Four hundred and twenty-three chapters six-hour drive
At this time, Yan Xiaotian spoke: "Youdao, the third elder is in a bad heart, don't scare him."
Of course, he didn't really care about Old Man Wei, he was just making fun of him.
I did not respond to Yan Xiaotian, but just took the Qinggang Sword back into the scabbard, and then said to Old Man Wei: "Tell me, tell us about Zhao Dekai's situation. I think it should be five or six hours to drive from here to reach the destination. If I find that you have nothing to say in the middle of the way, or there is no useful information in your words, you still have to get off the bus. Okay, let's start."
After I finished speaking, Old Man Wei stared at me in a daze, and his eyes seemed to see an evil ghost.
Seeing that he didn't say anything for a long time, I made an impatient expression and reached out to pull the door handle again.
Old Man Wei was frightened. He quickly reached out to block me, and then started talking to himself.
In fact, Master Lao’s investigation of Zhao Dekai has been very thorough. A large part of the information provided to us by Mr. Wei is consistent with Master Lao’s investigation results.
But there are a few things that Master did not investigate.
Old Man Wei said that Zhao Dekai actually established a small group called "Tianmingtan" ten years ago. When this small group was first established, it was actually used to communicate with Taoism. At that time, Zhao Dekai did not have such great ambitions. He established this group entirely to make friends in the industry and expand his connections to Baiwushan.
The initial members of this small group were Zhao Dekai and Jiang Bin. With the development of the later generations, the small group became a large group, and the large group became a sect. Five years ago, with the addition of Di Guangtong, Zhao Dekai's sect began to accommodate a large number of people outside the business. It was from that year that Zhao Dekai's ambition began to expand.
The old master said before that Zhao Dekai had two big helpers, one was Di Guangtong and the other was Jiang Bin.
But Old Man Wei said that Di Guangtong and Jiang Bin are not Zhao Dekai's helpers, and the three of them are just using each other.
Zhao Dekai's real helper is a man named Yi Qingping. This person is not famous in the industry, but he is very capable. Old Man Wei said that since he was born, he has only seen two people who can compete with Yin soldiers, one is me, and the other is Yi Qingping he mentioned.
To put it bluntly, I still rely on my blessings for the Black Water Corpse Coffin. It is not entirely based on my own cultivation. If Yi Qingping did not have such a saint of evil-proof objects on his body and relied on his own strength to compete with the Yin soldiers, then his cultivation level was definitely not comparable to that of me at that time.
Old Man Wei said that Yi Qingping not only has a strong cultivation level, but also has many evil magic tricks that he has never seen before. He can even seize life, and can turn a young man into an octogenarian in just one breath.
I asked Old Man Wei if he had been defeated by Yi Qingping's skills. Old Man Wei nodded and admitted it, but he also said that because their Wei family had a special physique, he was not greatly affected.
In addition to Yi Qingping, Zhao Dekai has been able to make a fortune in the past two years, because he got a treasure. Old Man Wei had never seen that treasure before, but just said that it was something with a lot of yin energy.
I speculate that Zhao Dekai's treasure should be the Yin jade I discovered in Baiwu Mountain.
At the beginning, I was worried that Zhao Dekai would find that Yin Yu was stolen, and he placed Yin Yu in such a ragged warehouse. I thought Yin Yu was of little significance to him, so I tried every means to hand Yin Yu over to Yan Xiaotian and let him return to the warehouse.
But at this time, I regretted it when I heard Old Man Wei's words.
During the driving hours, Old Man Wei kept talking. By the last hour, he had already started to repeat the information he had said before. I know that he had told us everything he knew.
I asked him how much he knew about the situation of the Cao family.
Old Man Wei said that the Cao family is the strangest group of the Presbyterian clans. The other clans are all heads of the elders, but the second head of the Cao family is seated. However, this is impossible. The head of the Cao family disappeared ten years ago and has not been heard of yet.
Although the second leader of the Cao family now manages all the things in the Cao family, in terms of rules, he should not be in charge. Before choosing the next head of the Cao family, the affairs of the Cao family should be managed by the eldest wife, that is, the wife of the old head.
However, over the years, the eldest wife of the Cao family has been looking for the whereabouts of the hometown leader and is not concerned about the affairs of the Cao family.
So I asked about the situation of the eldest wife of the Cao family again.
Old Man Wei said that the eldest wife of the Cao family is in her eighties this year and was also the daughter of a local powerful family in her early years. She was very skilled when she was young. At that time, she used a pair of Wu hooks. On the surface, she was just a thin girl, but when she really fought, she couldn't get close to her body even if she got along together.
Although the eldest wife is old now, her temperament has not changed for many years. She is still a hero among women and speaks very well in the Cao family.
In recent years, the reason why the Cao family has not chosen the next head of the family is because too big has always believed that the head of the hometown is still alive. Although choosing the head of the family is the matter of the elders of the Cao family, it has nothing to do with the eldest wife himself, as long as she does not let go, no one dares to act rashly.
In addition, Old Man Wei also said that although the eldest wife of the Cao family was brave and fierce when she was young, she was also a well-educated and knowledgeable person. Even some old people on and off Baiwu Mountain respected this woman very much.
Regarding this, Old Man Wei and Master Wei said similarly. Old Man once said that the reason I asked me to find the eldest wife of the Cao family was because this eldest wife was a person who could put the overall situation first.
When I asked Old Man Wei how to enter the Cao family, Old Man Wei seemed a little embarrassed. He said that although these clans are all under the name of Baiwu Mountain, the family is not under the jurisdiction of Baiwu Mountain. So, each family has its own rules. He does not understand what the Cao family rules are, and of course people do not know how to enter the Cao family.
I asked him: "Have you never been to the Cao family before?"
Old Man Wei was probably afraid that I would throw him out of the car, so he seemed a little nervous: "I have been there, but that was invited by the Cao family. In normal times, we clans never move around."
In fact, I could tell from Old Man Wei’s words that the gate of the Cao family does not seem to be so easy to enter.
I thought about it and asked him again: "Do you know where the Cao family is? Where is the eldest wife's dormitory in the Cao family?"
Generally speaking, when talking about words like "family families" and "clans", I always feel that the place where they live should be a large house. There is a plaque hanging at the door with "some house" or "some house" written on it. There are two stone lions in the gate town. The entrance is a patio, with wing rooms on both sides, and the front is the lobby. There is also a back door and a backyard at the end of the house, three in and three out.
But Old Man Wei said that this is not the case. Nowadays, there are no such houses. Even if there are, they will become cultural relics and be protected. The people in their families do live together, but they all live in apartment buildings.
The richer clans would buy land and build properties by themselves, leaving one of the buildings for their families to use. If they have poor economic strength, they can only buy buildings built by others, and the location and location will not be very good.
Among these clans, such buildings are called "clan buildings".
The family building of the Lao Cao family is near a coal factory on the outskirts of the city. The building was purchased after the owner of the hometown disappeared. It has a small property rights. There is only one building in the entire community, with five units, and all the people living in it are from the Cao family.
Since the entire community belongs to their Cao family, they simply started the property management themselves, and the gates were guarded by their own children.
Old Man Wei said so much, but in fact he was still reminding me that the gate of the Wei family is not something you can enter just by entering.
I asked him so much about the Cao family, and he probably knew what I was going to do.
I asked him again, where is the eldest wife of the Cao family living in the community. Old Man Wei said that according to the rules of the Cao family, the eldest wife's house must be on the top floor. However, because the eldest wife is old, it is inconvenient to go up and downstairs. When he went there last time, he found that the unit where the eldest wife was located had been remodeled and had an elevator installed.
The Cao family's small property rights buildings are all covered with six floors, and there was no elevator originally.
Old Man Wei said that as long as I find the unit with an elevator, I can find the eldest wife.
I was puzzled and asked him, "Don't you remember the last time I went to that unit?"
Old Man Wei seemed a little embarrassed: "According to the rules of the Cao family, I had been blindfolded before entering the unit door. If I hadn't left the Cao family, I was more careful and glanced at the corridor window, I wouldn't have known that there was a coal yard near the Cao family."
It seems that the major clans in Baiwu Mountain are also guarding against each other.
I nodded and didn't say anything.
Before the car could stop, Old Man Wei said words for several hours without interrupting, his voice was already a little hoarse. Seeing that I ignored him, he stopped talking.
But I could feel that he had been looking at me with a very alert look. If I looked at him at this time, he would probably have spoken obediently again.
I ignored him again. Although he really has no use value to me, I can't really push him out of the car.
However, after contacting this third elder of Baiwushan for a while, I felt more and more that if every elder was as greedy as him, bullying the weak and the strong, and insatiable as Zhao Dekai, Baiwushan would be doomed.
About half an hour later, Yan Xiaotian drove the car to the city where the company is located.
When he entered the city, Yan Xiaotian, who had not spoken all the way, looked at Old Man Wei from the rearview mirror and asked, "Three Elder, are you planning to follow us or go to another place? If you go to another place, I will give you a ride."
Old Man Wei also understood now. Yan Xiaotian seemed to be respectful to him, but in fact he was in the same group as me. He quickly waved his hand at Yan Xiaotian: "No, don't leave me alone. I... I have nowhere to go now, and Zhao Dekai is still looking for me everywhere!"
Yan Xiaotian raised his eyebrows: "Why are you nowhere to go? Isn't it all yours in such a huge Wei family?"
Hearing this sentence, Old Man Wei rarely showed a helpless expression, but he just sighed and said nothing.
Yan Xiaotian's eyes were reflected in the rearview mirror, and his eyes seemed a little dim.
Actually, I really want to tell Old Man Wei that the Wei family can become like this, thanks to you. But I finally held it back and didn't say it.
Chapter completed!