Gu Long's World: Starting with the Legend of Chu Liuxiang

Chapter 168 The Traitor Within the Organization

Chapter 168 The Traitor Within the Organization

Jiang Fengyue blinked, smiled at Gongsun Lan, and said, "Would you believe me if I said I came to help you?"

Gongsun Lan frowned slightly, puzzled, and said, "You mean helping me, is it just about causing trouble here?"

Jiang Fengyue sighed, "Have you ever thought about why Lu Xiaofeng would suspect you?"

Gongsun Lan smiled and said, "Isn't he that so-called Embroidered Thief? He's also wearing red shoes. There are so many people in the world who wear red shoes, why do you have to suspect me?"

Jiang Fengyue then pointed at Jiang Qingxia and said, "Lu Xiaofeng didn't know that such an organization existed in the world. At first, he didn't think you were very suspicious. It was just that the real Embroidery Thief, in order to frame you, asked Sikong Zhaixing to send the red satin, the key piece of evidence, to Jiang Qingxia's nunnery."

Gongsun Lan sneered, "You know he's framing us."

Jiang Fengyue shook her head and said, "It's not entirely a frame-up. It's just that one of you eight sisters already has an accomplice of the Embroidery Thief, who has been secretly helping the Embroidery Thief."

Upon hearing Jiang Fengyue's words, the members of the Red Shoes organization, including Xue Bing, were all surprised and looked at each other in disbelief. Jiang Fengyue had already demonstrated her superb martial arts skills in front of them.

People with bigger fists are always more likely to have a point when they speak.

Jiang Fengyue continued, "Moreover, she not only wanted to frame your organization, she also wanted you dead."

Gongsun Lan frowned and said, "Me, die? How could I die?"

Jiang Fengyue said calmly, "If you become that Embroidered Thief and are captured by Lu Xiaofeng, you will surely die in the end."

Gongsun Lan's expression also turned strange, as if she couldn't believe that one of her sisters would betray her and even harbor murderous intent towards her, her eldest sister. She asked, "Do you know who that person is?"

Lu Xiaofeng also looked at them. He knew quite a few members of this organization, including Xue Bing and Jiang Qingxia, with whom he had a private affair, and Ouyang Qing, whom he had met at the Yiqing Courtyard that day.

He frowned and asked, "Could the Embroidered Thief really have accomplices among them?"

Jiang Fengyue smiled and said, "That's right."

He slowly walked to Gongsun Lan's sisters, first circling around the drunken Third Sister, who glared at him fiercely.

He then walked over to the red-clad girl with pigtails, Qi Niang, who made a face at him.

Finally, he slowly walked up to his second aunt, got very close, and smiled, "I wasn't wrong, was I, second aunt?"

Upon hearing this, everyone present turned their gazes toward the Second Madam.

Second Sister was terrified and retreated repeatedly, saying angrily, "Nonsense! I don't understand what you're saying. If you keep talking nonsense, I'll cut your tongue out."

Jiang Fengyue smiled slightly and said, "Second Aunt, there's no need to rush to deny it. Everything requires evidence. If there's no evidence at all, I can't accuse you out of thin air."

Second Aunt snorted coldly, forcing herself to remain calm, and said, "What evidence do you have?"

Gongsun Lan also came over, muttering, "Second Sister has been with us the longest and manages the finances for me. How could she betray our organization?"

Jiang Fengyue sneered, "Accountant, is that it?"

As they were talking, he was holding a large handful of bankbooks, which looked to be seventy or eighty.

Second Aunt patted her clothes and discovered that the passbooks she was carrying had vanished. It turned out that Jiang Fengyue had been so close to her just now in order to take these passbooks.

Gongsun Lan moved closer to Jiang Fengyue, frowning, and asked, "Is there something wrong with these bankbooks?"

Jiang Fengyue smiled slightly, opened one of the savings books, and found it completely blank.

Second Sister's expression changed drastically, and her pupils dilated.

Jiang Fengyue then opened the second book, which was blank. She opened more than ten save books in a row, and found that half of them were blank.

Gongsun Lan said sternly, "Second Sister, what's going on here!"

Second Aunt's face turned ashen, and she hurriedly explained, "This is—this is because the harvest was bad this year, and I'm too proud to admit it, so I made false accounts. It's my fault, it's my—"

Jiang Fengyue interrupted, "It's not that the harvest was bad, but that you spent all the wealth you collected on a pretty boy, that is, the Embroidered Bandit."

Second Aunt waved her hand, denying, "No—no—"

Gongsun Lan's face was cold. At this point, any words Er Niang could say would seem pale and powerless.

Jiang Fengyue said with a smile, "If not, do you dare to take out your account books and let everyone see them, or whether you can still withdraw the original silver from the money shops in various places?"

Second Aunt was speechless, unable to utter a word for a long time.

Jiang Fengyue continued loudly, "You can't produce the wealth your organization has accumulated over the years. You don't dare to say where it went. It's only because of this financial deficit that you want to kill Gongsun Lan so that you can take her place and improve your status in the organization, and then no one will dare to question your false accounts."

Second Sister tried to escape with a flash of movement, but there were at least three masters with lightness skills several times better than hers on the scene, so how could she possibly escape?

Before Jiang Fengyue and Lu Xiaofeng could even move, Gongsun Lan had already pressed down hard on Erniang's shoulder with one hand, and slapped Erniang hard across the face with the other.

Gongsun Lan's voice was icy as she said, "How could you do such a thing? If it were a shortage of funds, you could have just said so. Considering how many years you've dedicated yourself to the organization, at most you would have been expelled. But now that you've done this, what am I supposed to do? How am I supposed to explain this to the other sisters?"

Jiang Fengyue sighed inwardly. It was alright whether or not to give an explanation to her sisters. None of them were ruthless or fratricidal. Even if her second aunt did something like this, they would probably forgive her in the end.

However, Gongsun Lan could not forgive Erniang for the organization, because although Erniang was the eldest sister of the organization, there was an unseen hand behind her that was secretly manipulating the organization.

The second sister knelt down with a thud, tears streaming down her face, and murmured, "Eldest sister, I'm so sorry, it's all my fault—"

Gongsun Lan sighed and said, "If you are truly repentant, reveal the name of the pretty boy you've been hooking up with, and perhaps Young Master Lu and Young Master Jiang might spare your life."

Second Aunt shook her head painfully and said sadly, "No—I can't say—I can't—"

Suddenly, she pulled out a small porcelain bottle from her bosom, forcefully opened the cap, and was about to pour it into her mouth. This was clearly a poison that could not be reversed once ingested, yet she was willing to sacrifice her own life to protect the person she deeply loved.

Second Sister is not the kind of woman who has never seen the world. Now that she is middle-aged, who is so charming that she is so infatuated with her?