Chapter 8: The Death of the White Cloth VIII

Compared with the hardships of the inheritance of the "Yue Nu Sword", the inheritance of the "Yuan Gong Sword" is more bizarre and tortuous. Originally, the family inherited the swordsmanship, but because of the appearance of a traitor, it almost became the "fuse" that affected the entire northern aristocracy. There is a folk legend, a legend that has great persuasive power among the folk. Legend has it that during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, some northern big families secretly cultivated their own forces in order to protect themselves, and it was indispensable to train the dead to defend the family or protect important members of the family, and of course they also shouldered the responsibility of assassinating important figures of hostile forces. But some peripheral personnel don't know, and even some of the children of the side branches of the family don't know, in fact, the core members of the family are also highly skilled. Although they usually don't expose their skills, they play a big role at critical moments. Almost every important member of the big family will have a few tricks of their own, and they are all passed down by the family, and outsiders don't know about it. This not only reduces the safety of important family members, but also strengthens the position of these people in the family.

Outsiders knew about this because of an outer room raised privately by a member of a big family. This outer room has a bad background, so it can't live in the inner courtyard of the big family, so it has to be placed outside to live alone. Once, when he was drinking and chatting with his husband in the outer room, when he said that he was worried about his husband's safety, his husband showed his skills. Not only was the outer room not relieved, but when he asked her husband why she could be like this, she told the truth while half-drunk and half-conscious. As long as the family is a man, as long as they are an important core member of the family, they have to be trained secretly from an early age. When Kung Fu is taught, no one is allowed to observe except the practitioner. Not only are the ladies in the family not allowed to look at it, but even the girls and ladies in the family are not allowed to look at it. If it is discovered that there is a family kung fu that outsiders understand, or if there is a woman who practices family kung fu, the practitioner and the professor will be secretly executed. The core members of this family told their outer chamber that their kung fu was a secret, but other families also had their own tricks. Everyone just doesn't make it public, everyone wants to get other families' tricks, but everyone manages their tricks to the death, which is more important than their own life. This core member of the family, who was already a little drunk, also told his outer room a secret, if the kung fu of these people was placed on the rivers and lakes, they would definitely be at the level of first-class masters. Coupled with the particularity of their swordsmanship, it can definitely shock the rivers and lakes. It's just that the family is not allowed and there is no need to do this, it is better to be a Jianghu person than to be a local hero.

There are several reasons for this outer room to tell this secret, the first is to get revenge on the family for not allowing her to enter the door, and she wants to keep the family's secret from being a secret. The second is because of her husband, the core member of this big family, in addition to the eldest wife in the family and her outer room, also raised a new little wife. After knowing about this, she decided to let this man have no place in the family. The third reason is the most important, that is, because the son she gave birth to for her husband is not a descendant of the line, so he is not qualified to practice the family tricks. Anyway, her son can't learn it, so it's better to make this secret public and let everyone know.

This woman's actions caused a huge turmoil, not only her husband's family, but also several other big families. Everyone collectively decided to strangle this news in the cradle, and the less people knew about it, the better. Not only is this woman going to die, but her son is going to die, and even the man whose husband told the secret will die. Although the elders of the family are a little reluctant, they have to sacrifice this descendant who leaked secrets for the sake of the family's future and rules. In this way, soon after this matter was made public, it was secretly dealt with by someone with a heart. The people who knew the secret, and the people who spread the news, disappeared or died mysteriously one after another.

Just when everyone thought that this matter had been suppressed, an accident appeared. The son of this outer chamber has mysteriously disappeared. This was not done secretly by the family, nor was it done by other families, which made everyone start to worry. Although the child is still young and cannot know too many secrets, the child's parents are dead, and no one knows how many secrets the child knows. Did the child's father say anything about his trick after drinking? If this child knows the secret of the trick, whoever gets the child will be able to know the secret of the big family's trick. The other families wanted to get the secret, and the big family wanted to keep the secret, so a new round of searches began. The order given by the big family to the dead soldiers was to make sure that the child was caught before anyone else, and that the child was dealt with with his own hands. The orders given by the other great families to their respective dead men were not only to live, but also to have children who knew the secrets.

It's a pity that everyone has been looking for a long time, but no one has found this child. Everyone had to return in vain, but they did not give up. The major families turned the search from the original public to secret, and secretly sent people to search for the child indefinitely. The heads of several large families even privately offered shocking bounties for the whereabouts of their living children. The big families seem to be red-eyed in order to get the trick. It's a pity that no matter how hard they try, this child is still missing.

More than ten years later, Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty, unified the north and established the Northern Song Dynasty, and the big family had to cooperate with the Song family. Zhao Kuangyin is also an emperor immediately, and he is also a person with strong kung fu, he knows how difficult it is for a big family with a trick to deal with. So while unifying the country, he began to deal with the big families, and as long as he found an opportunity, he could attack the big families. At this time, the big families also knew that Zhao Kuangyin was not an easy person to deal with, but they had no other way, so they had to seize the time to consolidate their strength and cultivate more family men to become talents.

That's when the child, who had been missing for a long time, appeared. This child is not only an adult, but also took refuge in Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin. I don't know if he came up with it himself, or if Zhao Kuangyin secretly taught it, he made a secret public. According to him, these tricks are not only powerful, but also hide a big secret. This is a secret and a clue to a treasure related to the Tang royal family. According to legend, Empress Wu Zetian's daughter, Princess Taiping, is also a powerful character, and she has long had plans to become the second generation of empress. While secretly collecting her cronies, she prepared money and food for her ascension to the throne. When the matter was revealed, Princess Taiping was imprisoned, and her henchmen were either killed or captured, but the whereabouts of her vast treasure are unknown. Because Princess Taiping married a person surnamed Xue, this treasure is also known as the "Xue Secret Collection". Because this treasure is so mysterious, and so many years have passed, not many people know this secret. The current four families are the descendants of the guards of this treasure back then, and they not only jointly control the secrets of this treasure, but also take out a part of the treasure to run the business. Although this is only part of the treasure, the amount is already staggering. The trick is not only the secret skill of the family, but also the key to unlocking the treasure. Therefore, the descendants of the four major families not only managed their own tricks to the death, but also tried their best to get other people's tricks, the purpose was to finally get the treasure.

Although the core members of the four major families knew that this secret was fake, the trick did not matter any treasure. But the vast majority of people don't know the truth, and they clamore to know the secrets inside the trick, and even more so to share the treasures in the so-called treasures. Especially some of the unpowerful side branches and descendants of the concubines, they feel that they have lost the opportunity to learn tricks and can no longer lose the opportunity to get rich and noble. They fight and quarrel in their respective homes, demanding that the core members tell secrets and hand over their tricks. Of course, the core members did not agree, and a fierce conflict broke out between the two sides. This is the result that Zhao Kuangyin wants, he wants the big family to be disunited, and the big family has no energy and time to fight against the court.

Although in the end, the big family finally made it clear, and temporarily suppressed the internal chaos. However, some problems within the big family have become public, and some powerful people have decided to separate from the big family and go alone. Although the core members of the extended family wanted to keep these people, the estrangement already existed, so they had to leave on their own. The four major families have been split into more than a dozen medium families, although the four major families are still there, but their strength and power have become much smaller. They were no longer able to compete with the imperial court represented by Zhao Kuangyin, so they had to obey the arrangements of the imperial court and obediently obey the orders of the imperial court.

The rumor-monger has been abandoned by Zhao Kuangyin, and of course his fate is not good. He lived in fear, constantly worrying about the revenge of the four great families. But the strange thing is that the four major families did not do anything to this person. In fact, the reason is very simple, after all, this person has done things for Zhao Kuangyin, if anyone targets him, it is to give Zhao Kuangyin the opportunity to target the entire family, so no one dares to find trouble with this person openly. However, things changed soon after, and the four major families thought of the problem, as long as they didn't kill this person at once, there would be no big problem in torturing this person. Therefore, they secretly instructed the underage children in the family to trouble this person from time to time, and they could beat people but they were not allowed to kill them. In this way, today is the descendant of this big family, tomorrow it will be changed to the descendant of a big family, and the day after tomorrow it will be changed, and almost every day someone comes out to torture this person. Although this person wants to die, he can't die, not only is someone beat him every day, but someone will pour him some decoction. In this way, he was tortured for three whole years, and these three years were really longer than thirty years for him, and it was simply worse than death. When he thought he was going to continue, a bowl of ** a day completely killed him. The reason is very simple, Zhao Kuangyin died, and his younger brother Zhao Kuangyi became the emperor of Song Taizong, so there is no need for this person to live.