Yu Ren followed Liu Qiang and climbed over a mountain and then came to another mountain. After passing through a dense forest, he suddenly saw a courtyard in front of him. This courtyard was located in a dense forest. If he had not been close, he would not have discovered it at all.

.The courtyard wall is very high. Because it was night, I couldn’t see clearly how big the courtyard was.

Seeing the yard, Yu Ren became excited. Could this be Li Yu's home? But why was her home built in such a mountain? Although it is not far from the city, transportation must be inconvenient. Usually it is built in a mountain.

Most of the places in this kind of place are temples and Taoist temples. Looking at the size of this courtyard, Li Yu's status must be extraordinary. What does their family do? Are they high-ranking officials? Are they rich? They don't seem to be alike.

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Yu Ren speculated while following Liu Qiang towards the door.

The gatehouse of the courtyard is very high, with a wind lantern hanging on each side, with three large characters "Wentao Courtyard" written on it. Two strong young men stood by the door, with knives at their waists. Seeing Liu Qiang coming over,

One of the young men greeted Liu Qiang, "Brother Qiang is on patrol duty today!"

Liu Qiang nodded to him. "Is Mr. Qu back?"

"You're back. Didn't you go out with Mr. Qu? Why did you come back separately?"

"Oh! I had something to do behind the scenes, so I was a little slow."

The young man guarding the gate nodded and suddenly saw Yu Ren behind Liu Qiang. "This is...?"

"He is a good friend that the eldest lady recently made in Fujian. We just happened to meet each other when we were patrolling the mountains. So we invited him to come back with me." Liu Qiang took care of Yu Ren's face this time and did not say anything.

He was hung up on the mountain.

After Liu Qiang finished speaking, he took Yu Ren into the yard. Then he walked in a zigzag manner for a while, and then he came to the front of a room. Liu Qiang patted the door. After a while, he saw a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy rubbing his hands.

He opened the door with groggy eyes.

"Brother Qiang, you are back!"

"Well! You go and organize a room in the backyard for Prime Minister Yu to live in." After saying that, Liu Qiang led Yu Ren to the main hall and sat down.

"I'll go and see if Mr. Liu is asleep later. If he's not asleep, I'll invite him over and feel Mr. Yu's pulse." Liu Qiang said as he took off his belt knife and hung it on the wall.

"It's okay. After walking for a while, I feel much better now. I should just rest for a day or two. It's so late today, so don't bother Mr. Liu!"

While the two were talking, they heard a burst of noise outside. Liu Qiang glanced outside the door and his expression became serious. He said to Yu Ren, "Mr. Yu, please sit here for a while. I'll go see what's going on.

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After saying that, Liu Qiang hurried out.

Yu Ren sat alone in the living room. Then he slowly looked at the house. It was a two-entry house, with the front room as the main room, and a small courtyard at the back with a two-room room. In addition,

There is also a small kitchen.

The furnishings in the room are very simple. Apart from a set of tables and chairs, there is nothing else. There is a waist knife hanging on the wall, and there is a shelf in the corner, on which is placed the knife that Yu Ren saw outside Fuzhou City that day that Liu Qiang was holding.

The two giant axes. The heads of these two axes are half the size of a washbasin. Yu Ren estimated that this ax weighed at least forty pounds.

Yu Ren stepped forward, gently picked up two axes, tried them in his hands, and waved them a few times. They felt pretty good. "It seems that I have to find a weapon like this, so that I can fully use it."

I can use my strong arm strength to my advantage." Yu Ren secretly thought in his mind.

However, this kind of weapon can only be used on the battlefield. It is really inconvenient to carry such a bulky thing with you.

Yu Ren was playing with the two axes in his hand when another noise came from outside. Yu Ren put down the giant ax in his hand and walked out in search of the sound.

As soon as he went out, Yu Ren saw a team of more than a dozen people passing by the door. Each of these people was carrying a stretcher with the wounded lying on it. Yu Ren counted six stretchers in total.

The people on the stretcher seemed to be seriously injured. They were carried on the stretcher, but they rarely heard moans.

Yu Ren secretly wondered. What is going on? Where is Wentaoyuan? If it is Li Yu's home, why do so many wounded people suddenly appear? If not, why do Liu Qiang and Mr. Qu live here?

?What do they do? Last time I heard Li Yu say that Liu Qiang was their clerk, but now it doesn’t look like that anymore.

A series of questions made Yu Ren even more confused. Because he was a stranger, it was difficult for him to go up and ask people directly. These were serious sexual questions. He didn't even dare to let these people discover him.

, so as not to be mistaken by others as spying on their privacy.

Yu Ren hid in the corner and saw this group of people walking past. Just as he was about to come out, he saw two people wearing fancy clothes and carrying knives coming from behind. One of them looked very young, only seventeen or eighteen years old.

The other one was about forty years old. Seeing that their bodies were covered in dust, Yu Ren concluded that these two people were probably just like the wounded in front of them. They should have just been evacuated from some battlefield or some other place.

The two of them were talking quietly as they walked.

"This time, the eldest lady is really angry. Ever since she came back from Japan, she has never suffered such a loss. Today we not only lost two big ships, but also injured more than fifty brothers. Now, Mr. Zhong

They are very beautiful." The young man said.

"So what! Didn't you see the situation of today's battle? We have no chance at all! Even if the eldest lady gets angry again and cannot attack the island, what can she do to Zhong Laosan?" Zhong Laosan next to her said

The old man said.

"That's not necessarily true. Our eldest lady's mind is something that even ten thousand Zhong Laosan can't match. Although the artillery fire on their island is powerful, I think the eldest lady will definitely find a way to attack the island. This

It's just a matter of time." The young man said confidently.

The two people passed by Yu Ren. When Yu Ren heard what they were talking about, he quickly followed them quietly. Although from the few words of the two people, Yu Ren could not figure out for a moment what exactly happened.

What happened? But he already had a preliminary understanding. These people were Li Yu's men, and they had just fought a war. From what these two people said, it seemed that it was still a naval battle.

This made Yu Ren even more confused. What does Li Yu do? Why does it sound like she is not a businessman as she said, but more like a navy general?

The overheard conversation between the two people not only did not help Yu Ren figure out the situation more clearly, but actually confused his mind even more. He was determined to follow the two people and see if he could overhear anything more useful.

information.

Yu Ren quietly followed the two soldiers who looked like people. They turned a few corners and came to a small room. This room was much smaller than Liu Qiang's one, and there was no lock on the door.

The two of them opened the door casually. Yu Ren took advantage of the two of them not paying attention and quickly hid in the corner.

The two soldiers entered the house, lit the lamp, and closed the door again. Only then did Yu Ren dare to touch under the eaves, squat down and eavesdrop. There happened to be a pile of straw in front of the house, which could help.

Covering his body, Yu Ren squatted by the straw and continued to eavesdrop.

The two soldiers entered the room and started to fetch water to wash themselves, but they stopped talking about the topic just now. This made Yu Ren a little anxious. However, he finally heard some information about Li Yu, and he was not willing to give up easily.

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In this way, Yu Ren squatted beside the haystack for more than half an hour, and then he heard the two people in the room mention the topic just now again.

"You said that Zhong Laosan used to be as docile as a dog to our Li family. How come he suddenly has such courage and dares to openly confront our Li family?" The young man's voice sounded.

He stood up, looking a little angry.

"You don't understand this! I heard others say that in fact, this Zhong Laosan was secretly supported by our Second Master Xu, so he dared to openly challenge the eldest lady. Think about it, who is Zhong Laosan?

Dongxi, he only has three or five broken boats and one hundred and eighty brothers. How dare he go against our Li family? We, the Li family, dare not say that on land, but on the sea, in this southeastern half of the sea,

He is a Westerner, so he has to go around us. Hitting him, Zhong Laosan, is as easy as trampling an ant to death." The middle-aged man said calmly.
Chapter completed!