"I'm tight-lipped. I'm only allowed to work in the church, and I'm not even fed a handful of grass. I'm treated like a stone donkey."
Li Chuping pointed at him, "This reason is reasonable and reasonable. On one side is the Wu family, which is extremely wealthy, and on the other side is the Bai family, which is the richest in the world. Isn't this satisfying?"
Hou Ting glanced at him warily, "It's nothing, they're all worthless things, and they're not even enough to fit between your teeth."
Li Chuping said with a smile: "I won't lend you the spirit stone, so why are you nervous? But I have a task. If the opportunity is right, you can try it."
Hou Zi asked, "What do you mean, can it be done or not?"
Li Chuping handed over a jade slip, "Three years ago, a Quanzhen disciple named Li Shizhong, like you, was sent to Linhai two years later. There was no news after five years; before he disappeared, he asked someone to report to Linhai.
News came back from the Duwei Mansion that a secret had been discovered and further verification was needed, but in the end the witness was lost.
We can't collect evidence in Linhai, it's against the rules, so we can only investigate it privately; you don't have to complete this task, but if there is a chance, you might as well verify it."
Hou Zi was very keen, "Is this Li Shizhong one of yours too?"
Li Chuping was noncommittal, "He's not from the Duwei Mansion, but he has a righteous heart. I'm very optimistic about him, but it's a pity..."
"What secret? You actually lost your life?"
"I didn't specify it, because it's not confirmed yet, but it's probably about something inside my Gale Plains; and I'm not sure whether his disappearance was because he knew the secret, or was it a coincidence because of other fights? The place was very chaotic, and there were many casualties.
Too ordinary.”
Hou Zi sighed, "I don't like knowing secrets the most. Do you have any funds for activities?"
"No."
"Where's the reward?"
"Everything owned by the Captain's Mansion is yours to take!"
After Hou Zi left the Duwei Mansion, it was too difficult to find anything out of this place.
He planned to take advantage of this time to visit his friends. Seven years is not a short time, enough for a lot of things to happen.
The first target is of course Yin Ling. At this time, the composition of the Yin Ling parade has changed, and more than half of the people are newcomers;
Among the old people, Feng Yaochen has successfully entered the Tongxuan realm and is now going somewhere to consolidate for two years; Li Jingxi Tu Xiu and Dou Gong were transferred to other areas to serve; Fang Yazi and Wang Mian are said to have begun retreating to attack Tongxuan.
Those who can see are Yao He and Xu Geng.
I went to Miaogao Town again, but Yu Zhengxing was transferred to another place a year ago, or to the far north.
King Luo Lin successfully entered the realm a year ago, and there are many others... who have gone to their destinations.
Everyone is working hard to live, practice, and be busy.
After this trip, he realized that this was actually the normal rhythm of a cultivator, and it was impossible for him to gather together, talk and laugh, and talk about the past and the present like ordinary people.
The interaction between practitioners may be remembered for a lifetime by working together and sharing the same boat through thick and thin, and then when we meet again many years later, we are old friends; their time is much longer than that of ordinary people, but on the contrary, they get along better than ordinary people.
More urgent.
This is a lonely profession. Meeting is fate, parting is normal. Treat every meeting as the last time so that there will be no regrets. This is just Tongxuan, the starting point of practice, and many people have already started it.
Falling behind.
Life is a journey of constant farewell until you also say goodbye to the world.
If a person learns to accompany himself, he has learned one of the most important life skills in life.
Touching the sword in your hand, it is the only one that can truly accompany you throughout your life.
So I returned to Jincheng and planned to go to the Hidden Sword Tower to see if I need to prepare more skills for myself? After all, Linhai is far away and it is inconvenient to come and go.
He received an invitation.
A large mansion in the west of the city was full of guests today.
The success of both Dugu Lan and his cousin Xiao Qiang in entering the realm is the most exciting news in Jincheng in the past month; one is talent, and the other is the unknown secret of family practice; like this situation of Dugu family, in It is very common in families that have been passed down for hundreds of years. Women are in power, but men seem to be the tools to carry on the family line?
People like Hou Zi will not congratulate them after entering the realm, let alone hold a banquet; but the Xiuzhen family is different. Their status determines that they cannot keep a low profile. They need to spread the influence of the family to truly ensure that the family The way to last forever.
There is a reason to be high-profile, and there is a reason to be low-key; if someone like Hou Zi is transferred and shows off his bloody hands everywhere, that is the way to die; if the two women of the Dugu family are silent, then it will really happen. Nobody cares.
After initially stabilizing their state, the Dugu family held this banquet in Jincheng. They spread invitations and invited relatives and friends. Whether they were famous old cultivators or young elites, they were all invited. It was also a scene in the Jincheng cultivation world nowadays. grand event.
Although the three highest-ranking palace masters in Jincheng did not come, they also sent someone to return the gift, which was very important. This was not only because of the family, but also due to the strength of the two newcomers to Tongxuan.
There were more than two hundred guests. In addition to the friends of the two female cultivators, there were also dozens of Tongxuan monks. Most of them were rising stars who had become famous in recent years, and Hou Zi could barely be counted among them.
Among these people, Hou Zi actually saw the shadow of the third master of the Bai family, which shows his communication skills; he did not come forward to recognize each other, and the third master Bai did not come to talk to him because of the accident. Everyone pretended to be strangers. The way he acted was just to avoid the eyes and ears of Wu Clan. Although Quanzhen never denied that he was responsible for that incident, he did not reveal the specific person.
"I have seen the grand ceremony of congratulatory gifts. The Dugu family has gained a lot from just this banquet. If I had known this, I should have done this once when I came back to the city. If I don't do it, it will be in vain. But now it's better, just go out If you don’t come in, it seems that it would be better to come less often to such gatherings in the future.”
Hou Zi, who was bleeding a lot, was very envious among the crowd watching the ceremony. Look at this rich man, how much better he was in fighting and killing than him.
"You? You're just jealous. How many people can really come to a big banquet? Even if they come, they may not give you gifts. I don't know about others, but Lieutenant Li is sure that they won't pay for a soul. of."
Wang Daoren smiled and said, he is here on behalf of Captain Li. Rather than being a member of the Captain's Mansion, it is better to say that he is Li Chuping's personal butler. Such a status will bring him a lot of benefits, but it will also close the door. The other door is like a person drinking water, knowing whether it is hot or cold.
Hou Ting sighed, it was like we were in the same situation but had different fates, "The captain knew how to assign tasks as soon as he saw me, and the dangers came as they came, and I didn't give any sweeteners..."
Wang Daoren knew that he was joking, but he still wanted to make something clear, "So, these two women are just outsiders, and they can be solved with just two gifts; but you are responsible for carrying out the most private tasks for the captain.
By comparison, the importance becomes self-evident."
Hou Zi smiled slightly and said so, but trust is also a double-edged sword...
Wang Daoren said softly: "Senior brother, as far as I know, there are actually some ulterior secrets behind the Dugu family's big banquet in the Jincheng cultivation circle."
