Chu Qingxiao looked at the majestic mansion in front of him, and doubts arose in his heart.
Just as he was puzzled, the door of the mansion was slowly opened with a dull sound.
Several figures dressed in black stepped out. Without any explanation at that time, they carried Zhu Renzhao into the inner palace, then took him to a main house and threw him into the door very roughly.
Zhu Renzhao fell heavily to the ground, and Chu Qingxiao, whose mind was connected to him, also felt a sharp pain.
At this moment, the sound of the door being closed was heard from behind.
The room suddenly became dark, with only one candle flickering gently. The meager candlelight could not illuminate the darkness of the door, but instead added a touch of gloom.
"Speaking of which, is this our third meeting?" Chu Qingxiao's head was spinning when a voice suddenly came from in front of him.
He shivered, fear welling up in his heart.
Chu Qingxiao knew that this was Zhu Renzhao's inner feeling.
He raised his head and looked forward, where a middle-aged man in black clothes with gray temples was sitting upright, staring down at him.
The other party's eyes shone with a captivating light in the somewhat dark door. Just one glance made Zhu Renzhao panic and quickly lowered his head.
"Master Lu..." he called the man opposite him.
The man just kept staring at Zhu Renzhao without responding.
And that kind of substantial gaze made Zhu Renzhao, who lowered his head in time, feel like a light on his back.
"I thought you would run away." After a while, just when Chu Qingxiao felt that Zhu Renzhao seemed to be defeated under such a gaze, Ma Yingjie's voice finally sounded again.
"Mr. Lu's hands and eyes are as big as the sky. The younger one is just a pariah. He can't escape no matter how he escapes..." Zhu Renzhao said tremblingly.
"It's quite smart." Ma Yingjie said this, with a hint of appreciation in his tone.
Just when Chu Qingxiao thought this, the man in front of him suddenly stood up, his clothes fluttered, and murderous intent began to surge, and he roared angrily.
"If you are so smart! Then why do you do stupid things!!!"
The sudden increase in volume made Chu Qingxiao's eardrums hurt while he was inside Zhu Renzhao's body.
He raised his head to look at the other person, and saw that the aura all over his body was surging, and the hair on his head was rising randomly under the agitation of spiritual power.
He looked at Zhu Renzhao angrily, as if there were flames in his eyes.
The whole person looked like a furious lion.
Zhu Renzhao was so frightened that his liver and gallbladder split apart, and his face turned pale.
And this scene also made Chu Qingxiao feel doubtful.
As far as he knew, Zhu Renzhao was just a poor outer sect disciple in Shanshuigou. After working hard for most of his life, he never got the chance to enter the inner sect.
He said that almost all his hopes were invested in his son, but unfortunately, his son Zhu Quan seemed to have no intention of doing so.
As for Ma Yingjie in front of him, although Chu Qingxiao had never heard of him, judging from his aura, he seemed to have some status in Tianxuan Mountain.
How did these two people with such different identities become related?
"It was also in this house back then. Do you remember how you cried and begged me to give you a way out?" Ma Yingjie looked down at Zhu Renzhao and asked.
Zhu Renzhao seemed to be frightened out of his wits. He hurriedly said: "Your Majesty is kind-hearted and gave me a way to survive. I will never forget this kindness even for a moment!"
"Don't you dare to forget? Then why did you tell your son the truth about your wife's death!?" After hearing this, Ma Yingying looked at Zhu Renzhao with a cold face and asked in a cold voice.
"Have you forgotten the promise you made when I let you live?"
Chu Qingxiao's heart skipped a beat when he heard this.
He remembered that when he was in Shanshuigou, Zhu Quan once angrily scolded Zhu Renzhao for the cause of his mother's death.
Judging from the situation at that time, Zhu Renzhao seemed not to know the truth.
But at the moment when he was talking to Ma Yingjie, it seemed that such an idea was just Zhu Quan's wishful thinking.
Chu Qingxiao also remembered that the name of the murderer Zhu Quan mentioned at that time was Lu Huan, and the Lu Haocun in front of him was most likely the murderer's father.
Thinking of this, Chu Qingxiao's thoughts were a little confused, and he couldn't quite figure out the whole story for a while.
At this time, Zhu Renzhao's face turned pale, and he quickly lowered his head and said tremblingly: "More than a year ago, I also made drunken remarks after drinking, and my child happened to listen...
There was absolutely no intention to leak this matter..."
"More than a year ago?" Ma Yingjie's face suddenly turned ugly after hearing this.
"But a year ago, when we met for the second time, I asked you carefully, and you told me categorically that you had never disclosed this matter to anyone!"
As he said this, his eyes towards Zhu Renzhao became colder and colder.
Chu Qingxiao could feel that Zhu Renzhao was extremely scared at this moment.
His body was trembling, and the words coming out of his mouth were intermittent and stuttered.
"Then...then..."
"Master Lu just passed away. I was also afraid...I was also afraid that Mr. Lu would be angry at me when he was experiencing the pain of losing his son for the first time, so...therefore I concealed something."
While saying this, Zhu Renzhao could clearly feel the cold murderous intentions surrounding him. He became more and more frightened, almost lying on the ground, and hurriedly continued: "I am afraid of death, so
I just concealed this matter, but I have nothing to do with Mr. Ling’s death, I hope you will find out!"
Chu Qingxiao's heart skipped a beat when he heard this, and then he realized that the guy who killed Zhu Quan's mother had died a year ago.
Ma Yingjie fell silent again, and the whole room fell into dead silence because of his silence.
a long time.
"If you came here today to confess this to me, I don't think it is enough to be the reason for your life."
Ma Yingjie's voice sounded again, his tone seemed to be much calmer: "You should know the price of breaking your promise!"
Zhu Renzhao's body trembled and he hurriedly said: "I understand that I have made a big mistake, but when I come to see you today, I do have other news that I want to tell you!"
"Tell me about it." Ma Yingjie said.
"Mirror Stage!" Zhu Renzhao seemed to have been frightened by the opponent's momentum. At that time, he did not dare to hesitate at eight o'clock, and immediately said a taboo.
Something strange flashed across Ma Yingjie's mind. He didn't comment on it and just said, "I've heard of this organization."
"A group of uneducated and unskilled guys who are cynical and always against Tianxuan Mountain. Today they even ruined the reputation of Liuhuan Peak in Shanshui Valley."
"What? What does this thing have to do with me?"
Chu Qingxiao could feel that Ma Yingjie's deliberately pretentious attitude obviously made Zhu Renzhao a little nervous.
The man lying on the ground quickly continued: "Mingjingtai claims to be the savior of Tianxuan City. On the surface, it helps the people of Tianxuan City with lawsuits, but behind the scenes, it does many shameful things. My son,
I was instigated by others to join them. Several times, I heard him conspiring with others, saying that he killed so and so in the name of getting rid of harm. At first I didn't take it seriously, but then I heard one after another about the deaths of those people they talked about.
And without exception, almost all those who died were inner disciples..."
Ma Yingjie heard this and raised his eyebrows: "Huh? You mean, my Huan'er was also killed by them?"
Zhu Renzhao was obviously happy when he heard this speculation, and hurriedly continued: "I think it is very possible. More than a year ago, I accidentally revealed the cause of Jian'er's death to Yu Quan'er, and within two months, Mr. Lu
Being killed..."
Zhu Renzhao said this, but his voice gradually became quieter. He seemed to feel that his eagerness to lead the truth of the matter to the Mirror was too explicit.
After hearing this, Ma Yingjie fell into silence again.
After a while, he suddenly stood up, walked up to Zhu Renzhao, looked down at the man: "Let me think about it."
"More than a year ago, you told your son the cause of your wife's death."
"Your son happened to join Der Spiegel again, and then he told Der Spiegel about it."
"And the Mirror just likes to meddle in other people's business, so you teamed up with your son to kill my Huan'er?"
"Is that what you mean?"
As Ma Yingjie said this, he bent down and stared directly at Zhu Renzhao. A cold light flashed in his eyes at this moment, as if he wanted to see Zhu Renzhao thoroughly from the inside out.
After Zhu Renzhao learned the lesson just now, he became a little more cautious now. He said cautiously: "I haven't seen it with my own eyes, but I just think it may be like this..."
"Interesting." Ma Yingjie suddenly stood up after hearing this. He laughed a few times, and then looked at Zhu Renzhao again, his eyes fierce, like a vicious wolf.
"You know I have been looking for the real murderer of my son this year!"
"In my dreams, I want to find that guy, skin him and tear him apart, and make his life worse than death!"
"If it was the Mirror Station that did this! Everyone on the Mirror Station would die! And among this..."
"Including your son!"
Ma Yingjie's voice was filled with murderous intent at this moment, making Zhu Renzhao's face turn pale as he listened to all this.
"I...I know..." he responded, trembling all over.
"You know?" Another strange color flashed in Ma Yingjie's eyes: "So you sent your son to death?"
"In my life, I have met many people who sell their friends for glory. For the sake of profit, they are willing to sacrifice many things, including friends, lovers and even parents."
"But this is the first time I've seen someone like you buying a son and begging for his life."
"Why?"
Ma Yingjie asked.
Zhu Renzhao's head lowered at this moment. He seemed a little ashamed. For the first time, he did not answer Ma Yingjie's question immediately.
He was silent for a while, and then said dullly: "I... don't want to die, I want to live."
This answer made Ma Yingjie stunned.
The next moment, he suddenly burst out laughing.
He was laughing a little crazily, and his voice echoed in the room, like a ghost whispering.
"Survive? In order to survive, you actually betrayed your son?" He said in disbelief, and in addition to the disbelief, his tone was filled with more ridicule and disdain.
"Do you know how much I want my Huan'er to come to life?"
"I would give my life for him, but you would sell your son to me for yourself!"
"Look at you, what are you like? You're lame, you're smelly, you're living like a lost dog in Tianxuan City, and you have to trade your own son for such a bad life!"
"No wonder you can't enter the inner gate in your life, and no wonder your son looks down on you!"
He mocked the man in front of him loudly and wantonly, as if he wanted to vent all the pain of losing his son on Zhu Renzhao.
When Chu Qingxiao heard this, his heart sank.
He never thought that Zhu Renzhao came here to beg for his life.
Even if everything he said was true, Zhu Quan wanted to avenge his mother after all, which was understandable in Chu Qingxiao's opinion.
On the other hand, Zhu Renzhao, in order to survive, even knew who the enemy who killed his wife was, yet he knelt down to him and even took the initiative to betray his son...
Chu Qingxiao couldn't help but feel a little sad.
At this time, Zhu Renzhao, who was ridiculed by Ma Yingying, seemed a little unhappy.
His voice was a little louder: "Why does he look down on me?"
"I feed him and clothe him! I live frugally and go to work in Qinghuan Mansion before dawn every day. I dare not slack off even one day, 365 days a year!"
"It's just to let him grow up so that he can fulfill my long-cherished wish and join the inner sect of Tianxuan Mountain!"
"But how did he repay me? He idled around all day, just following a bunch of bastards!"
"Is the Mirror Stage a good place? I have tried to persuade him no less than a hundred times, but he never listens to me and even speaks harshly to me!"
"Now that he has made a big mistake, why should I pay for it?"
"He keeps saying that without me as a father, I just pretend that I don't have him as a son!"
"He is entirely to blame for all this!"
When he said this, Zhu Renzhao's face was indignant, and his eyes were full of malice and anger.
Ma Yingjie, who had some doubts about Zhu Renzhao's behavior of buying a son and begging for his life, saw that he was like this, and his doubts were immediately dissipated.
He looked at Zhu Renzhao again and asked the last question: "But it was my Huan'er who killed your wife back then. Don't you hate him at all? Don't you want him to die?"
Zhu Renzhao was stunned, but a flattering smile quickly appeared on his face: "I was a little angry at first, but after being taught a lesson by the adults, I thought about it. The outer god is so powerful, if the lowly wife doesn't stay,
After this, everyone will die."
"It is her blessing to be able to trade her life for the young master's."
"It's so shameful that my bastard son doesn't understand this! He deserves to die!"
Having said this, Zhu Renzhao gritted his teeth again, his tone full of disgust for Zhu Quan.
After hearing these words, Ma Yingjie was finally satisfied.
He nodded: "Yes, you are indeed more knowledgeable than your son."
"Go back and stay well. After I arrest Zhu Quan and the others from Mingjingtai, you have to confront your son. If things are really like you said, you can make up for it and you can survive."
Zhu Renzhao immediately beamed when he heard this. He hurriedly kowtowed to Ma Yingjie and said, "Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir."
His face was excited, and joy surged between his brows and eyes, almost overflowing.
And Chu Qingxiao, who was connected to him mentally, felt sick in his heart when he felt this.
He never thought that the man he was still feeling guilty for just now would be such a shameless person!
He didn't want to stay in this memory anymore.
Zhu Renzhao's flattery and groveling towards his wife-killing enemy made Chu Qingxiao feel sick every moment, and he wanted to escape from this place as soon as possible.
But with such thoughts, he suddenly felt a little strange.
Logically speaking, when things have reached this point, Ma Yingying seems to have believed Zhu Renzhao, so why is he still dying?
Thinking of this, Chu Qingxiao's heart sank again, because he was connected to Zhu Renzhao's heart.
He could clearly feel that Zhu Renzhao seemed to be extremely nervous at the moment, and his heart was beating very fast, as if it was about to jump out of his chest.
It feels like something that has been planned for a long time, and finally comes to an end with extreme anxiety...
"Go away." At this moment, Ma Yingjie's voice sounded again.
The man's face became a little calm, and his tone became waning: "My Huan'er would die at the hands of a son born from mud like you..."
When he heard this, Chu Qingxiao could clearly feel a burst of excitement in Zhu Renzhao's heart.
It's like the joy of a beast that has been lurking in the forest for a long time and finally sees its prey arriving.
It seems that since he came to this sword-wielding hall today, every humility he showed and every word he uttered were all for this moment.
There was an apologetic smile on his face, he bent his back and said in an extremely flattering tone: "Young Master Ling is a great person among men. If he hadn't worn the spiritual sword that day, how could he have been harmed by my rebellious son!"
"My treacherous son deserves death. Don't worry, sir. If he comes back and shows his caution, I will definitely..."
Zhu Renzhao said flattering words, but Ma Yingying, who had already let down his guard, suddenly changed his expression and turned to look at him strangely.
He frowned coldly, lowered his voice, and asked word by word.
"I have never told anyone that Huan'er was not wearing a spiritual sword on the day he died. How did you know about this?"