The big man took a few deep breaths, then turned to stare at the servant who found the body and shouted, "Who? Who was it that killed my Senior Brother? Hurry up and tell me the truth! Otherwise, I will tear you apart! "
"I … I don't know either … When I found Guardian Zhang just now, he was already dead …" The servant was trembling in fear as he bowed and answered carefully.
"Guardian Zhu, don't be too sad." Zhao Wendeng, who was standing on the side, tried to persuade him. "As the saying goes, the dead can't come back to life. I think we should let Guardian Zhang rest in peace first, then we can find the murderer. What do you think …"
Zhao Wendeng's expression was not good either, but he did not lose his mind like Guardian Zhu. After all, there were many people in the Cultivation World who could kill the man in red in one move.
They didn't even know who killed the man in red. If they rashly looked for trouble, it was very likely that they would offend some forces that even the Zhao Family could not afford to offend.
However, before Zhao Wendeng could finish speaking, Guardian Zhu gritted his teeth and interrupted him, "Bury my ass! My Senior Brother died for no reason. Are we just going to let it go? "
Climbing up from the ground, Guardian Zhu stared at Zhao Wendeng and said coldly, "Zhao, just tell me whether your Zhao Family will do anything about it or not! If you don't, then I will immediately bring my Senior Brother's body back to the sect and let our Sect Leader make a decision! "
"This …" Zhao Wendeng was immediately put in a difficult position. Although the sect that Protector Zhang and Protector Zhu belonged to was not considered a famous sect, with the Zhao Clan's strength, they still could not afford to offend them. If Protector Zhu sent the corpses back, the Zhao Clan would definitely be greatly implicated if that Sect Leader came over in grief and anger.
After pondering for a moment, Zhao Wendeng gritted his teeth and said, "Guardian Zhu, how about this? Let's first send Guardian Zhang's body back to the Zhao Family for a proper burial. It's not appropriate to just leave it here. Then, I will immediately ask someone to find relevant clues. When there is concrete information, we can make specific plans. What do you think?"
"Okay! Then we'll do as you say! " Guardian Zhu saw that Zhao Wendeng was quite sincere, so he didn't say anything more. He nodded and bent over to pick up the cold corpse of the red-clothed man. He turned around and strode in the direction of the Zhao Clan.
After all, his sect was quite a distance away from Swallow Forest Town. If he really wanted to bring the corpse back to complain to the sect master, then it would take too much time. If there were any clues, it might be lost by then. Since the Zhao Family had the attitude of being willing to deal with this matter, then let's see their actions first!
Seeing that Protector Zhu agreed, Zhao Wendeng didn't dare to delay. He quickly ordered the servants who were still searching to go back and collect relevant information.
He was not willing to have such a corpse displayed in the Zhao Family's residence. If this were to spread out, the Zhao Family would not need to continue mingling in Swallow Forest Town anymore either!
On the way back, Zhao Wendeng repeatedly pondered over the entire process of the matter. A familiar figure faintly appeared in his mind — it was that pretentious brat he had met at the restaurant today!
After all, Guardian Zhang was sent by him to teach that brat a lesson. If he inferred according to this clue, then when Guardian Zhang encountered that fellow, due to his lack of strength, he was directly smashed to death with one punch. Then that person escaped without a trace, leaving only Guardian Zhang's corpse that died with everlasting grievances!
But no matter how Zhao Wendeng thought about it, he still felt that it was impossible for that brat to have such profound strength. If he could even kill Guardian Zhang, who was at the Great Circle of the Foundation Establishment Stage, then when he was teasing his woman, why did he only think of leaving at the beginning, and not fly into a rage on the spot and kill him?
One had to know that high-level cultivators in the cultivation world all had their own pride. They absolutely wouldn't allow others to humiliate them or the people around them. Otherwise, they would annihilate your entire family at any moment. And that brat didn't look like that kind of person no matter how one looked at him!
If it wasn't that guy who made a move, then who was it?
Zhao Wendeng pondered for a while again. In Yanlin Town, the only family that could contend with his own family and dare to kill off the Zhao Family's Guardian Zhang was the Qin Family. Could it be that the Qin Family's people were playing tricks in the dark?
But how did the Qin Family know that Guardian Zhang had gone out to teach that brat a lesson? And they even specifically sent people to that place to intercept and kill him? This didn't seem to make sense!
After thinking left and right for a long time, Zhao Wendeng still couldn't find any clues. Fortunately, when he returned home and returned to Yanlin Town to enter the Zhao Family's house, all the intelligence gathered by the servants had already been placed on his desk by relying on the Zhao Family's powerful network of connections.
Zhao Wendeng first found a place to preserve Guardian Zhang's corpse, placated Guardian Zhu's emotions, and promised to immediately start the investigation. Then, he warned the other servants not to spread the news, and only then did he return to the study.
Sitting in front of the desk, Zhao Wendeng picked up the intelligence gathered by the servants. First, he filtered out some trivial matters that were obviously unrelated, and then removed the gossip of the neighbors. After flipping through for a long time, he finally focused his gaze on two clues.
One of them was precisely the intelligence gathered from the restaurant he went to in the afternoon. According to the information the servants got from the waiter, after he left today, Qin Taotian treated that pair of immortal cultivators and dao companions to a meal on the second floor.
When the waiter entered to deliver the dishes, he just happened to hear that immortal cultivator introduce himself as Xiao Qiang, and that woman's surname was Hong. However, the waiter didn't know what exactly the two parties talked about during the meal.
In the waiter's impression, after they finished the meal, the immortal cultivators bid farewell to Qin Taotian and left the restaurant. Qin Taotian seemed to have left after a while, and the two groups of people seemed to have gone in different directions.
There was only so much content in this clue. The other piece of intelligence was sent back by the Zhao Family's undercover agent in the Qin Family. It was said that the Qin Family welcomed back an expert with great fanfare today. Not only did the Qin Family's patriarch, Qin Shengling, hold a banquet to welcome him, but he also seemed to treat him as an honored guest. It seemed that he valued this person very much.
However, because the undercover agent was only a servant on the periphery of the Qin Family, this rumor was only spread by the servants in the Inner Court. He didn't know much about the details, and he couldn't find out more information. Therefore, the content of this clue was limited to just a few words.
Staring at the two collected clues in front of him, Zhao Wendeng thought hard for a long time, but he still couldn't think of any connection between these two matters and Guardian Zhang's death. He could only stop helplessly.
Zhao Wendeng planned to gather all the stewards of the Zhao Family tomorrow morning and have a meeting to discuss it. Perhaps with more people, the sparks in their minds would collide, and they would be able to think of a connection?
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