Chapter 139: Passing on the Throne
The actual record of the nine generations of heads of Ren I Dao is neatly written and well preserved. There are a lot of credits to Jiang Hai and Wang Yi, although the latter has a rough temperament, but he is still quite serious and reliable.
Jiang Feng started from the records of the last three years of Ren Wudao's reign, and checked every line and sentence one by one, striving not to miss any clues.
Let me go, it is the shortest reigning head in the history of the Asagama Sect, except for the first head Lin Dong. Except for Jiang Shenzhou, the head of the eighth generation, who reigned for 39 years, which was similar to him, the rest of the heads of the previous generations have surpassed him for at least ten years.
Thirty-two years, for a monk, is only the equivalent of seven or eight ordinary years. Of course, if Jiang Feng died in the ruins of the Raging Wind Canyon in the future, he would be the penultimate one, and surpass the first head Lin Dong, who died of illness after only five years in power.
These records in the diary caught Jiang Feng's attention:
On the fourth day of December in the winter of the 32nd year, he met with the guests of Vantage Gate;
On the ninth day of December in the winter of the 32nd year, five young children from the inner room of the sect were selected to go to Fuyuan Town with the guests of Huadi Gate to worship the tomb of the head of the ancestors;
On December 20 of the winter of the 32nd year, he traveled to the sea of rocks with the elders of the general affairs Zheng Xianyan and Jiang Shenge.
These entries are all in the last record of the nine generations of heads, and the description is quite suspicious. For example, who is this "Vantage Gate guest"?
Looking at the previous records, it is not common to be anonymous, and there is usually a specific cultivation and age introduction, but here, only five words are used instead, and there are no men or women, which must be strange.
The five inner room disciples of the sect, in the records of the head of the sect, usually refer to the disciples from the three small primitive families, that is, the disciples from the "Hundred Fruit Snake Lotus", "Seven Treasure Gourd", and "Seven Leaf Xuanshen" as inner room disciples, so as to distinguish them from ordinary disciples. In other words, the head of the sect took away five disciples of the primitive family, who are these five people, and are they alive or dead?
Find a book of "white things" that is usually rarely read, and look for this white book that records the same period, and sure enough:
On December 13 of the 32nd year, the inner disciples Jiang Kaiji, Shen Chengyong, Shen Chengzhong, and Shen Chengliang died and were buried in the southeast of Luochuan Puxian Temple in their clothes. Four people died? And there were no bodies?
Three people with the surname Shen are from the primitive family of "Baiguo Snake Lotus", and one surnamed Jiang is from the primitive family of "Seven Treasure Gourd", but they are not from the children of the original family of the Ren family, what does this mean?
Ren Wudao knew that this trip was dangerous, but because of special reasons, he had to bring his inner disciples with him? Therefore, he chose to sacrifice the Shen family and the Jiang family and save the Ren family?
Think about it.
Time has passed, and people have become ancient. The remaining question is only whether this undead fifth person is himself or not, and when he thinks back carefully about the year before he became the head of the house, most of his memories have been blurred, which is also one of the side effects of the Black Snake Spirit Ritual, which has been reflected in the experience of the "predecessors" of the past generations. Therefore, there is no way to verify it from your own memory.
At this point in time, it should be winter, so is the nameless cave I once fell into the same time as the cave where the "True Spirit Sage" existed? Compared with the few memories I still have, it seems that there is a conflict between the two, and I only remember that when I fell into the nameless cave, I was still a child.
Theoretically, if four monks of the original family died, then several elders should know about this matter, and who should they verify it? or think further, who can participate in this confidential matter.
Yue Xishan, Shen Junmao, Wu Quanzhong. These three are most likely to know some secrets.
Yue Xishan was indeed the closest Xuan-level monk of Ren Wu Dao during his lifetime, and judging from his previous behavior of trying to murder himself and getting into the position of the head of the family, he must have been resentful of Ren Wu Dao's designation of himself as the head of the family, that is to say, he may know some secrets of his qualification of "head heir".
And yet he is dead.
Shen Junmao, as the patriarch of the three small primitive families for many years, must have a deep memory of this "four people died in one day, and there were three people in the Shen family", at least, as the head of Ren Wudao, he must give him a reasonable explanation, so how did Ren Wudao give a reasonable excuse to explain that there is no corpse in the dead, and he can only hide it in his clothes?
The next time I go to Dayi County, I must ask about this old matter.
Wu Quanzhong inherited his uncle's position as an elder of foreign affairs, but not long before Ren Wudao left the Troubled Stone Sea, and his lack of qualifications was also the main reason why he did not go to the Troubled Stone Sea with Ren Wudao. Wu Quanzhong participated in the Black Snake Spirit Ceremony, slightly earlier than Jiang Feng, so in his capacity as in charge of foreign affairs, he might be able to know some secrets about the "guests of the Huadi Gate", but if the matter of going to Fuyuan Town was really related to that mysterious cave, Ren Wudao would probably not let him go along.
As for Wang Xiandao, although he has been an elder for many years, the law enforcement elder generally does not deal with foreign affairs, while Zheng Luda participated in the Black Snake Spirit Ceremony with himself, and the memories of the previous years will also be blurred, but unlike Jiang Feng, with the support of the family, it is not difficult to retrieve those memories, but like Wang Xiandao, the general affairs elder does not have much opportunity to contact foreign affairs, so who are the guests of the Huadi Gate, and the death of several disciples, Ren Wudao does not need to explain to them.
Ren Wudao reigned for thirty-two years, although it was a little shorter, but everything has long been familiar with the road, the prestige is extraordinary, not like the current self, big things need to go through the presbytery, although small things can use the six divisions, but when it comes to spirit stones, you still need to do it yourself. Of course, the former was poor because he was poor back then, and in order to become the leader, he had to give in, and the latter was poor now, and the monks of this sect were humble because of their weak foundation, and in order to save some money, they couldn't recruit casual cultivators to help.
After thinking about it, Jiang Feng still planned to start with Yue Xi Mountain, although the dead man would not open his mouth, he would not lie.
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Lizong, Zhenwu City, Chu Mansion.
Early in the morning, the steward Huang Dong came to the residence of Chu Yiming, the sixth young man, planning to take away the callus linen cloth that he changed last night and replace it with a better fine grain cotton cloth, he found in recent days that the speed of improvement of the six young people's injuries is accelerating, which is a sign of physical recovery and imminent recovery, for this reason, he spent the last twenty spirit stones, bought the fine grain cotton cloth for the monk, and wanted to change it for the six young people.
However, he suddenly found that Chu Yiming was gone.
What's the situation?
He almost threw the cotton cloth on the ground, but he was surprised to find Chu Yiming standing in front of the window, quietly admiring the spring light in the courtyard, letting the morning breeze blow his white clothes.
"Liushao, are you awake?" Huang Dong was pleasantly surprised, and habitually knelt down, rubbing his eyes with both hands, confirming that the person in front of him was indeed the master Chu Yiming.
"Get up, hard work. ”
Chu Yiming's voice was not clear, and there was a trace of haggard in it.
"Don't dare, don't dare. "Sixth Young Chu Yiming's temper Huang Dong knew that if he was rash, he might break his leg, and even his monk uncle, who had served Chu Yiming for many years, was not exempt from vulgarity.
"How long have I been in a coma?" Chu Yiming asked knowingly.
"Fourteen days, six young people, I will go to report the good news to Mrs. Heguang Young Master!"
"No, come with me in a moment. I've been in a coma for so long and seem to have figured something out. Chu Yiming walked over slowly, stretched out his hand and pulled Huang Dong up, "In addition to cultivation itself, it seems that there are some more important things." ”
Huang Dong didn't dare to say anything, so he could only ask questions in his heart.
"Family affection, the avenue should be affectionate. ”
Huang Dong didn't understand what these words meant at all, he only felt that Liushao had indeed changed a little, becoming a little foggy, and his temper had become a little calm, but he couldn't say it clearly, but since he woke up, it was a great thing, and his future was bright again. He could feel that Liushao still seemed to be a monk, but his cultivation was much worse than before, and there was no longer that kind of pressure from the superior.
Monks are always stronger than ordinary people, monks represent wealth, monks represent spirit stones, besides, this is the Chu family, good days have finally come again, he completely forgot that he is also a mortal.
"Send this letter to Jiang Feng, the head of the Assayama Sect. Chu Yiming handed Huang Dong a letter that seemed to have just been written, "I will talk to the old lady and find a few reliable relatives to come over and help you take care of your mundane affairs." ”
"Yes. Huang Dong responded carefully, carefully appreciating the deep meaning of this sentence.
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Luochuan, Yangjiang Lane, the old house of Yuexi Mountain.
Walking in the somewhat messy narrow alley, Jiang Feng could clearly feel the decay here. All the people and everything here seem to have become decadent, broken, marginalized, and abandoned at will because he killed Yue Xishan with one palm.
Fortunately, he didn't inform anyone that he was here, otherwise it might have been a different place.
Pushing open the door, you will be greeted by the dampness that has not been cleaned for a long time, and on the blue-black roof tiles, a few handfuls of greenery are sprouting, and it will not be long before it will become a foot-high barren grass, like everything here, forgotten.
Two early swallows fall under the eaves to nurse their newborn cubs, and they seem to be the only life here.
The furnishings in the main hall were scattered and dusty, and Jiang Feng played out a cleaning charm to let them show their original fresh faces, this kind of brilliance originally belonged to a loser who wanted to get into the position of the head of the house.
Yue Xishan's study was still there, and no one had sorted it out, Jiang Feng looked through a few books, took away the things related to cultivation, and prepared to go back to the Scripture Pavilion, on the fairly neat bookshelf, he found a notebook with a blackened title page that seemed to be read often.
Looking through it carefully, it turned out to be Yue Xishan's private diary.
The notes are not neat, and most of the notes are densely packed, this one seems to have been remembered since the thirtieth year of the ninth generation of the head of the family, Jiang Feng searched around, but did not find more, this should have been the one he was writing before his death.
Not every day there are records, but occasionally some trivial matters are recorded, Jiang Feng looked through them carefully, and there were actually a few records that he gave to Wang Xiandao.
Scold!
Jiang Feng skipped these paragraphs, there is no need to worry about this kind of thing, not to mention that there will be situations such as mutual gifts in normal exchanges, and finding out at this time will only appear to be too narrow-minded and cannot tolerate others.
On the fourth day of December, the weather was slightly cold and there was no snow. Three strangers suddenly came to the sect, two men and one woman, who should be at least at the Xuan level, and named to see the master, and then I don't know why, I don't plan to live in the guild hall, but arrange to come to me, which is really rare. I inquired and came from the Vantage Gate. Vantage doesn't seem to have anything to do with us, except that I heard that the first generation had some entanglements with them, it seems that there has been no contact for hundreds of years, I don't know what is going on, I ask in private, I don't want to say, strange things, strange things.
On December 13th, the weather was fine, with a southerly wind and a slight warmth. Today, something big happened in the sect, and four junior characters died, and they didn't even leave a corpse. Ren I didn't say anything, Shen Junmao went to ask, and came back with a black face, I originally planned to go to Baochang Lane today to see the red whisk and sit at her, but there are such white things or forget it, I'm not in the mood, don't touch the mold.
December 20, the weather is like that, today is really a nest of fire, let me go, and I have to set a next generation of heads, the key is to talk about seniority, on the level of cultivation, shouldn't it be me? A boy who has not grown hair, what is Jiang Feng, just to compensate for the few deaths of Shen Junmao's family before, it should also be established Shen family, not a guy who came back alive for some reason, or a concubine! I can't figure it out! But it is estimated that he is also deliberately blind, and he will not be able to do anything when he comes back.
After that, it was naturally a long-term complaint about the new head Jiang Feng, and even later he simply stopped writing, between the lines, there was no record of Jiang Feng's succession to the head of the house, and the Vantage Gate never appeared again, but there seemed to be another valuable one.
On the ninth day of November, it rained surprisingly heavily today, perhaps the last rain of the year. But they still came, I want to know something about the hairy boy through me, yes, I have an agreement with you, and I can be regarded as a partner, but this attitude is not this, I know that your Chixiamen will go west sooner or later, but not now, when I become the head, this matter is not so simple.
It seems that Chixiamen did know some things about himself through Yue Xishan, although the date does not match the day he went to Hanshan, but they have joined forces left and right, from this point of view, he died unjustly, of course, Chixiamen should be the active party.
Put Yue Xishan's diary into the storage bag, maybe there will be something to compare in the future, according to him, Wu Quanzhong and Shen Junmao are both people who know a little bit of the inside story, but there must not be many, and the only people who directly handle this matter are Ren Dao himself, as well as the mysterious Vander Door.
But there is still a harvest, that is, the fifth person who went to Fuyuan Town to survive, that is, himself.
After thinking about it for a while, Jiang Feng was about to leave, but he heard an old woman's voice from the wing room outside the door:
"Hey, I said you don't want to come to see me again, if the boss finds out, he will blame you. ”
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