Chapter 71: Chapter 71 Huangqu Town, Huang Family Immortal?_1
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Time flew by like a fleeting horse.
In the blink of an eye, the end of winter had arrived.
At this moment, even in the early morning,
the temperature outside was already much higher than when winter first began.
Although the biting cold still lingered,
at least it was no longer so cold that it was unbearable.
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In Qingshi Town, within the Luo Family Ancestral Land,
inside the courtyard where the Luo Family Patriarch resided,
Luo Ping, the current Family Head of the Luo Family,
was still seated in the main seat, as usual, dealing with piles upon piles of trivial documents that were as high as mountains.
It was exhausting, truly exhausting.
Sometimes handling affairs would be extremely confounding.
But there was no helping it.
Who asked him to be the head of this Luo Family?
Some matters are his, simply his.
He cannot avoid them.
“Father…”
Just as Luo Ping was processing the documents at hand, his son, Luo Chuan, suddenly walked in.
“Father, do you know about the matter with third uncle?”
“Your third uncle?” Luo Ping glanced at his son Luo Chuan, thought for a moment, then said in a low voice, “Do you mean, your third uncle is planning to send troops to attack the nearby Huangqu Town?”
Luo Chuan silently nodded, making his way towards Luo Ping.
“Huangqu Town is located near our Qingshi Town.”
“Due to the extreme poverty within the town, it is jointly governed by the three major families within Huangqu Town and is not given any attention by the granary merchant Tang Family, the established Chen Family, and that Prince from Feng Wentai.”
“If your third uncle wants to make a move on Huangqu Town, then let him do it.”
Luo Ping was slightly bowing his head, continuing to speak while dealing with those tedious matters at hand.
“Father, since you know all these,”
“do you know the real reason why those three forces are not paying attention to Huangqu Town?”
“Isn’t it because Huangqu Town is extremely poor?” Luo Ping raised his head slightly, speaking with some surprise.
“Not so.” Luo Chuan shook his head calmly, then continued, “The main reason Huangqu Town doesn’t catch the eye of those three forces is because of one of the three major families within the town, the Huang Family.”
“According to rumors, around three hundred years ago, an ancestor of the Huang Family seemed to have been an Immortal.”
“An Immortal? Are these rumors true or false?” Luo Ping asked.
“I am not quite clear on that, and as for whether the Immortal mentioned in the rumors has already fallen, we know nothing at all.”
“Therefore, to avoid provoking this trouble,”
“Huangqu Town gradually became a place where the Huang Family took the lead, with the other two major families supporting, jointly governed by the three families.”
“Chuan’er, have you come to me today because you want our Luo Family to stop the attack on Huangqu Town?”
“Not exactly.” Luo Chuan shook his head again, saying calmly in a low voice, “I came here just to ask you to be a bit more courteous to the Huang Family.”
“Some things, it’s better to believe that they might be rather than to disbelieve them altogether…”
“Is that so?” Upon hearing this, Luo Ping nodded silently and said, “Alright, I understand.”
“Father, now that I’ve spoken about this matter, I will take my leave…”
“Mmm, you may leave.”
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Qingshi Town, located at the border of Huai Shui County,
and Huangqu Town is situated not far from Qingshi Town.
Previously, because of the Huang Family,
combined with the extreme poverty of Huangqu Town,
it led to the granary merchant Tang Family, the established Chen Family, and Prince from Feng Wentai, these three forces, paying no attention to Huangqu Town.
But with the rapid rise of the Luo Family from Qingshi Town,
as the Luo Family started to show interest in Huangqu Town,
the entire Huangqu Town, with its tens of thousands of residents,
suddenly began to panic.
“Head of the Huang Family, regarding the Luo Family from Qingshi Town, what do you think we should do?”
In Huangqu Town, within the Huang Family Clan Land, in a hall crowded with people,
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As the Family Head of the Wu Family, one of the three great families of Huangqu Town.
He was feeling quite anxious and fearfully said to Huang Baidao, the Patriarch of the Huang Family.
“Huang Family Patriarch, you must think of something quickly!”
“If we allow the Luo Family’s army from Qingshi Town to surround Huangqu Town just like that,”
“then will this vast Huangqu Town still belong to our three great families?”
“Or might it not even be necessary to change its name to Luo?”
In the hall, next to Huang Baidao,
the Bai Family Head from another one of Huangqu Town’s three great families was urging him anxiously and continuously.
“Huang Family Patriarch…”
“Huang Family Patriarch…”
“Huang Family Patriarch…”
As the voices urging him grew louder and louder,
Huang Baidao, the current head of the Huang Family, finally couldn’t bear it anymore.
He stretched out his hand and slammed it down hard on the wooden table in front of him.
He even smashed a huge hole into the wooden table.
“What to do, what to do, what to do?”
“What can I do?”
“That Luo Family has at least thirty thousand troops at their disposal, and they are all fully armored elite soldiers.”
“Even if we don’t mention those thirty thousand troops, there is an ancestor in the Luo Family Ancestral Land who has reached the Organ Refinement Realm.”
“If the Luo Family really wants to take Huangqu Town, who can resist? Who dares to resist?”
“Is it your Wu Family, or your Bai Family?”
Huang Baidao stretched out his hand and pointed at the two Family Heads beside him.
And when those two Family Heads were pointed out,
it seemed their heads could only burrow even lower.
They simply couldn’t do anything else.
“Everyone outside is spreading rumors that my Huang Family had an Immortal ancestor three hundred years ago.”
“Whether this is true or false,”
“you all acknowledge the existence of that old ancestor of the Luo Family Clan in the Organ Refinement Realm, don’t you?”
“In a small place like Huai Shui County, you all should know what kind of existence a cultivator of the Organ Refinement Realm represents, right?”
“Even if we don’t talk about Huai Shui County, even within the entire Luo Mountain Prefecture, the status of a Viscera Refinement cultivator is top-notch.”
“In front of such a formidable cultivator, the big grain merchant Tang Family, the long-established Chen Family, and even the King of Huai Shui don’t dare to push the Luo Family too hard.”
“And now, you all want my Wang Family to take the lead?”
“My Wang Family doesn’t want to die yet!”
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Clearly,
the negotiation among Huangqu Town’s major families had ended somewhat discordantly.
Under the constant pressure of the formidable Luo Family,
among the families within Huangqu Town,
who would have the courage to go up against them head-on?
“Dad, has everyone gone?”
In the somewhat dim and empty hall,
a young man suddenly appeared next to Huang Baidao.
The youth’s surname was Huang, his name Zeng.
He was the current Young Master of the Huang Family.
“Gone, they’ve all gone…” Huang Baidao looked at his son Huang Zeng and smiled as he nodded.
“Dad, are the rumors outside true or false?”
“Did our Huang Family really have an Immortal among our ancestors?”
Huang Zeng hesitated for a moment, but ultimately he still couldn’t help but ask.
“Does it matter whether an Immortal was born from our ancestors or not?”
“My son, what is most important right now is the present, not those elusive rumors…”
“Even if our Huang Family ancestors truly had an Immortal among them, what of it?”
“In front of the powerful Luo Family, distant waters cannot quench a fire close at hand…”
“He who understands the times is a wise man!!!”