Qi Donglai seemed to have just returned from the National Martial Arts Hall. He was still wearing a gray training suit and holding something wrapped in paper in his hand, which seemed to be food. He walked from the corner of the street and did not notice that there was a pair of eyes staring at him on the second floor of an old tavern on the street.
Not everyone has practiced the Yi Jin Xi Sui Jing, so not everyone can sense the gaze of others.
After not seeing each other for a long time and having severed his relationship with Wang Haofei, Ye Xiao and others, Qi Donglai was completely lost among the new students in the National Martial Arts Hall which was full of talented people. He had no chance to stand out and few people even knew his name.
Qi Donglai returned to his rented house at night. In Yan Liqiang's eyes, he looked desolate and miserable.
After dealing with Wang Haofei, Mo Leng, and Ye Xiao, Yan Liqiang finally had time to deal with this most inconspicuous but also the most dangerous person.
Qi Donglai was like a poisonous snake hiding in the dark. If Yan Liqiang had not experienced it once, he probably would not have known that such a character could bring such great harm to him.
Seeing Qi Donglai turn and enter an alley on the side of the street, Yan Liqiang turned around and called the waiter, paid the money, then slowly went downstairs and walked into the alley at a leisurely pace.
The alley was narrow, secluded, dark, and winding. Yan Liqiang didn't need to walk forward. In such a dark night, he only needed to listen with his ears to accurately capture Qi Donglai's footsteps.
These days, Yan Liqiang has been constantly practicing the two external skills of eye and ear skills from the Yi Jin Xi Sui Jing. He feels that he is making great progress every day. The sensitivity of his ears and eyes has reached a great level compared to two months ago.
The house where Qi Donglai lives is very old and not very close to the National Martial Arts Museum. Compared to the area near Sanyuan Street, the only reason Qi Donglai lives here seems to be that the rent here is cheaper.
After a while, Yan Liqiang heard Qi Donglai's footsteps stop. As the footsteps in front stopped, Yan Liqiang also stopped.
Then, there was the sound of a lock being unlocked, followed by the creaking sound of a door opening, and then the sound of a door being closed...
After a few seconds, Yan Liqiang walked forward silently, turned a corner in the alley, and saw lights on in an old house. This was where Qi Donglai lived.
Yan Liqiang waited for a moment and was about to go over when he noticed a few more people coming over from the other side of the alley, holding lanterns and walking past the house where Qi Donglai rented. He waited for a while after those people had passed and saw that there was no one on either side of the alley. Then he quickly slipped out from the darkness and came to Qi Donglai's house. He looked around and jumped up. He stepped on the wall on the left side of the alley with both feet and the whole person rose more than one meter. Then he stepped on the wall on the right side of the alley and jumped up more than one meter again. After stepping on it several times in a row, his body quickly rose up, first touching the window sill that was more than five meters from the ground, and then hugging the eaves of the house. Like a big bird, he silently flipped over to the eaves of the house and lay down all at once.
The place where Qi Donglai rented had a very small yard, which was full of miscellaneous items. On the four sides of the yard were four tiled houses. Among the four tiled houses, three were severely damaged and leaked, and only one was still habitable. The light was coming from the only room that was still habitable.
Yan Liqiang was like a gecko. He crouched down on the roof, trying to distribute his body weight to his limbs as much as possible. Then he climbed gently to the top of the lighted room, quietly lifted the tiles, and observed and confirmed the situation below from the light that came out from the cracks between the tiles.
Looking down from above, because of the perspective, he could only see Qi Donglai's head and shoulders, and could not see Qi Donglai's face clearly. However, even if it was just a head, he could confirm that the person below was Qi Donglai.
Qi Donglai was sitting at the table in the room at this moment, eating pickles and munching on cold steamed buns.
Yan Liqiang looked around again and found that there was no one else in the room except Qi Donglai.
This is the best way, so you don’t have to worry when you take action.
In prison, when they chop off a prisoner's head, they give him a full meal to prevent him from starving to death. So at this time, Yan Liqiang was not in a hurry and waited for Qi Donglai to finish eating a few steamed buns before making any decision.
I don’t know if it was because he ate too fast or the steamed buns were too cold to swallow, but when Qi Donglai was eating the second steamed bun, he suddenly choked on it. He hit his chest twice, then stood up, walked quickly to a table next to him, picked up the kettle on the table, tilted his head back, and gulped down the water in the kettle into his mouth...
"Cough... cough..." He swallowed the steamed bun, but the water that came too quickly choked him and he started coughing violently while holding onto the table. The blood vessels in his neck bulged out from coughing.
"Bang..." The kettle he had just used to drink water from was smashed hard onto the ground, breaking into hundreds of pieces and shattering into pieces.
"Just wait, one day, I will make all of you kneel in front of me. Yan Liqiang, don't be complacent, I will make you regret it in the future..." Qi Donglai let out a low growl like a wild wolf.
The cold steamed buns on the table had not been finished yet, but at this time, Qi Donglai had no interest in eating them anymore. He sat weakly in the chair, gasping violently for a while before slowly calming down.
Looking at Qi Donglai like this, Yan Liqiang's eyes slowly turned cold. Qi Donglai was indeed a poisonous snake with a twisted heart.
Just as Yan Liqiang was about to climb down from the roof, quickly move in to deal with Qi Dong, and then disguise everything as Qi Dong's suicide scene, Yan Liqiang suddenly heard a strange noise coming from nearby - the noise was like the wind blowing through a fluttering flag, but it was even lighter than that sound. There was no flagpole nearby and the wind was very weak, so that sound was not the sound of a flag being blown by the wind, but the sound of a person's clothes being torn by the wind - this is the sign of a master, and Yan Liqiang asked himself if he could reach such a level yet.
If Yan Liqiang was not too close and his hearing and eyesight were not more sensitive than those of ordinary people, he would not have been able to hear it.
The oil lamp burning under the house flickered, and then there was one more person in Qi Donglai's room.
Yan Liqiang was startled. The moment he saw that person appear, he instinctively held his breath and squinted his eyes. He moved his gaze away from the person and looked at the ground next to him to avoid being noticed.
Judging from his clothes, the man was wearing a constable's uniform and hat. Although his face could not be seen clearly, it could be seen that the man had very broad shoulders.
Yan Liqiang never knew that there was such a master hidden in the patrol office in Pingxi City.
“Master…” Qi Donglai, who was sitting on a chair, saw this person appear. His body suddenly jumped up like a spring and he quickly saluted the man respectfully.
The man glanced around the room, and when he saw the broken kettle on the ground, he raised his hand without hesitation and slapped Qi Donglai hard in the face, causing blood to flow from the corner of Qi Donglai's mouth. "How many times have I told you to learn to control your emotions? You can't even control your emotions now, how can you accomplish great things?"
The voice was hoarse and low, a voice Yan Liqiang had never heard before.
"Yes, I know I was wrong..." Qi Donglai wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, lowered his head, and looked submissive.
"Do you still remember the Yan Liqiang I asked you to pay attention to before?"
"Remember, didn't Master ask me to keep an eye on him? But something happened to the young master of the Wang family and the son of the county governor a few days ago, and he hasn't been to the National Martial Arts Hall for a long time, so..."
"Let's not talk about the past. I've already received news that the old man of the Lu family is going to marry Lu Beixin to Yan Liqiang, and Wang Haofei is getting close to Lu Beixin in order to marry her to Ye Xiao. I asked you to pay attention to Yan Liqiang because I wanted you to use Yan Liqiang as a stepping stone to get close to Wang Haofei and Ye Xiao, and eventually become the confidant of the county governor's son. I didn't expect that so many things happened in Pingxi City in just a few days. Wang Haofei and Ye Xiao are both dead. All our previous efforts have been wasted..."
"Ah, the old man of the Lu family wants to marry Lu Beixin to Yan Liqiang..." Qi Donglai's tone was full of jealousy. It was the first time he heard this news and he seemed a little surprised.
“Hmm…” The man in the constable’s clothes nodded.
"Then I wonder why the master came to see me today..."
"How's your training of the fatal kick sequence I taught you?"
"I have already reached the fifth level a few days ago..."
"Well, keep going, this skill will become more and more powerful as you progress. Once you advance to a warrior, I will pass on the rest to you!"
"yes!"
"Did Yan Liqiang come back to your martial arts hall today?"
"Yes, I heard that!"
"Yan Liqiang has now been promoted by Sun Bingchen to be a personal attendant. His status is completely different now. I will give you a task now. No matter what, you must find a way to get close to Yan Liqiang. It would be best if you can become Yan Liqiang's friend like before. I wonder if you can do it?"
"Ah..." Qi Donglai was shocked and embarrassed. "Master, I have completely offended Yan Liqiang because of the Hong family's affairs last time. He has already hated me and severed all ties with me. At this time, how can I gain his trust again..."
"For the sake of our Holy Church, this little thing is nothing. Besides, Yan Liqiang is just a teenager now. The mind of a teenager is always changeable. As long as we find a way to make you his friend again, it won't be difficult!"
(End of this chapter)