Lu Shanmin heard a lot of familiar voices, including Chen Ming, the village party secretary, Li Dafa, the village head, Aunt Wang in Xishantou, Uncle He in Dongshantou、、、、 and Bai Ling, and even heard Xiao Huang's whining, all saying that when people are dying, they can hear the voice of their childhood, and they can see and hear the most primitive memories, Lu Shanmin is wondering if he is dying.

The eyelids were very heavy, and I couldn't open them with all my strength, and I went back and forth in a coma and half-awake, I don't know how long it was, and I couldn't remember what year or month.

Finally, a ray of light came in, Lu Shanmin opened his eyes, the roof paved with black and gray wooden boards, the old wooden window lattice, and the carved paper cut that had faded on the window lattice, which he cut with Xiao Nizi when he was thirteen years old, and cut it was a descending tiger. Directly in front of it is a mottled earthen wall, and on the wall is a row of awards, which have turned gray, as if they could fall down with a single blow. In the corner of the wall were the shotguns and hunting knives he was most familiar with, which were covered in dust and rusted.

A low whimper sounded, Lu Shanmin rolled his eyes, it was Xiao Huang, who was lying on the edge of the bed looking at himself, and his long tongue couldn't help licking the back of his hand.

Lu Shanmin sighed and muttered, "I'm really dead."

"You're talking nonsense again".

A familiar voice came from outside the house, and Bai Ling walked in with a bowl of porridge and sat on the stool in front of the bed.

Lu Shanmin looked at this familiar face lightly, "Bai Ling, are you dead too?"

Bai Ling blew the gruel in the spoon and slowly sent it into Lu Shanmin's mouth.

"I've lost count of how many times you've said you're dead since you came back."

The gruel was warm in the mouth, Lu Shanmin swallowed it, and a warm current went down his throat and into his stomach.

"It turns out that you can feel the temperature even when you die."

Bai Ling burst out laughing, she still laughed so good, and her voice was still as good as a lark.

Lu Shanmin looked at the ceiling in a daze, it was too familiar, every line on it was so familiar, when he was bored lying on the bed when he was a child, he had carefully counted the wood grains on it, there were a total of eighteen thousand nine hundred and seventy-five.

"It's good that you can go home when you die, and you can't be considered a lonely ghost."

Bai Ling reached out and touched Lu Shanmin's forehead, and breathed a sigh of relief, "The fever has subsided, and my brain hasn't come back to my senses yet."

Lu Shanmin subconsciously wanted to turn over, and cried out in pain.

"Don't move, your injuries aren't healed yet."

Seeing the sunlight shining in, Bai Ling cast a shadow on the ground, and wondered: "There is a shadow when you are dead."

Bai Ling fed a mouthful of gruel again, "You still know it hurts when you're dead."

Lu Shanmin looked at Bai Ling in disbelief, and swallowed the gruel with a grunt, "I'm not dead"!

Bai Ling smiled, "I'm not dead either."

All the memories came to mind at once, Pingyang County, Xiao Nizi, Hai Dongqing, and Jin Buchang、、、、

"Why am I here"?

"Little Nizi brought you back".

"What about her"?

"I went into the mountains to collect medicine."

"Why are you here"?

A wry smile appeared on Bai Ling's face, "I'm from Mazui Village, why can't I be here."

"Oh, I mean, when did you come back?"

"It's been a few months since I came back".

"Oh, you should also come back to see Uncle Bai and Aunt Bai."

Bai Ling smiled, "I'm not coming back to see them", he looked at Lu Shanmin's puzzled eyes as he spoke, and continued: "I won't leave this time."

Lu Shanmin's mind was a little blank, "not leaving"?

Bai Ling nodded, "Do you remember that college banquet five years ago?"

"Well", of course Lu Shanmin remembers, it was the most lively time in Mazui Village, he and Xiao Nizi sat on the hillside, and below was the village committee, and the potholed basketball court of the village committee was full of people.

Bai Ling smiled, with a little vicissitudes and sadness in his smile.

"At that time, I promised in front of the whole village that I would return to my hometown after completing my studies, and now I am back to fulfill my promise." said with a smile: "I am now the village party secretary, and I am your parent official, you have to call me Secretary Bai."

Lu Shanmin grinned, and a wave of sadness welled up in his heart. He probably knows Bai Ling's situation, the last time he went back to the East China Sea, he also heard Xiao Nizi say that he was dumped by her college boyfriend, and she had an abortion, and after graduation, she ran into a wall everywhere and became the lover of a boss, and some unfortunate things happened later. But at the same time, he was also sincerely happy, although these experiences were painful, but Bai Ling was able to come out of it, and it could be regarded as the rebirth of Phoenix Nirvana.

"Brother Shanmin, I often think about what it would be like if I hadn't been admitted to university, I think I should be much happier than I am now. ”

Lu Shanmin said lightly: "People go to high places and water flows to low places, of course they have to go to college if they can go to college."

Bai Ling smiled, his smile was full of bitterness, "Go around and around, I'm still back, what's the difference."

"Of course, there is a difference, every step a person takes is a harvest, whether it is joy or sorrow, it is a precious asset, you stay in the mountains all the time and go out for a lap and then come back to the mountains, there is a huge difference."

He said with a smile: "I am sincerely happy for you".

"Really, you don't hate me?" Bai Ling asked jokingly.

"Why should I hate you, I never hated you".

Bai Ling's eyes were slightly red, he turned around and wiped his eyes with Lu Shanmin, turned around and smiled: "I know that Brother Shanmin is the most broad-minded person."

Lu Shanmin smiled, some things are wrong, some people are wrong, although they can't go back, but they can get along like today, it's much better than expected.

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Nalan Ziran finally got his wish and sat on the throne of his dreams, but he was not comfortable sitting in this position, although Nalan Zhenshan stepped down from the position of the head of the family, he still controlled the power as an advisor, and any ideas and decisions he had to be approved by him. and Nalan Zijian, who unabashedly eyeballed with other people in the family, which was simply known to everyone in Sima Zhao's heart. What made him most angry was Nalan Zhenbang, when he needed help the most, his biological father actually stood on the university podium to give a lecture peacefully, and did not help his biological son at all.

Sun Ding wanted to speak and stopped, his family had always opposed him putting chips on Nalan Ziran, until Nalan Ziran suddenly took the position of the family, and the Sun family was now completely tied to the Nalan family. In the past, he was just alone, and the pressure was not so great, but now the fate of the entire family fell on him, and his pressure was much greater than before.

"Nalan Zijian has had frequent contact with the Chen family, the Chu family, and the Li family recently, and it seems that he has not given up until now."

Zuoqiu flicked the cigarette ash, "There is also the Northeast Xiao family, that is his biggest reliance."

Nalan Ziran rubbed his temples with both hands, and the news that came recently was all Nalan Zijian's high-profile actions, which gave him a headache.

"These families are not the most critical now, and they don't dare to go against the Nalan family openly, what I'm worried about is the disaster Xiao Wall. Zijian's voice in the family was already very high, his grandfather Zhu had great prestige in Tianjing, and the last time his grandfather died, he deliberately disturbed the hearts of the family and made them all suspect that he had colluded with him, and now Zijian has frequent contact with them, I am afraid that they will be shaken. Although I am now the largest shareholder in the family, if he unites all the owners and shareholders, it will be a disaster."

Zuoqiu shook his head, "I don't think you have to worry about this for the time being, he can't win everyone, at least your father, Nalan Zhenshan, Nalan Ziying, and Nalan Wenjun's family can't support him, as long as they don't support it, everyone else together is also very small." Moreover, the system designed by the old man is seamless, and the head of the family will always have the greatest control in the Nalan family, and the position of the head of the family is not by shares, but by the previous family

The Lord accepts fate as the basis, which is also the reason why Nalan Zhenshan has been the chairman of Xinghui Group for so many years and has not been able to fully control the Nalan family, so with Nalan Zijian's cleverness, he should know that if he can't be the head of the family, even if he becomes the chairman of Xinghui, it doesn't mean much."

Nalan Ziran patted his head, "Then what now, let him make trouble, and let others see me laughing."

Zuoqiu pondered for a moment and asked rhetorically: "Ziran, let's think about it carefully, what does Nalan Zijian want to see the most now."

"You want to see me laugh, I want to be unable to sleep at night".

"Yes, that's exactly what he thinks, he wants to mess with your mind, he wants us to mess with ourselves." After a pause, he said, "You still want us to make a move on him."

Nalan Ziran was stunned, "He wants to find his own death"?

Zuoqiu took a deep breath of his cigarette, "We might as well think about it from Nalan Zijian's point of view, in fact, everything he is doing now seems to be in full swing, but it actually shows that he has nothing to do." In this case, the only breakthrough is to lure us into attacking, just like two boxers in the ring, when facing an opponent who is well defended, the only way is to deliberately lure the opponent to punch first, and once the opponent punches the flaw, he can seize the opportunity to deliver the fatal blow. His deliberately undisguised high-profile gestures are just trying to lure us out."

Zuoqiu extinguished the cigarette butt and turned his head slightly to look at Sun Ding's eyes. Sun Ding smiled gratefully and said: "We will not do what the enemy wants, and we will do what the enemy does not want." Ziran, for the sake of today, we can temporarily deal with it, when nothing happens, so that not only will Nalan Zijian have nothing to do, but also show your bearing."

Nalan Ziran gently slapped the table with his palm, he agreed with Zuoqiu's analysis, but he was not very satisfied with the countermeasures taken by Sun Ding. After pretending to be a grandson for so many years, he finally turned over as a serf and sang, and now he has become the head of the family and has to be a man with his tail between his legs, no matter how he thinks about it, he feels aggrieved.

"Brother Sun, are you afraid of Nalan Zijian?"

Sun Ding frowned, and there was a burst of embarrassment on his face. "Ziran, Nalan Zijian is scheming, this is the safest way."

Nalan Ziran sighed, and there was an indescribable unwillingness and resentment in his heart, "Does everyone think that I am inferior to Zijian, even if I am in power now, I still think that I am not Zijian's opponent." Even if you think so, what should other people think".

Sun Ding's face became more and more embarrassed, and he turned his head to look at Zuoqiu, with a faint complicated look in his eyes.

Zuoqiu lit a cigarette again and exhaled a puff of smoke, "Ziran, you are too worried, since you can defeat Nalan Zijian and sit in this position, it has already proved that you are stronger than him."

Nalan Ziran's eyes showed a gleam, and he felt a little better, and said modestly: "Senior Brother Qiu, this is all your credit, without your advice, where would I be today."

Zuo Qiu smiled, "Zi Ran is too modest, if I shamelessly compare myself to Guo Jia and Zhuge Kongming, then you are Cao Mengde and Liu Xuande, without your eloquence and personal charm, how can it attract me and Brother Sun Ding to do our best for you."

Nalan Ziran showed a faint smile, "Senior Brother Qiu is not only my Fengxiao and Kong Ming, but also my ovary."

As he spoke, he sat up straight, his face revealing the aura of a king.

"If I don't even have the courage to face it, how can I lead the Nalan family to glory in the future. Since Zijian wants to lure us into action, we can't do it, and I don't believe that with the resources I have in my hands now, we can't cure him."

Zuo Qiu had a faint worry in his heart, and from the bottom of his heart, he completely agreed with what Sun Ding said about the countermeasures, but he knew Nalan Ziran too well, this scholar thought that he was only eight buckets high after reading a few books, and it was difficult to see the enemy and himself clearly once he was in power, and he could not be persuaded to persuade him, only by following his hair to minimize the risk.

"What is Ziran's opinion"?

"I am the head of the family, occupy the great power and righteousness, Zijian can confuse the people in the family, I can make them obediently listen to me, and bother Brother Sun to contact the people in the family on my behalf from tomorrow, knowing it with emotion and reason, I believe they can distinguish the importance. As for the so-called Chen family, Chu family, and Li family, it is just for the sake of interests, I can give more to what Zijian can give, and what Zijian can deter them, my deterrence will only be greater, they are all smart people and know how to choose."

said with a cold smile, "As for Zijian, you should also give him some color and take a look, find a way to set a trap or two for him, confirm the evidence of his betrayal of the family, and then seize his shares and expel him from the Nalan family, and see what ability he has to turn over."

Zuoqiu's heart shook, but his face was still smiling, "Zi Ran Gao, with our advantage against Zijian's disadvantage, I believe it is enough for him to drink a pot."

"But 、、、", Zuoqiu deliberately elongated his tone.

"But what, what else does Senior Brother Qiu have to add"?

Zuoqiu sighed, "But Ziran, you have always been to convince people with virtue, and you have conquered everyone with benevolence and righteousness from beginning to end, not to mention that the old man also told you not to embarrass Nalan Zijian before he died, if it is too obvious and too much, it is inevitable that others will say that you have no tolerance for people, and as soon as you come to power, you will violate the old man's will to attack your younger brother, if you leave a notoriety of unfilial piety,"

said with a frown on his brows and a worried face, "Well、、、 you have just come to power now, and it is time to win over people's hearts and stabilize the situation."

Nalan Ziran half-squinted his eyes and fell into contemplation, "Senior Brother Qiu is very worried, grandpa asked me to let him go, it is really unfilial to him at this time, and my heart is not at ease."

said and thought for a moment, "But you can't do nothing, at least you have to beat your family and those three families."

Zuoqiu didn't speak, he knew that this was already Nalan Ziran's bottom line, and stopping it would only cause him to be disgusted.

Nalan Ziran was full of confidence, "Then so be it, you go down and think carefully about the details, it's time for Zijian to recognize the reality."

Walking out of Nalan Ziran's office, Sun Ding followed Zuoqiu's footsteps.

"Mr. Zuo, you know that Ziran will object, why do you want me to say it."

Zuoqiu looked dazed, "Why does Brother Sun think so?"

"Mr. Zuo, everyone is working for Ziran, we should work together."

Zuoqiu said with a look of grievance: "Brother Sun, you misunderstood, I had a good intention just now, I saw that you haven't spoken all the time, so I want you to say a few words, how do you know that Ziran's heart is so high, you have to compete with Nalan Zijian." After that, I followed Ziran's meaning and said that there was no way to do it, and in this case, I could only minimize the risk."

Sun Ding showed a puzzled look on his face, and said, "Actually, Ziran is right, I had to endure it before, and now it's time to show my strength."

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Pang Zhiyuan sat in the hall of the villa, if Nalan Wen was dead, he could only follow Nalan Ziran wherever he was, everything here was different from Nalan's old mansion, so luxurious, and so strange.

Compared with a few days ago, Pang Zhiyuan looked even older, Pang Shengyi's death and Nalan Wenruo's death made him tired, and when he got the news of Pang Sheng's death, he almost fainted to the ground.

The white-haired man sent the black-haired man, and two sons died one after another, and this kind of pain cannot be experienced by those who have not experienced it personally.

Pang Shengde hurriedly approached the hall and saw his increasingly haggard old father, his face was quite worried.

"Father"!

Pang Zhiyuan nodded, "How's that?"

Pang Shengde said with a sad face, "I personally inspected the body of Shengzhao, one shot in the abdomen and one in the thigh, and the most fatal was a punch in the forehead."

"Who is it"?

"Look at the injury, at least he is a master at the peak of the late stage of moving mountains."

Pang Zhi

Yuan closed his eyes slightly, his beard trembled, "What did Gao Chang say?"

"He said that there was a big scuffle between the forces of all parties that night, and Shengzhao was first ambushed by gunmen under the ambush of Lu Shanmin, and he was seriously injured in the melee and did not know who killed Shengzhao."

"None of them have a motive to kill the Nalan family"!

Pang Shengde naturally knew who his father was talking about, "Gao Chang said that he was chasing and killing Lu Shanmin at that time, and he encountered a killer of the Sky Wolf League in a big battle on the way, he was Lu Shanmin's person, and Gao Chang's speculation is that it is very likely that the killer killed the winning move."

Pang Zhiyuan suddenly opened his eyes, his eyes full of murderous intent.

"Where is he now"!

Pang Shengde shook his head, "I don't know"!

"Father, I have sent someone to find his whereabouts, and once I find him, I will avenge the second and third brothers at all costs."

Pang Zhiyuan's chest rose and fell, and he didn't speak for a long time.

"Keep an eye on it first, don't act rashly"!

Pang Shengde gritted his teeth, "Father"!

Pang Zhiyuan forcibly suppressed the grief and hatred in his heart, "The overall situation is important, now Ziran's position is not stable, Zijian is ready to move, Nalan family's internal and external troubles should not appear in other turmoil, wait for me to discuss with Zhenbang before making plans."

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As soon as Zuoqiu turned on the light, a big hand grabbed him by the collar, and then flew out in a whirlwind, falling heavily to the ground.

"Ouch, my old waist".

Huang Jiujin lifted Zuoqiu and pressed it on the sofa, "You almost killed the mountain people."

Zuoqiu looked at the eyeballs that were as big as copper bells, and his heart beat wildly.

"Huang Jiujin, you are still fucking unreasonable."

"The mountain people have three long and two short, Lao Tzu and people all over the world will not be reasonable."

Zuoqiu coughed violently, "Let go of me, you ancient beast, I will be strangled to death by you."

Huang Jiujin pushed Zuoqiu away, his eyes fierce and murderous.

Zuoqiu gasped twice and asked, "How is Lu Shanmin now?"

"Thanks to you, I'm not dead yet."

Zuoqiu held his waist and grinned in pain, "I knew he wouldn't die, his life was that the stones in the thatched house were smelly and hard."

Huang Jiujin glared at Zuoqiu fiercely, and was so frightened that Zuoqiu moved to the side.

"Huang Jiujin, I really didn't know that Xue Meng was still alive."

"Hmph, aren't you a scholar, aren't you just a high fighter, aren't you extremely smart, you can't even think of how you are a military advisor."

Zuoqiu looked aggrieved, "Do you know how busy I am in a day, Nalan Zijian's fox consumes most of my brain cells, and I am not a god who can think about everything, besides, I have always only been in charge of the general direction, the details are ever-changing, and the plan can't catch up with the changes, how can I manage so much thousands of miles away, not to mention that Lu Shanmin is not an idiot, if he doesn't even have the basic on-the-spot adaptability, then how fast can he die quickly, don't let the blood gradually affect me."

Huang Jiujin was choked for a while, how could he be able to reason with Zuoqiu.

"I can't tell you about reasoning, but I remind you that if the mountain people are hurt in any way, I will be the first to skin you, and then kill him and bleed like a river."

Zuoqiu rubbed his waist, angry, but he didn't dare to do anything, the big black carbon in front of him was obviously more unreasonable than Lu Shanmin.

"Excuse me, I'm a scholar, a powerless scholar, and I can't stand the toss of a monster like you."

Huang Jiujin snorted coldly, "I already have a lot of control over my strength, otherwise you would have turned into a puddle of meat mud."

As he spoke, he gradually reined in his anger, "Tell me about the situation over there."

Zuoqiu lit a cigarette tremblingly, "Nalan Zhenbang still controls the power of the Nalan family, and he won't be able to get all the archives for a while." Nalan Zijian started to move, Nalan Ziran stupidly wanted to be tough with him, and thought that Nalan Wenruo's advice before he died was asking him to let Nalan Zijian go."

Huang Jiujin frowned slightly, "Nalan Ziran has the absolute upper hand, what can't be tough, if I also choose to attack head-on."

Zuoqiu pursed his mouth, with an undisguised mockery in his eyes, he was thrown hard just now, and of course he had to take the opportunity to retaliate at this time.

"Your head is obviously not as muscular as yours, let me tell you something, you should have heard that Pang Sheng was killed."

Huang Jiujin didn't care about Zuoqiu's verbal revenge, "I heard that although it is a papier-mâché peak in the late stage of the Yi Marrow Realm, not everyone can kill it casually."

Zuoqiu smiled, "If I'm not mistaken, it was Gao Chang who did it, to be precise, Nalan Zijian did it."

Huang Jiujin stared at the tiger, "Gaochang, Nalan Zijian"?

Zuoqiu nodded, "In terms of understanding the human heart and human nature, I am confident that there are few people in this world who can compare to me, and Nalan Zijian is obviously one of them." He calculated Gao Chang's temperament, and he didn't need to say it explicitly, just by giving a faint hint, Gao Chang knew what to do. This is also the reason why I let you not have to go to Pingyang County, because Nalan Zijian has no murderous intentions towards Lu Shanmin now, naturally Lu Shanmin will not have to worry about his life, if you go, it will attract more Nalan family masters to go, but it will be self-defeating." said and paused, "Of course, Xue Meng was an accident."

Zuoqiu took a deep puff of his cigarette, "Now you know the horror of Nalan Zijian, and strategize with a snap of your fingers to win a victory thousands of miles away." And he is not only superior in wisdom, but also decisive in killing, and he does not hesitate to attack his own family, Pang Shengyi and Pang Shengzhao can be said to die indirectly in his hands. With such a person, how could Nalan Ziran be his opponent."

Huang Jiujin also gasped, "This person is indeed insidious and vicious."

Zuoqiu nodded, "Not only is it insidious and vicious, but the most important thing is that it is also impossible to guess and understand, no one knows what he is thinking in his bones, before he completely understands his mind, he must not be allowed to become big, otherwise when he is in power, if he kills us, it will be an extremely terrifying thing."

"Just like you said last time, both cooperation and containment".

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After burying Nalan Wenruo, Nalan Zhenbang returned to school and lectured attentively. Rationally, he has always supported Nalan Zijian's approach, and the two were originally on the same side, but emotionally he gradually became a little overwhelmed, not because Nalan Ziran was his son, but because the old man's words before he died have been haunting his heart, making him often ask himself if he is an unfilial son.

Walking out of the classroom, Nalan Zijian looked at him with a smile.

Nalan Zhenbang sighed helplessly and walked towards him.

Walking around the campus, the two did not speak for a long time.

"Uncle, after more than 20 years of perseverance, did you just give up?" Nalan Zijian was the first to break the silence.

"Zijian, the uncle is old, and he will be seventy in a few days."

Nalan Zijian smiled, "Uncle is not old, but he was harmed by the books you read." A few sensational words from the old man will overwhelm you."

Nalan Zhenbang frowned slightly, "That's not sensational, the old man remembers my birthday, and remembers how many days I didn't call him father."

Nalan Zijian paused, "So you're on Ziran's side now"?

Nalan Zhenbang shook his head with a faint apology on his face, "The old man asked me to help Ziran as much as I could, but you know I didn't do anything."

Nalan Zijian smiled, "If you don't help each other, you are not only worthy of filial piety, but also appease your conscience." Uncle, when did you become an ostrich and learn to deceive yourself."

7,000 words big chapter, asking for a wave of monthly passes, fell out of the ten.