The Liu family in Jinguan City secretly welcomed a group of people today. The head of the family, Liu Chaoge, personally received them and brought the leader into a secret room known to only a few people.
"Hmph! Waste."
The speaker was a graceful woman. Judging from her delicate face as white as a crescent moon, it would be no exaggeration to say that she was younger than Liu Chaoge. However, Liu Chaoge, who was sitting next to him, did not dare to be presumptuous. Speaking of which, the woman in front of him was still himself. Although the mother-in-law has never admitted her relationship with Youwei, she is not as resolutely opposed as Youwei's father.
He didn't retaliate even when he was scolded. The other party actually came to Jinguan City in person after he wrote the letter, which surprised him enough.
He knew in his heart that many years after Youwei's death, the two families whose power and status were completely different could still be connected because of his and Youwei's child: Liu Weirui.
"Mother-in-law, my son-in-law is indeed incompetent."
"If the matter is urgent, the other party may spend a lot of money to hire a real practitioner, and ask your mother-in-law to help."
Ling Qingzhu sat at the top and did not answer. She did not want to pay attention to Liu Chaoge's eagerness for the time being.
Her eyes looked around the secret room, and there was a bit of sadness in her watery eyes.
Seeing things and thinking about people, every old thing in the secret room is related to his daughter Lin Youwei.
Time flies like an arrow, and the sun and the moon move like a young man. What's more, the young man rides on a white horse and passes by, unconsciously growing old and leaving behind old things.
In fact, the real farewell in the world is never the lush green grass on the ancient pavilion, but just an ordinary old morning. Some people stay on that day forever.
Liu Chaoge followed Ling Qingzhu's eyes and swept through the old objects one by one. There was not much sadness in his eyes. He would talk to these things every day. In his eyes, these were living things, so he saw Things never miss each other, they only whisper on the temples.
Ling Qingzhu's eyes stopped on a well-kept portrait in the secret room. In the painting, the woman was leaning over and smelling a peony in front of her. The flowers curled up and down, and the peony in front of her was as beautiful as a flower. Open and pedicle, as if the beauty is right in front of you.
She looked at her daughter's portrait in silence, silently guessing and sketching the face of her granddaughter whom she had not seen for many years.
Just listen to her slowly saying: "This time I brought two offerings from home. I can let them serve you for a while, but I need you to agree to two conditions."
"Mother-in-law, please speak."
Liu Chaoge stood up, bowed his hands and said.
"First, let the girl Wei Rui change her surname to her mother's surname."
"Second, after you die, let Wei Rui come back to my Lin family in Xishan."
Ling Qingzhu turned around and looked at her son-in-law, whom she had already approved of, with a calm face, but she let out a sigh in her heart. With her strength, how could she not miss the heavy twilight aura in him.
Since fate will never protect Youwei's flesh and blood, it's better to take her back to the Lin family. After all, Youwei's daughter also has half of the Lin family's blood.
Liu Chaoge frowned after standing up straight.
On the Taishi Continent, the Mosuo clan who lives in seclusion in the Black Sea is a matrilineal clan whose children take their mother's surname. This is also the case in some families with powerful women. The first condition is for Liu Chaoge, who loves his wife deeply. It is okay for the child to take his mother's surname.
But regarding the second condition, Liu Chaoge had his own considerations.
He guessed that because of Wei Rui's stubborn temperament, she would probably choose to be the master of the Liu family on her birthday instead of being a happy and happy rich girl.
He already felt sorry for his daughter who had been traveling around and sleeping in the open all day in the past few years as an adult. He also happened to encounter the situation where she was ambushed by relatives. Therefore, after Wei Rui changed her surname, she could not become the master of the Liu family after her death. When the time comes, he will make his own arrangements. It suits him to stay in the Liu family and be a leisurely and happy daughter.
I have already had enough of this kind of intrigue in business and killing people without blood.
You must know that "Jin Guan Liu" is only the top three of the top ten families in Qingchuan Prefecture. Even the ten families of the Mujin Dynasty are not qualified to enter, but the Xishan Lin family has long been one of the ten families in the entire Taishi Continent.
If he went to the Lin family in Xishan, it would be like a small witch making a big mistake. He would go from being disturbed by mud feet to a dangerous situation of wading. Naturally, as a father, he would not be willing to do so.
"I can agree to the first condition, but not the second."
Liu Chaoge bent over again and said, "But I can promise you that the second condition is to let Wei Rui make her own decision, so I ask my mother-in-law to put down the condition first and send someone to rescue Wei Rui."
"Yeah, okay."
Ling Qingzhu nodded and said.
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At this time, far away in Tiegugu Village where Liu Weirui was located in Panjun Mountain, Mu Qing, accompanied by the village leader Lin Pan and others, finally saw Cao Mo who was being detained.
"Pa~"
Lin Zhen walked at the front of the crowd, picked up a ladle of salt water and poured it on Cao Mo.
"Old man Cao, don't fucking pretend to be asleep for me."
"Ah, little bastard, don't let me seize the opportunity, or I will definitely kill you!"
A head of gray hair, wet and messy, hung down on Cao Mo's head.
When he raised his head and screamed, although the few locks of hair on his forehead directly covered his cold eyes, the depth and cruelty in his words still penetrated the hearts of everyone present. I believe that if this old man gets a chance, no one will be spared.
Lin Zhen, who was threatened, trembled uncontrollably at the corner of his mouth. He exerted force on his feet and was about to step forward and put a few kicks on the old boy's face, but was stopped by his elder brother Lin Pan.
"Eighth brother, don't be impulsive. Fourth brother's antidote hasn't been released yet, so don't kill him."
The old man had all his meridians cut off and lost all his internal strength. He was covered in wounds and only had the strength to say harsh words. He no longer posed much of a threat to Lin Pan.
During the few days when Mu Qing was in coma, Lin Pan and his brothers already knew some things from Cao Mo's mouth.
It turned out that the brothers had already suffered from the itching on their bodies. Later, he was poisoned by the drop of blood that the other party put in the wine. When the village was leaderless, he used some unknown poison to control it. My brother, it can be said that the recent bleak situation of the entire village is due to this person.
Therefore, everyone present, Lin Pan, hated this old man the most, but this hateful old man could not die yet, and he still had some questions that he had not yet asked clearly.
Liu Weirui and Xiaochan had already gone to rest after receiving treatment. Mu Qing was not accompanied by anyone and stood alone behind everyone in Iron Bone Village.
He looked over the backs of everyone and looked at Cao Mo. He saw that under Cao Mo's water-soaked single clothes, there were wounds bursting open at every muscle and acupuncture point. Because he had been tortured and interrogated for days, the wounds had not scabbed. , but began to fester and pus, giving off a faint stench.
"Deserve it!"
"I told you to forcefully absorb my internal energy in the end."
Mu Qing cursed in his heart, not knowing that Cao Mo also had troubles that he couldn't express. He hadn't mastered the last move of "Ten Thousand Poisons Returning to the Sect", and he couldn't stop it even if he wanted to.
The salt water soaking into the wound caused excruciating pain. Now Cao Mo was lying on the ground with his limbs bound, and could only puff out his cheeks and grit his teeth desperately to endure the pain.
"Old man Cao, please tell me the antidote for my fourth brother. Once you tell me, I will give you an easier way to die."
Lin Pan squatted in front of Cao Mo and said threateningly.
"Pooh!"
Cao Mo's reply was very straightforward. He opened his mouth and spat a mouthful of blood foam on Lin Pan's face.
"You'd better kill me and let your fourth brother be buried with your grandfather and me."
"Hmph! I don't know what's good or bad, but I promised you to invite Mr. Mu Qing over."
Lin Pan asked the brothers behind him to open a gap, exposing Mu Qing's figure to Cao Mo.
"ah!"
As soon as Cao Mo saw Mu Qing, he fell into a state of madness and shouted loudly: "Little thief, give it back to me, give it back to me!"
Cao Mo had reservations in his words, and Mu Qing could tell that the other party actually didn't explain clearly on purpose.
Although both parties knew that Cao Mo's words meant that his inner energy had gone to Mu Qing, in the ears of everyone in Lin Pan, they only thought it was unclear.
So Lin Pan stood up and turned around, directing his doubtful and probing eyes towards Mu Qing.
"Mr. Mu Qing, what is this old man talking about?"
Being able to become the leader of the village with more than 200 people under his command, Lin Pan's mind is not much worse than that of his second brother Lin Wen. When Mu Qing was unconscious, they had been interrogating Old Man Cao severely, even though the old man was still there until now. He didn't say his motives, but Lin Pan vaguely felt that the recent events would be related to Mu Qing and his caravan, and that Tiegugu Village would be affected!
"Master Lin, that night when the old man saw that you were almost here, at the last moment he lost his mind and used a demonic skill that is hated by the world, and forcibly sucked away my inner energy. As a result, the human-demon skill was gone. After practicing it to the extreme, I lost my energy and lost all my internal strength, so I may say this."
As Mu Qing spoke, he separated from everyone and came closer.
These words were half true and half false, and some of the situations were guessed by Mu Qing himself, but he believed that the old man would never expose his shortcomings, which would not be beneficial to both parties.
"Such a thing can happen!"
"No wonder the old man's meridians were cracked. It turned out that he used the magic power to forcibly absorb other people's internal energy."
Everyone in Iron Bone Village was talking about it behind the scenes, which actually increased the credibility of Mu Qing's words.
"Hmph! Bah!"
When Cao Mo saw Mu Qing walking up to him, he pretended to be perverse and spat out again.
Everyone in Iron Bone Village saw this, and suddenly felt that they understood why the old man had been so nervous recently. It turned out that he had used magic power to change his temperament.
Seeing that Mu Qing nimbly dodged his spit from close range, he guessed that the injury on the other person's body might not be serious anymore, so he slowly calmed down.
After a moment of silence, Cao Mo said to Lin Pan word by word: "I can hand over your fourth brother's antidote, but I need you to agree to one condition.
"What conditions?"
"Hmph! Does this old man still want to live?"
"Eighth brother!"
Lin Pan stopped Lin Zhen from interrupting, and his eyes signaled him not to anger Cao Mo, the piece of pork on the chopping board.
"Mr. Cao, feel free to ask for your terms."
"Whether I regret it or not is another matter."
Lin Pan cupped his hands in a pretentious manner, but of course he didn't say the last words in his heart.
"snort!"
"I only have one condition. Let me talk to this guy alone."
Cao Mo glared directly at Mu Qing with resentment, wishing he could eat him alive to relieve his anger.
"this……"
Lin Pan's eyes were wandering. He turned his head and looked at Mu Qing and Cao Mo carefully. He really couldn't figure out their specific relationship.
"Master Lin, please rest assured. Many people in my caravan died at the hands of this man. He will never do anything to harm the village."
Mu Qing was still the benefactor who saved his life. Lin Pan couldn't think of any reason to postpone, so he could only nod and said: "Okay then!"
"Let's retreat outside the door for a quarter of an hour so that we can respond in time if any accident occurs."
Mu Qing saw through Lin Pan's intention and sneered in his heart, but in the end he agreed in a gentle tone: "Then I'll trouble Leader Lin."
