dognovel Chapter 377 Bloodline Rumors (1)
Chapter 377 Bloodline Rumors (1)
"Grandpa..."
The old man and the young man who were talking turned to look at the person who came. When Shen Yu saw that it was him, he immediately sat up straight, smiled and waved at him, "Ah Xing, come here quickly, grandpa is having fun!"
The old man stared at the person in front of him with complicated eyes, trying to find any trace of his daughter's existence on him.
Unfortunately, no, the only descendant of their Ji family actually looks more like that hateful son-in-law! !
In fact, the old man's expression was a little out of control since he entered the door, just because he hadn't figured out how to face it. If his daughter hadn't insisted on marrying into the palace, maybe their Ji family would not have been extinct, and the eldest son would have been unmarried for the rest of his life. But...how come this man is gone?
The absent-mindedness and contemplation that inadvertently revealed in his grandfather's eyes made Lu Yingxing feel an indescribable sadness in his heart.
He is no longer the child he was back then. He once blamed his mother for abandoning him.
But looking back on the past, indeed no one had the right to impose the mess of Zhuocheng on a woman who had just lost her lover. The vicissitudes of life only revealed the fragility of human nature and the complexity of power.
Over the years, those who had sworn to follow his father till death have been leaving or betraying him. He has fantasized countless times: if his mother were still alive, would his situation not be so difficult?
But after getting to know his wife, a flower called "understanding" quietly blossomed in his world. He learned a simple yet profound new word: put yourself in someone else's shoes... If he found it difficult, his mother's situation would only be more difficult than his. Whenever he thought of it, he seemed to be able to penetrate time and space and see the sad and desperate look in his mother's eyes.
So he let it go. Although this "understanding" was not enough to dispel all the coldness, it was enough to make him empathize with his grandfather's heartache.
Seeing that Lu Ying had been in for a long time but her grandfather was still in a daze, Shen Yu took the initiative to break the silence. Anyway, some questions had been brewing for a long time, so she couldn't help but speak out, "Grandfather, do you know about the rumor that the former royal treasure is in the hands of the Ji family, and that the one who can open the treasure must be a direct descendant of the Su family or the Ji family?"
The old man glared at his granddaughter-in-law who suddenly got to the point, and said unhappily, "If I don't know, why am I here?"
When Shen Yu heard this, he almost jumped up in fright, "Don't tell me this is true! The emperor said that someone in Luocheng believed it, so he tried his best to arrange our marriage. Could it be that someone in Zhuocheng also believed it?"
After the friendly exchange just now, she and the old man have become friends, so they don't talk so politely. After all, they are both very upset with the same person!
One was unhappy that he killed her daughter, and the other was unhappy that he almost helped her husband to start a harem... So they shared a common hatred and cursed at each other.
The old man sighed softly, "If they didn't believe it, my Ji family wouldn't be extinct..."
He glanced at her belly, then at Lu Yingxing, looking at this and that, "Alas... I really didn't expect that those people would actually have the ability to bring you two together and make you give birth to a child..."
Then he seemed to be talking to himself, "Then what's the point of us doing this?"
Shen Yu felt that there was something wrong with his words, but she couldn't figure out what was wrong. She just held her stomach anxiously, and even her voice was full of resistance, "No... Using direct blood to open the treasure is not reliable at all!"
As a modern person, she believes that this kind of feudal superstition is really harmful and completely unscientific. It is even less reliable than blood test! The problem is, there are actually people who believe it! ?
"Besides, there can't really be any treasure, right? Who is the evil one behind all these things? They really want to kill us!!" She looked at Lu Yingxing worriedly.
He immediately stepped forward and hugged his wife's shoulders to reassure her, but his grandfather's eyes evaded...
Lu Yingxing suddenly had an idea and thought of an absurd possibility, "The source of the rumor...could it be that the Ji family spread it?"
"How, how is it possible!" The old man said this with great confidence, so he was not sure again.
It's over. His expression became even more guilty...
Shen Yu opened his mouth and asked tentatively, "So... the source of the rumor is not the Ji family, but at least the Ji family knew about it and did not stop the news from spreading, right?"
There was silence in the room. The old man refused to answer and didn't dare to look at the two of them.
Shen Yu was furious and asked with gritted teeth, "Which ancestor of the Ji family deserved such a good death!?"
Suddenly, a figure knelt down, kowtowed loudly, and said, "Prince, Princess, please stop forcing me. Let me tell you!"
The person who spoke was Ruilin, the silent young man who had always been following the old man.
From him, Shen Yu and the others learned the story of a noble family from the previous dynasty who had a very good death!
Several hundred years ago, the Ji family, grateful for the kindness of the late emperor, took the lead in moving their clansmen to Zhuocheng to open up wasteland, and all members of both the direct and branch families arrived. Because of this, the Ji family, as the first group of people to arrive in Zhuocheng, also witnessed the entire process of its construction from nothing. Therefore, the Ji family's feelings for Zhuocheng can be said to be deeper than those of King Zhuo.
At that time, the Lu family was welcomed by the people to be crowned king, while the other families were "exiled" but were reluctant to leave, and none of them wanted to leave the prosperous place.
However, their image as villains was too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. No matter where they went, they were rejected and resisted by the people. As a result, their main family and branches were scattered all over the place, and the family's influence was greatly affected. In desperation, they had no choice but to continue heading north.
But because of this mistake, they were surpassed by many families later on, and the several major families of the previous dynasty had long since ceased to exist in name only.
Although, in the end, people from each family arrived in Zhuocheng one after another, they were no longer the group of people who once called the shots in the capital. Some of them died, some were injured, and except for the Ji family, which survived intact, the other families were seriously injured.
But even so, the first thing they did after arriving was to still dream of dominating Zhuo City...
The Ji family had no intention of getting involved in the dispute and only wanted to develop infrastructure. The head of the family announced that except for the direct lineage, all the tens of thousands of people in the side branches would directly change their surnames, even arbitrarily and without restrictions on the number of surnames. This allowed the descendants of the Ji family to integrate into the local people to the greatest extent possible.
This move was also praised by the first King Zhuo at that time, and he also awarded a large hill where the direct descendants lived at that time to them as their clan land!
However, it was precisely because of this action that the other noble families became dissatisfied with the Ji family, but they could only stop at being dissatisfied. After all, they also needed to recuperate.
After more than a hundred years of operation, until the Yun family began to gain a foothold in Youcheng, they began to get restless and started to instigate the other families to cause trouble.
Every family dreams of restoring their past glory...