??? Qiu Yuling had no choice but to return to the East Courtyard.

Everyone in the Hundred Swords Villa was waiting for this banquet at noon, because they also knew that the last meal was the true intention of the Sword Appreciation Conference, because in this banquet, they could make a lot of connections, because only the various clans and sects, or the martial arts conference organized by the alliance, could bring the people of the rivers and lakes of the world together.

Although it is not difficult for ordinary sects to take out tens of thousands of taels of silver, but the operation of major sects requires more silver, such as the Heavenly Master's Mansion and the Shangqing Dynasty, and the Taoist of the Wudang faction is quite poor.

The economic source of the Heavenly Master's Mansion is only the annual Luo Tian Dajiao in Longhu Mountain, and the incense money that believers worship and fill. Other than that, the Dao Masters of the Heavenly Master's Mansion did not have any financial resources.

The Shangqing faction in Maoshan is no better than Longhu Mountain, and they also live on incense money. The disciples of the Maoshan sect often went down to the mountain to see people and measure feng shui, and made a living from it.

In addition to cultivating on the mountain, the Taoist leaders of Wudang Mountain will go to the martial arts hall to teach martial arts in their spare time. Although they don't take a penny, those merchants will still take out some silver taels to support the Taoist leaders of Wudang Mountain in order to thank them.

In comparison, Tianjimen is much better, although the food is a little worse, but at least there will be no shortage of silver.

And those who are clever and robbering are all taken care of by the alliance. They don't actually have that much money either. But the four great families are an exception, Peacock, Tangmen, and Baijian are all families that have been inherited for hundreds of years, and Peacock Villa has thousands of acres of fertile land, as well as the wealth accumulated by previous dynasties.

Tangmen occupies eighty percent of the merchants in the land of Sichuan and Chongqing, and even Caoyun.

Hundred Swords Villa has always held the offerings of the imperial court, and the blades of Hundred Swords Villa are famous in the rivers and lakes.

As for the Nangong family, although it is not as rich as the other three, Nangong Yu also has a lot of houses and fields under his name. Although it is not a rich party, it is also a rich family.

But there are really not many people like the Murong family who can take out tens of thousands of taels of silver for a treat.

Everyone was looking forward to the noon networking event.

And Lin Luoyao is also looking forward to it, because this event is very important and an important foundation for the Qiu family to gain a foothold in martial arts. According to her understanding of Qiu Yuling, it is estimated that it is difficult for this sister-in-law to talk to others except for her brother Yun. Not to mention letting her talk about these things, as for Lou Yun, she is shyer than a girl, and she is not as good as Qiu Yuling. So she had to do it herself.

Only then can she rest assured. Lin Luoyao sighed, she was really tired, her fiancée had such a big heart for her husband. But she was very relieved, because this was the best for Lou Yun, and this was what she could do. It's what she's good at.

When she and Lou Yun got married, she assisted him like Zhang Liang Zhuge Liang, and his husband relied on his martial arts to gain a foothold in the rivers and lakes. Then the revival of Peacock Villa is just around the corner.

She also closed her eyes with peace of mind, because she was too tired, and she didn't sleep all night last night, but she was different from Nangong Li, she was deducing what would happen tomorrow, and she had to plan every detail.

Relative to the tranquility within the Hundred Swords Villa.

Wuchang City is tense.

Because the three of them received another letter, these letters were still sent by the sisters on the periphery. It details the entire process of the sister's abduction, and at the end it is written that the sister has been killed. Her body was found in the woods outside the city.

She's red.. Lying naked in the grass, as if he was thrown there after being ****, the first to arrive was not the people of the Mercy Flower Society, but the people of the government. The officials of the government were already there.

Moreover, her body was also examined, and then the government concluded that she had been raped and killed by a strong man. Then it was still a common trick of the government to ask for a wanted reward, and the girls of the Flower Society spent money to buy the officials to redeem the body.

A careful examination showed that the sister did not die of adultery. Instead, a small hidden weapon was inserted into the back of his head, which was a silver needle, and it was fired with extremely strong wrist force. Pierced directly into the back of her head and heart.

And the appearance of the corpse when it died was not too vigorous, this sister was killed instantly, and the murderer's method was very sharp, killing with one blow without any pain.

It seems that the gang kidnapped not her people, but her corpse, and finally stripped her body naked, abandoned it in the wilderness, and then notified the government, just to hide people's eyes and ears and let the government destroy some clues.

And they were directly commanded by Epiphany. Moreover, Tanhua also got an important piece of information, that is, Murong Cheng, the owner of the Hundred Swords Villa, and Nangong Yu, the head of the Nangong family, were both seriously injured.

And the people who fought with them were two strange people, one was like a fisherman who fished for thousands of snows in the cold river independently, and the other was a man in a black robe.

No one could see the faces of the two people, one hidden under the hat, and the other hidden in the black robe. It's just that they know that the black-robed man's face and hands are pale.

But the man was also using a sword, a very strange sword. If he used a knife, everyone would think he was Mo Chen.

However, this person's martial arts are extremely high, and his body is secretive. Nangong Yu was seriously injured by this person.

However, the strange thing is that these two people did not mean to kill them, but waited for Murong Cheng to come alone to rescue Nangong Yu, and then seriously injured Murong Cheng, and then disappeared without a trace. Let the two of them escape, without hindrance, without pursuit. Just let the two of them silently escape back to the Hundred Swords Villa.

And in the end, the women on the periphery of the Mercy Flower Society also received letters from those people, the content of which was very simple, it had nothing to do with the Mercy Flower Society, and I hoped that the Mercy Flower Society would not interfere.

This made Xiangling very strange, because Nangong Yu and Murong Cheng's martial arts were not weak, and the people who could treat their two grandmaster-level characters as animals to play with were whom. No, who the hell has such strength?

But Xiangling is not sure, although there are many masters among the twelve incense flowers, but there are only a few people who can really fight, Situ Ning, Yan Feixue, and Epiphany, and the others are not Nangong Yu's opponents at all, at most they are only a draw, and those people treat the two of them as monkeys to play.

It shows the horror of its strength.

Then why are they so jealous of the Mercy Flower Society? Could it be that they are afraid of the power of the Yongwang Mansion? Or is it the strength of Zhu Yunchang?

Xiangling didn't know, he couldn't figure out these questions for the time being, but she was sure of one thing, at least these people wouldn't be hostile to Lianhua, otherwise they could find the place where those peripheral shadows were, wouldn't they be able to find the three of them to live?