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Chapter 33 Xie Xunbai

After being forced by Su Yu to eat breakfast and then being personally forced by her to get on the carriage, Su Daoshan had no choice but to go to the academy obediently.

Anyway, what needs to be played has been played.

However, this time, there were four more guards riding horses beside Su Daoshan's carriage.

When they saw this familiar carriage passing through the street and heading towards the gate in front of the fort as usual, the groups of people on the street all looked at it sideways.

With such a major incident happening, the entire Sujiabao was on high alert, as if facing a powerful enemy.

Although everyone knows that there are rules in the city. Even if there is a blood feud, no one will fight in the city unless it is absolutely necessary. In addition, the ancestral temple order does not restrict some necessary work activities in the city except for not leaving the city. For example, the shop assistants in the market city are still driving their carts to pick up goods.

But they were working, doing serious things. Unlike this nerd, who was escorted by four guards and went to the academy to study as if nothing had happened.

When the carriage passed the pointing crowd and drove out of Sujiabao, Su Daoshan, who had been listening attentively, changed his mind.

"Go to Jinfeng Tower." Su Daoshan said to Wang Tongdao, the coachman.

The Mi family sent someone to invite Su Wan to meet them. They entered the Su Family Castle in full view of everyone, and the invitation was not a secret.

It is obvious that the Mi family is ready to show its cards.

Sitting in the wobbly carriage, Su Daoshan was secretly thinking.

The reason why he went to Jinfeng Tower was, on the one hand, he really wanted to know what the Mi family would say to Su Wan, and on the other hand, he felt that perhaps he should go find Fan Caiyi.

Fan Caiyi booked a south-facing room on the top floor of the Qingzhaoju Inn, and used the excuse of recuperating from his injuries to stay at home. Qingzhaoju was less than 50 meters away from Jinfeng Tower.

Regarding the war between the Su family and the Mi family, if it were the first day he came to this world, Su Daoshan might be as nervous as Pingting and the others, or even more terrified than them.

But ever since he had merged with the Dao Seed, kowtowed to the portrait of Grandmaster Han Gu on the carriage, and had the identity badge of a direct disciple, Su Daoshan had somewhat stopped taking the matter to heart.

To put it bluntly, the key to the dispute between the Su and Mi families lies in the big discussion, and the key to the big discussion lies in the attitudes of the major forces.

Among these, the attitudes of the nine major sects are the most important.

If the nine major sects don't agree, the Mi family won't be able to take this position. Even if they force their way into the position and anger the nine major sects, they will end up dead and their clan will be destroyed.

Do you really think the nine major sects in Beijun are just for show?

Just like the universities in the previous life, they usually teach and educate people without fighting with the world. But if a big brother in society thinks he has money and brothers, he can provoke him and teach you a lesson in minutes.

Moreover, in this world, the sects themselves are also violent organizations that rely on powerful military force to survive, and they are much more ruthless than the universities funded by the government. How many things can't and dare not do to destroy a family, a clan, a sect, or even a country?
This is what they teach, so this is what they do.

In the final analysis, they are no different from warlords.

If Taizu of Xi Kingdom had not had the support of the sect, how could he have conquered this country!
And Hangu is one of the three most powerful sects in Xiazhou! When Hangu speaks, which of the nine sects in Beijun dares to sing a different tune?
What was a disaster like the collapse of heaven and earth to Xing'er, Pingting and Huamei was just a word to Hangu. If he hadn't had some doubts in his mind, if he hadn't had to act like a nerdy young master, Su Daoshan would have dared to take on so much responsibility and act cool.

"Put your hearts back in your stomachs! With the young master here, not to mention a small Xiaomi family, even ten Mi families can't make any waves!"

But now Su Daoshan has two problems.

First of all, he was a little unsure whether he could be considered a true disciple of Hangu, as he had only kowtowed to a portrait of the ancestor in the carriage and did not even have a master or a disciple.

You have to know that Fan Caiyi is not only a disciple of Hangu, but also the demonic witch Song Xier. Su Daoshan really doesn't understand the identity of this woman. What if he is fooled by that woman and foolishly thinks he is a disciple of Hangu, but in the end, she doesn't recognize him at all, wouldn't that be tragic?

Secondly, Su Daoshan also had many questions about the Su family.

When Su Daoshan heard Lin Yu mention the conflict with the Mi family in the academy earlier, he felt that with the Su family being so large, it would not be his turn to worry about it.

My great-grandfather and grandfather both served as officials in the imperial court. Didn’t they have a few close friends, or a few students and old acquaintances?
Even if not, the Su family has been running the business for so many years, so they must have some old friends, relatives and allies, right?

For example, the Lin family just can’t stand the Zhou family. Although the enemy of my enemy may not be my friend, they can always join forces under certain circumstances.

And the Zhu family, as the head of the Yishan City family, would they be willing to see four of the six families working together? What would the Zhu family have to do with Yishan City in the future? Are they so confident that they won't be sidelined by those families?
Well, even if everyone in Yishan City wants to see the Su family die, what about Huoniu City and Xise City?

As cities in the Northern County, the three cities have close relations and a lot of daily business exchanges. Could it be that the Su family doesn't even know any of them and don't have good relations with them?
But the Su family was really isolated and helpless. And not just now, as early as more than ten years ago, the Su family had been declining little by little. What Su Daoshan couldn't understand was that under such circumstances, the family seemed to have no sense of crisis. The eldest uncle was incompetent and the father was idle. Even the grandfather Su Jingyan, the head of the family, threw the burden on his granddaughter and practiced in Luoxia Mountain.

No matter how you look at it, this looks like a life of idleness and waiting to die.

Su Daoshan sighed, feeling a little confused.

As the saying goes, there must be something wrong when things go wrong. Thinking back to the big case that the Su family was involved in, and looking at the Su family's current situation and the reactions of other families such as the Zhu family, he could come to a conclusion using the simplest logical reasoning - there must be some important factor that he didn't know about.

Because of this, Su Daoshan didn't know whether it was right or wrong for him to solve the Su family's problems through Hangu. In his previous life, he understood that many things might be the right choice at the time. But once the time has passed, it often becomes a disaster.

Su Daoshan doesn't want his little butterfly wings to create a hurricane.

"Well, let's go to Jinfeng Building first to see the confrontation between Big Sister and the Mi family and get more information. Fan Caiyi can be found at any time, so there is no rush."

The carriage wobbled to the market city. Su Daoshan asked Wang Tong to stop a few dozen meters away. He waved to the four guards, asking them not to follow him closely. Then he walked leisurely into the Jinfeng Building and sat down in a corner.

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"He is Su Daoshan?"

In front of the window of a room in Qingzhaoju facing Jinfeng Building, a tall, elegant middle-aged man turned his head to look at Fan Caiyi.

"Yes, uncle." Fan Caiyi said.

The middle-aged man was none other than Xie Xunbai, the fifth elder of Hangu. When everyone was still discussing the bloodshed of this extremely murderous elder of Hangu in Beijun and speculating when he would come to Yishan City, no one knew that he had quietly entered the city.

For such a strong man, the hundred-meter-high Yishan city wall and the strict defense seemed to be non-existent.

"He is the one who discredited the culture that we obtained with great difficulty?" Xie Xunbai was not asking a question, but muttering to himself with gritted teeth.

He half-closed his eyes and looked at Su Daoshan carefully. His expression gradually became strange. He frowned and asked, "Why does he walk..."

The young man in sight had a delicate and handsome appearance, but a dull expression. He walked in a very formal manner and did not look youthful at all. Instead, he looked like an old pedant.

When he met a waiter from Jinfenglou and was greeted, he would respond in a very formal manner.

Fan Caiyi laughed and said leisurely, "He is a well-known nerd in Yishan City."

"Nerd?" Xie Xunbai turned his head in astonishment. "A nerd can establish a heart of Tao and fuse the Tao seed overnight?"

Fan Caiyi smiled but didn't explain.

Xie Xunbai knew the answer as soon as he saw her expression. He raised his eyebrows and said, "Tsk, are you pretending?"

"I don't know where this bad taste comes from," Fan Caiyi said, "It is said that he has been like this since he was young. He is upright, pedantic, and ignorant of worldly affairs. The noble children in Yishan City all make fun of him... Even last time, Master Pu passed by here, he was also tricked by this guy."

"Pudong Pavilion?" Xie Xunbai became interested and urged, "Tell me about it."

Fan Caiyi recounted what happened during the Mid-Autumn Festival last year, and finally said: "Master sent a message to let me accept him as my disciple. This guy is afraid of death, and he knelt down when I put the sword to his throat and told him everything..."

After listening to Fan Caiyi's story, Xie Xunbai, who had originally disliked Su Daoshan, actually started to laugh.

Fan Caiyi took out a piece of paper and handed it to Xie Xunbai.

"This is the Mid-Autumn Festival poem I forced him to write."

Xie Xunbai took it and looked at it. His expression gradually became serious. He recited it silently several times with his eyes shining.

“The bright moon rises over the sea, and people all over the world share this moment.” Xie Xunbai applauded and said in disbelief, “This kid actually has such talent. Interesting. Ha, interesting…”

Fan Caiyi covered her mouth and laughed, "I knew this kind of person would be to Junior Master's liking."

As the two were talking, they heard a noisy sound of people. Turning their heads, they saw several teams of carriages coming along the narrow streets of the market town and stopping in front of Jinfeng Tower.

"Here it comes!" Fan Caiyi said softly.

(End of this chapter)