44. Chaos
At night, the city of cold water is still brightly lit.
This is a seaport city, although the maritime fleet of the four major families has been destroyed, there will still be other maritime merchants, and no one knows when the next maritime merchant team will dock.
Therefore, Coldwater City, from the beginning of its establishment to the present, has always been a city that never sleeps.
But at this moment, in Zhang's house, the lights are not bright.
Except for the front hall and the front yard lit up, the entire huge Zhang family, and the rest of the place were actually dark.
And at this moment, here in the front hall, there is a simple bamboo lifting frame, covered with a white cloth, and it is impossible to see what is under the cloth.
In the front hall, there were the head of the Zhang family and nearly ten elders surnamed Zhang of the Zhang family, and these people were the real decision-makers of the entire Zhang family. As for the other doormen, elders, and the like, although they are high-level, they are not big enough to determine the direction of the Zhang family. In the front yard outside the front hall, there are nearly thirty children of the Zhang family, who are either descendants, or collateral and side branches, but they have one thing in common.
That's the surname Zhang!
It's just that now they have a sad look on everyone's face.
"Family Master, are we going to forget it like this?" an elder of the Zhang family, with a sad and indignant face, "Ah Weita...... He died such a miserable death!"
Zhang Boshu's face twitched a few times, but he didn't say anything, just stared at the bamboo frame in the front hall.
Zhang Wei has just returned to Zhang's Mansion after his training in the past few days.
Although his talent and talent are not particularly outstanding, he is very hardworking, and he has six or seven percent of the snake letter and rattle tail in one hand, and his actual combat ability can be called the real first person here in Cold Water City.
Perhaps Song Shijie, the eldest son of the head of the Song family, is a well-deserved first person in Cold Water City, with extremely high talent, and at the age of nineteen he is the pinnacle of the congenital realm, but after all, he has not gone out to practice, and his actual combat ability is definitely not as good as Zhang Wei's.
Originally, Zhang Wei's return was a great joy, which meant that the Zhang family's competitiveness would be stronger in the future.
But Zhang Boshu knew that the relationship between him and Zhang Xu had been very good since childhood, so he revealed Zhang Xu's injury, and hinted that as long as Zhang Wei could kill Lu Li, there must be a place for him in the decision-making layer of the Zhang family. As a result, Zhang Wei has been searching for Lu Li's traces here in Cold Water City for several days, and finally intercepted Lu Li in the suburbs today.
It's just that I didn't expect Lu Jie to suddenly appear.
So when it was nightfall, but Zhang Wei still didn't come back, Zhang Boshu finally realized the seriousness of the problem and hurriedly sent the Zhang family's nursing home and servants to search.
After waiting for two hours, the corpse was finally returned.
It is conceivable how angry the Zhang family was.
"Head of the house!"
Seeing that Zhang Boshu didn't speak, several more elders of the Zhang family's decision-making layer shouted in unison.
"Count, of course, it can't just be counted like that!" The anger on Zhang Boshu's face was clearly visible, "From this moment on, as long as you see someone from the Lu family, kill me! Don't show mercy to anyone! Especially that Lu Li!"
"Yes!"
Seeing that the entire Zhang family was full of indignation, Zhang Boshu nodded with satisfaction.
He knew very well that this would be tantamount to an all-out war with the Lu family.
In the previous incident in the martial arts hall, he wanted to kill Lu Li, but he didn't have a chance. Even if you want to start an all-out war, there will definitely be many people in the Zhang family who disagree, but at this moment, as soon as Zhang Wei dies, he still dies in the hands of Lu Jie, so the meaning of this matter becomes completely different.
At this moment, no one in the entire Zhang family will oppose an all-out war!
Glancing at Zhang Wei's corpse, Zhang Boshu's brows furrowed slightly: It's a pity, if this chess piece doesn't die, it will definitely be a big help for the Zhang family in the future.
For Zhang Boshu, this Zhang Wei was a pawn for him to kill Lu Li from the beginning.
He originally planned that if Zhang Wei killed Lu Li and Lu Jie became angry, he would hand over Zhang Wei. But he didn't expect that Lu Jie would intervene sideways, allowing the Zhang family to occupy the moral high ground and have an excuse to start a war with the Lu family!
This result made him even more satisfied!
On this night, because of the decision made by the Zhang family, the entire Cold Water City was completely changed.
The next day, the Zhang family took full action.
For the Lu family, who is still in the unknown, the Zhang family's actions are extremely threatening. Because they launched a crazy attack on the Lu family regardless of location and time, the three markets of the Lu family were completely smashed in one day, and the disciples of the younger generation of the Lu family even died, and even an elder surnamed Lu died. As for the injured children of the Lu family, the elders of the Lu family, the deacons, etc., there are already more than thirty people!
And Lu Jie, who had long known that the Zhang family would definitely retaliate, stayed in Ye Xuan's small courtyard early in the morning, chatting with him about what he had seen and heard in the past six months, completely ignoring the chaos in the entire Cold Water City. He didn't care about the Zhang family's revenge, nor did he care what the Lu family's attitude was in the end, but he had to guard against the Zhang family from suddenly sneaking into the Lu Mansion to attack Ye Xuan, so he naturally stayed in Ye Xuan's small courtyard early in the morning, and even called Lu Xin over.
For Lu Jie, the attitude of the Lu family made him very disappointed.
Just like Ye Xuan's attitude, Lu Jie at this moment only has Lu Li and Lu Xin in his eyes.
At the end of the whole day, the entire Lu family was full of wails.
Because, there are so many injured people!
Although the main combat power of the Lu family has not been damaged, several Fang markets and some other shops have all been smashed by the Zhang family, and this loss is truly incalculable!
"The Zhang family is crazy!" Sitting in the council hall, an elder of the Lu family said, "In just one day, we have three children and an elder, this ......"
"I've inquired, this incident is completely caused by Lu Li!" Lu Quan said, "Lu Jie killed a descendant of the Zhang family in order to save Lu Li! It is said that that person can be compared with the son of the Song family, can this Zhang family not be crazy?"
"Don't talk about these haves and don'ts, the most important thing for us now is how to solve this matter!"
Another elder shouted.
"Fight back!" an old man with gray hair roared angrily, "Let them know that the Zhang family is not easy to mess with!"
The elder had only two grandsons, whom he had taught all these years, but today, two of his grandsons died on the same day, and he almost broke down.
"I think we should hand Lu Li over. Elder Lu Quan shouted loudly, "This disaster is completely caused by that Lu Li, as long as we hand him over to the Zhang family, the anger of the Zhang family will naturally subside." When the time comes, we will talk to them again, and we can all be compensated for our losses today. ”
"Elder Lu Quan, your grandson isn't dead yet, is he?" another middle-aged man said in a weird way.
"What do you mean by that?" Lu Quan's face turned angry.
"The person who died is not your grandson, and of course you can say that you have to pay compensation. The middle-aged man sneered, his eyes full of anger.
Among the three children of the Lu family who died, one was his son!
"I know your child is dead, and it's a sad thing, I can understand it. Elder Lu Quan was stunned for a moment, and then said, "But we have to think about the Lu family! If we also start a war with the Zhang family, not to mention the final victory or defeat, the strength of our two families will inevitably retreat greatly, and then this Cold Water City will ...... Even the entire Baiyu Dynasty, how can we still have a foothold? We can't let the Song family and the Qi family sit on the fisherman's profits!"
"Yes, we can't let the other two see the joke!"
"Hand over Lu Li, and this matter can be solved. ”
"Fart! We should fight back!"
"No, it's ...... to be handed over"
"Kill the Zhang family and leave no piece of armor!"
For a while, the whole council hall was as noisy as a vegetable market.
Different from the Zhang family's concept of decision-making, the Lu family really regards those powerful guest secretaries and elders as a part of their own family, and the decisions of the entire Lu family are decided by their voting. This has led to the chaos of the entire council hall at the moment, completely divided into two factions, and no one can completely convince the other side of the argument that you say and I say.
"Enough!" Lu Ren shouted angrily and slapped the table.
In an instant, the entire council hall fell silent.
"A bunch of idiots. A white-clothed man with a pale face and a gentle look sneered, his gaze was like a knife, and he glanced at the people who were clamoring to hand over Lu Li just now, "Hand over Lu Li? ...... Have you forgotten Lu Jie's killing god?"
Hearing this person's words, a group of people led by Lu Quan fell silent in an instant.
This man is the third brother of Lu Ren and Lu Jie, that is, the third uncle of Ye Xuan and others, Lu Yi.
He seems to be a Confucian student, but in the entire Lu family, his strength is second only to Lu Jie, but his reputation is above Lu Jie!
When Lu Jie was on the roam, he was known as the God of Killing, but you can imagine how many souls he had under his sword.
But this Lu Yi is called a ...... Butcher.
Although the White Jade Dynasty is only among the top ten masters, if you talk about the strong people under the top ten masters, this butcher Lu Yi is also among the top five, even if he can't be called the first person!
"This time, my second brother and I went to the cold water gate for the sake of the family, and you turned out to be good. Lu Yi sneered again, this time the person he glanced at was one more Lu Ren, "Lu Li was injured in the competition for our Lu family, and you didn't even say anything? Second brother didn't come to you for trouble after hearing about this, you should be incense and snicker, and you dare to say that you handed over Lu Li? Your brains are all paste?"
"Then according to the opinion of the third brother, how to deal with it?" Lu Ren finally spoke.
"Didn't the eldest brother have made a decision, why should you ask me?" Lu Yi said in a deep voice, "But on the second brother's side, you don't have to go to him, he will definitely not make a move." ”
Lu Ren nodded and didn't say anything more, but his gaze also became sharp.
At this moment, everyone in the council hall knew what to do next.
Although Lu Quan was still a little unwilling, he still couldn't forget the abolition of his grandson's martial arts, but at this moment, he couldn't refute anything.
In the early morning of the second day after Zhang Wei's death, the Lu family launched a thunderous counterattack, and all the shops of the Zhang family were demolished overnight, and even the Zhang family's nursing homes and elders who rushed to the rescue were all repulsed.
Compared to the Lu family, three young disciples and one elder died, but this Zhang family killed five elders of the second and third realms overnight!
The head of the Song family and the head of the Qi family met in a teahouse, and the first thing they said when they met was-
"Coldwater City is now in complete chaos. ”