The moon is at the zenith.
The constant snoring in Cang Ling Courtyard slowly calmed down.
The entire small courtyard was so quiet that only the insects chirping in the Cang Ling bamboos could be heard.
In the main room.
The man's suppressed whimpering sounded in the canopy bed made of sunflower oak. The bed curtains were opened in the wind, and Ouyang Yulu was seen lying on the bed with a peaceful face. He was not wearing a nightgown, but a Wearing a bright red wedding robe, her chest no longer rises and falls with breathing.
Patriarch Yang had tears in his eyes.
With slightly trembling hands, he covered Ouyang Yulu with a white brocade handkerchief:
"Lu'er, I'm sorry for you and our children, but... I really have no choice! In the next life, I will do whatever it takes to compensate you."
Patriarch Yang bent down and picked up Ouyang Yulu with his own hands, and walked towards the door step by step. At this time, hundreds of red coffins were parked in the more than 30 acres of Cangling courtyard outside the door. These coffins were made of Forged from the third-level top grade Yunhuang wood.
Take a closer look.
A corpse has been placed in each big red coffin.
In the small coffin placed side by side with Ouyang Yulu was their four-year-old Yaoer.
in addition.
Outside these red coffins, more than a dozen corpses were placed on the spot. They were the Ouyang family members who came to seek refuge.
Patriarch Yang stood in front of hundreds of red coffins, tears welling up in his eyes. He bowed deeply. When he stood up, the tears in his eyes were gone. He turned to look at Cang Ling Lin, stretched out his hand and patted three times: "Fellow Daoist Fu, you can come out. An autopsy was done.”
The words just fell.
The sound of wind sounded in Cang Ling Forest.
Subsequently.
A dark green spiritual light lit up.
The sixth sister Mo Lan, wearing a dark robe, slowly walked out of Cang Ling Forest.
She glanced across the hundreds of coffins with a cold gaze, as if these hundreds of corpses were just a series of numbers to her.
Seeing this, Chief Yang felt a chill in his heart and said uneasily:
"Fellow Daoist Fu, now there is no Ouyang bloodline in the Yang family in Gaoling Mountain. From now on, the Fu family will take the lead and will pay tribute of 600,000 spirit stones every year as a filial piety. I also ask you, Daoist Fu, to say a few kind words in front of the county lord."
Said.
Patriarch Yang took out a storage bag from his sleeve, thought for a moment, and then took out a box that looked like wood, but not wood, like jade, and handed it to Fu Molan:
"Fellow Daoist Fu, this is the spirit stone that I will pay tribute to this year. The other piece of brilliant spirit stone is a small gift, please accept it."
The box opens.
A ray of golden light shot out.
But he saw a fist-sized metallic brilliant stone placed in the box.
Can Ling Stone is a fourth-level top-grade spiritual material, most suitable for forging swords. Such a large piece can buy 80,000 spiritual stones in the market.
at this time.
A breeze blew in the forest.
The smile on Patriarch Yang's face suddenly froze. He found that the true energy in his body was restrained. At this time, he could not move at all.
A flash of panic flashed in Patriarch Yang's heart, and he repeated:
"Fellow Daoist Fu, you promised me that as long as I eradicate the Ouyang family bloodline in the clan, you will absolve our Yang family of the crime of covering up. What do you mean? Do you mean to break your promise? Don't forget it. , you and I have signed a soul contract, you can't kill me, no!
"
"I never said I wanted to kill you."
Fu Molan looked at Patriarch Yang as if he were a dead person and smiled coldly.
Turn around and walk towards Cang Ling Forest.
after her.
A starlight lit up.
A man appeared in the yard. The man looked at Patriarch Yang with disdain. He waved his right hand and an elixir bottle flew out from his sleeve. As he kneaded with his right hand, a milky white liquid with the aroma of wine came out of the elixir bottle. The liquid was poured from Patriarch Yang's mouth.
Panic, unwillingness, resentment, and regret flashed in Patriarch Yang's eyes.
at last.
His eyes were hazy, as if he had fallen asleep and fell into a deep sleep.
The man swept across the red coffins everywhere and waved his right hand. An identical red coffin flew out of the storage bag and was placed side by side with Ouyang Yulu's. Then a starlight fell on Patriarch Yang, and Patriarch Yang's body was light and airy. It levitated, and then fell steadily into the red coffin.
The man stood in the Cangling Forest.
Make a secret gesture with both hands.
A curse rang out from his mouth.
Instantly.
The little stars in the sky gathered together and turned into a starlight reflection mirror. The mirror passed by the yard, and their traces were converged by the starlight. Even if the elders used magic to look back the next day, they could no longer see any clues. .
as after everything.
The man turned into a star and disappeared.
After half a cup of tea.
He appeared on the bank of Changliu River outside Gaoling Mountain.
Fu Molan has been waiting on the shore for a long time.
The man hesitated for a moment, but couldn't help but said: "Fellow Daoist Fu, these three or two kittens are the only ones left in the Ouyang family. Even if we keep them, they won't be a deterrent to the Fu family. Why bother..." "
Why bother to kill them all!
Even the Yang family, who has the blood of the Ouyang family, will not let go.
Fu Molan said calmly:
"To cut the grass, we need to get rid of the roots. Let's go to the Xu family."
The second day.
The moon in the meeting hall of Gaoling Mountain has reached the zenith, and the elders have not seen the clan leader come. They have repeatedly sent people to the main courtyard of Cang Ling Forest, but the gate of Cang Ling Forest is tightly closed. Quietly, without any reaction.
"Did you drink too much last night?"
The elders looked at each other.
They were quite dissatisfied with the patriarch's extravagant behavior last night, but after all, it was the patriarch who paid for it privately, so they couldn't say anything.
But it won’t work if you drink and get into trouble.
Especially at this juncture.
The great elder couldn't sit still anymore. He carefully recalled the patriarch's behavior yesterday, which was really strange;
"Let's go to Canglingyuan."
The seven elders stood up with cheers.
One by one, they flew in the wind without stopping for a moment, and arrived at Cang Ling Forest in a blink of an eye.
The formation light curtain circulates in the forest.
The Great Elder suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart:
"Second child, third child, hurry up, break the formation with me!"
The magic circle in the forest is not difficult to break.
The seven elders took action together.
Boom!
With the ground shaking.
After half a cup of tea.
Under the constant bombardment of seven spiritual lights.
The formation light screen made a few kacha kacha sounds, and shattered like a mirror.
In the courtyard of Cangling Forest.
Hundreds of red coffins came into view.
The seven elders shrank and froze on the ground.
The Great Elder was the first to react. With a slight stomp of his feet and a few flashes of his body, he walked through the Cang Ling Forest and appeared in the yard. His consciousness quickly passed through the red coffins, and every clan leader in the coffin was shocked. Everyone with pulse has lost their breath at this moment, even the patriarch and his wife are no exception.
"what happened?"
"This...the patriarch was fine yesterday. How could it be? How could it be like this?"
This is almost the same as annihilation.
Everyone recalled that the clan leader suddenly called back the people of their lineage, looked at each other, and an incredible thought flashed through their minds:
"Could it be that the patriarch took his family to commit suicide last night to apologize because he didn't want to implicate the family!"
This is the only way.
Only then can the whole thing be explained.
The Great Elder had already inspected hundreds of corpses.
He shook his head.
A look of awe and sadness flashed in his eyes:
"There are more than 400 people in the clan leader's lineage. They were poisoned by taking the clan's secret medicine Qian Zui Powder. Judging from the time of their death, someone should have drugged the wine in advance, but the time of the clan leader's death was a few hours later than them. , If the guess is correct, he dressed all the clan members neatly, sent them out of the room and placed them in the coffins, and then he drank Qian Zui Powder."
The remaining six elders lowered their heads and remained silent.
As a business family.
They soon smelled something unusual.
According to the clan leader's pursuit of fame and fortune, he might have been responsible for drugging hundreds of descendants to death, but the clan leader would never drug himself to death. This is a bit strange.
The clan leader dies.
The person most likely to succeed the patriarch is the great elder.
therefore.
The remaining six elders looked at the first elder with a hint of judgment.
"What do you mean?"
Who the Great Elder was, he suddenly understood after thinking about it.
He was shaking with rage.
He cannot bear the charge of seeking power and usurping the throne.
The Great Elder Yang Zichong immediately reached out and patted the storage bag, and a jade slip with a strong ghostly aura flew out. As he entered a spell, the ghostly aura in the jade slips surged, and a vortex condensed out. The Great Elder With a wave of his sword finger, a ray of sword light fell on his fingertips, and instantly a drop of blood dripped into the newly condensed vortex. He looked around the crowd and said loudly:
"I, Yang Zichong, swear by my inner demons"
"I didn't know about the death of the clan leader in advance, and I didn't participate in it. If I violate it in the slightest, my inner demon will backfire and my soul will be destroyed!
"
The words just fell.
A mysterious force shot out from the black whirlpool and landed on the forehead of the great elder.
Everyone was stunned.
Since it was not the fault of the great elder, there is only one possibility, and that is that the Fu family of Qilin County took action!
The great elder narrowed his eyes slightly:
"Whether it was the Fu family that took action, we will wait and see in a few days. I remember that the wife of the eldest son of the second wife of the Xu family is from the Ouyang family. However, before that, we have to take action. It is still the previous issue. Is dependence Fu family, or choose to stay close to Lei family?"
The Lei family had extended an olive branch to them before.
The elders pondered for a while,
He opened his mouth and said:
"We already know the conditions of the Lei family, but we have never discussed with the Fu family what we have to pay for relying on the Fu family. I think we still have to go to Qilin County and negotiate in person. If the conditions they offer are not excessive , we still stick to our previous choice."
"good"
The great elder immediately dispatched manpower to Qilin County.
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Qilin County.
On the floating island on Changling Peak.
In the palace.
Foundation-building puppet Xiao Hei poured the brewed fragrant phosphorus tea to Fu Shiyi, who was sitting at the top, and then gave another cup to Qin Shoumei, who was sitting at the bottom.
Qin Shoumei's face still looked a little tired.
As soon as she returned from the Cheng family, she was summoned to Changling Peak by Fu Shiyi.
I felt a little anxious in my heart.
I wonder why Fu Shiyi came when he summoned me?
Fu Shiyi took a sip of the fragrant phosphorus tea, slowly put the cup down, pondered for a while, and said:
"Fellow Daoist Qin, according to the clan rules, what you committed that day should be punished by death. I spared your life. I believe you also know why. If you still want to live, then remember what you should and shouldn't say. , what should be forgotten and what should not be forgotten.”
"I called you here today because I want to tell you something."
"I have decided to adopt Ningning into my eldest brother's name."
adopt?
Qin Shoumei said it was a pity in her heart.
Ning Ning was a child blessed by the gods. If she raised him single-handedly, she might be able to benefit from it in the future. However, remembering that the child's life experience had been exposed, she gave up the idea.
This kid.
She was brought into this world.
but.
She also had her life taken away once.
The bond between mother and daughter can be regarded as destined.
She said with a bit of flattery on her face: "It is her blessing that Ning Ning can be named as the clan leader. I am naturally happy for her."
Fu Shiyi originally didn't discuss it with her.
Turning to another matter:
"In addition, the war on the front line is tense, and the imperial court has issued a recruitment order. Our Fu family will second two Jindan to go there. You and Siyuan have packed up in the past few days, and then get up and set off."
The two of them were already on the list of people who rushed to the front line.
Qin Shoumei's face froze.
She is not afraid of the front line.
But when you get to the front line, you have to live under the eyes of your mother-in-law Liu Wanzhen.
If the other party already knows what she has committed before, then...
Qin Shoumei doesn’t want to go:
"County Lord, the Qilin County formation has not been completed yet. Do you think you can wait a few years until I complete the protective formation before going to the front line?"
"You don't need to worry about the layout of the God-killing Formation. You can go back and pack your things and set off on time in three days."
Finished.
Fu Shiyi picked up the fragrant phosphorus tea and took a sip.
This means seeing off guests.
Qin Shoumei's expression suddenly changed.
at last.
She gritted her teeth, bowed, stood up and left.
After coming down from the floating island and passing halfway up the mountain, I happened to see Ning Ning running out of the cave with a smile. The two looked at each other. Ning Ning tilted his head and looked at her with sparkling eyes. This was still After the child was born, Qin Shoumei met Ning Ning for the first time.
The weird thing is.
Instead of feeling guilty at all for the dazzling child in front of her, she felt hatred.
If the child had died in the womb at that time, her crime would not have been exposed. The child was obviously born to defeat her.
Qin Shoumei glared at the child coldly.
Ning Ning shivered with fright, and suddenly started crying loudly. The cry was shrill, but it didn't sound like she was frightened. Instead, it sounded like she was abandoned and helpless. When Grandma Fu heard the cry, she hurriedly came out of the kitchen. , holding the child in her arms distressedly, she just saw Qin Shoumei flying past from the corner of her eye. She patted Ning Ning's back again and again, and gently comforted: "Ning Ning, be good, don't cry, don't cry, you In the future, I will be the granddaughter of Fu’s family and her status will be noble, so don’t cry.”
Give it time.
There will always be someone who will kneel down in front of you and beg you for forgiveness.
Aunt Fu took Ning Ning, who was tired from crying, back to her room.
When Qin Shoumei came down the mountain, Fu Siyuan had been waiting here for a long time. Qin Shoumei, who was originally full of unwillingness, immediately softened his face. Fu Siyuan breathed a sigh of relief, and the two of them whispered all the way back to the small courtyard of Kongling Mountain.
After nightfall.
Qin Shoumei walked out of the master bedroom quietly, entered the secret room, and opened the formation.
She was still unwilling to be assigned to the front line like this.
