Chapter 262: Thorn
The next evening.
The Cui family's ancestral house is brightly lit and the middle door is wide open.
Outside the Cui family's ancestral home, the 15-kilometer-long road is the Cui family's private road.
On both sides of the road, every twenty meters, two tall and uniformed men stood facing each other on the side of the road.
Cui Shupu personally led several elders of the Council of Elders to stand at the door of the ancestral house to greet guests from all walks of life.
Usually, Cui Shupu, as the patriarch of the Cui family, of course, would not stand at the door to greet guests, but today the situation is different.
Although the matter of 'Beidou' has not been leaked out, the threat of the sword master is real, and the people who can come to cheer at this time are all friends of the Cui family.
"Father, the Cui family seems to be in some trouble, why should we come here at this time?" A girl asked her father curiously in a limousine bound for the Cui family's ancestral home.
"Haha, Jin Mei, if you were that sword master, would you really come today?"
"Of course not, if it were me, it would have to be delayed for a while, at least until all these people were gone. The girl looked out of the car, and a pair of elite Cui family elites flashed from time to time on the side of the Cui family's private passage, and replied affirmatively.
"Jin Mei, more than that, as long as that Sword Saint is not a madman, he will not choose to make a move at this time - if he makes a move today, there will be far more than one Cui family to oppose. β
"Today, the Cui family is to show their strength, and they also have to take into account the possibility of the sword saint fighting guerrilla warfare with them, and now while everyone is showing their strength, it is better than being embarrassed by the sword saint in the future, so that everyone looks down on the Cui family much stronger. β
"What's more, if a business exchange meeting is not held at this time, it will be difficult for the Cui family to hold a business exchange meeting of this scale in the future. β
"Dad, why?"
"In the future, there will not be so many soldiers to protect you, and there will not be so many dignitaries to participate together, so everyone may not dare to come. β
"Jin Mei, sending charcoal in the snow is far stronger than icing on the cake, we want to climb the Cui family, this opportunity is rare, the risk is small, such a good opportunity is not seized, and if you want to get in touch with the Cui family in the future, the cost will be more than 100 times higher!"
Father Zhi smiled with satisfaction, in his opinion, it was thanks to the Sword Saint that he was able to come to the Cui family's ancestral house today to get in touch with the Cui family - if it weren't for the threat of the Sword Saint, a second-rate Goguryeo family like them, even if they dealt with the Cui family, they could only face a manager-level manager at most.
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There are too many guests here today, and many people are usually not qualified to come to the Cui family's ancestral house, but today, as long as there is a little face in the business and political circles of Goguryeo, everyone has been invited by the Cui family.
(The slight head and face here refers to the Cui family standard, especially the second-rate and above families and senior administrative officials of Goguryeo)
Although it was Cui Shupu who personally greeted the guests at the door with the Cui Parent Elders, not every guest was qualified to let them greet them - only a sufficient number of guests could work on these few people.
"Shupu, there are so many guests, why don't you send someone to check the guests' vehicles? β
In the spare time of greeting the guests, a Cui family elder was dissatisfied and said to Cui Shupu that he had no objection to holding this business dinner, but the sword saint was nowhere to be found, and it was likely that he was eyeing the dark place, so many guests were too easy for the sword saint to mix in.
"Fourth uncle, I just hope he comes! Yesterday you also heard how sinister our Cui family's situation is.
In any case, we cannot afford to drag it out any longer, and we must have a result as soon as possible, whether it is war or peace.
Of course, it's good to be able to negotiate peace, but if that sword master refuses to give up, we will have to fight to the end. In order to lure that Juggernaut out, today, we are standing here as bait. β
"ββββββ Shupu, you are still as ruthless as you were back then! Such a decision, don't you say it to us old guys in advance?"
"Fourth uncle, eldest uncle, second uncle, isn't Shupu also standing here! The next generation of the Cui family who can carry the burden has been safely transferred out, what else do you have to worry about?"
A few old guys who just learned the truth have a sentence in their hearts that MMP doesn't know how to speak.
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"Patriarch, there has been no movement until now. β
"Well, keep on your guard. β
Hearing the secretary's whispered report, Cui Shupu was slightly disappointed. However, since the Cui family held this dinner, of course, they also prepared for the sword saint to come or not.
This is the largest hall in the Cui family's ancestral house, and modern building technology no longer requires the vast hall to be covered with columns to support the weight of the roof.
This lobby has a space of 4,000 square meters, and as far as the eye can see, the vast lobby is full of high-level friends and unobstructed views, among these guests, the children of the Cui family are all over it, one is responsible for reception, and the other is to monitor whether strangers have mixed in.
Cui Shupu walked to the front desk and delivered a speech as usual: "Good evening, everyone, first of all, on behalf of the Cui family, I would like to thank all the friends who came here.
Some people may have heard that the Cui family has encountered a little trouble, but the Cui family has experienced hundreds of years of ups and downs, and this trouble is nothing to the Cui family. But the Cui family is still very grateful, and when they encounter difficulties, there are so many friends who come to the Cui family to supportββ"
"What is this?"
"Heyββ, is this a special setting for a banquet?"
"It's not dry ice. β
"How can you fog up on such an occasion?"
At first, it was only a few people whispering in the hall, but as the fog from nowhere gradually became visible and thicker in the hall, the guests began to talk to each other with some nervousness.
But in the end, everyone here respects their own identities, everyone sits firmly in their chairs, and there is no joke about stampede.
"Zheng Zheng Zheng Zhengβ" A slight chirp came from nowhere, and the mist began to echo softly through the hall.
"Please be quiet, it must be the 'Sword Saint of the East' coming? Old Cui Shupu, please show up and see Your Excellency!"
There was no answer in the wide hall, only the fog getting thicker. Gradually, even the shadows of the guests and friends in the fog began to blur their vision a little.
"Hurry up and turn on the ventilation system to the maximum!" some of the Cui family's children responded.
"Your Excellency the Sword Saint, the Cui family is willing to present assets worth 470 billion yen as an apology to Ling Tang and the Sword Saint Lady!"
"Ahh
"Wow!"
Although the exhaust system 'whirring' and seemed to have been turned up to its maximum, it did little to do anything for the fog in the hall.
The fog is getting thicker, and the view is restricted, but the sound is not affected, and under the amplification of the microphone, all the guests in the entire hall can hear Cui Shupu's promise.
Among the guests, quite a few people exclaimed for the Cui family's generosity.
The value of the yen and the Korean won is one to one, and everyone is the currency anchored to the red flag currency, and the exchange rate for the red flag currency is also 10 to 1, and 470 billion yen is directly equal to 470 billion won.
This kind of handwriting, even if everyone in the hall is either rich or expensive, not everyone can remain quiet.
In the hall, even the representative of the Lee family, the Goguryeo royal family, which rules the financial industry of Goguryeo, felt that the Cui family showed such sincerity, which should make this sword master let go of his grudges - after all, this sword master's family is neither dead nor disabled, is it? With this money, even if he was originally poor, it was enough to immediately become a billionaire.
That's money that normal people can't spend in ten lifetimes, and it's a kind of earth-shaking change in life.
Even the Goguryeo royal family could not come up with such a large sum of money casually.
To tell the truth, 99% of the world's people face such a large amount of money, not to mention that their families have not been irreparably harmed, even if they really kill their fathers and take their wives, they can be left behind.
The Cui family is really willing!
Cui Shupu really has nothing to be reluctant to, at their level, money is of course very important, but more important is resources, manpower, and power.
What Cui Shupu is ready to pay is actually the Cui family's two plots of land in Tokyo, and of course, the buildings on the land.
This is the case with a long-standing family, and the old things have become valuable over time, and these places were just rotten places that no one wanted, but now they have become valuable real estate with the development of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.
said that he was distressed, of course Cui Shupu was distressed, but now that he has offended this sword saint and even led to the 'Beidou', can the Cui family still be able to keep the property of living in Tokyo?
Out of nowhere, a long sigh was heard in the air, and in the silence of the audience, someone was reciting the psalm:
"The ancient sword is cold and gloomy, and it has been cast for thousands of years.
The white light is the sun and the moon, and the purple gas is a bullfight.
Some guests borrow a look, and love is not daring to ask.
In the clear jade box, the autumn water does not flow.
The treasure has a nature, and the essence is incomparable.
It can be folded inch by inch, and can not be soft around the fingers.
ββββββLadies and gentlemen of the Cui family, go all the way!"
"No-" Cui Shupu's eyes were cracking!
Ma Dan, how did the Cui family meet such a stunned young man! Speak well, can't you bargain, why do you have to do it directly?
However, in the next moment, the one hundred and twenty-three members of the Cui family in the entire hall, plus the eighty elite shooters who were hidden in the ceiling and underground tunnels, holding various high-powered firearms, and monitoring all corners of the hall, suddenly fell to the ground without warning, and a little blood beaded gradually appeared on everyone's eyebrows, like a red mole on their foreheads.
"You-" Before a syllable was uttered, Cui Shupu's head suddenly tilted to the side and rolled down from his neck, blood spurting from his neck!
As Cui Shupu's headless body swayed twice, he fell to the ground on his back on the podium, and the fog that permeated the hall suddenly converged rapidly towards the center of the hall, and the more and more condensed white mist gradually condensed into a white figure standing with a sword - this scene was like a demon in the world.
In the hall, hundreds of Cui family guests and friends were silent, and no one dared to make a sound.
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"Tactic three, all of them take killing the target as the first priority, and allow accidental injuries if necessary!"
In a stronghold on the periphery of the Cui family's ancestral home, as the number two person in the Cui family's military force, Cui Shufan endured his sorrow and gave orders in this temporary command center.
Today, every child of the Cui family has a life monitoring sensor on their body, and when they lose signs of life, the life monitoring sensor will sound an alarm.
Just now, the red light in the monitoring room turned on!
Even the patriarch Cui Shupu has lost signs of life, and the last order issued by the patriarch means that the Cui family and the sword saint have no possibility of negotiating peace, and the two sides can only fight to the death.
Yes, this is the burial place that the Cui family prepared for Liu Shengyuanhe. It's just that no one in the Cui family could have imagined that Liu Shengyuanhe would directly appear in the core area of the Cui family across the layers of guards, and no one could have imagined that this sword saint had no intention of negotiating, and even a figure did not appear, just reciting half a poem and directly starting to kill the Cui family by surprise.
However, according to Cui Shupu's prior arrangement, the elite troops of the Cui family have blocked all the space within ten kilometers, and it is okay if this sword saint does not show his whereabouts today, as long as that sword saint appears, even if he is really the reincarnation of a god and demon, he will have to die here!
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Of course, Yanagi Yuanhe didn't deliberately show his whereabouts in front of these people because he was stupid.
He came to Goguryeo on this trip, but it was not entirely to vent his anger and kill people - if he couldn't establish an immortal reputation, then what was the use of destroying the Cui family?
This trip has two purposes for the Cui family.
The first purpose is to uproot the Cui family, to show that he can completely destroy a big force, and to warn those forces that may be calculating him.
Why did he sneak into the Cui family early and not do it? It was just to mark the key figures of the Cui family, after all, as a big family with a great inheritance for hundreds of years, it has a large population, if he directly opened the killing ring and missed the key people, could he still hunt down and kill all over the world?
Let's not talk about whether Liu Shengyuan and have this time, even if there is, you have to find talent?
At that time, Liu Shengyuan and himself will be killed, but the Cui family will not be painful in the blink of an eye, so is it to show their deterrence?
Therefore, Liu Shengyuan and willing to sneak in early and make a mark on every important person of the Cui family who entered the ancestral house, this kind of mark cannot be detected by others, but for Liu Shengyuanhe, within a radius of tens of miles, he can sense the location of these marks.
If we don't kill all the core figures of the Cui family, how can we be called uprooted? As for the Cui family, after all these characters are dead, there may still be branches of the Cui family in various places, and that Liu Shengyuan is not worried.
Without the core strength, the remaining wealth of the Cui family can only bring disaster to them, and they don't need to kill them one by one, as long as they are sure that the Cui family has no resistance power, then there are people who want to get a piece of the pie;
The second purpose is to show your strength, to show that you are not afraid to stand up to any force head-on!
The elusive Assassin is terrifying, but the Assassin can scare one person, but not the other.
From ancient times to the present day, no single power has been supported by Assassins.
If you want others to recognize your status, you still have to see the high and low from the front.
Yanagi Yuanhe made such a fantasy appearance image that he must be the first to stand out in front of these Goguryeo upper-class people invited by the Cui family, leaving his mysterious and unpredictable assassin image.
This image means that in front of oneself, no one cannot be killed!
And the next step is to let these people witness that they can also run rampant and have no one to kill!
To show strength requires a sufficient amount of witnesses.
If you play alone, even if you can destroy mountains and seas, others don't know, whether you should move your claws or move your claws, then isn't this operation in vain?
The group of guests summoned by the Cui family, their usefulness has long been in Liu Shengyuan and calculations - as witnesses, their status level is neither high nor low, just right.
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In the middle of the lobby, Yanagi Yuanhe, who had condensed from the mist, slowly pulled out a snow-like long knife from his waist with his right hand, and walked out of the lobby step by step from the main entrance amid the stunned eyes of hundreds of people in the lobby.
Outside, it's already waiting.