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Chapter 286 The Tang Family Causes Trouble

Two days later, a group of cultivators from other places arrived in Qingzhou. The leader was Tang Yingping, the eldest son of the Tang family head of Nanling and also Tang Ning's father.

On the day of their arrival, the group went to the criminal investigation team and demanded to see the bodies of Tang Ning and the other two in person.

This request is perfectly normal.

After they finished reading and came out, Yin Zheng, who had been sent by Xia Yunsong, heard someone walking and angrily growling, "Big brother, Guo Laosan hasn't been in Nanling for the past six months. Some people say he came to Qingzhou last month. He must have killed Xiao Ning and the others, otherwise, what about his right hand?"

The third son of the Tang family was furious and angry at the thought of his son being stabbed in the throat and losing his right hand.

Tang Yinglong ignored his third brother and instead looked up at Yin Zheng, who was standing at the end of the corridor.

After the two sides introduced themselves, Yin Zheng invited them into the conference room. However, before he could even sit down, Tang's third son, who had been roaring earlier, slammed his hand on the table and questioned him, "Captain Yin, I'm asking you, has Guo's third son from the Guo family come to Qingzhou?"

Yin Zheng looked at him expressionlessly and said calmly, "I don't know."

"Don't you know? This is your territory. You wouldn't know that cultivators from other places have come here? Does that make sense?"

"Your three younger members of the Tang family came to Qingzhou without reporting to us."

Tang Laosan choked, but still stubbornly argued, "Those three kids are just here for tourism, not..."

"Your family can come here for tourism, but others can't?" Yin Zheng sneered. "Besides, even if it weren't for tourism, our duty isn't to protect your younger generation. Third Master Tang, you said it yourself, this is Qingzhou!"

As he spoke, he slammed the folder in his hand onto the table.

Less than a minute after entering, the meeting room was filled with tension, which made Tang Yingping, who wanted to use this opportunity to control the special department in Qingzhou, begin to reassess Xia Yunsong and his group in his mind.

Of course, the fact that he didn't stop his third brother from speaking rudely to Yin Zheng was also partly due to Xia Yunsong's anger at not personally intervening but only sending a subordinate to deal with them.

To put it bluntly, they just look down on the Tang family.

Tang Yingping was really overthinking things. Xia Yunsong didn't look down on the Tang family; he looked down on the entire cultivation community.

"Third brother, how dare you speak to Captain Yin like that? Sit down!"

Tang Yingping stepped in to mediate, saying, "Captain Yin, my third brother didn't mean it that way. He's just heartbroken and can't accept the loss of his child. Please understand the feelings of parents who have to bury their children."

As she spoke, her eyes welled up with tears, as if she were very sad.

If Yin Zheng hadn't investigated the Tang family and learned that Tang Yingping had a total of nine children, both at home and outside, he almost would have believed him.

He said in a businesslike manner, "Uncle Tang, please don't be so polite. This is an investigation report on the events before and after the deaths of Tang Ning and the other two. Due to time constraints and the fact that Tang Ning and the other two deliberately concealed their identities after arriving in Qingzhou, we can only find out so much. If you have no objections, you can take their bodies away or cremate them nearby."

Tang Laosan flew into a rage upon hearing this, stood up, and roared, "Take them away? You're telling us to take them away without explaining anything? What do you mean by that?"

This time, Tang Yingping didn't stop Tang Laosan. He frowned and looked at Yin Zheng, "Captain Yin, even if we can't find the murderer in a short time, the incident happened in your territory. You have to give us an explanation, right?"

"What you're saying, Uncle Tang, is interesting. Your Tang family came to Qingzhou secretly, and now that something's happened, you expect us to give you an explanation. What kind of explanation do you want?"

Yin Zheng pointed at the document with a stern face, "I suggest Mr. Tang take a look at this first. What were Tang Ning and the other two doing in Qingzhou? Don't tell me you Tang family members don't know. When they seriously injured Xia Yi, Meng Qi from our department happened to be passing by. If she hadn't saved Xia Yi in time, would your Tang family have stirred up conflict between Qingzhou and Shanhaitang?" Tang Ning and the other two died in Qingzhou, and the Tang family still wanted to blame them.

But if it were Xia Yi who died, would Shan Hai Tang and Fang Bingjun just ignore it?
And then there's the Xia family in Kyoto. Even if it's a small family, they're still related to the Fang family by marriage.

“But Xia Yi is still alive, while my son, niece, and nephew are all dead. By the way, Xia Yi, before the incident, Xiao Ning and the other two had confronted her, so isn’t she the prime suspect? Why not arrest her?”

Yin Zheng looked at Tang Laosan as if he were an idiot. "Did you not hear what I just said, or are you selectively only listening to what you want to hear? Xia Yi is still seriously injured. How could she kill Tang Ning? And even if she wasn't injured, could she kill all three of them by herself? If she could, she wouldn't have been injured in the first place."

Xiao Qi chose to protect Xia Yi, and Yin Zheng and the others would naturally follow her lead.

Of course, this was also because they had investigated the feud between Xia Yi and the Tang family, so it wasn't her fault at all.

Six months ago, after the college entrance examination, Xia Yi went to Nanling for a trip. At the guesthouse she booked, she accidentally witnessed Tang Ning's second younger brother, Tang Tian, ​​raping a girl.

Xia Yi saved the girl, but in doing so, she became enemies with Tang Tian.

She didn't want to cause trouble, so she planned to leave Nanling after not playing for a day. However, she was stopped by Tang Tian on the way. The two fought, and Tang Tian was no match for Xia Yi, who broke both of his legs.

The Tang family had always been the dominant force in Nanling and had never suffered such a great loss before. That's why Tang Ning was so angry that he brought his third brother and cousin to avenge his second brother.

At this point, it would be impossible for Tang Laosan not to resent Tang Ning.

If you want to cause trouble, go ahead and do it yourself. Why drag his son into it?
The Tang family naturally understood Yin Zheng's words, but before catching the real culprit, apart from Guo Laosan, Xia Yi was currently the most suspicious.

Even if it wasn't her, they would still drag her into it. After all, Tang Ning and the other two came to Qingzhou because of her. If it weren't for her, the three of them wouldn't have lost their lives.

Thinking of this, Tang Laosan argued illogically, "As the granddaughter of Deputy Hall Master Fang, does Xia Yi need to do the killing herself if she wants to? Wouldn't Deputy Hall Master Fang send someone for her?"

"You mean, the people were killed by our Shan Hai Tang?"

Tang Laosan had barely finished speaking when he was interrupted by a voice.

Everyone in the conference room looked up at the closed glass door. A middle-aged man in a black suit pushed the door open and walked in, followed by a short-haired young girl, Xia Yi.

Behind her, the girl wearing a hat and with her hands in her pockets, is Xiao Qi.

"Director Yang."

Yin Zheng stood up to greet the newcomer, then introduced him to the Tang family, "This is Yang Yi, the assistant to Master Fang and the curator of the Shan Hai Tang Youth Hall."

Tang Yingping naturally knew Yang Yi, Fang Bingjun's confidant, whose specialty was Yang Family Boxing.

"Sit over here."

Yin Zheng led Yang Yi to sit on his right, and Xiao Qi sat on his left. Xia Yi originally wanted to sit with Xiao Qi, but after thinking about it, she sat down next to Yang Yi instead.

(End of this chapter)