There was a strong wind in Lu Dong Ling.

There was less rain this year than in previous years, so even after the strong wind, the sky in this quiet border town was still a little gray.

An ordinary carriage that had just been replaced with new wheels left the inn in the west of Lu Dongling City. It took half a day to pass through the entire Lu Dongling City, exited the east city gate, and continued slowly eastward before disappearing in

He fell into the sight of the soldiers standing at the city gate.

Except that the soldiers were momentarily surprised that the driver was a pretty girl of fifteen or sixteen years old, the carriage that continued eastward did not attract anyone's attention.

The Ludong Tomb Mansion in the city is like an inner city. The outer walls made of fired adobe bricks are five feet high. The residences of the mausoleum officials' offices only occupy one-third of the building facing the north. The rest are barracks and drills.

field.

There is nothing special about this. Since the founding of the Yunqin Empire, all mausoleums have the same layout, except that the size of the tombs must be determined by the provincial government.

At this moment, several giant red candles are lighting up in the Lingdu Mansion in the middle of the northern part of Ludong Ling Mansion.

These giant red candles drove away the last trace of darkness in this deep hall paved with blue stone slabs, but the flickering candlelight reflected on Li Xiping's face appropriately revealed his wavering mood at the moment.

As the highest official of the four million people in Lu Dongling, Li Xiping, who is short in stature and has a slender face, is not surprising in appearance.

The cuffs of his gray casual robe even had traces of greasiness, but an iron-blooded aura that was as heavy as a mountain and even made it difficult to breathe was emanating from this skinny, half-century-old man with an unspectacular appearance.

"Sir..." A middle-aged man with thick eyebrows who stood upright and wore a black light leather armor couldn't bear the long silence and pressure, but he just said this to the highest official of Lu Dongling.

He just saluted and called "Sir". Before he could say anything substantial, Li Xiping, who looked like an ordinary accountant in a caravan, frowned, took a deep breath and exhaled.

He came out and glanced at the young man with thick eyebrows, "Go and take Zhang Zhendong to Scar Liu, to Blackwater Lake."

"Heishui Ze?" The middle-aged man with thick eyebrows straightened up out of habit, but a look of shock instantly spread across his face, and he said with some hesitation: "Sir, is this too heavy?

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"Heavy?" Li Xiping's face sank. The moment he sank, there seemed to be a thick smell of blood filling the hall. "If he hadn't spent two years in the border army with me,

, if something like this happens, there is no need to give orders from above, I will send him to death row!" Li Xiping looked at the thick-browed middle-aged man and scolded sternly: "Severe diseases require strong medicine, don't you think about our Yunqin people?

What time is it now in the empire! If we don’t send him to that place, not only will we not be able to dispel that person’s anger, he will die in an even more ugly way, and even we will be involved!”

The thick-browed middle-aged man suddenly felt a chill in his heart. He knew very well what kind of determination Li Xiping would have after fighting in a place like the Dragon Snake Frontier Army. In the eight years since he arrived at Lu Dongling, he had no idea at all.

I have never seen Li Xiping look so gloomy and speak in such a stern tone.

"Who is that person? Even a maid with him has such magnanimity?" He nodded and couldn't help but ask.

"Maid?" Li Xiping sneered immediately, his slightly narrowed eyes looking even colder, "You have also been in the border army. You should know that the less you know and the less you have any ideas, the easier it is to survive."

"I understand, sir." The middle-aged man with thick eyebrows felt cold again. He bowed and was about to leave. However, at this moment, Li Xiping pondered for a moment and said again: "Help me arrange it."

Now, let Uncle Liu drive, I want to go to Lulin Town myself."

The middle-aged man with thick eyebrows was startled, and the look of shock in his eyes became even stronger, but he didn't say anything more this time, and bowed humbly before retreating.

When the thick-browed middle-aged man exited the gate of the Tomb Governor's Mansion, Li Xiping picked up the tea cup on the table in front of him, but his hand paused in the air for a moment, but he could no longer control the anger in his heart, "

With a bang, he smashed the tea cup in his hand to the ground.

Is there anything more infuriating than seeing the depravity of a brother who has been with him through life and death, and personally sending such a brother to death?

Li Xiping, who could remain calm, could not control his emotions, and his chest rose and fell violently.

However, it only took a few dozen breaths for his unspeakable anger to calm down. He walked out of the Lingdu Mansion where the sun was already shining in, without changing his gray robe that was stained with tea.

After he walked out of the gate, two soldiers in yellow clothes quickly entered the Lingdu Mansion and started cleaning it quickly, while he stepped onto a carriage that had been prepared outside the door.

The carriage was driven by an old man with gray hair. It left Lu Dongling, passed through Wusuo Town and Sanshilitan Meadow, crossed Heishui Ferry, and finally entered Lulin Town.

Soon, Li Xiping, wearing a dull gray robe, walked out of Lulin Town on foot and walked to the mound where the carriage driven by the girl in blue passed by a few days ago. This man looked older than his actual age.

The Ling Governor raised his head and glanced at the sky, but he broke a branch by the roadside and walked slowly toward another town. The further he walked, the straighter his back became. The branch in his hand

It also seems more and more like a knife or a sword dragged on the ground.

…

The carriage driven by the gray-haired old man from Lingdu Mansion stayed in Lulin Town for a day, and then slowly drove out of Lulin Town in the early morning of the next day.

A short, fat middle-aged man and a good-looking woman led a beautiful girl with red eyes and drove the carriage out of the town. An old yellow dog followed slowly behind the three people.

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Lin Xi sat in the carriage covered with soft cushions and waved vigorously towards the three people and the old yellow dog who were still trying to follow. His eye circles were also red, "Mom, Dad, sister, please go back."

, Dad, I hid all the wine you missed under my bed and made it into medicinal wine. If you miss me, just drink two sips a day. Mom, you have to take care of yourself and be careful not to catch the cold again.

Now, sister, please be good, I will bring you some more fun things, and Ah Huang, don’t take advantage of those two birds."

"Wow..." Lin Qian was fine at first, but when she heard Lin Xi shouting goodbye and saw the carriage speeding up, she immediately flattened her mouth and burst into tears.

The pretty woman's tears immediately rolled down her face. "You little bastard!" The short, fat middle-aged man who looked like a businessman seemed to be about to curse Lin Xi, but after cursing, he secretly wiped the corners of his eyes.

, looking at the carriage going further and further away, the short, fat, middle-aged businessman also shouted, "You bastard, stop talking nonsense after you get out. It's not like Lulin Town outside!"

"Dad, haven't you only been to the mausoleum next to you in your entire life?" In normal times, Lin Xi might have said this, but today, Lin Xi nodded and said enough to make the three people at the town entrance

A voice that could be heard said, "I understand, Father."

"Little brat." The middle-aged businessman muttered and cursed again, but his eyes were completely confused.

The carriage went all the way north, so far away that the two young men and an old yellow dog at the entrance of the town could no longer be seen. It was not until the outline of the entire Lulin Town was no longer visible that Lin Xi lowered the window.

Curtain, sighed slightly, and leaned against the soft cushions in the carriage.

Although he had never even been out of Lulin Town, he was not in a hurry to see the scenery along the way. He knew very well that with the speed of this carriage, in this equally vast world, in the next few dozen days, he would definitely

I will look at different places and see vomiting.

Although he has completely integrated into the world and accepted his current identity in the past two years or so, this scene can't help but remind him of many things.

The last time he traveled far to go to school and boarded a train that people in this world couldn't understand at all, he was alone. His father, who had been running a tea business for many years, just gave him a one-time payment for four years of college. And his

He only knew about bad gambling, and his biological mother, who had been separated from his father for five or six years, didn't even know where he was. Maybe she didn't even know that he was admitted to college.

Only things that cannot be obtained become more precious, so after discovering that he had arrived in this world, became a different person, and had some unique abilities, he did not have the desire to leave this small town and see the outside world.

The idea of ​​​​making an earth-shattering undertaking in the world. Even for the Yunqin Empire, his understanding was limited to the fact that the Yunqin Empire was a powerful empire with strict rule of law, occupying almost the entire Zhongzhou, including towns, mausoleums, and counties.

It is divided into administrative units such as provinces.

A short, fat father who has some money, has no worries about food and drink, is shrewd and cunning in business, but can kneel in the temple for two days and two nights to pray for his seriously ill son, and promises to donate half of his family property. He is a smart, cute and obedient cute man.

The younger sister, a mother who looks stern but is actually gentle and kind, lives in a peaceful town in a corner, and he is very content with this kind of life.

But these two consecutive carriages broke his peaceful and content life.

Although I don't know the identity of the girl who is younger than me, it is obvious that she has an inevitable connection with this carriage.

"Qingluan College, what kind of place is it?"

When she thought of the terror of the girl who always had a serious expression on her face, Lin Xi suddenly had a strange look on her face.

Then, he took out a long and narrow cloth bag from the package beside him and opened it.

Inside is a sharply sharpened dagger with a cold light.

He took the gleaming dagger, hid it under his sleeve, and gently opened the car curtain in front of him.

The old man's hair was very gray and did not look combed. It was as unkempt as a ball of cotton. As the wheels bumped, the old man sitting at the front of the car with his back to Lin Xi seemed to be dozing off.

Lin Xi watched in silence for a while, and then made an incomprehensible move.

With a calm face, even a look of curiosity and expectation, he stabbed the old man in the back silently with a dagger.

"Whoosh!"

The air around the peaceful carriage suddenly became cold. The old man did not look back, but Lin Xi's heart suddenly contracted violently. A sharp chill instantly spread throughout his body, and he could not see what was happening at all. His whole body

He flew out from the carriage and landed heavily in the bushes on the side of the road. He was breathless and his whole body seemed to be broken. The fall was extremely miserable.

"What do you want to do?" The carriage stopped. The gray-haired old man looked at Lin Xi who had fallen miserably, with a chill on his face. The dagger in Lin Xi's hand was held between his two fingers.

Weirdly curved.

"puff!"

Lin Xi finally managed to catch his breath and spat out a piece of dead leaf and dust from his mouth. However, facing the chilling old man, he seemed to have gotten the answer and said to himself, "It turns out that this world

There are really great masters out there.”

"Can you fly? Do you have flying swords? Spells?" Under the stunned gaze of the gray-haired old man, the young man, whose face was covered with bloodstains and who finally got up, looked at him again and asked this sentence seriously.

"Get in the car. If I do this again next time, I'll break your hand." The gray-haired old man squinted at Lin Xi for a while, turned his head, and said coldly and simply.

Lin Xi, who didn't get an answer, shook his head helplessly, and then he softly uttered two words, "Go back."

Then Lin Xi really returned to the carriage. Back when he took out the dagger from the package, he was leaning on the cushions in the carriage. His clothes were clean and there were no blood marks on his face.

The bent dagger was lying nicely in his package, but the gray old man who had just revealed a suffocating murderous intention and an iron-blooded aura like a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood, still looked ordinary.

He looks like a terrible old man, dozing off from time to time at the front of the car, harmless to humans and animals.

In the bright spring light, this carriage, with nothing happening, went all the way north.

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To be continued...