I only heard the old man say, "I was outside the door just now, but I heard a few words from you." ”

As soon as he said this, the room fell silent again. After a while, I heard Nie Dingnan laugh dryly, and said: "My son and a few brothers are just talking casually, and I can't count them, and I hope that my father won't care." ”

Nie Lao Wu echoed and said, "Fourth brother is right, let's just get together and talk nonsense. Uncle Nie should think that we are farting, and we must not be angry. ”

The old man sighed, but did not speak, as if he was thinking about something, and the room fell silent again.

After a while, I heard the old man say slowly: "Ladies and nephews, I have a question I want to ask you. Since our Nie family was elected as the leader of the five families of Nie, Lu, Zhao, Du, and Hua, if we talk about prosperity, which of the five families is the leader?"

After the old man finished speaking, no one answered for a while. The old man continued, "What, do you know about it and don't say it, or don't you want to say it at all?"

I only heard Nie Lao Wu laugh and say: "Since all the brothers don't speak, my nephew has the courage to throw bricks and lead the jade." If you talk about the prosperity of people, it is naturally our Nie family. ”

The old man let out an "oh", and then asked, "Does the fifth know how many people there are in our Nie family now?"

Nie Lao Wu didn't answer immediately this time, he smbabbed for a long time, and finally coughed twice, and said with a little embarrassment: "Little nephew is stupid, I don't know this." ”

His voice fell, but he heard Nie Dingnan smile and said: "When the eldest brother planned to deal with the Xu family the year before last, he once calculated the number of the four families of Nie, Lu, Du, and Zhao. I remember my eldest brother said that our Nie family has a total of six generations, with a total of 43 rooms, 2,639 men, and 382 unmarried women. Among them, there were 2,117 people who had practiced martial arts and were able to fight in battle. However, this is the number of the previous year, and after these two years, there may be some changes now. ”

After Nie Dingnan finished speaking, Nie Lao Wu smiled and said, "The eldest brother and the fourth brother are still careful, and our brothers are far behind." ”

Nie Dingnan said: "In order to deal with the Xu family, my eldest brother thought hard for six years before he came up with a clever plan to annihilate the Xu family in one fell swoop. He used Cao Mengde's tactics to exterminate Xiliang Ma Chao and Han Sui, and when he set up a plan, he naturally had to know the other. Not only do we know the reality of the Xu family, but we also have to check our own number. The five of us have been fighting with the Xu family for hundreds of years, and in terms of strength, we are naturally far above the Xu family. But after repeated losses, the Hua family was even more wiped out because of this, thinking about it, it was nothing more than because the Xu family was in the dark and we were in the light. The people of the Xu family are secretive, living separately, never gathering in one place, but fighting separately. For example, we exterminated a group of murderers of the Xu family in Henan, but we were secretly watched by the children of the Xu family hiding in Shandong, Hebei, Henan and other places. My eldest brother thought of the Xu family's method, so he decided on a plan to use the other way and give back to the other. Send the right-hand men of our four families to scatter around to find out the traces of the Xu family. The Xu family knew that Fengmen Village was the base camp of our five families, and the defense must be tight, and they attacked Fengmen Village several times hundreds of years ago, but each time they were defeated, almost annihilating the entire Xu family. It is because they adopted the method of 'weakening its branches first, and then cutting off its trunks', and they did not attack the village of Shefengmen, but made every effort to cut off our wings scattered all over the place. In this way, the elites of our four families all gathered in Fengmen Village, and the Xu family besieged our children in various places, and finally found out the base camp where the person in charge of the Xu family was hiding, and only then suddenly the elite came out a few months ago, and attacked the three secret camps of the Xu family at the same time, killing more than 1,000 people of the Xu family, thus getting rid of the five of our family's henchmen for hundreds of years. "The fastest mobile phone for network updates::/m.. com/

The more Nie Dingnan spoke, the more excited he became, and his words were touting the exploits of the so-called "big brother" everywhere. Li Qiufeng secretly thought in his heart, the "big brother" mentioned by this person is Ji Dingzhong who is hiding in the yamen of the Luoyang prefect. Thinking about it, Ji Dingzhong was originally called Nie Dingzhong, and he and Nie Dingnan should be brothers. And although Nie Lao Wu and the others are brothers of the same clan as Ji Dingzhong and Nie Dingnan, there is still a layer of difference after all. Listening to Nie Dingnan's bragging about Ji Dingzhong, although several people echoed it, they were somewhat insincere.

Nie Dingnan was talking vigorously when he suddenly heard the old man cough. Nie Dingnan immediately stopped talking. I only heard the old man say: "Now when we talk about the five of us, we naturally mean Nie, Lu, Zhao, Du, and Hua." The order of these surnames is not arbitrary, but according to the strength and status of the five families. But hundreds of years ago, if we mentioned the five families in Fengmen Village, it was Hua, Lu, Du, Nie, and Zhao. At that time, the Hua family was above the other four families, and they were majestic. But what happened later? The Hua family was wiped out, and our Nie family became the leader. ”

When the old man said this, he paused slightly, and then continued: "The power of the Hua family at that time was still above our Nie family today. But in less than a hundred years, the children of the Hua family died, died, and finally ended up in extinction. Do you know why?"

Nie Dingnan, Nie Lao Wu and the others were silent, and even the sound of a needle falling could be heard clearly in the silence of the room. Li Qiufeng held his breath, shrunk under the bed, and didn't dare to move.

I only heard the old man say: "The Hua family ranked first among the five families back then, and when they fought with the Xu family, they were always headed by the Hua family. One or two hundred years later, the two sides fought more than a dozen battles, and suffered heavy casualties. As the leader of the five families, the Hua family is indeed the first in every war, and the elite of the Hua family suffers the most casualties. And after the Xu family knew that the Hua family was the leader of the five families, they set the target of sniping on the Hua family. From the end of the Tang Dynasty to the beginning of the Southern Song Dynasty, in less than two hundred years, there were eleven patriarchs of the Hua family who were assassinated by the Xu family, and countless children of the Hua family died at the hands of the killers sent by the Xu family. It is precisely because of so many casualties among the elites of the Hua family that in the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Hua family was already weak and could not support the status of the leaders of our five families. After that, the Du family produced several amazing children, and the ranking of our five families became Du, Lu, Nie, Hua, and Zhao. It's just that the Du family has only been the leader for decades, because he is keen on officialdom and fame, he participated in the party struggle of the imperial court, and almost wiped out the clan, and has been in a state of despair ever since. At that time, the ancestor of our Nie family was strong in martial arts and very wise, and was promoted as the leader of the five families, not only rescued the remnants of the Du family, but also thwarted the sneak attack of the Xu family and killed the two patriarchs of the Xu family. Since then, the ranking of the five has become Nie, Lu, Zhao, Du, and Hua. ”

Li Qiufeng listened to the old man's eloquent talk, but the more he listened, the more frightened he became. I didn't expect these five families to have such a long past, and the turmoil over the centuries was really unexpected. It's just that listening to what this old man said, although the five families of Nie, Lu, Zhao, Du, and Hua have the same hatred and fight with the Xu family, they are not monolithic with each other, and they have done a lot of things to calculate with each other.

The old man said: "At that time, although the ancestor of our Nie family was the leader of the five families and became the head of the Qianyin Cave in Fengmen Village, he was prepared for danger in times of peace and was bent on planning a long-term plan for our Nie family. He stood tall and saw far away, thinking of the fate of the Hua family and the Du family back then, so he made a big plan to keep his eyes on it. Since then, it has been stipulated that the children of our Nie family are not officials, businessmen, martial arts, or literature, but only do handiwork. All the things that come out and show up are handed over to the children of the Lu, Zhao, Du, and Hua families to do, and our Nie family children are only planning behind the scenes. If you look at the past 200 years, compared with the four families, although the children of our Nie family are obscure, they are not as beautiful as the children of other families, but most of the brothers in each house are safe and sound, and there are very few people who die unexpectedly. ”

When the old man said this, he took a few breaths and seemed to be quite emotional, and then continued: "Now that the Xu family has been destroyed, our great enemy for hundreds of years has disappeared. Look at the rest, the Hua family has been wiped out, and the Du family only has three rooms left. The men in two of the houses had been killed in the Battle of Haizhou, leaving five widows and two daughters. According to the rules of our five families, only the man knows about the closure of the village, and even his own daughter-in-law can't tell him. These two rooms are no longer considered the Du family. I have instructed the fourth child that each widow of the Du family will give 5,000 taels of silver and 10,000 taels of orphan girls, which is enough for them to live. The remaining room is Huang Chong. Huang Chong is nearly fifty this year, and there is only one girl, and it seems that there will be no more children. The generation from the Du family to Huang Chong is also over. The Zhao family died one hundred and fifty-five people in the Battle of Haizhou, and the six houses were wiped out, leaving only Hu Kun alone. Hu Kun's only son, Hu Yiyue, died in Xiuwu County the day before yesterday, so it depends on whether Lao Hu can show his might and have a big fat boy before the guy is useless. Otherwise, the Hu family's wealth, as well as dozens of houses in Ruyang, Luoyang, Kaifeng, and the capital, will all fall into the hands of others. "New Bayi Chinese Network debuted m.. com

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