At this moment in Northeast Desert City.

This small town is one of the coldest places in China.

Even though it is now the end of the first lunar month, the lowest temperature in Mocheng is still minus seventeen or eight degrees, which is almost the same as the freezer of a refrigerator.

During the coldest time of the winter, the temperature here can reach minus 50 degrees.

The He family, one of the four great martial arts families in China, took root in this county-level city with a population of less than 100,000.

The ancestors of the He family were not natives of Mocheng.

They originated from the Jiaodong Peninsula. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, they were a well-known martial arts family in the Jiaodong Peninsula. Their ancestors have always made a living by running escort agencies and martial arts.

But at that time, the He family mainly practiced kung fu from outsiders, so they were still far behind the level of the martial arts family.

Until the end of the Qing Dynasty, when the Jiaodong Peninsula was in chaos and the He family entered the Guandong, by chance, they got a fragment of an internal boxing method.

The reason why it is said to be a fragment is mainly because nearly half of its content has long been lost. Whether it is the boxing technique or the corresponding mental technique, there are many incompleteness.

But even so, after the He family moved to the Northeast, they still relied on this incomplete internal boxing method to rank among the martial arts family.

Moreover, the internal boxing method obtained by the He family has many defects, so when the He family is practicing hard, internal force disorder and meridian backflow often occur. Once this happens, it will be seriously injured for several months. However, most importantly, martial arts are completely useless, and many younger generations even lost their lives because of this.

So the He family gradually came up with a solution, which is to practice this internal boxing method in extremely cold places as much as possible. The extremely cold weather helps to better control the internal force, thereby reducing the probability of accidents.

Because of this, the He family migrated to the coldest city in China decades ago, and then took root here.

Su Ruoli spent her childhood and her entire adolescence here, and her mother, He Yingxiu, lived here after she broke an arm to save Su Shoudao, and rarely left Mocheng.

However, during the recent period, He Yingxiu spent almost half of her time outside.

At first, when Su Ruoli was just arrested in Japan, she heard Su Shoudao said that she wanted to rescue Su Ruoli, so she went to Japan to meet Su Ruoli herself, and told her to rest assured and wait for her return home.

Unexpectedly, news of Su Ruoli's disappearance and the Su family's betrayal of Su Ruoli followed immediately.

Since then, He Yingxiu spent most of her time in Japan looking for Su Ruoli's whereabouts.

Although she knew she was looking for a needle in a haystack, she still tried her best to search for it in Tokyo and surrounding areas for a long time, and then spent huge sums of money to hire a search and rescue ship to search in the Japanese waters, and even went to the domestic coastal areas to search, but she never found any relevant clues.

The day before yesterday, she just came back from the southeast coast. This time she ran around several key port cities, but she still didn't hear any news of anyone smuggling ashore.

She knew very well that the longer the time dragged on, the less likely Su Ruoli would survive.

So, she discussed with her father, He Hongsheng, and planned to raise some more funds, and then went to the coastal areas of Jiaodong Peninsula to search to see if she could find Su Ruoli's whereabouts...

Regarding this, He Hongsheng, the patriarch of the He family and He Yingxiu's father, looked a bit embarrassed, and said, "Yingxiu, your eldest brother talked to me during the days you went to the southeast coast."

He Yingxiu hurriedly asked, "Dad, what did Big Brother talk to you about?"

He Hongsheng sighed, and said: "In order to find Ruoli, our He family has sent out half of the manpower and spent one or two hundred million in various expenses, and there is still no news. It has delayed these children's practice. Our He family has now turned against the Su family and has lost its source of income. If we continue to look for it, the economic gap will become bigger and bigger."

Speaking of this, He Hongsheng continued helplessly: "The medicinal materials prepared for the children to practice at home cost three to five million yuan a month, and with so many people and so many mouths to eat and drink, the cost is even higher. Even though I really want to find Ruoli, if I continue to search like this, as the head of the family, I can't explain to others!"

He Yingxiu lowered her head slightly.

She also knew in her heart that it was impossible for the He family to continuously invest in finding Su Ruoli, the granddaughter.

After all, the He family as a whole is not a wealthy family, and the daily expenses are huge. Some time ago, she invested a lot of money to find Su Ruoli, which already made her feel very guilty. Although she felt sorry for her daughter and wanted to find her as soon as possible, she couldn't bear it. Drag the He family into the quagmire. JrNovels.com