Chapter 23: Self-harm

Hu Lingnan, who was asleep, looked so peaceful. After meeting Hu Lingnan, Qing Barley understood why he would grow like this.

Hu Lingnan used to be the most beautiful man in the fox clan, and none of the beautiful men in the Qingqiu fox clan could be compared with him, maybe he was the same level of beautiful men as Mei Ruoling and Yun Zunhong who knew him today, but they were completely different types.

Mei Ruoling is like a fairy, ethereal, not like a mortal figure, Yun Zun is as beautiful as a demon king, but Hu Ruoling belongs to this world. A white brocade robe is so suitable to wear on his body, a jade jade belt around his waist binds his waist, and a black hair and white jade crown are up, looking graceful.

With fair skin and a handsome face, his expression is quiet and serene, his sword eyebrows are starry, the contours are clear, the eyebrows reveal a sense of fortitude, and the slight upward arc at the corner of his mouth makes his facial lines look much softer. This is a gentle but unyielding man.

Qingli remembered Hu Lingnan's care for him, and treated her as a baby, so gentle, and so missable.

"Daddy......" Qing Barley said softly, as if he was afraid of waking him up. Although I haven't said it for a long time, it's not jerky at all when I say it, as if I've shouted it countless times in my heart.

looked like a sleeping Hu Lingnan, although she had been with him for a month before, but it was just a shadow that could not be touched, it was so vague, and now it was so real, she couldn't help but look at it again and again, Qingli's hands gradually clenched, and she decided in her heart that no matter how difficult it was, she must let her father wake up, even if she gave everything.

"Head of the house, do you know where my mother is now?" Now she doesn't know how to wake up Hu Lingnan, Hu Lingbai said that her mother knows, so she must find her mother.

Hearing this, Hu Lingbai was silent for a moment and said, "I can't tell you this now, I know what you think now, but with your current situation, it is absolutely impossible to come out alive in the past." ”

Qing Barley frowned: "Because I am a disgrace to their family?" Thinking of this, Qing Barley couldn't help but feel a little ironic, whether it was in the fox clan or in her mother's family, she was always a shame.

Hu Lingbai looked at Qing Barley's self-deprecating appearance and felt bad: "They were going to kill you at the beginning, but the person who killed you in the end relented, he was your mother's brother, so he let you go."

Before he left, he told us that unless you have the ability to protect yourself, you can't go to them, your life can't be saved, and you also know how powerful it means to be in such a huge family. So, until you have that kind of strength, I won't tell you, and no one in the family will tell you. ”

Hearing Hu Lingbai's words, Qing Barley was not unhappy, on the contrary, she understood the reason why they did this, and she was also grateful to that aunt, although she didn't have that strength now, but she believed that she would definitely have it.

"You'll tell me later." When she said this, Qingli's face was full of confidence, whether it was for herself or for her relatives, she would definitely become stronger.

"I believe in you, these are still far away for you, so work hard for yourself." There was relief in Hu Lingbai's eyes: "But I have one thing I want to ask you." ”

This is a series of foreshadowing of what Hu Lingnan said and did today.

"What's the problem?" Now the estrangement between her and Hu Lingbai has disappeared a lot, but she still hasn't opened her mouth to call uncle, maybe one day she will shout, but not now.

Hu Lingbai's eyes flashed with a strange light, and he said, "You couldn't cultivate before, why can you cultivate now?" He never asked about this, because at that time, he would not answer if he wanted to come to barley, but now he is not.

"By chance, the dantian that I couldn't store internal force was repaired, so I have it now." There was also a hint of temptation in the eyes of the barley.

Hearing this, Hu Lingbai's face showed a happy smile: "That's good, that's good." In the past, you have not been able to cultivate, so you don't have a lot of cultivation resources, but now you can tell me what you need, and I can promise you reasonable ones. ”

"Could it be that I am the heart of a villain" However, before Soul Fei, her father told her not to let herself tell everything about the medicine spirit space.

"I want to enter the second floor of the martial arts hall, I don't know if it's okay?" Qingli opened her mouth and asked, originally she came to Qingli today for this, and now she has the opportunity to naturally not miss it.

Hu Lingbai's brows were furrowed: "You want to enter the second layer?" The difficulty of cultivating the martial arts of the high-level of the Yellow Rank is much more difficult than that of the beginner and intermediate levels, and your current situation is not as good as practicing the martial arts of the first level, so that the effect will be better. ”

Hu Lingbai is indeed right, for the vast majority of children, cultivating the first layer of martial arts is much more realistic and useful, but this is not the case for Qing Barley, she is not ready to explain this problem, but said: "I am measured, I only hope that you can give me this permission, and I will be free to enter and exit the second layer in the future, I have my own cultivation method, you just need to look at the results." ”

Listening to Qingli's words, Hu Lingbai knew that Qingli was a little fox and had secrets, but he didn't want to tell him, it seemed that his efforts were not enough, this girl's heart to defend against people was really strong, if it weren't for the secret book left by his brother, he wouldn't have treated her like this. Hu Lingbai nodded and agreed: "Okay, I promise you, but you must remember not to be ambitious." ”

The barley nodded: "I know." After obtaining Hu Lingbai's approval, Qing Barley went to the second floor of the martial arts hall, and as soon as he went to the second floor, he saw the old man sweeping the floor.

The old man glanced at Hu Lingbai and said, "Have you finished reading the martial arts on the first floor?" Although he was speechless about the speed at which Qing Barley could read martial arts, he was also sure that Qing Barley had read every martial art on the first floor.

Hearing this, Qing Barley nodded slightly: "En" For this strange old man, she didn't know what to say, but according to her estimate, the status of the old man was definitely not low, and it was impossible for him to be just an old man sweeping the floor. But she didn't know who it was, and she had never heard of it.

The next moment, the old man turned around and left, and Qing Barley looked at the old man's back and muttered: What a strange person. It's not unusual, but it's not that different.

The martial arts on the second floor are obviously much less than those on the first floor, which also reflects that the more high-level martial arts are, the more rare they are, picked up a book of yellow-level high-level martial arts and looked at it, and sure enough, as Qing Barley expected, she spent much more time reading the first yellow-level high-level martial arts than the intermediate level.

This also shows that she can still absorb a lot of Huang-level advanced martial arts, and of course this is what she wants.

When Qingli was studying quietly, the news that she could enter the second floor of the martial arts hall at any time also spread, and in a short period of time, the children of the Mu family all knew about it, and everyone was also talking about it, including jealousy and anger.

After all, there are not many opportunities for Qingqiu's ordinary children to enter the first floor of the martial arts hall, once every seven days, not to mention the second floor, unless they perform well to have the possibility of entering, many of Qingqiu's children hope to enter the second layer of the martial arts hall, but the difficulty is self-evident.

However, such a waste is so easy to enter, and not once, but can enter at any time, and any person will be unbalanced, in Qingqiu, there is a person like Hu Lingbai, who can enter the second floor of the martial arts hall, that is the most prominent child of Qingqiu's generation - Hu Qingfei.

For Hu Qingfei to go in, everyone is convinced, after all, the strength of the people is here, you don't accept unless you can beat him, but the barley has no strength at all, so for a while, the people who originally disdained the barley were even more disdainful.

Qing Barley, who stayed in the martial arts hall, didn't know anything about this, and even if she knew, she probably wouldn't have any opinions, after all, she didn't care about other people's opinions at all.

In the huge courtyard, in a pavilion in the water, a tall figure is standing there looking at the carp in the water, this person is none other than Hu Qingfei.

At this time, Hu Qingxiu also walked over, looked at Hu Qingfei and said respectfully: "Big brother, are you looking for me?" He has always respected Hu Qingfei, because he admires his strength, and he hopes that he will be able to be like Hu Qingfei one day.

Hu Qing's hands are not good and he has been resting. I was able to come out today.

Hu Qingfei turned his head, his gaze moved to Hu Qingxiu's hand, and said, "How is your hand?" Although he didn't see the scene at that time, how could he, who had always been well-informed, not know?

Hearing this, Hu Qingxiu raised his hand and moved flexibly, and said happily: "It's completely fine, there is no problem at all, as if I have never been injured." He was naturally happy that he didn't leave any hidden dangers.

Hu Qingfei frowned, looking at Hu Qingxiu's hand as if it had never been injured, the doubts in his heart were even worse, could it be that the ugly monster of Qingli could really cure his hand in three days? With that simple few golden needles? It seemed to him before that it was simply a fantasy, but now......

"Was it really the barley that cured it? You tell me about that day. "Or the person concerned said that things should be clearer.

Hu Qingxiu nodded: "It is indeed cured by the barley, although I can't believe it, I didn't have any hope at the beginning, but then I was really well, the scene at that time was ......" Hu Qingxiu said not a single detail at that time, including the difficulties of the eldest elder and the second elder of the barley and the protection of the head of the family for the barley.

After Hu Qingxiu finished speaking, Hu Qingfei fell into deep thought, the Great Elder and the Second Elder had opinions about the barley, he already knew, but why would the head of the family, his father, protect the barley?

Just when Hu Qingfei was puzzled, Hu Qingxun also ran over, and when he saw Hu Qingxiu, he was also stunned, and said, "Brother, are you here too?" He said why didn't he see it, it turned out that he ran to the eldest brother.

"Why are you here too? Isn't something going on in a hurry? ”

Hearing Qing Xiu's question, Qing Xun reacted and said, "Yes, something happened just now, everyone is discussing it, I see that my eldest brother has been staying in the yard today and I am afraid that I don't know, so I rushed over." ”

"What the hell is going on?" Seeing that the two of them didn't talk about the topic for a long time, Hu Qingfei asked with a frown

Seeing Hu Qingfei frowning, Hu Qingxun hurriedly said: "Big brother, that's the case, I heard that the barley is allowed to enter the second floor of the martial arts hall at any time like you!" ”

"What?" Mu Qichao's eyes widened, it was already strange to know that Mu Zhili could enter the first layer at any time, but after all, he already had that permission, so he could accept it, but now she can enter the second layer like him? Rao is Mu Qichao is also a little unacceptable.

"The head of the house allowed it? It's weird, why is that ugly monster like me? ”

Hearing this, Hu Qingxiu and Hu Qingxun also echoed: "That's it, the waste ...... of the barley How can you compare with your big brother! I don't know how the head of the family made this decision. He wanted to talk about barley waste, but he thought that he couldn't even beat a waste, so he changed his ugliness.

Listening to these things, for some reason Hu Qingfei felt a sense of crisis in his heart, and then said to Hu Qingxiu with a gloomy face: "Qingxiu, do other people know about your good hands?" ”

Hu Qingxiu shook his head, I haven't even been able to see my mother in the past three days, not to mention that I came here as soon as I came out, and no one else knew except the three of us.

A dark smile appeared in Hu Qingfei's eyes and said, "That's very good, when the head of the family asks you, you will say that your hands are not good, do you know?" ”

"But, how can this be pretended? It's very difficult, isn't it, not to mention that the barley knows how to heal, isn't it easy to see? ”

This is indeed a problem, Hu Qing looked at Hu Qingxiu and said slowly: "Then there is only one way." ”

"What's the solution?" Hu Qingxiu asked suspiciously

However, the next moment the screams started, and Hu Qingfei actually broke Hu Qingxiu's hand again.

"Brother!" Hu Qingxun shouted in disbelief Hu Qingxun hurriedly ran to Hu Qingxiu's side, looked at Qingxiu who was pale because of the pain and asked, "Brother, are you okay?" Xuan even looked at Hu Qingfei and asked, "Big brother, what are you doing?" My brother's hand is just right, and it's useless again! ”

Hu Qingxiu also looked at Hu Qingfei in disbelief, the pain in his hand was a little lighter than the shock in his heart, but he just looked at Hu Qingfei and said in a daze: "Big brother, why are you doing this?" He didn't expect that his eldest brother, whom he had always respected, would treat him like this, this is his hand! A part of the body, nothing else

Looking at the way the two of them questioned, although Hu Qingfei didn't care in his heart, he still showed a helpless expression on the surface and said, "Qingxiu, I know I'm sorry for you, but I can't help it." Now that she is nothing and has been protected by the head of the family and the guardian, if I know that she can completely heal your wounds, I am afraid that her status will soon surpass mine.

And you and I have a bad relationship with her, if she has status, then what will happen to you and me? Isn't that obvious? In order not to let that day come, I have to use this method. ”

If Qingli saw the current Hu Qingfei, he would definitely not be able to help but admire, this acting skill is really not bad, so he almost burst into tears, typical of selling others and letting others count the money for him!

Qing Xiu and Qing Xun are both relatively simple-minded people, listening to Qing Fei's words, the more they think about it, the more they feel that this is the case, Qing Xiu said: "Big brother, I misunderstood you just now, I'm sorry." Luckily, you've thought of this a long time ago, otherwise the consequences would have been unimaginable. ”

"But big brother, my brother's hand is now so good that he knows that he has just been injured, and they will definitely be able to see it when the time comes, what should I do?" Qingxun said the biggest problem. =

Hearing this, Qingfei said calmly: "You don't have to worry about this, since I have done this, I must have my way." Qing Xiu, you can take this Mechudan quickly. ”

Taking the pill from Qing Fei's hand, Qing Xiu was moved: "Big brother, thank you." "You must know that although the level of Mechudan is not high, but these children are not rich, and a few pills are kept like treasures, and when the time comes, you can take out and exchange them for money if you want to buy anything, but Qingfei gave it to him like this, can he not be moved?

However, Qing Xiu forgot that it was precisely because of Hu Qingfei that his hand became like this......

Qing Xiu, who had taken the pill, looked obviously much better, and his complexion gradually improved, perhaps because of the injuries he had suffered before, he didn't even feel very painful about this pain.

After the evening, Qing Barley came out of the martial arts hall, but was stopped by someone on the road, and the man told her that it was the head of the house who asked her to go to the council hall.

Hearing this, Qing Barley became puzzled, if Hu Lingbai was looking for himself, he must let himself go to his courtyard, not to the council hall, but to go to the council hall today...... Soon, Qing Barley guessed that this must have something to do with Qing Xiu's hand. Because three days have passed.

"Girl, are you really sure you healed Qing Xiu's hand?" Yao'er couldn't help but ask, she felt that their Qingqiu Fox Clan family was also quite complicated, and she always felt that there was a taste of conspiracy

Qing Barley nodded: "If they didn't use any means, his hand would definitely be cured, I don't think he would have wasted his hand in retaliation for me, right?" If that's the case, I'd admire him. ”

"Hu Qingxiu's scheming is not deep, and his heart is not ruthless enough, so he shouldn't be able to do such a thing to himself." Yao'er opened her mouth and said, what Yao'er said was very right, if it was really only Hu Qingxiu, it would be impossible to do such a thing, but the problem was that Hu Qingxiu was not the only one this time, there was also Hu Qingfei, who had been planning for a long time, had always held a grudge against her, and wanted her to die.

With Qingli's footsteps, she quickly arrived at her destination, but when she entered, she saw Hu Lingbai, the Great Elder, the Second Elder, Biaoxun and Qingxue, but she didn't see the protagonist Hu Qingxiu.

Seeing this scene, Qing Barley faintly felt that things were not so simple, especially after seeing the resentment of the Great Elder and the smile on the corner of the Second Elder's mouth, when he came to everyone, Qing Barley stepped forward and saluted: "The head of the family, the Great Elder, the Second Elder." ”

The head of the family nodded, with some worry in his eyes, although in his opinion, even if he couldn't cure Qing Xiu's hands, it wouldn't be a big deal, but the eldest elder and the second elder were obviously ready to seize this opportunity to give Qing Barley a good look, although he was the head of the family, he couldn't ignore the opinions of other people in the family, right?

The biggest problem is that the Qingqiu fox people have a bad impression of Qingqiu, and it is estimated that no one will speak for her except Qingxue.

"Qing Barley, you said you could heal Qing Xiu's hand, right?" The Great Elder's eyes showed pride, and he said that how could he be cured with barley, and he was really a little frightened by her when he saw her confident appearance, but he didn't expect it to be her tricks, but he just wanted to delay the time.

Hearing this, Qing Barley nodded and said, "That's right." ”

"If you don't heal Qing Xiu's hand, what should you do?" The second elder answered, thinking that Qing Barley was about to suffer the same pain as himself, and his heart felt very comfortable.

"Cut off your own arm." When he said such a thing, there was no slightest emotional fluctuation on his face, as if he was not talking about himself, but about others.

The Great Elder clapped his hands: "Very good, this is what you said, Qing Xiu, come out." ”

After the Great Elder said this, Hu Qingxiu walked out from behind, and when she came out, Qing Xiu's gaze froze, because she saw Qing Xiu's hand hanging weakly, obviously not well.

The barley looked at the head of the house, but the head of the house did not speak, and he did not know whether the barley had not been cured.

"It can't be." Qing Barley hurriedly walked in front of Hu Qingxiu, looked at his weak hand, and after checking it, he made sure that it was not pretended, but Qing Barley also found out what the problem was.

"What else do you have to say?" The second elder spoke

"Boron Qingxiu's hand has been broken again." Qing Barley was sure, although she had not studied medicine for a long time, she could still see this after the second break, she really didn't expect Hu Qingxiu to really do this, but was it really he did it himself? Qing Barley pondered, and her intuition told her that it would definitely not be Hu Qingxiu who did it herself.

Hearing the words of the barley, several people present did not believe it, they didn't believe it at the beginning, but now that the facts stand in front of them, the barley is still quibbling? The Great Elder sneered, "Do you think we are all so easy to deceive? I believed you at the beginning, you lied to us, and now you want to lie to us? It's not that you didn't take us elders seriously at all! ”

"Great Elder, I didn't mean that, Qing Xiu must have been injured again, otherwise it would definitely not be like this, it is better to ask a doctor to see if his hand has been injured again." Looking at the appearance of the Great Elder, he knew that he didn't know that Qing Xiu's hand had been injured again.

If the Great Elder knew in advance, then the barley would not have explained, because all this was an excuse they had come up with, but the Great Elder didn't know it, so she had to explain, and it was not comfortable to be wronged. (To be continued.) )