Everyone thought that Yang Fan could survive the first month of the year, but who knew that just after half of the first month, the noble prince left.
He had many friends in the world, and upon hearing the news of his absence, those friends came from all over the world. Although Li Fenglan was not familiar with Yang Fan, at least he had a relationship and knew that he had contributed a lot in dealing with Ye Yu Xiaozhu, so he sent someone to send an elegiac couplet.
The funeral lasted for a day, and the number of people who came to attend was not even inferior to that of Qiao Fei's funeral last year.
After the funeral, Xu Qingchen suddenly became much depressed. The death of his friend hit him hard.
He can't save the Yao family, and he can't save Yang Fan either.
He had resentment in his heart, but he just didn't want to tell others.
During the Luzhou war last year, he had a question to ask the leader of Yeyu Xiaozhu. He wanted to know who ordered the killing of the Yao family. But since he was hidden at the time, there was no time to ask. Whether Li Fenglan or Agarwood, they have their own revenge to avenge. Although they are theoretically on the same front, they don't care much about their own thoughts.
The only son was sitting in the room, Xu Qingchen was in a daze, thinking about whether he should continue to stay at the Thorn Gate. Logically speaking, what they want to do next has nothing to do with them. He had discussed with Linghan a few days ago that after Yangfan was buried, they would leave the Thorn Gate and continue to look for the person who killed the Yao family.
At this time, Ayana opened the door and came in, holding a letter in his hand.
"Brother Qingchen, Feng Lan wrote a letter to you."
Xu Qingchen was a little confused. There should be no correspondence between him and his sister-in-law.
Xu Qingchen took the letter and opened it, the expression on his face gradually became serious.
After reading the letter, he looked up at Linghan: "Linghan, we have to stay at Thorn Gate for a while."
Linghan asked: "Didn't you say... we want to go back to Yangzhou?"
Xu Qingchen handed the letter to Linghan. After reading it, Linghan asked, "Really?"
Xu Qingchen nodded: "I believe in our younger siblings."
Ayana smiled and said, "You can do it here, but you have to promise me one thing."
"What's up?"
"You can't be so depressed, you have to cheer up."
Xu Qingchen gently hugged Linghan: "Don't worry, I can do it."
Xu Qingchen secretly made up his mind that even if this matter was finished, he would not leave the Thorn Gate. Yang Fan wanted to keep the family business of old Sect Master Qiao. Now that Yang Fan was gone, he wanted to do this for Yang Fan.
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Li Fenglan, who returned to Luoyang, began to prepare for participating in the martial arts conference.
This is the first time in twenty years that Changfeng Tower has participated in Jianghu affairs, and Mo Changfeng and other older generations pay special attention to it.
Originally, Mo Changfeng wanted to attend in person, but was stopped by Li Fenglan. The world has not relaxed its vigilance against Changfeng Tower. Only if they are all dead will they not be remembered. Naturally, the path of death is not an option. It would be okay if the people in the arena are given the illusion that "all the older generations of Changfeng Tower have withdrawn from the arena."
Anyway, Mo Changfeng and the others have no attachment to the current world.
Therefore, all the members attending the Wulin Conference this time are young people, and those young people who want to travel around the valley are the best choice. However, Li Fenglan deliberately excluded Fu Xiaohu and Tan Wushuang from the list. It was inappropriate for these two people to be his subordinates, one as the Nianzi Gang leader and the other as the deputy gang leader.
Shuo Feng was not happy that he was not included in the list. .
"After all, I have a lot of experience in the world. When the time comes, I will take care of you. You won't do anything embarrassing." Shuofeng tried his best to fight for opportunities for himself.
Li Fenglan rolled her eyes at him: "You are not from Changfeng Tower, so why should you go with us? And you have many enemies. If people know that you are in Xianren Hall, someone will come to trouble us. Besides, I Didn’t I tell you to find your own way out after the year? Why haven’t you left yet?”
Gao Yuan said with a smile: "Miss Li, what you said at that time was angry."
"I didn't say it in anger."
"Hey~" Gao Yuan stretched out contentedly, "You guys haven't been here during the year. I checked your accounts and ledgers.
It was done very sloppily, everything was clear. Moreover, Ms. Li doesn’t know how much money she has now, right? "
Li Fenglan frowned and asked, "Where did you check the account?"
Gao Yuan chuckled: "Your warehouse doesn't even have a lock on it, and the account books are just on the shelves."
Li Fenglan turned around and glared at Han Lu: "You didn't take it away?"
Han Lu explained: "I'm not an accountant...how would I know..."
Li Fenglan thought for a while and asked Gao Yuan: "Are you willing to be a bookkeeper here?"
Gao Yuan raised his hands and shouted: "Willingly!"
After Gao Yuan finished expressing his attitude, Li Fenglan looked at Shuofeng again and asked, "What can you do?"
"I'm a master."
"The most important thing we don't lack here is experts."
"But there is no master like me."
"I heard from Kohaku that she is already on a par with you."
"Then, that's what I asked her to... No, Miss Li, as for me, I feel safe just leaving it at home. If someone comes knocking on my door again, not to mention too many, one or two jadeite ones are not enough. questionable."
Jade on one side has shown a murderous look.
Li Fenglan had no choice but to say: "Let's do this. Now you stay in the idle hall. When I solve everything, you can go to Nianzi Mountain. There are many children there. Don't you want to revitalize your Qijue Sect? You can go and find out if there are any good seedlings. .”
When Shuofeng heard that he had received his meal ticket, his face lit up with joy: "Chengcheng, no problem."
Li Fenglan looked at Bai Shuyu again: "What about you? What can you do here?"
Bai Shuyu looked around and asked, "What the fuck?"
"Nonsense, you come to my house to eat for free? Are you not allowed to do some work?"
"I'm staying here temporarily. I'll go home in a few days."
"It's already the twentieth day of the first lunar month. When you get back, you'll just stay in our leisure hall. It won't even take you half an hour to get from here to your house."
Bai Shuyu was a little irritated: "It won't cost you anything just to let me stay for a few days. Besides, you saved at least two hundred taels by buying this house. Why are you so stingy?"
Li Fenglan didn't care about him and turned to look at Zhu Mingyu again.
Zhu Mingyu hurriedly expressed her position: "I can accompany Amber and make her happy."
Li Fenglan nodded: "That's okay."
"That's okay?!" Bai Shuyu was angry, "Then I can still accompany Jade. Is this considered a living?"
"Why do you have so many opinions? Mr. Renzhu paid a lot of money for us last year. He is a distinguished guest of our Leisure Hall, how can we let others work?"
Zhu Mingyu looked proud.
Bai Shuyu asked anxiously, "My family helped you a lot last year. Besides... why didn't you ask Mu Yun what he could do?"
Han Lu spread her hands and said, "If you can marry me into Chaolan Valley, she will definitely not let you go."
"Getting married?" Bai Shuyu felt incredible, "Isn't your sacrifice too big? What's so good about Li Fenglan? She can't sit or stand, she has a temper like a tomboy, and she doesn't like to wear shoes..."
Li Fenglan slapped the table: "If you keep talking nonsense, leave now!"
Bai Shuyu had no choice but to shut up.
Li Fenglan stood up from his seat, looked around for his shoes, pulled up the collar of his shoes and said to everyone: "Let's make this decision for now. When the time comes, Feicui and Muyun will go to Shaolin with me. Zhu Mingyu, you and Hubo will go back to Huazhou." Wait for us."
Jade picked up the teacup, took a sip, and said, "I won't go with you."
Li Fenglan was puzzled: "Why?"
Jade put down the teacup: "Sister Bai is ill. Brother Bai and Brother Bai have to take care of the family. When the time comes, he and I will represent the Bai family in this martial arts competition."
Li Fenglan pinched her chin, and the expression on her face became even more confusing: "You haven't gotten married yet. You are in the Bai family team. Aren't you afraid of other people's irresponsible remarks?"
"Let's see who dares."
Li Fenglan was helpless: "Forget it, do as you like."
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It is said that the martial arts competition only starts on February 16th, but some remote small sects have already set off in the first month.
Before the first lunar month, the inns at the foot of Songshan Mountain were already full of people, and many sects even set up tents in the wild regardless of the cold weather.
Luoyang is not far from Songshan, so Li Fenglan and the others don't have to rush so much as they can arrive on the same day. Besides, they now have to keep a distance from Shaolin and avoid causing trouble to Shaolin, so they did not visit in advance.
Before starting, Li Fenglan visited the surrounding small sects several times to talk to them and tactfully expressed that the leader of the Thorn Clan, Shen Clan, was interested in being elected as the leader of the martial arts alliance. Those small sects did not dare to provoke her, and even the Songshan sect made it clear that they would stand with Ms. Li of the Xianrentang.
Li Fenglan did the math and found that the chances of winning this time were pretty good.
The Bai family's intelligence network also gave a list of sects participating in this martial arts conference. There were so many people that it was the largest martial arts gathering in the past twenty years. The Bai family's Jianghu Di newspaper was once sold out, which shows that Jianghu people attach great importance to this conference. .
In fact, there have been no conflicts in the martial arts in the past twenty years. Although the scale is not large, there are still many conflicts between people. During the Luzhou War, there were several group fights in the Jianghu. This made Li Fenglan feel a little relieved. At least their Changfeng Tower was not as remembered by people in the world as they imagined.
Amber and Zhu Mingyu set out for Huazhou when they were twenty-three - the reason why they were allowed to go to Huazhou was for two reasons. First, it has been almost a year since the two of them established their relationship. They originally said they would "get married soon", but who knew it would take so long. Letting Amber go to live with the Zhu family first will at least make Mr. Zhu and Mrs. Zhu feel more at ease.
As for the second point, after the conference, it was time to clean up the Yuan family, and I happened to pick them up on the way.
Neither the Yuan family nor the Liuyang sect participated in this meeting.
After the First World War in Luzhou, the Yuan family retreated to Chang'an and did not even engage in business after the New Year, for fear of being retaliated by the Xianrentang. As for the Liuyang Sect, half of them were destroyed.
Yuan Qifeng originally relied on conspiracy to rise to power. He told the public that the previous sect leader went crazy and died, but everyone is not a fool. He was obsessed with death. He had never heard of such an outrageous thing in the past fifty years. He thought he was writing his own story. After talking about the Bai family's secret propaganda, his plot to plot against the former sect leader has long been spread.
After all, Chen Tianfeng was also the leader of a sect, and he had many disciples and friends. When he learned that he was assassinated, people came to seek revenge every three days. This made Yuan Qifeng miserable. He had no time to attend any martial arts conferences, and the Liuyang sect did not leave. That's good.
Li Fenglan wanted to lead people to clean up the Yuan family, so naturally she would not let the Liuyang Sect go. She spent money to secretly connect those disciples of the Liuyang Sect who were dissatisfied with Yuan Qifeng, and only waited for the martial arts conference to end before launching an attack on the Liuyang Sect.
Everything seemed to be going in the right direction, so smoothly that Li Fenglan felt a little weird.
