74 Solving the mystery with knowledge and discovering killing inten (1/2)
Chapter 74: Solving the mystery with knowledge and discovering killing intent
Translator: SkyfarrowEditor: Skyfarrow
The space in the tree house isn’t large, but there were many items inside, so at one glance it seemed extremely messy.
The floor in the center had a thick dark yellow-coloured carpet.
Inside the house, there was an iron stove beside the wall, and on it there was a bronze kettle. Inside the stove there was black coloured soot, and beside it there was a small pile of unburnt dried firewood.
Despite it being summer, the nights in this mountain were still icy cold. The iron stove could maintain the entire treehouse’s warmth when lit, despite its small size.
The treehouse has two sets of windows, two to three ropes wrapped as the frame of the windows, connecting the two together in the middle of the room.
On the rope hanged several torn pieces of clothing, the torn patches pieced together. It was obviously an adult’s clothing and was still slightly damp, not completely dry from the sun yet.
The light of the setting sun penetrated the windows and shone inside the treehouse.
The treehouse was rather dark internally. At a corner there were axes and hunting knives with beast skin wrapped on the handle. On the blade there was even dark red blood traces.
On the other side of the wall, there was a piece of bamboo paper with a dagger stabbed in the middle.
There was a young man’s face on the bamboo paper — it was Fang Yuan’s appearance!
This all meant that during this short period, someone had come to the hidden treehouse and lived here. The person’s intention was obvious, his target was Fang Yuan.
The paper was stabbed by a dagger and showed his evil intent to the extremes!
Such a scenario, even Fang Yuan was taken aback.
”What does this person want, and why is he against me? No, maybe it isn’t me but Fang Zheng.” Fang Yuan’s thoughts flew all over his mind.
Fang Zheng was an A grade talent, the only one in the last three years of the Gu Yue clan, and is their only hope. If he could be truly nurtured, he would be the next figure in the clan.
But nurturing was a process.
During this process, there were calamities and human-made disasters.
Ignoring calamities, the most important was human disasters. As everyone knew, Qing Mao mountain did not only have the Gu Yue clan, but also the Bai clan and Xiong clan. These two forces would not be happy to see the dominating Gu Yue clan successfully nurturing an A grade talent.
Thus, sending assassins to get rid of him was a common thing.
In this world, there are little geniuses, and even less of those who could successfully grow up.
A grade talent Gu Masters, it was not that they did not exist. Three years ago, one appeared in the Gu Yue clan. In even earlier generations, they also appeared on occasions.
But on Qing Mao Mountain, out of the three clans in these years, there was only one successful A grade talent nurtured — the Bai clan’s Bai Ning Bing of Rank three cultivation.
uch a scenario was enough to say many things.
”This person, is he from the Bai clan or the Xiong clan? They want to get rid of Gu Yue Fang Zheng so soon?” Fang Yuan frowned, staring at the portrait.
”But why did old man Wang’s beast skin map indicate this treehouse? Was he a spy from the other forces? No, this person is obviously after me!”
Fang Yuan’s eyes shone with brilliance.
At this moment, he thought of many scenes.
The first time, it was beside the trap, and the four hunter’s conversation —
A hunter said, ”Second brother Wang, you’re almost nineteen, it is time you got married and have children.”
Wang Er said, ”Hmph, as a true man, how can I be lusting after such small beauty! One day, I will walk out of this Qing Mao mountain and roam the world, learn everything in the world and live up to the expectations of my male body!”
The second time was after he himself acted, Wang Er’s peculiar calmness. He pulled his bow and pointed at Fang Yuan. The others were already begging for forgiveness.
The third was when Fang Yuan was asking questions.
”I ask you, in old man Wang’s family, who else is there?”
A hunter answered, ”Hunter Wang originally had a wife, but that was decades ago, and she was killed by wild wolves that intruded the village. Before his wife died she gave birth to two sons and a daughter. But the oldest son Wang Da died on the mountain while hunting three years ago. There is no one else in the Wang family.”
”I, I remember! Old man Wang actually also has a daughter-in-law, Wang Da’s old wife. But after Wang Da disappeared, his wife died due to a broken heart. That year, the village even specially sent down a chastity memorial arch! But rumour has it that Wang Da’s wife wanted to remarry, and she was actually hounded to death by Old man Wang. When you killed Old man Wang, lord, you are helping us citizens, rooting out the evil and bringing people peace!”
The other hunter quickly added, ”That’s right, that’s right. Actually lord, we have long found this old Wang unfavourable. Hmph, he’s nothing special, just that he can hunt better than us. We’re all just mortals, yet he thinks he’s more special than us and purposely moved out of the village to live here. As the younger generation, we sometimes will ask him to teach us and impart his experiences, but he would just outright chase us away and never allow us to show up again near the wooden house!”
Old man Wang’s family, moving out of the village, away from people…...
Eldest son Wang Da, died on the mountains three years ago while hunting…...
Wang Da’s wife wanted to remarry, and was forced to commit suicide by old man Wang, and obtained a chastity memorial arch....