Chapter 289: The Nobility Meeting
The actual area of Kyoto is much larger than what you can see with the naked eye.
Except for the seven cities built around the imperial palace, there are many hidden corners in Kyoto. These places are hidden in mezzanines unknown to others through unique magical powers, and are called hidden houses.
Low-end secluded houses are just hidden in front of the entrance, or they are simply disguised as regular businesses.
As long as you enter and report the password, you can enter.
These secluded houses are often provided for businessmen to hold meetings related to the gold and silver trade. Although their security is good, it can only be said to be average.
The high-end hidden houses are completely different. Those mansions are often located in the deepest alleys of hutongs. There are many bonding techniques above and are invisible from the outside. But if you master the invitation, you can enter this hidden house. In the house, you can find that there is another cave in it.
These secluded houses may be beautiful places for romance, with trees planted in the courtyard, rockeries, high springs and flowing water, they are as beautiful as a dream.
It may also be a green lake, with flower boats swimming above it, and girls with flamboyant branches playing pipa and dancing on it, welcoming wealthy children to enter and enjoy that night of spring supper.
Changxian is completely different.
This is the top secluded house in Kyoto. It is said to be hidden in other worlds and is so impregnable that even the imperial palace will not give in to it.
In Kyoto, anyone with a certain status and status likes to come to this gathering of immortals to talk about things that cannot be brought to the table and talk about secrets that are not known to anyone.
The real location of Nagasen is in Nanfanyang, Kyoto. There is a bustling street here with many merchants.
From the theaters and flower buildings on the street to the vendors pushing small carts on the road, selling fresh souvenirs and night snacks, it is very lively. If people living in Kyoto have nothing to do at night, I will also choose to come here for leisure and take a look at the bustling scene in Kyoto.
In this street, there are a total of three stores that can enter Changxian.
A flower house, a canteen, and a theater.
Sometimes when disciples of aristocratic families need to hold some meetings, they will pretend to be dandy and go there. After checking the password with the madam, the madam will naturally take them into a special room and put them there. He was sent to Changxian's hidden residence.
Some young men who care about reputation will go to the nearby dining hall. Although you can also enter the hermitage along the dining hall, there are many people eating. If anyone is staying in the dining hall, look at this If a person enters a private room and does not come out for a long time, he will definitely notice that something is wrong.
Today, the entrance to Changxian's Hidden Mansion is also a rare place full of people. The famous "dandy boys" in Kyoto gathered at the door and entered the flower building one by one.
And their expressions were not at all as relaxed and carefree as if they were visiting a flower house, but rather as dejected as if their parents had died.
When they met at the door, they all looked at each other with helpless smiles on their faces, cupped their hands with each other, and saluted each other:
"Brother Wang, I didn't expect you to come too."
" Brother Zhou, how is your family now? "
"Forget it... My father drank three bowls of tea to suppress the acne in his mouth. "
"My eldest brother has not slept for two days in a row. Now he is in a trance when walking. He is afraid that he will miss the mark and land head first."
"It seems that our scriptures are not very easy to read."
Sighing, he entered the flower building. This scene made the passers-by around him who didn't know the details stunned and confused.
I don’t know why these young men come to visit a flower house and look so depressed, as if their parents have died and their family fortune has been ruined.
The young masters naturally had no intention of paying attention to the gazes of passers-by on the street. They entered the dedicated room with ease, waited inside for a small stick of incense, and then opened the door. There was another cave outside. .
The sky is full of stars, the Milky Way stretches across the sky, and in all directions are courtyards with still water flowing, rockeries and trees, and it is poetic and freehand.
There was a long table in the middle. At this moment, many talented people from the capital were already sitting around the table. There were also several young girls in thin clothes serving them tea and water.
There are enough for thirteen people in this hidden house at the moment. They are all from prestigious families in Kyoto. Their surnames are all famous. If you throw them on the ground, they can make a sound and shake. For ordinary people to kneel down and kowtow, he is indeed a person of status and status.
But now they are all drooping and can’t even squeeze out a fart.
The eldest young master of the Lu family was sitting in the main seat, looking even more listless, as if he had lost his heart.
Many of the children of the aristocratic families looked at the eldest young master of the Lu family in front of them with strange eyes, and couldn't help but mutter in their hearts:
Why do you want this person to chair this meeting?
The sadness of the eldest young master of the Lu family is well known throughout Kyoto. Now their family has low morale and needs an emotional pick-me-up, but in the end, this man was asked to come up and speak...< br>
This... this is inappropriate.
"Everyone is here." Just as the young masters of the gentry expected, the eldest young master of the Lu family was weak: "You should all know why we are holding this meeting today.
< br>"A year ago, a Taoist priest appeared out of thin air in Daliang. He had the methods of a true immortal and was good at using top-notch magical methods. He traveled around Daliang for a year and eradicated all Xiao Huanxi of the hidden sect. Even Xiao Huanxi... All the happy bosses died in his hands. The strength is probably stronger than that of the original capital.
"Now, this Taoist man has cleaned up the upper floors of the library with great fanfare, saying that he wants to avenge the capital. The next step will definitely be to target our family." What do you think? How to deal with that Taoist priest? "
After the eldest young master of the Lu family finished speaking, none of the young gentlemen next to him said anything.
I didn't know how to point out the Taoist priest's abilities, but these young gentlemen could say more. Two sentences to boost morale, but now that the eldest young master of the Lu family has revealed all the Taoist master's abilities, who dares to continue talking nonsense?
"Can't I invite a noble person? ”
Someone asked immediately.
"Now that the nobles have not contacted us, it is up to our major families to find their own solutions." The eldest young master of the Lu family explained.
Even the noble man stopped talking!
The young man who just asked the question closed his eyes in despair.
The entire meeting fell into silence.
Seeing the atmosphere becoming increasingly gloomy, the eldest young master of the Lu family couldn’t help but sigh:
"No, let's prepare gifts of apology, go to visit them, kneel down and kowtow to them, and then tell the elders who were involved in harming the capital to be punished by the Taoist priest.
< br>“Let’s move out of Kyoto again. Go to the edge, go to Xuzhou, go to Jingzhou, go to the dense forest, live there, and hide for fifty or sixty years.
"In this way, when time passes, the immortal's anger will probably dissipate, and our family will at least be able to survive.
"What do you think, brothers? "
The eldest young master of the Lu family spoke sincerely.
If someone else had said this, then these young men would probably think that this person was mocking them, but when the eldest young master of the Lu family said this, there is a high probability that he really thought so.
But who can swallow this breath?
This group of families spent many years and worked hard to establish themselves in Kyoto and gain power in the world. Nowadays, many elders in the family are serving as ministers in the court, enjoying the benefits of power. preferential treatment.
Now let them abandon everything, leave Kyoto, and avoid the Taoist priest. Is it possible? Who can let go of the interests of this heart?
There was a burly young man at the table who was obviously younger. He seemed to be angry. He slammed the table, stood up and scolded the eldest young master of the Lu family:
"Lu Yang, what do you mean? Just because of such a Taoist priest, you asked us all to leave Kyoto? I think your Lu family has clearly taken refuge in that Taoist! If you persuade us to leave, won't your Lu family become the big one?"
The person who spoke was the Tianjiang Zhou family, a family with military power in Kyoto. General Zhou came from this family. However, this general had always had a bad relationship with the family. With General Zhou as the core, the Zhou family was divided into Two factions.
One faction is the royalist faction, and the other is the gentry faction.
This Mr. Zhou belongs to the gentry faction.
Seeing the martial arts master Zhou Gongzi speak, the other young masters also watched the show behind closed doors.
The eldest young master of the Lu family looked at Mr. Zhou with a pair of dejected eyes:
“Mr. Zhou, if you feel something is wrong, do you have any other good ideas?”
“ Just fight hard!" There was a hint of ruthlessness in Mr. Zhou's eyes: "That Taoist is just a person at best. Maybe he is stronger than the capital, but we in the capital are not vegetarians! , if I can convince my uncle to form a large formation, and with the methods of our family, how can we kill the Taoist priest?"
"After killing him! What should we do? The killing of the capital already cost our family money, and we still haven’t recovered from it. If we do it again, I’m afraid several families will completely disappear from the capital. Your Zhou family is willing to disappear. That one?”
The eldest young master of the Lu family also had a tit-for-tat confrontation with Young Master Zhou.
"Then you are going to be dogs? Lick the Taoist priest's shoes? Don't you think it's dirty? And the Taoist priest may not like you?"
"It's better than hitting a rock with an egg or blocking a car with a mantis arm. "
The atmosphere at the conference table became increasingly tense. Mr. Zhou glared at the eldest young master of the Lu family, while the latter had an indifferent expression on his face.
"Okay, Mr. Zhou, I have no intention of continuing to quarrel with you, and calling you here today is not for internal fighting."
In the end, the eldest young master of the Lu family took a step back, and Zhou Only then did the young master sit back down angrily.
However, the conversation between these two people did make the other young masters in the meeting fall into deep thought.
The situation in Kyoto has changed drastically, and it seems that how to stand in line has become a problem.
Although some people did not speak, their position in their hearts was silently shaken.
And just as the atmosphere in the meeting gradually fell into dead silence, a woman with thick pink face suddenly walked towards the door.
One of the gateways to officially enter Changxian is the Madam of Hualou.
I saw her coming into the hall with a strange look on her face, and said anxiously:
"Masters, there seems to be a Taoist priest wandering outside!"
(End of this chapter)
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