Qingchuan Prefecture, Jinguan City.
The garrison was about to end, and the missing moon on the spring night was very fickle, and I didn't know when it hid in the clouds.
The candlelight in the Liu family ancestral hall swayed slightly, as if it had taken a lot of effort to block the dark night that wanted to penetrate.
On both sides of the ancestral hall, the most senior uncles of the Liu family sat on both sides. In the center of the ancestral hall, a middle-aged man stood alone, with a tall and stern posture.
In the cold spring season, the night wind blew through the hall, swaying the candlelight and shaking people's hearts.
An indescribable feeling of Xiao Sha pervaded the air.
An old man couldn't stand the long silence and asked doubtfully: "Chaoge, you gathered all the uncles here so late, but what happened?"
Liu Chaoge kept looking at the night in the southwest, with an indescribable coldness on his side face mixed in the shadows.
After hearing the question from his second uncle Liu Xingfu, Liu Chaoge did not turn around, but explained softly and inexplicably: "It's not a big deal to me, but it may be different for you, second uncle."
After hearing the words, the old man who had been sleeping in the top row opened his eyes with a flash of light. He silently glanced at Liu Chaoge and Liu Xingfu with his white and yellow eyes, his cloudy eyes full of insights into the world. of Qingming.
As Liu Chaoge's physical condition gets worse and worse, the second child becomes more and more coveted as the head of the Liu family.
Could it be that the conflict has reached its final moment? This is a situation he doesn't want to see.
"Chao Ge, when we arrive at the Liu family's ancestral hall, our ancestors are here. If you have anything to say, just say it. Before your uncle is too old and too dim to understand things, you can say whatever you want."
As the thirty-second generation head of the Liu family in Jinguan City, Liu Xingzhen's situation is somewhat similar to Liu Chaoge's. He has no children, and his daughters have already married into other families and become other people's wives.
The achievements of the Liu family today are not only due to the efforts of his generation, but also indispensable because of his initiative to abdicate the throne and make way for others. He defied all opinions and handed over the position of head of the family to Liu Chaoge, who had been trained by him after his father died when he was young.
There is a saying that goes well, no desire leads to strength. Although he has long been accustomed to living a leisurely life, Liu Xingzhen's words are still very weighty. They are the glory that his fathers deserve.
"Uncle, wait a moment."
Liu Chaoge turned around, bent down and gave a slight salute to Liu Xingzhen, then came to a spiritual tablet, swept away the hem, knelt down, and put on three sticks of incense.
Everyone's eyes fell on him for a while, then on the spiritual tablet, and for a while they all remained silent.
After silently speaking to his late father in his heart for a while, Liu Chaoge stood up and said, "After tonight, several people in the Liu family will die."
Second uncle Liu Xingfu narrowed his eyes and asked: "Chao Ge, what do you mean?"
Liu Chaoge returned to the center of the ancestral hall, bowed his hands and bowed with all due etiquette, and then said decisively word by word: "My ancestors and uncles and elders, Liu Chaoge, the thirty-third generation head of the Liu family, tonight I want to rely on Among the ten evils in the clan rules, Liu Zhaolang, the thirty-fourth generation descendant of the Liu family, is to be eliminated for the crime of rebellion and murder. I ask all ancestors and elders to learn from this."
"What?"
"boom--"
Liu Xingfu threw the tea cup at Liu Chage's feet with all his strength, and stood up shakily, holding on to the huanghuali wood armrest.
He pointed at Liu Chaoge and shouted loudly: "It's unreasonable, unreasonable! Zhaolang has been busy with the batch of goods in Baidi City a few days ago, and he even fell ill because of it. You are trying to pave the way for your daughter. If you succeed, This is your true crime of rebellion and murder."
Liu Xingzhen's gray brows also jumped. He quickly comforted his second son, glanced at Liu Chaoge from the corner of his eye and asked: "Chaoge, you can't talk nonsense about such a big matter without evidence."
"Brother! What evidence can there be that this person is crazy!"
"this……"
Liu Xingzhen looked at the peers present, and saw Liu Xingshan, the third child, hesitated and said: "Nephew Chaoge, you really can't talk nonsense."
Liu Chaoge quietly watched the behavior of the elders, silently identifying in his heart who was acting. He found that even Liu Zhaolang's grandfather Liu Xingfu seemed to be angry, and there was no dodge in his eyes.
"Elders, please read it carefully before speaking."
He didn't want to waste time, and the show was about to begin. He wrote down all the information he could collect in the past few days on paper and distributed it to the uncles present.
"Taking stolen goods..."
"Robbing..."
"Infringement..."
"kill!!!"
Everyone had a copy, and the further they turned, the more horrified they became. It was hard to imagine that the younger generation, who were usually polite to their elders, had made so many big mistakes.
They all set their sights on the initiator's grandfather.
Liu Xingfu felt the hidden meanings in the glances directed at him among his brothers, most of which were questions. He was so angry that he blew out his gray beard and tore up a few pieces of letter paper in his hand.
Knowing that being incompetent and angry is the most useless thing, he tried his best to calm down his mood, and then slowly said word by word: "I can ask the storyteller at Mingqian Tea House to write a book about this kind of thing. It has no substance. Witnesses and physical evidence can’t explain anything.”
Liu Chaoge smiled and said: "The things written on the paper are definitely not complete. I am not interested in whether it can be as thick as a book if it is written down completely. I can assure you uncles that these things are all recorded by me from the Jinguan City Inspectorate. It was found in the registered complaint. Second uncle, if you want to verify the authenticity, how about I send someone to bring all the plaintiffs face to face to testify tomorrow?"
"hehe."
Liu Xingfu suddenly realized that Liu Chaoge was probably dying, so he wanted to drag people into trouble.
He suppressed his anger and planned to delay it as long as possible, saying: "Since the case has been accepted and registered, let them handle it. Do you still want to overstep the government and use lynching?"
"this……"
Liu Xingzhen looked at the contents written on the paper. Most of them were about Liu Zhaolang's bullying and killing of civilians. In fact, he believed it seven to eight points. However, the sons of the Liu family were originally different from those untouchable civilians. One was in the sky and the other was on the ground. Even Liu Zhaolang If you make a mistake, it will not lead to death.
Liu Chaoge shook his head, "That's just an appetizer tea before the meal. Since you uncles don't take it seriously, I won't talk nonsense anymore."
"Miaozhen, come in."
As soon as Liu Chaoge finished speaking, he saw a beautiful woman slowly coming out of the night outside the ancestral hall gate.
"Miaozhen? Why did you come to my Liu family ancestral hall?"
After Li Miaozhen entered the ancestral hall, before he could salute the elders, Liu Xingzhen pulled him to his side in three steps at a time.
Liu Xingzhen looked at Li Miaozhen and then at Liu Chaoge, knowing that it would be difficult to be kind tonight. He scolded Liu Chaoge and asked: "Chaoge, this is my Liu family's business. Why did you call Miaozhen to the Liu family ancestral hall so late?" what."
Li Miaozhen stood aside pretty, took Liu Xingzhen's hand and said softly: "Grandpa, Miaozhen came here on his own initiative."
"What's the meaning?"
Liu Chaoge glanced at Miaozhen kindly and said, "Uncle, please calm down. I actually don't want to involve the child Miaozhen, but I can't get her to do it. Speaking of which, this gathering tonight is all because of Miaozhen."
"What? Then that bastard Liu Zhaolang bullied my dear grandson? Miaozhen, please tell me where you were bullied. Grandpa will definitely support you."
After Liu Xingzhen finished speaking, he was very upset and even gave his second brother Liu Xingfu a vicious look.
Li Miaozhen followed her grandfather's gaze and looked at Liu Xingfu and said, "Second Grandpa, haven't you been clamoring for a witness? I am the witness!"
"Two days ago, I came to treat Uncle Chaoge as usual. After the diagnosis and treatment, Uncle Chaoge asked me to come and see your grandson Liu Zhaolang. When I walked outside his door, I overheard their dialogue."
Seeing that everyone present was listening attentively, Li Miaozhen continued to say calmly: "It is unimaginable that what Liu Zhaolang and the others were talking about was actually a plot to kill someone, and the person they wanted to kill was my sister Wei Rui. Not to mention, I After hearing this, they even planned to plot to kill Uncle Chaoge. The plan was to start the plot at midnight tonight, and they planned to force-feed uncle Chaoge a powerful poison directly while he was asleep, creating the illusion that he had fallen ill and died."
"Bang bang bang——"
Liu Xingfu waved his hand and threw all the teacups on the table to the ground, shouting loudly: "This is impossible!"
His white hair was spread out and his words were sloppy. He looked at Liu Xingzhen and Liu Chaoge and seemed to understand something. He pointed at them and said loudly: "I see, that's it. You are afraid that my good grandson will take charge of the Liu family, so you deliberately framed it."
Liu Chaoge didn't want to explain more. He knew that he could never wake up a person who was pretending to sleep.
"In this case, several uncles are affected, how about I invite you to stay in the secret room in my bedroom for a while. If Miaozhen's words are true, then in about an hour you can see Zhaolang's child working for everyone. A good show of relatives killing each other."
…
Among the green mountains and green mountains, the road winds endlessly, and a caravan of about a hundred people embarks on their return journey again.
Mu Qing asked Tieguzhai for a few carriages with carriages for resting. At this time, the hollow box hidden under Liu Weirui's seat made a slight knocking sound.
The most dangerous place is the safest place. After Lu Fanrou was rescued by Mu Qing, she stayed in Iron Bone Village for three days and stayed in Xiaochan's house without being discovered.
I think this is one of the reasons why people in Tieguzhai have been unstable in recent times.
In order to complete the good guy role, Mu Qing hid Lu Fanrou in the largest carriage when leaving the village.
He originally thought that the suspicious Lin Wen would ask someone to check him, but he didn't expect that the other party was in a good mood because he sent away the plague god Geng Jian. He wanted to show his sincerity to Mu Qing, but Mu Qing accepted it with a smile.
"Sister Fanrou, are you okay?"
Liu Weirui helped Lu Fanrou lean on the cushions and looked at the slightly reddish skirt on her chest.
The caravan was almost three kilometers away from Tieguguzhai. Liu Weirui was really afraid of crushing Lu Fanrou, knowing that the other party was seriously injured.
Lu Fanrou patted Liu Weirui's little hand, "Don't worry, sister, this injury is nothing to us warriors."
"Ah - hiss -"
"Puff——"
Liu Weirui covered her mouth and smiled, "Sister, please don't be brave. I'll ask Mu Qing to take a look at you. Your wound may be open."
Lu Fanrou quickly stopped him and said, "No, just ask Sister Xiaochan to change my dressing. Don't bother Mr. Mu Qing."
"alright!"
After Xiaochan finished speaking with a smile, she was about to get out of the car when Lu Fanrou grabbed her arm.
She asked quietly with a gossipy look on her face: "Xiaochan, who exactly is Mr. Mu Qing? I think he is quite mysterious."
Because everyone's injuries are getting better, Xiaochan's pretty face, which had been slightly pale, has returned to a bit of rosy color.
She held up the loose black hair behind her ears and said with a smile: "Sister Fanrou, in my eyes, Mr. Mu Qing has only one identity. He is the savior and great benefactor of our caravan. He has high martial arts and good medical skills. It looks like..."
"Ah——" Xiaochan quickly stopped talking.
Realizing that she had wandered off without realizing it, she lowered her head in shame and said softly: "If Sister Fanrou wants to ask about Mr. Mu Qing's origins, then you are asking the wrong person. You should ask my young lady. ”+
Liu Weirui smiled and pinched Xiaochan's pretty face, which was tinged with shame, "My sister is so shameless."
She opened the curtain and looked forward. She saw Mu Qing, a man in white clothes and a black horse, in front of him, with a dagger slung across his body and a straight back. His handsome figure was bathed in the warm spring sunshine, looking indescribably free and unrestrained.
