565 - Breaking the old and creating the new
"Child, you were too young at that time, and your mother and I didn't want you to get involved in the disputes in the exorcism world, so we kept it a secret from you, thinking that we would tell you the truth when you were older, and if you wanted to, we would train you to become a qualified exorcist, but we didn't wait for that day......"
Ling Hu Cong sighed, and said: "Actually, your mother and I are both professional exorcists, and we have never dared to use our true identity to defend the demon in our lives, so I often take you to move around, and I only say that I am a peddler who does business......"
"That six years ago...... What happened when you died six years ago? ”
"This matter is a long story, six years ago, it was a bottleneck for Tianzhufu, although the imperial system has long been overthrown and abolished, but Tianzhufu still retains the most traditional Ming Dynasty system, there has never been any change for more than 600 years, and it is gradually out of touch with the times, so the contradictions between the old conservatives and the members of the reform radicals are increasing......"
Linghu Cong told the story from a drinking party nearly seven years ago.
As we all know, Bai Long and Bai Wei's father can be regarded as a representative of the reformist faction of Tianzhu Mansion, and after being promoted to the lord of the mansion by virtue of his exploits in the exorcism world, he has made great efforts to carry out various reforms in Tianzhu Mansion, trying to make Tianzhu Mansion, which has continued for more than 600 years of traditional establishment, be more integrated into this new social situation. In addition to Ma Sanshan, most of them are the elite of the younger generation of exorcists, including Mo Tianqi, the leader of the 'Thirteen Imperial Historical Platforms' at the time, and Ling Hu Cong, the leader of the Five Armies Protectorate, who is now the mysterious evil ghost that gives us a special headache.
In addition, the three deputies of the Thirteen Imperial Historical Platforms and the Five Armies Protectorate: Hu Chunxiao and the Great General Wang are also particularly supportive of Bai Zilin.
The four major institutions of the Tianzhu Mansion, the most powerful are none other than the 'Thirteen Imperial Historical Platforms' that are responsible for supervising and the main combat force of the 'Five Armies Protecting the Mansion', seeing that these two major institutions have fallen to the side of the mansion lord Bai Zilin, it undoubtedly makes those conservative elders feel guilty, so the contradictions between the two sides are even more aggravated.
Ling Hu Cong told us that it was about seven years ago, one day when Bai Zilin had nothing to do, he invited Mo Tianqi and Ling Hu Cong to drink, the three giants of Tianzhu Mansion have always been close friends, and as soon as they met, they began to drink wine and talk about all kinds of things, talking about going to drink and go through three rounds, Bai Zilin told the truth, and gradually revealed to the two brothers that the contradictions within Tianzhu Mansion have reached an irreparable point, and the conservatives of the older generation will not give in, and if they want to change, they must take some tough measures.
As soon as they heard this, the two brothers immediately sensed the meaning of Bai Zilin's words, he wanted to seize power by force, and only by relying on absolute force to defeat the other party could he achieve absolute victory.
Mo Tianqi and Bai Zilin are both from the Yin and Yang Dao, they are senior brothers, and they are good brothers who share weal and woe, so as soon as Bai Zilin's words came out, Mo Tianqi immediately agreed, and decided to lead the people of the Thirteen Dao Yushitai to fully support him, but Ling Hu Cong hesitated......
He and Bai Zilin are naturally friends in trouble, but because they have a wife and a minor child, they have to think about it, and although Ling Hu Cong has always felt that the internal system and views of Tianzhu Mansion are too rotten and old, and they should have been changed a long time ago, but at most he is a conservative, but he is not as radical as Bai Zilin, and he easily doesn't want to see the situation of 'cannibalism' within Tianzhu Mansion.
Due to many considerations, Ling Hu Cong hesitated.
Bai Zilin saw Ling Hu Cong's hesitation at a glance, and he did not play the emotional card or continue to threaten with the identity of the mansion owner, continued to pour wine and continue to drink, and did not mention the matter of 'change'.
Since then, Ling Hu Cong has always been obsessed with what the three brothers talked about in the wine bureau, and always felt that he couldn't stand Bai Zilin, a good big brother who was born and died, and gradually noticed that the situation inside the Thirteen Imperial History Platforms was gradually rising, obviously Bai Zilin and Mo Tianqi were trying to gather strength, and they would launch a shocking reform within the Tianzhu Mansion in the near future.
After secretly making up his mind several times, the gentle Ling Hu Cong still did not want to kill each other in the Tianzhu Mansion, but he absolutely refused to stand on the opposite side and meet his good brother Bai Zilin, and fell into a dilemma for a while.
After that, the two took their daughter Linghu Xiaoxiao, who was only more than ten years old, to live a reclusive life, and the changes in the Tianzhu Mansion became more and more intense due to the departure of the two, and the uncontrolled Five Armies Protectorate became the target of the two major forces of conservatism and reform in the Tianzhu Mansion, but due to the disappearance of Linghu Cong's life and death is unknown, the position of the leader cannot be filled at will, so it was finally decided that the general Wang, who is the deputy of the Five Armies Protectorate, will temporarily take over the power, and wait until it is confirmed that the missing Linghu Cong is indeed dead, or has not appeared in a few years. and then officially fill the place.
For the general Wang, although I have only met once, but it is no stranger, Bai Long even suspected several times that when the civil strife in Tianzhu Mansion was six years ago, it was because of the betrayal of the great general Wang who was trusted by his father Bai Zilin, and the defection of the five armies to protect the mansion, which led to Bai Zilin's final defeat, so the two have been-for-tat against each other, which is not a secret in the entire Tianzhu Mansion.
When Ling Hu Cong said this, Bai Wei hurriedly asked, "Then what?" You say the great general king killed you? Why did he do it? How? Obviously, you hacked your wife to death, and you were killed by your own daughter by mistake! ”
"The general king is unfathomable, he wants us to die, do you still need to do it yourself?"
Hu Chunxiao snorted coldly on the side: "Back then, the great general Wang, as the deputy of the Fifth Army Protectorate, although nominally he and my husband Ling Hucong were of the same heart and very close to Brother Zilin, our husband and wife have long seen that the 'righteous path' he believes in and the 'justice' he advocates are very different from us!" For example, it is also an exorcism and a demon, up to Brother Zilin and down to our husband and wife, if you find that there is another hidden secret, even if it takes a lot of effort to find out, even if it is a demon, we also want to return it to a clean house, let it be willing to subdue the law, and then deal with it with the seriousness of the matter, often give some evil warlocks and evil people who are not deep in evil and have the possibility of reforming a way out; But the general king is different, what he believes in is absolute justice, black is black, white is white, no matter what the secret of what you do here, what is the origin of the evil, you are an evil way, a foreign way, then you deserve to die, not only you want to die, but also to cut the grass and eradicate the root to prevent future troubles, the style of doing things is vigorous and resolute, and never talk about a little emotion......"
After listening to Yang Death, he asked: "Listen to you, he should be a good person, and he should be a qualified exorcist, right, why should you be hostile to him?" ”
"No, it's not that we're hostile to him, it's that he's against us!"
Ling Hu Cong frowned and sighed: "When I was in the capital of the Five Armies before, although the Great General Wang has always been inclined to us reformers, but in fact, he already has his own cognition in his heart, he firmly believes that responding to all changes with the same is the most solid truth in this world, and insists that the exorcist should be absolutely loyal and obedient to the Tianzhu Mansion, so he supports us on the surface, but in fact, in order to infiltrate us, he secretly monitors Brother Zilin's every move!" At that time, Chunxiao and I were in a dilemma, and we had obviously chosen to retreat, but the general Wang still regarded us as a security risk, so he quietly found out the Yangguan Village where we had retreated, and unknowingly attacked me to prevent future troubles......"
"How did he do to you?" I asked.
"It's a mask," Ling Hu Cong replied, "The Great General King is proficient in various spells, but he was discovered but did not use it, but relied on a mask to sneak attack me!" I still remember that the mask was extremely strange, and on the mask, there were two faces, one crying and laughing, one black and one white......"