Chapter 4 City Break(1/2)
The backyard council hall of Huichun Hall.
The very ancient hall is five zhang wide and about twenty zhang deep. A large black table occupys most of the space in the hall. Nearly a hundred high-back chairs are neatly placed beside the long table. Ebony ceiling, water-milled blue brick floor, and more than 200 portraits of people are hung on the walls on both sides. This is a portrait of the head of the Huichun Hall, the head of the Hua family in all dynasties. The yellowed portraits make the hall look more quaint and solemn, and there is a suffocating pressure permeating the hall.
On the wall in the middle of the end of the hall is a huge ink-wash "Weiji Herbal Collection Picture". On the painting is a skinny Taoist, who is picking a "Three Yang Fruit" with three flowers and three fruits with a smile on his face. Weiji Taoist is a master of all doctors in the world and a recognized ancestor of pharmacists. It is said that he is a god who can fly to the sky and hide the earth and pick stars and embrace the moon. But the legend is just a legend. No one knows whether there is really such a powerful god in the world. But Weiji has passed down a medicine, which is recognized by everyone.
This was the first time Lin Xiao was allowed to enter the conference hall. He sat obediently at the long table closest to the hall door.
All the deacons and doctors in Huichun Hall gathered here to discuss how to deal with the troubles caused by Lin Yao.
Lin Shan sat upright under the picture of collecting herbs in Weiji, with a hint of green light appearing in his eyes. Everyone who was swept by his eyes shivered and hurriedly lowered their heads. Even Hua Wuniang, who was most arrogant and domineering in daily life, and several deacons and elders of the Hua family, have lost their former arrogance today and dared not look at Lin Shan.
For the first time in his life, these Hua family members felt a kind of majesty in Lin Shan's mentor, that is, the previous director of Huichun Hall and the senior head of Hua family.
Of course, some people were not convinced of Lin Shan's sudden power. Several deacons from the Middle Ages stared at Lin Shan angrily, as if I would not give you face, what kind of attitude would you give me? In their opinion, Lin Shan, this outsider who "stole" the throne of power in Huichuntang because the previous head of the family was confused by the death. There is nothing to be afraid of.
Lin Yao, who was ashamed, sat next to Lin Xiao. His body was trembling violently, and Lin Xiao could even hear the sound of his teeth touching each other.
Lin Xiao couldn't help but look at Lin Yao with pity. It was only a matter of time to get into trouble with those friends. But unexpectedly, when something happened, it was such a big thing that made people shy about.
Perhaps Lin Xiao's pitying gaze stimulated Lin Yao, and Lin Yao suddenly howled hysterically: "You pity me? You pity me? You wild bastard, what qualifications do you have to pity me?"
Lin Yao exploded, and suddenly stretched out his hands and grabbed Lin Xiao's neck, pinching it tightly. Lin Xiao had no experience in fighting with anyone. Lin Yao suddenly grabbed the vital point and couldn't breathe, and almost fainted. He even forgot that he had martial arts cultivation a hundred times stronger than Lin Yao, but he was just like fighting with children on the street, and instinctively used his hands to tear Lin Yao's face. The two of them were entangled and fell from the chair together, rolling on the ground like two crazy puppies.
Lin Yao is five or six years older than Lin Xiao, and is much bigger, but he has long been hollowed out by alcohol. How can he have any strength? On the contrary, Lin Xiao works in Huichun Hall every day, and has excellent physical exercise. He has also cultivated his true energy since he was a child, but his strength is much greater than Lin Yao. The two of them tear up on the ground for a while, and Lin Xiao successfully pulled Lin Yao's hand off his neck, turned over and rode on Lin Yao's body, raised his fist and waited to smash it down.
Several deep blood marks were caught on Lin Yao's face, and his face was covered in blood and he looked as embarrassed as he was. Seeing Lin Xiao raise his fist, he couldn't help but feel guilty and shouted in a hurry: "You dare to hit me! You dare to hit me? Mom~~~ This bastard is going to kill the child!"
Hua Wuniang, who had already stood up and watched Lin Yao and Lin Xiao fight, shouted angrily, her body lightly rose into the air, crossed more than ten feet in one step, and pushed Lin Xiaohou's heart with a seemingly light palm.
Lin Xiao felt a gust of wind coming from his back, and a "whirring" sound of strong wind storming in his ears. Lin Xiao was shocked and instinctively swelled the true energy of his body. He slapped out with a backhand move, and gently hit a circle behind his back to protect the vital points of his back heart.
With a crisp sound of "bang", Hua Wuniang stood firmly and grabbed Lin Yao, who was covered in blood, with one hand. Lin Xiao was beaten to the ground in an extremely embarrassed manner, and knocked his head against the door frame of the conference hall before stopping. His right arm had been damaged by a palm, and he was still moving?
The Changqing Jue itself has the effect of healing and protecting life. Lin Xiao, who was limp, leaned obliquely on the door frame, mobilizing a breath of true energy to continuously impact the swollen and congested shoulders. He was fierce and mobilizing the true energy to forcibly break open the meridians that were closed by the shock. He could only hear a slight sound on his shoulder. Lin Xiao gritted his teeth and slowly raised his arms and gently swayed them.
In the bones, Lin Xiao was unwilling to bow his head to the two of Hua Wu!
Like a wounded little wolf, Lin Xiao stared at Hua Wuniang fiercely.
Hua Wuniang was cold all over by Lin Xiao's eyes. A murderous intent suddenly appeared in her heart: "What a little evil beast. I should have taken medicine to kill him with the medicine that day. No hurry, I will treat you slowly, and I will never let you get better." Hua Wuniang suddenly hated herself. Over the past ten years, she has only tried every means to abuse Lin Xiao in terms of living conditions, but ignored the problem of cutting off the roots. This is an unbearable mistake.
He also glared at Lin Xiao fiercely, and Hua Wuniang sneered: "What a cruel little boy, who can tear his elder brother into this."
He quietly turned Lin Yao's body to the upper level of Huichuntang sitting on both sides of the long table. The elders of the Hua family and the deacons immediately accused Lin Xiao of being so cruel and ruthless at such a young age. A deacon from the Hua family in the Middle Ages said confidently: "This child will be a thief in the future! Judging from his fierceness, if he does not become a leader of a bandit in the future, I will eat my head!" He proudly held his hair bun with his hands, deliberately letting everyone present notice that a flower made of tiny rubies was inserted into his hair bun today.
Lin Shan looked at the elders and deacons of the Hua family coldly and couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "Mr., you are very honest. The Hua family is so decayed that it cannot be saved. The teacher is so kind to the disciple, so he can only do it. The criminals have to survive these two years, and after they have ended this seclusion, they are no longer afraid of anything."
"How difficult is this to cheer up the Hua family?" Lin Shan smiled bitterly, gently bounced the tabletop with his fingers, and said coldly: "Enough, what is going on, but I don't need to say anything."
Everyone in the Hua family closed their mouths, and the doctors, pharmacists and others in Huichuntang nodded. One of the irritable masters stood up and shouted: "The boss, it is obvious that the eldest master took action first, attacking Master Xiao's throat."
Hua Wuniang glared at the master title fiercely and suddenly sneered: "Young Master Xiao is wrong? Look at what Yao'er is caught?"
Seeing that the main post was about to retort, Mr. Wei, the accountant, suddenly coughed and said lightly: "Okay, the two young masters are fighting, the children are ignorant, what are we adults together? This time we should make a total of the matter, how should the Zhang family deal with it. It is impossible to fool the apology. However, should we hand over the eldest young master to calm the Zhang family's anger?~~~"
"Bold!" Hua Wuniang slapped the long table with a palm, and there was only a dull sound of "boom". The long table, which was three feet wide and fifteen feet long, was flat on the ground, but all the legs of the table were slapped into the water-milled blue bricks by her palm. Hua Wuniang shouted sternly: "Who dares to hand over Yao'er! Don't blame me Hua Wuniang for being polite!"
"Bold!" Lin Shan also snorted gently: "Wu Niang, the family rules say, what should anyone dare to roar in the conference hall!"
Hua Wuniang's face suddenly turned pale, and her expression was even several times whiter than the thick white powder on her face. She panic-in, deacons looked at the elders of the Hua family, and the deacons looked at him asking for help, and there was even more threatening: If something happened to me, you would not end up well.
An elder of the Hua family coughed lightly, looked at Hua Wuniang, and slowly spoke: "Master, Wuniang is just unintentional. Let's put aside some small things for now, and discuss major things, and discuss major things."
Lin Shan smiled gloomyly and said lightly: "Big thing? OK!"
He stepped on the long table on the ground, raised his foot and sucked the long table again with a breath of true energy. He pushed the long table forward half a foot, avoiding the square holes on the ground, and the long table stood firmly on the ground again.
Moving the chair he was sitting in front of him half a foot flat, Lin Shan glanced at the elders and deacons of the Hua family, and said calmly: "Mr. Wei will tell you the power of the Zhang family."
Mr. Wei, the two rats in the tent trembled, stood up slowly, and saluted the elders of the Hua family, especially the deacons, especially Hua Wuniang and Lin Yao, then pulled out a dirty and oily folding fan from behind the collar, and shook it open with a chic. After the folding fan was blown away, Mr. Wei said with a smile: "This is the news I just received. The old lady of the Zhang family in Yingcheng, who is the father of the current head of the Zhang family, was the leader of the largest waterway mountain village within a radius of thousands of miles of the "Third and Long River" in the southern border of the Yuan Dynasty."
The elders of the Hua family, the deacon, all their expressions changed, and even the arrogant Hua Wuniang's face became extremely ugly.
Especially Lin Yao, Lin Yao, who had a drop of blood on his nose, sat on the ground with his butt, and he wailed: "No, right? No, right? Mom~~ Daddy!"
Mr. Wei pursed his lips and shook the folding fan again, and said softly: "Now the Zhang family has two thousand generals on their face. This is a little old foundation left after the San Sanlianwu was wiped out by the Dayuan Navy thirty years ago. It is extremely powerful. After all, the Zhang family is used to being bandits. After thirty years, the bandits have been desperate. The private soldiers they have accumulated in various manors are about four thousand."
Four thousand private troops, in the northwest counties, have the qualifications to attack cities and villages.
He let out a sigh of relief, and Mr. Wei's rat whispered again. He sighed helplessly: "Of course, you don't have to care about these. No matter how powerful his Zhang family is, would it be that he really dared to bring private troops to attack Guihua City?"
The expressions of everyone in the conference hall were all relaxed. It’s great. Does the Zhang family really dare to raise an army? It’s not so easy to fight in Guihua City.
Shaking his head, Lin Shan shouted coldly: "Mr. Wei, continue."
Mr. Wei nodded, and his face suddenly became gloomy: "What I am worried about is the group of bandits who followed the old lady of the Zhang family who resigned to the southern waterway of the Great Yuan Kingdom thirty years ago. The reputation of Sansan Lianwu was in the past, hum, but even the cabbage ships that transported silver in the Great Yuan Dynasty dared to rob. There were about 150 bandits who were qualified to be on the blacklist of the martial arts world. They were all the ones who killed without blinking."
Lin Yao, who was sitting on the ground howling, was so scared that he sprayed out his urine. He screamed: "They wouldn't have fought so hard for a woman, right?"
Mr. Wei sighed and shook his head helplessly, "Old Mrs. Zhang has nearly a hundred grandsons, but there is only one granddaughter. On weekdays, he treats it as his own eyeballs. If it were not for marrying the Wang family to improve his reputation and momentum of the Zhang family, and also to attract a powerful ally to help each other in troubled times, do you think he is willing to send his granddaughter over in such a hurry?"
Lin Shan said lightly: "Old Mrs. Zhang's idea is actually correct. The marriage between the Zhang family and the Wang family is only beneficial, but there is no harm at all. However, I didn't expect that the Zhang family's life was poor and I encountered your evil deeds."
Before Hua Wuniang could speak, Lin Shan continued, "Now there are two ways. One is to save Lin Yao's life, and then my foundation in Huichuntang will be~~~"
Mr. Wei asked pretending to be unknown: "Then, the boss, is there another way?"
Lin Shan narrowed his eyes and said coldly: "Ask to the Lord Wang, tie this beast up and send it to Mrs. Zhang to the old lady, so I will be worried about returning to the Spring Hall!"
Mr. Wei smiled and asked in surprise: "Then, will the Lord of the Old Master Wang agree?"
Lin Shan said calmly: "Why didn't the Lord Wang's family agree? He has many sons. If you throw away a Wang Er and then marry a daughter to the Wang family as your wife, this matter will be over. In the future, the Zhang family will still be his best ally of the Wang family. Will you be reluctant to give up the life of a son when you become the Lord Wang?"
"You~~Lin Shan~~~You can give up your son's life?" Hua Wuniang screamed, and she jumped on the spot and shouted: "You just want Yao'er to die!"
"If he doesn't do such a thing, who can let him die?" Lin Shan narrowed his eyes and looked at Hua Wuniang, sneering: "I can't help but ask for death. If Yao'er doesn't hand it over and the Zhang family insists on taking revenge on me Huichuntang, which one is important, Huichuntang or Yao'er?"
Which is important, Huichuntang’s foundation or Lin Yao’s life?
Everyone looked at Hua Wuniang.
Hua Wuniang stood there in shock for a long time, and suddenly hugged Lin Yao. She cried loudly, "I don't care, I don't care, Huichuntang or Yao'er, I can't bear either! Woo, Yao'er is Huichuntang, Huichuntang will be Yao'er in the future. No one is allowed to touch his hair! No one wants to touch my idea of Huichuntang!"
Lin Yao hugged Hua Wuniang's thighs crying and screamed loudly: "Mom~~~You must save the child~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Hua Wuniang hugged Lin Yao's body and patted his shoulder hard, and howled loudly: "Don't worry, Yao'er, my mother won't let you suffer grievance!"
Suddenly, Hua Wuniang stood up suddenly, she wiped away the white powder and tears from her face and looked at Lin Shan viciously.
Lin Shan looked at Hua Wuniang and asked coldly: "What are you going to do? Can you protect him for a while, can you protect him for the rest of your life?"
"How do you know that I can't Bao Yao'er for the rest of my life?" Hua Wuniang looked at Lin Shan with a strange smile. She twisted her waist and said proudly: "Don't think that only you, the master of Huichun Hall, knows some things! I still know some things!"
Lin Shan's face twitched, and he suddenly stood up and said angrily: "What do you know? What can you know?"
Hua Wuniang took a long breath and said viciously: "Give me the key, I want to open the secret library!"
"Bold! Being arrogant! You!" Lin Shan's face suddenly became purple and swollen, and blue veins jumped out of his forehead. He slapped the long table with a heavy palm. Amid the sound of the "huh huh huh" wind, a faint green flame covered the long table. Huichuntang had been using the long table for nearly a thousand years, and in the blink of an eye, it turned into a piece of ashes floating away.
The palm came out and the whole room was startled.
Big sweat oozed out from the elders of the Hua family and the deacons, flowing down their cheeks, and gathered into crystal water droplets on their chins, slowly dripping. They looked at Lin Shan in horror. They did not expect that this outsider, the contemporary head of the Hua family who was almost in the back, had such an incredible magical skill.
There are countless mysterious skills in the world, but they can strike out flames with empty hands. The flames can instantly burn the specialty of "steel and wood" of the "Far North Hengh Mountain" that is three points stronger than the essence iron into ashes. This is completely beyond martial arts. Perhaps, only the three true fires cultivated by the legendary gods who can fly and escape from the sky have such divine power, right?
"Sanwei is really hot!" It was not just one person who thought of this problem, but several masters moaned the word almost at the same time.
Lin Shan's body seemed to become extremely tall at this moment, and he seemed to fill the entire hall alone. His aura shocked everyone in the hall, and no one dared to speak.
Lin Xiao stood at the door blankly, looking at Lin Shan who suddenly seemed to have become a different person, and couldn't help but wonder: Is this still my gentle, kind-hearted father who dared not say anything to Hua Wuniang? Is this still my beloved woman who inexplicably killed her sick woman, and she would only cry secretly at night with the woman's urn?
A phantom flashed in front of him, and Lin Xiao seemed to see again. On the night when his mother died, Lin Shan, holding her mother's ashes, knelt down in the corner of the backyard of the Hua family's mansion and cried with blood and tears.
He is so powerful, why has he always been so indulged in Hua Wuniang?
If Lin Shan was willing, Huichuntang had been his own world over the years. Why would he keep these Hua family members, who are as stupid as pigs, and have no ability?
Lin Xiao's heart was full of doubts, and he looked at Lin Shan in confusion. Why is this happening? With the power of Lin Shan's palm, Lin Shan can completely become the world's top martial arts master and accept the respect of everyone in the world, not just a doctor in the hall with the title of miracle doctor.
The atmosphere in the hall was as stagnant as an iron curtain. Lin Shan gasped heavily. After a long time, he slowly restrained the huge aura he emitted.
For a moment, Lin Shan became the clean, thin, kind, uncontested, almost cowardly old man again.
However, the eyes of others looking at him were completely different.
Lin Shan looked at Hua Wuniang with a little powerlessness. His voice suddenly became extremely hoarse and asked in a low voice: "Wu Niang, what else do you know?"
Hua Wuniang smiled coldly and said gloomyly: "Before dad died, I heard all the nonsense for a while."
"What did the teacher mutter?" Lin Shan looked at Hua Wuniang kindly.
"I listened to myths when my father said." Hua Wuniang looked at the little black ash on the ground and smiled strangely: "I didn't expect that it was true. Humph, since these things are true, what's wrong with me if I want to protect Yao'er for the rest of my life?"
"Hehe, hehe, hehe!" Lin Shan suddenly laughed with his stomach in his arms. While laughing, he pointed at Hua Wuniang and said angrily: "Do you think Yao'er will be attracted to them when she looks like this now?"
Hua Wuniang was speechless for a moment. After a long time, she screamed: "No matter whether they like it or not, give me the key to the secret library!"
"What are you going to do?" Lin Shan said angrily: "What are you going to do?"
Hua Wuniang said coldly: "There are spiritual medicines in the secret warehouse, and naturally there are poisons. What do you think I am going to do?"
林善的面色惨变,他怒道:“你疯了!”
Hua Wuniang smiled strangely and said, "So what if I'm going crazy for Yao'er? Lin Shan, will you give me the key?"
To be continued...