Who says sleep is not spiritual practice?

Chapter 223 The Widow of Bailu Villa, Leng Weiwei

Strictly speaking, the Bingzhou Xiong family is not a hermit family, because their disciples are active in various state capitals as traders, doing lucrative businesses such as jewelry and jade.

It is rumored that the Xiong family occupies a very high-grade jade mine, and every year millions of catties of rough stones are mined and sent to the stone gambling workshop in the capital for the dignitaries to gamble with stones for fun.

Gambling with stones is very popular in the capital.

High-ranking officials and dignitaries use it to show off in front of others, or to make friends, or to make women fall in love with them, while the low-level people hold the idea of ​​gamblers and try to get rich overnight.

The high profits of gambling stone workshop are enviable.

However, the Xiong family also has a backstage.

They have been friends with Empress Murong Yao's natal Murong family for generations, and the current patriarch's younger sister even married the Murong family's head as their regular wife.

Plus……

Gambling Stone Workshop will take out [-]% of its profits every year to please the royal family and high-ranking civil servants and generals, and has a very wide network of contacts in the capital.

So no one opposed him, but he was favored and protected everywhere.

This time, the [-] merchant ships departing from Bingzhou loaded a batch of high-grade rough stones.

Among them, the goods on five ships have already been booked.

The deposit has been received and cannot be lost.

The Xiong family is well aware of the prevalence of bandits in Qingzhou. In addition to the bandits who occupy the mountains as kings, there is also a group of people who like to rob merchant ships on the Qingjiang River.

Commonly known as, pirates.

With the power of the hermit family, they are naturally not afraid of these bandits, most of whom are ordinary people, but this time the goods are more important, so just in case, the Xiong family not only sent out experts from the family and nearly a thousand guards, but also paid a high price A group of quack people were hired.

In addition, at the suggestion of several people in the Jianghu, they invited Jiang Qingyu, who had [-] elite soldiers, to go to Beijing together.

……

When Jiang Qingyu saw the people from the Xiong family, it was already two days later, at dusk on the tenth day of February.

During this period, nothing major happened in Jianghu.

The people of Chu State are still discussing three people.

The Sixth Patriarch Living Buddha of Nanshan Temple, the eldest son Jiang Qingyu of the Jubei Palace, and the daughter Luo of the third building of Huamanlou.

The former is related to the dispute over Buddhist incense, and the latter two have made great contributions to the expansion of Chu State.

With this achievement, Jiang Qingyu became the prince of the royal family, and the rest of the awards are still being debated in the court.

But the girl's reward has already been set early.

There are two main ones:
One, seal the king.

Second, to be allowed to enter the imperial scripture library to borrow any ancient books.

Surprisingly, although this woman had some conflicts with the court of Chu State before, no one objected to the reward.

I don't know if Nian doesn't care about his achievements in opening up territories, or he is afraid of Huamanlou's killer's revenge.

Rumor has it that on the ninth day of February, Nvluo had already received the imperial decree, and took the two heads of Tuobayan and Bals with her, and went to the capital alone.

It seems that she is not worried at all that someone in the capital will set a trap for her.

As for Jiang Qingyu...

For the past two days and nights, he used his Yin body to investigate the Qingjiang River, but he did not find any signs of monsters.

Not to mention the stars whose souls seem to be in the abyss, even the monsters in the Sun Realm whose souls are like the scorching sun have not seen a single one!
He even took time to visit the mansion where King Jingxuan of Qingjiang lived, but he didn't notice anything unusual.

Jing Xuan slept all night in a room full of antiques and wonders, and focused his energy on all kinds of women. He didn't discuss political affairs with them, and he didn't mention words like giant pythons swallowing people.

It seemed that the monster that was suspected to be a giant python never existed at all, or it had eaten enough people and left Qingzhou.

The servant girl Jing Zhe also sent a message that there were no disasters in the few remote villages along the Qingjiang River on the map in the past two days.

But the more peaceful it was on the surface, the more Jiang Qingyu believed that there would be accidents during this trip.

Fortunately, he has accumulated enough incense and vows in the past few days. After the "Dream Sutra" entered the third stage, it was no longer stuck at the bottleneck, and began to improve its cultivation steadily, so he became less and less afraid of that. Head monster.

after all……

The purpose of my trip is to bring back my mother and eldest brother, if I can't even deal with a mere monster, why are I talking about sending the two out of the capital from under Jing Yang's nose?

……

The mouth of the Qingjiang River.

at dusk.

Against the backdrop of the sky full of sunset glow, the raging waves glowed with bursts of red light, which looked like a sea of ​​blood from a distance.

Dozens of huge ships full of goods were parked on the river, and each ship had a big "bear" painted on its bow, which represented that it was a merchant ship of the Xiong family.

When Jiang Qingyu and his party stepped off the carriage, many people were already waiting by the river.

Among them are many unfamiliar faces, but also a few acquaintances.

The leader is a gray-haired old man with a slightly rich figure.

"I have seen His Royal Highness."

The old man saluted.

Jiang Qingyu was also unrestrained, and smiled back:

"I have seen the elder."

After all, he glanced at everyone.

As early as two days ago, he had found out the identity and strength of the person who delivered the goods.

The person in charge of this batch of goods in the Xiong family is Xiong Hun, the eldest elder of the Xiong family. He is over seventy years old and his martial arts cultivation is at the peak of the Haoyue realm. It has a good reputation of benevolence and charity.

This time he was able to invite many people from the world, and besides being willing to spend money, many people agreed to accompany him because of his face.

In addition to Xiong Hui, the Xiong Family also sent two middle-aged masters in the middle of the Haoyue Realm, a man and a woman.

They are called Xiong Xing and Xiong Ying respectively.

As for the people from all walks of life, many of them were invited to watch the Winter Hunting Competition at the Northern Prince's Mansion, and some of them even went deep into Beidi in person.

For example, Liang Buyi, Jin Wanliang, and Jin Shan, the three Haoyue Realm masters who were captured by Jiang Qingyu, and the group of Bailu Villa and Lingjian Sect who accompanied them.

"Several, long time no see."

Jiang Qingyu greeted several old friends in a friendly tone.

"I have seen His Royal Highness."

Liang Buyi and the others were not embarrassed, and behaved very calmly, as if they had forgotten the experience of being captured.

Jiang Qingyu didn't bother to mention it either.

When he came, he was a fellow traveler after all, he was not interested in provoking the other party, which would only increase the trouble.

Secondly, this group of people had already offered an apology when they were in Luoxia Town, and even this time when the Xiong family invited me to accompany them, it was they who were connecting them.

In other words, I owed the other party a favor.

Soon, Jiang Qingyu hurriedly glanced at the crowd, and roughly calculated the strength of this group of people.

Among the people from the rivers and lakes recruited by the Xiong family for this trip, there are four Bright Moon Realm and eleven Fate Star Realm.

Surprisingly, apart from Liang Buyi and Jin Wanliang from Bailu Villa, and Jin Shan from the Spirit Sword Sect, the remaining Haoyuejing was a beautiful woman with refined temperament.

and……

Although this woman has only just entered the Haoyue Realm, she has an extremely plump figure and a pure face that is no different from that of a 16-year-old girl.

The huge difference is eye-catching.

It also attracted the frequent glances of the men around.

Jiang Qingyu had to admit that this woman's beauty was not top-notch, but that proud figure that could not be concealed by a loose white dress was the only one he had ever seen in his life!

However, he swore that his eyes only stayed on this woman for a moment longer, and he was not taken away by her childish face and plump figure!

But unfortunately, this moment was still noticed.

"Look at my memory, I almost forgot to introduce it!"

At this moment, Liang Buyi acted very sensible, and quickly pointed at the woman and said:

"Your Highness, this one is our old owner's daughter, Miss Leng Weiwei."

The woman's eyes were watery, and she seemed to be lovely and pitiful, but at the same time, she seemed to be full of charm.

I saw her slightly bent down and saluted:

"The little girl has met His Royal Highness."

However, it was just such a slight movement, but it made people feel nervous, and couldn't help worrying that the clothes on her chest would be broken.

At this moment, Jiang Qingyu seemed to see that the entire Qingjiang River had set off huge waves, and the turbulence was endless.

But he soon calmed down.

As the behind-the-scenes master of General Drunk, he has rich experience in terms of women. Although this Leng Weiwei is indeed not to be underestimated, it will not make him lose his composure.

What's more, he had heard of this woman.

The old owner of Bailu Mountain Villa has an only daughter who married his foster son Leng Che a few years ago.

However, in the winter hunting competition last month, Leng Che chose to challenge Bao Luote, the leader of the eight major tribes in Beidi, who was strong enough to rank among the top three, in order to get back the blood-cold sword of the third owner. Unfortunately, he died. Life!
The only daughter of the old owner became a widow.

"It turned out to be Mrs. Leng."

Jiang Qingyu sighed softly:
"I am deeply sorry for Leng Che's death for the country."

Leng Weiwei also sighed softly, with an unconcealable sadness on her face, so pitiful and distressing:

"Don't blame the prince."

"It's because Leng Che thinks so highly of himself that he insists on fighting Bao Luote to the death, so he reaps the consequences for himself!"

"I have tried to dissuade him many times, but he has been refusing to listen. Now that he is dead, who can be blamed except himself?"

"Hey, his death is all over, and I feel relieved. It's just that my father and I have suffered. A widow and an old man who is nearly eighty years old, how can he support the huge Bailu Villa!"

After that, Leng Weiwei began to sob softly.

When weeping, the whole body trembled, as if the river and the sea were rushing.

It made many men look sideways.

Even Xiong Hui, who was over seventy years old, couldn't help but glance at it, and at the same time his old face was slightly red.

"..."

Seeing this scene, Jiang Qingyu didn't know how to comfort her, so she could only change the subject:

"Madam, is this trip also going to Beijing?"

"Yes."

Leng Weiwei stopped sobbing, which made many people secretly sigh.

The next moment, she looked sad again, and said surprisingly:

"My father asked someone to find another marriage for me in the capital, to be a general's concubine."

"I didn't want to go at first. As a well-known and upright young lady with a cultivation level of the Bright Moon Realm, I was a bit unwilling to be a concubine in the end."

"But what if you are not willing?"

"Right now, there is no successor to the Bailu Villa. When my father dies, the enemies in the rivers and lakes will definitely take the opportunity to find the door. At that time, not only will the whole Bailu be wiped out, but my end will only be worse than being a concubine for others. Miserable!"

At this moment, Leng Weiwei looked at Jiang Qingyu, two lines of tears flowed from her eyes, with a bit of resentment in her eyes:
"so……"

"His Royal Highness, tell me, do I have any other options?"

(End of this chapter)