Li Ziyuan's statement makes sense, but is a bit too whimsical. It's like telling someone: Go and become a peerless master. It's true in theory, but it's difficult to implement in practice. The few nursing homes in his house are really not enough.
Li Fenglan asked: "You want to stop him...but your house is full of girls, how can you stop him?"
Li Ziyuan smiled confidently: "Don't underestimate my cousin, I have managed to maintain some manpower over the years. I can't compare with the Bai family and you Xianrentang. It's not a problem to ambush the caravan... Feng Lan, are you willing?" Stay and help me?"
Li Fenglan bit her lip, as if this proposal attracted her. She looked at Xu Qingchen and asked, "Mr. Xu, is it convenient for you?"
Xu Qingchen nodded and replied: "Our door..."
As soon as he said three words, Linghan hurriedly took over his words: "We are friends, so of course we will be happy to help you."
Xu Qingchen originally wanted to say, "Our sect leader asked me to cooperate with you, you have the final say." As soon as these words were spoken, it confirmed that Li Fenglan and the Thorn Sect had formed an alliance. However, Li Fenglan clearly still didn't trust this so-called "cousin", so Ayana was afraid that he would say the wrong thing, so she took the lead. Xu Qingchen, who understood, felt a little guilty. It seemed that he would have to listen to Linghan outside in the future.
Li Fenglan looked at Li Ziyuan and said solemnly: "Cousin, we will help you."
Li Ziyuan clapped his hands with an indescribable smile on his face: "Very good! With your help, I feel confident. I know the four of you, but who are these two?"
Linghan said: "This is my eldest brother, Xu Mu, and the little girl's name is Han Ling."
Linghan was so smart. Although she didn't communicate much with Li Fenglan, she guessed her thoughts from the tone of Li Fenglan's words and had to be reserved.
Li Ziyuan patted his legs and said, "It will be at least five days before Qin Zhiyang arrives in Tongguan. During this time, you will stay here for the time being. Don't worry, Wuyang Town is very safe and there are no charlatans."
Xu Qingchen thought to himself: Are there any Jianghu people? Then why are the brothers from Thorn Gate missing?
Several people came out of the darkroom, and Li Ziyuan shouted: "Peony!"
Not long after, the girl who led them here ran over, her eyes were shining, and asked: "Sir, what's going on?"
"Take these gentlemen and ladies to the guest room, and you will arrange their accommodation."
"Okay, sir! Come with me."
Just as he was about to follow Mudan, Li Ziyuan said to Li Fenglan: "Fenglan, you can leave later and chat with me."
Mu Yun gave her a questioning look, and Li Fenglan nodded slightly, indicating not to worry.
After they all left, Li Ziyuan stood in the corridor, looked at Li Fenglan, smiled, and said, "In the early years, I always thought that my aunt gave birth to a cousin for me."
Li Fenglan smiled and said, "I don't know much about the Li family. I haven't heard anyone talk about it."
"You must have met your mother, right? Didn't she tell you about it?"
Li Fenglan shook her head: "We didn't just meet him once, and we didn't say a few words."
Li Ziyuan nodded and said furtively, "To tell you the truth, I'm very afraid of your mother."
"Is it because she often lectures you?"
"More than that... your grandpa loves your mother very much. Although he often says that I am the treasure of the family, he is actually the best to your mother and has the same heart as him. I, the eldest grandson, am nothing in front of your mother."
This made Li Fenglan laugh, and she asked: "Cousin, you just said you didn't think about anything these years, but in fact... you still want revenge, right?"
"Sigh..." He sighed, "To tell you the truth, I really want to. But I feel powerless and always advise myself to just forget it."
"But you still did something and raised some people. In order to confuse others, you pretended to raise so many maidens."
Li Ziyuan shook his head: "The front part is right, the back part is wrong."
"What's wrong?"
"These girls are not taken in under false pretenses. I really like them."
"Huh? You... I thought you were like Mr. Bai San of Luoyang, relying on this to paralyze outsiders."
"Hey, who knows who I am? Everyone thinks that your mother is the only one alive in the Li family. I can't pretend... I really like them."
Li Fenglan suddenly wanted to stay away from him. She couldn't stand this kind of man hugging him from left to right.
Li Ziyuan smiled bitterly and said, "You have a cousin."
"cousin?"
"I was only three years old when I died, and I was still unscrupulous in my words. Your grandfather was very strict with me. He asked me to memorize the Four Books and Five Classics when I was four or five years old. Your two uncles were also serious. I could only do it when I was with your cousin. Thinking of myself as a child... What a pity... I especially like girls younger than me. They always remind me of your cousins. If she is still alive, she should be as old as them. If it weren't for nineteen Years ago...she might have gotten married."
Li Fenglan saw that there seemed to be tears in Li Ziyuan's eyes.
"What about you, cousin?" Li Fenglan asked, "Are you twenty-five years old this year? Don't you plan to get married?"
Li Ziyuan shook his head: "In the past, I thought that I would just die like this. If I can't avenge a bloody feud as a man, how can I have the dignity to pass on the family line? Now, I have a chance to take revenge. Let's talk about other things later... Feng Lan, You are not young anymore, a girl from an ordinary family should have gotten married long ago."
Li Fenglan said embarrassedly: "I, I'm not in a hurry. I'll wait until the matter is over."
"That Mr. Muyun cares about you very much. Is he your sweetheart?"
"No, no, no, it's not." Li Fenglan shook her head like a rattle.
Li Ziyuan joked: "I asked you to stay just now, and he looked at you worriedly. I thought you two were in love."
"No, no, no, no, no... Ah, by the way, cousin, you said you raised a lot of people, where are these people?"
"They are all outside the town. I arranged for them to hide beside the official road early. Do you want to take a look?"
"You've already hidden the person, so don't look at him, so as not to cause any commotion and alert others."
The two of them chatted about home affairs without a word. Li Ziyuan told Li Fenglan everything in his mind about the Li family. Li Fenglan also listened very seriously. This was the first time she heard about her own family.
…
Li Ziyuan was very wealthy and had more guest rooms than an inn. Come to think of it, there are so many girls.
After arranging their respective houses, Linghan ran to Xu Qingchen's room and bumped into Xu Qingchen who was about to go out. Ayana pushed him into the house and closed the door behind her back.
Xu Qingchen asked: "What's wrong? It's mysterious."
Linghan asked in a low voice: "I can't believe this Li Ziyuan."
"No wonder you want to change our names, but why am I called Xu Mu?"
"Isn't it good? I have the same personality as you, wooden."
Xu Qingchen did not dwell on this, but asked: "Why can't you believe it?"
"intuition."
"Intuition?" Xu Qingchen scratched the back of his head, "We can't do things based on intuition?"
"No one has seen Li Ziyuan, and no one knows that there is such an orphan in the Li family. There are many doubts. This girl Li is obviously very smart. She probably doesn't believe it. Why did she agree to live here first? What if they ambush secretly? what to do?"
"I've thought about this too, but apart from the girls, there are only a dozen or so servants in this house. Some of them seem to be really good at martial arts, but trying to deal with us is a bit of a fantasy. These people are not enough for Miss Amber. Gap between teeth.”
"Have you forgotten? He said he raised some people. Where are those people?"
"Anyway, Miss Li is the main one now. Since she has agreed to live here, we have no choice but to follow. We have to pay more attention to food and drinks in the past few days. We must test the poison before eating. Besides, in case she is really Woolen cloth?"
Linghan thought for a moment and said, "That's all we have to do...Brother Qingchen, let's go out and go shopping."
They have been traveling for several days without any time to rest. Anyway, they are idle now.
Xu Qingchen smiled and said, "Okay, I heard that Wuyang Town is very prosperous."
…
In the afternoon, Li Fenglan wrote a letter to Bai Shuyu, saying that he would stay in Wuyang Town for a few more days. After that, their group became idle again.
Li Ziyuan is a very playful person. He takes the girls on outings outside the town when he has nothing to do. Of course, he will also invite Li Fenglan and the others. He was also a man of outstanding literary talent and was very good at reciting poems and composing poems. However, every time he finished reciting a poem, the girls always cheered, which made Li Fenglan and the others a little unbearable.
His shortcomings are also obvious. He is very formal in everything he does. Every time he eats, no matter how many people are at the table, he has to fill a big table. Rouge and gouache are bought by the pound, and silk and satin are bought by the cart. After staying here for three days, I never saw those girls wearing the same clothes.
The girls have very different personalities, but one thing they have in common is that they are all carefree.
People don't know much about the relationship between Li Fenglan and Li Ziyuan. When she was chatting with those girls, one girl asked her: "Miss, do you also admire my young master?"
Li Fenglan quickly replied: "No such thing...how did you and your young master know each other?"
The girl smiled and replied: "How come we all know each other? Some of us were bought by the young master, and some were picked up by the young master."
"Aren't there so many of you... jealous of each other?"
"Why be jealous?"
"Well...he is still the same person. He can't treat everyone equally, right? There will always be times when he favors one over the other, right?"
"Yes, but it doesn't matter." This answer left Li Fenglan unable to find fault.
Li Fenglan felt that it was too shameful to find a time to talk about this cousin.
After a few days of contact, Ayana gradually let down her guard. If he really had evil intentions, there would be many opportunities to strike, but there weren't any.
On the night of the third day, Li Ziyuan went to find Li Fenglan.
Li Ziyuan looked a little nervous.
"Cousin, what's wrong with you?" Li Fenglan saw Li Ziyuan's nervousness.
Li Ziyuan whispered: "I'm nervous."
"What are you nervous about?"
"Aren't you nervous?" Even the calmness disappeared from Li Ziyuan's face, "I've tried hard to pretend to be calm these days. I always thought you would discuss it with me, but you never mentioned it."
Li Fenglan said helplessly: "Don't you have everything planned?"
"I have no experience," Li Ziyuan said patiently, "I asked you to go take a look that day, just because I wanted you to see if the ambush point was right. Who knew you were really polite...just like your mother."
Li Fenglan couldn't help but laugh: "You acted so complacent from the beginning, I thought you were really 100% sure. What? Shall we go to the spot tonight?"
"What time is this? Tomorrow morning."
"Go at night. Going during the day will make people suspicious."
"Well...I won't go with you. I'll tell you where it is."
"Why don't you go?"
"I'm afraid there are spies. I usually take them with me when I go out. If I go out secretly at such a late night without anyone, people will definitely be suspicious."
"Hahaha," Li Fenglan couldn't help but laugh, "Cousin, your worries are too much. We have checked and found that there are no hidden secrets of influence in Wuyang Town. Moreover, there are many businessmen coming and going at this time of year, and there are many official roads in the evening. There are people there, don’t be afraid. Haven’t you personally checked it out since you’ve been here for so long?”
Li Ziyuan was a little embarrassed: "After checking... please stop teasing me. Let's go... Do you want to take Miss Amber with you?"
"Well, take her with you to be safe."
The night was getting a little late, and Amber reluctantly followed Li Fenglan and Li Ziyuan out of the town.
