This Martial Saint's Health Bar is Too Thick!-Chapter 270 - 37 Meeting the Queen

Chapter 270: Chapter 37: Meeting the Queen

Chapter 270 -37: Meeting the Queen

“Ha ha ha ha!”

Shangguan Xiao suddenly burst into loud laughter, her laughter tinged with sorrow and rage.

Li Fei watched her, silently sympathizing with her emotions.

“You know, my father valued our family above all else, and yet he ended up dying at the hands of his own people!”

Shangguan Xiao pulled back her laughter, speaking coldly.

“It could’ve been someone from the Zhi Ge General Hospital as well,”

Li Fei said, trying to offer some comfort.

It wasn’t necessarily family; it might have been possible for someone from the Zhi Ge General Hospital, who had regular contact with Zhang Zongyang, to be involved.

“If it really was someone from the Zhi Ge General Hospital, the investigation should have yielded results by now.”

Shangguan Xiao shook her head, her expression ice-cold.

She was sharp, quickly grasping the essence of the matter.

In the Zhi Ge General Hospital, there couldn’t have been many who had both regular access to Zhang Zongyang and a motive to poison him. If it had indeed been someone from there, at least a preliminary conclusion should have emerged by now.

Since there wasn’t, that likely meant it was not someone from the Zhi Ge General Hospital, but a member of the Zhang Family!

After the death of Zhang Zongyang, various powers, like wolves tearing at flesh, had begun devouring the Zhang Family’s assets, while the Government had maintained a tacit approval, leading to various sinister conspiracy theories circulating publicly.

Since the overtaken assets were underhandedly acquired, the situation had not blown up.

Under these circumstances, if the Government suddenly started arresting and investigating members of the Zhang Family, it could lead to a different extreme—

The Government and underworld powers colluding to persecute the Zhang Family! Persecuting the family of a recently deceased Helmsman!

If things blew up, it could become extremely awkward, something the upper echelons of Datong Prefecture were anxious to avoid.

So even though the Inspection General Bureau, Zhi Ge General Hospital, and Inspection General Office had acquired autopsy results, they hadn’t publicly investigated Zhang family members.

They could only do so in secret.

Li Fei guessed that Xia Huan had let Lu Mengyang inform him about the autopsy results possibly to also have him discreetly tell Shangguan Xiao, allowing her to join the investigation in secret.

After all, among all Zhang family members, Shangguan Xiao was the least likely to have harmed Zhang Zongyang.

“Master Aunt, what do you plan to do next?”

Li Fei asked hesitantly.

Knowing that it might have been someone from the Zhang Family who killed Zhang Zongyang, did Shangguan Xiao still want to protect such a family?

Such a choice was too cruel.

Li Fei didn’t know what he would choose if he were in her place.

Shangguan Xiao closed her eyes, remaining silent for a long time.

Then she opened her eyes, saying word by word, “I, at least, must fulfill his last wish!”

Li Fei nodded.

He understood, Shangguan Xiao still intended to help the Zhang Family through this crisis.

“With today’s battle, the Chu Family attending the mourning at Zhang Mansion for three days might give the various contributing powers a moment of pause. We can take advantage of this time to do something else.”

Li Fei analyzed calmly.

Today’s battle and Chu Family’s mourning might make the forces slightly wary, but it certainly wasn’t going to scare them off.

Even if Zhang Zongyang had been alive, if the Six Kings out of the Seven Kings teamed up against the Zhang Family, they wouldn’t have stood a chance; however, with Zhang Zongyang around, at least the Zhang Family could have heavily damaged one or two rival groups.

Moreover, because of Zhang Zongyang’s status, the underworld forces wouldn’t dare move against him directly. As long as he was alive, the Zhang Family had a chance to make a comeback and seek revenge.

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This was why nobody had dared to touch the Zhang Family for the past few decades.

Now that Zhang Zongyang was dead, and the Zhang Family’s deterrent power greatly diminished, they might just collapse without any chance of revenge, prompting the various powers to eagerly vie for a piece of them.

Thus, to help the Zhang Family survive this crisis, the most crucial step was to find powerful support for them, to incite fear in the other blocks, not just wariness!

Shangguan Xiao looked at Li Fei, perhaps with a few more years, her apprentice nephew could grow into such a figure, becoming a strong pillar, but he was far from it right now.

“I plan to find a way to transfer back to the prefecture city.”

Shangguan Xiao revealed her plan.

She held the position of Chief at Zhi Ge Court in Xing City. Even if the transfer to Datong Prefecture City were lateral, it was actually a loss, since ‘a local official holds more sway than a distant one.’ Serving in the Zhi Ge General Hospital of Datong Prefecture City as an 11th-grade officer was less advantageous than overseeing a whole locality in Xing City.

According to the path Zhang Zongyang had laid out for her, she should have served as Chief at Xing City’s Zhi Ge Court for at least five years, cultivating her loyalists and making Xing City’s Zhi Ge Court her ‘headquarters.’ Once her ‘successors’ were in place, she could then be promoted to move to Datong Prefecture City.

That way, she’d not only be promoted but also have substantial support behind her.

But Shangguan Xiao was planning to move back to Datong Prefecture City now, clearly an unfavorable choice!

Yet if she didn’t return, being far away in Xing City, she couldn’t provide strong support to the Zhang Family.

Thus, this was the only choice.

“Actually…”

Li Fei started, then hesitated.

“What’s wrong?”

Shangguan Xiao looked at him.

Li Fei smiled, “It’s nothing. Master Aunt, you should rest. I’ll head back to school, I’ll continue to gather information from the Inspection General Office.”

“Alright, thank you for your hard work.”

Shangguan Xiao nodded.

Then Li Fei left the hostel.

He walked into an area of complex alleyways, starting to make rounds.

Over an hour later, convinced that no one was following him, he changed into another outfit at a former stash point of the Tiger Saber Gang—

A black martial robe, a blue Evil Ghost Mask, and a transformed Ghost Slash Blade.