Chapter 4 Li Yesheng

"Uncle, please forgive me!"

The man was so frightened that he began to beg for mercy as soon as he landed on the ground, and huddled up while hugging Li Mutian.

"Ah! Have mercy on me, uncle, have mercy on me, uncle, have mercy on me..."

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 was most afraid of stood in front of him, so scared that he couldn't move. Who knew that Li Mutian was holding a long knife in one hand, and even called him a gallbladder? All broken.

"Ye Sheng?" Li Mutian took a closer look, frowned, his face was uncertain, and he looked at him steadily while stroking the beard on his chin.

Li Yesheng is Li Yesheng's brother. Their father has been bedridden for many years, but Li Yesheng spends his days doing nothing, playing in the autumn wind.

Two teenagers also heard the sound and came over. 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 took a look, and couldn't help but be moved.

"Cousin?" Li Changhu took a deep breath and asked doubtfully.

"Why are you here?" Li Tongya asked coldly, the strength of the long stick in his hand not diminishing.

"They're here to steal your melons!" Seeing Li Yesheng hesitating, Li Mutian answered for him with a cold face, put away the long knife in his hand, turned around and left.

"Cousin, I'm offended."

Li Tongya also put back his strength on the stick, said a few words and followed his father back to the house. Only General Li Changhu was left to help Li Yesheng up, wiped his face, said a few words of comfort and politely sent him out of the courtyard.

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In the house.

Li Chijing and Li Xiangping sat blankly at the table, with the jianzi hidden in their arms. Li Xiangping did not dare to move. Fortunately, his father's second brother walked into the hall not long after.

"Where's eldest brother?"

He looked behind them and asked quickly.

"Going to see off guests."

Li Mutian shook his head

"I know that kid Ye Sheng often comes here to beat the autumn wind, but I'm afraid that the news of what happened tonight 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 and looked at Li Xiangping, about to speak.

"Crunch."

The door made a closing sound. The eldest brother, Li Changhu, looked puzzled. He sat down on the stool and spoke to his father, Li Mutian.

"Father, why is this necessary?"

He shook his head.

"Ye Sheng just stole a melon. You didn't do the favor, but you wanted to 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 and tilted his ear, waving to the woman and young son: "You squat down at the front door and the back door, and call out if someone comes."

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

"You said it!"

Li Xiangping nodded vigorously and spoke in a low voice:

"Today I went to Meichi River to catch fish and picked up something from the river."

After saying this, he looked at his father Li Mutian, saw him nodding, and took out a jianzi from his arms.

Li Changhu looked at his younger brother, then at his father, took the blue-gray jianzi, and looked at it carefully but couldn't figure out the reason.

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

Seeing the moonlight fluctuating like water, and converging on the mirror like a swallow in the forest, a pale white gem-like moon halo emerged.

Li Changhu suddenly stood up from his chair and stared at the moonlight on the jianzi. Li Tongya also lost color and stared at the jianzi thoughtfully.

For a whole cup of tea, everyone in the Li family stared at Jianzi silently with different expressions.

This was the second time Li Xiangping saw this scene, but he was also shocked and murmured:

"I have never seen such beautiful scenery since I was a child..."

"Haha, stop talking about you, I have never seen such a good thing."

Li Mutian smiled lowly, but there was no smile at all. Instead, his eyes were fierce.

"This is probably something from an immortal."

Li Tongya spoke quietly, picked up the long knife and kept wiping it. He looked calm while staring at the jianzi, but his trembling hands betrayed his inner feelings.

"If the news leaks out, it will also bring disaster to my family."

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

"If it is something lost by the immortal, and I will use magic to find it tomorrow, how will we deal with it?"

Li Tongya stared at his father steadily and said worriedly.

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

"My family will benefit from whatever the immortal will reward me."

"fart."

Li Mutian waved his hand:

"I heard that there are many immortals who are murderous. You must not do this! I don't know how long it took for this mirror to fall into the water. It was picked up long ago when I came to pick it up. It will be the turn of mortals like us. I think that the immortal has probably encountered something unexpected."

Hearing these treacherous words, Li Changhu was frightened and frowned, not knowing what he was thinking.

Li Tongya suddenly realized it and spoke in a low voice:

"But was he seen by that boy Li Yesheng?"

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

"I'm going to kill him!"

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

"Come back!" Li Mutian called to Li Tongya with a frown, and glanced at Li Xiangping, making him look panicked.

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

"Li Yesheng is a person who is heartless and unrighteous. He is flamboyant but also picks up on others. Rather than letting him make a mistake and let the news spread, which will lead to the disaster of destroying my Li family, it is better to let him die first."

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

"Then if your little brother eats the inside and outside and talks laxly, will you kill him too?"

Li Mutian laughed and asked his second son.

"There is no such coward 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 said seriously to the three brothers in front of him:

"I also want you to know something. I left my hometown when I was thirteen and entered Anli County along Guli Road. General Yang received the imperial order to attack Shanyue and recruited troops on Guli Road. At that time, your father and I had no place to live, so we had to become Soldiers."

"General Yang is strict in running the army, but he also eats and lives with me as close as a family. He taught us the Vietnamese soldiers' fighting methods and told us to practice martial arts well. This fighting method is widely spread, easy to learn but difficult to master, and ordinary people can practice it. It's just a matter of skill and skill, nothing special about it." Li Mutian sighed, seeing that several people were listening attentively, and continued:

"After I returned to my hometown, I read and wrote. I wrote down my fighting skills silently on this wooden slip. I have asked you to practice them carefully. Now I don't necessarily have any tricks up my sleeve. This is one of them."

Li Mutian opened the wooden box. Inside the box lay a wooden slip, a talisman, a few broken pieces of silver and glass, and other miscellaneous items.