Dongbo Lie and his wife stared at a group of people approaching from a distance.
"Brother, what do you think Father and Mother will do? Will they let the Moyang family off so easily?" Qing Shi, standing beside him, asked quietly.
"Since we've agreed to let Father and Mother handle it, we don't need to worry about it." Dongbo Xueying watched, then suddenly frowned. Moyang Qi, dressed in a silver robe, was walking at the front, and among the group of family elders behind her was a man in a gray robe, who was none other than his childhood uncle, Moyang Chen.
"Moyang Qi, leading the elders, comes to apologize to Duke Dongbo and the Duchess!" Moyang Qi knelt down without hesitation.
Rustle.
The group of family elders behind her all knelt down together.
This scene made Dongbo Xueying's eyelids twitch.
"No." Moyang Yu's face changed, and he rushed over to help his brother Moyang Chen up, "Everyone, get up, get up."
Dongbo Lie also went to help.
"We, the Moyang family, do indeed owe you both." Moyang Qi did not get up; all the elders behind her remained kneeling, regardless of how Dongbo Lie and Moyang Yu tried to pull them up.
"Humph!"
Accompanied by a cold snort, a surge of extraordinary fighting aura formed a fan shape and appeared out of nowhere, sweeping over Moyang Qi and the group of elders. It skillfully avoided Dongbo Lie and his wife.
Thud— Moyang Qi and the others were all blown into the air, colliding with the distance. Some fell to the ground, others hit the walls, and some, who were weaker, spat blood on the spot. Moyang Qi and the others all had their faces change, looking at the cold-faced Dongbo Xueying with fear.
"Apologize? Kneeling?" Dongbo Xueying sneered, "Is this just a show?"
"This is the dossier!"
Moyang Qi reacted quickly, flipped her hand, and picked up a dossier, quickly standing up and respectfully presenting it to Moyang Yu, "Duchess, please look."
"Dossier?" Moyang Yu looked at Moyang Qi with a complex expression. This was the clan leader, the once high and mighty clan leader. In fact, Dongbo Lie, Dongbo Xueying, and the others all despised the Moyang family, but Moyang Yu had the most complex and contradictory feelings.
She carefully opened the dossier and read it.
"Hmph, what a thousand-year-old family." Moyang Yu's face darkened as she read, "The various branches and veins fought so fiercely. It turns out my father died so early for so many reasons."
"5,869 people executed. Over 20,000 people sentenced to severe punishment." Moyang Yu read to the end and was also somewhat shocked.
"What!" Dongbo Lie couldn't believe it.
"Over 5,000 people executed, and over 20,000 people sentenced?" Qing Shi was greatly surprised.
Even Dongbo Xueying was somewhat shocked. It was too harsh! The entire Moyang family, including guards and servants, numbered about 100,000. Those who could be sentenced... if they were servants or guards, they were usually closer to the family. The large-scale guard teams generally did not get involved. Excluding the large-scale guard teams, the entire family numbered about 50,000 to 60,000.
To remove 30,000 people?
It was really harsh.
...
Actually, internal struggles in such large families were common. Once discovered, the scope of involvement was extremely wide. This time, the Moyang family had two goals: to extinguish Dongbo Xueying's anger and to use this opportunity to reorganize the family! Many of the cancerous elements were eliminated, and in the past, even the clan leader could not have acted so recklessly. But this time, with the banner of 'extinguishing the anger of the extraordinary life,' swift and decisive action was taken!
5,869 people were executed, and over 3,000 of them had little to no connection to Moyang Yu.
The 20,000 people sentenced... were mostly enforcers and guards, all subordinates of the eliminated forces, directly sentenced to hard labor.
"This is a million gold notes." Moyang Qi then presented a thick stack of gold notes, each one a large denomination of 100,000 gold coins, a total of 100 notes!
"To be able to come up with so much." Dongbo Xueying was also surprised. Xiang Pangyun left behind over 8 million gold coins, and the Si family might have a bit more, but not much more. The Moyang family, after all, was founded by an extraordinary life, a true extraordinary. So the Moyang family had a deeper foundation, but after over a thousand years, many of their assets were fixed, like alchemy workshops, territories, large castles, and shops.
To come up with a million gold notes was also very difficult.
In fact, this time the Moyang family also eliminated many cancerous elements, seized their assets, and mortgaged them to the imperial bank to get many gold notes. They then gathered more from the family treasury to make up the total of one million gold coins! This was almost a third of the Moyang family's assets!
"Furthermore, the family council unanimously agreed that Moyang Chen will serve as the new clan leader." Moyang Qi added.
"Brother?" Moyang Yu was somewhat dazed.
Dongbo Xueying's lips curled slightly.
It was really harsh.
Making his uncle the clan leader, or executing or sentencing 30,000 people from the family, and then giving a million gold coins. His mother and uncle were close siblings, with deep feelings.
******
Before long, it was time for Dongbo Xueying to leave.
Early morning.
In the training ground, Dongbo Xueying was practicing his punches. The spear is an extension of the fist! Dongbo Xueying liked practicing spear techniques, but he also enjoyed practicing punches, making his body complete and harmonious... the power flowing within, each move either retracted or extended.
"Whoosh." Dongbo Xueying stopped, taking a deep breath.
The surrounding air trembled slightly and then calmed down.
"Xueying, come, have some tea and snacks." Seeing Dongbo Xueying stop, Moyang Yu called out.
"Okay."
Dongbo Xueying smiled and walked over, picked up a cup of water and drank it all in one go, then took a snack and ate it, one bite at a time: "Mother, your snacks are the best. I haven't had such good ones since I was eight."
"Are the castle's many excellent chefs not better than me?" Moyang Yu smiled.
"I'm not lying, they really aren't." Dongbo Xueying quickly finished a large plate of snacks.
This month was too comfortable.
Since he was eight, he had been practicing spear techniques relentlessly. Later, he spent six years in solitude in the Blackwind Abyss. This month was like a dream.
"Are you leaving this afternoon?" Moyang Yu suddenly said.
"Yes, I'm leaving this afternoon." Dongbo Xueying smiled, "If I stay any longer, I might turn into a playboy."
"Playboy or not, it doesn't matter." Moyang Yu was very reluctant to let her son go.
"I still want to walk further on the path of the extraordinary." Dongbo Xueying smiled, recalling the past, "When I was a child, I loved reading the biographies of the extraordinary. Looking at those extraordinary ones, I dreamed of flying through the sky, drinking with deities, and playing with demons. Now that I've stepped onto this path, I must strive to go further. This path is still interesting."
If the previous twenty years were about saving his parents, he had never dared to slack off.
Now, it was because of his own inner pursuit.
And there was another reason he didn't mention: seeing the Si family and others bow their heads, and seeing the Moyang family all kneeling, Dongbo Xueying had vowed never to let his family fall to such a state!
"Changfeng and the others have high hopes for me. I am the youngest to reach the extraordinary in a thousand years. If I fall into decline, it will be a great joke in the eyes of all the extraordinary in the Longshan Empire." Dongbo Xueying smiled.
...
That afternoon.
After lunch, Qing Shi, Dongbo Lie and his wife, Zong Ling, and Tong San were at the main building's entrance, seeing Dongbo Xueying off.
"No need to see me off."
"If there's anything, you can contact me through the communication bracelet." Dongbo Xueying smiled, "That's it, I'm leaving."
"Brother, I will also reach the extraordinary!" Qing Shi suddenly shouted.
Dongbo Xueying was taken aback.
Zong Ling, Tong San, and Dongbo Lie and his wife all laughed.
"Good, you have spirit." Dongbo Xueying also smiled, "Qing Shi, I'll be waiting for you."
"Okay." Qing Shi nodded.
Whoosh.
Dongbo Xueying's body was bathed in a fiery glow. He looked at his family, grinned, and then shot into the sky, flying northward and quickly disappearing into the horizon.
(The End of This Chapter)
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