Chapter 41: The Secrets of the Clan
For a moment, Wuqing wanted to tell the patriarch his true identity, but he couldn't hold back when the words came to his lips. After half a ring, Wuqing asked again: "Patriarch, our Chaotian Sect ......"
Without waiting for Wuqing's words to finish, Yan Zhongxi suddenly looked angry when he heard the three words "Chaotian Sect": "Don't mention this name!"
Wuqing was full of thoughts, and there was really a secret in the secret way, but fortunately he didn't act rashly, and said, "What's the matter, patriarch?"
Yan Zhongxi took a deep breath, as if suppressing his anger, and said to Wuqing word by word: "I don't care what you outsiders say about him, but he is now a taboo in the Tongque Walled City, don't mention anything about him!"
Wuqing wanted to know who this "he" was, but if he asked like this, he would inevitably show his feet, so he could only endure and respond: "I know the patriarch." β
Yan Zhongxi looked at the promising "junior" in front of him and sighed: "I know that you people worship him in your hearts, and his ideas are also very tempting for you young people, and your third uncle was his loyal fan at the beginning...... What is wrong is wrong, and he is wrong from the source......! Don't learn from him!"
Wuqing didn't know why in his heart, so he could only nod and indicate that he knew.
Yan Zhongxi didn't want to say more: "Okay, I'll teach you the first chapter of the Emperor's Road first, the first article is "The Ancient Theory of Innocence" ......"
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At the end of the day, Wuqing learned the first article of the emperor's road thoroughly, this emperor's road is worthy of the immortal method practiced by the ancient emperors, Wuqing is only the first understanding, and it is far from the realm of integration, so I feel that the limbs are light and the mind is much more transparent after learning this day. According to Yan Zhongxi, this emperor is divided into two volumes, the upper volume has thirty-six articles, all of which are the law of physical cultivation, and the next volume has nine articles, which is the magic of the righteous heart, Wuqing has just a need for self-cultivation techniques, so he will learn wholeheartedly, Yan Zhongxi is also willing to teach this studious junior, the two of them learn and teach, and unconsciously passed the year, during which the third uncle Yan Zhongqing had specially sent a secret letter to ask his nephew Yan Shihua why he did not return to Jiaozhou, and his nephew was returned to his talent, he was a plastic talent, and was left in the village by the patriarch to teach the emperor's road in person, and Yan Zhongqing was so excited that he sent more than ten times the usual supply of living materials, which made Yan Zhongxi frown secretly, secretly wary of this situation.
After Wuqing came to this Tongque Cottage for a whole year, Wuqing has exhausted his mathematics in the first volume of the Emperor's Road, compared with a year before the Great Wilderness, Wuqing has grown too much, as the saying goes, people live and spirit, whether it is from energy, complexion, or vitality, Wuqing has been judged like two people a year ago, and this more than a year to get along, Wuqing and the residents of the Tongque Walled City have a good harmonious relationship.
Every day after practicing the Imperial Road with Yan Zhongxi, Wuqing will take a turn in the village, and over time he will become familiar with many people, and also know that there are not only the Yan clan of the Great Wei in this village, but also many other surname groups that follow the Yan clan, most of them are meritorious princes and loyal generals of the Great Wei Dynasty. The class stratification here is far less than that of the outside world, just like the patriarch of the Yan clan today, he also has to perform a lot of rituals in the village, and he can't be a single family.
Wu Qing looked at everything in his eyes, how could such an atmosphere be the nest of the Chaotian Sect who was bent on following the evil path? There must be something strange in this!
On this day, a young man brought another letter to Wuqing, and in the past year, the cheap third uncle in Jiaozhou City has sent him six letters, all of which encourage him to seriously practice the Emperor's Road with the patriarch here. However, Wuqing was afraid that the handwriting and tone of the reply letter would be exposed, and he never replied to the letter once, but he just shirked to the patriarch and said that he was dedicated to practice, and he was unwilling to relax for a moment, so vague in the past.
This time, the letter was still in the same old tone, but between the words, Yan Shihua did not reply to the letter faintly, and Wuqing only glanced at it a few times and skimmed the letter into the mountain and river bag and stopped reading it. As he learned more here, the more he felt that Yan Zhongqing and Yan Shihua's uncle and nephew must have other plans, and they were completely detached from their own clan in this great wilderness.
The young man who delivered the letter did not leave, but said to Wuqing: "Shihua, the village is going to organize people to hunt in the depths of the Great Wilderness in the next few days, will you go?"
This young man's name is Yan Shitong, not tall but his body is exceptionally strong, he always has a simple smile on his black face, revealing a mouthful of white teeth, he is the nephew of the patriarch Yan Zhongxi, and he is Yan Shihua's cousin in the clan, and he has gradually become acquainted with Wuqing over the past year, and he is a friend who can be talked about very well. He said that the hunting Wuqing is also familiar with one or two, Tongque Village will have a large-scale hunting activity every year, the strong men in the village will be selected twenty people to go to the depths of the great wilderness under the leadership of three experienced old hunters to collect medicinal materials and ores and hunt food, this time the hunting obtained to supply the entire village for a year, because after all, although the falcon can use the Qiankun bag to bring in materials from the outside, but after all, this way to fly over is dangerous, the Saker that can arrive safely is not two-three, the loss is too serious, self-reliance is the solution, in addition, to exercise the young people in the village, so that they can better adapt to the life in the Great Wilderness is also one of the purposesγ
Wuqing nodded and replied, "Okay! I've been back to the village for more than a year, and I'm almost done practicing the Imperial Dao, so I'm just going to move my muscles and bones." β
Yan Shitong smiled happily: "Great! I heard from the uncle that your Imperial Dao cultivation has made rapid progress, and you will definitely gain a lot if you come to this hunt." β
Wuqing pretended to sigh and said: "I only sigh that my third uncle has been lurking in Jiaozhou for many years, and even this imperial road does not dare to cultivate it with great fanfare, and he has to pretend to be a businessman every day to laugh in the world." β
Yan Shitong did not doubt Wuqing's emotion, but only comforted: "Brother, why should you be so melancholy, if according to me, it is only right that a cultivation genius like you can consolidate in the village for a few more years, if you go back so early, they will know about it, and they will not recruit you as a gunman early, and when the time comes, you will fall into the devil's path, and you will be blind brother." β
Wuqing's heart was cold, through this year's secret visit, he roughly knew that this 'they' were the group of people who founded Chaotian Sect, although I don't know what the relationship between this group and the village is, but there is no doubt that it must be very deep. On weekdays, the people in the village are silent about the existence of 'them', but this time Yan Shitong took the initiative to mention it, which made Wuqing a little surprised, and at the same time, he keenly discovered that this was a good opportunity to discover the truth.
"Actually, I ...... I ......," Gocheong said in a deliberately vague manner, "they kept letting me join before." β
As soon as he heard this, Yan Shitong immediately said hurriedly: "You can't be fooled! My father once said that their main purpose is wrong, so everything they do is going further and further down the wrong road! I heard that the Chaotian Sect they have founded now can be said to be all kinds of evil, and where is there still the bright and martial style of our Great Wei! That is, if we want to regain the world, we must also fight with dignity and integrity, and doing those crooked and evil ways will only make the world look down on our Yan family! Let us become the laughing stock of the world!"
When Wuqing heard this, he had a door in his heart! It seemed that he could get the truth from Yan Shitong here! So he was surprised and said: "But they told me that everything they did was to restore the Great Wei and revive the majesty of my Yan clan!"
Seeing that his friend had been "bewitched", Yan Shitong said bitterly: "Listen to their nonsense! My father said that they were all ...... by that" At this point, Yan Shitong stopped abruptly, and seemed to be very taboo about the words that followed.
Wuqing knew that most of his next words were the truth he wanted to explore, so he secretly said: "Cousin, my third uncle rarely mentions these things to me on weekdays, and I only occasionally meet their people when I go to deliver information, at that time I was young and ignorant, and I was just attracted by the bold words they said, but I have never known what is hidden in this, and no one has ever told me about this since I came to the village, can my cousin explain my doubts?"
Yan Shitong grew up in this village since he was a child, don't look at his father Yan Zhongtang is resourceful and helps his brother Yan Zhongxi to cook this Tongque Village in an orderly manner, but this son is honest and scheming. At this time, Yan Shitong looked at his "cousin" and looked at his sincere gaze, and he was afraid that he would be mistaken by those traitors after he left the village, so he secretly thought that it would be good to tell him what happened, so that he would be vigilant, so he opened his mouth to tell the story.
It turned out that this Tongque Village was born a hundred years ago a genius, named Yan Zhongcheng, this person is extremely talented, and he cultivated the emperor to a very high level at a young age, at that time he can be described as the hope of the whole Yan clan, and later under his planning, the Yan clan began to secretly send the clansmen to the Central Plains to lurk, while collecting intelligence for the village in the great wilderness to collect living materials, he himself has been lurking outside for many years, but when he returned to the village, his temperament has changed greatly, although the idea of fighting for the clan in his heart is still there, but the behavior has become distorted, he believes that the Yan clan has established a unified Great Wei Dynasty, so that the people of the world who have suffered from war can recuperate, it can be said that it is the merit of the people, and it is the benefactor of the people of the world, but these people will take revenge, and abandon the Yan family in the later change of dynasty, which makes him angry, he advocates that there is no need to talk to these fickle people, and to use all means to make them afraid, let them fear, let them obey their own words and never dare to have a different heart.
Although his idea is very radical, it is very popular among the younger generation, a large number of young clansmen regard him as a leader, and just when the clan wants to stop his behavior, he actually injured several clan elders, and betrayed the great wilderness with the people who supported him, and it didn't take long for the clan to know that he founded Chaotian Sect with the defected clansmen, and acted secretly and ruthlessly, even now, there are still many Yan clansmen who secretly have reverence for him, thinking that he is the hope of reviving the Yan clan. Therefore, Yan Zhongcheng and Chaotianzong became taboo words in the village, and the patriarch forbade everything about them to spread in the village, Yan Shitong also learned about it from his father, and he felt that it was better for him to tell his cousin the whole thing than for him to be bewitched by those traitors outside.
Wuqing nodded and was silent, it turned out that there were such secrets, if he hadn't stayed in this village for so long in disguise, it would have been really difficult to find out about it.
Yan Shitong saw that he seemed to have an understanding, thinking that his narrative had an effect, so he said: "Shihua, you remember not to listen to their words when you are outside, although they keep saying that it is for our Yan clan, but what he has done is too extreme, and he has entered the devil's path, you must not fall into it quickly for a while." β
Wuqing looked at Yan Shitong's earnest face, and sighed secretly in his heart, "I'm afraid it's too late, I think that Yan Shihua and his third uncle have already secretly entered the Chaotian Sect and done things for them."
At this moment, Wuqing could only nod and said softly: "Okay, cousin, rest assured, Shihua will never enter his Chaotian Sect." β