Chapter 173

Unlike other elders, Tang Jihuai is Tang Laoyezi's only younger brother, ranked sixth in the family, and is also Tang Bingyan's Sixth Uncle-Grandfather.

Because Tang Jihuai is Tang Laoyezi's younger brother, his status in the Tang family is vaguely above a group of elders.

Tang Laoyezi almost wouldn't question his words.

And, according to the inside story Xu Tian knew in his previous life, Tang Jihuai was not alone; there was a mysterious person behind him supporting his plan.

Xu Tian remembered that in his previous life, the Tang family had finally found out that Tang Jihuai was the traitor and also found that someone was supporting him behind his back.

But who this person was, until Xu Tian finally made up his mind to break with Tang Bingyan in his previous life, that person still hadn't surfaced.

Even, in order to find that mysterious person, even Tang Laoyezi met with misfortune in his previous life.

Xu Tian's fingers bent slightly, clenched into a fist, and then quickly loosened.

A Wei was still ignorant of the impending disaster, and didn't know that he would be framed as a traitor by the evidence Tang Jihuai had long since forged.

Under the suspicious and expectant gazes of everyone, Tang Jihuai summoned his assistant, and the assistant respectfully handed a document into his hand.

Tang Jihuai personally handed the document to Tang Laoyezi.

Tang Laoyezi read the contents of the document with a dark face and passed it to the First Elder without saying a word.

Ten minutes later, all the Tang family senior executives in the reception hall finished reading the contents of the document.

Everyone who read the document had an ugly face.

After the document was passed back to the First Elder's hand, his hand holding the A4 paper shook violently, and he threw the information onto the coffee table in front of him, shouting sharply at a position not far away:

"A Wei! Do you know your crime?"

A Wei was startled.

The strange gazes of the people around him made an ominous premonition arise in his heart.

But he really didn't know what he had done wrong, so he could only bite the bullet and ask: "A Wei is dull, I ask Peng Bo to clarify!"

"Clarify?"

The First Elder sneered: "You colluded with outsiders to betray the Tang family and tried to harm the Tang family head; now you are still playing dumb in front of us?"

"Betray the Tang family? Harm the family head?"

A Wei was stunned at first, then realized the seriousness of the matter and hurriedly explained: "A Wei grew up in the Tang family since childhood and would absolutely not do anything to betray the Tang family! The eldest young lady has a kindness of knowing and meeting to me; how could I collude with outsiders to assassinate her? There must be some misunderstanding in this!"

"Hehe, misunderstanding?"

The First Elder pointed at the document on the coffee table: "The evidence is solid, yet you still dare to quibble? These materials record clearly how you contacted Tattoo members; look for yourself!"

A Wei walked forward in shock and picked up the document on the coffee table.

Xu Tian walked forward a few steps without changing his expression.

At this time, everyone's attention was on A Wei, and no one noticed him at all.

After getting closer, he happened to be able to see the contents of those materials in A Wei's hand.

It recorded in detail the time and content of A Wei's contact with Tattoo members.

But Xu Tian knew that the Tattoo member A Wei contacted was an undercover agent arranged by A Wei, a person from the Tang family side.

A Wei originally wanted to get inside information about Tattoo through the undercover agent, but this person had been lurking in the Tattoo organization for a long time but couldn't bring back any confidential information.

Some time ago, the undercover agent suddenly broke off contact with A Wei.

A Wei spent a lot of effort to find out that the other party was accidentally killed by the mission target while following Tattoo to execute a mission.

But the records Tang Jihuai took out at this moment were all true.

And now that the undercover agent was dead, no one could testify for him; regarding Tang Bingyan's assassination by Tattoo killers this time, he couldn't argue his case and simply couldn't wash away his grievances.

Xu Tian looked at the materials in A Wei's hand, and his face became colder and colder.

What a ruthless mind!

A Wei is Tang Bingyan's most capable assistant and also her most trusted subordinate.

If it weren't for A Wei sharing and assisting Tang Bingyan's work, I'm afraid Tang Bingyan's body would have collapsed completely long ago.

Now Tang Jihuai nailed A Wei to the position of "traitor," which not only made Tang Bingyan lose her right-hand man, but also allowed him and the person behind him to continue to hide their identities; it can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

"Why aren't you speaking?"

Seeing A Wei staring straight at the information, the First Elder sneered: "Or are you speechless? These materials record your crimes in black and white; what else do you have to quibble about?"

A Wei had cold sweat on his forehead and pointed at the contents of the materials in shock: "The person I contacted is actually..."

"The evidence is solid; are you still trying to struggle on your deathbed?"

The First Elder directly interrupted A Wei's words bluntly, not wanting to give him a chance to explain at all: "Or do you have evidence to prove that these materials are forged and you didn't secretly contact Tattoo members?"

"I..."

"I dare to guarantee with my personality that these evidences are true and have no forged components!" Tang Jihuai said first.

A Wei tried his best to keep himself calm, but his slightly trembling hands betrayed him.

He took a deep breath slowly, and then looked at Tang Laoyezi and said:

"Old family head, I did contact this person before, but he is actually not a member of Tattoo, but an undercover agent we sent there. I contacted him to get news about Tattoo and other forces from him."

"A Wei, do you really treat us all as fools?"

Tang Jihuai sneered: "Since you sent an undercover agent there, why was Bingyan still besieged this time? Don't you know a little bit of movement in advance?"

"That undercover agent died accidentally before we set off for the Lighthouse Country!" A Wei explained again.

"Hahahaha..."

Tang Jihuai laughed loudly upon hearing this: "You really have a good plan; Tang Bingyan had an accident, and the undercover agent happened to die; do you think you can pass the test like this?"

"I didn't lie to you; this person is really an undercover agent I sent there!"

A Wei had more and more cold sweat on his forehead; he knew he couldn't explain it no matter what, but he really hadn't done anything to betray Tang Bingyan or the Tang family.

"Don't you think everything is too coincidental?"

Tang Jihuai pressed on: "You happened to send an undercover agent to the Tattoo organization, and then Tattoo happened to know our Tang family's itinerary arrangement this time?"

"This itinerary has been confidential to the outside world from beginning to end; even the middle-level leaders of the group didn't know about it, so I ask you, how did the Tattoo organization across the ocean know?"

A Wei frowned: "Although the itinerary is confidential, there are dozens of people in the entire group's senior management; it's hard to avoid some leaks. Maybe it wasn't those people who leaked it on purpose, but they were still taken advantage of by people with ulterior motives..."

Tang Jihuai sneered: "Fine, even if the itinerary was leaked by some senior executive, when Tattoo members surrounded you, you still split up a small team to escort Xu Tian to evacuate. Then how did they determine that Bingyan was on this side, instead of escaping with Xu Tian?"

"I said it long ago; every move of ours was under the control of the other party at that time. They were just sure that the eldest young lady was not in the team escorted by the first team, so they let them escape. In fact, from the moment we entered that small town to stay, we had already fallen into their trap."

"Hehe, truly eloquent!"

Tang Jihuai was furious: "For every question, he found a reason that seemed reasonable but actually couldn't be verified. No wonder you lurked in the Tang family for so long, and we didn't see your true face as a traitor!"