defend the truth

The boy in civilian clothes who served as the doorman heard that Li Weizhen claimed to be old with the head of the family, although he couldn't tell the truth from the fake, he didn't dare to be negligent, and quickly took the greeting card with both hands.

The style of the greeting card is very plain and simple, without any family or sect characteristics to remember, but the opening and closing are sealed with wax paint, and the young man is not allowed to look beyond his authority.Out of caution, he had no choice but to leave a message and ask Li Weizhen to wait outside the door.If there is indeed negligence afterwards, then an apology will be made.

The commoner boy's feet were blown by the wind, dragging an afterimage behind him, flashing through the crack of the door again, and the vermilion door closed automatically.

Compared to Li Wei who was really indifferent, Ye Tong, who had just experienced the world, couldn't help showing a lot of curiosity. The door boy just now talked about his body skills, if he didn't have the blessing of the lightness talisman, he must be superior to him.

For Ye Tong, this kind of comparison from peers is the most empathetic!

I can even realize that a small servant already has this foundation, which shows how high the threshold of this mansion is.

Therefore, the mood of waiting outside the threshold gradually changed.Even if there is no one on the street, it always feels like there are countless pairs of eyes staring at the back.Then I made reference to the stone statue and the gate, and felt my own insignificance from the bottom of my heart.

Li Weizhen, who is silent and standing still, has the most keen perception of everything around him, this is the instinct after reaching a certain level of cultivation.He soon felt that Ye Tong's breathing was strange, heavy and depressed.

"What's the matter, don't you like standing here?"

"I can't say it, I seem to be a little out of breath."

Looking at Ye Tong at this moment, Li Weizhen's thoughts suddenly drifted away, as if he had returned to that year, walking in the Nie Mansion corridor with nine bends and eighteen bends, just stepping on the clean bluestone slabs, he was already top-heavy.

But Ye Tong is also a child who grew up in Yuelun Mountain and lived in the Immortal Mansion, so he still feels inferior. Is it because his self-esteem is too strong?

Usually, I haven't heard from Ye Tong, and I miss the past life very much.It seems that this silly boy still has a lot of things on his mind, which he keeps hidden!

"Could it be that the pressure I put on him is really too much?" Li Weizhen couldn't help worrying.

"No, this doesn't feel right!"

But soon, the determined Li Weizhen dispelled his negative thoughts.Because he suddenly saw that the two "ringed beast faces" on the vermilion gate were weird!

When I went to knock on the door knocker just now, I didn't notice it, but now I saw the black beads embedded in the animal's eyes, faintly exuding a shocking power.

I thought that the two stone statues were already quite powerful town objects, but I didn't expect that they were still hidden in the most inconspicuous place. This time I really learned a lot!

After seeing the doorway, Li Weizhen quickly reached out to cover Ye Tong's eyes, and said in a deep voice: "Don't look at the door knocker anymore, keep your mind and get rid of distracting thoughts!"

After a while, Ye Tong, who closed his eyes and cleared his mind, really felt that his breathing had recovered, and asked curiously, "Sir, what happened to me just now?"

Li Weizhen said indifferently: "This is not a place to talk, I will explain the mystery to you later."

Of course, now is not a good time to talk about it in detail. How dare we say that the two of us, teachers and students, have not even stepped into the door of others, so we took the lead first!

Inside the high wall, the boy in civilian clothes used all his strength to run past the gates of the triple courtyard, but for this first mansion in the west of the city, he only ran less than half of the longitudinal distance.

This mansion is also known as the "Western Half City", and it is a complex super-large mansion.It faces the street on three sides and lies on a hill in the north.If you enter from the south gate, there are nine courtyard gates along the longitudinal axis; if you enter from the east and west gates, you have to pass through three courtyard gates before you can enter the central square where the vertical and horizontal intersections are like a chessboard.

If the entire Li family's mansion is further subdivided, it can be divided into 82 large and small courtyards, 21 buildings, and 430 six houses.There is also a landscape garden with more than [-] mu of land adjacent to Cuiping Mountain in the north.The water is surrounded by a coiled dragon, and the mountain stands like a basalt.From time to time, there is a fairy air, and the rays of the sun do not disperse.Even some celestial beings from the mountains came to visit, and they all sincerely admired this piece of the most treasured geomantic omen in Xicheng!

Speaking of which, just as the boy in civilian clothes was about to cross the threshold of the fourth courtyard gate, he seemed to be frozen in the air, but in fact he was still moving forward, but his movements were slowed down a hundred times.

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew past the body of the commoner boy, and he fell to the ground abruptly, but he quickly stood still, but continued to run forward.

Because right in front of the boy in civilian clothes, there was a middle-aged man with a serious expression, walking towards him.

When there was a distance of two steps between each other, the middle-aged man stood with his hands behind his back and said in a deep voice: "Li Sheng, I taught you the Butterfly Shadow Step, but I made you act recklessly in the mansion? What time is this, disturbing the master?" Madam's rest, can you afford to be punished?"

The commoner boy scratched his head, and actually made a grimace and said with a smile: "But at this hour, shouldn't the master still be in the study?"

The middle-aged man almost got angry, blowing his beard and glaring, he said: "Presumptuous, how dare you talk back? I think you will not fight for three days, and you will go to the house to expose the tiles!"

Good guy, after saying that, the middle-aged man really pulled out a feather duster from his sleeve robe, rolled up his sleeves, as if he wanted to stage a good show of "a filial son is born under the stick".

However, the middle-aged man just put on a posture, and before he could make a move, the boy in civilian clothes had already protected his backyard with both hands, and begged for mercy: "Don't, don't, don't... Listen to my explanation first, you must have forgotten, you Did you punish me to guard the gate yesterday?"

"Just now two guests came from outside the mansion, one big and one small, and they said they wanted to see the master. The older one was just a young gentleman, who claimed to be surnamed Li, and said he was old with the master; the younger one was probably just a follower, I don't bother to ask him."

Seeing that the middle-aged man had slowly put down the feather duster, the boy in civilian clothes quickly took out the greeting card from his pocket and handed it over.

After the middle-aged man took the greeting card, he was about to break open the sealing seal to check the content.As the chief steward, he has been in charge of the house's internal affairs for more than [-] years. He has won the trust of the head of the family and has also received many important guests on his behalf, so this move is not considered exceeding his authority.

However, at this moment, the middle-aged man stopped what he was doing because of the young man's quick addition.

"By the way, Mr. Li still said that he came from Yuelun Mountain. Why does this place sound familiar?"

"Moon Moon Mountain, could it be him?"

The middle-aged man looked startled, the hand holding the invitation actually trembled slightly.

"This scourge!"

Immediately afterwards, the expression of the middle-aged man began to turn from shock to anger, and even blue veins appeared on his forehead.

It was the first time for a boy in civilian clothes to see such a big steward, and he couldn't help but take a few steps back in fright.

At this moment, the chief steward kept his gaze fixed on the greeting card, he was furious and entangled, his selfishness told him that he could tear up this greeting card as if he had never seen it.

However, this middle-aged man who has been loyal to the Li family for decades still hesitated. He knew that someone had been waiting for this greeting letter for a long time, and would continue to wait in the future. Would it be useful to hide it this time?Some things can be changed without his own intervention.

"You wait here, I will report to the master myself." The middle-aged man regained his composure and waved his sleeves away.

On a large and solemn ebony carving desk with ruby ​​round corners, stacks of volumes were piled up.There are: accounts, roster, blueprints, official documents, information, etc.; accounts alone can be further divided into: public accounts of family joint ventures, tax forms handed over to the city lord's mansion by the West City Chamber of Commerce, and per capita income of the mansion. Private accounts for monthly expenses.

These various volumes are all the work of the head of the Li family, Li Chongming, during this night.

He has been qualified as the head of the family for twenty years, almost every night.

There is no chicness of Jindanke, nor the scenery that outsiders describe.

At this moment, Li Chongming, who is tirelessly writing in the study, can only bear the burden of the rise and fall of the entire family on his shoulders.

Recently, one of the things that bothered Li Chongming the most was that someone impeached him behind his back. Over the years, he had not cultivated a descendant capable of succeeding the head of the family for the family.

Because of this matter, Li Chongming has obviously been pressured by the elders of the clan, so that many tasks at hand have been hindered.

Among those criticisms, the worst ones are the following.

Some people say that Li Chongming is obsessed with power and position, and ignores his family for a hundred years because of his own selfish desires.

Some people say that Li Chongming has no son, but he wants to go against the precepts of his ancestors and let his only daughter Li Liushuang inherit his father's business.

Some even gave examples to prove the fact that Li Chongming suppressed the younger generation.It is the so-called "false adoption in the name, but in reality".

Then Li Sheng is the grandson of the previous head of the family, Li Gongqi, and the last only child of Duke Gongqi's line.Now he is serving as a doorman for Li Chongming's current people, doing the pickling work of emptying the spittoon and holding the chamber pot, how is it not a violation?

What's more, Duke Gong Qi is also Li Chongming's uncle, not only close by blood, but also kind to him in nurturing him.

But can Li Chongming repay his kindness?When the predecessors pass away, all the kindness and affection are gone, and there is no family affection at all for persecuting relatives and descendants.

However, has anyone raised these voices of criticism in the past?Since I can't stand Li Chongming's persecution of his nephew, over the past ten years, there are so many uncles and brothers in the clan, can anyone stand up for justice?

In fact, no!

But where there is no wind, there is no wave. The reason why this trend is blowing now is because at the Fu family's wedding banquet in Fuchun City last month, Li Chongming, regardless of his status, stood up for a daring remnant of the Taiyi sect.

Looking at the current situation, there is a possibility of war between the two major city-states at any time.Merchants value profits over righteousness. Once the flames of war ignite in this land, many businesses will surely stagnate.Furthermore, members of the Li clan will be recruited in large numbers to fulfill their obligation to protect their homeland.

Contribute money and efforts, and risk losing one's life and years of penance, all because Li Chongming stands in the way of an irrelevant person.