Cai Zhao covered his mouth and tried his best to hold back laughter.
Unlike orphans like You Guanyue, Shangguan Haonan came from a good background.
It is said that Elder Kaiyang and Elder Yaoguang made a promise to share life and death together. When their love became stronger, they decided to take it to the next level and let their nephews and nieces get married. Although both of them died before Shangguan Haonan was born, the forces of the two factions did not dissipate immediately.
Shangguan Haonan grew up slowly, with loving parents and people who loyally protected his master. His life was much smoother and more comfortable than that of Mu Qingyan, the serious heir to the sect.
However, as he gradually grew up, Nie Zhe's eyes on him became more and more sticky. Due to the influence left by the two elders, Nie Zhe was not easy to use force. However, he kept up his tricks and often harassed Shangguan Haonan.
Thankfully, Mu Qingyan officially appeared in the church four years ago. Since then, he has been constantly opposing Nie Zhe, both covertly and overtly. Nie Zhe was too busy dealing with things to take care of him.
However, more than a year ago, after Mu Qingyan fell off the Immortal Sacrifice Cliff and her life and death were unknown, Shangguan Haonan once again began to live in dire straits.
"I told you why I didn't see you when we attacked the main entrance of Xuanwu Palace. It turns out that you were 'invited' by Nie Zhe halfway." Mu Qingyan chuckled, "Actually, Nie Zhe is really nice to you. He is still thinking about you even after he has already arrived at the city. He doesn't even care about your own son that much."
"Nie Zhe is so disgusting, I feel like vomiting just thinking about it." Shangguan Haonan looked disgusted, "Since my parents passed away, only Yingying, Yanyan, Honghong and the others are left to accompany me. He clearly knows that the four of us They depend on each other for life, but they actually want to give away the three of them. If it hadn't been for Shaojun's help back then, the four of us would have been separated from each other! Huh, I swear I won't be a human being if I don't avenge this!"
"Nie Zhe is so jealous." Mu Qingyan had a hard time holding back his laughter.
He knew that Yingying, Yanyan and Honghong were the three maids personally selected by Shangguan Haonan's parents for their son. They were not only outstanding in appearance, but also gentle and considerate in temperament. The four of them grew up together as childhood sweethearts and had a deep love for each other.
"Nie Zhe is just a cheap and poisonous old woman!" Shangguan Haonan was furious.
He cupped his fists and said, "Young Master, if you have anything you want to ask, just ask. Secret passages, dark rooms, manpower distribution... I know everything I can tell you, but in short, Nie Zhe must be wiped out this time - I can't Live your whole life in fear!"
"That's very good. Lord Shangguan, please rise." Mu Qingyan supported him with one hand, "The first thing I want to ask..."
"Did Nie Zhe master the Five Poison Palms?"
…
In the inner hall of the Paradise Palace, a middle-aged woman with a scar on her face strode into the room, cupped her fists and bowed down: "Meet the leader."
Nie Zhe hurriedly stepped forward to help him up: "Feng Ge, you are finally here. What should we do now? The kid named Mu has cleared the area around the Paradise Palace, and they are coming up right away!"
The scarred woman is actually very beautiful, but her whole body is filled with an aura of violence, which is intimidating.
She smiled sinisterly: "Don't worry, leader. The leader was able to force that little bastard to escape more than a year ago, which shows that he was no good. Now he is forcing a group of rabble to force the palace, which is just a bluff. Those bottles outside There is no need to regret Guan Guan, the four main altars can be built again in the future, the most important thing is to preserve the central location."
"The Paradise Palace is easy to defend but difficult to attack. It is impossible for a large group of people to enter. However, the leader has already brought all the elites from the Tiangong Disha camp into the palace. With such ease and waiting for work, the hidden traps will surely be able to wipe out all the remnants of the Mu clan!"
"Okay!" Nie Zhe praised loudly with a fist, "I have Feng Ge by my side, even more powerful than a tiger. I will win the battle! Feng Ge must be tired after coming all the way. Let's go back and rest first. We need to recharge our batteries. .”
Hu Fengge clasped his fists and stepped back.
Nie Zheping stepped back, turned around and entered a dark room. Holding a cold light, he walked slowly down the stone steps. After twists and turns, he came to an iron door and knocked carefully a few times: "...Today... It’s more comfortable.”
A hoarse voice sounded inside: "It's not the same as before, just dragging your breath."
"Mu Qingyan's attack is fierce this time. It is estimated that he will fight in a few days." Nie Zhe said in a very respectful tone.
The rough and low voice said, "You are more than 20 years older than him. You have been in charge of the cult for more than ten years, and now you are being beaten back. You are like a loser!"
"Please give me some advice, Third Brother, otherwise my entire life's hard work will be ruined!"
The man inside laughed loudly, and his laughter was worse than crying: "Hahahaha, it was destroyed in one day! It was destroyed a long time ago! Is the religion of today still the religion of the past! I don't want to live a long time ago. It’s okay to teach the Mu family back. The kid from the Mu family can come back several times, so he must be a real person, far better than a loser like you!"
Nie Zhe looked embarrassed and gritted his teeth and said, "It doesn't matter if I am the leader or not, but there is something that Third Brother must know."
…
After Shangguan Haonan left, Cai Zhao came out of the inner room with a confused face: "What does he mean? Nie Zhe has never practiced the Five Poison Palms? Then where did the poison on your body come from?"
Mu Qingyan had a deep look on his face: "Yes, where did it come from?"
——"And, why exactly?"
Chapter 72
There is a cluster of vibrant spring flowers growing under the window sill. After being moistened by the rain in the first half of the night, the fragrance becomes more profound and diffuses into the bedroom through the half-open window sash. The people inside the house feel as if they are in the depths of a secluded forest. The vegetation in the Hanhai Mountains is thicker and stronger than those growing outside, and even the most ordinary and simple winter jasmine flowers exude an enchanting lushness.
Cai Zhao slept very uneasily. He frowned in his sleep, as if he was being stared at by a gaze.
The curtains fluttered, catching wisps of breeze, and the fragrant flowers were mixed with a different atmosphere. What kind of scent is this? It's definitely not the scent of flowers, nor the incense in the incense burner. Cai Zhao can't tell. It's refreshing and numb, and full of an inexplicable intoxicating temptation.
——It’s masculine!
Cai Zhao woke up in an instant, and her right hand touched the sun knife beside her faster than she could open her eyes. With a swish sound, a beautiful golden red light lit up in the darkness. At the same time, the bed beside her sank slightly, and the man sat up.
The blade stopped just in front of the white and clean Adam's apple!
Cai Zhao's forehead was dripping with sweat, and her right hand holding the handle of the knife was as tight as a bowstring. She was only one point away from being able to cut the opponent's slender neck.
The young man was leaning on the bed with one hand, wearing long, fluffy snow-white pajamas, with his well-defined and strong chest looming.
He smiled and looked at her innocently.
"What are you doing here!" Cai Zhao glared, wishing he could stab this guy to death with his eyes!
Mu Qingyan lowered his head gloomily, "I can't sleep."
"If you can't sleep, you can go to study and practice martial arts, or you can dance to the great master! What are you doing in my room!" Cai Zhao was furious.
Mu Qingyan said seriously: "I know what you mean. I can swear to God that I will never touch you even one bit."
Cai Zhao put down the Yanyang Knife and looked along his line of sight. According to the indentations on the bed, he was lying on his side on the edge of the bed, while Cai Zhao was lying flat on his side. There was at least a gap between the two. palm distance.
Of course, this is also because the beds in the Demon Cult are relatively large.
"I couldn't sleep at night and wanted to talk to you. Seeing how soundly you slept, I was too embarrassed to wake you up, so I had to lie aside and wait for you to wake up." Mu Qingyan was upright.
"Are you talking human words?" Cai Zhao was almost speechless. "Compared to you, those flower-picking thieves who died at the hands of my aunt seemed unjust!"
Mu Qingyan suddenly came closer, and his warm breath blew on the girl's face, "You have read so many story books, you should know that the flower picker sneaked into the girl's boudoir in the middle of the night, and wouldn't just lie aside and watch."
Cai Zhao's face turned red, and he almost raised the knife again, "Get out of the way!" - She thought about it, but after turning a few pages, it was confiscated, and the 'content-rich' bookstore was also confiscated. It’s closed, woo woo woo.
Mu Qingyan turned over and lay down. Before lying down, he straightened his own pillow and pushed Cai Zhao's pillow further in.
Cai Zhao looked straight down and his eyes widened: "...You actually came with a pillow."
"Now you should believe me. I have no evil intentions." Mu Qingyan lay on his side and looked at her.
Cai Zhao was stunned: "Oh, how can I see it?"
"If you're going to do something evil, all you need is a pillow."
Cai Zhao:......
"Father told me that I should keep myself clean and not be dissolute. You can trust me, I won't mess around. Just lie down and talk to me." Mu Qingyan turned over and lay down on his back with a calm expression.
Cai Zhao slowly relaxed his tense shoulders.
Mu Qingyan stared at the tent ceiling for a while, and suddenly said seriously: "What I said just now is wrong. In some cases, you need an extra pillow to cushion you when doing evil things..."
Cai Zhao quickly rushed over and covered his mouth: "Stop it, stop it right now! I firmly believe in your father's integrity and conduct, don't mention the pillow again!"
She dragged the quilt and lay down, "Just say what you want to say."
——In fact, she also noticed that the young man's breath tonight was cold and sad, not hot and tense at all, and he was indeed full of worries.
There was silence in the tent. After a long time, Mu Qingyan said: "Suddenly I can't think of anything to say. Zhao Zhao should say it first."
Cai Zhao had so much in her heart that she had no words to speak - why was she asked to say it? It wasn't like she couldn't sleep in the middle of the night and wanted to find someone to talk to.
"...By the way, in the evening I met the three beloved maids of Shangguan Altar Master, namely Yingying Yanyan and Honghong." She was lying on her side facing outside. "The four of them hugged each other and cried, and kept saying that they wanted to live in this life Inseparable, You Guanyue and Lian Shisan twitched their eyelids as they watched, hahahaha, it was really more lively than the drama."
Mu Qingyan smiled and said nothing.
"But to be honest, those three girls are indeed beautiful. I feel pity for them." Cai Zhao's thoughts were like wild horses running wild. "They say that my mistress, Mrs. Su Lian, is the most beautiful woman in the martial arts world, but my aunt My mother is also very good-looking, not much worse than Mrs. Su Lian. It’s just that my mother has sharp teeth and a sharp mouth, and her nostrils turn upward when she sees other men, which is really a disgrace."
"Why did your father's nose turn upward when he saw the man next to him?" Mu Qingyan asked.
"Because of my aunt." Cai Zhao said, "My aunt is gentle, hearty, and invincible. My mother is by her side, so all the men in the world are naturally not worth mentioning in her eyes."
"Then how did your father-in-law marry you?" Mu Qingyan became interested.
Cai Zhao frowned, "It is said that in the last few years, well, one or two years before my aunt killed Nie Hengcheng, she suddenly became very busy and could not take care of my mother. My mother suspected that she had a child outside. My lovely sister, so she dragged my father to catch the rapist in tears... No, she wanted to see what my aunt was doing..."
Mu Qingyan couldn't help laughing: "What is Nvxia Cai doing?"
"Actually, it's nothing. I was just looking around for a way to restrain Nie Hengcheng. In the end, I found that there was no other way except head-on confrontation." Cai Zhao sighed.
"During those days, my father and mother were inseparable as they walked around and made countless jokes. One was in a hurry, the other was a slow doctor, one wanted to go west, one thought it was safer to go east, and the other wanted to drink. , one of them would only give warm water. He broke into the same bandit stronghold three times - it is said that the leader of the stronghold was so angry that he cried. In the end, he chopped off two fingers and swore a poisonous oath, and led his people down the mountain to become good."
Mu Qingyan laughed out loud: "My father, your father, looks very affectionate now. I didn't expect, I didn't expect..."
"It's not just you, no one thought of it. Later, when my parents said they wanted to get married, my master almost knocked himself into a well. Only my aunt thought it was good. She said, 'Xiao Feng and Xiao Chun are both kind and simple good children. , as husband and wife, having the same temperament is more important than anything else, and they will get better and better in the future."
Cai Zhaoyu said more enthusiastically, "I also secretly visited your mother. Alas, I was afraid that you would be unhappy, but your mother is so beautiful. Mrs. Su Lian is a bit inferior in front of her. Haha, Nie Hengcheng is so beautiful The old thief is really spending a lot of money! Hey, wait a minute, the old thief Nie is not impressed by his beauty at the moment, he won't be a broken sleeve like his nephew!"
When it came to his biological mother, Mu Qingyan looked a little gloomy, but when he heard the last sentence, he couldn't help laughing: "That's not true. Although Nie Hengcheng has never been married, he has a very upright personal ethics and has never had any dirty rumors. It is said that Nie Hengcheng has never been married. When he was young, he had a sweetheart, but she later died or moved away."
Cai Zhao sighed and said, "So don't be angry with Nie Hengcheng for occupying your family's property for decades. Look at this person. He has no wife and children all his life, and he only focuses on his shop. How can the business be bad?"
Although this metaphor is a bit cliché, it is very appropriate.
Mu Qingyan gradually relaxed and said softly: "I have never hated Nie Hengcheng for occupying the divine religion. What I hate is that he manipulated my grandfather and father at will in order to cling to power without caring about his great-grandfather's kindness to him. Life."
"Even your grandfather was controlled by him?" The little girl was surprised.
Mu Qingyan nodded, "Nie Hengcheng is not only smart and capable, ambitious, but also extremely patient. In order to achieve something, he is willing to wait ten or twenty years."
"My great-grandfather made a very good marriage arrangement for my grandfather. Not only was the woman related to the guardians at that time, but she was also talented and excellent at doing things. My grandfather will have such a wife to assist him in the future, and the powerful people in the teaching will not be able to do so in any way. By the way. Nie Hengcheng was only a teenager at the time, and he could see his great-grandfather's intention of checking and balancing. On the surface, he remained calm, but secretly he kept looking for women who could make my grandfather attracted. "
"As my adopted brothers who grew up together, no one knows my grandfather's preferences better than Nie Hengcheng. Soon, my grandfather 'encountered' my grandmother. The two hit it off immediately, reading, enjoying flowers, playing the piano and playing the flute, and they all clicked."
Cai Zhao was shocked: "Could it be that your grandmother was also a detail arranged by Nie Hengcheng?!"
"No." Mu Qingyan said, "Grandma is indeed the daughter of an ordinary altar master. My great-grandfather was still there at the time, and Nie Hengcheng would never let himself have any clues."
"Soon, my grandfather's engagement was annulled. It is said that the woman went overseas in grief and never came back. She was the only daughter of Zuo Hufa's younger sister who died young. Zuo Hufa was so angry that he retired and stopped teaching. The right protector is not very happy when it comes to affairs."
"It's a pity that your great-grandfather worked so hard." Cai Zhao sighed, "Nie Hengcheng really killed two birds with one stone. Firstly, he got rid of a powerful future leader's wife, and secondly, your grandfather offended the guardians around him."
"No, it's killing three birds with one stone." The corner of Mu Qingyan's mouth curled up with a touch of sarcasm, "I visited several surviving members of the congregation, and actually during those days, Nie Hengcheng found more than one girl who fit my grandfather's fancy. But he single-handedly chose my grandmother."
"Why is this?" Cai Zhao was puzzled.
"Because my grandmother was decisive and fierce by nature, which is rare in the world." Mu Qingyan said, "In the first few years after marriage, my grandparents were affectionate and loving, and the years were quiet. Nie Hengcheng waited quietly, waiting until his great-grandfather passed away, until his father was born, and then his grandfather And I 'accidentally met' a very harmonious confidante."
"My grandmother naturally couldn't tolerate it and immediately got angry. However, my grandfather was also a pampered young man. How could he endure his wife's endless scoldings when he was a child? The quarrel between the couple became more and more fierce, and finally broke up. .Grandma left the religion in anger and left the country far away."
