In the past, aside from natural disasters and calamities, the population mobility rate was very low; generations truly lived in one place their whole lives. But now, each family among the three surnames here has someone who has left for big cities to develop and settle.
Even the best rules set by our ancestors cannot withstand the torrent of the times.
This also gave Yu Xuzi another chance to break free from his cage, and indeed, he almost succeeded.
Li Zhiyuan remarked with emotion, "Actually, those three were really your good disciples."
"They were traitors," Yu Xuzi corrected, "When they killed the three fish I sent out, I don't believe they never doubted whether the messages truly came from me—their master."
"Probably it didn't matter to them because, in their eyes, their master was a lone hero who sacrificed himself to seal a monster; their master had already died a brave and great death.
And you, what are you to them?"
