Chapter 849 – In the Name of Convenience (1/2)
Chapter 849 – In the Name of Convenience
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
The blind zither player left the room, carrying his zither on his back.
An Lin had also recognized who he was. Her face slightly pale, she slightly gave a junior's bow.
Linghai Zhiwang had still not shaken off the first shock before being shocked once more.
The Longevity Sect was the ancestral hall of the Orthodoxy's southern faction. As archbishops of the Orthodoxy, he and An Lin naturally had a deeper understanding of the Longevity Sect than Chen Changsheng.
They knew that this blind zither player was once a Grand Elder of the Longevity Sect.
When Su Li charged into the Longevity Sect with only his sword, the cold pool overflowed with rivers of blood and countless people died.
The several elders that had managed to survive had only been unremarkable second-generation elders. The first-generation elders that could truly represent the Longevity Sect's power had been almost completely slaughtered. Later investigation revealed that two of their strongest elders had only escaped this tribulation because they had been in secluded cultivation. However, in the end, even they vanished.
Who could have expected that this Grand Elder of the Longevity Sect would come to the Tang clan?
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”Minister Wei was the Minister of Justice for the previous government. After being wronged, he now manages the Torture Hall of my clan,” the Tang Old Master explained to Chen Changsheng. ”When he was minister, Zhou Tong had just begun to make a name for himself with that case involving the Mutuo clan. Following the Empress's will, he took Minister Wei as his teacher. All the methods that Zhou Tong used later were all learned from him, but the two had different philosophies, and Minister Wei deeply disliked him. Even though Zhou Tong had the Divine Empress's support, he still ended up being dealt with very cruelly by Minister Wei. This persisted until Emperor Xian became blind and the entire court fell under the Empress's control, upon which the situation was reversed.”
Chen Changsheng asked, ”What happened?”
”Minister Wei can be counted as the first genuine prisoner of Zhou Prison.”
The Tang Old Master did go into too much detail, continuing, ”I requested Su Li to rescue him from the capital, and Minister Wei has remained in Wenshui City ever since.”
After few moments of silence, Chen Changsheng asked, ”And the other person?”
The Tang Old Master replied, ”When Su Li went to the Longevity Sect, he left behind two lives for my sake.”
Chen Changsheng roughly understood.
Those two surviving elders were both in Wenshui City.
One was the blind zither player while the other was the old Guardian currently in the ancestral hall.
”These matters resulted in my owing a favor to Su Li. He had me promise to fulfill one of his requests, and so today, I have returned his favor.”
The Tang Old Master glanced at the old umbrella and said, ”It was precisely the two hours you requested.”
Chen Changsheng recalled that senior who he had not met in a very long time and began to somewhat miss him.
The Tang Old Master finally said, ”This favor was brought about by the three of them, and now it is returned by those three. Every sip and every bite seems preordained. It appears that there really is such a thing as destiny.”
These words were an explanation for today's events, and also a method for whiling away the time.
The Tang Old Master and Chen Changsheng were waiting for someone.
The most important person.
The Tang Second Master.
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The Tang Second Master patted the snow off his shoulder and smiled at the Tang Old Master. ”How much did Father win in today's mahjong game?”
His expression was very natural, his voice very calm, the same as when he usually returned to the old estate. He was still that intelligent second son who was very skilled at amusing his father.
But today, it was not just the Tang Old Master in the old estate. There was also Chen Changsheng and other people.
”I truly did have an agreement with the Longevity Sect to kill Chen Changsheng.”
The Tang Second Master calmly said, ”Scheming to assassinate the Pope sounds like a monstrous crime, but I don't think it to be wrong.”