"Dad!" Ji Honglian shouted, with a look of annoyance and eagerness on her face.

Ji Hou glanced at his daughter, he had always pampered Ji Honglian, but he didn't say a few words of persuasion like he usually did, but his eyes were slightly cold, his face sank, and he said, "Didn't you hear what I just said?"

Anyway, after all, Ji Hou is one of the three elders of the Holy City today, with prominent authority and great power, this time he is a little colorful, even if Ji Honglian has always been pleasing to him, he was frightened and didn't dare to make a sound anymore.

It's just that although she bowed her head and didn't say anything, she still had a sad look on her face, obviously, she was still not very convinced, and she was also very worried about the situation on the Yin River.

Seeing this, Ji Hou sighed in his heart, beckoned to his most beloved daughter, motioned for her to sit beside him, and then said, "What you said to me just now, do you think that when your father becomes this elder, he can do whatever he wants and do everything unscrupulously?"

Ji Honglian thought for a moment and said, "Isn't it?"

Ji Hou was suffocated for a moment, and he didn't know what to say for a while, but when he saw his daughter's clear eyes, he couldn't help but smile bitterly, reached out and patted her head gently, and sighed: "Don't pretend to be stupid in front of me, you are not too young, can you not know the rules here?" Yes, now with the power of our Ji clan, it can indeed be regarded as prosperous in the Holy City, but there are still rules for everything. If you want to use your power to suppress people, suppress this today, suppress that family tomorrow, and in the end, you can only commit public anger, and then our Ji family's good days will come to an end. ”

Ji Honglian bit her ruddy lower lip and said, "Then we don't care about the rest of us, just help Yin He once, okay?"

"No!" Ji Hou bluntly refused, "The inheritance of the noble families of the Holy City has always been decided in their own families, unless it is a heinous evil deed, or a serious crime against human morality, the Council of Elders will not care about it. ”

"This is a rule that has been passed down for thousands of years, and it is also the consensus shared by all the nobles of the families in the Holy City, and anyone who rashly crosses the line is equivalent to provoking and offending all the families. Ji Hou looked at his daughter and said lightly, "What do you think is worth taking such a big risk for a young man in Yinhe District?"

Ji Honglian was speechless, she couldn't help but be a little angry, and said with a little annoyance: "Then according to what you said, outsiders can never interfere with the inheritance of the family, there are so many noble families in the Holy City, isn't there nothing evil and bad?

"Yes, a lot. Ji Hou said.

Ji Honglian was really taken aback at this time, glared at her father, and was stunned for a while before she said, "What did you say?"

Ji Hou smiled faintly, got up from his seat, and walked to the study window.

His study is on top of a tall building, which is one of the highest places in the entire Ji Mansion, the reason is that Ji Hou has always liked to stand on a high place and look down on the Holy City.

At this moment, he looked out of the window and saw the houses and streets below one by one, although it could not be compared with the feeling of looking down on all beings from the top of the Great Pyramid, but there was also a faint taste of transcendence. In addition to the Ji family's mansion, there are many houses, carved railings and paintings, gorgeous and luxurious, because this is the place where the mansions of the aristocratic families in the holy city are most concentrated.

Looking at the houses and pavilions that symbolize power and power, Ji Hou said: "Since there is this holy city, there are also many families, we have lived here for thousands of years, so many people, so many families, nothing has happened. ”

He said with a sneer, with a bit of ridicule on the corner of his mouth, pointed to a certain place outside the window, and said: "That's the Song family, their previous generation of family masters were cruel and easy to kill, like a madman, he once killed twenty-seven slaves at home at one time, and the bloody smell even we can smell here." ”

"That's the Xiahou family, don't look at their infinite scenery now, and their momentum is on par with our family, but five generations up, their family is still surnamed Mi, do you want to know why they changed their name?"

"And the Sun family next door to us, it seems that people are thriving, but in the past thirty years, more than 20 idiots have been born in their family, and more than a dozen are born crippled, do you think it's just bad luck?

Ji Honglian was dumbfounded, speechless for a while, and her face gradually became a little pale.

Ji Hou slowly retracted his gaze from the window, walked back to the desk and sat down, after a moment of silence, he slowed down his voice and said to Ji Honglian: "Xiaolian, you must know that under the sacred mountain, in the great wilderness, in the holy city for thousands of years, there has been nothing new. The matter of the Yin family and Yin He, you seem to be excessive, and it is not worth it for the young man named Yin He, but compared to the past, more and more terrible things have happened in many families in this holy city, far better than what he has encountered now. ”

"The position of the head of the family is born with fame, power, glory and wealth, once he sits on it, he can be superior to others, and he is a person on the top. Of course, everyone has to grab such a benefit, and they have to fight for it. Whoever can grab it, fight for it, it's his, and the capable person lives in it, and we other onlookers also recognize it. ”

Ji Honglian took a deep breath, hesitated for a moment, and said, "But as far as I know, there are also some people in the family, because the head of the family loves a certain heir, regardless of criticism, he insists on squeezing out capable children, what can I say?"

Ji Hou laughed and said, "We also recognize this, this is a good thing." If any family does not open their eyes and chooses a waste to be the head of the family, whether it is perverse or inactive in the future, the family will surely decline. When that time comes, do you know how many powerful families are eyeing up to snatch their inheritance? Do you know how many people in the lower positions are trying to climb up and kill these waste families above so that they can rank among the high positions in the Holy City?"

"Everybody wants this to happen. ”

Ji Honglian was speechless and slowly lowered her head, but Ji Hou stretched out her hand again, gently lifted her white and tender chin, let her look at herself, and said calmly: "So, I won't care about the affairs of the Yin family, Yin He will snatch back the position of the head of the family by himself if he has the ability, if he doesn't have the ability, then he will consider himself unlucky, and no one cares where he dies." You are the daughter of our Ji family, you must understand these things, don't be so naïve anymore. ”

Ji Honglian gritted her teeth lightly, then nodded silently and with some difficulty, then stood up and walked towards the door of the study.

Ji Hou looked at the back of his daughter, and felt that she seemed to have suddenly grown up and matured at this moment, so he nodded with satisfaction and picked up the scroll on the table again.

It's just that when Ji Honglian was about to walk out of the door, she suddenly stopped and said to Ji Hou: "How do I think that our Holy City family is just like the wolves in the Great Wilderness?

Ji Hou smiled, raised the scroll in his hand to gesture to Ji Honglian, and then said with a smile: "You are right. ”

The corners of Ji Honglian's eyes twitched slightly, but after all, she was still speechless, turned around and walked out of the study in silence.