Jiaohua

Chapter 1171 The Way of Longevity
Not long after the stone door of the dark room was closed, it was reopened from the outside.

Shen Yan was sitting in a wheelchair, with his head slightly lowered, his eyes closed, and when he heard the movement, he looked up towards the door.

"Is it my turn?" he asked gently.

Zhan Ning looked at him coldly, and covered his eyes with the cloth in his hand.

The wheelchair was pushed out of the dark room and walked uphill all the way.

The mahogany tires rolled across the rough ground, making a fine friction sound, and when they approached the secret passage, the friction sound on the ground disappeared. Zhan Ning supported the wheelchair with both hands, and stepped on the horizontal bar at the rear of the wheelchair, making the wheelchair firmly stuck slope.

Shen Yan tilted his head lightly, and said to his ear, "Why did you bring me here?"

"You'd better not talk." Zhan Ning said in a deep voice.

The beautiful sound of the piano came from outside the dark passage, just covering the sound of the tires of the wheelchair and their voices.

Shen Yan turned his head back, outside the sound of the piano, he heard his master's voice.

"It's... longevity."

"Eternal life?"

"Yes."

Shen Wen's thick eyebrows were slightly frowned, and his fingers were also tightened, slightly clasping the armrest of the wheelchair.

"Longevity," Xia Zhaoyi read the word lightly and smiled, "You believe this."

Fan Zhuyi said stiffly: "Feng Qingang said that if I can bring Mrs. Xia's body to him, he will teach me the art of longevity."

"Corpse? But you set it on fire."

Fan Zhuyi thought of this and felt disgusted: "That is a place of war and bonfires, how can the corpse be brought out? Besides, Qingmeiling is ice and snow, she can survive in Qingmeiling, but after getting out of the Unyielding River and getting warm. Originally , Our plan was to transport the coffin out together, but after digging it up, we found out that her coffin was not made of wood, but an ice coffin chiseled out of cold ice, and it is impossible for us to move it."

Xia Zhaoyi asked: "But if it is burned with a torch, will Feng Qingang agree?"

"It's better than returning empty-handed, but..." Fan Zhuyi frowned, "He actually wants the ashes too."

"When was the last time you saw him? Where?"

"Five years ago, in Jinzhou."

"Five years ago," Xia Zhaoyi mused, "At that time, Jinzhou was already Tian Dayao's territory."

"Ah."

Shen Yan frowned slightly, Jinzhou was something he never expected.

Xia Zhaoyi continued to ask: "Then, the purpose of your trip to Hengxiang is..."

"He has been missing for many years. The last trace I found about him is in Hengxiang."

"This is the closest, how close is it?"

"Two years ago."

"So, you prepared the big house next door to Nianhuazhai two years in advance."

Fan Zhuyi took a deep breath and nodded coldly.

Xia Zhaoyi changed the subject: "Then, do you know where your great apprentice Shen Wen has been all these years?"

Shen Yan raised his head slightly in the darkness, with an invisible smile on the corner of his lips.

"How do I know?" Fan Zhuyi's voice became angry, "I don't even know that this villain is still alive!"

"As far as I know, he has sent you some strange patterns from time to time in the past few years." Xia Zhaoyi said.

Shen Shen heard the words, and the smile on his lips deepened, with a bit of self-mockery.

The last time she mentioned this in front of him, the tone at that time was the same as now, as if it came out of her mouth, his behavior seemed to have become ridiculous and childish.

Fan Zhuyi didn't answer right away, he was silent for a while, and said, "Yes."

"Do you know what that pattern is?" Xia Zhaoyi continued to ask.

"do not know."

"You really don't know?" Xia Zhaoyi raised his eyebrows, his bright eyes were shining, as if he could read people's hearts, "Fan Zhuyi, are you sure you want to hide it, or lie to me."

Fan Zhuyi clenched his fist behind his back.

This woman is really disgusting, she is born, he really doesn't know how much the girl in front of him has found out.

After a while, Fan Zhuyi almost gritted his teeth and said, "The pattern comes from an ancient book."

"What is the name of the ancient book?"

"It's a tattered book, without a cover, and I don't know the name," Fan Zhuyi said, pointing at the secret path, "Isn't this scoundrel locked up below? Why don't you just arrest him and ask him?"

Xia Zhaoyi smiled, turned sideways, and casually plucked the strings with his right hand a few more times.

"Since you believe that Feng Qingang has the secret technique of longevity in his hands, surely Feng Qingang's appearance can convince you, right?"

"I met him 50 years ago. What he looked like then is still the same now."

"I heard that his hands are very strange?"

Fan Zhuyi's eyes fell on the girl's fingers that were still moving lightly on the strings.

The girl's hands were very delicate, long and powerful, with rounded fingertips.

Fan Zhuyi thought for a while and said, "The palm of your hand is slightly bigger than yours, but your index finger plus little finger is roughly equal to his middle finger."

The sound of the piano at Xia Zhaoyi's fingertips stopped abruptly.

She looked down at her hand, imagined it, and said, "It looks like his hand is indeed deformed."

"He cherishes his hands very much." Fan Zhuyi said.

Mr. Liu He also mentioned this in his letter.

Xia Zhaoyi continued to pluck the piano, and the sound of the piano was slow, crisp and melodious.

"So," she said, "what about the group of people?"

When the voice fell, she looked up at Fan Zhuyi.

Fan Zhuyi realized that he was really afraid of her eyes. He had seen countless people in his life, but he had never seen a woman with such bright eyes.

This is An Ran who is confident and calm, and who is firmly in control of the overall situation, and she is indeed in a position of authority at a young age.

Not only her power in the Xia family army, but also the whole world, her name is resounding.

Fan Zhuyi said: "I don't know much about that group of people, I only met them a few times during my dealings with Feng Qingang."

"The Qianqiu Palace under Longyuan belongs to them?" Xia Zhaoyi asked.

"Isn't that place already filled by your master? I haven't been there yet."

Speaking of it, Fan Zhuyi couldn't stop complaining: "It's all because of that scoundrel!"

Xia Zhaoyi smiled: "So, what about the Qiao family?"

Fan Zhuyi frowned and looked back into the girl's eyes.

"Have you heard of it, the Qiao family?" Xia Zhaoyi continued.

After being quiet for a long time, Fan Zhuyi said slowly: "The Qiao family in Nantang County, Zhaozhou is so famous, of course I have heard of it."

"That group of people, why did you chase them down?"

"Mostly people in the world kill people, and they are basically classified into five causes and conditions, enmity, jealousy, profit, fame, and power."

"Listen to you, you don't know why they wanted to kill Qiao's family?"

Fan Zhuyi looked into her eyes and sighed deeply: "Miss Ali, I've already told you everything I know."

Xia Zhaoyi laughed, as pretty as a peach and plum, as bright as a spring breeze, but his words were extremely cold: "Fan Zhuyi, you lie to me."

"I never lied to you!" Fan Zhuyi said solemnly.

"Bang!" With a loud noise, Xia Zhaoyi slapped the priceless guqin with his palm, and all the strings resounded in unison.

Fan Zhuyi was taken aback.

The girl stood up and glared at him.

"When it comes to the Qiao family, why do you look different?" Xia Zhaoyi walked over, "That group of people should have gotten along well with Lin Qingfeng before Shen Wen used the Qiao family's pearls to frame Lin Qingfeng."

Before the girl came to the front, Fan Zhuyi was intimidated by her momentum and took half a step back.

"What's the matter with Lin Qingfeng?" Fan Zhuyi said pretending to be calm.

　Thank you Hua Lizi for your reward, thank you Ajin for your reward~~~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)