Chapter 424: Chapter 424: Terrifying Experience at Reed Lake (11) Chapter 424: Chapter 424: Terrifying Experience at Reed Lake (11) Moreover, they were to act in two separate groups.
The main goal was to abduct Gu Qiaoqiao and escape by water.
There were people waiting on the shore to meet them.
However, Big Head, driven by greed, captured all five girls.
This plan thus failed.
Next time, would there still be another chance?
It was meant to turn the Qin Family and the Gu Family against each other and to sell Gu Qiaoqiao far away to East Asia.
It was supposed to kill two birds with one stone, but now it had come to nothing.
He hadn’t let Gu Qiaoqiao die because he wanted to consume Qin Yize’s energy in searching for her, preventing him from attending to other matters, and then he could proceed with the next step of his plan.
But now, it had all truly failed.
Not a single thing had been successful.
And now, to take action again, it wouldn’t be so easy anymore.
Luckily, Big Head had helped Qinghuan before he died, but it was uncertain whether Qinghuan could seize this opportunity.
The Imperial Jade Spirit of the Gu Family; he had to obtain it!
The sky grew darker and darker.
The clouds churned in the sky, continuously rolling under the force of the wind.
The air grew more humid and stuffy.
Lin Fanpeng sat down under the rain shelter.
The next steps in the plan had to be altered appropriately.
During dinner, Gu Qiaoqiao took a few bites before putting down her chopsticks; then under Yuhong’s worried gaze, she was called to the study.
Gu Qiaoqiao recounted in detail what had happened that day to Gu Qingfeng. She furrowed her brows and asked Gu Qingfeng, “Great Grandfather, do you think today’s incident was targeted at me?”
“Yes,” Gu Qingfeng asserted emphatically.
“Why are you so sure?” Gu Qiaoqiao asked.
“Not sure, but rather being prepared just in case as if it were.” Gu Qingfeng said with certainty.
Only by doing so could they ensure they were prepared for any eventuality.
And he had always been too careless.
But who could have anticipated it…
“Great Grandfather, who do you think it could be?” Gu Qiaoqiao asked tentatively.
“Who else but Ning Wanru could hold such great animosity towards our Gu Family?”
Gu Qingfeng counter-asked,
Gu Qiaoqiao hadn’t expected Gu Qingfeng to be so straightforward.
“Then do you think, Ning Wanru and Gu Cheng have such great capabilities?”
Gu Qingfeng fell silent.
“Great Grandfather, Great Grandma was hit on the back of her head and then left for dead, thrown at the Mass Burial Mound on the outskirts. This definitely required collusion from both inside and outside. Assuming Ning Wanru was involved on the inside, who then, on the outside? Her husband’s family had no one left, and her maternal family only had a distant nephew in Jinling City, and you said, there were no interactions at that time. So, who was the one she colluded with on the outside?”
Gu Qingfeng’s expression turned icy, his hands clenched tightly.
After learning of Lady Yu’s ordeal, he and Uncle Gu had started investigating this aspect.
They were also searching for the steward of the Chang Family.
Regrettably, he had learned of it too late; fifty years was enough time to obliterate all evidence.
Ning Wanru was only in her early twenties back then, with both parents deceased, lacking any significant relatives, and the only distant nephew was still in Jinling.
She couldn’t possibly have accomplished all this on her own.
There had to be a very capable person helping her.
According to Lady Yu’s recollections, the massacre of the Chang Family might have been Ning Wanru leading the wolf into the house…
Then she used the guise of gratitude to take the opportunity to enter the Gu Family.
So the question remains, why did she enter the Gu Family?
Gu Qingfeng wasn’t a person of delicate sensibilities; his life centered around Yubao Square and the newly discovered jade mine.