"So..." Qin Ran asked Li Shiwen on the broad street of Danyang City, "What are you going to do with me?"
"This Danyang City..." Li Shiwen grabbed Qin Ran's shoulders and said, "This is my territory! Is there anything I can't do? Whatever you want to do, I'll take you there."
As he spoke, he raised his eyebrows towards Qin Ran and smiled a smile that every man could understand.
Li Shiwen, a man with thick eyebrows and big eyes, is actually such a person. Qin Ran glanced at him and asked, "Give me an example?"
"I can take you to eat, drink and have fun, as long as there is something in Danyang City. I am the eldest young master of the Li family, so I still have this face." Li Shiwen was quite proud. "Although Brother Qin, your intelligence and cultivation strength are eight hundred miles ahead of mine, but... you definitely can't play as many entertainments in the human world as I do."
Qin Ran looked at him and blinked. He didn't know where this guy got the confidence to talk about entertainment methods with a modern person.
"So..." he asked again.
To be honest, he really wants Li Shiwen to broaden his horizons.
Li Shiwen put her arm around him, bent down, and whispered in a low voice, "According to reliable information, Tianxianglou's newest courtesan Chen Shishi is still a virgin... She is extremely beautiful, and is proficient in music, chess, calligraphy, and painting... Her hands are like silk, and her feet are like golden lotus..."
Well, Qin Ran heard clearly that he was going to visit a brothel... So he just looked at Li Shiwen quietly, hoping that he could understand that he was his future brother-in-law. He was going to take his future brother-in-law to visit a brothel!
"With my status as the eldest son of the Li family, if I spend some money, maybe you will have a chance to have sex with her." Li Shiwen smiled and raised his eyebrows, "How is it?"
"Not so good!" Qin Ran rolled his eyes and said righteously, "Do you think I'm the type to go to a place with fireworks like this?"
Li Shiwen looked Qin Ran up and down, nodded and said, "Scholars like you are all full of vulgarity and desires. You all like to be conspicuous and spend money in brothels. Aren't you one of them?"
"No!" Qin Ran's eyes were firm.
"Ah!" Seeing this, Li Shiwen sighed and let go of Qin Ran.
The two walked on the street for a while. Li Shiwen suddenly remembered something. He rested his elbow on Qin Ran's shoulder and said with a smile, "Speaking of scholars, I remember Tang Yin held a poetry gathering today. It was called a spring outing poetry gathering... Oh, Tang Yin is the eldest son of the Minister of Personnel. Poetry gathering, are you interested in this?"
Qin Ran rolled his eyes. A poetry gathering, asking a mountain geek like him to attend a banquet... Was that a banquet? That was asking him to die!
He was too lazy to say anything.
Li Shiwen was surprised and said, "This is a poetry gathering led by the family of the Minister of Personnel. There will be many highly talented students from the Imperial College and the Hanlin Academy participating. You are quite talented and have a lot of bad intentions. You can exchange knowledge with them and recite poems. Isn't that good? Don't you scholars like to show off by stepping on the leaders of other scholars the most?"
What about exchanging knowledge, reciting poems and writing couplets? He was still asked to be a plagiarist? Qin Ran shook his head repeatedly. He didn't want to let down those great men in his previous life.
"I'm telling you, this is a stereotype. Not all scholars are like that. There are true gentlemen among scholars, not all of them are sanctimonious. Besides, I'm not a scholar!" He said to Li Shiwen, "I get annoyed when I see scholars."
"Not a scholar..." Li Shiwen looked at him and said, "There will be many talented men and beautiful women at the poetry gathering. You are not interested in the talented men, but what about the beautiful women? The spring outings and poetry gatherings are very popular among the daughters of officials and the famous prostitutes in the brothels."
Qin Ran stopped and stared at him seriously for a while. He advised, "You are a married man with a son, and you are Shiyin's brother. Do you think it is appropriate for you to tell me this?"
"As a man, you should be more open-minded!" Li Shiwen didn't care at all. He patted Qin Ran's chest with the back of his hand and replied, "I'm not going to take it home. Just take a look and play with it. It won't affect anything."
Qin Ran heard this and searched in his Qiankun bag, found a bottle of pills, handed it to Li Shiwen, and said seriously: "I think you will be infected with syphilis sooner or later, so I'll give you this bottle of pills. It can save your life when the time comes."
"It's not that exaggerated..." Li Shiwen said as he took the pill... It would be a shame to refuse the cultivator's pill.
"There will be a spring outing poetry party, and musicians and dancers will be invited. Gao Yuanshan will also be there. There will be so-called elegant music, popular music, graceful dances, and beautiful girls." He put away the pills and continued to ask, "You are not interested in these either?"
Li Shiwen's enthusiasm slowly made Qin Ran realize that this guy wanted to go to the brothel and wanted him to be an accomplice. He also wanted to go to the spring outing poetry gathering and see the girls, but he was a rough man and was a little embarrassed to go to the poetry gathering... That's why this guy kept picking on him.
"You want to go, right?" he asked Li Shiwen righteously.
"Hey!" Li Shiwen shook his head and denied it. "If you don't want to go, then don't go! Why should I want to go? I'm just thinking about you."
"I am a cultivator with a pure heart and few desires. I don't care about these worldly things." Qin Ran said righteously, "Don't use these things to ruin my heart... It's just a waste of effort."
They had kidnapped his sister, and the two of them were being so affectionate in broad daylight, and they were still telling him about being pure and indifferent, but Li Shiwen didn't believe a word of it.
But suddenly, he thought of something. He looked at Qin Ran carefully and said that he felt that Qin Ran was a little abnormal today... How could Qin Ran be as righteous as he was today?
He lowered his voice and asked quietly, "Shiyin?"
Qin Ran gave him an approving look and thought to himself, "Not too stupid."
Having a sister who is a swordsman at home, and even daring to drag her brother-in-law out to flirt with other women, one can only say that Li Shiwen is a birthday star who has hung himself - he has had enough of his life.
Seeing Qin Ran's tacit expression, Li Shiwen suddenly became a little flustered. He looked around, looking for Li Shiyin's location.
But how could he find Li Shiyin? Many cultivators with high cultivation levels failed to do so.
He struggled for a while but didn't find Li Shiyin, but he calmed down. He thought it was just a beating. Could Li Shiyin kill him?
Thinking of this, Li Shiwen, who had thick eyebrows, big eyes and sharp features, also became righteous. He said to Qin Ran, "I have heard Shi Yin say that you, Brother Ran, have learned to play the flute and the sound of the flute is quite beautiful. Brother Ran is knowledgeable about music. It just so happens that I have some acquaintances in Danyang Liyuan. How about we go to the Liyuan to listen to music and enjoy dance?"
This was an elegant thing to do, and it would not be used against Li Shiyin. Qin Ran finally nodded and said, "Very good."
So on the first day of Qin Ran's first experience as a playboy, he went to the Liyuan Opera House to listen to music.
Then the next day, we went outing and fishing.
On the third day, we listened to stories in a teahouse.
...Then I really don't even dare to go to a gambling house.
But it is said that in the afternoon of that day, Li Shiwen, along with a few of his friends and Qin Ran, went to the Ximeng Teahouse in Danyang City to drink tea and listen to books.
Actually, Qin Ran was not interested in storytelling. But firstly, they had nowhere to go, and secondly, the storytelling in this teahouse these days was about the legendary stories of the Northern Chu monks in the war against the invasion of Xuan Qin. He really wanted to know if there was any story about him and his silly apprentice in it, so he thought it was interesting.
Today we are talking about the story of Jiang Xiaobai, the legendary sword god of Northern Chu, which has come to an end:
“…That night, the sky was covered with leaden clouds, as if tens of thousands of pounds of pig iron were hanging in the sky.
Snow was falling like goose feathers! Jiang Xiaobai was sitting alone on the top of Wuyi City with a sword.
He was drinking, and the wine was like an ice knife, cutting through his throat.
He is waiting for someone, a powerful and fierce enemy who is here to take his life.
He knew he would die today, but he didn't leave, he was very calm.
Because he was guarding Wuyi City behind him.
A gust of cold wind blew, and the enemy sent nine monks, all of whom were terrifying and powerful, and had transformed from elixir into infant.
Among them, there were also sword holders who asked the Sword God, "You are not from Northern Chu, and you have no grudges against Xuan Qin. Why would you sacrifice your life here for a mere mortal?"
The Sword God raised his head, looked at the sword holder, and replied: "I am the number one Sword God in Northern Chu."
"After you die today, no one will remember you."
The Sword God drank and sighed, "There are many people who are forgotten, and I am no different; so many people died in this city, and I am no different. When others die, I die too."
Xuan Qin has a divine light invincible person who persuades the sword god: "I admire you very much. I will give you a chance to join Xuan Qin."
The Sword God looked at him, spat at him, and said, "A gentleman can be killed, but not humiliated. Why do you have to humiliate me?"
The one who controls the divine light no longer speaks.
Xuan Qin, who has infinite vitality and has fought hundreds of battles without dying, asked the Sword God: "Don't you regret it?"
“No regrets.”
The Sword God said: "If we retreat today, our hearts will die; if we fight, our bodies will die. If we advance, we will die; if we retreat, we will die. If we wait for death, will our country die?"
A war ensued.
The Sword God has seventy-two flying swords, and the enemy general has nine. Eight flying swords fight one monk, and the Sword God fights nine people alone.
There are swords flying in the sky, cutting through the sky, heavy snow falling, heavy rain falling, and the sun coming; there are countless magical powers, shaking the earth, earth dragons turning over, and monsters dying.
The Sword God swung his sword one hundred and eighty times, but he also had his limits and eventually his magic power was exhausted and he died.
That day, blood-red snow fell all day long in Wuyi City. "
After hearing about the death of Sword God Jiang Xiaobai, everyone in the teahouse felt sad and silent for a while. No one was not sad.
Qin Ran turned to look at Li Shiwen, only to see that Li Shiwen also had a solemn expression and sadness in his eyes, probably because he remembered the real scene of Jiang Xiaobai's death that night.
The storyteller in the hall said this, drank a sip of tea, clapped the wake-up stick, and said, "Each generation has its own outstanding people, who have succeeded each other for Northern Chu. The death of the Sword God was a tragedy for the world, but good times will come after bad times. Just when Xuan Qin was about to capture Wuyi City..."
He paused and said loudly, "The Sword Immortal has arrived!"
This sound seemed to sweep away the sadness in the hall, and hope and light reappeared in the teahouse. Who doesn't know the invincible Li Jianxian of Northern Chu?
"The torch is passed on! I will continue to tell the story of the sword fairy Li Shiyin!" The storyteller had a smile on his face.
"Speaking of Li Shiyin, she is still quite young and is a girl from Danyang City. You may have seen her being naughty and mischievous..."
When talking about Li Shiyin's story, the atmosphere in the teahouse suddenly became cheerful.
Qin Ran listened and thought of his silly disciple's confused look. He couldn't help but feel a little strange. The silly disciple he saw was also the peerless swordsman in the eyes of others.
In his eyes, he is a silly and cheerful boy, but in the eyes of others, he is also a chivalrous man who saves his country and saves lives.
This feeling... is so wonderful that it always brings a smile to his face.
Then……
The wonderful day ended with seeing Cheng Nan.
Cheng Nan was escorted into the teahouse by several people. Those people were dressed in fine clothes and well-fed, and it was obvious that they were not ordinary people. However, Qin Ran did not know them, he only knew Cheng Nan.
The young men who entered the teahouse caused a huge commotion. Li Shiwen frowned and looked over, and immediately recognized the identities of those people.
He was on the stage talking about how his sister saved the country and the people, and he didn't want to pay attention to those young masters, but unfortunately... those young masters came just for him.
As soon as they entered the teahouse, they looked up and found the private room where Li Shiwen and Qin Ran were staying, and then came straight over here.
Qin Ran frowned and said to Li Shiwen, "I came to see you?"
"They are all the playboys in Danyang City..." Li Shiwen introduced Qin Ran, "You have seen the one who was surrounded in the front and made a fool of. He is the son of Prime Minister Cheng Lixue, Cheng Nan. He was engaged to Shiyin before, but because of you, Shiyin unilaterally tore up the engagement four years ago.
"Following him is General Xiang Ji's younger brother Xiang Hui. Xiang Ji is the general that Your Majesty promoted to balance our Li family, so the Xiang family and our Li family are naturally opposed. The relationship between Xiang Hui and I is also like fire and water. In the past, I easily suppressed him, but after the incident in the Hengduan Mountains, I was decadent for many years, and he gained some momentum.
"Next to Xiang Hui is Tang Yin, who was the one who organized the spring outing poetry gathering a few days ago. Then there is the Crown Prince Mi Hua and the Hanlin student Tian Boming.
“In a word, these are all the losers that I used to suppress. In the past two years, they have found a sense of superiority over me and their momentum has recovered.
"Maybe they knew I was back, so they came to suppress me in time... Haha, they even brought Cheng Nan with them."
Li Shiwen looks unreliable and a fool like Li Shiyin, but actually he is not a fool.
First of all, he is the number one evil young man in Beijing and the best of their generation; secondly, he has a clear understanding of politics and the situation and is not a simple person at all.
...Among these young men and women who grew up under the emperor's feet, only Li Shiyin was truly naive. But after all these years of being bullied by Qin Ran, Li Shiyin was no longer naive.
Qin Ran was not interested in the other bad boys in the capital. He looked at Cheng Nan for a few more times. Only then did he realize that this guy was the legendary "Xiao Yan" who was broken off. He also realized that four years ago, his stupid disciple became "Nalan Yanran" for him.
It seems that when he was harboring ulterior motives, his seemingly silly disciple also had other thoughts.
He was deceived by her... Well, that's it.
Several young thugs from Danyang pushed Cheng Nan into the private room, broke the door open violently, rushed in, and filled up the room.
Li Shiwen's few cronies stood up immediately and confronted Xiang Hui and others who broke in.
Xiang Hui leisurely passed Cheng Nan and stood side by side with him. He put his hand on Cheng Nan's shoulder, looked at Li Shiwen and said with a smile, "Ah! Master Li, it's been a while since I last saw you! How are you?"
"Thanks to your majesty's protection, I am in good health." Li Shiwen leaned back in his chair and said to Xiang Hui, "Then Master Xiang, may I ask what can I do for you, old man?"
"When I passed by the teahouse, I heard people talking about the sword fairy Li Shiyin..."
At this time, the storyteller happened to say: "The young swordsman secretly ran out of the Tiance Army's camp, overcame numerous difficulties and dangers, crossed thousands of mountains and rivers, and came to the Daojian Gate.
"At that time, Daojianmen was holding the Daodao Ceremony, which is held every fifty years..."
"...Shiyin and I have been playmates since childhood, and I hurried in to show my support." Xiang Hui said with a smile, and pointed at Cheng Nan, "Besides, Brother Cheng is engaged to Shiyin!"
Cheng Nan's face changed slightly when he heard this, and he looked at Qin Ran quietly. But he saw that Qin Ran had a calm expression on his face, as if he didn't hear Xiang Hui's words. He secretly pulled Xiang Hui, hoping that he wouldn't pull him along when he wanted to die.
But how could Xiang Hui listen to his opinion?
They let Cheng Nan be the boss, probably because he was a cultivator with strong fighting skills, so they made him their boss.
Cheng Nan is essentially their sword and their shield.
"As soon as I entered the teahouse, I saw Brother Wen, and Xiaonan and I immediately came to greet Brother Wen." Xiang Hui said with a forced smile.
"Now I say hello. I'm fine." Li Shiwen said, "You can go out now."
Xiang Hui walked over and said, "It's been a long time since we last met. Why don't you catch up? I'm very happy to see that Brother Wen is in a different state than before."
Does Li Shiwen have a good temper? Obviously not. When this guy first met Qin Ran, he dared to be angry for his sister and pointed his gun at the powerful monk.
If Xiang Hui had dared to jump like this and press on like this before the Hengduan Mountains, he would have been thrown downstairs long ago; the current Li Shiwen has gone through ups and downs, has become more stable, and is still very calm at this moment.
But no matter how calm he is, he still has to do things when it’s time to do things.
He was angry, but his face showed no joy or anger. He asked Xiang Hui, "How do you want to reminisce?"
Xiang Hui walked in front of Li Shiwen. He stood while Li Shiwen sat. He looked down at Li Shiwen, put his hand on Li Shiwen's shoulder, and asked with concern, "It is said that Brother Wen fought bravely on the battlefield and rushed to the front line. ...Are you injured?"
This action shows concern from a superior to a subordinate, but when it comes to Xiang Hui and Li Shiwen, it has a humiliating meaning.
Li Shiwen looked up at Xiang Hui and laughed. He patted Xiang Hui's hand on his shoulder with his other hand. He was in a really good mood now. He gave Xiang Hui one last chance. He asked, "Do you want to know if I can still fight?"
Xiang Hui and the three friends behind him were the kind of people who were suppressed by Li Shiwen for twenty years. Then Li Shiwen suddenly suffered a heavy loss and became depressed, and they in turn suppressed him for four years.
These four years made them forget how they were beaten by Li Shiwen in the previous twenty years, and they even forgot their own last names.
Xiang Hui also laughed and asked, "Brother Wen, can you still fight?"
“Crack!!!”
Before he finished speaking, such a sound suddenly rang out in the private room.
The sound came suddenly and frighteningly, causing a moment of silence in the private room.
They heard the storyteller outside say: "After many trials and tribulations, Li Jianxian passed the final assessment and entered the core area of Daojian Sect and entered the Dao Hall..."
“Ahhh…”
After the silence, there was a howl of pain. Xiang Hui, who was so proud and arrogant in the last second, knelt down in front of Li Shiwen with his hands folded in the next second.
...Li Shiwen crushed his palm and broke the bones! !
What is Li Shiwen’s current combat power?
It is the limit of mortals!
If given a pair of wings, he can defeat most foundation-building monks!
How could Xiang Hui challenge this? !
But Xiang Hui was, after all, a bad boy in the capital. Even though he was sweating and screaming in pain, he was still able to issue orders after the screams: "Cheng Nan, what are you waiting for?!"
Cheng Nan looked at Qin Ran, who still had a calm expression, and remained silent.
Li Shiwen stood up from his chair. His tall figure intimidated everyone in the private room, including Cheng Nan. They finally recalled the horror of being dominated by Li Shiwen.
He glanced at Xiang Hui who was kneeling on the ground and asked, "Master Xiang, can you fight again?"
"If you still want to win back Li Shiyin, Li Shiwen is your only hope." Tang Yin suddenly spoke up and said to Cheng Nan, "Women are all cheap. You can't win her heart back by crying, begging, and kneeling. You can only force her, force her with combat power, threaten her with benefits, and restrain her with emotions. Since you can't get her heart, you can use various means to get her body."
He whispered in Cheng Nan's ear like a demon, "A forced melon is not sweet, but it can quench thirst. You can control Li Shiwen and use it to threaten Li Shiyin. You are a cultivator... a powerful cultivator, can't you even get a woman?"
Cheng Nan looked back at him, and felt that something that had been suppressed in his heart was opened up, and darkness ran out from inside.
But he looked at Qin Ran again, gritted his teeth, and tried his best to suppress the darkness in his heart.
"Do you know why Li Shiyin doesn't like you and wants to abandon you?" Tang Yin continued, "It's because you are such a coward who is hesitant and indecisive. She is the woman you love most in your life and the most precious person in your life. Even such a person is not worth your change, and you should try your best...
"Tell me, what else can you do?"
Cheng Nan's eyes turned red. He looked at Qin Ran and thought, I might be able to fight him to the death.
"It's a good thing Li Shiyin didn't marry you..." Tang Yin said, "If such a beautiful girl like that were to give herself to you, it would be a waste of her talent!"
Cheng Nan clenched his fists, his mind was filled with turbulent thoughts...
At this point, the storyteller outside said: "At first, Li Jianxian became a disciple of the head of Danfeng to learn the art of alchemy; later, she suddenly mastered swordsmanship..."
"Danfeng? Alchemy?" Cheng Nan suddenly raised his head, looked at Qin Ran with a pair of bloodshot eyes, and asked, "Alchemist?!"
He saw a flash of panic in Qin Ran's eyes. Although Qin Ran concealed it well, he still saw it.
Qin Ran maintained a calm expression and said, "I... I am a Jindan cultivator!"
It would have been fine if he didn't say anything, because once he did, he seemed guilty. This instantly ignited the darkness in Cheng Nan's heart!
"choke..."
A sword is unsheathed!
Cheng Nan stretched out his body and stabbed Qin Ran with a sword.
Then……
"bite!"
His sword paused.
He looked carefully and saw that his sword was held by Qin Ran's index and middle fingers of his left hand!
He tried hard, but found that he could neither move forward nor backward.
"This is the first cultivator I have ever seen who was fooled by a mortal..." Qin Ran looked at Cheng Nan with a smile in his eyes, "You really broadened my horizons.
"Well... not entirely. A monk is a mortal with extraordinary powers. If his character cannot keep up with the power, he will indeed be easily corroded by the darkness in his heart. This should be within my understanding."
"when!"
He used his fingers to cut off Cheng Nan's sword, looked at Tang Yin, and said with a smile: "It is better to say that I admire this brother. You have accomplished something I really want to accomplish. A mortal killed a monk with his mouth."
"There are other experts?!" Tang Yin's face turned cold, and he looked at Qin Ran with fear in his heart.
"Interesting!" Qin Ran smiled, but shook his head regretfully.
He stood up and walked out of the teahouse with Li Shiwen.
Behind him, the storyteller was still saying, "Li Jianxian grew up from a young swordsman. She was taught carefully by her master, who forged a sword for her. As the saying goes, it is easy to forge a sword in one's hand, but it is difficult to forge a sword in one's heart. However, on the way of forging a sword in her hand, her master forged a sword in her heart..."
A few days later, Xiang Hui, Xiang Ji's younger brother, Tang Yin, the son of the Minister of Personnel, Mi Hua, the crown prince, and Hanlin scholars all fell ill. No medicine could cure them, and they died after more than a month of suffering from illness.
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