Li Tongya stayed in the county for several days, and finally heard that the people from Boring Kinmen had evacuated. He said goodbye to the Xiao family anxiously, loaded up his carriage, and headed home from Guli Road through the mushroom forest.
Li Tongya didn't have a driver. He was from a farmer's background and couldn't ride a horse. He could drive an ox cart, so he could only drive the ox cart back alone. After walking on the Guli Road for an hour, he couldn't help but cover his nose.
"What a strong corpse smell."
It had just rained yesterday, and the corpses on the side of the road had swollen due to soaking in the rain. Big balloons were bulging out from their skin, which was green and black. The flesh and blood were festering inside, and the stench was overwhelming. After being exposed to the sun all morning, the smell became overwhelming.
Extremely strong.
"What a crime."
Li Tongya had to stop his car from time to time to remove the corpses on the road. The bullock cart was not easy to drive. He often drove out of the road because of the piles of people on the road. In the end, the cows were so smelly that they stopped working, so Li Tongya had to throw them away.
Get off the ox cart and return on foot.
Covering his mouth and nose, Li Tongya would stop from time to time to wipe away the tears caused by the irritation of the smell. His heart was filled with inexplicable and intense emotions. He didn't eat for a day and a night, and walked alone among the many corpses.
"How does the Qingchi Sect record it?"
This idea suddenly came to Li Tongya's mind, and he imitated his tone and said with a sneer:
"In the fourth month of summer, Boring Gold Gate entered the Agaric Forest and retreated in a few days."
He moved away the piles of corpses, sat on a piece of blood-stained bluestone for a while, and sneered.
Li Tongya has seen living people. These villagers crawling out of the pile of corpses seemed to have lost their ability to speak. When they met in pairs, they would hold their heads and cry. After crying, they would go to the ruins to find some food.
Li Tongya's clothes were quite neat, he held a long knife in his hand, and there was no blood on his body. He looked like a businessman passing by the mushroom forest. Soon, there were two or three children following him, most of them five or six years old, pitifully.
Looking at him.
Li Tongya walked the mountain road in silence, picked up a wild boar or wild wolf, and threw it to the children behind him, letting them roast it half-cooked and eat it. After stumbling all the way, he finally arrived at Wanjia territory.
The village of Wanjia's few people is now empty, neither inhabited nor guarded. It is still covered with blood and rotting corpses.
"Xuanfeng?!"
Just as Li Tongya was walking, he saw a small figure walking around on the pile of corpses. When he looked closely, he turned out to be Li Xiangping's eldest son, Li Xuanfeng, dragging his hair among the corpses. His body was covered with dried blood.
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"What's going on?! Where is your father? Why are you crawling around among the dead! What should you do if you get sick?"
Li Tongya frowned and felt a little thump in his heart. He picked up the child and looked at his chapped and gray lips, becoming increasingly uneasy.
Li Xuanfeng pursed his lips, kicked a severed hand on the ground, and said in a low voice:
"I'm looking for my father!"
"Xiang Ping...your father has never returned home?"
Li Tongya suddenly had a bad premonition and asked softly.
"Brother Xuan won't tell me, but my father must have gone to support the Wan family. I don't know where he is at this time."
After hearing Li Xuanfeng's answer, Li Tongya thought for a few moments and said in a deep voice:
"Come home with me first."
"oh……"
Li Xuanfeng responded and said in a low voice:
"The Ji family is really cruel. Not a single one of the five villages of the Wan family is left. They have all been slaughtered. Why is this necessary?"
"The people were killed by Boring Gold Gate and Qingchi Sect."
Li Tongya said something out of nowhere, which made Li Xuanfeng stunned and said to himself secretly:
"The Boring Gold Gate and the young master of Lao Zi Boring Gold Gate are really not a toy. When I grow up, I will kill all the Boring Gold Gates and shoot the young master's head off and use it as a ball!"
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Li Xuanxuan sat alone in the courtyard, feeling extremely depressed. He had quietly searched Li Daokou in the past few days, but could not find any fighting scenes, let alone any trace of his uncle Li Xiangping.
"I don't know where Feng'er has gone... I sent people to look for him for a day, but there was no sign of him."
Li Xuanxuan had a headache, so Li Xuanfeng gave him the talisman seed, and ran away without a trace as soon as he got off the mountain. After a while, he called him and asked him to find Li Xiangping, so Li Xuanxuan had to think of ways to coax him.
It happened that this child was very smart. He usually eavesdropped on adults' conversations and knew the affairs of thousands of families. He guessed the general idea without hesitation and ran out in a hurry.
As the eldest son of the Li family, Li Xuanxuan naturally cannot be like Li Xuanfeng who willfully rush into the land that is now the Ji family to look for someone. Although he is worried behind his back, Li Xuanxuan still smiles and deals with the village chiefs.
, try your best to stabilize the situation before Li Tongya comes back, it will be uncomfortable.
"Young Master!"
Li Xuanxuan was deep in thought when he saw footsteps outside the courtyard. Li Yesheng entered the courtyard with a smile and said seriously:
"The Immortal Master is back!"
Li Xuanxuan was stunned and suddenly felt that the burden on his body was lightened. He was overjoyed and went down the mountain to greet him with a smile.
Li Tongya arranged for the children who had followed him all the way, and went up the mountain covered with dust. He met Li Yesheng and Li Xuanxuan face to face, but there was no expression on their faces. He patted Li Xuanfeng's shoulder and whispered:
"Go to Haosheng, take a bath and have a good sleep."
Seeing Li Xuanfeng nod and go down, Li Tongya and Li Xuanxuan entered the courtyard together, waved Li Yesheng away, and then said softly:
"Tell me, what's going on?"
Li Xuanxuan dullly recounted the events of these days one by one. After Li Tongya listened carefully, he said coldly:
"Have you been able to explore the situation on the Wanjia border?"
Li Xuanxuan shook his head and whispered:
"My nephew only ordered the people in Li Daokou not to leak their whereabouts to the east, and never sent anyone to cross the border."
Li Tongya sneered and said softly:
"It has been more than a month since the Wan family was destroyed, and you didn't even know that there was no one at the foot of Huaqian Mountain. Your uncle has been missing for more than a month, but he is still dealing with those officials! No news has been discovered, which is even more disappointing.
Feng'er slipped away to the Ji family boundary alone!"
"Li Xuanxuan! You really did a good thing!"
Li Xuanxuan knelt down in the courtyard as if he had been struck by electricity. His eyes felt sour and he opened his mouth but said nothing.
"What's there to be afraid of!"
Li Tongya shook his head and said in a deep voice:
"Even if something happens to Xiang Ping, Father Zhong and I are away, and Father Ji is still practicing in the sect, who would dare to have the slightest thought against you? Uncle Qi didn't come home all night and immediately sent clan soldiers to patrol the forest and sent Li Qiuyang to guard Li Daokou.
Wait, who would dare to look down upon you with a sword in hand? Even if a few people guess that something happened to Li Xiangping, who would dare to say anything?"
Sighing slightly, Li Tongya whispered:
"Don't accompany those bosses to test them. They are just a few dogs of my Li family. If they are in a good mood, reward them with a few bones. If they dare to bother with you, I will kill them with a knife!"
"The power of my Li family comes from weapons and cultivation. We must be decisive, ruthless, and dare to kill people! Our Li family does not need a leader who maintains a successful career, but what we want is a leader who is aggressive and enterprising!"