Lu Ting asked directly, "What I want to ask Miss Ruan is, why did she want to inquire about the two of them?"
Zi Hua said more directly, "These two people have offended me, and I plan to kill them when I find them."
Lu Ting's face turned ugly. He stood up suddenly and put his hand on the handle of the knife as if facing a powerful enemy. "Are you also from the King?"
"No." Zi Hua became interested, "Who is Prince Lin? Why do you want to guard against Prince Lin's people?"
Lu Ting stared at Yuhua, trying to tell whether what she said was true or false, "Are you really not from King Lin?"
"Why do you think so?"
The sharp edges on the back of Lu Ting's hands smoothed out a bit, "Because the people in Linwang, regardless of gender, all talk like Miss Ruan..." He frowned, thinking about something, and paused for a while before saying, "...
Don’t stick to trivial matters.”
It turned out that I was looking for the right words. Juhua said for Lu Ting, "They don't pay attention to etiquette, they are careless, they talk to themselves, and they treat their sex as a romantic affair."
Lu Ting looked at Zihua, and then nodded heavily, "Not entirely. Most of them are."
"Sit down and talk. Are you saying that those two men are also members of King Lin? Who is King Lin?"
Lu Ting sat down again, with disappointment in his eyes, "So it turns out that you have family members who were trapped in Prince Lin's Mansion. That's good. Now that you know what kind of evil place Lin Wang's Mansion is, you will be able to take precautions. How can you avoid it?"
If one person falls, one person will be missing.”
System 01 jumped anxiously beside him, "It's really exciting."
"Prince Lin is the fourth prince that the emperor retrieved from the people..."
King Lin's name is Chen Zhao, and he was raised by his mother alone.
When the emperor was just the fifth prince, he traveled to Linzhou and met a girl from a small family. Seeing her beauty, he used some tricks and got a false identity to marry her.
This woman is Chen Zhao's mother.
After the fifth prince had a great time, he walked away without taking Chen Zhao's mother with him.
He didn't know that Chen Zhao's mother was pregnant at that time.
Chen Zhao's mother only thought that her husband had gone out to do business, so she waited for many years. She never saw the fifth prince again until he died of illness.
After the fifth prince returned to the capital, he experienced various thrilling palace battles. In the end, he, the one who was least likely to win, became the winner and became the emperor.
Fifteen years later, the emperor suddenly remembered Chen Zhao's mother and sent someone to look for her.
Chen Zhao's mother had died long ago, so she only brought Chen Zhao back. When she saw that Chen Zhao was the most like him among the princes, she made Chen Zhao Linwang and granted him the title of Linzhou on the spot.
Linzhou Prefecture is geographically remote and has a lot of wasteland, so the other princes did not object much.
After Chen Zhao returned to Linzhou, he did not live in Linwang's Mansion in Linzhou's capital. Instead, he built a separate courtyard in Jiuyuanze, six or seventy miles away from Linzhou's capital, and lived there.
Jiuyuan Ze is a wasteland with barren rocky mountains at the top and swamps and swamps at the bottom.
Chen Zhao recruited a group of capable subordinates from nowhere and organized Jiuyuan Ze.
Now, thousands of acres of paddy fields have been reclaimed in Jiuyuan Zeli, and a small city called Jiuyuan City has been built.
Jiuyuan City has no city walls, is square and clean, has many shops, and the number of caravans coming and going has increased, and it has begun to become prosperous.
Jiuyuan City was just a small town at the beginning, and later expanded into a small city, and the rules are still being expanded.
Lu Ting also admired Lin Wang Chen Zhao's ability to govern the city. What made him fearful was Chen Zhao's ability to govern people.
At the beginning of the renovation of Jiuyuan Ze, a notice was issued to the surrounding towns. Whoever wanted to enter Jiuyuan Ze to open up wasteland could farm the wasteland tax-free for five years, and the fields developed after five years would be their own.
Many people were recruited at one time.
Later, more people were recruited for the construction of Jiuyuan City, and the population of several surrounding villages was greatly reduced.
No one who entered Jiuyuanze was willing to return to their original villages and towns, so they all settled in Jiuyuan City.
What makes Lu Ting most strange is that King Lin's men never go outside the confines of Jiuyuan City. Wherever Jiuyuan City expands, they will go as far as possible.
People who came to and from Jiuyuan City turned a blind eye and took it for granted.
Lu Ting calculated that there were at least several hundred people under King Lin's command, and the origins of these hundreds of people were said to be returnees from foreign countries.
It is said that these people are from a foreign country in the north. Their ancestors are all citizens of Daqi, so they can speak foreign languages that are incomprehensible to others.
But no one has ever questioned where these people came from.
This was none of Lu Ting's business, he just listened to it as a story.
Lu Ting's family has practiced martial arts for generations and opened a martial arts gym in Jianyang City. The main source of income is from escorts, and sometimes they also take on some escort business.
Five months ago, he took on a long-distance escort job, which lasted two months.
When he returned home, he found no one around and the martial arts schools were closed.
I asked my neighbors and they said that my family had moved to Jiuyuan City.
Lu Ting was extremely surprised. Before he left, his family had never mentioned moving away from Jianyang.
Especially the two parents. Jianyang is the ancestral land of the Lu family. They often say that nothing is as good as their own, and they will be buried in their ancestral graves after their death.
The martial arts gym is passed down from family to family, and several counties near Jianyang are quite famous, so Lu's martial arts gym never lacks disciples who come to practice martial arts.
How do you say it's closed?
"...I asked my neighbors and they said that first my little sister went to Jiuyuan City to see what was going on, but when she didn't come back, my parents went to look for them. After a while, the three of them came back together and started selling off their property.
, getting ready to move to Jiuyuan City.
The neighbors who were still familiar with each other tried their best to persuade me, so I left the martial arts gym without selling it. I only sold the furniture that was difficult to move and took away the disciples who were willing to go. After the other disciples were dismissed, the martial arts gym closed its doors."
Lu Ting was full of regret, "The Lu Family Martial Arts School has been passed down to me for the seventh generation. I heard from my ancestors that during the most uneasy years in the world, the Martial Arts School only practiced behind closed doors and did not win any plaques.
"
Zihua just listened quietly and did not rush to ask further questions.
Lu Ting paused for a while, sighed, and said, "I made Miss Ruan laugh."
Lu Ting felt that something was not right about this matter, so he did not go to Jiuyuan City rashly. He first inquired around Linzhou Fucheng and found out some strange things.
Everyone who has been to Jiuyuan City said that Jiuyuan City is good, and it is not okay to hear a bad word from others. Those who moved in with their families, and some family members were unwilling, were taken into Jiuyuan City for a walk.
You'll be willing to stay there for a few days.
This is very similar to the behavior of his family.
But he can't ignore his parents and sister.
Lu Ting finally went.
Jiuyuan City was an eye-opener for him. The straight and flat ground was said to be paved with something called cement, which was as hard as stone.
The houses are all built with masonry and cement, and the style is a little dull and ugly, but they are neat and orderly.