He had the heart to refute his grandfather's words, but when he opened his mouth, his mouth was full of bitterness.

I don't blame anyone, I only blame myself for being too cowardly and incapable of protecting my own woman.

It's not that he hasn't heard of Jiang Zhen, and there are terrifying figures in the rivers and lakes.

Even his grandfather grovels to him, and his three-legged cat's kung fu is nothing at all, right?

It wasn't until late that there was no movement in the room.

The moonlight was cool, and Jia Cheng always hid under the stone steps, cowering alone.

I don't know how long it took, but the door was suddenly opened from the inside.

I saw that Yu Yao staggered and ran out with a soft whimper.

"Xining......" Jia Cheng called the other party's name in a hoarse voice.

As if he hadn't heard, he crossed it and walked towards the lake step by step.

Around the entire Dingxin Island, the endless lake water looks extremely cold against the backdrop of the night.

After standing by the lake for a long time, Chen Yao waded into the lake step by step.

With each step, a teardrop fell into the lake.

"Xining!! Come back soon!! ”

Jia Cheng stepped forward, but the lake water was really cold, especially at night, as soon as he entered the water, the chill instantly spread all over his body from the soles of his feet.

Just as Jia Cheng was shrinking, Chen Yao had completely sunk his entire body into the water.

"Xining!!"

Unable to care about much, Jia Cheng hurriedly jumped into the water and swam around in the water, but he didn't find his own lady.

Unfortunately, the lake water was too cold, and Jia Cheng had to go ashore alone.

Early the next morning, Luo Li took the initiative to show favor to Jiang Zhen, and was willing to follow him back to the Xuanlingyi faction to be a cow and a horse for him, and to saddle the horse before and after.

Jiang Zhen didn't mind having an extra dog by his side, and as for the whereabouts of the woman who served him last night, he wasn't even more worried.

"Grandfather, Xining, she threw herself into the lake last night!" Taking advantage of Jiang Zhen's unpreparedness, Jia Cheng hurriedly whispered to Luo Li.

"Just a woman! Death is death! What's more, she never treated you sincerely, if it weren't for her, how could you and I have ended up like this? ”

All night, Luo Li had been pondering about this matter. How could it be so coincidental? He and Ye Chong had just agreed on a plan to attack Hu Chishan, but it happened that at this time, Jiang Zhen actually led someone to rush over first? If you say that there is no spy to report the news, you won't believe him if you kill him!

"Grandfather, what do you mean by that?"

Jia Cheng looked puzzled and couldn't bear to ask.

"You stupid boy! Oops! Luo Li looked like he hated iron but not steel, frowned, and said with a hand in his ear, "Can't you see it?" It's all the news that this girl leaked, otherwise how could Jiang Zhen bring people so quickly? ”

Hearing this, Jia Cheng's head immediately swelled. I suddenly remembered the scene I saw by the lake that day.

"Pigeon...... The carrier pigeon that was released by the lake in Xining that day......"

"You see? Why did you intercept the carrier pigeon? ”

Luo Li hurriedly asked.

"Yes, but she only said that it was a family letter, so her grandson didn't suspect it!"

"Silly boy! You......

You, you, oops! If it weren't for your grandfather and I, we would all be finished! Hey~ My stupid presentation! ”

After learning about his mother's behavior, Jia Cheng couldn't help but clench his fists fiercely.

Since beating him to marry her and entering the door, he has never let him be wronged, he respects her like a guest and loves her like his life.

He really couldn't understand why Xining treated himself like this?

No wonder my grandfather always persuaded himself not to be too affectionate, he just ignored it and never paid attention to it.

It wasn't until he got to this point that he finally realized that she had never loved her.

"She deserves it! Do not live!! ”

"That's right! My silly grandson, finally enlightened! Luo Li giggled and said proudly.

This stinky girl, he is still worried that he can't find a chance to control her! She actually threw herself into the lake by killing herself, just to get rid of a piece of his heart.

……

At that time, Xiao Jiu finally rushed to the area of Dingxin Lake after several days of running, but unfortunately due to the frequent use of the telepathy technique and the shape-shifting technique, the loss of true qi was serious, and he almost lost his life.

"This little boy, are you alright?"

After being in a coma all night, Xiao Jiu finally woke up leisurely on the side of the road.

"Auntie, I'...... I'm fine......" Xiao Jiuqiang propped himself up from the ground and said.

"It's okay, it's okay, it's okay, just get out of the place quickly! The old body is going to open and do business! ”

Xiao Jiu noticed the shelf behind the aunt.

"I'm sorry."

Brushing the dust off his body, Xiao Jiu left with an apologetic face.

That's it! With the current physical condition, I'm afraid that I can't use the telepathy technique anymore, so let's wait for a while!

Because he was in a hurry to go out, Xiao Jiu only had a few scattered silver taels on his body, and he had no money to live in the hotel anymore.

Xiao Jiu had no choice but to walk forward step by step along the street.

"Sell buns! Hot buns~"

"Fire burning~~ Selling fire burning~ A penny a fire!!"

The shouting and selling on the side of the road were endless, and Xiao Jiu covered his hungry rumbling stomach, and couldn't help but walk to a stall and rub his hands

"Boss, let's have two fires and another bowl of porridge."

"Gotcha! Wait! ”

Sitting on the tattered bench next to him, Xiao Jiu gasped and breathed his body silently.

After a few moments, his face was a little better, and the fire and porridge were served on the table.

"Guest officer, you use it slowly!"

"Thank you."

Just as Xiao Jiu was holding on to the fire and eating, a few strangely dressed people suddenly came to the stall, and after shouting for food one by one, they sat down in front of the broken table next to Xiao Jiu.

After the group sat down, they began to talk about it.

"Huh! In this election of the leader of the martial arts alliance, we must show our faces! ”

"That's it, my disciple of Qingxuan Mountain, that name is well-known, you must not embarrass our elders!"

"Well, I'm afraid I'm only afraid of the gang of wild boys from the Taisiying Sect

, none of the steel knives in his hands are vegetarians! ”

"Don't be afraid! The white blade in the hands of our senior brother is not an ornament, is it? ”

A table of people chattered endlessly, and Xiao Jiu listened to a few words intentionally or unintentionally.

It wasn't until all the porridge in the bowl was drunk that he got up, walked to the stall, and paid the money.

When I passed by the dinner table of several people, I suddenly heard one of them shouting loudly

"I heard! There are many talents in this election, and if anyone can come out on top, the bounty will be 10,000 taels of gold! ”

"Ten thousand taels...... Gold? ”

Xiao Jiu was secretly surprised when he heard this.

Although he exchanged a lot of silver when he sold Bishui Manor, he has almost spent it for more than a year, if he got this bounty, wouldn't he be able to buy a few more houses?

After his enemy finds his biological parents, he can marry Fang Ying in a sedan chair.

Thinking about it like this, Xiao Jiu couldn't help but feel itchy.

Regardless of whether he eats or doesn't live now, he can't easily find the people of the Jia family by relying on him alone.

But if you can become the leader of the martial arts alliance, then there are not hundreds or thousands of people under him, and when the time comes, whoever you want to find, you can send more people to find it.

Thinking like this, Xiao Jiu decided to participate in the election of the leader of the martial arts alliance.

After many inquiries, I learned that to run for the position of the leader of the martial arts league, you only need to go to the Yinglin Garden, where the current leader of the martial arts league lives, and sign up to participate.

It's just that Xiao Jiu's body is very weak now, and he doesn't dare to use the telepathy technique to explore Ying Lin Yuan without authorization.

Because of this, Xiao Jiu has also taken a lot of wrongful paths.

"Uncle, may I ask how to get to Yinglin Garden?"

"What garden?"

"Ying Lin Yuan!!"

"Huh? Little brother, the old man's ears are not strong and he can't hear clearly!! ”

The old man squinted his eyes and looked like he was trying to listen.

"Excuse me."

Xiao Jiu made a gesture at the old man, and then began to inquire about others again and again.

Doing everything possible to investigate, by the time Xiao Jiu really found Yinglin Yuan, the election of the leader of the martial arts alliance had already begun.

Xiao Jiu spent a lot of effort and finally squeezed inside, but found that everyone on the stage was holding a pen and painting.

Thinking about his clumsy painting skills, Xiao Jiu couldn't help but shrink his feet.

After another cup of tea, the incense burner in the center of the stage had burned out.

The crowd inevitably cheered one after another.

Xiao Jiu came back to his senses and found that the people on the stage had already begun to show their paintings.

"Wow! And voila! That is the eldest grandson of the owner of Xiangshan Manor, Gongsun Ran, and the picture of ten thousand flowers blooming! ”

"It's amazing!"

Xiao Jiu looked in the direction of the other party's finger, and sure enough, he saw a handsome boy, carefully showing his painting in his hand.

The petals were lifelike, and the thickness of the pen was different and detailed, and Xiao Jiu was dumbfounded.

"It's not good! is still the founding disciple of the head of Shu Yuanmen, Yu Mian's

The phoenix is more lifelike! ”

As soon as he heard the name "Yu Mian", Xiao Jiu couldn't help but feel a chill.

searched around the stage, and sure enough, I saw that the guy was proudly displaying his paintings at the moment.

Xiao Jiu stared at the painting for a long time, and couldn't help but secretly give a thumbs up.

Don't look at this kid's stinky and hard to himself at the beginning, this painting really didn't say anything, it really had two hits!

"This phoenix and phoenix are really exquisitely drawn, the pen and ink have not dried, and they look really beautiful and moving!"

Xiao Jiu couldn't stop muttering, and was listened to by the people next to him, and couldn't help but retort

"That's not as wonderful as the painting of the Du Fang girl taught by Taisiying! You see, how delicate the moonlight of that lotus pond is! ”

Xiao Jiu followed his gaze and saw a playful woman holding her painting with a smile on her face at the moment, looking at one place thoughtfully.

The woman's moonlight on the lotus pond was also mediocre, but the eyes of the brother next to Xiao Jiu were about to fly to the stage, and at a glance, he knew that he was an idiot!

In the midst of everyone's discussions, Xiao Jiu finally roughly understood the system of this election.

Round 1 too! It's a literary fight, it's a fight for qin, chess, calligraphy and painting, because Xiao Jiu came late, and the piano and chess are over.

This round happens to be a painting fight.

After waiting for a long time, the top three who finally entered the top three were Yu Mian of Shu Yuanmen, Gongsun Shan Ran of Xiangshan Manor, and Mei Ziqing, the eldest daughter of the Mei clan in Changchun Lake.

Xiao Jiu couldn't help but sigh secretly.

This is really a generation of talents, each leading the way for hundreds of years!

It's really terrifying!

(End of chapter)

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