At that time, Long Ba was meeting guests in the hall and discussing things, when a voice suddenly came from his ears: "Master of Longzhai, the brothers of the Li family are visiting." And he lifted up his eyes and looked around, and there was no third person in the temple except him and his guests.

He reacted suddenly, the voice just now was sent by the master of internal merit with the miraculous skill of "transmitting sound into the secret", and it happened that a cough sounded outside the hall at this time, he knew that the master was outside, and quickly ended the conversation with the guest and sent the guest.

Introduced the three people into the hall and sat down as the guest of honor, Long Ba hugged his fists and said, "Dare to ask which three heroes of the Li family are coming?" At this time, Gao Cen and the others had already gone up the mountain the day before yesterday and informed Long Ba of what happened on the way.

Speaking of which, I have to mention the relationship between the Zhao family and Nanshanzhai. The Zhao family was originally a martial arts family in Cangnan County, although it was not very strong, but it also adhered to the family motto and never interacted with bandits.

More than ten years ago, the old man of the Zhao family took his three sons to escort several truckloads of goods back to the county from other places, passing through Nanshanzhai. At that time, it was the beginning of the Zhaimen, and there was not enough manpower, so Long Ba and his sister Long Liying had to go out in person, collect the "customs clearance fee", and ran into the Zhao family's convoy.

The old man of the Zhao family was strong and stubborn by nature, and he relied on himself and his three sons to be good at the sixth layer of internal force, thinking that Long Ba and the others were just some bandits in the mountains who were not in the stream, enough to deal with, and refused to pay, and the two sides clashed.

In order to establish his prestige, Long Ba killed the old man of the Zhao family with his bare hands with only one move, and Zhao Wuyuan, the boss of the Zhao family, stepped forward to help, but was also seriously injured by his palm.

Just when he wanted to kill all the people of the Zhao family without doing anything, Long Liying suddenly raised his hand to stop him. But it was his sister who saw that Zhao Wugang, the second eldest of the Zhao family, was born handsome and chic, and when she saw it at first sight, she secretly felt affection, how could she let her brother kill her intended person.

Although Long Liying is a woman, she acts extremely straightforwardly, and immediately called Zhao Wugang aside and expressed her intentions, if he agreed to marry her, he would let go of the rest of the Zhao family.

Zhao Wugang saw that Long Liying's face was clear, and he also had a little admiration in his heart, and the lives of more than 20 people in the Zhao family were tied to him, how could it be unreasonable?

Long Liying said: "But you have to promise me one thing." ”

Zhao Wugang said: "You say." ”

Long Liying pointed to Zhao Wuyuan, who was sitting on the ground by the people of the Zhao family, and still vomited blood, and said: "He just started with my eldest brother, it is disrespectful, I want you to kill him with your own hands." ”

Zhao Wugang was so stumbling that he couldn't speak for a long time, and it was really difficult for him to kill his eldest brother.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Long Liying's eyebrows gradually frowned, and she said sharply: "You don't want to, I let you kill him, it's also for your good, he is dead, you are the boss of the family, and the entire Zhao family will be in charge of you in the future." ”

When Zhao Wugang heard this, his body trembled, his face was red and white, he slowly moved his steps, walked to the side of the eldest brother, squatted down, and expressed Long Liying's meaning euphemistically, but omitted the last sentence.

Zhao Wuyuan was already on the verge of dying at this time, unable to speak, only nodded slightly, and looked straight at the second brother with wide eyes.

Zhao Wugang knew what the eldest brother thought, and said with tears in his eyes: "Big brother, don't worry, I will take care of my sister-in-law and unborn nephew." ”

Zhao Wuyuan closed his eyes with a smile on the corner of his mouth. Zhao Wugang didn't look over, stretched out his two fingers, used enough internal strength, and weighed a little more heavily at the heart of the eldest brother's left chest.

The rest of the aftermath, gossip less. Besides, after Long Liying married into the Zhao family, she gradually expanded the business of the Zhao family by relying on the relationship of her eldest brother Long Ba, making the Zhao family richer and richer. The elders in the family, who had been quite critical of her origins, benefited from it, and they changed their tone and praised her.

Zhao Wugang was very happy to get this virtuous help, and handed over the power inside and outside the family to his wife, while he concentrated on practicing martial arts, and the two of them were also happy.

The rare disharmony is that after Long Liying's sister-in-law died of depression due to the loss of her husband, she fostered her son in the home of an old servant who returned to the field, and did not allow him to practice martial arts.

Later, she excused herself that the third brother Zhao Wuchang was very rude to her, and often insulted him, so she simply poisoned him and restrained him.

Zhao Wugang disagreed with these two things, and the two quarreled several times, but Long Liying insisted on it, but he couldn't resist it, thinking that he didn't make any more trouble, so he went with her.

In the next few years, the Zhao family's business became bigger and bigger, and it happened that Nanshanzhai had also stabilized its foothold, so Long Ba tried every means to get the Zhao family to come forward, contacted some private mining families in Yulin Mansion, and started a business of selling smuggled jade.

Since then, the Zhao family can be called the largest subsidiary force in Nanshanzhai, and the Zhao family's Gao Cen, Qi Hu and others are all subordinates that Long Liying asked for from her eldest brother to help her take care of the affairs of the Zhao family.

Back to the present, it was said that Long Ba had already guessed the identities of the three people under him, but in order to prevent mistakes, he still asked for the names of the three people.

The one in the middle of the three said, "Under Li Tianhua." Reaching out to the left, he said, "This is Uncle Tai below." Then he pointed to the right, "This is under my brother." ”

Long Ba's face was moved, he got up and said "long admiration" to the Li brothers, and then looked at the old man on Li Tianhua's left, and said solemnly: "Old lady Li is here in person, Long Ba has never been far away, and I hope to forgive my sins." ”

Speaking of this old lady Li, everyone who has dealings with the Li family knows it. This old man is not amazing, and he doesn't know how old he is, but he is a top master who breaks through the entrance, and he can't find a few strong people who can match him in the whole country.

Long Ba originally thought that he was just a certain patriarch of the Li family, but now that he learned his true identity, he suddenly felt bad.

Old Mrs. Li glanced up at Long Ba and said: "The owner of the dragon village does not need to be polite, please sit down, this time the old man and others are uninvited, they are asking for something, and they also ask the owner of the village to help." ”

Long Ba sat down and said, "Uncle Tai just orders, Long Ba doesn't dare to disobey." ”

Uncle Li said: "What happened on the way to transport the jade, presumably the owner of the village has heard about it, and the old man will compensate the owner of the village first." ”

Long Ba was silent for a moment and said: "There is a reason for your family's affairs, and besides, Long Mou has no big losses, but he can't afford Uncle Tai's apology." ”

Uncle Li said: "You can't say that, this little meaning, the right to apologize, please accept it." With that, he took out a silver ticket, clamped it with two fingers, and gave it away, and the silver ticket fell steadily on the table next to the dragon throne, without even trembling the corners.

This method of delivery has used the ability to release the internal force that only the strong person who can master the entrance, and Long Ba knows the meaning, one is to indicate that it cannot be refused, and the other is to demonstrate the meaning of reminding.

He didn't look at the amount of the silver ticket, so he put it in his arms and said: "Thank you Uncle Tai for the gift, please rest assured that Uncle Long has restrained his subordinates and must not disclose the slightest thing about the robbery and affect the reputation of your family." ”

Old Uncle Li nodded with satisfaction, and said: "My third son, Li Deng, died during this trip, and I also asked the owner of the village to tell me the name of the young master who made the shot." ”

Long Ba said: "That person's name is Qianming, he is the apprentice of the four elders of the Lone Wolf Gang, Yao Lao Wei, because he took the Zhao family's boat and killed the children of the Gui family by mistake, and it has nothing to do with the Zhao family and the village, please Uncle Tai to investigate." ”

Between the words, he didn't care about Zhao Ziming's life-saving grace to the people on the ship, but was afraid that the Li family would blame him and the Zhao family for Li Deng's death. If Zhao Ziming is here, I don't know how he will feel after listening to it.

Uncle Li said: "This matter is not yours, my Li family will hunt down the real culprit." ”

He paused for a moment and said, "Old decay has one last thing, I hope the Dragon Village Lord will not let me down." ”

Long Ba sighed in his heart, knowing that the problem he was most worried about was coming, he barely kept calm on his face, and said, "Uncle Tai, please speak." ”

Old Uncle Li stared at him with blazing eyes, and said slowly: "The reason why my Li family committed such an unrighteous thing as robbing goods is because there are ...... in the ore traded with Guizhai this time The existence of blood jade, the main purpose of my trip, is to let the master of Longzhai return the blood jade, of course, the price is easy to say. ”

Long Ba lowered his head slightly and was silent.

As time passed, the atmosphere in the hall began to gradually condense, and a trace of chill lingered between the beams and pillars.

In the corner of the main hall, a spider that was mending the cobwebs that had been blown by the wind last night seemed to feel the chill, and its movements slowly became smaller and lighter, and finally lay on the broken cobwebs, not daring to move.

"What's the matter?, what is the unspeakable secret of the master of Longzhai?" Old Uncle Li's voice revealed a slight impatience.

Long Ba finally raised his head and said, "Don't hide it from Uncle Tai, I did open two blood jades in that batch of ore, and I am willing to give the big one to Uncle Tai for free, just ask for ...... I can keep the small one. ”

Old Uncle Li exclaimed, "You opened two blood jades?"

Long Ba nodded.

Old Uncle Li stroked his beard and groaned for a long time, then suddenly laughed, stopped laughing, and asked, "The Lord of the Dragon Village wants to save that blood jade for the purpose of breaking through the great barrier of the unity of heaven and man?"

Long Ba nodded again.

Old Lady Li gestured to Li Tianhua with his eyes, and the latter got up and said to Long Ba: "Lord of Longzhai, there are indeed rumors in the rivers and lakes that taking blood jade has a certain chance to allow a martial artist to cross the threshold of the unity of heaven and man, but do you know what requirements this has for those who take blood jade?"

Long Ba said: "The internal force has reached the ninth layer realm. ”

Li Tianhua shook his head and said: "This is the people of the rivers and lakes to spread falsehoods, the minimum requirement for taking blood jade is to break through the entrance, and the deeper the skill, the better, the only way to kill the blood jade is to explode if the internal strength is not enough." ”

Old lady Li said: "Tianhua's words are true, if there is a little lie, the old man will never have the slightest chance of breaking through in this life." ”

When Long Ba heard this, his heart was half cold, and Uncle Li dared to make such a solemn oath, and there was no doubt about the truth of these words. He hesitated and asked, "How sure is it that a strong man like Uncle Tai who has opened the entrance will succeed in taking blood jade?"

Li Tianhua sneered and asked rhetorically, "How sure are you that you can open the entrance?"