Rivers and Lakes Records

With Feng Ji around, Lu Mingtong felt more at ease walking in Yang's house.

Since Yang Tong saw his sixth junior brother last time, he didn't know what he was busy with and never came to him again.Not having to deal with him, Lu Mingtong was happy and at ease, and asked Feng Ji to go out and play together.

Along the way, he will meet some people who recognize him, but with Feng Ji around, he can deal with it fairly easily.

He was resting in his room that day, Master Yang sent someone over to invite him to the living room for a gathering, Lu Mingtong thought about it, since he came alone, it would be inconvenient to invite Feng Ji with him, so he just called Lu Douya and explained Fan then passed.

Master Yang was talking in the hall with a sullen face. A group of young disciples stood in front of him. Except for Yang Tong who was still scratching the tassel on his sword tassel, the rest of them bowed their heads respectfully.

Two stern-faced old men sat on the Eight Immortals chair beside them, and they nodded slightly when they saw him come in.

Lu Douya quickly said in a low voice: "They're all from the younger generation. There shouldn't be anyone who the young master took the initiative to talk to. Those two old men are from the Yang Family's Sword House, both surnamed Yang. They are in charge of the sword ceremony every time. of."

Lu Mingtong smiled and said, "Master Yang."

Hearing the name, a young man under the stage raised his head briefly, then lowered his head again.

Master Yang's expression softened a little: "The envoy of Fengyun is here."

Lu Ming thought in his heart, this room is full of the Yang family, and what they are talking about should be about the internal affairs of the Yang family. Why did Master Yang ask me to come here?

"I heard that Master Yang is looking for me."

Master Yang nodded, his eyes drifted to Lu Douya behind him: "This matter is of great importance, please avoid this little brother for a while."

Lu Douya looked at Lu Mingtong in embarrassment. Lu Mingtong thought for a moment and said, "You wait for me outside."

Lu Douya's hands were sweating uncontrollably. From his point of view, the people in this room were no different from rich wolves and leopards to the young master. If the young master accidentally missed something, they would have to eat him alive.

Lu Mingtong silently pressed one of his hands, and shook his head slightly.

Lu Douya had no choice but to say: "Then if you have anything to do, young master, feel free to call me. I'll wait outside the door."

After Lu Douya was led out, Master Yang let out a foul breath, as if he was trying to calm down his emotions.

Judging from the situation just now, Master Yang was obviously angry because of something, and the disciples in the audience were all trembling, only Yang Tong didn't care, could it be that he provoked him? Angry Master Yang?

The anger in Master Yang's chest subsided, and he turned his head to look at Lu Mingtong and said, "To tell you the truth, it's a big matter to ask Fengyun to come here this time."

The Famous Sword Conference is about to officially start, but he invited himself here at this juncture. Could it be that there is a problem with a certain process?

Before Lu Mingtong had time to guess, Master Yang sighed: "Emissary Fengyun should know that besides discussing swords, the most important thing in the Famous Sword Conference is to invite the latest batch of magic soldiers to come into the world. , were all carried out in secret and strictly supervised by me. But just last night, the people in the warehouse actually reported that there was one less weapon in the warehouse.”

Lu Ming's childish heart was startled, and he secretly thought that it was over, the ten weapons agreed upon were ten weapons, and one was stolen this time, what should the Yang family use to silence everyone during the meeting?

He asked cautiously: "Boldly ask... what is the stolen weapon?"

Master Yang sighed again: "It's a sword."

As if thinking that it would be better to be more detailed, without waiting for him to ask, Master Yang continued: "To be precise, the sword that dropped is not a weapon that will be sold publicly at the Famous Sword Conference."

"That is……"

"It's the heirloom sword of the Yang family."

Hearing this sentence, the disciples in the audience couldn't help showing surprised expressions.

They also don't know?Lu Ming's heart skipped a beat: "Heirloom Sword...Master Yang is planning to..."

"That's right." Master Yang said, "I wanted to use this opportunity to declare to my ancestors and heroes from all walks of life the successor of my Yang family by taking the Yang family's heirloom sword as an oath."

As soon as this remark came out, the disciples of the Yang family inevitably whispered to each other.

"when……"

"I've never heard of it either."

"The one who inherits must be the eldest brother..."

"Give me peace!"

Master Yang scolded, and the chattering stopped immediately.

"I know you are all surprised when I made the decision." Master Yang coughed and said, "But this is not what you should care about right now. The ancestors of the Yang family set the rules, seeing the sword is like seeing the head of the family." Someone dared to steal it during the Famous Sword Conference. I invited Fengyun envoy over here today because I wanted him to be a witness. If this sword was stolen by one of you, you'd better return it as soon as possible. I can still consider a lighter sentence. Otherwise, I will deal with it according to the Yang family's law!"

Lu Mingtong saw that the hands of some people below began to tremble slightly, and guessed that the crime of stealing the sword must be terrible.

Master Yang said again: "Of course, if someone who knows the truth and reports the truth, I will reward you a lot." He looked at the people with different faces under the stage, and raised his hand wearily: "Go out, Fengyun and I I still have something to say."

The two old men looked at each other, and led a group of disciples out tacitly.

He was too busy with the affairs of the Famous Sword Conference, but he lost his family-heirloom sword, which added fuel to the flames for Mr. Yang.

But as an ordinary person, when encountering such a situation, they would only think of covering up the fact that the sword was stolen.After all, judging from the reaction of the disciples of the Yang family, Master Yang did not inform them in advance that he planned to announce his successor when all knights from all sides of the Famous Sword Conference gathered.If they settle down and investigate secretly, even if they can't find the sword, at least they can temporarily preserve the reputation of the Yang family.

But Master Yang called himself here.

My identity is so special, I just need to write down what happened today in a book, and everyone in the world will know that the Yang family lost their family's precious sword during the famous sword competition, it is really embarrassing.

But he would rather take the risk of being ridiculed by the world to get himself involved in this matter.

What does this mean?

This time the Famous Sword Conference was beyond everyone's expectations. Was it really just to sell those few weapons?Does he have other plans?

Holding his teacup, Lu Mingtong began to imagine, if he were Master Yang, what would Fengyun Envoy be worth using?

Before he could figure out why, Master Yang had already cut to the chase and said, "I'm really sorry, originally this matter was considered a private matter, and I should investigate it myself, but I'm worried that there are many people at the Famous Sword Conference. As a person, he must have some ulterior motives. That's why I thought of inviting Fengyun Envoy to come and tell the truth about the matter, just in case."

Lu Mingtong said: "It makes sense, but I just saw their attitude just now. It seems that Master Yang has never mentioned to them that he wants to choose an heir. Since they don't know, why would they suddenly want to steal the sword? Get rid of these juniors. , does Master Yang have any doubts?"

Master Yang thought for a while, then shook his head: "There are too many guests in the Yang family these days, all of them are smiling, I really can't think of anyone."

Lu Mingtong silently slandered, you don't even know who it is, let alone me.This Master Yang dragged himself in, maybe it was just to help him find the thief, right?

Lu Mingtong said: "Since this is the case, Master Yang might as well investigate one by one to see who was not where he should be on the night when the sword was stolen.

Master Yang nodded: "I have already explained it just now, but it's not easy for me to ask about the guests. I can only trouble Fengyun to help the old man. I will thank you very much in the future."

Sure enough, I wanted to ask myself to help!Lu Mingtong was scratching his cat's claws in his heart, and he had to pretend to understand: "Master Yang, don't worry, I will do my best to help."

The two played Tai Chi in the house for a long time. Lu Douya was walking around outside the door, anxious like an ant on a hot pot. When he finally saw someone come out, he ran over quickly: "Master!"

Lu Mingtong nodded, seeing no one behind him, he said, "Go back."

Lu Douya's face was red, and she murmured softly, "You've finally come out, I was going to rush in to save you just now!"

Lu Mingtong said: "I talked to Master Yang about some things, so I stayed for a while."

Lu Douya said: "So that's it! I just saw that all the disciples of the Yang family in the house came out, but you and Master Yang haven't been seen for a long time, and I'm worried that you will be exposed."

Looking at his servant's worried look, Lu Mingtong imitated Feng Ji's way of pinching Lu Douya's face: "Don't worry, I just said a few words."

"It took so long to talk in a few words." Lu Douya said, "What is the matter with Master Yang looking for Young Master?"

Lu Mingtong thought for a while and said, "It's nothing."

Lu Douya said sadly: "Master is lying!"

Lu Mingtong: "..."

In the past, the young master would take the initiative to tell himself no matter what happened, but this time he avoided mentioning it. Lu Douya suddenly felt a sense of sadness and indignation about being abandoned, and accused him: "For such a long time, it must have been a short time, young master There is clearly something wrong, but you still lie to me!"

Lu Mingtong asked himself with a headache, is he being too lenient towards Lu Douya recently, why did he fall to the point of being accused by him?

"It's a long story. If you don't talk about it, I can't explain it to Master Yang." Lu Mingtong said casually: "If you are really curious, just think it is the sow of the Yang family who gave birth. , a little pig was stolen in the middle of the night, Master Yang asked me to help find the pig."

Lu Douya was stunned by his perfunctory attitude: "Master! How can I believe such outrageous words!"

Seeing that Lu Mingtong was ignoring him, he started to whisper in his ear again: "When the young master didn't come out just now, I was so worried. If something happens to the young master, what should I do!"

He howled even harder: "But the young master treats Bean Sprout like a fool, Bean Sprout is too wronged!"

Lu Mingtong quickened his pace: "I'll let you know when the matter is resolved."

Lu Douya said angrily, "Douya can't wait!"

Lu Mingtong's footsteps suddenly stopped, and he stopped moving towards a big bare tree.

Seeing this, Lu Douya shrank her neck, the young master wouldn't be angry, right?

"...Master?"

Lu Mingtong turned around abruptly, grabbed his collar with a face full of surprise, and said, "So that's how it is, Douya, you're really a genius!"

Lu Bean sprouts who did nothing: "Huh?"

Lu Mingtong was very excited because he got some clues by accident, left him and walked back, muttering silently while walking: "I can't wait, I can't wait, yes, I just can't wait!"

At that moment just now, he suddenly figured out the motive of Master Yang's initiative to drag himself into the game.

He can't wait.

Everyone said that the famous sword competition was held too hastily, and Dou Sprout even guessed whether the Yang family was short of money.But combined with everything he has heard and seen today, how can he not know whether Master Yang's real purpose is the Famous Sword Conference?

Lu Mingtong boldly guessed that Master Yang tried every means to gather the heroes of the world, and put together the heirloom sword and the new weapon from the famous sword conference, perhaps in order to announce the successor of the Yang family in front of the people of the world.

But Mr. Yang is not too old, but he has to rush to tell the world in this year. There are only two possibilities-someone covets the position of the Patriarch of the Yang family, and he has to mention the person he likes as soon as possible.Or something is wrong with his body and he must choose an heir before he falls himself.

No matter what the reason is, Master Yang is not allowed to wait any longer.That's why he messed up and wanted to drag himself into the water, so that even if he didn't find the sword in the end, he could still declare to the world his favored heir through his status as envoy of wind and cloud.

The more Lu Mingtong thought about it, the more certain he became, even his right hand trembled slightly due to the emotional fluctuations.

This feeling of suddenly learning other people's secrets is really...exciting.