The management of the state cities in the Tang Dynasty is very complicated, not all the state cities are in charge of the officials appointed by the empire, and some of the princes and clans are governed by themselves, although all the state cities have officials and troops appointed by the empire to garrison, but like Fengzhou, Bazhou and other places are completely managed by the Xiao family and the Yan family, they are the real rulers there. 35xs

Yunyan City is a remote city in Yunzhou, located in the northeast of the mainland, the reason why the Lin family has been able to occupy this place and become the biggest force here, one is because the Lin family was really strong in the past, and also because the place where those big forces are located is far away from this city, and Yunyan City is relatively backward, so the big forces do not take this small city in their eyes.

Although the Lin family has controlled this small city for hundreds of years, it has changed from what it used to be after the withering of talents in recent years, and the sphere of influence has been continuously compressed, and there is continuous oppression from other major forces.

Over the course of a year, Lin Zhentian seemed to be much older, with deep wrinkles and a lot of gray hair on his temples, but his eyes became brighter and brighter, bursting with dazzling light like a goshawk in the sky.

Lin Zhentian wandered in the council hall, his face was sinking like water, full of gloomy clouds, everything in the Lin family had been smooth this year, Lin Zhentian once thought that this would be the beginning of the family's revival, but such a dream was indeed very short-lived, since the bad news came back from Tianzhou City two months ago,.

And the forces that came to Yunyan City around the middle of this month let Lin Zhentian know that the Lin family was not worth mentioning at all in the eyes of those big forces, and the feeling of life and death being held in the palm of someone else's hand made Lin Zhentian feel like he was on pins and needles at this time.

At this time, in addition to Lin Zhentian in the Lin family's meeting hall, the other high-level members of the family also fell in the hall, in addition to a few elders, there were two young people standing on one side in the field, one was Lin Chao of the internal guard, and the other was Lin Dong, who had a good relationship with Lin Ruoli, but the expressions in the hall were quite strange at this time, and without exception, they were all full of sadness.

I just got the news that someone has secretly infiltrated the small courtyard, and everyone here knows that no one else in that small courtyard is interested except for Lin Ruoli, and the reason why Lin Zhentian has been secretly leaving people there is to wait for Lin Ruoli.

Second Elder Lin Haitian looked at the patriarch who was frowning and pacing in the hall, and couldn't help but speak: "Patriarch, you still have to pay attention as soon as possible!" Those people are eyeing each other, but it's not something that our Lin family can provoke, we can't bury the entire family for that girl! Now that this girl has returned, we might as well hand her over, lest our family suffer because of her! ”

The others were silent when they heard it, but they could still see that most of them showed a gesture of approval, only Lin Dong stood on the side and frowned slightly, feeling that it was very awkward to do so, but because of his identity, there was no place for him to interject.

Lin Zhentian stopped, looked at the second elder with sharp eyes, and exuded a strong momentum on his whole body, and said coldly: "Although I don't like her, don't forget, she is my granddaughter after all, and she is a member of my Lin family." ”

"But she is also a wanted disciple of the Northern Five Sects, and she is also accused of colluding with foreign clans, this alone is enough to subvert our entire Lin family." The second elder said aggressively.