Chapter 470: Chapter 300, I’m not a troublemaker!

Lu Ban Mountain. Lu Family Mansion.

Lu Dongsheng’s flying car slowly landed, and Lu Zhiyong quickly came out to greet him, saying, “Dad, Uncle wants you to go to the rear house.”

“Uh-huh.” Lu Dongsheng nodded, glanced at Lu Zhiyong, and said, “Why aren’t you on duty with the Undying Army, loafing around at home all day?”

“What’s there to do?” Lu Zhiyong replied with a helpless look, “To be a laughingstock for others?”

“The Lu Family hasn’t fallen yet, what laughingstock are they looking at? Who is qualified to laugh at our Lu Family?”

“You better deal with the matter at hand first.” Lu Zhiyong spoke in a buzzing voice, “Being tailed mercilessly, who can feel at ease?”

“Is it that I don’t want to deal with it? Can’t it just not be resolved?” Lu Dongsheng said impatiently, “Whose fault is it? Who was the one who brought him here? He’s now become a sharp sword in the hands of the Royal Family, hesitating us to strike…”

Lu Zhiyong, knowing the relationship between Tang Fei and his elder brother, didn’t feel right saying anything more.

Lu Zhiyong led his father to an ancient-looking study and announced, “Uncle, Dad has arrived.”

Then, four beautiful women dressed in simple long skirts pushed out a huge wheelchair.

They bowed to Lu Dongsheng and then left without a word.

An old servant brought Lu Dongsheng some tea and also quietly departed.

Lu Dongsheng looked at the old man lying in the wheelchair and asked with concern, “Is Big Brother feeling any better?”

“Neither human nor ghost, how much better can it get?”

“Big Brother, take it easy, things will get better.”

“Having been an official for so long, all you have are false words. With things at this point, how can they get any better?”

Lu Dongsheng also knew that such well-wishes were pointless. He went straight to the point, “The Monitoring Bureau people were shot, one dead, one injured. Does Big Brother know about this?”

“How could I not know about such a big incident?” Lu Qingshan panted heavily, with bubbles bubbling up from the nutrient tank behind him.

“What’s Big Brother’s take on this?”

“What we think doesn’t matter, the key is how the people outside, the Royal Family, and the Monitoring Bureau people see it?”

“Outsiders definitely think it’s our Lu Family’s doing. The Monitoring Bureau is going after the Lu Family aggressively, it’s only natural for us to fight back.” Lu Dongsheng spoke with a booming voice. Due to his military background, he sat straight up even at home and said, “But only we know that it’s not what our Lu Family did, we are being wronged.”

The old man took another deep breath of oxygen, and once his chest felt more comfortable, he joined the conversation, “Someone wants to stir the waters even murkier, to exacerbate the conflict between the Lu Family and the Monitoring Bureau, between the Lu Family and the Royal Family. If the two sides fight to the death, many would benefit as the third party.”

“Everyone knows, the target of the Royal Family is the nine major families. Now, they’ve started with the Lu Family first…”

“If the Lu Family wins, the Royal Family will no longer have the strength to deal with the other families. If the Lu Family loses, the Royal Family will also suffer significant loss, giving the other families a chance to win. Either way, this deal is a sure win for them.”

“Yes.” Lu Dongsheng’s eyebrows were tightly knitted as he said, “The key is, we don’t have a way to break this situation. Even if we come forward and shout out that the shooting wasn’t our doing, no one will believe it.”

“Unless we can find the real mastermind behind it all.”

“Where do we find them? If I were the instigator, I would have already dealt with those people. They wouldn’t be able to find a hair, let alone a living person.”

“Yes, this is roasting our Lu Family on the fire.” Lu Qingshan sighed heavily and asked, “What’s the Monitoring Bureau’s reaction?”

“Tang Fei has gone to Wang Wenyou’s again.”

“It seems they’re prepared to blame this on our Lu Family. Wang Wenyou and Gongshu Wuyu have already taken all the blame. If Wang Wenyou speaks up… Yunhang will be in danger.”

“They are determined to cling to our Lu Family.” Lu Dongsheng sipped the tea brought by the servant and looked at Lu Qingshan, “You previously said the Lu Family should avoid direct conflict with the Monitoring Bureau, that we could sacrifice some interests… It seems they’re not satisfied with the Lu Family’s sacrifices.”

“It’s just a probe at first. Since the Royal Family is using the Monitoring Bureau as the knife, and the Lu Family as the whetstone, one Wang Wenyou and Gongshu Wuyu will not satisfy their appetite.” Lu Qingshan was breathing rapidly, but his voice was extremely steady: “To target the Lu Family, naturally, they have to cut a large chunk of flesh from the Lu Family or chop off a couple of legs… The Lu Family has to be seriously hurt if the Royal Family is to devour us whole, right?”

“Do you mean to also sacrifice Yunhang?”

“Yunhang…” Lu Qingshan paused for a moment, then said, “We can give him to them.”

“What if they’re still not satisfied?”

The old man in the wheelchair looked deeply at Lu Dongsheng, who instantly understood his meaning and said gravely, “I can be sacrificed, for the sake of the Lu Family… But after my sacrifice, who else will speak for the Lu Family?”

“If no one speaks for the Lu Family, then the Lu Family shall not speak.” Lu Qingshan sighed.

“Who exactly is Tang Fei?” Lu Dongsheng suddenly asked, “We originally had more options, why… choose such a self-mutilating path?”

After a moment of silence, Lu Qingshan said, “I’ll have you meet someone.”

——

Tang Fei walked briskly into the office with a file bag in his hand and said to Tan Yu, “Bring out Wang Wenyou, I want to see him.”

“Now?”

“Yes, now.”

“Okay,” Tan Yu nodded and replied, “I’ll arrange that right away.”

Wang Wenyou was locked up in the Monitoring Bureau’s high-security prison. If Tang Fei wanted to see him now, they’d just have to bring him out.

After all, the prison belonged to their side; a process of issuing an interrogation order and signing off was all it took.

As for the matter of time… Was that even an issue?

Nobody else was sleeping at this hour, what right did a prisoner have to sleep?

Soon, the deputy director of the Mechanical Design Institute, Wang Wenyou, was brought to the interrogation room.

Wang Wenyou had pale skin, a short and stocky build, and wore rimless glasses, giving him a gentle and refined appearance.

When Tang Fei had ordered him brought to the interrogation room, it was already past two in the morning.

Wang Wenyou, bleary-eyed, looked at Tang Fei and said indignantly, “I’ve said everything I should have said, and confessed everything I should have confessed… I’ve already pled guilty, what more do you want from me?”

“You’ve confessed too much,” Tang Fei spoke up.

Wang Wenyou looked puzzled and asked, “What do you mean by that?”

“What, you don’t understand?” A mocking smile appeared on the corner of Tang Fei’s mouth as he said, “You’ve confessed to things that are yours, and also confessed to things that aren’t. You’ve taken all the responsibility upon yourself, do you think that’ll protect the people you want to protect?”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” Wang Wenyou said stubbornly, like a pig that’s not afraid of boiling water, “Everything I’ve confessed to is what I should have. If I did it, I must admit it.”

Tang Fei regarded Wang Wenyou thoughtfully and all of a sudden said, “Your wife is very beautiful.”

Wang Wenyou’s heart tightened instantly, and he stared at Tang Fei, barking fiercely, “What do you mean? If you have something against me, come at me, don’t mess with my family…”

Tang Fei shook his head and said, “I never thought about messing with your family, but I’m worried that someone else might.”

“What exactly are you trying to say?”

“How is your relationship with your wife?”

“Our relationship is very good. We’ve been married for many years and have a lovely son…”

“Is that so?” Tang Fei pondered for a moment and looked at Wang Wenyou, saying, “I’m not one to stir up trouble, but I think the relationship between you and your wife isn’t as good as you say…”

“Don’t try to drive a wedge between us. If you think you can use such a despicable tactic to make me change my statement… You might be disappointed.”

“I visited your wife yesterday,” Tang Fei said, “I was hoping she could come and see you, convince you to cooperate with us. After all, if you unload the responsibilities that you shouldn’t have to bear, you can get out sooner and reunite with your wife and child.”

“After I got there, I found your wife looking rosy-cheeked and in good spirits… sorry, I’m not very cultured, not very good with adjectives,” Tang Fei explained seriously as he looked at Wang Wenyou.

“I have no intention of insulting your wife; it just struck me as odd that her husband is locked up in the Monitoring Bureau and can’t get out, yet she doesn’t seem the least bit sad or worried…”

“…”

“You know, the Monitoring Bureau doesn’t have a good reputation, even three-year-old children in the Empire know that being in the Monitoring Bureau is suffering… Doesn’t she worry at all?”

Wang Wenyou’s face turned dark, but he didn’t seem inclined to speak.

“Also, at the time, your wife was wearing yoga clothes, as if she was about to go out to exercise… I understand it’s for health,” Tang Fei grinned and continued, “But why does she need to put on delicate makeup when she’s going out to exercise?”

“Out of curiosity… really, just out of curiosity, I had someone investigate your wife’s activities…”

“And that’s where the problem arose.” Tang Fei tossed the file bag in front of Wang Wenyou and said cheerfully, “Your wife seems to get along quite well with her fitness trainer… not only at the gym but also in the car, in hotels…”

Wang Wenyou wanted to say Tang Fei was lying, that this was framing and slander, one of their vile tactics.

But when he locked eyes with Tang Fei, he inexplicably felt a twinge of guilt.

The thought that sprang to his mind was: What if what he’s saying is true?

What if it could actually be true…

His blood boiled, his heart raced, and his hands trembled as he opened the file bag, inside which were photos of his wife in intimate and even compromising positions with a handsome, burly man in various places.

Wang Wenyou’s head seemed to explode with a bang, his pupils dilated, and his complexion turned deathly pale.

He opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but found himself speechless.

He was like a fish stranded on the beach, the vast ocean before it, but death was the only thing waiting.