Chapter 121
Pan Shulin opened his mouth and asked:"Where is the account book now?"
Zhao Xiang said: "In my room."
Pan Shulin walked back and forth a few steps, lowered his eyes in deep thought. A moment later, a trace of viciousness flashed across his face. He waved Zhao Xiang over, leaned close to his ear, and quietly instructed him on something. Zhao Xiang's expression was somewhat hesitant, appearing very troubled.
"If we do this, I will never be able to withdraw money from the pavilion again!"
"But only this way can you be safe and sound." Pan Shulin gently patted Zhao Xiang's shoulder twice: "I've said all I can. You consider it yourself. Only if you yourself are safe and sound will we have the opportunity to cooperate later to deal with that Xi Yao."
After saying this, Pan Shulin left with his own attendants.
Zhao Xiang stayed in place and thought for a while. Finally, he gritted his molars and strode out with a flick of his sleeve.
Wang Jin, who was sitting inside the room waiting for Zhao Xiang to arrive, suddenly heard many footsteps outside. Just as he was about to go out and look, a team of beastmen swiftly rushed in. Before anyone could react, they struck down and killed all the kneeling people.
So many gers... He had never even thought of taking these people's lives... Wang Jin's face turned somewhat pale. He stood up instantly. Behind these beastmen, Zhao Xiang walked out gracefully, his face full of anxiety and worry: "I'm late, A-Yao, are you hurt?"
He stepped forward, pulling Wang Jin to look him over left and right, as if he was truly worried Wang Jin was injured. Wang Jin narrowed his eyes looking at him, then looked at the corpses all over the ground...
This Zhao Xiang truly breaks the limits of his understanding every time.
Even with his broad experience from his previous life, he had never seen someone so ruthless and vicious, directly coming to kill all the confidants he had placed within the pavilion...
Since Zhao Xiang dared to directly come and kill these people, he must have prepared an excuse to fob him off. Wang Jin was curious, what was his excuse?
Wang Jin moved his arm, shook off his touch, and asked tentatively: "You this... what's going on?"
Zhao Xiang glanced at the corpses on the ground, smiling as if nothing was wrong, and said: "These gers are truly bold, daring to bully even you. Their deaths are insufficient to atone. I cleared out the household for you."
"For me?" A sarcastic smile hung on Wang Jin's lips: "Didn't you say you don't interfere with matters inside my pavilion?"
"This..." Zhao Xiang pretended to just realize it: "I was too anxious. I heard they bullied you, I even forgot my previous promise... I was just too worried about you..."
Again using "too concerned" as an excuse.
The sarcasm in Wang Jin's eyes intensified. He looked at Zhao Xiang as if looking at a betrayer who had committed a crime: "But they told me before that it was you who instructed them to bully me, that the account book is also with you... All the missing silver from the pavilion was embezzled by you."
"!" Zhao Xiang turned a blind eye to Wang Jin's sarcasm and the understanding in his eyes, pretending to be extremely surprised, and argued: "These gers are too audacious! This is trying to drive a wedge between you and me! I never interfere with the pavilion's affairs. Even today's exception was because that Xiao Xiao suddenly came to find me, even threatening me with destroying the account book... He wanted me to beg you for mercy, to spare their lives, and they would hand over the account book. I thought, how could we spare them after they bullied you like that? I didn't agree. In a moment of anger, I executed these people for you!"
As Zhao Xiang spoke, his short, round fingers covered his mouth, his eyes filled with an air of ignorance and innocence... as if he were truly innocent.
This acting... Wang Jin almost couldn't help but applaud and cheer.
Only now did Wang Jin feel that he had underestimated this Zhao Xiang.
Who would have thought that a short, fat ger who didn't look fierce at all, who always presented himself as kind and affable, could be so ruthless and vicious inside...
This time, he was caught off guard...
Now all the witnesses were dead, the account book was missing, there were no witnesses or material evidence. Even if he made a big fuss about it, Zhao Xiang's sudden interference in the pavilion's affairs was indeed suspicious, but it wasn't enough to shake him, after all, he was still the deputy city lord's son...
Moreover, with his superb acting skills and his usual false affable appearance... not many people would believe he could do such a thing...
Wang Jin sneered. Zhao Xiang barged in openly, killed the people in his pavilion, and he still couldn't touch this person. At most, he could only blame him for meddling...
In the end, for this meddling, Zhao Xiang even had a proper reason—as his only good friend, he was overly "concerned" about him...
This is really...
Wang Jin slightly bent his knuckles and rapped them heavily on the table three times in anger. Zhao Xiang, with a false smile on his face, stepped forward wanting to support him...
Wang Jin angrily shouted: "Don't touch me with your dirty hands."
"..." Zhao Xiang paused, his expression turning wronged: "A-Yao, do you believe the words they fabricated about me?"
"Little ger." Yuan Heng entered the door and saw a room full of corpses. His face turned stern, and he stepped forward to block Wang Jin.
Seeing the man, Wang Jin's feeling of nausea from looking at Zhao Xiang's hypocritical face subsided a lot.
He leaned most of his weight on the man and waved tiredly at Zhao Xiang: "You may leave."
"A-Yao..." Zhao Xiang still wanted to step forward. Yuan Heng frowned, staring at Zhao Xiang, blocking Wang Jin.
The man looked fierce and menacing, his entire aura oppressive. For some reason, meeting the man's eyes, Zhao Xiang actually felt a sense of guilt.
He hurriedly lowered his head, concealed his thoughts, and said: "Then A-Yao, you rest well. Let me know if you need me. No matter how you misunderstand me, I will always consider you my closest friend."
"..." Wang Jin tightly gripped the man's clothes, feeling even more sick inside...
He had truly never seen such a shameless person.
After Zhao Xiang left, Wang Jin quickly followed the man out and had the guards clean up that room.
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