The Ling family relied on privately building cold weapons and secretly selling them, and gained huge benefits from them. The Ling family, who gained wealth, became more and more shrewd, and changed from being able to buy land at the earliest to diversified industrial investment.

Especially in modern times, after the outbreak of the Westernization Movement, the keen Ling family immediately realized the strengths and advantages of foreigners, absorbed new knowledge like a sponge, mentioned cognition and insight, and communicated with foreigners. It can be said that it was the first private enterprise in my dynasty to do border trade with foreigners.

The Ling family, which had accumulated huge wealth, had smooth sailing everything, and achieved twice the result with half the effort. At this time, their hands were longer and farther. The Ling family started out by making iron and benefited from forging. Therefore, their first thing was to seek mining, mine, smelting iron and cast steel, and started a steel trade with foreigners. In order to facilitate business, they set up a war in the Ship Ocean Company and a trading company, announcing the official rise of the Ling family.

Of course, the whole process seems easy to say, but after hundreds of years of hard work and accumulation of generations, it has caught up with a special historical period. It is unknown how much blood and tears it contains.

Just as the Ling family's career was getting bigger and bigger, the current situation changed again, the war swept across the world, and the whole human beings were in fear. Only the Ling family smiled and saw the opportunity to strengthen themselves again.

In this war in the largest, longest, most casualties, and most heavy losses in the entire human history, the Ling family played a great role. Whether it was the foreign land that resisted the invasion or the final battle to set the country, the Ling family was there. They either imported, smuggled, or forged themselves, and murder weapons became their money-making goods.

Just when the Ling family gained wealth and had status again, the people of the Ling family suddenly discovered that from the first generation of blacksmiths raised a hundred years ago to the generation of heads who made war money, their lifespan was very short.

The genealogy says that the first generation of blacksmith head died in vain when he was 66 years old and suddenly died. The second generation of head also had no signs when he was 66 years old. Before he died, he said he wanted to go shopping in the brothel, but before he even arrived at the brothel, he fell on the road.

The Ling family did not feel anything abnormal about this. After all, in the backward years hundreds of years ago, people's lifespan was generally not high. As for the death of death, they did not experience the torture of illness. Instead, they were regarded as a beautiful liberation and the result of the accumulation of virtue in their previous lives.

However, by the third, fourth, and fifth generation heads of the family, their lifespan was shortened by ten years. Both of them died suddenly at the age of fifty-five, and there was no sign before their death.

Then in modern times, Western technology and medical skills were gradually introduced, and the Ling family had completely gotten rid of the grassroots class, and once their waists became upper-class people, they were as rich as the country. At this time, the heads of the family began to pay more attention to health preservation, but the sixth and seventh generation heads of the family died at the age of 44, and there were no diseases.

The Ling family began to panic. Not only the bizarre deaths of the heads of the family, but also many strange things surrounding the Ling family. For example, once the Ling family transported a batch of fruits from the south to the north. A whole group of people walked along the only official road for three days, but found that they were almost unmoved, and all the fruits pulled in the car had rotted. During a water transportation, on the calm sea, several of the most advanced cargo ships at that time sank inexplicably.

There are many such things, but the terrible thing is still strange events that happen to people.

Why is the only Lingyun left in such a huge family? It is because in the generation of Grandpa Lingyun, other descendants of the Ling family took the initiative to withdraw from the family, and would rather hide their names and no longer enjoy the superiority of the big family than dare to joke about their own lives.

In this generation, Ling Yun's grandfather is the new generation of family heads. He has several brothers and sisters. Weird things happened one after another. For example, Ling Yun's aunt came back again and once she came in, she shouted that she was very hungry. Her family immediately prepared meals for her, but she ate and couldn't eat enough. In the end, she even ate the meals of more than a dozen people in the family alone. But she still shouted about hunger as if she hadn't eaten any food. In the end, she actually bit off the five fingers of her right hand and swallowed them until she fainted due to excessive blood loss. Otherwise, she would definitely eat herself. Afterwards, she was completely unaware of this, but she just had a dream in a coma. In the dream, she and her comrades were besieged by the enemy. She had not eaten anything for several days and nights, and she would die of hunger at any time. And there were many comrades' corpses around them...

In addition to this aunt, there is also Ling Yun’s uncle, who is a playboy in the family. He is ignorant and does not care about family business. He only eats, drinks and has fun every day.

Another time, this uncle went fishing by the river not far from his doorstep by himself. The river water is composed of groundwater and mountain springs flowing down from the mountain. It flows through the sea. The water is neither deep nor shallow, and it looks slightly turbid.

As soon as the uncle got off the rod, he felt a fish taking the hook. He immediately pulled the rod and closed the line, but felt a great force on the other end pulling him. Uncle thought he had caught a big fish and immediately used all his strength. However, in the end, he was not as strong as the fish, and he was pulled into the river with the rod.

Although this river is a little turbid and cannot see the bottom, it is familiar to everyone nearby because it is right at the doorstep. On weekdays, there are women washing clothes here, and they know that the deepest part is just enough to reach their waists. But today, when this uncle got off the river, he was immediately overwhelmed by the turbid drinking water and almost choked by the water he poured in.

And that's not all. Not only did the river water flood over the top of his head, but when others sank, it seemed like there was a bottomless pit below, and it was impossible to step on the bottom. It seemed that someone had grabbed his ankle and kept pulling him down. He struggled desperately but to no avail. Fortunately, someone happened to pass by the river and rescued him from the water.

In panic, the uncle was still holding the fishing rod in his hand tightly. He didn't know whether it was the big fish that he couldn't bear to hook, or the fishing rod was used as a life-saving straw.

When he completely recovered from his fright, he subconsciously looked at the fish hook, wanting to see how big the fish was, dragging him into the river, but when he looked over, he almost scared him to death. There was no big fish on the fish hook, only a messy, very dark and long hair of a person, and a bloody scalp...
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