Chapter 16

A tea shop.

An ordinary tea shop on the outskirts of the country.

It was just an ordinary tea shop in the countryside, where the tea leaves were not tasty, the dishes were not tasty, and the wine was only muddy wine. Yet, there were so many people of Jianghu gathered there, talking loudly and commenting on the hottest things that had happened in Jianghu recently.

It didn't make sense.

Of course, it didn't make sense.

It must be known that even though Jianghu was very big, and there were many martial artists, they only stood at one in ten million of the world's ordinary people.

If this one in ten million population was spread out evenly, it was possible that you wouldn't even encounter a single Jianghu person in a city. So if there were many Jianghu people gathered in a place, it meant that it wasn't an ordinary place.

No, it wasn't.

The tea shop was very ordinary. It really was just an ordinary tea shop on the outskirts of the country. The tea was tasteless, the dishes were tasteless, and the wine was turbid wine.

The owner of the tea shop was just a rich farmer from a nearby village, and the waiter was just an ordinary villager from a nearby village.

But why were there so many Jianghu people gathered here?

Because the only unusual thing about this very ordinary tea shop was that it was located at the entrance of the road that one had to pass to get to a famous castle.

Fort Famer.

If there was a list of Jianghu families that had existed for more than a hundred years, Fort Famer would definitely be among them.

Fort Famer had existed for a long time.

Early on, when the Devil Sect first split between the North and South factions, the first master of Fort Famer had become famous in Jianghu for his superb swordsmanship. Later on, although the family's upbringing was strict, it was hard to guarantee that there wouldn't be one or two unfilial descendants. But even if there were unavoidable internal changes in the family, even if it was impossible for every generation of disciples to have outstanding talent, Fort Famer would always have disciples with outstanding swordsmanship roaming Jianghu. And as long as they were a member of a famous family, even if it was a branch descendant or an ordinary servant, most of them were skilled in swordsmanship.

The swordsmanship of a famous family was like the hidden weapons of the Tang Sect, a symbol of a family.

It must be known that in the martial arts world, everything that was passed down by a family was different from the inheritance of a sect.

The famous sects in the martial arts world would definitely recruit a lot of disciples. Even if the secret arts were only passed down to the direct disciples, those ordinary disciples who were not direct disciples would definitely learn a lot of the martial arts of the sect. And these ordinary disciples would definitely not all be orphans whose six relatives had died. They would definitely have relatives who were still alive. In this way, even if the sect rules were strict, the ordinary martial arts of the famous sects that had been passed down for a long time would inevitably be spread out.

Unlike these Wulin sects, Wulin aristocratic families were often able to preserve their family's unique martial arts very well, even to the extent that not a single bit of it was leaked out. This was because Wulin aristocratic families were families. As long as they could only marry outside and not outside, or if the married daughter did not practice the family's martial arts, in addition to various family rules and restrictions, in short, compared to Wulin sects, the difficulty of keeping it a secret was much lower, and the success rate was much higher.

The Tang Sect in the middle of Shu had been passed down for so many years. Even if people in Jianghu had witnessed their terrifying and dazzling hidden weapon technique more than once, they had never seen anyone who could learn their unique hidden weapon technique or steal their family's secret weapon casting technique.

However, compared to Wulin sects, Wulin aristocratic families with family inheritance also had a fatal weakness. The reason why Wulin sects widely accepted disciples was because the thing called martial arts aptitude was a very f * cked up and mysterious thing. The father was a martial arts genius, and the son was a pure martial arts loser. Admittedly, opening the door to accept disciples would cause a part of the martial arts to be lost, but they could also choose from the numerous disciples who came to be apprenticed to the master with good aptitude to enter the sect and teach them, ensuring the quality of the entire sect's disciples.

Family inheritance could not do this. How many children did a family have to be able to guarantee that there would be enough children to enter the sect?

What's more, if they wanted to keep the family's secrets, they had to be extra cautious about marriage and marriage. Within the family, there would inevitably be situations like cousins marrying cousins. The intelligence of children born from inbreeding was something that anyone who had attended biology classes would understand.

Moreover, if a family had a large population, like all other aristocratic families, it would inevitably face the problem of uneven distribution of family resources and intensification of internal strife within the family. However, if they did not have many children, once the population of their children was small, they could not be selected from the large population base. No matter how deep the family's foundation was, if the leader was a loser, it would be finished sooner or later.

Whether it was literature or martial arts, in the imperial court or in the wilderness, the inheritance of aristocratic families was relatively difficult. Therefore, there were not many aristocratic families with more than a hundred years of inheritance.

Fort Famer had been passed down for more than a hundred years.

Everyone in Jianghu knew that the children of aristocratic families were good at swordsmanship.

Fort Famer did not walk the path of the Tang family, which was to "have many children and manage all of them to death."

This might not be accurate, because it was not that the aristocratic families did not want to try the Tang family's path. However, when it came to having children, sometimes it was not that hard to have a lot of children. The first master of Fort Famer had made a name for himself in Jianghu with his superb swordsmanship and established the foundation of the Fort Famer. When he was alive, he had an elder brother and younger brother. His elder brother and younger brother worked hard to have many children. The aristocratic families did have some collateral descendants, but as time went on, for some reason, there were fewer and fewer children, especially boys. The entire aristocratic family had worked hard to reproduce for so many years, but in the previous generation, there was only one child left.

Of course, it must be emphasized here that it was not impossible for the aristocratic families to have fewer children. After all, Jianghu was Jianghu, and Wulin was Wulin.

The aristocratic families were Wulin families, and Wulin families were Wulin families. They were aristocratic families that made a name for themselves through martial arts. Therefore, they had to face things like competitions, challenges, and duels. Since it was competitions, challenges, and duels, it was impossible for there to be no deaths, and it was impossible for there to be no enmity. They had to face things like assassination, revenge, and so on. Not to mention, when the aristocratic families were at their peak and there were some particularly savage villains causing trouble in Jianghu, there would be people who would ask for help to uphold justice. For example, when the Iron Shoe Bandit was doing evil in Jianghu, the Hua family was in the limelight, so they came out to contact people to suppress him. Although they succeeded in eliminating the Iron Shoe Bandit, they lost the eyes of the seven children of the Hua family.

In short, the reason why the famous families were left with only one or two children was not because they had fewer children. It could only be said that they had relatively fewer children and did not have that many children. Then, in the turmoil of Jianghu, the children who did not have that many children were depleted even more because of martial arts competitions, challenges, duels, revenge, assassination, upholding justice, and various other reasons.

Of course, from the perspective of long-term history, there was a saying that went, "Some people are alive, but they are dead; some people are dead, but they are still alive … Some people carve their names into stones in order to be" immortal "… Their names rot faster than their corpses." Well, this seemed to be more than one sentence. Whatever, where did it go? Oh, for Tang Qingyu, who had popped out of a stone, his surname was unknown. The reason why he was given the surname Tang was because the place where his master picked him up was called Tang Village. Moreover, he did not have any thoughts of finding his biological parents or returning to his family. He only felt that it was enough for him to live up to his conscience and live up to his conscience in life. Was it necessary to treat the inheritance of his family's bloodline as more important than the sky? It was as if there was an imperial throne to be inherited in the family. Was there a need to do so?

If the heir was an animal, a disgrace, and a danger to the human world, then it was better to die early and not commit any sins.

Besides, even if there was an imperial throne to be inherited in the family, the Great Wall of China was still there today. There was no such thing as Qin Shi Huang in the past. There was no family in the world that could win forever.

Although he used to be full of thoughts of buying a property, getting married and having children, it was actually because he wanted to start a family. It was not because he wanted to carry on his family's bloodline. Even before he transmigrated, when he was still an ordinary disciple of the Huashan school, Tang Qingyu was very open-minded about these things.

Now, of course, he was more open-minded.

He did not even know what kind of state he was in now — whether he was a normal living person or not. How could he not be open-minded about the idea of getting married and having children?

Who knew what kind of thing he would give birth to if he really got married? It would be better if he did not harm other people's girls.

Of course, we are still talking about the famous families now. We are mainly talking about the famous families, not about Tang Qingyu himself. Let me introduce the establishment background and development of this martial arts family. Now that we are done with the background, let's talk about the development of this family.

The development of the famous families was as follows: Ever since the family died and only the last generation of the Fort Famer was left, the originally low-key Fort Famer became more and more restrained, almost to the point of fading out of the pugilistic world. However, the pugilistic world was the pugilistic world. It was not something that you could fade out of the pugilistic world just because you wanted to.

Let's not talk about the people you offended in the past or the enemies you made in the past. They might want to take your life while you were sick. Just talk about how a person's wealth is a crime.

The poor were literate while the rich were martial artists. People who practiced martial arts would not be too poor, except for those who had mental problems and insisted on only killing and not robbing, or those who robbed the rich but refused to help themselves. There were very few people who were especially poor. Moreover, the famous families had been around for hundreds of years and had few children. Raising children was not expensive, and the upbringing of children was strict. Thus, the famous families were very rich.

Moreover, the famous families passed down their swordsmanship. Even if the disciples of the famous families were not talented, their swordsmanship was still many times better than the swordsmanship of those who were also not talented and did not have the opportunity to practice the awesome swordsmanship passed down from the famous families. Not to mention, as long as the disciples of the famous families had some talent, their swordsmanship would be as powerful as cheats. Furthermore, some people concluded that the disciples of the famous families were all accomplished at a young age.

It had to be known that not only did martial artists need to practice their external techniques, they also needed to practice their internal techniques. Most of the disciples of the famous families were able to achieve some success at the age of twenty, and it was already not bad if they were able to do so at the age of thirty. The reason for this was because they did not have enough internal energy when they were too young, and they needed to accumulate true Qi and internal energy. However, the disciples of the famous families began to shine brilliantly at the age of fifteen or sixteen, because the sword techniques of the famous families were so awesome that even if they did not have enough internal energy, they could still get rid of their opponents.

This meant that even if the MP and HP of the disciples of the famous families were only one-third of their opponents', or even less, their sword techniques were so powerful that it was unscientific, and they could instantly kill those who were at a higher level.

They did not need to accumulate any internal energy to quickly master their sword techniques.

To the people in the pugilistic world, this was something that made them even crazier than money.

A person's wealth is a crime.

Because the famous families were rich and had their own sword techniques.