Chapter Seventy-Three: The Murderer Behind the Scenes

After the sacrificial ceremony on the first day of the Wuyuan Festival, Song Zongtian invited some important people in Xiangyun City to a banquet, of course, there must be no lack of patriarchs of the three major families.

Seeing everyone staggering, he was very happy, but Zhao Xinlong always had some faint sorrow, maybe it was every festival when he thought of his relatives, thinking back to the days when he and Yao'er came here, Zhao Xinlong drank all the bitter wine in the cup.

Under the leadership of Song Yang, Luo Yao and Zhao Xinlong came to the Song Mansion in Xicheng District, and came to the living room in the mansion, where Song Zongtian had already prepared refreshments and waited.

"The head of the Zhao family, Mrs. Zhao" Song Zongtian got up and said, "Song has lost his welcome, and he hopes to forgive his sins, forgive his sins, hahaha"

"The Lord of Song City is polite," Zhao Xinlong stepped forward and said, "Thank you to the City Lord of Song for breaking the siege today, and for returning the innocence of me and my wife, I have written down this kindness, and it is incumbent on him to have anything that the Lord of Song City needs me Zhao Xinlong to help."

"Hey" Zhao Xinlong hurriedly stepped forward to hold Zhao Xinlong's arms and said, "Brother Zhao, why are you so polite, Brother Zhao, brother and sister, please sit down quickly"

"Thank you, Lord Song," Zhao Xinlong replied.

"I'll call you Brother Zhao," Song Zongtian said with a smile, "Wouldn't it be outside to call me the Lord of Song City again?"

Zhao Xinlong heard this, and hurriedly arched his hand and said, "Zhao is just a cloth cloth, how dare he call the Song City Lord a brother?"

"Brother Zhao" Song Zongtian faked his anger and said, "If you say that again, I'll be angry"

Zhao Xinlong was helpless, so he had to change his tone and shout "Brother Song"

"That's right," Song Zongtian said, "You and I are almost the same age, so we can be commensurate with brothers in the future."

"Thank you, Brother Song, for looking up to me," Zhao Xinlong said humbly, "I don't know what happened to Brother Song inviting our couple here."

"We Mingren don't say secret words," Song Zongtian said, "Brother Zhao doesn't know what to think of Zhang Gaoli's death today."

Zhao Xinlong was silent for a short time, and after thinking about it, he said, "Zhang Lao and his father have some affection, Zhang Lao's death, I am also heartbroken, Zhang Lao died unjustly, but the murderer is still at large, I am also unwilling"

"What Brother Zhao said is," Song Zongtian nodded and replied, "I don't know what Brother Zhao has to say."

"Gao Jian didn't dare to be," Zhao Xinlong said, "but I want to ask Brother Song a question"

"Since you and I are brothers, just ask any questions," Song Zongtian smiled slightly.

"Today's events, presumably Brother Song also knows that this Zhang Jiu, who committed suicide, is just a substitute for the dead," Zhao Xinlong said, "Moreover, Zhang Jiu's death is by no means a simple suicide."

"Oh" Song Zongtian pretended to question and returned to "why is this?"

"This Zhang Jiu was terrified when he died," Zhao Xinlong continued, "There are more than two strangulation marks on his neck, which is obviously an illusion that he was strangled to death first, and then hanged himself in the arrangement."

Song Zongtian nodded slightly in agreement.

"Since this Zhang Jiu is only a person who died unjustly, then the murderers who really killed Zhang Lao are only a few of us present."

"Why is that?" asked Song Zongtian.

Zhao Xinlong smiled slightly and said, "Zhang is more than a hundred years old, and his cultivation has also reached the eighth order of the Martial King, just ask the person who can poison the Martial King, and the experience is not low, what kind of poison will this poison be?"

Song Zongtian shook his head and said he didn't know.

"I don't know about this poison," Zhao Xinlong said, "But it must not be a thing of Xiangyun City, Zhang Jiu is a subordinate, how can there be such a strange poison, colorless and tasteless, and it occurs regularly, but I am afraid that Longlou is not often found in China."

"Not bad," Song Zongtian nodded and said.

"Although I don't know what poison this poison is, as long as I wait for the pharmacist Na Minghao to return and inspect Zhang Lao's body, there will definitely be a lot of gains" Zhao Xinlong nodded slightly and said, "It's just that this Zhang Lao's body was left by Zhang Wenyan, and if you want to find out what kind of poison it is, it will be difficult, and the murderer will naturally have no way to find out, but"

"But how," Song Zongtian said curiously.

"Regardless of the poison," Zhao Xinlong continued, "If we carefully recall the performance of everyone here when Zhang Lao died of poison, and the biggest benefit recipient after Zhang Lao's death, we will naturally know who this murderer is."

"Who is it?" Song Zongtian asked eagerly.

Zhao Xinlong smiled slightly, dipped tea in his hand, and only said two words on the table.

After Song Zongtian saw it, he laughed and said, "Brother Zhao's eyes are like torches, which really makes me admire Song."

"Brother Song made fun of me," Zhao Xinlong said, "Actually, all this was taught to me by Madame on the way here."

"Oh," Song Zongtian said in surprise, "yes, brother and sister."

Luo Yao smiled slightly.

"On the way to the house, my wife told me that Brother Song must know who the murderer is, and out of interest considerations, he deliberately left Zhang Lao's body and Zhang Jiu's body behind, but it's a pity that Zhang Lao's death is only a victim of the last interests" Zhao Xinlong sighed helplessly, "When I come to the City Lord's Mansion, the Song City Lord will definitely let me analyze the whole story again, and my remarks are not in line with the Song City Lord's wishes."

Song Zongtian was slightly stunned, and said with a smile, "It is rumored that Mrs. is smart and clever, and she knows it slightly, and it really deserves her name."

"Thank you City Lord Song for your compliment," Luo Yao finally spoke. A month ago, pharmacist Na Minghao was invited to participate in the triennial alchemist conference of the Eastern Wu Kingdom, in order to take care of the safety of that Ming Hao, the Song City Lord also went with him ten days ago, from our Xiangyun City to the Kyoto Shouchun City of the Eastern Wu Kingdom It takes fifteen days to travel, but today it suddenly appeared at Zhang Lao's birthday banquet, presumably the Song City Lord got some news, but he didn't expect that just when the Song City Lord thought that he was sitting in Zhang Lao's birthday banquet, Zhang Wenyan and Hong Zhongyan would stop it appropriately, and they didn't dare to kill in front of the Song City Lord, but they had already been poisoned, so Zhang Lao's body was not checked or not, and the Song City Lord had already counted it in his heart, As for today's move to clear the grievances of our Zhao family, in order to avoid the situation from further developing uncontrollable, we can also sell personal favors to our Zhao family, but from this point of view, the Zhang family and the Hong family have already been allied, if the real Zhao family falls again, I am afraid that the city lord of Xiangyun City will be more difficult to sit here, the balance will be broken prematurely, and the ultimate beneficiary is only afraid that it is not the Song city lord."

After Luo Yao finished saying all this, the City Lord Song looked at Luo Yao in surprise, his face was solemn, what Luo Yao said was exactly what Song Zongtian thought.

"Papapapa" Song Zongtian got up and clapped his hands and said, "Madame really deserves her reputation, I am ugly"

"Thank you City Lord for the compliment," Luo Yao got up and replied, "I don't know if City Lord Song can tell us the full truth of the matter now."

Song Zongtian was surprised again, and then nodded slightly and said, "I can't hide anything from Madame's discernment."

Song Zongtian was completely convinced of this Mrs. Zhao from the bottom of his heart.

"This matter has to start five days ago" Song Zongtian said, "Five days ago, I received a message from the secret agent of the Longlou Army, saying that I wanted to return to the city quickly, Xiangyun City has changed, Zhang Gaoli is in trouble, after receiving the letter, properly arrange that Minghao, I hurried back, and finally caught up with Zhang Lao's birthday banquet this morning, and you will know what happened later"

"What kind of poison is that old man?" asked Zhao Xinlong.

"Black Scorpion Pill" Song Zongtian returned.

"Black Scorpion Pill?" Zhao Xinlong and his wife wondered.

"This poison is colorless and tasteless, and the person who takes it will die after four hours," Song Zongtian said, "It is aimed at martial artists below the martial arts sect."

"What" Zhao Xinlong and his wife were surprised, "Below the Martial Sect, including the Martial Emperor, it is so poisonous!"

"Hmm," Song Zongtian said, "There are also people in our royal family who have died of this poison before."

"Isn't there an antidote to this poison?" asked Zhao Xinlong eagerly.

Song Zongtian shook his head slightly.

"Who would be able to make such a poisonous medicine?" Luo Yao asked.

"Wuqingtang!"