The fifth elder hurried towards the gate of the Shen family, looking anxious to appease the people.
The other elders were worried that he might be upset because of the unpleasant experience just now.
Although the Fifth Elder was indeed wrong in what happened just now, he was a clan elder after all. In the end, he was confronted by that immature boy from the Xie family. It was a very embarrassing thing no matter how you look at it.
Several elders were afraid that the Fifth Elder would become jealous and vent his anger on Shen Qiqi.
After all, everything Xie Beiming did just now was to protect Shen Qiqi.
Now, seeing that the Fifth Elder only wanted to appease the people and had no intention of being angry or taking his anger out on anyone, several elders finally put their minds at ease and went to deal with various affairs in the city separately.
What they didn't know was that at this moment, the Fifth Elder's face beneath the mask was filled with an expression of joy that he couldn't suppress no matter how hard he tried.
Just when he was worried that there was no way forward, he suddenly saw a new hope. How could he not be happy!
When the Fifth Elder was still a child, an old man with white hair and beard read his fortune and said that he was born with extraordinary bones and good luck, and would be a blessed person in the future.
The five elders, including their families, were very happy about this.
In fact, this is indeed the case. Although the Fifth Elder is not outstanding in his cultivation, he has been smooth sailing and has never encountered any accidents.
Unlike other cultivators, he is easily possessed and devoured by his inner demons.
After that, he even took the position of the elder of the Shen family.
Later, he was not satisfied with the position of clan elder and wanted to go further. Immediately, news came that something had happened to the head of the clan, Shen Mingyu.
Then Shen Ning'er took the initiative to find him and ask for cooperation. Although he was set up by Shen Ning'er without knowing it and had a handle in Shen Ning'er's hands, as soon as the handle came out, Shen Ning'er was seriously injured and was in critical condition. It was unknown whether he could see the sun tomorrow.
His fate was indeed just as the old man who read his fate when he was a child said: he was born with extraordinary bones and good luck, and he was a blessed person.
Anyone who attempts to attack him will be retaliated against!
Including Shen Qiqi, the daughter of the former patriarch who jumped out halfway and wanted to snatch his position as patriarch!
Rescue the children who were kidnapped by evil spirits last night?
Humph, it's easy to say, but little do you know that all evil spirits are cruel and inhumane. When a living person falls into the hands of evil spirits, it is like a sheep in the mouth of a wolf. How can there be a chance of survival?
You know, when he secretly let those evil spirits into the city in the middle of the night yesterday, the evil spirit leading the team told him that the aura on their bodies had been covered by the city lord, and no human monks could find them.
Therefore, in this situation, not to mention that the abducted children could not be rescued, even if they were rescued with great difficulty, after such a long delay, what would be rescued in the end would only be a pile of bones.
Of course, the Fifth Elder would not tell anyone about the information he had, nor would he remind Shen Qiqi not to do useless work.
On the contrary, he wanted to make known to everyone the useless work that Shen Qiqi was about to do!
Aren’t you, Shen Qiqi, very capable? Okay, then I will go and tell those people that you, Miss Shen Er, are very capable and have personally promised to help them rescue the child!
Is there anything more infuriating than giving people hope only to be disappointed?
No.
Can the people accept the fact that they were so happy to think that their children would be rescued safely, but in the end they were told that they could not be rescued, or that a pile of bones would be rescued for them?
Definitely unacceptable!
By then, the people's anger will inevitably spread like a raging fire, and he will not need to fan the flames any more. He just needs to wait quietly by the side and reap the benefits.
What he needs to do now is to quickly bury the fire.
Plant the seeds of fire and burn to death the big obstacle that is ruining his good deeds.
When the Fifth Elder thought that he would soon remove the biggest obstacle and then smoothly take the position of the head of the family, the joy in his heart was like fermenting dough, expanding uncontrollably.
He ran out quickly, unable to wait.
Yuzhou is a mountain city. Not only is the entire city surrounded by mountains, but there are also many hills inside the city. The roads in the city are rarely flat, and most of them are ups and downs with twists and turns.
Under such innate natural conditions that are difficult to change, the residents of the city seem to be built against the mountain.
The same is true for the Shen family's mansion.
The Shen family's mansion was built on the hillside. From the main gate of the Shen family to the foot of the mountain, there was a stone staircase that stretched for thousands of steps.
This distance is nothing for cultivators, but for ordinary people without cultivation, the difficulty is not much different from climbing a ladder to heaven.
Ordinary people would not run to the Shen family's door for no reason, because it is not easy to come up.
However, at this moment, the square in front of the Shen residence was crowded with people.
Everyone's eyes were red and their expressions were haggard.
Others simply sat on the ground, either silently lowering their heads and wiping away tears, or slapping their thighs and crying at the top of their lungs.
Such a quiet place at ordinary times is now as noisy as a vegetable market, a vegetable market with the highest customer flow at that time.
The fifth elder narrowed his eyes and scanned the chaos in front of him, sneering with satisfaction.
Noisy is good.
This is the noise he wants.
Someone saw him and shouted, "Look, the elder of the Shen family is coming out!"
The noisy square was silent for a moment, and then, like boiling water on a fierce fire, it instantly began to boil.
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