The mountain pass, the Marshal's Mansion in the city, and the lobby of the Rear Mansion are still empty. In the silence, the roaring sound suddenly echoed.
"Brother, are we just going to keep waiting like this? We don't have the initiative, but sudden changes will inevitably happen."
Dazzling sunlight shone in from outside the door, making the lobby bright. Hong Linying sat on a large chair and shook her somewhat reflective bald head.
"That guy was not only cautious, but also very slippery. In the following times, he only fed back his thoughts to us through a few verbal messages from Liu Chengyong and the letters he brought to confirm each other.
Liu Chengyong's oral messages often contained a few key sentences, but in his letters he never mentioned the exercises or his escape. He only said that if there was good wine next time, he would bring the secret bacon at home to drink together. Be careful. pole.
He was afraid that the letter would fall into Ji Wenhe's hands and he would have some leverage. We gave him a way to escape last time, but he rejected it... "
Hong Linying said helplessly that he had given Li Yan advice, but he rejected it.
He asked Li Yan to send people disguised as Meng Guo's assassins to sneak into the city the next time and come to assassinate our important officials. Unexpectedly, he met Li Yan on the street and recognized him as Ji Wenhe's disciple, and then I first made Chen An and Li Yin on the street.
Then he hid Li Yan in a secret passage for one to two months. After Ji Wenhe searched for it for a long time without any results, he could only ignore the matter.
When the time came, Li Yan would give the skills to Hong Linying and then quietly send him to escape. However, Li Yan firmly refused to agree. This ended Hong Linying's plan to capture him and use coercion and inducement.
"Senior brother, if you don't wait until he comes to the city next time, I will pretend to be an assassin and take him directly, and then find an opportunity to take him to the secret room."
"I have considered your idea, but there are some problems with this. After being captured forcefully, will he cooperate? Can he give us the exercises? Will he be tortured then
In the end, who can guarantee that he will not feel resentful? If there are a few changes in the exercises, it will be a disaster for practitioners of internal skills and mental methods. "
"This won't work, that won't work either. It's really irritating. I don't believe he can't tell the truth under my hands."
"Junior brother, please be patient and wait for a while. If it doesn't work, we will have no choice but to do this."
Hong Linying patted his bald head with his hand.
At this time, footsteps were suddenly heard outside. After a while, the footsteps stopped outside the door, and then there was an announcement from outside the door.
"Commander, Captain Liu is here to see you."
"Oh? He's here, call him in quickly!"
Hong Linying sat up straight, a strange color flashed in his eyes.
Chen An and Li Yin looked at Li Yan galloping ahead with shameful expressions on their faces, and got off their mounts helplessly.
He chased after him amid a series of "bang, bang, clang, clang..." sounds.
After entering the city today, Li Yan not only bought some clothes, but was also very interested in some things from Liu Chengyong's army.
Finally, the horses of Chen An and Li Yin were covered with helmets, armor, and military boots. The most embarrassing thing was that there was a large pot and a large spoon hanging on the horse's buttocks.
Chen An covered his face at the malicious looks in the military camp. In a state of embarrassment, he hurried towards the north gate amidst the sound of "clang, clang, clang".
After they entered the Military Advisor's Mansion, they walked towards the inner valley again amid astonished and sighing eyes, but this time they even had to lead the horses in.
As soon as they entered the valley, a spiritual consciousness swept over them. When the divine consciousness swept over the two war horses, the spiritual consciousness immediately trembled, and then shrank back as if it was not in sight.
Li Yan was walking in front, and when he felt that the spiritual consciousness was withdrawn, he couldn't help but sneer on his lips. Behind him, Chen An and Li Yin lowered their heads and led their horses into the valley, looking like they didn't want to get closer to him.
"I'll let you clean it. Every time I come back, I'll bring more things for you to clean."
Li Yan thought in his mind.
Then, he turned back carelessly, pointed to the outside of his house and said.
"Put everything out there for today."
Chen An and Li Yin looked at it and said with sad faces.
"Sir, your door is almost blocked!"
At the door of the stone house where Li Yan lived, there were two or three wooden cabinets standing at the door. The wooden cabinet doors were wide open, but they were filled with farm tools such as plows, rakes, shovels, and stone mortars.
There was also a candied haws stick leaning against the door, with a lot of dried candied haws on it. This was the last time Li Yan got into the city and brought back a candied haws sold in a pot.
"What nonsense are you talking about? I just put it away when I asked you to. Should I put it in the house? Then how can I sleep?"
Li Yan began to look at the two of them with evil eyes.
"Okay, let it go!"
Chen An and Li Yin trembled and quickly agreed.
Immediately, amid the sound of jingling bells, the debris on the ground was unloaded, and then Chen An and Li Yin quickly led their horses and fled away.
From beginning to end, there was no movement or anyone opening the door and coming out of the first stone house.
Li Yan nodded with satisfaction, then walked around the things on the ground a few times, then picked up the helmet and armor and made some gestures on his body.
After a while, as if he was not satisfied, he threw it into the pile again with a bang, muttered a few words, then turned and walked into the house.
After entering the house, Li Yan poured a glass of water, took a sip, then lay down on the bed and closed his eyes lazily, looking satisfied.
In fact, he was in a state of confusion at this time. It had been more than half a month since he last made a decision. Today, he went to the city to find Liu Chengyong and handed him the letter.
One and a half months after the letter, during the farming season, the uncle at home will bring Li Yan's family's secret marinated meat. He will pick up the meat first at noon, and it will take about an hour on the road, so Liu Chengyong will prepare the high-quality meat first. liquor.
At that time, they would go to the wine shop to drink together. If the wine was not good, he would take the cured meat back and enjoy it himself.
These were also some of the code words he had agreed with Hong Linying, and they meant just that.
"He planned to escape a month and a half later, when farming started (the Beginning of Summer). Hong Linying needed to find a reason to move the third division from the valley for about an hour at noon.
After that, Li Yan will find Liu Chengyong and take action, and if everything goes well, he will hand over the technique to them. "
When he really decided on all this, he started to feel nervous. When he came back, he lay on the bed and closed his eyes to calm the turmoil in his heart.
And his real decision was not to escape on his own, but to plan how to kill Ji Junshi so as not to lose his trace and bring harm to his family. Although he had gone through repeated planning for several months, to this day, Li Yan still had a very slim chance of winning, thinking of the frightening martial arts of the legendary Master Ji.
No, it should be said that it was magic. He was not sure at all. Although he had never seen magic such as Wood Thorn Technique, Fire Bullet Technique, and Wind Blade Technique, just hearing these names made him feel powerless.
But he didn't have any more time to prepare. Judging from Ji Junshi's complexion, Li Yan believed that Ji Junshi would come to see him in up to half a year.
Facing a magician who knew magic and was ready to kill him, he had no chance of winning at that time. Now, if he is caught by surprise, there is still a possibility of surviving in death.
The worst case scenario was death. He really died in front of him. It was probably that Master Ji was only thinking about how to seize the time to save his life, and had no intention of dealing with his relatives anymore.
After lying on the bed for a long time, Li Yan felt that he felt calmer. He stood up and walked towards the pool outside the house...
As time goes by, catkins are flying, the sun is getting warmer, and hundreds of flowers are blooming in the valley. Some trees have shed their dark leaves and replaced them with tender green buds.
The third army commander looked into the valley and touched his forehead with his hand. Li Yan transplanted almost all the wild flowers around the valley.
Now from the water pool to the south to the foot of the mountain, and then from the water pool to the north to a few feet in front of the stone house, there are colorful wild flowers everywhere, big, small, tall, short...
The various mixed aromas in this warm spring were so rich that it made one dizzy. Even when he was in the house, his nose was filled with the fragrance of various flowers.
He shook his head and looked at the pool among the flowers, where Li Yan's breath was practicing steadily. At this time, his breath seemed to have broken through the middle of the first layer of Qi Condensation.
"Now you can do whatever you want. If you keep practicing like this, you will probably be able to break through to the peak of the first level of Qi Condensation in another half a year. By then, no matter whether you have reached the peak of the first level, you have to give it a try!"
Now, in order to suppress the fire poison, it is a problem for me to use more than 30% of my spiritual power.
After a year, it is estimated that only 20% of the spiritual power can be used. 20% of the spiritual power is already the minimum requirement to deal with the peak of the first level of Qi Condensation. Otherwise, if it is delayed for some time, it will be impossible to know who can suppress whom.
Ji Junshi stood on the edge of the flowers with his hands behind his hands, his dark face filled with a ferocious look.
Half an hour later, around midnight, Li Yan walked out of the pool, went back to the house and changed into a clean black robe, and then came to the front of the first stone house.
"Teacher, I want to go to the city today. I haven't brought the silver from last month to my family yet."
"Go ahead!"
A voice came from inside the house. Master Ji was used to Li Yan's behavior of leaving the valley for half a month or a month. Anyway, every time he came back, he would improve his cultivation for a period of time and his spirit would be stable for a period of time.
Li Yan bowed and planned to go back to the house to take some silver and go out, but at this moment, the hesitant voice of Master Ji came from behind.
"Disciple, you... After you enter the city this time, try to leave as much silver as possible for your family. Don't waste it on useless things. Every time you bring back big and small bags of things, I don't see how much you have used. ”
After Li Yan was stunned for a moment, he smiled knowingly, turned around and replied again.
"Teacher, don't worry I won't buy a lot."
"oh"
There was silence in the room.
Not long after, I heard a commotion outside the valley, and Chen An and Li Yin led their horses away amidst shouts and shouts...
When it was almost noon, inside the Military Advisor's Mansion.
"Sir, someone in the city is looking for you. Marshal Hong asked you to come over and say that we have something important to discuss."
"It's almost noon, what's the big deal?"
Inside the room, Master Ji opened his eyes with confusion on his face.
Since returning from Daqingshan half a year ago, he has gone to the city once every few days instead of once every ten days, or even only once every half a month. He usually meditates in the valley and regulates his breath.
He had just entered the city two days ago to discuss the deployment of Meng's military defense. Why did he have to go again today? Although he didn't want to go, he still wanted to use this place for now, so he really couldn't ignore it.
Thinking of this, Master Jijun stood up and walked out.
Li Yan looked at the sun, and then smiled at Li Yu and Li Shan who were sitting at the same table. Today, there were only three of him at the table, but no one else was called. Chen An and Li Yin were sent to a separate table not far away.
"Li Yu, in the past six months, I have seen that your cooking skills have really improved a lot. Now you have moved from being a helper to being a full-time cook. I hope I can eat your cooking as soon as possible, hehehe..."
Li Yu said with a blush.
"Brother Yan, I'm still a long way from being a cook! Well... I guess I'll wait for another year or so, and maybe I can start learning. Then I'll cook whatever you want."
"Okay, Brother Yan will definitely come to eat when the time comes."
Speaking of this, Li Yan's face showed a slightly imperceptible look of loneliness.
Li Yu and Li Shan really didn't notice these changes in him. Half of their minds were on the delicious food on the table. Every time Li Yan came to the city, he always invited them to have a good meal, which made them very happy.
Li Yan just paused for a moment, then looked at Li Shan with a smile.
"Li Shan, where is the belt I asked you to buy for me last time? Have you bought it?"
Li Shan's cheeks bulged from what he was eating, he raised his head, smiled, and said vaguely.
"Yes, yes, it's here."
As he spoke, he reached into his arms with one hand, took out a belt and handed it to Li Yan.
Li Yan reached out and took it. It was a purple belt as wide as a palm. He stood up happily, took off the black belt around his waist, and tied the purple belt on easily. Paired with his black robe, it really looked... He looks a bit handsome and handsome.
Chen An and Li Yin raised their heads and glanced here, then lowered their heads to drink. They were speechless at this man's shopping addiction. They were crazy and wanted to buy everything. After buying it, they would not use it at all. Not a few pieces.
Li Yan hesitated for a moment and handed the original black belt to Li Shan.
"Li Shan, please give this and the silver I gave you earlier to my uncle who comes to the city next time and ask them to bring it to my parents."
After speaking, his tone actually became a little lower.
Li Shan and Li Yu looked up at each other and felt that something was wrong with Li Yan today.