One month after the girl came out of seclusion, Murong Ya came to Zheng Feng with an invitation letter from the Murong family and invited him to visit the Murong family.
"You can choose not to."
There was a hint of embarrassment and a hint of helplessness on Murong Ya's face when she sent the invitation. From her expression, Zheng Feng already knew that this invitation from the Murong family was definitely not a simple get-together. She was probably asking for something from him.
With Murong Ya's character, she must have made a lot of determination to send this invitation letter in person.
Zheng Feng accepted the invitation without opening it and asked directly: "When?"
"You have the right to refuse..." Murong Ya whispered, was she trying to persuade Zheng Feng to refuse her invitation?
What happened this time was of extraordinary significance to their family. Otherwise, she would not have personally delivered this letter. She didn’t know why she said this. When Zheng Feng accepted the invitation letter without hesitation,
For a moment, she didn't even bother to open it. She felt a little embarrassed, probably because she couldn't accept using the friendship between herself and Zheng Feng as a bargaining chip...
"Indeed, I have the right to refuse, but you don't want me to refuse, so I accepted." Zheng Feng put away the invitation. From beginning to end, he had no intention of opening it and said, "If you really want me to refuse this invitation,
The easiest way to invite me is to find someone else to send the invitation letter, but you didn't. Instead, you came with the invitation letter in person. Since you didn't want me to refuse, why did you advise me to refuse?"
"..." Murong Ya didn't know how to answer. She didn't want to use friendship as a trade. She really didn't want to do that. But Zheng Feng was right. From the moment she agreed to send the invitation to the family in person, she had been like this
Did it.
"I just agreed to go. I can't guarantee the final outcome." Zheng Feng shrugged. With his friendship with Murong Ya, there is absolutely no problem in accepting the invitation. But if the Murong family's request exceeds his limit, there is nothing he can say.
He will refuse, and if he can't do it, he just can't do it. He won't do anything like slapping someone in the face and pretending to be fat!
"The time is tomorrow evening. If it's inconvenient for you, we can adjust it..." Before Murong Ya finished speaking, Zheng Feng waved his hand and said: "No need to modify it, it will be tomorrow."
Anyway, he is very free now. He can't think of a way to resolve the Enchantress' Dao Mark while staying in another courtyard. He might as well go out for a walk. Speaking of which, he has been in Qinglong City for a while, but he has never been to the Murong Family as a guest.
At this time, the door opened with a bang, and the little girl ran in angrily, shouting: "Eldest brother and sister Murong want to leave Alice behind and go on a date secretly. They can't do it. Alice wants it too."
Let’s go together!”
She had just come back from the library and she didn't expect to run into this. She didn't want to be left alone.
"Yes, yes, but Sister, Sister, may also be present. Alice, are you sure you really want to go?" Murong Ya asked. People around Zheng Feng knew more or less about the little girl's strange problem.
"Ah..." Alice was shocked, and a few drops of sweat broke out on her pretty face. Her attitude changed 180 degrees, and she shook her head and said, "Alice remembered it, and agreed to go to the library with Youyou tomorrow.
I’m reading a book, so I won’t go.”
Zheng Feng didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Alice's lie was too poor. He might still believe Youyou's promise to go out and play with her, but this little girl actually said she promised Youyou to go read a book. He wouldn't even believe it to death! But Zheng Feng
The little girl's lie was not exposed. After all, the cause of the abnormality in the Eye of Nostradamus was not discovered for a day, and Alice could not get close to the little girl.
．
．
．
．
．
．
The next evening, with Murong Ya leading the way, Zheng Feng arrived at the mountain gate of the Murong family. The gate was dilapidated, revealing the vicissitudes of time. The old steps were covered with green weeds and vines, showing that no one had repaired them for a long time.
However, the messy mountain gate still retains many traces of the past, and the broken corners have not been repaired so far.
"Is it ridiculous?" Murong Ya laughed at herself: "The famous Murong family in the Tianlong Empire can only stay on such a dilapidated hilltop in Qinglong City."
It’s not that the Murong family has not tried to repair the mountain gate, but it will be destroyed every time it is repaired. In the eyes of many families, the Murong family is not qualified to take root in the city. If it weren’t for someone from the older generation taking action for the sake of the old relationship with their ancestors.
If they help each other, it won't just be the house number at the foot of the mountain that they will be destroyed.
"Why are you laughing?" Zheng Feng shook his head and said: "I don't know how many sixth-class aristocratic families want to take root in the city, but you, the Murong family, have your own mountain gate. You are mocking the countless sixth-class aristocratic families outside the city.
.”
Zheng Feng has been in Qinglong City for some time, and he has heard about the situation in the city. Qinglong City is said to be a city, but in fact it is a collective name for all nearby areas. Ninth-class small aristocratic families and sixth-class aristocratic families can only settle in the suburbs outside the city.
, those who can take root in the city are at least third-class families. He learned a lot about the Murong family from the girl sister. Since Murong Ye Luoyun fell behind, the status of the Murong family in the city has plummeted. It belongs to the ninth-class small family. He originally had
I thought that the Murong family's mountain gate would be in a remote place outside the city, but I didn't expect that it would still stay in the city.
"Haha..." Murong Ya smiled, her smile full of desolation, and whispered: "It's just the blessing of the ancestors. We are all sinners of the Murong family. Without our ancestors, the Murong family was completely defeated in our hands. Step by step, it fell from prosperity.
It has declined to this day and nothing can be done, not even a mountain gate can be saved."
Although the Murong family has seen some improvement in recent years, from a low-ranking ninth-class family to a sixth-class family with one or two new saints, in the era of great prosperity of heaven, it is not just their family that has improved, but also all the other families in Qinglong City.
Most families have more or less new saints, and the competition is even more intense than before.
Zheng Feng's idea was not wrong. The Murong family that lost Murong Yeluo, let alone a mountain gate, was not even qualified to own a place in the city. Logically speaking, even if it was not destroyed by other families, it would be expelled from the city.
.However, because of the intervention of the ancestors and friends, they have been able to hold on to the last one-third of the clan land, and they have struggled to support it until now. But who can guarantee how many years the ancestors' friends will have?
More than three hundred years have passed, and the saints who have not become the envoys of the gods have reached the age of a thousand one after another. There is not much life left. Once they run out of oil and die, the Murong family may not even be able to hold on to this last clan territory.
Stay! There are too many aristocratic families staring at their mountain gate. There are too many wolves and not enough meat. You can imagine the end.
"Who can guarantee the future?" Zheng Feng asked rhetorically. Although the status of the Murong family has plummeted, at least they have not been exterminated yet. This is the biggest bargaining chip.
Who dares to say that the Murong family will never rise? Since the bloodline of the Murong family can give birth to a Murong Yeluo, it is possible to give birth to a second 'Murong Yeluo', because they all have the same bloodline in their bodies.
!
"Your ideas are always so special, but thank you..." Murong Ya smiled lightly. Even many people in the family had given up on themselves. However, Zheng Feng, an outsider, still thought that they would rise one day. Maybe this was just
Zheng Feng's comfort finally made Murong Ya's temperament better.
"I'm just stating a fact. Things that haven't happened yet are still full of variables. People who don't give up at the last moment are the stupidest people in my opinion." Zheng Feng said that the future is full of variables.
This little girl can fully prove that the so-called future can be changed by human power, and there is no absolute future!
As we climbed the stairs up the mountain, we have to say that the mountain gate of the Murong family seemed very deserted. There were almost no people in sight. There were not even a few guards at the huge mountain gate. There were dilapidated attics everywhere, which seemed to be vacant.
Long.
Zheng Feng learned from Murong Ya that there were countless aristocratic families in Qinglong City, and the newborns of most of them had no right to stay in the city to practice. Even if they were born in the city, they would be sent out. If they want to enter the city, they must pass the same procedure as casual cultivators.
In the Hunwu City trial, if you want to become a native child of Hunwu City, you must have a place in the city and be a third-class aristocratic family.
Although this mountain gate still belongs to the Murong family in name, it meets one of the conditions. Obviously the Murong family does not meet the second condition. They are far from the third-class family, so the Murong family has another branch in the Tianlong Empire.
After the child reaches adulthood, he will be brought to the clan for a baptism, and then participate in the trial. Only those who successfully pass the trial can truly return to the family.
This is also the reason why the Murong family now has an empty mountain gate, but not many people are guarding it. The progress of outside cultivation is slow. Fortunately, there is still a clan place where the children of the family can be baptized. The chance of passing the trial has been improved. So far, there is no
Dating.
After hearing Murong Ya's words, Zheng Feng understood more clearly that it was more difficult for the Murong family to get along in Qinglong City than he imagined...
Although the Murong Family Mountain Gate is dilapidated, the mountain is full of spiritual energy. After climbing up the stairs, Zheng Feng clearly feels that the spiritual energy between heaven and earth here is much richer than the outside world. Especially the two elements of thunder and light are unusually active. He can't help but feel
We know why this phenomenon occurs, but there is no doubt that the mountain gate of the Murong family is definitely a good place for cultivators of thunder and light attributes. No wonder some people want to peek at their mountain gate.
When the two reached the halfway point of the mountain, Zheng Feng heard bursts of thunder coming from the top of the mountain. He raised his head in confusion and looked at it. A thunder pierced the dark night sky and disappeared in a flash. There was no rain or black clouds in the night sky, and it was bright and clear.
The clear sky means constant thunder!
Murong Ya was already familiar with the strange phenomena at her mountain gate, and reminded Zheng Feng: "We are here."
[PS: Thanks to book friend ‘Xiaobei Momo’ for supporting me. 】