Chapter 574: Mantis Stalks Cicada

The little girl An Ning suddenly became angry for no reason, which made Lin Jiangnian a little puzzled for a moment!

Isn’t this little girl usually very good-natured?

Although she is a little timid and looks a little colder, she is actually still a little girl who has not grown up.

Furthermore, Lin Jiangnian had never bullied her during this period, so why did he get so angry even though he was so innocent?

However, before Lin Jiangnian had time to figure out what happened to the little girl, Lin Qingqing sent back information.

The informant assigned to the Chen family by Prince Lin's Mansion quickly brought back news... The Chen family has taken action!

…

The Chen family can’t sit still anymore after all!

In the past few days, Linwang's Mansion has been searching for the whereabouts of the remnants of the Tianshen Sect in and outside Linjiang City. The remnants of the Tianshen Sect who were exterminated by Linwang's Mansion have almost no way of survival, and the stronghold where they were hiding has been almost uprooted by Linwang's Mansion.

The members of the Tianshen Sect have no idea why they hide so secretly and are almost never exposed. But, he was still accurately arrested by the people from Prince Lin's Mansion? !

For a moment, everyone in the Tianshen Sect was in panic, and they all speculated whether there was a traitor? !

Otherwise, how could Prince Lin's Mansion know their hiding place so clearly? So much so that when Prince Lin's Mansion started arresting them, they didn't even have a chance to notice and react?

At the same time, those remnants of the Celestial God Sect who were forced to a dead end by Prince Lin's Mansion, with no way to escape, many of them chose to die together. There are even some crazy people who want to get ordinary people to support them. The incident became a commotion and seriously affected the lives of ordinary people!

In the past few months, Linjiang City has hardly experienced any peace.

Since the attack on Prince Lin, Linjiang City has never been peaceful. Chaos incidents continued to occur one after another, affecting the lives of the people and causing disaster for many people.

Now that the commotion has started, people are starting to complain!

After struggling like this all day long, can’t you survive this day?

As a result, the Chen family was quickly put on the fire again!

After all, a series of things that happened recently are related to the Chen family, and the people naturally directed their fingers and anger at the Chen family.

It's all your Chen family's fault!

Amid the anger of the people, the Chen family became the target of public criticism, and their prestige immediately plummeted. The trigger of the incident was that many of the Chen family's properties in Linjiang City were vandalized overnight.

If this situation continues, it will undoubtedly be a heavy blow to the Chen family.

Finally, they couldn't sit still any longer!

…

Night falls.

In the Chen Mansion, a carriage quietly left from the back door. Under the cover of the night, it passed through the dark alleys and slowly headed towards the west of the city.

About half an hour later, the carriage quietly arrived at a busy area in the west of the city.

This area is the most prosperous downtown in the west of the city. It is located in a relatively remote location. At the same time, because it gathers many businessmen and people traveling from north to south, it can be regarded as a gathering place for three religions and nine streams.

As the sky darkens, this place is bustling with activity.

The carriage shuttled through the busy city, passing through several alleys without anyone noticing, and finally came to a residential area. At a glance, there is almost an endless stretch of crooked bungalows, where a large number of lower-class people live. If you are not careful, you may get lost.

The carriage followed the winding alley, passed through complicated roads, and appeared in front of a small house. The carriage slowly entered through the front door.

"Bang!"

The front door was shut.

Just behind the carriage, under the cover of night, several skilled figures hid in the darkness and appeared quietly outside the house from all directions.

Under the night, the leader was dressed in black and his eyes were bright and piercing.

It was Lin Qingqing.

She stared sharply at the closed door not far away without saying a word.

"It should be right here."

Lin Qingqing's eyes were cold as she stared at the courtyard ahead, raised her head to glance at the night sky, and then ordered with a cold tone.

"action!"

Following her order, the guards hiding in the darkness outside the courtyard appeared at the same time, rushing towards the courtyard from all directions.

Lin Qingqing took the lead and jumped over the courtyard wall.

As soon as he landed, he saw several guards guarding the door. Before these people could react, several guards were knocked down by the black shadows who arrived later.

Simple and neat!

"search!"

Lin Qingqing's voice was cold, and she suddenly raised her foot and kicked open the door of the middle courtyard.

Instantly, the courtyard was in panic.

"You, who are you?!"

Several panicked sounds came from the courtyard.

But soon, the shadow guards gathered from all directions and controlled the courtyard as quickly as possible.

"Commander Lin, we captured them all and none of them escaped!"

A guard came to Lin Qingqing and reported.

"However, Chen Junru's whereabouts were not found."

Lin Qingqing's eyes narrowed, and her cold gaze fell on the controlled figure in the courtyard. There were several familiar faces among them, who were members of the Chen family.

In particular, there was a middle-aged man among them... Lin Qingqing recognized at a glance that this man was the housekeeper of the Chen family.

The confidant beside Chen Hongsheng.

"Where is Chen Junru?!"

Lin Qingqing stared at him and asked coldly.

Butler Chen, who was under control, looked a little panicked and frightened, but he did not lose control. He looked around and said, "Commander Lin, how do I know where the young master is?"

"Didn't my young master get kidnapped by the people of the Heavenly God Cult? You have been catching the remnants of the Heavenly God Cult in the Lin Wang Mansion for some time...Where is the young master now? Shouldn't Commander Lin know better than me?"

Lin Qingqing's eyes condensed slightly. The housekeeper in front of her did not show any panic in his eyes.

"Commander Lin!"

Another guard came forward from behind, came behind Lin Qingqing, and whispered: "I have checked clearly. There is no one else in this courtyard, and there is no secret room or secret passage. Chen Junru is not here. I am afraid we have been fooled!"

A sharp coldness flashed in Lin Qingqing's eyes, and she suddenly looked at Butler Chen.

But the housekeeper Chen's expression gradually returned to normal, and he looked at Lin Qingqing calmly: "The palace has been investigating for so long, is there any news about my young master now?"

"Although my young master is guilty of heinous crimes, he has now been abducted by the Heavenly God Cult. His Highness the Prince promised my master that he would give him an explanation."

"I don't know, how is he now?"

The tone was even more fearless!

Lin Qingqing said expressionlessly: "Since my prince has promised your master, he will naturally give him an explanation."

"That's good."

Butler Chen smiled, looked around, and asked: "Then, Commander Lin made such a big fuss tonight and arrested us... Why?"

"Did we break the law?"

Lin Qingqing stared at him: "Butler Chen, what are you doing here at night?"

Butler Chen replied calmly: "My master is not in good health. I happened to hear that there is a doctor here with great medical skills, so I came to ask him to go back and see my master."

As he said that, Butler Chen looked at another controlled figure.

The man was terrified and trembling all over, saying: "I, I am the doctor here, yes, it was indeed Master Chen who asked me..."

He was obviously scared!

I didn't expect that I could encounter such a thing at night.

It was Master Chen who invited him over, but he didn't expect that someone from Prince Lin's Mansion would come to his door, which almost scared him silly.

Who wouldn't be afraid of the reputation of Prince Lin's Mansion?

Lin Qingqing glanced at him coldly, knowing that he had been fooled!

"Does Steward Chen really think that this trick of luring the tiger away from the mountain will work?"

Lin Qingqing sneered.

Facing Lin Qingqing's revelation, Steward Chen's expression remained calm: "I don't understand what Commander Lin is saying. If Commander Lin is fine, can we leave?"

"Of course not!"

Lin Qingqing glanced at everyone in the courtyard coldly, and suddenly waved his hand and said coldly: "Take them all back!"

Hearing this, Steward Chen's face changed slightly: "Why did Commander Lin arrest us? We haven't broken the law, how can Commander Lin arrest people in plain clothes?"

"You can't arrest if you haven't broken the law?"

Lin Qingqing glanced at him and sneered.

Perhaps because she had been with His Highness for a long time, Lin Qingqing's tone of voice gradually became closer to His Highness's.

Butler Chen's eyes widened slightly, as if he didn't expect that the Commander Lin in front of him would say such unreasonable words?

Can't you arrest him if he didn't break the law?

No, why should he be arrested if he didn't break the law? !

Do you still have shame in the Lin Wang Mansion?

Do you believe that I will go to the capital to sue you? !

Butler Chen opened his eyes wide, and when he wanted to say something else, he was blocked by the guards next to him, and then he heard Lin Qingqing's cold tone again.

"We in the Lin Wang Mansion can arrest whoever we want to arrest and kill whoever we want to kill!"

Lin Qingqing's tone was slightly excited, and it was really cool to be unreasonable!

His Highness was right!

Why should we be reasonable?

They have a big fist in the Lin Wang Mansion, so what if they arrest you, a butler? !

Butler Chen's eyes widened, as if he didn't expect the situation to turn out like this!

There was finally a little more fear in his eyes.

This was a situation he had never expected, and he lost his sense of proportion for a moment. Before he could struggle again, he was already considered to be taken away.

After doing all this, Lin Qingqing clapped her hands, looked up at the night sky in another direction, and then her face returned to normal, and she spoke in a cold voice.

"Let's go back!"

"..."

Lin Qingqing did not fall for the Chen family's plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain. When she led people to track and capture Chen Guanjia, she did not relax her surveillance of the Chen family.

But the Chen family's plan cannot be said to be completely ineffective. It delayed and wasted a lot of manpower in the Lin Wang Mansion. Since dark, people from the Chen family have been going out one after another. In addition to this Chen Guanjia, many servants and guards in the Chen Mansion have been going out in carriages one after another.

These servants who left the Chen Mansion were all under the surveillance of the Lin Wang Mansion without exception. But when the people from the Lin Wang Mansion followed them all the way, they all came up empty-handed.

This was obviously a deliberate trick by the Chen family!

The Chen family was testing the details of the Lin Wang Mansion, and the Lin Wang Mansion was also chasing closely, strictly guarding against the two forces fighting wits and courage against each other, competing secretly.

...

It was late at night.

Outside Linjiang City.

In a desolate town, a carriage slowly stopped outside the house. The carriage opened, and a middle-aged man slowly got off the carriage.

It was Chen Hongsheng!

Chen Hongsheng looked up at the house in front of him, his eyes were deep and his face was expressionless.

Behind him, there were several shadowy guards.

The atmosphere around the house was cold.

It was obviously summer, but this night seemed a bit deserted.

"Hehe, the prince of Lin probably never thought that he was staring at our Chen Mansion, waiting for you, uncle, to reveal the truth. But he didn't expect that you, uncle, were more skilled and had already used a trick of "escape" to leave the house..."

"Even if they stay in jail for their whole lives, they can't get to you, uncle!"

Beside Chen Hongsheng, a young man showed a bit of sarcasm and sneered.

The young man's name is Chen Xu. His father is Chen Hongsheng's younger brother, and he is considered Chen Hongsheng's nephew.

Compared to Chen Junru, this Chen Xu used to be much more low-key in the Chen family. After all, compared to Chen Junru, he is just a collateral descendant, and his status and position are naturally not as good as Chen Junru.

But since Chen Junru got into trouble, Chen Xu has been more active in the Chen family during this period.

The purpose is self-evident.

Chen Junru is Chen Hongsheng's only son. Once he gets into trouble, Chen Hongsheng's lineage will be extinct. Then as Chen Hongsheng's nephew, he naturally has a chance!

Here, hurry up to show filial piety!

"The Prince of Lin is still young, not as good as you, uncle."

Listening to the praise of his nephew, Chen Hongsheng didn't smile at all.

He looked at the house in front of him expressionlessly, and someone had come forward to greet him at the door.

"Master!"

Chen Hongsheng had an expressionless face, and stepped into the house under the servant's greeting.

"Junru, what's wrong?"

Chen Hongsheng asked.

The servant in the house said: "The young master has been recuperating here since he was rescued. He is fine and his life is safe, but..."

Chen Xu, who was following behind Chen Hongsheng, heard this, and a trace of haze flashed in his eyes.

But it disappeared quickly.

"But what?"

Chen Hongsheng keenly heard the hesitation in the servant's tone, and then looked at the servant's slightly ugly face.

In his heart, an ominous premonition suddenly emerged.

...

"Dad!!!"

In the inner courtyard, in the room.

The door was pushed open, Chen Hongsheng's face was gloomy, and he walked into the room quickly.

On the bed, there was a figure lying, it was Chen Junru who had not been seen for several days.

When he saw the figure pushing the door and walking in, the grievances accumulated over the past few days burst out instantly.

"Dad, you are finally here!"

Chen Junru cried, excited and excited.

He struggled to stand up.

Chen Hongsheng stepped forward quickly, held his body, and looked down at Chen Junru lying on the bed.

Chen Junru today is no longer as cool as before. His face is pale and bloodless. He looks like he has lost more than ten pounds and is as thin as a stick.

His appearance is miserable!

And more importantly...

Chen Hongsheng looked down along Chen Junru: "Junru..."

Chen Hongsheng's tone was low, but he couldn't hide his anger and grief: "You, you..."

"What happened to your body?"

And Chen Hongsheng's words instantly reminded Chen Junru of the unbearable and tragic memories.

His face turned pale instantly, and then his eyes were sad, his voice was hoarse, and he was a little hysterical.

"Dad... Dad, I was crippled by Lin Jiangnian!"

"He, he is too cruel..."

"I, I can't be a man anymore!!"

"Dad, Dad, you want your son to avenge you!!!"

"..."(End of this chapter)