Chapter 37: Collaborating with the Enemy and Rebelling Gangs (1)
In the third year of Xianping, the ninth day of September. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Jiangning City is located in the prosperous place of the south of the Yangtze River, because the Jiangnan is stable under the rule of the Great Song Dynasty now, not like the chaos of war decades ago, so in addition to the prosperity of the Jiangning city wall, there are many vendors and warehouses within a radius of Jiangning City, and even taverns and tea shops and inns are readily available, compared to the turmoil of the Song-Liao border, Jiangning can be described as a paradise on earth.
However, not long ago, the fire in Jiangning City made many Jiangning people frightened, after hearing that most of the heads in Jiangning City were about to die, and then seeing foreign soldiers stationed in Jiangning, the bustle outside the city walls of Jiangning City disappeared overnight.
Of course, many people who don't know it don't know that the reason why the outside of Jiangning City is deserted is not entirely the fire that ignited in Situ's mansion, the real reason is that the Situ family was defeated, and many shops that took refuge in the Situ family chose the safest way to close. It wasn't until a young man came to visit them in person that they reopened and started business. Of course, although some "shrewd" shopkeepers have left their shops and left Jiangning, and they don't know where to go, the shops they left behind can't just be abandoned, after all, the people around them still need to live.
Therefore, these abandoned shops were sold by the government to a person at a price that he could never have dreamed of. Although ordinary people don't know about this situation, they don't forget a surname so quickly.
Sikong.
The Sikong family has disappeared in Jiangning for ten years, and today it suddenly appeared in front of the people of Jiangning again, why did this family that is no stranger resurrect and become a good conversation after tea and dinner in the streets and alleys.
The Sikong family is back, but it is not simply to change the name of the "legacy" left by the Situ family, which is equivalent to the revival of the Sikong family, Sikong Gu knows very well that a martial arts family needs ten years or even a hundred years of accumulation, but it only takes one night to disappear from the rivers and lakes.
If you want to revive a declining family, in addition to recruiting disciples, you also need to have a lot of financial resources and the support of various forces. Most of the Jianghu people who have a deep relationship with the Sikong family disappeared from the rivers and lakes ten years ago, and there are rumors that they died, and there are also rumors that they escaped from the enemy's pursuit, and most of them live in seclusion and no longer care about the affairs of the rivers and lakes.
Sikong Gu knew very well that most of them died under Wu Qingshan's sword, and a small number of them were all eliminated by him in the past three years. It's not that Sikong Gu is thirsty for killing, or that Sikong Gu is worried that they will see through their identities and see through the plan set by Mr. Wu. It's because these are inextricably linked to the Sikong family, and even the former disciples of the Sikong family, they have more or less some secrets related to the Sikong family, and these secrets will never see the light of day again.
Without the help of these old relationships, Sikong Gu wanted to rebuild Sikong's home, so he had to build brick by brick on the foundation he had laid with his own hands. And the raging fire of Situ's family, as well as hundreds of lives, is the foundation of Sikong Gu.
With the secret assistance of the Chu family, Sikong Gu took Jia San, He Wujiao, and Tuoba You as the core, and reconstructed the general structure of the Sikong family, from top to bottom, from recruiting family members to dredging relationships, Sikong Gu did an extremely good job, and in less than three months, the Sikong family had taken root in Jiangning.
The people of Jiangning also knew that the Sikong family had returned.
Of course, in addition to Jiangning, Jiangnan Wulin's attitude towards this new rising force is also intriguing, thinking that Sikong Gu would join the Jiangnan League as a condition in exchange for the Jiangnan League's support for the Sikong family, and at the cost of the Jiangnan League's intervention in Jiangning Wulin, to fight against the Chu family that is deeply rooted in Jiangning. But Sikong Gu announced that he would not join the Jiangnan League, but he could cooperate with the Jiangnan League like the Chu family.
Attached to the Chu family, attached to a family that once fought openly and secretly with his own family, this practice has led many people to speculate, does Sikong Gu's claim mean that Sikong Gu has joined the Chu family, and from now on Jiangning Wulin will be led by the Chu family? In fact, after the collapse of the Situ family, the Chu family has been standing still, and even turned away many Jiangnan forces who want to switch to the court, this move is no longer understandable, if the Chu family really has such great ambitions and wants to dominate the entire Jiangnan Road Jianghu forces, then in the case of Sikong Gu's unstable foundation, it is easy for the Chu family to think of achieving this goal.
However, the Chu family was like a cicada in late autumn, just lying motionless on the tree, not even making a sound. After taking refuge in the Chu family, the small forces that had been under the fence of the Situ family and did not want to lose the protection of the famous faction targeted Sikong Gu, who was in the limelight.
After all, for the rivers and lakes, the name Sikong Gu is much more valuable than the Sikong family, Sikong Gu, who has the strength of the "top ten", and is rumored to have fought with Yang Feiqiu for one hundred and ten rounds without falling behind, is regarded as a new backer by these Jianghu forces.
Shaolin and Kunlun were silent about the collapse of the Situ family in Jiangning, and Yang Feiqiu rushed to Jiangning City twenty miles away with a large number of people from Shenmen but stopped.
Although in Jiangbei, Sikong Gu and the Chu family were regarded as despicable and shameless models, and secretly attacked the Shenmen who went to Jiangning to negotiate with the Chu family and the Situ family about wood, silk, tea, herbs and other businesses. It can be said that while Jiangnan Wulin regards Sikong Gu as a "benevolent heir", the name Sikong Gu has become a stinky shit in the eyes of Jiangbei Wulin.
Of course, no one in the Jiangbei martial arts would care why Shenmen went to rescue Man Hongsha so quickly, and no one would care why Yang Feiqiu chose to spend a while with Sikong Guxi Lake alone, instead of directly leading people to break into Jiangning Xingshi to ask for the guilt. Just as no one in the Jiangnan martial arts will care why Man Hongsha wants to unite with the Situ family to deal with the Chu family, why he chose to do it at the moment when Sikong Gu entered the city, and why he wants to get rid of Sikong Gu who is famous but has no strength at all.
In the rivers and lakes, there is no truth, and no one will care about the truth. The separation of Jiangnan martial arts and Jiangbei martial arts, the antagonistic relationship between the leaders of the two sides, Jiangnan Alliance and Shenmen, in the absence of a strong force to check and balance, how to benefit themselves, what kind of rhetoric to adopt, has become the consistent attitude of Jiangnan Jiangbei martial arts.
In the matter of Sikong Gu, he is not stingy.
It's just that no one would have thought that when Sikong Mansion was not completed and Sikong Gu was still living in the inn, some uninvited guests would be brought to this inn.
(To be continued.) )