Chapter 0031: Thorn
Jiang Shuting laughed and said, "This has completely pissed off Chief Qin. Song Wuji won't live long!"
Song Minghua sighed: "Since Song Wuji can survive until now, I'm afraid it's not that easy to kill him."
Li Chengkong sat down at the stone table and filled Jiang Shuting's teapot with tea. " Old Jiang , do you know the origins of these five newcomers?"
"How could I know?" Jiang Shuting said helplessly: "Needless to say, he must be the son of an official. Ordinary people can't enter the Xiaoling Mausoleum!"
"Is there anything you, Old Jiang, don't know?" Li Chengkong asked with a smile.
"...Okay, I'll help you find out." Jiang Shuting said.
"Thank you." Li Chengkong clasped his fists, got up to wash up, then went back to the room and sat on the couch to practice.
"That's really powerful, twenty lashes." Jiang Shuting said in a low voice when he saw him enter the room.
After twenty lashes, he was able to behave normally again in such a short time, as if the person being whipped was another person.
This is a really strong body! Tough guy!
"Lao Jiang, try your best to find out." Sun Guiwu said.
"I understand, I understand. We can't drink this tea for nothing, right?" Jiang Shuting jokingly picked up the teacup, drank it all in one gulp, then stood up and walked out.
He felt that he was very good at judging people. This Li Chengkong looked easy-going, but he was actually very arrogant at heart. But who could give him the capital to be arrogant? He dared to kill people and could even withstand twenty lashes.
The next evening, when Li Chengkong returned to the courtyard, Jiang Shuting was already waiting there.
"Old Li, find out more about it." Jiang Shuting clasped his fists and said with a smile: "These five people are a bit weird!"
His smile slowly faded.
Li Chengkong sat opposite him: "What's wrong?"
"These five are not descendants of the imperial family. They are real people with military merits. They have all been on the battlefield." Jiang Shuting said, "It seems that Director Song is angry. This time, all the people he got are tough guys."
"Have you ever been to a killing field?"
"Three from Zhaonan Wanhu Mansion, and two from the Southeast Xuanfu Envoy Office."
"Military disciple?"
"Exactly."
The courtyard fell silent. Li Chengkong nodded thoughtfully: "Okay, I got it. Thank you, Old Jiang."
Jiang Shuting smiled and said, "We vegetable growers have nothing to do with the Xiaoling guards. We each live our own lives. Why do you care about them, Old Li?"
Li Chengkong said: "I'm curious."
Jiang Shuting pointed at him and laughed, "Old Li, you are not telling the truth!"
Li Chengkong smiled and shook his head.
Jiang Shuting changed the subject and talked about something else. He had endless gossip in his mouth, as if he knew everything.
After Jiang Shuting left, Song Minghua sat down in front of him and asked, "Old Li, are you worried about these new Xiaoling guards?"
Li Chengkong looked up in the direction of Xiaolingwei and nodded: "I hope I am just being overly suspicious."
"Zhou Wanghai is dead, what do you have to worry about?" Sun Guiwu said with a smile.
Hu Yunshi snorted, "Zhou Wanghai is a disciple of the Daluo Sect!"
Sun Guiwu's face changed slightly: "Old Li, do you suspect that this newcomer is a Daluo Sect Master disciple?"
Li Chengkong nodded slightly.
He vaguely discovered the defensive characteristics of the Xiaoling Mausoleum: loose inside and tight outside.
It is not easy for the masters outside to break in. There are masters in Xiaoling to resist, but no one is in charge inside the Xiaoling Guard.
Maybe they felt that the whip was enough of a deterrent to the eunuchs who grew vegetables.
He was worried about the Daluo Sect leader and the Qinglian Holy Sect.
It has only been a few days since Zhou Wanghai died, and the Daluo Sect leader may not have reacted yet, but the Qinglian Holy Sect definitely has enough manpower to deploy.
Based on his understanding of the Holy Green Lotus Sect, he would never let it go like this.
Song Minghua said: "We have to be on guard... We have to be alert at night!"
"How about we take turns to keep watch?" Sun Guiwu said.
Li Chengkong shook his head: "Even if there is something wrong, you should pretend to be deaf and dumb and don't come out!"
"What are you talking about!" Sun Guiwu was unhappy when he heard it: "Old Li, you still treat us as outsiders!"
Li Chengkong sighed and activated the Purple Yang Divine Art.
The whistling sound drifted into their ears.
Sometimes it sounds like a woman crying, sometimes it sounds like a wolf howling.
They stared at the source of the whistling sound - his dantian, and shook their heads with complicated expressions.
"Damn it, Mu Fengjing!" Sun Guiwu shouted.
Li Chengkong smiled and nodded.
"I know, I know. We won't be a burden!" Sun Guiwu snorted unhappily.
Hu Yunshi shook his head and had nothing to say.
Song Minghua smiled bitterly and said, "I'm really... ashamed!"
"You've practiced it to the point of being a dog's stomach!" said Hu Yunshi.
Sun Guiwu said: "I am not a dog!"
Hu Yunshi glared.
"Okay, okay, our destinies are different, just like we are born eunuchs, but some are born into royal palaces, some are princes, we can't envy them." Sun Guiwu waved his hand nonchalantly.
Li Chengkong nodded.
Sun Guiwu was the one who had it all figured out. He realized that comparing oneself with others would make one feel dreadful. As a reincarnated person, he was indeed extremely lucky.
He should cherish his good luck and work hard. Thinking of this, he got up and went into the house to continue practicing.
In the evening of the next day, Jiang Shuting came over again and informed Li Chengkong and the others that these five guys were indeed tough guys.
All the Xiaoling Guards were defeated in one breath.
They are all at least at the Four Symbols Realm, not inferior to Zhou Wanghai, the centurion. This time, Song Wuji is in trouble!
Sun Guiwu and the others all looked unhappy when they heard this.
As soon as Li Chengkong mentioned it, they also became suspicious and always felt that there was something wrong with these five people. They might even think that one of them was a disciple of the Daluo Sect Leader.
Jiang Shuting looked at their expressions and said with a smile, "Don't worry, I've already figured it out. There are no Daluo Sect Master disciples among them!"
"Really?" Sun Guiwu asked hurriedly.
"No!" Jiang Shuting assured, patting his chest.
Sun Guiwu breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile : "I told you, they can't possibly react so quickly."
Zhou Wanghai hasn’t been dead for a few days yet. It will probably take more than ten days for the news to be passed on and then spread out.
Li Chengkong suddenly woke up.
Outside, the moonlight is like water, and a bright moon hangs high in the sky.
"Bang!" A stone fell in the middle of the yard.
"Who?!" Sun Guiwu shouted.
Amid the sound of fluttering clothes, a dark shadow flew over the wall and landed in the center of the courtyard.
But it was a man dressed in black, wearing a black tights and a black scarf covering his face, leaving only a pair of cold star-like eyes exposed.
Li Chengkong said, "Old Sun, don't go out."
"Li Chengkong, come here if you have the courage!" The man in black flew over the wall and disappeared.
Li Chengkong closed his eyes and continued to practice.
After a while, the man in black rushed back into the courtyard and lowered his voice: "What a cowardly bandit!"
Li Chengkong was too lazy to pay attention.
The man in black said slowly: "Don't you want to know where Old Wang came from?"
Li Chengkong opened his eyes.
The man in black said, "In the entire Xiaoling Mausoleum, there are only three people who know his origins. It's impossible for you to find out!"
Li Chengkong said: "You don't know either."
"On the contrary, I know!"
"Hehe..." Li Chengkong sneered.
"No need to provoke me, I know it and if you want to know, then follow me!"
"I won't go with you either." Li Chengkong shook his head: "I'm not stupid!"
"As timid as a mouse!" The black-clothed man's eyes suddenly lit up.
Li Chengkong suddenly shouted: "Wait!"
He deduced that the shadow's next move would be to shoot at Sun Guiwu, capture Sun Guiwu and force him to follow.
This move is very vicious.
But why did he lead me away from the courtyard?
With ten times the thinking, the outside world slowed down, allowing him to think calmly.
Are you afraid that Sun Guiwu and the others will help you, or are you afraid that they will shout and scream?
Or is there an ambush outside?
Is it because you can't kill with one strike, or is it because of other concerns?
When the man in black heard Li Chengkong's words, he nailed his feet back to the ground, and stopped when he was about to turn towards Sun Guiwu, and looked towards Li Chengkong's house.
Li Chengkong said: "I'll go with you!"
He opened the window and shot out.
Bathed in the milky white moonlight, he landed gracefully and lightly in front of the man in black, like a handsome young man admiring the plum blossoms under the moon, elegant and graceful.
The coarse linen undershirt does not detract from the elegance of this handsome young man.
As soon as he landed, Li Chengkong suddenly shouted, "Help, there's an assassin!"
The sound was like thunder, exploding the quiet night sky.
The hoarse shouting shattered the grace created by the Treading Plum Jue.
A cold light flashed in the black-clothed man's eyes. He glared at Li Chengkong fiercely, then turned around decisively and disappeared like a wisp of smoke, floating over the wall.
Li Chengkong continued to shout: "Someone come! There's an assassin!"
The voice was so shrill and miserable that Song Minghua and the other two standing at their respective doors were stunned.
