Chapter 113 111 The World Changes, People Return, Sowing Seeds and Waiting for Fruits, Living Evil Ghosts (Long Chapter, Please Subscribe)

Chapter 113 111. The world changes, people return, sowing seeds and waiting for fruits, living evil ghosts (long chapter - please subscribe)

The next day, the snow cleared and the sun rose.

The manor was covered in silver, but also gilded with golden light. Xiao Yan was wrapped in a big cotton jacket and leaned on a small cane. Two small footprints and a round hole slowly spread to the distance.

The cotton jacket was very warm, and the fluffy neck was gone, revealing only a lovely face and a pair of eyes that smiled like a crescent moon.

Many black crows stood on the rockery, tall trees, or roof ridges, overlooking the lively courtyard with frenzied and calm eyes.

"One, two, three"

"One, two, three, four, five, five"

"One, two, two, hold it and run, hold it and run"

"Wow wow wow!"

Xiao Ping'an sat on the boss lady's lap, looking up and counting crows, but he could not count to "five" because the crows flew back and forth and refused to let him count.

Xiao Ping'an was so angry that he cried loudly, and tears flowed out.

He was crying, and Xiao Yan was laughing.

Lady Yan ran over, knocked on her little head, and said, "Don't bully your brother."

"Bitter, bitter~~"

Xiao Yan pointed at Xiao Ping'an and laughed, and her blind eyes, like glass white, showed a kind of cute and innocent beauty.

The word "bitter" made Lady Yan and the boss lady stunned for a moment, and then they realized that it was "crying", which meant that Xiao Ping'an was particularly easy to cry.

After hearing this, Xiao Ping'an was stunned for a while, then quickly observed the words and expressions, suddenly realized what it meant, and cried even harder.

Madam Yan also hurried to the side of the proprietress to coax Xiao Ping'an together.

Xiao Yan grabbed a cane and walked swayingly in the silver-white snow. Large flocks of crows flew around her, like black flames inlaid with rubies.

After completing his normal morning practice, Li Yuan also came here to enjoy some family happiness.

He raised his head and glanced at the crows.

Fifteen.

The value is "18~20".

He remembered that in March, there were only six.

Is this one more per month?

And the number "18~20" can be said to be a ninth-grade warrior. Although it is not strong, it is truly a ninth-grade warrior.

My own daughter, what is this?

His thoughts flashed through his mind and were instantly broken.

Little Cotton-Au's childish voice was mixed with laughter, and she shouted: "Daddy, hold me, hold me!"

She leaned on the cane with her left hand and raised her right hand.

This action that could melt people's hearts, Li Yuan would not refuse.

He walked forward quickly and picked up Little Cotton-Au.

Little Cotton-Au threw away the cane.

Li Yuan hugged her and turned around in the snow for a few circles before stopping. Then he held her in one hand and held the cane in the other hand, and came to the small pavilion on the side, put the cane on the table, and then looked at his crying son, grabbed Little Cotton-Au's hand and stretched it out, saying: "You two should get along well."

Little Cotton-Au smiled, stretched out her tender little hand in front of Little Ping'an.

Little Ping'an snorted and turned his head away.

Little Cotton-Au grabbed his hand and shouted: "Poor boy, don't be miserable."

"Wow!!" Little Ping'an continued to cry.

The proprietress hurriedly coaxed him.

Lady Yan said, "Xiao Yan, stop calling your brother a crybaby."

The little girl obviously couldn't express more complicated meanings, so she just lay in her father's arms blankly.

Li Yuan smiled and said, "Let's make a snowman."

He then asked, "Where's Niannian?"

Lady Yan said, "In Wulu."

The lady boss said, "Not in Wulu anymore, Niannian has been to my place again recently."

Lady Yan looked over curiously.

The proprietress said, "I have also formed a small caravan, mainly selling wine, but also selling mountain products and animal skins. The caravan went back and forth several times, and Niannian became very interested, so she went to chat with the caravan leader."

Mrs. Yan couldn't help laughing and said, "Little kid, but smart."

Li Yuan looked at the proprietress and said, "Sister Xue, Niannian should want to buy better puppet materials. If she wants to buy, don't save money, let her buy it."

The proprietress scooped her man and said coquettishly, "You are the only one who loves her."

Li Yuan smiled, then took his son and daughter to make a snowman together.

After a while, he made a small snowman;

But he was still not satisfied, so he made a large one;

He was still not satisfied, so he made a snow house several meters high, hollowed out the middle, and made a snow table and five snow chairs.

Ordinary people don't have this ability, but Li Yuan can.

Lady Yan and the boss lady couldn't help laughing. They were full of childishness. They went into the snow house one by one, looked around, and then made tea and drank it around the snow table.

The sun shone through the ice crystals, casting a dreamy colorful arc of light in the house.

Little Ping'an stopped crying, blinking his eyes and wandering around the snow house excitedly.

Crows flew around, and the little cotton jacket clung to his father.

The family was happy, and when the snow house began to melt, little Ping'an started crying again.

The little cotton jacket ran over and patted his head and said, "Buku, Buku."

The boss lady asked curiously, "Is Xiao Yan imitating the bird's call?"

Lady Yan said speechlessly, "She is trying to stop her brother from crying."

Time passed day by day.

The internal consolidation and the external enemies' detours, the five small counties developed steadily.

Except for the poor harvest of farmland every year, there was nothing particularly unsatisfactory.

But since Li Yuan has become the behind-the-scenes figure of these five small counties, Li Yuan's words can also play a decisive role.

Under the advice of Lady Yan and the boss's wife, he opened farmland again, and arranged for the servants in the sect, and even the disciples to help the farmers to farm, as a training, and those who successfully completed it can also get sect points to exchange for resources.

He also encouraged the disciples in Wulu to help the farmers to farm.

[The image of the young man riding a deer] It requires a heart that is calm and free from the world. Farming farmland is also a kind of tempering of the mind.

You know, Wulu is now in a very high status.

The disciples of Wulu took the lead to help with farming, and the farmland became busy.

On the other hand, he asked the big households to reduce the farm rent, from the original fixed rent payment to the fixed rice for the people. The people had to take care of themselves first, and the remaining rice was given to the big households.

As compensation, he gave these wealthy families some quotas so that the children of the wealthy families could enter the sects to practice.

In addition, porridge shops were set up in front of each market, which was considered to be a relief for the homeless.

At the same time, the disciples of each sect also began to arrange for these homeless refugees to settle down again and gave them newly opened farmland. Although it was not fertile, it was still a job and hope.

Lady Yan and the boss lady took the lead in doing these things.

During this period, Li Yuan did not show up much, nor did he take these good deeds, but attributed all these things to Lady Yan and the boss lady.

Over time, the people of the five counties praised "Yan Bodhisattva" and "Xue Bodhisattva", and everyone knew that "Blood Knife Ancestor loves his wife".

After all, Blood Knife Ancestor did not care about the suffering of the people at all. Thanks to the two Bodhisattvas, he did these good deeds.

In June, Li Yuan returned to Shexiang.

Shexiang did not disappoint him. The first batch of Shexiang disciples had already solved the problems of Mr. Ma and the government office.

How did they solve it?

Create something out of nothing.

Take advantage of the situation.

Pull the tiger skin.

This tiger skin is the tiger skin of Songhe Restaurant and also the tiger skin of Li Yuan.

It is easy to pull the tiger skin of Songhe Restaurant, but it is difficult to pull the tiger skin of Li Yuan.

For this reason, Xu Lan, Xu Sheng and others also forcibly gave Li Yuan a name and made up some seemingly false origins.

They said that Li Yuan came from the mysterious Fengbo Xianxiang in the East China Sea. This Fengbo Xianxiang is a mysterious place in the legend that may exist but cannot be verified.

I don’t know where the little beggar heard it from, anyway, it was pressed on Li Yuan.

Xu Lan and Xu Sheng did not dare to say that Li Yuan was the owner of Fengbo Xianxiang, but only said that this was a mysterious messenger from Fengbo Xianxiang.

The Fengbo Xianxiang messenger gathered local boys and girls with unknown purposes, taught them martial arts, and made them worship the mysterious Fengbo Xianxiang master.

Xu Lan, Xu Sheng and six other boys and girls specially compiled a set of mysterious kowtow rituals to worship the Fengbo Xianxiang master.

The Fengbo Xianxiang master was actually a strange wooden sculpture wrapped in black cloth.

This strange wooden sculpture was carved by Xu Sheng himself with a knife, but no one knew about it except Xu Lan.

With such rhetoric, such a mysterious ritual of pretending to be a god, plus the eight ninth-grade and the vague words of Songhe Restaurant, Master Ma and the local government were dumbfounded.

No one messed with this Shexiang anymore.

And Shexiang has recruited a lot of fresh blood, which has turned this small mansion into a small force.

Li Yuan was also amazed when he knew that he suddenly had the title of "Fengbo Xianxiang Messenger".

However, he did not correct anything, neither admitting nor denying, but taught the eight people the eighth-grade cultivation method and the method of breaking through the seventh-grade, and then asked Songhe Restaurant to slightly open up the purchase channels of the eighth-grade monster meat.

The eighth-grade monster meat is still precious, and it is certain that it is in short supply.

But it is not as precious as it was a few years ago.

The main reason is that the five counties are unified, stable and have good public security.

When the caravan travels in it, it rarely encounters strong men. Even if it encounters some scattered mountain bandits, it can rely on its own strength to fight against them.

Unity, stability, and good public security have brought more trade.

First, the Red Ant Chamber of Commerce saw that this place was stable, so it increased the supply quota.

Second, Hengwu Restaurant established its own chamber of commerce, opened up foreign trade channels, and had exchanges with many chambers of commerce, so this resource was also easy to purchase.

Third, with the poor harvests year after year, the output of the eighth-grade monster meat in the meat field was gradually increasing.

With the superposition of various factors and Li Yuan's secret manipulation, the small Shexiang in Qingtan County can also obtain resources to maintain cultivation.

But as the old saying goes, you have to earn money yourself.

This put Shexiang in a certain dilemma.

The Shexiang disciples who mastered certain means began to recruit more disciples, and at the same time increased the mining of mountain products, and then exchanged them for resources by selling them to Songhe Restaurant.

And these mountain products with good appearance were sold to other places through the Chamber of Commerce of Hengwu Restaurant, thereby earning silver, thus forming a virtuous circle.

In early August, a letter was sent to Li Yuan through a certain Chamber of Commerce.

The letter was written by Yan Mu.

The letter expressed disappointment.

But why was he disappointed, he didn't say.

Yan Mu only said that he wanted to come back.

Li Yuan looked at the letter in a trance, with a thoughtful expression on his face.

Just a few simple letters have made him understand one thing: Yan Mu is likely to be a disciple of a powerful force on the same level as the Holy Fire Palace.

After that, he explored through his own channels and found out that something big had happened in the Central Plains again.

Last year, the emperor broke his promise and promised to "open the Great Zhou Arsenal", but he didn't do it at the last minute. Li Yuan can actually understand this.

The emperor must have been reminded by someone that "the arsenal must not be opened", because this "arsenal" is the royal heritage. If the royal heritage is stripped away, is the royal family still the royal family?

Therefore, the emperor was too excited when he promised, and now he has come to his senses, but he would rather go back on his word than open the arsenal.

But big forces like the Holy Fire Palace will definitely not do it, and this joint debt collection is definitely necessary.

The emperor can't even beat the Red Lotus Prince, how can he deal with these forces that defeated the Red Lotus Prince?

And this year, there is an answer.

This answer was pieced together by the warriors who escaped from the north in the caravan.

But to put it simply, in one sentence: the emperor valued Xinghai, and he even worshipped a Xinghai as the national teacher.

What Li Yuan knew through the caravan, the boss lady naturally knew too.

The boss lady was very curious.

"Isn't this emperor stupid? If he uses Xinghai as the national teacher, won't Xinghai covet his Great Zhou treasure house?"

Li Yuan gave a guess and answered her doubts: "Maybe Xinghai really doesn't covet the Great Zhou treasure house."

"Why?"

"Xinghai's own realm does not represent the strength,

and there were not many ghost domains in the past, and most of the treasures hidden in the Great Zhou treasure house should be beneficial to the practice of warriors.

But these treasures are exactly what Xinghai doesn't need, so the emperor would be so generous to worship Xinghai as the national teacher."

"What does Xinghai want?" The boss lady was very curious.

Li Yuan was silent for a while. His impression of Yujing City was probably just a few things:

First, Yan Mu escorted an honest official to Yujing;

Second, Prince Honglian captured Yujing, but stopped chasing the emperor, which gave the emperor an opportunity to call on the world's forces to besiege. Later, the emperor regretted it, and the world's forces demanded debts. The emperor reused Xinghai to fight against them;

Third, Lianyi Zhai, or Lianyi Zhai.

"Xinghai's water is too deep, and the water in the ghost domain is too deep. They are willing to form an alliance with the emperor, and they must have a big plan." Li Yuan murmured, and then said, "I suspect that the annual famine in farmland is related to these things."

The boss lady also knows what her husband means.

Farmland is famine, meat fields are fertile.

And the better the meat field, the more terrible the ghost domain will be near it.

It's like one yang and one yin, the higher the way, the higher the devil.

You know, the meat fields in the border areas can already produce eighth-grade monster meat. Just thinking about what the meat fields in Yujing City look like now, you know that they must be extraordinary.

"I don't know when it will end," the proprietress sighed, "It was not like this in the past.

This year there is famine, next year there is a good harvest, the world has good and bad, at most it can be regarded as impermanence.

But now.

Hey.

This is the fifth consecutive year of poor harvest.

If it weren't for the increase in farmland, the increase in farmers, and the reduction in farm rents, these counties would have become hell on earth.

This is God's will not let people live.

It's almost time for the harvest this year."

There was not much optimism between her eyebrows, because she had already visited the farmland.

On the loess, the farmers' worries between their brows explained everything.

October.

Poor harvest.

And the eighth-grade monster meat in the meat field has increased its output, and there is a trend of expansion.

Deep winter.

In Shanbao County, the Blood Blade Sect tested the "ghost boundary" of the "black market ghost domain" as usual, and then found that the boundary had expanded. Although it had not yet reached the ground, the closest point was only more than ten meters away.

If anyone who plays in the water wants to go to the lake for a swim, he might swim into the ghost domain.

Therefore, a new blood-colored ban sign was erected on the shore, which was shocking.

In the spring of the next year.

In Qiutang County, a powerful sixth-grade ghost servant suddenly walked out of the mass grave ghost domain. The ghost servant was wearing ancient clothes that were completely different from this era. General Gu Xiang was directly stunned, but fortunately this ghost servant was the kind of "every grievance has its perpetrator, and every debt has its creditor". After General Gu Xiang gave way, he did not pursue him anymore, but left Qiutang County, and no one knew where he went.

A month later, the sixth-grade ghost servant came back, dragging a large sack behind him, with dozens of dead people in the sack.

General Gu Xiang went to inquire about it and found out that in a county next door, an entire family was slaughtered by a mysterious strongman. But what was strange was that this family had a good reputation in the local area and was a well-known family of good people. It was impossible for them to offend anyone, let alone a sixth-rank strongman.

This made General Gu Xiang extremely creepy, because he thought of a possibility.

As the saying goes, "every grievance has its perpetrator, and every debt has its creditor", but when those ancient people returned to the human world, their enemies might have died of old age. However, these ghost servants did not give up. They might have found the descendants of those enemies, and then slaughtered the families of the descendants directly, and then took them back to the mass grave.

In this way, it really fulfilled the saying "when will the revenge of grievances end".

Summer was quiet.

Autumn, poor harvest.

This was the seventh consecutive year of poor harvest.

Winter.

Pang Yuanhua accidentally observed that there were new soul lines in the sky.

Li Yuan and her followed the clues, and then found that the "carpenter's shop" had revived.

A large number of people disappeared, and at the same time, someone developed a strange disease called "flesh and blood withering".

Li Yuan and Pang Yuanhua both knew that "flesh and blood withering" was a sign of "queueing up to enter the carpenter's shop".

Immediately, Pang Yuanhua went to the 14th wing on the left side of the Zhong Mansion and brought back the result: Bao Dacong was still alive.

Since Bao Dacong was still alive, it stands to reason that the "carpenter's shop" should still be blocked.

After that, they began to investigate more people with the strange disease of "blood and flesh withering" to understand the scene of the carpenter's shop they saw.

Then, a creepy and terrible answer appeared:

There was an extra row of wooden racks in the carpenter's shop.

This meant that the original order of queuing one by one was broken.

The team became two.

Li Yuan and Pang Yuanhua began to run around again, following the same pattern, continuing to catch those evil bandits, and then Li Yuan smeared blood on the bandits, opened the door and threw the bandits into the carpenter's shop.

But this time there was a little accident, the first bandit did not escape, until the second one succeeded.

The carpenter's shop was blocked again.

But whether it was Li Yuan or Pang Yuanhua, their hearts were extremely heavy, as if they were pressed by a heavy iron block.

The ghost domain is not immutable, it is growing.

Today, the carpenter's shop has two rows of wooden racks, what about after that?

No one knows whether it will become more than ten rows, or even dozens or hundreds of rows of wooden racks

One or two rows can still be blocked, but how to block more?

After finishing their work, Li Yuan and Pang Yuanhua did not show any joy.

Because this world is undergoing some terrible changes.

Now is just the starting point of this change.

After returning to Baihua Manor, Li Yuan began to practice skills in batches.

However, because the sixth-grade resources and skills all need blood gold to buy, the skills he can obtain are still seventh-grade.

It's not that he doesn't want to break into the fifth grade.

But the more he tries, the more he understands that the fifth grade is an incredible realm, and it may not even be a realm that can be broken through by one person.

He is not completely inexperienced in this kind of thing. Before crossing, he had read some things, which mentioned the "Tao Heart Planting Demon" and other methods of power promotion such as "Grabbing Characteristics".

The more Li Yuan tried, the more he felt that the shadow blood technique in this world might be this way.

He is a sower.

He sowed the seeds.

Then, he needs to wait for the seeds to take root, sprout and bear fruit.

After that, he will grab the fruits.

After eating the fruits, he can see the road behind.

Very realistic, and cruel.

But it is cold at the top

The road leads to the sky, but only one person can walk.

The throne is glorious, when will it allow two people?

The vague guess made him seem to have insight into some truths of the world.

The tip of the iceberg is already piercingly cold.

Deep winter.

A group of chaotic soldiers suddenly burst out from the north. These chaotic soldiers have no reason at all, their eyes are crazy, and they rush into the antelope's mouth without thinking.

However, the three counties of Shanbao, Huamo and Tiannan behind the antelope's mouth have long become a whole around Wulu. The three parties sent out masters to strangle all these chaotic soldiers, and then took turns to guard to deal with the chaotic soldiers who came from time to time.

Lingyangkou also began to transform into a pass.

But the strange thing is that those chaotic soldiers seemed to be completely crazy and not afraid of death at all, but they did not look like the secret army concocted by secret methods, they were just pure madness.

This winter, the weather was not cold, but the sun was shining brightly.

In the cold winter, the flowers suddenly bloomed, blooming brightly.

The bright color made people panic and terrified.

At this time, a heavy snow finally fell from the sky.

The temperature was like a cliff, plummeting, and the flowers that bloomed withered the next day, as if God had played a joke.

And these abnormalities made Li Yuan's heart more and more blocked.

But all he could do was to expand the depth of his "skill pool" while suppressing the torment and patiently waiting for the seeds to take root and sprout.

Early spring.

In the manor, Li Yuan was shirtless, carrying weights, holding a dragon sword and spear, and repeatedly practicing stabbing.

This stab is like a venomous snake that leaps out of the grass, fast and fierce, and the angle and direction do not change at any time.

Spearmanship!

It is one direction for Li Yuan to expand his "skill pool", which can directly enhance his flexibility in battle.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh whoosh!!

Six shots in a row, but the six shots are stabbed in the same space, and the directions are completely overlapping.

The young man's mind moved again, and several more spear shadows rushed to another place and hit the same position.

This is a seventh-grade skill [Lance of Locking Throat] that he collected. Now it is close to perfection. Except for Li Yuan's 1 skill point at the breakthrough point, the whole process depends on his own practice.

Compared with the previous [Lance of Yin], this [Lance of Locking Throat] pays more attention to accuracy.

Even if a fly buzzes over, Li Yuan said to stab its left wing, it will not stab the right side.

After practicing [Throat-locking Spear], the young man turned his palm, and the dragon sword and spear suddenly became flexible, from the original grass-snake to a bird in the cloud circling in his palm and flying between his fingers.

The tip of the spear was like a bird's beak, tapping in all directions, and each point was instantly out and back, without any lingering feelings.

It was as if the spear in his palm came alive, and it was still in the east in the last moment, and it was already in the west in the next moment, changing unpredictably.

This method is another seventh-grade spear skill that Li Yuan is practicing, called [Five-fingered Spear].

Compared with continuous and accurate, this spear method focuses more on flexibility and change.

After practicing [Five-fingered Spear], the spear in the young man's hand suddenly changed again, becoming powerful and heavy.

After a while, the spear changed again, the spear moved like a dragon, and the hitting points changed.

In another moment, the spear technique became plain and simple, but there were all kinds of killer moves hidden in this plainness.

The three subsequent spear techniques were named "Hui Tong Gan Zi", "Xian Ba ​​Mei Hua" and "Hun Yuan Zi Mu".

Li Yuan held the sixth-grade perfect state and practiced the seventh-grade skills.

He originally practiced spear and sword together, and practiced in reverse, so his practice speed was extremely fast.

He practiced the five spears at the same time without delay.

When the five spears were finished, it was completely dark.

But this day was a little different from the past.

A letter came from afar and was placed beside him.

The letter was written by Yan Mu.

The content was simple: he was coming back.

Li Yuan showed it to Lady Yan.

Lady Yan smiled and said, "My husband, you want another nephew."

Li Yuan said, "He and I are brothers, and I will pick him up in person."

Lady Yan corrected, "It's a nephew, a nephew. Not a brother."

Li Yuan smiled.

That night, he came to the secret room, thought for a while, and made a fake life record trajectory.

Maybe he was too suspicious, but the return of a former friend may not have changed the heart of the old friend.

Even if Yan Mu didn't say it, he could guess that Yan Mu was most likely a disciple of a big force. Not only a disciple of a big force, but also a disciple with "relatives".

Otherwise, how could he have such great emotional fluctuations with the changes in the war situation? How could he survive in a place like Yujing City?

You know, Yan Mu is only two years older than him. Even if he is a genius in a big force, his strength is just there.

He will treat Yan Mu, his nephew and brother, as a family.

However, he will keep a hand for the disciple of the big force.

Late spring.

Li Yuan pondered and comprehended, and merged the six kinds of spear techniques into one, named "Liuhe".

This "Liuhe" is the same as "City Destroying", which is a unique skill among the seventh grade and the pinnacle of the seventh grade skills.

If we talk about destroying a city, it means that it is a powerful and powerful sword.

This Liuhe means that you can shoot guns all over your body, and it will arrive in an instant. It is treacherous but has a strong penetrating power.

Such a stunt did not improve Li Yuan's overall strength much, but it can improve his actual combat ability to a considerable extent.

At this time, the disciples who were sent to wait at the Changmian River Ferry in advance sent a pigeon to send back the news: Yan Mu has arrived, they will stay outside for one night, and then pass through Lingyangkou in two days.

Li Yuan received the letter, said a word to Lady Yan and the proprietress, then rode a fast horse, carried two jars of good wine, went out of the north gate, and left in a dusty manner.

Two days passed quickly, and Li Yuan also arrived at the entrance and exit of the three counties on this side.

Hundreds of flowers are in full bloom, colorful and swaying in the wind, and the fragrance spreads for ten miles.

The young man got off the horse casually and sat in the long grass under the old tree on the side of Lingyangkou waiting.

An hour later, a figure in white rode into the Antelope's Mouth, surrounded by disciples of the Blood Blade Sect.

The figure was thin, somewhat elegant like a scholar, and Li Yuan was very familiar with his face, it was Yan Mu.

Yan Mu was two years older than him, and he should be twenty-five this year.

Twenty-five years old should be an age of ambition and career, not to mention that this is a young man who has been in Yujing City for a long time.

However, all Li Yuan saw was fatigue, disappointment, and a face full of vicissitudes and desolation.

Li Yuan glanced at the information on Yan Mu's side again: 500~530 (600~630).

This look confirmed most of his previous guesses.

I really didn't expect that the Yan family was still a family with connections.

At least this Yan Mu was.

Otherwise, with this strength, how could he survive in Yujing?

You know, Yan Mu escorted that honest official to Yujing eight years ago.

The strength of the sixteen-year-old Yan Mu is at most the seventh rank, right? If you count a little more, it is extraordinary to enter the sixth rank for the first time.

Therefore, Li Yuan continued to speculate that Yan Mu did not escort the man to Yujing alone.

Many thoughts flashed through his mind, and he smiled, holding the fine wine, opened his arms, and went to meet him.

Yan Mu was stunned when he saw Li Yuan, because Li Yuan had changed so much.

The thin, honest boy with a bit of heroic spirit back then, now has a heroic figure and a magnificent physique. Before he even approached, a sense of oppression rushed over.

And he has also changed a lot.

When he left, he was full of heroic spirit, but now. He has a stubble face, a desolate look, and a vicissitudes of life.

Yan Mu hurriedly jumped off the carriage and shouted: "Uncle!"

Li Yuan stepped forward a few steps, hugged him, and smiled: "Brother Yan, it seems that you didn't drink enough wine on this trip to the Central Plains."

Yan Mu was stunned.

Li Yuan laughed heartily and said, "If you have drunk enough wine, why are you so tired?"

Yan Mu smiled, forced out some smiles, closed his eyes and took a deep breath, and said with emotion: "Although Yujing is good, it is better to return home early. It is still better here."

Li Yuan threw him a jar of fine wine and said, "I am not bragging. This wine is brewed in the restaurant of my other wife. It is famous far and wide."

Yan Mu smiled. He was used to drinking fine wine, so how could he expect too much from the wine in a small place? However, some of his worries when he returned disappeared.

Brother, still the brother in the past.

When he entrusted his aunt to his brother, he also had the intention of matchmaking.

It was not surprising that he called him uncle.

He immediately slapped the seal, put it to his mouth, and paused for a while. When he saw Li Yuan grabbing the jar with one hand and respecting him from a distance, he smiled and said, "This sip is not a drink, but the feeling of reuniting with our brothers!"

After that, the two looked at each other, smiled, and drank the wine.

After the wine entered his throat, Yan Mu showed a look of surprise, and then said: "This wine tastes sweet."

Li Yuan smiled and said: "Gant Niang's tastes delicious."

Yan Mu was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Gant's mother's drink is delicious."

Li Yuan patted him on the shoulder again and said, "Now that you're back, let's stay a little longer. It's best to stay here forever. What's so good about Yujing?"

"Yu Jing. Yu Jing" Yan Mu seemed to remember something, and then sighed.

Li Yuandao: "Man, why are you sighing?"

Yan Mu showed a self-deprecating look and said: "I was too young back then. I thought I was escorting an upright official who cared about the country and the people, but I didn't expect that he was just a profit-seeking person!

Being an upright official is just his disguise, his mask. I was deceived by him! "

After saying that, he became more and more angry. He raised his head to the sky and shouted with great grief and anger: "The ancient sages cared about the country and the people. Are they safe now? Are they safe?!!!"

Li Yuan glanced at him in surprise. Is this nephew really worried about the country and the people?

He waved his hand back, looked at the Blood Knife Sect disciples around him and said, "You go first."

The disciples of the Blood Knife Sect clasped their fists and saluted respectfully, then obeyed their ancestor's order and rode off.

After a while, only two horses were left walking side by side on the long road.

Li Yuan then asked: "Is the honest official dead?"

"not dead."

Yan Mu said, "He is not an honest official who needs my escort at all, but an inner disciple of a powerful force. He is stronger than me, but he is still pretending to be weak.

The reason why he went to Yujing was because he knew that the Red Lotus Thief was about to rise, and wanted to inform the sect where he was of this information in advance. "

"Which door?"

"Shenmu Temple." Yan Mu said, then raised his head and said, "Do you know why he hurried to the door to report the news?"

Li Yuan shook his head in cooperation.

"I only found out recently." After saying that, Yan Mu clenched his fists, "The reason why that bitch told the Shenmu Temple was not because he wanted the Shenmu Temple to unite with other forces to suppress the Red Lotus thieves to avoid the loss of life.

He...he...he actually wanted the major forces to let go and let the Red Lotus Thieves attack all the way to Yujing City.

When the Red Lotus thieves are done with the royal family, they will reap the benefits. "

Yan Mu almost roared out these words. After saying that, he was like a deflated ball and laughed at himself, "I'm so stupid, really."

Li Yuan sighed, patted Yan Mu on the shoulder, and comforted: "Brother Yan, you are not stupid, I would do the same thing if it were me."

Yan Mu tilted his head excitedly, his eyes were red and filled with tears, and he said: "Good brother!"

The two rode horses for a while, and it was getting late, so they temporarily stayed in Tiannan County, the northernmost county.

In the inn, the two of them had another drink and then returned to the private room.

Only then did Li Yuan learn some news about Yan Mu.

Back then, when Yan Mu was young, he went out to become an apprentice and learned [Huiliu Gong]. He was promoted to the seventh level. After that, he traveled around the world and accidentally made friends with an upright official.

Seeing his ability, the upright official invited him to accompany him before going to Beijing and hoped that he would escort him.

There were other people in the world traveling with him, but the honest official took good care of him.

Later, Yan Mu found out the reason.

This [Hui Liu Gong] is actually the basic skill of the "Shenmu Temple". He has excellent talent. Now that he has reached the seventh level, he should recognize his ancestors and return to the clan.

The next day, early in the morning, the two set off on their way and arrived in Shanbao County in the evening.

Upon entering the county, Li Yuan took his nephew straight to Baihua Manor.

In front of the manor, Lady Yan was already waiting with Xiao Lin.

The two dismounted, and Xiaolin called out "Dad" with a crow on her shoulder.

Lady Yan pointed at Yan Mu and said with a smile, "That's your cousin."

Xiao Lin pouted and was about to try to call "cousin" when Yan Mu frowned and said in a voiceless voice: "Is this... a natural thing?"

Li Yuan glanced slightly sideways.

Yan Mu noticed the gaffe, then pulled Li Yuan to one side and said softly: "Uncle, this child can't see anyone, otherwise he will get into big trouble."

"Why?"

Li Yuan's expression began to turn cold.

Yan Mu said: "You have been in the border area, so you don't know, but outside, Xinggui and the warriors are already at odds with each other.

This child's eyes are like jade, which is an extremely rare innate behavior recorded in ancient books.

No, it can no longer be described as innate.

This is the living evil spirit.

If she was seen by a powerful warrior, she would be killed without mercy.

If Xinggui sees it, he will definitely want to leave this place and walk thousands of miles away, never to return! "