When Yan Liqiang came to the Artisan Camp, he still lived upstairs in the small courtyard where he had lived before.
After a long talk with Qian Su, Yan Liqiang had a better understanding of the Ganzhou officialdom and the situation of the Ye family. At the same time, he became more and more certain that this time, Ye Tiancheng would most likely not be able to continue to stay in the position of Pingxi County Magistrate. However, it was not realistic to completely overthrow Ye Tiancheng through this incident.
The Ganzhou Ye family is a big tree with deep roots and tangled connections. Among Ye Tiancheng's generation alone, there are many people in the Ye family who are doing well in the Ganzhou officialdom. From Qian Su's mouth, Yan Liqiang heard the term "three leaves". The so-called "three leaves" are the three representatives of the Ganzhou Ye family who have reached the highest official ranks in Ye Tiancheng's generation. Ye Tiancheng is the governor of Pingxi County, Ye Tianhao is the judge of the Ganzhou Criminal Arrest Office, and Ye Tianfa is the governor of the Weiyuan County Governor's Office. These "three leaves" of the Ye family cover all the military, political, and judicial aspects. How could such a wealthy and powerful family let Ye Tiancheng fall headfirst in Pingxi County and be unable to get up
Not only that, Qian Su said that the Ye family seemed to have some relationship with the current prime minister of the Han Empire. With such a powerful backer, there were only a handful of people in the entire Pingxi County who dared to touch the Ye family.
The Ganzhou Governor Lei Sitong had not been in office for long, less than five years. For a new governor, it was inevitable that Lei Sitong was dissatisfied with the Ye family. One was a powerful dragon coming from across the river, and the other was a local snake. It was almost impossible to say that there were no conflicts and frictions between the two sides.
Qian Su said that behind the new governor of Ganzhou stood a big shot in the Senate of the Han Empire. However, Qian Su was not too sure about this statement because he also heard it from others. He was not very clear about the details. After all, Qian Su's position allowed him to know a lot of news in the officialdom, but it was not realistic to say how deep the inside story was.
However, for Yan Liqiang, knowing these is enough. At this stage, as long as Ye Tiancheng can be driven away, his "revenge plan" will be perfectly concluded. He does not want to create any more trouble. After all, the fundamental purpose of his "revenge plan" is to protect himself and his relatives and friends around him. Now this goal has been fully achieved. If he continues to bite Ye Tiancheng and the Ye family for no reason, he will only bring himself and the people around him into new dangers, which is putting the cart before the horse.
If there were no Ye Xiao and Wang Haofei, perhaps Ye Tiancheng and the Ye family would never have any intersection in their lives. The two sides were almost completely from two different worlds. As an ordinary citizen, he had no business what the Ye family was like or who had the backing behind them. Now that Ye Xiao and Wang Haofei were dead, the possible intersection and conflict between him and the Ye family had disappeared and no longer existed. As for the future, let's talk about it in the future.
Perhaps at this time, Pingxi County Magistrate Ye Tiancheng still felt wronged, because he couldn't understand no matter how hard he tried, why so many things happened in just a few days, and he was suddenly put on the fire.
That night, Yan Liqiang slept soundly and dreamlessly in the small building.
The next day, Yan Liqiang woke up early in the morning. After finishing his morning lessons, he went to the canteen of the craftsman camp to have a little breakfast as he did in the past. Then he went up the mountain alone and went to the old place to practice the Yi Jin Xi Sui Jing again.
In the past, Yan Liqiang had to find a reason to go up the mountain to practice, but now, he didn't even need to find a reason, because everyone in the entire craftsman camp knew that he was a student of the National Martial Arts Academy. As a student of the National Martial Arts Academy, practice was naturally his first priority. Knowing that Yan Liqiang was going up the mountain to practice, the people in the craftsman camp were not only not surprised, but several supervisors and managers also specifically ordered that the people in the craftsman camp should not go to the mountain for no reason, so as not to disturb Yan Liqiang's practice. The area of the craftsman camp close to the top of the mountain would be Yan Liqiang's exclusive practice site in the future.
This is the VIP treatment in the Artisan Camp!
It will snow tomorrow. The weather on November 17th has become even colder, especially on the mountain. Many plants have withered, and the temperature on the top of the mountain is even lower, making people shiver. Yan Liqiang came to the top of the mountain wearing only a light martial arts warrior uniform. At the beginning, he could still feel a little chill, but after he began to practice Yi Jin Xi Sui Jing, he could no longer feel the chill in the air. The invisible spiritual energy between heaven and earth poured in from the top of his head and began to cleanse his internal organs, tendons, muscles and bones, making his whole body slowly heat up. He felt as comfortable as if he was soaking in a hot spring, and could not feel any chill at all...
Yan Liqiang practiced with full concentration. His current goal was to advance to a warrior as quickly as possible and complete the most important transformation in his life.
Yan Liqiang practiced Yi Jin Xi Sui Jing five times in one morning. At the end, his muscles and bones were burning hot. The tendons in his body were surging and trembling like a giant dragon awakening. His joints were as if lubricated. They were more flexible when opening and closing. Yan Liqiang could even feel that he could control the extension and contraction of the vertebrae on his spine...
According to his "previous" experience, Yan Liqiang knew that he had already touched the threshold to pass the level. At this rate, at most in another week, which means practicing the I Ching Xisui Jing about seventy or eighty times, he would be able to pass the level of stretching the tendons and pulling the bones, and at the same time open up his Dantian and advance to the level of a warrior.
After practicing the Yi Jing Xi Sui Jing several times, Yan Liqiang saw that it was time for lunch, so he went down the mountain and everyone had lunch together.
After lunch, Yan Liqiang did not go up the mountain again. Instead, he played the circle pushing game happily again with Zhou Yong and others in the yard where the soldiers from the craftsman camp lived. The game had just been played for less than an hour when a soldier who was standing guard at the camp gate ran into the yard.
"Master Yan, your father has also arrived at the Artisan Camp..."
"Ah, my father is here, where is he?" Yan Liqiang pretended to be surprised. In fact, he knew that Yan Dechang would come back today.
"Well, I just arrived at the Artisan Camp, Mengkou. The camp supervisor asked me to call you..."
"Okay, brothers, you guys play, I'm going to go see my dad..."
"Okay, go ahead, go ahead..." Zhou Yong and the others smiled, "We'll come back another day..."
After saying goodbye to the soldiers, Yan Liqiang trotted out of the soldiers' yard and ran towards the gate of the craftsman camp. In the blink of an eye, he saw Yan Dechang again.
Yan Dechang was wearing a fur coat and looked exhausted. He was walking and talking with Qian Su. They had just entered the craftsmen's camp. Behind Yan Dechang was a security guard named Xu, who had been hired by the Yan family a few months ago. He was pulling a horse-drawn carriage.
"Dad..." Seeing Yan Dechang's weather-beaten face again, no matter how calm Yan Liqiang pretended to be, he couldn't help but feel a little sad.
"Ah, Liqiang, why are you here?" Yan Dechang was surprised. He never expected to see Yan Liqiang here.
"Young Master..." The Yan family guard who was pulling the carriage also hurriedly saluted Yan Li.
When Yan Liqiang was in Pingxi City, he kept a low profile and lived a simple and frugal life. However, in Qinghe Town, the Yan family is no longer what it used to be. It is now the most prominent wealthy family in the town. It is not an exaggeration for the security guard to call Yan Liqiang "Young Master".
"There's nothing to do at the National Martial Arts Hall these two days, so I came to see Uncle Qian. I was originally planning to go home to see you in two days..." Yan Liqiang smiled, took a deep breath, and held back the tears that were about to flow, "By the way, Dad, why are you here too!"
“Hahaha, senior brother, don’t tell me, let Li Qiang guess…” Qian Su interrupted with a smile.
Yan Liqiang smiled and glanced at the carriage. "I guess Uncle Qian must have found business for our blacksmith shop. Dad, this is your first time to deliver goods today. Is it possible that someone is interested in the scimitar I left behind..."
Qian Su and Yan Dechang looked at each other. Neither of them expected that Yan Liqiang could say it so easily.
“Forget it, I admit defeat. I really don’t know how you, senior brother, taught Li Qiang to be so good…” Qian Su shook his head and sighed.
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ps: Thanks again to the leader Yilu Binfen for his encouragement and support!
Tiger has not been in very good condition these past two days, so the updates have been a bit slow. There will only be one update today. Please forgive me. We will resume updating as normal tomorrow!
(End of this chapter)