Volume 2 Dragon Bird Chapter 44: Seeking the Sword of My Youth (Part 1)
In fact, when Lu Qingshan discovered that Mrs. Mo had a close relationship with the Mo family but refused to reveal any information about the Mo family to Mo Yan, he began to suspect the truth behind the destruction of the Mo family.
Later, Mo Yan mobilized the people of Slaying Dragon Blade and found out the information of Xue Zhuyong according to his request.
According to the information records displayed, Xue Zhuyong's wood carving shop has been operating in Jiaolong City for more than 30 years.
But the problem is that Xue Zhuyong, the head of the Mo family, left Longquan Island only after the Mo family was destroyed by the Jiao clan twenty years ago.
Before that, how run a wood carving shop on Jiaolong Island while being on Longquan Island?
Unless it is the art of splitting.
And according to the owner of the tailor shop next to the wood carving shop, Xue Zhuyong even had a wife, but she died of illness about twenty years ago.
The timing of Xue Zhuyong's wife's death coincided with the time when the Mo family was destroyed.
The three-foot-long sharp sword in the woodcarving shop has already shown that Xue Zhuyong is a member of the Mo family, but it is also certain that Xue Zhuyong is an ordinary woodcarving shop owner on Jiaolong Island whose background can be traced back to the past and who even has a family.
In this contradictory situation, there is only one explanation.
Xue Zhuyong had already started to arrange his identity as the owner of a wood carving shop on Jiaolong Island a long time ago.
Everything happens for a reason.
The most likely reason why Xue Zhuyong would arrange another identity so far in advance was that he knew that the Mo family would encounter a disaster or was preparing to leave the Mo family and prepare a flawless retreat and identity for himself.
Thirty years ago, the Mo family was clearly thriving and had reached an unprecedented peak of prosperity.
As the current head of the Mo family, Xue Zhuyong is not ambitious, but has quietly arranged a way out for himself. Is this foresight and a precautionary measure? Or are there other internal factors involved - for example, is he preparing to overthrow the Mo family himself?
The Longquan Mo family is a huge sword-making family. Even though their strength is not as good as that of the Jiao clan, the Jiao clan would mobilize all their strength to attack the Mo family just because of Sanchi Feng's words "Kill the dragon wherever there is one"?
Lu Qingshan has never believed this statement, but there are very few people who know the reason why the Jiao clan attacked the Mo family.
On one side is the Jiao clan, so naturally there is no way to get any information.
On the other side is the Mo family, but most of the Mo family members are sleeping deep in the sea along with Longquan Island, and it is difficult to find a point of entry. The only two people who know the truth, Xue Zhuyong and Madam Mo, are unwilling to talk about the past.
It was not until he discovered the image hidden in the dragon wood carving and saw the scene of Xue Zhuyong's contact with the dragon monster king that Lu Qingshan truly understood the cause of the Mo family's destruction.
Everything has a foreshadowing.
Xue Zhuyong went into the dragon's den alone many times to provoke the dragon monster king. It couldn't be that he was seeking excitement, right?
Even if this answer is shocking, it is indeed the most likely truth when combined with all the information: the Jiao clan destroyed the Longquan Mo family in an earth-shattering plot planned by Xue Zhuyong.
"Madam Mo, you know that Mo Yan is at war with the Jiao Clan and is planning to kill the Jiaolong Demon King." Lu Qingshan did not explain the reason for his speculation, but said solemnly: "You should have known how powerful the Jiaolong Demon King was when he destroyed your Mo family. Even if Mo Yan and his men are fully prepared, the probability of failure in slaying the dragon is still very high, and you also know what will happen to Mo Yan if he fails. But if the head of your Mo family is willing to help Mo Yan and his men slay the dragon together, it will undoubtedly reduce many risks and add bargaining chips to the dragon slaying plan. We have found the head of the Mo family, but no matter what, we can't convince him to help. Therefore, only by finding out what happened in the Mo family back then, we may be able to convince Xue Zhuyong to take action. For Mo Yan's sake, Madam Mo, you'd better not hide what happened back then from us."
Following Lu Qingshan's words, all the color disappeared from Mrs. Mo's face.
After saying this, Lu Qingshan waited quietly for Mrs. Mo's reply.
Madam Mo's face turned pale and blue for a long time. She exhaled quietly and sighed, "This is all a sin..."
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As a thousand-year-old sword-making family, the Mo family has been developing for such a long time that the factions within the family have become complicated and intertwined , with branches and leaves entangled and interests competing with each other, and it has long been evident that the family is somewhat decadent.
In the later years of the previous head of the Mo family, an undercurrent struggle broke out in the Mo family in order to fight for power and the position of the head of the Mo family. The matter was very complicated and changed the fate of many people.
The source of this fight started with an extremely weak and declining faction of the Mo family - the Eighth House.
The man at the helm of the eighth branch is named Mo Yinfeng, who loves sensual pleasures, but his Taoist partner is a jealous woman, and her family is powerful, so Mo Yinfeng can only swallow his anger and cheat on her in secret.
Under such circumstances, a baby boy was born from the union of Mo Yinfeng and a mortal woman.
This mortal woman was afraid that Mo Yinfeng's fellow Taoist would find out and kill her child, so she had to hide with her child. She did not dare to give her child the surname Mo, so she used her own surname as the child's.
The woman's surname was Xue, and the baby was named Xue Zhuyong.
The mother and son depended on each other for five or six years, and finally their existence was known to Mo Yinfeng's fellow Taoist.
That year, Xue Zhuyong's mother "committed suicide". Xue Zhuyong saved his life because of his mother's suicide, but his ending was not much better. He was imprisoned in the Mo family's clan prison.
There was a jailer in the clan prison, his surname was Liu, and he was a foreigner.
The jailer named Liu couldn't stand Mo Yinfeng's inaction and his fellow Taoist's brutality, and he couldn't stand these monks treating a five-year-old child like that, so he usually took great care of Xue Zhuyong.
He taught Xue Zhuyong how to practice and even secretly took Xue Zhuyong home from time to time.
The jailer Liu's family treated Xue Zhuyong very well and treated him as their own son, making the young Xue Zhuyong feel the warmth of home.
The Liu family also has a daughter named Liu Zijun. She is the same age as Xue Zhuyong, and they grew up together as childhood sweethearts.
About ten years later, when Xue Zhuyong was fifteen years old, Mo Yinfeng's Taoist partner died in some accident. Seeing this was a rare opportunity, the jailer Liu took the opportunity to capture Mo Yinfeng and wanted to give Xue Zhuyong freedom.
Mo Yinfeng then remembered that he still had a child in the sect prison. Having freed himself from the control of his Taoist companion, he was in a good mood and, without much thought, he took Xue Zhuyong out of the sect prison and re-entered him into the sect book under the name of Mo Zhuyong.
After being released from the clan prison, Xue Zhuyong was allowed to learn the sword-making skills of the Mo family.
However, due to the tragic death of his mother, Xue Zhuyong has always been very repulsive to the Mo family. Naturally, he was extremely disgusted with learning the sword-making skills and was unwilling to study it seriously.
Originally this might have been just an ordinary family dispute, but a turning point happened quietly.
Over the years, Xue Zhuyong and Liu Zijun have been childhood sweethearts and have a deep relationship. However, Xue Zhuyong is aware of his humble status and uncertainty about his future, so he has never dared to confide his true feelings to Liu Zijun.
As a result, in the second year after Xue Zhuyong was released from prison, the beautiful Liu Zijun was noticed by Mo Cheng, who had a high status in the Mo family, and a letter of employment was sent to her.
Jailer Liu was just a jailer in the Mo family, an outsider, and he did not dare to openly disobey orders. In desperation, he could only prepare to marry his daughter to him.
Xue Zhuyong and Liu Zijun were both devastated. A pair of men and women who loved each other were destined to be apart.
Fortunately, when the wedding date arrived, Mo Cheng encountered a mermaid while out to sea and unfortunately died, so the engagement had to be cancelled.
After this incident, Xue Zhuyong had a sudden realization and felt that God had given him another chance to cherish the person in front of him, so he resolutely went to Liu Zijun's house to propose marriage.
