Why am I a villain and still have my own jokes?

"Eldest young master...Eldest young master...?"

Ling Yao, who was crazily distracted while riding a horse, suddenly woke up from his thoughts, and rubbed his temples with some headaches:

"what happened?"

"Did you not have a good rest last night? Do you want the team to stop and rest for a while?"

The captain of the guard, Xu Tingxin, asked with concern.

Ling Yao is a legendary figure in the Ling family - a direct disciple of Changling Sword Sect, Pu Xiangjing in his early twenties, he made many "great achievements" for the Ling family in his youth, and now he has become a The Ling family has a powerful backer.

Perhaps for Xu Tingxin himself, Ling Yao's more and more exciting stories are not known to these little people who can only guard the Ling family's one-third-acre land in this life;

Or maybe, his more legendary deeds are not in the past and present, but in the near future.

But for them, Ling Yao is enough to make them stand tall, enough to be regarded by them as a dream, as an idol they pursue for life.

The rare return of this young master not only frightened those who were about to make a move, but also brought great encouragement to the Ling family.

I am so lucky that I can compete with the young master Ling Xiao who is always the elder brother, the elder brother is short, the elder brother is awesome, and the elder brother is the number one (?) in the world, and I can accompany this young master to the battle line-this is a big deal for many Ling family heads. For the guards, it was a great honor—Xu Tingxin naturally didn't dare to neglect in the slightest, and even wished to confess this master.

Of course, not all members of the Ling family are after Ling Yao.There are also people who hate this master, wait for his bad luck, and wish for his death.

Xu Tingxin, as the captain of the guard this time, had to guard against those people who had eccentric thoughts.

But this time Ling Yao didn't know why he returned to Ling's house one step late, and Hengnan happened to have a character like Ling Linhan; The dossier that caught fire from time to time... It looked like someone was trying to target Ling Yao.

So to be honest, Xu Ting was still a little worried that Ling Yao went to the front line this time in person, what kind of obstacles would Heng Nan's people make this master, force him to get angry, or plot him to fail and make a fool of himself.

"No need, there is not much distance left. Work harder and try to let everyone settle down in the Hengnan border before the sun sets."

Ling Yao waved his hand.Although Xu Tingxin's heart is good, he doesn't want to leave an image in front of those people in Hengnan who are lazy, lazy, playful, and not doing business properly. (Although he himself really wants to make such a salted fish.)

Although he was fully prepared to not be seen by others, those guys who jumped on him relied on nothing but gossip and rumors.

He couldn't personally hand over the handle to these people.

"Yes! Keep your speed, everyone! We'll be there in half an hour!"

Xu Tingxin also vaguely guessed what Ling Yao was thinking, so naturally he passed on the order without saying a word.

Soldiers who can follow Ling Yao to the front line will naturally not complain about this hard work.What's more, with Ling Yao's strength, if it wasn't for taking care of their speed, why bother to suffer slowly on this road?So they all cheered up and continued on their way.

Ling Yao patted his forehead and finally regained consciousness.

Last night, when he was about to hand over the key of the file library to Ling Weiran, the file library suddenly caught fire, causing him to spend most of the night dealing with urgent matters with Ling Weiran, until the sun was about to rise. After getting down, I packed my luggage and set off with the big team.

What disturbed him the most was not the sudden fire disrupting his schedule, but the hidden problems behind the fire

——The person behind the scenes is not only powerful enough to hide the truth from everyone in the Ling family, but he no longer hides it, and is blatantly planning to start planning to deal with him.

He and the rest of the main family are in the open, but the real enemy is in the dark, which inevitably makes people feel anxious.

And as the biggest beneficiary of the victimization of his reputation——Ling Linhan, it's hard to say what attitude he has towards himself and his family at the moment.

If a few days ago, Ling Yao still had some confidence in a certain brat, but not now.

Although the relationship between the two of them has eased in Rukawa, Ling Linhan has also taken precautions against possible secret operations of Shenlong Academy.But after all, being in Ruchuan is in Ruchuan, and being in Ling's family is in Ling's family.

When he was in Rukawa, Ling Linhan was "isolated from the world", and he could temporarily get rid of the brainwashing of Shenlong Academy and the hatred for the main family under the atmosphere of the Hengnan branch, and let go of his "prejudice" to reach a cooperation with himself.

But once he leaves Rukawa—especially after returning to Ling's house, the pressure from both sides will reappear, which will bring new changes to Ling Linhan's mentality.

Extreme feelings like love and hate are always difficult to let go.

Coupled with the fact that he was obviously being calculated this time, Ling Linhan would probably suspect that he came after receiving the news, and it was even more difficult to figure out how things would develop.

There was too much thinking, and for a salty fish who didn't like to use his brain and stayed up all night, the road was really difficult and sleepy, and that's why the scene just happened.

But when he really arrived at the boundary of Hengnan, he had to cheer up again.

After all, it will be a "battlefield" full of variables and dangers, just like the front line against the demons.

……

Seeing that the sky was getting dark, the group of people standing in front of the Hengnan Boundary Monument gradually began to commotion.

"Didn't you say that you will come tonight, what about people? Why haven't you come yet?"

"Didn't you lie to us and let us go for nothing?! It's really not a good thing!"

"It's not impossible. After all, the master... hasn't been thinking of ways to torment our Hengnan lineage for so many years..."

"Hey, stop complaining. If outsiders hear about it and report it to the master's house, we are not the ones who are unlucky in the end?"

"What are you afraid of! Now we have Brother Han to back us up, right? What is that young master of the Ling family..."

"do not talk."

Ling Linhan who was standing at the front suddenly interrupted the complaining person,

"What time is this? Be patient."

"That's right. As long as you have patience, Brother Dong... Chi—"

Ling Feiyu, who was standing by the side, immediately echoed, and sneered faintly,

"No matter how much you look down on him, you won't be able to offend that Eldest Young Master. Stop talking nonsense and cause trouble for Brother Han!"

"Hey! Don't you rely on the fact that you and Brother Han have known each other for a long time? Are you still rubbing your nose and face? Are you qualified to call me Lao Tzu?!"

Ling Yuandong glared at Ling Feiyu with a look of disdain.

Although several of them are Ling Linhan's staunch supporters in Hengnan, their respective ideas are far from each other, and they often spark disharmony with each other, which is very unpleasant.

But these people do have their own skills, and each played an extremely important role in the war against the demons.Ling Linhan was able to gain the approval of other people so quickly, and won repeated victories in the resistance battle, it is inseparable from their trust and help.

Ling Linhan needs them, and they also support Ling Linhan.So Ling Linhan often turned a blind eye to some of their extreme remarks, and let them make trouble on their own.

But on one point, these people's views are surprisingly consistent:

Support Ling Linhan to overthrow the current master and become the new master of the Ling family, so that Heng Nan can stand up and become the master.

As expected, within reason.But for Ling Linhan, he doesn't actually have such an idea—whether it is to overthrow the master's family, become the master of the family, or make Hengnan flourish.

This was once the lifelong pursuit instilled in him by his grandfather.With the passage of time and his own continuous growth and improvement, he added more ideals and goals to himself, but these three points are always listed in the list of "goals".

But ever since he escaped from Shenlong Academy and glimpsed a corner of the real world, it's not just the people around him that he began to doubt?

He began to question himself, why should he inherit his father's behest and become the "Patriarch" of the Ling family, which he has no interest in or ability to undertake?

Why let Hengnan people stand up and call the shots, and let those who have hurt him be honored because of him?

Even, why do you want to carry on the enmity of the previous generation to yourself, believe their contradictions, half-truths and half-false words, and regard Ling Yao, who has nothing to do with the main family, as your own enemies?

Such rebellious thoughts of "no filial piety" and "no ambition" can be described as a kind of betrayal for him in the past.But he kept deepening such doubts in the process of self-examination over and over again.

So why?

But he didn't dare to show the slightest in front of these people.Because these people gathered around him, became his friends, and provided him with so much help because of the targets he suspected.

He didn't want to disappoint his relatives and friends, and he couldn't bear the consequences of the collapse of the resistance front after these people dispersed.

Even if he has stepped into the untouched state now, he can't stop the invasion of the demons alone.This made him have to "bow his head" to these thoughts and maintain the "silence" he could only maintain.

But, can he really keep "silent" all the time?

"There are figures over there! Are they coming?"

The little guy standing in front, Ling Rui, asked a little excitedly.

"Tsk, it seems that they are indeed them. The one riding the horse in front is the young master of the Ling family, right?"

Ling Yuandong took a look while setting up the awning, and quickly saw the face of the visitor.

"Hmph, she looks like a woman. Only those women who have never seen the world like it."

Swah——

Before he finished speaking, the group of people standing in front of the boundary marker felt a blur in front of their eyes, as if a gust of wind had passed by.

Only Ling Linhan's face turned slightly blue, and he immediately pulled out the white tiger-toothed dagger from his waist, and blocked it towards the shadow.

Stab la la.

Then they heard a grinding sound between the metal and iron, and everyone turned their eyes away, only to see a long sword shining with black iron that was blocked by Ling Linhan's dagger.

And the person holding the sword was none other than Ling Yao, who was still far away!

The main team in the distance seemed to be commotion over Ling Yao's sudden disappearance, while the people on Ling Linhan's side were afraid of Ling Yao's rapid movements.

The sharp-eyed few even noticed that after this short confrontation, among the long swords and short daggers that were offset, it was the short dagger trembling slightly alone!

"You too...you are too small-minded."

Ling Linhan gritted her teeth and said with some difficulty.

"This is a sneak attack!! Are the people in the master's house just as big as you?!"

Ling Yuandong, who had spoken ill of Ling Yao just now, was even more furious at this moment, pointing at Ling Yao's nose, he was about to curse.

Ling Yao, however, smiled slightly, and immediately turned his sword, brushed the blade of the short dagger with the spine of the Chengying Sword, and pressed it, deflecting Ling Linhan's wrist by three points:

"I just heard someone mention me, so I couldn't help but come over to say hello in advance. If it's really a small belly, how can you still listen to him shouting alive and kicking here?"

Then Ling Yao took a slight side step, avoiding the possible trajectory of the dagger, but turned the sword backwards, deftly retracted it into the scabbard on his back, and lightly stood a few meters in front of Ling Linhan. landing.But his eyes turned away, but he looked at Ling Yuandong with a smile:

"I look down on the master's family, but also feel that the master's family should be magnanimous... Can you unify your thoughts before speaking? Otherwise, it will be really easy to make people laugh."

"Besides, there's nothing wrong with being attractive to girls. If you have to do the opposite, do you still want to be attractive to men? That's not so good..."

Seeing Ling Yao put away the Yingying Sword, Ling Linhan also retracted his dagger, and stopped Ling Yuandong, whose face was becoming increasingly ugly.

Just like Ling Yao didn't want to leave a story for Hengnan's lineage, he couldn't let his people take the initiative to provoke the master's family and cause disputes—especially at the stall where Ling Yao and the others had just arrived.

Although Ling Linhan has doubts about Ling Feiyu now, it is clear that Ling Feiyu's ability to read words and emotions is very strong.He immediately understood Ling Linhan's intentions, and took the initiative to whisper a few words to Ling Yuandong, making Ling Yuandong say "huh", but he finally stopped making a big deal out of it.

Ling Yao also looked at the rather delicate atmosphere among the large group of Hengnan with great interest—this is obviously a team that has gathered for a simple reason and has not yet worked together successfully, and the relationship between members is relatively fragile.If it's just to get together to deal with the irrational demon soldiers, it's fine. If someone has a heart to plan, sowing dissension and other methods will be very effective.

But he has no obligation to remind Ling Linhan.Seeing the large army from the main family in the distance finally rushing over, Ling Yao winked at Ling Linhan:

"Although I'm very grateful that you condescended to welcome us, I also know that you are anxious to see what the Lord's family will do this time. However, please don't stare stupidly, and make arrangements for our people. Let's live.

"After all, it's business. Let's find a time to sit down and talk about it, isn't it?"

==A little setting==

Why do I say that this dungeon of the Ling family is very similar to "Gong Dou" and "Seizing the Inheritance"?You can understand with an analogy.

Comparing the position of the Patriarch of the Ling family to the throne, this story can be interpreted as an unambitious eldest son of the emperor, a group of ignorant and extremely arrogant princes, and a child who was bullied miserably and became invincible when he grew up. A story about wanting to come back to take revenge on the royal family, and being incited by his subordinates to murder the emperor's clan children at any time to fight for the throne.

Then our eldest son of the Xianyu Emperor, not only does not want to inherit the throne, but he also has to be on guard against some idiot being provoked by someone and cutting the emperor with a knife in the court.

...Damn it.