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With a series of clouds and thunder rolling, a thunderbolt finally flashed in the night sky, instantly illuminating the entire Western Imperial City in a miserable white, and then a thunderbolt came suddenly, resounding between the heavens and the earth, and the wind was raging and raining. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

There is an ordinary courtyard in the depths of an alley in the south of the West Imperial City, and almost all the people who live nearby are ordinary people in the West Imperial City, which is not prosperous or rich, and can even be said to be a little dilapidated, but because of this, this piece of street and alley has become the most peaceful place in the West Imperial City today. On weekdays, even the ones who are too lazy to come here, whether it is the Lord of the Western Imperial City or the Emperor, no matter how lively they are, it will not affect the peace of the place at all, because it is really too mediocre and dilapidated here.

And in this mediocre courtyard, there are now Lu Haoqian, the Duke of Wending, and his wife Liu Qingyuan, who were famous in the Holy Domain. This was specially arranged by Lu Yifan, he didn't want the people of the Lu family to participate in the Southwest Chamber of Commerce for the sake of their safety, not to mention that Lu Haoqian and Liu Qingyuan are not young now, and they have long lost the idea of competing for fame and fortune, according to Lu Haoqian's words, he just wants to spend the next days with Liu Qingyuan in peace and happiness now. The incident in Jinling made Lu Haoqian exhausted, he used to be busy all day long, but now he has nothing to do all day, such a pure and light life has not been experienced for decades for Lu Haoqian.

In the simple room, Lu Haoqian and Lu Yifan sat around a shabby wooden table, only a dim butter lamp was dyed on the table in the whole room, the whole room was dim, and the brightness emitted by the small oil lamp was extremely weak, so that Lu Haoqian and Lu Yifan, who were sitting at the table, could hardly see each other's expressions. There are several volumes of ancient books neatly placed in the corner of the table, and there is a large teapot and a few upside-down teacups on the table.

"It's raining again!" Lu Haoqian turned his head to look out the window, the rainstorm made the old window rattle, although it was a little windy, but fortunately there was no rain, "It's good everywhere in the Western Imperial City, it's just that the weather is changing too fast, it's unpredictable!"

"Yes!" Lu Yifan held his slightly hot teacup in both hands, with a soft smile on his face, tonight Xie Yun and Lu Jun and others went to Pang He's mansion for a banquet Lu Yifan already knew, last night Liu Sandao had already found out the dispute with the emperor that Lu Jun avoided talking about, and informed Lu Yifan 1510, Lu Yifan did not expose the matter because of Lu Jun's face, but although he did not come forward in person, he was still a little uneasy. Therefore, Liu Sandao was sent to accompany him secretly, in case of emergency.

Regarding what happened in the Western Emperor's Mansion, although Lu Yifan didn't know the result at this moment, he basically guessed what would happen.

"Yifan, what do you think the emperor means that he has not moved for a long time?" Lu Haoqian turned his head and took a sip of tea gently, and then asked in a flat tone, as if he was intentionally testing Lu Yifan.

"I don't know yet!" Lu Yifan shook his head with a wry smile, "I'm also very strange, according to my previous expectations, when the Emperor Sect found out that this month's tribute silver was forcibly collected by us, he should be furious, and then kill him, but they didn't do it, but it surprised me a little!"

"The Emperor Sect didn't pay attention to what the Southwest Chamber of Commerce did, not because they were afraid of you!" Lu Haoqian smiled slowly, "On the contrary, it's because they didn't take you seriously at all!"

"I have this idea too!" Lu Yifan nodded and admitted, "That's why I will connive with Xie Yun and them to go to the Western Emperor's Mansion for a banquet tonight, with my understanding of Xie Yun and Lu Jun and a few of them, this matter will definitely not be resolved peacefully as Pang He expected, and there will be a scuffle in the Western Emperor's Mansion tonight!"

"Do you want to take this opportunity to explore the truth of the Imperial Sect?" Lu Haoqian looked at Lu Yifan in surprise, and there was a faint hint of appreciation in his expression.

"Exactly!" Lu Yifan did not shy away from his thoughts in front of Lu Haoqian, "Dad, do you think it is appropriate for me to do this?"

"It's not inappropriate, if you and the Emperor Sect can't fight for a long time, it will not be easy to find out the truth of the other party, that will be very unfavorable to the Southwest Chamber of Commerce!" Lu Haoqian frowned slightly and analyzed, "Although the Emperor Sect doesn't take you seriously, this is not enough to constitute a reason why they don't do anything to you!"

"Daddy means ......"

"If my prediction is correct, the Emperor Sect must have something more urgent to do now, so he will have no time to pay attention to the Southwest Chamber of Commerce!" Lu Hao speculated in a low voice, "A thing that can make the Emperor Sect ignore the fourteen million silver shells, such a thing is nothing more than two possibilities, one is people, and the other is money! If there is no one available, it means that the Emperor is determined to do something else now, so there is no time to send extra people to solve the Southwest Chamber of Commerce." And if it is about money, it must be a huge fortune that is enough to overshadow the 14 million! But both people and money must have a common characteristic, that is, time must be very urgent, otherwise the emperor will not let you go bigger and bigger!"

Hearing Lu Haoqian's analysis, Lu Yifan couldn't help but nod thoughtfully again and again.

"The Emperor has urgent things to do, what could it be?" Lu Yifan muttered to himself with a puzzled face, "There hasn't been anything special happening in the southwest recently......

"There is no one in the southwest, but there is one in the north!" Without waiting for Lu Yifan's words to finish, Lu Haoqian said lightly, and then he stared straight at Lu Yifan, and said word by word, "Yifan, although you are in the Western Imperial City, what happened in the Western Imperial City must be because of the people in the Western Imperial City?" You have to understand that everything has a causal connection, it is possible that a small incident in Jinling City can affect the life and death of a group of people in the Western Imperial City, this connection is everywhere, you want to be alone, but it is absolutely impossible for you to do anything completely independent of this world......! You're dead!"

"Daddy means the boiling Northern War that is rumored now?" Lu Yifan suddenly said, "The life-and-death battle between the Holy Northern King Yanlie leading the 200,000 Sacred Domain army and the 250,000 rebel army led by Lan Shixun?" As soon as he said this, the incomprehension between Lu Yifan's eyebrows became more and more intense, "How can this matter be related to the fact that we are separated by 108,000 miles?

"At first glance, there may not be a direct connection between them, but you must not forget who is behind the Emperor's Sect?" Lu Haoqian asked seductively.

"Sanctuary Sect Master...... Dongfang Su?" Lu Yifan's tone began to become a little hesitant.

"That's right! Lan Shixun colluded with the beast clan externally, but he was also not idle internally!" As soon as Lu Haoqian mentioned Lan Shixun, the disdain on his face became more and more obvious, "If there is no secret help from Dongfang Su in the Holy Domain, how can Lan Shixun carry out the rebellion so smoothly!"

"Lan Shixun was secretly helped by Dongfang Su,......" Lu Yifan thought about it repeatedly with a frown, "Lan Shixun once led troops to exterminate Lou Zong, shouldn't there be enmity between him and Dongfang Su......"

"If only everything in the world was as simple as you think!" Lu Haoqian smiled bitterly, "Then Brother Han would not die, and his father would not fall into such a field today!"

"Dad means that Dongfang Su wants to help Lan Shixun when the war breaks out, so he seconded the emperor's men and horses to the north to help?" Lu Yifan said faintly, "It is precisely because the masters in the imperial sect have been borrowed that they have no time to deal with us?"

"Although there is some truth, this possibility is not very great!" Lu Haoqian slowly shook his head and said, "Lan Shixun already has a great advantage in people, 250,000 troops against 200,000, plus now there are no generals under Yan Lie who know how to fight, with Lan Shixun's ability to lead the troops, it is easy to defeat Yan Lie, it is said to be a life-and-death battle, in fact, in the eyes of his father, Yan Lie is not Lan Shixun's opponent at all!

"Dad said just now, the emperor didn't make a move against us not because of people, or because of ......money," Lu Yifan's words had just said this, his eyes suddenly flashed, and then he opened his mouth and said, "I understand! The most important thing in leading troops to fight is money, food, and horses, although Lan Shixun has a lot of people, but in terms of money and food, it is far inferior to the scorching Sacred Domain army, and the northern Xinjiang is already barren, so how can there be so much military salary for Lan Shixun to squander? Therefore, he turned to the Sect Master of the Sacred Domain, trying to let Dongfang Su try to raise military salaries for him! And the Emperor Sect, as the most important sect in the southwest, is naturally responsible for this matter, and the huge consumption of military salaries can definitely not be alleviated by a mere 14 million silver shells, so the Emperor Sect is now eager to find ways to raise a huge fortune to contribute to the Sacred Domain Sect Master......" Speaking of this, Lu Yifan's originally clear thoughts couldn't help but stagnate again, and then a trace of confusion appeared between his eyebrows, "No! If this is the case, then the Emperor should regard money as his life even more, and why would he be indifferent to the fourteen million silver shells that we have seized? At this time, every penny should be extremely precious to them, right? If they don't collect money from the fourteen cities in the southwest, then where will their money come from......

"Yifan, don't forget why you have to recapture Xihuang Mountain?" Lu Haoqian reminded softly when he saw this. As soon as Lu Haoqian's words came out, Lu Yifan was slightly stunned at first, and then suddenly there was a roar in his head, only to see that his eyes widened in an instant, and the expression on his face was indescribably complicated.

"The emperor is fighting ...... The idea of the treasure hidden in the West Emperor Mountain?" Lu Yifan muttered to himself.

"Liu Sandao used to be a bandit of the Western Emperor, and his reputation has long been known to everyone. And the people of the Imperial Sect are not stupid, they must have guessed that there would be treasures in the West Emperor Mountain a long time ago!" Lu Haoqian didn't know about the West Emperor Temple and the people of the Liu clan, so the treasures he thought were only those that Liu Sandao had robbed over the years.

But at this moment, Lu Yifan was not thinking of these, the first thing he thought of was the millions of years of huge wealth treasures hidden in the wells of thousands of zhang, left behind by the Western Emperor.

As soon as he thought of this, Lu Yifan couldn't hold back his anxious heart anymore, he now hated to kill the Emperor Sect immediately and take back the West Emperor Mountain as soon as possible.

And looking at Lu Yifan, who was sitting on pins and needles with an anxious face, Lu Haoqian's eyes couldn't help but flash a touch of curiosity, in his consciousness, his son had never cared so much about money.

"Yifan, you don't have to worry too much, for my father's expectation, they must not have succeeded now!" Lu Haoqian smiled and said with relief, "Otherwise, they would have sent someone to deal with your Southwest Chamber of Commerce a long time ago!"

"Anyway, this matter must be resolved as soon as possible!" Lu Yifan said absentmindedly, "If you continue to consume like this, something big will happen sooner or later......"

"Where you are, this is ......"

"What are you father and son talking about?" Just as Lu Haoqian was surprised by Lu Yifan's reaction, Liu Qingyuan, who was carrying a pot of new tea on the side, had already walked over, and when she saw Lu Yifan's tightly knit brows, she couldn't help but have a hint of complaint in her eyes when she looked at Lu Haoqian, "Master, it's rare that we live a clean life now, why do you bother Yifan?"

"Mother, this matter has nothing to do with my father, it's the child who is worried about it!" As soon as he saw Liu Qingyuan, Lu Yifan hurriedly dissipated the gloomy color on his face, and replaced it with a happy smile, no matter what kind of life and death trials Lu Yifan experienced outside, but as soon as he returned home and saw Liu Qingyuan, he immediately turned back into the child who would never grow up. Saying that, Lu Yifan hurriedly got up and gave Liu Qingyuan to his seat, and sat sideways to the side.

Now Lu Haoqian and Liu Qingyuan are both dressed very plainly, both of them are dressed in cloth, especially for Liu Qingyuan, who has lost the silk and gold and silver jewelry of the past, and now she looks a little less graceful and luxurious, but the noble cultivation between the innate temperament and speech and demeanor is under the backdrop of such a cloth clothes, which shows a little more indifferent and tranquil beauty.

"Fan'er, my mother really doesn't want you to compete with others outside, why don't you go home with Ling'er, isn't it good for our family to live a plain life?" Liu Qingyuan reached out and gently stroked Lu Yifan's cheek, her face was full of love, "My mother is worried about you every day, the Lu family has suffered misfortune when they were in Jinling City, and my mother really doesn't want to see you again!"

"The child is not filial, so my mother is worried!" As soon as he mentioned the sad past, Lu Yifan's eyes couldn't help but turn red, and whenever this happened, his heart became more determined to revive the Lu family.

"Okay, okay, don't talk about those past things!" Lu Haoqian seemed to be very reluctant to mention the matter of Jinling City, and waved his hand impatiently and said, "Madam, it's rare to come back, why don't you tell him about the interesting thing we encountered on the street a few days ago!"

Hearing this, Lu Yifan's eyes couldn't help but show a curious look, he looked at Liu Qingyuan with a smile on his face, and couldn't wait to ask: "Mother, what fun did you encounter a few days ago?"

"Oh, actually, it's nothing!" Liu Qingyuan couldn't help but smile helplessly when she thought of that incident, "The first few **** and your father went to the market when they had nothing to do, who knew that they met a fortune-telling half-immortal on the street! You also know that Weiniang has always believed in these things, so I want the half-immortal to count a hexagram for our Lu family......"

"At that time, I advised your mother not to believe the words of those charlatans, they were all some deceptive tricks!" Before Liu Qingyuan finished speaking, Lu Haoqian hurriedly interjected like an old naughty boy, and there was a smug look on his face as he spoke, "At that time, your mother didn't believe me, but later I learned that I was deceived!"

"What the hell is going on?" Lu Yifan couldn't help laughing when he heard this, "Mother, tell me quickly, what did those half-immortals calculate for you!"

"Actually, that half-immortal was quite accurate at the beginning!" Liu Qingyuan's face was slightly red when Lu Haoqian said it, and he smiled helplessly, "He said that our Lu family is a cloud sail and a sea, and said that your father is a rich and noble life above ten thousand people under one person!"

"Isn't this quite accurate?" Lu Yifan said with a smile.

"Don't worry! there will be more later, you can continue to listen!" Lu Haoqian chuckled and said, "Madam, you have to talk to Yifan about the most ridiculous part!"

"The half-immortal later said that our family had a sudden accident not long ago, and we ended up in the middle of the family......" Liu Qingyuan first glared at Lu Haoqian angrily, and then continued to preach to Lu Yifan, "At that time, I thought he was really accurate! At this time, the half-immortal said that our family had a big regret, but when I asked him what it was, he didn't say it, and he was anxious for his mother at that time, so he gave him a bag of silver shells, and he told me what our family's regret was, and as a result, he opened his mouth, and he knew that he had been deceived ...... for his mother."

"Haha...... Then what did he say about this half-immortal?" Lu Yifan smiled with interest, "Mother, tell me quickly!"

Hearing Lu Yifan's words, Liu Qingyuan first glanced at Lu Haoqian, and there was a thick smile in the eyes of both of them, as if what the half-immortal said sounded like a big joke to the two of them, which was really unbearable.

"That half-immortal said, your father and I are prosperous and wealthy, and we don't have to worry about brocade clothes and food, but the only regret is ......" Liu Qingyuan's words couldn't help but smile again, "It's that the two of us have no children under our knees! Yifan, do you think he is fooling us with his eyes open?"

"No children under your knees?" The same sentence, Lu Haoqian and Liu Qingyuan were already laughing, but Lu Yifan's original smile slowly solidified at the moment, and he muttered, "He...... Why do you say that?"

"That half-immortal said that we had a son, but we died at birth, so we are destined to have no children under our knees in this life, which is simply ridiculous!" Lu Haoqian smiled, "At that time, your mother had to reason with him, if it wasn't for the fact that your father didn't want to deal with that warlock, your mother might have called you to expose his nonsense to your face......!"

"I had a son, but I died at birth, so I am destined to have no heirs in this life......" Looking at the smiling faces of Lu Haoqian and Liu Qingyuan, Lu Yifan was deeply shocked by this unintentional family chat, his smile disappeared at some point, and there seemed to be some inexplicable trance in his eyes, if it weren't for the dim candlelight at this moment, they couldn't see each other's faces clearly, I was afraid that Lu Haoqian and Liu Qingyuan would be worried again.

Although Lu Yifan had already verified that he was the West Emperor and the Far East, he had never thought about his true relationship with Lu Haoqian and his wife after the West Emperor Mountain. It's not that he can't figure it out, on the contrary, it's because he's afraid that he's thinking too clearly...... Although he may have made up his mind when he saw the Immortal Spirit, he just refused to believe it!

In fact, only Lu Yifan himself knows best, who is he?

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