In the midst of everyone's applause, Zhou's father groaned for a moment, and finally rejected Zhou Qiang's request with a solemn expression. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhou Qiang was puzzled by this, and even quarreled with Zhou's father for this.

Zhou's father, who has always been quite satisfied with Zhou Qiang, had a very fierce attitude that time.

Father Zhou did not explain the reason, but put down the cruel words at the end: If Zhou Qiang dared to cultivate the truth, then he would no longer be a descendant of the Zhou family, and Father Zhou would personally delete his name from the family tree.

In the end, under the pressure of his father, Zhou Qiang chose to give up.

That time was the most aggrieved time for Zhou Qiang.

Perhaps it was fate, not long after that big quarrel, an accident made Zhou Qiang know the reason why his father stopped him.

But if there is a choice, Zhou Qiang would rather never know this secret.

Because on that day, the Zhou family suffered a catastrophe.

A catastrophe.

On that day, countless people in strange uniforms rushed into the Zhou family's compound, indiscriminately, and killed people when they saw them.

Killing people in broad daylight, these people do not have the slightest scruples, and the cruelty of their methods is unprecedented.

These people kill people when they see them, and they do not show the slightest mercy. Even in the face of women, children and the elderly, there was no hesitation, and it seemed that he planned to kill all the people of the Zhou family from the beginning.

As one of the top forces in the land of Jizhou, it has been operating a dart game for hundreds of years. It stands to reason that the strength of the Zhou family should not be underestimated.

But in front of those people, the Zhou family had no power to fight back. Those strong people in the clan who had taught Zhou Qiang kung fu and were extremely respected by Zhou Qiang were as vulnerable as ants in front of these people. was gently picked by them, and the whole person was torn apart.

The huge Zhou family, under the slaughter of these people, was like ice and snow encountering the scorching sun, quickly melting and disintegrating.

The events of that night completely subverted Zhou Qiang's previous cognition.

Zhou Qiang never thought that there were such terrible people in this world.

The strength of these people, in Zhou Qiang's opinion, is like gods and demons.

If it was changed at another time, let Zhou Qiang see such power, Zhou Qiang would definitely rush up at the first time, bow to the other party, and beg the other party to accept him as an apprentice.

But at that time, when he saw that this force was wantonly destroying his family, Zhou Qiang felt unprecedented fear and despair.

At that time, Zhou Qiang was just eleven years old.

Although Zhou Qiang was called a prodigy by the people around him at that time, although Zhou Qiang was regarded as the best talent of the Zhou family in the past century, although Zhou Qiang was regarded as the most ideal successor by the Zhou family.

But at that time, Zhou Qiang was just a child.

What can a child do when faced with such a thing?

In addition to helplessness.

When the disaster came, Zhou Qiang was stunned like a fool, stupidly watching his family being destroyed and his own people being slaughtered. The faces that were once familiar fell in front of them one by one.

Zhou Qiang couldn't do anything.

At that time, Zhou's father, who was the head of the Zhou family, did not stand up to save the Zhou family who was about to perish in the face of robbers who wantonly slaughtered his family.

Zhou's father found Zhou Qiang as soon as possible, and brought Zhou Qiang into the family's secret room before those robbers found out.

That was the first time Zhou Qiang came to the family secret room, and it was also the first time that Zhou Qiang knew that there was such a secret room in his family.

In the entire Zhou family, only the head of the family was qualified to know about the existence of this secret room.

This secret room was dug and built when the Zhou family was first established, and after dozens of generations of the Zhou family for hundreds of years of hiding, the location is extremely secret, and the formation is reinforced. Even those powerful bandits will not be able to find this place for a while.

After coming to the secret room, Zhou's father solemnly handed over a wooden niche and a letter to Zhou Qiang.

Then, Zhou's father sent Zhou Qiang to leave through another secret passage.

After Zhou Qiang left, Zhou's father destroyed the secret passage.

It didn't take long for the robbers outside to break through the barriers and find the secret room.

Although at the critical moment, Zhou's father did not help the family members who were slaughtered. After sending Zhou Qiang away, Zhou's father still chose to live and die with his family.

While Zhou's father fulfilled the responsibilities of a father, he also fulfilled the obligations of a family head.

In this process, Zhou's father didn't even have time to talk to Zhou Qiang more, let alone explain everything to Zhou Qiang.

And Zhou Qiang, who was frightened by this sudden change, didn't have time to ask all this, and was stuffed into the secret passage by his father.

When Zhou Qiang recovered from the shock, there was only a destroyed secret passage left in front of him.

There was no way, Zhou Qiang could only walk along the secret passage.

Because he was in a secret passage, Zhou Qiang could not accurately perceive the passage of time, but Zhou Qiang could still feel the length of this secret passage.

Although Zhou Qiang is a child, because he has practiced martial arts since he was a child, his physical strength far exceeds that of his peers. But even with such physical strength, Zhou Qiang walked out of the tunnel after resting four or five times in a row.

According to Zhou Qiang's estimates, this secret passage is at least dozens of miles long.

At that time, Zhou Qiang really couldn't imagine how much time and energy it would take to build such a tunnel.

How could his family have such an authentic passage, could it be that the family already knew that there would be such a day.

This secret passage is not only long, but also very tortuous, with many forks. Zhou Qiang relied on a map given to him by his father.

When Zhou Qiang walked out of the secret passage, it was already the second day.

At the exit of the secret passage is a small wooden house located deep in the mountains.

The surrounding scenery is very unfamiliar to Zhou Qiang, and he has never been to this place at all.

Probably because of the practice of martial arts, Zhou Qiang is active by nature, and his favorite thing on weekdays is to go outside to play. When I was just ten years old, I played around the streets and mountains.

To be honest, what kind of scenery is around his home, Zhou Qiang knows even better than his father.

But even so, Zhou Qiang still felt extremely unfamiliar with his surroundings and didn't know where he was.

It can be seen from this how far Zhou Qiang has gone in the secret passage.

Zhou Qiang followed his father's instructions and hid in the cabin for a month. The cabins were well stocked with food and water, and all were fresh and should have been replenished regularly.

A month later, Brother Qiang finally figured out the situation in the deep mountains and groped his way down the mountain.

And after he went down the mountain and rushed back, he found that Zhou Wei's dart game, which was once famous in the land of Jizhou, had completely disappeared.

The original grand dart game, the large number of shops, and the bustling compound are all gone.

The dart board has changed the foyer and turned it into a restaurant. Many shops have also changed their ways and become someone else's business.

As for the original Zhou family compound, it has completely disappeared, and there is not even a piece of rubble left.

It's as if it was a wilderness.

In this land, everything about the Zhou family seems to have been erased.

Looking at everything empty in front of him, Zhou Qiang felt cold in his hands and feet, and his heart was like ashes.

He couldn't believe that this place was once his home.

A month ago, he was the young master of the prestigious Zhou family. Now, he has nothing.

Fathers, mothers, loving elders, mischievous children, and many friends all turned into wisps of green smoke and disappeared completely.

And all of this is because of the accident a month ago, all because of this wooden scorpion in his arms.

Zhou Qiang really wanted to cry.

In Zhou Qiang's arms, there was not only the wooden block, but also the letter left by Zhou's father.

In the letter, Zhou Qiang was clearly told the whole story.

Zhou Qiang finally understood the reason why his family suffered a catastrophe, and also knew the reason why his father refused to cultivate his true truth.

It's just that this truth is too cruel.

Zhou's father originally told Zhou Qiang that after hiding for a month, he would immediately leave and never come back.

But Zhou Qiang, who was young at the time, still couldn't hold back after all, and secretly ran back to take a look.

And the results seen completely made Zhou Qiang collapse.

Just when Zhou Qiang was discouraged and didn't know what to do next, Zhou Qiang suddenly heard someone next to him calling him.

Zhou Qiang turned around and found that it was two beggars. After a closer look, I found that it was Li Wenmu and Monkey.

Li Wenmu and Monkey are both descendants of the Zhou family, and they are also Zhou Qiang's two good playmates.

Li Wenmu's ancestors did things for the Zhou family, and over the years, Li Wenmu's status in the Zhou family was not low. Li Wenmu is even more of Zhou Qiang's companion, and has been with Zhou Qiang since he was a child.

As for the monkey, he is an orphan. In a big winter, because he was tired, hungry and cold, he passed out on the street and was picked up by the Zhou family. Because of his thin body and long sharp-eared monkey gills, everyone called him a monkey.

At first glance, Zhou Qiang was very excited, and immediately rushed up to ask the two of them what was going on?

It turned out that when the Zhou family was robbed that day, the two of them were sent by the Zhou family to buy some things and escaped by luck.

Of course, the Zhou family has a big business, and there are nearly 1,000 people up and down. In the catastrophe of that day, the main characters of the Zhou family were slaughtered by those robbers, but some miscellaneous servants also escaped by luck like the two of them.

However, after these people escaped, they went their separate ways early because they were afraid. Only Li Wenmu and the monkey chose to stay because they had nowhere to go.

The two lived by begging all day long, and they stayed around the former site of the Zhou family until they met Zhou Qiang today.

The reunion of the three after the catastrophe was naturally a sigh.

But when Zhou Qiang asked the two about the news, the two looked at each other and shook their heads at the same time, indicating that they didn't know.

Li Wenmu and the others also felt incredible.

After the catastrophe of the Zhou family, the two of them also tried to find out some news. But what is strange to them is that they have spent a lot of money, thought of a lot of methods, and gone through a lot of ways, but they have not heard a single news.

Those robbers suddenly appeared, and after slaughtering the Zhou family overnight, they all disappeared.

No one knows where the robbers came from or why.

If it weren't for the razing of the huge Zhou family, many people would have doubted the existence of those robbers.