Master respects him by serving the devil

The journey to the City Lord's Mansion was not too far, and it was just right enough for Li Xingzhi to tell a story that was deeply rooted in his heart. Perhaps he felt that the story did not involve any secrets, so it was not impossible to tell.

With his eyes far away, he raised his rough and vicissitudes of life finger to touch his chest and sighed for a moment, then he started to talk, he couldn't help wet his sleeves while talking, and wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with his wide sleeves.

He seems to enjoy the action...

It turned out that this Li Xingzhi was just a teacher in a remote village on the outskirts of the city. He had a younger sister who was born to the country and smiled. Once he was spotted by the old city lord of Furong City and took him as a concubine. The younger sister wanted to take him as the only one. The relatives of the family were connected to the Fugui I of the City Lord's Mansion, but the City Lord did not allow it.

Moreover, they named their offspring Danshu, which meant severance, which meant to cut her off from everything in the past.

Li Xingzhi also knew what the city lord meant, so he didn't bother to blame him, and became a teacher in the village by himself.But after all, in villages where there is a severe shortage of labor force, whenever the farming season is busy or when the child is old enough to do farm work, his job will be unstable.

The villagers did not send their children to his humble private school in the hope that the children would gain fame and become a counselor in a certain city, but only hoped that they could read and understand the books so that they would not be cheated in the grain trade.

In this way, there are dozens to dozens of people in his simple classroom...

to a few more people...

Later, the last child bid farewell to him with eggs and rice...

He has no complaints.

It's not that they don't pay attention to children's knowledge and insight, but that food and clothing can't be taken into account, how can knowledge change destiny?

He closed the private school.

In the fields and mountains, planting vegetables and fishing, although the life is hard, it is also happy and comfortable.

Until one day, he unloaded his fishing net, took off his coir raincoat, and as soon as he walked to the wooden door of his farmyard, he saw a strange young man with a warm temperament and as gorgeous as fire, wearing a dark red robe and holding a 72-rib umbrella. Meng Zong's bamboo oil-paper umbrella stood under the falling rain.

He called out: "...Uncle."

That face was almost carved out of the same mold as my sister's!

Li Xing couldn't stop the tears welling up in his eyes, and wanted to wipe away the tears with his wide sleeved gown, when he suddenly realized that he was no longer in class, but was wearing a coir raincoat short with narrow sleeves and high curls.

He can't get used to it...

Why does a well-learned private school teacher become no different from a villager.

He couldn't hold back his tears, and asked the boy in a trembling voice, "You...are Danshu?"

The young man was puzzled: "Uncle knows my name?"

How could he not know?

Of course he knows!

This name is to warn him to know how to advance and retreat, not to covet something that does not belong to him. The old city owner thought it was gold and silver, but he thought it was the kinship.

Li Xingzhi was a little cramped, the young man was dressed in rich clothes and the best fabrics, he didn't dare to invite this child to his shabby home, but right now it was raining like spring...

Dan Shu pushed open the courtyard door by himself and said, "Uncle, I want to see the place where my mother lived before."

Li Xingzhi had no choice but to let the young man enter the room, but he was so embarrassed that he couldn't even empty an extra teacup, let alone hot tea, and he was even more embarrassed, fidgeting.

Both of them were silent for a long time...

Dan Shu: "Uncle, I want to take you to Furong City..."

Li Xingzhi: "Is your mother okay?"

He raised his head and spoke at the same time.

Dan Shu was in a calm mood, and the vermilion mole at the end of his eyes was bright and pretty. He said: "My mother passed away many years ago, and I can hardly remember what she looks like. They all say that I look like her, but I dare not." Look in the mirror, lest I offend my mother."

Li Xingzhi listened to him quietly without saying a word, and he didn't feel too sad. For his sister, perhaps this was the relief.

Hou Men is as deep as the sea, and once locked in, it will last a lifetime.

Li Xingzhi remained silent, didn't say anything, and didn't even shed tears anymore, because there was no big sleeves to wipe, and no one laughed at him for his pretentiousness.

Danshu said again: "Uncle, come to Furong City and help me."

Li Xingzhi said: "I'm just a villager now, how can I help you?"

He thought it was the old city lord's sons who were vying for the succession of the city lord. Although Danshu was the younger sister's child, even though he was only a teacher, he also understood some principles of the state and the people. The more the people live in dire straits.

He wanted to refuse, but Danshu said:

"Dan's family is all dead, my father, mistress, five older brothers, two younger sisters, and even collateral relatives..." The boy's eyes gradually became sharper, and the moles at the end of his eyes became more dazzling.

"Only... me, one, one."

At this moment, Dan Shu was staring straight at Li Xingzhi. He had a beautiful red mole, black hair and red lips, his complexion was as pale as paper, and some red marks were oozing from his eye sockets.That look was so frightening that Li Xingzhi almost fell to the ground in fright.

His bloodless lips trembled, opened and closed under the beard, and said in a low voice, "You...you killed them?"

Dan Shu frowned in puzzlement, his eyes showed sadness, and he said aggrievedly: "Uncle thinks so too?"

"How could it be me?" His tone was stagnant like a child's, "Mother doesn't like me to fight and fight, so I fulfilled her wish. I have never put my mind on fighting for a moment when I grow up. , What are those? It’s just a family’s struggle for succession, it’s just a closed door in a mansion, it’s just a grievance between two cities..."

Dan Shu sighed, "...it's really boring."

Dan Shu suddenly looked at Li Xingzhi with burning eyes, and said earnestly, "But, uncle, you have to help me, can you be the lord of Furong City? I'm going to save someone, and they all think I shouldn't do this , no one will help me."

"Uncle, please help me, you are the only one I have left in this world, the only one who is connected with blood, and the closest person."

Li Xingzhi didn't know what Danshu said later, until now, his whole heart was blocked, the child was innocent, he couldn't choose his own origin.

The peasant children who turned their backs to the school and never looked back have their own troubles and sorrows; but this rich man who was born with a golden spoon in his mouth looks more pitiful than those children who are out of school.

Li Xingzhi took a last look at the courtyard where he had lived for many years. From one family to two people, and then to him alone, there will be no one else...

He locked the yard, passed by the pond and dropped the key in his hand.

Afterwards, he became the city lord of Furong City on the bright side, greeted and sent off, false and obedient, he was not used to it at first, and then he became more and more good at it, as if he would feel uncomfortable if he didn't say some flattering words for a day.

He laughed at himself: What a scumbag!

After hearing the story of City Lord Li, Su Ye felt ashamed of the ridicule she had made of him before.

A person, but it's the first time they meet, what qualifications does he have to directly evaluate how he is?Who doesn't have a story behind him, he didn't lose his integrity before the temptation of wealth in the early years, but for the sake of his nephew, he willingly turned himself into the kind of person he disliked the most. of a mask.

For a while, everyone didn't speak anymore, but Jun Xie was the quickest to adjust his mood. He opened his folding fan with a clatter, and slapped it a few times, as if to blow away the haze around him.

Jun Xie asked: "Since City Lord Li is willing to reveal his heart, I am very grateful. It's just that I have some questions, and I don't know if I should ask them."

Li Xingzhi: "Sir, please tell me."

Jun Xie: "If Dan Shu really wasn't responsible for the collapse of the Dan family back then, then what was the reason?"

Li Xingzhi: "I don't know, but I didn't ask. The destruction of the Dan family was not caused by Shu'er."

Jun Xie: "City Lord Li don't need to be nervous. Of course it wasn't Dan Shu who did it. If he did this, then the purpose must be to become the city lord, but he gave up the position of the city lord to an uncle who has never met, even if there is a blood bond. , it is not possible to do so."

Su Ye: "Yes, why doesn't he become the city lord himself? The Dan family is dead, and he is the only one, so there is no difference. He gave the position of the city lord to Li the city lord, but he himself controls everything behind the scenes. strangeness."

Zhong Xu frowned and said: "I'm afraid there is a reason why he can't be the city lord no matter what."

Jun Xie asked: "City Master Li, the person you want to bring us to meet on this trip is Danshu?"

Li Xingzhi's eyes were full of desolation. He led the crowd to the center of the main street in the city. The tall copper gate stood in the dark night. The door was written "City Lord's Mansion". , the glowing red looks particularly treacherous.

He knocked on the door twice, and a guard inside opened the door from the inside out.

Su Ye finds it strange, most of them are powerful and powerful, and the nobles who have many guards and maidservants at home will arrange a few guards to watch the night outside the gate of the mansion in shifts. Yes, this imposing city lord's mansion is actually the same.

Could it be that there are monsters eating people on the streets at night recently?

Li Xingzhi said politely: "Everyone, please, I just want to invite all the immortals to meet my nephew—Dan Shu. I can only deal with some useless trivial matters. What you really want to discuss will have to be discussed in your immortal sect. People talk by themselves."

They entered the city lord's mansion, and the two guards guarding the gate in the courtyard immediately closed the courtyard door eagerly, making a clanging sound of the copper door hitting the threshold.

Could it be that you are afraid that some monster will come in and eat you?

Su Ye found it funny.

After experiencing Li's Mansion Ghost Crying Night Song, Huashan Ji Huaxu's illusion, and the Goddess' Tomb, he became a lot more courageous. Although the Furong City at this time is weird, it is not very scary.

The land of the city lord's mansion was beyond imagination, Li Xingzhi led the way, and took everyone around half an hour to go around nine bends and eighteen bends and finally arrived at Danshu's residence.

As soon as he got close to the residence, he felt waves of heat coming, and everything around him was distorted and danced out of shape in the heat waves.

Does this Danshu live in the stove? !