Chapter 1969: Returning to the Ancestral Lineage

"The Li Dynasty can perfectly well support someone else to take charge."

Li Xuanya shook her head, looking at Liu Zheng with immense tenderness: "No, Liu Zheng, you know it; I cannot abandon the Li Dynasty for your sake."

"Even though the Li Dynasty is very weak."

Hearing these words, Liu Zheng understood Li Xuanya's heart, and he nodded.

He indicated that he would support Li Xuanya's decision.

"I will take little Liu Xiang with me; after he comes of age, I will have him come to Longyan."

"Very well."

Liu Zheng also felt it would be better for little Liu Xiang to stay by Li Xuanya's side, and he looked into Li Xuanya's eyes and said earnestly: "I will come to see you."

Li Xuanya was stunned for a moment, then broke into a smile; she had always believed in the promises of the man before her, for this man had never once deceived her when making such a statement.

"Alright, I will wait for you..."

The rituals inside the ancestral hall concluded, and little Liu Xiang was carried out by Xie Chan.

Li Xuanya took little Liu Xiang, and Xie Chan said: "Xuanya, actually, you could stay."

"Of course, in your capacity as little Liu Qian's godmother."

Li Xuanya smiled and boarded the Horse Carriage: "Xie Chan, if I stay, I'll have to fight you for your man!"

"Then you had better leave."

Through the window of the Horse Carriage, Li Xuanya saw Xie Chan and Liu Zheng, who had come out together to see her off, and she waved her hand; little Liu Xiang also imitated his mother, waving goodbye to the two of them.

"Goodbye."

Little Liu Xiang was, after all, only a three-year-old child; in Li Xuanya's arms, he looked at her curiously and asked with a babble: "Mother, who is that person, and why must I call him Father?"

"He is your father," Li Xuanya explained with a chuckle.

"Then why isn't Father coming with us?"

"Because... your father has even more important things to do; he is a hero."

After Li Xuanya left, Xie Chan pinched Liu Zheng's ear and interrogated him: "Speak, do you still have feelings for Li Xuanya?"

"Did something happen between you two just now!"

Liu Zheng said while nursing his ear: "No, no."

"How could I still have feelings for her? I already have my beloved darling Xie Chan."

Hearing such sweet words from Liu Zheng, Xie Chan let go: "Hmph, I don't believe you, unless you can prove it to me." (Biquge)

Liu Zheng rubbed his ear, looked at the petulant Xie Chan, and quietly hugged her: "Darling, how should I prove it?"

Xie Chan caught Liu Zheng's restless hands placed upon her; it was summer, and she was dressed quite thinly.

Liu Zheng could easily feel how many layers of clothing Xie Chan was wearing, and he stared at her blankly: "Now?"

"Now!"

"You have no idea how I've spent these past few months!"

"You should also hand over your stock from this period; how is it that your confidantes came by and drained you dry during this time?"

Liu Zheng coughed twice, looking in surprise at Xie Chan, who had always been bold in her ways.

But he never expected that such words would actually come out of her mouth.

"How is that possible? Don't go begging for mercy later!"

"Bring it on..."

Summer is a season of blooming flowers, and also a season that experiences the impact of wind and rain.

Xie Chan waited for Liu Zheng to satisfy her.

Meanwhile, at the Liangzhou Laboratory.

In the Medical Research Laboratory, that group of perverts and madmen of the scientific world found an excellent research subject today.

A heinous female pirate who had once killed thousands of people and plundered dozens of Merchant Ships.

She was incredibly fierce; unlike those pirates who came to Longyan of their own volition, this pirate was captured only after the Longyan Navy paid the price of a Destroyer to bring her back.

After arriving here, no matter how harsh the interrogation, this wretch would not admit to her crimes, nor would she disclose where she had sold the Longyan girls she had abducted.

The Longyan interrogation department had no way to deal with her.

Finally, they remembered that the Medical Research Laboratory at the Liangzhou Laboratory had been asking them for prisoners for live experiments.

However, for the dissection experiments at the Medical Research Laboratory, let alone living people.

Even the dead did not want to go in there.

That place was referred to by them as the nineteenth level of the underworld.

Therefore, there had never been a suitable candidate to send over, but now that this pirate had arrived, it seemed to those above that this person was just the right size and fit.

In any case, nothing could be interrogated out of this pirate, so they made the decision to send this pirate to the Liangzhou Laboratory.

At first, this pirate was very arrogant, saying things like "a mere medical laboratory."

It was a joke to think they could make her talk, but deep down, she was also somewhat afraid.

After all, the Longyan Soldiers who brought her could not help but tell her: "Although I have no sympathy for you, I must still tell you out of humanitarianism."

"After you go in, confess everything you know; after all, death is a very easy thing compared to what happens in there."

"You will never know what they will do to you."

But when she saw that the Medical Research Laboratory was filled with a group of gray-haired doctors and physicians wearing crystal glasses, looking refined and gentle, and smiling with kind expressions.

The pirate instantly doubted the words of the Longyan Soldiers; what was there to fear from such a group of old men and women?

She didn't know how many of them she had killed.

"So this is the new test subject; he looks not bad," a group of medical scientists said, looking curiously at this one-eyed pirate.

Surrounded and watched, the one-eyed pirate immediately flew into a rage, and he said in the most extreme, murderous tone: "Release me! I will consider leaving your corpses intact!"

The medical scientists ignored him and instead ran to the side to discuss how to dispose of this pirate in a moment.

The female pirate, however, clamored: "A place like this, I could destroy it with ease!"

"You think you can get the location of those lovely Longyan women out of my mouth? Keep dreaming!"

"Either you release me, or you can wait to collect their corpses, or, hehe..."

Words that these medical scientists had never heard before all tumbled out of this female pirate's mouth.

But they did not care in the slightest about the whereabouts of the Longyan hostages, which made the female pirate sense something strange.

This shouldn't be.

He had been able to live until now without being executed only because among the batch of Merchant Ships he had most recently intercepted, there were a few Longyan people; the Baron had already been killed by him, and as for the women, he hadn't yet had the chance to taste them.

Then he was captured by the Longyan army, and as for where these Longyan women were hidden, no one knew but him.

The Longyan wanted to know the whereabouts of these women from his mouth, which was why they had dragged it out and not killed him yet.

But since he arrived at this place, it seemed that no one was interested in the whereabouts of these women.

He heard these medical scientists seemingly discussing how to cook a dish.

"How do you think the large intestine should be prepared?"

"I think using a local Longyan cooking method would be good; the key is removing the gamey smell, though some people like to keep a portion of it. I admit that might be more delicious, but it's too disgusting."

"You're talking about Nine-Turn Large Intestine, right!"

"Listen to me, for that dish, we remove the smell, but don't layer the intestines; use the end of the large intestine, which is the thickest part, to make the dish—that is the most delicious."