Towards the end of the month, after a busy day of the restaurant closing, Li Yuxuan asked his father to gather everyone, everyone sat around a table in the hall on the first floor, Li Yuxuan poured a cup of tea for everyone present, and then slowly asked: "Elders, I have been with you for so long, so I will say it bluntly, if the patriarch Li Shiwen expels my family of three from the clan, what are the plans of the elders?" ”

Li Chuanzhi was also shocked, and hurriedly interrupted Li Yuxuan's words and said, "Yuxuan, do you think the patriarch will really kill our family?" ”

Li Yuxuan took a sip of tea and said calmly: "Father, the death of grandpa and grandma has something to do with the patriarch, and it is not unexpectedly poisoned. For this patriarch, I have become a big trouble for him, he will toss and turn, sit and lie down, and the small actions in the back, if one of them is encountered, will take the opportunity to expel us from the family, and even send people to hunt us down. ”

The other people suddenly turned pale, thinking about what Li Yuxuan said was right, everyone was silent for a while, and was about to stand up and solemnly swear to express their position, when a rapid knock sounded outside the door, and everyone quieted down again. The two guys, Zhuo Yifan and Deng Xiaoming, stepped forward a few steps, leaned on the crack of the door, and looked at the people by the moonlight outside. Under the silver-white moonlight, the man was burly, two meters tall, wearing a hat, wearing a robe, and carrying a large package.

Li Yuxuan stood up, looked out of the door, and said, "Uncle Zhuo, Uncle Deng, open the door." He also has a child with him. ”

Zhuo Yifan and Deng Xiaoming opened the door, a burly man staggered in with a three or four-year-old child in the wind and snow, Zhuo Yifan helped the burly man to sit down, Deng Xiaoming immediately swept the footprints at the door and closed the door.

Li Yuxuan took a few steps forward, grabbed the wrist of the burly man with his left hand, stretched out his fingers with his right hand to cut the pulse on his wrist, stared at the burly man for a moment and said, "This uncle, you have taken a highly poisonous thing, sealed the veins with a golden needle to continue your life, and there is less than an hour left, do you have any last words to say?" ”

Li Chuanzhi stared at the burly man for a while, knelt on the ground, and said: "Junior Li Chuanzhi, knock on the Marquis of Zeng Guoqing, the Marquis of the Barbarian Empire." ”

The burly man struggled to help Li Chuanzhi up, took off the hat, revealing the white hair on his head and the prisoner word branded on his forehead, and said weakly: "I have been sent to the prison by the emperor for treason, and was given poisoned wine, I thought I was wronged, the emperor killed me alone, but I didn't expect the emperor to punish my nine clans, in the old subordinate Shi Yushi replaced with his grandson, the only survivor of more than 300 people in my family, my grandson Zeng Yiyang."

Shi Yushi in order to save me and my grandson, the whole family of more than 30 people in the robbery prison, was also killed, I was the emperor pulled up, to help him ascend the throne, for him to guard the border against the Yuan, but he first took back everything I had on trumped-up charges, and then inexplicably searched out from my military camp and the correspondence with the Emperor of the Great Yuan, I had sworn to the sky that I had never committed treason, and had always been loyal to the emperor, I was wronged! ”

Li Yuxuan sighed, looked at the barbarian Marquis Zeng Guoqing and said, "Master Hou, is the emperor's health already poor?" Looking at Zeng Guoqing's puzzled nod, he continued: "Lord Hou, the emperor feels that his body is not good, and he is afraid that after his death, the successor will not be able to control you feudal officials, and he is afraid that after his death, you will rebel and usurp the throne, so he will cut your title, official position and military power, if you have no resentment, when the next emperor ascends the throne, the new emperor will restore everything to you, and the new emperor will gain your loyalty." And you are wrong to be pampered and accustomed to all these years, and your complaints reach the ears of the emperor, and he will definitely kill your whole family to prevent future troubles. ”

Zeng Guoqing's cloudy eyes brightened, slapped the table, and said loudly: "You are Li Yuxuan, when Shi Yushi recommended the person who entrusted the orphan to me, the first recommendation was you, saying how are you, I thought to myself, can a doll more than a year old still become a god?" When I heard what you said today, I was convinced, the old man had lived for more than 60 years, and he didn't see through the emperor's intentions, and he hurt me and Shi Yushi, I regret it! ”

Zeng Guoqing looked at Zeng Yiyang and said, "Yiyang, when I am still panting, kneel down for me and swear allegiance to Li Yuxuan, and I will never give up until I die!" ”

Zeng Yiyang knelt down to Li Yuxuan without hesitation, and Li Yuxuan said: "Father takes the altar of good wine and takes two sea bowls!" ”

Li Yuxuan helped Zeng Yiyang to face the east, knelt down side by side with Zeng Yiyang, took the two sea bowls full of wine handed by his father, handed Zeng Yiyang a sea bowl, and said, "Brother Zeng Yiyang, I will say a word, you will say a word." ”

Li Yuxuan held the sea bowl high and shouted softly: "The sky is above, the thick earth is below, today I, Li Yuxuan, am willing to be brothers in life and death with Brother Zeng Yiyang, life and death together, never give up, if you violate this oath, the heart and demons will destroy the soul, and the body and spirit will be destroyed!" ”

Zeng Yiyang learned to hold the sea bowl high, and shouted: "The sky is above, the thick earth is below, today I Zeng Yiyang is willing to be a brother in life and death with my lord Li Yuxuan, life and death together, never give up, if you violate this oath, the heart and demons will destroy the soul, and the form and spirit will be destroyed!" ”

Li Yuxuan spilled half of the wine in the bowl in front of him, and said loudly: "Respect the sky!" ”

Zeng Yiyang learned from Li Yuxuan to spill half of the wine in the bowl in front of him, and said loudly: "Respect the sky!" ”

The two of them drank the wine in the bowl when they touched the bowl, handed the bowl to Li Chuanzhi, Zeng Guoqing came to them under the support of Deng Xiaoming, took off the package on his body, put it on the table, opened the package, it was a rectangular sandalwood box, open the box, it was a three-section component of the Daguan knife lying neatly in the groove.

Zeng Guoqing handed the box to Zeng Yiyang and said: "Child, this is a treasure handed down from our ancestors, it is not an ordinary weapon, it is an immortal-level magic weapon, I have not had the opportunity to learn the immortal law since my generation, your lord Li Yuxuan must be the reincarnation of the immortal, follow your lord to learn the immortal law, I can also go with peace of mind, after I die, burn it to ashes, to avoid the body being discovered, bring trouble to your lord." ”

Li Yuxuan and Zeng Yiyang helped Zeng Guoqing into a side room, Li Yuxuan turned around and closed the door, leaving them the last time to communicate, and two lines of tears crossed their cheeks.

In the early morning of the next day, everyone gathered in front of the door of the side house where Zeng Yiyang lived, watching him open the door with red eyes, the two guys entered sideways and carried the stiff Driving Marquis to the front yard of the back kitchen, everyone started to set up a dry firewood rack together, sprinkled with oil, Zeng Yiyang took the torch handed over by Li Yuxuan, lit the dry firewood rack, and made a crackling small popping sound in the raging fire.

In order to avoid Zeng Yiyang being recognized, Li Chuanzhi asked him to help in the kitchen, trying not to appear in front of the guests, to prevent acquaintances from recognizing him.

After closing on the second night, everyone in the store gathered again, and everyone said that they followed Li Yuxuan's family, and Li Yuxuan said calmly: "I'll play a game with everyone first, everyone sees that this is a sea bowl, and everyone fills it." ”

Zhuo Yifan, a man, put the eggs into the sea bowl until a cone was laid out and put 7 eggs. The maid Yu'er grabbed another handful of rice and put it along the gap between the eggs, Li Chuanzhi looked at it, took a scoop of water, and poured half a scoop of water.

Li Yuxuan smiled and asked, "Do you think this sea bowl is full?" Seeing everyone nodding in unison, he took out a jar of sugar and a jar of salt under everyone's surprised gaze, and continued: "Have you ever thought about what would happen if you turned the order of placement just now? ”

Sun Yidao immediately replied: "Salt and sugar, rice and water can be put more, but eggs can't be put down." ”

Li Yuxuan nodded and said calmly: "What I want to tell you is that what we are facing now is how to choose this egg, which is the most important thing for all of us."

At present, the border between the north and the Great Yuan Kingdom, there is no barbarian marquis, it will be urgent in a few years, and the commander of the three armies on the border of the south and the Great Qin State is a guy who can only talk on paper, and when the time comes, the Tang Dynasty is likely to suffer from the enemy, so in the troubled times, we have the opportunity to rise and make contributions to the country and seal the frontier.

From a small point of view, our Wanfu Restaurant has opened up the situation, and the chain restaurant model that can gradually form a unified four major countries and holy places can be gradually formed after a good operation, although the world is extremely contemptuous of businessmen, but money can make ghosts grind, everyone is clear.

In addition, to a certain extent, we have stood on the opposite side with the patriarch Li Shiwen, everyone should be cautious about the instructions issued by the clan, there may be some small traps in it, at present we have two ways to treat those guys in the clan, one is to seize power, control the family, and bloodwash the relevant clansmen who killed my grandfather and injured my father; One is that when the time comes, we give those guys a chance, and we passively withdraw from the family.

Let's talk about your thoughts. ”

Zhuo Yifan and Deng Xiaoming glanced at each other, and immediately said: "We haven't read the book, and we don't know how to express it, we have nothing to worry about, and we are willing to swear to follow the shopkeeper and the young shopkeeper, go up the knife mountain and go down the oil pot, and never frown!" ”

Sun Yidao said hoarsely: "I am a cook, the shopkeeper and the young shopkeeper do not dislike words, and I am willing to follow to the death!" ”

Jin Dayou also immediately shouted: "I'm the same." ”

Zhao Ling'er stroked her forehead and whispered: "You are loyal and brave, the decision that is related to everyone's future life and death is discussed now, I am a woman, maybe I don't have enough knowledge, I think we can give in, can't we maintain this rich status quo?" ”

Zhuo Yifan and the others, who had spoken before, smiled awkwardly, and Li Chuanzhi said categorically: "I'm afraid it won't work, my body is useless, or I will kill the enemy from the army to serve the country, and the horse leather shroud is also my lifelong dream of a Tang boy!" ”

Zeng Yiyang let out a long sigh and said sadly: "I think my grandfather killed the Dayuan sergeant, and when he saw Zeng Zishuaiqi, he retreated three miles. ”

Li Yuxuan patted Zeng Yiyang's shoulder and said, "My plan is to take advantage of the surplus funds we have in hand to subdue the cottage in Wohu Mountain outside the city and establish a place for us to settle down." In the later operation to play our name, not the fame of Wanfu Restaurant, all the funds obtained in the operation are invested, the construction of our Crouching Tiger Mountain Range, to train an iron army, to participate in the battle of the Tang Dynasty, we can not participate in the border as a sergeant, led by the garbage commander to die on the battlefield! Of course, the lesson of driving away the barbarian marquis must be kept in mind, retire after success, hand over the military power, and return to the Crouching Tiger Mountains to stay in peace, so as not to arouse the emperor's suspicion. ”

Everyone praised one after another, Zeng Yiyang glanced around, stood up, and added with a serious expression: "This matter is very important, no one is allowed to spread it, otherwise don't blame my men for being ruthless!" ”