Chapter 40: Guan Pengju

The man in black stood there quietly looking at Ye Feng, the emotions in his eyes were very complicated, as if he was engaged in a fierce ideological struggle. After a moment, he finally sighed and lowered his head to remove the face towel from his face.

The surrounding fire light shone clearly on his face, he was the eldest son of the Guan family, Guan Pengju!

The prefect Zhou Ziran, who was standing behind Ye Feng, couldn't understand it at all, he just felt like he had fallen into a fog, and the second monk was confused, and couldn't help asking, "What's going on? Why did the eldest prince come to assassinate a little maid?"

Ye Feng said expressionlessly: "Because he is afraid that Xiaolan will tell clues about the murderer, because he is the murderer who killed Mrs. Guan that night!"

As soon as the words fell, the people behind him were in an uproar.

Could Prince Guan be a murderer? This weak scholar who has always made people feel polite would actually be a cold-blooded murderer? This is really hard to believe.

Guan Pengju still stood quietly in place, still looking at Ye Feng, with no expression or rebuttal.

Lord Zhou felt incredulous and asked, "Ye Gongzi, are you saying that he is the murderer of Mrs. Guan?"

Ye Feng nodded affirmatively and said loudly: "Not only Mrs. Guan, but also his younger brother Guan Pengfei's death, I'm afraid it is also his masterpiece!"

Everyone was shocked when they heard this.

Xie Zhenliang frowned and asked, "Didn't anyone see Guan Pengfei die on the night before, and it was Guan Yuntian who went to the post station to find him? Could it be that Guan Yuntian is not the murderer, or that person is lying?"

Ye Feng shook his head and said, "That dart master shouldn't be lying, what he said should be the truth, Guan Yuntian really went to the post station that night." It's just that he didn't see Guan Yuntian enter the post station to find Guan Pengfei, all he saw was Guan Yuntian driving a carriage to the door of the post station. ”

"If Guan Pengfei's murderer is Guan Yuntian, why didn't he come alone, but drive a carriage with such a big target?"

He paused when he said this, glanced at Xie Zhenliang, who suddenly realized, and said: "The answer is that there must be a person in the carriage who does not want to be seen, and this person is likely to be the real murderer of Guan Pengfei! Guan Yuntian is introverted, and he usually has no friends in the dart game, so who will be able to let him drive the carriage in the middle of the night and send this person to the post station to kill the second son?"

Ye Feng turned his head, stared at Guan Pengju with his eyes, and said loudly: "This person can only be someone who has not been on good terms with Guan Pengfei, but also grew up with Guan Yuntian since childhood, and is like a brother and sister, the eldest prince Guan Pengju!"

Guan Pengju didn't seem to be surprised at anything by Ye Feng's words, he just lowered his head and quietly looked at the ground in front of his toes, neither admitting nor denying it.

The facial features on Lord Zhou's round face were wrinkled, and he made a few "uh-huh" sounds, as if he was trying to sort out what Ye Feng said in his mind, and asked again for a long time: "What about Guan Yuntian, why did he disappear?"

Ye Feng said to Guan Pengju: "This is to ask our Grand Prince Guan, since Guan Yuntian is the only person who knows about this matter, he has either gone away at this moment, or he has simply been wiped out by Grand Prince Guan." Anyway, as long as he disappears, he will become the biggest suspect, and there will be no clues to implicate Guan Dagongzi. ”

Guan Pengju smiled self-deprecatingly, but still lowered his head and said nothing. His attitude is almost acquiescing

Everything Ye Feng said.

Master Zhou impatiently asked again, "What about Mrs. Guan, and how did he kill Mrs. Guan?"

Ye Feng said: "Mrs. Guan and Mr. Arazuki have an old relationship, in the past twenty years, every time Mr. Arazuki stays at Guan's house, Mrs. Guan will inevitably go to the small garden to meet him secretly at night at the third watch. I think Guan Dagongzi must have discovered the secret of his second mother a long time ago, but he has been holding back. ”

"That day, Guan Pengfei died suddenly, the old man Guan was so angry that he had a stroke and was paralyzed in bed, such a big change happened, Mrs. Guan must have gone to meet with Mr. Arakitsuki, who stayed at the Guan family, to discuss countermeasures. ”

So, Prince Guan took advantage of the opportunity when Mr. Arazuki left first after they met, and imitated Mr. Arazuki's swordsmanship to kill Mrs. Guan. In this way, not only did he achieve his goal, but he also succeeded in directing the line index to Mr. Arakizuki, making the situation even more chaotic, and no one would find out about him. ”

Zhang Fatzi frowned, and couldn't help asking, "How can he know Mr. Arazuki's swordsmanship?" Mr. Arazuki himself said that his swordsmanship was only taught to Guan Pengfei alone?"

Ye Feng smiled faintly: "It is true that Mr. Arazuki did not pass on the swordsmanship to the Grand Prince Guan, but the Grand Prince Guan once admitted that Mr. Arazuki had instructed him in his swordsmanship when he was a child. In addition, when Guan Pengfei practiced swordsmanship later, he was very likely to have seen it on the sidelines, and it would not be a problem to imitate one and a half of the moves. ”

Zhang Fat Man had nothing to say, so he could only silently shut his mouth.

Ye Feng sighed softly: "Poor Guan Pengfei and Mrs. Guan couldn't believe that when they died, it would be the Guan Dagongzi who usually looked inconspicuous and polite to kill them. ”

Everyone remembered the unbelievable surprised expressions on the faces of Mrs. Guan and Guan Pengfei's corpses, and they couldn't help but feel a shock in their hearts.

Master Zhou twisted his round body, and after a long time of "um-hmm", he suddenly asked: "Although what Ye Gongzi said seems to be a tight fit and flawless, why did Guan Pengju kill his younger brother and Erniang? What is the purpose of doing this?"

Ye Feng smiled and said, "Does Lord Zhou want a motive? Actually, it's very simple. Old Man Guan Si has been doting on Mrs. Guan for many years, and he is even more obedient and full of praise for Guan Pengfei, but he is becoming more and more alienated and indifferent to us, the eldest son of Guan. Seeing that this second son is about to become the heir of the Qinglong Dart Bureau and the Guan family's property. ”

But now that Mrs. Guan and Guan Pengfei are suddenly dead, all obstacles have suddenly been removed, and Prince Guan has become the only heir of the Guan family, even if Old Man Guan Si is not paralyzed by a stroke, he has no other choice. I don't know if this motivation is enough?"

Lord Zhou hurriedly nodded at his round face again and again, and said in a loud voice: "Enough, enough." ”

Ye Feng continued: "The most important thing is that our eldest prince Guan has long been dissatisfied with Old Man Guan's unfair treatment, blaming everything on Mrs. Guan and Guan Pengfei, and hating him even more for his second mother and younger brother, and he will want to get rid of them as soon as possible." ”

He turned his head to look at Guan Pengju and asked sharply, "Master Guan, is what you said right or not?"

Guan Pengju looked up at the people standing at the door, and suddenly burst into laughter on his back. While laughing, he muttered, "Yes, yes, you're right!"

The laughter stopped abruptly, he raised his eyes to look at Ye Feng, his eyes revealed an extremely resentful look, and said

"I think when my mother was still alive, my father originally regarded me as a treasure, and he also loved my mother, at that time, my father went out every day, and my mother took care of the house, and our family was originally happy and envious of others. ”

"Unfortunately, when I was just ten years old, my mother died of a serious illness due to overwork. Naturally, my father and I were very sad, but at this time, I found that my father, after grief, was hanging out with some of his friends all day long, and often did not return home at night. ”

"Originally, I thought that maybe it was because my father missed my mother too much and did it to escape the pain. However, in less than two years, he actually married another Mrs. Xuxian, and I heard that she was still the well-known Oiran lady in the Qinglou in Lanzhou City. How can such a person take the place of my mother? Therefore, as soon as my second mother entered the house, I had no good impression of her. ”

"Less than a year after she entered the door, she gave birth to her younger brother Guan Pengfei, and since then my life situation has changed dramatically. His father is extremely fond of Guan Pengfei, even doting, and he is obedient, no matter how much trouble he makes, he never bears to add a finger to him. ”

"From childhood to adulthood, my father has done his best for him, studied literature for him, and his father, who never begged for others, even pulled down his old face to ask for relationships everywhere, and asked for famous teachers and professors for him. When it comes to practicing martial arts, he even invited the best players in the Northwest martial arts to be his master, and he taught him everything. The father also boasted that his youngest son was talented and intelligent, and he would become a great man in the future. ”

Speaking of this, Guan Pengju's face was even more angry, and he almost gritted his teeth and said: "I don't know what kind of pillow wind my second mother blew to my father, but my father is becoming more and more estranged from me, and he doesn't have a good face." I only said to the outside world that I was dull and useless, and then I almost ignored it. ”

"You may not be able to imagine that for 20 years, living in the same mansion, my father has been circling Guan Pengfei every day, and I can only see my father from afar. I wanted to talk to my father, but I only waited until the New Year's holiday, when the whole family gathered at the dinner table for a reunion dinner, and every time my father hastily dealt with me. ”

"For 20 years, my father didn't care about what I was thinking or doing, and all I had in mind was his precious little son. Every time I took the initiative to go to him and wanted to talk, he always opened his mouth and asked me if I had enough money, and then sent me some silver taels, and every time at this time, my heart was full of humiliation, and it made me feel as if I was begging from him to call Hanako!"

Guan Pengju smiled self-deprecatingly, but the smile was so sad that it was like crying: "At this time, I deeply realized the folk saying: I would rather die than die as an official than a mother who asks for food." Without my mother, I was nothing in this family, and in my father's mind, I was like I was not his son, but just a blood relative whom he was responsible for taking care of. ”

Looking at the sad look on his face, everyone didn't expect that this polite and polite Guan Dagongzi would have such an unfair and even somewhat sad experience behind him, and they couldn't help but cast sympathetic glances.

Guan Pengju continued: "My father has always been indifferent to me, I am nearly 30 years old, but I still haven't married, and my father is also ignoring this, which makes me very sad. I couldn't sleep at night, so one night a few years ago, I got up and wandered around the house. Unexpectedly, this visit made me discover a big secret!"