Chapter 5 The Wrath of the Patriarch
Lin Zhenlong is busy with mines and docks on weekdays, and he doesn't spend much time staying in Linjiabao for many years. After he came back, he never heard his son Lin Zhou complain to him or complain, and he didn't know what happened to Lin Zhou and Lin Tao before.
But he vaguely heard something that made him feel extremely shocked and angry from the conversation between Lin Tao and Lin Zhou just now, and his face suddenly became ugly.
"Lin Zhou knelt down to Lin Tao on the back mountain, kowtowed to each of us, and was tied up with a dog leash and locked in a dog cage to learn to bark. You don't know how wonderful it is, hahahaha..." A child from the clan named Lin Hua happily told other children around him about what happened that day. He was not careful that the meeting hall suddenly became quiet, but what he said happened to be heard from a distance by Lin Zhenlong.
Lin Hua is Lin Shi's brother, the son of Lin Zhongxing, a deacon in Linjiabao, and one of Lin Tao's followers. Lin Hua is a legitimate child and Lin Shi is a concubine child, so when there is a big event in Linjiabao, Lin Hua can follow his father Lin Zhongxing into the conference hall, but Lin Shi cannot.
"Shut up Hua'er!" Deacon Lin Zhongxing felt something was wrong and quickly stopped his son.
"Lin Hua, come here." Lin Zhenlong shouted to Lin Hua. At this time, his face turned pale and his tone was scary, and his whole body exuded a dangerous and terrifying aura, just like a volcano before the eruption.
"Clan...Chief..." Lin Hua felt that something was wrong, so he glanced at his father Lin Zhongxing, then walked over here and stopped in the center of the meeting hall.
Lin Zhenlong stood up and walked towards Lin Hua, who was standing in the center of the conference hall step by step. Under the powerful soul pressure of the eighth-level peak warrior, Lin Hua couldn't help but kneel down on the ground when his legs were weak.
"You said Zhou'er kowtowed you? You tied him a dog leash and put him in a dog cage?" Lin Zhenlong asked Lin Hua.
The entire meeting hall became extremely quiet, and everyone's eyes focused on Lin Zhenlong and Lin Hua in the center of the hall.
"This...this...this...this is all...this's cousin Lin Tao's idea..." Lin Hua said to Lin Zhenlong nervously.
During the past decade when Lin Zhenlong was in charge of Linjiabao, although he was extremely cruel when fighting with other families for the interests of Linjiabao, he was called the Tyrannosaurus Forest. However, as long as he returned to Linjiabao, he was extremely generous and kind to his tribe. Even if the people in Zhenlong Mansion were in a reasonable position, they occasionally had some small conflicts and frictions with his tribe members and made trouble with him, the dispute would mostly end with Lin Zhenlong's concession and compromise.
In the meeting hall, even if some elders and deacons quarreled or even attacked for certain interests, Lin Zhenlong, as the patriarch, never blushed with anyone, and always mediated in kindly. Moreover, the elders in the Presbyterian Church, especially the great elder Lin Zhenshan, often severely punished some tribe members because they were offended by themselves or their family members. But what is surprising is that Lin Zhenlong, a tribe member, seems to have never personally punished any tribe members in the past ten years.
This gave the clans an illusion... that is, the clan leader Lin Zhenlong has no temper at all, and he is a good man. In Linjiabao, the people in Zhenshan Mansion cannot be provoked and must try their best to please, but it will be fine if the people in Zhenlong Mansion are provoked.
Just like they followed Lin Tao to humiliate and bully Lin Zhou so many times, they didn't see any reaction from Zhenlong Mansion.
"I'll ask if you're involved?" Lin Zhenlong then asked Lin Hua.
Lin Hua glanced at Lin Tao, then lowered his head and said nothing.
"In the past, I always taught you, as children of the same clan, to care for each other, and to help each other, and to help each other when one person is in trouble. This is also our ancestral teaching. Have you forgotten?" Lin Zhenlong looked at Lin Hua in front of him coldly, and then glanced at Lin Tao standing behind Lin Zhenshan.
His face has never been so cold, and his heart has never been as cold as it is today.
"It's Lin Zhou! Always say crazy words! My clan brother Lin Tao said that he always throws away the people from our Lin Family Castle! He deserves punishment!" Lin Hua mustered up the courage to say loudly to Lin Zhenlong. I don't know why he wasn't very scared. The clan leader Lin has always had a good temper and has never punished anyone. There is no exception today, right?
He must be afraid that he would get angry with someone, which would arouse objections from his clansmen, and make his clan leader unsteady? In this case, what else can I be afraid of? Just like now, things have come to this point, and he still hasn't even increased the volume much.
Lin Hua's father Lin Zhongxing was a man who was mingled with Lin Zhenshan, and Lin Hua and his younger brother Lin Shi were mingled with Lin Tao. His whisper just now was to offend the clan leader Lin Zhenlong to death. Why not take this opportunity to express his loyalty to Zhenshan Mansion? Anyway, although Lin Zhenlong is the clan leader, he is not in the clan most of the time, and the affairs inside and outside the clan are decided by the great elder Lin Zhenshan.
"So, when people from other families were mocking Zhou'er, you brothers and clans did not think about helping him get his face back, but followed the people from other families to humiliate him and trample on his most basic dignity as a member of the Linjiabao family?" Lin Zhenlong's voice was a little louder. From the violent ups and downs in his chest, you can imagine how extremely uneasy he felt at this moment.
Lin Zhenlong tolerated that his generous treatment of his tribe was not because of his cowardice, but because he knew better than other tribesmen about the weakness of the Lin family in this chaotic world. As the head of the Lin family, he carried this heavy burden on his shoulders and had a more important mission than ordinary elders to complete. All of this requires the unity of the entire Lin family.
Therefore, as long as all conflicts within the family do not touch his bottom line, he will never be angry with any clan members, and even if he has any opinions, he will be deeply in his heart.
"Dignity depends on strength! What kind of dignity does he have, a natural waste, have? It will only drag our Lin family!" Lin Hua refuted Lin Zhenlong even louder. He knelt on the ground and obviously did not notice the change in the expression on Lin Zhenlong's face at this time.
"Dignity depends on strength! Well said! Very good! Very good! Hahahaha..." Lin Zhenlong suddenly burst into laughter. The mysterious energy wave and soul pressure burst out from the body of the eighth-level peak strongman were completely aroused in the entire meeting hall. Lin Hua, who was kneeling in front of him, couldn't move his whole body, and even breathing became a little difficult.
The juniors standing in the clan all had pale faces, their bodies were shaking and almost unsteady. Even the elders and deacons sitting in the conference hall felt a sense of great pressure.
This is something I have never seen before. Lin Zhenlong always believed that his own force was used to deal with outsiders, so he had never shown his super powerful force to his tribe members in Linjiabao!
"Today, I, Lin Zhenlong, let all of you see what strength is! What dignity is!"
Under everyone's gaze, Lin Zhenlong suddenly raised his palm high and slapped Lin Hua's head squatting in front of him with a palm, instantly shattering Lin Hua's sky spirit cover. Before Lin Hua could even make a sound, his brain splashed everywhere and his whole body fell to the ground.
This is the first time Lin Zhenlong, as the patriarch, killed someone in Linjiabao! And he killed a junior!
Lin Hua’s mistake is that first, he shouldn’t have participated in those things, and gave Lin Zhou the first humiliation; second, he shouldn’t have spoken out the things in front of everyone in the conference hall in front of the Su family, which made Lin Zhou feel humiliated again. Third, he shouldn’t have admitted his mistakes after the incident, never repent, and confronted Lin Zhenlong to the end.
"Hua'er!"
Lin Hua's father Lin Zhongxing was shocked and his mind was completely confused. Although he realized the seriousness of the matter when Lin Zhenlong called Lin Hua forward, he thought that Lin Zhenlong would at most physically punish Lin Hua. He never expected that Lin Zhenlong would openly take action to kill his son Lin Hua in public in the conference hall!
"Can anyone humiliate my son Lin Zhenlong?? You can bully him! You can beat him! But as brothers and brothers, you can't let him kneel down! You can't trample on his dignity as a human being! This is the bottom line for my Linjiabao to treat his own tribe and his brothers!" Lin Zhenlong roared like a lion, then turned his head and glared at Lin Tao behind Lin Zhenshan extremely fiercely.
Forced Lin Zhou to kneel down, tie him up a dog leash, and put him in a dog cage. Everything Lin Tao, Lin Hua, Lin Shi and others did has reached Lin Zhenlong's bottom line!
The patriarch has not been angry for ten years. If he is angry today, he will be sacrificed with blood!
Chapter completed!