I use my daughter's body to cut down the rivers and lakes

Chapter 276: Jinshan Yinhai Manor

"Aunt, aunt."

When Liu Qi walked out of the room, he saw Xu Xinning standing at the steps at the door and Xu Xianzheng hiding behind her.

After Xu Xinning greeted sweetly, she seemed to have something to say, but looking at the serious Liu Qi, she couldn't help feeling a little fear in her heart. She then shrank back and almost knocked Xu Xianzheng, who was leaning against her, to the ground.

Xu Xianzheng's performance was even worse. While he was stumbling, he looked up at Liu Qi and his face turned pale in an instant!

"What's the matter?" Liu Qi looked at the two little ones and asked lightly.

Finally, the two little guys looked at each other, and Xu Xinning took a step forward, mustered up her courage and asked in a low voice: "Aunt, the one at the west gate of the city... I heard that it was you who did it?"

Liu Qi understood instantly that the two little guys had learned about the human head at the west gate of the city from someone.

She immediately glanced at the two people who seemed a little nervous, and said to herself, "Not bad."

You actually have the guts to come and ask!

Liu Qi said softly: "You don't have to go to school today?"

Xu Xinning shook her head: "Grandpa asked Second Grandpa to go to the academy today to ask for leave for Xianzheng and me."

Asking for leave?

Liu Qi frowned: "Did your grandfather say how long the leave would be?"

Xu Xinning hesitated for a while and whispered back, "I don't know either, but I overheard what Dad and Mom said when they were arguing last night. It seems that my brother and I...will not go to school in the future."

Did Xu Qinghao and Miao have a quarrel?

Thinking about Xu Xinning's words, Liu Qi seemed to have guessed something.

After she pondered for a moment, she looked down at the two little guys and said coldly, "Follow me."

About half an hour later.

Xu Yongyuan hurried to the training ground of the Xu Mansion. As soon as he walked through the stone gate, he saw Xu Xinning and Xu Xianzheng waving their arms vigorously on the training ground, each holding a steel knife in their hand, with the blade shining with cold light.

Xu Yongyuan's heart skipped a beat, and then he quickly stepped forward.

When he came to Liu Qi's side, his anxious expression disappeared completely, and he smiled and said, "It is a blessing for these two children that Fang Fu can personally guide them!"

Liu Qi replied without even looking up: "It's good to learn a few moves. If you encounter an enemy in the future, you may be able to take one more person with you before you die, relying on your child's identity."

Xu Yongyuan's pupils shrank suddenly when he heard this.

Seeing that Xu Yongyuan didn't say anything for a long time, Liu Qi turned around, looked at his blood uncle, and said softly: "I once told my parents that taking me back to the Xu family would be a disaster rather than a blessing. Now I have decided to go south to fight Jiang Jiyu, even if I die, I will have no regrets."

"I have made countless enemies along the way. If I die at the hands of Jiang Jiyu, the people who accompany me will surely be killed."

"There is still a glimmer of hope if we stay in Qingjiang Prefecture."

Xu Yongyuan thought for a moment, then looked directly at Liu Qi and smiled: "Do you still remember what happened outside the capital?"

At that time, Xu Yongyuan was still the head of the Changfeng Escort Agency. He was entrusted by the Shen family to deliver the elixir to the capital. Liu Qi asked for the elixir in advance, but he accidentally ran into the "Poison God" who came to snatch the elixir.

At that time, Liu Qi had not yet reached the top level, and the battle with the Poison God was extremely dangerous.

The two battles with the Poison God in the capital were the closest times for Liu Qi to death after he came down the mountain. Fortunately, he relied on his courage to face death and the blessing of murderous intent.

For the first time, the Poison God was frightened away.

The second time, he even killed him on the spot in the suburbs of Beijing. Even now, I still feel a surge of heroic spirit in my chest when I think about it.

"I never dreamed that the one who gave me such wealth would be my own niece." Xu Yongyuan raised his head slightly and sighed.

The Poison God was on the list of the Six Gates. After Liu Qi killed him, he kept the corpse as a gift to Xu Yongyuan.

Later, Xu Yongyuan not only received a generous reward for the head of the Poison God, but was also noticed by the Six Gates. He then transformed himself from the head of the Changfeng Escort Agency to the head of the Six Gates' headquarters.

Now with Lin Shengchuan taking office, Xu Yongyuan, the newcomer to the Six Gates, is quite valued and his status is much better than when he was the head of the Changfeng Escort Agency.

At the dinner party at the Xu residence yesterday, a number of wealthy local gentry came to congratulate him, and this was the first time that Xu Yongyuan experienced what it meant to be the center of attention.

"The Xu family has never been afraid of death, otherwise they wouldn't have formed a hundred-year feud with the Wei family, and the Northern Xu family wouldn't have evolved from it."

Xu Yongyuan had a sincere smile on his face: "Fang Fu, you can achieve what you have today, the Xu family will only be proud of you. Even if one day it is true as you said, and you bring disaster to the Xu family, the Xu family will never blame you."

"Don't underestimate our family!" Xu Yongyuan laughed, "Our Xu family is also a well-known family in the underworld!"

As he spoke, the smile in his eyes faded a little: "Since you are in the martial arts world... you should expect that there will be a day when you will die."

Liu Qi's eyes moved slightly when he heard this, but he didn't say much.

Seeing Liu Qi silent, Xu Yongyuan turned his head and asked his grandchildren who were practicing swordsmanship with a smile: "Xinning, Xianzheng, do you want to continue learning martial arts from your aunt in the future?"

"Yes!" the two of them answered loudly in unison with blushing faces.

The smile on Xu Yongyuan's face deepened.

Liu Qi turned around, glanced at the two little guys calmly, and then said softly: "Uncle, please think carefully about who will take over Feng Qun's initiation."

According to second uncle Xu Yonghuan, it would be best if eldest brother Xu Qinghao came.

Xu Qinghao is the eldest son of the seventh generation of the Xu family on West Street. He will become the pillar of the Xu family in the future. If he can reach the top, the Xu family on West Street will not have to worry about the next few decades.

Although Liu Qi did not explicitly object, she felt that Xu Qinghao had too much of a merchant spirit. Even if he relied on Feng Qun's initiation to reach the top level, he would most likely find it difficult to exert his full strength.

As for Xu Qingtao and Xu Qinghuai.

Neither of them knows any martial arts.

A first-rate master at such a young age, and in a martial arts giant like the Qingcheng Sect, there is a great chance that he will be able to reach the top in the future.

Allowing Xu Qinghuai to receive Feng Qun's initiation actually cut off his possibility of further advancement.

Originally, in Liu Qi's eyes, the most suitable candidate should be Xu Fangfei.

However, a daughter who is married off is like water spilled. Even the Xu family, which treats their children fairly, would hardly give Xu Fangfei this opportunity to boost the family's strength.

Apart from them, the only one left was Xu Qingjiang, whom Liu Qi had never met.

Logically speaking, since his second brother has been able to work in Changfeng Escort Agency for so many years, it means that he should be a suitable candidate.

It's a pity that Xu Qingjiang did not return home on time. Instead, he suddenly disappeared in an inn less than two hundred miles away from Qingjiang Prefecture. This news was secretly told to Liu Qi by Feng Qun when he visited him yesterday.

Today, my father Xu Yongding and my brother Xu Qinghuai left home early, probably because of this matter.

Why not look for Liu Qi?
Because everyone has their own expertise, Xu Yongding has been a county lieutenant for so many years, and what he is best at is solving cases, while Liu Qi is just an ordinary thief.

Xu Yongyuan said frankly: "I still think your second uncle's words make sense."

He also favored Xu Qinghao. Xu Qinghao and Xu Qingjiang were both his sons, so Xu Yongyuan naturally treated them equally. His reasons were the same as Xu Yonghuan's, both of which were based on consideration for the Xu family as a whole.

After all, Xu Yongyuan and Xu Yonghuan were just worried that their brothers would betray them.

Since there is not much gap between Xu Qinghao and Xu Qingjiang, the first choice is naturally Xu Qinghao.

Liu Qi naturally wouldn't take such trivial matters to heart, so she didn't object when Xu Yongyuan decided to be with Xu Qinghao.

However, Xu Yongyuan himself seemed to be still a little hesitant. He wanted to wait until Xu Qingjiang came back and tell him about this matter before letting Feng Qun give Xu Qinghao the initiation.

"I wonder if Lord Feng is..."

Liu Qi replied decisively: "Of course he can wait!"

……

Xu Mansion, parade ground.

Looking at the two little guys practicing swords, Nineteen shook his head, then leaned close to Liu Qi's ear and whispered, "Liu Qi, your nephew and niece seem a little stupid!"

I practiced the simplest Hengshan sword technique for an entire afternoon but only learned three moves, and they were still very unfamiliar when I used them!
You have to know that they learned the whole set of Hengshan swordsmanship in just one day at Xiliu Villa, and mastered it within half a month!
If they continue to practice like this, it will probably take three months before I can start teaching them the Fufeng sword technique.

Liu Nineteen pursed his lips, impatience showing in his eyes.

Originally, she was called by Liu Qi to teach people martial arts. She was very enthusiastic at first, but after teaching for a while, she began to feel a little bored.

Seeing that Liu Qi was ignoring him, Liu Nineteen pouted and asked again: "I see your servants have already started packing. When are we going to Jiangnan?"

"What?" Liu Qi glanced at her and then said coldly, "You don't like the clothing and jewelry shops in Qingjiang Mansion?"

Liu Nineteen's face instantly turned red: "It was Sister Zhou who asked me to go!"

Liu Qi glanced at her new clothes and whispered, "If you put half of the effort you put into shopping for clothes into your martial arts, you wouldn't be stuck at the seventh level for so long!"

"Alright, alright. We know that you, the great Overlord Liu, are extremely talented and have superb martial arts skills. How could we...ah!"

Liu Nineteen stood up straight instantly as if he had been electrocuted, and then felt a burning pain on his back, but he did not dare to reach out to touch it, because the two little guys who were practicing swordsmanship were looking at him, and were obviously attracted by the exclamation he just made.

"Aunt Nineteen, what's wrong with you?"

Originally, Liu Nineteen didn't look much older than the two little ones, but she forced them to call her aunt, fearing that she was a generation younger than Liu Qi.

"What are you looking at me, you two little idiots? Hurry up and focus on practicing your sword skills!" Liu Nineteen immediately frowned, "You've been practicing for the whole afternoon, but you haven't even mastered three moves!"

After he had taught the two little guys a lesson, Liu Shijiu quietly touched his soft buttocks through his clothes. He grimaced when he touched the injured area.

"Liu Qi..."

Liu Shijiu gritted his teeth and whispered, then turned around to find that Liu Qi had disappeared. Then he looked around and saw that Liu Qi had returned to the wooden shed at the edge of the training ground and sat with Zhou Mi.

Her face suddenly turned cold and she turned her head away angrily.

Zhou Mi couldn't help but sneer when he saw this: "You're the only one who can deal with Little Nineteen. If it were someone else, they would have fought to the death with a knife!"

Liu Qi twitched the corner of his mouth in disdain, thinking to himself, it's not like she hasn't challenged him to a fight before.

From childhood to adulthood, she, Liu Nineteen, had never gotten any advantage from her.

However, when Liu Qi thought about it carefully, it seemed that none of the twenty-three people in Xiliu Villa, whether men or women, had ever gotten the upper hand from him.

Zhou Mi caught a glimpse of Liu Qi's solemn eyes and knew that he had mentioned something she didn't want to talk about, so she chuckled and changed the subject: "From what I've seen in the mansion, it seems that your family is planning to go all out this time."

Liu Qi said slowly: "Let them do as they please."

When my uncle Xu Yongyuan was still on his way back, he received an urgent letter from the capital, which was eight hundred miles away. Lin Shengchuan, the chief constable of the Six Gates, wrote in the letter hoping that Xu Yongyuan could go to the Southern Yamen to take up the post.

The Liushenmen Nan Ya is located in Jiangnan.

Nowadays, it is difficult to describe the world of martial arts as turbulent with undercurrents; it is completely in a state of clouds moving in all directions.

Among them, the Changle Gang in the north of the Yangtze River and the Feiyu Villa in the south of the Yangtze River are the most powerful. Now the two factions, one in the south and one in the north, have occupied almost all the places they can occupy. Now they are facing each other across the river, looking like a storm is about to come.

If Liu Qi had not challenged Jiang Jiyu to a duel, the biggest event in the martial arts world right now would be that the leader of the Changle Gang, one of the Seven Stars, "Xiali Longyin" Shen Lin, personally led his men to wipe out the Qixia Sect in Qixia Mountain.

Qixia School, Master Liuyun.

And... Cuixiang.

Master Liuyun, who returned from the capital with serious injuries, received help from the miracle doctor Yuan Tong, who had survived nine deaths. Not only did his injuries heal, but he also turned a disaster into a blessing and improved his martial arts.

According to eyewitnesses, dozens of masters from the Changle Gang descended from the sky like divine troops and charged into the mountain gate of the Qixia Sect. When Master Liuyun drew his sword, the wind and clouds changed color and he killed half of the masters of the Changle Gang instantly.

Finally, a dragon roar suddenly sounded out of nowhere, dispersing the clouds and mist in the sky, and also shattered the mountain gate of the Qixia Sect.

That day, the Changle Gang occupied Qixia Mountain, and the news of the destruction of the Qixia Sect spread far and wide.

As for Master Liuyun, there are rumors that he died at the hands of Shen Lin and was shattered into pieces by the Qinglongyin, leaving not even a complete body.

There are also rumors that Master Liuyun was captured alive by Shen Lin and imprisoned at the bottom of the water prison at the Changle Gang headquarters.

There are many different opinions as to why the Changle Gang launched an unannounced attack to destroy the Qixia Sect.

Among them, there was a rumor that caught Liu Qi's attention.

That is, the reason why Shen Lin attacked the Qixia Sect was for a treasure called Kongsang Order in the hands of Immortal Liuyun, which was said to be a token that could allow one to board the Kongsang Fairy Boat.

Kongsang Order...

Liu Qi had one in her hand. After she killed the head of the Six Gates, Lu Yi, she found a pawn ticket on him. Later, when she left the capital, she used this pawn ticket to pick up the pawned item in an unknown town outside the capital. Later, Zhou Mi identified that the pawned item was the Kongsang Order.

As a master of her generation, the Kongsang Fairy hundreds of years ago was a figure who amazed an entire era.

However, in his later years, he seemed to be worried that his disciples would be coveted by people in the martial arts world after he passed away, so he built a large ship and took his disciples out to sea, leaving behind the legend of the Kongsang Fairy Boat.

It is said that the Kongsang Fairy Boat would return to the Central Plains every sixty years, and the Kongsang Order was the certificate for boarding the Kongsang Fairy Boat.

Liu Qi also asked Zhou Mi about the Kongsang Fairy Boat, but she didn't know much about it and instead mentioned another major force overseas.

Gold Mountain and Silver Sea Manor!
The history of Jinshan Yinhai Manor can even be traced back to the era of the Hundred Schools of Thought a thousand years ago. It is said that its founder was once a high-ranking official, but later retired from the court and turned to business to accumulate a fortune. However, when the Hundred Schools of Thought emerged, he distributed all his wealth to support various schools and preaching.

Until the end when the world was about to be unified, this man fled overseas with his descendants and followers, thus avoiding the same fate as the Hundred Schools of Thought who were purged.

Later, whenever the situation in the Central Plains changed drastically, overseas forces would come to the Central Plains with gold, silver, jewelry, and secret manuals of magical skills.

And after the situation in the Central Plains stabilizes, they will flee far away overseas and disappear without a trace, leaving behind only the legend of Jinshan Yinhai Manor.

It is said that as long as you can afford the price, you can buy anything in Jinshan Yinhai Manor!

Similarly, as long as you can bring out something valuable, you can really exchange a mountain of gold from Jinshan Yinhai Manor!
The reason why Xiao Lang was able to unify the world back then, in addition to his own martial arts, was also because he received sufficient military supplies from Jinshan Yinhai Manor.

And the price of all this is... Zhou Mi!
(End of this chapter)