Chapter 205 Flying in to stir up trouble
There were more than twenty people in Dai Bubu's party. Except for him and Zhu Duiyou, who were monks in the foundation-building stage, the rest were all elite disciples of the Dai family, and at worst they were all in the late stages of Qi training.
These people are Dai Bubu's blood relatives of his own lineage in the family of cultivators, and they are also his confidants who have made great achievements.
If he succeeds in seizing the throne in the future and becomes a candidate for the patriarch of the Dai family, he will be able to receive all the efforts from the clan to train him, including various spiritual objects that assist in forming pills, and his supporters will also be able to eat meat and drink soup with him.
In the future, if he can successfully break through the Golden Core stage and become the head of the Dai family, these people will be the ministers of Conglong and will automatically follow him to become the elders of the direct clan and take charge of the power in the clan.
As for Zhu Duiyou, he is his life-and-death friend and his most trusted partner. There is nothing to say, and he will definitely not treat him badly.
The group entered Wangyue City and first went to the local reception office of the Dai family.
Crossing Qiba Street to the north of the city, an antique attic stands here.
Dai's Inn.
"Brother Zhu, this is where our Dai family will stay in Wangyue City. We have been on the road for two days, so let's go and have a rest first."
Dai Fudang was just about to lead people in when he found a guy walking out of the attic. He pulled out the big flag with the word "Dai" embroidered on it from the stone platform, and then took out a flag with the word "Yang" embroidered on it. The flag was put up.
"???"
Everyone in the Dai family stopped, a little confused.
Dai Fudong was also stunned. He quickly took out a jade slip from his storage bag, checked the map in it, and compared it several times. This is indeed the Dai family reception office, right?
He hurriedly stepped forward to salute and asked:
"Brother, may I ask if this place is not the property of the Dai family? Why did it be replaced with a Yang-character flag?"
The guy was about to go back to the attic, but he was stopped by someone. He saw more than 20 people standing blankly at the door, so he had to return a salute and patiently explain to them:
"My guests don't know that this place did belong to the Dai family. It's just that the owner has just changed today, and the real estate has been sold to the Yang family."
"Yang family? May I ask which Yang family it is?"
"If there is any other Yang family in the world of cultivation in the Lu Kingdom, it is naturally the Yang family in Luzhong County."
The Yang family in Luzhong County, another mining giant in the Lu Kingdom cultivation world, is as powerful as the Dai family. Not only are they competitors in the industry, but they also have constant disputes overtly and covertly.
After hearing this, Dai Bubu's face suddenly darkened. He didn't expect that it was actually his old enemy, the Yang family.
Just two days after the death of the Dai family's Jindan master in Wangyue City, the Yang family acquired the Dai family's property. Could it be that the murderer had an affair with the Yang family?
The guy was just a laborer. After answering the questions, he quickly went back to work.
Everyone in the Dai family was helpless. They had no place to stay here and had no choice but to continue looking for other properties.
The result was a series of disappointments.
The Weapon Refining Pavilion of the Dai family in Wangyue City was acquired by the Wang family, a family of cultivation:
The Daijia Metallurgical Workshop in Wangyue City was acquired by Lingyun Sect;
The Daijia Ore Processing Plant in Wangyue City was acquired by Xianhe Sect;
The Dai family's spiritual material storage warehouse in Wangyue City was acquired by Zhaoshen Castle;
The Dai family's instrument maintenance building in Wangyue City was acquired by the Liuyang Sect
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After walking around for a while, everyone was stunned.
The metallurgical industry that our Dai family has spent so long and worked so hard to build in Wangyue City is just torn apart? ? ?
It involves six or seven sects and aristocratic families, all of which are from the mining industry in the cultivation world of Lu State, and are more or less in competition with the Dai family.
When I saw someone selling the Dai family's Wangyue City industrial chain today, they all smelled like sharks and hurriedly bought it. And Lin Shan, the instigator of all this, was lying on a wicker chair at the high-end trade fair and counting money!
Everyone in the Dai family stood dumbfounded in front of the last property.
We haven't even started investigating this case yet, but already all of Wangyue City's capital has been sold away?
When the time comes, how will you explain it to your family elders?
Isn’t this a huge dereliction of duty?
Dai couldn't move and broke out in a cold sweat. He suddenly realized why there were no brothers in the clan competing with him for this foreign mission, because it was obviously a big pit!
The property deeds of these properties in Wangyue City were originally in the hands of the real person Jindan of the Dai family. After the death of this real person, they will definitely fall into the hands of the murderer. When all the properties are sold off, someone will inevitably take the blame for this matter.
So the question is, who will take the blame?
Dead person?
It is obviously impossible. Master Jin Dan is an ancestor of the same line and represents the face of the family. If he wants to carry it, it will be carried by his subordinates.
Dai Bubu just asked Ying to come to investigate. These properties were not available until he came to Wangyue City after he set off. If you don't carry them, who will carry them?
"What a bastard! That's too sloppy!"
Only then did Dai Bubu realize that something was wrong. This case was obviously a hot potato. Because he was eager for quick success and quick gain, he hurriedly took over it. As a result, he was covered in mud before he had time to deal with the matter.
The key is that if you can’t wash it thoroughly, you don’t have to wash it at all!
Once the clan is liquidated, he will definitely be eliminated due to such a stain in the battle to seize the heir, and all his hard work will be in vain.
Even the value of these properties in Wangyue City is huge, estimated to be close to one million using spirit stones alone! What a terrifying amount! How can he compensate?
At this critical moment, good brother Zhu Duiyou is still reliable, holding down Dai’s trembling shoulders:
"Brother Dai, calm down! This is the end of the matter. We can only take one step at a time, and we must not mess up our position!"
Dai Bubu couldn't help but think of the brothers in the clan who were competing with him, as if they were laughing at him behind his back. He couldn't help but panic, and couldn't help but murmur:
"How do you want me to be calm? How big a loss will it be to the family if we lose the industrial layout of Wangyue City? How can I be able to survive? I will definitely be held accountable by the clan elders, and I will definitely be forced to take the blame!"
"Damn murderer, it's not just killing my Jindan master, but he still wants to blame him."
"I, I, am really unlucky to have accepted such a bad job!"
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"Brother Dai, cheer up!"
Zhu Duiyou shouted loudly and looked at him solemnly:
"The matter has become irreversible. What we should be thinking about is how to make up for our mistakes. Not only can we search for information about the deceased person's life, but we should also find out the true identity and strength of the murderer, so as to solve the problems for the elders in the family."
"Think about it, if we not only complete the original task, but also personally identify and even capture the real culprit, and recover the property that was sold and lost, then the merit will outweigh the fault. You can still rely on this job to let the senior members of the clan I’m impressed by you!”
"In my opinion, your competitors are all short-sighted people who blame each other when they see trouble, but you have the courage to face the difficulties head-on, and you can only show your true qualities as a hero when you cross the sea. This is A true pillar worth cultivating in the family!”
"It's just the beginning. There's no reason to be timid before you start. Don't forget that you have me by your side and a group of brothers from the clan who support you!"
"The world is uncertain, you and I are both dark horses, and we still have a chance of winning or losing!!!"
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Zhu Duiyou's words of warning awakened Dai Fudeng like a great bell. His eyes gradually regained their vitality, and then he bowed to Zhu Duiyou beside him.
"I have Brother Zhu, just like a fish on the shore in the water, and a tiger with wings, so there is no need to worry about the failure of great things!"
Zhu Duiyou helped Dai Fufu up, with true feelings in his eyes: "Brother Dai, just cheer up. Now that you have lost your property, it is not too late to discuss it again if you don't want to stay elsewhere."
The Dai family disciples behind him looked at Zhu Duiyou's back, feeling that he was tall, calm and composed, and couldn't help but feel a sense of reverence in their hearts.
Dai Bubu accepted the advice, adjusted his mentality, and led a group of people around the fairy city to find a spacious cave to rent.
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In the next two days, Lin Shan and the Black Skull Demon Lord were still hiding and sneaking around major chambers of commerce. One was busy buying formation materials, and the other was busy looking for a new owner to take over the Lin Chamber of Commerce.
Here, the Dai family and the others tried their best to collect some of the information about Jin Danzhen who was stationed in Wangyue City during his lifetime and compiled it into a jade slip.
"Brother Zhu, I will directly entrust the jade slips to the clan members and send them back to the Dai family to the clan elders. What do you think?" "That's right. We can continue to investigate the follow-up information. The sooner the better, the better." ”
"Then what should we do next? Should we follow the instructions and wait for the clan's reaction, or should we take the initiative to find the murderer?"
"Brother Dai already has the answer in his mind, just do it."
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Dai Bubu sent one of his men back to deliver the message, and at the same time discussed the next move with Zhu Duiyou.
In order to make up for his mistakes and put the "black pot" on his head, he must take advantage of the fact that the clan has not made a final decision and find the murderer first. Before the new golden elixir-stage ancestor of the Dai family arrives, Make important achievements to save your current crisis.
And the reason why he dared to find the murderer was because from the information collected in the past two days, he found that the ins and outs of the matter were not complicated. The cause of everything was just a newly emerged "Lin Chamber of Commerce".
During their investigation, they found that the Lin Chamber of Commerce was registered in Wangyue City fifteen years ago. Within just a dozen years after its establishment, it quickly seized the local market with its fresh marine aquatic products and became a promising rising star of the chamber. .
In the past two years, monsters have rioted in Lu State's Tunxing Mountains, and seafood purchase channels from all parties have been blocked. Lin's Chamber of Commerce does not know how to use the year of natural disasters to seize the market in Wangyue City. This arrogant trend has caused many nearby The attention of the forces.
Before the death of the Dai family's Jindan master, he owed a large amount of foreign debt for refining his natal magic weapon. He was in urgent need of money, so he set his sights on the Lin Chamber of Commerce, intending to plunder it overtly and covertly to fill his own pocket. hole.
This is not difficult to guess. After all, Dai Bubu also lent the clan uncle 1,500 spirit stones, and even Zhu Duiyou also lent 800 spiritual stones as a token. The discerning juniors in the clan basically They all took the initiative to borrow money.
After all, this is the newly promoted Jin Dan Zhenren, and he is very likely to become his helper in the future. Although the competition for the candidate of the clan leader needs to be fair, just, transparent and open, and one cannot blatantly bribe the family's senior officials, but with a little money, it can always be done. Leave a good impression.
As a result, this clan uncle had just come to Wangyue City for five years, and he disappeared immediately, leaving such a mess.
Now that the murderer is at large, he has sold the Dai family's property to pay back the money. He is simply not a son of a man.
The key suspects in this case are the masterminds behind the Lin Chamber of Commerce. They once lived in the Dongfu District in the west of the city. One of them looks like a young man in white clothes, and the other is a man in a gray robe and a hood.
Portraits of the two have now been collected:
In the first painting, a young man in white clothes is sitting leisurely in the courtyard drinking tea. It should be that when the cave was opened, he was caught by a neighbor monk passing by and caught a glimpse.
In the second painting: a man in a gray robe and hood is surrounded by students in a busy city. It seems that he is recruiting clerks for the Chamber of Commerce. The eyewitnesses remember him deeply. However, in the painting, the man hides his head and face, and his sleeves are actually stretched out. A pair of pitch-black bone claws emerge.
A group of people from the Dai family gathered around the two portraits, looking left and right to analyze something. However, with their wisdom, there was indeed too little information to look at just one painting. They all frowned and didn't know where to start. They all looked at Zhu Duiyou, the master disciple of Jingyang Academy.
Jingyang Academy ranks second among the top ten academies in the State of Lu, second only to White Deer Academy. There are also latent cultivators from the Yuan Ying period ancestors in the academy. It is a behemoth in the world of cultivation in the State of Lu. It has a strong teaching staff and non-geniuses cannot be admitted. .
Zhu Duiyou was able to get into Jingyang Academy by his own efforts due to his poor family background, which shows his extraordinary talent and talent.
Dai Fuda was a classmate of Zhu Duiyou in Yunchuan Academy when he was a child. He witnessed his friend show his wisdom and walked out of Yunchuan step by step to Jingyang. He knew that the ravines in his belly could contain mountains and rivers and were unfathomable.
The only drawback is that Zhu Duiyou is not good at fighting with others and always holds him back at critical moments. It’s really strange
Of course, flaws cannot be concealed, and there is no perfect way. No one is perfect. No one is perfect. Knowing people well and appointing them well is the talent that a leader should have.
"According to the neighbors around the cave, this young man in white should be in the middle or even late stage of foundation building. Judging from his talents as Yushu Linfeng, he should have extraordinary origins, but he looks slightly familiar."
"This hooded man in gray robe looks loose and loose. His outer clothes look more like he has put them on. His hands have no flesh and blood. Could he be a demonic monk who practices evil arts?"
Dai Bubu could not help but express the doubts in everyone's mind, but Zhu Duiyou, who was standing aside, watched for a long time and his eyes couldn't help but condense.
"Brother Dai, I seem to have remembered that back then, you and I were recruited by the academy and went to the main altar of the three demon sects to participate in the final battle between good and evil. Do you still remember what happened to us at that time?"
Dai Bubu was startled, recalling the memories from more than ten years ago, feeling slightly embarrassed.
Back then, the two of them were afraid of the big scene on the front line, so they hid in the rear to clean up the battlefield and fish in troubled waters. This kind of disgraceful thing has always been ashamed of him. Whenever others asked about it, they kept silent. So for many years I have been deliberately forgetting.
Because you have to seize the heir in the family, it is not easy to talk about this kind of thing with your subordinates, for fear that it will be spread out and become a stain on yourself.
Zhu Duiyou suddenly mentioned it today, and his dusty memory opened up, and he suddenly seemed to recall something.
The two looked at each other, and suddenly they had an idea and said in shock:
"Wanliu Academy, welcome step by step!"
They quickly looked at the portrait carefully and compared it with the memories in their minds many times, especially the details, the facial features of the young man in white, the absolute confidence in himself in his eyes, and his high-spirited personality, with the elegance of the wind, and Lei's arrogance, his temperament is unparalleled!
More importantly, the difference between the painting and the memory is that the skull pendant around his waist is missing.
And the other hooded man in gray robe has a pair of bone claws in his hands.
"This"
The look of surprise in Dai Bubu's eyes grew stronger. He didn't expect to meet this person again in Wangyue City after more than ten years.
At that time, he and Zhu Duiyou felt that this person was too mysterious. First, he broke into the battlefield on a magic flying boat. Later, he claimed that he was from some ancient oriental country, and that he had never heard of Wanliu Academy and the Drama Master. He has superb acting skills and pure spiritual power of wind and thunder, but he is also accompanied by a ghost skeleton who can form formations.
Everything was so confusing, and the meeting was too hasty, which made him think it was a strange story at the time, and he couldn't understand the origin of this person.
But Zhu Duiyou was different. Unlike Dai Dongbu who deliberately downplayed the matter afterwards, he discovered it after multiple investigations.
"Bu Peiying" later appeared on the other side of the battlefield between good and evil, participating in the fight for the fragments of the Black Lotus Buddha statue. He was besieged by the Confucian people and failed, and then failed to escape. At that time, he claimed to be from Xiongshan, and his master was Nai. The powerful Jinglian layman in the Nascent Soul stage.
Five years ago, the cultivation world of Lu State was turbulent. Zhenzhi Academy and Xingyun Chamber of Commerce invented an epoch-making magic weapon: "Hyacinth". They even plan to spread this media magic weapon with a transmission distance of more than ten thousand miles to the entire cultivation world through the sale of sub-devices.
His wolf ambition was obvious. After being noticed by countless powerful forces, he changed his appearance and attacked the mountain gate. The battle was earth-shattering. More than a dozen old monsters in the Nascent Soul stage killed everyone. In order to fight for the "Hyacinth" magic weapon and the inventor Ma Wentong, The fighting caused landslides and ground torn apart, and rivers and rivers were diverted.
Finally, "Hyacinth" fell into the hands of a strange lone ranger. The dharma behind this person was a three-foot green lotus. According to speculations by some powerful intelligence agencies, this person seemed to have suddenly appeared in the Lu Kingdom three hundred years ago. The older generation vaguely remember its name.
It seems that he is called Pure Lotus layman!
Zhu Duiyou once studied under Jingyang Academy, and had friendships with several intelligence brothers in the academy. They once went out together to travel among the winding rivers, and heard them confide this matter after drinking.
It is said that after this battle, Jinglian layman was hunted down by more than a dozen Confucian masters. Many masters of casual cultivators who were rarely seen on weekdays also jumped out and even fought all the way out of the Lu country and chased him to the far west of Vastu. Desert
It's just that these characters were too far away from him, so he didn't delve into them more deeply.
Unexpectedly, today, this legendary disciple would appear in his field of vision.
"A native of Xiongshan Mountain. Lay Buddhist Jinglian."
Zhu Duiyou's eyes flashed with wisdom. He walked to the window with one hand behind his back and looked into the distance. White clouds bloomed in the sky, and the outline of mountains and rivers were like ink paintings. His thoughts suddenly drifted away.
The Dai family members behind him looked at his back, silently daring not to disturb him.
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At the same time, outside the south gate of Wangyue City, a man with a beard and a heavy beard was seen. He seemed to have followed someone hundreds of thousands of miles away in order to follow someone. He couldn't help muttering:
"Master, it's true. He agreed to take me from the Song Dynasty to the State of Lu, but he abandoned me halfway, causing me to travel for several years."
The gatekeeper at the city gate stopped him and began to register for entry into the city.
"Stop, name."
The bearded man looked at the majestic Fairy City with a curious look on his face, thinking that this was a country of Confucianism and that the water bandit temperament in the past had to be changed. He couldn't help but become cautious in his mouth, bowed his hands in a nondescript manner, and even sang a big song afterward: < br>
"Excuse me, Brother Dao, I'm from a certain Xiongshan family. This is polite."
(End of chapter)