Songpu City, also known as Huangpu Beach in the old days, is one of the four municipalities directly under the central government in China, and is also the largest central city in China, comparable to the international metropolis of New York, Tokyo, Paris and London, and is the economic, scientific, technological, industrial, financial, trade, exhibition and shipping center of China.

Songpu City is located at the mouth of the Yangtze River in the middle of the coastline of the Chinese mainland, facing Kyushu Island in Japan across the sea, bordering Hangzhou Bay in the south, Suhu Lake and Jiangnan Province in the west, and together with the two neighboring provinces, it forms the Yangtze River Delta with Songpu as the leader, and the total economic output accounts for more than 20% of the country.

In addition, Songpu also has the largest foreign trade port and the largest industrial base in China, ranking first in the world in terms of cargo throughput and container throughput. At the same time, it is also an emerging tourist city, with a profound modern urban cultural heritage and many historical monuments.

Such a pivotal metropolis is absolutely irreplaceable in China, and the Du family in East China is the one who belongs to the Dinghai Shenzhen in Songpu City.

It is rumored that several major families that have maintained a dominant position in Matsuura City are more or less implicated in the mysterious Du family. Of course, some of these secrets, about the origin of the Du family and the relationship between the founder of the Du family and the city of Songpu, are only known to a few people such as the top officials of the Chinese government and the heads of major families.

Let's put it this way, the East China Du family, as the only force at the level of the ancient martial arts family in the Songpu region of China, is definitely a behemoth that can call the wind and rain here. It's just that the true masters of the Du family have rarely appeared in the secular world, and most of them live in seclusion in the ancestral land of several continuous mountain peaks occupied by the family, practicing quietly with a pure heart and few desires.

Only those peripheral clansmen and young descendants will often go out of the ancestral land of the Du family, integrate into the world of ordinary people, infiltrate all walks of life, and seek benefits for the Du family to maintain the normal operation of this behemoth and even develop and grow, and at the same time quietly display the Du family's vein, political and economic influence......

On the western outskirts of Matsuura, there is a series of lush mountain peaks, and along the wide, clean asphalt paved mountain road, you will soon enter a beautiful national natural landscape reserve. A few kilometers further in, some antique buildings and traces of human life suddenly appear near the lonely mountain road.

In this natural scenic reserve, there are actually people populated, I have to say, this is a very surprising thing for ordinary people.

When you get here, if the curious tourists want to continue to explore inside, some people in the antique buildings will immediately come out to dissuade them, warning them not to trespass, and usually people can only return the same way.

Although most people speculate that this is the residence of a powerful person, they don't know that this is actually the ancestral home of the Du family in East China, where they have lived for hundreds of years.

These people from the outer tribes of the Du family who settled at the mountain gate played the role of the guardians of the mountain gate, ensuring that the tranquility of the Du family's ancestral land would not be broken by ordinary people who were curious and exploring.

It was past ten o'clock in the morning, and the sun was shining.

A black car drove down the hill, passing by the road near the antique buildings, and there was no intention of stopping, looking at the posture of preparing to drive all the way along the mountain road.

Just as the car drove to the road in front of the first antique building, two young men in strange robes got out of the yard and walked to the side of the road and reached out to stop the black car.

"The front is already private territory, please do not ...... Uh, Young Master Ziteng?"

One of the men saw the car stop, smiled slightly, and after glancing at the slowly rolled down window glass, the words in his mouth stopped abruptly, and a look of surprise surged on his face, obviously feeling a little surprised and stunned by Du Ziteng's sudden return.

"What's the matter? Even my car has to be stopped? You guys haven't seen much improvement in your skills, but your eyesight is getting worse and worse!" Du Ziteng's face sank, he had never given a good face to the peripheral clansmen in the eyes of these forces before.

"Don't dare, don't dare, Young Master Ziteng's words are serious......"

After a pause on his face, the young man quickly changed to a flattering and flattering smile, and hurriedly gave way, until the car restarted and gradually faded away, and finally left sight, then he pursed his lips with disdain and spat fiercely on the ground:

"Oh, I really think that I am still the first young in East China in the past? The future wife was robbed, one hand was abolished by the adulterer, if it was Lao Tzu, I would have found a crooked-necked willow tree and put a rope on it and hanged myself, so embarrassing and lifeless is not interesting, except for lingering for a long time and making people laugh in vain, what else can I do......"

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The cart continued to move forward, turning over a hill where a large basin appeared surrounded by mountains. The plain in the middle of the basin is not small, a full square kilometer, and there are a number of lakes and various eaves buildings scattered in between, which at first glance looks like a paradise away from the hustle and bustle.

This is the ancestral land of the Du family in East China.

The car descended from the top of the hill, through several hills, into the plains, and after a few twists and turns in the staggered roads, it came to a halt in front of a small two-story building of blue bricks and tiles.

This is Du Ziteng's residence, located on the periphery of the Du family's continuous residential buildings, judging from Du Ziteng's status as the nominal eldest grandson of the current Du family, such a house in the edge area is obviously not quite consistent with his identity.

In fact, after Du Ziteng returned from Cainan not long ago, he couldn't stand the white eyes of the people around him, so he moved here from the family in the center of the basin.

Du Ziteng's status in the Du family is a little embarrassing, he is not the blood of the Du family, Du Xiaofeng's wife is still infertile two years after marriage, and the husband and wife both went to the hospital for examination only to find that Du Xiaofeng's sperm survival rate is extremely low, and it is difficult to have offspring. In order to avoid the severance of their own lineage, Du Xiaofeng and his wife went to the orphanage to adopt Du Ziteng, who was only one year old, after discussion.

Who knew that only five years later, when Du Ziteng was six years old, Du Xiaofeng's wife became pregnant unexpectedly, and gave birth to her own son after being pregnant for nine months, so that Du Xiaofeng had two sons. Many people think that the reason why Du Xiaofeng has it is all because of the joy brought by Du Ziteng, so although they have their own bloodline, Du Xiaofeng and his wife do not have much discrimination against Du Ziteng.

As a righteous son with no blood connection, Du Ziteng knew what he should do to win the respect of others since he was sensible, worked positively, made good connections, and his grades have always been among the best when he was studying, and he skipped grades in elementary school, junior high school and high school, and after being admitted to Yenching University, he was even more excellent, met many children of the family, and weaved a huge network of relationships.

After graduating and entering the society, Du Ziteng's business talent was fully stimulated, and he made several big businesses one after another, especially the two real estate projects led by him in Songpu City during his tenure as the CEO of Du's Real Estate Company, which earned a profit of 1.6 billion yuan for the Du family, and was greatly valued by the family and entrusted with important tasks.

Before going to Cainan, Du Ziteng's position in the Du family had always been very strong. It's a pity that when the moon is full, the water is full, and the original scenery of Du Ziteng also hopes that with the help of the marriage with the Sun family in Cainan, he will return to the beauty, and at the same time, Sun Meimei, who claims to control more than half of the Sun family's property, will make her strength and prestige go to a higher level, laying a solid foundation for winning the throne of the Du family in the future.

Who knew that the result backfired, not only did Cainan's trip not let him get what he wanted, but also made him lose face, lost his wife and broke his army, and even abolished a right hand, becoming the object of ridicule and ridicule by his peers in the Du family and all walks of life in East China.

Since then, Du Ziteng's status in the Du family has been turned upside down, from the lowest status of the peripheral clansmen, to several elders of the clan who are extremely respected, and even including the old man Du, the head of the Du family who is very much loved by him, although there is no obvious change of attitude on the surface, Du Ziteng has experienced a feeling of being left out and alienated!

After all, Cainan's trip not only lost the face of the Du family in East China, but also made the Du family and Cainan's Sun family fight each other since then, completely tearing their faces. Moreover, even his stepfather, Du Xiaofeng, was brutally repaired in Cainan when he had two ground rank worshippers in the clan to accompany him.

It is precisely because of the above reasons that although Du Ziteng was angry and hated the Du clan for looking down on people, he couldn't avoid panic, so he took the initiative to apply to move from the family center in the center of the original basin to this relatively remote place to live, in order to motivate himself and look forward to a comeback one day.

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At this moment, in the core area of the Du family's residential area in the center of the basin, the main hall of the Du clan's ancestral temple is full of people.

Almost all the important figures of the Du family have already arrived, discussing important matters related to the future of the family.

Among them, the two major worshippers in the clan were all present, and the eighteen elders also came eleven, and the few who were absent were also unable to come because they had traveled far away.

Even the first person of the Du family today, who has reached the age of eighty-nine but has already entered the realm of the martial arts heavenly rank seven years ago because of his own strength, and his strength has greatly increased and he still seems to be extraordinary, and his status and seniority are still above the patriarch Du Wenling, Du Qisong, the head of the three "pavilion elders" of the Du family's "Pavilion Old Courtyard", also appeared and sat in the middle of the head.

On the left hand side are two "Tianjie Pavilion Elders" with transcendent status, and the first one on the right hand is Du Wenling, the head of the current Du family, who is over sixty years old but equally vibrant. Further back, there are two "Ground Level Offerings", and the dozen or so Du Family Elders who are infinitely close to the realm of "Earth Level Martial Artists".

In addition, the lower head and the two sides of the council hall were also full of seventy or eighty people, all of whom were elites of all generations of the Du family......