Chapter 14 Know how to advance and retreat

That night, the Lin Mansion got the news that Hou Ye had returned, and Hou Ye was furious at the third young master Lin Hao's attack on his subordinates, and it is said that Lin Hao was slapped a few times, if it wasn't for the eldest lady to protect her son, Lin Hao would inevitably be seriously injured by the angry Hou Ye. The next day, www.biquge.info the chief manager posted a notice announcing the final handling of the incident, and sent Lin Hao to Kunyunguan in Xiliu County to practice, and was not allowed to return to the house for three years, burying the maid Liu'er, and compensating his family with 1,000 taels of silver to appease, if anyone in the house dares to kill and injure the next person for no reason in the future, no matter who it is, it will be dealt with severely and will not be tolerated.

The death of Liu Er is over, and the subordinates of the Lin Mansion feel that Hou Ye's handling is fair. No one would really want the young master of the Lin Mansion to kill people to pay for their lives, including Liu Er's sister Su'er, although there are many calls for equal human rights in today's society, but cultivators are like gods compared to ordinary people, how can this be said to be equal? The Lin family has been a feudal marquis for generations, and has been powerful and wealthy with awe-inspiring power and power, how many maids' lives can be worth a young master of the Lin family? It is enough to give reasonable compensation afterwards, not to mention that Lin Hao has indeed been punished. Xiliu County is adjacent to the ancient fierce beast domination area of Kunlun Mountain, which is extremely dangerous, and it is not a place where ordinary cultivators can stay.

In private, the eldest lady Tian Lingshuang had to cry for the disposal of her third son. It's just a matter of sending it to practice outside the house, but Xiliu County is indeed not a place for pure cultivation, and if you are not careful, you may not be able to come back. But Hou Ye Lin Fengshan has already made up his mind, and he will not let go even if she wears out her mouth.

Lin Du had already suffered from depression, and this time he was seriously mentally stimulated, so he inevitably asked the doctor for diagnosis and treatment, and the second lady Bian Suxin also came to visit and left a pair of calming medicines. After taking the medicine, Lin Du played in the garden for a day accompanied by Jin Luohua, but he was always a little depressed, and at night, Jin Luohua placed him in his room, sat on the edge of the bed and hummed a little song to coax him to sleep. In a daze, he suddenly sat up and said, "Mom, I want to practice." ”

Jin Luohua was stunned at first, then shook his head with a smile, and said softly: "Of course we Xiaodui have to practice, but not now, we have to wait two years." ”

Lin Du looked at her mother's eyes and said a little stubbornly: "If I practice, Sister Liu'er will not die." ”

Jin Luohua sighed, let her son lie down again, and said earnestly: "Xiao Du has grown up, I want to protect the people around me, my mother understands, but cultivation is a lifelong thing, not in this year or two, now the cultivation will open up the Star Mansion in advance, the Star Mansion will stop growing, Xiao Dui's qualifications will be affected, and in the future, the cultivation will be limited, and it will not be able to protect the people who want to protect, so we have to wait until the Star Mansion matures before cultivating, and in another two years, okay?"

Of course, Lin Dui knew these truths clearly, but as soon as he closed his eyes, Liu Er's frightened and unwilling eyes flashed in his mind, and the blood gushed from his chest. He wanted to save her, but he couldn't do anything. This living cruelty and gore scared him. Without cultivation, there is no shield to protect people, no medicine to save people, and no knife to kill and take revenge. He was already living in fear, and he really didn't want to be a lamb to the slaughter.

So Lin Du sat up again and said to Jin Luohua seriously: "Mom, my qualification is one thousand, and it won't rise in another two years, so I don't have to wait any longer." ”

Jin Luohua was stunned again, and then asked with a smile: "Silly boy, are you dreaming again? Didn't Mr. Ji tell you about it? The highest qualification in the history of cultivation is only 982, and one thousand is just an imaginary upper limit of qualifications, and it is impossible to exist." ”

Lin Dui's eyes immediately dimmed a little. The detection of the astral chamber has always been a doubt hanging in his heart, and he also knows that this thousand qualifications are very strange, and it is very likely that the magic circle has malfunctioned in front of him, an outsider, and he has no qualifications at all. But after receiving his mother's face-to-face denial, he still felt so lost. If he doesn't have qualifications, what kind of cultivation can he talk about? If he can't practice, what kind of protection can he talk about? He sat there pitifully, like a lost bear.

Jin Luohua saw his dejected appearance, and quickly hugged him in his arms in distress, and changed his words: "But our Xiaodui is talented, maybe we will break the upper limit of qualifications." After waiting for a while, seeing that Lin Du didn't react, she sighed faintly, and finally said, "Is it okay for Mom to teach you to practice herself?" Let's not tell others, only you and me, the two of us know." ”

"Well, I don't let anyone know, but why?" asked Lin Dui, confused.

"It's like if you have a sword, you usually have to put it in its scabbard, and you can only pull it out until you need to use it to protect yourself or the person you want to protect. If you usually use it to show off your might, others will know that your sword is very sharp, and they will find a way to deal with your sword in advance, and when you pull it out again, it will be difficult to have an effect. Got it?"

"Understood. The sword was meant to protect me and my mom, not to show off. Lin Du whispered, still struggling with the authenticity of the qualifications. However, my mother promised to teach myself to practice, whether I have the qualifications or not, I will know if I try it. He was worried and hopeful, and in a moment he fell into a deep sleep.

At the same time, the bedroom door of the eldest lady Tian Lingshuang was pushed open, and the little girl Lin Peixuan walked in with a tight little face, and knelt in front of her mother's bed with a plop: "Mom, I want to practice, please allow me to practice in advance!"

Tian Lingshuang was upset by her son Lin Hao's affairs, and was about to rest, but she didn't expect her daughter to come like this suddenly, so she quickly sat up from the bed, frowned and asked, "What's the matter?"

"No!" the little girl's pretty little face was full of stubbornness, and her immature voice seemed so incongruous with her expression and tone, "If you don't allow me, I won't get up!"

"Then you can kneel. Tian Lingshuang's mood was simply terrible, her son was not worried, and her daughter also came to make trouble. She leaned back, lay down on the bed with her clothes, and simply ignored her.

The little girl knelt on the spot like that, motionless without saying a word, and I don't know how long it took for Tian Lingshuang to lean on the head of the bed, sighed, and softened her tone a lot: "Say, why?"

"Because I have a first-class cultivation qualification now, I don't care if my qualification doesn't increase. The little girl replied without hesitation, as she had already thought of it. It's just that when she said this, she thought about the dangers in the forest, and the blood in the back garden. It was only after facing the danger that she realized how important strength was. Her brother protected her in the woods, but her sister couldn't do anything. She was ashamed.

"What did you say?" Tian Lingshuang was startled and sat up from the bed completely, "You are a first-class qualification, who told you?"

"I'm in the astrology room on the third floor of the library building, and I measured it by myself. The little girl replied, "Qualification 803." ”

Tian Lingshuang was stunned for a moment. There was a magic circle in the astral room to test the cultivation qualifications, so she naturally knew it. It's just that the children's qualification testing has always been carried out at the age of nine, and before that, the star mansion was not completed, so there was really no need for testing, but I didn't expect my daughter to secretly go to the star room and actually checked out the first-class qualification in advance. Looking at the entire Lin family for several generations, there are very few first-class qualifications. She was so excited that her voice trembled a little, and she asked in disbelief, "Is this true?"

The little girl looked at her mother's delighted face and nodded earnestly.

"Okay!good!good!" Tian Lingshuang got out of bed, walked back and forth in the room, shouted three times in a row, and helped her daughter up from the ground: "Whether you can practice in advance depends on your father's will." Tomorrow he will test your homework, you must perform well!"

At the same time, in the second lady's Lingsu Garden, Bian Suxin withdrew from the maid's subordinates, and was personally sprinkling medicinal powder into the bath in the center of the secret room. Lin Yi, who was shirtless, stood behind his mother, pinching his nose with one hand and waving wildly in front of him with the other, so that Bian Suxin couldn't help but look back and glared at him: "Is it so bad to smell? If I really don't like it, I'll let Xiao Yu soak it. ”

Lin Yi turned around and ran out of the door when he heard this: "I'll call Xiao Yu!"

"You come back for me!" Bian Suxin turned around and twisted one of Lin Yi's ears, dragged his son, who was crooked and screaming, back to the edge of the bath, and unbuttoned his trouser belt without saying anything, so frightened that Lin Yi tightly protected his crotch with both hands, and shouted: "Mr. Kong said, men and women don't kiss!

"Well, Mr. Kong didn't invite in vain, the eight-year-old cub will talk to the old lady about etiquette. Bian Suxin didn't stop, he directly took off Lin Yi's pants, and threw his naked body into the bath, with a bang, and the water splashed. Then she shook her hair, stood by the pool with her hands on her hips, looked at Lin Yi's little head that surfaced, and snorted: "An hour, a quarter of an hour can't be less!"

Lin Yi floated on the surface of the white misty pool, and reached out to wipe the water droplets on his face: "Mom, I've been soaking for three years, this medicine is really so easy to use, I should have a thousand qualifications." ”

"Phew, what about dreaming?"

"Mr. Kong said that the flower essence elixir is a crooked way of evil, and the way of cultivation lies in the heart rather than the external object, and refining the mind is the best policy. ”

"Bah! He's on the right path, don't go to my evil and crooked door, I'll quit him tomorrow and ask him to get out!"

"No, no, no! Tomorrow my father is going to take the school homework, I will definitely be scolded, and Mr. Kong will have to take the blame for me, and he can't leave." Will you be okay the day after tomorrow? The day after tomorrow, I will ask him to get out. ”

Bian Suxin turned around and scooped up a scoop of cold water, and threw it all at Lin Yi's face: "Look at your little talent! If you can't study well, why should you let your husband take the blame for you? Besides, what's there to be afraid of being scolded? You will be scolded less? Remember, tomorrow you would rather be scolded than be stupid, and you must not be in the limelight!"

Lin Yi was doused with a scoop of cold water on his head, his eyes were sour, he blinked, came back to his senses, two streams of clear water flowed down in his nostrils, and he opened his mouth and said: "Mr. Kong said ......" As soon as he said half a sentence, a scoop of cold water was splashed on his face, and the second half of the sentence was swallowed into his stomach with a mouthful of cold water.

At the same time, the fourth lady's Yunshui was in the center, and Qu Wanyun was sitting quietly at the desk, watching her daughter Lin Peili painting under the lamp. The little girl put a brush to make the end condensed and light, advancing and retreating, and between the dots, a picture of flowers and birds in ink painting has been on the paper. Qu Wanyun showed a shallow smile on her face, becoming more and more charming and beautiful, and suddenly asked softly: "Tomorrow your father is going to take the school exam for your homework, what will you do?"

Lin Peili put down the paintbrush, held her little chin and thought for a while, and said, "If they are not as good as me, I will try to get my father to approve, and if someone is better than me, I will pretend that I don't know anything." ”

Qu Wanyun nodded with satisfaction and said, "Xiaoli, you have to remember that you have to learn to stand in the light and look at others, so that others can't see you, and once you want to go out, you have to make sure that everyone looks at you, only you." This is called 'if you don't fly, you'll soar into the sky, and if you don't make a sound, you'll be a blockbuster'. ”

Lin Peili nodded obediently: "Understood." ”

Qu Wanyun stroked Lin Peili's hair, looked at her porcelain doll-like face, and smiled: "Learning painting from my mother and medicine from my second aunt will inevitably delay Mr. Ji's class, will Xiaoli feel hard?"

"It's not hard. ”

"That's right. Your opponent is not here, and your identity is not only the second lady of the Lin family, so you don't have to care about the sibling dispute. In a few years, you will go to Shangling, and you will really spread your wings and soar in the sky. ”

"Well, Peili knows. ”

"Okay, it's not early, let's sleep. ”

After Qu Wanyun finished speaking, she stood up and walked out. Lin Peili hurriedly got up to see her mother leave, and when she came back, she closed the door lightly, first stood on tiptoe and looked outside through the window, and saw that her mother's figure had disappeared in the night, and couldn't help but stick out her tongue, and then slipped to the side of the bed like a little mouse, lay down, hooked a painting from the bottom of the bed with her feet, and carefully unfolded it.

The painting shows a small boat and three children, which is the same one that I painted in the back garden before. That day, she stole her mother's pen and ran to the lake to sketch, but the maid named Liu'er died, and Liu'er's portrait disappeared. When she returned, her mother said that the pen had the power of a curse, and whoever drew it would be cursed, so she didn't sleep well all night, and got up several times during the night to see the people in the painting by the moonlight. It is said that the portrait changes with the vitality of the person, and she is afraid that the curse on her brothers and sisters will take effect, and she is so guilty that she will die.

Fortunately, the colors of the people in the paintings are strong.

She let out a long sigh of relief, rolled up the picture and stuffed it back under the bed, then quickly turned over on the bed, covered the quilt and closed her eyes. The next moment, a pair of women's eyes lit up on the wall next to the bed, scanned the room, and stared at Lin Peili's face for a while, and then dimmed. (To be continued.) )