"Everyone, tell me, what should we do about this matter?"
In the Lin family meeting hall, Lin Jingtian, a group of elders, and several principals in the outer hall all had solemn expressions. During the discussion, Lin Jingtian asked in a deep voice.
But as soon as these words came out, everyone who had been talking about it suddenly shut their mouths. Even the sixth elder, who had always been the most grumpy, couldn't say a word. Almost everyone had a bitter look on their faces.
Lin Jingtian sighed secretly, "I have sent someone to inform Lin Feng and Lin Yun of this matter. I hope they can make it in time before the deadline..."
"Master!" Before Lin Jingtian finished speaking, suddenly, a housekeeper hurried in.
Lin Jingtian couldn't help but frown, "Steward Liu, didn't I say before, you are not allowed to come in casually during the discussion... Forget it, tell me, what are you doing in such a panic?"
Butler Liu bowed to apologize to everyone, and then said happily: "Master, elders, the eldest lady and the second young master are back!"
"Hey! Lin Xue and Lin Ze are back?" Lin Jingtian was stunned.
At the same time, the elders and principals were also greatly surprised and immediately overjoyed.
"Okay, I came back at the right time."
"As long as Lin Xue is here, the Lin family will be saved."
"Yes, only Lin Xue can turn the tide now."
Then, under the gaze of everyone, two figures walked into the meeting hall, none other than Lin Ze and Lin Xue.
"Father, we are back." The two came to the hall and bowed.
"Okay, it'll be good to come back, it'll be good to come back..." Lin Jingtian walked up, patted the two of them on the shoulders, and said with relief.
Then, after greeting the elders for a few words, Lin Ze did not mince words and said directly: "Father, when we came back just now, we found that the atmosphere at home was a bit heavy, and...did something happen?"
Lin Jingtian looked at the two of them, then looked at Butler Liu who was standing in the corner with his head bowed. Finally, his eyes returned to Lin Ze and asked: "What do you know now?"
"On the way here, Butler Liu told me that the family's business has been frequently hit by the Lou family recently. Especially in the past three months, the Lin family has reached unprecedented losses, and... Lin Chen is disabled." Lin Chen.
Ze said in a deep voice, and after finishing speaking, he held his hands tightly.
Lin Ze didn't understand business matters, but in business, it was normal to make profits and losses, and it was nothing to be surprised about. With the financial resources of the Lin family, even if they suffered losses for half a year, it would be difficult to shake the foundation.
However, Lin Chen is actually disabled. No matter from any aspect, this is a problem that cannot be ignored.
Along the way just now, Butler Liu couldn't explain clearly. He just vaguely told them the fact, but he didn't say what happened specifically. So Lin Ze had no choice but to temporarily suppress his inner emotions and look at him with inquiring eyes.
Looking at his father and the elders around him.
As soon as they heard Lin Ze's words, the joy that the elders had just felt disappeared immediately, and there was an expression of regret on their faces. As a representative of the younger generation of the Lin family, Lin Chen is also one of the most outstanding geniuses of the Lin family in the past two hundred years.
The future is limitless, but now he is disabled. No one knows what this means.
It is absolutely impossible for a disabled person to achieve anything in martial arts!
Lin Jingtian sighed heavily, and then told the two of them what the Lin family had experienced in the past six months.
The conflict between the Lin family and the Lou family has always existed. Since decades ago, the fighting between the two families has never stopped. After all, there is no room for two tigers in one mountain, and there is no reason to allow others to sleep soundly beside the couch.
It's just that both companies are in the process of development. A large-scale battle will not only fail to bring them victory, but will cause both sides to decline rapidly, and then others will gain the strength. Therefore, the two companies have always been in this aspect.
They are all extremely restrained. Apart from the intrigues in the business field and behind the scenes, they are still on the surface.
The Lin family's business has always been concentrated, mainly selling silk, ceramics and medicinal materials. Although they have also opened some hotels and pawn shops in Tianhe City, these are only secondary and were opened purely to reduce daily expenses. As for the Lou family's business
It's more extensive, including escort agencies, brothels, hotels, and all kinds of businesses. Anyway, they do almost everything that can make money.
However, in terms of time, the Lou family is a new family, and its foundation is nearly a hundred years behind that of the Lin family. Therefore, even if the Lou family becomes more and more powerful, it cannot affect the Lin family in its main business.
But this situation changed half a year ago.
That is to say, not long after Lin Ze and Lin Xue left the Lin family and went to the Dark Forest, the Lou family received foreign aid from unknown sources, and their power suddenly became much larger, first of all in the business field.
The Lou family, which was originally only slightly involved in silk medicinal materials, actually began to focus on this aspect, investing a lot of money to open dozens of stores, and then a steady supply of goods came in. I don’t know where they came from.
The supply of goods obtained, in short... This move of the Lou family immediately caused a huge impact on Tianhe City's silk medicinal materials and other businesses.
Several small families who only relied on silk medicinal materials for a living could no longer hold on in the face of this impact. In desperation, they all sought refuge with the Lou family.
The Lin family has a great business. Although it has suffered a big impact, it will not be broken in the end. In addition, Lin De, a genius in the business, and the foundation accumulated over the years, will be able to survive the initial impact.
After that, it gradually began to get better and returned to normal.
But the Lou family's actions did not stop there. A month later, the Lin family's caravans began to be hijacked frequently.
You must know that the Lin family has been operating in Tianhe City for more than two hundred years. It has long been entrenched and is the nameless overlord of Tianhe City. Ordinary bandits would not dare to put their thieves on the Lin family caravan. However, in just a few months,
In that time, the Lin family caravan encountered more things than in the previous ten years.
Moreover, this group of hijackers were all masters who appeared out of nowhere. They moved quickly and were extremely decisive in attacking and retreating. Even if the caravan was escorted by a powerful God Refiner, it would be difficult to react in time.
In addition, they are not like ordinary bandits who rob, but focus on destroying. Every time they encounter, at least half of the goods transported by the Lin family caravan will be lost, and sometimes the whole army will be annihilated.
With the shortage of goods, the Lin family's business naturally plummeted. Except for some old customers who had cooperated for many years, the Lin family's business suddenly shrank and immediately entered a state of serious losses.
But this is still secondary. The most important thing is the business between the Lin family and the imperial capital.
Originally, in Tianhe City, only the Lin family was doing business in the imperial capital, and no other merchants had the confidence. But since this incident, the Lin family has been short of supply, while the Lou family has been the opposite, so they were suddenly snatched away by the Lou family.
Most business.
The problem of supply cannot be solved. As a result, the Lin family has really reached the point where it is stretched.
In order to solve this problem, the first thing the Lin family had to deal with was the group of robbers who appeared from nowhere.
However, before the Lin family could take action, the Lou family played the most important card at this moment - settling old scores!
The first is Lin Xue's account. After learning that Lin Ze might become a waste, Lin Xue went to the Lou family's escort agency in anger and destroyed the cultivation of several disciples with other surnames from the Lou family. This account
, the Lou family gave up after shouting for a few times, which gave people the feeling of anticlimactic, but now, when the Lin family's business has been severely hit, the Lou family has moved out.
Secondly, and the most fatal account - Lou Juncai!
When Lou Juncai wanted to plot against Lin Yao, he was killed by Lin Ze with a sword. His head was missing. Lin Ze threw his body in the back of the mountain. A few months later, his body should have been eaten clean by wild beasts.
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But who would have thought that the Lou family would move Lou Juncai's body out, identify Lin Ze as the murderer, and launch an attack on the Lin family again. At the same time, they would spread the word in Tianhe City, causing uproar in the city and making everyone aware of it.
Lin Ze never mentioned Lou Juncai's matter to anyone, and Lin Yao also kept silent about it, so of course the Lin family dismissed the Lou family's accusations.
In addition, Lou Juncai's character and style in Tianhe City are well known to everyone. Who knows how he died. Maybe he molested a woman who shouldn't have been molested and was killed instead. In that case, he deserved his death. Whatever the Lou family
It would be too much of a joke to identify Lin Ze as the murderer just after taking out a corpse.
However, just when everyone thought so, a mountain guard of the Lin family stood up and confirmed that what the Lou family said was true. According to what he said, he saw with his own eyes that Lou Juncai accidentally entered the mountain behind the Lin family and was hit by Lin Ze.
Then because of the conflict a few days ago, Lin Ze brutally killed Lou Juncai and abandoned his body in the mountains.
As soon as these words came out, the situation of the Lin family suddenly became bad. They never thought that the mountain guard would rebel and join the Lou family.
Although Lin Yao later came out to refute the rumors, it didn't work. After all, Lin Yao is Lin Ze's sister. Her words for her brother may not be credible, but the words of the mountain guard are more trustworthy.
It is natural to kill someone to pay for their life. This is a rule that even Jianghu people must abide by. As for how to pay for it, of course it depends on strength and power.
The Lou family has all the evidence in their hands, and it is only natural that they want to seek justice from the Lin family.
So naturally, the Lou family began to force the Lin family to hand over Lin Ze and Lin Xue.
This is of course impossible. Don't say that Lin Xue and Lin Ze are not in the Lin family. Even if they are both here, the Lin family will not hand them over.
Obviously, the Lou family made such a request just because they knew the two of them were not here. Otherwise, Lou Juncai had been dead for several months and the Lou family had already taken his body. Why did they move it out at this time?
It was just to give the Lin family a fatal blow.
The situation got out of hand, and the two families almost wanted to go to war over it, but the subsequent development took an unexpected turn... Just when the war between the Lin family and the Lou family was about to break out, the Jin family
People from the royal family and the Ye family, one of the five major families in the Jin Kingdom, came one after another to calm the matter.
The fight between the Lin family and the Lou family, two second-rate aristocratic families, actually attracted the attention of the royal family of Jin and the first-rate aristocratic Ye family. This was simply a huge anecdote, and it attracted countless people's attention.
But this strange thing really happened.
The Lou family first gave in, and with the mediation between the Jin royal family and the Ye family, they declared that the matter was caused by the younger generation, and they would let the younger generation resolve it themselves.
The Lou family set up an arena and only allowed the younger generations of the two families to compete. As long as someone from the Lin family could defeat the representative of their Lou family, the matter would be revealed.
The Lou family was so generous that everyone was surprised, and they gained a great reputation for a while. However, the Lin family were not fools. At this moment, they finally understood why the Lou family suddenly became so powerful... The people behind the Lou family were not only
The royal family of Jin State, and the Ye family, one of the five great families of Jin State!
This was premeditated!
But the matter has come to this, and other things are useless. The Lin family can only go to war, otherwise the Lin family will offend the Jin royal family and the Ye family at the same time. When the time comes, as these two huge forces come down, the Lin family will inevitably be wiped out.
The strongest among the younger generation of the Lin family is undoubtedly Lin Feng and Lin Yun, but they have been out training for many years, and even the Lin family themselves do not know their whereabouts. The next ones are Lin Chen and Lin Xue, and Lin Xue is not here.
Of course, the only one from the Lin family who can fight is Lin Chen.
But the problem is that Lin Chen suffered serious injuries in order to deal with the robbers who robbed the caravan some time ago. He has not recovered yet. It is too dangerous to fight with injuries while knowing the purpose of the Lou family.
Fortunately, the younger generation of the Lou family is far from the Lin family. The most powerful among them is the son of Lou Wangsheng, the head of the Lou family, Lou Zhanming, who is now twenty-two years old and has the strength of the eighth level of Qi refining.
Lou Zhanming's qualifications are average, and the eighth level of Qi Refining is the eighth level of Qi Refining, but Lin Chen is a rare genius in the Lin family. The strength of the eighth level of Qi Refining is enough to challenge the warriors of the ninth level of Qi Refining, even if he is injured,
He may not lose to Lou Zhanming.
Unless the Lou family is so shameless that they invite young disciples from the Ye family and the Jin royal family to compete on stage.
But to everyone's surprise, the person who took the stage to compete was not Lou Zhanming, nor a member of the Ye family or the Jin royal family, but a young female disciple of the Shuiyue Sect, Tang Yue.
This Tang Yue is less than 20 years old, and her strength is already at the ninth level of Qi Refining, which shows that she has excellent talent, and more importantly, she is Lou Zhanming's fiancée. She has already been engaged, so she can be regarded as a member of the Lou family.
Therefore, although she is a member of the Shuiyue Sect, she is qualified to fight on behalf of the Lou family.
The result was obvious, Lin Chen was defeated, but defeat was defeat, and the Lin family had nothing to say. Lin Chen only had the eighth level of Qi Refining, and was injured, so it was natural that he could not defeat Tang Yue.
But what the Lin family couldn't bear was that Tang Yue was a snake-hearted man. Although he was already sure of victory, he resorted to tricks. When Lin Chen was careless, he was seriously injured with one move and even broke two of his hamstrings.
, causing Lin Chen to become disabled.
A generation of geniuses became useless.
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