Chapter 168 Family Insider
Lin Feng followed in and asked, "What do the elders in the clan do on weekdays?"
The old man said: "The elders usually do not show up except for some secret intelligence work. They will only come forward when the family's survival is in crisis. The specific matter is the mysterious organization you have not found. This organization has nine elders in charge, and only the Phoenix Golden Order can mobilize them!"
"Where is the crescent moon?" Lin Feng asked.
The old man smiled and said, "The Crescent Moon belongs to only an external organization, and is under the responsibility of my shadow guard Berkya. Your two brothers and your mother also know that, by the way, your aunt sent someone to send a message a few days ago to give you time to go to the Kingdom of Bimon. If you have nothing to do in a few days, go and have a look. Your aunt has paid a lot for the Lin family!"
Lin Feng nodded and agreed.
The old man said again: "This is the foundation of the Lin family. Just like the Afang Palace you used the Star Illusion Gold, it is a huge space created by magic. It has no connection with the forces outside the Lin family. Only the previous heads can use the Phoenix Golden Order to mobilize the power here!"
Lin Feng asked: "What is the power of the elders?"
The old man smiled and said, "The Phoenix Golden Order has supreme authority. The nine elders do not allow the old man to have clear regulations in Xiangxu. Once he retreats into the ancient city of Gabriel, he must not interfere in family affairs. This family rule cannot be broken, otherwise the Phoenix Golden Order will lose its due authority. After I retreat, I will become the tenth elder. I must also respect the Phoenix Golden Order!"
Lin Feng nodded. If the old men directly intervened in the family affairs, what else should the head of the family do? If a power organization such as an elders' council occurs, there will definitely be a power conflict with the head of the family, resulting in internal conflicts. For an ancient family that has been around for tens of thousands of years, such things are absolutely not allowed to happen.
The old man chanted a spell. At the end of the corridor, a magic circle flashed out. Lin Feng followed the old man in. The old man chanted another spell. After a dazzling white light flashed, the grandfather and grandson appeared in a beautiful valley. Here, birds sing and flowers scented, the climate was pleasant, and it was a grand scene of a peach garden that was isolated from the world.
There is a large living space in the valley. A huge castle stands tall in front of you. Lin Feng is standing on a hillside next to the castle. Looking around, there are people coming and going in the castle, including men and women, old and young. These people all have smiles from the bottom of their hearts, which are the kind of satisfied smiles that are free from food and clothing and have a happy life.
The old man continued: "There are 300,000 people in the ancient city of Gabriel, all of which have accumulated over tens of thousands of years. All those who can come in from outside are newborn babies. Moreover, before being here, you have to go through layers of investigation. As long as you have any questions about your origin, you cannot be sent to the ancient city of Gabriel. Moreover, after you go out, those who have performed missions outside will forget everything here and avoid some unnecessary trouble!"
Lin Feng nodded, but was secretly shocked. He was still too optimistic about it. The Lin family could stand for tens of thousands of years, and in addition to the superficial family rules, there was also a set of unimaginable rules for dealing with the world. No wonder he had known the existence of this secret base for a long time, but Bit did not find any clues.
The old man chanted a spell again, and the two appeared in a secret room full of ancient flavor. The secret room was not large in space, only about one hundred square meters. There was nothing else except for some simple furnishings. There was at least hundreds of magic bans around. Even a strong man at the level of a divine beast could not break in silently.
In the secret room, there were nine old men with white hair and beard sitting. The nine old men were dressed in ordinary clothes without any eye-catching points. However, judging from their powerful magic fluctuations and restrained fighting spirit, these nine old men were not only nine saint-level masters, but also had a level of fighting spirit that had broken through to the sword saint. No wonder they looked rosy, had long qi veins, and were extremely tenacious in their vitality.
The old man walked straight to the seat in the center. Lin Feng glanced at the strength of the nine old men without any scruples with his divine thoughts, and did not hide it deliberately. Of course, the nine old men also felt it. They opened their eyes together and shot a lightning-like lightning-like lightning-sweeping towards him.
Lin Feng shrugged his shoulders and calmly resolved the nine old men's counterattack momentum that was connected together, and said with a smile: "Congratulations to the nine great-grandfathers for successfully breaking through the constraints of the laws of Arabegas. Paranoidness in human nature is always the biggest bottleneck in pursuit of power. It is really gratifying that the nine great-grandfathers can see through this!"
These old men are the uncles of the old man, and the old man in the top place is even the ancestor of the old man. He is an old monster who has lived for two hundred years. Lin Feng is too different from his generation and is too lazy to care about what he should be called, and he calls him Grandpa.
"It is worthy of being the most powerful person in the mainland. Your grandfather is indeed much worse than you!" The old man in the top of the head separated the two Meishou, who were dragging on the ground, showed a pair of plain but unusually noble eyes. He looked at Lin Feng and praised, pointed to the seat beside the old man and said, "Sit down and talk!"
Lin Feng looked at it and found that he had unquestionable authority. As soon as the old man sat there, he perfectly highlighted his identity. Lin Feng was not polite and walked over and sat down in the empty seat left by the old man.
The old man turned his head and said, "Uncle Changlan has not spoken for thirty years. This time I can make an exception for you. I, a grandfather, are indeed not as good as you!"
Lin Feng was flattered and hurriedly said, "You are too modest!"
The old man named Changlan stared at Lin Feng with a smile and said, "The strong have the demeanor of a strong man. It is not a bad thing for young people to be modest. We old men have observed you for ten years. Although the little guys are a bit arrogant and bold in doing things, they are competent for the position of the head of the family. All of us old guys have passed!"
When Lin Feng looked at the old man, the old man explained: "Every head of the family must go through the assessment of several elders before officially entering here. The time is not limited, maybe ten years, or twenty years. Your father and I were assessed by the elders for more than ten years when we first walked here!"
Lin Feng opened his mouth, speechless. He held it in for a long time before asking for useless nonsense. "What if it can't be passed?"
A short old man sitting at the bottom of the head opened his small eyes and cursed: "Nonsense, if you can't pass the assessment of a few of us old men, can you still be here?"
Lin Feng frowned and asked without hesitation: "Does the elders have to pass the elders' consideration before taking over? Isn't this a contradiction? The elders can dismiss the head of the family, and what's the use of family rules?"
The old man explained: "It is true that every head of the family must pass the assessment of several elders before taking over, but the elders will not interfere in family affairs. Moreover, when each head of the family officially approaches here, the elders do not remove the head of the family and will not conflict with the power of the head of the family. Only then does the Phoenix Golden Order have the highest authority!"
Lin Feng frowned, obviously it was difficult to understand such a complex system.
The old man smiled and said, "Our Lin family can survive for tens of thousands of years. Although the complexity of the family rules is unimaginable, the seemingly complex family rules also have extremely high rationality. Although the head of the family has to undergo the assessment of the elders, after the successor of the head of the family, there will be no power conflict between the two. The elders only have the power to assess and do not have the power to remove them!"
While Lin Feng was thinking, several old men obviously had no patience to chat with his grandfather and grandson. The old man sitting in the second place waved and said, "If you don't have anything to do, please leave quickly. This is not a place for gossip!" After that, he closed his eyes, as if he was meditating.
The old man didn't care, so he stood up and bowed casually to the old men. He pulled Lin Feng, who was still rolling his eyes to the second old man, left the secret room, and appeared on the street with crowds for the third time.
The streets are paved with blue bricks, which are extremely clean, with shops on both sides. Obviously, although this place is isolated from the world, it is also a different and narrowed version of the world, with nobles and civilians. There are disputes in places where there are people. This is no exception. The greed and desire in human nature determine that people living here must be divided into different levels.
The old man said: "The elders have transcended the world. They are focused on exploring the mystery of magic and fighting spirit, and do not have the secular idea of power. Apart from secretly assessing past family heads, if it were not for the major matters that concern the survival of the family, the nine elders would not have asked about it at all!"
"How is this place managed?" Lin Feng was a little curious about these reduced versions of the world and asked: "There seems to be aristocrats and civilians in this castle, and there are also disputes. Needless to say, how can they offer loyalty to the Lin family?"
The old man said, "Everything that exists has his own reasons. In this small world, the 300,000 people living here have their fanatical beliefs, and the nobles are no exception. They all firmly believe that the God of Liberty will protect them. If any noble has undevoted faith, he will disappear here like air!"
Lin Feng suddenly realized that it was a little funny. It turned out that the Lin family was pretending to be a god like the church and using the so-called God to fool these ignorant civilians. Although the nobles had firm beliefs, it was really hard for him to believe that the old man said that all this existence has a combination of his nature, he must have something complicated to know.
However, he was too lazy to ask about these things one by one. He followed the old man into a pretty good restaurant. The grandfather and grandson ordered a few plates of side dishes and pots of wine, casually discussing the history of the Lin family, and observing the reduced version of the world with an outsider's mentality.
Lin Feng couldn't help but realize that if he hadn't known everything here and suddenly was in it, it would be difficult to find that this place would be an independent world. It can be seen that people living here would never have imagined that they were all birds living in cages, and they didn't know that there was a bigger world outside.
After leaving Gabriel's ancient city, Lin Feng returned to the old man's study room. The grandfather and grandson walked out of the secret door, and the secret door then disappeared into the study room. It seemed that nothing had happened just now.
The old man waved his hand and said, "Go and see your mother, maybe she has something to say to you!"
Lin Feng agreed and left the old man's study and came to his mother's courtyard. His mother was a little weak and was lying on the bed to rest. His father sat next to him with a sad face, holding his mother's right hand tightly, and his eyebrows were tightly twisted together.
Lin Feng waved his hand and asked the maid to retreat, walked over and asked, "Sir, what's wrong, but my mother is not feeling well?"
Lin Xiaotian sighed: "Your mother worked hard in her early years. Her biological body has been weak and her vitality is overdrawn, and her body is getting worse day by day. It's really worrying!"
Lin Feng said: "Why don't you find a Master Guangming to see it!"
Lin Xiaotian said: "How can human power be restored to heaven? Excessive vitality is overdrawn, even if the God of Light comes, it is useless!"
"Let me see!" When Lin Feng sat beside the bed, he found that his mother had fallen asleep. He took her right hand from her father. He swept in his mind and concluded that she was just the same as her father.
Princess Qingyue's life force is overdrawn. Although she is only over fifty years old now, her mother has just entered middle age based on the average life expectancy of 120 years of human beings. It is just that the excessive overdrawn life force makes her never have a few years of life.
Thinking of his mother's constant care, Lin Feng couldn't help feeling sad. He took out a pearl of fragrant nine-leaf Ganoderma lucidum and handed it to his father, signaling him to feed his mother to eat.
Lin Xiaotian knew that this youngest son's ability was beyond the reach of ordinary people. After looking at this strange thing for a while, without much hesitation, he pinched Princess Qingyue's running bus and put Ganoderma lucidum in.
After the entrance of Ganoderma lucidum, it immediately turned into a warm current and dispersed in Princess Qingyue's body.
Lin Feng pinched a seal, pointed his hand and pointed a little golden light into Princess Qingyue's forehead, and then said to his father: "You let your mother use the method of Taiqing Dou Qi to exercise her skills and regulate her breathing for two hours every day, as long as you persist without any interweaving, you and your wife can complete the second half of your life together!"
Lin Xiaotian suspected, "Take it serious?"
Lin Feng smiled and said, "If there is a falsehood, you can ignore my son!"
Lin Xiaotian was overjoyed. He was excited and hugged the boy hard, then he smiled happily and scolded: "Nonsense, who is your son, who is your son?" Then he said proudly: "Only I, Lin Xiaotian, can give birth to such an excellent son!"
After coming out of my mother's courtyard, the eldest brother Lin Long and the second brother Lin Hu came to visit her mother. Lin Hu said first: "It turns out that the mistress is here, and my mother is in poor health. We sons should come and see her more!"
Lin Feng pulled the two back and said, "I just looked at my mother and are resting now. My father is taking care of you, so don't bother you two!"
Lin Long said: "The relationship is good. We brothers rarely get together after so many years. We just took advantage of this time to go to our mansion to have a few drinks!"
Lin Feng readily agreed that the eldest brother and the second brother had already started a family and had their own mansions in the emperor.
Lin Hu looked at Lin Feng and said, "By the way, I will tell you something. The Seventh Princess Alif lives with my sister-in-law now. I heard that the Seventh Princess has some small misunderstandings with you, but for the sake of the Seventh Sister-in-law, you can't do anything randomly!"
Lin Feng said: "I'm not that stingy yet? I'm calculating with a woman. Do I have anything to do? Wilson was killed by me. I wonder which young fairy Alif has been mingled with recently?"
Lin Long frowned and said, "You should be merciless first. I have heard of Alif and you. If it weren't for you, she wouldn't have been with Wilson. Now she has reformed herself. Falaikfu is working hard. That boy is not bad. If nothing unexpected happens, Falaikfu should be her best destination!"
"Farai Kefu?" Lin Feng said in surprise: "Isn't Lucyya's cousin? That kid hasn't gotten married yet?"
The three of them left the mansion and boarded the carriage. Lin Hu said, "That boy is so romantic. He is also intimate with the famous nobles and noble ladies of the imperial capital. Fortunately, he is not bad, and he has been designated as the next head of the Farati family by Grand Duke Laubis, and is worthy of the Seventh Princess!"
Lin Feng smiled silently and said, "It seems that the Farati family is really full of yin and yang. Grand Duke Laubis has worked hard for decades and has taken no less than a hundred concubines. His son has not given birth to one. He has recruited dozens of sons-in-laws for the Farati family. Now even the head of the family must be inherited by the relatives!"
Lin Long also smiled and said, "No, if any of the concubines have a strong affair and give birth to a son for Grand Duke Laubis, the mother will be rich by her son, and she will be successful in the future. Fortunately, the boy Falaikfu is a good life. After he takes over as the head of the Farati family in the future, the relationship between our two families will also be improved!"
While speaking, the carriage arrived in front of the Marquis of Linlongdi. The three brothers got out of the carriage. As soon as they entered the mansion, they heard a wave of scorns coming. Magic missiles in the sky burst out everywhere. A figure flew over from the inner palace in a very embarrassing way to the mansion. The clothes were burnt in large areas, and the hair and beard were also battered and the smell of burnt.
Lin Feng hurriedly looked closely and found that it was not who the boy Falai Kefu was, and the one who was chasing behind him was not the Seventh Princess Alif.
Chapter completed!