Chapter 152 Afterwards (Part 1)

Yuan Garden draws water into the house. There is a small lake in the back garden with a water pavilion on it. It is the only place that was not affected by the fire.

Many figures came to the water pavilion on the lake under the cover of the fire. There is a "Yin Yang Gate" that has been opened long ago. These figures enter it one by one and evacuate Yuan Garden.

The backers behind the Yuan family can help the Yuan family rise or crush the Yuan family. The key is to control the Yuan family.

After all, the Yuan family is not a powerful family like the Li family and the Zhang family. The inheritance time is not short, but it has only been a few decades. The core members of the family are only three grandparents and grandchildren, and there are not many children born in the family. The rest of the people have been recruited in succession over the past few decades. It is conceivable how much sand there is in it.

Now these sands have finally played a role.

It is true: You will rise with this, and you will fall with this.

After these people evacuated, the "Yin Yang Gate" quickly shrank and eventually turned into a black dot and disappeared.

There was only a loud bang, and some wooden structures began to collapse.

Pei Xiaolou waved the bamboo stick in his hand, and countless tiny meteors with trails of light appeared out of thin air, arranged closely, and shot towards Lei Lao like a rain of arrows.

Lei Lao was surrounded by two black dragons formed by mist, which blocked and knocked away all these meteors.

These meteors did not look "ferocious", and were even very beautiful, but their power should not be underestimated. Wherever they passed, the flames were split and the bricks and stones were pierced, comparable to flying swords.

"Master Pei, your wife is not here, and you alone can't do anything to me." Lei Lao pushed with both palms, and two black dragons roared out.

Pei Xiaolou's face changed slightly, and his body moved to avoid the two black dragons.

Lei Lao took this opportunity to soar into the sky.

The most intuitive difference between a celestial being and a congenital person is whether they can fly. If they can fly, neither the raging fire nor the walls of Jiangling Mansion can stop them, let alone any tunnels.

After Pei Xiaolou dispersed the two black dragons, he did not chase them, but waved his bamboo stick to separate the flames and walked quickly into the crumbling back hall.

After Yuan Chongzong and others entered the tunnel, they closed the entrance from the inside, so nothing could be seen. However, Pei Xiaolou obviously did not have the patience to slowly find the entrance to the tunnel. He directly slammed the bamboo stick in his hand on the ground, and all the floor tiles flew into the air, and the outline of the tunnel door appeared.

Pei Xiaolou crushed the closed door with one foot and walked straight into it.

The entire tunnel was empty, with only a charred corpse left. Not only were the flesh, clothes, and hair on the body burned to ashes, but even the soul and the three corpses had dissipated.

The means were very cruel, but it must be said that it was indeed clean and neat.

Thinking of what Lei Lao said, "the criminal committed suicide and the accounts were destroyed", Pei Xiaolou immediately guessed the identity of this person. It was undoubtedly Yuan Chongzong, the old man of the Yuan family.

Thinking of this, Pei Xiaolou couldn't help but sigh.

"Openly" killed people to silence them.

To be fair, this is nothing to the Dao Sect. As long as the Dao Sect wants to investigate, it can always find out.

The key is that the Dao Sect only has a unified opinion on the surface, and there are undercurrents in the interior. The evidence of the Yuan family is to shut up those who openly agree but secretly oppose. Without sufficient evidence, even if they know who is behind the scenes, it is difficult to continue investigating this case.

The Li family cannot kill Zhang Yuelu for a similar reason. If they kill Zhang Yuelu, it will give Zhengyi Dao and Quanzhen Dao an excuse, and the situation will further escalate.

Because Zhengyi Dao and Quanzhen Dao are not a monolithic entity, many people are lucky, so there are considerable opposition voices within, advocating restraint and not launching a full-scale confrontation with Taiping Dao, and even accepting a great master from Taiping Dao.

However, the premise for these opposition voices to exist is that the confrontation between the three Daos is within the rules. If Zhang Yuelu dies, it will break the rules, but it will indirectly help Zhengyi Dao and Quanzhen Dao integrate their internal affairs and overwhelm the opposition voices.

By then, the Zhengyi and Quanzhen sects would make a big fuss about Zhang Yuelu's death, and even break some potential rules as a matter of course, such as ensuring the stability of trade first.

Pei Xiaolou understood this truth, so he was not worried about Zhang Yuelu's safety. What he really cared about was the Yuan family. He had taken action against the Yuan family as soon as possible, but it was still a step too late.

The people behind the Yuan family moved faster.

On the other side, Lei Lao came to the outside of the city and met Feng Lao who had been waiting for a long time.

"Have they all been dealt with?" Lei Lao asked.

Feng Lao replied: "I checked it myself, and there are only a few small characters who don't know the inside story, and I can't find anything."

"Very good." Lei Lao nodded, "I have dealt with it over there, and nothing will be left."

Feng Lao looked back, even if he was outside the city, he could see the flames rising into the sky in the city.

"It was burned to ashes." Old Feng sighed, "We have worked hard for decades to run the Yuan family, but we just gave up and turned it into ashes overnight. It's a pity to think about it carefully."

Old Lei said: "There is no way, this is what Mr. Li meant."

"Other people's backers are to protect us from the wind and rain, but our backer is different. It's fine if he asks us to swallow our anger, but he also cuts off one of his arms, calling it a heroic act. I have also seen that Master Zhang, she has some skills, but it is not impossible to kill her." Old Feng felt a little aggrieved and said angrily, "If it were me, killing Zhang Yuelu with one knife would be over, and that Pei Xiaolou should be killed as well."

Mr. Lei's face darkened and he scolded: "Let's stop talking here! Why kill? You are so brave. Go and kill now. Do you think the Zhang family and the Pei family will let you go? Or see if the Li family will let you go." I'll protect you. If nothing happens, you can tell Patriarch Jin this great advice when you return."

Feng Lao was immediately discouraged.

Only then did Mr. Lei soften his tone: "We are obeying orders, and we will do whatever the superiors say. Let me tell you, the two of us are still figures in the world, but in the eyes of the big shots in the Taoist sect, You and I are no different from the dead Yuan Chongzong."

Feng Lao was completely speechless. Although he was the elder brother, he had always listened to his brothers since he was a child.

Lei Lao paused for a moment and then said: "Speaking of Lao Yuan, he is an old acquaintance of ours. He is not a fool, right? When he saw Pei Xiaolou and us coming to Jiangling Mansion one after another, he felt that something was wrong, even if I showed Patriarch Jin's autographed letter, but he was also doubtful and only asked his son to hunt down Zhang Yuelu and hide back in Yuan Yuan. He also asked me to accompany him to test me several times, which showed that he was aware of something. No, it's just that he was lucky and thought that the worst outcome would be to leave Jiangling Mansion. He never thought that Patriarch Jin had decided to silence him. In fact, what could Lao Yuan have guessed? His Yuan family is all ours, so there was no way he could. There is no way to escape. This is the tragedy of the chess pieces. They can only see a small piece of land in front of them and cannot see the whole situation. They have no control over life or death. "

Feng Lao thought for a while and asked: "But I still don't understand, what does this have to do with silencing the Yuan family?"

Lei Lao said helplessly: "How else to understand? What happened at Zixian Mountain was an accident. Taiping Road was unprepared. Someone caught him with a sore leg. There was no way to remedy it, so he had no choice but to cut off his wrist."

"Are you talking about the dead Su Ran?" Feng Lao had been in the world for many years after all, and he gradually came to his senses.

Mr. Lei sighed: "Su Ran is from Taiping Road, and Liu Futong is from us. In other words, the two principals of Zixian Mountain are both our people. Zixian Mountain should be like an iron bucket, and a needle cannot be inserted into it." , the water cannot be poured in, who would have thought that two members of the family would fight among themselves? "

"Everyone shoots a rock to hit others, but we are shooting ourselves in the foot. Su Ran took down Liu Futong and took away the power of Zixian Mountain. That's it. We just treat it as internal strife and nothing more than replacing someone. She came to take control of Zixian Mountain, but she died suddenly. The huge Zixian Mountain was leaderless, which allowed Zhang Yuelu to take advantage of Su Ran's identity. It seemed that Su Ran's identity was a bit sensitive, and the Taoist sect kept it secret, but all the bad things about Liu Futong were revealed by Zhang Yuelu. , and then traced it all the way to us.”

Feng Lao frowned: "I heard that Liu Futong was captured by Su Ran while he was naked doing that. He didn't even have time to destroy the ledgers. The same goes for the Li family. Who is not easy to send? If you have to, Send Su Ran over."

"The Li family is related by marriage to the Qin family, the Su family, the Lu family, and the Shen family. The relationship between relatives is there, so we accidentally sent a crazy woman over." Mr. Lei said slowly, "Let's talk about these things now. It has no meaning anymore. The development of things to this point must have been beyond Taiping Dao's expectations. Zhengyi and Quanzhen Dao seized this point to make a big fuss and put pressure on them. Master Li started to mess up the situation. , they don’t dare to touch Zhang Yuelu, they can only touch their own people. To put it bluntly, it’s just a Yuan family, it’s just a waste of money and disaster.”

Feng Lao finally figured it out and asked casually: "By the way, how did Su Ran die?"