In a side courtyard in the compound of the Li clan patriarch in Mizhi County, Li Hongming called Li Zihan into the room and asked anxiously, "Han'er, haven't you heard from your sister yet?"

Li Zihan's sideburns were beads of sweat, and he frowned and said: "Ji Na didn't come back to eat lunch, so I went out to look all over the city, and I didn't get anything at all!"

When Li Hongming heard this, he was silent, pacing back and forth in the room, and only after a while did he brush his beard and ask, "Is there anything unusual about Ji Na recently?"

Li Zihan thought for a moment and hesitated: "I don't know if it's abnormal, since Ji Na came to Mizhi County, she is not as lively and naughty as before, but she is a lot more docile and well-behaved, and I still see her embroidery!"

Li Hongming smiled bitterly and said: "Embroidery? Jina can also embroider! It seems that the daughter of our family has grown up and has a sweetheart!"

Li Zihan was stunned when he heard this, and asked: "Dad, my sister is arrogant, and her eyes are usually like growing on the top of her brain, who can enter her eyes!"

Li Hongming shook his head slightly, and pondered: "It may have been like this before, but since your fourth grandfather and they came, it has been different! Do you remember that young man named Gao Jie?"

Li Zihan was even more surprised, and said repeatedly: "That's even more impossible, Ji Na often sees that Brother Gao Jie doesn't come, saying that he is too good-looking, like a big girl, and it doesn't hurt him all day long, as if it's uncomfortable to hurt him for a few words!"

Li Hongming chuckled: "You don't have a sweetheart yet, you don't understand these things about love and love, I think your sister seems to be walking in front of you!"

Li Zihan was skeptical, and he really couldn't figure out how Ji Na would have something to do with Gao Jie under his nose.

Li Hongming slowly stopped, sat on the chair and muttered: "If Jina is with Gao Jie, I won't be worried at all, I'm afraid of ......."

Li Zihan asked, "What are you afraid of?"

Li Hongming raised his eyes and gestured outside the house, Li Zihan nodded knowingly, and suddenly opened the door, and saw a guard leaving the door in a panic, pretending to walk towards the courtyard gate as if nothing happened.

It wasn't until the man was completely hidden in the darkness that Li Zihan closed the door, returned to Li Hongming and said, "Dad, what's going on?"

Li Hongming patted the chair beside him, motioned for his son to sit down, and then said softly: "Zihan, the world is sinister! You have grown up, you must use your brains more, pay more attention to observation, and don't trust anyone easily, understand?"

Li Zihan was speechless, and his heart gradually became heavy.

Li Hongming shook his head and sighed lightly: "You have been in the village before, under the care of your father and uncles, you lack responsibility and experience, you must mature in the future." Listen, our return to the clan this time is not as happy as it seems, haven't you seen so many guards outside our courtyard?

Li Zihan was shocked and said in a lost voice: "Daddy means that we are under house arrest?!"

Li Hongming motioned for Li Zihan to whisper, then stared at his son and whispered, "That's not wrong at all! Because the people of the clan also think that we have obtained the treasure of the Hidden Soldier Cave!"

Li Zihan immediately stood up and said angrily: "Where did you get the treasure for no reason? Why are these people endless!"

Li Hongming pulled his son to sit down and said softly: "People's words are terrifying! Now it has been spread all over the rivers and lakes, saying that I have obtained the treasure of the Hidden Soldier Cave, just by relying on my confession, no one will really believe it, including our own family members of the Li clan!"

Li Zihan leaned back on the chair and said helplessly: "Could it be that we really can't wash it even if we jump into the Yellow River?!"

Li Hongming said: "Actually, it doesn't matter if they believe each other or not, the facts are the facts, my father wanted to stay here for a while, but after a long time, this matter will slowly fade, but today your sister has not come back yet, so I suddenly realized that maybe I was too naïve!"

Li Zihan exclaimed: "What do you mean ......?"

Li Hongming stopped his next words, nodded slowly, and said: "I'm not sure if Ji Na's has always been related to this matter, but you must be careful in the future, they can't ask me anything, maybe they will use those sub-methods to coerce me, understand?"

Li Zihan is twenty years old, where did he think that people's hearts would be so sinister, and even the Li clan has these deceitful deeds, and his heart is empty at the moment.

Li Hongming looked at his beloved son, he felt uncomfortable, he didn't want his children to understand the dark side of these rivers and lakes too early, and he also hoped that they would grow up carefree, but now it seems that it is impossible.

He turned his head sideways and whispered to Li Zihan: "Han'er, you must firmly remember what your father said now! My Li family is the ancestor of the Li family, and I have been tasked with guarding the treasures of my Western Xia Kingdom, and it has been several generations now. No one knows where the treasure is, maybe it's just a chance. It's just that the ancestors passed down a mantra, only the patriarch of the family can know, and now, I will pass it on to you, you must keep it firmly in mind, even the people of the clan must not leak it. Because my ancestors had left ancestral teachings, the time has not yet come, and the birth of the treasure will only cause the remnants of my Xixia Kingdom to suffer, and even cut off the incense, and there is no hope of recovering the country, understand?"

Li Zihan also vaguely knew that he was not from the Central Plains, but a citizen of the Western Xia Kingdom in the former dynasty, but he had been living with the Han people since he was born, and he never thought that the Li family still had the important task of restoring the country. He suddenly became nervous, felt his heart pounding wildly, his breathing became rapid, and his head was covered with a thin layer of sweat.

Seeing his son's situation, Li Hongming secretly sighed that he hadn't let him go out to experience and grow up earlier, and now it seems that it is a little difficult to let him take on such a heavy responsibility.

He paused, thought for a moment, and then continued to whisper: "My father also knows that it is indeed difficult for you to be entrusted with such a heavy responsibility!" In this way, I see that Li Hongji, the son of your fourth grandfather, and Li Guo, the grandson of your fourth grandfather, are quite extraordinary among the children, and they are honest and reliable, if you have the opportunity, you can also inform them of the formula, and the three of you will support each other and help each other, and strive to one day find the treasure and complete the great cause of restoring the country; even if you can't find it, you must pass this mantra from generation to generation among the descendants of my Western Xia until success comes!"

Li Zihan bit his lip and nodded solemnly.

Li Hongming continued: "Neither born nor destroyed, not inside and outside, seven up and eight down, otherwise extremely Tailai." You must memorize these sixteen-character mantras by heart, and you must not forget and leak them!"

Li Zihan's eyes were slightly closed, silently remembered, and after a while, he opened his eyes, looked at his father and nodded slightly, indicating that he remembered everything.

Li Hongming breathed a sigh of relief as if he had completed a major event, and was about to tell his son some more things, when he heard the door knocking and someone knocking. He looked at Li Zihan with a firm gaze, then smiled slightly, got up and walked to the door, and opened the door.

Li Qinghuan of the Li clan, Li Qinglin, the eldest elder, and Li Qingquan, the third elder, walked into the room. Li Qinghuan didn't have the warm smile on his face, he didn't greet Li Hongming, he sat down in the room with a heavy face, and Li Qinglin also sat next to him, only Li Qingque still had a calm and indifferent expression, nodded slightly to Li Hongming, and then stood behind Li Qinghuan.

Li Hongming and Li Zihan stood in the center of the room, clasped their fists with their hands and saluted Li Qinghuan: "See the patriarch, see the second elder, the third elder!"

Li Zihan was young, he had just learned of the dirty intentions in the clan, his face had a complicated expression, and he didn't have the respectful look of the past, but Li Hongming still didn't know anything, and said humbly: "The patriarch and the elders have every opportunity, and they also came to visit in person at night, Hongming is very frightened and grateful!"

Li Qinghuan twisted his white beard, looked at Li Hongming with complicated eyes, and pondered for a long time before he said in a deep voice: "Hongming, we are all a family, I will say some things directly." The treasure of the Tibetan Cave is related to the prosperity and decline of the Li family in our Tai'anli, and its importance to our clan is self-evident, you also saw it a few days ago, many forces in the rivers and lakes are eyeing the treasure, and the masters who covet it on the side don't know how much, you might as well hand over the treasure to the clan for safekeeping, you make this great achievement, the reward will not be less yours, we are discussing, and you can also be promoted to the four elders of the clan, what do you think?!"

Li Hongming smiled bitterly and replied respectfully: "Since the patriarch regards Hongming as his own clan, he should understand that if I get the treasure left by my ancestors, I will definitely dedicate it to the patriarch as soon as possible, why do you need to ask me! The treasure of the Hidden Soldier Cave has not appeared for hundreds of years, and the rumors from the outside world are just groundless, don't you still believe me?!"

Li Qinghuan looked at Li Hongming, pondering and silent, although the Great Elder Li Qinglin was seventy years old, he was still hot-tempered, he slapped the table, got up and shouted: "Li Hongming, we have worked hard to rescue you, and we have made an exception to recruit you into the clan, don't you have half a heart of gratitude to Dade?

"Ji Na?!" Li Hongming heard this, his face was no longer calm, he had been lucky, hoping that Ji Na would go to Gao Jie and not return, but from the meaning of Li Qinglin's words, Ji Na was afraid that she would fall into their hands. Shocked, Li Hongming was stunned and his thoughts were confused.

Li Qinghuan didn't expect Li Qinglin to show so obviously today's third Li Qingcheng's deeds under impulse, and he couldn't stop it, so he had to cough violently, and said gently: "The Great Elder is just worried that someone will make a fuss about Ji Na and Zihan and force you to hand over the treasure, this kind of worry is also very normal, Hongming, you have to think carefully!"

Li Hongming is a person who understands, where does he not understand that Ji Na has been controlled by the clan, he has completely lost the last bit of luck of the clan, and his heart is like ashes at the moment, his face is pale, and he muttered: "I am born from the same root, why is it too anxious to fry each other!" I once swore that I never got the treasure, and others didn't believe it, why didn't even my own people trust me at all, and I still had to do such a despicable deed and force each other hard?!"

Seeing that the situation had come to this, Li Qinghuan no longer cared about it, got up and said coldly: "The matter has come to this point, don't you still know how to advance or retreat?

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a burst of laughter from the bed outside the door, and someone said loudly: "There are such family members like you in the world who disregard family affection, it is simply inferior to beasts!"