Chapter 30 Discussion
After digging out all the information that Wan Yuankai knew, Li Xiangping sent Wan Yuankai away who felt lost. He carefully put away the sketch in his hand and returned to Lijing Village with Li Yesheng.
Thanks to the constant flow of land taxes from the villages every year, the Li family is able to support more craftsmen. These people mainly build the courtyards in the back mountains and are also responsible for the repairs of Lijing Village during the slack construction period.
After more than half a year of renovation, Lijing Village has changed its appearance. The polished bluestone slabs have been spliced piece by piece, spreading from the front of Li's house to the entrance of the village. As the main thoroughfare of Lijing Village, it provides power to the villages. The hub spreads influence.
The rich households in the village also imitated the Li family's blue brick house and renovated their own adobe thatched houses. Liu Linfeng and others did not dare to use blue bricks, but used second-class white bricks and then used gray bricks. The mud outlines the cracks in the wall. Although it is not as eye-catching and beautiful as the white cracks filled with blue bricks, it is still classy.
Looking from a distance towards the several building complexes behind the village, the small white brick courtyard is surrounded by the main house with blue bricks and gray tiles. In the misty wind and rain, it still has the flavor of a small town in the south of the Yangtze River.
When Li Xiangping returned to the courtyard, he saw Li Mutian and Li Xuanxuan sitting in the courtyard to rest. Li Mutian was full of energy and moved neatly. He was holding a tea bowl in his hand and sitting at the table with an old spirit, as if he had recovered from the mourning a few years ago. I came out of the pain of my son.
Nowadays, Li Mutian is not in charge of much, but no one dares to underestimate this old man. Although Li Mutian is only a mortal, Li Yesheng and others are still far more afraid of him than Li Tongya and Li Xiangping.
"Xuan'er!"
Li Xiangping smiled and picked up Li Xuanxuan, who was flying towards him. When the child reached the age of studying, the Li family still invited Han Wenxu to be his tutor. Li Xuanxuan was smart and it was not difficult to teach him.
"Today I went to the reed swamp with Xie Wen. He said that Uncle Ye Sheng kept ducks there when he was a child!"
Li Xuanxuan hugged Li Xiangping with a smile and said in a childish voice.
The Li family took the initiative to marry Li Yesheng. Li Xiewen was Li Yesheng's child. He was just over two years old and followed Li Xuanxuan around every day.
"you do not say."
Li Yesheng behind him replied with a smile.
"Call my second brother back."
Li Xiangping turned his head and gave an order with a smile. He watched Li Yesheng retreat and gradually go away, and then he looked at Li Xuanxuan.
"At that time, Third Uncle and I were catching fish aside. The fish was so fat that it was covered in green scales and was very slippery."
Li Xiangping put him down and pinched Li Xuanxuan's little face, but his eyes wandered, staring blankly into the distance, as if he was caught in some deep memory.
"That fish is the most delicious fish that Uncle San has ever eaten. It is a fish in the sky, a fairy among fish..."
"What about Wanjia?"
Li Mutian glanced down, put the tea in his hand on the table, and interrupted Li Xiangping.
"The strength is far superior to that of my Li family. It has a long history. The family leader has the Yu Jing Lun cultivation level, and even Wan Yuan Kai, who has become Qing Yuan at a young age."
Li Xiangping patted Li Xuanxuan and asked the child to play by himself, then raised his head and replied.
Just as he said that, Li Tongya stepped into the courtyard with a solemn expression. He found a seat and sat down, listening carefully to what Li Xiang said.
Li Xiangping finished what Wan Yuankai said in one breath, then he picked up the tea bowl and looked at the two of them while taking a sip.
"If the Wan family is really in trouble internally and externally, they will help if they can. The Ji family is very close. If the Wan family really collapses and their lips are broken and their teeth are cold, the next one will probably be my Li family."
Li Tongya silently listened to Li Xiangping's words and looked at the sketch.
"The Wan family wants to be saved, but there must be a way to save it. It must be the most beneficial way for my Li family to save it. Xiang Ping, just listen."
Li Mutian squinted his eyes, raised his eyebrows, looked at the tea in the cup quietly, and then said:
"The Wan family said that the Ji family had taken away his spiritual rice, so they responded like this - they said that my Li family still had some spare spiritual fields, but no manpower, and asked him to send someone to my Li family to plant rice here and harvest the harvest. My Li family takes 30%. If Kai really sends someone with that ten thousand yuan, it will really be his Wan family that is trapped by the Ji family and will suffer unspeakably."
"Exactly."
Li Xiangping nodded, obviously thinking about it with his father, and said seriously:
"It's just that the Ji family knows the Wan family's spiritual field very well, and it must have become a sieve inside. Wan Yuankai must make this matter secret. At this moment, my Li family must not confront the Ji family, behind the Wan family's back Just quietly push for support.”
"good."
Li Mutian nodded appreciatively, took a sip of tea, and continued:
"The two families are far more powerful than my family. At this moment, we still need to hide our capabilities and save our strength. The Ji family is aggressive and can be punished. Although the Wan family is also under the rule of Qingchi, they also need to be careful around the bedside."
Li Tongya looked at the sketch for a long time and suddenly said:
"The Ji family in this picture is adjacent to my Li family?"
"have."
Li Xiangping nodded, nodded at the entrance of Li Dao, and said in a deep voice:
"The Guli Road bifurcates here, going all the way north to the Najia territory, and all the way east to the Wanjia territory."
After a pause and looking at Li Tongya's thoughtful look, Li Xiangping continued:
"I asked Wan Yuankai. More than a hundred years ago, a monster gathered several little monsters and built a monster cave on the road leading to the Ji family. So the road was cut off from then on, and the road to the Ji family was cut off. Even the land has been abandoned, and it is only nominally under the control of the Ji family."
"I see." Li Tongya suddenly said: "In this case, there is no need to worry about the Ji family entering the country. As long as the Wan family does not fall, the Ji family will never threaten this place."
"That monster is quite smart. It chose the junction of Qingchi Sect and Boring Gold Gate. It concentrates on cultivating in its monster cave and doesn't come out to cause trouble."
Li Xiangping said softly and turned to look at Li Mutian:
"I heard that Wan Yuankai said that Shanyue appeared to the west of my house. Father, did you have any news about the battle with Shanyue back then?"
Li Mutian waved his hand and said:
"In terms of appearance, those Shanyue people are very different from us. They only have broken hair and tattoos, and they can't understand the language. Moreover, the better the mountains are, they practice martial arts and have noble strength. There is a shaman in the clan who is good at cursing and driving away beasts, so it is difficult to deal with them. .”
"I don't know how effective the exorcism you are waiting for is. As long as it can deal with the curse, and the villagers are on par with the enemy, it is not impossible to deal with it."
"It's not in a hurry."
Li Tongya spoke, gently circled the Li family on the map with his finger, and said:
"The Wan family has been squeezed and cut by the Ji family many times. The area Si Yuanbai divided for my Li family is so large. Now my Li family's territory is even larger than that of the Wan family."
"The land is vast and the people are sparse. Our Li family is weak and weak. We are just puffy and fat. If the mountain doesn't come, we don't have to provoke him. With the Wan family resisting in the front, let my Li family develop for a few years and fully grasp it. Let’s talk about the rest of these territories.”
I originally made a map, but now I can’t post this chapter or post~[tears]
