A knife in love

Chapter 889

I only heard the old man say: "Just now I was outside the door, but I also heard a few words from you."

As soon as he said this, the room fell silent again.After a while, Nie Dingnan laughed dryly, and said: "My son and the brothers are just talking casually, and there are too many things to do. I hope Daddy doesn't care."

Nie Lao Wu echoed and said, "Fourth brother is right, we just gather together and talk nonsense. Uncle Nie will treat us as farting, so don't get angry."

The old man sighed, but did not speak, as if he was thinking about something, so the room became quiet again.

After a long while, the old man said slowly: "My nephews, I have a question to ask everyone. Since our Nie family was officially elected as the leader of the five families of Nie, Lu, Zhao, Du, and Hua, if we talk about The population is prosperous, which of the five families is the head?"

After the old man finished speaking, no one answered for a while.The old man went on to say: "Why, do you not tell it after you know it, or don't you want to say it at all?"

Nie Laowu laughed and said: "Since the brothers are silent, my nephew has the courage to throw bricks to attract others. If we talk about the prosperity of the population, it is naturally our Nie family."

The old man let out an "oh", and then asked, "Does Lao Wu know how many people are there in our Nie family?"

Nie Laowu didn't answer right away this time, he muttered for a long time, finally coughed twice, and said with a little embarrassment: "My nephew is stupid, I don't know about that."

As soon as he finished speaking, Nie Dingnan said with a smile: "When my elder brother planned the strategy against the Xu family last year, he once counted the numbers of the four families of Nie, Lu, Du, and Zhao. I remember my elder brother said that our Nie family has a total of six There are 43 houses, 630 men and 380 unmarried women. Among them, there are 110 seven who have practiced martial arts and are able to fight. After these two years, there may be some changes now."

After Nie Dingnan finished speaking, Nie Lao Wu smiled and said, "The eldest brother and the fourth brother are more careful, we brothers are far behind."

Nie Dingnan said: "In order to deal with the Xu family, my eldest brother thought hard for six years before he came up with a clever plan to wipe out the Xu family in one fell swoop. He used Cao Mengde's tactics to destroy Ma Chao and Han Sui in Xiliang. When he set up his plan, Naturally, we need to know the known and the enemy. Not only do we need to know the reality of the Xu family, but we also need to find out our own number. Our five families have fought against the Xu family for hundreds of years. In terms of strength, we are naturally far above the Xu family. However, after repeated losses, the Hua family was wiped out because of this. After thinking about it, it was simply because the Xu family was in the dark and we were in the light. The members of the Xu family acted secretly and lived in different places. They never gathered in one place, but fought on their own. For example It is said that we exterminated a group of murderers from the Xu family in Henan, but the Xu family's children hiding in Shandong, Hebei, Henan and other places secretly spied on our weaknesses. They secretly attacked us, and we were caught off guard, and we ended up with heavy casualties My eldest brother thought of the Xu family's method, so he made a plan to use the other's method and return the other's own. He sent the capable children of our four families to scatter around to find out about the Xu family's whereabouts. The Xu family knew that Fengmen Village was ours. The base camp of the five families must be well-defended. Hundreds of years ago, they attacked Fengmen Village several times, but each time they returned in a big defeat, almost destroying the entire Xu family army. Therefore, they adopted the method of "weakening the branch first, then cutting off the branches." The way to do it is to not attack Fengmen Village, but to cut off our scattered wings with all our strength. In this way, all the elites of our four families gather in Fengmen Village, and watch the Xu family besiege our children everywhere. Finally found out the base camp where the head of the Xu family was hiding, and then a few months ago, all the elites suddenly came out, attacked the three secret camps of the Xu family at the same time, beheaded more than 1000 members of the Xu family, and eliminated our five families for hundreds of years. serious trouble."

Nie Dingnan became more and more excited as he spoke, boasting the achievements of the so-called "big brother" everywhere in his words.Li Qiufeng thought to himself, the "big brother" mentioned by this person is probably Ji Dingzhong who is hiding in the Yamen of the prefect of Luoyang.Thinking about it, Ji Dingzhong was originally called Nie Dingzhong, and he and Nie Dingnan should be brothers.And Nie Laowu and others are brothers of the same clan as Ji Dingzhong and Nie Dingnan, but they are still one level behind.Therefore, when they heard Nie Dingnan brag about Ji Dingzhong, although several people echoed their voices, they were somewhat insincere.

Nie Dingnan was talking vigorously when he suddenly heard the old man cough.Nie Dingnan immediately shut up.I just heard the old man say: "Now when we talk about our five families, we naturally talk about Nie, Lu, Zhao, Du, and Hua. The order of the surnames is not arranged randomly, but determined according to the strength and status of the five families. One after another. But hundreds of years ago, if we mentioned the five families of our Fengmen Village, they were Hua, Lu, Du, Nie, and Zhao. At that time, the Hua family was superior to the other four families and had a great reputation. But what happened later? The family was destroyed, and our Nie family became the leader."

When the old man said this, he paused for a while, and then he continued: "The power of the Hua family at that time was still higher than that of our Nie family today. But in less than a hundred years, the children of the Hua family died, died, and finally fell. It ended in an extermination of the family. Do you know the reason?"

Nie Dingnan, Nie Laowu and others were all silent, and the sound of a needle falling could be heard clearly in the room.Li Qiufeng held his breath and shrank under the bed, not daring to move.

I just heard the old man say: "The Hua family ranked first among the five families back then. When fighting with the Xu family, the Hua family was always the leader. After 200 years, the two sides fought more than a dozen times, with heavy casualties. The Hua family, as the leader of the five families, did fight first, and the Hua family's elites suffered the most casualties. After the Xu family knew that the Hua family was the leader of the five families, they targeted the Hua family. In less than 200 years from the end of the Tang Dynasty to the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, 11 patriarchs of the Hua family were assassinated by the Xu family. In addition, countless children of the Hua family were killed by the killers sent by the Xu family. .Because there were so many deaths and injuries among the elites of the Hua family, by the early Southern Song Dynasty, the Hua family was already in decline and could not support the status of the leaders of our five families. It became Du, Lu, Nie, Hua, and Zhao again. It’s just that the Du family has only been the leader for decades. Because of their enthusiasm for officialdom and fame, they participated in the party struggles in the court and almost wiped out the family. The ancestor of the Nie family was highly skilled in martial arts and very wise. He was elected as the leader by the five families. He not only rescued the remaining descendants of the Du family, but also thwarted the surprise attack of the Xu family and killed the two heads of the Xu family. Since then, the five families The ranking of the family becomes Nie, Lu, Zhao, Du, and Hua."

Li Qiufeng listened to the old man's eloquent talk, but the more he listened, the more startled he became.Unexpectedly, these five families have such a long past, and the turbulent events in the past hundreds of years are really unexpected.Just from what the old man said, although the five families of Nie, Lu, Zhao, Du, and Hua shared the same hatred and fought endlessly with the Xu family, they were not monolithic, and they had done a lot of calculations against each other.

The old man said: "At that time, although the ancestor of our Nie family became the leader of the five families and became the head of Qianyin Cave in Fengmen Village, he was prepared for danger in times of peace and was determined to make a long-term plan for our Nie family. His old man Standing tall and looking far, thinking of the fate of the Hua family and the Du family back then, we made a plan to hide our strengths and bide our time. Since then, it has been stipulated that our Nie family children should not be officials or businessmen, neither military nor civilized, but only do business. Handicraft work. The children of Lu, Zhao, Du, and Hua will do all the things that show up. We, the children of the Nie family, only make suggestions behind the scenes. Look at the past 200 years, how are the children of the Nie family compared with those four families? , although they are unknown and not as good as the children of other families, most of the children in every house are safe and sound, and there are very few people who died suddenly."

When the old man said this, he took a few deep breaths, seemed to be quite emotional, and then continued: "Now the Xu family is gone, and our enemy for hundreds of years has disappeared. Look at the other families, the Hua family has already been wiped out." Now, there are only three houses left in the Du family. All the male members of the two houses were killed in the Haizhou Battle, leaving behind five widows and two daughters. According to the rules of our five families, only males are allowed in Fengmen Village. Ding knows, even his own daughter-in-law can’t tell. Therefore, these two houses are no longer part of the Du family. I have ordered the fourth child to give Wenyin 5000 taels to each widow in the Du family, and 1 taels to orphans, which is enough for them to live. The remaining one is Huang Chong. Huang Chong is nearly fifty this year, and there is only one girl, and it seems that he will not have any more children. The generation from the Du family to Huang Chong is considered to be extinct. The Zhao family is in the sea. 150 and five people died in the battle of Zhouzhou, all six houses were wiped out, and only Hu Kun was left. Hu Kun's only son, Hu Yiyue, died in Xiuwu County the day before yesterday. It's useless to have another big fat boy. Otherwise, the Hu family's wealth, as well as the dozens of houses in Ruyang, Luoyang, Kaifeng, and the capital, will probably all fall into the hands of others."

(End of this chapter)