Under One Person: Lifting the Ball to Soar

"He is worthy of being a good boy of our Lu family!" Old Man Lu was very pleased!

Lu Ci couldn't stand the nonsense of the two men and said coldly:

"You don't want to learn anything anyway? Okay, Dad, we've sent Mom and my third brother home, let's go to the ancestral hall for a meeting."

Lu Piao was puzzled: "Why hold a meeting during the Chinese New Year?"

Lu Ci looked at his third brother with ill intentions and laughed:

"You're back now. I, your brother and the clan leader, have called the entire clan together to discuss your situation. Do you want to join us?"

Lü Piao, who was a otaku, immediately showed an expression of having eaten shit, and said his true feelings in resistance, entanglement and distress: "I want to go back to the fairy world..."

My mother reached out and gave Lu Ci a slap on the chest, but my father was even more ruthless and kicked him in the heart!

After being hit twice, Lu Ci dared not speak out but complained: "Dad and Mom! I am already an old man, but I am still the head of the Lu family. If you have something to say, please talk to me nicely instead of touching me. It will be embarrassing if the family members see me like that!"

"Since you have something important to do, why don't you leave quickly!"

Mother Lu dissatisfiedly urged her husband and second son to get out, then turned around and said to her youngest son in a friendly manner:

"Piao'er, our Lu family's banquet will start at 3 p.m., and all the food on the table is your favorite!"

Lu Piao's eyes lit up: "I'll sit at the children's table!"

……

"Third Young Master may be the brother of the clan leader, but the world is not as big as the clan. I think we should give Third Young Master some face and force him to obey us!"

The huge Lu's ancestral hall was filled with people. All the adult male members of the Lu family were present. Those sitting on the chairs on the stage were the decision-makers of the Lu family, and ordinary clansmen stood below in a black mass.

The young man who was clamoring to slap Lu Piao in the face was one of those standing.

Lu Ci's fierce face immediately fell, but before he could lose his temper, Lu Shu, the oldest and most senior grandfather in the Lu family, who was sitting next to him, spoke first:

"Take it out, and I'll give you fifty slaps on the face."

Someone immediately stepped forward to stop the tribesman who was speaking and pushed him out of the ancestral hall!

The Lu family member cried out unwillingly: "Grandpa, I am your grandson! I don't accept it! I am doing this for our Lu family!"

The old man Lu Shu added angrily: "Break another leg for me!"

The entire ancestral hall was silent. Although many people were still indignant, they did not dare to speak rudely to the third master of the clan leader's family.

Lu Ci, who had a gloomy face just now, suddenly smiled and tried to smooth things over in a gentle voice:

"Seventh Grandpa, calm down. It's not appropriate to see blood on New Year's Day. Please spare Lu Yin."

Lu Shu was polite again and again:

"Chief, you are a magnanimous person. I will deal with this brat privately after the clan meeting. Don't take those stupid words to heart."

Lu Ci smiled at the old man again, then turned to the tribesmen below and gave a speech:…

"I can't even remember how many times our Lu family has held a clan meeting for my third brother.

I know that everyone has ideas about my third brother, and they want him to contribute all the resources in the fairy world that he controls to the family.

Am I not the same?

I, Lu Ci, swore an oath on the day my brother passed away: I am willing to die for our Lu family. For the benefit of our family, I will always be the first to stand up and fight for my life!

Everyone knows what kind of person I, Lu Ci, am. I can sacrifice myself for the sake of the Lu family. As the clan leader, would I, for personal reasons, favor my younger brother?

It's not that I don't want to fight for this blessing for my people, you just don't understand Piao'er's methods, I really can't do anything about him!"

Lu Ci looked at his father who was sitting on the right and said respectfully:

"Dad, I, as an elder brother, am incompetent and cannot discipline my younger brother, but Piao'er is your son. Shouldn't you take on the responsibility of the Lu family and have a good talk with your youngest son and ask him to contribute to the family?"

If you, as his brother, can’t discipline him, then how can I, as his father, discipline him?

I think you little bastard are trying to trick me!

When Old Man Lu saw that this unfilial son kicked the ball to himself, he glared at him fiercely and said, "I can't punish you, the great clan leader Lu Ci, at the clan meeting. You will be in trouble when you get home!"

"I have long since stepped down from the position of clan leader and no longer take care of things..."

Father Lu originally wanted to quit, but when he saw the tribesmen looking at him expectantly, he sighed helplessly, as he was the previous tribe leader, and his family was his main concern.

“You youngsters always think that we old guys are being unruly and indulging Lu Piao, but there are actually some things you don’t understand.

Let alone Lu Ci, even I, as a father, can't force him to do anything. It's not that I'm stupid and spoil my little son. Once he runs to the fairy world, who can do anything to him?

Not to mention that you are envious of the good things in the fairy world, even my wife and I are not treated preferentially. The things that Piaoer presents to us as a gift are always things for enjoyment, not a single treasure that can enhance our strength!

If any of the relatives ask him for those wonderful things, he will readily agree to give them to you.

Lu Piao can freely enter and exit the fairyland that is like a pure land of bliss, but he doesn't even look down on the Qi-refining methods of us extraordinary people. What benefit can this mundane world bring him?

Is there anything in this world that can satisfy his desires?

Our Lu family and he are connected by blood. Do you think that if the family doesn't have any private affairs with him, he will still have private affairs with the family?

Don't think that Piao'er is easy to talk to just because he looks friendly. Piao'er was born extraordinary and naturally adheres to extraordinary principles of conduct.

If the Lu family wants to get something high-end from him, he will use his high-end personality to demand it from the entire family!"

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Chapter 13: The filial son breaks the bowl and leads to the west

The hundreds of people in the huge ancestral hall were silent, and each pair of eyes full of desire and thoughtfulness looked at Old Man Lu.

"Including me and Lu Ci, everyone present here, if you don't have flawless morals, Piao'er will not give us even a little bit of power.

So, playing it hard won’t work!

Let me confess something to you all...

In the past, my wife and I took Piaoer to talk about things over there. Piaoer can not only enter and exit the fairyland by himself, but also take people from our world to there.

He also said that there were no humans in the fairy world, and at the same time, he also expressed his hope that humanity could flourish there...

I guess Piaoer might want to lead people into the fairyland, and seems to want to open the fairyland to the whole world!

However, although as long as the fairyland is open one day, our Lu family will be able to go there sooner or later, but even Piaoer said that he is not sure about the timing of the fairyland's appearance. It may take one year, ten years, or even a hundred years.

If the fairy world really came into being a hundred years later, the bones of all of us present here would have rotted away long ago!

I know that all of us in the Lu family are staring at the fairyland that is invisible and intangible, yet right next to us, with eager eyes and anxious hearts.

Not to mention you kids, we old guys are even more anxious!

Moreover, when the fairy world is made public, our Lu family will be competing fairly with other extraordinary people, which is something the family absolutely cannot accept!

Although Lu Piao is not easily bullied and we don't have the means to deal with him forcefully, he is soft-hearted and kind-hearted, so we can use a roundabout way to deal with him.

I have some ideas for this, we can try it out while Piao'er is back..."

Old Man Lu looked at old man Lu Shu, the oldest elder in the clan, who was about to hit his great-grandson.

"Uncle Qi, you will be 98 years old after today, right? Are your children and grandchildren filial to you? Is your body still strong?"

Lu Shu stroked his beard and said with a smile, "All good, all good. Just say whatever you want to say."

There was a flash of cold light in Old Man Lu's eyes, and he said in a grim tone: "You are so old, it's time for you to die!"

Everyone in the ancestral hall, young and old, was shocked when they heard this!

Lu Ci stood up and shouted urgently: "Dad! What are you talking about with Grandpa Qi?"

Old Man Lu raised his hand and pressed it to signal everyone not to get excited, and explained to the old man with a smug look on his face:

"You are old, if you want to make Piaoer give in, you must step in..."

……

Happy New Year on the first day of the first lunar month!

On such a festive day with all the red and bustling atmosphere, a family at the east end of Lujia Village did not put up Spring Festival couplets or hang big red lanterns, but funeral couplets and wreaths. A coffin was placed in the main hall, and the place was decorated like a gloomy mourning hall.

A few streets away, every few meters, there was a scout hiding on the rooftop and observing secretly.

The first scout spotted the target from afar and immediately flew up. His nimble body was like a weightless bird, running over the eaves and walls and rushing to the house where the mourning hall was set up.

"Three hundred feet to go!"

The first scout left immediately after reporting.

A moment later, the second scout came and reported the same thing:

"Two hundred feet to go!"

……

"One hundred feet!"

Lu Hong, who was over 70 years old, was walking around nervously in the mourning hall. He stopped when he heard the latest intelligence and said anxiously: …

"Dad, please stop eating!"

Sitting in the coffin, chewing on a pig's trotter and humming a little tune, the seventh master of the Lu family said happily:

"I am so happy. I am so happy when I think that my long-cherished wish has come true. Son, bring me some more wine!"

"Why are you still drinking at this hour? The clan leader and his family are coming soon!"

Lu Hong ignored the old man's foolishness and walked up to him, snatched the pig's trotter, picked up the wet towel and rubbed it hard on the greasy face of the Seventh Master.

"Dad, the future of our Lu family depends on you. When the Third Young Master comes, you must be emotional. Don't laugh like you are now!"

The laughing old man waved his hand to let everyone rest assured, and then he chewed the chewy meat hard and swallowed it down, his face flushed red.

Lu Hong brought another cup of tea and fed it to his father to help him swallow the food. Then he nervously greeted the dozens of people in the mourning hall who were wearing mourning clothes but still smiling:

"Beating the funeral drums, blowing the suona! The young and old men, aunts, and sisters-in-law of our family, kneel down as rehearsed, and cry with all your might!"

The order was given——

The old man closed his eyes, kicked his legs, and fell into the coffin without a sound.

The sound of funeral music was deafening in an instant, and the filial sons and grandchildren below burst into tears!