Chapter 499: Yang Shouyi Has a Problem

After spitting out the coffee, I quickly ran to the toilet and retched several times, but the taste of this cat feces coffee remained just as strong. Having no choice, I could only smear some hand sanitizer on my hand, rub it into foam, mix it with water, and take a big gulp to rinse my mouth.

When I came out, Yao Wenju was blowing on the edge of his coffee, enjoying his drink with relish.

"What kind of coffee is this? How does it smell like cat feces?" I really couldn't understand; Yao Wenju could drink coffee and enjoy it so much.

"Kopiluak musang cat coffee, currently the world's most expensive and rarest coffee variety." Yao Wenju licked his lips and gave a lingering explanation: "It comes from Sumatra Island in Indonesia; on this island there is an animal called the musang cat that eats only coffee fruit. The feces excreted by the musang cat, after roasting and drying, become this unique kopiluak."

"So speaking, this really is cat feces! Not because it smells like cat feces, but because it's pure cat feces." I couldn't help but retch again with a strange look on my face; my stomach churned.

"Tsk, don't despise cat feces; it's very precious. A box of musang coffee costs tens of thousands. Of course, price is secondary; the key is that rich aroma." Yao Wenju licked his lips and began to lecture me on the art of coffee.

"Try another cup, but don't gulp it down all at once. Before drinking coffee, you should gaze at it like a lover. After three minutes, purse your lips and take a small sip. Once the coffee is in your mouth, stir it with your tongue. When it's sufficiently steeped, swallow it with a gulp. Afterwards, you'll feel a lingering, rich, mellow fragrance." Yao Wenju's face was intoxicated, like that of an artist.

"Whatever, I don't care about musang cats or coffee cats; I have no interest in that. Right now, I only care about this matter." I pointed at the photo on the table, suppressing my retching to interrupt Yao Wenju's intoxication.

Since encountering that cat immortal that sucked Qingqing's vital energy in Anhui, I have been extremely sensitive to cats, even to the point of hating them. Now someone is licking cat feces in front of me with such relish—how the hell am I supposed to endure this? Licking is licking, but you damn well keep forcing me to learn how to lick; say another couple of sentences and I'll go crazy to the point I can't even believe myself.

Yao Wenju looked at me, who was strongly opposed to the cat feces coffee, sighed helplessly, and kept his mouth shut despite wanting to say more. Seeing me ask the main point, he spread his hands and said helplessly: "Who can guess what the Yang family is up to? In any case, this matter doesn't feel like a dispute over interests to me. On the contrary, it seems……"

Yao Wenju frowned, pondered for a moment, stared, and said: "It seems like the Yang family is digging its own grave."

"Well, is that possible?" I was equally puzzled. The Yang family isn't targeting the Yao family; they're destroying their own century-old foundation? This speculation is too exaggerated.

Analyzing superficially, the first possibility is that the Yao and Yang families have fallen into a profit dispute. The Yao family hates assassins and wants to eradicate them completely, repeatedly damaging the Yang family's ancestral grave feng shui.

But after seeing Yao Wenju, a second possibility arose. The Yang family's reason for doing this is merely to find a pretext for war; after scripting and directing everything themselves, they would shift the blame eastward to frame the Yao family. First, they used the Masked Beast as a catalyst to make the other shareholders of the casino dissatisfied with the Yao family. Then, using the death of Yang Rui of the Yang family and the iron tablet discovered in the ancestral grave, they provoked the Yang family, drove the Yao family out of Yichang, and openly seized the Yao family's shares.

However, looking at it now, although the second possibility is large, it seems strange. Reasonably speaking, businessmen profit from harmony; money matters can be settled by sitting down and talking things out clearly. The Yang family suddenly launched an attack—never mind whether they are stronger than the Yao family; Yang Shoren has no need to sacrifice his own biological son's life as a price.

No…… it's not Yang Shoren! It seems I've been focusing on the wrong point because I thought the head of the Yang family was Yang Shoren. The one investigating the Yao family is Yang Shouyi, the one who met Wu Fei is also Yang Shouyi, and tonight, the one using connections to launch an attack on the Yao family is even more Yang Shouyi.

Reasonably speaking, while he is arranging Yang Rui's funeral, he couldn't possibly have the energy to mobilize troops. Therefore, all this is very likely prearranged by Yang Shouyi; from start to finish, he never intended to sit down and properly negotiate with the Yao family.

"Is the person who killed Sun Miao definitely sent by Yang Shouyi?" I pondered, then confirmed with Yao Wenju.

Yao Wenju didn't answer me; instead, he called a bodyguard downstairs, whispered a few sentences, and then the bodyguard withdrew.

Soon, the bodyguard dragged in a badly beaten, bruised all-over, near-death big man.

Yao Wenju made a gesture of invitation toward me and said: "Go ask him yourself."

Assuming nothing unexpected, this is the killer of Sun Miao! After fleeing, he was captured by Yao Wenju.

I stepped forward, stared at the killer on the ground, and asked: "Are you really sent by Yang Shouyi to kill Sun Miao? Does the head of the Yang family, Yang Shoren, know about this?"

This killer appeared to have received professional training; his mouth was tough, his expression stubborn. Until the bodyguard beside him kicked him and said sternly: "Think clearly about your family; if you don't want them to come to harm, answer honestly." Only then did he give up his stubbornness, and his mouth was pried open.

"It was the second master; the second master sent me. The elder master doesn't know about this." He said.

"Yang Shouyi, does he know martial arts or magic?" I stared at him and asked, but the answer was disappointing; the killer shook his head in confusion, saying he didn't know, and he had never seen Yang Shouyi take action.

After the killer was taken away, Yao Wenju looked rather doubtful and asked me: "Do you think Yang Shouyi is also an insider?"

I nodded, but then immediately shook my head, not entirely sure. What gave me this intuition was the scene when I went to ask Yang Shouyi for the key before leaving.

I remember that when I went at night to ask Yang Shoren, I had merely reached his side; I hadn't even spoken yet, and he immediately turned his head, looking at me with no surprise at all.

During the heated funeral proceedings, the surroundings were so noisy, yet he could still sense my approach—this cannot be said without noting his hearing is exceptionally sharp. To say he is not a martial practitioner, I simply don't believe it.

Furthermore, it's Yang Shouyi's eyes. When we first met, he gave me an impression of refined melancholy. But when I asked him for the key, because he was overly fatigued, he took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes. Unbeknownst to him, that single action let me detect an abnormality in an instant.

The difference between cultivators and ordinary people lies in their temperament and eyes. As cultivation deepens, the stronger one's internal energy, the more their eyes give the impression of being bright and lively; if you look closely at his eyes, you might even have the illusion that they are flashing with spiritual light.

Yang Shouyi's eyes are also clear and bright, unlike ordinary people's. However, because he constantly wears glasses, which conceal them, I cannot obtain further confirmation.

The only thing I can be certain of is that Yang Shouyi has a problem, a serious problem. I have a feeling that perhaps the truth of all this lies within Yang Shouyi himself.

"Wen bro, do you think it's possible that Yang Shouyi and Ye Qi conspired to take over the Yang family's estate? First, they use this opportunity to stir up a feud between the Yang and Yao families; then, when both sides are badly hurt, they appear as peacemakers, resolve the dispute, and incidentally kick out Yang Shouyi, this elder brother, so they can become the head themselves." My mind derived this possibility; moreover, I told Yao Wenju in detail about the scene I saw when I came out, in the side courtyard, of Yang Shouyi and Ye Qi meeting secretly.

Upon hearing this, Yao Wenju sucked his teeth and also found it interesting: "I never expected the Yang family's chaos to be this great; such a wonderful thing could actually happen."

I wiped the sweat from my forehead and said with a flushed face: "Is this kind of thing considered wonderful? Why don't you say that Yang Shouyi, this refined scoundrel, is a seducer of his sister-in-law, a beast in official's robes greedy for his elder brother's wealth, basically not treating his own biological elder brother as a human?"

"Ah…… actually I understand." Yao Wenju sighed leisurely, gazing at the dark night sky, his eyes deep, and said: "It's not that brothers aren't human; it's that the sister-in-law is too alluring."

After that, he even stroked his chin and pondered: "Yang Shouyi's wife must be quite beautiful, right?"

I…… this, damn it, something's off—how did Yao Wenju also get infected by Pangzi?