Chapter 68: Ma Lie's Decision
Ju said that in the Ming Dynasty more than 300 years ago, 'Ziyuan Shengong' was hidden in a grocery bookstore that no one cared about. Inadvertently, he was discovered by a scholar surnamed Shen and bought it back to his home to study and cultivate.
According to research, the scholar's name surnamed Shen was Shen Wansan, and he was the most famous wealthy merchant in the Ming Dynasty. It's just that the times are old, and Shen Shusheng is usually too low-key, (he stays at home to practice all day long) There are not too many documents to record this scholar's experience.
Prior to this, this scholar took advantage of the mysteries of divine skills and quickly accumulated business and became the richest man at that time.
After being carefree, this Shen scholar spent the rest of his time specializing in cultivating the Ziyuan Divine Skill, but in the end, he spent his whole life practicing the 'Ziyuan Divine Skill'.
After the divine skill was completed, Shen Shu, who had become the richest man, became an immortal and soared away.
In order to concentrate on cultivating divine skills, Shen Shusheng did not get married and had children, and only accepted six descendants.
There is also a legend that the fatal flaw of Ziyuan Divine Skill is that it is a woman, once you are with a woman, the progress of cultivating Divine Skill will be very slow, and even stop regressing.
Therefore, that Shen Shusheng has never been married and has children, and he rarely gets close to women.
After he ascended, the huge wealth he left behind was divided among the six descendants, but the merit of the magical Purple Yuan God was disputed.
They all knew that the reason why the master made a fortune and became an immortal was completely assisted by the cultivation of the 'Purple Yuan Divine Skill'.
Therefore, Ziyuan's divine skills are more tempting than Jinyuan's treasures, and none of the six apprentices are convinced, and they fight on the spot, all wanting to take Ziyuan for themselves.
However, the martial arts of the six apprentices are almost the same, and no one can beat anyone. The six of them fought for a day and a night, and they ended up scarred, and they didn't tell the winner.
This is, an apprentice surnamed Jiang Jian yì copied five copies of Ziyuan Divine Skill, plus the original, a total of six copies. Then the six men took one each.
However, this Jian yì was strongly opposed by the other five apprentices. Because, what is recorded in this 'Ziyuan Divine Skill' is not only words, but also various hidden veins and dark lines.
It is not difficult to transcribe the text, but the hidden things in the original page cannot be copied, and if you copy a little wrong, you may fall into a catastrophe.
In the end, the six apprentices unanimously discussed and decided to split the 'Ziyuan Gong Method' into six parts, and then use the lottery to feel the ownership of the six divine skills.
In this way, a good copy of Ziyuan Divine Skill was split into six parts by six apprentices who did not understand the mystery of Divine Skill, and it has been passed down to this day.
Finally, as a reminder, the six apprentices are surnamed Hang, Jiang, Kong, Lu, Zhou, and Gu.
Seeing the tendency of Old Man Hang's rejuvenation and rejuvenation, Jiang Shen, who has not aged and declined.
Ma Lie suddenly understood that Jiang Shen had told him that it was true that the Hang family had something to cure Ziyuan's defects, but he only said half of it right or deliberately concealed part of it.
The 'Purple Yuan Divine Skill', which complemented each other, had been divided into six parts, and they had been taken by the six major families as their own.
No matter which part of the cultivation it is, it has fatal flaws.
Let's not talk about whether you can cultivate to perfection and turn into an immortal. If you want to completely eliminate the defects after cultivating the Divine Skill, you must gather the six incomplete Divine Skills together to smooth out its troubles.
Therefore, Ma Lie not only wanted to get close to the Hang family, but even the other six major families could not be separated and excluded. However, these six families are not ordinary forces.
No matter how strong Ma Lie's ability is, he can't make any waves among the six major families, and he must rely on the power of the first family, that is, the Hang family, to have a chance to seize the 'Ziyuan Divine Skill' occupied by the other five major families.
Then again, at this time, Ma Lie is still wandering outside the door of the Hang family, whether he can enter the inside of the Hang family depends on Hang Xuezhen's birthday party today.
It's also his only chance.
While Ma Lie was pondering, Old Man Hang led the other representatives of the five major family members to the hall.
On behalf of the young characters of the Hang family, Hang Xuezhen asked him: "Hello grandpa!" ”
Old Man Hang smiled kindly and touched his granddaughter's beautiful hair ornament: "Xue Zhen, happy birthday." ”
Hang Xue replied obediently: "Well, thank you grandpa." ”
"Old man Hang, okay."
"Old man Hang, the older your body gets, the tougher it gets." The younger generation of other families also greeted Mr. Hang one after another.
Master Hang staggered and paced, waving his hand and returning the salute. At first glance, it looks like a young and promising king patrolling his subjects.
The old man came to the main seat in the middle of the hall, waved his hand to everyone, and said, "Let everyone wait for a long time, hehe, today is the twentieth birthday of my granddaughter Xue Zhen, and it is also her coming-of-age ceremony." Well, this is supposed to be a festival for you young people, but let me, the old man, take up your young people's time, hehe, okay, I won't talk nonsense, everyone sits down, ready to eat, and after eating, it's time for you young people to mess around. ”
As soon as Old Man Hang's words fell, two doors on one side of the hall opened, and dozens of staff members in neat white uniforms came and went, carrying plates of delicate and mellow dishes and placing them on the table in the hall.
Most of the people who could eat in this castle hall were the main family members of the six major families, as well as several other dignitaries. For example, the brother-in-law of Hang Xuezhen, who Ma Lie once met, who was a secretary, was also among them.
Ma Lie already knew the identity of this brother-in-law Huang, the boss of Donghai City. Although he was also a first-class guest, in this banquet, the boss of Donghai City could only sit with Hang Guozhen and others.
Old Man Hang and the other main representatives of the five major families were naturally the most important and authoritative figures, and they all sat at the first table.
Hang Xue is really the protagonist of this birthday party, and she can only sit at the second table. Hang Tianxiong, an outstanding representative of the second generation of members of the Hang family, and other minor members of the family sat at the third table.
The secretary's brother-in-law sat at the third table with Hang Hongzhen, Hang Guozhen and other major members of the younger generation of the six major families, and so on.
It can be seen from this that the status and strength of the six major families in the Huaxia Kingdom.
In the entire hall, a total of nine banquets were placed. There are eight seats on each seat.
They have such a large gathering every year, and there is a fixed number of how to arrange the generations and how to do the seats, except for Ma Lie.
Fortunately, Hang Xue really had already left him an important place and sat down next to her left.
Because of the special treatment that Ma Lie received, he was immediately met with the unanimous curiosity and jealousy of everyone present.
It stands to reason that Hang Xue is really the protagonist of today's feast, and the one who is qualified to sit next to her should be her fiancé Kong Qide. Who knows, but it is a strange Ma Lie.
Kong Qide was naturally unconvinced, but in front of so many big people, he didn't dare to have a seizure, and sat on Hang Xuezhen's right side.
Good wine and good food were put on the table, and with the announcement of Old Man Hang: "Let's eat, everyone, you're welcome." ”
The rich people eat just like when the common people usually eat and have dinners, several people sit at a table, and they take chopsticks to the bowl to eat whatever they want.
After all, they are all earthlings, and they all eat in the same way.
It's just that the old man said that he ate casually, but the people present ate it in a proper manner, and they were very decent, elegant and so on.
Marlie had already eaten a big meal outside the castle, and his stomach was not very hungry. Seeing everyone facing a table of delicacies from the mountains and seas, they can maintain a reserved, strict, and gentle.
The impression of the storm did not come for a long time, but a dull haze shrouded the main hall.
Hearing the subtle chewing sounds around him, Ma Lie was secretly depressed: Where is this called a birthday banquet, the atmosphere is similar to the Hongmen banquet. Even if it is the delicacies of the mountains and seas, it is not as fragrant as the home-cooked food of our ordinary people.
The short silence was finally broken by Kong Qide.
Maybe seeing that Hang Xuezhen was too cold to himself, Kong Qide took out two fish balls from a bowl of pearl fish soup with a soup spoon, put them in Hang Xuezhen's bowl, and said with concern: "Xuezhen, come, this is your favorite fish gall bladder." ”
Hang Xue really glared at him angrily, and said coldly: "If I want to eat it, I will eat it myself!" ”
"Uh, got it!" Kong Qide touched a cold nail, and naturally turned his anger to Ma Lie, this damn guy, how do you look at it so annoying?
If Ma Lie hadn't been here, Hang Xue would not have treated himself like this.
Kong Qide was angry again, and squinted at Ma Lie who was about to clip a piece of braised mountain pig's trotters, he hurriedly grabbed the fork and crossed in front of Hang Xuezhen, the fork poked first, and then put it in his bowl.
"Huh?"
The pig's trotters that he finally valued were crossed away, Ma Lie thought it was an accident, raised his head and saw Kong Qide's smug look, and knew that this time it was definitely not an accident.
He stretched out his chopsticks again and clipped another piece
Click!
The fork on the opposite side stretched out unmistakably again, forking away the braised hooves that he had fancied. Ma Lie doesn't believe in evil, so he clips another piece.
Click!
The fork brazenly wanted to fight with him, as long as Ma Lie wanted to clamp something, the fork was immediately snatched and forked away.
Hang Xuezhen saw that the struggle on the table between the two was mainly provoked by Kong Qide, and Ma Lieken was able to maintain his own identity, and he didn't take Kong Qide's provocation to heart, nor did he have any counterattack, and he still maintained a calm and calm expression on his face.
Hang Xuezhen secretly admired his cousin, and saw Ma Lie competing with Kong Qide on that plate of braised pig's trotters, thinking that he liked to eat, so he took the initiative to grab a piece of roasted pig's trotters and put it into Ma Lie's bowl: "Ma Lie, this is for you to eat." ”
"Well, I'll clip it myself!" Ma Lie secretly smiled bitterly.
Hang Xue was really kind, not only did she not help, but she wanted to push Ma Lie into the fire pit.
Sure enough, Kong Qide saw that his fiancée didn't accept his fish gall bladder, and took the initiative to serve Ma Lie vegetables, and he was immediately angry again, what is the reason?
Damn, it must be Ma Lie's ghost again!
Kong Qide was angry again and again, and he never dared to spill his anger on Hang Xuezhen, and the innocent Ma Lie could only become the punching bag of Master Kong.