Gao Jie looked around blankly, and saw Li Hongji and Li Guoer snickering with their heads snickered, only then did he determine that this little girl was talking to himself, he put down the teacup awkwardly, coughed, and asked: "Beauty, are you talking about me? Where am I like a woman?"

Li Jina didn't answer, but looked him up and down for a long time, and said with a smile: "This opening doesn't look like a girl's house, but you look really charming, and you are more handsome than most girls in our village!"

Gao Jie couldn't help but get up and said loudly: "Miss, my name is handsome, not beautiful, and not charming!!"

Li Jina didn't hear it, and stood with her hands in her hands, but her eyes looked at the roof.

Gao Jie's argument was fruitless, he sat down dejectedly, and muttered in a low voice: "I think you look like a gentleman!"

Who knew that Li Jina's ears were tipped, and when she heard this, she immediately retracted her gaze, and said to Gao Jie with a happy face: "Even if you have vision, I, Li Jina, am a woman who does not let her eyebrows, whether it is courage or martial arts, she is far better than you so-called big men!"

When Gao Jie heard this, there were black lines on his skull, and a deep sense of frustration appeared in his heart, and he was completely speechless.

"Hahaha!" Li Shouzhong, Chen Dake, Li Hongji and others saw that Gao Jie was forced to blush by a little girl, embarrassed and frustrated, and immediately burst into laughter.

"Jina, are you messing around again?!" At this time, a loud and majestic voice came, and I saw a middle-aged man in a yellow brocade robe walking in from the back hall. He was born with big ears, a mighty appearance, eyes like paint, and a spirit, at the moment the pace is fast and powerful, the attitude is calm, and the bearing of the Yuan Yue Zhi is instructive.

Behind him, Li Zihan also followed, and pulled his sister to stand beside him.

The middle-aged man walked quickly to the front of the hall, and first gave Li Shouzhong a deep salute and said: "Hongming didn't know that Uncle Thirteen suddenly arrived, and he missed the distance, please don't blame you!"

Li Shouzhong hurriedly helped Li Hongming up and said, "Don't dare, don't dare! The patriarch must not be so gifted, the little old man can't afford it!"

Li Hongming smiled politely and politely: "Although the little nephew Hongming is the patriarch, he is the younger generation of the family in front of the thirteenth uncle, how dare he be rude!" and then hugged his fists with everyone one by one.

Li Jina pouted and dragged Li Zihan on the side, but her eyes still glanced at Gao Jie from time to time.

Gao Jie couldn't figure out why this little girl was eyeing herself, if she was looking at herself, with her flower-like beauty, she would still be able to accept it. But in her eyes and between her words, she clearly regarded herself as a woman, and she was quite ridiculous, which made Gao Jie angry and had nowhere to go, and his head was as big as a fight.

After everyone sat down, Li Shouzhong did not hide it, and slowly said that this time he came to the village in advance to participate in the ten-year competition, which really meant to avoid disaster, lest he would affect the Li clan in the village, and ask the patriarch to decide.

Li Hongming listened, just frowned slightly, and then smiled heartily: "Thirteenth uncle, don't worry, everyone will live in this patriarch's mansion, our Li Jiqian Village is not someone who dares to bully at will, not to mention that there is also a royal law, isn't it?!

Only then did Li Shouzhong put his mind at ease, and everyone was also heartbroken by Li Hongming's arrogance.

Night slowly fell, the mansion of Ai Dong, the fourth elder of the Ai family in Mizhi County, was already lit up, and the main hall was brightly lit, but the atmosphere was very solemn.

In addition to the head of the Ai family and the three elders, there were also two faces sitting on the left hand side of the hall.

The first man on the left hand was about sixty years old, his beard was white, but his complexion was very ruddy, and his peaceful gaze was sometimes beating, and his appearance looked very kind and kind.

His head was a high-crowned old man about fifty years old, with a gloomy complexion, thin cheeks, a waist-length hair under his chin, hands like eagle claws, and temples raised high.

These two old men were both dressed in white brocade robes with gold trim, and their momentum was really extraordinary.

I only heard Ai Zhao, the head of the Ai family on the main seat, say in a deep voice: "Brother Xunlong, Great Elder Xunxian, what Ai Qiu said just now is the information from the only survivor of this operation, the disciple Taiyang. At that time, the other party was obviously prepared, and after Ai Dong and Li Haiguang, the two people in charge, could not be attacked, they saw that the enemy's strength was too high, so they ordered everyone to disperse and break through, but so far they have only returned, and I am afraid that everyone else will not be spared. ”

Li Xunlong, the head of the Li family in Yonghe Shilou in Mizhi County, remained silent, and tasted the hot tea in his hand while contemplating.

With a "bang", Li Xunxian, the elder of the Li family with long and beautiful hair, slapped his palm on the coffee table, and burst into shouting: "A total of thirteen masters have been served, as well as Elder Ai Dong and my wife to suppress the formation, and go to a small mountain village like Changliang Bay to deal with a small squire, and it will almost wipe out the entire army, I can't believe it." I want to see people in life, and I want to see corpses in death, so I'll go and investigate it myself, and exterminate his whole family by the way!!"

With that, turn around and leave.

"Xun Xian! Stop! Shao'an is not impatient, this matter is not so simple, sit down!" Li Xunlong put down the teacup and said lightly, his tone was calm, but there was an irresistible majesty.

Li Xunxian's body shook when he heard this, and he immediately sat down unwillingly, still hating himself in his heart.

Li Xunlong turned his head to look at Ai Zhao and said, "Only one person has come back, is that person reliable?"

Ai Zhao thought for a moment and said: "This Taiyang is seriously injured, if it weren't for the excellent medical skills of Doctor Ma in Fuzhong, he would almost not be able to save it! Moreover, I personally inquired, and there is nothing suspicious about his answer, it should be the truth! However, I will still send someone to keep an eye on this person!"

Li Xunlong nodded and continued: "Brother Ai Zhao, from this point of view, our Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger in Mizhi County, the collection of intelligence information between our two families is simply disappointing. We were all a little careless in this action, and until now, we still don't know the details of each other at all. Besides, the Li family in Tai'anli is eyeing him around, and I don't think it is appropriate for the two of us to act rashly at this time!"

Ai Zhao agreed: "What Brother Xunlong said is very true! I have sent additional manpower to Changliang Bay to collect intelligence, and strive to find out the details of the opponent as soon as possible, understand the process of this defeat, and plan and then move is the best policy!"

Li Xunxian was anxious, and said loudly: "Even my wife is dead, is it just now, I don't agree!"

Li Xunlong turned his head and glanced at him, and said lightly: "Xunxian, the most important thing in front of us is to deal with the Li clan in Tai'anli, we can't put the cart before the horse!

Ai family ancestors had been in the martial arts holy land of the Thousand Years Temple in the three holy doors to study and learn art for many years, after the teacher came to Mizhi County to settle down, after generations of reproduction, inheritance, the children of the clan are both civil and military, relying on the unique Confucian martial arts and official background, and gradually become a strong force in the county and the two Li family tripartite.

The Ai family has always adhered to the Confucian heritage, paying attention to self-cultivation and governing the country, and there are family members from generation to generation, and there are many officials in various places, such as the great elder Ai Chun, who is the parent official of this Mizhi County. Ai Zhao himself is also full of wealth, once won the lift, but after taking over the position of the head of the family, he devoted himself to the family affairs, but hung an idle post in the county government.

In the past, among the three major forces in Mizhi County, the two Li families fought endlessly all year round, and they were on the same footing. The Ai family has always been neutral and has maintained a good relationship with both families.

The three major families are of equal strength, and they still maintain a balanced trend overall

Until last year, Xizong Zhu Youxiao ascended the throne, and his closest chamberlain Wei Zhongxian became a celebrity in today's sainthood.

Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youzhen are completely two kinds of people, he is a "carpentry emperor" who does not love the country and loves carpentry, and he is obsessed with studying carpenter's craft every day, ignoring the government and politics, and handing over all the affairs of the court to Wei Zhongxian.

In the second year of the Apocalypse, Wei Zhongxian's power became increasingly powerful, and there were countless followers from top to bottom in the court, and his power became even larger, and a powerful group of "eunuchs" was slowly formed.

The Li family of Yonghe Shilou has always regarded itself as the orthodoxy of the Tang Emperor and is loyal to the magnates of various dynasties, not to mention the Ai family. At the beginning of this year, the two companies saw the wind and steered the rudder, and both invested in the eunuch party series.

However, the Li clan in Tai'anli has always belonged to the camp of the Donglin Party against the "Eunuch Party", which naturally became a stumbling block to the expansion of the Eunuch Party's power.

Wei Zhongxian was promoted to the eunuch of Si Li Bingbi this year, and he was promoted to the East Factory, known as the "Factory Gong". And Jinyiwei has actually become a subordinate of the East Factory. The Ai family and the Li family of Yonghe Shilou formed an alliance under the mediation of Yan Lixin, the general banner of Jinyiwei in Yan'an Prefecture, and prepared to jointly deal with the Li family in Tai'anli, and completely included Mizhi County in the sphere of influence of the eunuch clan.

It is not easy to uproot an old family like the Li family in Tai'anli, which has both the Donglin Party as the backstage and its own strength is good, so Yan Lixin has often summoned Ai Zhao and Li Xunlong to meet together recently to plan how to act.

The secret assassination of Zhu Youzhen was arranged by Yan Lixin after receiving a secret order from the criminal eunuch of Dongchang, because this matter was very important, and the secret order strictly ordered Jinyiwei not to act without authorization, so he asked the Ai family to send good hands to assassinate him.

Who knew that because of the appearance of Gao Jie, Jingkong Shitai and Chen Dake and others, Zhu Youzhen was safe and sound, escaped death, and returned to Beijing intact.

After being reprimanded from above, Yan Lixin naturally turned his anger on Ai Zhao's head. In order to appease the anger of the General Banner, Ai Zhao and Li Xunlong arranged this attack on Li Shouzhong's house, preparing to first eradicate the directly responsible Gao Jie and Li Shouzhong's family, so that Yan Lixin General Banner could dissipate his anger and regain the trust of Jinyiwei, and then slowly plot against the Li clan in Tai'anli.

Who would have thought that an action that was originally unchallenged would have turned out to be a dismal ending for the loss of soldiers.

The second elder of the Ai family, Ai Xia, suddenly said at this time: "Family master, the subordinates I sent out today have received some news, it is about the nuns who appeared in Li Shouzhong's house!"

Everyone in the hall was in high spirits when they heard this, and Ai Zhao hurriedly said: "Come quickly!"

Ai Xia glanced at the two bigwigs of the Li family, and did not hide it, and said directly: "According to investigation, there are very few nunnery near Mizhi County, but on Yongfeng Mountain, ten miles away from Changliang Bay, where Li Shouzhong's house is located, there is a Temple of Our Lady of the Nine Heavens, and the monks are all nuns!"

"Oh, do you find anything special about those nuns?" asked Ai Zhao.

Ai Xia shook his head and said, "I just got the news, and I haven't had time to find out the details of these nuns!"

Li Xunlong suddenly said lightly: "I can't let go of any clues, and I will also send someone to investigate the matter of the Holy Mother Temple." What's more, Xie Jun, the 100 households in Mizhi County, is said to have returned in the morning. This person was at Li Shouzhong's house at the time, and the failure of this operation should have something to do with him, and he should also find out!"

Ai Xia nodded and said: "I also know the news of this Xie Jun's return, according to the internal report we installed in the hundred households, this hundred households are not like ordinary generals, but seem to be from the rivers and lakes, quite a bit of force, but he has an official position, but it is not good to forcibly investigate." ”

Ai Zhao's eyes lit up, and he instructed Ai Xia: "You continue to dig into the details of those nuns, Baihu Xie Jun and another foreign cavalry general, these people are likely to be the real reason for the failure of our operation." ”

Li Xunlong looked at Ai Zhao and smiled faintly: "Brother Ai Zhao, if there is nothing to do tomorrow, the two of us will go to visit this general of the Hundred Households Xie Jun who has not been in office for a long time." It's been half a month since people came, so it's time to go and walk around!"

Ai Zhao also smiled and said, "Okay!

At this time, Ai Chunqing, the elder of the Ai family, who had been silent, coughed, and a hint of sinister and fierce color flashed on his fat face, and said: "Didn't Li Shouzhong and the others flee to Li Jiqian's village? I have a plan here to let Li Jiqian's village be wiped out!"