Chapter 39 Conditions of the Snake Demon Clan (5.5K for further reading)
"Haha, I came here uninvited. I wonder if you would welcome me?"
At the door of the shed, a figure stood alone.
Although the environment of the shed in the mining area was a bit dilapidated and crude, with him standing quietly at the door, it seemed to have suddenly turned into a study and school with a Confucian style and elegance.
"father!"
Lan'er was the first to react, and she immediately exclaimed, stepped forward to meet him, took the person's arm, and said, "Why are you here?"
"I've met Mr. Zhou."
"Hello, Mr. Zhou."
Looking at the middle-aged Confucian scholar standing next to Lan'er, the angry expressions on the faces of the fierce mining bosses in the shed also subsided a bit unconsciously, and they nodded in greeting to him.
"Master Zhou, cough cough..."
Even Wang Xu, who was leaning on the bed and seriously injured, struggled to stick his head out and said hello to the person at the door.
Zhou Zhili, Lan'er's father, the former Minister of Household Affairs of the Great Wei Dynasty, and a former second-rank official!
"My daughter originally made an appointment with my wife to go back to study painting with her after dinner, but she didn't come back for a long time, so I came here to look for her."
Zhou Zhili smiled faintly, walked into the room, and said, "Just now I heard everyone outside the house getting excited. It seems like something big is about to happen?"
"To be honest, Mr. Zhou, something is indeed wrong."
Liu Yong's face darkened and he said: "You have also seen that my third brother Wang Xu is seriously injured in bed now. He was just injured by King Jing Li Xun. The brothers can't swallow this breath. You also know that our group of people
We gather together and don’t ask for anything else, but we don’t want to be treated as pawns that can be discarded at any time.”
"Prince Jing?"
Zhou Zhili looked thoughtful and shook his head: "That shouldn't be the case. He has been keeping a low profile for so long, and recently he finally got your help. Even if he is just using you, he is far from willing to abandon you."
That's right, how could I fall out with you right after I conquered you? This is so abnormal."
"What's so strange about this?"
Wang Xu, who was lying on the bed, sat up and said excitedly: "Because Prince Jing didn't know the friendship that the boss has for us. In his heart, he felt that I was just an insignificant person, so he just beat me. He thought that I was just an insignificant person."
The boss will not fall out with him because of me, just like when he killed the second brother with a sword, the eldest brother also chose to be patient."
"Hmm...no, it's still wrong."
Zhou Zhili pondered: "Wang Xu, after you told Lan'er about the major events that happened in the city these two days, I also heard her mention it at home. Prince Jing doesn't seem to be the kind of person who is impulsive and hurts people for no reason. In this way,
Please tell me what happened in detail, so as not to act impulsively and get into a fight with Prince Jing. This is no small matter, so be careful."
"Dad, this is what happened."
Lan'er held Zhou Zhili's arm, opened her mouth lightly, and told her everything that had happened before.
After hearing this, Zhou Zhili frowned slightly at first, and then slowly relaxed his brows after hearing the rest. In the end, after Li Xun left a word and left, Zhou Zhili even had a faint smile on his face.
Already.
"Dad, that's what happened."
After Lan'er finished speaking, looking at Zhou Zhili's expression, she couldn't help but wonder: "Eh? Dad, why are you laughing?"
"You guys!"
Zhou Zhili chuckled lightly, looked around at the confused people in the room, shook his head and said: "Are you still ready to go to Prince Jing to fight to the death? Let me see, Liu Yong, Wang Xu, you two are privately
You should find an opportunity to thank His Highness Prince Jing properly!"
???
After listening to Zhou Zhili's words, Liu Yong and the others couldn't help but look more confused on their faces.
Prince Jing beat Wang Xu until he was bedridden, and most of his cultivation in the Baichuan realm was destroyed!
They still want to thank Prince Jing??
Is it thanks to his eighteen generations of ancestors and all his direct female relatives?
"Master Zhou, what you said..."
Liu Yong scratched his head and said, "We don't understand this."
"yes!"
Wang Xu stood up in excitement and said with an aggrieved look: "Uncle Zhou, don't you support my relationship with Lan'er on weekdays? Why are you speaking for Prince Jing now?"
"You guys are just too impulsive."
Zhou Zhili smiled, a gleam of wisdom flashed across his face, raised his chin towards Wang Xu and said, "Don't be too busy with your grievances. Just lower your head and look at yourself. How can you get out of bed?"
“How do I get out of bed??”
Wang Xu raised his legs and blurted out: "Why don't I just stand up...Eh?? That's right! I can get out of bed!"
After saying that, Wang Xu moved his limbs again. After a moment, he opened his clothes with a surprised look and looked at his lower abdomen.
I saw an extremely clear palm print left by Li Xun, but it had disappeared at this moment.
"How is this going?"
Liu Yong and others were shocked when they saw this.
"I feel so hot in my lower abdomen now, as if there is a hot water bottle in my pubic area!"
Wang Xu exclaimed, and then immediately sat down cross-legged and began to sense the situation in his body.
"puff!!"
After a moment, Wang Xu opened his mouth and spit out a large mouthful of black bruises, emitting a fishy stench that made people frown.
"The third child!"
"Third brother!"
Liu Yong and the others hurriedly gathered around, ignoring the pungent stench, their faces full of concern.
"Brother! Brothers! I'm fine!"
But when Wang Xu opened his eyes again, his eyes were full of excitement, and he said: "Not only is everything fine, but I am in good condition! Haha! Very good! Better than ever!!"
Facing Liu Yong's puzzled eyes, Wang Xu said: "Brother! Do you remember? When I was fighting in the army, I was trapped in a tight siege with my comrades in my team. At that time, in order to survive, I
Ignoring the injuries on my body, I tried my best to completely strengthen my perfect body, and forcibly broke through from the body training realm to the Baichuan realm, and then broke through the encirclement?"
"Well, remember!"
Liu Yong nodded and said, "Didn't you tell me about this before? I'm impressed that you are such a genius. You can actually break through the cultivation level even when you are injured."
"right!"
Wang Xu's eyes were shining and he said: "But there is something I have never mentioned to my brothers. In fact, after that forced breakthrough, I have always had hidden wounds and hidden dangers in my body, and my muscles and veins were blocked.
As a result, when my spiritual power reaches its peak, it will become stagnant and I will not make any progress all year round. I am afraid that I will never be able to break through to the Danhai realm and become a grandmaster in this life."
"but now!"
Wang Xu slapped his chest loudly and trembled excitedly: "My meridians that were blocked due to old injuries were opened! The hidden dangers in my body disappeared! Haha! Even the spiritual power I just dissipated,
They are all recovering quickly with an unprecedented sense of smoothness!”
"real?!"
Liu Yong couldn't help but widen his eyes, feeling happy for his good brother from the bottom of his heart.
Wang Xu's talent was originally very good, but due to what happened on the battlefield that year, he has been trapped in the Baichuan Realm for so many years, and his cultivation has been unable to break through to the rank of a grandmaster.
This has always been a pain in his heart. In order to prevent his brothers from worrying about him, sympathizing with him, and pitying him, Wang Xu has always buried this secret deep in his heart and never told anyone else.
"It was Prince Jing. It was his palms that opened up my blocked meridians."
Wang Xu rubbed his lower abdomen and said: "And that palm print, that is the spiritual power he left in my Dantian. It was with the help of that spiritual power that I was able to completely force the congestion out of my body just now.
.”
"Haha, do you understand now?"
Zhou Zhili on the side smiled and said: "Liu Yong, do you still remember what Lan'er just said, what was the last message His Highness Prince Jing left for you before he left?"
"He asked me to ask my brother what he had done before."
Liu Yong murmured: "This..."
"You thought Prince Jing wanted you to ask Wang Xu why you hit him, right?"
Zhou Zhili chuckled and said, "But why do I feel that Prince Jing saw Wang Xu's internal injuries? What he asked you to ask was actually what Wang Xu just said about the hidden illness he had left behind on the battlefield?
"
"It turns out that we misunderstood His Highness?"
Liu Yong said in a daze: "Your Highness, on the surface, he injured the third child, but in fact, he was treating him for a hidden disease that has been hidden for many years!"
"So that's it!"
Wang Xu also understood, scratched his head in embarrassment, and then grinned and said: "Why didn't His Highness Prince Jing just say it directly? If it had to happen like this, if Mr. Zhou hadn't happened to come today, we wouldn't have thought of it.
This floor!”
"You kid, you still have the nerve to say that."
Zhou Zhili on the side said angrily: "In my opinion, His Highness Prince Jing was forced to write this riddle because of what you said before."
"Uncle Zhou, what does this mean?"
Wang Xu stared with big eyes, confused again, and said: "When did I force His Highness Prince Jing?"
"In front of His Highness Prince Jing, you called Concubine Xuan a demon concubine, and the left prime minister a traitor. The most serious thing is, you also called the current emperor a coward!"
Zhou Zhili saw that he still didn't understand, so he immediately said: "Aren't you forcing him? If he doesn't punish you, wouldn't it prove that he has the same idea as you and has this idea of being unfilial and disobedient?
?”
"But there were no outsiders around at the time, so what does it matter?"
Zhang Xing, the Fourth Leader on the side, couldn't help but muttered.
"Well, I can guess a little bit about this reason."
Zhou Zhili pondered: "When I was still an official in the court, during an assessment of the princes, the supervisor assigned to the eldest prince who was in power in the fiefdom impeached the eldest prince with a secret report, saying that he had lied about tax payments.
Raising private soldiers is a list of several grave crimes."
"Originally, the eldest prince would definitely be arrested and interrogated, but in the end, His Majesty exposed the supervisor's secret report in court as a frame-up, and also produced detailed evidence."
Zhou Zhili said: "In the end, the eldest prince was fine, but the supervisor who framed the prince was executed in court to serve as a warning to others."
"What does this have to do with what we are doing today?"
Wang Xu asked with a puzzled look on his face.
"You are stupid! This proves that in the prince's fiefdom, in addition to the supervision on the surface, there is also a spy personally sent by His Majesty secretly, who is also closely monitoring the princes' every word and deed!
"
Liu Yong rolled his eyes at Wang Xu angrily and said: "If you were in a secret room that was specially guarded, you would be more at ease, but you are still so loud in a crowded place like a mine.
If you shout openly, no wonder His Highness Prince Jing wants to punish you on the surface, just in case you are secretly copied by a spy!"
"Not only that, based on Wang Xu's remarks today, if Prince Jing hadn't personally punished him with both small and large punishments, and if Prince Jing didn't deal with it, and His Majesty's spies decided to take action himself, then Wang Xu, what else would you do?
Is there a life?"
As soon as Zhou Zhili said these words, Wang Xu was suddenly frightened.
If a mysterious spy sent by the imperial court were to unexpectedly attack him with a killing move, his chances of surviving would be less than 10%!
"And you don't have to worry. If I weren't here today, you would impulsively kill each other with Prince Jing."
"Judging from the speed of recovery of Wang Xu's internal injuries, even if you did not understand His Royal Highness Prince Jing's intentions at the beginning, I am afraid that Wang Xu's injuries will have improved significantly before you have gathered the troops. Then you
Naturally, we can understand that Prince Jing is not trying to hurt Wang Xu at all, but is taking the opportunity to heal him."
Zhou Zhili chuckled lightly, a look of interest appeared on his face, and said leisurely: "In this way, I am troublesome this time. Haha, interesting, this Prince Jing is really a wonderful man!"
"Master Zhou, what are you talking about? How can you be so troublesome?"
Liu Yong raised his hand towards Zhou Zhili and said with shame: "If it hadn't been for your advice, our brothers might not have come back to their senses until now. If the time came, we would have led people to kill His Highness Prince Jing rashly, and then
Once the misunderstanding is resolved, our brothers will be completely embarrassed..."
"I just scolded His Highness Prince Jing for being unkind and unjust. I really..."
Wang Xu slapped his thigh directly beside him, then gritted his teeth and said, "No! Your Highness, Prince Jing, has shown me kindness, so I have to go and apologize to him in person!"
"Oh! Just calm down!"
However, Lan'er held Wang Xu down, and angrily stretched out her snow-white onion finger to touch his forehead, and said: "If you just run to the city lord's palace like an innocent person now to thank Prince Jing,
His Highness's great kindness and virtue, and all that His Highness Prince Jing has painstakingly disguised, wouldn't it be revealed in front of the secret conversation all of a sudden?"
"Oh, yes, hehe, yes."
Wang Xu scratched his head, giggled twice, and said, "Lan'er is right, we can't go now, hehe, we can't go."
"Okay, Wang Xu, you should consolidate your cultivation, and don't let your Highness Prince Jing's hard work for you go down."
Zhou Zhili waved his hands to them and said: "Okay, okay, you all should disperse as well. I will take Lan'er back. If it's too late, her mother will come looking for her worriedly."
.”
"Master Zhou, walk slowly."
Liu Yong and the others all smiled and nodded, then raised their hands to Zhou Zhili and said, "Thank you, Mr. Zhou."
"Haha, thank me for what?"
Zhou Zhili shook his head and turned around and said: "When I get the chance, it is only right to thank your Highness Prince Jing and do my best to assist others."
"yes!"
Everyone couldn't help but nod their heads in agreement.
"I've said it a long time ago! It's absolutely right to follow His Highness Prince Jing!"
The fourth leader, Zhang Xing, smacked his lips and said, "You didn't believe it just now, really..."
"Your uncle!"
Wang Xu slapped Zhang Xing on the back of the head angrily, and said angrily: "You were so happy just now, and the first one who shouted that he was going to kill the city lord's manor was you!"
"..."
Liu Yong looked at the noisy group of brothers, shook his head with a wry smile, and then thought of everything Li Xun had done, he couldn't help but feel a warm current in his heart, and secretly sighed with emotion in his heart: "Your Highness..."
In the dead of night, Li Xun sat alone on the roof of the City Lord's Mansion, toasting to the bright moon and drinking alone under the cold moonlight.
It's bitterly cold in Jingan, especially now that winter is approaching, and the night wind is even more biting.
But Li Xun's current physique is not affected at all.
"Until now, I have not impulsively come to my door to ask for an explanation. It seems that I will not come tonight."
Li Xun drank the wine in his glass, chuckled, and said: "Those gangsters in the mining area, even Liu Yong, who has served as a general and led soldiers, may not be able to guess the real reason why I did what I did.
I am quick to think about it, and most likely someone from an expert came forward to give me some advice. Zhou Lan’s father, Zhou Zhili, was the former Vice Minister of Finance of the Wei Dynasty..."
"If he can be used by me, why should the sluggish economy in Jing'an City not be able to develop?"
Li Xun's eyes sparkled.
"Master, who are you targeting again?"
Amidst the chuckles, a beautiful figure dressed in white suddenly appeared behind Li Xun.
"Is there any news?"
Without looking back, Li Xun put down the wine glass in his hand and said, "I hope it will be good news."
"There are two pieces of news, one good and one bad. I wonder which one your Highness would like to hear first?"
Yu'er came to Li Xun with a faint smile, bent down, put her big plump papaya against Li Xun's arm, and filled another glass of wine for him.
"OK."
Li Xun took advantage of the opportunity to hold the large papaya that filled his palm with his left hand, gently closed it, slowly twisted it, and then picked it up.
"The Snake Demon Clan gave me a reply, and there happened to be a perfect Green Snake Girl who could be traded with the master."
Yu'er's breathing quickened slightly, and her eyes narrowed slightly in comfort.
I don't know why, but there seems to be an inexplicable aura about Li Xun, which makes her heart flutter uncontrollably.
"good."
Li Xun raised the corner of his mouth slightly, very satisfied with the result, and his right hand slid down like a flexible fish.
The eagle strikes the sky, and the fish flies to the shallow bottom.
"Master, don't be too happy, there is another bad news!"
Yu'er's thighs were tightly clamped, her red lips were biting lightly, and she tried her best to keep her voice calm.
"explain."
Li Xun's fingertips kept moving, the silver bottle suddenly broke and water slurry burst out, and the cavalry protruded and screamed with swords and guns.
"If you want to trade that young green snake lady, the conditions given by the snake demon clan are very harsh."
Yu'er took a deep breath, grabbed Li Xun's robe tightly with both hands, and said: "They want the best Nuanyunhuo jade, and they also need a full ten thousand yuan, and they must pay half of the deposit first.
Make an appointment to meet and do the transaction, otherwise there will be no need to discuss it!”
"Ten thousand pieces of Nuanyunhuo Jade?"
Li Xun's hand suddenly reached forward, and Yu'er was so shocked that her whole body suddenly bowed like a shrimp. She couldn't help but bite Li Xun's shoulder, making a "oooooo" sound.
"It is said that the human heart is not enough for a snake to swallow an elephant."
The smile on Li Xun's lips slowly turned cold, and he said solemnly: "This snake demon clan really dares to ask for a price!"
Although Nuanyun Fire Jade is not as valuable as Spiritual Crystal, its value is several times that of ordinary Spiritual Jade!
According to the market price, one Nuanyun Fire Jade can be worth five ordinary spiritual jades, which is equivalent to fifty spiritual stones.
The price offered by the snake demon tribe, even if it is just a deposit, is equivalent to 250,000 spirit stones!
Even if Li Xun just won the Grandmaster Battle recently, his net worth is only 90,000 spiritual stones!
"Okay, I'll get it for them!"
Li Xun's eyes narrowed slightly, and his left hand tightened suddenly, making the palm of his hand as soft as the white dough in a chef's hand when kneading dough, and a smooth and tender snow-white color spilled out from between his fingers.
"I'm afraid they have life to harvest, but not life to spend!"
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