At the entrance of the stately house, the old bronze door is bright but not old, and the stone lion looks like it has been a long time, but it is more simple and heavy.

The courtyard has three bays, which are smaller than the mansion of the county keeper, at least from the outside, this is the same incorruptible master.

So when a young man knocked on the door with a peculiar rhythm, even the old servant who opened the door was kind, greeted the visitor all the way in, and finally pushed open and closed the door, and carefully retreated.

"How is Uncle Li's body?" In front of the bed in Li Dingren's mansion, Li Xianyan bent down respectfully and whispered to the old man on the side.

"If you hurt your heart, you need to calm down and recuperate, follow the prescription prescribed by the old man, and just take the medicine according to the prescription. After the old man finished speaking, he picked up the medicine box and went outside first, and for a while, only the two surnamed Li were left in the house.

The quiet is somewhat depressing.

Li Xianyan stood respectfully beside the bed for most of the hour, and he didn't even move his body.

"Are you very unwilling?" The middle-aged man who had been lying flat on the bed with his eyes closed suddenly spoke, his eyes did not open, and his breathing was gentle, as if the sentence just now was just a dream.

"Yes. Li Xianyan lowered his body slightly and said frankly.

The middle-aged man opened his eyes, coughed and slowly got up, Li Xianyan saw this, and hurriedly reached out to help.

"We lost this time, at least in this matter, we lost to the girl of the Su family. Li Dingren sighed.

Li Xianyan looked like he was being taught, nodded beside the bed and said, "We never thought that the Su family, which was already dying, would contain so much energy behind it, Tian Lao, Sun Lao, what I didn't expect the most was that the Lushan Camp would also intervene in it, and even turn their faces directly with you, don't they really want that head on their necks?"

"Hehe, Xianyan, don't you still understand?" Li Dingren looked at him and said.

"Please advise Uncle Li. ”

"Advise, advise a fart. Li Dingren, who has always been quite good at cultivating qi, suddenly scolded angrily, "Do you know what kind of friendship is in the army, that is the love of stirring rice together in the cauldron every day, eating and living together, and blocking cold arrows for others on the battlefield, especially Su Qinghuang would rather sacrifice himself after breaking off for them, will they watch the Su family without a man being bullied by you like this, without a little blood, can they still be called soldiers." ”

"Li Xianyan, your Li family has really a good plan this time. In the end, Li Dingren's tone was calm, with a little killing intent.

Now that I think about it, from the very beginning, their Li family wanted to pull him into the game, although he dodged left and right, he still did not escape in the end, even if he was not implicated, but in the eyes of the person above, he and the Li family were already standing in the same boat.

"Uncle Li, you are angry, and your anger hurts your body. Li Xianyan poured a cup of tea from the desk and said.

"It's not terrible to hurt your body, it's good to take care of it for a few days, it's this heartache, if you want to recover as before, I'm afraid it's not so easy." Li Dingren glanced at this Li family Junjie, who was full of superficial kung fu, and said with something in his words.

"Alright, you can go back, it's not appropriate for you to stay here for long. Li Dingren waved his hand, leaned back on the bed tiredly, and gave the order to evict the guests.

"By the way, let me give you a reminder, don't you think that your Li family is going too smoothly? Since he has such connections hidden behind the Su family, how can he be under the suppression of your business, and there is almost no power to fight back, so that a large area of property is lost in a few days. And you, don't you feel that you used such a large amount of money to mortgage all the hole cards of the Li family's property in your hands. At this time, if someone comes to you to draw a salary, you will die without a place to bury. ”

Li Xianyan's face changed suddenly, but he quickly recovered as before.

"Thank you Uncle Li for teaching. ”

Li Xianyan got up and was just about to push the door out, when the subordinate who welcomed him in before suddenly pushed open the door with burning eyebrows, and said to his master: "Master, it's not good." Lord Sun, together with the five heads of the family in Qingjun, was outside the door, saying yes, saying that there was something important to invite the adults to go. ”

"What are they going to do?" Li Dingren's breathing was noticeably shorter.

"Say, say you're gone. ”

Li Dingren's eyes were glazed, and his hands were tightly gripping the sheets.

Then there was a fierce sweetness in his throat, this time, it was no longer a pretend, but a real rush to attack the heart, and a mouthful of blood gushed out. Then the world swirled, and the whole person was unconscious in bed.

Li Xianyan had despair on his face, and quietly left through the back door in the panic of the Li Mansion.

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"Why, why?" Li Xianyan said in his courtyard, almost smashing everything he could pick up.

The Li family's biggest reliance in the government was inexplicably asked to leave, and they didn't go back for a day and a night.

That's a county, it's the only official second to Xu Xiao, Lord Sun is not at the same level, why dare to make trouble at this time. Could it be that Li Xianyan didn't dare to think down.

"Big brother, why is it so angry for no reason?" Someone outside the house laughed, pushed open the courtyard door, and Li Fengyan, who was dressed in soft and elegant clothes, walked in, looked at the brother with a cloak, and was not as respectful as before, but with a slightly frivolous smile, he found a stool to sit down.

"What are you doing here, are you here to see my big brother's joke?" Li Xian

At this time, Yan was like a fierce beast that chose people to devour, staring at Li Fengyan who came in full costume with an unkind face, at this time, he didn't want to be disturbed by anyone.

"Hey, big brother, I'm here to bring you news, the latest news outside, you're afraid you still don't know. Li Fengyan sighed exaggeratedly, stepped forward, and then whispered in Li Xianyan's ear.

"The small half of our Li family's net worth is all buried in your hands, grandpa is furious, and he is about to come here at this time. ”

"Are you very proud?" Li Xianyan said through gritted teeth.

Looking at Li Xianyan's face with a look of despair and unwillingness, he, who is a younger brother, let out a sigh of relief and became even more conscious.

"Big brother, you lost, every step you made fell into Wu Muxin's calculations, the silver you threw out, you should have lost all of it now, maybe tomorrow, there will be countless people who will come here with the title deed to collect the house. ”

Li Xianyan turned his head and looked at this younger brother who had been following him and was respectful to him. For the first time, he felt that this face, which he had been looking at for more than 20 years, was so familiar and unfamiliar.

"What do you mean by saying this here? Now, on the contrary, he has become extremely calm.

Li Fengyan sat up straight, looked at the pigeon hovering above, and as soon as he stretched out his hand, the pigeon fell into his hand.

"I mean, isn't the eldest brother curious, why Wu Mu thought of you first, first showed the enemy weakness, and then really made a move when he led you into the urn and put all his wealth on it to plan to gamble. That Qi Laosan, is it really a nail that you hit into the Su family, or is it a nail that the Su family hit into the eldest brother's side. ”

Li Xianyan closed his eyes in despair, "You want to say, you are also a nail." ”

"Yes, in fact, it's not just me, Qi Laosan, Bai Yuansheng, they are all there. ”

"What benefits did they promise you, so that you would not hesitate to betray the Su family. ”

Li Xianyan raised his arms, dispersed the white doves that stayed in his hands, and looked at the young head of the Li family standing on the side, his brother, who was also considered by those wealthy families to be the only man who could match Wu Muxin in Qingjun, and said with a chuckle: "My good brother, I have never betrayed the Li family, I have betrayed only you." ”

"I am the one who took away the property you mortgaged. But please rest assured, eldest brother, the Li family is in my hands and will definitely develop better, because I am different from you. Big brother, you are too eager for quick success, and what you have done is too dangerous. ”

"Don't worry, your wish, I will inherit it, I will use twenty years, thirty years, or even forty years to eat the Su family step by step, I can afford to wait, even if the temples are gray, I just don't know if the eldest brother still has a chance, I saw it. ”

Li Xianyan looked at him and said softly, "Since when did it start?" ”

"From the day Grandpa announced that you were the young head of the Li family, it began. ”

"Boom. The door of the courtyard was knocked open again, it was not the old man of the Li family who came angrily in Li Fengyan's mouth, the one who led it was someone he couldn't have imagined.

"Li Xianyan, long time no see. The man grinned, with a smile that disgusted him most.

Li Xianyan no longer had the strength to support his body, and sat weakly cross-legged on the tender grass in the courtyard, lowered his head, and replied weakly.

"It's been a long time. ”

"Su Qinghuang. ”

Looking at the officials who were following behind Su Qinghuang, Li Xianyan said with a wry smile: "Su Qinghuang, there is no need to let people from the government come to the battle in the business sea." If you want to talk about the previous fraud in trafficking medicinal materials for the government office, it was all done by Qi Laosan alone, and you can't take me with this. ”

This man, in such a desperate situation, is still trying his last hand to exonerate himself.

Su Qinghuang stepped forward, sat cross-legged on the ground in his appearance, and said with a smile: "Of course, if these things this time are big, no matter how big the trouble is, it will be a matter for our two families, and the government can't come to interfere." After all, your Li family's collusion with Li Dingren is extremely secretive, even if the upper authorities have the intention to verify it, it is not something that can be done in a day or two. There is also the matter of medicinal materials, you can push it all on Qi Laosan, Ao, by the way, he is already dead, and he was poisoned by your own hands by a cup of tea that day. At this time, he should have died of poison, and the gods could not be saved. ”

"After all, a dead man can't argue for himself, and thousands of grievances can be hidden in his body. ”

"But you're not going to be a fool of you in the end. ”

Su Qinghuang also leaned into his ear, just like Li Fengyan had done before, and said in a low voice: "Wang Lianying." ”

Hearing these three words, Li Xianyan closed his eyes and said nothing.

He knew he couldn't escape.

As soon as Su Qinghuang entered the door, he noticed that there were two qi engines that had been firmly locked around his body, as long as there was any reckless movement, what greeted him would be a tsunami-like killing machine.

"I'm tired of you. Su Qinghuang was like a victor, facing behind him.

The person behind him nodded, and stepped forward to set Li Xianyan up.

Su Qinghuang suddenly remembered that incident, stepped forward and asked softly, "At the beginning, it was your people who attacked me and killed me, right?"

Li Xianyan was still silent, Su

Seeing this, Qinghuang didn't ask any more.

The group left the Li family without encountering any obstacles, but when they passed through the gate, Su Qinghuang's ears suddenly sounded like filaments.

"It's not. ”

A man is dying, and his words are good.

And Su Qinghuang also glanced at it at this time, and saw the master of the Li family, who had never seen it with his own eyes, but only existed in the mouths of outsiders.

The old man stood at the door to see him off, even though his own grandson was taken away, he did not show even a trace of expression.

just glanced at Su Qinghuang's back.

It means a timeless glance.

On this day, in the main courtyard of the Li family, a towering ancient tree that was specially taken care of alone, suddenly half of its branches began to wither.

In the main courtyard of the Su family, almost at the same time, there was a two-leaf sapling glowing with moonlight and silver, with a quiet and peaceful atmosphere, quietly sprouting.

Li Xianyan died, died in the eighteen prisons of the government office, and committed suicide, not by him.

It is said that dying peacefully and cutting off one's heart is not a difficult thing for Wu Xiu.

There are some things, if they can't be resisted by one person, then for the family behind him, it is tantamount to a catastrophe.

And in this world, there is really nothing that can keep secrets better than the dead.

In other words, Li Xianyan will not die, and the people of the Li family will not be able to live in peace.

So his death, in Su Qinghuang's opinion, is a bit tragic. This shrewd young man who has endured all his life has experienced from great joy to great sorrow, and in the end it was just a bad move, and he lost the whole game. Before he died, he thought about forcibly renewing his life for the Li family.

It's just that he will cry for him in the middle of the night, in addition to the second elder who gave birth to him, how many people will there be in the entire Li family.

The joys and sorrows of the world are not the same.

They are still singing and dancing, and they will not feel that the world has changed a little because of one less person, and they will even occasionally think that the sobbing sound next door is noisy.

After that day, Li Yehu, who was dressed in white, accompanied by another old man, traveled lightly and came to Su's house at dusk.

The so-called is to quell the flames of war.

Li Xianyan died, and those allies gathered around him suffered heavy losses and withdrew their funds one after another. No one is a dry meal, they suffered such a big loss out of thin air, and the main owner died, but the monk who ran away couldn't run away from the temple, and the Li family behind him became the target of everyone's anger.

But the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and no one knows if the Li family, who has suffered heavy losses, will be at a point where it is difficult to move forward, and whether it will hide a hand behind the back of the Rusu family.

At least on the surface, the Li family still has strong strength and influence in many industries, and most of the business network that has taken generations of effort to build up remains intact, so it is not realistic for the Su family to eat them in one go, at least, for the current Su family.

No one knows what Li Yehu and Wu Muxin said in the study with the doors and windows closed. It's just that when Li Yehu, a cunning and cruel old man like a fox, went out as his name, Su Qinghuang felt that the old man's back was a little more bowed than when he first saw it a few days ago.

Victory.

The Su family and his allies all wanted in this competition, and they all had gains.

Therefore, when the Wang family, the Wei family, the Sun family, the Tian family and other twenty young generations bowed in front of Su Qinghuang, saying that they were grateful to Brother Su for his kindness in solving their doubts, he instead closed his eyes and immersed himself in the spot, without sadness or joy, and his expression was calm.

Because knowing that martial cultivators will fall into a special state at a certain moment, it is also the so-called epiphany. No one in the field made a sound to disturb them, and everyone tacitly withdrew from the courtyard, including Wu Muxin.

For a time, the place was empty of insects.

No one knows how Su Qinghuang closed his eyes in the past few years, when he was wandering during the day, and at night, when facing the vast ten thousand scrolls like smoke waves. Then no one understands what kind of beloved person has been carved out of all these years of hard work and distress.

After all, he, Su Qinghuang, was also familiar with the sage's poetry and calligraphy, but now he can only stir up thick clouds in the dark.

Perhaps, from the moment his father died, he Su Qinghuang had no children's affection in his eyes, but the entire Su family, those who could be seen or invisible in Qingjun, all the malice that stared at the Su family.

until the smoke disappears.

Su Qing's yellow eyes were moist.

"Su Qinghuang, for so many years, you must have walked alone in countless cold and summer in the world, with no one to accompany you. It's just that today I share this loneliness with you, and if you think about it, if someone shares it, loneliness is no different from happiness. ”

"This glass of wine, toast you, toast you have already laid everything out, cheapened me, a descendant. ”

There is a rustle of leaves overhead, as if it is responding in the dark, this scene and this situation.

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