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Chapter 246 Snake Ancestor
The two competed vigorously, riding their horses forward like a competition, and the subordinates who followed were all used to traveling around. To them, these were all pediatrics. They didn't suffer, but it was the two rivals who suffered.

Li Xuanran went to the battlefield with Hou Yunping, and there were times when he traveled continuously for ten days and a half months, and he didn't feel bitter. However, Xu Runxin has been in and out of carriages for the past few years. It was the first time he rode for such a long time, and his body couldn't bear it. He turned his head and saw Li Xuanran proud Looking at him, he gritted his teeth and fought!
With hard work, the two of them crossed the post station and missed the dorm, so they had to stay overnight. It's not like Li Xuanran never slept overnight, but the past few years have been too comfortable, why can't eat the dry food after a long absence? Swallowed, and Xu Runxin was going deep into southern Xinjiang to investigate the market products during this period. Although he also disliked these dry food, his ability to accept it was not a little bit better than Li Xuanran's, so the two were temporarily equal.

In the face of two always unreliable masters, the subordinates have already calmed down, and everyone gets along fairly happily. You don't have enough dry food?It's ok, I have it!

Your water is not good?It's okay, drink mine!

So Xu Runxin and Li Xuanran became the only two disharmonious factors in the team!

With such a mentality of competition, Fujian will arrive soon. When Shen Shiyi received the two, his mouth was open enough to stuff an egg. He and Li Xuanran are relatively familiar, although when he left Beijing, the other party was still wearing crotch pants. A little boy, but the two family backgrounds are similar, which does not prevent the two from hearing about each other.

So Shen Shiyi turned his head and asked Li Xuanran: "Did you run into robbers on the way?"

I really don't blame Shen Shiyi for asking this question. The two of them were dressed sloppily and had beards all over their faces, as if they hadn't been groomed for a long time. It's as if they lost half their lives, and although the few people behind them are also a little dusty, they are only defined as dusty!

Shen Shishi even wondered if the two of them got lost with his subordinates on the way.

Li Xuanran opened his mouth to answer, but Xu Runxin waved impatiently: "Let's find a place to wash up first, I haven't showered for a few days, it's almost smelly!"

It is now the end of April and entering May, and the weather in the south has become hot and humid.

Li Xuanran had no objection, nodded and said: "Let's find a place first."

Shen Shixi coughed lightly, and said, "I rented a yard, you can live there with me, anyway, my son-in-law also wrote to let me take care of you."

Xu Runxin asked as he walked, "Brother Mu wrote you a letter?"

"Well, he knew that I was an imperial envoy, so he specially wrote to ask me to take care of you."

Xu Runxin's frown was slightly loose, there are many people and many ways, not to mention that he is still an imperial envoy, Xu Runxin is very happy to accept such help.

The two of them changed a few buckets of water and washed it from the beginning to the end. As soon as they came out, Shen Shishi ordered someone to serve hot meals, and the two of them suddenly had green eyes. They were going crazy after eating dry food for the past few days !Blame him (him), insist on competing with him (him).

The two were thinking at the same time, and glared at each other at the same time. They both sat down, and just picked up the chopsticks, someone came in from outside and told, "The Jiang family is here!"

With wet hair on his face, Li Xuanran waved to Shen Shishi: "Go and entertain the guests first, we can do it ourselves."

Xu Runxin nodded with his head buried in the bowl, and said vaguely, "Master Shen, you're welcome!"

Shen Shiyi was overjoyed, and said angrily: "The people from the Jiang family are here to see you, why do you want me to entertain you?"

Li Xuanran ate the food, and asked in confusion: "Isn't Mr. Shen the owner of this house?"

Shen Shiyi choked, seeing the two people who were hardworking, he had no choice but to get up and go out.

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This is a very ordinary small restaurant. Normally, none of the three of them would come to this kind of place to eat. Shen Shishi and the others looked at each other, and Patriarch Jiang said embarrassingly: "The Snake Ancestor must Meet here, so..."

"This place is not bad, please trouble the Jiang family." Xu Runxin is a businessman himself, so it is easier to get close to the Jiang family and has some admiration.

The head of the Jiang family nodded and led the way. When they entered the backyard, they saw an old man and a middle-aged man sitting on the steps weaving bamboo baskets. When the middle-aged man saw them, he got up quickly, took a look at the old man, and entered the house. Stools come out for everyone to sit on.

The old man didn't even look up, as if he didn't notice anyone coming, he just concentrated on making things in his hand.

Li Xuanran looked around and found that although the small courtyard was small, it was kept very clean. It could be seen that the people who lived here worked hard.

The middle-aged man stood respectfully behind the old man, and when the old man finished weaving, he hurried forward to take it. The old man picked up the pipe on his waist, tapped it, and smoked it as if no one else was there, but the four of them remained motionless and remained silent. sat on a stool and waited.

The old man's eyes became more and more cloudy, he exhaled a puff of smoke, and said slowly: "It was more than 40 years ago, and I was only 15 years old at that time, and I was already a half-grown boy at 15 years old. The pillars of the family are now, but our village is living a good life, and the requirements for children are not so strict. At that time, when we were the most naughty in our generation, I heard that there were squirrels on the mountain not far from our village... Our area is full of seas, and squirrels are a rare thing, so I found seven friends who usually play together and went up the mountain... Er Gouzi accidentally fell into a trap, no one found him, I was afraid Hey, he is the only seedling in their family, so he was named so in order to make a living... In order to find him, everyone didn't care that it was getting dark, and people called him all over the mountain... wait to pull him out from the bottom of the pit Come up, it was already dark, and everyone ran towards the house...Looking from a distance, the village is in flames..."

Several people looked at the old man and couldn't bear to interrupt him. Only the middle-aged man knelt at the old man's feet, bowing his head and sobbing.

"Brother Yuan still felt something was wrong, didn't make a sound, and led us back quietly," the old man's cloudy eyes burst out with deep hatred, "They are officers and soldiers! We just watched them take knives and kill those children. A knife was patched on the body, and then thrown into the fire... We remember all those people one by one! Except for the seven of us, there are still people who went out that day and survived," the old man looked down at the middle-aged man at his feet , said: "There is also this silly boy, who was wrapped in cloth by his mother, stuffed in the fish box, and thrown into the fish pond. If a few people hadn't searched carefully, he would have been smothered to death long ago!"

"Should you not only want to get back those boats?" The old man knocked on the pipe and said with a smile, "The Li family has only a few decades of foundation, but the cost of food and clothing is no worse than that of the Zhongming Dingshi House. Even if he is the Commander of the Fujian Metropolitan Government, it has happened in the past ten years, where did the money come from before, you don’t want to know?”

Xu Runxin and Patriarch Jiang lowered their heads, sweating a little. It was a mistake to follow today.

Shen Shishi and Li Xuanran looked at each other, and they both saw shock. He knew a lot about things that they couldn't find out.

Shen Yiban straightened his body, leaned forward slightly and said, "Please enlighten me, senior!"

The old man shook his head, "I don't dare to teach you, it's just a deal!" The old man signaled the middle-aged man to stand up, and said to Shen Shishi and Li Xuanran: "There are still five people left from the 86 people back then, and one of them is Li Wu. Their lives, our descendants will also go back to their hometown!"

Shen Shishi and Li Xuanran were shocked. So, the remaining 81 people?
The old man grinned, "You guessed it right, they are all dead, and the dead can't die anymore! Otherwise, you thought Li Wu would do everything possible to kill me five years ago? I don't want you to answer now, go back and think about it Well, the imperial court has been fighting for years and the national treasury is empty. Your Highness is a man with big ambitions. How can he do without money? With those things, at least three years of military pay in the Northland will not have to worry about it!"

The expressions of Shen Shishi and Li Xuanran suddenly turned ugly, what exactly is in Li Wu's hand?The three-year military salary in the North... At the same time, I admire and fear the old man in front of me even more. Let alone that he can figure out Li Wu's background, his knowledge alone is extraordinary!
The middle-aged man sent a few people away, then hurried in, and said to the old man: "Uncle Ba, why did you tell me about killing those thieves? Will the court settle the score after the fall?" Those 81 people were all from the court. official.

"Silly boy, do you think they won't know if I don't tell them? As long as they investigate this matter, 81 people is not a small number," said the old man angrily: "If I knew it, it would be exposed. Back then You shouldn't be afraid that things will cause trouble to the children, so kill them all!"

When the middle-aged man thought about it, he stepped aside, but the old man showed a weird smile: "But they can't escape, especially Li Wu!" The old man turned to look at the middle-aged man, "The things I asked you to prepare how's it going?"

"It has already been sent to Li's house, and it should be in the hands of Mrs. Li and Young Master Li by now!"

The old man said three good times in a row, happily got up and left with his hands behind his back.

The middle-aged people still don't understand why the eighth uncle would let him give those things to Mr. Li. The eighth uncle likes to smoke, but it doesn't mean that Mr. Li likes it too?The two are still enemies, and the middle-aged people are increasingly unable to understand the elderly.

What the middle-aged people don't know is that the current Mr. Li is smoking with a cigarette stick with a face full of intoxication. This feeling is really wonderful, floating, as if the whole person is flying. He closed his eyes slightly, Feel this soft feeling all over your body.

The two big girls looked at each other worriedly, and retreated quietly, one of them pulled the other and said: "Master, this is getting weirder and weirder. Last time I moved slower, and the master's hands were shaking. He even punched and kicked the people below, looking at me with fear," he said subconsciously touching his arm.

The other's face was also a little blue, and the maid continued: "Let's tell the old man, if something happens..."

The other hesitated, "It's just that the old man is worried about things outside all day long. I heard that the last time the study room killed two little maids who hadn't left their heads..."

That's right, if they don't mention it, they will be beaten a few times. If they talk about it, maybe they will die immediately. The two eyes met, and they immediately separated again, tacitly not mentioning this matter again.

(End of this chapter)