Chapter 840: Chapter 74 Approaching the Truth

“If Demon Lord Hong Lie has no other questions, I, Qing Ge, shall take my leave.”

Lu Qingshan looked around, “Your mansion is indeed luxurious, but I have a quirk; I only like my own place. Whenever I am at someone else’s, I feel like coughing.”

He was mocking, his words were not polite.

The two big figures didn’t show much expression, but a hint of a smile appeared in Ying Mingyue’s eyes.

She found Lu Qingshan’s playful remark interesting.

Demon Lord Hong Lie’s face had returned to calm, but his eyes were extremely gloomy.

By this point, he had understood that it would probably be impossible to trouble Qing Ge anymore.

He nodded, and said lightly, “For today’s event concerning Jun’er, I have disturbed you a lot, I hope my brother-in-law will not blame me, as an elder brother-in-law.”

“The protective nature for one’s child is universal,” Lu Qingshan smiled faintly, “I understand.”

With that, he cupped his hands in a salute and then left.

“Mingyue, go see him off. I still have some words to exchange with your brother,” said Shi Wu Demon Venerable abruptly.

Ying Mingyue was startled, but quickly responded, “Alright.”

After “Qing Ge” and Ying Mingyue left.

“Father, is there anything else you want to tell me?” Demon Lord Hong Lie asked cautiously.

Shi Wu Demon Venerable closed his eyes, remained silent for a long time before opening them to say, “I don’t wish to manage your matters anymore, nor do I have the heart for it.”

“However, you had better not harbor any ill thoughts towards Mingyue or Qing Ge in the future.”

“Can’t even manage your own family matters, and still having crooked thoughts?” Shi Wu Demon Venerable’s face twitched slightly, his voice tinged with anger, “My patience is limited!”

This was already a very serious reprimand.

“I…” Demon Lord Hong Lie was speechless.

Without waiting for his reply, Shi Wu Demon Venerable’s figure flashed and he disappeared.

…

After leaving Demon Lord Hong Lie’s mansion, Lu Qingshan and Ying Mingyue walked in silence, the atmosphere subtly tense.

“Thanks a lot this time, Miss Mingyue.

If it weren’t for you calling Shi Wu Demon Venerable in time to stand up for me, who knows how Demon Lord Hong Lie would have targeted me and leveled numerous charges against me.”

Lu Qingshan broke the silence first, expressing his gratitude proactively.

He was referring to how Ying Mingyue had invited Shi Wu Demon Venerable to help him.

“When one of your subordinates sent me the news that Demon Lord Hong Lie had summoned you to his mansion, I immediately sensed something was wrong and hurried to seek my father’s help.

Luckily, we arrived in time. From what I saw, Demon Lord Hong Lie was already prepared to press hard against you.” Ying Mingyue patted her ample chest, still feeling a lingering fear.

“Too much!” Remembering the scene when she arrived, Ying Mingyue angrily waved her fist.

Lu Qingshan glanced at Ying Mingyue, feeling that her emotions seemed overly intense today.

But he didn’t delve into it.

Chatting casually along the way, they soon arrived at Lu Qingshan’s residence.

“What you said to Demon Lord Hong Lie earlier, was it true?”

Just as Lu Qingshan was about to bow and bid farewell, preparing to return home, Ying Mingyue suddenly stopped him and asked.

What I said to Demon Lord Hong Lie earlier?

Lu Qingshan was puzzled.

He had said so many things earlier, how could he know which one Ying Mingyue was referring to?

“You mean the matter about Ying Jun’s death, that the real culprit is Ying Jie?

That was just my guess. Whether it’s true or not, they can only determine it for themselves.”

“But whether it’s true or not, they will only consider it as false,” Lu Qingshan asserted.

“That’s not what I was asking!” Ying Mingyue didn’t dwell on the deeper meaning of Lu Qingshan’s words, instead, she couldn’t help stomping her foot in frustration.

What she cared about was not that, but the very first words she heard Lu Qingshan say when she arrived.

“Then what are you referring to?” Lu Qingshan asked, confused.

Ying Mingyue opened her mouth, hesitated for a long time, but in the end, she couldn’t say it.

She could only fling her hand angrily, huffing, and gave up, “Never mind, just pretend I never asked that question.”

After saying that, Ying Mingyue turned and left.

This left Lu Qingshan puzzled.

This woman? Hmm?

So strange.

……

Study.

“Father.” Demon Lord Hong Lie’s eldest son, Ying Jie, walked in.

“How is the situation?” Demon Lord Hong Lie put down the black jade in his hand, showing no abnormality, and asked calmly.

“No progress at all,” Ying Jie frowned, reported helplessly, “Father, apart from those warship remnants, there’s no other clue left by the assassin who killed my second brother.”

“We thoroughly investigated the surrounding areas, but found no suspicious figures appearing in the recent period.

And I also examined my second brother’s relationships, and didn’t find any mortal enemies with enough hatred to take such a huge risk to assassinate him.”

Ying Jie truly felt at a loss.

He couldn’t shake the feeling that Ying Jun’s death didn’t resemble a meticulously planned and long-conspired assassination.

It seemed more like Ying Jun had bad luck, encountering some powerful foe on the road who killed him on a whim.

The most complex and difficult to unravel cases in the world are precisely these spur-of-the-moment murders.

Because in such cases, you can’t start investigating from the victim’s relationships, and you can’t use causality to trace back to the perpetrator.

Anyone could be the killer.

The killer might not even know Ying Jun at all.

“Is it truly that you can’t find, or you don’t want to find, or dare not find out,” Demon Lord Hong Lie’s eyes gleamed coldly, suddenly questioning, “After all, if you really investigate thoroughly, what if it leads back to yourself?”