Li Fenglan looked at her back as the morning fog gradually receded. She picked up the horse brush that Mu Yun had left behind, turned around and started brushing the horse: It turns out that doing a fixed action without using your brain can really make people forget their worries for a while.
At this time, the horse finally couldn't bear it anymore and kicked the railing twice with its hind legs, as if to say: "I'm not afraid of shedding, but I also want to sleep."
The next day, Li Fenglan got up very early. When she opened the door, she saw Mu Yun already standing at the door of the room, seemingly having finished washing.
She looked at Mu Yun and said, "You got up so early."
"Well, I have to hurry."
The two of them fell into silence. For a long time, Mu Yun asked, "Is Amber awake yet?"
"She won't be able to go to bed for a while. Where is Director Zhu?"
"I went to see Mr. Xu and the others early in the morning. When they come back, we can set off."
After saying that, the two of them became awkward again, as if the conversation last night had finished what they would talk about for the rest of their lives.
Li Fenglan secretly glanced at Mu Yun's shoulder, feeling a little regretful: Didn't she really bite her hard last night?
Just as he was about to pay attention, he suddenly heard the quarrel between the customer and the waiter coming from the stable in the backyard.
"Xiaoer! Come here!"
"Master, what's the matter?"
"What happened to my horse?! It was fine yesterday! Why did I lose such a big bald spot overnight?!"
"This, we don't know this. We are here to take care of the horses ourselves. We don't care about anything else."
Hearing this quarrel, Li Fenglan and Mu Yun couldn't help but cover their faces...
Zhu Mingyu accompanied Xu Qingchen and Linghan to tidy up the contact points of the Thorn Gate, and then arrived at the inn together. After a few people met, they were ready to set off.
Who would have thought that as soon as they left the inn door, they would be blocked by a girl in gorgeous clothes.
The young girl said respectfully: "Excuse me, who are from Luoyang Xianrentang?"
The group couldn't help but become alert, and Li Fenglan asked, "So what?"
"My young master invites you."
"Who is your young master?"
"Miss, you will know when you go there. My young master also said that if you don't believe it, let me hand this thing over to you."
As he spoke, he took out an old stained parchment from his sleeve.
Li Fenglan took it suspiciously, opened it, and her expression suddenly froze. She asked, "Where did you get this half of the map?"
The girl smiled gently and did not intend to answer this question, but said, "You will find out as soon as I go."
Li Fenglan put away the parchment and said, "Lead the way."
Zhu Mingyu asked in a low voice: "You're just going to follow me? Aren't you afraid of being deceived?"
Li Fenglan replied in a low voice: "This piece of paper is half a map."
"Li's underground palace?"
"right."
"Is it the share we lost?"
"It's not...it's the other half."
Seeing Xu Qingchen next to him with a confused look on his face, Zhu Mingyu explained to him in a low voice.
When the girl saw Li Fenglan agreed, she turned around and got on a small sedan, and the group followed the sedan towards the southeast corner of Wuyang Town. After walking for half an hour, the sedan stopped next to an extremely luxurious house in the southeast corner. Because it is outside the town center, it seems particularly secluded.
At the door of the big house, a young man dressed as a scholar stood smiling.
After Hu Bo saw the young man, she whispered to Li Fenglan: "He looks like Mr. Bai." Of course, he was talking about dressing up.
After the sedan stopped, the girl got down from the sedan, then ran towards the young man with cheerful steps, and ran into the young man's arms before stopping.
"My lord, my lord!" the girl said in a tone that was asking for credit, "I brought you the man! Did I do a good job?"
The young man smiled lovingly, gently stroked the girl's head, and said softly: "You did a good job. Go back to the house and rest quickly. Don't be tired."
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The young man blinked and said, "Sir, I'll go back then."
After saying that, he ran into the door with cheerful steps.
When Li Fenglan and the others saw the scene just now, they couldn't help but get goosebumps all over their bodies. This girl... is too unreserved. She makes love to a man in public and treats her like no one else. Missing her Li Fenglan, she was hugged by the morning mist in a deserted place last night, and the fever on her face only subsided in the middle of the night.
After the girl left, the young man came to greet them, with a smile that made people feel like spring breeze: "Miss Li, the few of you who came to this humble house were not welcomed from afar, but you still look forward to the sea."
Li Fenglan returned the salute and said, "Young Master, you..."
The man hurriedly interrupted Li Fenglan. He looked around and said with a smile, "It's not convenient to chat here. Come with me."
Zhu Mingyu saw that this man was good at martial arts, but not too high. I originally wanted to stop Li Fenglan from taking everyone in, but I thought that there were many experts on our side and they were still near Tongguan, so I became less worried.
When everyone entered the gate and saw the scene inside, Li Fenglan and his party suddenly felt that they were just mud cakes and rubbish, bumpkins who had never seen the world.
It's not that the house is gorgeous, what surprised them was the people in the yard.
There were more than twenty girls in the yard. These girls are all very good-looking, the older ones are probably in their early twenties, the younger ones are around fifteen or sixteen, and they are all dressed as gorgeously as the girl who brought them here. Some of them played in groups, some sat on the porch and read quietly, and some gathered in groups of three or two to discuss female celebrities.
Seeing them coming in, the girls immediately swarmed around the young man... no, they immediately surrounded the young man like a group of butterflies playing in the flowers.
"Sir, what did you do just now?"
"Young master likes Peony again, so I only ask her to do things for you."
"My lord! Look at the mandarin ducks I embroidered!"
All in all, there was a lot of chirping and chirping, which made Li Fenglan's head hurt.
Li Fenglan had a huge question in her mind: Is this place serious?
In response to the complaints and inquiries of the girls, the young man answered patiently. The appearance of the bowl of water made the three upright men envious and jealous. Read the book
"Okay, okay," the young man said with a smile, "I'll talk to you later, I brought guests, you can go and enjoy yourselves."
After sending away the group of butterflies, the young man led everyone to a dark room in the backyard.
Entering the house and closing the door, the smile and frivolity disappeared from the young man's face.
Without waiting for Li Fenglan to ask, the young man said, "My name is Li Ziyuan, an orphan from the Li family in Yangzhou... Fenglan, I am your cousin."
"Cousin?!" The shock this time was no less than when I entered the gate just now. Of course, not only Li Fenglan, but others were also shocked.
Li Ziyuan said: "I know you can't accept it for a while, it's too sudden. My aunt, your mother, has two brothers, and my father is your second uncle."
"You, you," Li Fenglan asked stammeringly, "how did you survive back then?"
"Uncle has no son, and grandpa only has one grandson like me. The Li family is the only one in the world. Since I was very young, my family has arranged a shadow for me. When I see outsiders, the shadow always sees me, in order to keep my family." I am a single seedling, so I can survive.”
There were so many questions to ask that Li Fenglan didn't know how to ask them.
Li Ziyuan motioned for everyone to sit down and said, "The information I received is that there were only four of you when you left Luoyang. Who are these two?"
Li Fenglan replied: "They are our friends. There is no need to avoid speaking to them."
Li Ziyuan nodded: "I think you must have a lot of questions to ask. You don't need to ask. I will tell you all."
Nineteen years ago, Li Ziyuan was six years old and had just begun to remember. Just a few days after Li Fengyao married Shangguan Cheng, the Li family suffered a disaster. The night before the Li family was surrounded and suppressed, they sensed something was wrong, so they secretly sent Li Ziyuan out, and they escaped. After that, he stayed in the home of a branch of the Li family far away and lived peacefully.
Nineteen years.
Half a year ago, I heard that Li Fenglan came out of the valley, so I left Yangzhou and came to Wuyang Town, where I bought a big house.
"I don't remember much about what happened back then. I just watched from a distance. The fire was very big and many people were crying..." Li Ziyuan whispered, with light shining in his eyes, "They all advised me Let this be settled, I alone cannot take revenge. That’s what I really thought. It wasn’t until I heard you came out of the valley that the bloody passion in my heart was rekindled.”
Li Ziyuan spoke with emotion and emotion, and it didn't look like he was being fake.
Li Fenglan asked: "How can I trust you?"
Li Ziyuan said: "That half of the map is the Li family's underground palace. I believe you have the top half... It was originally complete and kept by grandpa. Later, my aunt... was your mother. When she married into Shangguan's family, grandpa took it. Give half of it as a dowry."
Li Fenglan was a little confused: "But my mother said that she didn't know who gave her this picture."
Li Ziyuan smiled: "Auntie has not changed. She speaks in a foggy manner, making it difficult for people to guess."
"You...remember my mother?"
"I remember," Li Ziyuan nodded, "but I can't remember clearly. I just remember that your mother never looked down upon me since I was a child." Li Ziyuan said and laughed, "Probably because I am the only son of the Li family and was spoiled by my family. That’s why she doesn’t like me.”
Li Fenglan smiled sheepishly: "She should...have no bad intentions."
Li Ziyuan lightly knocked on the table and asked, "We won't be polite anymore, Feng Lan, what can my cousin do for you?"
"What are your plans?"
Li Ziyuan shook his head: "I don't have a plan. I have lived in a haze these years and my martial arts skills are poor. I have never thought about these things... But, I still have some plans. For half a year, I hid my identity and guarded the entrance to Tongguan. For this matter."
Li Fenglan said: "Tell me and listen."
"I'm not here to wait for you, but to wait for Qin Zhiyang."
Li Fenglan frowned: "Qin Zhiyang?"
Zhu Mingyu said: "People outside the customs are in the business of protecting people. Merchants from the Central Plains will basically come to him when they go to the Western Regions to do business. This person has great influence outside the customs...Brother Li, why are you waiting for this person?"
"I found out that he had a hand in the encirclement and suppression of the Li family. Unlike other Jianghu people who only participated in it, he was more like a mastermind behind the scenes, secretly manipulating everything."
Li Fenglan was shocked. This was different from the name she got, so she asked, "How did you find out?"
"When a branch of the Li family picked me up, they secretly went back to take a look. Among the men in black who attacked my home, they were not only the killers from Ye Yu Xiaozhu, but also many men with northwest accents. There is a difference between the northwest martial arts and the Central Plains martial arts. The only contact force is Qin Zhiyang...and he has a motive."
"What motive?"
"I think Changfeng Tower had business in the Western Region back then. Do you know about this?"
"I know, I heard Lao Mo say it."
"There are many experts in Changfeng Tower, so naturally there is no need for Qin Zhiyang's people. Originally, there was no conflict of interest between the two parties, but Mo Changfeng was jealous of evil. After they walked that line, they cleared up all the thieves along the way. All business roads have become peaceful."
"So...interrupting his business?"
"Not only that, Qin Zhiyang sent people to rob Changfeng Tower's goods, and also united with several businessmen to squeeze Changfeng Tower's business, which meant to warn Mo Changfeng. Who knew that Mo Changfeng directly sent Fu Yanhe and Chen Yi, two I almost picked Qin Zhiyang’s home base.”
Li Fenglan frowned and said, "I've never heard of this."
Zhu Mingyu said: "This matter is a legend in the world, and everyone knows it."
Li Fenglan sorted it out and said, "So he held a grudge. It happened that the three families formed an alliance with Changfeng Tower. He took advantage of this trend to stir up the anger of the entire world and carried out the encirclement and suppression nineteen years ago, right?"
Li Ziyuan nodded: "Yes."
