There is no good feast.

This is Leng Tingtao's own positioning for this banquet, the reason why he gathered all the backbone elites under his command here, on the one hand, is to test the attitude of his subordinates to Leng Tingfeng's attack, and on the other hand, he also wants to use the mouth of his subordinates to make a big deal and spread the matter.

In the matter of his younger brother's cold listening, he didn't know who the person behind the scenes was, and he had no way to find out if he didn't have a complete intelligence network, so he could only adopt a radical strategy, that is, no matter who the person behind it was, he only needed to "put on an attitude of "I'm a victim, you can do it" at the head of Su Liqing, and the left and right head Su Liqing will not do anything to himself, in order to appease himself, he will definitely help himself find out the truth.

If the head Su Liqing doesn't take the bait, or simply low-key to ease the matter, then it means that the head Su Liqing himself has something to do with this matter and can't get out of it, if that's the case, the path he needs to choose in the future will be clear. In communication with his close aides, he settled on two strategies:

On the one hand, relying on external forces, such as the Luoying Sect and the newly befriended Spirit Cage Chamber of Commerce, he further integrated the territory near Lelin City into his own hands as soon as possible, and secretly squeezed out the power of other families in the sect;

On the other hand, to be self-sufficient as soon as possible, in this regard, he needs to cooperate with the Zuo family, after all, most of the resources of Lelin City are transported to the south to Tianyou City and Shuanglong City, and then sold to other sects of the Seven Alliances, as well as beyond the range, of course, it is also a good plan to transport to the west through the Qianshan Sect to the Lizong and the Yufeng Sect, before he deliberately befriended Jiang Feng, the head of the Qianshan Sect, and also had such a plan, but in the western part of Lelin City, there are mostly mountains, and it is not too easy to open up a trade route with official road specifications.

However, relying only on the attack on his younger brother Leng Tingfeng, perhaps for the head Su Liqing, this material is not enough, so he deliberately threw out the matter of marrying the Zhong family in public.

The Zhong family was originally the head of the Yanqiling family, after the fall of Yanqiling, its main vein was all removed by the Chixiamen to find an excuse, and the branch veins fled to the surrounding sects and factions, and the Jincheng faction also accepted one, and its head Zhong Shan is a Xuan-level mid-level monk, no heirs, and has a sister who is a spiritual-level monk.

Leng Tingtao values the special significance of this matter.

If Zhong Yun can give birth to an heir, then Leng Tingtao will be equivalent to obtaining the qualification to get involved in the hometown of Yanqiling in the north of the Jincheng faction, which naturally includes several small cities that were annexed by the Jincheng faction in the final stage of the last battle of the Seven Alliances. The Zhong family has governed Yanqiling for many years, and they still have a certain amount of influence here, but their strength is not good, so they can only swallow their anger and bow their heads. If there is a strong backing to support it, it is also very possible to recover the sect, or take a step back and become a vassal sect of another sect.

It is rumored that the reason why the head of the sect, Su Liqing, did not kill the killer and killed Zhong Shan, on the one hand, did not want to bear this notoriety, and on the other hand, he also suspected that the canonization document of the sect of Yanqiling was still in the hands of Zhong Yan, after all, he was one of the most trusted people of Zhong Jun, the last head of Yanqiling.

If Leng Tingtao marries Zhong Yun, he will faintly obtain the possibility of taking charge of Yanqiling's hometown, although this may be far-fetched and not very appealing, but for Su Liqing, this is definitely a hidden danger that should not be underestimated.

"How is it, everyone's attitude, have you recorded it?" In the inner room, only his closest staff Li Rulin, Kong Sifan, and his younger brother listened coldly.

"Zhou Taiming, the city lord of Huang Gucheng, has a problematic attitude, he privately opposes your marriage, saying that as a subordinate, he must report to Master Su first. ”

"Liu Dongran, the city lord of Ningta City, is the same, and a family member found out that when he went to relieve his hands, he joked with his deputy city lord and made fun of Tingfeng's attack. ”

"What about the others?"

Leng Tingtao's face changed slightly, the city lords of these two cities are usually in harmony with themselves, and they often confront themselves on some issues that slightly violate their principles, and do not obey orders. As an important town in the north, Lelin City manages nine cities, and these two cities are on the border, the former is adjacent to Chixiamen, and the latter is close to the Qianshan Sect, and the two city lords are personally appointed by Su Liqing, and the relationship with the Leng family is not close.

"In addition, for your family affairs, the city lord of Xinfeng City, Cheng Kewu, may also have some different opinions, but he didn't show it, the reason why we feel abnormal is because after the banquet, he didn't go directly to the pavilion to rest, but went to the pavilion of the Department of Etiquette here. ”

"Zheng Yuming, the deacon of the Department of Rites, is his brother-in-law. Kong Sifan added.

"Wait for their move. Leng Tingtao wanted to habitually seek stability, but suddenly remembered that he was not waiting for the other party to take the initiative for a long time, so he hurriedly added, "The monks who are transported to these three cities, you think of a proper reason, delay for a while, I want to further test their attitude." Ningta City, find an excuse to arrest a few people from the Liu Dongran family and beat one or two. At the same time, send the invitation card to Tianyou City and Shuanglong City as soon as possible. ”

............

Imperial Wind Sect, Yunda City.

This is a small city in the west of the central region, and the rebellion team led by the prefecture-level monk Xu Youjing is taking a short rest here, and at the same time, in order to add six Xuan-level monks who did not arrive in Jindu City in time, the number of the team has reached twenty-four, three prefecture-level, and twenty-one Xuan-level monks.

The procession stayed for only a quarter of an hour before hurrying eastward. Li Yufeng, the team's staff, looked at the six newly joined Xuan-level monks one by one, and felt a faintly uneasy in his heart.

Judging from the backgrounds of several people, there is nothing to be faulted about, their family has been joining the Imperial Wind Sect for hundreds of years and can stand the test, but they have a common characteristic, they are all from the Han clan, that is to say, the members of their family have never held any important positions in the Tai, Middle, and Lower Three Pavilions of the Imperial Wind Sect, nor have they ever held any key positions such as city lords, deputy city lords, and deacons of various divisions.

What reason do they have for the birth and death of the sect?

Li Yufeng has always been afraid to judge people's hearts with the worst malice, and if he is greedy for military exploits, he can wait another month. Approaching the sea gate, since the turmoil, the self-reliant head Luo Junji, is gearing up, eyeing the Yufeng Sect, adjacent to the border of the Jindu City, this kind of atmosphere of the arrival of the war, even frightened a lot of wealthy families, they have already secretly begun to deploy family members, the assets in disguise to sell, transferred to the south bank of the Troubled Stone Sea, in order to avoid war. It was in this kind of rumor that the Ling family blatantly transferred to Lianchi City, although they were severely reprimanded by the head of the sect, Xu Deyang, but the sect has always been free to move, and there is no sect regulation that can convict this matter, and the Ling family members in all key positions are still standing there with their own duties, and they have not vacated their positions.

He vaguely suspected that the six people were moles, but there was no evidence.

"It's okay, let's see. ”

Xu Youjing, the monk who led the team, gave this answer, "Maybe it's the wall-riding faction." As long as we can gain an advantage quickly, everything is not a problem. His attitude was very optimistic, and even diluted Li Yufeng's worries for a while, but when he came out of Xu Youjing's room, he found that the next six people were not in his room, but chatting in the rooms of different monks, and the uneasiness in his heart became more and more intense.

No, I have to test their true position before arriving, Li Yufeng secretly made up his mind, but he knew his identity very well, it was impossible to directly get any useful information among the six people, and he could only find a clue by indirectly asking the targets they had come into contact with.

He pondered for a moment in his heart, and selected a few monks whose relationship was not estranged, but who had already been in contact with those six people, as a breakthrough.

............

"Leng Tingtao wants to take a concubine?"

Zuo Zicicada, who was in Shuanglong City of the Jincheng Sect, heard this "laughing" news from Lelin City overnight when he got up in the morning.

"Is he listening to Tao to this extent?

In terms of intelligence collection, Zuo Zician is better at than Leng Tingtao, and the number of low-level monks in the Guy Zuo family is far greater than that of the Leng family, and there are enough reliable manpower to deploy. Moreover, many people have positions in the sect, although it is not critical, but it is better than the layout, and there are several small chambers of commerce, which are inextricably linked with the Zuo family, and while doing business, they can also quickly transmit information for them.

"Yes, I have already found someone in the Zhong family to confirm that Leng Tingtao has indeed officially paid the bride price. ”

"Heh, this is testing Su Liqing's bottom line. Zuo Zician twisted his beard lightly, and quickly linked another piece of information about Leng Tingfeng's attack before, "He is waiting for Su Liqing's statement, what do you think, Mr. Zhao?"

"It should be like this," Zhao Mingfu is Zuo Ziciao's staff, and he has been following him for many years, so naturally there is no need to follow the master's wishes, "It is obvious that Su Liqing's statement at this time is very important. ”

"The root is still an old problem of establishing an heir," Zuo Zician analyzed, "It seems that the six daughters of the Su Sect should all get married, and in the end, they are better than whose roots are better and can produce male monks with good qualifications." Speaking of this, he was quite gloating, "Mr. Zhao, what attitude do you think we should have?"

"Look!"

"Just looking?"

"If you don't want to suffer, you can contact Leng Tingtao, but you and him belong to a natural antagonistic relationship, if the head of Su sees that you have a tendency to unite together, he will use the strategy of 'one mountain does not exist two tigers', and when the time comes, it will be us who will suffer." ”

"The confrontation is always temporary, we have been fighting for so many years, and we don't want to coax the head of the house to rest assured. ”

Zuo Zician didn't quite agree with the words of the staff, in fact, whether it was Zhao Mingfu or just went back to the province, he would not easily adopt the meaning of the staff Hong Santong, who was not here, he just habitually listened to opinions, and had his own judgment and decision, and rarely made mistakes.

"Seize Leng Tingfeng and leave his post without permission, and let the fourth brother talk about this matter at the sect council, Leng Tingtao is now lacking someone to make a big deal about this matter, we have to help him. ”

A faint smile appeared on Zuo Zichan's face, "At the same time, send someone to explore the meaning of the Liu family and the Sun family, especially the Liu family, aren't they going to marry the pearl of the head of the family, why haven't there been any movement recently? ”

............

The afternoon sun is very scorching.

Jiang Feng got on the beast ship early in the morning, and waited for a long time before waiting for Yu Xiaozheng's sister and brother and Yu Chengke, which was different from Jiang Feng's expectations, and he faintly felt that Yu Xiaoman was not as enthusiastic about going to the Zhengqi Alliance auction this time.

Is there already something to gain? Or is there something else?

Yu Xiaozheng naturally didn't want to be in the same room with Yu Chengke, who had a serious face, so he excused himself and came out to Jiang Feng's small room to continue to "complain", Jiang Feng made a soundproof note and asked in a low voice:

"How's your preparation for the auction?"

Jiang Feng intends to start with this topic, although a Zhengqi Alliance token can be used as a voucher for four people to participate in the meeting, but the entrance fee and tradable items are indispensable for each of them, the former can be spirit stones, and the latter is worth no less than fifty third-order items, of course, these tradable items will not all appear in the auction, only a small number will be selected, and the rest will still have to wait for the free trading link and deal with it by themselves.

"Forehead ......"

This incident touched Yu Xiaozheng's sore spot, and reminded him of the fifth-order "Shenmu Running Thunder Talisman" that he lent to Cui Yinghao, but then he lost all his money, however, the Cui family said that he would pay it back, but he did not set a date, but at least he couldn't count on it now. This accident, their sister and brother do not dare to report it to the upper echelons of the family now, only the fourth uncle knows that the value itself is one thing, and the symbolic meaning is more important. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and sighed slightly in his heart, secretly saying that he was unlucky.

"My sister and I each prepared a magic weapon, this thing doesn't have to be our own, it's just a proof of net worth, even if we are selected, set a sky-high starting price, there is no loss after the auction. ”

That's a good idea.

Jiang Feng suddenly had this realization, but his magic weapons, except for the "screaming talisman" that Cai Qiuzhen had just traded to him, were really not too valuable, and the grade of the magic weapon only determined the initial price, not the final value, as Cai Qiuzhen said, most of the magic weapons in his hands were garbage. For this reason, he decided to take out the remaining half of the "Ghost Vine Heart Wood", and almost be able to assess the price, if it still doesn't work, then he can only use the original plan, and use the "Song Lake Sect Canonization Document" from Heishui Gate as an admission certificate, presumably the value of this thing should be enough.

"Do you have any items you want to auction at this auction?" Jiang Feng deliberately used the word "you", if he rashly asked Yu Xiaoman, he couldn't help but be abrupt, and it would also attract Yu Xiaozheng's extra attention.

"I don't really care, anyway, there is a big guy who pays some money. Yu Xiaozheng's face was slightly smug, "Strive to shoot a ground-level skill, unlike my sister, I still lack a skill." ”

"Oh?" Jiang Feng noticed the particularity of these two sentences, one is the cost of this trip, there is a big guy, that is, Yu Chengke pays part of the money, and on the other hand, Yu Xiaoman seems to have gotten the skills she wants first, presumably this is also the main reason why the other party's interest in this has faded.

According to Jiang Feng's judgment, the status of the two in the family was not so important before, what was the reason for this change? There seems to be some unknown inside story.

"It's a pity that your 'Puzzle Brigade' has been disbanded. I originally had a few things to do with the Asagama Sect and needed your help. Jiang Feng suddenly felt that this matter might have something to do with the improvement of the status of the two.

"I'm stupid, I can't help it. ”

Yu Xiaozheng was hit by the sore spot again, and his expression couldn't help but be a little gloomy, "Don't mention it, let's talk about something happy." As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a knock at the door.

But it's Yu Xiaoman.

Yu Xiaoman still had that cold face, Yu Xiaozheng sneered, casually found a reason to leave, closed the door lightly, leaving only the two of them looking at each other.

"Give me back the things!" Yu Xiaoman stretched out his hand and made a straightforward request.