When Elder Ma spoke, his eyes were fixed on Yan Ruojuan. Just as Yan Ruojuan thought, he was testing him. Naturally, he did not want to really kill Guo Yufei.

Guo Yufei may be a straw for him, but he may also be a real life-saver.

Elder Ma was originally waiting for Guo Yan and the two here for another matter, but he was suspicious by nature, even for Yan Ruokuan, whom he had brought up. So he disguised himself and approached the two of them with a different appearance.

See if the two of them are hiding anything from them.

I was really shocked when I saw them. The two of them were very close, and they seemed to be a loving couple. They even slept together at night, and they worked together to shake the bed in the middle of the night, and they did all kinds of tricks.

Elder Ma had to suspect that his beloved disciple Yan Ruojuan's thoughts were already biased towards Guo Yufei. Yan Ruojuan was also one of the four elders now. What if she and Guo Yufei became the same to resist him?

So testing is necessary.

Yan Ruokuan lowered her head, her face was pale, and her eyes were filled with panic and grief. All these elders Ma saw it and said in their hearts: "It seems that she is really sincere towards that country boy. Damn it, then

The boy has some tricks up his sleeve. Alas... in the final analysis, he still has a face that looks very much like the Second Young Master. Although Yan Ruojuan is well-trained and has a calm mind, she is still a young girl in the end, and she loves the Second Young Master, so it is inevitable that she will be tempted. This is true.

I made a mistake."

Elder Ma made up his mind. If Yan Ruojuan was ordered to kill Guo Yufei, then everything would be put on hold for the time being. But if Yan Ruojuan disobeyed him, he would not be able to stay and must be killed immediately.

"Master...disciple, in my humble opinion, Guo Yufei may not be able to reach the fifth level of Lanxia by the end of the year in recent days. How about we keep him alive for the time being?"

Elder Ma shook his head: "No mercy! I have other plans. You will kill him tonight, no need to say more."

Yan Ruokuan lowered her head, trembling all over.

Elder Ma reached out and patted her shoulder, and said gently: "Go, good boy. I will wait for you here. If you bring Guo Yufei's head, you will still be my most proud disciple. Do you understand?"

"Yes..." After dozens of breaths, Yan Ruojuan replied in a trembling voice.

Elder Ma nodded with satisfaction and sat cross-legged on the spot: "Go. I'll wait for you here."

"Yes..." Yan Ruojuan turned away and walked towards the town. In the wilderness, it was late autumn and it was a windless night. The branches and leaves were still, and there was not even the sound of insects.

With the power of Yanruosui's ears, she should be able to pick up any movement within ten feet of her body, but at the moment there is only the sound of her own footsteps in this area of ​​heaven and earth.

But the quieter she got, the more certain she was that Elder Ma was following her and monitoring her.

Finally returning to the inn room, Yan Ruojuan drew out the Xiuqing Sword, and the tip of the sword hung between Guo Yufei's eyebrows.

To prick or not to prick?

Elder Ma must be watching from the dark, and he will definitely come to the rescue at the last moment. The reason he gave just now is too lame. Guo Yufei is still very important at the moment, and he cannot give up like this.

However, this was just her conjecture. What if Elder Ma wanted to kill Guo Yufei? She stabbed Guo Yufei with her sword and died.

The trembling of her heart couldn't help but infect her body, and the hand holding the sword couldn't help but tremble. Her fingers seemed to have lost all strength, and her grip on the hilt of the sword became looser and looser, almost to the point of letting go.

Suddenly, she tightened her grip on the hilt of the sword again, gathered strength, and stabbed downward. At this moment, a small flying stone broke through the window paper and hit the tip of the Xiuqing Sword.

There was a soft "click" sound, and the sword edge deflected, still stabbing downward. Yan Ruojuan also hurriedly stopped her strength, and let the sword tip touch Guo Yufei's pillow, but it did not pierce.

"That's enough!" Elder Ma broke through the door, walked to the round table, and sat in the chair, "Let's light the lamp and talk."

"Yes..." Yan Ruojuan replied, still feeling frightened, her heart beating wildly, and her palms full of sweat.

Looking back, her analysis just now was half correct. It was very clear that Elder Ma would never kill Guo Yufei. But the stakes were too high. Even if she was 99% sure, she was still uneasy.

When the candle was lit, Guo Yufei woke up drowsily. When he opened his eyes, he saw an old man sitting in the room solemnly. He was startled: "Who are you? Why are you here?"

Glancing at Yan Ruojuan, I saw her standing with her hands down, looking down, looking very respectful.

Looking at the old man again, he was the one who brought him and Yan Ruojuan to the inn, but his expression and demeanor were very different from before... But he looked extremely uncomfortable, even a little angry!

A moment later, Guo Yufei exclaimed: "Ma... Elder Ma... why are you here?"

Elder Ma said coldly: "What kind of trouble will you make if I don't come?"

Guo Yufei and Yan Ruokuan suddenly became secretly underage lovers caught by their parents. Both of them were blushing and did not dare to look up.

After being quiet for a long time, Elder Ma coughed lightly: "Let's get down to business. I have come to see you two this time because there is something important to do. Please don't go to Huzhou. Come with me to Xizhou tomorrow."

"Xizhou? What are you doing there?"

Elder Ma smiled sadly: "Clean up the house!"

After Guo Yufei and Yan Ruojuan left the sect, Elder Ma took over the power and became the acting sect leader. At first, he still knew how to exercise discretion and only acted arbitrarily on some big and important matters. On some small matters, he was willing to follow the wishes of Qi and Ma.

But human nature is inherently greedy, and with power in hand, desires will expand rapidly.

When Guo Yufei left the sect, he left behind the instructions for the three elders Qi, Huang, and Ma to co-manage the sect affairs, so the three of them met every day to discuss the suitability of the sect. Elder Ma was willing to lower his profile at first, at least on the surface he was on equal footing with Qi and Huang.

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But later on, he couldn't even do the superficial things. He acted arrogant and monopolized power all day long, and he no longer paid attention to Qi and Huang at all.

Finally, one day, Elder Qi had a disagreement with him over something, and they had a quarrel. The two were tit for tat, refusing to give in, and almost came to blows. Fortunately, Elder Huang was still reasonable and tried his best to persuade him, so he reluctantly came over.

In fact, the reason for the quarrel was not a big deal. It was that one of Elder Qi's disciples falsely reported the amount of money spent along the way when he was out on business, and embezzled more than a dozen taels of silver.

After Elder Ma found out, he ordered twenty canes to be beaten without saying a word. But as the saying goes, "It depends on the owner when beating a dog." Elder Ma didn't even inform Elder Qi before he punished his disciple. The disciple still cried.

My father called my mother to complain, and Elder Qi found out.

He immediately became furious and ran over to seek an explanation from Elder Ma. Elder Ma had a face as stone as stone and without even a smile, he brought out the sect's rules, and the two of them started to quarrel.

Afterwards, the more Elder Qi thought about it, the angrier he became. Unable to restrain himself, he rushed directly to the sect's accounting office to ask for two hundred thousand taels of silver. But his monthly salary was only three hundred taels of silver, and the accountant was Elder Ma's disciple, so he must have

Not allowed.

Elder Qi suddenly got angry, slapped the accountant to the ground with two palms, grabbed a large amount of banknotes, and walked away. He had no purpose, just to humiliate Elder Ma. But after leaving the sect, he

A rough estimate of the banknote amounted to hundreds of thousands taels.
Chapter completed!