284、The unique way of understanding the shadow dispute
"By the way, you haven't eaten yet, right?" Qingchen asked, "I have a carefully prepared meal here, which is still kept warm. Eat some while it's hot."
The old man looked at the thermostatic lunch box in Qingchen's hand and hesitated for a moment: "Did you bring this to me specially?"
Qingchen said matter-of-factly: "Yes, it's very cold on this broken bridge. How can you go fishing here and not eat something to replenish your energy?"
"You're kind enough," the old man said calmly as he took the lunch box, only to see beef piled inside. There was even twice-cooked pork in a small partition.
The old man smiled happily and said, "The doctor removed twice-cooked pork from my menu a long time ago. It's rare that I can still eat it here. I'm so thoughtful."
Qingchen smiled and thought that the food prepared by this boy Li Ke was quite sumptuous and the presentation was good.
But Li Ke didn't know that he went to Zhixin Villa to teach a class every morning, and went directly back to Feiyun Villa for lunch, so there was no need for this meal.
But Qingchen didn't waste it and simply brought it over to the old man.
"Aren't you afraid of the poison inside?" Qingchen asked doubtfully.
"If it was poisonous, you would be dead by now," the old man said calmly.
After Qingchen heard this, he subconsciously looked towards the woods by the lake, but saw nothing.
Could it be that there are awakened bodyguards with the ability to identify poisons around the old man?
"Do you know how many dragon fish there are in this Long Lake?" the old man asked while eating twice-cooked pork.
"I don't know, there must be hundreds of lakes in such a big lake," Qingchen made a rough estimate.
The old man sat firmly on the broken bridge and shook his head: "When the knights sent them, there were only 18 in total. After so many years, there are still 18. These arowanas stopped breeding after they left the forbidden place No. 10.
It will not continue to grow. In the early years, one arowana was secretly eaten, and yesterday you ate another, and now there are only 16 left."
"Wait a minute," Qingchen was stunned: "In other words, I can only eat 16 more?"
The old man said angrily: "Is this what you should focus on? The ancestors of the knights once said that eating 9 arowanas is the limit. Eating more will not do you any good."
"Oh," Qingchen nodded: "You continue."
The old man continued: "There are many rare and exotic beasts in the Forbidden Land. At first we were guessing why those powerful rare and exotic beasts never left the Forbidden Land. They could obviously hunt outside. Later we raised dragons.
Fish, I was thinking that all animals have the awareness of reproduction written in their bones. They may just know that they will not be able to reproduce if they step out of the forbidden area."
Of course, this is just a random guess.
Qingchen thought for a while and suddenly said: "Then have you ever thought that maybe when the knight gave it to you, he specially selected 18 fish, all of which were female, and deliberately made your arowana unable to reproduce?"
This time it was the old man's turn to be stunned for a moment. Qingchen's inference actually had no evidence or basis.
But he felt inexplicably that this was indeed something a knight could do!
The old man thought about how he had been looking forward to the stars, the moon, and the day when the dragon fish would lay eggs in the past few years. He also thought that someone might have made a joke on him, and for a moment he felt like swearing.
Qingchen consoled him: "It's possible that I thought wrongly. If not they are all female fish, they may be all male fish."
The old man sighed: "If you make me angry to death, you will definitely be buried with me."
"Then just pretend I didn't say anything," Qingchen said calmly.
"By the way, why don't you ask me who I am?" the old man said slowly.
"If you want to tell me, why don't you just tell me?" Qingchen sat on the small horse beside him: "And it's not very important to me who you are, as long as your name is loud enough and your brand is strong enough."
The young man looked at the old man. His hands were covered with calluses, like dry tree bark.
He doesn't look like a superior person at all, but more like an old farmer wearing stars and moonlight in the fields.
"You don't have the curiosity of a young man at all," the old man curled his lips and added: "But you are very good at pretending to be powerful."
"Look at what you said," Qingchen explained: "As a teacher at Zhixin Villa, I also think about the next generation of the Li family. Look at what they have taught their children. There is no grievance at all."
I can’t eat it. This is what happens in Li’s family. If they weren’t from the consortium, they would have died tragically on the streets sooner or later.”
The old man sighed: "A huge family is like a huge company. There will always be all kinds of problems. If you are not careful, problems will occur. Just let me teach you. I have already told you that the fish bones are hanging there."
Well, no one will do anything to you. But I’m curious about one thing, why are you willing to take the trouble to teach them?"
Qingchen said righteously: "Of course it is for the long-lasting prosperity of the Li family!"
The old man: "..."
In fact, Qingchen has already figured it out, and this matter is ultimately about the shadow fight.
Now the outside world is saying that the Qing family issued a second round of tasks to the shadow candidates in order to allow the Qing family's future shadows to find their political allies in advance.
The key point is to slowly learn how to coordinate vertically and horizontally, and handle the relationship between consortiums.
And what about Qingchen? He is actually also participating in the Shadow War, but the difference is...
There are 7 remaining shadow candidates, 4 of whom are vying for one Li Yinuo, while he alone has 31 young descendants of the third generation of the Li family.
Others are in an equal partnership, but he can whip 31 students away with a small whip.
Not only can he draw the children of the Li family, but he can also draw the shadow candidate Keiichi.
Which one is higher and which one is lower can be distinguished at a glance.
Li Shutong said that there is always a second way to go in the shadow war, just kill all the other candidates.
Qingchen is now taking two paths, grasping with both hands, and having to be tough with both hands.
When the Shadow War really breaks out in City No. 18, Qingchen will take 31 students from the Li Academy to fight.
He really didn't believe that there were still people in this No. 18 city who dared to use thermal weapons against so many children of the Li family.
Whoever you hit is a loser.
Of course, this presupposes that he can manage these students well first. If he still cannot convince the public, he will not be able to get these students out.
Qingchen asked: "You said yesterday that you still have secrets to share with me. I come here every day. Isn't it too much for you to tell me one thing every day?"
The old man sighed: "You want to eat fish again, and you want to get secrets from me. Why do you want to take advantage of all the good things?"
"Then what you said yourself can't be counted?" Qingchen said: "What secrets are you going to say today?"
The old man thought for a while: "This is a secret that only the Li family knows. In addition to the two known rules of the Forbidden Land on No. 37, one was added 17 years ago."
Qingchen asked curiously: "What is it?"
"You don't know the first two, right? Let me tell you the first two first. The first is that you cannot take off your clothes, not even a single piece of clothing. The second is that you are not allowed to smack your mouth when eating," the old man said calmly.
: "Since you don't know these two, let's treat the remaining new one as tomorrow's secret."
Qingchen said angrily: "How can you tell half of a secret?"
"I don't care," the old man said, concentrating on fishing.
This is like listening to a story in a teahouse. When you hear something exciting, the storyteller in the teahouse is shocked: Let’s hear the explanation next time.
Moreover, Qingchen knew the first two rules, because when they were on their way back from Forbidden Land No. 002 to City No. 18, Master Li Shutong told him all the rules he knew, including these.
Two items.
In other words, Qingchen wanted to hear a secret, but ended up feeling lonely.
But he can't say that he actually knows the first two. When the time comes, the other party will ask him how he knows it and how he can explain it?
But having said that, I don’t know which two people left these two rules: you can’t take off your clothes and you can’t smack your mouth. It’s probably going to trick a lot of people.
"By the way, does the Li family have any ancestral path of cultivation? I mean, except for the Tiger Sect?" Qingchen said curiously: "The Li family has a big business and has been passed down for nearly a thousand years. There must be something special."
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The Tiger Sect was the one where Li Yinuo practiced, but Qingchen couldn't let all Li's children become warriors.
The old man glanced at Qingchen: "Why do you ask this?"
"As a teacher in the martial arts hall, I can't just teach some fighting. If you only have the physique of an ordinary person, it will be useless no matter how good you are in fighting." Qingchen said: "When I meet a warrior who has been injected with genetic medicine, he is still dead.
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"The Li family must have such things, but you have underestimated the path of cultivation. Even if the Li family has a great business, they don't have much in stock," the old man said slowly: "The path of inheritance is the biggest challenge for every cultivator.
Secrets, many people do not want to be obtained by the consortium even if they take them to their graves. For example, the knights, the outside world still does not know what else they need to do besides the cliffs of green mountains and the falling sea of clouds. Moreover, it is said that knights also have a unique inherited breathing method.
If you don’t know that, it’s useless even if you know what the knight needs to do.”
Qingchen asked strangely: "Li is a descendant of a knight, doesn't he know the secret of the knight?"
"You underestimate their devotion to inheritance. Even if they are their own sons, if they are not qualified to become knights, they cannot know the secrets of knights," the old man said lightly: "Of course there are some practitioners who are not so strong-willed, so Li
There are some methods of cultivation, but the problem is that these spineless people...the methods of cultivation are not very good either. Maybe after more than ten years of cultivation, they are only D-level."
Qingchen was even more surprised: "Isn't there a better path to practice? I don't believe it."
The old man glanced at him: "There is a cultivation method that is said to be able to reach B level, but no one can pass it on now. If you want, I will let someone give it to you to try."
Qingchen suddenly realized that for people in the other world, being able to practice to a B-level cultivation path was already very powerful.
No wonder so many people want to become knights.
"Okay," Qingchen nodded and said, "But why can no one inherit it?"
The old man glanced at him: "I'm not a practitioner, how do I know?"
More than an hour has passed by now, and Qingchen has been waiting for the old man to catch the dragon fish.
As a result, I don’t know whether it was a problem with the arowana or the old man, but no fish took the bait.
Qingchen muttered: "Can you still catch fish today? Is it because your skills are not good enough?"
The old man's eyes widened: "I have been in the fishing industry for decades, and this is the first time someone has questioned my fishing skills."
"Okay, don't question it," Qingchen walked around the old man, pulled out a fishing line from the old man's fishing tackle bag, and tied the fishhook.
Qingchen wanted to get some fishing bait, but the old man suddenly became wary: "What are you doing?"
As he spoke, the old man put the metal box containing the bait in his arms.
"You see why you are so stingy, but you are still a big shot, right?" Qingchen was unhappy.
"No, do you know that fishing in a nest is a very particular thing? I can't just put bait into the nest I've built," the old man said.
"Okay," Qingchen squatted beside the broken bridge and casually threw the hook into the water.
With a crash, Qingchen felt the fishing line in his hand tighten.
The old people were all stupid.
Qingchen thought for a while and said: "Although I have never caught a fish, I guess there is a fish biting the hook."
As he spoke, with a little force on his hands, he fished out of the water a dragon fish that was bigger than yesterday.
The old man looked at the flapping arowana in Qingchen's hand: "Did you fucking cheat? Come over here and show me the fishhook in your hand. Did you cheat?"
Qingchen happily picked up the dragon fish and ran away: "Don't be so angry, I'm just lucky."
With that said, the young man ran away, leaving the old man alone in the cold wind on the broken bridge.
This time, on the way back, Qingchen didn't encounter any hidden stakes saying that he was stealing fish.
It seems that many people are getting used to this strange new sight.
Only a few insiders are counting silently in their hearts. After eating this one, there will only be 15 arowanas left in Long Lake.
I don’t know how many more this boy wants to eat?
There have long been rumors that eating arowana can strengthen muscles and bones. What will be the effect if you eat all the remaining 15 fish?
On the way back, someone suddenly blocked his way and handed him a black box.
It was a middle-aged man who walked quietly. After the other party handed him the black box, he turned and left.
Not a word was said to each other.
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Countdown to return is 89:00:00.
7 o'clock in the morning.
The fourth day after traveling through time.
After many parents learned about what happened in the school, they approached the Privy Council to inquire about the information and wanted to know who the new teacher was.
However, no one asked anything, and only received a unified reply: If you don't want to go to Li's School, you can go out and go to the public schools in the third district, and the teaching quality is also very good.
Now many parents are panicking, because others may not know it, but they know one thing very well: only those who have graduated from Li's school can hold important positions in the family.
This also means that if the child withdraws from school, his future future will be lost.
The Privy Council's answer also enhanced the status of the new teacher in disguise, and all parents must abide by the rules in a down-to-earth manner.
After all, being able to eat arowana and having Li's Privy Council so protective of her, I guess she is the famous person next to the old man again.
Some people even maliciously speculated that this was not only the old man's illegitimate son outside, but also the illegitimate son of some important people?
Banshan Manor is very big. If students want to walk to school, it may take more than half an hour.
It's early winter now, and the river is almost frozen. If you walk in the manor for half an hour, won't it freeze into popsicles?
The classes at Zhixin Villa are at 8 a.m., and the parents thought that the teachers would not arrive too early, so they asked the servants to send their children there early, which at least saves their children from running around.
So, at 7 o'clock in the morning, a floating car carrying students landed at the door.
However, the student didn't get out of the car. The servant saw that it was still early, so he asked the young master and the young lady to sleep a little longer in the car with the heater on.
However, before he had slept for a while, the servant in the driver's seat slowly turned his head and met Qingchen's eyes outside the window.
Qingchen smiled and waited early at the gate of Zhixin Villa, holding a ginkgo branch in his hand.
He knew that there would be opportunistic students and parents, so he went out very early today.
When the students in the car saw Qingchen, their faces almost turned pale with fright.
I quickly got off the bus and stood in front of Zhixin Courtyard.
After a while, the students seemed to have a tacit understanding, and half of them came in advance on floating cars, and were then carried by Qingchen to stand for punishment.
The servants were also carried away and stood in a row alone.
No one dared to say anything.
Qingyi and Li Tongyun, who had followed Qingchen, were waiting boredly.
Qingyi was actually even worse. He was pulled up by Qingchen at 6:30 in the morning and was trapped like a dog.
But at this moment, when he saw that the others were not only forced to stand, but would also be whipped by Qingchen later, he suddenly felt a sense of superiority for some reason...
This sense of superiority is amazing. He obviously hates Qingchen, but now his sense of superiority comes from Qingchen.
Thinking of this, Qingyi felt awkward.
After a while, the mountain leader Li Liheng hurried over with a book under his arm. He looked at the students and servants standing in two rows at the door without saying a word.
He didn't expect that Qingchen would actually suppress these students!
Li Liheng said hello to Qingchen, and Qingchen nodded in return.
At a certain moment, the mountain leader felt that the young man in front of him was starting to look more and more like the mountain leader...at least more like him.
When everyone arrived, Qingchen asked the students to turn around one by one, and then gave each of them five lashes, which immediately made the students cry and howl.
Today no one says "Do you know who I am?" Everyone has received temporary training from their parents at home. They care about one thing now: they cannot drop out of school, and they cannot be dropped out of school.
"I hope everyone will have a good memory," Qingchen said with a smile: "You are here to learn and endure hardships. Don't think that you can do whatever you want just because you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth. Okay, let's go to the martial arts hall.
Get ready for class."
The students walked into the martial arts hall silently one by one with sad faces. They suddenly discovered something strange: yesterday there was only one string of dragon fish bones hanging there, but today there were two strings...
Arowana is such a precious thing, and their teacher eats one a day?
The color of the fish bones is a little lighter today, maybe the method of braising is replaced by steaming...
In the martial arts hall, Qingchen stood calmly in front of the ginkgo tree: "Many of you may be confused. Now that we are in an era of advanced technology, is it useful for ordinary people to learn fighting? Li Ke, tell me.
your thoughts."
Li Ke thought for a while: "I am determined to join the Federal Army after graduation, so I hope that I will not only learn fighting, but also embark on the path of spiritual practice in the future."
Qingchen looked at Qingyi: "What about you?"
Keiichi said lazily: "If you have enough brains, you can control thousands of warriors. Why do you need to learn fighting?"
Qingchen said seriously: "Your mind will change soon."
Keiichi once again had an ominous premonition.
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A 5,200-word chapter, one update to the boss Zard, whose debt has also been paid.
I will continue to pay off the debt to Big Penguin tomorrow, only to find out that I still owe Big Penguin three more...
