Year, second grade of junior high school.
Li Xuan's aunt brought Tian Yuan's portrait.
She was a gentle and intellectual little lady, with a smile at the corners of her eyes, a smile at the corners of her lips, and two small dimples on her cheeks. She could not be said to be stunning, or even charming, but she gave people a dazzling look. a feeling of.
The eldest lady liked it, so she pulled Li Xuan over to see it.
The aunt smiled and said: "Yesterday I showed Tian Yuan Xiao Xuan's portrait, and she nodded. Xiao Xuan is still handsome, how can any girl not be tempted by it?"
Li Xuan would listen to what his relatives said.
He is handsome, but not to the point where "there is no girl who wouldn't be tempted".
But these relatives outside like to praise him to death, saying that he is sensible, capable, handsome, and kind. Even if he shows off, they say it is "for the sake of his younger brother, to give him the opportunity to study." "...
At this time, Li Xuan looked at the girl in the portrait, and felt that the smile was so warm that it seemed to warm people's hearts. The eyes were also very bright, as if they had penetrated the drawing paper, giving him a feeling of "being in the public eye". The amazing feeling of searching for her thousands of times, and suddenly looking back, she is there in the dim light."
He also nodded, expressing his liking.
When the aunt saw him nodding, she looked at the eldest lady with a smile and said, "Sister, the relationship between the Tian and Li families has become closer again."
The eldest lady laughed and began to discuss the matter of hiring a matchmaker and giving a betrothal gift.
On the contrary, Li Xuan was left alone and walked out after a while, just in time to see Qiangwei coming to the eldest lady's courtyard to "report".
The "dog man and woman" flirted with each other and then passed each other.
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Li Xuan walked outside, and a group of friends who had played before came to pay their respects in his old age. Everyone laughed and laughed together, and the atmosphere returned to the scene before "Li Xuan met the demon leopard".
Everyone chatted about women, arranged for banquets, who got the new rare treasure, and the recent incidents of leopards and cannibals, flower-picking thieves, and so on.
Suddenly, a young man from the Ding family named Brother Li Xuan shouted in a grandiose manner: "Monster leopard? What's so rare? You don't know that monsters have appeared in other cities for a long time!"
There are three major families in Xiongshan County: Li family, Tian family and Ding family.
The Li family's industries are concentrated in cloth villages and martial arts schools, while the core industries are mines and blacksmith shops.
The core industry of the Tian family is the Chamber of Commerce. In addition, they are also large local landowners. They have more fields and tenants than the Li family and the Ding family combined.
The Ding family, on the other hand, prefers restaurants, brothels, and the like. The guests come from all walks of life, and the Ding family knows a lot.
Immediately, the young man from the Ding family began to show off the news he had heard.
Li Xuan was slightly moved when he heard this, and couldn't help but ask: "Xiao Ding, were there monsters before?"
The boy from the Ding family said: "Brother Li, there is, there has always been! We have just come out here, but it has appeared in other places for several years. It was just that at the beginning, everyone was still hiding it, and the information was blocked, so it was not spread much. open."
Li Xuanqi asked: "What are you doing hiding it?"
The young man from the Ding family said softly: "Brother Li, is it true or false? You don't know this?"
When Li Xuan thought about it, he suddenly remembered something.
Today, Emperor Dayin is extremely superstitious. If you tell him that monsters have appeared in your area and many people have died, the emperor will probably think that this is a "sign of disaster" and that "your local officials have not done a good job." Then he might have to take off his official robe, or even behead him to sacrifice to heaven.
In this case, which official would want to get into trouble like this? So they were all hidden.
Li Xuan pointed to the sky just to confirm.
The young man from the Ding family understood and said: "Exactly, exactly."
Then he kept it secret and said: "It's just that maybe it's been a long time now, so I slowly let go."
Li Xuan felt solemn after hearing this.
It turns out that the monster has been around for many years, but Xiongshan County just encountered it.
On the other side, a young man from the Tian family approached Li Xuan.
This young man was obviously two years older than Li Xuan, but he still called "Brother Li" and said, "Brother, I heard that our two families are getting married again?"
Li Xuan smiled and nodded.
The young man from the Tian family burst into laughter and said, "Please eat, please eat, otherwise I will go and say bad things about you to my cousin."
After hearing this, the young men on the side gathered around and started chatting about Li Xuan's marriage. After knowing that the target was Tian Yuan, the group started chatting about Tian Yuan again.
After Li Xuan listened for a while, he realized why he hadn't seen Tian Yuan in recent years.
She was a dead mother and was not well-received in the Tian family, so she worked hard and tried to take charge of the Chamber of Commerce. Then she gritted her teeth and worked her way up to the top step by step. Now she is recognized by many people. While others were playing hawks and dogs, eating and drinking, and living in a state of dissipation, Tian Yuan was always working hard.
Li Xuan nodded secretly and said in his heart: She is a good girl who can let me continue to act bad and concentrate on my cultivation...
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At noon, Lieutenant Shan's wife and Li Xuan's second aunt also came to visit Li's family.
But she came alone.
As for Li Xuan's aunt and other relatives, they never visited because they were across the county and there had been a demon leopard incident before. Similarly, the Li family has also canceled some visits that require cross-county visits and will only discuss them later.
At the family dinner, Aunt Li Xuan kept complaining.
The eldest lady next to her held her hand and said, "Shan Jian is also busy and wants to catch the flower-picking thief as soon as possible."
Second Aunt Li Xuan said angrily: "It's okay if I don't come back on New Year's Eve. I didn't see anyone yesterday. I won't rest today and won't come to Li's house with me. I'm really angry."
Li Xuan also said a few words to Shan Jian, asking the second aunt to tell Shan County Lieutenant to be careful of the flower-picking thief and not to underestimate the enemy.
The second aunt was speechless and said: "How could he underestimate the enemy? He is really serious this time. Xiongshan County was watching the Chinese New Year, but he took his men and secretly laid a dragnet. This flower picker is too cunning. He was so angry yesterday broken."
As she said that, the second aunt told the story about how Shan Jian set up an ambush yesterday to catch a flower-picking thief, but ended up catching the wrong one.
Everyone lamented the cunningness of the flower picker, while Mr. Li patted his chest and said, "But if anyone from my Li family needs it, just let Shan County Lieutenant speak."
The second aunt nodded.
After a banquet.
Li Xuan went to visit Wei Yao. Wei Yao had woken up and all the rotten flesh was gone.
The two talked for a while, and Li Xuan told her his own affairs.
Wei Yao seemed a bit like a doormat and said coldly: "What did you tell me?"
Li Xuandao: "I agreed to marry you, so naturally I want you to know my side of things."
Wei Yao was silent, her pretty face hidden in the darkness.
Li Xuan asked: "What? You don't want me to marry you?"
Wei Yao said: "I...I'll think about it seriously."
Her body was burned before, but now she is inexplicably better, and her original inferiority complex is also disappearing.
Li Xuan smiled and said: "What are you thinking about? Stop thinking about it."
Wei Yao turned her head and didn't look at him like this.
Li Xuan stood up and left.
In the darkness, Wei Yao looked at his leaving figure, her eyes moved, and the black eyes in the center of the whites suddenly... turned blood red.
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Although the New Year has passed, the flavor of the New Year in the small county is still very strong.
Li Xuan also stopped going to Luanyagang for the time being. He was practicing alone in the small courtyard, thinking about how to establish channels to obtain other advanced skills; how to change the "non-flowing state"; and "nine columns of blood". "Grid" how to light up the second grid.
The betrothal gift from the Li family also went to the Tian family, and the Tian family also gave many things in response, including a flatfish pendant. People from the Tian family said it was a token of love given by Tian Yuan to Li Xuan.
The person said that this token of love was left by Tian Yuan's mother.
Obviously, Tian Yuan values Li Xuan very much and also likes this marriage.
Li Xuan wore the halibut pendant close to his body, and wrote a sentence "I don't have a colorful phoenix with two flying wings, but I have a clear mind" and gave it to Tian Yuan in return.
This poem is very beautiful, it talks about missing each other, and it is considered the best among love poems.
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Another day, at night, it snowed heavily.
A carriage stopped in front of Li's house.
The curtain of the carriage opened, and Aunt Li Xuan jumped out of the carriage angrily, and then found out why Mr. Li angrily scolded Shan County Lieutenant.
Why do you think?
But Shan County Lieutenant was at home for the last time, but he heard something and ran out with a knife and a spear.
Mr. Li and Aunt Li Xuan chatted for a long time before sending someone to send Aunt Li Xuan back.
But Second Aunt Li Xuan insisted not to return and said angrily: "If he is not at home, do I have to be at home?"
Mr. Li was helpless, so the eldest lady took Aunt Li Xuan to sleep in her room.
Early the next morning...
Heavy snowfall.
The sky cleared and every household swept the snow in front of their door.
Second Aunt Li Xuan spent the night and her anger subsided, so she led her servants home.
She returned to the mansion as usual, but as soon as she arrived in front of the door, she felt something was wrong. All the maids, servants, and even the nursing staff stood there dumbfounded, trembling all over.
"What's wrong?" Second Aunt Li Xuan grabbed someone and asked.
The man pointed in the distance with a fearful expression and said: "Old...Master...Old..."
Second Aunt Li Xuan walked quickly, opened the door, and looked inside, but her heart suddenly stopped and she collapsed to the ground, screaming in extreme fear.
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It didn't take long.
The Li family also came to Shan Mansion.
Li Xuan followed his father and stood in front of the door.
In that room, Shan Jian's body was gone, and only a bare head was placed on the table.
Soon, another person from Shanfu came to report that a headless body was found in the snow in the corner of the courtyard.
Everyone went to look again, only to see that the flesh on the corpse had been cut off almost as if by Ling Chi, and only the bloody skeleton was exposed, which was extremely horrifying.
Li Xuan looked at this scene.
A wave of extreme anger washed over him.
His eyes became cold.
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Chunyang Martial Arts School is not far from Shan Mansion.
A female martial artist with a beautiful face and hot figure was walking in a side alley. Suddenly she stopped and shouted in surprise: "Senior brother?"
A man walked out of the alley. He was not tall or of medium height, but rather short and strong. He looked very reliable.
"Junior sister." The man walked away with a smile.
The female martial artist said happily: "Brother, when did you come back?"
The man came forward, laughed and chatted with her, and walked together to the house where she lived.
Deep in those honest eyes, there is a touch of impatient lust and cruelty...
