Xuanjian Xianzu

Chapter 4 Li Yesheng

"Uncle, please forgive me!"

The man was so frightened that he begged for mercy as soon as he hit the ground, hugging Li Mutian and huddled into a ball.

"Ah! Spare me, uncle, spare my life, uncle..."

Li Yesheng never thought that he just wanted to steal a melon to satisfy his greed. In the blink of an eye, the uncle he feared the most stood in front of him, and he was so scared that he couldn't move. All torn.

"Ye Sheng?" Li Mutian looked intently, frowned, his face was cloudy, and he was stroking the beard on his chin and staring at him steadily.

Li Yesheng is Li Yesheng's elder brother. Their father has been ill in bed for many years, but Li Yesheng is idle all day long, playing around in the autumn wind.

The two teenagers also rushed over upon hearing the sound, and Li Tongya raised his long stick and pressed it directly on Li Yesheng's arm, scaring him to tears.Li Changhu picked up his head and looked at him, and couldn't help being moved.

"Cousin?" Li Changhu let out a long breath and asked in doubt.

"Why are you here?" Li Tongya asked coldly, the stick in his hand unabated.

"I'm here to steal your melon!" Seeing Li Yesheng's faltering, Li Mutian answered for him with a cold face, put away the long knife in his hand, turned his head and left.

"Cousin, offended."

Li Tongya also pulled back his stick, and followed his father back to the house after saying a word.Only Li Changhu was left to help Li Yesheng up, wiped his face for him, and then sent him out of the courtyard with gentle words of comfort.

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in the house.

Li Chijing and Li Xiangping sat at the table blankly, Jianzi hid in his arms, Li Xiangping didn't dare to move, fortunately his father and second brother walked into the hall not long after.

"Where's Big Brother?"

He looked behind them and hurriedly asked.

"Going to see off the guests."

Li Mutian shook his head

"I know this kid Ye Sheng often comes to fight the autumn wind, but I'm afraid that the news of tonight's incident will leak out and the whole family will be wiped out."

Li Tongya found a small stool and sat down. Hearing this, he turned his head to look at Li Xiangping, and was about to speak.

"Crench."

The door slammed shut, the eldest brother Li Changhu looked puzzled, sat down on the stool, and spoke to his father Li Mutian.

"Father, why is this necessary?"

He shook his head.

"Ye Sheng was just stealing a melon. If you don't follow suit, you will offend his family."

"What about his family and my family? There is only one Li family, and I am a legitimate concubine."

Li Mutian leaned against the window, leaned his ear, and waved to the woman and the young son: "You squat to the front door and the back door, and someone will call you."

The two responded and exited. Li Mutian turned around, closed the door and window, patted Li Xiangping and said:
"Say it!"

Li Xiangping nodded vigorously, and said in a low voice:
"Today I went to the Meichi River to catch fish and picked up something from the river."

After saying this, he looked at his father Li Mutian, seeing him nodding, he took out a mirror from his bosom.

Li Changhu looked at his younger brother, then at his father, took the blue-gray mirror, and looked at it carefully, but he couldn't see why.

Li Mutian took the mirror from his eldest son, found the small hole in the roof, moved a stone bench, put the mirror under it, squinted at his two sons.

Seeing the moonlight fluctuating continuously like water, and converging on the mirror surface like milk swallows throwing a forest, a pale white halo like a jewel emerges.

Li Changhu stood up from the chair with a "chuckle" and stared at the moon halo on the mirror. Li Tongya was also pale and moved, staring at the mirror thoughtfully.

After a whole cup of tea was silent, everyone in the Li family stared at Jian Zi silently, with different expressions.

This is the second time for Li Xiangping to see this picture, but he was also shocked, and muttered to himself:
"I have never seen such a beautiful scenery since I was a child..."

"Haha, don't talk about you, I have never seen such a good thing."

Li Mutian smiled lowly, but there was no smile, but his eyes were stern.

"This is probably a fairy thing."

Li Tongya spoke quietly, picked up the long knife and kept wiping it. He stared at Jianzi seemingly calmly, but his trembling hands betrayed his heart.

"Leaking out the wind is also the disaster of my family's destruction."

Li Changhu kept pacing in the hall, looking anxious and excited.

"If it's something lost by the immortal, it will be found tomorrow with magic. How can we deal with it?"

Li Tongya stared at his father firmly, and said worriedly.

Li Xiangping nodded, lowered his eyebrows and said in a muffled voice:

"Whatever the immortal will reward, my family will benefit endlessly."

"fart."

Li Mutian waved his hand:

"I've heard that immortals are often bloodthirsty. Don't do it! I don't know how long this mirror fell into the water. If you want to come and pick it up, you'll pick it up early. I think that immortal has probably met an accident."

Hearing these rebellious words, Li Changhu was frightened, frowning, but he didn't know what he was thinking.

Li Tongya suddenly realized, and said in a low voice:
"But you were seen by that kid Li Yesheng?"

"I showed this to my father in front of the house. Brother Ye Sheng should be in the field at that time." Li Xiangping lowered his eyebrows.

"I'm going to kill him!"

Li Tongya's expression was stern, he put on his rattan clothes without hesitation, picked up the knife and went out, this was the first time Li Xiangping saw this expression on his brother's face, he couldn't help but take a second look.

"Come back!" Li Mutian frowned and called to stop Li Tongya, and cast a glance at Li Xiangping, making him look flustered.

"Father!" Li Tongya finally became anxious, and he spoke forcefully.

"Li Yesheng is ruthless and ungrateful. He makes a lot of publicity but is self-absorbed. It is better to let him die first than to let him make a slip of the tongue and spread the word and bring about the destruction of my Li family."

"It seems that the second brother has learned a lot from the gentleman in the village." Li Xiangping thought silently, lowering his head in shame. His father sent the three of them to study with him, and the two brothers were liked by the husband.Only I was young and ignorant and mischievous, and now I can't understand the idioms in my brother's words.

"Then if your younger brother eats inside and out and is not strict with his mouth, you will also kill him?"

Li Mutian laughed, and asked his second son.

"We don't have such cowards in our family"

Li Tongya said lightly.

Li Mutian shook his head, raised his hand to straighten the wooden table, jumped up, tapped lightly on the table, and pulled out a wooden box from the beam.

Putting the wooden box on the table, he sternly said to the three brothers in front of him:

"I also want you to know something. I left my hometown at the age of 13 and entered Anli County along the Guli Road. General Yang received the imperial order to attack Shanyue and recruited soldiers in Guli Road. At that time, your father and I had nowhere to go, so we had to be soldiers. .”

"General Yang is strict in his army, but he also eats and lives with me, and we are like a family. He taught us the tactics of the Vietnam War and told us to practice martial arts. This warfare is widely spread. It is easy to learn but difficult to master. Ordinary people practice it. It’s just a good skill, and there’s nothing supernatural about it.” Li Mutian sighed, and seeing the people listening very seriously, he continued:

"After I returned to my hometown, I read and wrote. I wrote down the tactics silently in this wooden slip. I asked you to practice it carefully. Now it doesn't seem to be famous. This is one of them."

Li Mutian opened the wooden box, and in the box lay a wooden slip, a talisman, several pieces of broken silver glaze and other sundries.

(End of this chapter)