Zhou Baotai didn't want to visit anymore, so he walked around and walked out of the church.

"There are a lot of things at home, this side of the matter has been done, I will leave for the afternoon to go back" Zhou Baotai panicked, and now he wants to go back early.

"It's okay, I'll let someone pull the cart and send it over later."

"Let's send this wine with the caravan, I'm in a hurry to go, it's inconvenient to load it"

"Okay, next time I ask the caravan to take it to your house, I won't send you"

"Okay, there will be a period later" Zhou Baotai arched his hand to leave, thought for a while and turned back and said:

"Do you know that Ruolan has promised to marry someone else?"

"I know, Zhou Dantong, he also said that if you want Ruolan to marry me, he will die, how good do you say this person is alive, why do you want to die?"

Zhou Baotai's heart was cold after listening: "What did you do?"

"I didn't do anything, you know everything I did, I advise you not to rush to leave, no matter how fast it is, it will take more than 20 days to return to Beiyanjing, at most two or three days, there will be news over there, why don't you wait for two or three days? I'll be sure to show you the original letter from there."

……

Zhou Baotai hesitated and didn't leave, and on the third day, someone sent a letter, opened it, the letter was very short, just a few words:

An hour after the cold cicada was sent to the palace, Zhou Dan entered the palace together, and then Zhou Ding Zhou Huang entered the palace, and an hour later Zhou Ding Zhou Huang left, and Zhou Dan died together.

What I had been worried about still happened, Zhou Baotai sat for a long time, got up and went out to get into the sedan chair...

"Why didn't you come here without saying hello?"

Zhao Shizheng, Kou'er and Ning Cui were playing with the landlord who had just taught them for a short time, and when they heard the footsteps, they looked back and saw that it was Zhou Baotai.

Zhou Baotai's face sank like water and snorted.

Zhao Shi waved his hand, stuck out his tongue in fright, tore off the note that was stained all over his face, and pulled Ning Cui away.

"Sect Master Zhao is so calculating, a white-headed cicada will ask me for an offering"

"Did I do anything? There's nothing wrong with me giving a little gift, I'm doing it properly.

But that's what you're counting on in Beiyan? When you die, it is estimated that Beiyan will be wiped out, and such a lowly person will be killed directly."

Zhou Baotai couldn't say a word when he was choked, stared at Zhao Shi for a while, and said: "Anyway, this fate is written on you, let's see."

"I'm afraid I have to remember one more," Zhao Shi said, took out a small note from his arms and threw it to Zhou Baotai.

It's still very short, just a few words: that day and night, there was a sound of fighting in Zhou Huang's mansion, and the next morning, Zhou Ding's mansion was mourned, Zhou Ding died, and Zhou Huang was suspected of being killed.

Zhou Baotai's face was pale and motionless, and after a long time, the note in his hand shattered and fell like ashes...

"I didn't expect it to be ...... Such an exaggeration," Zhao Shi smiled.

Suddenly, the wind in the yard stopped, and the sparrows that were still screaming in the yard just now were silent, and everything seemed to be still...

After a long time...

"You are just a Dan stone, no matter how old you cultivate, you are also a stone, you can't kill me, but as long as you dare to make a move, I will slaughter your Zhou family in the future"

Zhao Shi said as he twisted his stiff neck.

"Can you slaughter the Zhou family? Do you believe this yourself? ”

"I don't believe it either, at least my daughter-in-law is reluctant to kill her, then I can't kill her father and her brothers and sisters, but it's no problem to kill hundreds of people in your Zhou family, and it's no problem to let Beiyan not have the surname Zhou."

Relaxed against Zhou Baotai and Zhao Shi, who had vented his momentum,

"Ten years ago, could you have believed me to be self-reliant? Would you have believed it five years ago? Can you have believed it three years ago? Then how many years do I want to destroy your Zhou family? ”

……

"What are you cultivating?"

Zhou Baotai only cultivated to the Dan Mansion and then stagnated, not even the peak of the Danshi, just the middle level. But after cultivating for too long, I have already developed spiritual wisdom.

I wanted to kill this bane just now, but I felt as if I was facing a person who had no cultivation at all, but just about to make a move, the bulging Neidan really showed that he couldn't kill him.

"I haven't cultivated, but you can't kill me if you want to"

"Don't be so rampant, if I really make a move......"

Zhao Shi stood up and walked out: "You better save your strength and go back to clean up the mess, don't be here to brag nonsense, there are many people who want to kill me, how old are you?" ”

……

Zhou Baotai didn't dare to make a move in the end, so he set off to go back that day, rushed back to North Yanjing for more than 20 days, and didn't see Liu Qing when he crossed Longkou Pass.

There are cultivators in all three families in the capital, and they have already fought several times. More than a dozen people died.

Zhou Dan's family is a side branch, the person is lonely, the family has long escaped from the capital, and the former lively worship mansion has been empty.

Zhou Jinghuai went out of the city to greet him, as soon as he entered the city, hundreds of people from Zhou Ding's family stopped the car and shouted grievances, all of them were their own juniors, Zhou Baotai sighed and went straight to Zhou Huang's house.

I was taken aback when I saw Zhou, Zhou Huang's face was like gold paper, lying motionless on the bed, and he saw Zhou Baotai's eyes eagerly,

"Great Elder, are you alright?"

"What's the matter with me? Let's talk about it."

This week is on the rise.

"You say," Zhou Baotai glanced at Zhou Jinghuai on the side.

"Yes, the envoy of Northern Xia came to the palace with your letter more than a month ago to send something to Ruolan, it is a jade box.

As soon as the envoy left, Zhou Dantong came, saying that this was an extremely important thing, and since Ruolan had promised him, it was naturally his thing, so he went to Ruolan and took it away. Zhou Dantong hasn't waited to leave, Zhou Dinghe..."

Zhou Jinghuai glanced at Zhou Huang,

"And he came, saying that it was given to the Zhou family, and he had no right to take it away, and said that he was just a parent, and if he didn't get married, it wouldn't be counted, and he would fight when he said it, and they would beat Zhou Dantong to death."

"It was he who came first, we just reasoned with him..."Zhou Huang interjected anxiously on the bed.

Zhou Baotai shouted angrily: "It's okay to grab something, you two are just a little lower than him, why do you kill him?" ”

Zhou Huang didn't speak for a long time.

Zhou Baotai suppressed his anger: "Then why did your two brothers fight?" ”

"Don't talk about my brother, from childhood to adulthood, he didn't come first, he just asked for this white-headed cicada, but he also had to take the annual submission, and said that our door must provide a Dan stone to gain a foothold in the world..."

"What example?"

"It's just... It is... It is the one who is given to the Great Elder and the Dharma Protector every year by the Sect... Stuff"

"What? said carefully from the beginning, "The more Zhou Baotai listened, the more confused he became.

Zhou Huang hesitated for a long time and took out a piece of paper from the quilt, Zhou Baotai took it and looked at it, it was half of the letter, the upper and lower halves were torn off, and there was only one in the middle:

…… The deadline is approaching, and it is only a few months, and now the big Thursday is divided, and if the news comes out, it will attract others to peep, so go away......

…… Bring my jade card back, go to Tongtian Mountain at the beginning of each year, receive a cold cicada red fire root with the card, cultivate the Tao with heart, all forbearance, three years can go to Danshi, can barely stand in the world...

When Zhou Baotai saw the letter, he suddenly realized that the handwriting on it was exactly the same as his own, and he instantly remembered the Liu Qing in Longkou Pass.

"Where did you get this letter?"

Zhou Huang slowly swallowed: "Zhou Dantong's mansion"

"That's how you got it in his house?"

"Hmm... I sent someone from his house."

Zhou Baotai felt a burst of disgust in his heart: "Say it carefully"

"That day, the subordinate hurriedly came and said that Zhao Shi's gift to Ruolan was a white-headed cicada, and Zhou Dantong had already gone to the palace, so he must have gone to ask for the cicada, and then I called Zhou Ding to go together."

"And when was this letter given to you?"

"Not long after the two of us returned to the house, the next person ran again to say that the news of Zhou Dantong's death had arrived at the house, and the house was in chaos.

He went into the calligraphy and stole the letter and the jade plaque and ran out, the letter seemed to have been torn, so he found such a one, and then asked me for a sum of silver, saying that he would not go back."

"And then?"

"And then... He actually said that he ate the white-headed cicada, and if he worked hard for another three years, when he Danshi, he would definitely revive the majesty of Beiyan, why must he be him? Just because he's two years older? He's not my brother."

Zhou Huang suddenly became excited,

"Shut up" Zhou Baotai shouted angrily: "What about the jade plate?" ”

Zhou Huang stopped talking, and took out another jade plaque from the quilt, blue-black, it was indeed a jade plaque from Tongtian Mountain, similar to his own. The middle word is recessed, an old word in front, a week in the back, and you can see the traces of the new carving if you look carefully

After thinking about it for a while, I knew that this should be Yan Qifeng's brand.