The end of Ku Rong Street was a district for the rich.
The Lu Manor was also here, and was one of them.
The horse carriage drove all the way to the end of Ku Rong Street and entered an area that looked like a garden.
Grey-white stone walls surrounded the area, forming a large oval.
The Lu Manor was on the left side of the entrance.
Black doors, red lanterns, and white snow covered the two stone qilins at the entrance, making the Manor seem even more tranquil.
The horse carriage stopped at the entrance of the Lu Manor. Lu Sheng alighted from the carriage. Someone had already heard the noise and slowly opened the door. An attendant was waiting at the door to welcome them.
The moment Lu Sheng and Little Qiao entered, they saw a man and a woman standing on the stone bridge on the right side of the Manor.
The man was handsome and suave, with a jade-like complexion, sword-like brows and starry eyes, exuding a strong air of a Confucian scholar.
The woman was gentle and gentle, smiling faintly. Her features were picturesque, and she had a slender waist and long legs. She also had the air of a lady from a wealthy family.
Lu Sheng's train of thought was interrupted. Seeing the two of them, his mood improved slightly, and he took the initiative to greet them.
"Big Brother Xu, cousin sister has been missing you for a long time. Why are you only here today?" He smiled as he walked up the stone bridge.
The man turned and saw Lu Sheng as well, smiling.
"Oh, it's Young Master Sheng. I was ordered to investigate a case and just finished it, so I came to see Yiyi. Don't blame me for this. No one can defy orders from above. "
"Case? Is there any big case in the city recently? Why did Big Brother Xu have to go personally? "Lu Sheng knew the position of this Big Brother Xu, Xu Daoran.
He was the County Lieutenant in charge of security in Tongzhi County under the jurisdiction of Nine Links City.
The position of County Lieutenant was just below that of the County Magistrate, and was equivalent to the Director of Public Security in the entire Tongzhi County.
"The case of a few small fishing villages, but it's closed now," Xu Daoran smiled warmly. "Little Sheng, when do you plan to help your brother? Previously, you promised to help me manage the security in Tongzhi. "
How could Lu Sheng still remember what this body had promised before? He hurriedly laughed it off and changed the topic.
"A fishing village? Could it be the rumor of water ghosts causing trouble?"
"There's no such thing as a water ghost. It's just a lunatic. Due to the stimulation of vengeance, he went completely mad and murdered people everywhere he went. I've already killed him on the spot." Xu Daoran shook his head and said indifferently, "The case is closed, so let's not talk about these disappointing things. Little Sheng, do you remember what I promised Yiyi last time? "
"Going to the Red Lotus Temple to offer incense and go for an outing?"
Lu Sheng quickly replied with a smile.
"You do remember these fun things," Xu Daoran said helplessly. "You're not young anymore. You should be nineteen this year, right? I should find something to do. I can't live like this for the rest of my life, right? "
He had watched Lu Sheng grow up, and because of their family ties, he had always regarded Lu Sheng as his younger brother.
At this moment, he couldn't help but try to persuade him.
Lu Sheng shook his head and smiled.
"Big Brother Xu, do you want me to become an official or a businessman?"
"Of course it's to become an official. This is also your father's wish. Your uncle, your eldest uncle, they all hope that you can go out and help them as soon as possible. After all, you're the eldest son of the Lu Family. "
Xu Daoran persuaded.
"Let's not talk about this. There's no rush. I'm still young. There's no reason for me to push my own eldest son out so hastily."
Lu Sheng didn't take it seriously and quibbled.
Xu Daoran and Lu Yiyi were both speechless, and didn't continue to lecture him.
Lu Sheng didn't want to continue the topic of becoming an official, so he took the initiative to change the subject and brought Little Qiao back to his bedroom.
Returning to his bedroom, he changed his clothes and took the cobblestone. He didn't pay his respects to his old father, but went to the back garden alone.
Xu Daoran was born in the Xu Family. Like the Lu Family, they were one of the most influential families in the Nine Links City of the Northern Lands. The family had many branches and leaves, and all of them held important positions in the city.
Lu Sheng had a good impression of Xu Daoran. He was a kind person without selfish motives, and he really liked Yiyi.
To Lu Sheng, he treated him like a big brother.
Except …
Pinching the cobblestone, Lu Sheng recalled the scene he had seen earlier, and the coincidental death of the water ghost he had overheard at the city gates.
"In this world, are there ghosts and monsters? Are there immortals …?"
Gazing at the snow-covered garden, he felt an indescribable vexation in his heart.
"Perhaps it's just as Big Brother Xu said, and it's just a misrepresentation."
He shook his head, still harboring a sliver of hope in his heart.
In the evening, he returned to his room early to wash up and sleep.
Today's events left him in a state of confusion. He had too many things on his mind, and he grew tired quickly.
He slept until the next morning, when the sky was just beginning to brighten.
"Dong dong dong, dong dong dong!!"
A series of urgent knocks sounded on the door.
Lu Sheng's eyes shot open, and he straightened up from the bed, looking outside.
"Who is it!"
"Young Master, bad news!" It was Little Qiao's voice.
Lu Sheng hurriedly got off the bed and went to open the door. The moment he opened it, he saw that Little Qiao's face was frighteningly pale, without a trace of blood.
The little girl's cheeks, which had some baby fat, were trembling violently.
"Xu … Xu … Xu …"
Seeing this, Lu Sheng had a faint sense of foreboding.
"What's going on? Take a breath first! "
He reached out and patted Little Qiao's back hard.
Only then did Little Qiao's breathing become smoother.
With a sobbing tone, she spoke in one breath.
"Xu Family … Lord Xu Family, it's all over!!"
Lu Sheng was stunned.
Little Qiao quickly helped Lu Sheng put on his outer clothes, and the two of them ran out of the Manor without another word.
The head of the Lu Family, Lu Fang, was standing outside the Manor with his hands clasped behind his back. His face was somber and trembling.
Beside him were three large, double-row black horse carriages.
Lu Sheng, together with the rest of his cousins in the Manor, quickly greeted Lu Fang, and everyone boarded the horse carriages.
Lu Fang and Lu Sheng sat together. Both father and son looked at each other without a word, neither of them speaking in the carriage.
Lu Fang was more than sixty years old. He had a white beard, a slim figure, and a handsome face. He looked more like a scholar than a merchant.
Without stopping, the horse carriages soon arrived outside the gates of Nine Links City.
The moment Lu Sheng alighted from the carriage, he was stunned by the scene before him.
On the snowy ground to the left of the carriages outside the city gates, dozens of corpses lay neatly on the ground.
From the old to the young, from the men to the women.
They were all from the Xu Family!
They were dressed in the Xu Family's custom-made robes, and Xu Daoran was lying in the middle of the third row.
His face was ashen, his body stiff and his eyes tightly shut. His expression was one of extreme terror, as if he had seen something extremely terrifying.
Lu Sheng looked at the bailiffs maintaining order at the scene. He saw his father, Lu Fang, standing silently in front of an old man's corpse, his fists clenched tightly.
There was also the Prefect who had arrived after hearing the news.
His face was as white as the snow around him.
Lu Sheng took a deep breath and walked slowly to the side of a bailiff.
"How did they die?"
The bailiff recognized him and knew his identity. He sighed.
"They were all hanged to death by seaweed in their own Manor. I wonder where the seaweed came from … "
"Yiyi! Yiyi!! "
Suddenly, a cry of alarm came from behind. Clearly, Cousin Yiyi had fainted.
Lu Sheng took a deep breath and recalled what Xu Daoran had said to him yesterday.
He had just returned from the fishing village …
The fishing village …
The water ghost …
That strange pebble …
Lu Sheng's mind raced.
In reality, he had only been in this world for a few days and did not have a deep relationship with Xu Daoran. Hence, all he felt now was regret and shock. But there was no sorrow that others expected.
It was not that he had never seen dead people before.
Rather, it was that he had never seen so many dead people.
"Where's Taoist Chi Ling of the Xu Family?"
He heard Lu Fang ask the bailiff.
"In another place. The corpse was cut into several pieces, and some were eaten by wild beasts …" the bailiff replied in a low voice.
There was a moment of silence.
Whether it was the Lu Family, the Prefect, or the commoners watching at the city gates.
"Taoist Chi Ling's swift sword was even stronger than Uncle Zhao's …" Lu Fang's voice slowly trailed off.
Uncle Zhao was the strongest martial arts master the Lu Family had hired.
Taoist Chi Ling was even stronger than Uncle Zhao, and yet he was dead.
This case was no longer a simple murder case, but a major case that could threaten everyone at the scene!
Among those present, how many dared to say that they were stronger than the Xu Family?
Including the Prefect, no one dared to say so.
Lu Sheng stood silently by the roadside. He had thought that this world was very safe, and that it was just a replica of the ancient world of China.
There was some slight surprise, but it was not a big deal.
But now it seemed …
He touched the pebble in his sleeve pocket.
The pebble was shockingly hot at this moment.
He took the pebble out, hesitated for a moment, and then gently threw it away.
This thing could bring trouble upon himself.
The Xu Family, which had a strong foundation like his Lu Family, had been destroyed in a single night.
This made Lu Sheng extremely frustrated.
He thought for a moment, then suddenly walked to the pebble and bent down to pick it up.
"Rip."
He did not know when, but his index finger had accidentally scratched a weed that had sprouted out of the snow.
The weed was a special kind of blade grass, and the edges of its leaves were as sharp as blades.
Lu Sheng's finger was instantly cut, and drops of blood dripped onto the surface of the pebble.
"Young Master?" Little Qiao followed closely behind him, a little worried. Her little face was a mess of tears. Clearly, Xu Daoran's death was a blow to her as well.
Lu Sheng's body froze on the spot.
An extremely unique syllable suddenly appeared in his mind.
"Welcome to the Deep Blue Skill Cheating Device."
Lu Sheng's eyes instantly glazed over.
It took him a long while to recover his senses.
He looked at the blue translucent frame that floated before his eyes. Inside it was his name and the skills he had mastered.
"Isn't this … the little cheating device that I programmed into my phone?!"
Lu Sheng felt like he was going crazy. He was having hallucinations one after another.
It was one thing for him to be reborn as a powerless rich young master.
But now he was seeing all sorts of hallucinations!
In his past life, when he was bored, he had played a mini game called Legend of the Fallen Swordsmen. Because the game was too difficult, he had made up a simple cheating device to modify the martial arts in the game.
He named it the Deep Blue Cheating Device. Speaking of which, he had even personally recorded the voice using the voice changer.
Unexpectedly …
Then, Lu Sheng decisively looked at the interface in the frame.
The interface was extremely simple, with only small, densely packed boxes.
On it was written:
Lu Sheng —
Martial arts: None.
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