"Senior Yuan, this is..."
Lu Lan quickly moved out of the way, not daring to accept Yuan Yuan's kneeling.
However, what shocked him was that Yuan Yuan actually moved his knees and faced him again.
"Haha, just let him kneel to you. This is a mistake he made, and he must repay it personally."
Yuan Wuwei sat next to a stone table, took a sip of tea, and said with a smile.
"Made a mistake?"
Lu Lan was startled, but soon understood, and without further words, she walked to the stone table, and after obtaining Yuan Wuwei's consent, sat down.
Seeing Lu Lan so calm, Yuan Wuwei couldn't help but asked curiously:
"Why don't you ask me what mistake he made?"
"Juniors can probably guess some."
With that said, Lu Lan expressed his guess.
After finishing speaking, Yuan Wuwei laughed loudly across from him and said:
"Lu Lan, I didn't expect that you, a body-training practitioner, have such a good mind, that you could actually notice details that none of us noticed in such a situation."
Yuan Wuwei smiled and said:
"The reason why I want to punish him is because our people captured evidence that he went to meet Fu Yunqing in private, otherwise I wouldn't do it."
Indeed, no head of the family would ever do such a humiliating punishment to an important figure in a family.
Only when the other party has committed an unforgivable mistake can the head of the family give such a punishment.
"A reckless man with brains, courage and strategy is not bad... quite good."
Yuan Wuwei made this comment to Lu Lan.
"Senior Yuan is overrated. Junior is just a little guy who wants to become more powerful."
Lu Lan said modestly.
"Humility is a good thing, but being too modest is not a good thing."
Yuan Wuwei said with a faint smile, then glanced at Yuan Yuan, and his tone became much colder:
"Yuan Yuan, I believe you already know how uncomfortable it feels to be punished like this today, right?"
"If I do it again in the future, I won't be as kind as I am today."
Hearing this, Yuan Yuan trembled all over and quickly bowed his head and said:
"I have kept the lesson learned from my master in my heart. Thank you so much, master, for your noble hand. I will never dare to make such a big mistake again in the future!"
Yuan Wuwei nodded lightly: "Okay, please step back."
Yuan Yuan quickly stood up, bowed again, and then hurriedly left the small courtyard.
Seeing Yuan Yuan's appearance, Lu Lan glanced at Yuan Wuwei thoughtfully.
It seems that Yuan Wuwei is not as gentle and approachable as he has seen.
"As the head of a family, you still need to have the dignity you should have. Otherwise, how could you control such a big ship?"
As if he saw what Lu Lan was thinking, a smile appeared on Yuan Wuwei's face again, and he said with a slight smile.
As he spoke, he waved his hand and the teapot on the stone table levitated, filling the small teacup in front of Lu Lan in mid-air.
"Thank you, Senior Yuan."
Lu Lan thanked her first, then took a sip, and after a brief taste, she praised "good tea".
After just saying "good tea", there were no other comments.
"If you don't know how to taste it, don't use hard tea. It seems that the mysterious alchemist behind you didn't teach you how to identify various medicinal materials through your tongue... Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to taste the goodness of this tea."
Yuan Wuwei said with a smile.
"I'm stupid, so 'he' looks down on me."
Lu Lan said with a smile.
It is also necessary to temporarily deceive Yuan Wuwei through a false background.
Because he knows a truth.
Sometimes you not only need to intimidate the enemy, but sometimes you also need to intimidate your teammates, so that your teammates will have a greater chance of not betraying you.
Although he also knew that Yuan Wuwei was sincerely optimistic about him.
But after passing through the Tiangu Secret Realm, and having personally re-sealed "foreign enemies" twice, he knew that in the near future, Cangyuan Continent would usher in troubled times.
In troubled times, it is still unclear whether Yuan Wuwei will still treat himself as sincerely as he does now.
So it is necessary to keep a little distance now.
Yuan Wuwei didn't expect that a mere junior would still be playing tricks on him here, or he never thought that such a person would dare to play tricks in front of him.
Seeing that the other party "acknowledged" the existence of the so-called "mysterious alchemist", he laughed:
"It's okay. You are a profound genius. If you can't distract yourself from learning medicine refining techniques, then there is no need to feel such a pity about it."
"Although becoming an alchemist can gain the favor and admiration of many people, in this world, this is what matters after all."
Saying that, Yuan Wuwei raised his fist with a faint smile.
Lu Lan agrees with this point.
He is also working hard in this direction to make his fist bigger and harder.
The two continued to chat for a while, and then Lu Lan finally got back to the topic:
"Senior Yuan, I wonder if you asked me to come here. What do you want to tell me?"
Lu Lan's question made the smile on Yuan Wuwei's face gradually disappear.
He looked up at the full moon like a jade plate in the sky. After a long time, he finally sighed and said:
"Lu Lan, there is something I don't know if I should tell you... maybe this matter may trigger panic in your heart."
Hearing this, Lu Lan immediately raised his eyebrows.
He thought for a moment and then solemnly said:
"Senior, please tell me, although I am not very smart, I have never been afraid of anything."
Yuan Wuwei was silent for a long time, and finally spoke slowly:
"You may not know...the current royal family of Cangshen Kingdom...may have fallen into the control of others."
"?!"
Falling into someone else's control? !
What does it mean? !
Lu Lan's face showed just the right amount of shock, while she was thinking crazily in her heart.
If we must choose the most powerful force that everyone can accept on the Cangyuan Continent, it must be the royal family of the Cangshen Kingdom.
But for such a powerful and almost invincible force, Yuan Wuwei said that they would probably fall into the control of others?
What the hell does this happen?
"Of course you won't believe it if you say it so simply."
Yuan Wuwei said leisurely:
"Although our Yuan family controls this Yuanling City, this city is still essentially the territory of Cangshen Kingdom, which is what the royal family of Cangshen Kingdom is in the palm of their hands."
"Although we call ourselves the 'Five Great Families', we are actually just servants who work for others and help manage the people of a certain area."
"Originally, we were improving our own strength and secretly competing with the other four aristocratic families, while at the same time obeying the royal family's orders to manage the entire Yuanling City."
"Except for some small policies that we came up with ourselves, there are basically no mistakes in the general direction given by the royal family."
"But until twenty years ago..."
Yuan Wuwei paused, and then continued:
"We still cannot disobey the orders passed down by the royal family, but after accepting the order, we quickly discovered that there were many problems with the orders they issued twenty years ago."
"Once all are implemented, it is likely that some bad things or some bad phenomena will gradually occur in the city."
"But due to the majesty of the royal family, we still implemented everything."
"Sure enough, it's pretty much what we guessed... Not long after it was implemented, some troubles or tragedies often occurred in the city, resulting in many people losing their lives."
"Originally, we planned to study how to quell these troubles, but another order came from the royal family... saying that we should send more people out to search for the 'secret realm'."
Secret realm? !
Lu Lan's expression changed.
The three major families in the city discovered an ancient secret realm that has not yet been exposed to the eyes of the Yuan family.
However, there is an "enemy from outside" sealed in that secret realm!
If the secret realm that the royal family asked the Yuan family to find is similar to the Tiangu secret realm...
Does that mean... that the royal family was controlled by "enemy from outside" twenty years ago? !
When he thought of this, Lu Lan's expression couldn't help but become heavy.
If this is the case, then his best choice now is not to attend the Medicine God Conference in the Imperial City of Cang Shen Kingdom.
The current imperial city... is too dangerous.
Yuan Wuwei didn't notice anything unusual in Lu Lan's expression, and still said:
"This order is also very strange... After the royal family asked us to find the secret realm, we were allowed to explore on our own. We can accept the treasures of heaven and earth we get."
"Their only request is that we protect these secret places."
really!
After listening to this narration, Lu Lan became more sure of his guess.
If the royal family did not fall under the control of the "enemy from beyond the sky", then why did they order the five major families to protect those secret realms?
So there is only one reason - the "enemy from outside" has taken control of the royal family of Cangshen Kingdom!
But it is still unclear whether it is full control or partial control...
Yuan Wuwei probably doesn't know this either.
"Once this order is issued, we will no longer have time to deal with the chaos. If the city is allowed to develop on its own, sooner or later it will become more and more chaotic and difficult to control."
"Fortunately, a smart boy came out later."
Only now did Yuan Wuwei smile again:
"He proposed the Yuanling Martial Arts Association, which attracted the attention of all the mystical practitioners in the world who are interested in the mystical way, and also diverted the attention of everyone in the city to this matter."
"As a result, the incidence of chaos in the city has been reduced a lot, and the same is true for the other four major cities."
Lu Lan was slightly startled.
He never expected that the Yuanling Martial Arts Association would play such a remarkable role.
It's no wonder that the Yuan family wants to continue holding the Yuanling Martial Arts Association.
However, there is a question in Lu Lan's mind that has never been explained.
"Senior Yuan, why did you tell this junior...about this matter?"
Lu Lan couldn't help but ask.
Yuan Wuwei took a sip of tea, then suddenly stood up, was silent for a while, and then slowly said:
"Because you... gave me hope."
