Chapter 56: Xiong family
The caravan was moving farther and farther away, and everything seemed to have returned to silence.
The place where the caravan was originally stationed was not cleaned up, and the pits that were trampled out formed a lot of water.
The task of cleaning up these garbage will become an extracurricular activity for the students of Guyue Mountain Village Academy.
On the hillside in the distance, in an inconspicuous place, Guyue Fangyuan quietly watched the caravan leave.
The caravan moved forward slowly, squeezed into the narrow mountain road under the heavy rain, and slowly drilled into the dense forest.
If it weren't for this rain, it would be difficult for him to deal with the clues left by the dead Jia Jinsheng.
The old man of Guyue's generation dragged Jia Jinsheng's body back to the underground as if nothing had happened, and he had to let himself clean up the mess for him.
This is probably him testing his ability, right? But it is really troublesome. Even if Fangyuan is a 500-year-old demon, he doesn't have a powerful spirit insect in his hand. It feels like a good cook can't cook without rice.
Fortunately, the heavy rain wiped out most of the traces, making it difficult for anyone to find them. However, we cannot be careless.
"Although Jia Jinsheng was a good-for-nothing, which led outsiders to think he was a useless playboy, he never showed his true strength until his death. However, he was of noble status, as he was the son of the head of the Jia family. I believe that it won't be long before Jia Fu will bring the caravan back to investigate. If I don't handle it well, the Gu Yue generation will definitely push me out as a scapegoat in order to hide themselves."
Fang Yuan was not really worried about Jia Fu. What really worried him was his ancestor. This spiritual master who practiced the blood way was definitely not a good person, and the threat he posed to him was far greater than anyone in Qingmao Mountain.
"Others are fine, but if he finds out that I have the sixth-turn fairy spirit, the Spring and Autumn Cicada, he will definitely kill me immediately. It seems that the plan to refine the blood-path spirit insect should be put on the agenda as soon as possible." Fang Yuan's eyes were dim. He was very clear about his situation. Although he had received funding from the Gu Yue generation, his life was also threatened by him.
Now he seemed to be standing in the fog and could not see any direction clearly. And there was a cliff under his feet. If he was not careful, he would fall down and be smashed to pieces.
The caravan was moving forward in the mountains and forests. Suddenly, there was a sound of breaking wind, and then several spiritual masters from the Xiongjiazhai came out from behind the bushes.
The leader of this team was a young female spiritual master in her twenties, with a second-turn cultivation level, riding a huge black bear under her crotch. What was more attractive than the giant bear was the girl's hot body and beautiful face. Especially under the light brown short skirt, the slender white thighs made some spiritual masters and mortals in the caravan unable to take their eyes away.
It was Xiong Jiazhai's new slave genius, Xiong Jiaoman.
Behind her, there were several young spiritual masters. They were Xiong Li, who was known as the strongest man in Qingmao Mountain. And Xiong Jiang, who had just recently broken through to the second level of cultivation.
Seeing the people coming from Xiong Jiazhai, the caravan's pace of progress slowed down. Jia Fu, who was sitting on the precious brass toad, waved his hand, and someone immediately went down to meet with the envoy of Xiong Jiazhai to discuss the next matters of entering Xiong Jiazhai.
"A spiritual master from Xiong Jiazhai?" Seeing someone coming, Fang Yue began to search his memory about Xiong Jiazhai.
The first generation of patriarchs of Xiong Jiazhai, like Gu Yue's first generation, were all fifth-level magic spiritual masters. In fact, only spiritual masters at the fifth level have enough power to create a village of their own.
According to the plot line, when the wolf tide attacked the three major families in Qingmao Mountain, it was reasonable that the three families should deal with the three groups of beast kings that made up the wolf tide. However, the spiritualists of Xiongjia Village used the five-turn spiritual insects left by their ancestors to hide all the tribesmen and successfully avoid the wolf tide, and diverted the disaster to Guyue Village and Baijia Village.
Guyue and Bai families really didn't expect that the Xiong family would be so ruthless, trying to kill with a borrowed knife and weaken their family power by using the wolf tide. If it weren't for the five-turn spiritualist Tiexue Leng who came to Qingmao Mountain to investigate the case and saved the remaining forces of the two major families of Bai and Guyue by chance, then Qingmao Mountain might have been the only one in power.
Fang Yue's eyes flickered and stopped recalling in his mind: "According to the fact that the ancestor of Xiongjia Village was a magic spiritualist, it is normal for Xiongjia Village to have such a temperament of harming others for self-interest and keeping oneself safe. Moreover, Xiongjia Village has a precedent of hiring magic spiritualists to hunt down geniuses from other two mountain villages. It can be said that for the hegemony of their Xiongjia Village, they have done everything possible."
However, Fang Yue did not have much aversion to many of Xiongjia Village's actions, and even had some understanding. Because sometimes, the competition between people is never about real strength. It's about who has a lower moral bottom line than the other.
The famous saying that the Great Love Immortal Venerable in this world has successfully followed is: My bottom line is no morality, and my morality has no bottom line.
Shameless is no longer enough to describe it, because for the Great Love Immortal Venerable, there is no such word as shame in his dictionary.
There are many such examples in the history of Blue Star. Once a person lowers his moral bottom line, then everything will be much easier.
For example, Cao Cao, who was defeated in Puyang, encountered a locust plague, which was a double whammy. In order to survive, Cao Cao acquiesced to Cheng Yu who went back to his hometown Dongjun to collect food. In the food he brought, he kept a certain number of "fathers and villagers" so that others would know that this was life-saving food.
It was precisely because of this that Cao Cao's army did not collapse and rebel due to lack of food. On the contrary, Lu Bu's army was very hungry. Only in this way can Lu Bu be defeated in one fell swoop, regain the opportunity of Yanzhou, and realize the hegemony of unifying the north in the future.
Examples of the same period include Liu Bei. Liu Bei was a moral model in the first half of his life and had a moral bottom line that was much higher than that of the princes of the same period. But it was precisely because of this that when he occupied Xuzhou and had the opportunity to annex Jingzhou, he missed the opportunity and was chased away by the enemy for most of his life. Later, when he was over fifty, he suddenly had an enlightenment and understood the root cause of his failure.
After taking over the remaining territory of Jingzhou during the Battle of Chibi, Liu Biao's son, Liu Qi, who was originally healthy, suddenly died of illness without warning, making Liu Bei finally the legitimate heir to Jingzhou.
At the same time, Liu Bei followed Zhuge Liang's "Longzhong Pair" plan for Yizhou, recruited Zhang Song of Yizhou as an internal agent, and entered Yizhou. Even though his compatriot Liu Zhang regarded him as one of his own, treated him well, and sent him food and troops, Liu Bei still did not change his mind about annexing Yizhou.
Even when his plan for Yizhou was exposed, he used his lifelong reputation for benevolence to trick the general of Baishui Gate in Yizhou into a banquet and staged a Hongmen Banquet. Successfully completed the operation that Xiang Yu failed to complete back then. Only then were they able to march straight into Yizhou and capture Chengdu, achieving the hegemony of three parts of the world in the late Han Dynasty.
Of course, the most successful person in this regard was Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin. Taking advantage of the little emperor's trust in him, he staged the Chenqiao Mutiny as soon as he obtained the army in the court. He wore a yellow robe and transformed himself from a general of the Later Zhou Dynasty to the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty in the blink of an eye. . It explains what it means to have soldiers and is mine. (PS: I don't know why, when I saw the yellow robe on my body, it reminded me of Chen Youliang's sentence in the TV series: You are really hurting me)
If they have lowered their moral bottom line and achieved their goals in this way, will future generations criticize them?
Basically no.
Although Liu Bei secretly attacked his clan allies, many people still chose to ignore this incident and called him unparalleled in benevolence and righteousness, and perseverance in the three-point world. Needless to say, Zhao Kuangyin did something to bully orphans and widowed mothers, but what more people remember is that he ended the chaos of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.
On the other hand, Song Xianggong defeated Renyi. During the confrontation between Song and Chu, the Chu army was crossing the river. Song Xianggong refused to attack because of the benevolence and righteousness of the Song army. As a result, the Chu army formed an array to attack after crossing the river, causing the Song army to be defeated.
Therefore, breaking through the moral bottom line is nothing at all to successful people. It can even be said to be their ladder to success. As the modern poet Bei Dao said, despicability is the passport of the despicable, and nobility is the epitaph of the noble.
If you are trapped by the so-called moral reputation and give up the real pragmatic choice, then you are truly stupid.
In Fang Yue's view, if there were no strong interference from off-site factors, maybe Xiongjiazhai, which had no moral bottom line, could really dominate Qingmao Mountain.