"… How do you know?" Li Li tightened his cheeks, his expression was forbearing and restrained, his whole face was stiff and cold, only the storm brewing in his eyes revealed his true emotions. He clenched his huge fist hanging at his side, "Who are you?"
The last "three words" were full of hostility.
It seemed as if Qishan’s head could be twisted off in the next second!
Without saying a word, Shen Tang stepped forward and stood in front of Qi Shan, looking at Li Li with vigilance, guarding against him suddenly attacking and hurting people. The black-faced man who followed Shen Tang like a young wife also felt the danger and oppression, lowered his pig head, and groaned.
Qishan's expression looked strange for a moment.
He first patted Shen Tang on the shoulder, signaling that Young Master Shen did not need to be so alert, then looked up into Li Li's eyes and said slowly: "I am Qishan, Qi Yuanliang, I am afraid that the warrior has misunderstood, Shan is not your enemy..."
Not even a love rival...
That "poisonous spider" will shorten the life of anyone who comes into contact with it.
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He has a little bit of relationship with Li Li, but it's a kind of relationship that takes eighty-one detours, not a direct acquaintance.
When Qishan was on the run, he had a very miserable time and was once supported by a lady.
This lady is the sister of the former county magistrate, the famous "Poison Spider" - nicknamed Mrs. Mei.
It was through this relationship that he learned that Poison Spider had kept a lover named Li Li a few years ago and doted on him. If he didn't dote on him, he probably wouldn't have spent a lot of money to find someone to repair an old painting that was accidentally exposed to the rain.
Well, this short-term job of restoring old paintings helped Qishan get out of poverty overnight, and he also used the connections of Poison Spider to do some "small things".
The words that Qishan had recited earlier were from the old painting.
The second half of Dongpo Jushi's poem Ding Fengbo - After a long journey, I look even more pale. When I smile, I still carry the fragrance of Lingnan plum blossoms. I wonder if Lingnan is not good. But I say, this place where my heart is at peace is my hometown.
When he saw the old painting, he felt that it had some story.
I never thought that one day I would see another protagonist.
Li Li pursed his lips and said nothing.
But the look he gave Qishan was still complicated.
The young scholar in front of him was indeed the type that the lady liked the most before, handsome and talented.
He hesitated: "That lady... is she okay?"
Qi Shan had a strange expression on his face: "Do you think she might be a bad person?"
Anyway, life is much better than Lili's.
Li Li choked: "..."
Indeed, his question was somewhat redundant.
He was silent for a few breaths, and then he murmured slowly, "Yes, I asked the wrong question. I just hope Madam is doing well now."
Qishan: “…”
Whether that lady is living a good life or not, I'm afraid only she herself knows the answer, but from outsiders' perspective, it must be pretty good.
When Sibao County was conquered by Zheng Qiao, the former county governor fled to another country with his family. In order to gain a foothold in the new place, he tried his best to integrate into the local circle and pay homage to the local community.
Coincidentally, the crown prince of a neighboring country had admired this "poisonous spider" for a long time and proposed to take a concubine, but was sternly rejected by the "poisonous spider".
She refused, and the former county magistrate was targeted everywhere.
The former county magistrate was furious: Why don't you agree? It's just another concubine for you, so what's the point of agreeing
The poisonous spider scoffed at this argument.
I am willing to keep a lover, but brother, can a man who is forced upon me by others be called a 'lover'
It wasn't long before he returned to his romantic days.
Even if the crown prince wanted to see her, it depended on her mood.
When has the crown prince ever been rejected like this
It's not that he had never thought about robbing her, but this "poisonous spider" was extremely good at making friends and had a large circle of friends. In a short period of time, she got to know many celebrities and powerful officials, some of whom admired her beauty or talent, and some of them were political enemies of the crown prince.
Even if I want to move, I dare not act rashly.
So it dragged on like this for half a year.
I won’t go into all the details, just the results.
This crown prince was Qi Shan’s former boss.
_(:з)∠)_
Li Li: "When did you meet her?"
"Three or four years ago, I helped her repair a painting. Thanks to the financial support from the lady, we got through the difficult times." Although he was grateful, Qi Shan was still quite afraid of this woman. He couldn't say why, it was just his intuition.
When Li Li heard this, his expression became a little more turbulent.
"painting?"
He seemed to know which painting it was.
Shen Tang on the side was shocked.
"…Wait, you know each other?"
Is time speeding up again
Why couldn't she understand the development of the plot all of a sudden
How many connections does Qi Yuanliang have that she doesn't know about? Why does he keep running into his former "old lover" wherever he goes
Zhai Le also said he didn't understand.
The onlookers, on the other hand, relied on gossip and imagination to guess three-tenths of the truth, and the remaining ninety-seven percent were completely different from the truth.
They also secretly hoped that Qishan and Lili would fight for the beauty they loved, so as to provide them with some gossip and topic for their after-dinner conversation.
It was a pity that no fight broke out in the end.
Qishan: “I don’t know him, but I know the same person.”
Li Li lowered his head, not knowing what he was thinking. He grabbed a handful of his messy hair and said suddenly, "Okay, I'll go with you."
Shen Tang: “…”
Once again, she suspected someone had pressed the accelerator button.
There were only three people and two pigs when they arrived.
When they left, there were about seventy or eighty people and two pigs.
Qishan was very picky and he chose more than 70 people after careful selection. Fifty of them were men between the ages of 15 and 20, and the rest were women between the ages of 30 and 50. They were good at needlework and had experience in farming, which was exactly what Qishan needed.
Before leaving, Shen Tang did one more thing.
She went to the previous place and took away the woman's child.
The woman looked at her son reluctantly and greedily.
Shen Tang couldn't bear it: "Madam, you must take good care of yourself, so that mother and son can be reunited one day in the future..."
The woman seemed to have grasped the last straw, and her cloudy and weak eyes burst into a bright color: "Really?"
Shen Tang nodded: "Really."
After the woman staggered away, Li Li frowned as he looked at the body that was stuffed into his hands: "This child is dead..."
Libido spots appeared.
Shen Tang sighed: "I know."
I was thinking of taking the child back and burying him in the back mountain. If I just buried him somewhere randomly, I was worried that someone would dig him out.
Zhai Le knew Shen Tang’s plan.
Said: "Brother Shen is kind."
Kind? Shen Tang did not comment on this evaluation on the surface, but she was sneering in her heart, as if a voice whispered like a devil in her mind - if he was really kind, why didn't he save the woman as well? Why did he just bring back a corpse
On the way back, Li Li secretly observed Shen Tang and his group.
In today's world, if you buy so many people at once and bring them back, you must be from a wealthy family or have other motives. After all, one more person means one more mouth to feed, which is something that ordinary people cannot afford.
Just as he was thinking, the young man in black suddenly spoke up: "With a strength like that of a warrior, it's not an exaggeration to say that he is born with supernatural power. His talent must be strong too. Why doesn't he practice martial arts to strengthen his body?"
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