After bowing to the two tombs, the Confucian priest Cui Jue left the foot of the dragon's back mountain, leaving only the young man here.

Chu Yuanxiao first kowtowed respectfully in front of the two graves, and then began to fill back the soil that had been shoveled out.

The tools used to dig the graves of the Zhu clan were brought by themselves, but now that the people are gone, the tools are naturally taken away, and the young man can only do these things with his bare hands, he knelt on the ground and pulled back the empty soil, while whispering, as if chatting with the two old men sitting beside him.

"I'm sorry, you two old men, I originally thought that with enough brains, I would be able to fight with that surnamed Ke, but as you can see, it doesn't seem to be very useful."

The young man was busy with the work in his hands, and said with a wry smile: "I actually just can't figure it out, why in the eyes of these people, those of us who don't live easily, can't even count people?" ”

A handful of dirt was brought back to the grave, and the two stone tablets were also re-erected in front of the grave, and the young man who was busy with these things knelt down in front of the two graves again and kowtowed, and then walked up to the small hill between the tombs, he didn't seem to care about the muddy water after the rain, so he sat on the top of the mountain, looked at the silent town in the distance, and whispered: "If only those who have the size of a fist or have a lot of money can become a human being, then I wonder if they will also have a day of despair?" What did you rely on at that time? ”

——

The town is built on jade street, and the Zhu family mansion is in the courtyard.

The three masters and servants of Shuixiu Lake who came from Jinchai Island gathered again at the stone table in the courtyard at this time.

After changing his clothes, Ke Yuzhen, the young sect master of Shuixiu Lake, who returned to the posture of a young man in brocade clothes, was still a little pale at this time, but his mother Zheng Yurou, who was sitting opposite him, had already cleaned up properly, and was no different from the master mother of Shuixiu Lake before the battle at the foot of the dragon's back mountain, still graceful, and the makeup seemed to be a little heavier than before.

The old woman standing behind the young man raised her eyes to look at her wife without a trace at the moment when her wife reappeared, and then frowned but did not say anything.

The three of them looked at each other without saying a word for a long time, and in the end, it was the youngest rich young man who couldn't hold back his emotions first, lowered his head and said gloomily: "Mother atoned for her sins, and her son thought that Zhizhu was in his hands, but he didn't expect to be calculated by that mud leg, and he didn't expect that the Xihe Sword Sect would come to more than that girl." ”

Mrs. Zheng, who was sitting opposite the young man, smiled, and did not let her son see a pair of jade hands clenched with fists under her table, she looked at her son's pale face and comforted softly: "My son doesn't have to blame himself, we are not without gain in this matter." ”

Ke Yuzhen froze slightly, looked up at his mother, and did not speak with questions in his eyes.

Mrs. Zheng looked at the incomprehension in the young man's eyes, and chuckled: "After this incident, my son should learn a truth called 'The lion fights the rabbit, and also use all your strength', before you went to the foot of the mountain, you didn't think that you would suffer at the hands of that young man, this should not be." ”

Ke Yuzhen's expression was a little more gloomy when he was pointed out to be wrong, of course, his reaction was not aimed at his mother, who was reviewing for him, but this incident really embarrassed him.

Seeing this, Mrs. Zheng smiled and didn't delve into anything, but changed the topic and said: "Moreover, Mr. Cui didn't write off the deposit we paid before coming here because of this matter, so my trip to Shuixiu Lake is not too much of a loss." ”

Ke Yuzhen nodded, thought about it and shook his head.

Zheng Shurou looked at her son and nodded and shook her head, couldn't help but smile, and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"My original intention was to take away the eldest daughter of the Liu family, who is said to be the first in the town, before leaving, and no matter how bad it is, she should be one of the second-class young people, but now there is only one day, and we are afraid that our time is not enough."

Ke Yuzhen mentioned this, his face couldn't help but become more gloomy, not a wrong step, in the battle at the gate of the North Lingguan, the blind old Taoist who closed his eyes and crutches was deliberately lenient, so that he thought that he could act according to the rules of this place, but he didn't expect that at the foot of the dragon's back mountain, the Confucian sage suddenly tightened the boundary of this rule too much.

Now they only have one day, and there is still not enough time to come to the door and bargain with people slowly.

Mrs. Zheng didn't have the kind of regret that her own son had, she frowned slightly and then quickly stretched out, and chuckled: "It's not too bad, then Zhu Zhen is also good in terms of talent, and the pounds and pounds of the root bones are not light, you can see from the temptation when you first arrived that day, he has a breath of spirit in his heart that has always been condensed, as long as this kind of person gives him some thoughts, he will be able to achieve something in the future." ”

When it came to the little fat man Zhu Zhen, Ke Yuzhen frowned with some disgust, he was not very satisfied with this result, not because the little fat man was not qualified, but because he felt that he was very unpleasant to him, and the random temptation at the beginning was just a convenient one, and he did not intend to include him in the door, but now it has become one of his few choices.

As the saying goes, "crows fall into the phoenix flock", but he didn't expect that he Ke Yuzhen would one day pick a phoenix among the crow flock, how can this be reasonable?

Mrs. Zheng looked at the young man's expression and shook her head with a smile, and did not say more, in the long run, today's defeat may not be a bad thing for him, a son who has been rich since childhood.

……

On the side of the Zhu family's main courtyard, the head of the family, Zhu Jiantang, was also sitting at the head of the main hall at this time, listening to the two housekeepers who were ranked second and third under his hand report to him about a series of changes this morning.

The face is gloomy, and he is not angry and arrogant.

Zhu Er and Zhu San, the two housekeepers, quietly glanced at each other, tacitly, today's incident was really unexpected, but it was like kicking the iron plate.

The atmosphere between the three of them was a little solemn, but it was the little fat man Zhu Zhen who was sitting on the side and bored, listening to the two of them was a little surprised, I had only heard that the down-and-out peer at the east entrance of the town was a misfortune with a fate and self-denial, and his mother had told him since he was a child, not to have contact with that mud leg, and not to say anything!

But today, it sounds like a lot of fun!

Zhu Jiantang had not looked good since he heard the intervention of the Twelve Sword Immortals of the Xihe Sword Sect, and there was a visible gloom, but he still didn't say anything in the end.

He turned his head and glanced at his son Zhu Zhen who was sitting on the side, and saw that he had a very interested expression, and his face was even more unsightly, and he warned: "Zhu Zhen, I warn you, although our Zhu clan looks okay in Yanguan Town, compared to those immortal families from other countries, we can only be regarded as ordinary people!" You have already seen Shuixiu Lake's style, don't think about provoking others, otherwise the end of Chu Lantern Festival is just around the corner! ”

The little overlord Zhu Zhen didn't care, glanced at his father, and then rolled his eyes and didn't take a stubble.

Zhu Jiantang was a little helpless when he saw this, and after thinking about it, he still said seriously: "Son, after all, there are a number of these foreigners who have come here from thousands of miles, and there are also a number of people who can be taken away. Since our ancestors' generation has gained a foothold here, there has never been a child of our Zhu family who has left Yanguan and entered the Xianmen for many generations...... Many people say that your father can't settle accounts, but who cares about the embarrassing dilemma of how many years my Zhu family has been guarding Baoshan and not being able to enter it? If you stay here forever, not only will you be like your father, but my Zhu family, children and grandchildren will be seen at a glance. ”

Speaking of this, the sturdy head of the Zhu family is very regretful, and the twists and turns are difficult to explain!

The covenant of Jiazi in Yanguan Town has been passed down for hundreds of generations, and all those who have left the town have left, after leaving Yanguan Town, all those who have mixed up with some promiscuity will come back to pick up their families, and then Yanguan Town will move in to another family.

The twists and turns in the middle are as usual, like people coming and going in an ordinary remote town, only the four surnames of the most noble town have never changed their surnames for many generations!

Because of some very mysterious reasons, the people who stayed in the small town here would not remember that anyone had left in the sixty years between each "Jiazi Covenant", and even if some people remembered sporadically, they would only think that those who left would move away because they had gone to a foreign country and made a fortune or something, and no one would ever remember that one of them had entered the Xianmen, and they would not even remember that there was such a thing as Xianmen.

I don't know what kind of immortal methods are used in this whole process, in short, how many Jiazi have been handled very vaguely, and the mystery is so wonderful that people with discerning eyes panic in their hearts when they look at it!

Of course, there are not too many such discerning people who will panic, but the four surnames of Yanguan Town have been inherited for a long time, and the heads of each family are probably the most obvious group of people, and because there was an agreement between the first ancestors of each family and the earliest saints who sat here, this secret passed down from generation to generation between these family heads cannot even be explicitly told to the pillow people!

Just like this, it's not so bad, but as far as the eye can see, what comes into view always makes this self-proclaimed Zhu family head who is not weaker than others feel uneasy!

The same is the four surnames of the town, the head of the Li family in the town is the salt official, and it is rumored that the Li family has a close relationship with the royal family of the Chengyun Empire where they are located in Liangzhou, which is probably the reason why the salt officials of the generations will have a letter of Ming Huang Shengzhi to appoint them, the emperor personally assigned, Zhongshu Ling personally drafted the edict, and the servants of the door personally stamped the great seal of the country, and then the left servant of Shangshu Province shot the Huangmen Shilang to Liangzhou to pass the edict! The four people at the top of the empire are involved at the same time, and this card is not available to everyone!

Speaking of the Chen family, they have always been in contact with a scholarly wealthy family with the same surname Chen in a distant country, and it is not clear which one Zhu Jiantang is, but the relationship between the two is just like the small town Chen is a branch of the foreign wealthy, which is also a high-level judgment with the identity difference between his Zhu family!

There is no foreign aid on the side of the Liu family in the small town, but over the years, their Liu family's business has become bigger and bigger, and they have long been not confined to a small place like Yanguan Town, where sesame seeds are big, and Liu Yuanxiang, the head of the Liu family, is not in Yanguan Town all year round!

In such a detailed count, there is only the Zhu family, there is nothing to grow except for the land, they can only be detained here by the land under their feet, and they have no inch except for digging in the field!

Seeing that the gap between the Zhu family and the other three families was getting bigger and bigger, it was so big that Zhu Jiantang began to feel weak from his heart, making him always feel that he couldn't straighten up when he saw the other three family heads with the same level as him!

It is probably for this reason that twenty years ago, Zhu Jiantang took over the authority of the Zhu family from his father, and after knowing the secret of the single generation from generation to generation, after a few years of bad days, the new head of the family, who prides himself on being wise, will change the family inheritance ancestral teachings, and before the arrival of this "Jiazi Covenant", he contacted the foreign Xianmen in advance, and met with the Jinchaizhou Shuixiu Lake who took the initiative to come to the door in Liangzhou City, and the two families hit it off and planned together for many years, in order to let him have a chance today. Send a child of his own family to enter the Xianmen, and once the child sent out is successful in cultivation, the Zhu family will no longer be just a squire and tyrant who can only live on land rent in the small place of Yanguan Town!

This is what he, the head of the Zhu family, deliberately seeks to give their Zhu family a chance to ascend to the sky! How many generations of family heads have a unique credit, a thousand years of merit, one person is in charge!

Thinking of this, the head of the Zhu family looked at the little fat man's disapproving expression and was a little angry, and he admonished his son in a very serious tone: "Son, I have been planning for my father for more than ten years, in order to have a good future for you!" ”

Zhu Jiantang spoke, picked up the teacup on the table and took a sip of tea, and said with a smile: "Now that Shuixiu Lake is restricted by that Mr. Cui and must leave Yanguan Town within a day, then it is obvious that they have no time and opportunity to negotiate with other people, this will be your God-given opportunity, and it is also an opportunity for my Zhu family to turn over, do you understand?" As long as you can worship under the Shuixiu Lake Gate this time, work hard and cultivate hard, and when you succeed in cultivation in the future, our Zhu clan will be able to leave this place directly and go to Jinchai Continent, and then we will no longer be the overlords of the countryside who can only rely on one acre and three points of land for generations to eat! Son, this is the long-cherished wish of many generations of my Zhu family, and you must not do anything wrong, do you understand? ”

Zhu Zhen, the originally casual little fat man, listened to the sentence "The long-cherished wish of many generations of the Zhu family" in his father's mouth, and finally became a little serious, but the latter sentence inevitably made him feel a little bored!

He supported half of his slightly plump fat face with one hand, looked at the father of the head of the family with a solemn face, and said: "Dad, to be honest, I really didn't worry much about the things you were always calculating before, you said that you want to take our Zhu family to the next level, I have no opinion, and now I say it so clearly, I still admire you, but what you said about entering Shuixiu Lake, I don't think it's a good choice!" ”

Zhu Jiantang's face suddenly sank, he waved his hand to retreat the two housekeepers, and watched the door of the main hall slowly close from the outside, then he turned his head to look at his son who spoke and did things with a sense of carelessness, and said angrily: "What kind of are you bastard?!" Lao Tzu has been calculating for so many years, just to send you to the immortal gate, but now you tell Lao Tzu that this is not a good choice?! ”

Zhu Zhen shook his head, "Dad, you sent me to the township school for so many years, I haven't studied very well, and I haven't remembered many of the truths taught by Mr. Cui. ”

Speaking of this, he glanced at his father and explained: "Simply put, it means that good is rewarded with good, and evil is rewarded with evil." ”

Zhu Jiantang laughed out loud when he heard this, and looked at the little fat man and teased: "You bastard still have the face to say these words?" You and Liu Qinghui of the Liu clan bullied that Zhao Jicheng less? ”

The little fat man didn't care, waved his hand and said indifferently: "What kind of good and evil is that?" I haven't even hit him, I just said a few unpleasant words, what kind of evil thing is it? ”

Zhu Jiantang nodded and didn't say much, and he didn't really care about it, but he rarely heard his son drop his bookbag, and he was a little surprised, so he asked with interest: "So what?" What are you trying to say when you drop a bunch of book bags? ”

"Nothing." The little fat man shook his head and said with contempt: "I just think that if you follow such a family, you will have to be taken to the ditch sooner or later!" What do you see the family doing? I'm a 'little overlord' in Yanguan Town, who has been famous for many years, and I can't do such a lack of virtue as digging people's ancestral graves! ”

The head of the Zhu family, who was shocked that his son had said the wrong thing, hurriedly wanted to stop it, but it was too late, only to hear a cold and indifferent chuckle outside the door suddenly sound.

"Huh, lack of virtue?" As the door of the house was pushed open from the outside, the figure of Ke Yuzhen, the young sect master of Shuixiu Lake, appeared at the door, and said with a cold face: "Zhu Zhen, it seems that when you and I met for the first time, the lesson I gave you was not yet in place!" ”

The little fat man Zhu Zhen sat on the chair, just rolled his eyes and didn't speak, and he didn't even move his buttocks.

Zhu Jiantang was very embarrassed and a little frightened, stood up and rubbed his hands to give Ke Yuzhen a seat, "Gongzi Ke, the child is ignorant and has no words, and I also ask Master Ke Gongzi not to remember the villain's mistakes, don't worry about him." ”

Ke Yuzhen glanced at the little fat man, then smiled at Zhu Jiantang, and naturally sat on the main seat in the hall, looking at Zhu Zhen with a smile: "You don't understand what the state of the cultivation world is, so I don't bother to argue with you, but I give you a piece of advice, in the cultivation world where human lives are at every turn, forcibly upholding the so-called word 'kindness' is cruel to yourself!" When everyone is staring at a big pill that can make people easily break through the realm, your so-called courtesy can't get the gratitude of others, they will only think that you are a complete fool, and then use the snatched big pill to break the mirror, and then kill you without any scruples! ”

"Cultivation is a struggle with people and the heavens! It's like your father has been planning for many years, isn't it just to keep your Zhu family from being left behind by the other three surnames? If the three families of Liu, Chen and Li are all on a higher level today, do you want to ask the heads of the three families, will they still give your father face and treat him as the same kind of person? Do you want to ask that Chu Yuanxiao now, if he has the opportunity to let me die here at this time, will he give up this opportunity? ”

After Ke Yuzhen finished saying this, he turned his head to look at the little fat man, seeing that his face was contemplative, he couldn't help but feel a little complacent, and chuckled: "So, Zhu Zhen, it's not easy to be a man to have a chance to climb up, but not everyone can have such an opportunity, I advise you not to insist on your so-called ridiculous kindness at this time, it is no different from the kindness of a woman who can only grow hair!" ”

After that, Ke Yuzhen didn't speak again, turned his hand and played with the tea cup offered by the Zhu family on the table, while stretching out his fingers to draw circles along the rim of the cup, while confidently waiting for the little fat man's reply.

The little fat man Zhu Zhen also didn't speak, nor did he glance at the eyes that his father sitting opposite kept giving him, he lowered his eyebrows and pondered for a long time, so long that the tea in the teacup in Zhu Jiantang's hand was added three times.

Just when the head of the Zhu family finally couldn't help but want to open his mouth to wake up his son after seeing the expression of the old god Ke Yuzhen several times, the little fat man Zhu Zhen finally let out a long breath, then raised his head and looked at Zhu Jiantang first, then turned his head to look at Ke Yuzhen, and laughed softly in the determined gaze of the young sect master of Shuixiu Lake: "Ke Yuzhen, I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint you, although what you said may have some truth, but I still don't think it's a wise choice to follow your Ke family, just like if I were Chu Yuanxiao, Even if I had the chance, I wouldn't choose to kill you here. ”

This answer was very unexpected, which made Ke Yuzhen, who had failed in his intentions, a little stunned, and when he came back to his senses, his face became very ugly, "Zhu Zhen, so you are ready to refuse my invitation now?" ”

Zhu Zhen didn't hesitate, nodded and smiled in the faces of Ke Yuzhen and Zhu Jiantang, who were both a little blue: "Yes, I won't go to Jinchaizhou with you, let alone enter Shuixiu Lake!" ”

At the moment when these words came out, all the anger that had been pressed on Ke Yuzhen's heart in the past two days was finally detonated, he completely cooled his face, tried his best to suppress his emotions so that he didn't attack on the spot, his eyes looked gloomily at the little fat man with a smile on his face for a long time, and suddenly smiled uncharacteristically: "Zhu Zhen, shouldn't you be avenging the arrow when I broke the Qingyun Cup?" ”

Zhu Zhen smiled, "Count, it doesn't count, I can't say that there is no intention of revenge, after all, a set of Qingyun cups is still very valuable, but the reason why I don't want to enter Shuixiu Lake with you is not only for that set of Qingyun cups." ”

"Haha, good! Very good! "Ke Yuzhen has no patience, he can still bear being slapped in the face like this, he is not the young sect master of Shuixiu Lake!

"Zhu Zhen, I really didn't expect that the trip to Yanguan Town, which I thought was boring, not only let me see that mud-legged Chu Yuanxiao, but also saw you again! You all think I'm easy to mess with, don't you? I think that my dignified Wupin Sect Shuixiu Lake can be bullied by any cat or dog, right? ”

"You think that I asked you to dig the ancestral grave of the Zhu family is the most ruthless method, but you haven't thought that the Zhu family behind you is actually different from the wild seed of the lonely family, right? There are nearly 100 of you, and more than half of you are old, young, old, women and children! From today onwards, you'd better pray that Yanguan Town can always protect your Zhu clan, otherwise I will let you watch the entire people of your Zhu clan die at my hands one after another. ”

Speaking of this, he sneered, and the white teeth were terrifying, "The most terrible thing in this world is not death, but not death!" I will make your eyes widen when the time comes, looking at you, how is the Zhu family being toyed with and insulted in front of you, and begging for death? Look at how they are skinned alive and dug out of their hearts and lungs? And then let you see how your Zhu family has lived in misery for generations?! At that time, I hope you can still be as tough as you are today! ”

As soon as these words came out, the scene completely cooled down, even Zhu Jiantang, the head of the Zhu family who had a heart for Xiuhu, did not speak with a cold face, Zhu Zhen looked at Ke Yuzhen's almost distorted expression, and stood up from the chair with an expressionless face, "In this case, there is nothing superfluous to say between you and me, Zhu Zhen will remember today's teachings of Gongzi Ke, and please leave my house as soon as possible!" ”

"Huh! Zhu Zhen, I hope you don't regret it then! After Ke Yuzhen finished speaking, he glanced at Zhu Jiantang, and then left the main hall of the Zhu family's main courtyard without looking back.

In the main hall, Zhu Jiantang, the head of the Zhu family, slowly got up and walked a few steps, standing side by side with his son Zhu Zhen, watching Ke Yuzhen's figure disappear at the courtyard gate, then sighed and raised his hand to pat Zhu Zhen's shoulder, and said softly in a solemn tone: "Son, my father has gambled on the lifeblood of the entire Zhu family with you this time, I hope you are not impulsive!" ”

Hearing this, the little fat man Zhu Zhen retracted his gaze looking at the courtyard gate, glanced sideways at his father, and said in a playful tone: "Dad, there are no others here, so we don't have to play tricks, right?" Isn't that what you've been hoping for is what you're in now? It's all at this point, why are you doing so solemnly? ”

Zhu Jiantang froze slightly when he heard this, smiled and didn't speak, patted the little fat man's shoulder again, turned his head to look at the position of the courtyard gate, and his eyes were deep.

Since it's a gamble, if you don't gamble ruthlessly, how can you win big......

——

On the east side of the town, at the foot of the dragon's back mountain.

The young man Chu Yuanxiao kowtowed three more times in front of the two tombs that had been re-packed and re-packed the tombs, and then got up and slowly left the foot of the mountain and returned to the town.

A moment later, when the figure of the young man was visible in the distance and was about to disappear at the entrance of the town, a middle-aged and strong man with a thick figure suddenly appeared on the hill between the two graves at the foot of the mountain.

If Chu Lantern Festival was still here, he would definitely be able to recognize that this man was the stonemason of the town who had erected stone tablets in front of the two tombs in the first place, but did not charge him any money.

Master Shi stood on the top of the mountain, quietly looking at the young man who was about to disappear from afar, and muttered softly in an inexplicable tone.

"The cycle of cause and effect, retribution is unpleasant, planting cause and effect, karma is difficult to measure."