Chapter 160: Chapter 105: A Plan to Destroy the Tang Family? The Luo Family Sits Securely on High!_2
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At this moment, someone was rapidly jogging toward this place.
It was not until he reached the foot of Feng Wentai that he hastily knelt to the ground.
His body trembled slightly.
His face was full of fear and unease.
Yet, Feng Wentai paid little attention to this.
He was silently observing the corpses of the farmers, ah, no, they should now be called refugees.
He couldn’t help but sigh softly, a hint of helplessness appearing on his face.
The number of refugees was increasing.
Not just those pouring into Huai Shui County from outside.
Even many of the locals within Huai Shui County itself had become refugees under the terror of the drought and the disturbance of locusts.
This had been giving Feng Wentai quite a headache lately.
Especially as the reserves of food were diminishing.
Feng Wentai had been growing increasingly irritable in recent days.
“Chen Family, Tang Family, and that Luo Family, how have they been doing lately?”
After a moment of silence, Feng Wentai suddenly inquired in a low voice to the officer following close behind him.
“The Chen Family’s situation is not much better than ours.”
“The Tang Family, by contrast, has vast reserves of food.”
“So, it seems they are not too worried about the drought and locust disaster.”
“As for the Luo Family…”
As he spoke, the officer hesitated for a moment.
“What about the Luo Family?”
Feng Wentai turned his head, gazed at the officer behind him, and then pressed for an answer.
The officer swallowed hard, pondering for a moment.
After organizing his thoughts,
he slowly spoke: “The Luo Family… it’s a bit strange. I don’t know what method they’ve used, but the farmlands they’ve opened near Qingshi Town somehow maintain a certain level of moisture, and even the climate… seems more comfortable than here.”
Upon hearing this, Feng Wentai’s brow furrowed slightly.
At first, he felt the officer behind him was spouting nonsense, deceiving him.
But after taking a moment to think,
Feng Wentai dismissed this notion.
The officer behind him wouldn’t dare to fabricate lies to deceive him.
“So, you’re saying all this is true?”
After thinking for a while, Feng Wentai asked the officer behind him once more.
The officer nodded with absolute certainty.
“If that’s the case, then there is indeed something curious about the Luo Family…”
Feng Wentai muttered to himself.
Soon, however, he stopped concerning himself with the odd phenomena of the Luo Family,
and shifted his full attention to the Tang Family.
Within Huai Shui County, if one were to say who had the most food reserves,
it would undoubtedly be the Tang Family, which had transformed into a major grain merchant in the past decades.
The Tang Family had so much food stored that even if the Chen Family, Luo Family, and his own reserves were combined,
it might not reach a third of the Tang Family’s reserves.
So, if he wished to solve the problem of insufficient food reserves in the future,
he simply had to eradicate the Tang Family.
However, while it was easy for him to wish the destruction of the Tang Family,
if other familial powers, like the Luo Family or Chen Family, took this opportunity to severely damage his Feng Wentai’s influence,
then that would pose some real trouble…
“Perhaps, on this matter, I can form an alliance with the Luo and Chen families just this once.”
Thinking thus, Feng Wentai silently nodded to himself.
Although there were some disputes between Feng Wentai, and the Luo and Chen families,
it is known that in this world, there are only everlasting interests, not everlasting enemies.
On such an important matter,
the Luo and Chen families would likely not refuse Feng Wentai’s proposal.
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After mulling it over for a long time,
Feng Wentai sent messengers to the locations of the Luo Family Ancestral Land and the Chen Family.
In Qingshi Town, at the Luo Family Ancestral Land,
inside the room where the Luo Family Patriarch resided,
the current Family Head, Luo Ping, was sitting in the master’s seat in a state of quiet reflection.
Standing silently before him were Luo Yong, Luo An, and more recently the young master with a burgeoning interest in formations, Luo Chuan.
“So, what do you all think about Feng Wentai’s proposition?”
As silence gradually fell upon the room,
Luo Ping, who was sitting in the master’s seat,
suddenly spoke, addressing everyone in the room.
“Joining forces with the three families to annihilate the Tang Family, I see no problem with that…”
Luo Yong, the one in the room commanding an army of over two hundred thousand, was the first to speak up.
“Family Head, if we truly eradicate the Tang Family, how then shall the benefits be divided?”
After pondering for a moment, Luo An brought up this question.
Amidst the silence in the room, only Luo Chuan remained quiet throughout.
He silently listened, offering no suggestions of his own.
“Chuan’er, what are your thoughts?”
Suddenly, Luo Ping, sitting in the master’s seat, addressed his silent son Luo Chuan.
“Father, I believe that we, the Luo Family, can instead choose not to get involved at all.”
“We can sit atop the high platform, silently watching the struggle between the three forces.”
Luo Chuan spoke calmly.
Luo Ping frowned slightly and asked in a low voice, “Oh? And why is that?”
Luo Chuan simply smiled faintly,
and explained softly to Luo Ping: “Father, why do you think Feng Wentai would propose an alliance of the three families to collectively destroy the Tang Family?”
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