Chapter 39 (7)
The eyes of the Lord Ping Zhuang were covered in dust and said, "Brother Xia, you and I are both sinners of the four major families. I deserve this disaster today, and I am not qualified to complain. I hope that in the second half of my life, I will let me repent in this prison quietly. But as a person who has experienced it, I would like to advise you that before joining the Seven Evil Saint Lord, it is best to use my tricks to see what I will end up in my fate. You also know that I was the first to agree to cooperate with him. What is the result? Didn't it end up in the destruction of the family? He is a cruel person who uses his profits and abandons his fortune without any morality, and he will never treat his allies sincerely. If you want to cooperate with him, either you are stronger than him and can control the overall situation. Or you are even robbed by him and eat them so much that you don't have any bones left."
Master Xia spat and said, "That's because you are incompetent and don't know how to please others! I don't believe that if I offer this great gift, he will not value me alone?" Master Ping said, "Great gift? What great gift? The ancestors of the four cities lived in seclusion and founded the four major families. The ancestral teachings passed down from generation to generation are to let us know how to keep ourselves clean. You are willing to turn against your brothers for that little worldly profit, and even give up the family foundation?"
The owner of the Xia Manor knew that he had missed his mouth, coughed dryly, deliberately widened his throat to cover it, and shouted, "Diet to die, you dare to speak wildly! Ping Lao Er, you deserve to teach me a lesson? Fortunately, you still remember the ancestral teachings of our family revitalization? That is the rule set by the four major families. Now? Even the title no longer exists, how can I be bound by the form left behind? Don't forget that it was because of your betrayal that caused the disaster today. The four major villas were destroyed by your daughter with their own hands! You are a sinner. Now I will follow your footprints in the past, and you don't have to act as a saint to preach to me again!"
The owner of the village smiled bitterly and said, "Yes, because I have missed it once, how can you call me wrong again? I have decided to withdraw from the world, and from then on, all the battles for power and profit in the martial arts world will no longer have anything to do with me."
Master Xia calmed his tone and said, "Why is this? People are not sages, so who can do nothing. Think about it carefully. Four major villas can be destroyed, but the names of our four major families cannot be destroyed! Now I am lucky that we are all safe and sound and have not suffered any major injuries. You, brother Liu, then we will meet with our elder brother Yuan. We will be forced into the Central Plains and we can still do our best to create a foundation! Let everyone be proud and look up to us! This will not be in vain for many years of hard work! If you say that you will leave the world, you will have to abandon all your ambitions, like those ordinary people, cultivate land and weave cloth, and you will be willing to live, grow old, sick and die? Can you be willing to do it?"
Master Ping Zhuang said: "I have made up my mind, you don't have to persuade me anymore. Being able to live like an ordinary person is a dream I have been unable to get after many years. In this secular world, no matter how much you have or how vast your foundation is, it will still be empty after death. If the descendants of future generations are not successful, they will still put your efforts into vain! The four major families are exhausted, who can turn the decline again? Brother Xia, you are also an ideal and ambitious person. Why should you bear the burden of your life for a few words from your ancestors? Now we are not old yet. If you want to start over and live for yourself, everything is still too late! Perhaps the destruction of the four major families is a sign of God, allowing us to get rid of the shackles from now on... Don't be obsessed with it anymore."
Master Liu widened his eyes and shouted, "Shut up! You are not allowed to insult the ancestors of the four cities! It is your daughter's fault. You dare not take it. Don't make any despicable excuses! We are fortunate to be born as descendants of the four cities, so we naturally live to revitalize the four major families and restore the four cities! It is true that we have the same father and daughter. Listening to your teachings all day long, no wonder we can raise a daughter with a psychological quirk."
The owner of the Xia Manor smiled and said, "Oh? It turns out that although the Liu family is not valued by the elderly, Brother Liu is very loyal to the four major families?" He glanced at the owner of the Manor Ping and said, "Your heart is deader than the mud in the mud pond, and your mouth is harder than the stones in the pit. It seems that I am not able to talk to you anymore. Since that's the case, I have to find another person to enlighten you."
The owner of the Ping Manor sneered, "Don't you give up? No matter how many people you ask to talk to me, it's impossible to change my intentions. It's easy for you to kill me now, but it's absolutely impossible to ask me to agree to your request and make that dirty deal! Anyway, I, Ping, only this old bone is left, and there's nothing to cherish."
Master Xia said, "What kind of reply? Let's consider it after you have seen that person." As he said that, he stepped out of the cell, and after a moment he returned with a woman, sneered, grabbed her back collar, and pushed her. Ping Ruoyu staggered, hurriedly approached Master Ping and called out, "Dad...Dad!"
Director Pingzhuang was so good at how hard and soft Master Xia used both soft and hard work, but he was never moved because he did not care about life and death. When he saw his daughter kneeling in front of him, he was stunned and the entire armed forces collapsed, saying, "Yu'er? How could you be here?" Then he sighed and said, "Injustice! I was just to guard against today, who would have thought..."
Ping Ruoyu whispered, "Dad, stop talking." It turned out that after Ping Ruoyu got married to Shangguan Yaohua, the owner of the village was afraid that his former rival would come to him and implicate his daughter. After seeing that the two of them had made great gifts, he said goodbye to Prince Fu and left quietly. Without thinking, he set his sights on Master Xia, and was unwilling to use force, so he quickly captured him and was imprisoned here.
The owner of the Xia Manor smiled and said, "Your daughter is more wise than you. After hearing my husband's preaching, she decided to come and persuade you, the father, to return. By the way, she agreed to my conditions without having to worry about it and expressed her willingness to cooperate with me. Alas, brother Ping, you have lived at this age. If you can make love happy, you can save me a lot of effort."
Lord Liu's eyes widened and said in a strange voice: "Oh, see who is here? Isn't this the girl who caused trouble in the Ping family? Take the medicine that Brother Ping has worked hard to study, and play crazy in the villa, and finally leads the sea water backflow and destroys the four major families? I heard that after obeying the medicine, isn't it inevitable to die? Why are you so lively now? Ha, the seven evil demons attacked the villa all the way into the villa, and their position was hostile! It was the first one of your father who colluded with him, wanting to get rid of us and get more benefits. Now that Xia Lao'er rebelled against the family, you are the first one to be a lobbyist for such a scumbag, and would rather betray your biological father... You two are really a smatter? You are worthy of being a good father and daughter, with the blood of a traitor flowing in your bones!"
Ping Ruoyu shouted, "Uncle Liu, is there a good person among our four major families? Who is not planning secretly and making profits? If you agreed to Uncle Xia's conditions early in the morning, how could you end up like this now? What you said from your mouth at that time might be another thing." Master Liu sneered, "What an overestimator girl! If you have the ability to persuade you to surrender your awkward father in advance, and then talk nonsense to me!"
Ping Ruoyu didn't need to say anything, and was about to see Dad Gu. He touched his side face with distress and said, "Dad, how are you doing these days? Have they hit you? Have you tortured you?"
Before the answer was made by Master Ping, Master Xia snorted coldly: "Don't worry, I don't have the habit of abusing prisoners, nor do I have that leisure! I give you time, not to see you father and daughter cry with their heads. Why not hurry?" Ping Ruoyu then woke up and said softly: "Dad, stop insisting, just agree to Uncle Xia's conditions."
Master Ping was surprised and said, "Yu'er! What are you... talking about?" Master Xia smiled and said, "Look, even your daughter has a golden mouth. Even if you don't give your brothers a face, you should give your daughter a face, right?" Master Ping held Ping Ruoyu's shoulders and looked at her carefully, as if he was worried that Master Xia would use a trick to change the pillars. Now it was not his own daughter in front of him. He asked, "What did Brother Xia say to you?"
Ping Ruoyu's face was filled with tears and said, "Dad, my daughter doesn't want to betray you, but she just can't bear to see you suffer such suffering. How vast is the world of the world? Why do you have to be out of the world? In my daughter's heart, you should be tall and majestic, teasing the world and playing in the world, all in her palms... Who doesn't make mistakes? As long as you can forgive yourself and everyone can forgive you, then everything will not be a crime. Why do you punish yourself like this?"
The owner of the village Ping said lightly: "Once some mistakes are committed, they will be a lifelong stain and there will never be any chance to correct them. What your father committed is such a serious crime." Ping Ruoyu shook his head repeatedly and said: "No, no... Dad, you are a great hero..."
The Lord Ping Zhuang smiled sadly and said, "Yu'er, even if you look down on your father, you don't need to ridicule it like this. What is a hero? I'm afraid I'm not even qualified to be a hero! I don't want to enter the world. There is an old saying that people are in the world and cannot control themselves. If you are in the world, you must be subject to the situation. You must fight and seize it, and do many things that you originally did not want to, or even violate your nature! Over time, you will be full of blood and you are no longer yourself. Troubled times are a big dye vat, which will confuse you, let you enjoy the temporary joy of your desire for power, and finally you will fall into the sea of suffering forever! Dad finally sees through the world and wants to withdraw from the endgame. You don't have to shake me anymore."
Ping Ruoyu bit his lip and said, "No, Dad, all these changes depend on the greed of human nature itself. If you can stand in the world, act well, and do it correctly, you can still be at peace even in troubled times. On the contrary, if you are deeply impetuous, even if you stay away from the world, you will be affected by evil spirits. Dad, if you want to prove that you are a hero that cannot be defeated, you can show them! There are good powers and bad powers. Those in power can bully the people and put the world in dire straits, but you can also use the authority in your hands to seek welfare for the world. If you want to be proud, you must be above everyone else. This is an eternal law..."
The owner of the village frowned and said, "Yu'er, you said it very well. This great cause is in your hands. Your father thinks that he is not so self-controlled and does not have the spirit of "out of the mud without being stained". Being able to have self-knowledge is also a transcendence, right? When he is old, he only hopes to enjoy this last freedom, and you are unwilling to satisfy me?"
Ping Ruoyu took a look at the owner of Xia, and was eager to persuade his father before he got angry, and said, "Dad, since he was a child, my daughter has always been accommodated and satisfied with you. Only this time, my daughter begs you... I don't want to lose my father, nor do I want to see the scarred four major families in civil strife again. Our family can no longer withstand any twists and turns or blows."
The owner of the village sighed, "Yu'er, stop talking, even if Daddy is sorry for you this time!" After that, he closed his eyes to rest, and he was unwilling to look directly at his daughter's deeply injured eyes.
Chapter completed!