Chapter 4: The Unexpected
"I'm finally back..."
Li Zhuang raised his palm, blocking the slightly dazzling sunlight, and muttered to himself.
When the words fell, Li Zhuang's body moved, stepping on the treetops and jumping down the mountain.
Li Zhuang went to a shop at the foot of the mountain and bought himself a black robe and a mask.
Then he walked into the city.
Although more than half a year has passed, and those mysterious forces may have receded, it is good to be careful.
Otherwise, appearing in Tianshui City as him may cause an uproar.
During this period of hurry, Li Zhuang learned from passers-by that the pattern of Tianshui City has changed a lot.
Since the collapse of the Longxi family, Tianshui City has been turbulent for a while, and at the same time of fright, many forces have been surging.
In the past, the strength of the Longxi family ranked second in Tianshui City, and with the collapse of the Longxi family, the position of the five top families was vacant, and many forces were gearing up, wanting to take advantage of this to ascend to the fifth throne.
If you can take this opportunity to become the fifth family, then its family can be said to be like a fish jumping over the dragon gate, and the salted fish will turn over, not only can you gain great prestige, but also have a lot of resources that can be claimed in the city.
These kinds of benefits have made many forces jealous, and in just over half a year, incidents of open and secret battles have been common.
However, Li Zhuang was not interested in this kind of battle, but left after a little understanding, now his goal is not to put it in Tianshui City, this place is extremely dangerous for him, he can only leave here to find another development.
However, where to go, Li Zhuang has not yet figured it out.
"Let's go, let's go!"
Just when Li Zhuang was silent in his thoughts, there were figures on the street that came quickly, Li Zhuang's expression moved, he raised his face and found that those people were the forces of the City Lord's Mansion.
This made him inevitably curious, after all, the Longxi family was not quite right with the City Lord's Mansion at the beginning, but the two sides were evenly matched, and they had been restrained on the surface over the years, but the secret battle had never been less.
Now, with the fall of the Longxi family, this kind of struggle has naturally stopped.
But in the face of the former family rivals, Li Zhuang still took it to heart.
"Why are those people in such a hurry?" In the crowd, Li Zhuang said something as if he didn't care.
When many people saw this young man dressed in black and wearing a bronze mask, they also cast interested eyes for a while.
Soon someone greeted him: "Friend, have you just come to Tianshui City?" ”
Li Zhuang nodded slightly.
"No wonder, you don't know." The man seemed to be surprised and said, "Today's people and horses over there belong to the City Lord's Mansion of Tianshui City, and it is said that they are going to Zhang's house to welcome their relatives, and this matter is now known all over the city..."
"Kissing?" Li Zhuang frowned, and after hearing that the object of his greeting was the Zhang family, his face couldn't help but sink a little.
This Zhang family is also one of the five major families in Tianshui City, just like the Longxi family in the past, but it is the last, and now, after Tianshui City does not have the Longxi family, the status of this Zhang family has taken a step forward, but Li Zhuang's focus is not this.
In previous years, the relationship between the Longxi family and the Zhang family was not bad, and the two families also planned to marry for this purpose, in order to consolidate the alliance relationship, as for why this matter made Li Zhuang have such a big impression, it was natural that the marriage object of the two families at that time was Li Zhuang and the eldest daughter of the head of the Zhang family, Zhang Jiran, the two parties were originally scheduled to get married at the age of eighteen, that is, this year, but the Longxi family had a disaster and was destroyed overnight, and the matter was over.
"Which one from the City Lord's Mansion is going to greet you?" Compared with the Zhang family, Li Zhuang paid more attention to the movements of the city lord's mansion.
A passer-by said, "You don't know about this? That is the marriage contract between the young lord of the City Lord's Mansion and the eldest lady of the Zhang family, and now it has already been announced to the big and small forces of Tianshui City..."
"Miss Zhang?" Li Zhuang's eyes froze, and his voice became louder.
"Hey, friend, while this is a surprising thing, you don't have that kind of reaction, do you?" The passer-by looked puzzled.
"Hehe, it's a gaffe, after all, one is the young lord of the City Lord's Mansion, and the other is Miss Zhang of the Zhang family, the reputation of these two people is not weak in Tianshui City, and now that they hear that the two of them are going to get married, they are naturally moved." Li Zhuang said with a smile.
"Understand, after all, when I heard the news, I behaved like you."
Passers-by shook their heads and sighed: "Maybe you are from outside, you may not know the doorway here, in fact, a year ago, our Tianshui City still had a force that was not weaker than the City Lord's Mansion, and at that time, it was not the City Lord's Mansion that married the Zhang family, but the Longxi family, originally this village marriage has been finalized, and the city knows it, but I didn't expect that the Longxi family, which was so strong that the City Lord's Mansion felt tricky, was destroyed by the mysterious forces overnight..."
"Now more than half a year has passed, and the object of marriage with the Zhang family has changed to the City Lord's Mansion, the opponent of the Longxi family in the past, you say that this thing is not magical..."
Listening to the words of passers-by, Li Zhuang's eyes were dark, and people couldn't see what he was thinking, but the fist hidden under the cuffs of the Xuanyi couldn't help but clench slightly.
"What does this matter to me? It's not the same time now..."Li Zhuang sank his heart and let himself stop thinking about these things.
It's just that in his mind, he couldn't help but have a beautiful image, many years ago, a girl in a loose yellow shirt stood in the green forest, looking at him in cultivation with a strong expression.
At that time, Li Zhuang Xiuwei had not dispersed, after a long period of contact, the two secretly had feelings, agreed to marry in the future, became a couple, soon after, the two sides mentioned this Zhuang matter to their respective elders, and the parents of both sides also saw their persistence, so they took the book as an appointment, and the two grew up to get married.
Now that many years have passed, he is no longer the same him, and she is no longer the same she...
With the loss of Li Zhuang's cultivation, he buried this precious emotion in the depths of his heart, but occasionally every time in the early hours of the morning, he had not yet woken up from a dream, and there would always be that vague shadow in his mind.
Unexpectedly, Li Zhuang, who had just come down the mountain, heard the news that Zhang Jiran was going to get married, and he really couldn't imagine why the girl who had a strong affection for her in the past wanted to marry someone else.
If it's someone else, it's okay, but why is it the young lord of the city lord?
Li Zhuang really couldn't understand that since he was a child, he had a problem with the young mansion master, and the two of them were learning from each other and suppressing each other a lot of times, but it was only after Li Zhuang's cultivation dispersed that this kind of discussion stopped, but that kind of verbal wrongness often happened.
"That's it, it's her business how to choose, I'm leaving this city today, and everything that happens here has nothing to do with me." Li Zhuang exhaled deeply and continued to walk towards the city.