Chapter 273

When Zhao Yi built this place, he not only considered recruiting subordinates in the future, but also thoughtfully took care of the circulation of subordinates.

In order to avoid the awkwardness of later generations living in the houses of the deceased, many small courtyards were planned here, and the soundproofing was done very well.

Therefore, it wasn't until after Sun Yan died and the animals in her room went out of control, crashing through doors and windows and running around everywhere, that Xu Ming and Chen Jing realized something had happened to Sun Yan.

The two first entered Sun Yan's room, then came to the backyard, and saw the corpse of the colored python and Sun Yan, whose head was pressed against the ground, motionless.

"Sister Yan!"

Chen Jing shouted, wanting to step forward to check the situation, but was hugged by Xu Ming.

"Don't go!"

"But Sister Yan she..."

"She's dead."

Chen Jing closed his mouth and stopped struggling; after Xu Ming released his arms, the boy stood blankly on the spot.

Although he had experienced a major change in his life, he had just entered the team and hadn't experienced a complete wave yet; wanting him to accept that the "older brother and sister" in the team had suddenly died was unrealistic.

Xu Ming glanced at Chen Jing; the force the boy had just impacted on his arm was real; if he hadn't stopped him, he would have really rushed to Sun Yan's corpse.

This child wasn't stupid; a stupid child couldn't have had such a quick epiphany in martial arts; he knew there was danger, but his first reaction was still to do that.

Standing from the perspective of the whole team, having such an "impulsive" person in the team wasn't a good thing, but standing from a personal perspective, having such a companion by one's side could make one's back feel very solid.

Xu Ming: "Don't get close to her, there's danger, she died in the formation without leaving the formation range, which means the attacker has the ability to kill at the edge of the formation."

Chen Jing: "Could it be, they've already come in?"

Xu Ming: "No, Sun Yan was killed in one blow; if the attacker could fully enter here, after killing Sun Yan, they would definitely have taken advantage of the situation to attack us, and wouldn't have waited until we discovered the situation here to raise our vigilance."

Chen Jing: "It's my fault, I didn't convey Brother Yi's instructions well to Sister Yan."

Xu Ming glanced at the snake head of the colored python leaning against Sun Yan's corpse and shook his head: "No, it has nothing to do with you, it's she herself... who was careless."

Everyone in the team was constantly working hard for their own position; Xu Ming knew the importance of this colored python to Sun Yan.

Especially after Chen Jing was taken into the team by the young master, Sun Yan's sense of position crisis was further intensified, because the grown-up Chen Jing could not only tame beasts with his own demon blood, but was also very capable of fighting, and could perfectly replace Sun Yan.

"Let's go, let's stay in the young master's room."

Zhao Yi's room was in the most central area, and it was also the safest place seen so far.

Pushing open the door, the two walked in.

The layout inside was very simple, with few personal items; in daily life, Zhao Yi was very simple.

After Xu Ming sat down on the floor, looking at Chen Jing, who was still a bit absent-minded, he comforted him:

"You have to learn to adapt and get used to it."

"I..."

"We could all die, including the young master."

"Is this walking the river..."

"The young master once said: 'Without the blood of the dead, where would the river waves come from.'"

Li Sanjiang began to perform a ritual at home.

It was temporary, without warning, and without notification; he moved the tools out himself, lit candles, burned yellow paper, and then held his most beloved peach wood sword from the furniture factory and began to wave it.

Tan Wenbin stepped forward to ask who this ritual was for; Li Sanjiang didn't answer and also refused their help, insisting on completing it himself.

Li Zhuiyuan sat on the second-floor terrace, carefully watching the Great-Grandfather on the dam below.

He knew that the Great-Grandfather actually didn't have much Daoist skill; when it came to real ability, Old Man Tian and Liu Jinxia were both much tougher than his own Great-Grandfather.

The Great-Grandfather actually knew this himself; he knew that after receiving money from the host family, all he could do was make the host family feel at ease.

This time, there was no host family; it was the Great-Grandfather's own heart that was in chaos.

Bowing to the Earth Temple and the temple collapsed, kowtowing to the grave and the grave head sank; what he said in his mouth was "shatter for peace," but in his heart, he had long been "clunking" with unease.

Therefore, he performed this ritual extremely seriously; even if the movements were wrong and the steps were chaotic, he walked them meticulously.

The heavy costume wasn't suitable for wearing for so long in the current heat; after the ritual ended, once the clothes were taken off, the sweat inside seemed to be flowing out.

Tan Wenbin, Runsheng, and Lin Shu You immediately stepped forward to take care of him, fanning, handing water, and wiping sweat.

It was very hard work, but if it could have even half a bit of effect, there wouldn't be no backlash at all.

Li Zhuiyuan went to the kitchen to fetch two bottles of hot water and brought them up, preparing to give the Great-Grandfather a bath.

Because A Li was still on the terrace, even though Li Sanjiang's clothes were wet and sticking to his body when he went upstairs, he still maintained completeness.

Seeing Li Zhuiyuan come over, Li Sanjiang waved his hand and said: "Xiao Yuan Hou, Great-Grandfather, I want to take a cold shower."

Just after sweating from the heat, taking a cold shower, even a young and strong person could easily get sick from it.

However, the Great-Grandfather was an exception; at this age, he indeed had the capital to be willful.

Li Zhuiyuan looked at A Li; A Li understood, picked up a book, walked downstairs, and sat back at the entrance of the east room.

Only then did Li Sanjiang take off all his clothes, leaving only a pair of blue, holey flat-bottomed underwear.

There were patches on it, crooked, which the Great-Grandfather had patched himself with needle and thread.

Liu Yi would patch outer clothes, but the Great-Grandfather wouldn't let her patch pants and underwear.

It wasn't that he was so poor that he had to wear holey clothes, but in the Great-Grandfather's view, he would rather drink two more mouthfuls of wine with a large piece of pig head meat than spend money on places that outsiders couldn't see and could just make do with wearing.

In recent years, all his new clothes were bought with Li Zhuiyuan's help; except for the imitation Zhongshan suit he wore when he went to the capital last time, the Great-Grandfather would wear the other clothes as soon as he bought them, rarely leaving them in the box.

Picking up a ladle, Li Sanjiang scooped water from the water vat and poured it over himself, then wiped his face, making a refreshing sound.

When he habitually went to get laundry detergent, he found that the laundry detergent had been moved by his great-grandson, and in its place was shampoo.

Li Sanjiang instructed while scrubbing his hair: "Xiao Yuan Hou, this time when you go out, pay more attention, it's summer, there's a lot of rain and the roads are slippery, and your work is the kind that likes to drill into mountain gullies."

"Great-Grandfather, I know."

As if afraid that Liu Yumei downstairs would hear, Li Sanjiang lowered his voice and said:

"If you really feel it's bitter, we won't do this job anymore, life is better now, and my child has a smart brain, no matter what line of work he does, he won't go hungry."

"Great-Grandfather, I like this line of work."

"Hmm, as long as you like it, as long as you like it."

Li Sanjiang didn't persuade him anymore; he could feel that the old lady was very satisfied with his great-grandson's current work development.

If his great-grandson changed jobs, that snobbish old lady would probably change her mind.

Li Sanjiang looked at Xiao Yuan Hou and A Li, who were childhood sweethearts, and he himself could be considered to have tacitly accepted A Li's status as his future great-granddaughter-in-law, but he knew even more clearly that childhood sweethearts sometimes couldn't count for that much.

So many children in the village played games when they were young, saying they would marry him when they grew up, saying they would marry her later, but after becoming adults, they might not even bother to greet each other when they met on the road.

Xiao Yuan Hou's work was still very important.

"Swish!"

Another ladle of water poured down from his head.

Li Sanjiang let out a breath; in fact, he also understood that the one who was snobbish wasn't just that old lady, wasn't he the same?

After the shower, Li Sanjiang shuffled with water and walked into his room before starting to wipe himself.

Li Zhuiyuan helped him take clothes from the cabinet and helped him change into them.

"Xiao Yuan Hou, Great-Grandfather is tired, rest for a while, call me when it's dinner time."

"Okay, Great-Grandfather."

Li Zhuiyuan walked out of the room, and just as he was about to go downstairs, he saw Zhao Yi standing there at the top of the stairs.

Zhao Yi's right hand was clutching his chest, his expression somewhat painful.

Li Zhuiyuan stood beside him, looking at him.

Not long after, Zhao Yi eased up, unbuttoned his coat, reached out to dig open his chest, reached in, and grabbed a handful of colorful eggs from it.

These eggs had all cracked and started to ooze pus.

It was a very disgusting and discordant scene, but the number of times it had appeared on Zhao Yi was so many that he had become somewhat used to seeing it.

Zhao Yi wanted to throw them on the ground, hesitated for a moment, then took out a talisman, muttered a passage in his mouth, and stuck it on; as the talisman burned, it brought these filth together to turn into black smoke.

"That colored python is dead, and Sun Yan is also dead."

"What about Xu Ming and Chen Jing?"

"The two eggs representing them were the last to break, it should be because of the reason that the colored python died and couldn't be maintained."

"Sun Yan died very quickly, and someone with the strength to kill Sun Yan in one blow wouldn't find it difficult to kill them both along the way."

"So I reasonably suspect that they aren't dead, only Sun Yan is dead."

"Hmm."

"This is finding my lair."

"Your lair is from your Zhao family's current residence..."

"Very close, just separated by a few hills. After all, my splitting off was just to go through the motions, the family knows that after I finish walking the river, I will still 'recognize the ancestors and return to the clan'."

Besides, building the lair near the home can also avoid a lot of trouble.

I originally thought I was quite cunning,

until I saw your lair layout.

Li family,

you are really afraid of death!"

"I've lived in a university dormitory."

"Then why did you come back?"

"Didn't expect university to be finished so quickly, anyway, I have to go on long journeys often, rather than returning to the dormitory after every wave, it's better to go home directly."

"After the river walk ends, I'll also go take a university entrance exam."

"Let's get back to the point, the Zhao family should still be fine." Li Zhuiyuan pointed downstairs, "If the Zhao family were in trouble, the old lady here would have received notification much earlier than you."

The Jiujiang Zhao family isn't a proper Long Wang family, but it can be considered a family that cannot be underestimated; if it were to be overturned, the top forces in the Jianghu would inevitably notice it at the first moment.

Zhao Yi walked to the position where Li Sanjiang had just taken a bath, scooped out water to wash his chest, and said: "So, as of now, it's just people targeting me, not targeting the Zhao family."

Li Zhuiyuan: "If it were like the last time the Great Emperor took action, directly issuing a decree, that movement couldn't be concealed."

Zhao Yi nodded: "That's right, only killing my people but not destroying the Zhao family, I also suspect that this doesn't seem to be the Great Emperor's direct action."

Li Zhuiyuan: "The Great Emperor has turned the waves, and we have also decided to go to Fengdou, the Great Emperor has no reason to take action at this time."

Zhao Yi: "But there were waves here too, if it weren't for the peach forest's cover, the matter would have actually happened long ago; being able to take action on both sides at the same time, this handiwork is already very large."

Li Zhuiyuan: "Your living environment since childhood is more complex than mine, you should be able to understand better."

Zhao Yi: "Individual will and group will are sometimes incompatible, the former is often coerced by the latter."

Li Zhuiyuan: "I've read the Yin family genealogy, which records the grand wish of Yin Changsheng after becoming an immortal.

In fact, the last time we experienced Mount Yulongxue together, the zombie suppressed under the high tower, its purpose was to imitate the Great Emperor of Fengdou and build its own earthly heavenly kingdom under the snow mountain."

Zhao Yi: "Not the Great Emperor's order, but the Great Emperor's subordinates still moved."

Li Zhuiyuan: "They probably don't want us to go to Fengdou."

A smile appeared on Zhao Yi's face: "Hehe, quite good, quite good."

Li Zhuiyuan reminded: "Seems a bit inappropriate."

Zhao Yi: "I gave notification, and she could still die, then that's not my problem, I'm not like you, able to use a set of people stably until now, I see through it.

Now at least I know that the Great Emperor is still in a vague posture regarding this matter.

It's not clearly laying out the horses to want to kill us, then we have a chance to live."

"Hmm."

Li Zhuiyuan and Zhao Yi went downstairs together and arrived at the dam.

Lin Shu You walked over and asked: "Brother Xiao Yuan, Brother Bin wants to ask, are we taking a plane to Fengdou or driving like the last time we went to Dujiangyan."

Li Zhuiyuan and Zhao Yi looked up at the sky at the same time.

Lin Shu You didn't understand, so he also followed and looked up at the sky.

Li Zhuiyuan: "Let's drive."

After speaking, Li Zhuiyuan went to the east room, took A Li's hand, and walked down the dam.

Zhao Yi reached out and patted Lin Shu You on the shoulder, asking: "Do you know why your Brother Bin asked you to ask this question?"

Lin Shu You: "Because we also drove Chen Lin's car back."

Zhao Yi was choked by this answer, then nodded: "Right."

Lin Shu You's eyelids began to tremble, which was clearly the Tongzi speaking in his heart.

Zhao Yi frowned slightly, puzzled: "Why doesn't the Li family help you seal the Tongzi, He is living in your body now, frequent interaction like this will affect your cognition."

The trembling of the eyelids became more intense, meaning the Tongzi's emotions had become very agitated.

Although Zhao Yi couldn't hear what the Tongzi was specifically saying, it was definitely cursing very dirtily.

Lin Shu You: "Tongzi is very sensible."

Zhao Yi: "Heh, it's also strange, the Li family, who likes to set rules so much, actually doesn't set rules here."

Lin Shu You: "Probably because Brother Xiao Yuan knows that I treat Tongzi as a friend."

The eyelids were quiet and stopped jumping.

Zhao Yi: "Hmm, I can understand this feeling, just like you and me, we are also good friends who hooked fingers and swore for a hundred years without changing."

Lin Shu You took half a step back and looked at Zhao Yi with the gaze of looking at a fool.

When this kind of gaze was used by A You, it could achieve a stronger mocking effect.

Zhao Yi didn't care, hooked out his finger and urged: "Come, let's hook fingers."

"Childish."

After leaving this sentence, Lin Shu You turned around gracefully.

Zhao Yi: "You said you loved someone you shouldn't have loved, your heart is full of scars~"

Lin Shu You rotated three hundred and sixty degrees, hooked fingers.

"Hehe!"

Zhao Yi touched Lin Shu You's face, which was flushed from anger, and ran to chase that Li family member with satisfaction.

At this time, the big brother phone on A You's body rang, and he answered the phone:

"Hello."

The voice of Zhou Yunyun came from the other end of the phone: "It's me, A You, is Binbin by your side?"

"Hmm, wait a moment, I'll give the phone to Brother Bin."

"Linlin is also by my side, she wants to call you, is she calling Auntie Zhang?"

"No need, I'll report a number, you let her call this one, we have more than one big brother phone now."

"Hmm, good, you report it, I'll let Linlin write it down."

Not long after, Tan Wenbin and Lin Shu You each held a big brick, sat on a bench, and began to chat.

When Tan Wenbin talked with Zhou Yunyun, it was like an old married couple chatting about household chores, his back against the wall, legs spread, the whole person half-lying, appearing incomparably natural.

Lin Shu You sat with his back straight, basically only popping out "Hmm, Oh, Right."

Liu Yumei stood in the east room, holding a wet cloth, imagining wiping the spirit tablet like in the past, but looking up and down constantly, they were all incomparably brand new and shiny, not needing to be wiped at all.

At this time, Liu Yi brought tea in and smiled: "I find A You pitiful, being bullied to death by that Zhao family kid."

Liu Yumei threw the cloth away, took the teacup and sipped it,

and said:

"That kid from the Zhao family truly likes A You."

The more precious the spiritual medicine and fairy grass, the more powerful and terrifying the evil spirits that occupy them tend to be.

The opposite is also true; planting herbs next to more powerful evil spirits will also pull the latter to match this height.

The medicinal herbs in the medicinal garden hadn't been planted for long, but the speed of growth had already made Old Man Tian dumbfounded.

Because Qing'an is truly generous; for those who are about to die, whoever makes it happy can get gold coins.

It's just that no matter how fast the medicinal herbs grow, they can't be used for the time being; fortunately, the finished products brought by Zhao Yi when he came were enough, and Li Zhuiyuan and A Li came specifically to learn how to make them this time.

The newly made medicinal pills can be taken on the road directly this time.

Old Man Tian taught everything he had without the slightest reservation.

He knew that after a while, he would receive a counter-supplement.

Previously, he only heard that this Miss Qin family suffered from a hidden illness and couldn't shoulder the family's burden, and it was precisely because of this that there was the visiting card from his own Great Elder who had lost his mind.

But after coming into contact, Old Man Tian only felt that Miss Qin family, besides being somewhat unapproachable, was not at all inferior to his own young master in terms of talent and ability.

The young master was raised by him, and he once firmly believed that the young master was the smartest child in the world, until he came to this nest of smart children.

The wind in the peach forest still blew from time to time.

Li Zhuiyuan and A Li sat together, following Old Man Tian to make medicine.

Zhao Yi lay beside the crib, teasing Benben.

Benben also gave face, and was also teasing him.

One "Hahaha," one "Giggle," both host and guest were happy.

Zhao Yi really liked this child quite a bit.

After all, this child was the same as him when he was a child, able to rely on his life destiny to directly sterilize his parents.

Zhao Yi: "Eh, why is there still a seal in this child's body?"

Li Zhuiyuan answered without raising his head: "Can't you guess the reason?"

Zhao Yi: "Heh, good talent, high inspiration, broke the seal, why not add another one?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "It will be counterproductive."

Zhao Yi: "Not bad, this child is smart, but shouldn't be at the level you were when you were a child. Li family, what were you like when you were a child?"

Li Zhuiyuan had no interest in continuing this topic.

Zhao Yi suddenly thought of something and laughed loudly:

"Haha, Li family, you can't practice martial arts now, you say if you had come into contact with Profound Gate things earlier, would you be walking the river with a pacifier in your mouth?"

At this time, someone shouted outside, Xiao Yingying went out to handle it, and not long after, she walked back and reported to Li Zhuiyuan:

"A mad dog killed in the next village, came to deliver the 'dog balls' ordered by Yin Meng, I told him to send them to Grandpa Li's house to find Yin Meng."

"What?" Zhao Yi couldn't sit still, immediately got up and leaned toward Li Zhuiyuan, asking: "Brother Xiao Yuan, what is Mengmeng collecting this thing for?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "Can't you guess?"

Zhao Yi: "Throw this thing out at a critical moment, let me go attract hatred?"

Li Zhuiyuan continued to pound medicine.

Zhao Yi: "We are on the same side, at least for now, is it necessary to treat me like this." Li Zhuiyuan stopped the movement in his hand and looked at Zhao Yi: "Actually, there is a better method."

Zhao Yi saw the seriousness in Li Zhuiyuan's eyes; he believed that the Li family really had a more ruthless method, but didn't use it.

"Brother Xiao Yuan, it's fine, briefly attracting attention for an ally is what should be done, for the sake of the big picture."

Zhao Yi returned to the crib side; he felt Benben was cuter.

While playing, Zhao Yi thought of something again and opened the topic again: "Tan Wenbin's two god-sons, were they sent to be reincarnated?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "Hmm."

"He is truly willing." After a pause, Zhao Yi said again, "Are they truly willing?"

Benben's hands grabbed Zhao Yi's fingers, shaking them vigorously.

While shaking, Zhao Yi's gaze became serious.

He suddenly realized a problem, or to be precise, perceived a certain development possibility in the future.

This child in front of him, Tan Wenbin's child, A You's True Monarch system needs to rely on bloodline inheritance...

Zhao Yi slowly turned his head and looked at the backs of the young man and the girl sitting together over there.

The decline of the Long Wang family is obvious; the simplest thing is to count the spirit tablets or count how many living people are left.

However, revival and rise are often more like a slogan, very difficult to be grounded; now, Zhao Yi saw the visible, rich earth energy.

Damn, the river walk of this generation hasn't finished yet, hasn't the river walk configuration of the next generation already risen?

That old lady doesn't even need special methods, just work a little harder and live normally, maybe she really could witness the decline of the Long Wang family and witness its rise again in her lifetime.

The most fatal thing is, if the Li family doesn't die on the river, when the next generation walks the river, the Li family will still be very young.

Xiao Yingying sat over and handed the milk bottle to Benben.

Benben sighed, took the milk bottle, and sucked on it with no taste.

Zhao Yi looked at Xiao Yingying: "You are really good at taking care of children, very thoughtful."

Xiao Yingying didn't understand why Zhao Yi would say this kind of thing to her, and she was too lazy to understand, so she got up to leave.

Zhao Yi hurriedly continued:

"In the future, if I have children, how about sending them over for you to take care of?"

Xiao Yingying didn't look back, Benben nodded vigorously.

Ever since the two ghost brothers disappeared, he felt very lonely by himself.

Zhao Yi reached out and rubbed Benben's head, thinking to himself:

Damn, you guys are doing this, how are the people of the next generation supposed to play?

It got dark.

Li Zhuiyuan finished his work; while A Li was packing the medicinal pills, he walked down the dam, faced the peach forest, and bowed.

The young man knew that the peace of these two days was obtained through its protection.

A gust of wind rose in the peach forest and dissipated into nothingness.

Zhao Yi followed suit and also bowed.

"Hum!"

A peach blossom flew out and pierced into Zhao Yi's chest, but this time it was no longer a penetrating wound; after the petal went in, it didn't come out.

Zhao Yi lowered his head to check his heart, where a peach blossom was in full bloom.

"Thank you, I promise you, I will live out an ending different from yours."

"Dinner time!"

Li Zhuiyuan went to the second floor to call the Great-Grandfather down for dinner.

Just as he pushed open the screen door, he heard Li Sanjiang's coughing sound inside, followed by the sound of blowing his nose.

When he saw Li Sanjiang's face, he found that the Great-Grandfather's face was flushed and his eyes were filled with tears.

"Great-Grandfather, you've caught a cold."

Under normal circumstances, the Great-Grandfather's body had always been very tough, basically never getting sick, and even headaches and fevers were rare.

"It's fine."

Li Sanjiang got out of bed and went downstairs with Li Zhuiyuan for dinner.

After sitting there, he sniffed, picked up the wine, clinked glasses with Old Man Tian, and sipped it, then frowned, staring carefully at the wine glass in his hand.

This bottle opened at noon was definitely not fake wine, but how come it tasted completely tasteless?

Old Man Tian saw the problem and said: "Brother, I'll decoct a dose of medicine for you, take it before you sleep, and you'll be fine tomorrow."

Li Sanjiang nodded.

Old Man Tian himself stopped drinking too, pointed at the food with his chopsticks: "Eat, eat."

Li Sanjiang only ate half a bowl of rice, really had no appetite, so he waved his hand to leave the table first and went upstairs to continue resting.

Seeing this, Liu Yumei also put down her chopsticks and returned to the east room, sitting down before the spirit tablet.

"Sigh, it seems this wave is not ordinary."

Looking up, she looked at these rows of spirit tablets, the names on them, like gazes.

Liu Yumei sighed:

"What are you looking at, there's no spirit left, what's the use of looking again."

Old Man Tian decocted the medicine, and Li Zhuiyuan brought it up.

"Cough cough... cough cough cough..."

The violent coughing sound could be heard from far away, even more severe than before.

In the ashtray made of Jianlibao on the bedside table, several cigarettes that had only been smoked for one or two puffs were extinguished.

"Great-Grandfather, drink the medicine."

"Hmm, good."

Li Sanjiang sat up and drank the medicine in one gulp, and after drinking it, he still felt somewhat unsatisfied.

The medicine was extremely bitter, one could tell just by smelling it, but it could bring a real taste experience to the current Li Sanjiang.

"Xiao Yuan Hou, Great-Grandfather is fine, just sleep and sweat it out, Great-Grandfather's body is very good."

"Hmm, I know."

"You must pay attention when you go out, wear more clothes, don't touch cold water, where you are going, remember to let Runsheng and the others follow you, the construction site must be dangerous..."

The Great-Grandfather had a fever, his brain wasn't very clear, and his instructions were repeated like a wheel.

Li Zhuiyuan sat beside him, listening quietly while actively responding.

Just like this, until twelve o'clock at night, the Great-Grandfather finally fell asleep in a daze.

Li Zhuiyuan refilled his tea mug with Agastache tea and covered him with the quilt again.

"Xiao Yuan Hou... pay attention when you go out... be careful..."

The sleeping Great-Grandfather was still talking in his sleep, still worrying about him in his dreams.

Li Zhuiyuan's mouth corners trembled, then twitched, and as the arc hooked up, it spread from a point to the whole face, finally revealing a smile.

Used to interest exchanges and mutual calculations, but in front of this old man, he could only be bestowed, yet had nothing to return to him.

Because, even without himself, with the Great-Grandfather's good fortune, he could still healthily, smoothly, and long-lived finish his life.

It was precisely because of his arrival that there were more worries and tossing in the Great-Grandfather's life.

Every time he was injured or sick, it was almost related to himself; he was like a disaster star.

Returning to his room, he went to bed to sleep.

Tonight, Li Zhuiyuan had a dream.

In the dream, his bed was floating in a black ocean, and below, there were dense corpses.

He had had this dream before; this was the Great-Grandfather's dream.

In fact, from the moment he called the Great-Grandfather downstairs for dinner, Li Zhuiyuan knew that the Great-Grandfather's good fortune was gone.

Good fortune had been transferred to himself.

In other words, in the days he was away from home, the Great-Grandfather would always bear the torment of illness.

If he could choose, Li Zhuiyuan would return this good fortune to the Great-Grandfather without hesitation.

But things like good fortune were things even he couldn't fully understand, let alone allocate.

Even the Great-Grandfather himself didn't understand what this was.

Waking up, turning his head, opening his eyes, A Li in a red dress was standing before the drawing table, not drawing, but organizing her backpack.

She knew which pocket every item should be placed in, placing them very seriously.

After washing up, Li Zhuiyuan put on his bag and took A Li's hand downstairs.

"Dinner time!"

Li Sanjiang didn't come downstairs.

Everyone finished breakfast and prepared to set off, driving two cars, a small pickup truck and Chen Lin's sedan.

Li Zhuiyuan handed the bag to Tan Wenbin and went upstairs again; he had to greet the Great-Grandfather before setting off.

Pushing open the door, the Great-Grandfather seemed awake but not awake, sensing something in a daze.

"Xiao Yuan Hou, I'll go down for breakfast in a while..."

"Great-Grandfather, I'm going out."

"Oh, leaving so early, did you bring enough money..."

"Brought enough."

"Money must be brought enough, poor family, rich road."

"Don't worry, Great-Grandfather, I brought plenty."

Beside the car under the dam, Zhao Yi, Tan Wenbin, and Runsheng were all puffing on cigarettes.

Lin Shu You wanted to join in and light one, but was refused by Zhao Yi and Tan Wenbin together.

Zhao Yi shook off the ash and asked Tan Wenbin: "Can Grandpa Li also get sick?"

Grandpa Li's good fortune could make Old Man Tian, who had no way out on his side, stand up again, how could he not even be able to protect himself from illness and disaster?

Tan Wenbin didn't answer.

Runsheng spoke: "Don't talk about this."

Zhao Yi: "Understood."

It seems this is the Li family's taboo, not involving cultivation methods, secret books, or inheritance, purely targeting people.

On this point, Zhao Yi could really empathize; didn't he have Old Man Tian on his side?

Old Man Tian...

Heh.

Zhao Yi extinguished the cigarette, walked to the back of the sedan, and opened the trunk; Old Man Tian, who was lying inside, was covered with talismans to isolate the leakage of aura, stuck on so luxuriously.

He was thinking of sneaking into the car first, and after driving for a distance, even if he was discovered, he could shamelessly follow along.

Old Man Tian used surprise to cover up his panic, saying: "Young Master, your spiritual sense has improved again, you could actually discover me?"

Zhao Yi shook his head: "I didn't even investigate, I just knew you would hide here."

"Young Master, just let me go with you, my leg is better now, I'm useful..."

"No, I've already sold you out!"

Zhao Yi reached out and lifted Old Man Tian out of the trunk.

In the past, he was small and light, and Old Tian's back was the widest place in the world for him; now, Old Tian had become shorter, and his back was hunched, as if he had shrunk.

The images in memory were forever frozen, creating a shock with what was seen in reality.

The moment he lifted Old Tian, even someone with a resilient temperament like Zhao Yi had an extremely strong sense of unreality.

"Young Master, let me go, let me go!"

Old Tian was still begging bitterly.

Zhao Yi remained unmoved, carrying him, and walked straight toward the Bearded Man's house.

"Young Master, Young Master..."

Zhao Yi began to run.

Old Tian was afraid that the young master's arm would be tired, so he silently climbed onto the young master's back.

"Told you to stay obediently and you insisted on pulling this stunt, letting that bunch of Li family people watch the fun for nothing, am I that idle, having to accompany you to act in a TV drama here!"

Old Tian didn't speak, Zhao Yi's shoulder was wet.

"Don't be like this, or I'll carry you back, and we'll cry in each other's arms in front of them? Old Tian, you know your young master likes face, let's endure it, okay?"

"Young Master, Brother Li is sick."

"Getting old, getting sick is very normal."

"It's different."

Previously Old Man Tian didn't understand what good fortune was, and even questioned his young master's arrangements, but when he experienced it personally, he realized how terrifying this good fortune was!

"Young Master, it's different, he is sick for Xiao Yuan."

"Don't say this again, they don't like to hear it, especially the Li family."

The person he cherished most, for the sake of his own safety, was willing to be sick at home waiting.

Zhao Yi believed that with the Li family's personality, he would never actively request this, and even if the other party was willing to give it, he would return it without hesitation.

It's estimated that the Li family could take it, but couldn't do it actively to return it.

Carrying this kind of mentality, the Li family must feel very uncomfortable in his heart, and anyone who dares to mention this in front of him is really looking for death.

That Runsheng is the one who understands him best.

"Young Master, I can also block for you..."

"Old Tian, I already owe you two lives."

One when he was a child, one during the last river walk.

"Young Master, the old servant's life is yours."

"If I owe you again, when I see you, I'll have a sense of guilt, and I won't want to see you again, alright, be obedient, just stay here and plant medicine for me peacefully.

Wait for me to come back.

I'm tired, don't toss around anymore."

Zhao Yi placed Old Tian on the Bearded Man's dam.

Old Man Tian: "But Young Master, this time it relates to the whole Zhao family, I also want to contribute."

Zhao Yi left without looking back, waved his hand, and responded:

"You don't even have the surname Zhao, your name isn't on the list."

Li Zhuiyuan walked down slowly from upstairs, and just as he arrived at the dam, he saw Liu Yumei standing in front of him, as if waiting specifically for him.

"Grandma Liu."

"Xiao Yuan, Grandma wants to tell you something."

"Grandma, it's not very convenient right now."

He was just about to go walk the river, and this wave was extremely special; he didn't want Liu Yumei to get involved in any karma at this time.

"Hehe." Liu Yumei smiled, "Am I such an ignorant person?"

"Grandma, please speak."

Liu Yumei looked at A Li and said:

"A Li's illness started when she was very young, I tried every method, when you first came, you also saw it, I even had to coax A Li to eat."

"Hmm."

"But I'm very happy, people are different, some people feel aggrieved when dragged down by their children, feeling it's not worth it for themselves, some people like their children to toss them around, when people get old, sometimes they rely on this bit of movement to feel like they are still alive.

When your Great-Grandfather discovered that he didn't need to give you money anymore, that disappointment of his, oh, after that time you came back from Mount Langshan together, he wasn't even as active as before in asking for debts.

He wants to help you, and he is willing and happy."

"Thank you, Grandma."

"Go, Liu Yi is at home, nothing will happen. As for outside..."

Liu Yumei turned sideways, looked at the sky in the west, and continued,

"Don't be afraid, I've seen scenes where the sky collapses, in fact, it's just like that!"

When Zhao Yi returned, he found Li Zhuiyuan sitting in the back of the small pickup truck, sitting beside him was Runsheng, while in the driver's seat were Tan Wenbin and Lin Shu You.

In the sedan, Liang Yan was sitting in the passenger seat, while Liang Li and Yin Meng were in the back, leaving a driver's seat for himself.

Obviously, this was a specially arranged seating order.

Zhao Yi nodded, opened the car door and sat in, and started the car.

He honked the horn a few times, signaling Tan Wenbin to move, he would drive to the front to lead the charge.

Tan Wenbin didn't move, directly started the car and drove out.

The small pickup in front, the sedan in back, the two cars first drove onto the village road, then onto the road.

In this day and age, driving long distances relies on maps, but having the experience of just going to Rongcheng, this time the map was completely unnecessary; as for Fengdou... last time in order to stay as far away from Fengdou as possible, everyone was extremely familiar with the traffic network around Fengdou.

Zhao Yi didn't play music this time, but while driving, he asked Yin Meng who was sitting in the back:

"Mengmeng, is Runsheng's taste so heavy now, even eating 'dog balls'?"

Yin Meng blinked and whispered: "Actually, it was A You who suggested I collect them."

"Haha!" Zhao Yi, "He still considers things so deeply, by then I'll hold a pair of 'dog balls', he'll carry me, and we'll go together to attract attention, perfect!"

The road was smooth and steady.

Tan Wenbin: "Brother Xiao Yuan, I see the boundary marker, we are about to leave Nantong."

The two cars drove past the boundary marker.

One side of the road was under construction, the original two-way lane became one-way, fortunately, there weren't many cars on the road today.

Ahead, a large truck loaded with steel bars was driving.

Behind, a large truck loaded with cables was following.

Li Zhuiyuan looked up.

Zhao Yi, who was driving, looked at the rearview mirror and muttered: "Damn, it won't be this fast, right?"

Suddenly, the large truck in front seemed to have some problem and braked urgently, while the large truck behind had increasing speed, showing no sign of slowing down at all.

The rear truck first hit the sedan, then pushed it forward, squeezing it toward the pickup in front, the pickup's head hit the tail of the front truck, the steel bars on the truck slid off due to the impact, stabbing through both cars that were already squeezed and deformed.

"Boom!"

(End of chapter)