Chapter 169: Breaking off the engagement! Seeing the breakup of the engagement again?
On a fast-flowing river, a small awning boat was going down the river.
Liang Yan was sitting in the boat, holding a piece of parchment with a thoughtful expression on his face.
As soon as he arrived in Yue Kingdom a few days ago, he quietly left Lin Ziqing's team, leaving only a note to her saying "Beware of the Ninth Prince" before leaving.
He didn't want to get involved in the worldly affairs, but Lin Ziqing was an old friend of his when he was a child, so he left a piece of motto. As for whether she would listen to it or not, it was not Liang Yan's concern.
"I didn't expect the material for this sword-raising pill to be so hard to find." Liang Yan stared at the parchment in his hand and muttered to himself:
"Others are fine. It's just that the three materials of lark, star stone and Tibetan flower are too rare, especially the last Tibetan flower. I have never even heard of it, so where can I find it?"
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but sigh that Yixing Pavilion was worthy of being the first sect in the Zhao Kingdom. Zhuo Bufan had so many materials for refining the sword-raising pills. They obviously obtained them from the sect.
And now that I am a casual cultivator, even searching for the materials for sword-raising pills may take several years or even ten years! I don't know how many years it will take to condense the sword embryo again.
"Sword cultivation is difficult to get started and even harder to improve!" Liang Yan sighed secretly, put away the parchment, and took out three storage bags from his waist.
These three storage bags naturally belonged to Feng Qier, Butler Lu and the scholar named Yue who were killed by him that day.
I was in a hurry before and didn't have time to check. Now that I have arrived in Yue Kingdom, I feel a lot more relaxed.
After all, forces like families and sects have their own territories, and they are not as free as casual cultivators. Generally, the forces of Zhao State will not enter Yue State with great fanfare.
He pondered for a moment, then opened the three storage bags one by one and examined them carefully.
After a while, Liang Yan put down two of the storage bags, with a wry smile on his face, and thought to himself: "Sure enough, the monks who are willing to do this kind of task of intercepting and killing ordinary mortals don't have any good stuff in their family."
He turned his eyes and looked at the last storage bag.
"This housekeeper named Lu seems to have some status. The other two people follow his lead. Don't let me down with the contents of this storage bag."
"Huh?"
Liang Yan untied the storage bag and saw an envelope lying quietly inside, which read: Written by nephew Lin Xuanxian.
He curiously opened the envelope and shook out a long piece of letter paper. After reading it carefully, he couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth.
"Borrow the engagement! This is actually a letter of breaking the engagement!"
It turns out that this middle-aged man surnamed Lu is the steward of a Qi-refining family in Yue State. This time he came to Zhao State to break off his engagement with the Lin family, a Qi-refining family in Zhao State.
According to the letter, the Lu and Lin families had an engagement in the early years, but that was all a matter between the grandparents. Now the direct daughter of the Lu family actually possesses a rare single water spirit root, and has been promoted in the Yungang Sect of the Yue Kingdom.
Became an inner disciple.
The Yungang Sect was the largest sect in the Yue Kingdom, and its status was equivalent to that of the Yixing Pavilion in the Zhao Kingdom. As a result, the Lu family had grown stronger, and naturally they no longer wanted to fulfill their early engagements. Butler Lu was sent here this time to propose breaking off the engagement in person.
According to what the head of the Lu family said in the letter, in order to compensate for the loss of face of the Lin family, Lin Xuan can propose some reasonable compensation to him, and the Lu family will do their best to satisfy it.
"Yungang Sect?" Liang Yan murmured: "If I can join the Yungang Sect and use the resources within the sect, I can definitely shorten the decades it takes me to condense the sword embryo, and even break through the foundation building, it is not impossible.
hope."
However, Yungang Sect is a Taoist sect that emphasizes dividing people into nine grades and is strict in recruiting disciples. If the ancestors did not have a family with foundation-building monks, they would not have a place to participate in the entry selection.
In contrast, Yixing Pavilion openly adheres to the Confucian philosophy of "education without discrimination", but those disciples with extremely poor spiritual talents are classified as handyman disciples when they first enter.
It is impossible to get ahead in life.
Thinking of this, Liang Yan lowered his head and looked at the letter in his hand, and suddenly a plan came to his mind.
Three days later, in a house in a mountain forest somewhere in the country of Yue.
"What, what did he say his name was?" a middle-aged man in well-dressed clothes asked in disbelief.
"Reporting to the head of the family, the young man outside the door calls himself Lin Xuan and wants to see you for something!" the servant replied.
"Lin Xuan. What is he doing here!" The middle-aged man in fine clothes paced in the hall, and finally waved his sleeves and said: "That's all, take him to the study to wait for me!"
"yes!"
Liang Yan didn't wait outside the door for long. After a while, a servant came out, smiled at him and said, "Mr. Lin, the master of the house has invited you."
"Please lead the way!" Liang Yan smiled and cupped his hands, then walked into the courtyard, followed the servant, and soon walked into a study room.
"Master Lin, please drink a cup of tea here first. The master of the house will arrive shortly." The servant poured him a cup of tea, then bowed and exited the study.
Liang Yan picked up the teacup in the study and took a sip, looking calm.
Not long after, I suddenly heard a cheerful voice outside the door and said with a smile:
"Ah ha ha ha! Nephew Lin, you really make me miss you so much!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he opened the door and walked in a middle-aged man in rich clothes. This man had a square face, thick eyebrows and big eyes. He was clearly the contemporary head of the Lu family, Lu Yuanhao.
"Uncle Lu, my nephew is right!" Liang Yan bowed his hand in front of him.
Lu Yuanhao looked Liang Yan up and down, nodded and said: "Not bad, not bad! Lin Xian's nephew is a talented person, and he is worthy of being a direct descendant of the Lin family. It seems that there is hope for the revival of the Lin family!"
He emphasized the word "revival" very strongly in his words, and Liang Yan naturally understood it. However, he didn't want to go around in circles, so he simply pointed it out directly:
"Thank you Uncle Lu for your concern. My nephew's visit this time is actually for the marriage that the two families had agreed upon before."
As soon as these words came out, Lu Yuanhao's expression immediately changed. He chuckled twice, stretched out his hand towards the seat and made a "please" gesture: "Nephew Lin Xian came from afar. If you don't want to talk, please take a seat first and have a cup of tea."
Let’s talk again.”
Liang Yan nodded, and the two of them sat down respectively. After finishing a cup of tea, Lu Yuanhao said slowly:
"Nephew Lin, you may not know that this marriage was decided by my father back then. Later, the Lin family encountered changes and the family moved to Zhao State, and the contact was lost. As for me, I have never seen him.
Be better than your father."
After hearing this, Liang Yan reached out and interrupted him: "Uncle Lu, please forgive my nephew for being rude. In fact, my nephew is here to agree to my uncle's proposal to break off the engagement."
"What?" Lu Yuanhao didn't expect him to be so easy to talk to, and he didn't know how to answer the question.
"At this moment, at that moment, our Lin family is now in decline, and the spiritual talents of the several brothers and sisters are extremely different. My nephew also feels that it is inappropriate to fulfill the engagement we made back then."
Lu Yuanhao narrowed his eyes and reached out to touch his chin, obviously waiting for Liang Yan's next words.
"It's just that Uncle Lu once said in his letter that he can agree to a request that is not too difficult for his nephew. I wonder if this can count?"
"I did say that. I wonder what my nephew wants to ask for?" Lu Yuanhao nodded.
"This request sounds simple. In fact, our Lin family has always wanted to return to the Yue Kingdom, and now we would like to ask Uncle Lu to give one of the entrance examination quotas for this year's Yungang Sect to our nephew."
"What? You want to join the Yungang Sect?" Lu Yuanhao asked in shock.
