Xu Wei jerked his head up and fixed Wang Wenchi with a murderous stare.
Wang Wenchi remained unmoved and chuckled.
"Think it over."
With that, he turned and walked out of the cramped room.
Leaving Xu Wei alone inside.
After a while.
The middle-aged man leaned close to Wang Wenchi's ear and said:
"Sir, he confessed to everything. He killed both Qin Feng and the man surnamed Zhou."
Wang Wenchi let out a hearty laugh.
"Good! For a crime this heinous, report it to the County Magistrate at once. He'll be executed on an appointed day!"
In the flickering candlelight, Wang Wenchi's eyes were full of indifference.
Of course, he knew Xu Wei wasn't the murderer.
Xu Wei wasn't capable of that.
But someone had to take the blame for the deaths of Qin Feng and the man surnamed Zhou.
After Qin Feng's death, they had failed to find the murderer, which had already dealt a blow to the prestige of the Wang Family and the County Magistrate.
Your son-in-law was murdered, and you couldn't even find the killer?
As a result, many neutral factions that had been considering joining them began wavering again.
And now, a man from Sanyuan Prefecture had died as well.
His manner of death was almost identical to Qin Feng's!
If they still couldn't catch the murderer, wouldn't it make everyone in the County Government Office look like useless fools?
"After this, my prestige should rise quite a bit."
The news reached Pine Wind Martial Hall.
Before long, all the disciples knew that Xu Wei had murdered Qin Feng, along with an honored guest from Sanyuan Prefecture.
With some deliberate embellishment, the story became one of Wang Wenchi's brilliant scheming: he'd caught the real culprit with just a small ruse.
After a round of