Chapter Twenty-Six: A Greeting to the Hall of Hades
"You two are waiting here! Don't show your face during this time! Li Kuan was in a room in a small inn, admonishing his two maids. This time, he is going to act alone again, and this time he may be a sea of blood, rolling up the turbulent waves of the infinite realm. So I didn't worry about the two little girls following me, so I had to settle the two maids before acting.
This is Qingzhou, where the power of the family is relatively weak, so Li Kuan chose here. And the team of dead soldiers sent out by the Cui family did not entrench in Qingzhou, which is also an important reason.
This time, Li Kuan has to teach these families a big lesson, otherwise they will become more and more presumptuous. This time he actually injured Red Sleeves, and now he is still lying on the bed, if it weren't for the waterways along the way, I'm afraid Red Sleeves' injuries really wouldn't be able to hold up here. Although her injuries have not healed yet, they have also improved, so Li Kuan left Tianxiang to take care of her, so that he could let go and do it.
Walking out of the inn, Li Kuan took out a letter that had already been prepared and pressed it against the wall of the inn. This is for the guy who followed him all the way. asked him to arrange for someone to take care of the two little girls during the time he was gone, Li Kuan believed that this request would soon be submitted to Li Er's desk, and he also believed that this guy who was secretly staring at him would do what he was told. After all, no matter what kind of special yamen he came from, he was still a courtier of the Li family, and he was still loyal to the royal family. Then his identity as the prince of the Tang Dynasty is enough to order him in these small things.
After a good explanation, Li Kuan set off, and this time he was no longer slow. Rather, it resembles a tanuki returning to the forest. After leaving the inn, he shuttled through the streets and alleys, flashing and uncertain. Flickering between high and low houses. Quickly disappear into this small patchwork of cities.
After Li Kuan left, a figure appeared where he had stood before, picked up something that had been placed there, and then disappeared into the flow of people coming and going.
Summer is coming to an end, the blazing sun is starting its last vestiges, and the heavens and the earth are like a big steamer, roasting the people in the middle of it sweating. The surging waters of the Yellow River. Rolling eastward, in this era, this river that gave birth to 5,000 years of Chinese civilization. It's not the thick 'Yellow River' with a bowl of water and half a bowl of sand. It's not crystal clear, but it's clear.
On the edge of the Yellow River, a small fishing boat is drifting along the river with the undulating waves. It is close to the Qing River. Of course, there is still a long way to go! After all, the Qinghe River is not on the edge of the Yellow River. It is also hundreds of miles away from the Yellow River. The boat came ashore, and a young man disembarked from the boat, dressed in coarse cloth clothes, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a slender and majestic figure, although he was not tall and afraid of people, but he was not short, more than seven feet and close to eight feet. Under coarse linen. The muscles on the shrouded arms bulged out, and the shabby ragged clothes were bulging.
The boy wore his hair loose. Like an angry lion's mane, it was scattered at the back of his head, and his hair was not very long, but it could be seen that he was still groomed from time to time, and it did not look messy. Stepping off the boat, wearing mango shoes on his feet, his toes exposed. Judging from the exposed skin, the dark complexion shows that he is not a pampered person, but a poor person. But the momentum exuded when he walked was superior. It's not the kind of momentum in a high position, but a kind of wildness, an indescribable feeling, pulling a fishing net in his hand, this time he went out to fish, but he didn't get much. This has been going on for a long time, and it has been like this since the spring, is there no fish in this river, which makes the boy mutter.
As he was walking home, a small boat stopped beside his boat, and the delicate boat was like a handicraft, with delicate patterns carved on the hull, a peach blossom in full bloom carved to life, and even a bee collecting honey on the petals. One foot came to a halt and stepped out of the cabin. Fine deerskin boots with auspicious clouds pressed with gold threads. After that, the hem of the azure robe came, and a young man with a burly figure walked out of the cabin, with his hands behind his back, and walked out leisurely.
didn't see how he made a move, but he had already come to the back of the fisherman boy before: "Dare to ask this little brother, is there a young man named Li Yong around here?" ”
"Who are you? What are you looking for Li Yong to do? The swarthy fisherman boy suddenly turned around, like a swift clouded leopard, and the muscles of his upper body were like a coil of rope under his control, and the muscles were tense and seemed to be ready to launch a fatal attack at any moment.
"Don't be nervous, Ben...... I heard the rumors about this young man and came here on purpose! The wind was still light, the azure robe swayed slightly in the wind, and the blazing sun seemed to be mild around him, even in the time just after noon in the afternoon, there was not the slightest trace of sweat on the young man's face, just as there was no zài in this hot weather, but a warm spring breeze, and a crisp autumn.
"No matter who you are, Li Yong will not hand over the things in your hands, you just dream about it! Even if you die, you won't hand it over! The swarthy boy was very excited, and seemed to be fiercely hostile to the person in front of him.
This qiē has to start from ten years ago, at that time, the young man had a warm home, although the old father in the army did not necessarily come home every year, but his salary was brought back on time every month. Although the boy's mother was just an ordinary village woman, she was also ingenious, and the cloth she woven was also famous in this small riverside fishing village. Such a family is the envy of the surrounding villagers who rely on water for food. But Yiqiē changed ten years ago, that year Li Er had just ascended the throne, and the news of the death of his father Li Xiu came, although the imperial court also gave a pension, but for the family with children, the family lost its pillars, and the family was shattered.
At the same time as the news of the death came, a small package appeared on the family's table that night, and no one knew who had placed it there, but the contents had caused the family to suffer later.
Because the things there were so valuable, a piece of white jade carved with a cirrus pattern, in that small package, shocked the young mother who had lost her husband. Because the things were so valuable and of unknown origin, they attracted the covetousness of the people around her, so that the woman, who had just lost her husband, had to leave the village with her child, who was only seven or eight years old, and lived on the banks of the Yellow River, a hundred miles away from her previous home. Incognito, did not interact with the people around him, and even put down the craft of weaving, reclaimed a large number of acres of wasteland with a thin body, and lived a hard life with children. Because she knew that as soon as she took out that thing, she would suffer disaster, so she had always hidden it well, and if it wasn't for the people in the family before, how could she end up in a ruined situation.
But how can this qiē stop those who are blinded by greed, this is not until recently someone came to the door, that is the largest family within a radius of thousands of miles - Qinghe Cui clan, they are willing to pay a thousand taels of silver to buy that side of the white jade, this price is unfair, I am afraid that it is only one-tenth of the value of this thing, the simple country woman is not willing to sell it, and there is a confidential letter in the original package, what is said there, Let this woman, who had learned some words with her husband who was a soldier, know the origin of this thing, so this thing is to be passed down as a family heirloom, and how can it be sold!
But Qinghe Cui's family can't be provoked by them, so they can only delay, and now that this woman is also old, she is no longer as physically tough as she was at the beginning, and she may not be able to go far if she migrates again, and since the other party has found herself, how can she not guard against moving away again? So the boy and his mother were anxious all the time. Now this young man will be so vigilant when he sees the robed boy on the opposite side.
"I'm here because of Li Xiu's business, can I meet your mother?" The young man in the long shirt had already affirmed the identity of the person in front of him, so he said.
"No, you people are cunning and deceiving people too much!" The swarthy young man Li Yong's clenched fists creaked, but he didn't dare to make anything else excited, because how could they do it without power and power, isn't this an excuse to send it to the door, so that the other party can take the opportunity to make conditions. So although I was filled with righteous indignation, I had to endure it.
"In that case, it's the same to talk to you! I wonder if you know the cause of your father's death? The young man in the long shirt asked.
"My father died before the current saint ascended the throne, and we don't know what happened, but my mother may know something, but she just won't say it, and she tears when she says it." Li Yong saw that the person in front of him was calm, and he was not as high-spirited as the waves of people who came before, so he was a lot calmer, but he couldn't say anything else.
At this time, the people had a simple temperament, except for those businessmen and politicians, Li Yong at that time was still hostile to the person in front of him, but now when the other party asked, he still told the truth.
"And what about handing over things you said earlier? Could it be ......" The young man in the long shirt seemed to have a guess in his heart, it seems that the idea he germinated last year was right, so there are other people who have also got something, and they should be found, after all, this matter also has this part of the reason, even if it is a long time, this cannot be erased.
"You're still from the Cui family! That thing won't sell, even if it dies! As soon as Li Yong heard that thing, he was immediately excited, and thought that this person was not Cui's lobbyist, but he didn't expect that the world was as black as a crow, and he was too naïve.
"No, this king...... I really want to come and see Li Xiu's family, if there is anything that needs help, just to show my heart, no matter what Li Xiu said back then, he also protected this king! The young man in the long shirt said.
At this moment, a woman came over from a distance: "Yong'er, come back for dinner!" ”
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Qinghe Cui's base camp, this night, the night was deep, and there was no starlight shining in the sky, and I couldn't see my fingers. Outside the vast and magnificent gate of the Cui family, an uninvited guest came.
"Qinghe Cui, accept the greetings from the Hades Palace!" (To be continued......)