Chapter 129: The So-Called Truth
Lian Cheng didn't speak, his fingers were facing each other, and he flew quickly. The ten fingers gradually became blurred, and only a shadow of the fingers could be seen.
Actions speak louder than any verbal form of explanation.
Dozens of seconds later, a cluster of flames emerged from Liancheng's fingertips, and everyone felt a scorching heat. The flames were so solid that there was not a trace of trembling, and they were reflected in everyone's pupils.
Zhang Xintian, Zhang Aohan and the others stared at the cluster of flames, and there was a light in their eyes. I don't know if it's because of the flames or something else.
Jiang Shan was silent for a while. Lian Cheng found that Jiang Shan had relaxed, and had obviously removed his guard against him.
"Here, the monk will produce inner demons, the further inward, the more powerful the inner demons, and the monk cannot use spiritual power here, no different from mortals, plus the deeper it is, it is a more dangerous place for the monk, and it is the forbidden place for the monk from within the ninth circle of spiritual land. Jiang Shan looked at Liancheng and said lightly. There was a subtle hint of doubt in his eyes.
Lian Cheng noticed the doubt in Jiang Shan's eyes. This confusion is naturally due to the fact that he is a monk but does not have the slightest appearance.
Lian Cheng couldn't say anything about the twists and turns, and he was also very puzzled. He couldn't help but think of the throbbing in his heart not long ago. As he went deeper, the throbbing grew stronger and stronger, and until now, he still felt the throbbing from time to time. At the beginning, he was the coercion of the Kunlun Secret Realm, but now that I think about it, this is not necessarily the reason.
In addition, Liancheng also noticed a point in Jiangshan's words.
Further down, there are more dangerous places for monks.
What the hell is that place?
Liancheng strongly wanted to know this, but when he saw that the country was secretive, he didn't ask much.
...
Soon after, Liancheng heard the sound of water. The sound of the water is getting louder and louder. There is a stream, and there is a curtain of small waterfalls.
The mountains stop at the edge of a small waterfall.
The stream runs past the Gonger Peak, and the sides are lush and green. A small waterfall is located on this stream and is formed due to the difference in height. The height is about 10 meters, and the water of the upper stream falls from a high place and falls on the boulder below, making a loud noise. The boulders were so smooth that they could be faintly reflected.
The scenery is beautiful, but there is no sign of people.
A few people in Liancheng were puzzled, and Jiang Shan spoke.
"This is where I live, so you can live here for the time being. Jiang Shan pointed to the waterfall.
After speaking, Jiang Shan stepped on the stones in the stream and headed towards the waterfall.
Could it be that there is no cave after the waterfall? Even a few people in the city thought of this.
Sure enough, through that scene of the water curtain, Huang Fuqi's eyes lit up, and a huge space appeared in everyone's field of vision.
A green space. Even in the mountains, it is green, and everyone's nose is filled with the fragrance of plants.
An inexplicable vine creature crawled all over the walls, emitting a crystal green light that illuminated the opaque cave. There is also a peculiar kind of tree. There are only two leaves on the tree, which are extremely large, and it is more than enough to wrap two adult males.
There are also many kinds of fruits with attractive colors, and the tables and chairs are as if they were naturally formed.
Liancheng and the others didn't have time to take a closer look, and their eyes froze.
"Dad, eldest brother, second brother, third sister, why are you here?" Jiang Shan asked in surprise.
Three middle-aged people surrounded an old man.
The three middle-aged are six or seven points similar to Jiangshan, and they can't tell who is big and who is small. One of the middle-aged men had a solemn face, but his face was not very good-looking at the moment, and the other was middle-aged and thin, standing behind everyone, if he didn't look carefully, he really couldn't notice it, and the thin middle-aged man looked at the faces of several people around him from time to time. The middle-aged woman thought that she was the third sister of Jiangshan, and she looked quite feminine.
The old man in the middle stood with his hands in his hands, his face calm, his eyes fixed on a point in the void, everything around him seemed to him as if it did not exist.
Even when Jiang Shan spoke, the old man only frowned slightly.
There was silence for a while, and the atmosphere was a little weird. The thin, middle-aged man shrank back, completely hiding himself behind the crowd.
Another middle-aged man raised his head slightly, staring at Jiang Shan, but did not speak.
The middle-aged woman suddenly stepped forward, turned her back to several other people, and scolded Jiang Shan: "Xiaoshan, don't come over quickly and admit your mistake like your father!"
Even the faces of several people in the city were a little weird.
Shi Yi blushed and looked at his feet.
The people in Liancheng all looked at each other, and then turned their gaze elsewhere.
"Hurry!" the middle-aged woman said hurriedly. The mouth, nose and eyes are still changing shapes, combining deformed faces.
is worthy of a woman who grew up in the mountains and forests, and her words and deeds are unrestrained. Compared with the women in the modern city who have to pay attention to the angle of the mouth when they smile, they are simply people of two worlds. The former is what Liancheng thinks is done. He prefers this kind of straightforward woman. Liancheng couldn't help but think of Su Qingcheng, the girl who dared to raise her fist and say her dream loudly in the face of everyone's ridicule.
The grim-looking man glanced at the middle-aged woman, his brow furrowed even deeper. This third sister has always loved the fourth brother, and this may be squeezing her eyebrows!
Jiang Shan didn't know what the third sister meant, but he still asked knowingly: "Admit my mistakes?
As soon as Jiang Shan finished speaking, the faces of the middle-aged man and the old man with solemn faces became even more ugly.
As for the thin middle-aged man, he couldn't see the figure for a long time - completely shrunk behind the person.
A look of urgency quickly climbed up the middle-aged woman's face. The middle-aged woman hurriedly said, "Have you been caught by the Mu family again?"
"Except for the last time when he implied that I wouldn't get married because I had physical problems, did the Mu family make any small moves?" Jiang Shan asked.
"The tamers of the Mu family were all killed and injured by outsiders, Mu Kun's kid wants to get justice, are you partial to those outsiders?" said the middle-aged woman after looking at several people in Liancheng.
"Favoring outsiders?" Jiang Shan said with a serious face, "I'm just paying attention to the facts!"
"Then why is the Mu family everywhere..."
"Are you the only one who knows the truth?" the old man said suddenly, interrupting the middle-aged woman.
But there was no displeasure on the middle-aged woman's face, although the anxious look on her face was undoubtedly revealed, and she wanted to speak several times, but she didn't speak.
The middle-aged woman turned around, her eyes rolling back and forth between Jiang Shan and the old man.
The old man's tone was calm, and he couldn't hear the slightest joy or anger, but everyone felt the strength contained in it, like a calm lake, with an undercurrent surging underneath, ready to erupt at any time.
"It's not. Jiang Shan looked directly into the old man's eyes without fear and said.
"How many people know that. The old man continued.
"Half of the people in the escort team know, and Elder Gongsun also knows. ”
"How many people are in the convoy, how many are in our entire clan?"
Jiang Shan lowered his head slightly, and his voice was also a little lower: "The total number of escorts is one hundred and twenty-two, and the number of clans is three thousand two hundred and thirty-six. ”
"Now there are more than 60 people who believe what you say, but there are 2,000 people who believe what Mu Kun said. I told you a long time ago that the so-called knowledge, truth, and truth are things that most people recognize, but you go against common sense. You're almost forty-one years old, but you're not married, and you say that you haven't met the right person, so I ask you, what is the right person? Which one of the tribes is not the word of the matchmaker at the behest of your parents? You have learned the family heirloom skills well, but have you reached the pinnacle? You are half-hearted, and you go halfway to learn that trick of fists and feet! The people in the tribe are unanimously xenophobic, and you just let outsiders in! Usually you forget it, but now you don't distinguish between right and wrong in such a big matter. Do you know the seriousness of the matter?" the old man said in a stern voice.
Jiang Shan raised his head, his eyes were unusually firm, but he said calmly: "It's not me who doesn't distinguish between right and wrong." ”
The old man's cheeks suddenly climbed up with two identical flushes, and his chest also rose and fell violently a few times, but it returned to normal in an instant, and the performance that everyone saw a moment ago was just an illusion, but the residual blush on the old man's cheeks showed the raging anger in the old man's heart.
"Is that me the one who doesn't distinguish between right and wrong?" asked the old man.
"No one will make a distinction between right and wrong for no reason, as long as they find out the truth. ”
"But the truth now is that the vast majority of people think that you are biased towards outsiders. ”
Jiang Shan was silent. The two families of Jiang Mu have the same long history, and their influence in the tribe is also equal. Whoever takes the initiative depends on who takes the lead. But now, the Mu family is ahead of the Jiang family.
The middle-aged woman suddenly spoke: "Dad, didn't he say that Elder Gongsun was not there, and if he testified for Xiaoshan, wouldn't the truth be revealed?"
"Third sister, dad speaks, don't interject!" the middle-aged man with a solemn face said suddenly.
The old man just glanced coldly at the middle-aged woman. The middle-aged woman suddenly lowered her head.
Hope suddenly rose in Jiang Shan's heart, thinking that the third sister would say something, but the hope was instantly wiped out.
Asking Elder Gongsun to come out to testify is tantamount to letting those tamers speak human language.
Seeing that Jiang Shan, who had been defending them, was speechless, Lian Cheng couldn't bear it, and said to the old man: "Elder Jiang, first of all, I apologize to you for the trouble we have caused, Jiang Shan is a person who understands righteousness, I think you know this better than our group of outsiders, so I want to ask you not to attribute all the fault to Jiang Shan, as for the loss of taming the tiger, we will offer compensation of the same value, but I want to state one point, it is compensation, not compensation, because the cause of the matter is not us." ”
The old man looked at Liancheng, who was staring directly at him without giving in, and narrowed his eyes, but did not speak, as if he was thinking about Liancheng's words.
The middle-aged man with a solemn face glanced at the old man, and then scolded Lian Cheng and asked, "Who are you, and what qualifications do you have to speak here?"
This made even the four people in the city quite angry.
Do you need qualifications to speak?
"They are members of the Qian Sect of the Xiuzhen Sect, and those injured tiger tamers have been cured by them with pills. ”
Just when a few people in Liancheng were about to have a seizure, Jiang Shan suddenly said.
"Cultivator Sect?Qian Sect?, then you are all monks?" the corner of the man's mouth with a solemn face raised slightly.
Jiang Shan was about to speak, but the old man suddenly asked, "Why do you want to come here?"
Lian Cheng glanced at the middle-aged man with a solemn face, and then at the old man, and was about to answer the old man's question, but immediately realized that the old man was not curious about why they came here, but was questioning him.
The implication of the old man's words was that a few people from Liancheng should not come here.
Lian Cheng's answer as soon as he came to his lips suddenly retracted into his own hands, but he thought about it and still said it.
"We're here to make a deal. ”
"Deal?" the old man smiled.
This was the first time Liancheng had seen the old man laugh, but it was not a friendly smile, but a contemptuous smile.
"What are you going to trade with us?" the old man put away his smile and said lightly.
"Pills, and... Alchemy. ”
The old man didn't respond to Liancheng, it was very common for Liancheng to put out the bargaining chips, he looked at Jiang Shan, and said, "I don't know how they fooled you and let you deceive me with such a ridiculous reason." Maybe you have your own reasons, and as your father I still choose to trust you, but I hope you don't understand my pampering of you as indulgence. Didn't you always think you could do it? I'll give you a chance this time. The shepherd family grabbed your handle this time, and I won't make any effort. If you can successfully cope with it, then I will no longer bind you in the future, and I will support you whatever you want to do! If you fail, you will have to follow my arrangement from now on, how about it?"
The old man and Jiang Shan looked at each other, and no one's eyes flickered.
"Good. Jiang Shan's tone was calm, but it contained an unusually firm feeling.
"Good. The old man also responded.
As he left, the old man glanced at the four people in Liancheng. To Liancheng's astonishment, he actually saw a trace of gratitude in the old man's eyes.
Although the old man didn't show the slightest look of disgust on the surface before, Liancheng knew that the old man was very disgusted and disgusted with outsiders.
This can be seen from the previous cross-examination.
For the old man, it seemed to be a mistake for the four of Liancheng to come here.
But at this moment, he actually saw a trace of gratitude in the old man's eyes looking at him.
Grateful for what?
Liancheng couldn't help but take a look at the country.
Jiang Shan raised his head slightly, his face was calm, and his body exuded a generous and steady temperament, like a big mountain, the mountain was born between heaven and earth, its goal was to pierce the sky, looking down on the earth, the mountain is not controllable by man.
Liancheng suddenly had a burst of enlightenment.
The old man was grateful to them because they provided an opportunity for the country to regain his heart.
Liancheng suddenly felt a sense of responsibility rise in his heart.
Things started because of him, but those who supported him had to pay a heavy price.
It's like an eagle that has been swimming for nine days, because of him, he has been put in a cage, and the sky can only be seen from afar. It's like a wild horse galloping on the prairie, because of him he was put in the stable.
They have all lost something extremely precious – freedom.
Liancheng would never allow this kind of thing to happen to someone who had a good relationship with him.