Chapter 24: The Death of Li Chunfeng
When Ming Xuan returned to the courtyard, the downpour of rain also came as scheduled. Mingxuan, who was standing in front of the window and looking at the heavy rain outside the window, was secretly glad in his heart, if it was a moment later, it was estimated that he would have to become a soup chicken!
At the same time, in front of the lobby of the Ming family, Ming Qingsong stood under the eaves of the porch with his hands in his hands, looking at the rain that kept slapping on the green bricks on the ground and then splashing with concern. His heart was like the rain, and it was as if it had been smashed.
"Alas, I hope Elder Li's trip will go well!" Ming Qingsong sighed worriedly.
The rain fell like this all night, and how many people couldn't sleep at night because of it!
The next day, although the rain slowed down, it still did not stop, and the rain fell for nearly half a month.
In this half month, Ming Xuan did not take time to practice martial arts, but was doing his best to retreat and open up the acupoints. So far, the acupuncture points around his body have been opened up to three hundred and fifty-eight, and he is only two short of being able to officially establish the Great Zhou Tian Cycle and step into the innate realm.
When the acupuncture points in Ming Xuan's body were opened to three hundred and fifty, he had already clearly felt that the "Yuan Ling Jue" was beginning to be a little unable to keep up with the speed at which he opened the acupoints in terms of strengthening the meridians. If he still wanted to maintain such a high-speed cultivation speed in the later stage, he would only have two paths to choose from. Either find a higher level of spirit than the "Yuan Ling Jue", or find a place where the outside world is very full of spiritual energy. But neither of these things is easy to obtain, and it is impossible to find them!
In desperation, Ming Xuan could only take one step at a time, there were still two acupuncture points left to reach the innate realm, and everything would be said after reaching the innate realm!
At the same time, within this month and a half, the Ming family also fully restored the vitality of the Fang City with the Increasing Qi Dispersion and Increasing Spirit Pill, and once overwhelmed the Guo and Zeng Fang Markets. And although the Ming family has adopted a strategy of selling in limited quantities, as the supply of the Four Spirit Purple Leaf Grass and Huangyan Essence is becoming more and more insufficient, the Qi Enhancement Dispersion and Spirit Pill are also about to run out. Now the Ming family can only hope for Li Chunfeng and his party, hoping that Li Chunfeng and the others can bring back the two elixirs safely and smoothly.
In the early morning half a month later, Ming Xuan, who was still in retreat in the cultivation room and impacting the last two acupoints, was awakened by a noisy sound coming from the courtyard. He couldn't help but feel a trace of anger in his heart, got up and collected the exercises, and walked out of the cultivation room.
After leaving the cultivation room, seeing that it was still raining lightly outside, Ming Xuan couldn't help but sigh in his heart again, this rain must have been read for a little too long!
"Miss Li, the third young master is in retreat and cultivating, and he told no one to disturb him, so don't embarrass the villain. Liu Fu, the only subordinate in the Mingxuan courtyard, was blocking a person in front of him, and he was explaining to the other party with a look of embarrassment.
"Ah Fu, what's going on?" Ming Xuan walked slowly to him, with a hint of anger in his tone.
Liu Fu listened to Ming Xuan's voice, and hurriedly turned around and saluted: "Please forgive the third young master, it is the young lady of Elder Li's old family......"
"Brother Xuan...?" Before Liu Fu could finish speaking, the crying voice of the person who was stopped by Liu Fu directly interrupted him.
When Ming Xuan heard this, he naturally guessed who it was - Li Yueru, Li Chunfeng's youngest daughter, who had just turned nine years old this year. After Ming Xuan worshipped Li Chunfeng as his teacher, he also went to Li Chunfeng's house many times, so he was naturally very familiar with Li Chunfeng's family. And Li Chunfeng In addition to this daughter, Li Chunfeng also has an eldest son, Li Mosheng.
Then a porcelain baby face that was crying with pear blossoms and rain poked out from behind Liu Fu, and as soon as he saw Ming Xuan, he directly bypassed Liu Fu and ran towards Ming Xuan head-on.
On the way over Li Yueru, Ming Xuan secretly waved his hand at Liu Fu, and after Liu Fu understood, he left here with a slight salute.
"Brother Xuan..." Li Yueru came to Ming Xuan, threw herself directly into his arms, hugged him tightly, and cried.
Looking at Li Yueru, who was coquettish to herself, Ming Xuan couldn't help but smile warmly. For Li Chunfeng's two children, Mingxuan has always regarded them as relatives, and after several contacts, everyone has long been familiar with each other. Especially Li Yueru, who has always been calling him Brother Xuan, makes him very happy with Li Yueru.
"Okay, Yueru won't cry anymore! Tell Brother Xuan who bullied you, and Brother Xuan will teach him a lesson for you. After letting Li Yueru cry for a while, Ming Xuan gently patted Li Yueru's head and comforted her.
"No, no one bullied Yueru!" Li Yueru first looked up at Ming Xuan and shook her little head, then cried even more sadly, and said heartbreakingly: "It's Daddy... Daddy..."
"Teacher?" Ming Xuan faintly had a bad premonition in his heart, and his tone of voice became a little hurried: "Yueru, tell me quickly, what's wrong with the teacher?"
"Daddy... Daddy was killed!" Li Yueru cried out almost hysterically.
"What?" Li Yueru's words were like a thunderbolt from the sky, making Ming Xuan stunned and freeze in place.
"Impossible... It's impossible... The teacher is in Mingjiazhuang, and he hasn't gone out, how can they be killed?" Ming Xuan shook his head solemnly, his tone full of disbelief.
"Yueru, you tell Brother Xuan, this is not true! You deliberately deceived Brother Xuan, right?" Ming Xuan lowered his body and asked Li Yueru with a smile.
"No, Ru'er didn't lie... Daddy's head was brought back by another uncle this morning. Mother and brother didn't let Ru'er look at it, but Ru'er hid in the distance and secretly took a look, that's Daddy!" Li Yueru shook her head in affirmation while crying.
"Heads, hehe... Only brought back one head?" Ming Xuan suddenly felt a sadness born from his heart.
"Who did it, and he didn't even leave a whole corpse to the teacher!" Under Ming Xuan's sad meaning, it was accompanied by an endless murderous aura.
"Let's go, Yueru, let's go home!" Mingxuan suddenly said very calmly, and then took Li Yueru's little hand, walked out of the courtyard, and disappeared into the rain.
When Ming Xuan led Li Yueru to the gate of the Li Mansion, he found that the gate and its surroundings had all been hung up, and this discovery couldn't help but make Ming Xuan's mood a little heavier.
Stepping in slowly, I found that the courtyard in the front hall was already overcrowded, among which there were a large number of children of the Ming family, basically the three generations of disciples of the Ming family had arrived, and Mingri, Mingchong and others were naturally among them. And all the people present were wrapped in white cloth strips on their heads, obviously coming to mourn. What is the situation, Ming Xuan was suspicious in his heart?
On the other hand, the moment Ming Xuan and Li Yueru came in, everyone focused their eyes on the two of them.
"Hmph, my own teachers are dead, and I haven't waited as fast as I can, it's really unfilial!" Ming Chong snorted with disdain on his face. Its voice was so loud that many people around could hear it clearly.
"Yes! Originally, it was a waste, but I didn't expect it to be such a cold-blooded and unfilial waste. How come there is such a person in my Ming family? Akashi echoed loudly.
"That's right! Mingchong and Akashi have a point."
"This is indeed a bit excessive, I hurried over as soon as I received the notice, but he was the last of the three generations of disciples. What a big shelf!"
“......”
As Ming Chong and Akashi stirred up a thousand waves with one stone, everyone immediately started to talk about it. His mouth was full of insults, blame, and contempt for Ming Xuan.
And Ming Xuan turned a deaf ear to everyone's insults, and there was no emotion in his heart. He took Li Yueru's hand and walked towards the hall step by step, his eyes focused on the coffin in the center of the hall from the moment he entered the door, and his eyes were full of sadness.
Although everyone in the Ming family said that Ming Xuan was not, when Ming Xuan and Li Yueru walked in front of them, they would automatically move their figures to make way for the two of them.
There were several mats in front of the coffin in the hall and next to it, and Li Chunfeng's wife knelt on one of the mats next to her, crying silently, and kept wiping her tears. Li Mosheng stood next to him in filial piety clothes, constantly greeting those who came to mourn.
At the same time, the hall was also full of people on both sides, all wearing black robes and white cloth strips wrapped around their heads, but the difference was that many of them were wounded. In this group of people, Ming Xuan also found several familiar figures, all of whom were members of the Ming family's medicine collection team. Looking at the injured people, combined with everyone's dress, Ming Xuan suddenly guessed seven or eight points about the reason for Li Chunfeng's death.
The members of the Ming family's medicine collection team watched Ming Xuan and Li Yueru come in, and under the influence of the insults to Ming Xuan from outside, they couldn't help but look at them angrily. But due to Ming Xuan's special identity, everyone did not speak sarcastically like the disciples of the Ming family.
When Mingxuan and Li Yueru walked to the coffin together, Li Mosheng hurried up and said to Mingxuan apologetically: "Mingxuan, I'm sorry! My mother and I were afraid that you would be sad, so we didn't send someone to inform you." But I didn't expect Ru'er, this girl, to go to you. And I didn't expect it to bring you so much ...... because of this."
"What about Yueru's filial piety clothes with me, what's the matter after Yueru and I have worshiped the teacher!" Mingxuan naturally knew what Li Mosheng wanted to say, but before Li Mosheng could finish speaking, he directly interrupted him.
"You... You also wear filial piety clothes to worship?" Li Mosheng was a little surprised when he heard this.
"One day as a teacher, one life as a father!, is there anything wrong with me wearing filial piety clothes to worship?" Ming Xuan stared at Li Mosheng with cold and firm eyes.
Looking at Ming Xuan's cold and firm gaze, Li Mosheng couldn't help but be greatly moved in his heart, indicating that Li Chunfeng didn't see the wrong person, and he didn't see the wrong person either!
"Go get two more sets of filial piety clothes!" Li Mosheng ordered to the subordinates behind him.
Within a moment, the two sets of filial piety clothes were held by the subordinates and sent to Ming Xuan and Li Yueru. Mingxuan first helped Li Yueru put on filial piety clothes, and then let himself dress them.
"Come, Yueru, let's see off the teacher together!" Ming Xuan pulled Li Yueru to kneel on the ground.
Li Yueru also obediently did not cry at the moment, and followed Ming Xuan's movements to worship.
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
The three heavy heads were convinced by all the surrounding medicine collection team members, and suddenly there was no anger at Ming Xuan.