Dong Enbo shouted loudly, but he felt a little timid in his heart. He only found out that the family was heading north, and the guards following them were all hired escorts.
Seeing that this family was full of women, children, and young children, dressed decently, and with few servants, Dong Enbo thought they were just ordinary wealthy families, or the family of a local minor official. Regardless of the former or the latter, in this unfamiliar place, even if he was caught, he would have no way to investigate, and even if he was investigated, he would not be found to be the one.
Who would have thought that this family was so perceptive and the bodyguard they hired was so powerful!
How can this be an ordinary wealthy family and bodyguard?
I’m afraid that the Jinyiwei in the imperial city can’t investigate the case so quickly?
If he had known this would happen, he would not have done anything to this family. Unfortunately, it is too late to regret now.
However, as long as he insisted that he knew nothing, he thought that this family would not be able to do anything to him. After all, the powder he put in the dish was not the poison they thought!
"You are such a stubborn person." Feng Ping sneered.
Qi Xu said calmly: "Take him away for questioning."
Feng Ping and another Tianshu Pavilion guard took Dong Enbo and his servant out.
Dong Enbo was still shouting, "You are abusing lynching and disregarding the law!"
A ball of cloth was stuffed into his mouth.
Are you kidding? The people in Tianshu Pavilion are already very skilled at interrogating people. They have many ways to make him behave himself and not dare to say a word after the interrogation.
When Dong Enbo was dragged away, Shopkeeper Dong was running towards this side in a hurry. He passed by him and looked at Dong Enbo with his mouth gagged and taken away in surprise. But he didn't say a word. He just glared at him fiercely and continued to walk into the house.
"My benefactors, it's all Dong's fault!"
He had just heard about Dong Enbo putting drugs in the Wei family's dinner. He was so scared that he didn't even dare to continue eating his own dinner. He vomited out the few bites he took.
After wiping his mouth, he quickly ran to the Wei family's room.
Dong Enbo has nothing to do with the Wei family. It's easy to tell that the drugging to harm the Wei family must be related to him.
If the Wei family was really harmed by Dong Enbo because of him, then what's the difference between him repaying kindness with enmity?
With a plop, Shopkeeper Dong knelt down in front of the Wei family.
"Manager Dong, there's no need to do this. The matter hasn't been investigated clearly yet." Wei Maolin gave a look, and Manager Wang stepped forward and helped Manager Dong up.
Shopkeeper Dong looked ashamed. He didn't want to expose the family's dirty laundry, but now he couldn't care less. "This Dong Enbo is my brother's child. Some time ago, my father privately proposed to hand over the position of head of the family to me. My nephew must have heard about this and wanted to take this opportunity to get rid of me so that my brother can take over the family business."
It turned out that although Manager Dong and his brother were both legitimate sons in the family, they were not from the same mother.
Shopkeeper Dong's mother was the second wife that Mr. Dong married three years after his first wife passed away. Normally, the family business would be handed over to the eldest son, but the Dong family was different. This family business was basically built after the second wife came into the family, and most of it was supported by the second wife's family. There were also two medicine mountains, which were originally the dowry brought by the second wife.
In this case, if Shopkeeper Dong's brother wanted to inherit the family business, Shopkeeper Dong's uncle's family would not agree unless Shopkeeper Dong died. Shopkeeper Dong had no sons but only one daughter, so the family business naturally fell to his brother's family.
"I was so kind to my nephew before, but I didn't expect that he actually wanted to kill me!"
Shopkeeper Dong sighed repeatedly.
The Wei family also sighed after hearing this.
It is said that every family has its own problems. There is a lot of intrigue among the wealthy families in Beijing, but I didn’t expect that there are so many twists and turns among the merchant families as well.
At this moment, Feng Ping had finished interrogating Dong Enbo and pushed the door open and returned to the house.
“I confessed everything.”
"The powder is what he asked the servant to sprinkle on the dishes. It's not poison, but a kind of powder that can make people sleepy and hallucinate. It won't work under normal circumstances unless the person who takes the powder has stayed in the Heavenly Punishment Land for a long time within three days."
"The place of heavenly punishment?" Wei Mingxuan asked.
"It's the wasteland we passed by when we came here. It's the disaster area that caused the wrath of heaven twenty years ago."
Feng Ping continued, "Although the drug he gave to the Wei family was not fatal, the poison he gave to Shopkeeper Dong was deadly. Although it would not kill him instantly, he would definitely die from organ failure within three days."
"What?" Shopkeeper Dong's eyes widened.
A sense of fear arose in my heart, but fortunately!
The commotion created by the Wei family just now interrupted his dinner. He was so scared that he vomited out the few bites he had eaten. Wasn't his life really going to end here?
"My benefactor, you saved my life again!" Shopkeeper Dong was so grateful that he burst into tears. At this moment, he wished he could sell his life to the Wei family to repay the two life-saving graces.
"Manager Dong, please wait a moment." Feng Ping hadn't finished speaking when he reported with a more serious look, "There is one more thing. These medicinal powders were obtained by Dong Enbo from a place called the Holy Moon Sect."
"Holy Moon Sect?" Qi Xu raised his eyebrows.
This was a completely unfamiliar name, and even the Tianshu Pavilion's intelligence network had never heard of it. Changing the route and heading to Beiguan was really a journey of "surprises" and a fruitful one.
Wei Yunlan also muttered the three words "Holy Moon Sect" in his heart. In his previous life, many sects did appear in various places, especially in the areas that were deeply poisoned by witchcraft in southern Xinjiang, but he had never heard of the name of Holy Moon Sect.
Maybe it was a small sect that just started but didn't develop later. It's true, after the natural disaster, all kinds of monsters and demons came out.
"This Holy Moon Cult is really harmful."
"Fortunately, you found it in time and didn't touch the food. Otherwise, even if it didn't endanger my life, it would have had some impact on my body."
Manager Dong said, "My dinner is still on the table. The poison in it should be detectable. I will report it to the authorities and have them arrest Dong Enbo and investigate the Holy Moon Cult!"
This matter actually had little to do with the Wei family, and the Wei family did not stop Manager Dong from reporting to the police.
I didn't take the Holy Moon Sect too seriously. After all, there were countless small sects like this in the local area that specialized in harming people.
But what was unexpected was that it only happened overnight.
Early the next morning, just as the Wei family had harnessed their carriages and were on their way, Hai Dongqing from Tianshu Pavilion delivered a secret letter.
Feng Ping glanced at the contents of the letter and his face changed.
He rode his horse to Qi Xu's side and said, "Master, the results have been revealed!"
"That Siyun has confessed everything. She is a spy specially trained by a place called the Holy Moon Cult."
It’s the Holy Moon Cult again!
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
