Chapter 178, it's over
The jade rabbit fell to the west, and the eastern sky was already faintly white.
Zengjiazhuang's long night is finally coming to an end.
The cold wind of dawn was filled with a sickening, thick smell of blood.
"There are so many people who died this night!" sighed one real person, "too many!"
Another real person shook his head: "Compared to the grudges accumulated by the Zeng family over the years, it can be ended with only so many deaths, is it a lot?"
Pan Long and Lu Xi'an nodded together.
In the sky, a little higher, Min Kun sighed deeply.
"That's fine. He said to himself, "The right should be...... Wash your hands and quit the rivers and lakes. β
In this night's revenge, a total of four hundred and four people died in Zengjiazhuang.
Coupled with those who died yesterday morning, the Zeng clan lost more than nine hundred people in one day and one night, almost a thousand.
But the Zeng family is still there.
According to Lu Xi'an's estimates, the Zeng family should have a population of more than 3,000.
With such a population, the Zeng family is still a prominent family in Youzhou, and they are famous in the world.
What's more, Zeng Xiaoqiang is still there, and there are real people in the Zeng family.
After this day and night of Buddha's light and blood, the Zeng family's "bad assets" have been thrown off, and now the remaining people, even if they are not motivated, at least keep to themselves.
Such a family may not be enterprising enough, but there is no problem in keeping it.
Presumably, it won't be long before the children of the Zeng family who followed Zeng Xiaoqiang to the Western Regions will let the combative masters of the Western Regions see what the real "fierce and aggressive" is.
As long as you can't die, you can level up if you survive, such people are in groups, and it's scary to think about.
And those who stay at the original location of the Zeng family should live honestly.
There are fertile fields, good harbors, ready-made shops, workshops and other livelihoods. The damage to their property is not large, it is just that the house has to be rebuilt.
The Zeng family has indeed suffered heavy losses, and it will probably disappear from now on.
But the "Youzhou Zengjia" as a Jianghu sect has disappeared, and the "Zengjiazhuang" as a large private household is still there.
That's enough.
Min Kun has been staying here, and what he wants is nothing more than such a result.
"Actually, it's mainly because of the penny man yesterday morning. Lu Xi'an said, "He used Buddhism to kill all the evil people in the Zeng family." This made the evil forces of the Zeng family have their backbones broken and they can't raise their heads. Without them making trouble, the matter of settling the blood feud this night could have gone so smoothly. β
"What if not?" Pan Long asked.
Lu Xi'an's eyes flashed with coldness: "We officials are not afraid of crowds of people, but we are afraid that some people will be mixed in with the crowds of people who deliberately make trouble." If these deliberate troublemakers are still familiar to those people who are even prestigious, things will become more and more difficult to do. β
He looked in the direction of Zengjiazhuang, where the people had already left with the bodies of their loved ones and went to the ancestral grave of the Zengjia family on the sunny slope of the hill to the north for burial.
"If those evil masters who have both prestige and strength are still there, they will definitely not be willing to honestly pay their blood debts, and they will definitely clamor and instigate trouble. At that time, there will probably only be a bloody battle between the two sides, and it will not stop fighting. β
Pan Long imagined such a scene, and couldn't help frowning.
In that case, there will definitely be more people dying than now, and even the real grandmasters will inevitably end up fighting, and it is impossible for everyone to just have a discussion, distinguish the high and low, and just give up.
"It is better to have rules than no rules, and it is better to talk about rules than not to talk about rules. A real person sighed, "If everyone can talk about the rules and do what they preach in accordance with the laws and texts of the ancestors in the past, the world will definitely be peaceful for eternity, and there will never be swords and swords, blood and tears." β
"How can there be such a good thing in the world!" Lu Xi'an sneered, "You are also one hundred and seventy or eighty years old, how can you be as innocent as a child?"
"It's because I'm getting older that I miss my young and innocent me more and more. What I thought about at that time was silly and naΓ―ve, but beautiful. The real man smiled and said, "This is the case, and the old man will take his leave." In the future, if you have the opportunity to pass by Beihuang Mountain, you can come to the old man for a drink. β
"Then I'll go and ask you for a drink right now. Another real person said, "The finishing work here will be handed over to the two court officials." We are all people of the rivers and lakes, idle clouds and wild cranes, and go to Panasonic to drink and enjoy the flowers. β
"So very good, the flowers on the Beihuang Mountain have been blooming recently, there is still some snow on the top of the mountain, from the top to the bottom, the four seasons coexist, the scenery is really good. β
"So what are you waiting for, hurry up and go, I can't wait to drink with the view!"
There was a gust of wind, and the two rode away.
Pan Long couldn't help but smile as he watched them go away.
"What a carefree person!"
"What is free and easy, it's not like me, I have a holiday with the Zeng family, no matter what, I have to see the Zeng family unlucky, so I can be satisfied......" Lu Xi'an muttered in a low voice.
Pan Long was slightly stunned, and then smiled even more happily.
They stayed in Zengjiazhuang for three days.
In the past three days, many people have come to Zengjiazhuang one after another, and some of them have a deep hatred with the Zeng family and want to take revenge.
But Pan Long didn't let go this time, just let them go to the government to complain and try according to the law.
The Zeng family's people who owe a lot of blood debts are basically dead, and the rest are nothing more than normal vendettas.
Walking the rivers and lakes, it is inevitable that you will kill me and I will kill you.
It is quite normal for relatives and friends to be killed and want revenge. But since you haven't been able to catch up with the previous wave, let's honestly leave the matter to the official law to solve.
Anyway, the Zeng family has reached such a point that it is impossible to collude with the government again and turn big things into small things and small things into nothing. If there is really something that should be resisted, the court will judge it, and Pan Long will not stop it.
Interestingly, there are not many lawsuits against the Zeng family for property robbery.
The Zeng family has been able to run the bull's ear in Youzhou for many years, and they are indeed quite disciplined. In the past thousand years, not only wealth and grudges have been accumulated, but also many high-quality intangible assets.
Three days later, a large number of officers and soldiers came to Zengjiazhuang.
They were mainly here to maintain order, to avoid chaos, and to prevent people from falling into the well and looting Zengjiazhuang.
Naturally, the officials were sent by the local government, but those soldiers were transferred by Lu Xi'an in his own name to invite the imperial court.
"That General Lu, what kind of enmity does he have with the Zeng family?" Back at the Yamen of the Wind Patrol Division, Pan Long asked Tang Jingzhe curiously, "Old Tang, you are in charge of paperwork, do you know?"
Before Tang Jingzhe could answer, Shang Man spoke first: "I know this, his mother was originally a woman who went to the rivers and lakes to sell her arts, and she was deceived by someone in Zengjiazhuang, but after she became pregnant, the person did not admit it. His mother came home with a grudge and died of depression shortly after giving birth to him. β
"He was called a wild seed since he was a child, and he was discriminated against. Later, when he grew up, he went to Zengjiazhuang to recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors, but he was beaten out again. Since then, he has hated the Zeng family to the core, and he wants to find some trouble with the Zeng family when he has nothing to do. β
Pan Long was taken aback, he didn't expect Lu Xi'an, a guy with a cheap and comedy painting style, to have such a sad past.
"This is really 'thirty years in Hexi, thirty years in Hedong, don't bully young people into poverty'......" He couldn't help but sigh, "If this continues, even if I don't go to trouble the Zeng family, he will definitely go to the Zeng family to make further progress in his martial arts in the future." β
"That's for sure. Shang Man nodded in agreement, "Actually, Zeng Xiaoqiang, the Zeng family has not been treated well at home since he was a child. After he cultivated to innately, he wanted to follow the rules and become the director of the Zeng family's various businesses in a certain town, but he was rejected - the reason was naturally that he was from a bad background and was a side branch. β
"Playing with the innate masters?" Pan Long was shocked, "I'm afraid the emperor family doesn't have such big rules!"
So Zeng Xiaoqiang left the Western Regions in a fit of rage, and did not return to his hometown until he became a real person. In fact, it is also the story of 'don't bully the poor boy'. Shang Man sighed, "Wen Chaogong's sentence 'don't bully the poor youth' is really deafening, thousands of years later, it still makes people's blood boil and their hearts are surging!"
Pan Long looked at his slightly excited expression, and there was some vague conjecture in his heart.
Could it be that he is full of business...... Is it also an example of "don't bully the poor of young people"?
Otherwise, he shouldn't be so excited!
"Speaking of which, Lord Pan, you have really made a name for yourself this time. Tang Jingzhe smiled and changed the subject, "The previous battle in Nanxia City and the battle at the Mid-Autumn Moon Appreciation Conference only showed that you were the best in the real person level, and you were not really much stronger than those old qualified real people - but after the battle that almost killed Fang Yishan with a dart, the world recognized you as the top real person." β
"It's not just a 'top real person'!" Shang Man took over, "There are already grandmasters who have spoken, if we are given enough time to prepare, even the grandmasters who are united with heaven and man may not be able to stop that deadly dart." Probably only the great grandmasters who have reached the limit of heaven and man and are qualified to step towards the path of immortality can definitely accept it. β
"With this ability, you already have a deterrent power close to the grandmaster level in the rivers and lakes. He summed it up.
Pan Long shook his head with a smile: "The level of the grandmaster is not so simple, and people are not neurotic, how can they stand there and wait for me to make a move?"
The crowd laughed.
After laughing, Tang Jingzhe said: "In short, the affairs of the Zeng family, this can be regarded as the end." If you don't have any opinions, I'm going to write a report on this operation. β
"No problem, just write. Pan Long nodded, and then said, "By the way, our planned plan is to knock on the mountain and shock the tiger, kill the chicken and make an example of the monkey." Now the mountain has been knocked and the chicken has been killed, and the matter of changing the law is being promoted...... How do I do that?"
"It's going to take some time. Liu Yunqing said, "Everything needs to be arranged and executed." But now that the head has been opened, there should be no big problem in the future. β
Pan Long breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good." β
If things go well, it's better than anything else.
He was afraid that he had spent so much time and energy, tossed for so long, and died so many people, and the result was still useless.
That's sad.
This is like some fantasy stories I read in my previous life, in which the protagonist fought an unknown number of battles in the sky and the earth, and the sky collapsed, the earth collapsed, and the galaxy was shattered and the avenue was worn out, and in the end, he went back to his hometown to dig a well...... Hey, what the hell are you doing with your hair, is that a furnishing?
In fact, he is not useless, this toss, so many people have died, at least he has brought a lot of aura to the Shan Hai Jing.
In fact, he had taken the time to drive the Classic of Mountains and Seas in the past few days, and went to the world with fire-breathing dragons and mining dwarves that he had been to before.
He visited the dwarves, gave them some gifts, and followed them deep into the ground.
In the depths of the earth, he saw the boiling lava lake, the crimson dragon eggs that slowly hatched in the magma, and the dragon sleeping in the middle of the lava lake.
It was a giant dragon with a length of more than a thousand feet, and even Pan Long's eyesight could not see its entire body in the not bright firelight.
The dragon is the most feared demon of the dwarves, and when it awakens, it tears the earth apart, from the ground to the surface, spewing fire and burning vast swaths of forests and fields to ashes.
As for all the creatures in it, of course, they will be buried with them.
Pan Long was interested in challenging the achievements of the "Dragon Slayer Warrior", but the dwarves firmly refused.
They felt that if the dragon had woken up, they would be ruined, and it would be helpless for everyone to fight to the death. But now that the dragon is still sleeping, why make trouble?
Isn't it beautiful that everyone is safe?
In this regard, Pan Long's evaluation is - okay, just be happy yourself.
With his ability to fly, he navigated the vast lava lake and reached places where the dwarves had never been.
It was a high-quality vein, with brilliant gold, colorful gems, and all kinds of precious and rare minerals, and a large number of them were distributed in large quantities.
Pan Long became a miner and worked underground for more than a month, collecting a large amount of Mithril ore and finding several pieces of golden ore known as "Olihull Heel".
It was a metal similar in color to gold, but slightly duller. The strength of this metal is simply unreasonable, and it cannot be destroyed by any means, and naturally it cannot be smelted.
This kind of ore is generally not large, dwarves often use it as a large drill bit, although it is not particularly sharp, but it is strong and durable, even if the drill frame is broken, the drill bit will not be broken, it can be used for a lifetime.
Pan Long returned to the Kyushu world with these ores, and was not surprised to find that just one piece of Olihull would consume ten times the amount of spiritual energy equivalent to himself.
This kind of ore is generally not large, dwarves often use it as a large drill bit, although it is not particularly sharp, but it is strong and durable, even if the drill frame is broken, the drill bit will not be broken, it can be used for a lifetime.
Pan Long returned to the Kyushu world with these ores, and was not surprised to find that just one piece of Olihull would consume ten times the amount of spiritual energy equivalent to himself.