Chapter 121

Ma Wu accepted the invitation but did not agree to attend the banquet.

Yang Yanzheng looked at the stairs and smiled slightly: "Master Five, I heard that you have a friend here who is quite capable. Can you introduce him to me?"

Ma Wu shook his head: "My friend is not here today. Come back another day."

Yang Yanzheng nodded and smiled: "It seems your friend is indeed quite capable. Young Master Five, I'll be waiting for you on the day of the young lady's birthday."

After leaving Lanyang Village, Yang Yanzheng traveled rapidly and walked back to Green Water City in less than fifteen minutes. This is the strength of a fourth-layer traveling cultivator.

Arriving at the mansion of the Chu family's second young lady, Chu Huaiyuan, Yang Yanzheng recounted the whole matter.

Chu Huaiyuan pricked her fingertip with a silver needle, pulled it out slowly, sucked the blood from her fingertip, changed to another finger, and pricked it again:

"He didn't agree on the spot and even said he would consider it?"

Yang Yanzheng nodded: "That is how he replied."

Chu Er gave a sneer: "He thinks that by killing those few ruffians, this matter is over? He can be considered a smart person; does he still need me to teach him this little principle?"

"On the day of my birthday, if he doesn't come, you tell Song Jiasen that Ma Wu is hunting on the new land in Lanyang Village and isn't shipping goods from his house. I have evidence here."

Yang Yanzheng bowed slightly and said respectfully: "Song Jiasen is a man who loves money like his life. If this matter is told to him, Young Master Five will probably find it hard to escape a disaster."

Chu Huaiyuan sneered: "That old dog Song Jiasen absolutely wouldn't dare to kill Ma Wu, but he will take half of Ma Wu's life."

"I gave Ma Wu face, and he didn't want it. He deserves to lose half his life."

"This person should suffer a bit more to know what sweetness is."

Li Banfeng sat up from the bed and rubbed his eyes.

He rubbed them more and more excitedly, and didn't want to stop until he had rubbed both eyes red.

His body had regained perception; his eyes had perception, and his hands had perception too.

Pfft pfft~

The record rotated slowly on the tray, and the phonograph sang softly: "Husband, why did you eat so many pills yesterday?"

This question must be answered cautiously.

Li Banfeng said with a serious expression: "Pills are a great tonic. I thought that eating this stuff wouldn't do any harm."

Pfft pfft~

Da da da da~ Tai!

The gongs and drums played a string, and the phonograph continued to ask: "Husband, why do you need to take tonics?"

"Because I've been overworked lately."

"Husband, what are you working for?" The phonograph was still pursuing the question.

"It's all to support the family."

"Husband, with your financial resources today, is supporting the family still a difficult matter?"

Sss sss~

The copper lotus flower, which was refining pills in the outer room, broke out in a sweat.

She was breaking into a cold sweat for Li Banfeng.

You must absolutely not talk about the traveling cultivator matter!

Otherwise, Li Banfeng will die on the spot, and no one will be able to get out in the future!

Li Banfeng replied calmly: "Missus, do you think that the ninth-layer traveling cultivator Lu Dongliang was something I picked up by luck?"

Da da da da~ Tai!

The phonograph's lyrics softened: "Such precious ingredients, how could they be picked up casually? They must have been earned by you risking your life, husband. This little slave spoke too much; don't take offense, husband."

"It's just that you rashly ate so many Jin Yuandan pills, which really makes this little slave puzzled."

Li Banfeng said in a peaceful tone: "Last night I encountered a strong enemy. I couldn't beat him and couldn't shake him off."

"In a moment of urgency, I ate thirty-eight Jin Yuandan pills, just wanting to improve my cultivation base by one layer and fight him again."

"As a result, after eating the pills, I was poisoned. I wasn't able to fight better than before, but instead couldn't move. Fortunately, I had the technique of 'Heart Returning Like an Arrow,' which is how I ran back home."

When saying these words, steam had been swirling around Li Banfeng, and no abnormality was discovered.

She was testing whether Li Banfeng was lying.

Actually, everything Li Banfeng said was the truth.

This strong enemy was the retaliation of the cultivation base.

The phonograph gently stroked Li Banfeng's cheek: "Good husband, this little slave has said many times that pills are of no use to a residential cultivator's cultivation base. Why don't you believe this slave?"

Li Banfeng gave a cold snort: "Other sects all eat pills. Why can't I eat them? I always feel like you're lying to me."

The steam swirled around Li Banfeng's body, circling gently: "Foolish husband, where in the world is there anyone who treats you as sincerely as this slave? Although these Jin Yuandan pills are of no benefit to your cultivation base, they can at least strengthen your body."

"The pills refined by Honglian are much purer than ordinary pills, and the toxicity of the pills isn't considered great, so eating them is fine."

"As for pills refined in other places, husband, you must absolutely not put them in your mouth again. Some pill poisons are not so easy to resolve. You must listen to this slave's words; this slave is doing it for your own good. This slave is wholeheartedly for you..."

Between the soft words, murderous intent was hidden. The phonograph had been probing whether Li Banfeng was telling the truth.

But the steam swirled down to his waist and suddenly stopped.

"Husband, are you comfortable again?"

Li Banfeng sighed lightly: "Being stroked by the missus like this... I have no other choice."

"Did you just wash these pants the day before yesterday?"

Li Banfeng nodded: "I've worn them for two days; it's time to change them."

"You say it lightly! Yet you aren't the one washing them!" The phonograph was furious, steam swirling all over the room. "You talk to me about consummating the marriage all day long. With just this little ability of yours, if we really consummated it, what could you accomplish!"

Li Banfeng quickly changed his clothes and left the Suishenju.

"Tianya ya~ Haijiao, mi ya mi zhiyin~"

The phonograph sang a little tune, washing Li Banfeng's clothes first.

The dewdrops on the copper lotus flower in the outer room gradually dissipated.

The Tang Dao gave a cold snort and muttered to itself in a low voice: "So there are some things the mistress doesn't know."

He often followed Li Banfeng to fight outside, and he suspected that Li Banfeng might have also cultivated as a traveling cultivator.

Sss sss~

The petals of the copper lotus flower bloomed slowly, and a whirlwind rose from the heart of the lotus.

The Tang Dao shook and shrank into a corner: "I don't know either, I don't know anything."

Returning to the wooden house, Li Banfeng looked at the sky and realized that he had slept in the Suishenju for a night.

Walking downstairs, he saw Ma Wu sitting silently in the living room, looking worried.

Li Banfeng looked at the newspaper on the table and pretended to be surprised: "So it's the Lu family that's in trouble!"

It wasn't just trouble; Lu Dongliang was dead, but except for Li Banfeng, no one knew for the time being.

Ma Wu spread out the newspapers one by one and said to Li Banfeng: "The Lu family is in trouble, which means the whole of Puluozhou is about to be in big trouble."

"This is the news about the He family. Judging from He Haiqin's attitude, the He family is going to fight the Lu family to the end. It is said that even his younger brother He Haisheng has returned from the outer states."

He Haisheng?

Isn't that He Jiaqing's third uncle?

Since he could return, it proves that He Jiaqing is fine.

Ma Wu brought another stack of newspapers: "This is the news about the Ma family, all about opening up wasteland and buying land. The Ma family now just wants to withdraw all their business and money, trying their best not to get involved with the Lu family."

"This is the news about the Chu family. Contrary to the Ma family, the Chu family now wants to expand their business. The Chu family's second young lady has reached her hand into the Baile Sect; she wants to fish in troubled waters."

After reading the newspaper, Li Banfeng nodded: "The situation is very chaotic, but it seems to have nothing to do with us."

"It has something to do with us, a lot to do with us!" Ma Wu took out the invitation. "The Chu family's second young lady is having a birthday the day after tomorrow and asked me to go to her house for a banquet. Do you think I should go or not?"

Li Banfeng was stunned: "She's still pestering you? This is true affection for you!"

"What affection could she have for me? She wants to use me to drag the Ma family into this. Brother Li, can't you see that?"

Li Banfeng really couldn't see it: "Weren't you expelled from the family by the Ma family?"

"But I still have the surname Ma after all!"

"Then you might as well grit your teeth and take the surname Li with me!" Li Banfeng's surname came from the old gatekeeper at the welfare academy; he didn't attach too much importance to what his surname was.

"What the surname is, isn't the key." Ma Wu didn't know how to express his current situation for a moment. "I just don't want to..."

Li Banfeng said: "You don't want to drag the Ma family into this?"

Ma Wu shook his head: "I'm not thinking for the Ma family; I'm not worthy. I'm thinking for myself."

"Two major families fighting, and I'm a puppet in the middle. Brother Li, you know what the consequences are. If the two major families exert a little force, I'll be smashed to pieces."

Li Banfeng could imagine Ma Wu's situation at that time, so he simply put the invitation on the table into the candlelight and burned it: "Since you've thought it through, then don't go."

Ma Wu looked at the invitation: "The Chu family steward Yang Yanzheng came and said that if I don't go, the hardships I've suffered before will have to be suffered again."

Li Banfeng was startled: "Coming to grab money again? Is this Chu family's second young lady so difficult to deal with?"

Ma Wu sighed: "I thought about it all night, but I didn't think of a way to deal with her."

"Then don't think about it. Pack up and go hunting on the new land. We can even deal with Madam Suoe; are we still afraid we can't deal with her?"

Chu family mansion, the Chu family's second young lady was celebrating her birthday, and the guests were waiting in the main hall.

But Ma Wu didn't come.

Chu Huaiyuan sat in the bedroom, looking in the mirror, and first applied a piece of rouge to her cheeks.

Then she aimed at the position of the rouge and stabbed a dagger into her own face.

Zhang Zhang Guanshi Yang Yanzheng reminded her from the side: "Young lady, you still have to see guests in a while."

"It doesn't matter." Chu Huaiyuan pulled out the dagger, wiped the blood off her face, and used a layer of special fragrant powder to stop the bleeding and cover the wound.

She turned her head and looked at Yang Yanzheng: "What are you still standing there for? Go to Lanyang Village!"

Lu Dongjun sat in the mansion and sat quietly for a night.

He Yuxiu sent him an invitation, asking him to go to the Qianyue Restaurant tomorrow for a banquet to confront each other face-to-face about who harmed Lu Dongliang.

Lu Dongjun convened a family meeting for this, and waited until dawn without seeing a single person respond.

Some rumors were true; Lu Dongjun's status in the family wasn't even as good as Monkey Qiu's!

Strategist Wan Jinxian reminded him: "Master, if you have absolute certainty, it wouldn't hurt to go to Qianyue Restaurant. If you don't have certainty, you absolutely must not go on this trip."

Lu Dongjun didn't have certainty, but could he not go?

How would he establish himself in the Lu family in the future?

He turned his face to look at Wan Jinxian and smiled: "Old Wan, I'm tired and want to rest for a while. You watch the door for me, don't let anyone enter my room, and you don't even need to send me food."

Wan Jinxian was startled: "Master, are you going to..."

"Just do as I say." Lu Dongjun returned to the bedroom, took out a stone lion over a foot high from the closet, and placed it at the door.

He took a set of false teeth out of his mouth and put them into the lion's mouth. The lion's two eyes lit up.

As long as the false teeth weren't taken out, the lion's eyes would stay lit. Except for Lu Dongjun, others couldn't easily enter or leave the room.

After making the deployment, Lu Dongjun took out a necklace.

At twelve o'clock noon, He Yuxiu booked the Qianyue Restaurant, waiting for Lu Dongjun to come to the banquet. Many people with status from the two major families also came.

He Yuxiu sat in the main seat, wearing a leather cloak, and ordered her subordinates to play a piece of music to listen to.

The subordinate took the record, put it on the phonograph, and played "The Moon is Full and the Flowers are Beautiful."

She wanted to calm the anger in her heart, but after playing several pieces of music, this fire hadn't been suppressed.

If Lu Dongjun told the truth today, there would still be room for relaxation. If he dared to frame He Yuxiu again, He Yuxiu was prepared to take his life.

After waiting for more than a quarter of an hour, He Yuxiu looked at the Lu family members and said: "Is Lu Dongjun a man? If he doesn't dare to come today, he is guilty, and Lu Dongliang must have died at his hands!"

Before the words fell, a subordinate came up to pass a message: "Great Aunt, the Lu family's eldest master is here."

"Good, let him come up quickly, let him..." He Yuxiu was stunned. "Who did you say is here?"

"The Lu family's eldest master, Lu Dongliang!"

PS: Will the Tang Dao threaten Banfeng with this matter in the future? He seems to know a bit too much.

(End of chapter)