On the ninth day of February, Liu Guanqing's birthday, the Liu family began preparations early in the morning. The arrangement of the banquet and the various arrangements for entertaining guests were all considered comprehensively, so that the only son of the Liu family could live a happy and comfortable life.

At noon, many young people from the rivers and lakes came to Liu's family. Most of them lived near Hangzhou. Their parents had a good relationship with Leader Liu, and their nephews and nephews also had contacts with Liu Guanqing in the past.Handsome men and beautiful women, dressed in brocade clothes, riding good horses with precious blades, and carrying valuable gifts came to visit Liu's house in a glamorous manner.

In the past few months, they all heard that Liu Guanqing went to the capital, accomplished a lot of great things, and was commended by the emperor.If he had followed his previous temperament, he would have gathered with his friends to brag about it, but this time he was extremely low-key and did not even leave the house, practicing martial arts hard.Naturally, these people of the same generation admire and envy him, and plan to take advantage of his birthday to join in the fun and find out.

Liu Guanqing used to like this feeling of being surrounded by stars, and this time she was indeed commended and rewarded by the Holy Majesty.But his achievement is far worse than the fact that Xie Wuyao has done a big job, and it is basically the credit of Xie Wuyao. How can he brag in front of others?

The higher his friends praised him, the more empty his heart became.At the luncheon, I didn't have a solid meal, I only talked about fighting with a few friends in the afternoon.This is better than being locked up in a secret room by your father to practice. It can save some energy, and by the way, it can also test how much improvement you have made.

They are all sons and daughters of the rivers and lakes, full of wine and food, Liu Guanqing took the initiative to propose a martial arts competition, and everyone started to perform in the yard.Liu Guanqing was originally the best martial artist among the younger generation, these days she is working hard to improve her martial arts, and her martial arts progress is more obvious.In the past, it took a few moments of entanglement to fight one by one, but now he can calmly support it alone against many people.Although he won't win so easily, he gradually comprehends the essence of the Thirteen Forms of Fenhai.

After the discussion was over, everyone looked at him with admiration.

Liu Guanqing's thoughts were not here at all, but drifted to Xie Wuyao.

Today is his birthday, and his father gave him a day off to entertain friends.However, his father's enthusiasm for studying martial arts has not diminished at all, and he directly dragged Xie Wuyao into the secret room early in the morning.During the lunch gathering, Liu Kaishan hurriedly called to meet each other, but he didn't join the juniors' banquet, he said a few words of hard work to encourage the juniors, and hurried back to the secret room.

Xie Wuyao has been kept in the secret room and has not been able to come out.In Liu Kaishan's original words, with Xie Wuyao's current martial arts cultivation, he doesn't need to compete with his peers at all, it's a waste of time.To improve, it is only meaningful to fight against a master of Liu Kaishan's level.

Liu Guanqing thought, it's because it's so rare for her father to find a match, that's why she is so obsessed with it, and she doesn't ask Wu Yao if she likes it or not.It is obvious that young people are not just an activity for martial arts competition, it is more interesting for everyone to chat, eat, drink and have fun.

Xie Wuyao is also very helpless, Liu Guanqing's birthday party is a friend, and he actually wants to attend, to find out what normal young heroes in the arena pay attention to.In the end, he was locked in a secret room and fought against the old man Liu Kaishan.In the past, he only played for two hours a day, and his willpower could still support it. Today, Liu Guanqing is on vacation, and he has to accompany Liu Kaishan all day, which is simply miserable.

Before the sun set that day, Liu Guanqing hastily sent all her friends away, and lied that she would practice swordsmanship with her father, so she was able to escape.

In fact, he didn't even eat dinner, he sent the guests away, and ran to the secret room to rescue Xie Wuyao.For five or six hours a day, Liu Guanqing didn't see Xie Wuyao, and was very flustered.What should I do if Wu Yao was injured by my father like last time?

When he entered the secret room, he saw that Xie Wuyao was indeed covered with paint, his clothes were cut by the blade of the sword, and blood oozed from several wounds.Liu Guanqing rushed over to check nervously, and asked warmly, "There is no medicine, where is the injury?"

Liu Kaishan leaned against the wall and sighed, "Guanqing, why didn't you ask your father if he was injured?"

"Father? You must be fine. Hurry up and leave without medicine. I promised him that I will celebrate his birthday with him tonight."

Liu Kaishan said: "The martial art without medicine is advancing rapidly. Last time I was able to hurt him internally with a hundred moves, and this time he can hurt me too."

Xie Wuyao also said: "I'm sorry, just now Leader Liu asked me to use the green silk sword as a weapon. I'm not very familiar with that soft sword, and I didn't control the strength well. Leader Liu was stabbed by me. Guanqing, please help your father to Cultivate well at the top. I have minor injuries here. I’m fine. I’ll go back to my room and wait for you.”

Only then did Liu Guanqing walk to the edge of Liukai Mountain, and sure enough, he saw blood stains on the hem of his father's dark robe, so he said with double standards: "Father, you are old after all, how can you practice sword all day? You should eat Eat and drink, wouldn’t it be great to play the piano and chat with my mother when you have time? Why bother me with no medicine? Now that you have an injury on your leg, it’s time to rest for a few days, right?”

Liu Kaishan blew his beard and stared at him and said: "Stinky boy, are you itchy? Come to practice tomorrow as usual, come in the morning, and be my father to supervise, you and Wuyao have a fight, and you have to practice for at least six hours from morning to night. .When you can sustain a hundred or eighty rounds under the sword without medicine, you will be considered qualified. Only when you are a father will you consider allowing you to go to the North Kingdom."

Liu Guanqing's eyes lit up: "Father, have you finally agreed for me to go to the North Country?"

"Just thinking about it. Wuyao also persuaded me not to give you a chance to practice, and not to let you fight against real enemies. You are safe, but the progress of martial arts is also slow. You practice hard, and you will follow Wuyao in the future. Beiguo sees the world, if you really can't come back, I will have another child with your mother. You can go at ease." Liu Kaishan said awe-inspiringly.

"..." Liu Guanqing felt that if compared with Wuyao, his own son seemed to be incompetent in all kinds of ways, and he was already disliked by his own father, and he planned to have another one.

This time, Xie Wuyao's injury was just an ordinary sword qi splitting, with traces of faint blood. According to the recovery speed of the body in the past, it would definitely heal within three to five days without applying medicine.After experiencing broken ribs and internal injuries, his tolerance for such minor injuries has improved a lot.

When Liu Guanqing finished taking care of his father and came to apply medicine to heal his injury, Xie Wuyao took the initiative to decline: "Brother Liu, I want to see if the injury can heal in a few days without medicine. Whether Qianshuang's toxicity has weakened or not It just happens to be judged by the speed of recovery from the injury."

Liu Guanqing said distressedly: "There is no medicine, you don't have to be so harsh on yourself, we have plenty of good medicine at home."

"No, my body is different from ordinary people. Broken bones heal so quickly. I don't think there is any need to waste good medicine for such minor injuries in the future. Maybe I will shut up on my own in two or three days and test it. I will go to the Northland in the future, sir. The wound medicines should be used sparingly. The quality of the finished medicines in the North Country is far worse than that in the Central Plains."

"Hey, I'm all up to you. Just show me your hand when I'm teaching my martial arts tomorrow!" Liu Guanqing said that there was no medicine, and changed the subject, "Oh, by the way, I almost forgot to tell you. Qi sent you the antidote and asked him to stay with me. In the future, Ying Qi will follow us to the Northland, how should we deal with it?"

Xie Wuyao didn't know what to do for a while, he just said: "Isn't it because people haven't come yet, let's eat first, and worry about things tomorrow. I want to concentrate on celebrating your birthday today."

Liu Guanqing ate a lot with his friends at noon, but he was not hungry at night. He personally cooked a large bowl of longevity noodles, and gave more than half of it to Xie Wuyao.

Xie Wuyao has been exercising intensively all day long, and he will not refuse anyone who eats whatever he eats, eating from the bowl and staring at the pot, wishing he could swallow Liu Guanqing's portion as well.

Seeing that he was excited to eat, Liu Guanqing talked about the meeting with his friends.Everyone said that his martial arts had improved a lot, and they all praised him for being commended by the emperor for doing those great things.He felt very embarrassed.

"What's so embarrassing?" Xie Wuyao commented while eating, "Your martial arts are better than theirs, and you have done the things that the Holy One commended. The man I like is of course excellent. .”

"No medicine, compared with them, I have self-confidence. But in terms of martial arts and meritorious service, I am not as good as you. I don't even know that you exist in the rivers and lakes. You... are so strong, you should be standing on the stage. You were praised and worshipped before. But you have been wronged so much."

"If I'm so high-profile, and I'm being targeted before I go out, how can I go to assassinate? In order for me to live longer and have less pressure when I go out on missions, don't brag about me in front of people now. Wait for it to be completed in the future." After completing the mission of the Northern Kingdom, the master said that he wanted to adopt me as his adopted son, so it won't be too late to feel proud at that time."

"He really promised to adopt you as his son?"

"Before leaving Xie Mansion on the fifth day of the first lunar month, the master told me personally. I was also surprised at the time, but the master will keep what he says, which is good news for me. At least what I am doing now, he approves. In the future I will not give you the credit for escorting His Highness the Crown Prince back home safely."

"I will definitely help you realize this wish. I will ask Dad to send you an official invitation letter at the Martial Arts League Conference in July this year, just for you, not for the Xie family. You must come to participate in the selection of the top ten young talents." .”

"Okay, if it is judged, what rewards will there be? Money or food?"

Liu Guanqing rolled her eyes, and said in a joking tone: "The martial arts league meeting is full of masters from all walks of life. Either there are disciples from major families to compete for the title of top ten young talents, or the elders are looking for targets for the younger generation. Putting aside the ordinary The top ten young talents don’t have to worry about finding a partner anyway. Squeeze into the top ten, the suitors break the threshold, or just send you a few daughters-in-law, what do you want?”

"..." Xie Wuyao thought about the scene where he was being chased and intercepted by many women from all corners of the country, and resisted, "I think, your father Lingci definitely wants you to participate in this event. Otherwise, I'd better drink tea and watch the fun. I'm not interested in making a daughter-in-law, but I can think about making a beautiful boy."

"..." Liu Guanqing pretended to be wronged and hugged Wu Yao tightly, "Wu Yao, don't abandon me. You are not allowed to look at other talents."

"Then if they think I'm good, don't mind my identity, are willing to make friends with me, invite me to dinner, invite me to play together, can I refuse directly?" Xie Wuyao asked tentatively.

Although Liu Guanqing originally wanted to monopolize Xie Wuyao, but Wuyao is so outstanding, if he participates in martial arts conferences and other events in the future, he will definitely be the focus of attention.How can he keep the drugless from associating?It is normal for others to like no medicine.Can he really use his identity to bind Wuyao around him and not allow him to meet new friends?

Xie Wuyao is so smart, so he can naturally tell whether other people's kindness towards him is true or false. If it is beyond the ordinary friendship relationship, how about admiration like him, and daring to express love like him?Wouldn't it be rejected even if there was no medicine?

Liu Guanqing panicked: "No medicine, I will not stop you from making friends. But if someone else confesses to you, please tell me, okay? Let me know who it is, so that I can understand what is good about him. I can learn from him. You can change it and give me a fair chance to compete.”

Xie Wuyao smiled: "Brother Liu, you think too much. I am small-minded, I will be filled by you first, and then others will come, and let them wait in line slowly. I look better than you, and I cook better than you Eat, strong in martial arts, good in character, gentle as water and passionate as fire, besides you, I am probably the only person in this world who is such a good person."

Really, not ashamed.Liu Guanqing felt that Xie Wuyao was so cute, she couldn't help but relax, and dared to criticize: "Are you sure your cooking is better than mine? Why don't you cook tomorrow?"

"...I'm just bragging, why are you so serious! Think about how to deal with Ying Qi. He is not the kind of person who doesn't have a doctor to see and leave. The master wants to keep him by your side. I Seeing that when he arrives, I should also restrain myself and become a decent servant. I won’t let him see my flaws and report to the master.” Xie Wuyao worried that after Ying Qi arrived, his comfortable days of eating and drinking would be over. .

Shadow Seven is a shadow guard, about the same age as Xie Wuyao, the batch of shadow guards in the Xie Mansion recorded in the original book are all Xie Haoran's tools for training the protagonist.Numbered from Yingyi to Yingjiu, they were often beaten by the protagonist. At first, they fought alone, and later they attacked in groups, and they were not the opponents of the protagonist.Of course, the more people there are, the more difficult it will be for the protagonist to win. Often after each fight, the protagonist will also be scarred.

"There is no medicine, or you can directly threaten Ying Qi with force. If he refuses to listen to us, you can beat him. He must not be able to beat you, right?"

Xie Wuyao sighed: "The people trained by the master are very hard-boned and very loyal. Although he can't beat me, he will not give in because of my threats. He is not as easy-talking as Wuyi, I have a very awkward personality, and I always try my best to do things for the master. In my opinion, why not arrange an ordinary servant's room for me first, and Yingqi and I live together, and usually treat us as serious servants.

If you feel that acting is too tiring, you might as well concentrate on practicing martial arts before going to the Northland.Live in seclusion, practice martial arts in the secret room when you have nothing to do, ask me to accompany you, put all the delicious food and drink in the secret room, close the door to eat small stoves, and don't let Yingqi in.When we go to the Northland with the group in the future, we can't be too close blatantly. It happens to be supervised by Shadow Seven. Let's restrain ourselves, and I will keep a low profile. Everything will be discussed after the task is completed.We get along with a serious master-servant relationship, and Ying Qi won't think you are a bad person, and gradually change his view of you, isn't this killing multiple birds with one stone? "

Although Liu Guanqing was reluctant to give up, she also understood the priorities. He had spent so long with Wuyao Lizizi, if he wanted to live forever in the future, he had to calm down and focus on the business for now.If he can successfully assassinate the Empress Dowager Chunyi and escort His Highness the Crown Prince back to the country safely, it will definitely be a great achievement.Even if his martial arts is not the best one, he can't be held back, he must play his own role and help the helpless.

It was February [-]th when Yingqi arrived at Liu's house in Hangzhou. When he entered the city, he first inquired about the situation with the scouts of the Xie Mansion in the city. He heard that Liu Guanqing had invited many friends to celebrate his birthday a few days ago, but Wu Yao did not Show up at the birthday party.It is said that he has been locked in the secret room of the Liu family.

Ying Qi's heart sank, thinking about how to see Wu Yao sooner.

Because Ying Qi was just a servant, after he sent Xie Haoran's letter to Liu Kaishan, he was led to the courtyard where the servant stayed.

According to the plan that Liu Guanqing and Xie Wuyao had discussed in advance, they specially found a secluded yard with no one else to house Ying Qi, and Xie Wuyao also had an independent house here.The two houses are next to each other, and the furniture layout is the standard set of ordinary domestic servants in the Liu family, which is not too different from Xie's house.

Because Xie Wuyao spends more time in Liu Guanqing's luxurious bedroom to live and eat, he doesn't care about his own residence at all, so he randomly bought a piece or two of furniture compared to his small shabby house in Xie's mansion.The configuration reserved for Ying Qi next door was relatively neat furniture and decorations. After all, Ying Qi will stay at Liu's house for a few days, so he can't neglect the guests.

Ying Qi was led to rest in her own room, and when she learned that the next door was the drug-free residence, she couldn't help being curious to take a look.Because all the information showed that Wu Yao didn't have a single residence in Liu's house, and his movements had been restricted all the time.He thought that the Liu family was quite good at pretending, knowing that Xie's mansion had come, they actually built a room for Wu Yao.

Opening the door and entering the house, I found that the house was cleaned fairly cleanly.The bed, bedding, tables, chairs and benches are a little shabby compared to my own room, but they are much better than the room without medicine in Xie's mansion.The roof is not leaking, the doors and windows can be closed tightly, and the bedding is also new, as if the new ones have never been used.

Xie Wuyao accompanied Liu Guanqing to practice martial arts in the morning, ate and drank a lot at noon and slept on Liu Guanqing's bed until he woke up naturally. When it was almost dinner time, he heard that Ying Qi was coming, so he hurriedly dressed in the clothes of Liu's servant, and reluctantly left Liu Guanqing's bed , and walked to the room assigned to him.

There are no valuables in the room, the door is unlocked, and Ying Qi is watching in his room.Seeing Wuyao coming in, Ying Qi first handed him the antidote for Qianshuang in February, and then asked, "Wuyao, do you usually live here?"

Xie Wuyao said: "Yes."

"Your bedding doesn't look like it's been used before. Could it be that it was just given to you?" Ying Qi questioned.

Xie Wuyao said truthfully: "Usually I almost sleep in Liu Shaoxia's room. Or in Liu's secret room, I accompany them to compete and learn from each other, and I seldom come back to live here."

Ying Qi felt distressed, and remembered seeing the bean cakes that Liu Guanqing threw to Wu Yao's horses. , I don’t seem to have anything to do at night, I’m new here and I’m not familiar with you, why don’t you take me to the canteen in the mansion to have a meal together?”

Xie Wuyao usually opened his mouth with his clothes on and stretched out his hands to eat. What he ate was the meals of the Liu family's masters, or Liu Guanqing's Xiaozao cooked for him alone. How could he know where to eat the Liu family's big pot rice.He hesitated for a moment, and said in shame, "I don't know, why don't you wait a while and ask others..."

Xie Wuyao glanced at Ying Qi with a guilty conscience, and felt that the other party's eyes, no need to ask, must have deepened the misunderstanding of the Liu family.

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