Li Fenglan looked at the back of the morning mist gradually fading away, she picked up the horse brush that Dusk Cloud had dropped, turned around and began to brush the horse: it turns out that doing a fixed action without using your brain can really make people forget their troubles for a while.

At last, the horse couldn't take it anymore and kicked the railing twice with his hind legs, as if to say, "I'm not afraid of losing my hair, but I also want to sleep."

The next day, Li Fenglan woke up early, and when she opened the door, she saw that Twilight Cloud was already standing at the door of the room, and it seemed that she had finished washing.

She looked at Twilight and said, "You got up so early."

"Yes, you're in a hurry."

The two fell silent, and for a moment, Twilight asked, "Isn't Amber awake yet?"

"She'll be lazy in bed. What about Daoist Zhu?"

"I'm going to find Xu Gongzi and them early in the morning, and when they come back, we can set off."

After saying that, the two of them became embarrassed again, as if last night's conversation had finished talking about the rest of their lives.

Li Fenglan secretly glanced at Twilight's shoulder, and regretted it a little: It wasn't really hard last night, right?

I was about to care about it, when I suddenly heard the sound of a customer and a shopkeeper arguing from the backyard stable.

"Little two! Come here!"

"Master, what's the matter?"

"What's the matter with my horse?! Yesterday was fine! Why did you get so bald overnight?!"

"This, we don't know about this, we are all here where the guest master takes care of the horses by himself, and we don't care about anything else."

Hearing this quarrel, Li Fenglan and Duyun couldn't help but cover their faces......

Zhu Mingyu accompanied Xu Qingchen and Ayahan to pack up the contact point of the Thorn Gate, and then went to the inn together. After meeting with a few people, they were ready to leave.

Who would have thought that as soon as they left the door of the inn, they were blocked by a girl in a gorgeous costume.

The girl said respectfully, "May I ask how many of you are from the Luoyang Idler's Hall?"

The group couldn't help but be vigilant, and Li Fenglan asked, "So what?"

"My son-in-law is invited."

"Who's your son?"

"Miss will know when she goes, and my son-in-law also said, if you can't believe it, let me hand over this thing to you."

As he spoke, he pulled out an old piece of parchment from his cuff.

Li Fenglan took it suspiciously, opened it and looked at it, her expression instantly froze, and she asked, "Where did you get this half of the map?"

The girl smiled gently, not intending to answer the question, but said, "You will know as I go."

Li Fenglan put away the parchment and said, "Lead the way."

Zhu Mingyu asked in a low voice, "Just follow along?" Aren't you afraid of deception?"

Li Fenglan replied in a low voice, "This piece of paper is half a map."

"The Li family's underground palace?"

"Yes."

"Is it the share we lost?"

"It's not...... It's the other half."

Seeing Xu Qingchen next to him puzzled, Zhu Mingyu explained to him in a whisper.

After seeing Li Fenglan agree, the girl turned around and got on a small sedan chair, and the group followed the sedan chair to the southeast corner of Wuyang Town. After walking for half an hour, the sedan chair stopped next to an extremely spacious house in the southeast corner. Because it's outside the town centre, it's very secluded.

At the door of the big mansion, a young man dressed as a scholar was waiting at the door with a smile.

After Amber saw the young man, she whispered to Li Fenglan, "It's like Bai Sangongzi." Of course, it's about dressing up.

After the palanquin stopped, the girl got out of the palanquin, and then ran all the way to the young man with cheerful steps, and crashed into the young man's arms before stopping.

"Childe!" The girl said in a tone of invitation to merit and reward, "I have brought it to you! Shall I do it?"

The young man smiled dotingly, gently stroked the top of the girl's head, and said softly, "Well done, go back to the house and rest, don't be tired."

Girl rush

The young man blinked and said, "Childe, then I'll go back."

After saying that, he ran into the gate with cheerful steps.

Li Fenglan and the others couldn't help but get goosebumps all over their bodies when they saw the scene just now. This girl...... is also too reserved, in public, with a man to talk to me and me, as if no one. Thinking of her Li Fenglan, she was just hugged by the morning fog in a place where no one was there last night, and the fever of this face subsided in the middle of the night.

After the girl left, the young man walked towards them with a smile on his face: "Miss Li, a few people came to the cold house, and they missed the welcome, and they still looked at Haihan."

Li Fenglan returned the salute and said, "This son, you ......."

The man hurriedly interrupted Li Fenglan, he looked around, and said with a smile, "It's inconvenient to greet here, you come with me."

Zhu Mingyu looked at this person's pace, he was good at martial arts, but it was not too high. I wanted to stop Li Fenglan from taking everyone in, but I thought that there were many masters on my side, and they were near Tongguan, so I was a little less worried.

When everyone entered the gate and saw the scene inside the door, Li Fenglan and his party suddenly felt that they were mud cakes wrapped in grass residue and soil buns, and they had never seen the world.

It's not that the mansion is gorgeous, it's the people in the courtyard who surprise them.

There were two dozen young girls in the courtyard. The girls were all very good-looking, the older ones were in their early twenties, the younger ones were about fifteen or sixteen, and they were all dressed as flamboyantly as the girl who brought them. Some of them frolicked in groups, some sat quietly reading books under the porch, and some got together to discuss female celebrities.

When they saw them come in, the girls immediately swarmed ...... No, they suddenly surrounded the young man like a flock of butterflies frolicking in flowers.

"Childe, what did you just do?"

"Childe prefers peony again, and only let her do things for you."

"Childe! Look at the mandarin ducks I embroidered!"

In short, it was a piece of warblers, swallows, and chirps, which made Li Fenglan's brain hurt.

Li Fenglan had a huge question in her heart: Is this place serious?

To the girls' complaints and inquiries, the young man answered patiently, and the bowl of water was flat...... Let the three men with honest hearts can't help but be envious and jealous. Look at the book

"All right," said the young man with a smile, "I'll tell you later, I've brought a guest, so you can play with you."

Sending away the butterflies, the young man led them to a dark room in the backyard.

Entering the house and closing the door, the smile and frivolity on the young man's face disappeared.

Without waiting for Li Fenglan to ask, the young man said, "My name is Li Ziyuan, an orphan of the Li family in Yangzhou...... Feng Lan, I'm your cousin."

"Cousin?!" This time the shock was no less than when I entered the gate. Of course, not only Li Fenglan, but others were also shocked.

Li Ziyuan said, "I know you can't accept it for a while, it's too sudden. My aunt, your mother, has two older brothers, and my father is your second uncle."

"You, you," Li Fenglan stammered, "how did you survive back then?"

"Uncle has no son, grandfather only has a grandson like me, and the Li family is a lone seedling. Since I was very young, my family has arranged for me to have a 'shadow, and when I see outsiders, the shadow will see for me, in order to keep my only seedling, so that I can survive."

There were too many questions to ask, and Li Fenglan didn't know how to open for a while.

Li Ziyuan motioned for everyone to sit down and said, "The information I received is that there were only four people when you left Luoyang, who are these two?"

Li Fenglan replied, "We are our friends, and we don't have to shy away from them when we speak."

Li Ziyuan nodded: "I think you must have a lot of questions to ask, you don't have to ask, I'll tell you everything."

Nineteen years ago, Li Ziyuan was six years old and had just remembered. A few days after Li Fengyao married Shangguan Cheng, the Li family suffered a catastrophe. The night before the Li family was surrounded and suppressed, they sensed that the wind was wrong, so they secretly sent Li Ziyuan out, and only then did they escape. After that, he stayed in a side branch house far away from the Li family and lived peacefully

Nineteen years.

Half a year ago, I heard that Li Fenglan was out of the valley, so he left Yangzhou and came to Wuyang Town, where he bought a big house.

"I don't remember much about what happened back then, but I just watched it from a distance, the fire was very big, and many people cried ......" Li Ziyuan whispered, a light flashing in his eyes, "They all advised me to leave this matter at that, and I can't take revenge alone." I did think so, until I heard that you were out of the valley, and that little bit of blood in my heart was rekindled."

Li Ziyuan's voice is full of emotion, and it doesn't look like it's fake.

Li Fenglan asked, "How can I trust you?"

Li Ziyuan said, "That half of the map is the Li family's underground palace. I'm sure you have the first half of the ...... Originally, it was complete, and it was kept by my grandfather, and then my aunt ...... It's your mother, when she married into the Shangguan family, her grandfather took out half of it as a dowry."

Li Fenglan was a little puzzled: "But my mother said that she didn't know who gave her this picture."

Li Ziyuan smiled: "My aunt still hasn't changed, and her speech is foggy, which makes people can't guess."

"You...... Remember my mother?"

"Remember," Li Ziyuan nodded, "But I don't remember clearly, I just remember that your mother didn't give me a good face since I was a child." Li Ziyuan said and laughed: "Probably because I am the only son of the Li family and am spoiled by my family, so she doesn't like me."

Li Fenglan smiled embarrassedly, "She should ...... There's nothing bad about it."

Li Ziyuan knocked lightly on the table and asked, "Let's not be polite, Feng Lan, can my cousin do anything for you?"

"Do you have any plans?"

Li Ziyuan shook his head: "I don't have a plan, I've been in a mess all these years, and my martial arts are also sparse, I haven't thought about these things...... Well, though, there are still some plans. For half a year, I hid my identity and stayed at the entrance of Tongguan for this matter."

Li Fenglan said, "Let's hear it."

"I'm not here to wait for you, but to wait for Qin Zhiyang."

Li Fenglan frowned: "Qin Zhiyang?"

Zhu Mingyu said, "Outsiders are in the business of guards. When the merchants of the Central Plains go to the Western Regions to do business, they will basically look for him, and this person has great influence outside the Guan...... Brother Li, why are you waiting for this person?"

"I found out that he had a share in the encirclement and suppression of the Li family back then. Unlike other charlatans who are just involved, he is more like a behind-the-scenes manipulator, secretly manipulating everything."

Li Fenglan was shocked, this was different from the name she got, so she asked, "How did you find out?"

"When the Li family picked me up, I secretly went back to take a look. Among the black-clothed people who attacked my house, it was not only the killer of Yeyu Xiaozhu, but also many men with Northwest accents. The only force that has a connection between the Northwest Martial Arts and the Central Plains Martial Arts is Qin Zhiyang...... And, he has a motive."

"What motive?"

"I think there was a deal in the Western Regions when Changfeng Mansion was there, you know this, right?"

"I know, I've heard Lao Mo say it."

"There are many masters in Changfeng Tower, so naturally Qin Zhiyang's people are not needed. Originally, there was no entanglement of interests between the two sides, but Mo Changfeng was as jealous as a hater, and after they took that line, they packed up all the ringing horses along the way, and the entire trade route was peaceful for a while."

"So...... Disturbing his business?"

"Not only that, Qin Zhiyang sent people to rob Changfeng Lou's goods, and also united several merchants to run Changfeng Lou's business, meaning to warn Mo Changfeng. Who knew that Mo Changfeng directly sent Fu Yanhe and Chen Tong, and the two of them almost picked Qin Zhiyang's lair."

Li Fenglan frowned and said, "I haven't heard of this."

Zhu Mingyu said: "This incident is a legend in the rivers and lakes, and everyone knows it."

Li Fenglan combed it through and said, "Therefore, he has a grudge, it happened that the three families formed an alliance with Changfeng Tower, and he took advantage of this shareholder wind to set off the anger of the entire Jianghu and carried out the encirclement and suppression nineteen years ago, right?"

Li Ziyuan nodded: "Yes."