Chapter 163: Clever Killing Machine

When she was in the capital, Zhilan secretly wondered why Master Dong Mingguang of the household department was so close to the Jiangnan Zhan family. She had also vaguely heard some grievances between the Dong family and the Liu family, and knew that Dong Mingguang intended to support the Zhan family to deal with the Liu family, but now that the Liu family has been defeated, there is no need for Dong Mingguang to cover the Zhan family too much. But now there are all kinds of materials in the palace, and the household department is assigned to the Zhan family to buy them, which has a great momentum for his family to dominate. Zhilan only regarded the Zhan family as deliberately flattering the household officials, and was thoughtful and complete up and down the capital. After all, doing business in such an imperial bureaucratic society inevitably requires making friends with powerful dignitaries and opening up all joints, which is also human nature. But she never imagined that there was another secret hidden here.

It turned out that after Dong Mingguang's daughter Dong Shuyu was beaten into the cold palace, Concubine Nachen didn't have enough of her bad breath, and took the opportunity to bully Dong Shuyu several times. Dong Guiren had nowhere to complain, and after a long time, he finally couldn't bear the humiliation, so he left a suicide note for someone to take home secretly, and he quietly cut off his life in the cold palace. Because of her low position and unclean body, the matter was quickly suppressed. The palace just wrapped it up briefly, and then notified the Dong family to receive the body.

Dong Mingguang received a letter from his beloved daughter, and he was really heartbroken and grief-stricken. not only hated that Concubine Chen's cruelty, but also deeply regretted that she was greedy for wealth and wealth, and personally sent her daughter into the deep palace that eats people and does not spit out bones. After swallowing his anger and sending his daughter, Dong Mingguang was determined to take revenge. Just before, led by Lin Mubai, he got acquainted with the ambitious Jiangnan Zhan family, and secretly supported them to develop and grow, causing many industries of the Liu family to suffer heavy losses. The Zhan family is very grateful to it, and the ice respect, charcoal respect, New Year's respect, and farewell respect for the New Year's festival are endless, and they are gradually getting closer and closer.

Although Dong Mingguang had the intention to find some reliable people from the rivers and lakes to vent his anger for him, he didn't know how to start because he had no way. One day, I didn't know the name of the arrow from other places, and I learned that the strange attack of the third prince that year was the hand of this person. I also heard that this person's martial arts are world-renowned, his temperament is withdrawn, and he has never made friends with others, and he needs to use rare treasures to invite him out of the mountain. The mastermind behind the assassination case has been killed by the law, but this arrow is unharmed, because his whereabouts are erratic and mysterious, and the court is helpless against him.

So Dong Mingguang made up his mind to invite this arrow out of the mountain, but he was still at a loss for what to do. At this time, the Zhan family sent someone to send gifts to Beijing, and brought a message from Zhan Shaofeng, saying that the Zhan family had plans to do some royal business in the future. Dong Mingguang suddenly had an idea, and hurriedly repaired a letter and ordered someone to take it with Zhan Shaofeng. The letter did not say anything explicitly, only said that he hoped that Zhan Shaofeng could use his connections in the rivers and lakes to find a character for him. The letter also hinted that if this could be done, he would promise to give the Zhan family a considerable amount of imperial comprador matters.

Zhan Shaofeng immediately understood when he received the letter, so he arranged for a few dart masters from the rivers and lakes under his command to invite the arrow, and he spent a lot of money to find some rare and exotic treasures, and ordered people to send them to the capital, including the Kunlun jade. After some time, there were rumors in Beijing that the four princes had a strange disease, which made many miracle doctors helpless. Zhan Shaofeng immediately sensitively sensed that this matter must be related to Dong Mingguang and Lijian. Sure enough, it didn't take long for the household department to hand over the purchase of military medicinal materials to the Zhan family. Later, the illness of the fourth prince was cured, and although Dong Mingguang was very angry in private, he was helpless. Later, I looked for the arrow, but I couldn't find a trace, and I couldn't believe it if I was a killer, and the defense in the palace became more and more tight, so I had to stop for safety.

After listening to Zhan Shaofeng's explanation, Zhilan sat down on the chair and was speechless.

Since she married Jiangnan for more than half a year, her life has been peaceful and peaceful. In addition to the news of her family, the so-called major events in the capital are already far away to her. Her father promised her to the Zhan family, and he must have hoped that she would stay away from those things. Unexpectedly, the Zhan family, who was far away in the south of the Yangtze River, was also involved in factional disputes in the imperial court. Think about it, the imperial merchants are naturally different from ordinary merchants, although they have great privileges and many profits, but because they are affiliated with the Ministry of Famous Households, they are still people in the court after all, and they are easily involved in the power struggle, and they will inevitably lose and prosper. What Zhan Shaofeng said today was just a secret deal with Dong Mingguang, but who can know if he is still inextricably linked with other officials in the DPRK and China?

I don't know how long it took before Zhilan sighed: "That...... Our family and the Dong family are now grasshoppers tied to a rope? ”

Zhan Shaofeng stroked her hair and said, "I can't say that, it can only be regarded as a mutual check and balance." There's no need to worry about this, it's just that this Gu Songyun is very unrelenting. I thought that the incident was done by Lijian, and I didn't want to be such a prodigal son of the rivers and lakes, so that he could hold my handle in his hand, but I was afraid that I would not even be able to sleep well. ”

"You...... Wouldn't you be planning to kill him? Zhilan asked.

Zhan Shaofeng smiled and said, "If I wanted to kill him, I would have done it a long time ago, why bother to tell you this." ”

"That'...... You just said that this person can't be kept? ”

Zhan Shaofeng paused for a moment and said, "I remember that you used a medicine that can make people lose their memories in your early years, I think, it is better to use it on this person." ”

"You forgot? He was a medicine man, but any poison was useless to him. Except for one, that is, this poison that his senior brother gave him this time, which was originally used by Lijian to control these medicine people. ”

"Oh, I forgot that." Zhan Shaofeng closed his eyes and pondered, pinched his index finger and thumb between his eyebrows twice, and said, "In that case...... Then I don't have a choice. As he spoke, he lowered his hand and opened his eyes, his blue eyes suddenly turned cold, and a trace of murderous aura quickly flashed.

Zhilan couldn't help but shudder, wanting to dissuade but didn't know what to say. Is it wrong to kill someone? Even she couldn't convince herself. Gu Songyun's temperament, not only Zhan Shaofeng, but even she was a little worried. If you can't get it right, the lives of hundreds of people in the Zhan, Dong, and Lin families will have to be taken. But......

Just when she was thinking crankily and had no idea, Zhan Shaofeng said again: "I know you will be unbearable again. It's better to be like this, anyway, he is also highly poisonous, so you should treat it as an antidote that can't be dispensed, so let him just go. ”

Before he finished speaking, he saw that Zhilan suddenly remembered something, patted his forehead with a "snap", and said, "I was just scared by you!" It was a good thing, but it almost messed up. Then she said with a straight face: "God has the virtue of a good life, and people have done errands for you, but they have also attracted the disaster of killing, isn't it wronged!" ”

Zhilan said and led Zhan Shaofeng to the table, uncovered the urn on the table and said to him, "I originally planned to use this to detoxify him." When you say this, it kills two birds with one stone. ”

Zhan Shaofeng looked at it without knowing it, and saw that in the jar of the black hole, two small insects, one large and one small, were slowly crawling, and the gray insect body stretched and shrunk, and lay together, looking no different from ordinary worms.