriedly asked him.

"Madam, the firewood room caught fire for no reason, the fire was fierce, and the kitchen was also burned, and I have summoned the guards and subordinates of the house to extinguish the fire, and I was worried that it would disturb the rest of the lord and the lady, so I came to ask. ”

"What? Is there a fire in other places?" Zhou Jie'er was taken aback, and hurriedly climbed out of bed to look for clothes.

"Elsewhere, it's fine, but the fire is getting bigger and bigger, and I'm afraid it will burn to other houses..."

Li Tengfei was also completely sober at this time, and felt that something was wrong, how could it be good to end the firewood house, and the house was usually tightly controlled, and there would be no trouble for no reason. What is the matter today? He thought about it for a while, was suddenly startled, hurriedly got up, and said to Zhou Jie'er: "I'm afraid this fire is not simple, madam, go to the secret room and have a look, I will come later." ”

Zhou Jie'er was also frightened when she heard this, she put on her clothes indiscriminately, took out a bunch of keys from the cabinets, and went out to let Steward Li carry the lantern and walk to the rockery by the lake in the backyard.

Because the inner residence of the city lord's mansion is extremely large, it took a long time to walk around all the way. The faint lantern, in this dark rockery, like a little fluorescence, fluttered into the depths.

The surroundings were scary, Zhou Jie'er came out in a hurry, wearing only a thin gauze coat, and when she came to this rockery, she couldn't help but feel a little cold. However, when she saw an inconspicuous piece of bamboo next to a rockery, her panicked heart finally relaxed.

"Lao Li, you go and tell the master that it's okay here, and ask him to send someone around here to have a look, and I'll wait here first." After Zhou Jie'er finished speaking, she took the lantern in Steward Li's hand.

"Madam, you're all right!" Steward Li was a little uneasy.

"It's okay, you go... Lest the lord worry..."

Zhou Jie'er saw that Steward Li had gone, and she walked around the bamboo bush, wanting to take another look. It's not that she's bold, but she's big, but all family wealth can't be exposed, and even the people of her own family can't let her know.

Just in case, only her husband and wife know the specific location of this secret room, and every time they come to place their belongings, they are only the two of them, so she wants to keep Steward Li away.

Zhou Jie'er turned around, found that there was nothing wrong, and planned to leave. But as she had taken a few steps, a hand suddenly came out of the darkness and covered her mouth, and then the other hand, holding her by the waist, hugged her tightly from behind.

Suddenly, a kind of horror that she had never experienced before, like an invisible claw, firmly grasped her heart in her hand.

At this time, she wanted to struggle and shout, but found that the strength of the other party made her unable to resist.

I was really afraid of something, and out of the darkness came a man in a black tights, and his head was also wrapped in a black cloth, revealing only a pair of eyes. As soon as this person appeared, he snatched the lantern and key from Zhou Jie'er's hand, and walked towards a bamboo jungle.

After a while, I heard a soft sound of "clang", as if something like a door, was opened.

When Zhou Jie'er heard the voice, she didn't care about being frightened, and used all her strength to struggle desperately, trying to break free from the shackles. But no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't break free from the person who was holding her. It wasn't until finally, exhausted, that she slumped and trembled.

The person holding her, perhaps with some strength, was also panting heavily. The warm heat exhaled in Zhou Jie'er's ears, making her flustered heart feel a little strange. Immediately after that, this strangeness turned into an inexplicable heat in her body.

It turned out that when she was struggling just now, in order to subdue her, the man clamped her legs tightly, held her hands around her waist, and inadvertently touched her chest up and down.

In addition, she was worried that something was going on in the secret room, so she was in a hurry to go out, and she only wore a thin gauze dress. The touch made her breathing quicker, and the horror in her eyes had long since calmed down, turning into bursts of confusion and trance.

Zhou Jie'er could also feel behind her, the person holding her, obviously her body also reacted, especially the stiff body of the person, next to her body, which made her mind dizzy.

At this time, her body, in an unprecedented call, deep in her heart flooded with bursts of longing.

However, when Zhou Jie'er was confused, the sharp pain in her chest made her suddenly sober up.

She found a short knife with a cold glistening light inserted into her exposed breast, and blood gushed out.

In the moonlight, her snow-white skin was dripping with blood.

"Go ......"

I saw that from the bamboo jungle, two figures were carrying a person and walked out. Then, the person holding Zhou Jie'er also let go of her at this time, and disappeared into the darkness with them.

Zhou Jie'er didn't know what was going on, she wanted to ask more at this moment, why did that person kill her?

But she couldn't ask.

Looking at the familiar short knife on her chest, in a trance, she saw someone she shouldn't see. Those people are exactly, Lin Dan and Wu Jing, who have been dead for more than ten years, and some women who were killed by her, are waving to her.

They all had smiles on their faces.