It was midnight, the sky was cold and clear, and the missing moon poked its head out of the clouds.
The clear water-like light falls down, making the courtyard of the Liu family in Jinguan City look particularly holy.
Outside the owner's courtyard at the due east corner, the lights hanging on the wall were about to go out, and the moonlight mixed with the firelight flowed to the corner, making it difficult to move forward at all.
No matter how the moonlight shifts, the raindrop eaves on the courtyard wall will completely shield this place. In this dark corner, the night was as thick as ink.
The servant who was coming to refill the lamp took a quick look at that place, shuddered suddenly, and hurriedly refilled the lamp oil.
There seemed to be a poisonous beast lurking in the ink-like vortex. If the sinister gaze hadn't suddenly disappeared, the servant would have run away long ago.
"call--"
Xu Cao averted his gaze, and after the servant left the place with his neck hunched over without looking back, he let out a breath of filthy breath.
In this uncertain spring night with a lack of moon, he could only hear his own slightly accelerated heartbeat.
Compared to the half hour he spent waiting in the shadows, he had been plotting by Liu Zhaolang's side for many years. He had enough patience to wait for the best opportunity to act.
After another half moment, Chun Yue playfully hid behind the scenes, and Xu Cao finally waited for the time to take action.
He tightened the short blade tied tightly behind his back and explored the pills in the bag on his chest. Xu Cao took action!
As we climbed up to the house, the moon was hidden, the tiles were silent, and they were flying like birds!
Xu Cao opened the window very easily, climbed into the house very smoothly, and came to the bed very smoothly. Just when he leaned over and took out the pills, thinking that everything would end naturally as expected, he found that he Can't move!
At this moment, a sudden change occurred!
Liu Chaoge, who was lying on the bed and fell into a deep sleep, suddenly opened his eyes.
Without any surprise, he stared at the masked man who was less than three feet away from him and could not move, and said softly: "Everyone, come out."
"Squeak~"
The door of the secret room opened, and Li Miaozhen inside, holding a candle in his hand, stepped out first.
With her quick movements, she arrived in front of the masked man in black. With her hands like the wind, she quickly sealed several of the man's acupoints. Then she turned around and lit all the candles in the room.
Li Miaozhen smiled and said: "Okay! This bad guy has been hit by the 'bone-melting incense' I specially prepared, and the major points all over his body have been sealed. He has no wings to escape."
"Hmm~uh~"
Although they had taken the antidote in advance, the old men who slowly walked out of the secret room still covered their mouths and noses with face towels.
The mask of the masked man in black should be taken off by someone else, so Liu Xingzhen went straight to his granddaughter after coming out.
He said with a hint of anger: "Miaozhen, you should be less fussy with these things in the future. You have to remember that you are the eldest lady of the Li family. Look at you if you don't spend a day learning piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, and female crafts from your mother." , you have learned all those bad habits from your father, don’t think about becoming a charlatan heroine!"
Li Miaozhen faced his grandfather's nagging and said helplessly: "I know, grandpa, now is not the time to talk about this."
"Hey - it's really unfortunate for our family," Liu Xingzhen sighed inwardly.
Liu Xingzhen turned around and looked at Liu Xingfu and said, "Second brother, this man can't move. You go and pull off his face towel."
"this……"
Liu Xingfu felt quite cold.
He still can't believe it, but the facts are right in front of him and he can't help but believe it.
He suddenly regretted it, because he had discovered his grandson's behavior as early as ten days ago. The servant who was placed next to his grandson had reported that Liu Zhaolang had a large sum of gold and silver and he didn't know where he had spent it. He didn't do much at that time. I thought my grandson was using money to fill some hole. After all, the other party had done this kind of thing before. Otherwise, why were there so many complaints piled up, but Liu Zhaolang was still at large.
The further he walked, the slower Liu Xingfu's pace became.
It seemed that as long as he didn't take the initiative to tear off the man's mask, his grandson's matter would not have come to light, and there would still be room for survival.
But Li Miao really couldn't bear it anymore. Could it be possible that he still wanted to deny it when things came to a close?
Ignoring her grandfather's stop, she rushed forward and ripped off the masked man's scarf. She didn't recognize the man, so she turned around and asked, "Who is this?"
Suddenly feeling that there was no momentum in saying this, Li Miaozhen raised his chin and said firmly: "This person must be related to Liu Zhaolang!"
"Oh~" Liu Xingzhen said helplessly: "Miaozhen, come here quickly, don't get involved in this matter anymore!"
Liu Chaoge was sitting by the bed at this time. He glanced at Xu Cao, smiled at Liu Xingfu and said, "Second uncle, if I remember correctly, this person is the steward next to Liu Zhaolang, right?"
The first time Liu Xingfu saw Xu Cao, he sighed deeply in his heart and wished he could just cut Xu Cao's face to pieces.
But at this point, he only wanted to save his grandson's life. After all, his son had lost his ambition by being idle all day long. His grandson was outstanding among his peers and should have been the next generation head of the Liu family.
As Liu Xingfu's eyes changed, he was frantically searching for a countermeasure in his mind.
He leaned over and said in a low voice: "Master, there must be another hidden reason for this matter. It seems that this person has been bewitching my grandson all day long, which is why this situation has been caused."
Liu Chaoge still looked at him with a smile on his face, which made him feel scared. He could only continue to lower his head and said: "Master! Zhaolang is your nephew. The blood bond cannot be broken."
Liu Chaoge's smile quickly disappeared and he said coldly: "Blood love?"
He walked step by step in front of Liu Xingfu and asked word for word: "I am a dying person, and I am not actually angry that he attacked me. But did your good grandson ever tell my daughter that Blood love?"
"Bring me in!"
The wind rushed into the bedroom, and a young man was lifted and thrown in like a chicken.
Before everyone could see the man's appearance with disheveled hair, they saw him crawling to Liu Xingfu's feet, crying like a ghost and howling like a wolf: "Grandpa, save me, I was wrong!"
"Hmph!" Li Miaozhen looked at Liu Zhaolang's tearful expression, and couldn't help but feel embarrassed because he had been frightened by the other party's viciousness when he was discussing murder.
I thought he was the villain in the novel who didn't recognize his relatives, but he turned out to be a bastard who only knelt down and begged for mercy after committing evil acts. This made Li Miaozhen feel less happy after he had revealed his plot and won the battle.
Liu Xingfu looked at Liu Zhaolang who had been arrested, as if he had been struck by lightning, and he understood clearly that this fact was difficult to correct.
He pulled Liu Chaoge's sleeve and shouted loudly: "Liu Chaoge! What do you want to do? Do you really want to kill my grandson?"
"Ah!" Liu Zhaolang was frightened tonight. When he was arrested, he thought he would die, but he was brought to his grandfather and given hope of life. However, listening to his grandfather's tone, it seemed that the damn Liu Chaoge was still alive. He was determined to kill himself.
He turned and lay down at Liu Chaoge's feet, hugging his thigh and begging for mercy: "Uncle, I was wrong, please spare my nephew this time."
Liu Xingfu hated that iron could not become steel, and said angrily: "Zhao Lang, get up and tell me why you were bewitched by Xu Cao."
"Ah?" After being pulled up by Liu Xingfu, Liu Zhaolang didn't immediately realize the hidden meaning of his grandfather's words. After the other party gave him a few winks, he opened his mouth and cried: "Yes, I was indeed raped by Xu Cao." This bitch is so bewitched, otherwise how could I do such a thing."
Liu Xingfu glanced at Liu Chaoge with flickering eyes, and then turned to look at everyone present. He felt that everyone was waiting for his performance with a sarcastic look.
He gritted his teeth and said with a painful look on his face: "Chaoge, you have heard it, right? Zhaolang was indeed bewitched by Xu Cao. All the elders in the family are gathered here. I can assure you that Liu Zhaolang will never do anything in the future." I won’t fight for the position of the head of the family anymore, what do you think?”
Liu Chaoge sneered and said seriously: "What if I give up my position as head of the family to your grandson? Can you compare with my daughter?"
He patted Liu Xingfu on the shoulder and said coldly: "Second uncle, until now you still haven't understood why I did this."
Liu Chaoge's gaze shifted and fell on Li Miaozhen. He seemed to place his worries and longing for his daughter on her, and slowly said: "When I realized that I was not going to die soon, the only thing I worried about was my daughter. But you just want to touch her!!!"
Liu Chaoge's cold eyebrows were shining brightly at Liu Zhaolang who was huddled behind Liu Xingfu. He sighed and said, "The son of the Liu family shouldn't be like this. How could a cold-blooded beast like you be born?"
He took a step forward, approached Liu Zhaolang, and said slowly as if he was pronouncing a death sentence: "I didn't kill your sister the first time, and you want to kill her a second time. Tell me, why should I spare your life?"
Liu Xingfu felt fierce in his heart. He took a step forward to separate Liu Chaoge and hissed: "If you want to use family rules to deal with family members, you must get the consent of half of all family members who have the right to enter the ancestral hall. You can't touch him yet."
Liu Chaoge tilted his head, walked to the table aside, picked up the tea cup and took a sip.
He has long been tired, and sometimes he feels uncomfortable being the head of the family because he always has to tell people the rules.
He casually picked up the long sword that had been prepared on the table and walked back to Liu Xingfu step by step.
"Since there are rules, everyone should abide by them."
Liu Xingfu, who had originally planned to retreat, calmly took back his steps. He nodded with a smile and said, "That's right, head of the family."
He wanted to tell Liu Chaoge that you are the head of the family and you should abide by the family rules.
Liu Chaoge ignored Liu Xingfu and turned to look at the others who had been standing silently aside.
"Uncle, I want to kill Liu Zhaolang, do you agree?"
"Uncle San, I want to kill Liu Zhaolang, do you agree?"
…
After finishing it, everyone seemed to be hesitant to speak.
In fact, in this case, who is most willing to do so is actually the third uncle Liu Xingshan, because if Liu Chaoge really kills Liu Zhaolang, then his grandson Liu Zhaoling's chances will be much greater.
But no one wanted to see such a bloody ending in person. They subconsciously felt that it would be better for Liu Chaoge to lock up Liu Zhaolang first and then find an opportunity to kill him than to kill him now in front of everyone.
After all, human nature is always accustomed to the dark side.
"I agree!!!"
"Shut up!"
Li Miaozhen really couldn't bear the unbearable silence tonight, but as soon as his words came out, they were immediately blocked.
Liu Chaoge looked at Li Miaozhen kindly, smiled and said, "I never thought you would agree. I just wanted to ask Wei Ruitong if he agreed."
Li Miaozhen broke away from her grandfather and said softly: "Uncle Liu, Wei Rui is not here, but I think I can represent her, so I agree."
"Hmph! How dare you!!!" Liu Xingfu was no longer calm.
"call out--"
"呲——"
Suddenly, there was a strange sound.
Silver light suddenly appeared like a water snake, and blood surged like boiling soup.
No one expected that Liu Chaoge, who seemed incapable of taking action, would eventually take action.
Even the people of the Xishan Lin family who were hiding in the dark did not expect that Liu Chaoge, who looked sick and powerless, would turn out to be a third-grade sword cultivator.
After a perfect sword-drawing gesture, three heads fell to the ground.
"Ah - this -"
The surprised words were forcefully swallowed into his stomach. Liu Xingzhen couldn't imagine that the usually lenient family leader would be so determined not to leave any escape route for himself.
"Hey - Chao Ge, why are you doing this?"
Liu Chaoge sheathed his sword and looked around the crowd with cold and casual eyes, without even looking at who the head was that fell to his feet.
I saw him saying softly: "They deserve to die. Even if they don't come to me tonight, I will kill them. Anyone who dares to threaten my daughter will suffer this fate."
When everyone heard this, except for Li Miaozhen, who felt a deep admiration for Confucianism, everyone else was shocked and shivered.
Suddenly, the night became darker mixed with blood.
Liu Chaoge looked at his family, the coldness in his eyes mixed with a bit of sadness for no reason.
