Chang'an City is still so prosperous, and countless people are in this city, chasing the life they want. Either for fame or for profit. is always struggling in a daze, trying his best, spending a price, just to get what he wants and achieve the goal he is pursuing. Just like those people from the Qinghe Cui clan who were still living in the southeast Dunhua Fang of Chang'an City at this time.

"Did you find it?" An old man sat in the main room of a small courtyard, holding a cup of tea in his hand, and slowly sipping it. The beard under his chin was as white as snow, neatly combed, and at first glance he was a person who had been in a high position and pampered, and at this time he was looking at the group of people kneeling in front of him. The group was dressed in coarse cloth clothes, and their thin clothes were open to their chests, revealing their strong muscles. They were all a group of skilled martial artists, but there was an indifferent expression on their faces, and they couldn't see joy or joy, as if their faces were frozen at the moment when they made a face.

"We've found some clues, and according to the information from the inside lines of the Wang family, the Pei family and other families, we have been able to piece together a small half of the map!" The man kneeling at the front below replied in a hoarse voice.

"Does that thing really exist? There have been so many specious clues that have appeared before that have been proven to be false, but will it be true this time? Those old guys in the family really don't know what to think! The old man put down the teacup in his hand, looked at the snow that began to fly again in the garden, stood up, and said softly.

"This, the little one doesn't know, but as long as it is a decision made by the family, the little one will do his best to complete it. Even if it costs us our lives! The man in the sackcloth at the head lowered his head and replied.

"Is it really worth it for that ethereal thing? My Qinghe Cui family has inherited a family business for hundreds of years. I can't stand their expense! When did you not spend all your family possession in search of that thing? It takes several generations to accumulate consumption again and again, and no matter how big the family is, it can't afford it! The old man was worried.

"Lord Cui Xiang, those adults in these clans naturally have considerations! The clues that appeared this time are so amazing that people have to believe it! Because the map alone is the finest mutton fat white jade, and this map alone is priceless, who would spend such a price to deceive us? And based on the guidelines above, we've found the approximate range. In those places, there were rumors about it, no different from those handed down by our ancestors! The man below spoke up.

"Then go and find it! But why did you abolish the son of the eldest grandson Wuji? And you people don't even suspect the origin of the map? The original owners of these fragmented maps gave us these families something so important? No matter whose hands it is, it must be tightly hidden. How did it appear in Luoyang? "Cui Xiang, the minister of the early Tang Dynasty who has retired from the position of the head of the household, the highest speaker of the Qinghe Cui clan in the court, is full of worries and doubts at this time. His years of experience as an official made him feel that this matter was too strange. However, the interests involved made him and the family behind him willing to take risks.

"Your Excellency. The person who sent the map conveyed his meaning on the map, and the map he sent last time was actually incomplete, and if he wanted more maps, he went to the person who gave the hint on the map and got the rest from them. We had already obtained some of it from Li Kuan, the king of Chu who had returned from this expedition to the Turks, and the second person was Changsun Chong, so ......" replied the Mai man below.

"In that case, why did you beat the eldest grandson Chong. Still shot so hard? Cui Xiang thinks that as long as you find someone, you can get what you need. These people actually attacked the target, which really left him speechless.

"Because the storage of that thing is something that these people will not hand over lightly, just like the map of Li Kuan, the king of Chu last time, was actually on the jade seal of the country, and the eldest grandson Chong's copy was on the jade pendant handed down by the ancestors of the eldest grandson's family. How can these things be brought out? So you can only grab it! And the eldest grandson Chong actually protected the jade pendant regardless of it, and also injured two brothers, so the brothers shot harder. The person below gave an answer that convinced Cui Xiang.

Who would have thought that the clues about that thing would be carved into these things that the target would definitely swear to protect, so that there was no better way than to go forward and snatch it directly.

"Forget it, go with you, I believe that the Holy Lord has already found our heads at this time, and your whereabouts are not hidden, it is really too conspicuous!" Cui Xiang decided to go with him, anyway, he didn't have the slightest extravagant hope for that thing, and now he only thought about passing on the Cui family and continuing to maintain his current transcendent status. I have to say that the methods he has used to see Li Er over the years have made him feel a sense of despair. This powerful king is too powerful, if Li Er really targets their family, he is really not sure that he will be able to keep the family's position. Fortunately, the Tang Dynasty is now surrounded by a group of enemies, Goryeo and Fusang in the east, the Turks in the west, the nine surnames of Zhaowu, the barbarians in the southwest, as well as Tubo, Tuyuhun, Tiele and so on. made Li Er unable to free up his hands to deal with them for the time being, or because of these foreign enemies, Li Er did not dare to target the clans within the Tang Dynasty too much. Under such circumstances, the life of the five surnames and seven wangs is still very good, and each one in their respective entrenched areas is a small independent kingdom, even if Li Er sent countless local officials, but when it comes to their territory, they are not the ones who have the final say.

"Let's go!" Cui Xiang walked out of the main room slowly, with his hands behind his back, his back a little staggering. He was disappointed in the big names in the family who had fantasies.

There are still bustling crowds on the streets of the capital, even if it is almost dusk at this time, but there are nearly 800,000 people living in this city, such a population base, so that there will never be too few people in a hurry on the streets. They are ready to go home, and if they want to survive in this city, they can only keep working hard and sweating.

Jiuxianju, the most luxurious restaurant in the capital of the Tang Dynasty, is still full of friends at this time, because it is now the evening meal. Therefore, in this five-story restaurant, it is full of guests from all over the world, speaking with different accents, all waiting to taste the food of the most famous restaurant in Datang.

At the top of the restaurant, in an elegant room, six young men were sitting together, their brows shining with a slight sadness. Because they witnessed the whole process of the attack on Changsun Chong, they were all summoned by Dali Temple for interrogation during this time, although because of their deep backgrounds, they were not troubled by those little Xing officials, but they still made them miserable for a year. Now that they have finally been released, the group has decided to come here to drink and get drunk.

"Brother Die, you were the closest at the time, did you see the appearance of those people clearly?" Li Jing's grandson, Li Jingye, asked out loud. Because of the family rules set by Li Jing, his descendants are not allowed to practice martial arts, so although the two brothers are the children of a family of military generals, they are scholars who have no power to restrain the chicken. So now that I'm free, I want to know what happened at that time, and I want to ask the closest Fang Yi directly.

"I didn't see it clearly, but it was getting dark, and those people seemed to have been prepared, and they all wiped things on their faces, so they couldn't see it really." Fang Yizhi also wanted to see who attacked Changsun Chong at that time. But the faces of those people were painted so colorful that they really couldn't see their faces clearly. Moreover, the area around the accident site was relatively dark, and the sky was already dark. It was even more difficult to see people, although Fang Yizhi used a horsewhip to whip the group of people at that time, but how effective the horsewhip he swung out was, the group of people didn't care about him at all. If it was replaced by his younger brother's bereavement, then he would definitely be able to whip one away.

"We were so unlucky, we didn't know anything, and we were swept into this muddy water! I don't know what happened to the eldest grandson! Come to drink, when you get drunk, you forget everything, and you forget the bad luck of this body! Li Xiaogong's youngest son, Li Chonghui, picked up the wine glass and took the lead in drinking. The group didn't say much, and they all looked up and poured wine.

At this time, these people didn't know that the jade pendant that had been hanging around Changsun Chong's neck in the chaos at that time was torn off and taken away by that group of people. And Changsun Wuji didn't know, because when he came home and saw Changsun Chong, Changsun Chong had already been cleaned of the dust and blood on his body by his subordinates and lay on the bed. So he didn't go to carefully check whether the jade pendant that Changsun Chong was wearing was still there, so he didn't know. If he knew, he would definitely be even more angry, because that thing had been passed down from generation to generation by his eldest grandson's family, and it had a special meaning.

In this way, by mistake, the side of the Tang Dynasty has not yet figured out why those private soldiers of the family who secretly entered Beijing came, even if it is a hundred cavalry, they still have no clue. Because these families were stunned after snatching Li Kuan's heirloom jade seal, they didn't expect that the legendary thing that was escorted into Beijing by Xue Wanche would be their target, and it would also appear on the body of Li Kuan, the king of Chu. And the news that it was lost because of the jade seal of the country was passed on before. There was a lot of turmoil in the court, and they didn't dare to reveal the slightest rumor, otherwise the whole family would really stand on the opposite side of the court. They didn't want to have a bad relationship with Li Tang and cause unnecessary disputes. So after they got the jade seal of the country, they copied the information on it, and then quietly sent it back. The interval between them was no more than the time of tea, that is, the moment when Li Kuan was attacked at the post station. After that, Li Kuan returned to Chang'an in a vain attempt to exchange the jade seal of the country for Li Er to take back his fate, but he was refused. It was also because of this party that passed on the jade seal of the country, Li Kuan retained the title of King of Chu.

So what is the purpose of these great families? What is it that is worth it for them to catch it at the expense of tearing their faces with Li Tang? This thing is the bait that Li Kuan spilled, how did Li Kuan know that these families were chasing that thing, or that news? A qiē seems to have a different kind of hidden secret! (To be continued......)