Chapter 233: The Secret of Jade
In the north, a cold and desolate place, people who have lived here for a long time will not only not adapt to life here, but will also be very disgusted and hate such cold, and want to escape from this place.
However, there are still a lot of people living here in the vast north, not liking, nor willing, but can't go, most people in Kyushu want to change the living environment is very difficult, on the one hand, the cost of moving is very high, where you need to be able to live in a house and basically maintain a living business, on the other hand, many places are very xenophobic, it doesn't matter if you do business, but if you want to suddenly live around yourself, how will you not give a good face, some Diao people will even drive away outsiders directly.
Under such a premise, many people choose to endure, no matter how difficult life is, as long as they can still eat, they will persevere, which gives many sects and forces the opportunity to squeeze wildly.
This has also caused a strange phenomenon, no matter how poor the place is, no matter how poor the poor can't eat, there will be people who have big fish and meat all day long, and there will also be people who spend money like dirt, the reason is very simple, one will succeed and ten thousand bones will wither!
This was the case with the once powerful Qi Dynasty, the Bichun Pavilion and the Qilin Sect, and the major emperor-level sects.
There is nothing wrong with them doing this, after all, everyone around them is doing this, and even God has set such a rule as the law of the jungle, who can say who is wrong?
"Eat, drink!"
Although there is no ice and snow in Yuxu Mountain and the woods are lush, it is very cold, colder than other places around, no one knows why it is so cold, even if you live on the mountain in the hot summer, you have to burn charcoal and firewood so that you will not be frozen to death, most people live under the mountain, do not dare to live on the mountain, because the higher you go, the colder it is, and even burning firewood at the top of the mountain is not very useful.
The area of Yuxu Mountain is very large, like a spread cake, the mountain is gathered from all sides to the middle, there is a huge and sky-facing hole on the top of the mountain, there are no other peaks, the mountain is gentle, few outsiders go up to the top of the mountain, one is the severe cold block, the other is not to come up.
Ordinary residents can only chop wood at the foot of the mountain or halfway up the mountain, there are no animals on the mountain, and there is no such thing as hunting, so the mountain is very desolate and inaccessible.
But there are always exceptions to everything, there is a big road in the south of Yuxu Mountain, there are caravans to the top of the mountain every day to transport goods, in addition to fresh ingredients, there are a lot of rare treasures, these people wear animal skin jackets, with large and small boxes, the people under the mountain do not know who these people are delivering to, they do not dare to ask, this has become a strange thing that every family in the vicinity is curious about.
Ji Hongluan was locked in a wooden box and staggered up the mountain.
At the end of the road, at the edge of the cave at the top of the mountain, there was a small checkpoint, where two men were eating venison and drinking wine, and when they saw the caravan coming up, they asked in a loud voice, "What did you send?" ”
A fat man at the head of the caravan replied, "There is one more person who eats normally!" ”
"People? What people?? ”
"It was said that it was a gift from that sect, but which sect it was and who it was, we don't know, there is a letter in the box, which is sealed with wax, you can check it!"
"Well, let's see who they are!"
The fat man pulled down a board above the wooden box, Ji Hongluan's face was revealed, and she hurriedly closed her eyes and pretended to be dizzy.
"It's beautiful!"
Everyone looked stupid, and there were still a few drops of the wine they had just drunk on the corner of their mouths, and they couldn't help but touch Ji Hongluan's face.
Another person hurriedly grabbed his hand and said, "You are crazy, this kind of goods must have been given to a few adults, don't die!" ”
"Yes, yes, you guys go over!" Frightened, he hurriedly shrank back, not daring to stand in front of him.
The caravan walked through the checkpoint to the cave at the top of the mountain, and the entrance was very large, and there was a circle of platforms around it, and on the platform there were all kinds of houses, one after the other, the houses were close to the rock wall, and in front of the houses was a passageway, which spiraled to the deepest part of the cave.
After the caravan entered, it began to unload constantly, stopping in front of some houses and handing over the things to the people inside, but the goods were not handed over to one family, so the caravan kept unloading, and kept going down in circles.
Until the end, there was a wooden box left, which contained Ji Hongluan.
Arriving at a house on the third floor from the top down, the caravan handed over the wooden crate to the people inside, and then returned the way it came.
Feng Qiang opened the letter on the wooden box and looked at it, "Be careful, it's for Manager Zhao, don't make any trouble!" ”
"Yes!"
Several middle-aged men lifted the wooden box and continued to walk down.
The cave is very large, very deep, looking down from the top of the mountain, a darkness can not see the bottom at all, I don't know how many layers I walked, and finally came to the bottom of the cave, a flat place, even the rock wall is covered with neat bluestone bricks, there is a luxurious palace underneath, all around is firelight, the fire keeps flickering, the palace appears for a while, disappears for a while, looks terrifying and extravagant.
"Brother Li, why are you doing this? We have known each other for more than 30 years, and I can't bear it to this point today! ”
In the room deep in the palace, a sixty-year-old man was hung from the wall, the chain made of platinum passed through his lute bone, a thin tube was inserted into his hiding hole, and the blood flowed down the thin tube to a large bowl on the ground, which was more than half a bowl in it, and the old man was still alive, so it could be seen that the blood was not flowing all the time, but it would not stop for long.
There were also three sixty-year-old men sitting across from him, looking a little reluctant, but they still couldn't hide the endless desire on their faces.
Infinite desire has made a huge change in the appearance of these three people, and Manager Li looked at the three friends who were once like-minded, and he didn't know what made them become like this.
Although the faces of the three are different, they all have a common feature, that is, the whole face collapses to the middle, giving people the feeling of being punched, and this collapse becomes more and more obvious as they get older.
These four people are the four chief managers of jade, Zhao, Qian Sun, and Li.
These four people were appointed by the five holy places as the chief administrator to control the eye of heaven and supervise the world, originally at the beginning, the four of them joined forces to investigate, and truthfully reported some of the troubles on the rivers and lakes, in great detail, at that time, the rivers and lakes were calm, and many sects, including the emperor-level sects, did not dare to do even a little excessive, and then Zhao Qiansun and the three slowly changed, greedy for the pleasure of the rivers and lakes, and turned the injustice on the rivers and lakes into their own injustice, and gradually got tired of this errand, and then they betrayed.
That night, the trio teamed up to raid and beat Mr. Li's qi and blood to collapse, piercing his lute bone and opening a hole in his hiding hole to keep his blood to a minimum to sustain his own survival, and then the rest of the blood was collected into a container to activate the Heavenly Eye, which must be controlled by the joint efforts of the four of them.
After a long time, Mr. Li's physical strength is getting weaker and weaker, and if one is not well controlled, an accident will occur, either the physical strength will recover a little, or commit suicide or escape, or die completely, no matter which of these two accidents will lead to a very serious consequence.
In the first few years, through the efforts of the four people, the entire Jianghu was very stable, and the Five Holy Lands were very satisfied with them, which led to the gradual relaxation of their monitoring later, and by the late Qi Dynasty, Jade had become an organization that was completely out of the control of the Five Great Holy Lands.
Not only did they accept bribes and create false news to confuse the people in the rivers and lakes, but they also made up lies to deceive the five holy places, making the five holy places think that the rivers and lakes were still in that era of singing and dancing.
Of course, the object of their cooperation is only the emperor-level sects, and those emperor-level sects want Jade to give others whatever news Jade does, including concealing the bad things that these sects do.
Some small sects want to hide the bad things they have done, so they have to give gifts to the emperor-level sects, so as to get the help of jade, and form an interest group layer by layer.
The advantage of this is that it is not easy to be detected, and in the same boat, no one will betray anyone.
The small sect didn't know why the emperor-level sect was able to hide what they did, and thought that they could argue with the five holy lands, and then there were more and more unruly sects, and there were fewer and fewer sects that obeyed the rules.
Zhao, Qian, and Sun made up more and more lies, and the rivers and lakes became more and more chaotic, and some big sects began to burn and loot, acting recklessly, and doing countless unconscionable transactions behind their backs, on the contrary, the lives of the three major chiefs were getting better and better, and all kinds of treasures and beauties were sent over by emperor-level sects, and their greed not only did not diminish in the slightest, but became stronger and stronger.
At the same time, they are also very worried, worried about what will happen to the matter one day, and what worries them the most is Manager Li, his non-cooperation may cause the Tianyan to be unable to start, lose its efficacy at any time, and it is a trivial matter to not be able to continue to monitor the rivers and lakes.
Fortunately, the stability over the years has led to the fact that the Five Holy Lands rarely interfere in the affairs of jade, which gave them a lot of freedom, and even secretly built a magnificent palace underground.
Jade is the establishment of the five holy places, few people know, except for the four chief managers in the jade, they don't know, the deacons and shopkeepers below think that the four chief stewards are their masters, and no one will ask about the construction of the palace.
The original intention of the Five Holy Lands was to reduce unnecessary people from knowing, in order to prevent leakage of information, so as to better monitor the entire rivers and lakes, and the three major governors just took advantage of this loophole to deceive the superiors and subordinates, trapping the Five Holy Lands in a fabricated story.
They can't kill Mr. Li, and the best result is that Mr. Li joins them, so that they can not only eliminate future troubles, but also devote some energy to pleasure.
But even though Mr. Li suffers great pain every day, he refuses to go along with them.
"Phew, what is the chaos of the rivers and lakes now! It's all caused by the three of you, and you want me to join you, daydreaming! ”
"I think you're looking for death!" Manager Qian put his hand on Manager Li's neck and threatened.
"Kill!" Manager Li said with wide eyes.
Manager Qian slowly withdrew his hand, this person must not die, it is safe to let him live, but he is also a thorn in the hearts of the three of them, a thorn that is pierced from time to time.
How do you pull this thorn out?
The three of them tried a lot of methods, but they couldn't control the eye of the sky with the power of the three of them, and at the same time, after looking for a long time on the rivers and lakes, they couldn't find any treasures that could imitate a person's qi and blood.
couldn't pull it out, and Manager Li didn't agree to betray the Five Holy Lands, so the situation froze, and the three of them could only keep tempting Manager Li with various treasures, hoping that he would change his mind.
Some people died, but not completely......