Transmigration: I, the Dragon Overlord, start by protecting my beautiful bride!

After retrieving the waist token, Long Aotian began examining the bodies of the remaining people.

First came the first group of black-clad assassins who arrived at his courtyard.

After Luo Hongyan's identification, it can be basically confirmed that he is Wang Bao's confidant.

Previously, Ye Yan had instructed Luo Hongyan to eliminate Long Aotian completely.

Knowing that she was kind-hearted and seriously injured, Wang Bao specially found two people, not trusted confidants of the Zhenye Division, to assassinate Long Aotian.

The other two, after Long Aotian removed their masks, turned out to be the same guys from the gambling den who had led him upstairs that day and drugged his ginger soup.

Although the other person was an unfamiliar face, and Long Aotian had never seen him before, it wasn't hard to tell that the other person was also from the gambling den.

Previously, Jiang Shou had lured him to the gambling den, intending to kill him. As Lin Boguang's subordinate, he must be very clear about the mastermind behind the gambling den.

"What a lively scene. So many people have come all night, all wanting to take my life," Long Aotian remarked, looking at the corpses.

Meanwhile, on the side of the courtyard, Shi Yiguang learned of her master's murder.

But she suppressed her grief and was helping Jiang Beichuan and Luo Hongyan heal their wounds.

Long Aotian squatted in the courtyard, looking at the dead people, constantly piecing together the clues in his mind.

“Jiang Shou just said that he has never seen the person behind Lin Boguang,” Long Aotian suddenly said. “But in Qianzhou City now, which force would dare to do such a thing?”

Long Aotian originally thought that Lin Boguang was only colluding with Li Tongzhi, which was why he opened the maritime trading market.

But according to their ledgers, a large sum of money had actually disappeared. Long Aotian searched every inch of the village but couldn't find a single penny.

There is only one possibility now: Li Tongzhi is not Lin Boguang's mastermind, but rather one of his partners.

One of them wanted revenge, and the other wanted to amass wealth, so they hit it off immediately...

However, this leads to an even more serious problem: there is only one possibility regarding the mastermind behind Lin Boguang.

That was the dead hermaphrodite who had asked him to find the Seven Star Grass some time ago; he was also known as the Crown Prince.

But since they already know the whereabouts of the Seven Star Grass, which is in the hands of the notorious thief Wang Wu, why go to such great lengths?

Why not just snatch it from Wang Wu and hand it over to that dead hermaphrodite?

Long Aotian pondered this, but couldn't figure it out. Finally, he sat down in the courtyard and habitually reached into his pocket.

The result was that he found nothing. This world has its good and bad aspects, but the one thing that Long Aotian could not accept the most was the lack of cigarettes.

It seems that this dynasty had not yet developed cigarettes, and even when drinking tea, most people still boiled tea leaves to make tea soup...

"Lord Shen, what are you thinking about?"

"Ok?"

Why do you look so preoccupied?

Luo Hongyan's injuries were less severe than Jiang Beichuan's. He was only unable to defeat Jiang Shou because of poisoning. He just needed to get rid of the poison.

Jiang Beichuan was the one who was more seriously injured, with multiple internal and external injuries...

"No, I was just thinking about something."

"Tell us, and maybe we can offer you some advice."

Upon hearing this, Long Aotian obediently stood up and asked the three of them, "Then I want to ask you, what would happen if I obtained the Seven Star Grass?"

"Of course, it should be handed over to the professor."

"For Dong Daren."

“Hmm…” Jiang Beichuan and Luo Hongyan both gave their answers readily, while Shi Yiguang hesitated before replying, “Although I agree with what you two have said, I think Lord Shen will also have his own considerations.”

Upon hearing this, Long Aotian seemed to understand.

"Lord Shen, why do you ask this?" Luo Hongyan asked.

"Because it's rumored in Qianzhou City that I have a very good personal relationship with Lord Dong of the Huayi Mansion, you all naturally assume that I will give the Seven Star Grass to him as soon as possible, right?"

“That’s right, is there a problem?” Luo Hongyan and Jiang Beichuan both nodded in response.

"If that's the case, they'll definitely think so too." Long Aotian understood. He finally realized what these people were trying to do after going to all this trouble!

"Lord Shen, what does this mean?"

"There's no time to explain, I have to go out right now!" Knowing that time was of the essence, Long Aotian didn't offer any further explanation and simply pushed open the door and left!

At this moment, dark clouds covered the sky above Qianzhou City, and thunder rumbled.

All the people were busy packing up and going home, but Long Aotian was still desperately rushing out.

Just before he was about to leave, the two guys who had been watching him but disappeared when the assassin was about to kill him suddenly jumped out from a corner and blocked Long Aotian's path.

"Lord Shen, where are you going?"

"You two, get out of my way!"

"What do you mean by 'getting in the way'?" The two men under Luo Qianxun laughed, their tone contemptuous. "We are under orders from Lord Luo to keep watch over you and prevent you from running around. You mustn't make things difficult for us, otherwise we brothers will have no choice but to resort to some necessary measures..." As they spoke, the swords at their waists were already drawn.

Looking at their faces, Long Aotian knew that these two were definitely not good people. They might have already been bribed by Lin Boguang!

"Lord Shen, how have you been?"

Just as Long Aotian was thinking this, Lin Boguang's figure suddenly appeared near his home.

"I knew those two good-for-nothings were useless to you." Lin Boguang looked at Long Aotian with disgust and said, "I'm telling you, why don't people like you just die? Why do you always like to get in my way!"

"I knew it was you, Lin Boguang." Long Aotian looked at Lin Boguang fearlessly and said, "The money you amassed by colluding with Li Tongzhi, you've all been given to the higher-ups, haven't you? What conditions did they promise you to get you to go to this extent?!"

"I really underestimated you, Shen Congxin." Lin Boguang looked at Long Aotian and praised, "I really didn't expect that you would be the first to discover it."

"You think you've hidden yourself well?" Long Aotian said disdainfully. "Let me tell you, if I weren't powerless, I would have eliminated you long ago!"

"I'm asking you, are you in cahoots with that dead eunuch?" Long Aotian looked at Lin Boguang and questioned, "Did you go to all this trouble to set up this scheme just so I would hand over the Seven Star Grass to Dong Fuguang?!"

"Hahahaha!" Lin Boguang laughed loudly and replied, "Well said! Before, Eunuch Wei said you were a major threat and kept telling me to get rid of you, but I didn't take it seriously. Now it seems that he was truly farsighted!"