Chapter 1111: The Zhen Family and the Liu Family
The Zhen family, one of the four great families in Yongan City.
Lei Luo didn't spend much effort to come to the entrance of the Zhen family's mansion, a manor covering an area of hundreds of acres.
This place is not in the city, but in the foothill area at the back of Yong'an City, surrounded by elegant manors, and the Zhen family is the largest of them.
It is said that this northern part of the city was a wealthy area within Yongan Castle, where famous families built their mansions.
"Who's coming?"
When he came to the door of the Zhen family's mansion, he was really stopped by guards.
Fortunately, these guards are just mortals, and they didn't make any excessive moves after blocking one or two, but they also knew some rules.
"Lei is from a remote place, and he is here today to visit the person in charge of the Zhen family, I wonder if you can pass on one or two?" Lei Luo said politely.
After all, what he had to do this time needed to deal with the people of the Zhen family, so he was relatively polite.
With the flip of his wrist, a letter of worship was delivered to the guard in front of him.
It was written that he was a monk from a remote place, and that he had come to Zhen's house at the behest of a deceased man.
And in the prayer post, he vaguely revealed his cultivation, although it was nothing in the early stage of foundation building, but in the eyes of such secular families, it was also considered to have some weight.
The guard was also careful, and did not make any excessive requests, and after admonishing him, he went into the mansion to spread the word on his behalf.
After a quarter of an hour's wait, the guard came out and invited him in.
"Master Immortal, the eldest master usually works in the Bliss Building, so the second master is in charge of all the affairs in the mansion, so I will take you to see his old man!" the guard said respectfully.
He is just a caretaker of the Zhen family, although he has some skills, but the person in front of him is an immortal cultivator, which is not something he can provoke, so the respect he should have must not be left behind.
"You're welcome!" Lei Luo said calmly and casually.
The two of them walked towards the mansion, passing through the courtyards along the way, and finally came to a hall that was magnificent at first sight.
At this moment, at the door of the hall, the guard passed a word or two, and after getting a reply, he asked Lei Luo to enter confidently.
In the hall, three middle-aged men were sitting at this moment.
At the head of the room is a rich, squinting-eyed man, with a white, round face and two small whiskers at the corners of his mouth, which the first glance will associate with the smiling Maitreya.
To the left of this man sat two old men, both dressed in Confucian robes, like two teachers.
"The affairs of the academy have been decided like this first, and the juniors of my Zhen family still need two gentlemen to teach them well!" the round-faced man said politely.
"Since the second master has a distinguished guest coming to the door, then the two of us will retire first, and those things about the young master of the Zhen family, let's leave it like this for the time being!" one of the old men said after seeing someone at the door.
Then the two of them took a deep look and walked out of the hall, and when they left, they politely saluted Lei Luo, and Lei Luo naturally returned the same salute.
"This fellow Daoist, I don't know who asked me to come to my Zhen Mansion, is it looking for me or my eldest brother?"
The round-faced man asked, and this person's words also showed that his identity was the second master of the Zhen family.
As for this person calling Lei Luo a fellow Daoist, it is also because his cultivation is in the middle stage of foundation building.
He still has the prayer post in his hand, which also shows that this person has read the content of the prayer post just now.
"Lei came this time because he was entrusted by a senior, and this senior happened to be from the ancestor of the Zhen family, and this time he came to the Zhen Mansion naturally to let him recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors, and settle down," Lei Luo said politely.
"Oh, I don't know who the surname of this senior of the Zhen family is, and how old he was when he drove the crane west?"
"This senior's name is Zhen Mingyue, about eight hundred years old, I don't know if Second Master Zhen has an impression?" Lei Luo touched his nose and said.
He also knew that it would surprise the other party to say it at this age, but judging from the letters between Mrs. Zhen and the Yongan son, this Mrs. Zhen did have this age.
"What, eight hundred years old!"
Zhen Erye was startled when he heard this age, his body almost fell down, and his mouth was even more shocked.
Then he had a look of thought on his face, because the age of eight hundred itself revealed a piece of news.
This senior was either a peak monk in the late stage of Jindan, who took many heaven and earth elixirs that increased his longevity, and his life was extended to 800 years old, and finally the oil ran out and the lamp dried up, and he died at the end of his life.
Either this senior is a Yuan infant monk who has lived for thousands of years, and there was some accident when he was eight hundred years old, and then he died and fell, leaving some means for the person in front of him to return to the Zhen family with relics and other things after his death.
"I don't know what token that Senior Zhen has?" Second Master Zhen shook his head after hearing this, and then asked.
Lei Luo took out a storage bag from the storage bag, and then opened it and took out some jade pendants, hairpins and other treasures, and these were all things used by Mrs. Zhen during her lifetime.
Seeing the rich spiritual power on these treasures, Second Master Zhen understood that the fallen man was obviously a high-level cultivator who had cultivated to the heavens.
"Fellow Daoist, wait a minute, I won't have a clue about the things of more than 800 years ago," he replied and walked to the door of the hall, and then shouted: "Come on, bring the genealogy!"
Lei Luo naturally understood that he waited in the hall without any care, and naturally someone came to prepare tea during the period.
After a while, an old man came here with a thick genealogy, and when the old man was about to leave, he was stopped by Zhen Erye.
"Elder Zhen, your family has been accustomed to looking at genealogy for generations, I don't know if you have ever heard the name Zhen Mingyue?" Second Master Zhen then asked casually.
"Zhen Mingyue?" the old man looked strange, and then opened the family tree and began to flip through it.
Lei Luo also quietly let go of his divine sense at this moment to observe, but half an hour later, he was disappointed, the genealogy of the Zhen family was all turned over by the old man, and he still didn't find the word "Zhen Mingyue".
"Impossible, this place is Yong'an City, there is only one Zhen family here, no matter the main vein or branch, there should be a record!" he said in surprise in his heart.
But it didn't work, there was no name of Mrs. Zhen in the Zhen family's genealogy, and the second master Zhen was also helpless, and the old man also took the Zhen family's genealogy down.
"Hey, it's really embarrassing to let Daoist friends come here to run for nothing!" Second Master Zhen said slightly apologetically.
"I don't know Second Master Zhen, is there any branch of this Zhen family that is not recorded in the genealogy?"
"The outcast branches, this..."
Second Master Zhen also looked a little puzzled, but he still shook his head, because these were too old, and he didn't know.
Seeing this, Lei Luo could only put away these relics and leave.
Second Master Zhen naturally sent the guest to the door, and then watched him go away.
Judging from this trip to the Zhen family, this Zhen Second Master is indeed unaware and has no deception.
Then for him, this clue is broken, because there are no Jindan period monks in the Zhen family's mansion, and it is really difficult to find after so many generations.
Not to mention the main lineage of the Zhen family on the genealogy, even the disciples of the branch lineage are all marked in detail, either someone has changed the family tree, or Zhen Mingyue is really not from their Zhen family.
"Now there's a clue, the Liu family!" Lei Luo then looked at another large mansion in the foothill area, his eyes narrowing slightly.
At the beginning, the 'Yong'an Prince' seemed to marry a woman from the Liu family, and this Liu family woman was a woman from the Liu family in Yong'an City, and the old shopkeeper of the grocery store also said about it.
Therefore, it should be possible to find the clues of the 'Yongan Prince' within the Liu family, but it is a little difficult to find clues about Zhen Mingyue.
You can't tell the Liu family that the city lord of the Liu family at the beginning still has a concubine outside, so he plans to go in and find it himself at night this time.
That night, Lei Luo infiltrated the Liu family's mansion.
Then in a large mansion in the mansion, he found the head of the Liu family, an old man in the early days of foundation building.
Under the illusion of Lu Linglong and the little white fox and the prohibition of the divine soul, this person let go of his mind when he was in a daze, and began to spit out the truth as if he was drunk.
"Do you have the Yong'an City Lord on your Liu family ancestor?"
"Yes, he is the son-in-law of our Liu family, and according to legend, he is very talented!"
"Where is this man buried?"
"Uh, I don't know!"
"Didn't he join your Liu family, why didn't he be buried in your Liu family, with the people of the Liu family?"
"I don't know!"
"When the city lord of Yong'an entered the Liu family, which young lady did he marry?"
"It's the third sister of the seventh generation head of my Liu family, Liu ......"
In the midst of the questions and answers between the head of the Liu family and Lei Luo, half an hour passed.
Then, after the head of the Liu family woke up slowly, he found that he had stood up from the futon of retreat at some point.
But soon he looked around to make sure that there was no sign of an intruder, and then closed his eyes again and breathed again.
Lei Luo then found the name Yong'an in the genealogy of the Liu family, which was indeed from the seventh generation of the Liu family, and his wife was the third sister of the seventh generation of the head of the Liu family, and the descendants of the Liu family.
However, the strange thing is that this Yongan City Lord did not leave any descendants after marriage, in other words, this Yongan prince should have real materials.
Otherwise, if a son-in-law does not leave an heir, the people of the Liu family will not pay too much attention to him, and it is even more impossible for him to be the city lord of Yong'an City, and even name the city after him in the end.
"This doesn't look like a son-in-law at all, even if the ancestors of the Liu family are brilliant, they have not yet reached the point where they can let this son-in-law ascend to the position of the city lord, and let him make drastic repairs to the city!"
Soon Lei Luo discovered something abnormal, and even if the head of the Liu family at that time supported him with the strength of the whole clan, it would be impossible to do it like this.
Then he used his divine sense to sweep a place where books were stored in the Liu family's mansion, and found some classics or diaries of the ancestors of the Liu family here.
He rummaged through the area with his vast sense, but was still disappointed, because there were no clues here.
Even the sixth generation ancestor of the Liu family, the eighth generation of the ancestor have been recorded, but only some things of the seventh generation ancestor have disappeared.
Only the genealogy records this person and remembers some things, but many books and classics about the ancestor of the Liu family have disappeared.
"There's a problem, there's a problem, it's like someone wants to hide something!" Lei Luo said with a strange expression.
But this matter is too old, it is too cumbersome to trace, and the most important thing is how the prince of Yong'an sat in the position of the city lord at that time.
Judging from the affairs of the Zhen family and the Liu family, it should be that someone used great energy to cover up something back then, and this matter must be related to a certain force eight hundred years ago.
This force must be able to influence everything in the Liu family and the Zhen family, so that they can destroy even some of the things of their ancestors.
Thinking of this, Lei Luo had a goal in his heart, and he could do it so far, in the vicinity of Yong'an City, there was only one such family as the Hehuan Sect.
Mrs. Zhen is from the Hehuan Sect, so there is only one possibility, someone from the Hehuan Sect wants to hide something, so he erases all the things of this woman and Yongan Gongzi.
Who this person is, Lei Luo has no clue now, but this person must be from the Hehuan Sect and has a very high status in the sect.