"Opened up?" Gu Yue Bo frowned deeply.
"Not bad, now that it's come to this, I won't hide it!" Fang Yuan looked like he had gone out of his way, his tone was urgent, "I bought six pieces of Purple Goldstone at the gambling casino, and because I didn't have enough true essence, I only unraveled five pieces on the spot. There was one piece left, brought it to the dormitory, and after unraveling it, I found out that it was a wine worm. I was overjoyed because I had looked up the information before and knew that the wine bug was a rare parasite that could make up for my shortcomings in qualifications. So it was immediately refined."
"Wait, you said you gambled on stones and bought six pieces. One piece gambled out a mangy toad, and the other piece also opened up a wine bug?" Hearing this, one of the family elders couldn't hold back and asked back with an incredulous tone.
"What's wrong with that?" Fang Yuan asked back as a matter of course, then pointed at the female compounder and exclaimed, "She can testify for me!"
The people in the arena were stunned, and they all looked at the female compulsion master in unison.
The female composter felt the oppressive force coming from her gaze, she didn't dare to lie, so she told the truth, "It's indeed true, Fang Yuan bought six pieces, then the fifth piece opened up a mangy toad. The sixth piece did take away as well, but I don't know what it opened."
"Just buying six pieces of purple golden stones and opening two compotes in a row, this luck is too good, isn't it?" Many people among the family elders muttered.
"What's so incomprehensible about this? Luck, no one can say. Hey, think of the time when I gambled on stones ..."
"Wait a minute, it's hard to refine a compulsion, how come listening to Fang Yuan's words, he refined the compulsion all of a sudden?" A family old man said doubtfully.
"You are old and confused. Don't you know that when compotes are unraveled, they are all extremely weak and on the verge of death? It's possible even if they've crossed over into refining. What's so rare about him refining a wine bug?" Someone beside him immediately replied.
Fang Yuan continued, "After I refined the wine worm, I went to the merchant store again the next day. Indeed, I went to a wine store at noon and bought a cup of monkey wine. I went again at night time and happened to see a fraudulent dispute where Jia Jinsheng had sold the stinky fat worm as a Black Ragworm Compass to a Compassion Master of my clan. Then Lord Jia Fu appeared and settled the dispute."
"When I went to the wine store again, I didn't expect to run into Jia Jinsheng drinking there. I had just obtained a wine bug and was so joyful in my heart that I wanted to ask to see how many Yuan Stones I could sell this wine bug for. When Jia Jinsheng found out that I had wine worms, he tried to force me to buy them. Of course I don't want to, I don't want to sell the wine bugs at all, I just want to clarify the value of the wine bugs. To sell it would also have to come at least after my second transformation, so I left on the spot."
With these words, Fang Yuan publicized the conflict between Jia Fu and Jia Jinsheng, which caused the gazes of the family elders towards Jia Fu to become somewhat meaningful.
Under the pressure of these gazes, Jia Fu coughed, and with a flash of essence in his eyes, he asked Fang Yuan, "Then, my younger brother, Jia Jinsheng, did he go after you again after that?"
Fang Yuan nodded, half-truthfully saying, "Not only did he chase after me, he also added fifty Yuan Stones. But I didn't want to sell at all, and he was furious, threatening to say that the Ancient Moon Clan was nothing, telling me to be more careful in the future. After saying his harsh words, he left. I haven't seen him since."
Jia Fu secretly nodded, with his understanding of Jia Jinsheng's character, he would definitely chase after him. Letting out harsh words was also Jia Jinsheng's usual style.
If Fang Yuan had said that Jia Jinsheng had not chased out, he would have expected that it must be a lie.
But since Fang Yuan had said so, it made it a bit difficult for Jia Fu. The results of his investigation stopped here. Was it true that Jia Jinsheng did not look for Fang Yuan again? Perhaps Jia Jinsheng had found Fang Yuan again later on, and the two sides couldn't come to terms, and as a result, he was killed by Fang Yuan - this was entirely possible.
"Say, did you kill Jia Jinsheng!" Thinking of this, Jia Fu forced the question with a stern look, attempting to oppress Fang Yuan with his aura.
Fang Yuan, on the other hand, denied it, biting out that he had never seen Jia Jinsheng since then.
Jia Fu had no other evidence, one side pressed, one side denied. Things came to a deadlock here.
Gu Yue Bo listening to listen, face a little unhappy, this Jia Jinsheng actually dared in the Qingmao Mountain, so threatened the people of the Gu Yue clan. This was clearly not putting the Gu Yue clan in his eyes! Now Jia Fu was forcing the Ancient Moon Clan to question the Ancient Moon Clan like this in front of the Ancient Moon hierarchy. It would be fine if there was solid evidence, but now it was obvious that there was no key evidence, where would one's face go if this were to be spread?
"Elder brother Jia, it's not that old brother is being talkative." The patriarch interrupted Jia Fu's pressing questions and said, "Jia Jinsheng has been missing for so many days, I'm afraid he's already in a bad way. If the murderer caused this bloodshed, then there must be traces of it. I wonder if you've found out anything else, old brother?"
Jia Fu glared fiercely at Fang Yuan, tilted his head and let out a long sigh, "Old brother's words, how could I not know! If there were any clues, someone Jia would not have come here to confront you, old brother. That murderer is obviously a repeat offender, with vicious and thorough methods. I'm not hiding it from you, all the clues are broken, and the day we left, it was raining heavily, even if there was blood, it was washed away."
Gu Yue Bo smiled faintly, "Elder brother Jia, I heard that your Jia family has a tracking compulsion, the Underworld Road Butterfly, which can emit a soul fragrance that is planted on the compulsion. This fragrance is colorless and tasteless and lasts forever. All of your Jia Family members have a trace of soul fragrance on their parasites. As long as you utilize the Underworld Path Butterfly and follow this wisp of soul fragrance, you will be able to locate the compost worms and thus find the clan members."
Jia Fu's face was grim, "I've used the Underworld Road Butterfly a long time ago, and it had no effect at all. I'm sure that old brother Gu Yue has also heard of it, as long as the compulsion dies, the soul fragrance disperses. Obviously that murderer has already exterminated all the parasites on my brother's body, one by one!"
Gu Yue Bo's words suddenly turned, "This is strange. That murderer harmed your brother, one didn't want his parasites, and two didn't hand in a kidnapping to extort Yuan Shi. Then what did the murderer want by killing him, a small first turn Compassion Master?"
Yes, what was the figure?
Regardless of whether Jia Jinsheng was dead or not, his murderer had to have a motive.
One was not for the parasites, the other was not for the yuan stone, could it be a love killing?
But if it's a love killing, there has to be a time accumulation process, and he, Jia Fu, shouldn't have come to the door. The people in the caravan and Jia Jinsheng spent a lot of time together, so they were more suspicious.
For a while, the council hall fell into silence.
Fang Yuan scanned the crowd without a trace and suddenly said to Jia Fu, ''Perhaps Jia Jinsheng was the one you killed off. I've long heard that your Jia family is going to divide the family fortune, and with the death of a brother, won't you get more of the family fortune?"
"Shut up!"
"Empty mouths are not allowed to accuse Lord Jia Fu freely."
Immediately, a family elder shouted out in a low voice.
Fang Yuan immediately stopped talking, his gaze flickered vaguely, in fact, he had already achieved his goal.
The sentence he had just said was like a small stone that was thrown into the middle of the lake of the family elders' thinking, creating a ripple.
The family elders followed the ripples, and their thoughts couldn't help but spread out: ''It's impossible for Jia Fu to kill Jia Jinsheng, it would be more of a loss than a gain for him. Wait, if he doesn't do it, it may not be that others won't do it ..."
"Jia family infighting!" I don't know which family elder had a flash of insight and said softly.
His voice was not loud, but it was clear in the silent lobby.
For a moment, the gazes of the many family elders all suddenly lit up.
"Finally thought of this aspect." Fang Yuan bristled, his curtains dropping to hide a cold glint in his eyes.
The Jia family patriarch wanted to divide the family property and pass on the patriarchal position, thus several of his sons and daughters were in fierce competition. In particular, Jia Fu and Jia Gui, both of whom were at the fourth-rotation Compassion Master cultivation level, had a group of supporters around them.
Over the years, many of the Jia family's cottages knew some of this information.
Jia Jinsheng's murder, this matter was too strange. There was no direct evidence that Fang Yuan was the murderer. To kill someone for the sake of the wine bugs alone, the motive is obviously insufficient. At the same time, the murderer's methods would not be so confidential and rigorous.
But if it was Jia Gui who had secretly made the move, then it could be explained.
Almost all of the people present were high-ranking figures, but anyone in a high position must be superior. At least for political intrigue, there is this keen sense of smell and insight.
The four words Jia Family infighting undoubtedly gave the richly-associated crowd a pair of wings of imagination.
One of the intentions of the Jia family's patriarch in arranging for Jia Jinsheng to join the merchant team was to examine Jia Fu's disposition, whether he was benevolent and generous, only suppressing but not oppressing his brothers.
If something happens to Jia Jinsheng, Jia Fu will also be implicated, who is the real beneficiary?
Obviously with Jia Fu's biggest rival - Jia Gui!
In addition to the fact that the murderer acted so skillfully, all the clues were almost snuffed out, it was evident that the murderer had a lot of experience. How could it be done by Fang Yuan, a fifteen year old teenager?
So the answer to everything was crying out!
The council chamber was still shrouded in silence, but the family elders present all exchanged looks full of deep meaning with each other.
"To make people believe in a certain possibility from the bottom of their hearts is not by persuasion, but by guidance, ah." Fang Yuan keenly sensed these looks and let out a cold smile in his heart, while his face still displayed a stubborn look of unwillingness to endure injustice.
Jia Fu's face was so gloomy that it could drip water.
As soon as the words "Jia family infighting" came out, he instantly thought of Jia Gui.
In that instant, his entire soul began to tremble!
Who else was more likely to make a move than Jia Gui?
There was no one else!
"I see it. Everything is understood." The Schoolhouse Elder stood behind Fang Yuan and looked at him, his eyes flickering with essence, "Fang Yuan is both lucky and unlucky to have happened to meet Jia Jinsheng at the last minute. With his age of still just attending the school, how could he have snuffed out all the clues? If he had this deep and thorough mind, how could he have acted so bratty and stubborn. He just flatly denied it, it's just a matter of trying to hide the existence of the wine bug."
For a while, everyone's suspicions of Fang Yuan were all gone!
"Clearing the suspicion is only the second step, the following is the crucial moment." Fang Yuan strategized, the developments were all in his mind, and he was not surprised. He sighed in his heart and looked at Jia Fu.
Jia Fu also looked at him, the unkindness in his eyes had become more and more obvious.