The master just feels a little strange. Logically speaking, after the poison is detoxified, the clan leader should wake up soon. But the toxin cannot be completely removed, so he still needs to lie down and recuperate. But he has not woken up yet, which is a bit strange.
The master had checked the clan leader's pulse before. Although the poisoning was serious, he would definitely wake up. The master decided to check the clan leader's pulse again. If there was no problem with the pulse, then the clan leader's coma was just fake.
"Let's go see him." Master said.
"Master, are you going to diagnose the clan leader's pulse?" A Lan asked.
"Well, I want to see if there is anything wrong with his pulse and why he hasn't woken up yet," the master said.
"Okay." Alan stood up and said.
After the master detoxified the clan leader last time, he stayed in the side courtyard because he wanted to wait for the clan leader to wake up and hear him explain to him immediately.
So, after the master took the medicine box, he went to the side room.
The patriarch was still lying there quietly as before. After the master walked over, he began to diagnose the patriarch's pulse seriously. After a quarter of an hour, the master let go of the patriarch's wrist.
When A-Lan saw his master finished his diagnosis, he asked: "Master, how is the clan leader? Has he gotten better?"
The master ignored Allan, looked at the clan leader, and said coldly: "Now that you're awake, stop pretending to be asleep. Do you plan to keep pretending?"
Alan was very surprised after hearing what the master said, which meant that the patriarch in front of him had actually woken up a long time ago. But because he wanted to escape, he just lay here and pretended to be asleep?
"Chief, is Master right? Are you pretending to be asleep?" A Lan asked anxiously.
The patriarch still didn’t open his eyes and was still lying there motionless. The master waved his hand to A-Lan and asked him to go out. After A-Lan nodded, he left the house.
The master sat aside and said softly: "I don't know what you have to hide, but at least you have to say it, right? Do you know how worried A Lan is that you won't wake up? He really cares about you, even if you
He refuses to say anything, and he also hopes that you wake up as soon as possible. Besides, even if you don’t plan to tell Alan, you should still have an explanation for the old man, right?"
Halfway through what the master said, the patriarch's eyelids began to tremble, and the master naturally noticed it. He guessed right. The patriarch was not lethargic at all. Because his pulse was very normal, except that the toxins in his body had not been cleaned out.
He should have woken up long ago. Therefore, the master felt that the patriarch was unable to face A Lan, so he pretended to be asleep.
The master knew that his persuasion must have had an effect, so he continued: "That's all I have to say, you can think about the rest yourself."
The master tucked the quilt for the clan leader, stood up and prepared to leave.
"Valley Master, you are right, I have already woken up."
A hoarse voice sounded from behind the master. The master turned his head. Sure enough, it was the clan leader talking to him. However, the clan leader had not eaten for several days and was still a little weak just relying on medicine.
The master stopped, turned around, poured a cup of tea for the clan leader, walked over, and said to the clan leader: "You finally figured it out, drink some water first."
The patriarch slowly stood up, picked up the tea cup, took a sip, and said to the master: "I am ashamed of the master, and even more ashamed of the young master. I really hope I can't sleep. You are right, I can't lie down forever, sooner or later I have to face
everything."
"What happened? Why did you do this? The clan has changed a lot over the years. Why didn't you tell A-Lan?" asked the master.
"Before the master passed away, although the Leng family's business had been handed over to A Lan, the elders of the clan did not agree at all. If you think about it carefully, you can understand that the young master was only five years old at that time, how could he support the Leng family's business?
Although the master gave me a token and I will be in charge of the business until the young master reaches adulthood, the elders of the clan are still a little dissatisfied. Because they believe that the business belongs to the Leng family and I am just an outsider. Although I have the ability to do business
They were worried that the Leng family’s business would be swallowed up by me. To be fair, I wholeheartedly worked for the Leng family, but I was misunderstood like this, and I felt really unwilling. But so what,
The business has always belonged to the Leng family. The elders had already planned to take away the Leng family's business from me. So, as soon as Young Master A-Lan came of age, I handed over the business to him. A-Lan took care of the business.
Everything is well organized, which makes the elders feel very troublesome. In fact, apart from Elder Jian, all the four elders in the clan know about the gold mine. Of course, including the three elders. This time, A Lan knows about the gold mine.
After that, the three elders were captured just to deceive Alan." The clan leader said weakly.
"Since you already knew, why didn't you tell Alan?" the master asked.
"I really do it for my grandson. That brat was framed for not living up to expectations. Elder Qin said that if I tell what happened back then, I will report it to the government and let the government arrest him. I can't watch my grandson get into trouble. He is
He was tricked by others. In fact, he is not that bad, but it is a pity that he cannot find those people." The clan leader said.
"Clan leader, why didn't you tell me such a big thing happened?" Alan said.
It turned out that A-Lan had never left, but was hiding outside the door and eavesdropping. When A-Lan heard that something happened to the patriarch’s family, he couldn’t help but push the door open and enter the house.
"You happened to disappear when the accident happened. I suspected that your disappearance was related to the elders, so I went back to the clan to question the three elders. Unexpectedly, they threatened me with my grandson's incident, and warned me not to forget that I was one of them.
One. Originally, after you came back this time, I planned to confess to you, but unfortunately, I still didn’t have the courage. I really couldn’t face you, so I planned to tell you the truth this time. But I was poisoned before I finished speaking.
I almost can’t open my eyes anymore,” the clan leader said.
"What? Didn't you take the poison yourself?" Alan asked.
At the beginning, they suspected that it was a drama directed and acted by the clan leader, but since the clan leader did not want to escape, he would tell them the truth. In other words, the clan leader did not take poison himself, but someone wanted to harm the clan leader.
It happened so suddenly. After detoxifying, the first reaction was that the clan leader might not be able to face himself, so he chose to take the poison. But when they heard what the clan leader said, it didn't seem to be what they thought.
"I had already planned to confess to you, so how could I take poison? I originally planned to leave the capital. When I was packing my things, I saw the jade pendant that the master left for me. I remembered what the master once said. He was right.
, You must be upright and upright. I know that I shouldn't escape, so I went to Leng Mansion to tell you everything." The clan leader murmured.
"Clan leader, do you still remember who you met before arriving at Leng Mansion?" A Lan asked.
"I came directly from the clan. I met Elder Qin the day before. He probably wasn't the one who poisoned me. If so, it couldn't have happened the next day." The clan leader said.
A Lan suspected that the clan leader had been poisoned on the way here, but the clan leader said that he had only met Elder Qin the day before, and that Elder Qin had no chance to poison him.
"Did the clan leader meet anyone on the way here?" Alan asked.
"I came here in a carriage, and there were no accidents on the way. In fact, I was surprised that I was poisoned, because I couldn't figure out who did it," the patriarch said.
"I guess the elders must have done it, but we don't know how they did it." A Lan said.
"What's going on?" the clan leader said with a slight frown.
"Clan leader, take good care of yourself first, and leave the rest to me." A Lan said.
Ah Lan took the master out of the side room and returned to his own room. The master murmured: "Actually, if Elder Qin wants to poison, it is not impossible. As long as he knows the habits of the clan leader, it will be easy.
Give him poison."
"You mean to poison him in advance?" Alan asked.
"That's right, he was poisoned in advance, and it happened to be poisonous when he was halfway talking to you." The clan leader said.
"It seems that the elder wants to prevent the clan leader from telling the truth." A Lan thought for a while and said.
"No, something happened." Nan Qing suddenly came to the door and said to A Lan.
"What's wrong? Why did you come here suddenly? Did something happen to the Nan family?" A Lan asked.
"Today I returned to the Yamen, and I heard that someone reported to the police that a boy of eighteen or nineteen had killed someone. After the autopsy, it was found that the man was poisoned to death, so I was curious about the reason why people were killed.
This man was poisoned. When I saw him in prison, I discovered that he was the grandson of the clan leader." Nan Qing said anxiously.
"Wait a minute, you're saying that someone reported to the officials that they saw him killing someone, and then they were sent to the government, right?" the clan leader said.
"It should be like this. He looked very embarrassed and seemed to be frightened." Nan Qing said.
"They probably knew that the patriarch was not poisoned and died, so they were worried that the patriarch would tell the truth, so they had his grandson arrested." The master said to A Lan.
"Now I have some suspicions that the patriarch's grandson was framed because of the elders." A Lan said.
"Yes, the patriarch planned to tell you the truth, but he was stopped by the elders and threatened the patriarch with the murder of his grandson. However, how could it be such a coincidence that the patriarch's grandson killed someone and was discovered by them." Master
said.
"What are you talking about?" Nan Qing asked doubtfully.
"The patriarch has woken up. He just said..." A-Lan told Nan Qing what A-Lan said.
"I asked why the confession was so strange. It turned out that someone framed her," Nan Qing said.
"What do you mean?" Alan asked.
"Because I once read the record. He said that he beat the deceased to death with a stone. However, the deceased had no scars on his head at all, but was poisoned to death. Since he has admitted to the murder, why did he lie that he was beaten to death?
His instead of poisoning?" Nan Qing asked.
"It should be that the elder arranged for someone to plot against the clan leader's grandson, and the elder used this matter to threaten the clan leader. So the deceased was not killed by the clan leader's grandson at all. The cause of his death is suspicious?" A Lan asked.
"I suspect it's not that simple. What happened a few months ago, that person actually just remembered to send the patriarch's grandson to the Yamen." A Lan said.
"It is because of this incident that the patriarch concealed what happened back then. Their goal has been achieved, why do they continue to plot against the grandson of the patriarch?" Nan Qing asked.
"Before, they thought that the patriarch was poisoned and died. Maybe they knew that the patriarch was not poisoned," said A Lan.
