Sima Rulan came to Hua Bushi, bowed to the young master, and said: "Thanks to Mr. Hua and Ling Gaotu's timely rescue this time, Lan'er was able to keep her innocence. Mr. Hua's great kindness to Lan'er I will never forget it and I will definitely repay you!"
Hua Bushi quickly stood up and returned the courtesy, saying: "Miss Laner's words are serious. When it comes to repaying kindness, Hua Bushi has no time to repay Miss Laner's kindness to Wei Tianlou!"
Hai Hongzhu also said: "That's right, sister Lan'er doesn't need to be polite! Anyway, Hua Bushi is the best at using incense and poison, these tricks. If my sister is poisoned by incense and poison again in the future, just find it. He can just solve it!"
Mrs. Hua has always been carefree and has no scheming. She said this without any restraint. Hua Bushi felt very embarrassed when he heard it.
Sima Rulan's face turned red and she said, "Okay, if my little sister is poisoned by the incense poison again in the future, I will definitely ask Mr. Hua to cure her."
Hai Hongzhu saw Hua Bushi smile bitterly and said nothing, but she also realized that her words were inappropriate, and quickly smoothed things over: "I was just talking casually, this time it was an accident, sister Lan'er will be fine in the future, it must be bad." What kind of fragrant poison will I get again?"
Yao Yuanxiao slapped the chair and said: "Xiong Tiannan used such a dirty method to assassinate the eldest lady. He is really bold and hateful! I don't know if Deputy Hall Master Xiong knows about this, and that guy named Qi Ye Where it comes from, we must trace it to the end!"
He was hit by three of Qi Ye's golden darts at "RT-Mart" and fell down the stairs. Not only was he injured, but he also lost face. Now he talks about it with gnashing of teeth and resentment.
Chai Lin looked solemn and said: "The seventh master can hurt Elder Yao, and his martial arts must be very strong. He must be a master recruited by Xiongjiazhuang. If Xiong Bailing is involved in this matter, it is a blatant rebellion against Wanjintang. Only I'm afraid that a big chaos in Okura City is just around the corner."
Yao Yuanxiao turned around and said to a member of the gang at the door: "Go and ask Xiong Kui and those captured people from Xiongjiazhuang if they have spoken!"
The crowd responded and left.
In the "RT-Mart" restaurant, Qi Ye and Xiong Tiannan saw that the situation was not going well and ran away. Xiong Kui, who was injured by Zhu Hong, and the few "book boys" who followed him did not escape. They were all captured alive by the guards of the City Lord's Mansion. Brought it back.
Now they are being taken to the prison cell behind the house and being tortured to extract the information they know.
The gangster who went to inquire quickly returned and reported: "I would like to report to Elder Yao that the followers of Xiongjiazhuang have not revealed any news yet. Xiong Kui was injured too seriously and it is inconvenient to execute him, so he has not spoken yet. "
Yao Yuanxiao's face darkened, and he suddenly stood up and shouted: "How can the bones of these evil slaves be so hard! I don't believe they can survive the torture. Let me go and see for myself!"
Chai Lin blocked the way and said, "Please be patient, Elder Yao. I think those followers are just servants and may not know much useful information. Even if Xiong Kui knows something, he won't speak so easily." , there will definitely be no results for a while.”
Yao Yuanxiao knew that what Chai Lin said was true, but his anger was still lingering. He said to the gang member: "Go to the back and ask them to torture him vigorously. You must ask for the news!"
Sima Rulan said: "Wait a minute! Since the captured people are just servants and don't know any precise information, torture and torture will have no effect. In Yilan'er's opinion, it's better not to torture them and spare them for the time being, okay? ?”
Yao Yuanxiao ordered to be tortured with force, just to vent his anger. At this time, the eldest lady of the city asked for mercy, so she could only clasp her fists and say: "The eldest lady has a kind heart, Yao just obeys the order."
He said and waved his hand to let the gang member go down.
Hua Bushi said: "I still have something to tell Miss Lan'er. The housekeeper Xiong Kui of Xiongjiazhuang who was taken into the city lord's mansion is the black-clothed killer who went to Weitian Tower to assassinate him a few months ago.
."
Yao Yuanxiao had just sat down on the chair again, and when he heard this, he became angry again and said: "This Xiong Kui has really taken advantage of Xiong Kui. He did such evil things a few months ago! Master Hua will not make a mistake.
What?"
Hua Bushi said: "I have some experience in identifying physical appearance, so I will definitely not make a mistake."
Chai Lin said: "A few months ago, when the rumors about the eldest lady of the city and Master Hua were spreading everywhere, Xiong Kui went to Weitian Tower to assassinate Master Hua, and he must have been instructed. It seems that Xiong Bailing's plan to plot this city has been planned for a long time.
Already."
Sima Rulan said: "Uncle Chai, where do you start with these words?"
Chai Lin said: "Xiong Bailing has a sophisticated plan to control Okura City with the help of his son Xiong Tiannan's marriage to the eldest lady. Of course he wants to get rid of Mr. Hua, who has spread scandals with the eldest lady. And now he actually fabricated Sima
The city lord agreed to the lie of marriage and tried to hide it from the public in order to achieve this goal. I think it was Xiong Bailing who was behind Xiong Tiannan's kidnapping of the eldest lady this time. Otherwise, how could that playboy Xiong Tiannan get such rare things as 'Rooster Powder'?
Toxic drugs cannot be planned so carefully."
Dacang City was founded by Sima Zhufeng. In the eyes of the residents of Dacang City and even the gang members of "Wanjintang", Sima City Lord has a very high prestige and is supported by everyone. He wants to overthrow Sima Zhufeng and seize the Dacang City.
Cangcheng is almost impossible. Sima Zhufeng has no heirs and only has a daughter like Sima Rulan, and he has already planned to hand over this city to her in the future. Therefore, if you want to get Dacang City, marrying Sima Rulan is the easiest way.
method.
Sima Zhufeng had very strict conditions for choosing his son-in-law. He would not have liked a slutty young man like Xiong Tiannan who was not good at literature or martial arts. Xiong Bailing could only achieve this by using a strategy. But now it seems that this strategy is almost serious.
It succeeded.
Sima Rulan looked at Chai Lin, with doubts in her eyes, and asked: "How can Uncle Chai say that Dad's promise to get married was a lie? Elder Yao and I have read the letter carefully.
It is indeed dad's handwriting, so it shouldn't be fake."
Chai Lin said: "A good niece should know that it is not difficult to forge handwriting. As long as you get the original handwriting of the city lord, you can find someone to imitate it. It is not surprising to create a fake letter with no flaws. The so-called handwriting is really
It’s not enough evidence.”
Sima Rulan said: "Even if the handwriting is not reliable, it is just difficult to tell the authenticity. Why is Uncle Chai so sure that the letter is a fake?"
Chai Lin hesitated for a moment, then turned his head and glanced at Hua Bushi, then sighed and said, "I concluded that City Lord Sima's agreement with Xiong Bailing's proposal of marriage was fake, and there was a reason for it. Alas, Uncle Chai has been hiding this.
I just couldn't bear to see niece Lan'er sad and sad, but I can't keep this matter secret after all, so now I have to tell niece Xian."
He paused and said in a low voice: "In fact, City Lord Sima was unfortunately assassinated four months ago at Nanquanzhuang near Longchuan City in Guangdong."
Sima Rulan's eyes suddenly widened and she said, "What did you say!"
Chai Lin said: "A few months ago, I first learned about this matter from Master Hua. Later, I found people from the Baidao sect in Guangdong who were in Nanquanzhuang when Brother Sima was assassinated, including Huang from Jingci Lin'an.
Master Lian and Zhong Bulao from the 'Dinghu Sect' both confirmed this matter. Don't be sad, niece Lan'er, Uncle Chai will tell you the details..."
At that time, Chai Lin envoy changed Sima Zhufeng's name to Mr. Ma Da. Under the protection of the four sects of Baidao in Guangdong Province, he went to Nan'ao Town via Luyuan Grand Canyon, but was assassinated when he encountered the enemy in Nanquanzhuang. Let's tell the story exactly.
Chai Lin's news came from Master Huang Lian and Zhong Bulao, so he only knew the situation at that time. A mysterious assassin sneaked into the Gu family ancestral hall and killed Sima Zhufeng without everyone noticing. Later, the Dragon Palace Department
Liang Wude, one of the "Nine Dragon Sons", admitted that the murderer was ordered by the Black Dragon Palace, but he did not know that the mysterious assassin who committed the murder was Cao Muyun.
Sima Rulan listened to Chai Lin's story of her father's murder without saying a word. Until Chai Lin finished speaking, she still sat on the chair in silence without saying a word.
After a while, she finally said: "You guys sit here for a while, Lan'er went to the backyard first."
Sima Rulan stood up as she spoke, covered her face with her long sleeves and ran towards the back hall. Although she brushed her face with her hands and walked away, when she turned around to leave, two lines of tears had already poured out from her fingers and fell down.
On the ground.
Seeing the eldest lady's figure disappear behind the screen, everyone in the hall looked at each other with sympathy.
Hua Bushi and Hai Hongzhu had already known about Sima Zhufeng's death, but this was the first time that the inner hall elder Yao Yuanxiao had heard about it. He felt extremely sad and angry, and loudly reproached: "Elder Chai, you have known about this for a long time.
, why haven’t you told us these days since you came to the island?”
Chai Lin said: "I'm ashamed to say that I never said it because I was afraid that my niece would be sad. But the more important reason is that when I came to Okura Island this time, I found that the city was already in danger. If the news spread,
It will definitely cause chaos, and I just want to wait until all the manpower is mobilized to deal with the crisis before making it public."
He sighed and said: "Oh, I didn't expect that Xiong Bailing would take the initiative and fabricate a lie about Sima City Lord agreeing to the marriage, and then use such vicious tactics to almost kill Lan'er's niece. This is indeed Chai Lin's.
fault!"
Yao Yuanxiao said: "If you tell this bad news at this time, wouldn't it make the eldest lady even more sad? How can it be a good thing!"
Chai Lin and Yao Yuanxiao were both from the Shaolin sect, and they were brothers of the same sect as Sima Zhufeng. Their friendship with each other was already deep. Compared with Chai Lin, who had been doing business in Middle-earth for many years, Yao Yuanxiao had always stayed in Okura City.
It can be said that watching Sima Rulan grow up, he cared about the eldest lady three points more than Chai Lin.
Chai Lin was speechless in reply to Yao Yuanxiao's angrily reproach. After a long while, he said to Hua Bushi and Hai Hongzhu: "Master Hua, Miss Hai, you are all close friends with niece Lan'er. Compared with us,
These uncles and elders can talk to each other, but now that she has heard about his death, she must be heartbroken, can you please go to the backyard to persuade her?"