Chapter 41: The return of Red Lotus City
Yao Fengjiao went to the Flying Eagle Mercenary Group. And Han Cong sat on the Penghe transport team organized by the Royal Beast Sect and quietly left Qingshan Town. The first transport team of the Royal Beast Sect had ten cranes. Penghe is only a fifth-order. One of the home teams had an early infant monk and nine Yudan monks. Each of the nine Peng Cranes accompanying him had three disciples and seven customers. The Imperial Beast Sect stipulates that each customer can only bring three storage items. Excess items will be charged separately. Han Cong held the body of a double-headed eagle in a storage bag. The other one contained green jade and a storage bag containing some of his own belongings, and there was a spirit beast bag with exactly three of them. In order to avoid trouble, Han Cong simply hid the nameless Hua ring.
There are six other people above Penghe where Han Cong is: three of them are the guards of the City Lord's Mansion, that is, the hired forces. The City Lord's Mansion holds the administrative resources of a city domain. Of course, its merchant power will also have a great advantage. After all, if a large group wants to survive, the empire gives the city lord domain and rights, and other ordinary Xiuzhen families dare not provoke it. Three castle lords' palace guards...... One of them wore purple costumes for the middle of the Yudan, and the other two wore red costumes for middle-aged monks at the end of the foundation building. It can be seen that the militarized power of the city lord should not be underestimated. Normally, the Xiuzhen family can only dare to offend ..........
Another Han Cong knew that the second young master of the Liu family in the east of Chilian City was called Liu Shu, and this playboy was a famous girl killer in Chilian City. He didn't dare to provoke the four major families and the City Lord's Mansion, and the families of other small families and even secular dependent forces were really ruined by him. With six rings in his hand, I don't know if it's all true, anyway, the Royal Beast Sect insisted that he pay an extra three points for the consignment fee. Han Cong is also well-known in Red Lotus City. The most important thing is that he knelt in the martial arts house in the west of the city to ask for winemaking skills, which attracted attention. Liu Bo glanced at Han Cong a few times and didn't recognize it. He didn't dare to admit it. Because he was only cultivating at the end of foundation building, when he left Red Lotus City, both of them were in the middle stage of foundation building. Now Han Cong is in the middle of the marriage. He still has a face full of stubble. Liu Bo pays attention to Han Cong, and only pays attention to Han Cong's wine cans. However, the appearance of Han Cong's wine jar is no different.
The other two young people in the early stage of the marriage on Penghe, Han Cong didn't know each other, but the two chatted loudly.
"Lao Zhang, let's catch up with Chilian Lake after we go back this time!"
"Well, the City Lord's Mansion and the two major families have allocated thirty places for the scattered cultivators and family guards in the city to compete for. The other sixty places were divided among the three major forces. Alas, fifteen years ago, the Lujia family in the north of the city and the Han family in the south of the city evaporated overnight, and the south of the city was occupied by the Chamber of Commerce, but the north of the city became a slum. There wasn't a big incident in Red Lotus City. This time, the discovery of the ruins of the ancient monk's mansion under the Red Lotus Lake will definitely cause a sensation again. Lao Wu, you say yes!". ...。
"Yes! I think I'm also a child of the martial arts family, just because my father disappeared in the Great Change in the Warcraft Mountain Range, and his life and death are still unknown. We are a side branch again, and now we have no place in the samurai family. Now I have to move to the north of the city to find a small shop to get some soju to barely survive, and it has been three years. ”
"Those of us who have saved half of our lives to succeed in marrying the Dan may have to sell to those families in the second half of our lives. Lao Wu, I have to persuade you, be soft, bow your head, the head of the martial arts family is your third uncle, and he also has some connections in the martial family, go and ask for a curtain guard, and you can also be a curtain guard captain in the early days of the festival! Not for you, but also for your sister-in-law and niece!"
"Alas, that's all there is to it. ”
"Do you know me Liu Bo, how about coming to my mansion as a guard, three hundred lower grade spirit stones per month. Nearby, Liu Bo listened to the two chatting, and came over with the intention of pulling the cage for the two. It's just that the two looked at each other for a moment. Lao Wu hugged his fists and said:
"Liu Ergongzi is kind to Wu, although the martial family is not good to me, but after all, my surname is Wu, and it is not good to take refuge in the second son, if Wu really can't get mixed up one day, he will definitely beg for food with the second son. ”...。
"My old Zhang and Wu are bare-ass partners, please forgive me the second son." ...。
Liu Bo saw that the two refused. Although they were displeased on their faces, both of them were one level higher than him, and they didn't dare to offend them in person. He glanced at Han Cong again, and when he saw that Han Cong kept pouring wine into his mouth, he gave up his mind of recruiting an alcoholic.
Indeed, when Han Cong heard Zhang and Wu talk about the great change in the Demon Beast Mountain Range fifteen years ago, the Lu and Han families evaporated from the world overnight. Han Cong's mind was a mess, and the three of them didn't listen to anything they talked about later. His face was blank, and he just drank blindly.
The next day, passing through a field on the border of the Great Yan and the Great Song Empire, it was found that the ** regiment of the secular emperor was facing each other. The thunder drums roared, the shouts shook the sky, the swords and swords were everywhere, and the horses neighed and the cars were bursting. Roars and screams continued, sweat and armor splattered with blood. Under the order of the two armies, the general waved his army out of the city......
City Lord's Mansion Sho Wei Yi: "Team Yang, now that the empire has been fighting for half a year, and the war is in a state of glue, do you say that the city lord will send us to fight." If I go to war, I will be a general in less than three days. Hey hey"
"If you do...... I promise you won't survive for three months. The city lord replied coldly. Once the shadow of the monk is found on the secular battlefield, it is the battle of the monks. Monks are not allowed to participate in secular warfare, and if they are discovered, they will surely die. The six major sects will join forces to hunt you down. If the empire allows monks to participate in the war, the six major sects will also unite to destroy it. Just like your livestock and poultry can be slaughtered by your neighbors at will?" the city lord took over the topic and said..........
And the war scene below flashed by. Some people looked down curiously, while others didn't care.
"Everyone, be quiet. We monks can't take care of worldly things, we can't manage them, and we don't have the heart to do them. Now not only the Great Yan and the Great Song Dynasty are at war here, but the Great Yan and the five southern countries are also at war. The Great Song Dynasty also had the invasion of the northern wolf clan, and the eastern Zhao State was often harassed by the Dongying of the Sea Kingdom, and now it is gathering naval warships for an expedition! The eastern part of the Demon Beast Mountain Range is like this, and the south is a chaotic land of dozens of small countries, and it is common for one place to change several countries a year. In the west, the two empires of the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty fought against the surrounding small countries, and they were also at war. The northern part is sparsely populated and vast. It's a little quiet, but there are also foreign races fighting each other, alas! It is rumored that the demons are about to invade, and the six major sects are united and cooperative on the surface, but the various sects are also secretly preparing, and a few days ago, there were also the Royal Beast Sect and the Danyun Sect fighting each other in order to compete for a few children. "Han Cong's Penghe, the monk of the Imperial Beast Sect, talked eloquently about a lot of secular current affairs, which also made the other nine people listen to it. If you don't run transportation, you really won't know so much.
"Uncle Fu has traveled so much! you must take us to more places!"
"Okay! After this time, the sect has a task to go to the Sword Sect in the Western Regions, this is a big order from the Fire Gate, and it is also a big task, you two can sign up. ”。 ...。
Then the crowd was silent. Han Cong wanted to ask about what happened to the Han and Lu families in Red Lotus City fifteen years ago, but he was worried that this matter was originally related to the Imperial Beast Sect. If the Han and Lu families were destroyed, it must be the work of the eldest brother's enemy sect at the time of the great change in the Demon Beast Mountain Range. And the Imperial Beast Sect, which was killed by the eldest brother, was the most suspicious.
Han Cong was anxiously patient, waiting, and the three-day trip would soon arrive. When they set foot on the territory of Red Lotus City, Wu and Zhang left Penghe a hundred miles outside the city. Soon after, Han Cong also went down to Penghe, and now Han Cong didn't know what was going on in Chilian City, and he didn't want to enter it rashly, of course he had to understand the situation.
Two hours later, Han Cong found Wu and Zhang. The man surnamed Zhang looked at Han Cong vigilantly and said:
"Your Excellency is looking for the two of us"
"Yes, but don't get me wrong, Zeng was a guard of the Lu family in the north of the city thirty years ago, and he just came back from a trip to southern Xinjiang. On the way, I heard that the two Taoist friends mentioned that the owner had suffered an accident, so they came to inquire about the news from the two of them and understand the changes in Red Lotus City in the past 30 years. I also hope that the two Taoist friends will tell Zeng, and Zeng will be grateful. Come, this is the reward. The two of them took it to drink two glasses, and the most drunken Xianlou's aged wine has also made Zeng miss it so far!" Han Cong finished speaking, and threw something to the man surnamed Wu. The man surnamed Wu took it and saw that it was actually a medium-grade spirit stone. Theoretically, the grade of spirit stones is a hundred base system, but a hundred lower-grade spirit stones often cannot be exchanged for a medium-grade spirit stone, and the black market transaction is basically doubled. The man surnamed Wu threw the spirit stone in his hand a few times and threw it at Han Cong. ............。
"Wu loves money and takes it in a good way, Your Excellency is too polite. Why is it so expensive to buy a few words, I will tell the two of you. I said, how about Lao Zhang's addition. ”
The man surnamed Zhang nodded.
"Haha, the two of you are so refreshing, I won't be hypocritical, let's talk while walking, and invite the two of you to drink after entering the city. ”
"Actually, there haven't been many major events in the past thirty years, the second young master of the Han family knelt down in the martial family to beg for winemaking, the head of the Han family gave the martial family three acres of medicinal herb garden in order to complete the second son, and Han Jiye gave the martial family three acres of herb garden, which caused a lot of movement, but the Han and Wu families did not get too close after that...... Legend has it that the martial arts family intended to give the granddaughter of my third uncle to the Han family. Unexpectedly, the Han family refused to marry, but married a woman surnamed Yun from nowhere. The samurai was speechless, and there must have been some unhappiness in his heart. Later, the young master of the martial family married the daughter of the city lord's mansion, and the Han and Wu families did not have much contact. ”
In this way, whether the later Lu and Han family accidents are related to the other three. ”
In Wu's opinion, it is unlikely, but it cannot be ruled out that one or two colluded with external forces. The relationship between the two families of Lu and Han is very iron, one north and one south to balance the city lord's mansion and the other two. Even if the three families are united, it is impossible to eradicate the two forces of Lu and Han overnight. ”。 ...。
"Lao Wu, I don't think it's very likely that the three families will unite, because after the disappearance of the Lu and Han families, the other three forces did not take over the sphere of influence of the Lu and Han families. The north of the city became a slum, and the three forces only secretly supported the small forces to set up a chamber of commerce in the south of the city. The Lu and Han families have strange things, and no one has touched the old site of the Zhuangyuan burned by the Lu and Han families. The three forces also avoided talking about it, as if they were afraid of something. Lao Zhang analyzed.
"But there are other unusual things happening. Han Cong asked.
"Nope. The Lu and Han families had no warning beforehand. However, after the return of the Warcraft Mountain Range, the Lu and Han families dealt with a lot of industries, leaving only part of the main production, but they didn't expect that six or seven hundred people suddenly disappeared overnight. It is puzzling that the two main products are not treated, but the by-products are disposed of. Nowadays, the main property has been gradually divided among various large and small forces. Even most of the guards didn't know what was going on, and not long after, both guards disappeared. There is a legend that during the great changes in the Demon Beast Mountain Range, the eldest young master of the Han family killed an elder of the six major sects. The matter may be related to the cultivation of the true sect, I don't know about the rest, Lao Zhang can add?"
Lao Zhang next to him shook his head