When Qi Shan saw the style of the second letter, he was stunned.
He calculated the time with his fingers, rubbing his brows and muttering, "It turns out it's this time. Time flies."
Qishan was not in a hurry to open the two letters.
He rubbed the bruises on his waist and waited for a while. When he was sure that his master would not give him another big surprise, Qi Shan sat down with a grin. He raised his hand to pick up the heavy scroll, took out the carving knife to cut the dried clay, and confirmed that the rope under the clay had not been touched before continuing to untie the rope. The heavy scroll was spread out in his hands.
What caught my eyes was the handwriting of my master that was not presentable.
From the strokes of the handwriting, Qishan could also sense the writer's mood - excitement, anger, disorder, haste, and gnashing of teeth. Qishan pinched a piece of cake and put it in his mouth, his eyes moving from top to bottom and from right to left, reading ten lines at a glance.
He felt relieved after reading half of it.
The lord has time to talk so much nonsense, which shows that the front line is stable. Qishan slowed down his reading speed and patiently picked out one or two useful pieces of information from the pile of nonsense. He wanted to sigh as he read, and the clerk in the room was so nervous that he held his breath...
I am so curious, so curious that I am itching to death.
“Meow~~~”
A beautiful cat with a plump body, fluffy fur, and sleek hair stepped over the threshold with familiarity and walked to Qishan's side with graceful steps. Its tail flicked his right arm lightly, and Qishan raised it without even looking at it. The sleeves piled on his thighs unfolded, revealing a "small door". The cat jumped onto his thighs and found a comfortable position to lie down.
Qishan's arm dropped, and his right hand stroked the cat precisely.
The cat cooperated and turned over.
"When the weather gets hotter, the hair falls out even more."
Qishan's voice contained a hint of disdain.
Su Shang meowed in response as if he understood.
Qi Shan: "Well, I don't blame you. But you came back from somewhere and kept rubbing against me?"
I grabbed a piece of snack that Su Shang liked to eat.
He said earnestly, "Don't you know your own situation? From the beginning of the year to the end of the year, I really can't support you and your children and grandchildren without some savings. Tsk, are you angry already?"
Su Shang held his finger and tried to put it into his mouth.
It is a bully among foreign cats. Any local cat that provokes it will be scratched until it bleeds. It will leave two bloody holes when it bites with its mouth. But at this moment, it is carefully holding Qishan's finger, and licking the smell on it with its rough tongue from time to time.
Qishan could only read the letters with one hand.
Finally, the nonsense letter was about to be rolled up to the last few bamboo strips.
A few lines of scribbled words suddenly caught his eye without warning, successfully giving Qishan the shock of boiling water at 100 degrees.
The first shock—
Yuanliang, Qin Dali is coming.
The second shock -
Hehe, Qin Gongsu, also known as Dali. Do you know that Gongsu's way of writing is really like a cow mother opening the door for her calf, and the cow is home! Suck it, it smells so good!
Qishan's expression suddenly became blank.
The lord's mumblings behind him did not make him feel any more upset: Yuanliang, you are such a bad person, how could you instigate underage smoking? You know, looking at Gongsu's expression, he seems to want to smoke you with a cigarette...
Qishan’s eyes were rolling up to his head.
He wanted to refute his master. Although he was the one who taught Qin Li to smoke, Qin Gongsu at that time had nothing to do with being underage. At that time, Qin Gongsu had been in his twenties for who knows how many years. In his master's mouth, it seemed that he was misleading his students.
This realization made Qishan extremely unhappy.
If it is said that Qin Gongsu's joining made Qishan just unhappy - after all, Qin Li was indeed a talent, and he had been coveting his literary skills for a long time, and it would be more beneficial than disadvantageous for his lord to accept Qin Li, and even if Qin Li had a bad temper, he could still be educated - but the last question made Qishan explode!
Su Shang, who was lying on his legs, also screamed miserably.
My dear Yuanliang, let me ask you something. Do you know a middle-aged scholar named Cui Xiao, with the courtesy name Shanxiao
Cui Shanxiao, Cui Xiao.
Two of the three characters are familiar.
Qishan's brows were sometimes furrowed and sometimes relaxed.
It shows the owner's inner conflict at the moment.
In Qishan’s huge “circle of friends”, there are quite a few people with the surname “Cui”, there is more than one person with the given name “Xiao”, there are also plural people with the courtesy name “Shanxiao”, and there are even people with the same surname, given name, and courtesy name – after all, there are only so many words with good meanings, and the means of contraception are backward. A couple can only have five or six children in their lifetime, and the younger generations have to avoid naming their ancestors or living elders, and some even have to avoid famous figures.
The more restrictions there are, the more insufficient the font library will be.
It's normal to bump into something accidentally.
Being hit is not scary, what is scary is not being able to hit the person better than you.
but-
There is only one person who meets the requirements of "Cui, Shan, and Xiao" at the same time.
Of course, that Choi Sun Hyo’s name wasn’t Choi Hyo.
But this did not prevent Qishan from associating these two people together.
"Cui Shanxiao?" Qi Shan suddenly felt overwhelmed. He closed his eyes and murmured, "The Lord has confirmed his Wenxin seal, so this surname and courtesy name must be real. Only the name can be fake... Could it be that this is really the same person? If so..."
Qishan said as he saw the last sentence to add.
Oh, Shanxiao likes to hold a knife fan.
Chen Tang wanted to tell Qi Shan about his ways as a scholar, but the ways of a scholar are everyone's secrets. Unless Gu Chi or Luan Xin knew the answer directly, she, as the lord, would be unfair if she told the secret of subordinate A to subordinate B. The two of them might have a personal grudge. There is no such thing as a wall that is impenetrable. It would be bad if Cui Xiao knew about it.
Based on these considerations, she could only start with personal characteristics.
This feature alone is enough.
With a snap, Qi Shan covered his face with a slap, gritted his teeth and squeezed out Chen Tang's name: "Chen! You! Li!"
This is truly a good lord he has found!
His enemies were scattered all over the country, and she managed to gather them together, even including Cui Shanxiao.
Qi Shan felt that all the blood in his body was rushing to his brain.
I was stunned for a long time looking at the "bad news" brought by my lord.
In my heart, I kept telling myself: "Tan Lezheng, Tan Lezheng, Tan Lezheng, remember this is the lord you have chosen that you are most satisfied with. She is also the last lord. She is still young and has a naughty personality. It is normal for her to do things that make you angry. You should learn to be tolerant and not be harsh on children who are a generation younger than you. Teach her patiently and slowly, and she will definitely grow up to be the true lord of destiny. You can't let your anger get the better of you. You must remember that 'raising a child without teaching is the fault of the father; teaching without strictness is the laziness of the teacher'. As half of her teacher, you are half responsible for her behavior..."
Well, the other half of the responsibility lies with Chu Wuhui!
Qi Shan held his forehead with one hand and suddenly opened his eyes.
He slammed the table and said, "Yes, there is also Chu Wuhui!"
Qi Shan seemed to have found the crux of the problem, and he dug his fingers on the table: "Before the lord went to war, she hadn't recruited any strange people for a long time, but she recruited two in the past half year. Didn't Chu Wuhui check it out? He randomly recruited a poisonous snake like Cui Shanxiao and let him be with the lord? Chu Wuhui... You old man are very responsible!"
There is nothing wrong with Choi Sun-hyo's abilities.
What is problematic is Cui Shanxiao's way of being a scholar.
When it comes to the ability to kill his master, Cui Shanxiao is better than him.
Qishan's way of scholars has a prerequisite for activation, and it also constrains the master and the servant - if the master is suspicious, he will kill the master, and if the master and he are not suspicious, then he will be the master's puppet! Qishan's life is actually controlled by Chen Tang, and the binding force of this rule is second only to Chu Yao and Ning Yan. Cui Shanxiao is different. As long as he wants, he can become the master quietly.
You don’t have to bear any backlash after you’re done.
No one could even find out that he did it.
Qi Shan's heart was pounding, and he couldn't help but worry about Chen Tang.
He was worried that Cui Shanxiao had other plans to get close to his master, and he was also worried that if something happened, Cui Shanxiao would implicate his master who was not on guard. He was different from Liao Jia, Qin Li, Jiang Sheng, Xun Zhen and even Gu Chi in the matter of Cui Shanxiao. The latter ones were either able to let go or they looked at the overall situation and could distinguish between personal grudges and official affairs. On the other hand, Cui Shanxiao was vindictive, petty-minded, and ruthless...
Qi Shan held his chin with one hand in distress and tapped the table with the other hand. The messy rhythm of the "dong dong dong" sound was exactly like his mood at the moment.
"Tsk, we still need to think of a way..."
He had three plans in mind.
The best strategy is for him to strike first!
Qi Shan used the pseudonym "Qu Tan" back then, and his appearance was fake. At that time, his physique was not yet that of an adult, and the two of them might not recognize him as the "Qu Tan" of the past if they were face to face now. While Cui Shanxiao didn't know his true identity, he killed him quietly, destroyed his body, and eliminated all traces of his crime.
The middle strategy is to hide your identity for life.
Qishan didn't plan to bring "Tan Qu" back to life anyway. Not many people knew his secret, and the few who knew were close to him. But there is no wall that is impenetrable. Kang Jishou, his cheap cousin, called him by his real name when he was in a bad mood. If he called him out in front of Cui Shanxiao one day, wouldn't that be a disaster
As for the next step...
He blocked Choi Sun-hyo's mouth before his vest was exposed!
Well, it’s not the mouth that’s blocked, it’s the hands!
Let Cui Shanxiao owe me, the "Qi Yuanliang", a huge favor. If my identity is accidentally exposed, won't the old man have nothing to say? Even if we can't make up for the past, we can just treat him as air. The two sides can just never have any contact with each other!
Qishan’s mind was turning around and around in thought of the best strategy.
After hesitating for a long time, so long that Su Shang lost his patience and left him, Qi Shan sighed helplessly and shifted his mind from the best strategy, passed the middle strategy, and finally - settled on the worst strategy.
He muttered reluctantly: "I am also sacrificing for the lord's cause. If Cui Shanxiao sets a bad precedent of killing people to silence them, it will inevitably make Jiang Sheng and others panic, and it will also affect the lord's recruitment of talents in the future... For Cui Shanxiao, there is no need to do this. Yes, that's it..."
Qishan sighed and prepared to clean up the mess for his lord.
And also wipe the ass for my younger self.
Before meeting Chen Tang, Qi Shan never believed in karma, but now he has to believe it, she is the "blessing"!
Qi Shan wiped the sweat off his forehead with his sleeve stained with cat hair and barely convinced himself. He just picked up the second letter on the table and opened it, and Liao Jia's voice came from outside the hall: "Yuan Liang, I just heard that the war report from the front line has been delivered, is it..."
Liao Jia's words came to an abrupt end.
His eyes fell on the letter with yellow words on a black background.
Qi Shan also looked up at him, realizing what he was holding in his hands. He was anxious to put the letter away, but Liao Jia strode forward and snatched it away. Liao Jia looked at the letter and then at Qi Shan: "Qi Yuanliang, when did you... become involved with it?"
Qi Shan simply admitted: "It has always been there."
As he said this, he pulled the letter back.
Liao Jia lowered his voice and asked, "Does the Lord know?"
Qi Shan was puzzled: "Why does my lord want to know?"
Liao Jia was speechless at his obvious question and whispered in his ear: "Ordinary people don't know the true nature of the gods... I don't believe that you, Qi Yuanliang, don't know! Are you an insider?"
If that's the case, it makes sense.
From an angle that Qishan couldn't see, Liao Jia began to harbor murderous intent.
Qi Shan pushed him away and said, "What nonsense are you talking about?"
Liao Jia said: "Do you dare to say you are not?"
Qi Shan turned his head away: "Of course I'm not."
Liao Jia was so angry that he poked his finger at the pattern on the lower right corner of the letter - there are several levels of letters from the Society of the Gods. Ordinary recruitment letters only have the three words "Society of the Gods" on the surface; those to members will have a pattern on the lower right corner, and the patterns range from simple to complex.
The lowest level is a pattern similar to the Chinese character “大” (big), with a horizontal line on top that curves upward into a semicircle. The next level has two “大”s, with the left stroke of one “大” and the right stroke of the other “大” forming an open circle. The next level has three “大”s, forming three open circles. The highest level is based on this, with a black circle drawn on the outside.
"Qi Yuanliang, do you think I'm blind?"
Qi Yuanliang's letter is just missing the last ○!
what does that mean
This means that this guy's position in the Council of Gods is second only to the head of the Northwest Continent, and he is one of the only few deputies!
He even wanted to strangle Qishan to death.
Qi Shan looked in the direction of his finger and asked again, "So what? Just based on this diagram and this letter, you dare to be sure that I am a member of the Gods' Association and come here to control the master as a puppet? Liao Shaomei, you should be more clear-headed. When I followed the master, she was herself. What can I want from her? Do I want her to collect all my enemies one by one and harm me every day?"
Even if he is mentally ill, he can't be sick like this.
Liao Jia: “…”
Qi Shan opened the envelope in front of him: "The Gods Association holds a regional conference every few years. Here, this is to inform me of the time and place of the next meeting. There is no other intention..."
He unfolded the letter and showed it to Liao Jia.
Liao Jia slapped it in his hand, stared into Qi Shan's eyes, and said word by word: "Qi Yuanliang, you must know that the lord's ambition is not satisfied with the northwest. She wants the southwest, the central, the southeast, the northeast... all of them!"
Qi Shan nodded: "I know."
He was very pleased that his lord had such ambitions.
Focus on the world rather than just one acre of land.
Liao Jia said: "The gods will not sit idly by."
We will definitely place people there when they let their guard down.
But Liao Jia didn't expect that this person would be Qi Yuanliang, who was the one the lord favored the most and the one he was least guarded against besides Chu Yao!
Qi Shan said as a matter of course: "I am watching right now. I have been working as a deputy for many years! Outsiders have given me the name of 'evil plotter', so I should prepare for the rainy day. I will also find a chance to talk about the Gods' Meeting when the Lord comes back."
When it comes to volume, no one can be more volumetric than him!
Qi Shan was well aware of the little things that the Gods had been doing secretly over the years, stirring up wars everywhere, so he knew very well that if he wanted to achieve unification, the Gods had to keep a close eye on it.
Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will win every battle!
Liao Jia: “…”