Free Web NovelChapter 1184: Chapter 383 Ming Yue Shines_2
"Was the assassin who killed Dong Ah also him?" Lin Zhengren was shocked, angry, and resentful. "Who is that person?!"
He analytically murmured, "This person knows the Decayed Wood Decision and is also very familiar with Dong Ah. He must be from Zhuang Country, perhaps even from Qinghe County. Moreover, he harbors deep hatred for Zhuang Country and has always been keeping a close eye on affairs concerning the country..."
"The former disciple of Maple Forest City’s City Taoist Institute, now the pride of Qi Country, Jiang Wang!" Du Ruhui provided the answer slowly, "He’s the one sitting in the stands daily."
During the match in Wangjiang City, Lin Zhengren indeed saw Jiang Wang, and Jiang Wang saw him too. However, both parties tactfully chose not to communicate, not even a lingering eye contact as if their previous encounter near Qi Chang Mountain Range had never occurred.
But Du Ruhui remembered.
He didn’t know how Jiang Wang ended up in Qi Country, and this required further investigation. Yet, he knew that the blood debt of the Maple Forest City Region was tied to this young man.
Nor would he forget the death of Dong Ah.
This was a young man born and raised in Zhuang Country, who now was an unrelenting enemy of the country.
"Why would he become Qi Country’s pride, possess a bright future, yet return to Zhuang Country to commit murder?"
Lin Zhengren perfectly displayed a mix of shock, anger, and incomprehension, his tone mingled with sorrow and pain: "That’s right, that’s right. No wonder I felt something oddly familiar about him, it turns out he really was the Jiang Wang I knew! Though his temperament has changed greatly, his facial contours are still similar... I thought... I thought it was just a namesake. I assumed the Jiang Wang from Maple Forest City perished along with the Maple Forest City Region."
The information provided to him by Emperor Zhuang only mentioned Jiang Wang’s origins in Zhuang Region but did not mention that he was a person from Maple Forest City. It was not surprising that Lin Zhengren and Li Jianqiu, who seldom spoke, could not obtain more specific news.
In a state of half enlightenment and half grief, Lin Zhengren suddenly looked up, saying hatefully, "He was born from Maple Forest City’s City Taoist Institute, the state provided him resources for cultivation, trained him to be talented, he even qualified to participate in the Debating of Three Cities! Why does he now harbor such hatred for the country? Is it because of the destruction of the Maple Forest City Region?"
He angrily said, "But it was White Bone Doctrine that committed those evils, he should hate White Bone Doctrine!"
Du Ruhui sighed deeply, expressing his feelings, "There are thousands of people with thousands of different thoughts in this world. Some people are just like that. No matter how well you treat them, they take it for granted. But if there’s the slightest dissatisfaction, they feel the whole world owes them, feeling all their suffering is someone else’s fault.
When White Bone Doctrine wrought havoc, he managed to escape. But he doesn’t know about the Procuratorate and City Guard Army, how many died for the country! With the nation’s effort, we eradicated White Bone Doctrine; countless disciples from Taoist institutes died because of this, yet this person just took his baseless hatred and flew far away! Flying far... And returned with hatred."
"This person lacks virtue but has talent. Now he is Qi Country’s pride, representing powerful countries at the Yellow River Gathering, his future is smooth sailing. Zhengren."
Du Ruhui looked at him, speaking sadly, "If one day I’m gone, such enemies of Zhuang Country... will depend on you to withstand..."
Lin Zhengren held back his sadness: "State Minister, you will surely ascend to Dongzhen soon. Everyone in Zhuang Country relies on you, as for the villain Jiang Wang..."
He clenched his teeth: "I cannot coexist with him under the same sky!"
"Dongzhen, Dongzhen, to see True Immortality is not easy," Du Ruhui lamented, then shook his head, saying, "Perhaps there’s another possibility. If Jiang Wang is linked to White Bone Doctrine... então it would make sense how he escaped the destruction of Maple Forest City. Now that White Bone Doctrine has been eradicated, of course, he has a reason to harbor hatred for the country."
Lin Zhengren clearly understood the true story behind the Maple Forest City Region, and knew Du Ruhui was ’altering’ that past, and was aware that Jiang Wang couldn’t possibly be a follower of the White Bone Doctrine.
But of course, he couldn’t know this.
He was unclear and did not comprehend.
He was just a young cultivator who completely did not know the truth and thus wouldn’t suspect his own State Minister. freewёbn૦νeɭ.com
So his face was filled with anger, grinding his teeth.
Only now did he suddenly ’realize’ and said: "When you say that, I understand now why Jiang Wang has such deep hatred towards my Lin Family! What happened that night in Wangjiang City was not a simple act of evil!"
In Du Ruhui’s heart, this indeed was a question.
Jiang Wang’s resentment towards Dong Ah and Zhuang Country was understandable, but his actions in Wangjiang City, annihilating the Lin’s Clan, did not match his true character. After all, Dong Ah had high hopes for him. And in that long street in Xin’an City, though he fought Dong Ah to death, he never harmed an innocent civilian.
But Du Ruhui felt that Lin Zhengren would not have a good answer, a person considered a national champion like Lin Zhengren might harbor ’evil’ that should not be exposed to him. At least not while he was still very useful to the country.
So he deliberately did not ask.
Now that Lin Zhengren could offer an answer on his own was more than welcome.
Of course, his response seemed intentionally nonchalant as he merely said lightly—
"Oh?"
Lin Zhengren bit his teeth, seeming to be lost in memories.
He looked into the distant night, as if seeing again that bloody night in Wangjiang City, eventually narrating, "Jiang Wang was originally the son of a herbalist from Maple Forest City’s Fengxi Town. After his father’s death, he entered the Maple Forest City City Taoist Institute for cultivation with his family’s wealth, leaving only his stepmother and her daughter struggling to survive in Fengxi Town.
