Chapter 3065 — The Secret Plot Against Xu Shilan
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"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)