Chapter 124

He had no intention of getting himself tangled up in the matter of the Iron-Clad Marquis’s rebellion!

His own intentions were simple: wait a few more days, dump the remaining Beauty-Preserving Pills onto those ladies in the palace, earn the final sum of pill money, and then he could leave!

And so, three days passed in the blink of an eye.

On this day, Li Li Lianhua was as usual, half-reclining on a rattan chair, basking in the sun, sipping tea, and humming a tune.

With Fox Spirit curled up in his arms, looking perfectly at ease, another figure arrived before him.

"Divine Physician Li!" the visitor called out, addressing Li Li Lianhua.

"Oh, Yan Shisan? Come, come, sit, sit! Have some tea, have some tea!"

Opening his eyes to look at the visitor, Li Li Lianhua immediately wore a warm smile and gestured for Yan Shisan to sit.

Why would Yan Shisan come to find him at this time?

Naturally, it was to deliver the consultation fee.

When someone came to deliver money, Li Li Lianhua was naturally happy to welcome them.

"Many thanks, Divine Physician Li!" Under Li Li Lianhua’s warm invitation, Yan Shisan pulled up a stool and sat down.

Seeing Li Li Lianhua pour him a cup of tea, he felt even more flattered; he took the tea with both hands and downed it in one gulp.

Yan Shisan was well aware of the preciousness of this Enlightenment Tea; since the Divine Physician had invited him to drink, it was his own good fortune.

After one cup of Enlightenment Tea, he felt his thoughts become much clearer; many aspects of his Thirteen Swords of Death that had previously been vague now seemed to sharpen.

It wasn't that Yan Shisan hadn't fully mastered the Thirteen Swords of Death yet.

It was just that, as the saying goes, one learns until one dies; no matter how far one has mastered it, there is always room for further improvement in the Thirteen Swords of Death.

Perhaps, he might even be able to create a fourteenth sword?

Li Li Lianhua did not speak, simply watching Yan Shisan quietly.

Once Yan Shisan had finished savoring the insights brought by the tea, he reached into his robes and brought out the consultation fee he had prepared over these days, presenting it to Li Li Lianhua.

"Divine Physician Li, this is the consultation fee I have prepared: 120,000 taels of silver. This is all I could manage for now. If it is not enough, could you give me some more time?"

Yan Shisan said as he handed the silver notes to Li Li Lianhua.

"Not bad, not bad, this is enough!" Seeing that Yan Shisan had prepared 120,000 taels of silver for him, Li Li Lianhua nodded hurriedly.

Indeed, after preparing for so many days, the man had already brought him 120,000 taels; what more could he be dissatisfied with?

Originally, after opening the tea canister from the 200,000-tael treasure chest, Li Li Lianhua had only sixty or seventy thousand taels left.

And the price of opening the treasure chest had already risen from 200,000 to 220,000.

Fortunately, while lingering around Jingcheng these days, various high-ranking officials and nobles had come to him for treatment.

Over these ten-plus days, he had managed to harvest seventy or eighty thousand taels!

Thus, with Yan Shisan’s 120,000 taels in hand, Li Li Lianhua now had about 260,000 taels, which was just enough to exchange for another treasure chest!

"Divine Physician Li? I wonder, that Third Young Master..."

Seeing Li Li Lianhua looking satisfied as he tucked away the fee, Yan Shisan felt happy too.

But seeing Li Li Lianhua lost in thought without any intention of speaking, Yan Shisan couldn't help but prompt him.

Last time, hadn't the Divine Physician told him that the Third Young Master of the Divine Sword Villa was not dead?

And that he would tell him when he returned with the consultation fee?

"Oh, you mean news of Xie Xie Xiaofeng?" Hearing this, Li Li Lianhua snapped back to reality.

He casually set the silver notes aside.

Although he was eager to exchange for a treasure chest and see what good things he could open, there was no need to rush in this very moment.

"Actually, you have already met the Third Young Master of the Divine Sword Villa!" After organizing his words, Li Li Lianhua said to Yan Shisan.

"Ah? I have already met him?" Hearing this, Yan Shisan’s eyes widened, and he looked at Li Li Lianhua in disbelief.

He had been searching for the Third Young Master for so long, yet the Divine Physician said he had already met him?

"Before, when you were in Kuhai Town and encountered Wen Hua, do you remember?"

Li Li Lianhua naturally knew about the Kuhai Town incident, as Wen Hua had already told him.

"I remember!" Yan Shisan nodded.

At the same time, he pondered his chance meeting with Wen Hua in Kuhai Town.

At the time, he had been drawn by Wen Hua’s sword intent, so all his attention had been on Wen Hua!

But, listening to the Divine Physician, could it be that the Third Young Master, Xie Xie Xiaofeng, was also there?

"At that time, Wen Hua was being blocked by several villagers who wanted him to teach them swordsmanship; you remember that, right?" Li Li Lianhua asked further.

"I remember!"

Yan Shisan nodded; of course he wouldn't forget.

A group of villagers had surrounded Wen Hua, even using moral blackmail, claiming that if Wen Hua didn't teach them, the poor, he was just like the big bosses, persecuting the impoverished!

He remembered that Wen Hua didn't really know how to handle such things, and it was he who had stepped in, causing those people to stop their nonsense.

"Do you remember who the person was that the villagers wanted Wen Hua to teach?" Li Li Lianhua asked.

"This..." Yan Shisan’s brow furrowed in thought.

Truth be told, his attention had been entirely on Wen Hua; he hadn't really paid attention to the people on the side!

Besides, in Yan Shisan’s impression, the person the Kuhai Town residents wanted Wen Hua to teach seemed to be a mute, standing far away without saying a word.

Yan Shisan had paid him even less mind!

"Useless Aji?" Seeing Yan Shisan racking his brain for so long without success, Li Li Lianhua offered a hint.

"Yes, yes, yes..."

Hearing this, Yan Shisan reacted, nodding in agreement as a memory surfaced. "Divine Physician Li, you are right, that person seemed to go by that name, and he was even called 'Useless Useless Aji'!"

Yan Shisan remembered now; the girl, Xiaoli, had pulled Wen Hua aside and said that, calling him "Useless Useless Aji," and wanting Wen Hua to teach him martial arts so he could become a "Useful Useless Aji."

Confirming that the person was indeed named Useless Aji, Yan Shisan reacted with shock, looking at Li Li Lianhua: "Divine Physician Li, you mean? That person named Useless Aji, he..."

He already had a guess in his heart, but Yan Shisan could not believe it!

The legendary Third Young Master, the genius swordsman of the Great Ming Daxi Jiang Hu who was once most expected to become a Sword Immortal, the man he considered his fated rival, was that kind of person?

Yan Shisan felt as if the image of the Third Young Master in his heart had collapsed in an instant!

"That's right!"

Seeing Yan Shisan’s shocked and disbelieving expression, Li Li Lianhua nodded heavily. "Useless Useless Aji is the Third Young Master of the Divine Sword Villa, Xie Xie Xiaofeng!"