Chapter 95: Two-faced Man
Just when Yin Chuan sent Lu Enting back to the woodshed, he seemed to smell a faint smell of blood coming from his hands that he had been covering.
"Is your hand injured?" Yin Chuan asked.
Lu Enting was stunned for a moment, then he opened his palm to show Yin Chuan, "No, I'm not injured."
Yin Chuan saw that there were indeed no wounds on his hands, but he noticed that he was wearing a ring on his right thumb. The outer end of the ring was a very thin flat-head design with a trace of blood on it.
"I suppose your ring must have scratched your second son-in-law Gu Yan just now?"
"Oh? Oh, maybe. I didn't pay much attention." He lifted the ring to take a look and wiped off the blood.
"Your ring is very special. I remember you didn't wear it on your hand when I first met you. Why are you wearing it today? And on your thumb?"
"This is a relic left by my mother. She wore it on her thumb when she was alive, so I wear it this way to commemorate her. The Lu family has been plagued by misfortunes lately, and I can't help but miss my mother, so I put it on again."
Yin Chuan nodded, "I see."
It was past ten in the evening when Lu Enting was sent back to the woodshed. The other three people, except for the eldest son-in-law Hai Yifan, all dozed off. When Hai Yifan saw Yin Chuan returning with Lu Enting, he hurried forward and said, "Is it time to interrogate me next?"
Yin Chuan frowned, "Why are you so active, brother-in-law?"
"These past few days, there have been so many funerals that I've been unable to eat or sleep properly. Now I've been accused of poisoning. How can I not feel wronged? So I want to explain everything to you quickly and clear my name so I don't have to stay locked up here and feel depressed."
Yin Chuan smiled faintly and took him to the interrogation room. Before he could ask any questions, Hai Yifan spoke first, "It's true that I put the ice cubes there, but I definitely didn't poison him."
"How do you know?"
"You all saw it the whole time. The basin of ice was so conspicuous. I put ice in everyone's cups right in front of everyone. If I wanted to do something, how could I have hidden it from everyone's eyes?"
Linlang said softly, "You are a highly skilled Western magician. We have all witnessed your techniques backstage. How can this little trick faze you?"
Hai Yifan snorted coldly, "Miss Lin, don't forget, this is the Lu family of magic. No matter how advanced my skills are, they are more than enough to fool laymen like you. But to fool a magic master like Lu Changhua... you overestimate me."
Yin Chuan patted Linlang, telling her not to get carried away, and then asked Hai Yifan, "When you and Lu Enting went to prepare the sour plum soup, you were in charge of the ice and he made the soup, right?"
"Actually... he had already made the sour plum soup. Otherwise, it would have been impossible to make it from dried black plums in such a short time. He simply took the semi-finished dried black plums from his great-uncle and brewed them with lukewarm water. When he brought it to the main hall, it looked like freshly made sour plum soup to everyone."
"So, did he have the chance to come into contact with ice during your preparations?" Linlang asked.
Hai Yifan thought for a moment and said, "No, he just told me where the ice cellar was, and I went to get it myself."
Yin Chuan walked back and forth slowly twice, and suddenly asked, "Do you know what the Lu family's three royal dragons are?"
This question made Hai Yifan unable to react for a moment. He blinked, "Yu Sanlong? What Yu Sanlong? I... I don't know."
"These are the three unique skills that Lu Changhua, the head of the Lu family, intends to pass down. You really don't know them?"
Hai Yifan rolled his eyes. "Oh, you're asking about the three unique skills? I heard my father-in-law mention them as 'Dragon Palace Water Play', 'Dragon Flame Sealing Throat', and 'Ice Dragon Escape'. Yeah, those are the three names."
"Do you know the details?"
"As for the details... I don't know."
Linlang stared at him closely. "The Lu family's head has already told us that he had long ago planned the inheritance of the three unique skills. He would pass them down to his three daughters. Moreover, he had already taught his eldest daughter, Lu Shuixian, the 'Dragon Palace Water Playing' technique several months ago. Don't you know?"
Hai Yifan was stunned. "What? There's such a thing? I have no idea about it!"
Yin Chuan and Lin Lang could see that Hai Yifan didn't seem to be pretending.
"Has your wife never revealed any information to you? You two are the closest people to each other!" Yin Chuan asked in confusion.
Hai Yifan didn't answer directly, but lowered his head and said bitterly: "This bitch! She deserved to die!"
"What did you say?" Linlang asked.
Hai Yifan suddenly raised his head. "And that old bastard Lu Changhua! Today I finally understand. He's been harboring this kind of sinister scheme. No wonder his descendants are extinct! He deserves it!"
Ha! What he said was exactly the same as what Lu Enting said at the end. It seems that no one in this huge Lu residence really hopes for the good of the magic family! Yin Chuan sighed in his heart.
"What do you think about the head of the family becoming a monk?" Yin Chuan asked.
"Hmph, after hearing what you said, I finally understand what the old man is planning!" Hai Yifan said with gritted teeth, "He just wants to destroy everything in the Lu family! No matter what happens to you in the future, the Lu family business will be destroyed at his hands!"
"Why would he do that?"
"Back when Lu Jiye was still around, he was already partial to him, single-mindedly trying to train Lu Jiye as the legitimate successor to the Lu family's magic tricks. But as soon as Lu Jiye died, he panicked. For a family as patriarchal as the Lu family, they wouldn't look down on three daughters. Although he didn't say it, I can guess that he must be hoping that one of the sisters Shuixian, Shuiqing, and Shuiling can give birth to a son, so that the inheritance of the Lu family's magic tricks will not be broken. But to this day, all three daughters are childless. After all the effort, Lu Shuiling got pregnant, but she accidentally lost the child. Humph, this old guy has a good plan, but man proposes, God disposes. I guess it was because of that movie star's uninvited visit that forced him to quickly plan the inheritance of his unique skills.
"He's a two-faced man! I'm sure he was absolutely unwilling to pass on his unique skills to his daughters, but when he had no choice, he simply passed one to each daughter to demonstrate his fairness. But everyone knows that this old man just wanted to prevent one daughter from having a monopoly. He seemed to have offended no one, but in fact, no one caught his eye. Now, all three daughters have died in an accident. Let's see what he can do now!"
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
