allonlinenovel Chapter 448 Hou Shao is old
Chapter 448 Hou Shao is old
Now, I have been seeking change for more than five hundred years.
In addition, before the change, there was a period of silence of more than 300 years, and the depletion of spiritual energy was more than 800 years ago.
Even though there have been reforms that have extended the lifespan of some monks, at this point in time, many monks still die of old age every year.
Experienced the freedom from suffering.
Li Changxiao counted the years carefully and found that if one was willing, with the wealth of the Jia family, they could really afford to hire a cultivator, but these cultivators would not be too strong.
He pondered for a moment, and suddenly told the daughter of the Jia family that he was a monk and was willing to help the Jia family find their son, and hoped that she could introduce one or two people to them.
The daughter of the Jia family was stunned, "You were not invited?"
"No." Li Changxiao said truthfully.
Qianjin frowned, thinking deeply, secretly annoyed at herself for being too talkative. She thought this man was invited here and was also an insider. Unexpectedly, this was not the case, and she just said so many inside stories. What if this man had bad intentions and spread these things?
If I take it with me, my father will definitely blame me.
It was not possible to take her with her, nor was it possible not to take her with her. She was so worried that she didn't know what to do until the strange man smiled and said that he would never implicate her and had no bad intentions. The young lady's eyebrows relaxed a little when she saw the man's handsome face, and she nodded in agreement.
Just like this, with a confused mood, she took Li Changxiao to see her father, the current head of the Jia family.
Five people had gathered in the main hall of the Jia family. The head of the Jia family sat in the main seat. He had thick eyebrows and a square face. He was wearing a purple and gold brocade jacket and a beaded belt around his waist. He looked very luxurious. But his hair was a little messy and his face looked a little tired. He was sitting facing the main door. From a distance, he saw his daughter, accompanied by a man in white, walking towards the main hall to discuss important matters.
The head of the Jia family saw that Wanri's well-behaved daughter actually came out to cause trouble at this critical moment. He was furious and walked over quickly in frustration. He raised his hand and slapped her without saying a word.
The pretty face of the daughter of the Jia family turned pale. She dared not hide or evade. She just stood there straight. In the end, it was the man in white who helped her block the palm.
"Master Jia, don't blame her. It was me who wanted to come here." Li Changxiao said with a chuckle, behaving casually.
He quickly stated his purpose. The head of the Jia family twitched his face and glanced at the other people in the hall.
At this moment, in the hall, besides the head of the Jia family, there were four other people, all of whom looked gray-haired and had old age in their eyes.
All the descendants of the Jia family were arrested. This action was directly related to the survival of the Jia family, so it had to be cautious. The four old cultivators present were either acquainted with him directly or indirectly, and were introduced by middlemen.
Only then will you feel at ease and dare to entrust the life and death of your clan into the hands of others.
That's why he lost his composure and became extremely angry when facing Li Changxiao, the intruder and unstable factor.
However, an old man stood up and vouched for Li Changxiao, thinking that he could join in.
"Really?" The head of the Jia family was stunned.
"If the master of the family can trust me." The old man nodded.
"Allow me to ask a question." The patriarch immediately asked, "Does Mr. Hou know him?"
"..."
Hearing this question, the old man called Hou Lao was silent for a while, and after a few seconds he sighed and replied, "I know him."
After saying that, he turned and looked at Li Changxiao, "Brother Changxiao, it's been a long time since we last met. You haven't changed at all. Do you still remember me?"
His voice was full of vicissitudes and endless emotion, his eyes were trembling a little, and he deliberately avoided Li Changxiao, with a barely perceptible uneasiness in his eyes.
The head of the Jia family, who was standing by, was deeply moved when he saw that the respected Old Hou behaved like this towards this young man.
"Long time no see, Brother Hou."
Li Changxiao spoke loudly and clearly, as if he were old friends meeting and calling out to each other from afar even though they were several hundred meters apart.
The voice is not loud, but it can make people turn their heads and make people feel more friendly, as if they were not strangers.
"Do you still recognize me?" Old Hou's eyes were burning.
"Of course." Li Changxiao pinched his chin, looked at him carefully, and said half-jokingly: "He is still handsome."
"Hahaha." Old Hou laughed, and the invisible grudge was mostly gone.
Strictly speaking, his friendship with Li Changxiao was not that deep.
It was just that they met by chance on the road of reform, roasted a fire together on that cold winter day, and then woke up and went their separate ways.
But that was the most special year. The memories of that year seem to be imprinted in my mind so clearly, as if they were still yesterday.
That year, at the beginning of the reform, he was young and energetic, with two people accompanying him. He had lofty ambitions in his heart and his back was still straight.
That year, he still shouted, "My heart is higher than the sky, and I created the world."
He is Hou Shao.
Hou Shao accompanied Qing Xiao on the first reform journey.
"Forget it, forget it. Let's talk about the past later. Let's talk about business first."
Hou Shao waved his hands, trying his best to conceal the fluctuation in his eyes.
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With Hou Shao's introduction, the head of the Jia family naturally had no reason not to trust Li Changxiao. The interrupted meeting continued. The head of the family was afraid that Li Changxiao did not understand the reason, so he took a few minutes to tell him what had happened.
A few months ago, the three major families in Qingrao City, Jia, Zhou, and Wang, and their more than 30 descendants all disappeared overnight.
There were countless experts in the three major families' mansions, but no one noticed.
The three families were furious, but also horrified, as they had never seen anything like this before. After thinking it over, they dared not speak out.
If these descendants died as a result, it would be an unimaginable blow to the three major families, so they tacitly suppressed the matter, and suppressed it tightly.
From then on, every month or so, a secret letter would be stuffed at the door of the mansion, most of which would demand money.
As he spoke, the head of the Jia family took out the secret letters for Li Changxiao and others to look at.
Li Changxiao took over two or three letters and read through them line by line, and found the contents of the envelope to be horrifying. The letters described the appearance and height of each of the heirs in detail, perhaps to provoke the Jia family members, and even many private details took up a lot of space.
If one saw one's own flesh and blood being treated like pigs and cargo, described in such a undignified and dehumanizing way, one would probably feel unbearable pain in his heart.
This is not over yet.
The letter said that they were taken to a paradise and lived happily there.
But they were not well behaved, often fighting and getting sick, so they asked the Jia family for upbringing fees. Although it was called upbringing fees, the starting price was 100 taels.
After reading all the envelopes.
Li Changxiao saw the process of a person's desire gradually expanding.
In the first ransom letter, Xiaozhen demanded a hundred taels of silver.
In the second ransom letter, Xiaozhen demanded one hundred taels.
In the third blackmail letter, Xiao Zhen's desire reached its peak, and she extorted ten thousand taels in one breath.
In addition to the three ransom notes, there were occasional apology letters.
The language in the apology letter was perfunctory, and the content was basically the same: one of her children died of illness due to a weak constitution, so she felt sorry and wrote a letter to apologize.
These envelopes are too explicit, and there is a cruelty that is detached from the paper.
Therefore, the head of the Jia family never dared to open the envelope, and only at this moment was he willing to uncover the scar for Li Changxiao and others to see.
"This guy is so arrogant! What he did is against the principles of heaven!" An old man stood up and cursed.
"Master, don't worry. Since we have been entrusted with this task, we must help to the end. Justice is clear, and we will not allow the thief to be so arrogant."
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