After Jing Zhengwei grew up, he came to that place at least once a month.
An assassination.
Otherwise, how else could a perfectly healthy, vigorous young man make up his mind to cultivate the Qin Ri Qi Harmony Combat Arts, a torture-like divine technique? Life had forced him into it—forced him to become a eunuch.
Although they were called assassinations, most were really just minor accidents in daily life: poison in his tea, a sneak attack with a hidden arrow, or... In short, they never acted openly. As long as Jing Zhengwei traveled with his two bodyguards, he was basically never in mortal danger.
The best way to kill Jing Zhengwei was to bribe Mi Die and Lisan, his two bodyguards. However, although Jing Qingfu had little affection for Jing Zhengwei, he could not possibly leave the Jing family's heir so blatantly exposed to danger.
Mi Die and Lisan both came from minor families under the Jing family's command. They were old retainers, and both had children, spouses, and households. They could not run even if they wanted to. If Jing Zhengwei died, their entire families would inevitably die with him. Even protection would be useless—the Jing family still had several clan elders watching them.
Although one could use any means necessary to fight for the position of family head, some things could be done but not spoken of. Whether to reassure the people, demonstrate the new family head's impartiality, or even take the Silver Blood Society's attitude into consideration, the new family head had to butcher these two bodyguards for failing to protect their charge. It would set an example and completely stamp out the heinous crime of "bodyguards colluding with outsiders to assassinate their master"!
However, open attacks were easy to evade while hidden arrows were hard to