Liu Xuan, who had been dragged by Liu Heng's armpit, tried hard to straighten up, coughed twice, and walked to the long table tremblingly with his own strength.

"I ...... My body has never been useful...... It won't help much this time...... So, I specially, deliberately...... Bring this here......" Liu Xuan spoke with a slight tremble, and his thin fingers trembled slightly. But he struggled to reach into his bosom and shuddered out a thing.

He held the object in both hands and slowly and painstakingly placed it on the long table. It is a narrow pentagonal token with a wide top and a narrow bottom, except for the ancient character "willow" carved below, and above it is a three-dimensional bear head model that seems to jump out of the token, as if a tiny bear head is inlaid into the token. This is the Liu Zi Ling, which represents the power of the head of the Liu family, and during the period of Liu Yuelei's absence, Liu Xuan, who has the name of acting head of the family, is in charge.

Everyone stood up and nodded to Liu Xuan. With his body and seniority, even if he asked an attendant to send it on his behalf, there was nothing wrong with it. But he still dragged his weak sick body through the wind and snow, which is enough to see his importance and sense of responsibility for this identity.

"Then I...... I won't delay you......" Liu Xuan smiled on his pale face and walked out slowly.

"I'll have someone send you. Liu Heng looked at him with some worry.

Liu Xuan smiled and turned around and said, "Since I can come, I will ...... He will not die on the way back. You guys get down to business, don't worry about me, a waste. With that, he pushed the door open and disappeared into the snow outside.

Liu Heng sat down in the outermost position, and pushed the willow character order in front of him along the table to the middle of the long table: "Although there are a few people, there are only these people who can speak in Shuofang City at present. Miss Xiao, can Liu think that you can make decisions on behalf of the Chengji Palace?"

It took Xiao Ying a moment to realize that she was talking to herself. She had never been placed in such a serious and important position, and she was a little unaccustomed to it for a while. She recalled the style of her father and his ministers in her impression, and suddenly sat up, nodded seriously, and said, "Yes...... bar. ”

Liu Heng then turned his head and continued: "Then, the first question is the candidate for the next head of the family. ”

After speaking, his and Feng Jianbei's eyes fell on Liu Qingxue and Liu Binyuan. Liu Binyuan simply spread his hands and said, "I can't do it, I'm not used to this kind of position." Anyway, my sister is older than me, so naturally my sister is the most suitable. ”

Liu Heng moved his gaze to Liu Qingxue, who had been sitting silently, slowly shaking his head under the gaze of the rest of the people.

"Since I left the north a year ago, I have made up my mind that I am no longer a member of the Liu family, and naturally I can't sit in the position of the head of the family. ”

Liu Binyuan was stunned for a moment, slapped it on the long table, and roared angrily: "Is it interesting to say such things now! Father, he has never excluded you from the Liu family! Even if his father was at fault before, he died to save you, can't you still forgive him?" There were tears rolling in his eyes.

"What has been done cannot be treated as if it never happened. Liu Qingxue lowered her head, her brown bangs covered half of her face, and everyone couldn't see her expression clearly.

"I just asked the senior Feng, do I regret it. Liu Qingxue said softly, "Now my answer is, no." ”

Liu Binyuan looked at Liu Qingxue from afar, only to feel that the person in front of him was so unfamiliar. He still wanted to argue, but Liu Qingxue suddenly raised his head and looked at Liu Binyuan, and Liu Binyuan's original words were suddenly blocked and he couldn't say it.

"Ever since I chose to escape, to leave the North behind, to put everything on you, I've turned my back on this identity. When the war in the north was torn apart, I was thousands of miles away, and when the previous head of the family died, I was close at hand, but there was nothing I could do. Such Liu Qingxue is not worthy of sitting in the position of the head of the family. ”

The entire weeping willow house was quiet, Liu Binyuan gritted his teeth, and confronted Liu Qingxue, who also stood up, Xiao Ying'er looked left and right, looking at Liu Binyuan and Liu Qingxue worriedly.

Liu Qingxue looked at the serious look on Liu Binyuan's face, although her eyes were slightly red, there were no tears in the corners of her eyes. Liu Qingxue suddenly smiled, picked up the meaningful willow order from the table, and threw it to Liu Binyuan. Liu Binyuan was like a hot hand, and he flicked it between his hands a few times before catching it steadily.

"In that guy's heart, you are the heir, and your marriage with the Chengji Mansion as the heir is his long-cherished wish. Don't let him down. Liu Qingxue suddenly held her knee with her right hand, held the sword on the ground with her left hand, and then half-knelt down. This is a popular habit in the Liu family, and the way of expressing allegiance is also full of charlatanism.

Liu Henghe and Feng Jianbei glanced at each other, and also learned from Liu Qingxue's appearance and half-knelt down: "Meet the head of the family." ”

Only Xiao Ying'er didn't seem to understand the current situation, and didn't understand why after the two quarreled, everyone knelt down inexplicably. However, she didn't intend to follow their example and kneel down without knowing it, she sat quietly on the side, uncharacteristically not making a noise, and quietly watched Liu Binyuan's reaction.

After a short period of stunned, Liu Binyuan looked at the willow word order in his hand, and then at Liu Qingxue, who was half-kneeling on the ground, and finally laughed and clenched the token in his hand. He slowly stepped forward and helped Liu Binyuan and the three of them up one by one.

"What about my sister, won't she throw these things to me again and run away from home, right?" Liu Binyuan said with some complaints.

"As I said earlier, I'm no longer the daughter of the Liu family, but I don't feel at ease if I want to hand over the northern border to you daredevil. So I'm going to use another identity to protect the North, and I'm going to do it, the sharpest sword in the North!"

Liu Binyuan was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "Then you have to be careful, if you want to snatch this name from the master, I'm afraid you will have to suffer a lot." ”

Liu Qingxue then turned her head to look at Feng Jianbei, silently waiting for his response. Right now, worshipping under the door of this recognized strongest man in the north seems to be the most direct way to become stronger. Feng Jianbei finally raised his head that had been hanging down, and said lazily: "I don't care about such an ugly name as the Sword of the Northern Realm. But although your swordsmanship is much stronger than my apprentice, I hate this temperament, and I don't need to expect me to accept you as an apprentice, not to mention, with your current swordsmanship, I have nothing to teach you. ”

Liu Qingxue frowned slightly, her face was a little solemn, so she turned around solemnly and said, "So, please ask your seniors to teach you, what should Qingxue do?"

"The method of fighting is nothing more than divided into three types: external martial arts, internal martial arts and spells, and it is rumored that internal martial arts and spells are far better than external martial arts when cultivated in the later stage, but in fact, this is not necessarily the case. ”

Liu Qingxue nodded approvingly, after all, Feng Jianbei, who is famous all over the world for his external martial arts and swordsmanship, can be steadily suppressed with one enemy and two generals, Wei Zhuoxi, and that weird mount, which also proves that this kind of rumor is not true.

"The internal strength and spells are beyond the cognition of ordinary people, and they are indeed powerful, but they are time-consuming and laborious to cultivate, and it is difficult to achieve success without years of accumulation. In addition, you have been practicing the outer martial arts for many years, so I don't recommend that you touch these things, it is better to go all the way to the dark. ”

Liu Qingxue looked puzzled: "But the senior just said that in swordsmanship, it is difficult for me to have more attainments?"

Feng Jianbei snorted: "I didn't say that. What I'm saying is, I don't have anything more to teach you in swordsmanship. In my opinion, the Wind Blowing Snow Ji is the strongest swordsmanship, and if you have practiced it well, you don't need to bother to learn some miscellaneous things, and the rest is just to make it reach the peak through tempering. ”

"However," Feng Jian Bei said, "In addition to swordsmanship, there are other factors that affect the power of the sword in his hand. Sword intent is the most important point among them. ”

"Sword intent?" Liu Qingxue muttered and repeated. She vaguely remembered that when she was learning swordsmanship with Liu Heng, she heard him mention a few words, but she didn't understand what he meant, and she didn't delve into it.

Feng Jianbei suddenly fell silent, his eyes staring vacantly ahead, frowning, as if hesitating about something. But then he pursed his lips and continued: "The sword intent is to exert one's own battle intent on the sword, beyond the existence of matter, and the power itself cannot be the same as a simple sword move. It's just that although I can use the sword intent, I am not proficient, not to mention that after so many years of stability in the north, the sword intent has long been worn out and passivated, so if you have a heart, there is another old guy, you can go and find it. ”

"It won't be ......" Liu Binyuan thought of something and smiled.

Duan Xinnan. That old guy has been in the jungle of southern Xinjiang for more than ten years, fighting day and night, without slacking off for a moment, just to reach the extreme south, so the battle spirit and sword strength have become more and more pure, and he is simply born for battle. It's just that this time, for some reasons, he left southern Xinjiang and is now wandering the world. If you can find him and learn the use of sword intent from him, you should benefit a lot. ”

Liu Qingxue opened her mouth slightly in surprise: "Is it the 'Southern Sword' that is as famous as the predecessor Feng?" It is said to be very strong." ”

"Hmph", Feng Jianbei suddenly snorted angrily, "That old thing, what kind of two-handed sword created by himself, in terms of swordsmanship, it can be described as rough and unbearable, how powerful it is, how big the flaws are, that old thing can only fight with me with that sword intent that seems to be born majestic and never retreats." Hehe, barely counted, right?"

Even Liu Binyuan rarely sees Feng Jianbei's competitive face, which is known as the "North and South Double Swords" resounding in the past few decades, and the two seem to have a deeper relationship.

"We just belong to the old people of the previous era, and if we want to become stronger, it is not enough to aim for us. Even in addition to the so-called double swords of the north and the south, there are many masters of internal skills and spells that are not known to the people, and if they want to become the sword guarding the north, they will inevitably have to face these people. ”

"I see. Liu Qingxue nodded, "Then I can't stay at home in peace anymore." Trouble seniors to point out, where to find this Duan senior?"

"I don't know. The old guy does things according to his mood, and there is no regularity at all. But if you're looking for someone, your cousin should be able to help. ”

Liu Qingxue looked in the direction of Feng Jianbei's finger, it was Liu Heng, who had been silent and sat on the other side of the long table.

Liu Heng didn't expect Feng Jianbei to suddenly mention himself, and said in embarrassment: "Hey, I can't let them know yet, this is what the head of the family meant......"

As he spoke, his voice gradually became quieter, and then he smiled self-deprecatingly, looked at Liu Qingxue and said, "Since I want to hand over the Liu family to your generation, I don't plan to hide it from you." I have another identity, so I can't serve as the acting head of the Liu family, and even after so many years, I haven't received a position in the Liu family or Shuofang City. ”

"Have you heard of Fuhao Firm?"

Hearing this name, Liu Qingxue suddenly remembered something, and some memories were turned out of her mind again.

"I've heard of it. Does Uncle Cousin have any connection to this firm?"

Liu Heng shrugged and smiled.

"Not to mention the origin, I am the big boss of this Fuhao firm. ”

"Huh?" Liu Qingxue, Liu Binyuan, and Xiao Ying'er's jaws were eager to fall to the ground. The name of Fuhao Commercial Bank is very loud, and it deserves to be the first commercial house in the mainland, but he never thought that the big boss behind this commercial house is the middle-aged man in front of him.

"How...... How could it be?" Liu Binyuan's face was full of disbelief, "Uncle Cousin, you have been in the Liu family, where did you get the time to establish such a big trading house?" Uncle Cousin, you are a person who can often forget even drinking on credit, why haven't we heard that you are still a prodigy of merchants?"

Liu Heng just smiled and sighed softly: "Because my deceased wife is the only daughter of the previous big boss." I have no children under her knees, so I have to inherit this position. ”

"Is there still such an inheritance relationship......" Liu Bin said with a distant support.

"It's a bit unusual, but when my deceased wife died, my father-in-law was no longer alive, and I had no brothers or sisters, so no one had the status and power to oppose this decision. But even if he had the chance, I don't think he would have stopped it. At that time, Fuhao was not the first commercial house today, and it was the huge market and rich mineral vein resources in the north that helped Fuhao Commercial Bank develop rapidly, and Fuhao Commercial Bank also provided sufficient financial support to the Liu family. Now these two forces have been closely integrated and have a close relationship. ”

Liu Qingxue looked at Liu Heng, who spoke lightly, and to her ears, there were two words in the whole paragraph that were very harsh.

"Uncle Cousin, was it also a marriage back then?" she asked suddenly.

The whole weeping willow house was quiet again. Including Xiao Ying'er, who has listened to Liu Binyuan tell it several times, everyone here knows that Liu Qingxue was born to fight against these two words, which eventually led to her breaking with her father. Therefore, they were all a little worried about Liu Qingxue's reaction.

But the reactions of Liu Qingxue and Liu Heng were very calm. Liu Heng only nodded slightly, and Liu Qingxue didn't ask more about it.

"Then Hou Yanchun arranged it through his cousin, right? ”

Liu Heng's eyes widened, staring at Liu Qingxue incredulously, trying to think. After a while, he was relieved and said, "You said before that Xue Xian was handed over to you by Mr. Chen, so he also told you about this matter, right?"

"Yes. ”

"Ah, it's okay, after all, before the old man died, you realized his heart. It's a pity that the timing of your meeting is so bad......"

Liu Heng looked at Liu Qingxue and said in a deep voice: "Since you know about this, then live well and don't live up to the master's heart!"

Liu Qingxue didn't answer, only held Xue Xian up in front of her to take a closer look. In the warm room, the blade of the sword is transparent and pure white, as if it was made of snow.

She said in a voice so low that only she could hear, "Thank you." Dad. ”