Chapter 56: The Storm
Hung Yuen Villa
Li Quan sat up from the bed abruptly and opened his eyes. His pupils were still constricted in fear, and his forehead was covered with sweat. Since he came back, he has been very restless, for fear that the people of the Lingye Palace will come to him to ask for his guilt, and now the scroll has been taken away, fortunately, the people of the Lingye Palace seem to have no movement these days, and the young owner Li Shijie has not made trouble for himself.
Only then did I wake up from a nightmare, and my mind was awake because of the fright, and I couldn't sleep for a while, so I simply pushed open the window and blew the wind. At night, Hongyuan Villa is silent, the sound of birds is hidden, and the cool night breeze blows through the window paper, which is pulled and hula. Let's take a walk in the yard......
Li Quan got up and put on his clothes, the courtyard was still a little cold at night, and he walked aimlessly for a while, and saw a figure around the corner of the corridor, who was walking towards him with his head down, "Who?!"
Li Quan was startled, and looked at the man in black with horror, the man in black raised his head when he heard this, and the black veil hanging from the hat faintly covered his cold eyes.
Li Quan chuckled in his heart, recognized the other party, smiled awkwardly and wanted to say something, but the other party had already opened his mouth one step ahead of him, and it was a familiar hoarse female voice, "How is the situation?"
Li Quanxin still couldn't dodge it, and could only explain with a sneer, "This ...... Originally, it was about to succeed, but who knew that something happened temporarily. ”
"Change?" the man in black furrowed, clearly unhappy with the explanation. There was a deathly silence all around, and the silence made the atmosphere even more tense.
Li Quan rubbed his cuffs uneasily, his palms were slightly sweating, "I once had a favor to an old man, entrusted him to investigate for me and inform me of Li Zifeng's identity, he wrote on a scroll, but on the way back, he was suddenly taken away by a person." ”
The man in black was silent for a while before he spoke in a hoarse voice, "Someone was the first to get there...... Not only Lingye Palace, but also several factions seem to have noticed Li Zifeng, and he is the candidate for the next head of the Hengshan faction, so naturally the public is quite concerned, and you are inevitably too ostentatious in your actions. ”
Li Quan made a bitter face, "I'm already cautious enough, who knows...... The man's kung fu was so good that I didn't fight back in front of him, so I was easily robbed of the scroll. ”
"Have you ever seen the contents of that scroll?"
Li Quan shook his head, he really hadn't seen it, he only had a vague impression of the little ink oozing from the back of the paper, but he couldn't think of what it could be for a while.
"Tsk," the man in black sneered, "So, Steward Li hasn't moved since he returned to the villa?"
There was a lot of sarcasm in his tone. Li Quan didn't dare to admit it, lowered his voice, and lied: "Li Zifeng's life experience, I am still investigating, but it takes a little more time......"
"Half a month. The man in black suddenly said, "Give you half a month, not too long." If there is still no progress after fifteen days, you can go and apologize to the palace master with death. ”
Li Quan's face turned pale, thanked the man in black, and finally sent him away, leaning weakly against the wall on the side, and sighed faintly.
One last glance around, ready to return to his room, there were still more than a dozen steps away, and he stopped abruptly. Li Shijie was leaning against the door of his wing, followed by the shadow of the guard, and it seemed that he had been waiting for him here for a while.
"Uncle Quan is really interested, I don't know if I came out in the middle of the night to admire the moon or flowers?" Li Shijie sneered, slowly approaching him, the fierce aura pressed over, Li Quan subconsciously took a step back and looked at him nervously.
"Or, Uncle Quan has an ulterior deal with someone, so he has to meet privately in the dead of night?" Li Shijie was already standing in front of Li Quan, deliberately approaching him, with a mocking smile on his face.
Li Quan opened his mouth, but he didn't speak, but Li Shijie's expression turned cold.
"Uncle Quan, do you remember what I told you last time?" Li Shijie glanced at the floating shadow beside him, "Tell me, what should you do now to dispel my anger?"
Li Quan trembled, he had been worried that the people of Lingye Palace would find him again, and he was discovered by Li Quan, but he never thought that these two things collided together, "Old slave...... Naturally, he listened to the words of the young owner, after all, he was a person from Hongyuan Villa. ”
Li Shijie sneered, but the expression on his face softened, "What do you use to make me believe you?"
The scene fell into a short silence again, and the three of them stood face to face, Li Shijie looked at Li Quan in front of him playfully.
Li Quan gritted his teeth, "I don't know, but now that the young owner of the village has killed me, how can he explain to the master? I still have important matters that the master has not yet dealt with, and this responsibility must be borne by the young owner, and I hope you will think twice." ”
Li Shijie's expression obviously froze for a moment, and then turned to the floating shadow beside him, "Father explained what happened to him?"
The floating shadow just turned his head silently and did not answer Li Shijie's words. Li Shijie sneered, turned his head and simply didn't ask. said that he was a guard to protect himself, but in fact he was just a lackey with more martial arts skills next to his father, hiding in a place where others couldn't see him on weekdays.
"Hmph, I hope you can do what you say. Li Shijie glanced at Li Quan, hated to drop his sleeves and left.
Li Quan watched Li Shijie's figure disappear at the end of the corridor, then reached out and pushed the door into the room, sat on the edge of the bed, and looked at a certain place in the room in a daze.
Li Shijie is the second time to prevent himself from investigating Li Zifeng's life experience, and it stands to reason that Li Zifeng has nothing to do with Li Shijie anyway. Li Quan could feel that when Li Shijie threatened him, there was really a trace of murderous intent. What kind of person is Li Zifeng, who can make Li Shijie come up with the idea of killing himself in order to stop himself?
Li Shijie...... Li Zifeng... A flash of spiritual light flashed, and Li Quan's pupils dilated suddenly, should he ......
He vaguely remembered that many years ago, the woman who was forced to die by himself, and the child who fell off the cliff, if that was the case, Li Zifeng should have died a long time ago, how could it be...... Or so coincidentally appeared in the Hengshan faction?
Impossible. Li Quan shook his head. Raise your hand to wipe away the cold sweat on your head.
But Li Shijie protected Li Zifeng like this, saying that they had nothing to do with each other, and Li Quan categorically did not believe it. What is the identity...... We'll have to investigate.
Li Quan stretched out his hand and lit the candle, and there was finally a little light in the room, which made people feel a little more relieved.
Spring is stronger, the branches are all over the green, the slope is shaded with green, the mountains are filled with a faint mist, the morning breeze blows, bringing up the moisture to inhale into the nose, when the morning bell rings for the first time, Li Zifeng crossed the seventy-two stone steps and saw the mountain gate of the Hengshan faction hidden in the mist.
When Li Zifeng stepped into the mountain gate and passed by the martial arts training ground, Xu Zining was taking his junior brothers and sisters to practice in the morning, and the content of the morning exercise was arranged according to the different situations of each person, some practiced palms, some practiced swords, and not long after going out, the disciples with weak foundations were standing on piles to strengthen their leg strength.
"Press down on your arms, put your fingers together, force your wrists, and get your palms out!"
"The body is too stiff, relaxed, with footwork..."
"Legs are shaking too much, relax, keep balance..."
Li Zifeng just watched quietly, always with a faint smile on his face, very obsessed with it, but when he saw the discordant figure the next moment, the smile immediately froze on his face, and the figure seemed to be exercising in the morning, but if you look at the figure carefully, it is not difficult to see that it is soft and slack.
Needless to say, it is not difficult to guess that the figure is He Yukun, who is arrogant and bullying on weekdays. Li Zifeng's brows furrowed suddenly, and then he walked over quietly.
"If your body is limp, then you should practice standing for two hours a day. ”
The sudden cold voice behind him startled He Yukun, and he quickly turned around and almost hit Li Zifeng, while the others saw this and saluted Li Zifeng one after another, "Senior brother..."
Li Zifeng nodded and motioned for them to continue, at this time, a disciple with weak basic skills fell from the plum blossom pile because of distraction, his legs were weak, Li Zifeng's eyes were sharp, and he flashed over to pick him up, so he didn't fall too embarrassed, this disciple was full of embarrassment, "Senior brother, I..."
Li Zifeng smiled gently, "It's okay, if your leg strength is weak, strengthen your exercises, and from today onwards, practice for an hour every day." ”
"Yes. ”
After watching the others return to everyone to continue their morning exercises, Li Zifeng walked up to He Yukun and said with a smile, "What did I say just now, can you listen carefully?"
He Yukun's expression tightened, of course he heard clearly what Li Zifeng said about letting him practice standing for two hours every day. And standing is not to stand ordinarily, but in the middle of the open field, with stones on top of your head, keep your body straight, and not have the slightest movement, otherwise the stones will fall to the ground, and the time will be counted from the beginning.
A faint morning breeze blew, He Yukun shivered unconsciously, looking at Li Zifeng's eyes as deep and cold as ancient pond water, he couldn't help but feel empty-hearted, and he no longer had the arrogance on weekdays, and coughed lightly in embarrassment, "Senior brother, after all, I am the first disciple of the Fajie Elder, and I have the obligation to supervise their martial arts, so I am just distracted......"
"Then practice standing for three hours a day. ”
Li Zifeng's tone was relaxed, as if he was greeting that everything was okay as indifferently, He Yukun opened his mouth and couldn't say anything, Li Zifeng continued, "I advise my junior brother to start practicing from now on, otherwise, I can't guarantee whether you can still make it to dinner today." ”
After that, ignoring He Yukun's slightly distorted face, he summoned Xu Zining, Xu Zining instructed the others to conduct their own morning exercises, then put the sword back into the sheath, walked quickly to Li Zifeng's side, and walked with him in the direction of Yuntian Pavilion.
Xu Zining pursed his lips, "I'm sorry! I didn't pay attention to him just now." ”
"Okay! I didn't say anything. It's good not to take it as an example. Li Zifeng smiled helplessly.
"Senior brother rest assured ......"
"How have you been doing in the door lately?"
"Everything is fine, it's just that Master thinks you are thinking about it, and Master expects you to come back today, so he will move the official document to your study early in the morning, and wait for you to come back while processing it. ”
Li Zifeng was slightly surprised, and then laughed, "I know, I'll go now." ”