mesbooks Chapter 132 The Ma Family of Lingzhou
Chapter 132 The Ma Family of Lingzhou
Chapter 132 The Ma Family of Lingzhou
Zhuo Yang took the business card, and after reading it, his mouth started to twitch.
Even a fool would know that the contact information on the business card must belong to Little Phoenix, and that red heart is a clear indication of ownership.
The little phoenix was showing him a scare: Your concubine Guo'er has been transferred away by this master!
Laughing and crying at the same time, Zhuo Yang raised his head and said calmly, "Guo'er, be careful on the road. I'll wait for you to return to Lingzhou to celebrate your victorious return!"
"Hmph!" Chen Guo sneered, "Why don't you call me concubine anymore? Are you scared? Are you afraid of our sect leader?"
Upon hearing this, Cui Yi felt a surge of cold air, which made him shiver.
To avoid getting involved, he said he had a stomachache and ran away.
Zhuo Yang's lips twitched slightly, but he remained calm and said, "Guo'er, things aren't what you think."
“Of course I know what happened.” Chen Guo stared intently into Zhuo Yang’s eyes, seemingly sneering. “When the Perfume Cruise Ship sank, you fought alongside the Pavilion Master, and then you both disappeared for five days.”
"With your dashing demeanor, Zhuo Yang, and the bond of life and death, even if the Pavilion Master is as proud as a queen, he can't escape your grasp, can he?"
"The Pavilion Master just got back and asked me to give you her business card, with a red heart drawn on the back. Heh... quite the trick, Zhuo Yang!"
Zhuo Yang was immediately jolted awake, thinking to himself that women are all Sherlock Holmes; they can figure things out from the slightest clue.
However, Little Phoenix's request for Chen Guo to draw a red heart was essentially a way of revealing her true intentions to Chen Guo!
Women are all so scary!
The mighty demon lord, thinking of the countless female demons who surrounded him back then, suddenly felt a sense of horror as if he were caught in countless conspiracies. No one could possibly know how many times he had been schemed against back then!
"Speechless, huh?" Chen Guo sneered. "You have nothing to say to me either?"
Another extremely cold storm struck, making Zhuo Yang feel as if he had fallen into an ice cave, and causing passengers near the exit to shiver inexplicably.
"Ahem!" Zhuo Yang chuckled awkwardly. "If I still make you my concubine, will Qianqian kill you?"
"..."
Chen Guo had planned everything meticulously, but she never expected Zhuo Yang to be so shameless. She had always thought that Zhuo Yang would be firmly held in the palm of the Pavilion Master's hand, and that no other woman could even dream of touching him.
"You think beautiful!"
With a cold laugh, Chen Guo turned and left.
Zhuo Yang didn't follow; he stood there, smiling faintly.
Chen Guo suddenly stopped in her tracks, turned to look at Zhuo Yang, and said coldly, "One month from now, I will show the Pavilion Master that I am even stronger than her!"
This time she really left. The clatter of her high heels was sharp and resolute, drawing attention.
"Declare war?" Zhuo Yang gasped.
Little Phoenix's behavior has already shown that she is a jealous person. If Chen Guo declares war on her, wouldn't she be in the middle of the battlefield between the two sides?
"Brother Zhuoyang!" Cui Yi ran over, smiling awkwardly. "The Pavilion Master has assigned us to explore the secret realm. The plane is about to take off, so I came over to say goodbye."
"Take good care of Guo'er, and don't let her act impulsively," Zhuo Yang instructed.
Cui Yi nodded, then handed over a bank draft, the one Zhuo Yang had given to Chen Guo earlier.
"What do you mean?" Zhuo Yang frowned.
Cui Yi winked and said, "My sister said that one cannot accept a reward without merit. She is not your concubine, so she cannot accept the money."
"What else?" Zhuo Yang frowned as he looked at him.
"You absolutely mustn't let our sect leader know, and you can't let my sister know that I said this." Cui Yi leaned closer and lowered his voice. "My sister said that you should keep your money safe. When she comes back, she wants you to take control of all your money!"
He winked lewdly at Zhuo Yang and ran away quickly.
Zhuo Yang looked at the bank draft in his hand, shook his head, and stuffed it into his Qiankun bag.
Damn it, I'm not going to have any good days from now on!
Dongfang Jiye sent a helicopter to pick him up, but the location couldn't be near the airport. Zhuo Yang took a taxi to the seaside and then flew back to Lingzhou.
……
Before Zhuo Yang even boarded the helicopter, the situation in Lingzhou City was quietly changing.
The Ma family of Lingzhou controls the majority of the wholesale medicinal herb business in Lingzhou. In the area of raw material wholesale alone, the Ma family controls more than 70% of the business, and has been controlling it for decades without any major fluctuations.
Although the Ma family's wealth cannot compare with that of Dongfang Jiye, Dongfang Jiye's family heritage is far inferior to that of the Ma family.
At this moment, Ma Jian'an is paying homage to his ancestors in the Ma Family Ancestral Hall.
"With our ancestors above, Ma Jian'an, as the current head of the Ma family, has decided to join forces with the Wang family of the capital to eliminate the cultivator who is disrupting the stability of the cultivation world in Lingzhou, in order to ensure the prosperity of the family!"
Ma Jian'an kowtowed several times, then clasped his hands together, his expression solemn.
"May our ancestors bless me and help me defeat the enemy in one fell swoop!"
The Ma family ancestral hall is located in the backyard of the old Ma family residence. After finishing the worship ceremony, Ma Jian'an returned to the main hall in the front yard of the old residence, where more than twenty men had gathered. They were all direct descendants of the Ma family in the present day.
"Homeowner!"
The crowd bowed in an ancient cupped-hand salute, and then lined up on both sides of the hall.
Ma Jian'an sat down in the main seat of the family, his gloomy gaze sweeping over everyone. He nodded slightly and said, "Everyone should know the purpose of gathering you all today. Our Ma family is about to go to war with Zhuo Yang and his cronies!"
“Patriarch!” A man stepped forward from the line. He was Ma Jiangang, the youngest brother of Ma Jian’an, who had been knocked unconscious by Ma Jian’an when Zhuo Yang robbed him.
Among the members of the Ma family, Ma Jiangang only had the cultivation level of the Fusion stage, which was in the lower-middle range. However, he was the younger brother of the family head, and relying on his high status in the family and the fact that he had always been pampered, he stood up on the spot.
Ma Jian'an's face darkened. "Little brother, this is none of your business. Go back to your place!"
"This is the Ma family clan meeting, everyone can voice their opinions!" Ma Jiangang was unmoved, glaring at Ma Jian'an through gritted teeth. "Brother, there's something I must say. Zhuo Yang himself is only at the Heartbeat stage, yet he can kill a Golden Core stage expert, and he also has a Nascent Soul stage expert by his side. With our family's strength, can we defeat him?"
These words immediately created an awkward atmosphere in the hall. Almost everyone looked down at the ground, their faces tense.
If they had known that Zhuo Yang had already formed his Golden Core a few days ago, they probably would have started a fight with the family head on the spot.
"Brother, let's think about it again." Ma Jiangang gave a worried, bitter laugh. "Zhuo Yang is a bandit. What if we fail to kill him and instead get suppressed by him? In that case, the Ma family's century-old accumulation might all end up in Zhuo's name!"
"Shut up!" Ma Jia'an stood up, furious.
At that moment, disdainful laughter came from the courtyard outside the hall.
The Ma family members were startled and turned around in unison. In the courtyard paved with blue bricks, a man with a sinister smile walked slowly in with more than ten people behind him.
Ma Jian'an looked at them and said in a deep voice, "Gentlemen, the Ma family is not acting alone. They are helpers sent by the Wang family in the capital. Starting today, we will eliminate Zhuo Yang's forces step by step, and then kill Zhuo Yang once and for all, restoring peace to Lingzhou!"