Eternal Spring City, Lee House.

After watching Ling Bailong's carriage leave near the West City Gate, Li Qingchen returned to the mansion to cultivate.

But he couldn't calm down.

For some reason, there was always an inexplicable throbbing in his heart, as if something big was about to happen.

"Could it be, has this changed?"

"Impossible! It shouldn't be possible! ”

Li Qingchen comforted himself.

Since he couldn't calm down and cultivate, he simply stopped cultivating for the time being and came to his alchemy room.

He is an awakened person of the fire element at the ground level, and he has the extremely high potential to become an alchemist, although he cannot become an official alchemist for the time being due to cultivation, it does not prevent him from practicing the various skills of an alchemist in advance.

Once he cultivated to break through the Spirit Sea Realm, he would be able to participate in the official alchemist assessment and be eligible to become an official alchemist.

He was able to become the young patriarch of the Li clan, in addition to his top cultivation talent, the identity of the future alchemist was also one of the important factors.

Therefore, in addition to his usual cultivation, in addition to participating in family affairs, he spends most of his time on alchemy.

The day was extraordinarily long.

In the evening.

A figure staggered to the door of the Li Mansion.

"What people!"

The two servants guarding the door asked loudly.

The figure raised its head, its eyes were bloodshot, and there was a monstrous anger in its exhaustion: "Get out of here!" ”

"Elder Qinggang!"

The two subordinates recognized the comer and were shocked.

And Elder Li Qinggang had already strode into the mansion and walked straight in the direction of the council hall.

On the way, he met a steward, and he asked the other party to notify all the elders to gather in the council hall, and by the way, he let Li Qingchen be informed.

A few minutes later.

Li Qinggang sat in the conference hall with a gloomy face.

In addition to the two elders who were sitting outside, the other three remaining elders of the Li clan arrived one after another.

"What's wrong? Elder Qinggang? ”

"Didn't you go on a secret mission with the patriarchs? Why did you come back alone? ”

"Is it possible, what happened to the mission?"

Seeing Li Qinggang's embarrassed appearance, the three elders' hearts suddenly jumped.

Li Qinggang was about to speak, when he saw Li Qingchen walking in from outside the door.

He coldly commanded, "Close the door!" ”

Li Qingchen was stunned.

Since he became the young patriarch, no one in the family had treated him with such an attitude, even if it was the seven elders, they had always been courteous.

However, he swept his eyes and saw Li Qinggang who was embarrassed, but he didn't see Li Qingyun and Li Qingyan, who were going to kill Ling Bailong at the same time.

It chilled his heart.

Combined with Li Qinggang's attitude, he suddenly had a bad conjecture in his mind, and it quickly took root, making him cold in his hands and feet.

Li Qingchen closed the door in a trance.

The faint howling evening breeze outside the house was immediately cut off, and the silent pin drop could be heard in the council chamber.

A deep voice rang out.

"The patriarch is dead, and Li Qingyan is also dead."

"What?!"

The four people present were suddenly startled and looked at Li Qinggang in disbelief, the latter's face looming in the dim candlelight, looking extremely gloomy.

"The ambush plan failed, the Ling clan had already laid an ambush, they dispatched five elders, the patriarch and Li Qingyan were killed, and I was chased and killed for dozens of miles before I barely escaped."

"Li Qingchen, you give everyone an explanation."

Li Qinggang tried his best to suppress his anger and said coldly.

Hearing this, the eyes of the other three elders all fell on Li Qingchen.

The plan to ambush the white dragon was facilitated by Li Qingchen, and they even convened an elder council to discuss it, but most of the elders did not agree with his plan.

To put it bluntly, although Li Qingchen's status in the Li clan is high, he is not qualified to arrange for several elders to carry out his plan together.

It wasn't until the patriarch Li Qingyun agreed to the plan and took the initiative to join the ambush candidates that the plan was successfully passed.

At all costs.

There was such a big loophole in this plan, which caused the family top to suffer heavy losses, and Li Qingchen was undoubtedly the biggest responsible.

"No...... Impossible! ”

Li Qingchen muttered to himself blankly, without the slightest elegance and indifference.

"How so? How could the Ling clan have been ambushed in advance? Could it be that Ling Jiuqiu betrayed me? ”

"Impossible! Ling Jiuqiu had long wanted to kill Ling Bailong, with such a good opportunity, he had absolutely no reason to betray me! ”

"I see, it's Ling Feixing! It must be Ling Feixing, who pretended to cooperate with Ling Jiuqiu, thus setting up an ambush. ”

"But there's no reason for that......"

"Enough!"

Li Qinggang slapped the table suddenly, interrupting Li Qingchen's self-talk and completely waking him up.

"Even now, do you still obsessively believe that your perception is right? Human nature is never as simple as you think, don't always think about others with your own perception! ”

"Wrong is wrong! Your plan has failed! Because of your arrogance, you killed your father, killed the patriarch, and killed Elder Li Qingyan! Causing the entire Li clan to suffer such a heavy loss! ”

Li Qingchen stood in place.

His mind seemed to have detached from his physical body, and even detached from the whole world, entering a dark and void space.

Only Li Qinggang's words kept echoing around.

"I was wrong!"

"I killed my father, killed Elder Li Qingyan, and caused the family to suffer losses......"

"All this is because of my arrogance."

I don't know how long it took, Li Qingchen's consciousness seemed to suddenly return to his physical body, and the information around him was re-received by his five senses.

He glanced up at the four elders with cold eyes, and said in despair, "The failure of the plan is all my fault, and I am willing to accept all punishments." ”

Li Qinggang said coldly: "Li Qingchen is scheming, mediocre and incompetent, and has committed such a big mistake, I suggest that he be deprived of the position of young patriarch and arranged for him to be the deputy director of the carriage and horse shop, and atone for his crimes." ”

The carriage and horse shop is one of the main industries of the Li people, but due to the nature of the industry, the danger is the highest.

After all, there are a lot of bandit forces outside the city, and for some powerful bandit forces, they need to be regularly checked and maintained to maintain relationships, if the strength is insufficient, or the means are not enough, they are likely to be bullied or even killed by the other party.

Some bandits don't care about the identity of your four major families, and they will kill people directly when they are impulsive.

There are also some emerging bandit forces, who act even more recklessly, no matter who the target is, as long as they find that the strength of the convoy is insufficient, they will rob and kill.

At this time, the supervisor needs to arrange someone to investigate and retaliate to deter other bandit forces.

All in all, the head of the carriage and horse dealership, although it also belongs to the rank of family steward, is a thankless position.

The deputy supervisor, who is not even considered the rank of the family manager, can only be driven by the supervisor to perform various dangerous tasks, but the ultimate benefit is that the supervisor has the lion's share.

Most importantly.

Li Qingchen could no longer focus most of his energy on cultivation as before, but was occupied by heavy and dangerous work.

His progress will be slowed down.

If it goes on for a long time, cultivation may not even advance but retreat, and it will be difficult to have any hope for further progress.

This kind of punishment is an absolutely devastating blow to Li Qingchen, who has high aspirations.