Free Web NovelChapter 3331: Chapter 3332: This Batch of Elders
The fact that the City Lord’s wife isn’t pregnant but is actually poisoned has been found out, and just by casually checking her pulse.
So, wouldn’t the tricks they played on the City Lord’s wife back then have also been discovered?
"I’m just... just afraid of being found out!"
He gritted his teeth and said.
"Now that Zui Yifeng is dead, and Lu Tianfeng has been reduced to ashes, who can trace anything back to us?" The Second Elder calmly retorted.
The two people who had connections with them are dead, as long as they insist that those incidents have nothing to do with them, can the City Lord and his wife force all the blame onto them?
"As long as you can remain calm." he said.
"I..."
The man in the white garment opened his mouth, his face still looking very grim.
He stays calm, and in front of Lu Tianlan, he can naturally hold his composure, he hasn’t let anything slip, has he?
But no matter how calm he is, can he truly erase Lu Tianlan’s doubts about them?
"Lu Tianlan is the City Lord, if he suspects something, dealing with us wouldn’t be difficult at all, just a little trick would be enough to make us suffer, Second Elder, aren’t you worried?"
He reminded.
Upon hearing this, the Second Elder also took a deep breath.
How could he not be worried?
But what’s the use of worrying?
Even if he worries, would that stop others from thinking about what they’ve done? That’s simply impossible.
"Now that Sui Zimo, the Junior City Lord, has returned, Sky City will soon select a batch of new elders, and it’s time for us to step down."
His unspoken implication is that once they step down, even if Lu Tianlan wants to bother them, he won’t find them, because by then they’ll be far away.
Anyway, the things they have in hand are enough for them to live out their lives.
"What?!"
Upon hearing the Second Elder’s words, the man in the white garment exclaimed.
He doesn’t want to step down so soon, having the title of elder allows him to wield influence on the Illusion Continent. If he steps down, then he’s really nothing.
Moreover, their batch of elders might be the most unfortunate one, right?
During the previous City Lord’s reign, it took hundreds of years before he had a Junior City Lord, which is Lu Tianlan’s son.
So the previous elders served as elders for hundreds of years, but when it came to them, Lu Tianlan married early and even bore Sui Zimo, his son.
As elders, they haven’t warmed their seats before having to plan to hand them over to others, how can they be reconciled to that?
Thus, they came up with the idea of putting Sui Zimo to death.
Who would have thought that Sui Zimo’s life is so stubborn, that he didn’t die no matter what, and even managed to return on his own, and before that, sent Lin Baizhong to pave the way for him!
Just thinking about it infuriates them, now a large part of the power these elders hold has been taken over by Lin Baizhong, the head of the guards, they’re practically becoming nominal!
In such a situation, he’s even more unwilling to let the power he holds be taken away by others!
"How can this be, does Sui Zimo have any capability, to sit on the Junior City Lord’s throne, he doesn’t even have anyone decent by his side, who could take over our positions?"
He said unwillingly.
