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Chapter 38 Shocking News
Chapter 38

Sujiabao.

The gathered people had moved from the wheat field to outside the ancestral hall, watching eagerly.

The ancestral hall's meeting hall was also completely silent.

The sun shone through the windows under the high eaves, creating a few diamond-shaped cold golden grids on the gray-black brick floor. In the iron stove against the wall, charcoal was burning, and the kettle on top was gurgling and emitting smoke.

The crowd sat in a circle, some looking at each other in silence, some smoking their pipes, or staring at the ground in a daze.

The air was filled with the smell of burning charcoal.

"What? Are you all speechless?" In the silence, an old man with white hair and beard finally couldn't hold back and snorted coldly, "I, Qiu Daye, have lived for eighty years. I have been here since the walls of Yishan were not built. I have never seen any noble family who is afraid of death and surrenders at the sight of the enemy!"

He looked around and said, "Look at how dejected you are. Are you afraid? Are you thinking of giving up your position in the family and living in the city for a few more years? Even if someone rides on your neck and poops and pees on you, you'd still tolerate it?"

Someone coughed unnaturally twice, but no one dared to interrupt the old man and everyone avoided his gaze.

The old man's name was Qiu Daye, and he was called Uncle Qiu. The whole Sujiabao knew that this old man was a trusted family general who had fought with Su Qihong in the north and south and fought through mountains of blood and mountains of corpses. He had a high status in Sujiabao. Not to mention the people present, even the head of the family, Su Jingyan, had to respectfully call him Uncle Qiu when he saw him.

"At worst, we can just leave the city and become refugees. What's the big deal?" Uncle Qiu saw that no one said anything, so he pointed his finger and turned it in a circle. "You are all so unpromising. If you guys had worked harder back then, and more of you had passed the examination to enter the sect, why would you be in such a panic now?!"

Perhaps because Mr. Qiu was getting annoyed by what he said, someone finally couldn't help but say, "You should go and scold Su Xianwen."

Upon hearing this, Su Jingsong, the old man from Group 2, stood up and shouted loudly. Others covered their faces or turned their heads away.

Su Wan's heart skipped a beat.

As expected, Uncle Qiu's expression froze, and then he burst into anger and said, "Did I scold him enough? Why didn't I scold him? This bastard is idle all day long and doesn't do his job. No matter how I teach him, he won't listen. Why didn't I break one of his legs back then? I'm so angry..."

The old man panted hard, "Not only is he a failure himself, but he also raised a fool. He just reads books every day. He almost died outside this time. I blocked his door for three days, but I didn't see this kid. I'll catch Su Xianyi and scold him soon!"

When everyone heard this, they tried to coax and persuade him and finally changed the subject.

Everyone knows that the three brothers Su Xianwen were all raised by Qiu Da.

When he followed Su Qihong in the capital, he was responsible for taking care of the three young grandchildren for many years. Later, Su Qihong passed away, and he returned to Yishan when he was old. Su Jingyan also sent the second and third sons back to Sujiabao to raise them for a few years.

Because of this, Qiu Da doted on Su Xianwu and Su Xianyi since they were young, and loved them more than his own grandchildren. Especially the clever and intelligent third child, Su Xianyi, was the most loved by the old man.

But who knew that the least talented one was Su Xianyi. He was the laziest among the three brothers. He was idle all day long and did not do his job properly. Not to mention when he was young, even after he got married, he drank and fished every day. He didn't care about any of the Su family's affairs.

When scolded by Qiu Da, Su Xianyi put on a playful smile, admitted his mistakes and tried to please the old man, making him laugh. After that, he continued to act the same as before.

Whenever Qiu Da thought of it, he felt very upset and blamed himself for spoiling Su Xianyi and having no way to deal with him. Later, when he saw Su Daoshan fall to the ground, he once placed all his hopes on Su Daoshan.

The result is even more infuriating. Su Xianyi is such a smart and clever man, but his son is so stupid. After reading a few more books, he turned into a nerd.

This has become a hurdle that Qiu Da cannot overcome, and everyone in Sujiabao knows it.

After much persuasion, the old man finally calmed down. A steward brought the topic back to the point and frowned, "To be honest, it is really hard to understand why the Yue, Zhou, and Wang families jumped out at this time. If this matter gets out, will their reputation among the noble families be ruined?"

He looked around at everyone and said, "I think there are two possibilities. Either the Mi family holds something against them and they have no choice but to tie them to the Mi family. Or... is it possible that the Mi family paid a high price and asked them to help bluff?"

Everyone nodded in thought.

The people present were the core decision makers of Sujiabao. Some of them participated in the entire operation against the Mi family. The latest one had already learned the details of what happened when Mi Xiang was captured last night. But no one expected that Mi Xiang's showdown today would actually cause the three major families to come forward.

When the situation reached this point, it suddenly became serious.

The threat level of the three aristocratic families who followed the rules was completely different from that of the three aristocratic families who had torn their skin and bared their fangs. In the case of the former, even if the Su family lost in the big meeting, they would only lose their position as a noble family. Even if they were driven out of Yishan City, it would take several years.

After all, due to the eyes of other families and sects, they cannot eat in an ugly way.

But if it is the latter, it means that once the Su family loses in the big gathering, the entire Su Family Castle will be ruthlessly wiped out by the four families working together.

Some things are like this. If they don't fall out, they can still maintain the relationship. But once they fall out, they will definitely kill them all by any means necessary. They will be as ruthless as possible and will never leave any hidden dangers.

"Both possibilities are possible, but it's meaningless to talk about it now," said Su Jingsong, the second elder of the clan. "Even if we ask the Yue family and the Wang family now, they won't admit it. Instead of guessing, we might as well make up our own mind. What is it..."

Before he could say anything, he heard hurried footsteps coming from outside, and then a Su family guard pushed the door and rushed in.

"Miss!" The sudden opening of the door and the anxious look of the guards made everyone's pupils shrink suddenly, and a sense of foreboding suddenly arose in their hearts.

Su Wan stood up suddenly and asked, "What happened?"

"Our people were killed in Jicheng," the guard said to Su Wan and Feng Ting who also stood up, "It was Wei Zhong, Ma Huai and the other four, and..."

Wei Zhong! When Feng Ting heard this name, his heart skipped a beat and he asked anxiously, "And what?"

The guard glanced at Su Wan, swallowed hard, and said, "The second young master is missing!"

"what!"

With a loud bang, the whole hall exploded. Uncle Qiu shouted loudly, and Su Wan's eyes went dark and she fell to the ground on the spot.

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The room was silent. A ray of sunlight slanted in through the window, causing the dust to rise and fall.

Su Daoshan stood quietly by the wall between the window and the door, carefully hiding his figure and slightly tilting his head.

Mi Ye had already ridden away on his horse, but Su Daoshan heard every word he said clearly.

"Kill them all, eradicate the roots..." he thought, took a deep breath, and focused on thinking about how to escape from here.

The ropes on the body and the shackles on the hands were not a problem. In addition to the instant displacement, the Mist Dispersion Technique also had another extremely important feature, which was to get rid of the shackles. After all, ropes and shackles could not imprison a group of water mist that gathered and dispersed unpredictably.

It can be said that if Su Daoshan wanted to leave, he could leave quietly now.

But the problem was that Wu San could only pass through one obstacle at a time. And the room where he was imprisoned was surrounded by a wall of a small courtyard. This meant that if he wanted to use his magic to escape, he had to teleport out of the room first, and then out of the courtyard.

"No," Su Daoshan pondered over it for a long time and gave up the idea. "First, I can't cast Mist Dispersion twice in a row. Second, I don't know the situation outside the wall. What if I get caught by someone when I go out... Well, there is only one chance, so I have to choose a safer way."

Su Daoshan racked his brains and began to analyze.

Su Daoshan felt that his previous judgment that this small courtyard was located on the edge of Mijia Village was almost correct.

This point can be confirmed to a certain extent by the way Mi Ye came - Su Daoshan had been to Mi's house as a guest before, and knew that Mi Ye's house was located in the central area of ​​Mijia Village. And since he came on horseback, it means that even if this place is not far, it is definitely not close.

Of course, according to the rigorous logic of a law graduate student, there are two other possibilities for this situation. One is that Mi Ye happened to be going out or coming back on horseback, and was found and rode here on foot. The other is that this is not Mijiazhuang at all.

The possibility of the former is very small and can be boldly ruled out. The possibility of the latter is even smaller - openly kidnapping a child of a noble family in Yishan City, such a thing, even Mi Ye has to be cautious. Therefore, he will never put the hostage in a place far away from his control.

Moreover, judging from the time Mi Lang had someone report to Mi Ye, it hadn't been too long. If this courtyard wasn't near Mijiazhuang in the third block, Mi Ye wouldn't have been able to get there so quickly - the distances between the blocks in Yishan City were not short.

Su Daoshan was just thinking about it when he discovered that after Mi Lang sent Mi Ye away, he returned to the main room, took off his city guard uniform, changed into a neat set of clothes, and started boxing in the courtyard.

Snapped!
Mi Lang stood tall, and his figure, like a still pine tree, suddenly moved.

He just made a fist stance, and heard the sound of Qi exploding. It was as if an invisible shock wave spread out in all directions along with his body.

Then, Mi Lang took a step forward, his soft leather boots stomping on the ground, raising dust. Su Daoshan peeked through the crack in the window and felt that Mi Lang's feet seemed to be rooted in the ground, giving people a sense of unity and solidity, as immovable as a mountain.

Snap, snap, snap, snap, snap…

Mi Lang attacked with one move after another, faster and faster. Each move was accompanied by the sound of Qi breaking through the air.

"This guy's martial arts skills are only slightly inferior to Tu Sen's. He should be at the upper seventh level." Su Daoshan judged in his heart.

The sound of fists and kicks breaking through the air is the most obvious sign of the seventh-grade external strength. When one reaches the peak of the seventh-grade realm like Tu Sen, every punch and kick makes a sound. Mi Lang is close to this level, but judging from the fluency and power of the punch and kick sounds, he is still inferior.

In addition, Su Daoshan has another most intuitive way to compare the strength of Mi Lang and Tu Sen, which is to look at the flaws in each other's fists and feet.

At that time, Tu Sen was fighting, and the flaws he saw were almost fleeting, and he could not catch them at all. If he had not been brought into a dream by Fan Caiyi and lost his mind, he would not have been able to kill him. However, the flaws on Mi Lang were more obvious and stayed longer.

Mi Lang was boxing when he heard the sound of horse hooves again.

The four horses galloped all the way to the gate of the courtyard before they pulled the reins and stopped. The young men on the horses jumped off with smiles on their faces and rushed in, shouting one after another.

"Brother Lang!"

(End of this chapter)