Three to five years ago, although the Great War of Heaven's Origin had not ended yet, the outcome was almost certain. The war had been going on for decades. At the beginning, the people were retreating step by step. Later, the people were united. The difficult days of fighting for the survival of the country had passed. In the last few years, the war was getting farther and farther away from the ordinary people.
Three to five years ago, since there was no longer the danger of family destruction, and the nightmare of the Sky Demon slaughtering countless people that the older generation talked about did not come again, the people who were far away from the battlefield also settled down and lived their lives as usual.
For them, the Great War of Tianyuan was no longer a war to save the country, but a heroic story told by storytellers and government officials. Although they respected it, it was still far away.
Three to five years ago, the war did not disturb the people living in the villages of the Yangtze River. Because the outcome was certain, the people in power changed from how to resist the enemy to how to benefit from the war. In the First Great War of Tianyuan, the five countries each snatched national treasures from the destroyed Sky Demon and eventually created the five strongest countries in the world. Now that the Sky Demon came again and was defeated, the amount of war treasures snatched from the Sky Demon undoubtedly meant another reshuffle of the international order … However, the people could not know about all this. The people could be manipulated, but they could not be made to know. This was a principle that all the countries understood.
After all, they could not let the people of the Houtu Empire know that the weapons of the Imperial Army, which had been sanctified and symbolized the Empire's heavenly orthodoxy, were actually imitations and projections of a certain ancestor demon sword.
They also could not let the people of the Divine Power of Flames know that the so-called sacred firearms with the Soul of Flames were actually the research and reverse analysis of a certain dangerous weapon.
The awakening of the psionicists of the Great Western Continent's Thousand Island United States relied on the stimulation of radiation emitted from a certain brain rather than complicated and vast sacred rituals to awaken their abilities. The strict four social classes of the Greenwood Dragon Sparrow Dynasty did not originate from fate, but a large-scale bloodline evolution … How could the people know about this stable order established by deception and deceit to maintain the interests and stability of the vested interests?
Therefore, as the war progressed, the people knew less and less about the war. News of victory kept coming back from the frontline, and legendary stories such as the Great War of Tianyuan were circulating in the streets. The brighter the light under the sun, the darker the hidden darkness. However, the people would never know about all this … because someone did not want them to know.
Therefore, for the people in recent years, they did not understand how tragic or magnificent the war was. Although they had heard of several great victories with countless beheadings, and the peerless demeanor of a certain fierce general who broke through the enemy lines seven times, they were not real. For the people of Lu Town, what was truly a grand event and could be talked about for a long time were the major events that happened in Lu Town a few years ago.
This was also the story that the waiter told to Sun Lang and the others.
It was said that the Lu Family, which had been entrenched in Lu Town for decades and had been operating for a long time, had two branches, Ren and Zhi. The family was revitalized and the two branches competed with each other. They had endless glory and glory. Only the Zhao Family, which had produced a martial arts scholar, could somewhat compete with them. This was human nature. When one had power, influence, and money, he would gradually become arrogant and domineering. He did not dare to do things like murder, arson, and abduct women openly. But in the dark, he had done many things like collecting debts, buying land by force, and running amok in the village.
However, the family was big and had a large business. Martial arts was passed down to the family, and both the black and white sides were rich. Therefore, when the people had disputes and suffered losses, they could only swallow their anger and not make a big deal out of it.
In the long run, the Lu Family had done many unethical things. God knows how many times the Lu Family had been cursed behind their backs.
Originally, it was normal for the incompetent and unruly people to make a scene and curse at the heavens and the earth. As a noble and dignified family, the Lu Family should just laugh it off and not pursue the matter. This was the modesty and tolerance of the superior. After all, in this world, killing and arson was the golden belt. If the curses of the unruly people worked, then from the emperor to the county magistrate, almost none of the meat eaters in the imperial system could survive for more than three months.
But in reality?
Everyone was happy to be an official. It was obvious that the so-called justice and justice were just a joke used to fool the people.
But this time, for some reason, perhaps Bodhisattva had opened his eyes, perhaps the King of Hell had made a move, or perhaps the players of the Werewolf Massacre had finally come to a consensus. Everyone's resentment seemed to have gathered into a black Power of Will, enveloping the Lu Family with the force of Mount Tai. The Lu Family, a prominent family in the surrounding villages, was instantly met with retribution. In just one or two years, strange things happened one after another.
First, it was the Herb Garden that was haunted. Then, the old family head was involved in a fraud case, implicating the current family head. Overnight, the family's reputation plummeted. Following that, the family's various businesses fell one after another. This was really called "unexpected events from the sky".
With this kind of thing happening, it was the perfect opportunity for the Wisdom House to take on the responsibility. However, before that Fourth Master Lu, with a heavy expression on his face, could announce that he would draw a clear line with the Human Branch, which had brought disgrace to their family name, and then take care of the women and children left behind by the Human Branch, as well as take care of the Human Branch's business, the crisis of the Wisdom House came head-on.
This time, it was much more explosive than the experience of the wisdom house. Moreover, it was as fast as a gust of wind. On a moonless and windy night, the Fourth Master of the Lu Family was completely slaughtered without any warning.
The murderer's methods were extremely cruel and had a huge impact on society. There was almost no sound. By the time outsiders found out, they saw the bodies of the Zhi Fang family lying on the ground. Moreover, their bodies had been hollowed out — their five viscera and six bowels were all gone. It was as if they had been eaten by a wolf. It was said that the murderer was the widow of the Tyrant of River East, He Laoliu, who had already been executed by the law. This woman seemed to have worked at the Lu Mansion before.
In this regard, after careful investigation and interviews, the constables of the Six Fan School came to a conclusion — it was pure bullshit. The woman called sister-in-law was just an ordinary woman with some beauty. A few years ago, she was snatched by the Tyrant of Blade He Laoliu and became his wife. Even if she started to practice Kung Fu at that time, she could only practice for two or three years. Such a woman could quietly slaughter the Wisdom House of the Lumen Family, a family of poetry and sword, unless she was possessed by a wolf demon.
This was very reasonable. After all, many people had seen that sister-in-law. She was just an ordinary woman. Nobody would believe that she would kill people. She had no motive or ability to do so. Moreover, the Lu Family had been very good to her in the past.
Soon, everyone shifted their suspicious gazes away, because an even more suspicious person had surfaced.
The Lu Family had declined, but such a large family business would not disappear into thin air. After losing the protection of the owner, the silk houses, hotels, and oil mills were like a piece of fragrant fat meat that anyone could take a bite out of.
But no matter whether it was the officials or businessmen, whether it was the scholars or the gentry, whether it was the black or the white, or even the stewards of the Lu Family who did not have the surname Lu, no one was bitten.
Because there was a martial artist who was once in dire straits and was casually mocked by hooligans. After disappearing for a period of time, he suddenly appeared out of nowhere. Not only did he have amazing martial arts skills, he also had shrewd methods and profound shrewdness. He took over the many businesses that the Lu Family could not protect. His unrestrained and swift methods made him look like a stunning figure who had experienced the ups and downs of the business world all his life.
After a period of dazzling and dizzying events, the former Second Master Kong, who was now Second Master Kong, had become a big shot in town and the biggest winner after Rumen's shocking change. Because the timing of his appearance was too ingenious, his harvest was so great, and his methods were so adept that people could not help but wonder if there was some subtle karmic connection between the Lu Family's decline and Second Master Kong's rise …
Still, no one dared to continue guessing. That was because they realized that the honest and even pedantic Second Young Master Kong who was full of chivalry and justice had transformed into a moody, sinister, and vicious-minded hero who far surpassed the Lu family at that time. In less than a year, he had arranged everything and replaced the Lu family's social status in Luzhen and even Qianhang Prefecture. Thus, the Second Young Master Kong whom everyone made fun of had smoothly become the Second Young Master Kong whom everyone revered.
While the people of Lu Town were still immersed in the classic scene of 'don't bully the poor young', another world-shattering event happened almost at the same time — someone had copied Second Master Kong's success and stood on the remains of another noble family in Lu Town, the Zhao Family. What was especially unacceptable was the new noble's declaration and his original identity.
"If Second Master Kong can do it, why can't I?"
This person was called Xie Agui. He was originally just a scab, the lowest class of ruffians who had fallen into poverty. He was thin and small, and had no strength at all. He was the kind who could even press a teenager to the ground and beat him. Damn it, no one knew where he had suddenly learned Kung Fu from. Similarly, he had seized the foundation of the Zhao Family's Old Master at lightning speed and rose to power as a nouveau riche!
This was the big news that people in Lu Town had been talking about for a long time in the past few years.
It was just that Kong Zhongwu was a fallen warrior, and Xie Agui was a scoundrel. How did the two of them suddenly become the great masters of Mighty Tyrant Lu Town in such a short period of time? How did they defeat the Lu and Zhao families, who had been in business for generations and had a solid foundation, and how did they smoothly and ruthlessly annex the properties of the two families …? There were all kinds of reasons that could not be explained clearly by the waiter.
After all, he was just a small shop assistant.
"… The rich circle is really messy."
After listening to the waiter, Sun Lang sighed contentedly. "There's even order in the chaos. That's really f * cking wonderful."
After listening for a long time, he expressed his satisfaction and rewarded the waiter with another piece of silver. He asked, "Unfortunately, I'm not very interested in the end of the Lu Family. I'm just here to find someone. Let me ask you, in the Lu Family's Renfang, there's a person called … Forget it, she doesn't like people to know this name.
Just tell me directly, after the Lu Family fell, where did the survivors move to? "
The waiter was stunned for a moment and said awkwardly, "This, I don't know.
The Wisdom House seems to have been destroyed. As for the Renfang, two generations of mainstays have passed away. The rest of the family members have disappeared. I heard that the Lu Family's young master took them to seek refuge with relatives, or they changed their names. After all, their family was a little fierce before, so they couldn't live in Lu Town anymore … "
As he said this, his face showed an uneasy and gloomy expression. He said hesitantly, "Maybe … Maybe the ending was even worse …"
Although the waiter did not say the whole story, but what kind of person was Sun Lang? With the heart of a lowly person, he was able to measure the abdomen of everyone in the world. With just a glance, he was able to see the hidden meaning of the waiter's words. Since that Second Master Kong seemed to be the mastermind behind the Lu family's downfall, with his ruthless and ruthless personality, since he had already done such a thing, how could he leave behind future troubles for himself?
Perhaps the remaining people in the Ren Fang had already silently disappeared from this world ….
In this regard, Sun Lang just smiled. "There must be one person who is still alive. We're here to find this person.
I heard that she has already returned to Lu Town … Well, looking at your expression, you haven't heard.
But it's okay, with such a big thing happening to her family, with her character, she will definitely not let it go … And I think this matter, compared to the rowing competition, has made me a little interested … "
He smiled slightly. "Waiter, the Lu Family's old house is in the Herb Garden, right? Where are we going?
Is it the Second Master Kong's house now? "
The waiter was shocked and waved his hand repeatedly. "Even if it's him, he wouldn't have the guts to live in the Herb Garden. That place is haunted … There were those who didn't believe in the supernatural who went in to take a look. No matter if it's a skilled and daring martial artist or an immortal Taoist, they all disappeared from the world. In the end, the yamen came out personally to seal the Herb Garden. This Herb Garden has become a veritable haunted house …"
He wanted to describe the various strange stories and strange phenomena in the garden in detail, hoping to make this guest aware of the difficulties and retreat. Who knew that after the smiling guest in front of him heard this, his eyes would actually shine brightly, as if he didn't know what was good for him. He smiled and said to his female companion, "Oh, Moses Roy, I've been feeling bored recently … I still want to visit the Second Master Kong directly. Now it seems that I should go to the Herb Garden to take a look first?"
Zhao Yunlong was Sun Lang's most capable henchman in the past. During the New Year, the two of them even secretly went to the Sky Demon's camp to throw fireworks and firecrackers. A mere Herb Garden was nothing. General Yunlong smiled. She didn't have any opinion on what Sun Lang wanted to do. "Are we leaving now?"
Sima Ping knew that her opinion was insignificant, but she still tried to fight for her little bit of rights as an independent person. "That … can I not go …"
Sun Lang smiled very sincerely. "What do you think?"