Evergreen Immortal..

Chapter 170: The wisdom is used wisely, and the swordsmanship is greatly improved

At noon, the sun is shining brightly.

The atmosphere inside the house forms a sharp contrast with the sunny day outside.

"Find out who did it!"

Zhuang Renhe's face was frighteningly cold, his skin twitching as he looked at the corrosion marks on the floor of the house.

Today, Xiang Ting did not come to report to him as usual.

He immediately noticed something was wrong.

Among all his subordinates, Xiang Ting was not the strongest in martial arts, but he was the most trusted by him.

It is because Xiang Ting has always been cautious and sensible in doing things.

Small things can be done extremely well.

I would never do such a stupid thing as missing the time.

So he sent people to check Xiang Ting's house.

Only after looking at it did I realize it.

There was no Xiang Ting left in the room. He had long since turned into corpse water, not even a bone was left.

"Yes, Third Master."

Several people standing aside said in a deep voice.

These people were all masters brought by Zhuang Renhe from the Zhuang family, so they were called "Third Master" instead of "Sir".

Zhuang Renhe narrowed his eyes:
"Who could it be, Jiang Linxian?"

His first reaction was Jiang Linxian. After all, his biggest enemy now was Jiang Linxian.

"wrong."

Then he shook his head again.

His men acted extremely covertly, so Jiang Linxian was unlikely to discover them. And if she did, there would be no need to kill Xiang Ting.

With that person's methods, he might come directly to me.

"Find out who it is!"

He said sternly to the people around him.

Such a capable subordinate of mine was killed, and we still don't know who did it. This feeling is really frustrating and infuriating.

With a cold snort, he flicked his sleeves and strode out of the room.

Several people in the room looked at each other.

Xiang Ting has been destroyed to the point where not even a trace is left. How can we investigate him?
In the courtyard.

Li Rui raised his arms horizontally with his ten fingers spread out, and held the barrier knife between his palms.

No knife was used.

Just keep your eyes closed and stay still.

Yang Yong and Wang Zhao stood aside, holding a handful of fresh sunflower seeds in their hands, eating them and chatting.

"How long has this been going on, Lao Li?"

"It's been several hours."

After hearing Wang Zhao say it took several hours, Yang Yong paused while cracking melon seeds, and stared with eyes wide open in disbelief: "How much?"

Wang Zhao confirmed again: "Five hours to be exact. Master has been like this since early morning."

I'll be a good boy.

Yang Yong was amazed.

He had touched Li Rui's knife, which weighed at least 10 to 20 kilograms.

Even if you don't raise the knife, try standing under the scorching sun for five hours without moving?
Few people can hold on.

But Li Rui not only held on, but also looked quite relaxed, as if he could keep it up all night.

"It doesn't mean that all martial artists can last long."

Yang Yong was even more envious and kept clicking his tongue.

Before, Li Rui had invited him to a brothel several times, saying it was free sex, but he always turned it down. Did he not want to? He couldn't.

Just as the two were marveling at Li Rui's endurance.

Li Rui, who had been standing still, finally moved.

If you don't move, it's fine. If you move, it's like thunder!
The two of them didn't even see how Li Rui made his move before they saw a gust of wind sweeping in.

Li Rui's clothes fluttered and he slashed down with his sword.

boom!
There was a loud explosion.

Yang Yong and Wang Zhao were startled because the sound came from the backyard.

This is a house with four entrances.

This means that to get from the front yard to the back yard, one has to pass through three circular arches. One yard is about five meters long, and passing through four yards is a full twenty meters!

The two of them stretched their heads and looked through the archway to see the scene in the backyard.

They all took a deep breath.

The backyard was covered in dust, and the rockery in the center of the yard was precisely split in half by Li Rui's knife.

It became two mountains.

"Is this something a human can do?"

Twenty feet.

Cut the mountain with one knife!
Even the rockery is amazing enough.

At this time, a hint of satisfaction appeared at the corner of Li Rui's mouth.

"not bad."

The three words fell clearly into the ears of Yang Yong and Wang Zhao, and their jaws opened unconsciously.

It’s like this, and it’s just good? ?
Li Rui sheathed his sword.

Standing there with a knife in hand for five hours is not an easy task.

He is cultivating his sword intention.

After his comprehension improved, his wonderful ideas about martial arts came to his mind like a spring. After half a month of research, he finally realized the sword technique that was completely derived from Changchun Gong.

Sword-raising style.

"In ancient times, there were sword-cultivators who would not use their swords for ten years. When they did so, they would scare the gods and ghosts. They would keep their swords in their sheaths and nourish them with their true qi. This is called sword cultivation."

It’s just that the swordsmen gradually fell into obscurity and the tradition was lost long ago.

Li Rui was inspired by this and created the sword-raising style.

The essence of Changchun Kung Fu is to focus on the inner side rather than the outer side, and is based on health preservation and longevity. Its moves do not focus on killing.

This sword-raising style can perfectly bring out the advantage of Changchun Gong in nourishing Qi, and apply this point to the moves. If you don't make a move, it's fine, but once you make a move, it will be an instant kill.

The sword intent has such an effect after only being cultivated for five hours. If it is cultivated for ten or twenty years, its power is unimaginable.

"It really has endless uses!" Li Rui laughed.

The improvement in his comprehension was immediate, and with this sword-cultivating method, he had one more trump card in his hand.

After a day of sun exposure.

He asked Yang Yong and Wang Zhao to help boil a large bucket of hot water, and took a comfortable bath.

Most ordinary families in the State of Yu used a large wooden barrel filled with water for bathing, but the rich families were different. They directly built a small square ditch in the room, similar to the swimming pool in the previous life.

Not only is it spacious, but it is also more warm.

That's called comfort.

Li Rui leaned comfortably against the wall of Fangcao.

"It looks like we can have some peace for a while."

Half a month has passed since he killed Xiang Ting, but the smoke in his wise eyes has not changed much.

In other words.

As he expected, Zhuang Renhe might be furious and want to find the murderer.

But he completely erased the evidence, making it impossible to find any evidence. No matter how angry we were, we had no way to start.

Once Xiang Ting dies, the new person who takes over may not necessarily care about him anymore.

that's the truth.

Some time ago, Cao Wei, as a lieutenant general, took the initiative to request the improvement of the military discipline of Anning Guard, and several guard officials were taken to the law enforcement camp.

Some were lucky and were just scolded, some were unlucky and lost their official hats directly, and the worst one was beaten to death on the spot for having secret dealings with a sect.

Is it really that simple to practice military discipline and rely on luck?
Of course not. They were all charged with crimes such as adultery, harming the people, and seizing fertile land. Those with backers were scolded, and those without backers were directly dismissed from their positions. This is the real situation.

The one who was beaten to death was still Cao Wei's man.

I heard that he dared to have an affair with the wife of the garrison commander Feng Yu, and was then beaten to death.

This is where the law's flexibility lies.

If someone is attentive, they will find that 30% of these officials are from Cao Wei's lineage, and the remaining 70% are Jiang Linxian's people.

It is obvious that it is another fight between gods and the mortals are suffering.

But should we say that these people are wronged?
That's not unfair. According to the military law of Annan Town, beheading these people on the spot was the lightest punishment.

But, how many officials of An Ning Guard dare to say that their subordinates are clean?

Even if you are clean, your subordinates may not be clean.

It can still be used to treat the crime of inadequate supervision.

Moreover, Cao Wei was obviously well prepared this time, and the clues and evidence were solid, so even Jiang Linxian could not accuse him.

If you look more closely, you will find that most of them are officers under Ning Zhongtian.

After this wave of rectification, the effect came quickly, which directly resulted in only four officials above the seventh rank, Li Rui, Ge Hong, Wei Ming and Tan Hu, left under Ning Zhongtian's command. The others were all stripped of their hats.

I don't believe that this wasn't a deliberate targeting.

"Brother Li, if you hadn't reminded me, I might have been in trouble."

Wei Ming took a big gulp of the wine.

Sitting beside him were the four only subordinates of Ning Zhongtian.

Scared to think about.

He was not a man who kept himself clean. Although he had never done anything like raping women, he had often occupied farmland.

If he were caught by Cao Wei's faction, he would not lose his official position directly, but he would definitely lose the general flag that he had worked so hard to obtain.

Fortunately, Li Rui reminded him, so he took action in advance and put all the blame on one of his subordinates who was in charge of grain.

As for the man in charge of grain, he was thrown into a water dungeon by the law enforcement camp.

He once found an opportunity to visit him and promised to take good care of his wife and children. After the three-year term was up, he would make arrangements to allow the grain manager to resume his official position.

This is how we were able to avoid disaster.

Ge Hong was also afraid: "Thanks to Brother Li's carefulness, otherwise you and I would be in trouble."

Li Rui chuckled: "I was just imagining things, it's just a coincidence that I guessed it right."

He realized that this was probably a conspiracy between Cao Wei and County Magistrate Zhuang Renhe.

The purpose is to cut off Jiang Linxian's wings.

Especially since Ning Zhongtian was too dazzling recently.

It was already his limit that he could save three people.

If he did too much, it would definitely attract the attention of Cao Wei and Zhuang Renhe, and bring trouble upon himself.

"This is very strange. Is Cao Wei in cahoots with Zhuang?"

Wei Ming said depressedly.

This time, a lot of evidence was found with the strong cooperation of the government.

The government cooperated very attentively.

You know, most of the lieutenant commanders of the garrisons had bad relations with the local county magistrates.

There is no room for two tigers in one mountain.

Since both of them want to compete for the right to speak, they are bound to become enemies.

But this time the government responded to the request, which obviously meant that Cao Wei and Zhuang Renhe had reached some kind of agreement.

It seemed that the two of them joined forces because they were afraid that Jiang Linxian would become more powerful, but Li Rui did not think so.

It is not difficult to guess from various signs that County Magistrate Zhuang seems to be doing something extremely secretive.

Qu Chengfeng may just be one of the links, and everything he is doing now is to distract Jiang Linxian's attention.

But what is Zhuang Renhe hiding?
late at night.

The four of them drank until their faces were red and white, and staggered back to An Ning Guard Station, seven points drunk.

After separation.

Li Rui then rubbed his eyebrows and walked towards his house.

Just walked in the door.

I saw Wang Zhao and Yang Yong were still awake, sitting in the yard enjoying the cool air.

Wang Zhao saw Li Rui coming back and quickly stood up: "Master, the post station delivered your letter today."

"My letter?"

Li Rui raised his eyebrows slightly.

He has spent most of his life in Qinghe. He has no relatives or friends outside. Who would send him a letter?

Seeing this, Wang Zhao nodded and said immediately:

"It's a letter from Miss Yao."

　Thanks to Boss Nuanyang for the Silver Alliance. I will work hard to write and update.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)