The evening cocktail party was also very large, there were three tables in the lobby, and there were more than a dozen tables outside the lobby, the old man showed his face, toasted me with a glass of wine and said that he was unwell, and then retreated to the back to rest. The next scene was a little deserted, but a few people who couldn't be named by the Ling family accompanied them and occasionally had a drink.

The fat man poked me in the elbow and said, "Why don't you withdraw first?" Or let Luo Qiong and I go to the back and take a sneak peek? ”

I shook my head and said, "No, the water of the Ling family is deep, don't wander around without being completely sure......"

As I was talking, a drunken man came over with a wine glass, looking like a relative of the Ling family, staggered up to me, held the wine glass, and muttered, "Come, come...... A toast...... Our Chief......"

Before he finished speaking, the whole wine glass spilled, and a lot of wine splashed on my body, he hurriedly took a towel to wipe it, but when it came to my ear, he suddenly whispered and said quickly: "Tonight, there is something to discuss in the purple bamboo forest outside the town." ”

I heard it very clearly, although the other party said quickly, but his face did not change, and he was soon pushed away by the fat man, I wiped my clothes stained with wine, and shouted with a straight face: "I think tonight's banquet is almost over, we should go." ”

No one from the Ling family came to send them, and these people wished we would leave sooner. When we went out, a few of the Ling's entourage drove us and took us to the guest house arranged by the Ling's family. It is said to help us solve the accommodation problem, in fact, it is also convenient to monitor us, the surrounding shops and businesses are all the eyes of the Ling family, we have seen someone in every move, and even went out a few times, they will tell the Ling family word for word.

I shared a room with Lai Guodong, and after entering the room, I asked, "Brother Lai, do you know anything about this old man called Lingqun?" ”

Lai Guodong sat on the edge of the bed, nodded and said, "I knew that you would ask me, if you want to talk about this old man of the spirit group, you have to talk about the three old immortals of the spirit family first." If you want to deal with the Ling family, or contend with the Ling family, you can't do it if you don't understand these three old immortals. The Lingjia mansion is known as the four halls, the ordinary mansion is set aside from the left and right wings, there are up to three halls before and after, the front hall welcomes guests, the lobby meets guests, and the back hall feasts. Unless there are too many people, the banquet guests are usually in the back hall. Of course, the back hall is also a place for the owner of the mansion to talk to the closer guests. Friends who are on official business or in general relations are sent away in the front hall. Even the tea drunk is particular, and the tea drunk in the front hall is definitely not as good as the tea in the back hall. But the Ling family is known as the four halls, which means that the Ling family has four halls in this big house, in addition to the front, middle and back three halls, there is also an inner hall, and almost no one can enter this inner hall. Even the Ling family's own people were not allowed to enter the inner hall. If you want to enter the inner hall, you have to have the consent of the three old immortals. And this inner hall is actually the place where the three old immortals live, so outsiders are not allowed to enter. ”

I nodded knowingly, and then asked, "Then why is there only one spirit group that came out to greet us today?" ”

"Listen to me slowly." Lai Guodong waved his hand, and then said, "In the past twenty years, there has only been one spirit group of the Ling family's old immortals, that is to say, in the past twenty years, everyone has seen only one of the three ancestors of the Ling family. This is not to say that the other two old immortals of the Ling family have returned to the West, but because this is the rule of the Ling family. 100-year-old is the ancestor, and it changes every 20 years. ”

Many families and sects in the circle have strange rules, and the rules of the Ling family are not unusual at all, but the rules have their own reasons for existence. I asked curiously, "Why do you change every 20 years?" ”

"There are three old immortals in the Ling family now, each of them is a hundred years old, as for why he hasn't died when he is more than a hundred years old, I don't know if he has used Xuangong secret medicine. But after all, they are not fuel-efficient lamps, if the three old guys fight with their men, then the entire Ling family will definitely collapse in less than five years. Therefore, this rule was set at the beginning, and every twenty years, as long as the Ling family does not go downhill, no one can hinder anyone. And in the past twenty years, the old man has been in charge, so he is the only one who has come forward. It is not surprising that the Ling family will have a turmoil that changes the head of the family today, and there will always be some turmoil when the change of office every twenty years, and from now on, it is estimated that in the seventies, there was an infighting between the Ling family, and dozens of people died at that time, and even attracted the attention of many big cadres. Compared to that turbulent era, this little infighting is nothing now. ”

I frowned, according to this reason, Lingyan was pulled up by Lingqun, it must be a person from Lingshan, but why did you change him at this juncture of the change?

"Is the head of this spirit family saying that it can be exchanged?" I then asked.

Lai Guodong smiled, obviously I asked the point, he said: "The head of the Ling family is not a puppet, the appointment of the head of the family is generally very cautious, and once appointed as the head of the family, it is a matter of life, and the head of the Ling family is said to be eighty years old before he can retire." In other words, Lingyan is still far from stepping down. And Lingyan has always been a person from the Lingshan side, why was he changed at this juncture, or the ancestor himself named to change, I'm afraid there are still some strange things in this. ”

I nodded wistfully, looked up at the clock on the wall, it was already late at night, who was the guy who was talking to me by pretending to be drunk, and why did he ask me to meet? I thought about it for a while, now the situation is complicated, although I brought people into the Ling family, it is not good to clash with the hundreds of people in the Ling family, if I can learn more about the inside situation, it will be more beneficial to me. Therefore, the invitation of this mysterious person, I decided to go again.

It's just that there are people who are watching when they go out, and if they don't use some tricks, I'm afraid they will be discovered.

"Brother Lai, do me a favor......" I looked up at Lai Guodong and said meaningfully.

Half an hour later, a large group of us walked out of the door of the guest house, shouting loudly as we went, and when we reached a small restaurant that was still open nearby, we entered the door and shouted. The boss was obviously from the Ling family, and his eyes were a little panicked when he looked at us, and there was a bronze phoenix statue on the table.

"Three cases of beer, don't get drunk tonight!" The fat man yelled.

A large group of people drank in the tavern, and the boss and the two guys were busy, so I took the opportunity to sneak to the back of the house and ran out of the toilet. Looking around, there was no one, so he took advantage of the night to go out of town. After walking for more than an hour, there was a forest in front of me in the dark night, and the forest could be faintly seen purple in the moonlight.

I cautiously walked to the edge of the woods, and was looking around, when I heard a voice from the woods: "Please come in, no one is watching here." ”

I followed the sound and walked in, and saw a man standing in the middle of the forest, wearing a scholarly robe of the Republic of China, with his hands behind his back and his hair a little messy. Although the light was not good, I could still see at a glance that this person was the same person who was deliberately pretending to be drunk before, and I immediately became vigilant and asked, "You are not the one who asked me to come here!" ”

"No, I am. The person who sent you the message before was one of my men, oh, I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Lingyun, and I am the son of the Ling family, and I am also a relative. "I'm not familiar with this name, but judging by its extraordinary temperament, it shouldn't be an ordinary person.

"Then why did you ask me to come here?"

"I know that you have a good relationship with Lingqian, and you brought 507 people to the Ling family this time to save her. Of course, most of you know about this intention, and I'm not the only one. But in the huge spirit family, there are almost no people who can really help you. Everyone in the family wants to pat the ancestor's ass so that they can become the next head of the family. If you want to rescue Lingqian, this is very difficult. Lingyun said this thoroughly, and I didn't deny it, so I simply nodded.

"There's no one to help you get inside and out, and you don't even know where Lingqian is locked. It's even more impossible to rescue her, but! I can help you with that. "Speaking of which, I can also see that this person must have a plan, and most of them are here to cooperate with me. I don't reject this kind of cooperation, after all, I also need more information from the Ling family!