Chapter 131: The Li Family's Response, an Inevitable Fate (1/2)

"What did you say? The Zhao family was wiped out."

In the Li family, the office of affairs, Li Qinggan, the head of the Li family, was handling family affairs when he heard a family member hurriedly running over to report such an earth-shattering event.

When Li Qinggan first heard the news, he didn't believe it at all.

However, the person in front of him had been with him for more than 30 years, and he knew him better than himself, so it was impossible for him to joke about such a big event.

So, Li Qinggan suppressed the absurdity in his heart and asked the person who came to report with deep doubts.

"Li Neng, where did you get this news from? When did it come? What is the current situation of the Zhao family? Who destroyed the Zhao family?"

After hearing Li Qinggan's question, Li Neng quickly put away the excitement and excitement on his face and began to answer quickly:

"Chief, this news was not heard by me, but by the secret agent sent to the Zhao family by the clan."

"He saw with his own eyes that the head of the Zhao family, the elder of the Zhao family, and the chief steward of the Zhao family were all beheaded."

"So he didn't care about anything and ran back desperately, just to bring the news back to the clan as soon as possible."

"But no one in the clan knew him. If I hadn't happened to go out for something and saw someone making trouble at the gate, I would have gone over to take a look. I'm afraid that the news would have reached you even later."

When Li Qinggan heard this, he interrupted Li Neng.

"Then why did you come here alone? Why didn't you bring that person here?"

Li Qinggan looked at Li Neng and frowned slightly. It was too reasonable for him not to bring the person involved in such a big thing.

"Clan leader, you are wronging me. It's not that I don't bring it, but that person came with a head, saying it was the head of the Zhao family's patriarch."

"However, the guards don't believe it. They have never seen the Zhao family's patriarch. In order to prevent that person from hurting you, clan leader, he is still detained and under investigation."

"I haven't seen the face of the Zhao City Lord either, but I was afraid of delaying important matters, so I hurried to you as soon as possible to report this to you."

After all, they are master and servant who have been together for more than 30 years, Li Neng said in a slightly aggrieved tone.

"Okay, okay, I wronged you this time."

Li Qinggan comforted him first, and then he got angry.

"These guards are really outrageous. How can such a big thing be handled so rigidly?"

"Take me to the Zhao family's secret stake quickly. I want to confirm whether the old thief Zhao Deyan is really dead."

As he spoke, he stood up from his chair, with expectation and uneasiness on his face.

"And you, that is you, go and inform the three elders, as well as the Third Master and the Fourth Master in the mansion."

"By the way, go to the Second Master and tell him not to pretend to be sick, get up quickly and come to me."

Li Qinggan pointed at the two guards on duty in the Affairs Pavilion and gave each of them a task.

After saying that, he directly performed the rising method and ran in the Li family.

The Li Neng in his hand did not need to walk by himself, he just needed to point the way.

"The Second Master is pretending, how is this possible."

The two guards who were ordered by Li Qinggan were surprised by the information in Li Qinggan's words for a while.

A few months ago, the Second Master Li Qingba and the Fifth Master Li Qingyou sent Li Yan and others to Guiyuan Sect.

On the way back, almost the entire army was wiped out. Except for Li Qingba who returned seriously injured, all the others died in battle.

After that, Li Qingba has been claiming to the outside world that he was bedridden in order to recover from his injuries.

And this matter has always been regarded as a great shame by the Li family, and so are these two guards.

Now that they knew that Li Qingba's injury was fake, the two guards were at a loss for a moment.

"Don't think about it. The Zhao family was wiped out. This matter is much more important than the second master's matter."

"Let's quickly complete the task assigned by the clan leader. I feel that Linshan City is about to change."

After one of the guards finished speaking, he rushed towards the direction of the Li family's elders, running his most proficient skills with all his strength.

"Yes, these things are not something we can participate in at this level. Don't think about it."

Another guard rushed in the opposite direction of the guard in front, which was Li Qingba's residence.

As for Li Qinggan, with his strength in the blood exchange realm, even if he was carrying a person in his hand, it didn't take long for him to reach the location of the Zhao family's hidden stake.

"Li An, is it really you? Did you really bring the head of Zhao Deyan, the head of the Zhao family and the lord of Linjiang City?"

As soon as he arrived at the place, Li Qinggan saw Li An being controlled by the guards and became excited.

This was not the excitement of seeing an acquaintance he hadn't seen for a long time, but he was already 80% sure that the Zhao family was probably really wiped out.

"Patriarch, I'm sure, I'm sure, I've been undercover in the Zhao family for more than ten years, waiting for this moment, I can finally comfort my parents, my brothers and sisters."

"Tonight, I can finally sleep well."

Li An was excited, and there was a feeling of revenge in his words.

After all, how many normal people are willing to be undercover, unless they have a firm belief.

Li An's belief is the bitter hatred for the Zhao family.

"Okay, okay, Li An, you have made a great contribution."

"You guys, don't let go of Li An, I will deal with you later."

Under Li Qinggan's loud rebuke, the guards who controlled Li An immediately let go of Li An, their faces full of resentment.

Then, Li Qinggan took the head handed over by the guard. There were still some snowflakes between the hair of the head, and the expression on the head looked very angry and surprised.

"Yes, it is indeed the head of Zhao Deyan, it is really Zhao Deyan's head."

It was confirmed that the Zhao family was really wiped out.

"Good, good, good, the heaven has eyes, the heaven has eyes!"

Li Qinggan's hands trembled with excitement. It is very rare for a warrior in the blood exchange realm to have such a situation.

Li Qinggan has practiced swords for a lifetime. When his hands trembled, it was only when he just started practicing swords. After decades, it was only this time.

It is enough to show that his inner excitement has reached an indescribable level.

This is understandable. After all, the pressure from the Zhao family on him recently is too great.

Sometimes when he sleeps at night, he dreams that Zhao Deyan brings a group of Zhao family members to the Li family to burn, kill and loot.

"By the way, how many people died in the Zhao family? Are there any masters left? Which force destroyed the Zhao family?"

After Li Qinggan recovered a little, he hurriedly asked.

"Report to the clan leader, I don't know how many people died, but I went to the battle site and saw that almost all the senior members of the Zhao family who I remember died."

"I heard that there was only one person who killed them."

"One person, could it be that a congenital master took action?"

In an instant, Li Qinggan's mind filled in a grudge of more than 100,000 words.

"Could it be that the former enemy of the Zhao family came to seek revenge after the magic power was perfected?"

Li Qinggan thought secretly in his heart.

It's not that he didn't have such an idea before, otherwise how could he have provided a lot of supplies to the genius of the Han family.

Unfortunately, recently, the Han family members in the Li family couldn't contact the genius.

"Could it be that this person is the one from the Han family? It's impossible. That person just broke through the internal organs. How could he single-handedly destroy the entire Zhao family elite?"

And Li An's next words also completely denied all his thoughts.

"Is he a congenital master? I only know that he is an inconspicuous direct descendant of the Zhao family. I have been in the Zhao family for more than ten years, and I have only seen two or three direct descendants of the Zhao family. He seems to be called Zhao Tongling."

"What, not an outsider, but a member of the Zhao family, Zhao Tongling, Tong, isn't he a younger generation of the Zhao family?"

"Are you sure you are not kidding me? A young man in his early twenties can kill so many people in the Zhao family."

Li Qinggan looked at Li An with great doubt. He wondered if Li An was too excited and burned his brain.

"It's true. Everyone who saw the battle said so."

"If it was one person, I would definitely think it was a lie, but everyone said so, then even if he was ridiculous, it was true."

"I suspect that it must be that master who disguised himself as Zhao Tongling, lurking in the Zhao family, and when the time was right, he began to kill the Zhao family."

Seeing that Li Qinggan didn't believe him, Li An hurriedly said his speculation.

"It's not impossible."

An old voice came at this time.

Everyone looked back at the voice, and Li Rongxing, the elder of the Li family, appeared behind them sweating profusely.

Apparently, when he heard the news, he ignored his old body, still circulated his blood, performed his body skills, and ran over.

"Hello, elder."

The moment they saw the elder, everyone hurriedly saluted and greeted him, even Li An, who had just entered the Li Mansion, did not dare to neglect him.

Respecting the old and loving the young is one of the core values ​​of every family in this world.

Of course, this old and this young are all about family members, and other people and even servants are not included.

The elder waved his hand, indicating that everyone did not need to be polite, and then looked at Li An.

"I ask you, has that person left now?"

The elder stared at Li An with a sharp look that seemed to be able to see through people's hearts, making Li An feel a huge pressure.

"That man left a long time ago. After killing people, he went to the Zhao family's treasure house and disappeared."

"If that man was still there, how could I dare to bring back the head of the Zhao family leader."

Li An swallowed his saliva and told the truth.

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"What is the situation of the Zhao family members in the Zhao Mansion now?"

The elder of the family continued to ask.

"They are all seizing the opportunity to plunder the property in the mansion and prepare to flee, and the servants of the Zhao Mansion are the same."

"That means that the core figures of the Zhao family should have been killed."

The elder of the clan quickly came to this conclusion from Li An's words.

The core characters are those who usually have great prestige among the clan elders, such as the clan leader of the Li family, the clan elders, the second and third masters of the Li family, and others.

If there is still such a person in a family, even if the family faces a disaster, there will be a certain degree of cohesion. It will not be like the Zhao family at this time, where the master and servants are panicking and preparing to escape.

"In that case, let's close the door and block the city gates so that no one from the Zhao family can escape."

The fourth master of the Li family, Li Qingyang, and the third master of the Li family, Li Qingya, arrived at the same time.

Then Li Qingyang gritted his teeth and said this.

Anyone can clearly feel the hatred and killing intent in it.

And no one was surprised by this. After all, Li Qingyang was imprisoned by the Zhao family and tortured for seven days before being released.

This was because he was from the Li family. The Zhao family did not want to start a war with the Li family at that time, so they let Li Qingyang go.

Otherwise, look at the people who were imprisoned that time, a few were released, and almost all of them were tortured to death in prison.

Although Li Qingya beside Li Qingyang didn't say anything, it could be seen from his expression that he also supported this approach.

"Old man of the rich family, I think the fourth brother's proposal is good. What do you think?"

Li Qingqian looked at the wealthy elder and asked.

Others also looked at the wealthy elder.

Li Qingyang said even more anxiously: "Old man of the rich clan, if the city is closed too late, the remnants of the Zhao family may be gone."

The rich man looked around, and after seeing the expressions on everyone's faces at this time, he already understood that what could happen even if he disagreed.

"Okay, I agree."

"But I have a request. The other forces in Linshan City should be locked down together, especially the Jiang family. Do you understand?"

"clear."

Li Qingqian and the other three responded quickly.

Afterwards, Li Qingqian began to assign tasks.

"Third brother, you bring a few smart people to visit the Jiang family first, and then visit several other forces with blood-changing realm warriors, and ask them to work together to blockade Linshan City."

"First kill all the Zhao family, and then distribute the wealth accumulated by the Zhao family over the years."

"Yes, brother."

Li Qingya quickly accepted the task and immediately rushed towards the Jiang family.

"Fourth, you take away half of the family's guards and seize the four gates of Linjiang City. Don't let a single member of the Zhao family go."

"Don't worry, brother, I will never..."

Before Li Qingyang finished speaking, he was interrupted by a rude and bold voice.

"Fourth brother, you go to the city lord's mansion and take revenge. Second brother knows that you have a lingering anger in your heart. Today is your chance to take revenge."

Looking towards the source of the sound, a burly man more than two meters tall appeared in front of everyone's eyes.

This person is none other than the second master of the Li family, Li Qingba.

"Second brother, you."

After Li Qingyang heard Li Qingba's words, his eyes suddenly turned red.

There was indeed an unknown fire in his heart that had been burning his internal organs. Not only did it not dissipate with the passage of time, but it became more and more powerful as the Zhao family forced him.

It was also because of this unknown fire that he often tossed and turned in the middle of the night and couldn't sleep.

If it weren't for the Li family behind him, he would have really wanted to rush into the dungeon of the City Lord's Mansion and kill everyone inside.

"I was negligent. Fourth brother, go quickly. If you go late, it will be bad if the people there get the news and run away."

Even Li Qingba could see it, so how could Li Qingqian, the eldest brother and patriarch of the clan, not see it.

Therefore, he also said supportively at this time.

"Thank you, brother. Second brother, I'll be right back."

Li Qingyang wiped his eyes and ran towards the City Lord's Mansion without looking back.

"Don't run away. I've been thinking about this day for a long time."

At this moment, Li Qingyang felt that his body was filled with an inexplicable power, urging him to go faster and faster.

"Boom", Li Qingyang broke through his own limit and rushed towards the city lord's palace at an unprecedented speed.

"Second brother, since you are willing to lead the team and seize the city gate, then I will give this token to you."

With that said, Li Qingqian handed the patriarch's token to Li Qingba. With this token, Li Qingba can mobilize anyone in the Li family.

"Brother, don't worry when I do things."

Li Qingba said with a grin.

But there was nothing honest and honest in this smile. Instead, it was full of ferocious murderous intent.

Then, Li Rongyong, an old man from the second tribe, and Li Rongchang, an old man from the third tribe, also rushed over.

Li Qingqian asked them to assist Li Qingya and Li Qingba respectively.

After that, everyone else gradually left the place, leaving only Li Qingqian and Dazu Lao.

"Old man from a wealthy family, I see that you seem to be worried about something?"

Li Qingqian asked puzzledly.

"I'm a little worried about the Zhao family in Linjiang City and Sui Gong's affairs."

The rich man looked at the heavy snow that was still falling, with a unique melancholy in his tone.

"The Zhao family in Linjiang City, do they still have a relationship with this Zhao family?"

Li Qingqian's eyes widened.

"Maybe there is, maybe not. It's just that the Zhao family appeared too suddenly. Thirty years ago, they suddenly appeared in our Linshan City, and there are so many Yunzang Realm masters."

"If they are from our Linjiang City, then they can only come from the Zhao family in Linjiang City."

The rich man analyzed slowly.

This made Li Qinggan feel very reasonable, but for a long time, the Zhao family in Linjiang City had not had any dealings with the Zhao family here, which made him not think about it in this way.

So, this time it was Li Qinggan's turn to look worried.

"Or, should I let my second brother, third brother and the elders come back?"

Li Qinggan asked tentatively.

"It's too late, and it's meaningless. As far as I know, the Zhao family on both sides are overbearing. Even if we don't touch the remnants of the Zhao family, the Zhao family in Linjiang City will not think we are innocent."

"It's better to take the opportunity to kill more remnants of the Zhao family and take more of the wealth accumulated by the Zhao family."

"Besides, this matter is not just us fighting alone. There is also the Jiang family. Don't think that the Jiang family is very low-key."

"In our generation, a legitimate daughter of the Jiang family married a legitimate son of the Shannan Dao Daogong family as a concubine."

"In other words, the Jiang family can talk to the Daogong side."

"After the remnants of the Zhao family are destroyed, we will talk to the Jiang family about this matter and let them contact the Daogong family. If the Zhao family in Linjiang City really has the same ancestor as the Zhao family here, then you must be prepared for a big loss. The wealth obtained from the Zhao family may not be enough to deal with it."

The elder looked at Li Qinggan and slowly told his own arrangements.

"So that's why, no wonder you, the elder, emphasized that you wanted to involve the Jiang family. So you had made such a plan."

"It's true that a treasure in the family is like an elder."

"As for the wealth obtained from the Zhao family, it's all unexpected money anyway. Even if it's gone, it's not a big deal."

After knowing that the problem had been solved, Li Qinggan immediately relaxed.

"In fact, compared with the Zhao family's affairs in Linjiang City, I'm more worried about the annual tribute."

However, the elder didn't seem to let Li Qinggan relax at all, and immediately said something bigger.

"Annual tribute, what's wrong with annual tribute."

"We are not the city lord, do you want us to pay annual tribute?"

Li Qinggan looked at the elder in confusion.

"We don't have to pay the annual tribute, but the Ji family doesn't care about that. If the envoys they send don't see the annual tribute, they will target the local big families and force them to pay the tribute. If they don't pay, the family will be exterminated on that day."

"Is the Ji family so overbearing?"

Li Qinggan was shocked.

"They have the qualifications to be overbearing."

The elder of the big family sighed, and then continued:

"We can only hope that the Zhao family in Linjiang City has no relationship with the Zhao family here, so that we can save a lot of money for handling."

"In this way, the money for the annual tribute will not be lacking."

"And if they have a relationship, then we must prepare for the whole family to leave Linshan City."

"The Ji family is unreasonable. If you don't want the Li family to be exterminated, you must arrange this matter as soon as possible."

Perhaps Li Yan didn't expect that after working so hard for so long, the Li family still couldn't escape the fate of leaving Linshan City.

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