Chapter 53: Greed is the Original Sin
An Shaowen's injuries healed very quickly, and he was already able to walk around on the second day, and under the guidance of An Zhengyuan, he couldn't wait to find Jiang Hua after thanking Yin Nineteen for saving his life.
"Brother Hua, I didn't expect you and my brother to meet alive......" An Shaowen looked at Jiang Hua with a smile on his face and sighed.
"Seeing that you're okay, my heart is relieved, come and sit down. Jiang Hua greeted.
"I heard that Zhang Jiusi set fire to his house and then committed suicide, is it true?" An Shaowen overheard it from the chat of the family, and his father didn't say anything, only let him recuperate with peace of mind.
"It's true, but no body of his family was found, so he should have been sent away in advance. Jiang Hua went to the scene early in the morning, and he didn't know why he wanted to go and see it.
"What kind of nerves is the Zhang family, the family business for hundreds of years is not easy to manage, why do you suddenly want to be the city lord of Aoki City? Oh, by the way, Brother Hua, how did you escape from the Zhang family, Zhang Junyan suddenly cultivated to skyrocket, even my father is not an opponent, I heard Dongsheng say that you agreed to his conditions, did you discover the conspiracy of the Zhang family and pretended to agree to cooperate with him and then waited for an opportunity to escape, it must be like this, otherwise how could you suddenly appear unscathed and save me? Right, Brother Hua?" An Shaowen said in one breath that Jiang Hua didn't know how to respond.
Jiang Hua organized the language, he was not going to tell An Shaowen about Dongsheng for the time being, Dongsheng had disappeared after the incident, he was afraid that if An Zhengyuan knew that Dongsheng was a traitor and almost killed his son, he would be angry with Li Dafu and his wife.
"I was rescued from the Zhang family...... Jiang Hua told An Shaowen that he was rescued from the Zhang family by a mysterious person, but he didn't say that it was a woman, the woman in black told him about the Zhang family, and he also told An Shaowen, but deliberately omitted the matter about Dongsheng.
"It turns out that the mastermind behind Wutuo Mountain is Zhang Junyan! He actually got the exercises left over from that evil cultivator! But how can the person who rescued you know so clearly and in detail, who is he?" An Shaowen seemed to be asking Jiang Hua, but in fact, he himself was secretly guessing that someone knew everything about the Zhang family, but seeing that the Zhang and An families were fighting and not helping each other, what was the purpose behind it? Is it to make a profit?
Jiang Hua could probably guess An Shaowen's thoughts, and he secretly sighed that if An Shaowen and An Zhengyuan knew that someone knew everything about them in Aoki City behind their backs, I don't know what they would think. Jiang Hua would not tell the woman in black, firstly, the other party was his savior, and secondly, he felt that the woman in black was not like a bad person, although she was well-informed and abnormal, she did not do anything to hurt anyone, but her identity and origin must be very mysterious, and it is unknown why she can hold so many secrets.
"Dongsheng doesn't know what's going on? I haven't seen anyone yet. An Shaowen suddenly remembered Dongsheng, who had never shown up, the scene was chaotic last night, and I don't know if he was safe.
"When was the last time you saw him?" Jiang Hua was also very concerned about Dongsheng's whereabouts.
"I was released from the secret room by Dongsheng last night, and after I came out, I asked him to lock his mother and eldest brother inside, because I was in a hurry, and I went directly to the main courtyard after I came out, I don't know where Dongsheng went in the end. An Shaowen recalled.
"Didn't take the opportunity to harm Shaowen and his family, it seems that Dongsheng is not a vicious person like Zhang Junyan, how could a country boy who came to the city to study be involved in such a complicated matter? What did he go through to change from a kind and sensible child to a hidden spy?" Jiang Hua sighed secretly, fortunately he didn't make a big mistake, I hope he will return to his hometown safely from now on to honor his parents and support the elderly.
Except for the remnants of the broken wall that is still smoking, Aoki City is still bustling and lively as if nothing has happened, the notice of the City Lord's Mansion let ordinary people know the reason for the disappearance of the Zhang family, and the news of last night's battle and the mysterious silver-robed man did not dare to be revealed by any of the monks present, only some gossip and rumors made up by speculation are circulating in the market.
An Zhengyuan posted a notice to recruit the city guards on the second day, and the people knew that the Zhang family's battle for power had completely damaged the city guards, and they had to secretly sigh at the strength of the Zhang family. After He Zishen was killed by Zhang Junyan, Dong Cheng, who fought desperately, was also seriously injured and died, and only Wood, who was the lowest in cultivation, escaped with the golden martial arts that made Zhang Junyan fearful, but Wood was also abolished with one hand and one leg, if there is no good healing pill, he can only become a wasted person. However, Wood, who was recuperating from his injuries in the City Lord's Mansion, left the City Lord's Mansion alone on the second day with his seriously injured body, and An Zhengyuan didn't find out in time because there were too many things, and when he got the news, the people sent out to find him had no news of Wood, and An Zhengyuan had to give up for the time being after sighing.
At this time, in the room where Jiang Hua woke up for the first time after being rescued by the woman in black, Wood, who was full of pain, was lying on the bed where Jiang Hua was lying, everything was very similar to Jiang Hua's scene at that time, the only difference was that the other person in the room was no longer the middle-aged woman in black but a young woman in a red dress. The young woman stuffed a white pill into Wood's mouth, and the light blue brilliance that was almost the same as the woman in black who was treating Jiang Hua at that time appeared in her hand, and the woman in the red dress slowly imprinted her palm between Wood's chest and abdomen for a quarter of an hour before retracting her palm.
"Master, why waste your cultivation to save me, a wasted man! I didn't listen to you, I brought it on myself......" The look of pain on Wood's face faded and was replaced by a look of shame.
"Fart! you are my person, even if you are scrapped, you are still a person who lacks a building, as a punishment for your disobedience, stay in the back kitchen in the future, don't show up again, wait for the next time the second sister comes, I beg her for a pill of eight pins, your broken leg still has hope to recover, now let's recuperate with peace of mind, it's a pity that there is no metamorphosis pill at hand, or you can recover now, and you don't need the eight-grade pill......"
After the woman in the red dress finished speaking, she flashed out of the room, and Wood lay on the bed with a lot of thoughts, "Although the head of the house is a woman, she can make a group of old men bow down willingly, and I am really glad that the new shopkeeper of the building is her......"
In the next two days, Jiang Hua lived a very calm life, in addition to dealing with the deliberate set of silver nineteen every day, it was almost to exchange cultivation experience with An Shaowen, and learned that Zhang Junyan did have the second half of the bamboo slip of the Yuan Qi armor in his hand, An Shaowen kept encouraging Jiang Hua to go to the ruins of the Zhang family to find it, Jiang Hua didn't believe that even if Zhang Junyan didn't take the bamboo slip on his body and was burned to ashes by the silver nineteen, it would not be preserved in the fire, but An Shaowen said that the bamboo slip that can record such a powerful martial art is definitely not an ordinary bamboo, maybe it is still in the Zhang family, why not try your luck。
On the third day, An Shaowen's injuries were basically healed, and he couldn't bear An Shaowen's persuasion, Jiang Hua and An Shaowen came to the ruins of Zhang's house together. Jiang Hua himself actually hopes that things are still there, after all, it is not easy to get a martial art that suits him, and only half of the bamboo slips are of no use at all.
There is no one in the ruins of the Zhang family, it turns out that An Shaowen is still afraid that there are cheap people who have already searched for the property left in the ruins, who knows that the family sent out to check the situation yesterday reported that the people said that the ruins of the Zhang family are haunted, and there are many wandering ghosts at night, and no one dares to go to the Zhang family to pick up the cheap.
Jiang Hua guessed that what the people saw might be the soul that Zhang Junyan collected with evil skills, and after Zhang Junyan's death, Zhang Jiusi burned the stored utensils and wandered in Zhang's house unconsciously.
Looking at the rooms that still have a lot of shapes, Jiang Hua now finally understands that the mysterious houses he saw at the beginning turned out to be all about the Wutuo Mountain bandits who were captured by Zhang Junyan, I really don't know how he did it, so many people have been hiding in his own home, and the situation has been so big for so long that there is not even a trace of news from the City Lord's Mansion except for the mysterious woman who knows, it seems that An Zhengyuan is really not a qualified manager.
sighed that the Zhang family made the same mistake of greed as himself, and he was saved by fate, but the Zhang family paid a heavy price for his greed, is this the difference in fate or just that he made a timely choice between greed and justice. Jiang Hua looked at the debris full of rubble and felt deeply, he didn't realize it, as he gradually determined that greed was the original sin, some magical changes occurred in his body again, waiting for him to slowly experience it in the future.
Jiang Hua, who was contemplative, was awakened by An Shaowen's call, and looking around, Jiang Hua found that the place where An Shaowen was standing was vaguely the main house of the house where he negotiated with Zhang Junyan, and saw An Shaowen holding something in his hand, and was wiping off the black ash and rubble residue on it with his cuffs.
"Brother Hua, come here! Look! What is this!" An Shaowen raised the thing that had been wiped clean by himself in his hand, looked at Jiang Hua and shouted excitedly.
"Bamboo slips!?really bamboo slips!Could it be it......
Jiang Hua jumped up excitedly, and a few moves came to An Shaowen's side.
"Open it and take a look!"