Chapter 3065 — The Secret Plot Against Xu Shilan

"I know my life is as good as over. Nitian is dead, and I have nothing left to hope for. I want revenge on Shipian now, but I don't dare take it—even if I dared to offend my elder brother, I would never dare offend you, Second Sister-in-law!" Feng Tianhu said. "Right now I only want to vent my anger for Nitian, to let his spirit rest in peace! I know too that Shipian is the last of the Feng bloodline, and that no matter what happens, Father will never do anything to him. So in the end, Nitian died for nothing!"

"I asked you, Tianhu—what exactly are you trying to say?" Although Dongfang Xiaocui was displeased that her husband had shielded Xu Shilan outside the family, Feng Shihua was, after all, her son; for Feng Tianhu to speak of her son this way naturally angered her. Even though the two had once been partners, she would not give Feng Tianhu a pleasant face. "Have you come to complain to me? So what if Shipian did kill him? My Dongfang family's grandson—do you think you can condemn him just because you say so? Frankly, the Feng family does not have that kind of power!"

"Of course... Second Sister-in-law, I never said I wanted to move against Shipian..." Feng Tianhu said with a bitter look on his face. "Second Sister-in-law, please hear me out... What I mean is, I cannot do anything to Shipian, but I would like to deal with my second brother..."

"You want to deal with Tianlin? Do you think that is possible?" Dongfang Xiaocui was naturally fond of Feng Tianqi—if not, how could she possibly be so jealous as to move against Xu Shilan and her mother?

"No, that is not what I mean. I want to deal with Xu Shilan. Once Xu Shilan is dead, my second brother will surely grieve, and that will achieve my purpose of dealing with him..." Feng Tianhu said. "I only want to make him grieve a little. I lost a child, so he must lose one too—otherwise the hatred in my heart can find no peace!"

"Oh? You mean to move against Xu Shilan?" Dongfang Xiaocui was briefly taken aback, yet she was no longer as resistant as before. She nodded and said, "Then how do you plan to go about it?"

Feng Tianhu's proposal rather stirred Dongfang Xiaocui. After all, Xu Shilan was someone she had long wanted to eliminate; that Feng Tianqi secretly cared for Xu Shilan outside the family filled Dongfang Xiaocui with fury. So with an opportunity like this, how could Dongfang Xiaocui let it pass?

Moreover, Feng Nitian had very likely been killed by her own son, Feng Shihua. If Feng Tianhu clung to the matter and would not let it go, then even the Dongfang family could not interfere in the Feng family's affairs—this was, after all, their private business. Dongfang Xiaocui's earlier words had merely been meant to frighten Feng Tianhu.

Now Feng Tianhu was saying that killing Xu Shilan would quell his rage—a life for a life. Nothing could be better than that!

At this thought, Dongfang Xiaocui nodded. To be honest, she too feared that Feng Tianhu would cling stubbornly to the matter of Feng Shihua's "murder." The barefoot fears not the shod; if Feng Tianhu went mad and blew the matter up, Feng Shihua would be lucky to escape with only a layer of skin peeled off—and that was not what Dongfang Xiaocui wanted to see.

In their earlier partnership, she had been somewhat wary of Feng Tianhu. Jealous as Dongfang Xiaocui was, she nonetheless knew how to protect her own son. How could she not know that Feng Nitian wanted to contend for the position of young heir? So whenever she worked with Feng Tianhu, she always kept something in reserve.

But now things were different. Feng Nitian was dead, and Feng Shihua was in any case the Feng family's only grandchild of the third generation. In the future, Old Master Feng would inevitably name him the young heir. That was why Dongfang Xiaocui was now willing to work with Feng Tianhu calmly and reasonably.

"Second Sister-in-law, you know as well as I do that Nitian has only just died, and Second Brother's guard against me is surely at its highest. If I were to mobilize the Feng family's men, he would certainly notice, and then I might only make things worse—discovered before I even acted. So I wonder whether this time the Dongfang family could send its people instead?" Feng Tianhu's clever scheme was to have the Dongfang family move against Xu Shilan. When Xu Shilan died, if Feng Tianqi learned that his own wife had personally killed his daughter, he would surely become estranged from Dongfang Xiaocui, and his mind would be thrown into chaos. That was the first blow!

If they first killed Feng Tianqi's first love, then after Feng Tianqi and Dongfang Xiaocui fell out, Dongfang Xiaocui might well spare Xu Shilan. After all, that "slut" of years past was already dead, leaving only a child—a girl, at that—who could not contend with Dongfang Xiaocui for anything and posed no threat to Feng Shihua's position in the family. To keep Feng Tianqi from growing angry, Dongfang Xiaocui might well let the matter drop.

But Feng Tianqi's first love was a different matter. Even if Feng Tianqi fell out with Dongfang Xiaocui over Xu Shilan, Dongfang Xiaocui would still strike to kill Xu Shilan's mother. Feng Tianhu had a firm grasp of Dongfang Xiaocui's jealous nature—this woman would absolutely never allow Xu Shilan's mother to live!

Since she had already fallen out with Feng Tianqi, if Xu Shilan's mother did not die and Feng Tianqi and she rekindled their old flame, what would become of Dongfang Xiaocui then?

And yet, when Dongfang Xiaocui moved a second time, Feng Tianhu would deliberately, or as if by accident, leak the news—leak it to Feng Tianqi! Feng Tianqi might learn of it, but he would surely be powerless to stop it. The only thing he could do was send men to stop it.

Whom would he send? In the ancient Feng family, Feng Tianqi, like Feng Tianhu, could command only a limited number of capable hands; the truly formidable ones were all controlled by Old Master Feng. Feng Tianqi could not possibly go protect Xu Shilan's mother himself, so he could only send Feng Shihua!

In this way, Feng Tianhu could pretend to join forces with Dongfang Xiaocui's people and send men—or hire assassins from the Blood Garment Yellow Springs Sect—to kill Feng Shihua. That was the third blow!

With Xu Shilan, Xu Shilan's mother, and Feng Shihua all dead, Feng Tianhu did not believe that Feng Tianqi, no matter how strong-willed, would still have the presence of mind to bother with family affairs! Once he had sunk into despair, Feng Tianhu could seize the opening, find a suitable opportunity, and bring his own son Feng Yiran forward—present him before Old Master Feng and see Feng Yiran successfully rise to power!

Once Feng Yiran had risen and become the young heir, would the position of young head of the family not fall into Feng Tianhu's grasp?

Of course, in the second step of the plan, it was also possible that Feng Tianqi would go protect Xu Shilan's mother himself. That would be even better—kill him directly, and everything would be settled once and for all. Then Feng Tianhu could rise to power smoothly and directly. (To be continued)