That year, that cicada, that sword

Chapter 359

The sky was getting brighter, and the Li family's mansion, which had been silent all night, came back to life.

The maids and servants are busy with their own errands.

In the bedroom of the main courtyard of the Li family, a woman just woke up and sat lazily in front of the vanity mirror, with the little maid behind her combing her hair.

Although the woman is over 20 years old, but because of the pampering, her beauty has not diminished, and she is ready to show her mature female style.Looking at herself in the bronze mirror, she couldn't help feeling sorry for herself. Marrying a husband who was more than [-] years older than her was indeed not a good match. Since three years ago, her husband didn't touch her very much, and he was bored in the study all day long. I don't know what to do.

A woman of this age is in the age of tigers and wolves. After having tasted the taste of that incident, how can she bear loneliness? Unfortunately, this is the Li family, and the house is well-regulated. Hundreds of pairs of eyes are staring at her. He didn't dare to do anything beyond his limits, so he could only toss and turn sleeplessly every night, and now he was dressing his eyebrows and temples, and he didn't know who to show them to!

Besides, her husband, Li Qingyu, is the head of the Li family above his name, but in fact, it is not the old man who has the final say. Li Qingyu only knows how to be submissive and has no masculinity. Let's look at the heads of other aristocratic families, which one is not a unparalleled celebrity style ?How like him!

After combing her hair, the woman put on a gorgeous palace dress. Just when she was bored, a lady in charge hurried over and said respectfully: "Ma'am, there is a visit from outside the door. It is a young man who is said to be from Jiangdu. Yes, the surname is Xu, and it seems that he has a lot of background, and the housekeeper can't find the master anywhere, so I ask my wife to make the decision."

The woman's complexion changed slightly, the ones who should come will always come, these days, everyone in the mansion said that Mr. Xu from Jiangdu was coming to the mansion to make trouble, but unexpectedly, he caught up with him.

She thought for a while and asked, "Is there a female family member accompanying you?"

The lady in charge nodded quickly and said, "There are two female relatives."

After all, the woman is a woman from a wealthy family, and she is not too afraid of Xu Beiyou. Although Li Zijian has controlled the power of the Li family these years, she has been in charge of the Li family, and the other party has a female family member, so let her put it down a little. Feeling that it is not impolite to go out to meet each other like this, so he nodded and said: "Please go to the main hall."

Entering the Li family's mansion really opened Xu Beiyou's eyes. After all, Gongsun's mansion and Zhang's mansion are located in Jiangdu, where every inch of land is expensive, and the land area is limited, but Li's mansion is different. Compared with the feudal king's mansion, Li Bancheng's name in Jiangling is really not for nothing.

After walking for about half a stick of incense, they finally came to the front of the main hall of the Li family. The swordsmen in the hall stopped, and Xu Beiyou led the Dragon King, Bai Yu, Wu Yu, and Li Shentong forward.

Mrs. Li's family was already standing on the steps in front of the main hall, surrounded by several families dedicated to guest ministers.

You must know that the Li family is not a small family, but a big family dominating Huzhou and dominating Jiangling. Even Li Shidao, a collateral branch of the Li family, can enshrine a master of human immortals. With the great master Li Zijian in charge, how can there be no guest ministers to worship?
These guest ministers attached to the Li family can be roughly divided into two categories.

One is simply for the sake of stability and wealth, like a domestic watchdog, in addition to guarding the house, it will also do some shady private things.

There is another kind that is much more noble, and most of them have a lot of cultivation, but they only ask for it from the Li family because of their own cultivation.On the way of practice, one should pay attention to a place of law and wealth. The law is the way to practice, and wealth is silver. Not every monk can have such good luck as Xu Beiyou, so many monks will attach themselves to the imperial court or powerful families in exchange for what they have. The legal and financial couple land needed.

Under normal circumstances, the Li family will not easily trouble these noble guests to do things. After all, with a decent cultivation base, the world can go anywhere, and there is no need to hang on a tree in the Li family, unless it is a critical moment. , At most, it is just to let them come out to show their appearance, just like today.

After all, sit in town, sit in town, this word is very particular, Xu Beiyou glanced at it roughly, these guest qings are not bad, among them there are two ghosts and immortals, put them outside, they are also famous masters in the whole family .

Xu Beiyou recalled his journey from the northwest to the south of the Yangtze River. When he met a deacon of the Zhenmo Palace in the realm of ghosts and immortals, he had to tremble like walking on thin ice. Jiangnan, now that I think about it, it really seems like a lifetime away.

After coming to Jiangnan, Xu Beiyou did many so-called big things in the eyes of others, but in his own opinion, after having enough power and contacts, these big things are not difficult to do. It was as difficult as climbing to the sky, which made him still remember it.

Mrs. Li welcomed Xu Beiyou and his party into the main hall, and said with a smile, "This young master is from Jiangdu, and his surname is Xu, but the famous Mr. Xu from Jiangdu?"

Xu Beiyou said softly: "I don't dare to be famous, but the Mr. Xu that my wife said in my mouth, I think I mean the next."

The woman asked with a coquettish smile, "Then I don't know why Mr. Xu came to my house? Could it be that he has an old relationship with my husband?"

"Mr. Qing Yu's name, Mr. Xu has heard of it for a long time, but it is not an acquaintance, let alone old." Xu Beiyou said slowly: "Xu was originally invited by the governor of the army Yu to visit Liangxiang, but I encountered a strange incident on the road, so I temporarily changed the itinerary and came to pay a visit to your residence."

The little finger of Mrs. Li's right hand resting on the armrest of the chair trembled slightly, her face was still extremely calm, "I don't know what happened?"

"Li Qingping, Xu Ankang." Xu Beiyou directly reported the names of the two people, and said flatly: "Li Qingping, although not Madam's biological mother, but her biological mother is Madam's older sister, and now Madam is her stepmother, I think we should treat her well." It’s not unfamiliar, but as for that Xu Ankang, don’t say anything.”

This is the case with the marriage of a big family. If the elder sister dies, the younger sister will be married as a continuation. One is to continue to maintain the relationship between the two in-laws, and the other is to protect the children left by the elder sister.

Li Qingping's stepmother is her real aunt.

Mrs. Li's face changed slightly. Although this past incident is not a secret, since Xu Beiyou can know it clearly, it means that the person who came was not kind. Otherwise, why bother to investigate the background of the Li family?

Xu Beiyou continued: "I didn't want to, and I shouldn't care about these things, but Miss Li is my junior sister Li Qinglian's cousin, and my junior sister has mentioned her more than once, even for the sake of my junior sister, I don't want to stand idly by. "

Mrs. Li subconsciously sat upright, her chest rose and fell slightly, which further accentuated the infinite scenery of the towering place, and said in a deep voice: "Dare to ask Mr. Xu, where are Qingping and the scholar surnamed Xu?"

Xu Beiyou said calmly: "On Mr. Xu's building boat, there are only a dozen swordsman guards from the Sword Qi Lingkong Hall. It seems that they can't stop the Li family's guests from seizing people."

"Master, you are joking." Mrs. Li smiled sweetly, "Even if there is no one, as long as you don't open your mouth to let him go, sir, no one would dare to take them away. After all, a Taoist workshop is in Mr. Xu's pocket. We How dare the Li family compare with Jiangnan Daomen."

Xu Beiyou didn't care about the sarcasm in the woman's words, and said flatly: "Madam Li has something to say, but Xu is not an unreasonable person. This visit is just to discuss an appropriate solution with the Li family. Return it to the Li family."

"Really?" Mrs. Li narrowed her eyes and said, "Young Master Xu, don't tease this concubine, let this concubine have a good time."

Xu Beiyou laughed and said, "It's absolutely true."

(End of this chapter)