Under One Person: One Person Goes

Chapter 507: The Past of Lujia Village

The next day, Lujia Village.

Last night's farce ended. Although the villagers of Lujia Village who were sent away by Lu Ren early on did not know what happened last night, when they woke up, they saw the Lu Zhi lineage's house was deserted. The police who had received early notice came to the village to seal off the houses and search for evidence.

These documentary clips that they had seen on TV news were now presented before their eyes. Combined with the past experiences of Lu Ren, the clan leader and village chief, they also guessed a little.

However, some people wanted to go to the room where Lu Ren was to find out what was going on.

Only the children of the two brothers Lu Ren and Lu Ci were seen cooperating with the police, and the two parties were not in the village.

Because they brought wine and food, they came to the ancestral tomb of the Lu family on a small hill west of Lujia Village.

To pay respect to a brother.

At this time, at the Lu family's ancestral tomb, Lu Ren and Lu Ci stood in front of a tombstone, set out wine and food, and lit incense and candles.

The two brothers stared at the tombstone in a daze.

The tombstone reads: Tomb of younger brother Lu Ji, erected by elder brothers Lu Ren and Lu Cijing.

Born on March 3, the first year of the Republic of China, and died on June 1, 1970.

Only when they heard footsteps behind them did Lu Ren and Lu Ci put away their sentimental thoughts.

"You're here, Zhang Chulan."

"Master Lu."

According to what Lu Ren said last night, Zhang Chulan and his three companions came to the Lu family's ancestral tomb. As for Ren Fei, the person in charge of the Central China region, she left first with the car of Nadutong Company last night. There were still too many things to deal with in Lujia Village, which would keep her busy for a while.

Zhang Chulan called out to the two brothers Lu Ren and Lu Ci, and did not rush to ask about what happened in the past. Instead, he bent down, took out three incense sticks from the basket, lit them, came to the tomb, inserted them, and bowed three times.

Seeing what Zhang Chulan did, Lu Ci's sad expression eased a little.

Lu Ren also praised it.

"He's a good kid."

"The one who made the two Master Lu remember him like this should be the Second Master Lu mentioned by Master Lu and Master Lu Zhi last night."

"It's the one you're thinking of. In our generation, except for Ah Ci and I who are born from the same mother, the rest are all uncles and aunts. Although they are not blood brothers, they are better than blood brothers. Including Ah Ci, there are seven of us in total. The second oldest is a special one among the seven brothers. His background is not good. Even now, his background is still subject to rumors from outsiders..."

Talking about his second brother who was killed by the third brother Lu Zhi, Lu Ren obviously talked more. He did not talk about the past directly with Zhang Chulan, but talked about the past of his second brother.

The Lu family's inherited Ruyi Jin has always been passed down to males but not females. The second master of Lu Ji who was killed by Shuangquanshou, his mother was the aunt of Lu Ren and Lu Ci, but his father did not know who she was.

To be precise, he was born after his mother was raped in an accident and was forced to become pregnant.

Whether this happens in the past or now, it is always very painful and even life-threatening for the female victims.

Things are better nowadays with advanced medical technology. As long as the woman is honest with herself, a simple painless abortion can be performed before the fetus is formed, giving both parties a sense of relief. The decision however lies with the woman herself.

But in ancient times, including the Republic of China, especially among the thousand-year-old famous families in the world of extraordinary people like the Lu family, and they are direct descendants, this is a scandal.

The rumors from outsiders alone are enough to make people unable to bear the humiliation and commit suicide.

The second son Lu Ji mentioned by Lu Ren met a very good mother who kept the baby in her belly despite the pressure from her father and brothers.

"Dad, no matter what, the baby in my belly is innocent. This is my own fate. I will accept it and bear it myself. As long as you don't abort the baby in my belly, I will accept whatever you want to do to me."

What else could the old patriarch of the Lu family do when his daughter, whom he cherished as his precious jewel, threatened to kill herself? He had a hundred ways to abort the fetus, but he could only let it happen.

Later, in order not to embarrass her father and brother, she moved out of the house and found a side room at the entrance of the village to live in. She started a tofu business and gritted her teeth to give birth to Lu Ji, who was considered a bastard and a wicked child by other villagers and clansmen in Lujia Village, and named him Lu Ji.

This word "集" simply lets him know that he was born and survived with all the love of his mother.

After giving birth to Lu Ji, Lu Ren, the aunt, treated herself as a married outsider living in Lujia Village. She refused to accept help from her brother and father, and went to the county town to do tofu business, and gritted her teeth to raise Lu Ji.

Perhaps it was God's mercy, but apart from living in Lujia Village, Lu Ji was a person from a different world from the other Lu family members. He had heard a lot of gossip from the villagers and the words of his peers since he was a child, and he also knew about his own life experience. He was more intelligent and mature, and had his own ideas.

When they were children, Lu Ren and Lu Ci were the only two among their peers who did not look at Lu Ji with tinted glasses. They knew the misery of their aunt and sympathized with this cousin, and helped Lu Ji out of trouble many times.

But Lu Ji was very clear. He knew that if he wanted his mother to hold her head up high in the village, he had to either become famous in his studies or practice Ruyi Jin.

So he always found time to lie outside the Lu family mansion, watching Lu Ren, Lu Ci, Lu Zhi and others inside the house being taught by the elders of the family how to build a foundation, how to find the Qi, let that sense of Qi circulate in the body for a cycle, and step into the door of spiritual practice.

When he got home, he started to imitate what he had done.

From time to time, Lu Ren and Lu Ci would secretly bring some food to help Lu Ji and teach him everything they had learned.

Lu Ji really trusted his two cousins, one dared to teach and the other dared to learn.

Unexpectedly, after all this, he really succeeded.

You should know that the stage of obtaining Qi is the most dangerous stage for a practitioner when he or she begins to practice. If there is no master watching over you, and you try to figure it out on your own, you may easily go astray, which can lead to disability at best and death on the spot at worst. With the half-baked teachings of Lu Ren and Lu Ci, Lu Ji actually obtained Qi and was able to practice Ruyi Jin. Lu Ren and Lu Ci were happy for their cousin.

This also indirectly confirms that Lu Ji's talent as a special person is not bad, and is not inferior to Lu Ren and Lu Ci.

Taking advantage of this opportunity to embark on spiritual practice, Lu Ren and Lu Ci's father and grandfather were able to bring their daughter (sister) back, and Lu Ji's name could be written in the Lu family tree.

As a story, this is already a happy ending, but reality is not a story. Stories will come to an end and be logical, but reality will not.

If nothing else, there will be an accident.

Lu Ren and Lu Ci's aunt accepted her son Lu Ji into the family tree and let him practice in the home of his brother who had become the clan leader, but she did not want to return to the family.

She was well aware of the power of gossip. Even though Lu Ren and his lineage were the main line of Lujia Village, and even though her son could practice the Lu family's inherited Ruyi Jin, the rumors in Lujia Village would at most decrease, not disappear.

Lu Ji had no choice but to accept his mother's arrangement, but the precocious him realized that becoming an extraordinary person and being able to practice the Lu family's inherited Ruyi Jin was not enough. If he wanted to change his mother's experience of being looked down upon and subjected to rumors, he had to do something bigger.

But Lu Ji had no idea how to accomplish greater things, so he could only practice Ruyi Jin in Lu Ren and Lu Ci's home. As time passed, slowly, Lu Ren and Lu Ci were known as the two pillars of the Lu family. In their generation, except Lu Ren and Lu Ci, there were seven brothers who stood out, including Lu Ji and Lu Zhi who was arrested last night. They were regarded by the elders of the clan as the future backbone of the Lu family.

"Since the old Taoist priest told you about the Battle of Fucheng on Mount Longhu, you also know what I went through at that time. When I went to Fengtian in the past, I knew that if the Lu family wanted to survive in this chaotic world, it would not be enough to rely on the family's Ruyi Power alone, so I applied for the National Government Military Academy and became Huang Wei's student. I fought in the Battle of Songhu and the battle that was called the Battle of Fucheng in the circle. After the battles, I returned home with the children of my clan and some civilians.

With the financial resources of the clan and the fact that I was a student of Huang Wei, the team I raised was incorporated into the National Army in the war zone at that time. I became a small regiment leader, and Aji also served under me as a squad leader. Later, after the war was won, the civil war had to be fought again. I had no interest in military affairs, so I resigned and returned home. Unfortunately, the National Government did everything it could to win the civil war, and even my Lujia Village was not spared and was forcibly conscripted.

Although Ah Ji had experienced life and death, he was my subordinate before and did not understand the unpopular actions of those insects in the National Army. They also had their own ideas and I could not persuade them. I could only watch him and a group of other young men in the village join the army. I have not heard from him since then. My aunt cried so much that she went blind because she did not know whether Ah Ji was alive or dead.

The Nationalist government forced my Lujia Village into this situation, so I naturally got ruthless and enlisted again with my master's relationship, organized an uprising on the battlefield, and gave them a vengeance. I sent my master and several generals of the Nationalist government to Gongdelin. Later, the next time I heard about Ah Ji was during the founding war in the 1950s. This kid was more ruthless than me. He cooperated with our soldiers from inside and outside to win a great victory, captured several generals of the Nationalist government, and returned home after retiring from the army. No one in Lujia Village dared to gossip about my aunt. At that time, this kid was really high-spirited~"

Thinking of the scene of personally welcoming their cousin at the village gate, Lu Ren and Lu Ci felt proud.

"As for his death, it was related to the chaos of that year. I will not go into details because I only know that after returning home, Ah Ji obeyed the organization's arrangement and went to work in a county to cooperate with the county chief in combating desertification and improving people's livelihood. Later, the county chief there contracted an incurable disease due to years of combating desertification. If they wanted to save him, they could only use the Shuangquan Hand, one of the Eight Wonders. At that time, the only one who mastered the Shuangquan Hand was Wang Zizhong's first wife, Duanmu Ying.

At that time, Duanmu Ying's trip was kept secret. After all, her eight magic skills were more dangerous than other magic skills in some aspects. If it weren't for the county magistrate's desertification control achievements, Wang Yi would not have sent Duanmu Ying. But on the way, Duanmu Ying and her group were attacked by unknown forces. No one survived except Duanmu Ying. Duanmu Ying herself was severely damaged in the soul and has not woken up since then, becoming a vegetable.

The most terrifying thing is that she has lost her Eight Wonders Skill, the Double Hands."

"Gone?"

"That's right, Zhang Chulan, it's gone. You don't understand these eight strange skills. They are different from our methods of cultivation. They can be taught directly through the soul, but whether you can master them depends on you. The attack on Duanmu Ying has not been found out yet. Although the county magistrate who was in charge of desertification control was rescued later, he only lived ten years longer before passing away. As for the news that Duanmu Ying and his group went out to treat illnesses, apart from Wang Yi and the old Taoist priest, only Aji knew about it. At that time, Aji was visiting his relatives in Lujia Village.

So Wang Yi brought people to Lujia Village to find Ah Ji and bring him back to investigate the matter. However, when he arrived, he only saw Ah Ji's body and a confession. Even though Wang Yi knew something was fishy, ​​he had no evidence and it involved many people, so he could only give up and left those four lines of doggerel at the old site of Lujia Dyeing Factory. "

Lu Ci took over his brother's words and talked about the outcome of the incident that year.

When seeing the puzzled expression on Zhang Chulan's face, Lu Ci also gave him an answer.

"Zhang Chulan, do you feel confused? With the cultivation level of your master and Wang Yi at that time, they could have just started a killing spree to prevent these two hands from causing chaos in the world. Believe me, the alien world at that time was nothing but squeezing things in their hands. They had no power to resist at all. The two of them were enough, even if we counted those overseas.

To be honest, I admire Old Master and Wang Yi, because if it were me, I would have killed them until they handed the people over, but they didn't. They made the rules and followed them. I admire them from the bottom of my heart. But I never thought that it would be Third Brother who killed Brother Ji. "

"The third brother? You think too highly of him. He was just used as a gun. If he could hide so well, I wouldn't have found him. This bastard has it all his own fault!"

Speaking of last night's farce, Lu Ren was also furious.

What Lu Zhi did was really going to push Lujia Village into an irretrievable situation. Did he really think the 21st century was the last century?
The more advanced the technology is, the more insignificant the methods of aliens will be in front of a stable and developing country. Do you think you can manipulate people's hearts just because you have mastered the two hands? Ridiculous!

Apart from the Eight Wonders themselves, the only people who know the Eight Wonders best are Wang Yi and Zhang Zhiwei. They know best that these Eight Wonders are just skills after all, and the core is the person.

If others said they had methods to break the Eight Unusual Skills, Lu Ren would not believe it. But as eyewitnesses who had witnessed how powerful these two were, how could they not have any preparation after so many years?

The company was able to spread the word through the meeting of the ten bosses, making it clear that it was determined to protect the successor of the Eight Wonders. Naturally, the company had already prepared to use the Eight Wonders as bait. At this time, whoever showed up would die!
Wasn't last night's farce obvious enough? What was the point of planning for so many years? Three trucks and twenty people easily dismantled the farce that Lu Zhi had been carrying out for so many years.

If I hadn't been paying attention to what happened back then, the person who came last night would not just be Ren Fei, the head of the Central China Region.

It is possible that Lujia Village would be deserted overnight.

After calming his brother Lu Ci's emotions, Lu Ren finally spoke.

"Zhang Chulan, I know you are investigating the cause and reasons of the chaos back then. Where have you found so far?"

"In reply to Master Lu's words, I learned from Master Lu in the capital that Senior Wang Yi had awakened after a three-year sleep after the Battle of Fucheng."

"Lu Jin, this old guy is really lucky. He has his elder brother to support him and his senior brother Wang Yi to take care of him. Although there have been some unpleasant things in the Lu family over the years, they have never encountered any disasters like the ones in our Lujia Village. Since we are talking about 40 years, let's start from 40 years ago. A lot of things happened in this year.

Lu Jin's cousin Lu Guangda who studied in the United States, Wu Gensheng of the Thirty-Six Thieves, Lin Zifeng, Duanmu Ying, me, Japan's Higashiyama Shinobu, and a few old friends, one by one, let me start with the scar on my neck. Those over there, come and listen together. We are all descendants of the Eight Wonders, and it is your responsibility to shoulder this responsibility. Make your own decision after listening."

As he was speaking, Zhang Chulan heard footsteps coming from behind him. Wang Ye and Zhuge Qing walked side by side and greeted Zhang Chulan.

Zhang Chulan naturally didn't expect that Wang Ye was also the successor of the Eight Great Skills like himself, but now was not a good time for the two to greet each other. Both sides simply greeted each other and stood in front of Lu Ren and Lu Ci.

As Lu Ren recalled, time went back to mid-April 1940, on a train to Shanghai.

After learning from the old man of the Lu family that Quan Xing is now in danger of persecution by the new political alliance set up by the Japanese, Wang Yi and Zhang Zhiwei disguised themselves and boarded a train to Shanghai, preparing to find their old friend Liu Wei who stayed in the concession to inquire about Wu Gensheng's situation and resolve Quan Xing's current crisis.

(End of this chapter)