Chapter 73(1/2)
That night, a sensation swept across.
At midnight, in the Jinlin platform, nearly fifty heads of family were sitting in the seat. The chief was Jin Guangshan. Jin Zixuan was away, and Jin Zixun was not qualified enough, so only Jin Guangyao stood beside him. In the front were Nie Mingjue, Jiang Cheng, Lan Xichen, Lan Wangji and other heads of family, with a solemn expression. Later, the heads of family and monks who were second-class, were all facing a great enemy, and whispered one or two times, "I will know sooner or later", "Let's see how they ended."
Jiang Cheng was the center of everyone's eyes, sitting in the front, covered in dark clouds, just like others, Jin Guangyao looked respectful on the seat, and said softly:
"...There are four supervisors who were killed this time, and there were about fifty remaining members of the Wen family who escaped. After Wei Wuxian took them into the mass grave, he summoned hundreds of ferocious corpses to patrol and block the mountain. Our people are still unable to get up."
After listening, there was silence in the golden pavilion.
After a while, Jiang Cheng said: "This matter is indeed too unreasonable. I apologize to Master Jin on his behalf. If there is any remedy, please speak up and I will do my best to compensate."
What Jin Guangshan wanted was not his apology or compensation, and said, "Sect Master Jiang, I, Lanling Jin, would never say anything more for your sake, but these supervisors are not all from the Jin family, there are a few other families. This is..."
Jiang Cheng frowned, rubbed the beating tendons in his temples, took a silent breath, and said, "...I apologize to all the sect leaders. You don't know that the monk named Wen surnamed Wen that Wei Wuxian wanted to save was named Wen Ning. He and his sister Wenqing had been kind to me in the battle to shoot the sun. Therefore..."
Nie Mingjue said: "What's wrong with being kind? Isn't Qishan Wen's murderer of the Yunmeng Jiang's bloody murder?"
In recent years, Jiang Cheng has been busy until late at night every day. Just as he was about to rest early today, he was so angry that he rushed to Jinlintai overnight by the thunderous news. He was tired and was already full of anger. In addition, he was forced to bow his head by nature and apologize to others in public. He was already irritable. He heard Nie Mingjue mentioning the murder of the clan extermination again, and he felt a sense of hatred in his heart.
This hatred is not only directed at everyone here, but also targets Wei Wuxian.
Lan Xichen pondered and said, "I know a little bit about this warm name. I don't seem to have heard of her having participated in any murder in the Sun Shooting Camp."
Nie Mingjue said: "But she hasn't stopped him."
Lan Xichen said: "Wenqing is one of Wen Ruohan's confidants. How can we stop it?"
Nie Mingjue said coldly: "Since Wen is just silent and does not object when he is doing evil, it is equivalent to standing by and watching. You can't imagine only enjoying preferential treatment when Wen is causing trouble. When Wen is destroyed, he will not bear the bitter fruit and pay the price."
Lan Xichen knew that because of family feud, he hated Wen Gou Nie Mingjue the most. He was completely unwilling tolerant of Sha Zi's temperament, so he stopped talking. One head of the family said, "The words of Sect Master Nie are exactly. Besides, since Wen Qing is Wen Ruohan's confidant, she said she had never participated? I don't believe it. Which Wen Gou doesn't have a few lives on his hands? Maybe it's just that we haven't discovered it!"
When the atrocities of the Wen family in Qishan were mentioned, the crowd was excited and noisy. Jin Guangshan wanted to speak, but he was unhappy when he saw this. Jin Guangyao looked at his expression and quickly sang: "Please be careful not to be impatient. The matter we want to discuss today is not the point." While speaking, he asked the servants to send iced fruit slices to divert their attention. Dianjin Pavilion gradually restrained his voice. Jin Guangshan took the opportunity to say, "Master Jiang, this was your family matter, and I don't want to interfere, but now, I have to remind you about this Wei Ying."
Jiang Cheng said: "Please speak by Master Jin."
Jin Guangshan said: "Zhengmaster Jiang, Wei Ying is your right hand. You value him very much. We all know this. But on the other hand, it is hard to say whether he respects you, the head of the family. Anyway, I have never seen any subordinates of a family dare to take credit and be arrogant and arrogant after all. Have you heard of how it is spread outside? What kind of record in Yunmeng Jiang's record in the battle of shooting the sun depends on him, Wei Wuxian alone. It's really nonsense!"
Hearing this sentence, Jiang Cheng's face was already very ugly. Jin Guangshan shook his head and said, "At such a big occasion of the Hundred Schools Flower Banquet, I dare to shook my face in front of you and leave as soon as I say. Yesterday I was even more presumptuous with you on my back, and even dared to say such words, 'I don't take Jiang Wanyin as the head of the family seriously!'! Everyone present heard it with their own ears..."
Suddenly, a cold voice said: "No."
Jin Guangshan was so excited that he was very excited when he heard this, he was stunned and looked in the sound like everyone else.
Lan Wangji sat upright and said calmly: "I have never heard Wei Ying say this. I have never heard him express any disrespect for Sect Master Jiang."
Lan Wangji spoke very little outside. Even when he asked the law at the talk meeting, only when others asked him questions and challenged him, he answered concisely, cherishing words like gold, hitting the key points, and completely surpassing others' eloquence. In addition, he almost never took the initiative to speak out. Therefore, Jin Guangshan was interrupted by him, and his surprise was far more than unhappy. But after all, he was tampering with the original words, adding fuel to the fire and being slandered in public, and he felt a little embarrassed. Fortunately, he was not embarrassed for a long time, Jin Guangyao immediately came to save him and said in surprise: "Is that right? Alas, Mr. Wei rushed to Jin Lintai that day, saying too many words, one sentence was more shocking than another. Maybe he said something similar, and I can't remember it."
His memory is not worse than that of Lan Wangji. Nie Mingjue knew that he was deliberately pretending to be confused and frowned slightly. Jin Guangshan followed the steps and said, "Yes, he has always been arrogant and arrogant."
A head of the family said, "Actually, I have wanted to say it a long time ago. Although Wei Wuxian made some contributions in the battle of shooting the sun, he has gone to many guest officials who have made contributions than him. He has never seen anyone who is as arrogant as him. To put it bluntly, he is a son of a servant. How can a son of a servant be so arrogant?"
When he talked about "son of a servant", some people naturally thought of a "son of a prostitute" standing in the hall. Jin Guangyao clearly noticed these unscrupulous gazes, but her smile was still perfect, without falling at all. Everyone began to follow the crowd and expressed their dissatisfaction:
"The Jin Sect Master asked Wei Ying to present the Yinhu Talisman on the side. He was also kind-hearted, afraid that he would not be able to control it and cause a disaster. But he judged the gentleman with the heart of a villain, thinking that everyone coveted his magic weapon? It's ridiculous. If you want to talk about magic weapons, who doesn't have many treasures to keep the family."
"I thought from the beginning that he would have problems when he practiced the ghost path sooner or later. Look! The killing nature has begun to be exposed. I killed people on our side for a few warm dogs..."
At this time, a cautious voice inserted in: "Isn't it a random kill?"
Lan Wangji seemed to have entered the realm of empty Zen where everything was gone. When he heard the sound, he looked up. The person who spoke was a beautiful young woman standing beside a head of the family. The incompatible sentence was immediately attacked by the monks nearby: "What do you mean?"
The woman seemed to be frightened and said more carefully: "No...I don't mean anything else, you don't have to be so excited. I just think the word "indiscriminate killing" is inappropriate."
Another man spitted and said, "What's wrong? Wei Wuxian has been killing indiscriminately since the sign of shooting the sun. Can you deny it?"
The woman tried hard to defend herself: "The battle for shooting the Sun is a battlefield. On the battlefield, isn't everyone considered a random kill? We are talking about the matter now and say that he was a random kill. I really don't think it counts. After all, there is a reason for the incident. If those supervisors really abused the prisoners and killed Wen Ning, this is not called casual killing, but revenge..."
One person said angrily: "You are so ridiculous! Do you still have to say that he is right to kill our people? Do you still have to praise this as a righteous act?"
One person scoffed and said, "I don't know if those supervisors have done these things, and no one has seen them with his own eyes."
"Yes, the surviving supervisors said that they had never abused the prisoners of war. Wen Ning accidentally fell off the cliff and died. They were kindly helping Wen Ning to restrain his bones and buried him. Who knew that they would be revenge like this. It's so chilling!"
The woman said, "The other supervisors are afraid of being held accountable for abuse of prisoners and murder. Of course, they insist that he fell down by himself..."
Suddenly, a man sneered: "You don't need to quibble anymore. We don't want to listen to the words of the ghosts in our hearts."
The woman blushed and said loudly, "Tell me clearly, what does it mean to have a ghost in my heart?"
The man said, "No need to say, you know it in your heart, and we all know it. When he slaughtered the bottom of Xuanwu Cave, you were so devoted to it. Still, he still insisted on him, turning black and white. Haha, a woman is a woman."
In the past, Wei Wuxian slaughtered the beauty at the bottom of the Xuanwu Cave and served as a topic of romantic talk for a while. Therefore, many people immediately realized that this young woman was the "Mianmian".
Someone immediately muttered, "I just said, no wonder I spoke to Wei Wuxian so much..."
Mianmian said angrily: "What are the strong words that are distorted and confusing? I just talk about things, but what does it have to do with me? If you can't reason, will you attack me with something else?"
Someone sneered and said, "Tsk tsk tsk tsk, you are so innocent. You have a biased heart. Why do you talk about things just by talking about things?"
"Stop talking nonsense to her. Such a person is actually from our family. I feel ashamed to be able to sneak into the Golden Pavilion when I stand with her."
Many of the people who attacked her were fellow practitioners who stood in the same family camp as her. Mianmian was so angry that her eyes turned red, with tears in her mouth, and after a while, she shouted: "Okay! You guys have a loud voice! OK! You guys are right!"
She gritted her teeth, took off the house pattern robe on her body, slapped her heavily on the table, and made a thump, attracting the heads of the front row who were not paying attention here so much that they looked back and saw what was going on. Others were shocked by her, because this action represented "withdrawal from the family."
Mianmian said nothing and turned around and walked out. After a while, someone laughed and said, "If you dare to take off, don't wear it back if you have the ability!"
"She thought she was... and then quit. Who would you like to show her anger?"
It was sparse, and some people began to echo: "Women are women, they can't stand it if they say a few words. They will definitely come back by themselves in two days."
"Absolutely. After all, I finally changed from a slave daughter to a disciple, hehe..."
Lan Wangji Ren's voices danced around the demons, and also stood up and walked out. Lan Xichen asked clearly what happened to this small storm. The more they said, the more they were talking, the more they were getting worse, and said in a deep voice: "Everyone, the person has left, please stop the sound."
Zewujun spoke out, and naturally others wanted to give some face. In the Jin Pavilion, they began to rebuke Wen Gou and Wei Wuxian. They gritted their teeth and did not allow any rebuttal to stir up in the air. Taking advantage of this atmosphere, Jin Guangshan said to Jiang Cheng: "I think he has been planning for a long time when he went to the mass grave this time. After all, with his ability, it is not difficult to establish a self-employed family, so he took this opportunity to leave the Jiang family and plan to fly outside with a vast sea and a bird flying outside. You have worked hard to rebuild the Yunmeng Jiang family. There are many controversial places on him, and he still doesn't know how to restrain himself. He has caused you so much trouble, and he has not considered you at all."
Jiang Cheng forced himself to calm down and said, "That won't be. Wei Wuxian has been like this since he was a child. Even my father can't do anything to him."
Jin Guangshan said, "Is Brother Fengmian unable to do anything to him?" He laughed twice and said, "Brother Fengmian, that's his preference."
Hearing the word "preference", Jiang Cheng's muscles on the corner of his mouth twitched.
Jin Guangshan continued: "Zhengmaster Jiang, you are different from your father. Now the Yunmeng Jiang family has only been rebuilt for a few years, and it is the time for you to establish your authority. He didn't know how to avoid suspicion, so that the new disciples of the Jiang family saw it and thought about it? Should they all take him as an example and not take you seriously?"
He pressed one by one, pressing step by step, and struck while the iron was hot. Jiang Cheng said slowly: "No need to say anything more about Master Jin. I will go to the mass grave to solve this problem."
Jin Guangshan was satisfied and said earnestly: "That's right. Master Jiang, some people and some things cannot be tolerated."
After the convening, the heads of the family felt that they had received an incredible topic of talk today. They were talking hotly while moving, and their anger remained unabated. Behind the snow waves of Venus, three people gathered, and Lan Xichen said, "Third brother, thank you for your hard work."
Jin Guangyao smiled and said, "I don't have to work hard, thank you for your hard work. The table of Master Jiang's sect has been crushed by him. It seems that he is so angry."
Nie Mingjue walked over and said, "It's really hard to say cleverly."
Upon hearing this, Lan Xichen smiled but didn't say anything. Jin Guangyao knew that Nie Mingjue had taken an opportunity to teach him to be a good person. He was quite helpless and quickly changed the subject and said, "Hey, second brother, where is Wangji? I see he left early just now."
Lan Xichen signaled ahead, Jin Guangyao and Nie Mingjue turned around and looked. In the sea of flowers of Jinxing snow waves, Lan Wangji and the woman who had just left the family in the golden pavilion were standing face to face. The woman was still in tears, Lan Wangji looked solemn, and the two were talking.
After a moment, Lan Wangji bowed his head slightly and bowed to her.
This gift was respected and solemn. The woman also gave him a more solemn gift, wearing the gauze dress without home patterns, floating down from Jinlintai.
Nie Mingjue said: "This woman is much more backbone than the mobs in her family."
Jin Guangyao smiled and said, "Yes."
Two days later, Jiang Cheng took thirty disciples to Yiling.
At the foot of the mass grave, there were indeed hundreds of ferocious corpses wandering around in front of the curse wall that was pushed down. Jiang Cheng stepped forward, and they remained indifferent, but if the disciples behind Jiang Cheng got closer, they would roar in a low voice. Jiang Cheng ordered the disciples to wait at the foot of the mountain, and walked alone in the dark woods. After a long journey, people came to the front.
Next to the mountain road, there were several round tree stumps, one large, like a table and three small, like a stool. A woman in red and Wei Wuxian sat on two of the stumps, and a few honest men were huddling over the soil on the land next to her.
Wei Wuxian said with his legs trembling, "Grow potatoes."
The woman said firmly: "Growing radishes. Radishes are easy to plant, but they are not easy to die. Potatoes are hard to serve."
Wei Wuxian said: "Radishes are unpalatable."
Jiang Cheng snorted, and Wei Wuxian and Wenqing turned around and were not surprised to see him. Wei Wuxian stood up, came over and said nothing, and continued to walk up the mountain with his hands behind his back. Jiang Cheng didn't ask and followed him.
Soon, another group of men appeared next to the mountain road, working in front of a few shelves made of wood. They should have all monks from the Wen family. However, after taking off the flame robe of the Yanyang and putting on coarse cloth clothes, they held a hammer and saw in their hands, and carried wood straw on their shoulders, climbing up and down, busy inside and out, no different from ordinary farmers and hunters. When they saw Jiang Cheng, they saw from their clothes and swords that this was a sect leader. They seemed to be in lingering fear, and they stopped their work, looked over hesitantly, and did not dare to show off. Wei Wuxian waved his hand and said, "Continue."
As soon as he opened his mouth, the group continued with peace of mind. Jiang Cheng said, "What are you doing?"
Wei Wuxian said: "Can't you see it? Build a house."
Jiang Cheng said: "Build a house? What are those who were turning over the soil when they came up just now? Don't tell me you really plan to farm."
Wei Wuxian said: "Didn't you hear it all? You're just farming."
Jiang Cheng said: "You farm on a mountain of corpse? Can the things you grow eat?"
Wei Wuxian said: "Believe me, when people are really hungry, they can eat anything."
Jiang Cheng said: "You really plan to stay here for a long time? Can people in this ghost place stay?"
Wei Wuxian said: "I've been here for three months."
After a while of silence, Jiang Cheng said, "Isn't I going back to Lotus Dock?"
Wei Wuxian said in a relaxed tone: "Yiling Yunmeng is so close, when will you want to go back secretly?"
Jiang Cheng sneered: "You think it's so beautiful."
To be continued...