Heavenly Dao Formula

Where are the books? Where have all the books gone! ?

Luo gently bent down, circled around the edge of the well, and then followed the stone ladder into the courtyard—Luo You'er was not by her side, and she could only see the scene under her feet clearly if she was as close to the ground as possible.

Within ten steps, the stairs came to the bottom.

Only then did she realize that the original seven-storey patio had been filled with soil until only one floor remained!

Luo Weiqing didn't care too much, and dug with both hands—the soil was very loose, and it had not been compacted repeatedly, and it could be seen that it had been filled in recently. After a while, she found some broken pieces of paper, and after holding them up to her eyes for a closer look, Luo slightly felt a chill all over her body.

These papers undoubtedly come from the books in Zangshuge.

But now, they have become disorganized, and there are traces of blackening at the corners, which proves that someone once burned the books in this place.

What she was most worried about still happened.

Luo lightly raised his fist and slammed it to the ground——

If the Privy Council wanted the alchemists from the Luo family, they could just take them away, why didn't they even let the Zangshuge go! ?

When the fist penetrated deep into the soil, another black thing was thrown out.

Startled slightly, she picked up the object.

It was an arm.

Who it belonged to has no way of knowing. There is very little flesh attached to the bone. The only reason why it has not rotted and rotted is because it has been scorched by the fire, and the entire arm has been completely scorched, like a broken branch.

Luo couldn't help but think of the corpses hanging above his head when he passed through the city gate.

She felt something rise up in her stomach.

...

Leaving Luo's mansion staggeringly, Luo gently leaned against the wall by the side of the road to rest for a while before recovering.

It's not that she didn't expect that the Library Pavilion might be destroyed in the turmoil, and some books might be damaged or even lost, but after all, it's the accumulation of the Luo family for nearly a hundred years, even if the alchemist broke with the clan, they wouldn't pour out their hatred Go to the bookstore. At least among the people who are angry with the Luo family she knows, there is no one who hates books.

The title of "Youzhou Luo Family, Universal Knowledge of All Things" is by no means an honor unique to the clan. Even if the person who senses Qi becomes an alchemist of the Privy Council, he should do his best to maintain this title.

Her plan fell through completely.

"Miss Luo...Luo Qingqing, is it really you?" Suddenly, a slightly startled voice came from beside him.

Luo slightly turned his head to look, and found a vague figure looking at him. Judging from the appearance of qi, the other party is not a person who is sensitive to qi. His outline looks like a young man, but his voice is not someone he is familiar with.

"Who are you……"

"It's inconvenient to talk here, let's move to another place first." He took two steps closer and suddenly froze, "Your eyes..."

"It's okay." Luo gently took off the blindfold, "It's just that I can't see clearly, and it's okay to recognize the way."

"Really?" He withdrew his half-stretched hand, lowered his head and said, "Then please follow me."

After detouring two streets, the man led her into a magnificent three-story pavilion-it looked like an inn, but it was not open for business. There were many women gathered in the corridor, and they giggled when they saw Luo Qingqing, as if they were watching some joke. The man didn't explain, and led her into a narrow guest room without stopping.

"Huh..." He let out a long breath after closing the door, then turned around and looked at Luo Qingqing, "Sorry, I shouldn't have let you come to this kind of place, but now the Luo family is not what it used to be. "

"You are from the clan." Luo Qingqing already had a rough guess about the man's identity. After all, there are only a handful of people in Qianren City who can recognize her in disguise. This person must be quite familiar with her, at least She has been in contact for a long time, and she has not remembered it yet. Only the Zong family can meet these two conditions.

"Yes, Youzhou geniuses really deserve their reputation." He cupped his hands and saluted formally, "My name is Luo Zhisheng, and I am the eldest grandson of the Second Household Branch. You can call me Zhisheng."

He is fifteen or sixteen years old at most, younger than himself.

Luo nodded slightly, "Why did the Luo family's mansion become like this? Cangshu Pavilion... Who destroyed it?"

"It's the current city lord, Lu Qiheng. He was originally an alchemist sent by the Privy Council. Ever since he knew that the Privy Council was defeated, he has completely changed." Luo Zhisheng said in a low tone, "This person did not directly target the Luo family. , because after the Luo family split, the mansion was sealed off, and no one from the clan was allowed to enter. At that time, the library was still in good condition, and I heard that it was the Patriarch who used the lives of his family to keep the mansion intact."

"And after that?"

"After the death of the Patriarch, many Luo family members left Qianren City—everyone was worried that Ning Qianshi would just stop for a while, and wait for the second round of liquidation after the situation stabilized. Among those who decided to stay in the city, I was one of them. One... After all, there used to be everything from the Luo family here." He sat down opposite Luo Qingqing, "But no one thought that Lu Qiheng was crazy. He announced that Qianren City would no longer be under the control of the imperial court or the Privy Council, and that It belonged to him alone, and then ordered the demolition of the houses in the outer ring to vacate the land, saying that he would achieve self-sufficiency within a year. At the same time, he also increased taxes and demoted those homeless people to slaves for him. Cultivate wasteland, build city defenses, and say this is the only way to keep Qianren City."

Luo Qingqing didn't know what to say for a while.

She considered many reasons, but she didn't expect this to happen.

——No matter what the other party's intentions are, this is already a de facto separatist regime.

"What about the library?"

Retaining the Luo family's mansion clearly has no hindrance to his ambitions!

"Many people opposed him, including officials from the original six ministries, as well as literati, businessmen, and common people in Qianren City. Lu Qiheng mobilized the city guards to carry out a large-scale purge, and all those who opposed him were sentenced to death." Luo Zhisheng sighed , "There are at least one or two thousand people who died because of this, including the disciples of the clan. Because there were too many people and the burning place was not enough, he used the courtyard of the Zangshu Pavilion as a natural burning place, and those books became It became the fuel to draw materials nearby."

Luo gently couldn't help clenching his teeth.

She finally knew why there were charred bones in an underground stone well where books were stored.

Burning the corpses and burying them is an effective measure to prevent the emergence of evil spirits. Lu Qiheng is obviously aware of this, but he chose the most brutal method - directly using the courtyard as a trap, and filling it with soil after burning, so that it can be destroyed in the shortest possible time. Eliminate hidden dangers of evil spirits within a short period of time.

"Snapped!"

Luo lightly punched the table.

Ever since Luo Tang and Luo Changtian died, her mood hadn't fluctuated so violently for a long time.

"What about the other alchemists from the Privy Council? Didn't anyone oppose him? And the defeated Youzhou Army—where did they go!?"

Luo Zhisheng also showed a look of resentment, "Lu Qiheng's current subordinates are the original Privy Council of Qianren City. And the Youzhou Army...has become robbers who plunder everywhere."