"Dad, your complexion has improved a lot recently."
Lunch time.
In the Zhou family's mansion, Zhou Juren, who was pale and coughing constantly, had dinner with his two sons.
After the meal, Zhou Zhiyuan suddenly said.
"Really? The blood-enhancing medicine prescribed by Dr. Zhang seems to have some effect." Zhou Juren subconsciously touched his face.
His face was indeed a bit rosy.
"Dad, I'm going to study first."
Zhou Yangyan stood up, said a few words and left.
Next is Zhou Zhiyuan.
Zhou Juren, who was sitting on the chair, returned to the room feeling weak with the help of a servant.
At three quarters past noon, the housekeeper also brought a bowl of medicinal soup from the kitchen.
"Let me do it!"
Zhou Zhiyuan suddenly appeared in front of the butler and took the tray very naturally.
"Then I'll trouble you, young master."
Seeing that it was the eldest young master, the housekeeper felt relieved and handed him over.
Zhou Zhiyuan held the medicinal soup and slowly turned his back.
After the housekeeper left, he took out the oil paper bag from his sleeve and dropped the white powder wrapped inside into it.
"Brother!" Zhou Yangyan suddenly appeared in front, revealing half of his body from the corner, his eyes fixed on the oil paper bag placed on the tray with a nonchalant expression, "You have always been delivering medicine to dad?"
"What?" Zhou Zhiyuan's expression remained unchanged.
"What did you just lay down?"
"The medicinal powder that Dr. Zhang asked me to put in should only be put in before drinking, not boiled together, otherwise it will affect the medicinal properties."
Zhou Zhiyuan explained with a gentle smile.
But Zhou Yangyan didn't believe it at all. He had never heard Doctor Zhang say anything about this medicinal powder.
Therefore, he stepped forward, stretched out his thick arms, and opened his palms to take the butter paper placed on the tray.
Snapped!
Zhou Zhiyuan's free hand showed no signs of emotion on his face, he just squeezed the hand that wanted to take the butter paper.
"Yang Yan, if you check this package of medicine, you are doubting the brotherhood between us. It must be because of what happened ten years ago. I didn't expect you to be stingy and remember it until now."
"I apologized ten years ago. Now I am your brother, my father's son, and you are actually doubting me."
Zhou Zhiyuan slowly turned his head, looked directly into Zhou Yangyan's eyes, and spoke slowly and forcefully.
Zhou Yangyan subconsciously avoided his eyes. In the final analysis, he was always just suspicious.
And indeed, in the past ten years, this brother has been very considerate to him, giving him a sense of sympathy and brotherhood.
"Yang Yan, get out of the way and don't delay me from delivering the medicine to my father, otherwise the medicine's properties will easily wear off."
"Brother, as a gentleman, I want you to swear in the name of a gentleman that your father's illness has nothing to do with you." Zhou Yangyan said seriously every word.
Zhou Zhiyuan thought to himself, "I only survive as long as I adhere to the principles of a gentleman."
Although I thought so in my heart, I swore without changing my expression.
Snapped!
The moment Zhou Zhiyuan swore, Zhou Yangyan took the oil paper in the tray in his hand and said, "Brother, I believe you, but I still need to find Doctor Zhang to verify this prescription."
After that, he turned around and left, leaving only his brother standing there.
Click, click, click!
Zhou Zhiyuan's finger joints crackled as he was being tricked.
Damn it, it's obviously just a while before I can succeed.
No, if he finds out the authenticity, he will definitely find out that I am not of Zhou family blood if he investigates further.
Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!
Why, why am I not a bloodline of the Zhou family? Otherwise, how could I have needed to calculate for ten years!
Zhou Zhiyuan kept roaring in his heart, but his expression became calmer.
In my mind, I unconsciously recalled the appearance of that scumbag.
My mother was exhausted to death, that scumbag!
Whenever he thinks that his body contains half the blood of that scumbag, Zhou Zhiyuan can't help feeling disgusted and disgusted.
That scumbag who drinks and beats his mother all day long.
"I can't look back!"
Zhou Zhiyuan slowly raised his head, his eyes dark and terrifying.
He couldn't let that guy find Dr. Zhang to find out whether the prescription was true or false, otherwise he would be ruined.
In the distance, Li Hao, whose whole body was covered by negative sound bugs, looked at the gentle young master with a cold look in his eyes, and began to think.
Is this the current Dayang Dynasty’s strongest qualification?
His mind is also considered top notch.
Even though the person with the strongest understanding always calls himself a gentleman, he is not pedantic either.
Think about the current situation of the two.
Li Hao thought and quietly disappeared.
On the other side, Zhou Yangyan clenched the butter paper in his hand and pulled out a fierce horse from the stable.
He turned around and jumped directly onto the horse.
"Second Young Master, where are you going?"
At this time, the housekeeper in the portal noticed his actions and asked aloud.
"Butler, please don't let my dad take any medicine during this period. Let the servants guard my dad. No one is allowed in, especially my eldest brother."
Swinging the reins, Zhou Yangyan headed east directly.
Doctor Zhang is located outside Jiangbo Town, in an extremely remote location.
However, after running for a while, I arrived at the hospital where Dr. Zhang was staying.
Only then did he know that the other party had been invited by the Qingshui Gang.
The place where the Qingshui Gang is located is called Chunfeng Street. Although the name of the street is Chunfeng, the street is full of smoky atmosphere and a gathering place for people of three religions and nine streams.
Abducting children and forcing mothers into prostitution are not uncommon in this street.
The horses slowly stopped outside the street, and looking inside was a dark atmosphere.
Not even a few lights can be seen.
This situation did not make Zhou Yangyan timid at all.
He tied the horse to a wooden stake outside the street and started walking into Chunfeng Street.
The breeze blew across my face, and a fishy smell hit my face.
There was also a lot of smell of feces and urine, and even when I looked carefully at the corner of the street, there was a huge pile of black mud scattered everywhere.
No one cares about the environment here.
Because here, for the people living here, as long as they can survive.
Zhou Yangyan continued to walk inside, and the Qingshui Gang was still deeper.
As he walked, Zhou Yangyan stopped, thinking that in the darkness in front of him, three figures suddenly appeared, walking awkwardly.
But the evil in their eyes can be clearly felt.
"Mouse, I leave this guy to you." The man in the middle of the three said calmly.
"Looking at what he's wearing, he looks like a kid from a rich family. I wonder what it looks like when chopped into pieces." The guy named Mouse licked the corner of his mouth.
Zhou Yangyan watched all this quietly.
The gangster named Mouse also took out a sharp blade from his back, shouted and rushed forward.
The sharp blade with cold light stabbed Zhou Yangyan's chest.
Zhou Yangyan showed no expression at all, and it seemed to him that he was scared to death.
Stab!
The sharp blade stopped an inch away from his heart.
Tick tock!
Tick tock!
Drops of blood fell on the ground, creating an extremely small and hard-to-hear sound.
"What!" The mouse who pulled out the sharp blade was slightly surprised. His knife was held tightly by the opponent with one hand, but he was not worried at all, because with just one stroke, the opponent's four fingers would fall to the ground.
Just do it if you want to, use all your strength, and move the sharp blade back fiercely, preparing to cut off the opponent's four fingers.
boom!
But the next moment, Zhou Yangyan's fingers were not broken, but the head of the man named Mouse was directly hammered off.
He fainted and fell to the ground on the spot.
"Some strength." The leader raised his eyebrows, looking quite surprised. He waved his hand and asked another subordinate next to him to step forward and try his method again.
But in less than a breath, he was knocked to the ground.
"He's just a young master from a wealthy family."
The leading man slowly took out the long knife in his hand, stepped on it with both feet, and quickly stepped forward to chop, "This guy is not even at the level of blood training. Everything about him is full of flaws in my eyes."
Stab!!
Facing the long knife coming at him, Zhou Yangyan stood with both arms in front of him to block, and blood flowed directly from his arms in front of the iron long knife.
There was even a slight sound of bones being heard.
"You can block my blow, your bones are pretty strong."
The leader was quite surprised when the opponent's blood spattered on his face. Logically speaking, with his own blood training level, one knife would be enough to cut off both arms.
Noticing the opponent's kick to the lower body, the leader was very disdainful, but the next second he was speechless.
He couldn't draw his long sword.
The battle lasted only a moment. The gangster leader who did not draw his sword to fight back was directly kicked to the ground by Zhou Yangyan with a leg whip.
"This guy...is he made of iron?"
The gangster leader, who was kicked to the ground heavily, looked dumbfounded as he watched the long knife stuck out with both arms.
If I had known it was an opponent of this level, I wouldn't have taken action.
For a moment, the gangster leader felt a little annoyed, but he slowly closed his eyes and prepared to face death.
But after waiting for a long time, he didn't receive the next heavy blow.
When he opened his eyes, he saw the guy who defeated him, pulling out his long knife and continuing to walk inside.
"You...why don't you kill me!"
Looking at the retreating figure, the leading man suddenly said.
A guy like me who takes the initiative cannot be spared his life due to emotion or reason.
Isn't this guy afraid of retaliating later and doing evil things?
"I came here because of my father. I think you should also have a father. I don't want to make your father sad, and I am a gentleman."
"..." The leading gangster fell silent.
He spoke so innocently that he didn't know what to say for a moment.
Are there really such naive people in this world?
For some reason, when the gangster leader who had been hanging out on Chunfeng Street all year round heard these words, he felt a little ashamed in his heart. He was not ashamed of what he had done, but ashamed that such innocent remarks had actually fallen into his ears.
"May I have your name."
Thoughts were running through his mind, but the leader still wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and asked aloud.
He wanted to know the name of such an innocent guy.
"Zhou Yangyan is a gentleman."
After saying this, Zhou Yangyan continued walking inside without looking back.
"This guy..." Shame, extreme shame, did he think he was cool?
Okay, it's a bit cool.
Maybe this is the case, and only such an innocent person can be so unrestrained, just like when I was a child, I pretended to be a lame beggar and squatted in the corner, listening to the storytellers, briefly describing the heroic knights in the Jianghu after their heroic deeds.
Very stupid, very stupid. The more I live in Chunfeng Street, the more I despise that kind of behavior.
but.....
The gangster leader looked at his surroundings and the people he met.
I don't know why, he wanted to do such a stupid thing, at least be stupider than that guy.
Reputation Chunfeng Street, the gangster leader who has lived in Chunfeng Street for more than 20 years suddenly got tired of it. Once upon a time, he also wanted to be that kind of stupid, stupid knight.
Sometimes, it seems that living a little more freely and stupidly is a good thing.
Throw the money in your pocket next to the two unconscious men.
The gangster looked at the entrance of Chunfeng Street and walked over.
Stabbed, his back was pierced by a sharp blade, and he was injured on the spot.
A ray of spring breeze blew by, taking away his yearning for the outside world.
...
On the other side of Jiangbo Town, Zhou Zhiyuan jumped into a dry well.
"Is there really something?"
Zhou Zhiyuan was quite surprised when he saw a passage on the west side of the well bottom.
He originally wanted to hire a murderer to kill Zhou Yangyan, but when he passed by, he saw a red light flashing by.
Going deeper and deeper, the air in the passage became a bit hotter without realizing it.
"This is..." At the end of the passage, a dozen blood-red silkworms were attached to the top of a stone tablet. There was a luminous pearl on the stone tablet.
The red light he saw before was the light emitted by the blood-red silkworm crawling through the night pearl.
There are many silkworm cocoons of various colors around the stone monument, from which the silkworms probably emerged.
"The Tomb of Old Man Tiancan."
Slowly reciting the words on the stone tablet, Zhou Zhiyuan suddenly heard in his heart that storytellers said that some knights would leave behind various rare treasures before they died.
Walking forward slowly, Zhou Zhiyuan noticed a line of writing on the bottom of the stone tablet.
If you kowtow five hundred times, you can get the true message.
Looking at the dusty futon in front of the stone monument, Zhou Zhiyuan tore it open without saying a word.
A slightly worn book fell down.
"Celestial Silkworm Secret Technique..."
Picking up the book carefully, Zhou Zhiyuan began to read the contents carefully.
What it tells here is that an old man named Tiancan cultivated blood-quenched silkworms that can quickly break mirrors before his death.
This blood-quenching silkworm needs to be implanted into the body to be effective.
As long as you plant this blood-quenching silkworm, you will have refined blood within one day, coagulated blood within seven days, and boiled blood within one month.
And depending on how many blood-tempered silkworms are planted, the speed can even be accelerated.
If they were all planted, it would be possible for the blood to boil in one day.
At the end of the book, there are records of how to plant blood-quenched silkworms, how to perform power, and even how to cultivate blood-quenched silkworms.
There is also a reason why the old man Tiancan died here. He came from the Tiancan Sect. After cultivating the blood-tempered silkworms, he noticed that the alien insects cultivated by his fellow disciples were compatible with the blood-quenched silkworms.
Therefore, he launched a sneak attack on his fellow disciples in an attempt to steal the results, but was defeated in the end and was seriously injured and could only die with hatred.
"this!"
Holding the book tightly in his hand and looking at the contents, Zhou Zhiyuan felt a little horrified.
As the eldest son of the Juren Mansion, he naturally knows about the warrior.
It's just that Zhou Juren never let the two of them practice martial arts, and he was past the age of learning martial arts since he was a child, so he gave up this practice.
For the blood-boiling warriors, he also took care of things a bit, breaking mountains and rocks with ease.
There is currently no warrior in the Boiling Blood Realm in the entire Jiangbo Town, and the highest level is the Blood Coagulation Realm.
If he had this strength, intercepting and killing Zhou Yangyan would be an extremely simple matter.
"but....."
Zhou Zhiyuan felt a little hesitant. He was not sure whether this was true or not. The book said that blood-tempered silkworms needed to be planted into the body.
This kind of thing can kill him if he is not careful. He is a person who cherishes his life.
I won't play with my own life.
"What would you choose?"
What Zhou Zhiyuan didn't know was that three meters below his feet, to the left, there was a human body hidden deep inside.
This person is none other than Li Hao.
This place was his previous base for hiding wire silkworms and blood-tempered silkworms.
The old-fashioned craftsmanship of the stone tablets and futons also used pharmaceutical methods.
Everything was done to lure Zhou Zhiyuan, the most qualified guy in the Dayang Dynasty, to obtain the blood-tempered silkworms and use them.