Chapter 270

"Eunuch thief..."

Zhao Yi hung up the phone.

He didn't expect the Li family to live with that old lady, but now that he knew, he felt it was only natural.

The old lady's family had few people now, and coupled with the Li family's terrifying talent, it was perfectly normal to treat him like a biological grandson.

If he, Zhao Yi, were an elder of the Li family, he would also love this smart child to death.

It's just that Tan Wenbin was in such a hurry to dig a hole for him, and he dug it to three inches, making Zhao Yi have to reconsider his attitude toward Tan Wenbin.

After all, besides being at odds with eunuchs, ancient civil officials had another path, which was to befriend eunuchs and become a eunuch party.

Behind Zhao Yi, Liang Yan and Liang Li were each carrying a large bag, with a large suitcase in each hand.

The sisters were dressed fashionably and were very pretty, but they were carrying so much luggage, which was really a bit of a contrast; passersby on the road couldn't stop looking here.

They all looked at the sisters carrying the weight first, then at Zhao Yi, who was empty-handed with his hands in his pockets.

Old Man Tian sat in a wheelchair, a blanket covering his knees, and was rolling tobacco.

After being paralyzed by injury, the neuropathic pain would cause him continuous torment; he was used to inhaling some anesthesia from time to time.

It's just that it didn't matter when smoking at home on weekdays, but when smoking outside, every puff of smoke had to be exhaled into a water gourd, otherwise it was easy to knock down a whole area.

Zhao Yi reminded the sisters: "Someone is coming to pick us up later; when we arrive at the place, you two behave yourselves, and pay attention to keeping your eyebrows low."

Liang Yan: "We can not look at people."

Liang Li: "We can also not speak."

Zhao Yi smiled slightly, took a piece of paper from his pocket, and spread it in front of them:

"If you don't care about the life and death of the family, you can throw faces as much as you want; I've already written the annulment of the marriage contract and brought it, and I can cut ties with you at any time."

Liang Yan: "Useless man."

Liang Li: "Is there any sense of security in marrying you?"

Zhao Yi: "The premise of protecting you is that you have brains; if you don't have brains, that's fine, but you have to know how to be obedient."

Old Man Tian: "Young Master, is it that serious?"

Zhao Yi: "The Li family lives with the old lady."

The tobacco Old Man Tian had just rolled fell to the ground.

Zhao Yi: "The Li family is walking the river, and being able to live together without fear of being involved in karma shows that the old lady's side is also a white dragon in fish clothes, living a life like an ordinary person. People acting as ordinary people is a performance; we must not take it seriously. At this time, the most taboo thing is for outsiders to be blind and climb on their noses."

Liang Yan: "We know."

Liang Li: "Will be obedient."

Zhao Yi nodded, walked to the bookstore in front, and browsed through a *Yangtze Evening News*.

Approaching the college entrance examination and high school entrance examination, every bookstore placed various teaching aids outside.

Zhao Yi turned a page of the newspaper, and his peripheral vision swept over a book under him.

No, to be precise, there were many books, one brand, various colors; moving his gaze left and right, this brand of teaching aids occupied the best spot at the front of the book stall.

*Provincial College Entrance Examination Top Scorer's Success Secret! *

*Ladder to College Entrance Examination Success! *

*Lucky Bookmark Collection Special Edition. *

The planning copy was different, but the brand was consistent—*Zhuiyuan Secret Scroll*.

"What was the name of the Li family again?"

Zhao Yi's first reaction was that it was the same name, but he picked one up, and when he turned to the preface on the first page, there was a photo of the Li family on it.

It wasn't a photo taken specifically for this, but more like a group ID photo taken in high school; the clarity wasn't very high, but it was enough to confirm his identity.

"You actually have such leisure and elegance?"

Looking further down at the content of the preface, it was told in the first person, telling the story of a poor student who, since following Li Zhuiyuan to learn and understand his learning methods, had made astonishing progress and finally successfully passed the exam to the university he liked.

The signature of the preface was—Tan Wenbin.

Zhao Yi smiled; the Li family was certainly too lazy to toss about these things, and this kind of income-generating work naturally belonged to the Imperial Household Department.

He took one, paid the money, and Zhao Yi unsealed the book; after opening it, he pinched a talisman paper bookmark from inside.

The Li family should have really drawn the talisman themselves and stuffed it in before, but now that the sales volume was large, this talisman paper had become printed.

A pickup truck drove over; Tan Wenbin rolled down the window and waved:

"Young Master Zhao, get in the car."

"Didn't you see I brought so many gifts? You don't even know how to come down and help move things."

"You brought gifts because we have things your Zhao family wants more; whoever takes the initiative to go to whose place proves who took advantage."

Zhao Yi gave a wink, and the Liang sisters threw all the luggage onto the pickup truck, along with Old Man Tian, who was sitting in a wheelchair, and then the sisters also got into the back of the car.

Opening the passenger door, Zhao Yi sat in alone.

Tan Wenbin complained while making a U-turn: "Why choose this place to meet? This place is considered the place with the most people and traffic in all of Nantong."

Zhao Yi: "Didn't expect you guys to live so far away."

Tan Wenbin: "Is your Zhao family's ancestral home located in the city center?"

Zhao Yi: "You really guessed right."

Tan Wenbin: "Hiding in the city?"

Zhao Yi shook his head: "When the ancestors chose the site to build the house, they didn't expect that the place where birds don't shit could also welcome development. Later, there was really no way, the original old house was divided, and restrictions and formations were set, hidden in the city, while the direct descendants of the family live in a newly built manor on the outskirts of the city."

Tan Wenbin: "Is the treasure house also in the city?"

Zhao Yi: "If the formation restrictions there are destroyed, it's easy to implicate the innocent."

Tan Wenbin: "You Zhao family members are really committing sins; if one day it is stolen and causes disaster, it's all because you didn't do a good job of fire protection and security."

Zhao Yi: "Have some shame."

Tan Wenbin: "Where is that kid Chen Jing?"

Zhao Yi: "Soaking in a blood bath at home to stimulate the bloodline. Sun Yan and Xu Ming are watching him at home. You guys aren't going to take action against the Lu family, are you? The Liang sisters are enough here."

Tan Wenbin nodded; he had seen the strength of the Liang sisters.

Exterminating the family, just having enough strength to push through is fine, even if it's not pushed clean and there are fish that slipped through the net... there's still the Chen family, who has been bullied for a long time, responsible for killing them.

Zhao Yi: "Is there any fun place in Nantong? This is my first time here; be a tour guide for me."

Tan Wenbin: "Being a tour guide in Nantong is comparable to opening a bathhouse in the Sahara."

Zhao Yi: "There must be specialties, right?"

Tan Wenbin: "You can bring a few sets of teaching aids back and give them to the younger generation in your family who don't have cultivation talent."

Zhao Yi: "Why did you choose to be born in such a boring place?"

Tan Wenbin: "It sounds like being born is something I can choose?"

Zhao Yi: "As long as the means are high and you are willing to pay a sufficient price, you can really choose."

Tan Wenbin: "That has nothing to do with me anymore."

Zhao Yi: "Actually, I didn't bring Chen Jing over, there's another reason; I'm afraid he won't be able to get in."

Tan Wenbin: "Not necessarily; it's just a matter of saying hello."

Zhao Yi: "The rules in this Nantong region, weren't they made by the old lady's side?"

Tan Wenbin: "No."

Zhao Yi: "Introduce me to her?"

Tan Wenbin: "That's a must."

Zhao Yi: "Is this hole deep?"

Tan Wenbin: "To tell you the truth, that person can only talk to Brother Xiaoyuan."

Zhao Yi: "I'm not much worse."

Tan Wenbin: "It's different; this is harder than being born."

The car drove into Shinan Town, and the speed slowed down.

Zhao Yi reached his hand out of the window and waved, signaling his men to restrain themselves now.

Driving into the village road, then turning into a small path, the end of the front was Li Sanjiang's house.

Zhao Yi: "You can stop here."

Driving onto the dam in one breath was too exciting, and Young Master Zhao wanted to slow down first.

Tan Wenbin expressed understanding and stopped the car.

After everyone got out of the car, they moved the luggage.

Old Man Tian pushed his wheelchair on the small path, turned a small circle, and said a piece of nonsense:

"Really the countryside?"

The medicine garden he lived in now was considered fairy-like compared to here.

The Liang sisters carried things and looked at Zhao Yi.

Zhao Yi was focused on deep breathing.

Just as he adjusted and was about to go forward, Qin Shu's figure appeared in the field opposite.

Qin Shu shouldered a hoe, stood there, and was drinking water.

Zhao Yi looked at Qin Shu, his expression stagnant.

Fear was revealed in his eyes, but soon, the fear receded and turned into gratitude.

Admittedly, the scene of being stabbed three times and having six holes was still vivid in his mind, but Zhao Yi knew very well that if it weren't for this person letting him go, he, Zhao Yi... would have already died.

Walking the river for a long time, experiencing serious injuries and near-death experiences, he became more and more clear that as long as he kept his life, everything else didn't matter.

Zhao Yi bowed to Qin Shu extremely respectfully.

Qin Shu raised the large tea mug in his hand forward, which counted as returning the salute.

Old Man Tian sat in the wheelchair, lowered his head, and performed the Zhao family's external gate salute.

The Liang sisters also put down their luggage, but when they were about to salute, Qin Shu turned his body and began to continue weeding.

Zhao Yi went to pick out gifts, repacked them, picked them up, and then said: "You guys stay here; I'll go in alone."

Qin Shu's meaning was very clear; since it was a visit from a person in the Jianghu, the main person just had to go in alone, and the guards naturally had to stay outside.

Tan Wenbin led the way in front, and Zhao Yi followed behind.

Approaching the dam, he saw a woman dressed plainly sitting sideways on the dam railing and cracking melon seeds.

The woman's eyebrows were smiling, sizing up the "strange young man" who was constantly approaching.

Zhao Yi put down the gifts and saluted again.

Although he hadn't seen her, he could guess who it was.

The Qin and Liu families had declined, but the two families were not without people; for a long time, it was the two family-born servants raised by the old lady herself who supported the only facade of the Dragon King's gate.

These two people didn't easily appear in the Jianghu, but every time they went out, they could cause a great stir.

During this salute, the corner of Zhao Yi's mouth twitched.

He was clear that if the person who came to the apology banquet that night wasn't Qin Shu but this one, he would have had no possibility of surviving.

Liu Yi asked: "Want some melon seeds?"

Zhao Yi shook his head and apologized: "Recently I've been angry, and blisters have formed."

Liu Yi yawned, moved her gaze away, and didn't look at him.

Zhao Yi followed Tan Wenbin onto the dam.

In the hall, Yin Meng was painting a coffin, and Chen Lin happened to be holding a jar of newly mixed paint and walking out of the utility room; coming to the front of the house, she saw Zhao Yi who had just walked up.

Chen Lin's face tightened immediately, her body trembled, her hands loosened, the jar fell to the ground, and the paint splashed all over the floor.

But at this time, Chen Lin couldn't care about this, only her lips trembled uncontrollably:

"Zhao... Zhao..."

Zhao Yi looked at the woman in front of him, his eyes revealing thought; he didn't remember having any intersection with this woman.

Tan Wenbin raised his arm, poked Zhao Yi lightly, and teased: "Why, did you bully her? Be careful of being beaten."

Lin Shu You was still a novice who was ignorant of feelings; even in the face of Chen Lin's active concern and closeness, he was hesitant and didn't know how to respond.

But if Zhao Yi had bullied Chen Lin... anyway, based on Lin Shu You's perception of Zhao Yi, any excuse could make him happy to beat Zhao Yi up.

Zhao Yi: "You guys know what I was like before; it's about the same as you sitting in a wheelchair a while ago. In that state, did I still have the heart to bully a little girl?"

Tan Wenbin: "There are many ways to bully; those without normal abilities might be even more perverted."

Zhao Yi: "Tan Daban, you understand."

Chen Lin took a deep breath, took the initiative to step forward, bowed slightly, and said in a trembling voice:

"Greetings, Young Master Zhao."

Zhao Yi: "You are surnamed Chen?"

Chen Lin nodded, not daring to look directly at Zhao Yi.

Zhao Yi: "Oh, I remember; back then, when I was looking for a solution to the life-and-death door seam on my forehead, Old Man Tian carried me to many places to find a method; we should have also looked for a Yin-Yang practitioner."

Back then, when Li Zhuiyuan and others first met Zhao Yi, it was also because Jiujiang Zhao heard that a branch had figured out a new use of curses, which could avoid the backlash of karma. Zhao Yi went to see it, but found that the rotten method of transferring was used, and sensing the crisis of Shi Zhuozhao, he slipped away directly.

Mainly, going to a branch like Shi Zhuozhao didn't need to worry about the branch being unfavorable to them, so only one Old Man Tian accompanied him that day; when visiting other families to "seek advice," the formation would inevitably be much larger.

After all, in the eyes of the proper Dragon King family, Jiujiang Zhao didn't count for much, and was even a bit ridiculous like an upstart, but looking at the whole Jianghu, Jiujiang Zhao was a giant.

Chen Lin had seen Zhao Yi that day; he went up to demand the cultivation method to look at, his momentum was aggressive, and her brother and a group of elders didn't dare to act presumptuously or resist in front of this sickly young man.

After this young man got the cultivation method and read it, he shook his head, sighed, and expressed extreme disappointment.

When he left, the elders of the family all sent him off, and only after they couldn't see his figure did the elders breathe a long sigh of relief.

Chen Lin remembered that her brother was clenching his fists at that time, and the look in his eyes wasn't the anger of being humiliated and ignored, but a kind of deep longing:

"Sister, this is the Dragon King family."

It could be said that the seed of her brother's determination to walk the Jianghu was planted because of that Young Master Zhao.

Now, Chen Lin didn't expect that she could see this Young Master Zhao again here.

Young Master Zhao was no longer sickly, as if the mysterious life-and-death door seam problem had been cured; he had no guards or followers around him, just alone.

And... he was also carrying full gifts with both hands.

Even though Chen Lin had already imagined this place as extremely unreal, reality told her that her imagination was still too lacking.

"Linlin, where is the paint? Eh, it's all spilled?"

Yin Meng rolled up her sleeves, walked out with a brush in her hand.

Zhao Yi: "Mengmeng, busy, eh."

"Young Master Zhao, you're here." Saying that, Yin Meng landed her gaze on the bag Zhao Yi was carrying and asked very directly, "Is there a share for me?"

Zhao Yi: "Yes, everyone has one; I can forget anyone but not you."

Originally, Yin Meng should have been the most inconspicuous in the Li family's team, but it was this inconspicuous one who cooperated with Tan Wenbin to dig the biggest hole for himself.

He knew it was a hole and jumped down voluntarily, but he really didn't expect that this hole could be so deep.

That's why Zhao Yi felt that in the Li family's team, only Lin Shu You was a good person.

Yin Meng sensed Chen Lin's fear and asked in confusion: "Why, do you know him too?"

Chen Lin nodded: "It's Young Master Zhao."

Yin Meng smiled and said: "Did you bully her?"

"A chance encounter." Immediately, Zhao Yi frowned, "Who took a fancy to her, right?"

Zhao Yi looked at Tan Wenbin first; he had a childhood sweetheart, it couldn't be him. If it were Runsheng, Yin Meng wouldn't have this expression.

The Li family was even more impossible; not to mention how old he was and liking big sisters, even if the old lady there valued him again, it was impossible for him to accept a maid now.

After excluding them one by one, only one answer remained.

Zhao Yi immediately showed a kind smile and said to Chen Lin: "Yo, is it the sister-in-law?"

Chen Lin was frightened by this suddenly changed tone and trembled.

Tan Wenbin: "How did you investigate our internal affairs so clearly?"

Zhao Yi: "Did you forget? Besides observing words and colors, I can also look at the heart."

In fact, these private matters were all told to him by Lin Shu You.

At that time in Lijiang, he was either carried by Lin Shu You or squeezed into a sleeping bag with Lin Shu You.

The journey was too boring, so he wanted to hear gossip, especially emotional ones.

Lin Shu You had principles and wouldn't talk about other people's emotional affairs, but he couldn't stand being threatened by "You wouldn't want that thing to be known by others, right?"

Yin Meng hugged Chen Lin's shoulder, shook it, and comforted: "It's okay, he doesn't dare to bite people here."

Zhao Yi: "Heh."

Chen Lin hadn't been able to take down Lin Shu You in the few days she was here, but she had taken down Yin Meng.

Who wouldn't want a well-behaved and considerate companion by their side? Not only could she help you, but she could also constantly provide emotional value... and even cook great Sichuan cuisine.

Liu Yumei had long noticed this, sighing in her heart that the Yin family had indeed declined, to be able to produce such a dull girl; if she were thrown into the big mansion, she was afraid she wouldn't even know how she was played to death.

People just had to spend a little thought, and they could take you and handle you comfortably.

That was to say, Runsheng's taste was also heavy; the girl was fond of Lin Shu You, otherwise Yin Meng would have been occupied by someone else and still helping them prepare the dowry.

Runsheng and Lin Shu You happened to return from delivering goods; both were pulling a flatbed cart and met the Liang sisters and Old Man Tian waiting outside.

"Did you bring the seeds?" Runsheng asked Old Man Tian.

Old Man Tian smiled: "Brought a lot; when the time comes, I have to ask you to help plant them together. As you can see, I'm really a bit inconvenient now."

Runsheng: "Zhao Yi said that you were responsible for both planting and making medicine in your hometown."

Old Man Tian smiled awkwardly: "Ah... hehe."

Runsheng: "Look down on this place."

Old Man Tian was so frightened by this sentence that he almost jumped directly from the wheelchair.

"I mean with your help, I can plant faster, and I can harvest faster; that's what I meant."

Runsheng nodded and continued to pull the flatbed cart forward.

Lin Shu You had already walked to the front; at this moment, he had already reached the dam and shouted:

"Three-eyed!"

Zhao Yi didn't look back, but took a white jade bracelet from his bag and handed it to Chen Lin, saying:

"A You is a good match; if you two can walk together, I am happy. Since you are already in love, put your eyes on the long term, look more to the future, and as for the rights and wrongs of the past, those years of youthful frivolity and recklessness, don't mention them or hang them on your heart anymore."

After speaking, Zhao Yi looked back at Lin Shu You.

Lin Shu You was choked by these words and felt very uncomfortable, only able to stare at Zhao Yi.

Seeing this, Chen Lin, no matter how much she feared Zhao Yi's identity, didn't dare to accept his gift and hurriedly pushed the bracelet out.

Zhao Yi wasn't angry, but instead smiled at Lin Shu You: "What a good girl, knowing how to care about your feelings, she is a considerate person; if you are fickle and let her down again, I won't spare you."

Lin Shu You: "You..."

Zhao Yi turned around and looked up at the second floor; there were two rattan chairs on the second-floor balcony, but no one was sitting on them.

Looking at the east room again, the door was closed.

He hesitated for a moment, but decided to worship the small one first, and finally go worship the old one.

"That, can I go upstairs?"

Tan Wenbin: "We don't go up if there's nothing to do on weekdays."

Zhao Yi continued to stare at the second-floor balcony, thinking: Li family, you better give some face.

At this time, Li Zhuiyuan walked out of the room and came to the balcony.

He wasn't deliberately not coming out, but was busy squeezing the *Evil Book* from the wordless book just now, deducing a health-preserving exercise that had no practical value, but in fact, he didn't want the *Evil Book* to have such a leisurely life.

"Come up."

Zhao Yi handed the gifts to Lin Shu You to help him carry them, then walked into the house and went upstairs.

Coming to the balcony, he saw Li Zhuiyuan sitting on the rattan chair, and there was an empty one next to him, so he wanted to go over and sit.

Just as he was walking toward that side, a cold gaze was projected from the room through the screen door.

Zhao Yi turned his face and met the gaze of the girl standing in front of the desk inside the screen door.

This was his first time seeing Qin Li.

At first, he didn't have time to appreciate the girl's exquisite beauty, because the moment their gazes met, his heart almost stopped.

It wasn't that he was amazed by the girl's exquisite beauty; purely because his life-and-death door seam saw countless terrible resentments circling the girl.

"Hiss..."

Zhao Yi clutched his chest, squatted down, and at the same time hurriedly closed the life-and-death door seam, his heart stopped beating.

In this world, there is a class of people who cannot be detected or measured; Qin Li is such a person.

"Coming to someone's house as a guest, and you don't even know how to put away your thoughts."

"I wasn't deliberately trying to peek at anything; it's tied to my heart now; I can't take my heart off before entering someone else's house as a guest, right?"

"And now?"

"It's already starting to have insufficient blood supply and dizziness; hurry up and give me the things, I'll hold them down."

"Not in a hurry."

Li Zhuiyuan changed to a rattan chair, sat on A Li's, and then signaled Zhao Yi to sit on his original one.

Zhao Yi sat down.

Li Zhuiyuan: "It's fine now."

Zhao Yi reached out and knocked on his chest; his heart slowly resumed beating.

Li Zhuiyuan: "This ability of yours is best for faking death."

Zhao Yi: "The premise is not to meet you guys; you guys like to kill people, touch the corpse, and then pour corpse-melting water."

Li Zhuiyuan: "Do you have news about the Yu family?"

Zhao Yi: "I inquired, but couldn't inquire deeply, but I found one thing: there are many big forces on the river who are also inquiring about the Yu family's news at high intensity; probably, only your family hasn't made a move. So I suspect that when we truly face the Yu family's wave, we are just the lead. Or rather, we can reasonably use the peeping of other forces toward the Yu family, use them as assistance, and prepare to fish in troubled waters."

Li Zhuiyuan: "Mm, you keep watching, and make a charter."

Zhao Yi: "Rest assured, leave it to me. However, should the two from your family also be counted in?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "No."

Zhao Yi: "Listen, this is the foundation."

Li Zhuiyuan: "After all, I've already gone."

Zhao Yi: "Tsk, no wonder you can get the old lady's favor."

At this time, the door of the east room was opened, and Liu Yumei walked out of it.

She was originally playing cards, but Wang Lian's son wanted to secretly try to drink pesticide to commit suicide and was stopped by his father in time, so Liu Jinxia and Grandma Hua hurried to accompany Wang Lian home to scold him.

Liu Yumei was too lazy to participate in such things; she would listen to them chat in detail when they played cards together tomorrow.

After the card game dispersed, Liu Yumei went back to the room to take a nap.

Not to mention Zhao Yi, even if the head of the Jiujiang Zhao family came today, according to the old rules, he should wait outside the mansion to listen to the summons; she certainly couldn't wait there specifically to see Zhao Yi. Even if she came out now, it was because the nap was over, and she came to the dam to get some air.

People are old, and they can't sleep too long during the day, otherwise they won't be able to sleep at night.

Zhao Yi stood up, intending to go downstairs to salute.

Li Zhuiyuan: "You wait a moment, I'll take those books out for you to bring down."

Zhao Yi looked at Li Zhuiyuan with a bitter face: "Are you trying to kill me?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "My business, the old lady won't say anything."

Zhao Yi: "Do you really not know or are you pretending not to know what this means?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "Do you want them or not."

"I want them."

Li Zhuiyuan went into the room, held a high stack of books, and handed them to Zhao Yi.

Zhao Yi took them, went downstairs, and after coming to the dam, put the books on the ground first, then trotted to the old lady.

The old lady was already sitting, and Tan Wenbin was making tea for her.

Zhao Yi glanced at Tan Wenbin, thinking: You are really busy, serving the Palace of Earthly Tranquility and the Palace of Benevolent Tranquility in turns.

Liu Yumei picked up the teacup and swept a glance at Zhao Yi; Zhao Yi hurriedly prepared to kneel and kowtow.

In terms of seniority and status, Zhao Yi should indeed perform the junior salute; he deliberately didn't choose to perform the gate salute, also because he wanted to get closer to both sides.

Liu Yumei: "Alright, stop kowtowing; I, the old lady, don't have anything to reward you with."

Hearing this, Zhao Yi didn't kowtow hard, stood up, and bent over: "Being able to see you, old lady, is already a great opportunity; if I hope for anything else, it's that I don't understand things."

Liu Yumei: "The benefits you just took, are they few?"

Behind, watching Zhao Yi's action of almost kneeling and kowtowing earlier, Chen Lin only felt her heart and soul shaking.

Her brother once sighed at the power of the Dragon King family, but that old lady could make the young master of the Dragon King family kowtow willingly?

Chen Lin's body was unstable, and she fell backward.

Yin Meng reached out to help, but was grabbed by Runsheng.

Lin Shu You looked at Runsheng and Yin Meng holding hands in confusion first, then reacted afterwards, and reached out to catch Chen Lin's body.

Chen Lin subconsciously leaned into Lin Shu You's arms, her two hands grabbing Lin Shu You's clothes.

This wasn't caused by little thoughts, purely the instinct of being overly frightened.

She didn't know how long the surprise would take to come, but now she had truly fallen into the abyss of fear.

Lin Shu You could sense the trembling of the girl in his arms.

He wanted to do some comfort, but didn't know how to do it; he reached out to gently stroke her head, but felt it was inappropriate halfway, so he changed to touching her forehead.

Those who didn't know would think he was measuring if the girl had a fever.

Zhao Yi: "You don't know, this is also the hard-earned money I earned by being a cow and a horse outside."

Liu Yumei: "What hard-earned money can compare to a perfect inheritance? If it were publicized, outsiders would probably think that your Jiujiang Zhao family is a vassal under my Qin and Liu families."

Zhao Yi: "The hard-earned money of the past is not worth it, but isn't there the future? Slowly repaying, it can always be repaid."

Liu Yumei didn't say anything more; she knew that the perfect inheritance, which was priceless in the eyes of outsiders, didn't count for much in Xiaoyuan's place; didn't Xiaoyuan also start to help the Official General Head change back then.

Xiaoyuan wanted to give it, so he gave it; she was only responsible for beating him.

Liu Yumei waved her hand: "You young people play by yourselves."

Involving the river-walking matter, she wasn't convenient to mention more; and she couldn't ask about the situation of the other party's elders, because Jiujiang Zhao wasn't worthy, and there was no such deep friendship.

Zhao Yi: "I brought some filial piety from my own home; they aren't precious things, they are all rare and intentional."

Liu Yumei closed her eyes.

Zhao Yi: "It's my sin, disturbing your elegant rest."

The gifts were carried all the way here, not distributed, because they hadn't received the permission of the real owner.

Coming to visit, you couldn't give gifts to whoever you saw; this didn't conform to the rules. Giving Chen Lin the jade bracelet earlier was also because Zhao Yi was clear that Chen Lin didn't count as a person here yet.

After listening to the weight earlier, he knew there wasn't much water in the thermos, so Zhao Yi reached out and picked up the thermos, intending to change it.

He instinctively walked toward the east room, looking at Tan Wenbin, asking if it was there.

Tan Wenbin was just about to shake his head, signaling that he couldn't enter there.

The old lady, who had her eyes closed, gave a light "mm."

Zhao Yi had been pitted too much recently and had a shadow in his heart, but thinking that if the old lady wanted to kill himself, there was really no need to go to the trouble of digging that hole, so he took a step and walked into the east room.

Soon, Zhao Yi walked out carrying a new thermos.

After putting the thermos on the ground, he took a step back, knelt down, and kowtowed hard, kowtowing a dent in the cement floor while his forehead was also covered in blood.

He had just seen the memorial tablets inside the east room, and he sensed even more that there was no spirit on any of those memorial tablets.

The decline of the Qin and Liu families was not a secret among the top forces in the Jianghu, but probably no one knew that the Qin and Liu families had declined to the point where there were no spirits.

Last time, the Li family asked him in a half-joking way if there were any old immortals lying in coffins in the Jiujiang Zhao family; the answer was yes.

And the proper Dragon King gates of the past were truly without the protection of ancestors, except for the contemporary people.

The old lady supporting such a family gate alone was naturally very difficult.

Because of this, it could be seen how outrageous the marriage proposal containing hints of marriage from his Zhao family's ancestor was, and what kind of anger it would arouse in the old lady.

He could live to this day because Qin Shu chose to let him go because of approval, but fundamentally, it was also because the old lady didn't give the order to kill, otherwise he would have had no meaning even if he had stabbed hundreds of holes in his whole body that night.

The Dragon Kings of all generations were legends who suppressed evil spirits in their respective eras; the Dragon King memorial tablets of the two families were enshrined together, which was shocking even without spirits.

Such a family could flourish and decline, could suddenly fall, but if it really fell to the point of being eaten, it was really unacceptable, and Zhao Yi couldn't accept it either.

The kowtows became louder and louder.

Each one hit Chen Lin's heart; she buried her face completely in Lin Shu You's arms; now she was already afraid of this place and didn't even dare to look at Lin Shu You's face.

Liu Yumei opened her eyes and said: "Alright, the more you are like this, the more I regret not sending A Ting to see you back then."

Zhao Yi raised his head, his face covered in blood, revealing a smile:

"Thank you, old lady, for your appreciation."

Immediately after, Zhao Yi said again: "After getting off the boat, I will return to the Zhao family and must reshape the family style, letting that old immortal die quickly."

When it was time to calculate and scheme, and when it was time to be treacherous, one could do so, but in some matters, one couldn't be like this.

Liu Yumei: "Since you are still alive, it means I don't care about these things. Being able to come here shows that our family's Xiaoyuan also recognizes you."

Liu Yi, who was sitting on the dam and still cracking melon seeds, nodded; she heard another layer of meaning in the old lady's words, that is, those who could know that their Xiaoyuan was walking the river and could still live were rare.

Every time she went to collect letters and invitations, and when A Li occasionally went out to do some things, she would pay attention to the Jianghu movements; so far, the Jianghu hadn't publicly spread the news of Li Zhuiyuan walking the river, which showed how "dead" the boy kept it.

Zhao Yi said freely: "Old lady, I really can't play with him; that guy is not a person at all."

Flattery is never wrong; no old person doesn't like others praising their younger generation, and besides, Zhao Yi could be considered to be speaking from the heart.

Liu Yumei picked up the teacup and handed it to Zhao Yi:

"Rewarding is not convenient; you are all on the boat, and the wind and waves are big. Just have a cup of tea; I hope you can resemble your ancestor and inherit the legacy of Zhao Wuyang."

"Thank you, old lady."

Zhao Yi took the tea and drank it respectfully.

The old lady waved her hand, and Zhao Yi turned and left.

Walking down the dam, not far away, he let out a light whistle toward the small path ahead.

It was said that nothing was given, but it was given; the affirmation from a real superior made Zhao Yi's heart open, and the life-and-death door seam at his heart expanded further because of this, further merging with his heart.

With the old lady's means, she could completely avoid karma and suppress his state of mind, but she didn't do so, and instead raised a hand.

She saw that what his life-and-death door seam needed to match for growth and development was what.

Look at others, even if they live in the countryside and live a life no different from ordinary people, they still reveal such spirit; look at the short-sighted old things in his own family, it's really a comparison of goods to be thrown away.

Liu Yi opened her mouth: "Don't rush to leave; stay for a meal."

Walking down the dam, not having gone far, he faced the small path ahead and let out a light whistle.

Liu Yi nodded: "Done, let Mengmeng cook."

Zhao Yi: "..."

Ahead, voices appeared; Zhao Yi looked in the direction of the sound and saw an old man curiously sizing up the Liang sisters and Old Man Tian sitting in the wheelchair.

Zhao Yi asked Liu Yi: "Who is that?"

Liu Yi: "He is the owner here."

"Oh, that's Brother Xiaoyuan's Great-Grandfather?"

"Mm."

Zhao Yi certainly wouldn't be like Chen Lin, who was ignorant and thought that the old man was the strongest here.

Truly powerful existences often follow the tacit understanding that kings don't see kings.

The house could become the residence of the Dragon King gate, and could let that Li family recognize him as Great-Grandfather willingly.

Zhao Yi's eyes narrowed: This old man must have great fortune!

Li Sanjiang: "I say, what are you guys doing?"

Old Man Tian: "We are..."

He didn't know how to introduce his identity for a moment; saying they were relatives seemed too high-climbing.

Li Sanjiang looked at the sister flowers, then looked at Old Man Tian, and hearing that the other party had an out-of-town accent, he said "Oh," and said: "Are you guys doing magic tricks?"

These bags of things were placed here, young sisters, plus a disabled old man; in this day and age, many small acrobatics troupes had this configuration.

Zhao Yi walked over and said: "Right, we are an acrobatics troupe; Old Tian, perform one for Grandpa."

Old Man Tian didn't know why, but he still did as the young master ordered; he was originally a knife player, so he simply reached out and picked up a stone from the ground, and began to constantly throw and catch it; the stones danced in the air, so fast that afterimages appeared.

Zhao Yi looked at the Liang sisters again and said: "Don't just stand there, hurry up and show Grandpa a hand!"

The sisters looked at each other, both feeling that the boss was crazy.

Zhao Yi said in a deep voice: "Hurry, listen!"

The sisters had to collect their Qi, one began to flip continuous somersaults, and the other bent down and poked her head out from between her legs.

Li Sanjiang: "Whoa, amazing, amazing!"

Zhao Yi: "Grandpa, do you believe it now?"

Li Sanjiang nodded: "Believe it, believe it; you are the head of this acrobatics troupe, right?"

Zhao Yi: "Mm, yes, we are the Jiujiang Zhao Acrobatics Troupe, and I am the young owner."

Li Sanjiang: "Right, right, usually every acrobatics troupe has a boss with a bit of a sissy tone."

Zhao Yi: "Hehehe... right, right, that's it."

Li Sanjiang: "Eh, this is our family's pickup truck; why are you guys here?"

Zhao Yi: "We met Li, oh, Li Zhuiyuan, outside; he invited us to Nantong to perform and be guests, so we came."

Li Sanjiang: "Oh, is it Brother Xiaoyuan's friend?"

Zhao Yi: "Mm, a very good friend; if you don't believe it, you can go ask him."

Li Sanjiang: "How could I not believe it; our Brother Xiaoyuan is indeed very good at making friends."

Moreover, every time Brother Xiaoyuan brought friends home, they could turn into good mules.

Li Sanjiang: "Have you guys eaten?"

Zhao Yi: "Not yet."

Li Sanjiang: "Then eat together at home later; I'll call Ting Hou to prepare more dishes."

Zhao Yi: "That's too embarrassing."

Li Sanjiang waved his hand and said: "There's nothing embarrassing about it; there's work in the afternoon."

Zhao Yi was stunned for a moment and asked: "Work?"

Li Sanjiang: "There happens to be a funeral in the afternoon; I won't invite other performance teams, you guys go perform. I'm telling you, this host family is generous and can earn quite a bit!"

Seeing this group of people looking stunned one by one, Li Sanjiang asked in confusion:

"What's wrong, don't want to?"

"Slap!"

Zhao Yi slapped his thigh and said in surprise:

"This is a great thing; there's work to take and money to earn as soon as we arrive; Grandpa, you are really my own Grandpa!"

(End of chapter)

Seeing that this group of people all had somewhat stunned expressions, Li Sanjiang asked in surprise:

"What's wrong, you don't want to?"

"Slap!"

Zhao Yi fiercely slapped his thigh and said in pleasant surprise:

"This is a great thing! As soon as we arrive, there's work to take and money to earn. Old man, you really are my own dear old man!"

(End of chapter)