After Huan Yuhe came to see Zhou Ji off, Li Fenglong sat down again, his eyes returning to the information on the table indifferently.
The "killing with a borrowed knife" that Xu Zhuchen just mentioned was just a bait to lure Zhou Ji to take the bait, but it also somewhat revealed what Li Fenglong was thinking.
The clues that Xu Zhuchen sorted out were numerous, but they all pointed to the "Yuan Palace". Among them, whether it was the clues about "Carman" and Luo Zhi, or the clues about Xiao Mei that Xu Zhuchen was brooding about, most of them were given to her by Li Fenglong with some help, both overtly and covertly. Li Fenglong lost his men and another cart of saltpeter, and the plan almost failed to advance. There was no news from anyone who followed her. She couldn't get away, and she was so filled with hatred that she had no choice but to do anything.
Now that Xu Zhuchen is here, it is absolutely impossible for her to look forward and backward like Li Fenglong. Luo Zhi was sent away by Xu Zhuchen himself, and she has silently shouldered this responsibility in her heart, and will not abandon her safety. What's more, Xu Zhuchen would not treat Luo Zhi badly, and it would be even less possible for him to give in even half an inch on Xiao Mei's matter.
Let her use this sharp knife to kill those who disobey the "Leader of the Yaoyang Alliance" and kill two birds with one stone. Why not?
Li Fenglong raised his eyes and scanned the two people lightly. She stood up and called Yu He over for a while. Xu Zhuchen and Xiao Mei had already gotten together at some point. They were muttering over a cup of tea, making weird laughter from time to time, and they didn't know what they were talking about. .
Li Fenglong coughed, poured himself a cup of tea, and said in a calm tone: "I can't afford a cup here. If you two get together, is the tea in that cup more fragrant or something?"
Xu and Xiao looked at each other and laughed in unison. Xiao Mei touched Xu Zhuchen with his elbow. Xu Zhuchen swept his fingers over the teacup. Li Fenglong saw a layer of snow-white ice crystals forming on the white porcelain teacup. Before he could remind Xu Zhuchen that this was also an antique, he saw Xu Zhuchen put the teacup away. Raise:
"Sister Feng, look, does this figure look like you?"
Li Fenglong looked into the cup: she saw five thin tea stems put together into a pentagonal frame, outlining her "face". There were several thick and thin tea leaves in the frame, arranged according to the eyebrows, eyes, nose, The lips are well arranged up and down, horizontally and vertically. Apart from the barely visible human figure, it can be said that it has nothing to do with Li Fenglong.
She took a deep breath, grabbed a melon seed in her hand, and threw it into Xu Zhuchen's mouth at lightning speed.
Xu Zhuchen's reaction was also quick. He turned his neck, and when he looked back, he was holding the melon seed in his mouth - the skin of the melon seed was not broken.
Seeing her proud look, Li Fenglong raised his hand and grabbed another handful of melon seeds. She looked at Xu Zhuchen's eyebrows threateningly, and before she fired the melon seeds, she saw Xiao Mei stretching his hand flat in front of Xu Zhuchen, and Xu Zhuchen's teeth gently and skillfully bit it. Opening the melon seed, the white melon seed kernel fell into the palm of Xiao Mei's hand. She turned around and spit the melon seed shell into the garbage bucket.
Li Fenglong really couldn't stand the drama, so he made a vomiting expression, crushed a handful of melon seeds in his hand with his fingers, and stuffed the powdered melon seeds into the hands of Xu and Xiao.
"Eat slowly, sister can still afford it."
When the fight between the three finally came to an end, Li Fenglong finally put away his joking expression and began to study the information on the table one by one.
Several pieces of letter paper about Chen Zhong have Xiao Mei's annotations on the sides, with strong handwriting and clear organization. Xu Zhuchen did not hide Jin Liang's information from Xiao Mei. It was a matter closely related to her. Cars and horses, itineraries, dry food, transportation, and all the arrangements along the way, Xu Zhuchen made use of the Shanyin Escort Agency and his family's connections as a salt merchant to arrange for the two of them.
Li Fenglong covered his lips with the paper to cover up his sigh.
"You two have made up your mind and want to set off together?"
A rare look of confusion appeared on Xu Zhuchen's face. She grabbed a handful of melon seeds and cracked them open one by one. When she heard the question, she just froze for a moment without raising her head. It seemed that Li Fenglong was not asking her.
Li Fenglong turned to Xiao Mei again. Xiao Mei was holding warm tea in his hand. There were rings on the little fingers of his left and right hands, one blue and one red glowing warmly.
This was Xu Zhuchen's pioneering work. She injected her internal energy into two stones, one connected to her own gong body, and the other attached to Xiao Mei's remaining gong body. The internal force emitted from the ring is no different from the internal force of an ordinary martial arts practitioner, and is extremely sensitive to the surrounding environment. And because the two rings are connected to each other, they can share each other's "vision". In addition to being unable to see, Xiao Mei's daily actions are no longer constrained by the lack of vision.
This is a method that Xu Zhuchen discovered when she was in Zhennan. However, she was still young at that time and her internal strength was not pure enough to support the need to observe her surroundings. Now she is using her inner strength to help Xiao Mei, and she is also repaying the kindness she received in Zhennan.
In fact, she wanted to find out the reason why she regained her sight from Xiao Mei's memory, but Xiao Mei's memory always seemed to flicker, with countless fuzzy fragments overlapping each other, like countless shining points, but she could only Transformed into fragments of words, piece by piece, they cannot be connected to form a complete story.
Sensing Li Fenglong's gaze, Xiao Mei turned his head and smiled lightly: "Sister Feng, as you said before, the first time I appeared in Zhiyang City was at Huayu Academy. No matter what Jin Liang knows or sees, No matter what I do, he must be the person who knows me best in Zhiyang City." She raised her tea cup and bowed it steadily towards Li Fenglong, "I will never be able to fully repay your great kindness in this life. Today I will replace wine with tea. If I can be of any use to get Xiao Mei, I will do my best to help you in return."
After she finished speaking, she drank the tea in the cup. Xu Zhuchen's expression obviously became clearer. She raised her head, took the tea cup, met Xiao Mei's eyes, and smiled knowingly. However, Li Fenglong stared at Xiao Mei's hand and saw her gently turning the one on her right hand. The red ring made me want to sigh again.
"You have to understand that the relationship between you and me is not just an exchange of interests, we are partners. As partners, I still want to remind you -" Li Fenglong turned his eyes to Xu Zhuchen and said word by word, "No matter how powerful Zhuchen is, To what extent, since the two of you have decided to appear together tonight, you will definitely be eliminated as two difficult targets. Little Lotus, you have lost all your internal strength, and your vision depends on Zhu Chen's internal strength, you... …”
She didn't finish her words, but Xiao Mei could hear half of the words she swallowed: Can you protect yourself and not hold Xu Zhuchen back?
Xu Zhuchen also heard her hidden meaning, seemed to have thought of something again, and couldn't help but tighten the tea cup in his hand. Xiao Mei stroked her arm lightly and nodded: "Yes. Sister Feng, I mentioned to you before that I want to summarize the method of using the 'inner power in the stone' into a type of exercise. With the help of Zhu Chen , I roughly made a framework." She paused, "Strange to say, although the memory in my mind is very vague, I always feel that I have been exposed to this technique before."
She gently grabbed Xu Zhuchen's hand. Xu Zhuchen was silent for a moment and took out a volume from his front pocket.
There is no name on the dark blue cover of the book. The inner pages are flat and the two types of handwriting are staggered. At first glance, it seems that it was written by two people. Li Fenglong scanned the catalog and opened the inner pages. After just scanning a few pages, his face gradually darkened into the same color as Xu Zhuchen's.
"This is what you—" She glanced at Xu Zhuchen, and then turned to Xiao Mei, "Did you come up with it?"
Xiao Mei's expression remained unchanged, but he held the red ring into his palm: "Yes."
Li Fenglong put his arms on the armchair: "If I don't ask, are you not going to tell me?"
Xiao Mei finally changed his expression: "...Sister Feng, I have absolutely no objections, and I have never thought about publishing the book. It's just that the book has not been finalized, so..."
Li Fenglong sneered and said faintly: "Not finalized? You have already written down all the key points of practice. All you need to do is polish the manuscript and put it on the market. I don't know how many people are vying for it." She changed the subject and her tone became more intense. He was a bit colder, "As for the reason why it's not polished, don't you know it yourself?"
Xiao Mei clutched the ring tighter, but before she could answer, Li Fenglong suddenly attacked. The tea cup in Xu Zhuchen's hand was knocked over, and the hot tea flew straight towards Xiao Mei.
Xu Zhuchen's body reacted faster than his thinking. Before he understood what Li Fenglong did, a line of frost formed on his hands and shot out. But Li Fenglong didn't give her a chance, and knocked Xu Zhuchen's frost away with all his strength, clearly waiting to see Xiao Mei's reaction.
"The internal force flows through the body and damages the heart. It is transformed into blood and healed with blood. Your eyes have suffered the backlash and lost your vision. Do you still want to continue practicing?"
Xu Zhuchen took a deep breath and struck the blue ring worn by Xiao Mei on his left hand with his backhand. Xiao Mei sensed all this and knew Li Fenglong's thoughts clearly, but he had no other way but to expose the ring. He raised his right hand and a flame jumped out, drying up the tea that came flying.
Xu Zhuchen breathed a sigh of relief, but the flame in Xiao Mei's hand suddenly disappeared, and the light on the red ring also dissipated instantly. Seeing the remaining tea approaching fiercely, Li Fenglong turned around and waved his hand, and the half cup of tea flew out and splashed on the ground as if she had been slapped in the face.
At the same time, Xiao Mei's face turned as white as lime for an instant. She held her chest, frowned, and spit out a mouthful of blood uncontrollably. Her face lost all color, but her eyes quickly turned a bright red.
Blood splashed on the ground, washed into a light powder by the tea. Li Fenglong stopped Xu Zhuchen and just asked her to watch from the side.
"You know she is practicing these methods that backfire on her and harm her body, and you know it hurts you. Why don't you stop her?"
Xu Zhuchen refrained from rushing forward, his blood-red eyes widened, his eyelashes trembled, and he didn't say a word.
Li Fenglong raised her eyebrows, lowered her head, looked into Xu Zhuchen's eyes, and then looked at Xiao Mei in her eyes.
Two people, one black and one white, both had blood-red eyes and were trying their best to restrain themselves. What Xiao Mei restrained was the pain caused by the backlash of his skills. Xu Zhuchen stared at her as if he shared her pain.
Li Fenglong understood in an instant - the two of them clearly knew the consequences of practicing the exercises. Based on her understanding of the two of them, Xu Zhuchen would not let Xiao Mei hurt herself, but Xiao Mei's decision would not be changed.
Xiao Mei doesn't want to use Qinggong to assist Xu Zhuchen, she wants to be Xu Zhuchen's real helper, even if she uses this extreme method. She is not a flower waiting for Xu Zhuchen to save her. She wants to understand her past personally and stand by Xu Zhuchen's side.
Xu Zhuchen knew that she understood what she meant. She made a choice, she accepted Xiao Mei's arrogance and overestimation of his abilities.
Li Fenglong looked at the two of them and removed his hand helplessly. Xu Zhuchen rushed to Xiao Mei in one step, and started to make luck with both hands skillfully. Regardless of his own injury, which he had just recovered from, he continued to make up for Xiao Mei's shortcomings.
These two people, these two people.
Li Fenglong sat back in the armchair heavily and asked tiredly: "When will you two leave?"
Xiao Mei looked up at her and said in a hoarse voice: "Seventeen. July and Seventeenth are waxing and waning months, so it's a good time to travel. We'll say goodbye to you then."
Li Fenglong sighed and threw over two jade safety buttons.
"Go, the sooner the better. After you recover from your injuries, leave quickly. Don't wander around in front of me and cause trouble for me."
After she finished speaking, she clapped her hands to call Zhijiao, turned around and left. As if aware of Xu Zhuchen's gaze, she paused as she went out and whispered: "As for that book, I will put it away for you. Xiao Mei, don't write any more, and don't let anyone practice this technique."
