Chapter 176: An Unexpected Disaster
Naturally, Chu Yuan was the one who did this.

The time goes back to two quarters of an hour ago, after Bai Shijing and Kang Min left one after another.

A black figure in night clothes descended from the roof, waved his palm lightly, used the palm force to shake open the door, and walked in slowly.

This person was Chu Yuan who was hiding on the roof outside the house and came back.

Ma Dayuan was not dead of course. He was just beaten into a state of suspended animation by Chu Yuan to deceive Bai Shijing and Kang Min.

Chu Yuan practiced the "Shenzhaojing" which can bring people back to life, so he knew very well which acupuncture points on the human body can make people fall into a state of suspended death, or neither alive nor dead. Chu Yuan just hit the suspended death acupuncture points on Ma Dayuan's body, causing Ma Dayuan to fall into a state of suspended death.

First deceive Bai Shijing and Kang Min, wait for Bai Shijing and Kang Min to leave, then take Ma Dayuan away and save him.

Chu Yuan walked to the ground and stood beside the "corpse" of his master Ma Dayuan. He leaned over to observe Ma Dayuan's "corpse" on the ground. He was relieved to see that although his breathing and pulse had almost stopped, he still had a weak heartbeat and other vital signs.

Chu Yuan said: "This is the first time I use this method of fake death on someone. Fortunately, I didn't make a mistake in my calculation. As long as I use the Shenzhaojing to rescue him, I can bring him back to life."

Faking death is also death. If the attack position is wrong or the strength is not well controlled, fake death can easily turn into real death.

Fortunately, although it was Chu Yuan's first time to use this method of feigning death, he did not make any mistakes.

"This is not a safe place. Take him back to my place and rescue him."

Chu Yuan said as he looked at Ma Dayuan's "corpse" on the ground.

The reason why he didn't plan to rescue Ma Dayuan here.

First, Kang Min might come back with people at any time.

Secondly, once Ma Dayuan is revived, he will definitely have many questions to ask himself, and it will be very troublesome if he answers them one by one.

Chu Yuan leaned forward and was about to carry Ma Dayuan away, but suddenly thought of something. He stopped and said, "Wait, my master seems to have a letter left by the former leader Wang Jiantong, which is aimed at balancing Qiao Feng. After I take him away, he will not come back for a while, so let's take this letter with him."

If the letter was left behind, it would be left to Kang Min.

Chu Yuan's intuition told him that he should take the letter away.

Otherwise, if Qiao Feng was framed by Kang Min, he would probably be implicated as well.

Thinking of this, Chu Yuan immediately started searching the house.

However, the house where Ma Dayuan lived was very large, so it was not easy to find the letter.

"He must have carefully kept this letter and placed it in a place where he could check it at any time. After all, if this letter were to be obtained by someone with ulterior motives, it would not only bring disaster to Qiao Feng, but would also cause unrest in the Beggars' Sect."

After Chu Yuan analyzed it in his mind, he found a wooden box in the closet in the corner of the room.

After opening the wooden box, inside was a letter written by Wang Jiantong, the former leader of the Beggars' Sect, to Ma Dayuan and other elders of the Beggars' Sect.

There was a line of words written on the cover of the letter: "Wang Jiantong's handwriting!"

After Chu Yuan opened it, he read the contents of the letter: This letter is to the Beggars' Gang's Deputy Leader Ma, the elders who teach skills, the elders who enforce the law, and all the elders. If Qiao Feng shows any signs of being pro-Liao or pro-Han, or helping the Khitans to suppress the Song Dynasty, the entire gang will kill him immediately. No mistakes can be made. Poisoning or assassination are both acceptable, and the perpetrators will be rewarded without guilt...

The letter also emphasized that Qiao Feng was a Liao person.

"This Wang Jiantong is really something. He trusts people when he employs them, but he won't employ people he doesn't trust. Not only did they accidentally kill Qiao Feng's parents, they also trained Qiao Feng to be a hero who would fight against the Liao people. But they don't trust Qiao Feng, and they even left a letter like this as a check and balance."

After Chu Yuan finished reading the letter in his hand, he sneered.

In Chu Yuan's opinion, this group of righteous heroes, led by the Shaolin Temple's abbot Xuanci, who had come out of seclusion together that year, were really hypocritical.

There is no etiquette or morality in the fighting between countries.

It would be fine if they accidentally killed Qiao Feng's parents, as they were the ones who were wrong in the first place.

They would just find an ordinary family and let Qiao Feng live an ordinary life when he grows up.

They refused to do so. Not only did they teach Qiao Feng martial arts, they also used him and made him the leader of the Beggars' Sect. However, they did not trust Qiao Feng. Before his death, Wang Jiantong even left such a letter as a means to check and balance Qiao Feng.

This matter was later accidentally discovered by Kang Min, who was jealous of Qiao Feng and took advantage of it. This also laid the groundwork for the future decline of the Beggars' Sect.

"Forget it, let's not talk about this for now. This is Qiao Feng's own business. Let's see how he handles it."

After Chu Yuan put away the letter, he picked up Ma Dayuan from the ground, and after making sure that there were no traces left, he left Ma Dayuan's residence.

After bringing Ma Dayuan back to his residence and closing the door, Chu Yuan placed him on the bed in the opposite wing, and then used the "Shenzhaojing" to bring Ma Dayuan back to life from his suspended death.

Chu Yuan placed his palms on Ma Dayuan's chest, and the internal force of the "Shenzhaojing" in Chu Yuan's body was continuously transmitted into Ma Dayuan's body through his own meridians.

Under the influence of this vital internal force, Ma Dayuan's organs, which were originally in a state of suspended animation, gradually regained their vitality.

In particular, the heart, one of the five internal organs, beats quickly and powerfully.

Seeing that Ma Dayuan had come back to life from his suspended state, Chu Yuan withdrew his palms from Ma Dayuan's chest.

As soon as Chu Yuan withdrew his hands, Ma Dayuan's eyelids moved slightly, and he opened his eyes, looking around in a daze.

"Am I dead?"

Ma Dayuan, who had just woken up, was in a daze at first, as if he was a precision instrument that was forcibly turned on. He asked subconsciously.

What came into view was a somewhat unfamiliar room.

There was a white candle lit in the room, and in the flickering light, he seemed to be lying on the bed.

And beside the bed, there was a man in a black nightgown, standing there looking at him.

"It was you who killed me."

Then Ma Dayuan immediately remembered that before he lost consciousness, he was fighting with Bai Shijing, but the man in black beside the bed suddenly rushed out and killed him with one palm. A look of fear appeared on his face again.

"Master, it was me. I had no other choice just now, so I pretended to kill you. After they left, I brought you back and revived you."

Chu Yuan said to Ma Dayuan.

When Ma Dayuan heard Chu Yuan's familiar voice, he asked in a somewhat uncertain tone, "Are you Chu Yuan?"

Chu Yuan nodded and said, "Master, it's me."

Then, he realized that when he came back just now, because of the time pressure, he didn't even have time to take off the black mask on his face. Chu Yuan immediately reached out and took off the mask on his face, revealing his true face.

"It's really you!"

Ma Dayuan exclaimed.

"Have you known for a long time that your mistress and Bai Shijing have an affair, and that the two of them want to kill me, so you have been coming to my place so often these days?"

Ma Dayuan recalled Chu Yuan's various abnormal reactions since he returned from the border, and guessed in his heart.

Chu Yuan said truthfully: "I know a little bit."

Ma Dayuan asked, "Did you also hear the conversation between me, your master's wife, and Bai Shijing?"

Chu Yuan nodded: "I was outside the house at the time."

Ma Dayuan felt a little embarrassed for a moment. As a man, the last thing he wanted people to know was that his wife was unfaithful to him, especially in front of his junior disciple Chu Yuan.

Ma Dayuan was a little disappointed and said, "I was so good to your master's wife, but I didn't expect that she would betray me and get involved with Bai Shijing, and even wanted to kill me."

Chu Yuan asked, "Is it possible that she did this because Master was so good to her in the past?"

Ma Dayuan was stunned: "What do you mean?"

Chu Yuan explained: "Master, you usually trust Master's wife too much."

Upon hearing this, Ma Dayuan remained silent.

If you think about it carefully, isn't he trusting Kang Min too much?
He never suspected that Kang Min was doing something unfair to him while he was busy with help.

Ma Dayuan recalled what happened before, and a trace of shame flashed across his face: "When I was not in the gang before, your master's wife and Bai Shijing framed you, and I almost believed them. Now it seems that they are the adulterous couple, and they are conspiring to frame you."

Chu Yuan: ...

It's also true that it was a frame-up.

But that's not right either.

Because the previous incarnation did have an affair with Kang Min.

The reason why Kang Min teamed up with Bai Shijing and Quan Guanqing to frame him was because he wanted to draw a clear line between himself and Kang Min.

However, he would not tell his master Ma Dayuan about this matter for the time being, otherwise he was afraid that Ma Dayuan would not be able to bear the shock and would have thoughts of suicide.

This kind of thing cannot be concealed, Ma Dayuan will know it eventually.

But it is better to know it late than early. As long as Ma Dayuan knows Kang Min's true side in the future, completely gives up on Kang Min and decides to divorce her, then what happened between him and Kang Min will not be a big deal.

What Ma Dayuan sees of Kang Min now is just the tip of the iceberg of her dissolute behavior.

His predecessor was also a victim and was one of the people seduced by Kang Min.

Chu Yuan said: "Since Master is fine, you can stay here with me and see what Kang Min and Bai Shijing will do next!"

After this happened, since Ma Dayuan knew Kang Min's true identity, he no longer had to call her "master's wife".

Ma Dayuan understood Chu Yuan's purpose and said with a look of enlightenment: "No wonder you didn't save me directly, but pretended to kill me, let me fake death, and then brought me back to life. Is it because of this reason?"

Chu Yuan nodded and said, "If I rescue Master directly, it will be difficult to deal with them. Should I kill them or not? What if Master still has feelings for Kang Min? Now that Master has faked his death, they all think that Master is dead, and Master is hiding in the dark. What Master will do, whether it is revenge or other plans, is entirely up to him."

Hearing Chu Yuan's words, Ma Dayuan felt very complicated for a moment. He felt that the worst thing he had done in his life was to marry Kang Min, a vicious and adulterous woman.

The best thing he did was to accept Chu Yuan as his disciple.

If Chu Yuan had not rescued him this time, he would have been killed by Kang Min and Bai Shijing, the adulterous couple.

Chu Yuan's actions not only saved him, but also gave him the opportunity to hide in the dark and even take revenge on the two of them.

Ma Dayuan had thousands of words in his heart, which finally turned into one sentence: "Thank you, Yuan'er."

When Ma Dayuan rescued Chu Yuan and accepted him as his disciple, because Chu Yuan was still young, he called Chu Yuan "Yuan'er", but he seldom called Chu Yuan that.

Chu Yuan felt a little guilty when he saw his master Ma Dayuan’s sincere expression.

Chu Yuan said: "Master, you should rest early. Let's see how the gang reacts to this matter first, and then decide what to do."

After saying that, Chu Yuan turned and left.

Ma Dayuan didn't care. He thought that his wife Kang Min had conspired with Bai Shijing to kill him.

From the initial resentment, it turned into grief.

Immersed in sadness, unable to extricate myself.

……

Four days passed in a flash.

During these four days, the Beggars' Sect was turned upside down by the death of its deputy leader, Ma Dayuan.

Because the gang leader Qiao Feng was not in the gang, and the deputy gang leader Ma Dayuan was murdered.

Therefore, such a large Beggars' Gang actually gives people a feeling of being leaderless.

The four elders of the Beggars' Sect, as well as the law enforcement elder and the martial arts transmission elder, a total of six elders, after investigation, not only did they fail to identify the murderer of Deputy Gang Leader Ma Dayuan, they couldn't even find Deputy Gang Leader Ma Dayuan's body.

However, I don’t know when a rumor started to spread in the gang.

The murderer who killed Deputy Gang Leader Ma was actually Murong Fu from the Murong family in Jiangnan.

Apart from this top martial arts master, with Deputy Gang Leader Ma's martial arts skills, who else in the martial arts world could do what Gang Leader Ma's widow, Mrs. Ma, said, that the black-clothed thief killed Gang Leader Ma with just one palm strike?

The elders of the Beggars' Sect seemed to agree with this statement when the murderer was still not found.

There is no other way. The gang members must be given an explanation for the death of Deputy Gang Leader Ma.

However, since the murderer has not been found and there is no clue at all, they can only find a scapegoat and bear the anger of the gang members.

The problem is that the rumor, when analyzed carefully, does make sense.

After all, apart from Murong Fu of the Jiangnan Murong family, who is as famous as his own gang leader, there are indeed few people who can kill Deputy Gang Leader Ma with one palm.

Therefore, in the absence of leader Qiao Feng, law enforcement elders Bai Shijing, Quan Guanqing and other elders took the lead in proposing that the Beggars' Gang should go to Yanziwu, where Murong's family is located in Suzhou, Jiangnan, to ask Murong Fu for an explanation.

As soon as this proposal was made, disciples of the Beggars' Sect responded one after another.

After all, the deputy leader of the Beggars' Sect died in such an unclear manner. If the cause is not investigated, the Beggars' Sect will no longer have the dignity to call itself the largest gang in the world.

Although the other elders thought this matter was strange, they were all outraged at the moment and had no choice but to agree.

After some discussion, the elders immediately decided to take the Beggar Gang disciples south and vowed to find Murong Fu to ask for an explanation.

The death of Ma Dayuan, deputy leader of the Beggars' Sect, caused hostility between the Beggars' Sect and the Murong family, and there is a possibility that a war will break out between the two sides at any time.

This also caused this matter to spread throughout the world in a short time.

Everything that happened in the Beggars' Sect was seen by master and disciple Ma Dayuan and Chu Yuan who were hiding in the dark.

night.

The moonlight is like water, sprinkling down on the earth, giving people a sense of peace and tranquility.

The moon tonight is exceptionally bright, like a jade plate hanging high in the sky, without any cloud blocking it.
After the master and the disciple had their midnight snack, they sat in the pavilion drinking tea and chatting.

Ma Dayuan said: "I didn't expect that this matter would be pinned on Murong Fu."

Chu Yuan said: "This Murong Fu is really unlucky. He really suffered an unexpected disaster."

Chu Yuan glanced at his master Ma Dayuan who was sitting opposite him and said, "Master, today the elders of the gang came to invite me to go to Jiangnan with them. As your disciple, since you have died, I should come forward to avenge you. There is no reason to refuse, so I agreed."

Although they lived next to the Beggars' Sect headquarters, only two or three hundred meters away, Chu Yuan was not afraid of being discovered, as his master Ma Dayuan was hidden by him.

With Chu Yuan's current martial arts skills, he didn't think anyone, except a master of Qiao Feng's level, could get close to the house where he lived without him knowing.

Ma Dayuan was puzzled and said, "This result seems to be deliberately guided by someone, including Bai Shijing. But why did these people say that the person who killed me was Murong Fu?"

Chu Yuan felt that it was time to tell some things to his master, who was a little too upright.

He reached into his shirt, pulled out a letter and placed it on the table.

Chu Yuan said to Ma Dayuan: "Master, take a look at this letter and you will understand."

Upon hearing this, Ma Dayuan picked up the letter from the table out of curiosity.

When he saw the words and contents on the cover of the letter, a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes: "This is the letter that the old gang leader left for me and the elders in the gang. How did this letter end up in your hands?"

Chu Yuan said: "On that night a few days ago, when I rescued Master, I took this letter from Master's room."

Ma Dayuan said: "But what does this letter have to do with what happened in the gang..."

Ma Dayuan suddenly changed his tone and said in realization: "Yuan'er, you mean, their real target is not me as the gang leader."

Ma Dayuan is upright, not stupid.

If he was really stupid, he wouldn't be qualified to be the deputy leader of the Beggars' Sect.

When Chu Yuan took out the letter, it was almost like he was being pointed at him.

Chu Yuan nodded, and while drinking tea, he said to Ma Dayuan: "Master, do you know why Kang Min, that woman, conspired with outsiders and dared to do something unacceptable to the world, and wanted to harm the life of Master and her husband?"

Ma Dayuan thought about how his wife Kang Min wanted him to make it public after accidentally seeing the letter in his hand, but he rejected her. An incredible idea immediately flashed through his mind.

"Could it be that she is trying to frame the gang leader?"

Ma Dayuan said.

Seeing Chu Yuan nod, Ma Dayuan continued:
"But why? Not only is the leader a martial arts master, but he is also a righteous and straightforward person. He is a hero of the time. Why would he become an enemy of her?"

He was puzzled.

"Master, don't forget that these advantages of Brother Qiao are fatally attractive to women. And because Brother Qiao has an upright character, he will definitely not have any thoughts about his brother's woman, so she hated Brother Qiao."

Chu Yuan said to Ma Dayuan.

"This……"

Ma Dayuan's face looked extremely ugly for a moment.

Even after four or five days, the hatred and anger in his heart had dissipated a lot.

But when he learned that his wife had feelings for Qiao Feng, whom he regarded as a brother, he still found it hard to believe.

What's more crucial is that because Qiao Feng was so polite to her, the other party hated Qiao Feng, the gang leader, and wanted to frame him. To this end, she even had an affair with Bai Shijing and murdered her husband.

This made it difficult for Ma Dayuan to accept it for a while, and he felt that he was a real failure in life.

"Besides, Master, you don't think that this woman Kang Min is only having an affair with Bai Shijing, right?"

The words Chu Yuan said again made Ma Dayuan feel like a huge bell ringing in his ears, shocking him to the point of being at a loss.

"As far as I know, there are three people in the Beggars' Sect who have had an affair with Kang Min, including Bai Shijing..."

Chu Yuan said to Ma Dayuan.

"There are two others."

Ma Dayuan was in a daze and muttered to himself.

He originally thought that Kang Min only had an affair with Bai Shijing.

Now it seems that among his own disciples, there are already three people who know about it. I wonder how many more there are?

For a moment, Ma Dayuan felt extremely helpless.

Fortunately, Chu Yuan told him now that he had thought a lot through. If Chu Yuan had told him the truth when he just rescued him, he didn't know if he still had the courage to live.

"Yuan'er, tell me honestly, what happened between you and your master's wife..."

Ma Dayuan thought of the rumors in the gang about Chu Yuan and his wife Kang Min. He looked at Chu Yuan and asked.

He didn't believe those rumors before, but now that he learned about his wife's promiscuous lifestyle, he thought about it again and felt that these rumors should not be groundless.

After all, Kang Min had developed feelings for the gang leader Qiao Feng. Although this disciple of his had average martial arts skills before, he was handsome and young, so it was not impossible for Kang Min to develop feelings for him.

(End of this chapter)