Chapter Twenty-Three: Shangguan Mengren
At one o'clock in the afternoon, an ordinary carriage stopped in front of the Shangguan family's mansion.
A young man stepped out of the car, followed by an old man with gray hair.
This old gentleman is the right uncle who is responsible for taking care of Meng Yao on weekdays, his name is Youqi, in addition to taking care of Meng Yao, he often follows the head of the Shangguan family to go out to deal with various affairs.
Right Qi is the elder brother of the former head of the Shangguan family, and after the death of the previous head of the family, the position of the head of the family passed to Meng Yao's brother, while Right Qi still serves as Meng Yao's caretaker and assistant to the head of the family.
The young man in front of this old man is Shangguan Mengren, Shangguan Mengyao's elder brother, and the current head of the Shangguan family.
The right uncle walked side by side with him and opened the door of the mansion for him.
In the mansion, many domestic servants and maids saw the return of the head of the house, and hurriedly stopped their work, lifted their skirts, and squatted to show their goodwill.
Shangguan Mengren was about twenty or thirty years old, thin, handsome, with the same black hair and brown eyes as Meng Yao, wearing a heavy down jacket, with a row of inconspicuous beards at the chin, and a hint of a smile on the corner of his mouth.
He returned the salute to the maids in the mansion one by one, and at the same time said to the right uncle on the side, that is, the right Qi:
"It's okay, Uncle You, needless to say, you go and do something else first, I'll ask Meng Yao in person."
Right Qi nodded and turned to leave.
Shangguan Mengren waved his sleeves and walked unhurriedly towards the main courtyard.
At this time, Meng Yao was bored sitting on the chair used to receive guests in the main courtyard, holding her chin in her hand, staring blankly at the calligraphy and paintings on the wall, not knowing what she was thinking.
Hearing the familiar sound of footsteps, she turned her head and saw that it was her brother.
She still maintained the action just now, and did not change because of the other party, but just said hello casually:
"Brother, long time no see."
Shangguan Mengren's face flashed with a good-looking but flirtatious smile:
"Four or five days, right? Old sister, I haven't seen you for a long time, do you miss me? ”
"Would you like to hug one?"
Meng Yao pursed her lips:
"I'm not a little girl anymore."
Shangguan Mengren walked up to her, pulled out a brown-red wooden chair opposite her, and said with a smile as he sat down:
"So, I still prefer you when I was young, the one who can carry me on my back, and now I am really more and more rebellious as I grow up."
Noticing that Meng Yao's expression was a little disdainful, he ignored her and just waved his hand outside:
"Huh! That one, please bring two cups of tea. ”
Outside, there was a maid who was cleaning up the fish pond, and she nodded lightly when she heard this, and went to prepare tea.
Shangguan Mengren turned his gaze back to Meng Yao and looked at her with a smile.
Meng Yao knew that whenever her brother showed this expression, it would be no good thing, so she lowered her head and said in her heart:
"That's right, I snuck out to play again, and I almost, almost had an accident."
"Oh?" The dreamer opened his mouth, "There's still this thing." You're a mess. ”
Meng Yao clasped her hands on her chest and looked at him angrily:
"What are you pretending, Uncle Right must have complained to you about me."
At this time, the tea happened to be served, and the two stopped talking and thanked the maid together. After she left, the dreamer picked up the tea, took a sip carefully, and said in a slightly serious tone:
"Nothing's wrong, is it? I heard from my uncle that there was a mighty one who saved you. ”
Meng Yao nodded.
"According to him, he is a person with amnesia, forgetting his identity and family, a homeless person?" The dreamer asked.
Meng Yao nodded again.
"Where is he now?"
Meng Yao thought for a moment and replied:
"I sympathize with him, and he's kind to me, so I'm going to give him a job. Since we are going to work in our family for a long time, we need to have a place to live, and now he and Sister Xiaoqing are going out to find a place to live. ”
Mengren bowed slightly, and learned from Meng Yao's elbow on the table, supporting her chin, and thinking about it.
After a while, he asked:
"What's his name?"
Meng Yao replied:
"Li impermanence, the Li of Muzi Li, the capricious impermanence."
She added:
"And, he's very handsome."
Shangguan Mengren suddenly fell silent.
After a long time, Meng Yao realized that she had said something she shouldn't have said, her face was slightly red, she coughed lightly, and changed the topic:
"By the way, brother, I still have some things to tell you, and I didn't tell Uncle Right about these things."
Meng Yao sorted out her thoughts and told the story of the previous murder of Xiaoqing, the maid Xiaoqing, who was rescued by Li Wuchang, and the killing of Dongfang Ying.
The dreamer closed his eyes and listened quietly to her explanation.
After Meng Yao finished speaking, he nodded thoughtfully:
"Shhh...... That Dongfang Ying of the Dongfang family? He's going to kidnap you? And...... He's still dead? ”
"Yaoyao, is everything you said true?"
Meng Yao nodded affirmatively:
"Of course it's true, that person is definitely Dongfang Ying, and Brother Impermanence also recognizes it."
The dreamer stood up and paced back and forth in the house, muttering:
"It's weird...... What does their family want to do? ”
He stopped and looked at Meng Yao:
"Yaoyao, I'm glad you're fine. I'll take care of this matter, and you remember, don't mention it to anyone else just yet. ”
In business, Meng Yao was never ambiguous, she nodded seriously.
After a long time, the dream ended thinking and showed that relaxed smile again:
"Let's not mention these things yet, Yaoyao, are you prepared for the 'Talent Trial' to be held next week?"
The Talent Selection Contest is an annual large-scale event in the Citro region, jointly organized by the three major families, mainly to select some talented people in China.
Yaoyao shook her head:
"I don't have a clue yet, think again."
The dreamer stood up and walked out:
"Then come on, I want to see what kind of genius will emerge this year."
..........
Li Wuchang's new home, in the bathroom.
With a bang, Li Wuchang surfaced, suddenly stood up from the bathtub, and stepped out.
The water dripped to the ground, and he stood naked in front of the mirror, surveying his face.
He looked down at his abdomen, and with a slight exertion of his body, he saw the lines of muscles clearly outlined.
"Hmm...... It's been half a month since I came to this world, and I don't seem to have exercised in the real sense. ”
He muttered as he wiped his body, then took out the clothes in the cupboard and changed for himself.
"I still have a little money in the bracelet, and I'll go out and buy some gym equipment later, and by the way, I will buy some furniture that will be used in the future."
In his previous life, he was a taekwondo coach, don't look at Li Wuchang, he is tall and thin, but when it comes to martial arts dexterity and perseverance in training, few people can compare to him.
In this other world full of dangers, even if he is not a capable person and does not have the physical strength blessing of the capable person, but with his own physical fitness alone, he also has the ability to fight hard with some ordinary left-level ability.
What's more, he is still a right-level ability, and he has the strongest ability of all ability types, the power of the sky collapse.
If this world is really as dangerous as Irena said, then Li Wuchang believes that if he wants to live with peace of mind in the future, he must master his abilities and make himself stronger.
After putting on a white shirt and a pair of black pants, Li Wuchang habitually cut his hair in the mirror before walking out of the bathroom.
He walked over to the round table beside the bed and picked up a sack containing heavy silver on it.
Before taking a bath, Li Wuchang did what Irena said before, "touch the bracelet with one hand, and your mind moves slightly", and successfully entered the previous image space and took out the money from it.
He didn't see Irena in that white world, because the other party's strength had not fully recovered, and Li Wuchang couldn't contact her for the time being. So now Li Wuchang just treats this space as a storage bag that is invisible to others.
In this world, the bracelet is Irena herself, and after being destroyed by Lance at the time, Irena herself suffered a heavy blow.
And the bracelet itself, like Irina, does not belong to the product of this world, and they are not affected by Li Wuchang's reincarnation ability, so even if Li Wuchang returns to the bracelet before it was hit, it can't change the fact that Irena was injured.
So far, it's useless for them to blame anyone, but it's also to blame Lance for being too cunning and easily gaining the strength of a prison-level ability.
Li Wuchang now also hopes that Irena can recover soon, so that they can go on the journey as companions again as they did not so long ago.
Holding the bag of silver, Li Wuchang walked to the window, in order to make the room no longer dark, he opened the curtains, and the sunlight outside shone in.
But at the same time, an inexplicable feeling surged into Li Wuchang's heart.
It was a familiar feeling to him, it had happened twice not long ago at the door of the Bird of Paradise Tavern, a feeling of being watched by outsiders!
He frowned and looked down at the street outside the window.
But this time, nothing was found.
Strange, so weird...... Li Wuchang kept muttering. If this feeling is easy to explain once or twice once in a while, it may be caused by one's own sensitivity, but in just a few days, it has happened three times frequently.
He had a vague guess:
"Maybe it has something to do with the able? Either it's my own feelings, or there's something more powerful and mysterious watching over me......"
Compared with normal people, the five senses and the so-called sixth sense of the ability will increase with the improvement of the ability level, and Li Wuchang himself is a very sensitive person, so he believes in the second guess even more.
"What kind of person, or organization, exactly? What is the purpose of their observation and surveillance? Li Wuchang thought to himself, hesitated for a while, and pulled the curtain cloth back up.
He once again sensed the danger and strangeness of this world with strange powers, and shook his head slightly:
"Forget it, since the person behind the scenes hasn't shown his face yet, and I don't have a problem, let's go get down to business first."
When he said the right thing, he was talking about going out to buy some necessities and things that he would need later.
Taking the silk black hat and tuxedo jacket from the coat rack, Li Wuchang put them on and dressed them up again, picked up the sack containing the silver and walked towards the gate.