"Excuse me. Elder Wang wants to meet you all. Please move to the new courtyard."
A young member of the Gongsunshi family stood in the guest courtyard and said to everyone politely. If they hadn't looked at the dozen or so masters behind him who looked bad, maybe everyone would have thought this was a good thing.
Zhao Ziyi and Lu Hanjiang looked at each other. It seemed that the situation was exactly as they expected. The person behind the scenes wanted to make a fuss about their relationship with Gongsun Cheng.
"Since it is the elder who has invited us, we will naturally not neglect it and ask our friends to lead the way." Tian Quan said calmly.
They are not afraid of shadows. They have not participated in the affairs of the Gongsun family, so even if someone deliberately sets up a trap, Tianquan is not afraid. If they start a conflict with the Gongsun family at this time, they may fall into their trap.
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"Please come this way." The Gongsun tribesman led the way for everyone with a smile.
Not long after, Lu Hanjiang and his party were taken to a relatively remote courtyard. Tian Quan looked around, his face darkened, and he said, "This doesn't seem to be the way to the new courtyard."
As soon as he said this, the experts accompanying him all cast indifferent glances at him. The Gongsun tribesman turned around and said bluntly: "This young master is right. In order to take you away quickly, I had no choice but to lie."
, please forgive me."
Tian Quan paused and asked, "What do you mean?"
The Gongsun tribesman said calmly: "To be honest, I am the person in charge of criminal law in the tribe, and my name is only "Y". You are invited here because we have found out that the poisoning of Master Lu Pengbiao is related to Master Cheng.
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"What did you say?" Tianquan and others were shocked.
...
At the same time, Gongsun Cheng's courtyard door was also knocked open. Gongsun Wang came with a group of elders, and the atmosphere became a little tense.
Gongsun Chengqiang tried to calm down. After bowing respectfully, he asked, "I wonder what the elders are here for?"
Gongsun Wang remained silent and did not speak. An old man behind him came forward and coldly snorted: "Bring this person up."
Gongsun Cheng was confused when he saw a familiar person being dragged into his yard.
"Ah Sheng?" He was surprised for a while, and then bowed to the elders with a face full of shame: "It's the junior who failed to train the servants well. If Ah Sheng makes a mistake, please punish the elders according to the rules. The juniors are willing to lead the way."
It is a lax crime."
The fateful old man sneered and said: "You are such a selfless young master Cheng, so please tell me whether it was you who sent this person to the guest house to meet a few young knights from the world."
Gongsun Cheng frowned, but said in a neither humble nor arrogant tone: "That's what I ordered, that's right. Those people are all young talents that I have gotten to know recently. Due to my cousin's poisoning, I had no choice but to stay in the guest house temporarily. I sent Asheng to take care of them."
A table of wine and food was given to them as an apology."
"Since you are apologizing, why do you have to pass on the news secretly?" Old Su asked sternly.
"Passing a message?" Gongsun Cheng was confused and defended himself: "I have never asked Ah Sheng to convey any message to anyone, so I ask the elders to keep an eye on it."
"You are so clean." The old man looked at Ah Sheng who was kneeling on the ground and shouted, "Tell me again what you just confessed!"
Ah Sheng trembled all over, kowtowed and said: "Elders, young masters, villains - villains all do things according to orders...!"
Gongsun Cheng was shocked and glared at him angrily: "Nonsense! Ah Sheng! I think I treat you well, why do you want to fabricate lies and frame me!"
Ah Sheng cried and cried: "Master! Of course I know how good you are to me, but I really am not talking nonsense. The secret letter is indeed the secret letter that the eldest lady ordered me to bring to the guest house."
Chivalrous."
Gongsun Cheng was startled by the word eldest lady, and he immediately said angrily: "How is this possible! My sister and Mr. Qian are strangers to each other, how could I ask you to send a secret message!"
Ah Sheng couldn't explain this clearly, but he did do what he was told. At this moment, he could only kowtow and swear that what he said was true.
The old man waved his hand and asked people to take the crying Ah Sheng down, then took out a porcelain vase from his arms, stared at Gongsun Cheng with burning eyes and said: "This thing was found from your servant.
of."
Gongsun Cheng said in a deep voice: "Juniors don't know what this is. Elders, please speak frankly."
"Stubborn," the elder Su threw the bottle at Gongsun Cheng's feet angrily, "Elder Wang has personally inspected it, and the poison stored here is exactly the same as the poison that Lu Peng was poisoned by.
, what else do you have to say!”
Gongsun Cheng was stunned. Gongsun Wang sighed slightly and stood up and said: "We have found out that the person who poisoned Lu Peng was the eldest lady Gongsun Yao. Asheng was captured on the spot when he was destroying the evidence for her. Witnesses
The physical evidence is there, how can you deny it?"
The person who poisoned him turned out to be Yan'er. While Gongsun Cheng was horrified, he also felt that it was not surprising at all that the other party did this. Yan'er had no choice but to surrender to him for such a rotten person like Lu Peng, and he did this out of resentment.
This kind of thing is simply natural.
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It's understandable, but Gongsun Cheng absolutely cannot admit this matter, otherwise the family's accountability will be secondary. If his father, who is not the same as him, finds out, he will be exterminated right before his eyes.
After Gongsun Cheng was stunned for a moment, he immediately defended in a deep voice: "Elders, please be aware that even though this junior has been wrong in many ways, he has now returned to the right path. Poisoning is disgraceful, let alone attacking one's own family!
This junior has nothing to do with this matter!"
After hearing this, several elders shook their heads in disbelief. Everyone understood that Gongsun Yao's sister was Gongsun Cheng's puppet, and she would never go to the east. Now that something like this happened, how could it have nothing to do with him.
To put it bluntly, even if Gongsun Yao really had this intention, with her stubborn temperament, where would she be able to get the poison and have so many people to cooperate with her?
Last but not least, this poison is not simple. Even Gongsun Wang’s Destiny Resurrection Pill, which was refined using countless heavenly materials and earthly treasures, is hard to match. How could Gongsun Yao, a little girl, get such a thing?
Gongsun Cheng is really speechless now. In the eyes of others, Yan'er, the eldest daughter of Gongsun, has always been a yes-man who obeys his orders, so now that something like this happens, he is also the first to be suspected.
However, although there was no reasonable excuse to defend himself, it was absolutely impossible for Gongsun Cheng to plead guilty. Seeing that he insisted on doing so, Gongsun ordered someone to take him to the new hospital and confront his sister face to face.
This decision made Gongsun Cheng relieved. He thought that Yan'er had indeed had some quarrel with him recently because of their marriage, but this mere unpleasantness did not hinder the other party's loyalty to him at all.
If the matter really cannot be cleared away by then, then just let Yan'er bear the blame and commit suicide alone. Gongsun Cheng believes that the other party will definitely make the right choice by then.