713: Fortify the Walls and Leave Nothing for the Enemy [Part One of Two]

In the end, Zhao Feng couldn't hold back. He spoke up to defend the eldest young master. "Has my lord questioned that attendant?"

According to the eldest young master, the man was a witness.

If Wu Xian had silenced him without questioning him, it was hard not to have doubts. Even Zhao Feng, loyal as he was, couldn't help feeling that it was unfair.

"Of course I questioned him."

Zhao Feng asked again, "What did the attendant say?"

Wu Xian hadn't wanted to bring it up. It was an ugly family scandal, after all, brothers at odds with each other. But his face darkened as he said, "The attendant said the second young master conspired with someone to murder the eldest."

"Then did my lord use a Word Spirit to question the attendant?"

How could Wu Xian not have?

But the result was rather interesting.

The attendant changed his story.

"He said there was no such thing, and that the eldest was jealous of the second and had set him up." Wu Xian was so angry he nearly laughed. If the eldest had possessed that kind of brains and cunning, he wouldn't have been so mediocre. If he'd been capable of this, Wu Xian would actually have thought more highly of him.

Wu Xian asked, "You think I silenced him to show favoritism toward the second?"

Zhao Feng was momentarily stunned.

Then he heard his lord sigh as if exhausted. "That's why I told the eldest not to get too close to his uncles. Those uncles had squandered nearly all their family wealth, so they'd turned to scheming to get something out of him. All these years, the main household had secretly supported the brothers of the eldest's mother. The holes in the household accounts kept getting bigger, and I