The girl patted her stomach with a satisfied look on her face.
“I’m so full.
I haven’t eaten this much since I joined the caravan.”
Looking at the mountain of empty plates on the table, Lin Feng swallowed hard.
He suddenly began to worry about the girl’s future husband.
If she kept eating like this, her future husband would need quite a fortune just to keep her fed.
The girl wiped her mouth, then suddenly gave him a sly smile.
“Vice leader, what you said earlier about killing people in your sleep… that was a lie, wasn’t it?”
“Just call me Lin Feng.
But why do you say that?” Lin Feng asked with a confused expression.
Even though Lin Feng did not actually have a habit of killing people in his sleep.
There was a reason for it.
The girl’s lips curled into a confident smile as she explained, “Because you claim to kill people in your sleep, the mortal servants can only wait outside and aren’t allowed to enter your room.
There can only be two reasons for this.
Either you’re worried someone might attack you while you’re asleep, or you don’t want anyone discovering something they shouldn’t.”
“Mortals would never dare assassinate a Gu Master, so the first possibility can be ruled out.
That leaves only the second.”
The girl continued confidently, “From what I know, you’re an outsider who joined the Zhang family and later became one of their elders.
I suppose you’re so cautious because you’re worried that someone within the Zhang family might use you as a way to deal with Miss Zhang?”
Lin Feng remained silent.
The girl’s deduction was remarkably accurate.
From only a few scattered clues, she had pieced together the entire situation and arrived surprisingly close to the truth.
Could she be a Gu Master from that clan?
Lin Feng immediately formed a guess about the girl’s identity.
He picked up his wine cup, poured himself a drink, and emptied it in one gulp.
“Little girl, you’re right.
That’s exactly the reason.
I don’t like letting mortals get too close to me.
Someone could easily use them to secretly scheme against me, or even use me to deal with my young lady.”
After saying this, Lin Feng began telling her about the situation within the Zhang family.
Since Lin Feng and his sister joined the Zhang family, they gradually learned about Miss Zhang’s situation.
Her pregnancy before marriage had caused the marriage alliance between the Zhang and Wu families to fall apart, and because of this, many members of the Zhang family resented her.
Furthermore, some members of the family coveted the inheritance she possessed and had been secretly trying to seize it.
Lin Feng’s arrival as an external elder strengthened Miss Zhang’s position, but it also made him a target of her enemies.
If they could secretly control or manipulate him, they could use him against Miss Zhang.
Sure enough, when Lin Feng later joined the Jia family caravan on Miss Zhang’s behalf to earn primeval stones, those who coveted her inheritance seized the opportunity to make their move.
They secretly arranged for a mortal to approach Lin Feng, intending to use him to frame Lin Feng for leaking information about the Zhang family.
Fortunately, Lin Feng discovered the scheme in time.
From then on, no mortal dared to enter his room while he slept.
In this way, Lin Feng completely eliminated any ideas his enemies in the Zhang family might have used against Miss Zhang.
After hearing the whole story, the girl immediately became furious.
“What a scumbag!
He got your young lady pregnant before marriage, then abandoned his wife and daughter and completely ignored his responsibilities as a husband and father.
He’s worse than an animal!”
She had never expected someone could be shameless enough to abandon his wife and daughter like this.
Lin Feng, however, knew the original story.
The man who had abandoned his wife and daughter was none other than Shang Yan Fei, the powerful and ruthless leader of the Shang clan.
For the sake of securing his position as clan leader, Shang Yan Fei had refused to let romantic feelings hold him back and would not allow family ties to become his weakness.
His ruthlessness was not limited to his wife and daughter.
During the struggle to become clan leader, he drove one of his brothers to madness, killed two of his sisters, and forced three of his rivals to flee the Shang clan and wander the world as merchants.
However, Lin Feng naturally could not reveal secrets involving Shang Yan Fei and Miss Zhang, so he could only change the subject.
“Yeah, he really is a scumbag.
Sigh, my young lady has terrible luck with men.” Lin Feng shook his head, then looked at the girl.
“But I didn’t expect you to figure out the truth from just a few clues.
You’re quite clever.
Don’t tell me you’re actually from the Tie clan?”